Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Malaysian Street Food Feast



Went for a FOC Malaysian Street Food buffet on 4 Sept (Friday). It was an exclusive invitation for selected Genting members in which i just tagged along.
The feast took place at the 'food street' which is actually a food court on the 4th floor of SkyAvenue. It was a joint effort with various stalls participating, each showcasing their 'specialty dish'.
Due to the new normal, there is a limit on the numbers of diners allowed in the foodcourt. The seating capacity is shown at the entrance. Despite that, everyone who was invited to this buffet were guaranteed of a seat without compromising on the social distancing SOP. Their management did a good job in controlling the headcount and ensuring that the place is not packed with ample seats/tables available.
The 'noon session' feast started at 12pm until 4pm.
Registration was a breeze and no queue at all.
To get the food, we queued at the respective stalls and the staff prepared the food as per our request. It was a quick one as most foods are ready-made, just require the staff to serve them on the plate/bowl.
My first round...
Hainanese chicken + char siew (Chinese BBQ pork) rice
It was a small portion with just a few spoonful of rice. Nevertheless, we can eat as many plates as we wish but I save on my stomach space for other items.
Some people just requested for no rice, with just chicken or char siew.
The below pork kuey teow is from the so-called 'OUG Pork Noodles' stall, but of course it is a toned down version of the pork noodles coz it doesn't have much innard nor minced pork (as per the original version)
It still taste as good. I finished the whole bowl with the soup.
It was actually quite a small bowl, about the size of a Chinese rice bowl.
I also had the pork innards porridge, though i don't eat the innards.
Next was Hokkien Mee from 'Loong Kee Hokkien Mee' stall.
Full of crispy lards with big fat noodles coated in dark sauce....yummmy!!!
Then had this sinful char kuey teow which is freshly fried from the wok...Full of wok-hei...
And a bowl of curry fish (opted for no rice coz was full already)....
Prawn noodles....just wanna taste the soup and prawn only...did not manage to eat the noodles coz it was so filling...
Also tried the claypot chicken rice...just a few spoonful again....
Wanton noodles with 'char siew and pork wanton'...Superbly good...the noodles were bouncy with succulent wanton....if only i could stomach in more wantons....
Nam yue (red fermented bean curd) fried chicken wings...these are so so so out-of-the-world...
Well marinated and tender juicy chicken wings.....i can have many of these...if not for noodles & rice (that i had earlier)...
and finally some desserts after all the oily and filling foods...
some fresh fruits too...
There were performances on the mini stage to entertain diners....But we were so busy eating like there is no tomorrow....so we just kinda don't care what's happening on the stage...lolx!
Then....a handsome dude went on stage to do some kind of structure assembling...those that we normally see on TV reality show....one miss-step can cause the whole structure collapse...
Watching this on TV show might look scary and 'kan-cheong' (nerve-racking), but as i watched this so closed-up, i kinda get that the sticks are marked (in light ink or what) so that the fella knows which point to stack the other stick and guarantee won't collapse. Secret debunked!😆
I went on to get another bowl of ais kacang while enjoying the performances...only then i saw the cendol...
Have to forgo the cendol coz i prefer ais kacang....
BON APPETIT!

7 comments:

Nancy Chan said...

So many different types of food to enjoy but our stomach space limited.

mun said...

Did you share all the food shown here with your family? Or everyone ate their own? So much yummy food! Did all of you stay the whole duration to try to eat all the food?

Nux V said...

Nancy Chan: yea, limited stomach space....

Mun: it's sharing. Nope, we did not stay long...left after 2 hours.

mun said...

Good that it is sharing so that everyone no need to stuff themselves in order to taste as much food as possible.

PH said...

Wah! You tried quite a variety of food. Actually those performers quite kesian when the audience is more focused on their food. I was once at a buffet and they had fashion show but it looks like everyone was busy eating except for one table with hamsup loh who were really paying attention tp the models. LOL!

Twilight Man said...

WoW! Wow! I am drooling at all the food photos.
I also received invitations but nobody wants to follow me.

Lotus said...

The hokkien mee lookd so delicious in dark sauce. Seldom see such version in sg so i would like to try that.

They should seperate the performance from the food as nobody can concentrate on the performance as everybody would be so focused on their food.

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