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Hello everybody. We decided it was time we took this blogging thing abit seriously, and so we have started a blog to write on something we are all passionate about – food~! The site is www.foodposition.com

I hope that you our dear readers may drop by and visit. Rather than only blogging about our personal stuff like the ones found here, we decided that maybe we can give back to the community by giving honest and practical opinions on the best places to eat….

So we at licensedslackers would like to thank you all, and we’re hoping to see you at foodposition. Ciao~!

Duck King

I have been in Subang USJ for a few years now, I can say with a certain amount of confidence that there is nothing worth shouting about in Subang when it comes to food, with a few exceptions (mostly franchise based food outlets). So most people would have to travel to other places in search of good food. PJ, KL, Puchong and etc, why dont people open some decent restaurants here in USJ? I dont blame restaurateurs coz people dont seem to appreciate good food here, its the presentation that matters, from my own opinion.

But anyway, back to the topic. I was introduced to this place by Caiyin, who frequent the place quite often. So I decided to celebrate Mother’s Day there with my family. I was rather surprised to see the place, was expecting an air conditioned chicken/duck rice place coz of the name. Instead what I saw was a fairly classy place with a nice menu and uniformed waiter/waitresses to match. But because it was at night and I was placed outside of the shop, I couldnt take any decent pictures to post up here. The environment and service is fairly decent, altho sometimes when the traffic was heavy, we had to pour the tea ourselves. But no big deal.

The next thing that surprised me was the menu. They have sharks fin and abalone!! I mean heck, who would have expected a place named “Duck King” to have those. So for the dinner we ordered this spicy fried lala, tauhu with minced pork, duck (of course), and this vege… pardon me for not having any pictures and not remembering the name of the dishes. I wanted the sharks fin soup but got f*cked by my mom, waste of money she said. Man… it’s not like she’s paying for it.. I am. The duck arrived first and my, does it taste good! It has to, for obvious reason. The rest of the dishes was very good as well. And the dessert.. we had a few, just to try, the almond milk something, the kuai ling kou and a few others. The dessert was abit disappointing tho.. I had higher expectations for it after what the chefs has pulled off for dinner. It’s not bad but its not eye opening good as well. However there was this one dessert that is Faaantastic!! It was this Golden Sand pau or a.k.a Lau Sa Pau. Here’s a picture of the pau and the duck dish (got it online, hope the blogger doesnt mind)

The dinner costed my bout RM 150. Money well spent I would say.

Having tried dinner at the place, I was planning to try their dim sum as well. 2 weeks back, my family decided to visit the place again!! For dim sum this time, awesome.. we had the usual dim sum stuff; siu mai, har kau, lo mai kai and the lot, and of course the golden sand pau haha. And I have to say, I have not tried anything bad so far at this place. I would highly recommend this place.

Tonight, I brought my cousins family there to celebrate my nephew’s 8th birthday and my cousin being the food lover, ordered plenty of different stuff with no monetary constraints. We ordered Shun Hok fish, which was second only to the Golden Dragon Boat restaurant in Jalan Imbi, KL. And there was duck, siew yok, soups and the golden sand pau again haha. This stuff is so awesome I just have to have it everytime I visit the place. And so SORRY I didnt manage to get any pictures again! But I promise I will post up pictures next time.

All in all, I would recommend this place to anyone anytime. Decent pricing as well. But do book in advance for dinner and dim sum because the place would be swarmed.

Duck King

8-G Block M, Jaya One

No.72-A Jalan Universiti 46200

Petaling Jaya

Tel : 03-7957 9819

Lunch @ Sun Wong

So I was having my lunch break on a Sat evening. An hour to go before the next session starts, and me and my friends just had to grab some food for our already hungry stomachs. Well, if you’re stuck in Section 17, Petaling Jaya, there’s not many places you can choose to go, especially when you don’t have a car (or rather, being too troublesome to drive).

Running out of choices as usual, we headed to Sun Wong. I suppose its an “in-thing” now to open a HK-based restaurant but I guess unless someone suggests a new place to try, we might as well be regulars at one place and get a discount ha-ha.

Here’s the place :

Its located in Jaya One, and is facing the UTAR university, same road as the Kopitiam at the corner. I must say however that this place is non-halal…. so I apologise you those of you who can;t consume pork.

Well once we’re inside, the wasn’t a problem on what to order. Being students, I guess you have to order something reasonably cheap. The prices here are like other similar themed outlets, with the main courses ranging from RM8.00 upwards. I would say the service here is okay, especially when I’ve had rather bad service from Wong Kok in SS2 (waiter never sees you) and Prince Cafe SS2 (waiter always brings the wrong order). The middle-aged lady there is especially sweet, so say hi to her for me if any of you guys ever visit the place.

A big eater like me would have to eat some rice naturally, so I ordered the “tsunami”. Its really the black pepper prok chop rice I’m ordering, but this place tends to drown the meat in gravy it feels like there’s a flood going on my plate. MunKeen and I just had a recent discussion which involves MunKeen’s cooking, and anybody would know that if you drown the meat with too much sauce, chances are the meat isn’t fresh or worse, tasty. Imho, the pork tastes ok, but it was rather tough. I guess I should have gone with the Fried Pork Chop with Shanghai-Style Veg Rice, a friend commented that it was rather tasty and the prok was sweet. Too bad I didnt manage to take a picture, they wouldnt let me….

Other choices would include as the one above – Fried Flat Noodle with Sliced Pork. I’m not that a fan of fried noodles, but this one is especially tasty though abit oily. In fact all the fried noodles here are abit oily, although its either me being a “healthy” picky-eater or they just use excessive amounts of oil to cook.

The one that looks tasty was the Pork Chop Burger Macau Style. Its just some sort of a side-dish, so it wouldnt serve as a main course – unless you’re a light eater that is. It tastes quite good, especially if like me, you’re sick of the burgers most fast food outlets are churning out these days.

But one thing I can never understand is nissin noodle. Why on earth would anyone eat maggi noodles? Unless you stay out of Malaysia, Nissin noodles is now synonymous with Maggi Noodles, both in terms of taste and texture. “Nissin” Noodles. Can anyone tell me what the name actually means? I bet its just a fancy name, one they use in recipe books for extremely ordinary everyday meals. Bleh… But apparently the Fried Nissin Noodle with Hot & Spicy Pork Dices here are quite good. I mean, it still looks like Maggi, but its cooked quite nicely and is very flavourful. I would recommend this if you’ve never tried Maggi before.

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All in all, its a not-bad place to try. If compared to the likes of Wong Kok, Prince or even Kim Gary, I’d give this a thumbs up. Why not give it a try?

MIFC

On the first day we went on Merdeka, we somehow managed to get pass the ticket collecting area but didnt have the chance to get into the observation hall because someone raised suspicion by asking where’s the toilet haha. You know who you are. On the last finale day, however, traffic was completely different, it was jam packed and it took us bout 1 hour plus to find a ‘proper’ parking. And I would like to apologise to Zac for making him go with us that day. Haha my bad.. and it was also my first time, parking on the fifth row..

Here are some of the pics I took:

10 000!

Well… almost. It’s been a year plus since I opened this blog with a couple of guys and now that I look back at it, it has served it’s purpose well enough for me. If not for this I would have forgotten bout our adopted dog, Gordon, our get togethers and etc.

Much has changed in this period of time, the most obvious change would be Mr. Zac no longer trying to match my posts counts ( coz I’m not writing that often anymore, haha). My dog is no longer with my friend ( she gave it away, WTF). And I now have a magnificent aquarium at home =) ( it’s subjective, Zac). And we’re now slightly closer to the ever elusive final year of our course. Time seem to pass so freaking slowly..

Well.. gtg back to studying for my CADCAM examination tmr…

The site is not dead and check back for more stuff.. might take awhile tho..Ciao

Sounds rather familiar…

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 Sounds familiar??

On Playing Pool

I found out the other day that pool wasnt my forte after all. I meant I couldnt hit the damn ball without Wai Ho grinning away and Kenny slapping his forehead in exasperation. Sigh………….

Aw, c’mon maybe the game isnt for me. I can never understand (or have the patience) to actually calculate the angles of every ball I’m supposed to hit in. So what do I do? Just hit it!

I think it has something to do with my confidence though. I cant seem to stand people looking at me trying to learn something new. Okay, maybe not new per se, but its still something I’m not entirely good at, and what with a few people watching my “technique”, let’s just say it gives me the chills. Its like, hit the damn ball and get it over with!

But talking about balls, it does take alot of it (balls) to put my weakness here. Maybe I’m tring to fulfill my quota. Then again, this could help. Anybody would care to teach me instead?

New Found Hobby

Recently, I have re-discovered one of my old family instilled hobbies: fishes and aquarium. Brought up in a house with 5 aquariums left quite an impression on me. My late grandpa was a fish lover and made us help him with cleaning the tank and maintenance. It’s quite rare for guys especially my age to take up this hobby.

My cousin and I had a “brainstorming” session to decide how to best decorate his tank, something was wrong. Fishes keep dying and the tank is starting to look boring. It’s a 5ft x 2ft x 3ft tank and uses an overflow filtration system. And here are the end results:

The cost :

RM 43 x 2 = RM 86.00 for the backing

RM 40 x 2 = RM 80.00 for the light coloured sand

RM 20 for the dark coloured pebbles

RM 10 for the red coloured sand

RM 43 for the fertilizer

RM 7 for the round air diffuser

RM 28 for the UV light

RM 35 for the Black water

RM 28 for the Tiger Barbs

RM 20 for the new piping

So, all in all we spent bout RM 350 to redo everything. Looks awesome now. Not bad for my first custom aquarium, huh. Interesting hobby, I gotta say. Till next time.

Writing for the sake of writing

It’s has really been AWHILE since any of us here wrote anything. Can’t be bothered maybe..

So anyway I’ve decided to write something, just for the sake of writing. I’m on holidays right now and can’t seem to find any job yet; probably because my flyers aren’t attractive enough and the holidays is too short for anyone to want to use me, even for part time. So I’m just bumming around, do house chores, occasionally go out to see what has changed, and of course, looking for jobs.

Much has happened since I last wrote, but the most significant one would be the passing of one of my uncle. It was much earlier than anticipated. It had quite an impact on me, he really took care of his nephews and nieces when we were small ( how many would be bothered, right? ) and when we grew older, he still cares for us. At least he doesn’t need to suffer anymore now.

And a few other events, Sepang, Beach and etc, etc.

My creative juices seem to have dried out for now, so.. till the next post.

Visit Malaysia Year 2007

Sunset at Pasir Penambang