Pan Mian @ OUG

Ever heard there is one popular stall selling Pan Mian 板面 in OUG?

I love their hand made noodle when I first ate it about 10 years ago. That time it was still operated under a huge tree, beside Pearl Point.

It has been years I miss the biteful noodle as other food. And suddenly I noticed that it has moved.

Asking and searching, I finally found it. It is now situated in a newly build food court, just behind Central Supermarket and Parkson.

This is the stall, simple and ordinary. You never know they serve some non-ordinary food.

Dough sheets were pressed and waiting to be cut into noodle form.

A bowl of freshly prepared hand made noodle, with plenty of fried ikan bilis and mushrooms. The noodle has a tougher texture. You can feel the bite. Soup was very sweet.

Mei Dian Seafood @ Kuchai Lama

Always heard that Kuchai Lama house some very nice food. That day, one of my friend took us to this seafood shop to have a wonderful chili crab. So nice that I still remember how fresh and how big those crab were. Their flesh was springy and biteful. Further to that, those crabs were very well cooked with sweet and sour and spicy gravy. Wow! What a wonderful crab.

Mei Dian Seafood, at Kuchai Lama.

Before the crab, let's had some spicy sotong in clay pot first. Oh my! My tongue can still remember how good their taste.

And vegetable to make us feel slightly healthy.

Then came to the main course, THE CRAB. Speechless.

Mark goes... Vegetarian?!!

There was once I heard an old lady said she is practicing 30 days of vegetarian because of honoring her wish to God. I saw her will and felt her sense of determination. Weather she did that for her family or her own self, I am pretty sure someone out there must have touched.

Many years ago when I did my industrial training in Kepong, I had two vegetarian colleagues. I had every breakfast and lunch the vegetarian way for more than 3 months and it was such a heavy experience. They said that clear their body and calm the emotion down. I thought I was having some emotion problem then. Still remember my breath got chocked and heart stopped when I saw my mum cooked vegetables at home that time.

I am not against vegetarian and I strongly believe it is something really meaningful to do that. I might even be a full vegetarian one day. But of cause my friends will never believe that day will come for me.

Actually it is not a necessity for Buddhist to be a vegetarian. And I do think it is not very appropriate for a man to eat only vegetable because he has something looking forward for. Being a vegetarian because one seen the suffering of killing, feel the pain and sorrow. Vegetarian hope to reduce the pain and bring happiness for all beings.

Too ambitious statement? I read it somewhere and I truly believe that.

Buy hey, go tell a lion to eat carrot and prove Darwin's theory stupid then. Everyone has its own food to survive, and mine is chicken feet, bak kut teh and sotong.

As long as I don't waste my food and think of the poor and needs. I think I am still okay. Keep our mind simple and live this life the fullness!

This vegetarian restaurant situated at Subang Jaya, opposite Metropolitan College, across the main NPE road. Easy to find, nice food to eat.

Three dish in a plate. Normal for any formal course meal in Chinese. But those were all non-meat.

Tofu with mussels like mushroom. Not bad.

This is their famous dish, curry mutton. Its my favorite too! Strange that I did tasted mutton flavor in those cube. Very thick and creamy curry.

Oh! Its a fish, with the taste of fish derived from seaweed.

And this is something puzzle my head since long time ago. It's called roasted duck. But no matter how I look at it, I could not imagine any duck. I would just call it deep fried "fu jok", enough.

Picture taken a "real" vegetarian food. Sweet potato leaves in fermented tofu. Don't you think vegetarian should serve greens instead of imitation of fish, meat and duck?