Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Crispy Roasted Pork from TME - $5.57

Ground Floor, Hartamas Shopping Center, Plaza Damas

 

My friend opened a new restaurant called The Meat Experts. He’s a bit of a porker himself so I think he’s found his calling. This may come as a surprise to most but little known fact, they mostly deal with meat. I know, the name totally threw me off the first time too.

Crispy Roasted PorkI decided to drop by and have a sample. About 40 dishes to choose from, nice average  number. I went for one of the cheaper dishes, Crispy Roasted Pork.  This is his gourmet-ed take on what is normally a chinese style of preparing pork (dry roasted till the skin is crispy). It’s usually just the pork, you see. Here you get mash and roasted veges. So gourmet.

The addition of garlic in the meat was great, the pork wasn’t too dry or over-roasted. In fact, some bits of the skin weren’t too crispy, which I’m guessing is a result of not being roasted for long enough? But aCrispy Roasted Porkgain the meat itself was pretty excellent, a lot of porky goodness and no pork stench (you get that sometimes).

The vegetables were quite good, not too mushy, altho it was slightly over oiled but then again it’s olive oil so I’m not complaining. The mash was nothing to write home about, but was a nice balance to the other 2 roasts.

All in all, I think quite worth the money… and I promised to go back sometime again to check out the other dishes.

Prosperity Burger from McDonald’s - $3.50

Any Malaysian McDonald’s

 

I’M BACK! For no good reason, really. The blog owner’s being a lazy a-hole Live long...and not keeping this site updated so why should I. But when I bought the Prosperity Burger I immediately thought of this blog and my previous post.

So here we go. The last post was about the DOUBLE Prosperity Burger, which somehow is not making a comeback this year. No matter, the regular is fine too. The usual McD’s critique, meat that doesn’t quite taste like beef (way too tender), black pepper..and prosper. sauce that tastes a little powdery, and of course the black pepper itself which I’m not a fan of. The diced onions were still crunchy so I guess that’s a plus point. Since this burger is more oval than it is round, it’s decidedly more filling than regular single-patty burgers.

It came with curly fries and coke, both not pictured. I’m not the biggest fan of this burger, or anything with black pepper really, but this is a seasonal set so I kinda HAVE to have it at least once a year to pay my dues to Ronald.