The variety of meals available in this City is amazing. Only this evening I passed an Iranian restaurant next door to an Egyptian restaurant which were both opposite a branch of Planet Hollywood....(I thought they went bust?). Trust me…...the BBC will soon have old Dan Cruishank…..or Michael Palin….or Stefan Gates….doing an around the world in 80 meals TV show.
In Bukit Bintang, the shopping district of KL, there are a plethora of food stalls selling numerous cuisines from across Asia including Taiwan. I don’t think I can name any Taiwanese dishes so I went for stall next door selling Korean fare. I decided to steer clear of the stereotypical and extremely tasty bimbambap, and go for a beef hot plate meal. The beef hotplate came sizzling with a small salad complete with rose-marie sauce from a 1970’s prawn cocktail. Yes – the side salad was on the hot plate with the beef. The soup looked like it was going to be a miso-type sauce with small cubes of tofu but ended up in taste similar to a beef soup out of a klix vending machine. As for the other side dish there was dried fish and some pickled vegetable. I couldn’t quite work out which type of vegetable as the pickling process had seemed to remove all semblance of flavour from the vegetables. As for the dried fish - given the way they looked they could have easily been tadpoles for all I know. Dried fish tastes......well....fishy.
In Bukit Bintang, the shopping district of KL, there are a plethora of food stalls selling numerous cuisines from across Asia including Taiwan. I don’t think I can name any Taiwanese dishes so I went for stall next door selling Korean fare. I decided to steer clear of the stereotypical and extremely tasty bimbambap, and go for a beef hot plate meal. The beef hotplate came sizzling with a small salad complete with rose-marie sauce from a 1970’s prawn cocktail. Yes – the side salad was on the hot plate with the beef. The soup looked like it was going to be a miso-type sauce with small cubes of tofu but ended up in taste similar to a beef soup out of a klix vending machine. As for the other side dish there was dried fish and some pickled vegetable. I couldn’t quite work out which type of vegetable as the pickling process had seemed to remove all semblance of flavour from the vegetables. As for the dried fish - given the way they looked they could have easily been tadpoles for all I know. Dried fish tastes......well....fishy.
Overall, the sizzling beef and onion were the stars of the show and worth the price alone. The accompaniments were simply fillers and didn’t really add much to the dish. By the way - this Korean stall did not offer those classic Korean dishes Sannakji or Bosintang. I guess I'll have to go to Seoul to try these.
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