Sunday Hearty Breakfast after hearty manna@Tengkat TongShin

Demona: The great thing about Sunday mornings:

a) traffic is a breeze
b) we rejuvate our heart, body and soul with manna of Sabbath's Day.

and...............

c) excuse to foodventure foodies in the KL city centre (usually we rarely make a trip downtown due to crazy traffic and distance, but since St. Andrews is in KL itself... yippie!)

Our usual brunch deciding style? Cruise along the roads around KL and stop to eat at any interesting looking eateries that caught our tummy juices's attention.

After having spiritual manna, we had a sudden surge of craving for physical manna. Toast bread! Preferably ala kopitiam style. We stopped by a corner kopitiam lot along Tengkat TongShin, which was packed with hungry ghosts. Looking at its popularity, there we went, "zoom-ing" our car to any slot available by the road side (illegal parking), and walked over.

Demona: The toast bread's presentation and performance crushed our craving almost immediately. Not only did the bread tasted horribly lousy, it was quite hard also. Even if a 5 year old kid was forced to eat this for his breakfast before he goes to school , he probably would be crying his heart out to his mommy, for ruining his favourite childhood food.

Demona: The meat balls were pretty average. Its taste didn't run far from the ones you usually get if you happen to order a pork noodle dish in an overly commercialised chinese food court.

Demona: The noodles earned fairly better reviews compared to the other dishes which we had ordered that morning. Adding minced meat into noodles could never any worse than, OK-LAH. Too much oil was drizzled over the noodles, but beggars can't be choosers! Dogma slurped every string of noodle anyway.

Undoubtedly, the only food left behind was the toast bread. Even the "i-feel-guilty-if-i-don't-finish-my-food-and-it-will-be-thrown-away" feeling that most food gluttoners almost always have (like us!) just could not possibly take another bite out of it.

Fellas out there, especially not so fussy ones... the stalls selling the main meals are average, but do try to resist the temptation of having toast bread on a Sunday brunch from this shop.. because the disappointment (like the one that we had) would really ruin all the great fun happy memories we all have, having to eat fragrant buttery toast bread, dipped in a hot cuppa' kopi sioh!

muga Reserva 2004 and Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin 1995

A quick notes on the famed Bodegas Muga Reserva 2004 that i had bought recently in KL. Priced at RM174.. Once open, the nose was beautiful, with tobacco, inky purple fruits, and pencil lead...However, you could detect some slight alcohol heat on the nose. I wonder it is accelerated aging form bad storage condition, which are typical of most wines in Malaysia.
On the palate, it was purrrfect..with grainy tannins coating your palate with good body weight... the finish was medium at best but an overall enjoyable wines...
Demona slurped this down real fast!!!

Rated: 92 by Josh Raynolds, Sep/Oct 08

Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar

Deep red. Highly fragrant, Bordeaux-like bouquet of red berries, smoky minerals, flowers and camphor. Supple red and dark berry flavors stain the palate and are given spine by juicy minerality. The fruit expands on the finish, which is strikingly sweet, broad and persistent. This smokes pretty much any Bordeaux that I can think of for close to this price

I was browsing the net one day and chanced upon a bin end sales by a local wine distributor..I wasted no time and packed up my laptop and rushed to the distributor office in downtown kl to place my order of 3 bottles of vintage champage at an amazingly 70% off. (around RM150 each after discount)

The first bottle i had opened is the Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin 1995 Rich Reserve.
Onced open, the nose was flat, full of soy and cat pee. The bubbles was almost non existent and there is not much fruit on the palate. A generally dissapointing wine that went dead right from the bottom. It must be the result of excessive heat while stored in the warehouse.

this bottle was a huge difference from the 1988 Rich Reserver Ponsardin that i had last year in Crystal Jade Palace, Paragon Singapore. That bottle was singing that night, with salt, biscuit, citrus and honey dominating the nose and with great long honeyed palate...

What a pity that this bottle was killed while in her sleep in the local storage facility.