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Another curry fish head review? Not again!!

Ok, ok. I know. We’ve done a review on a curry fish head restaurant (Assam Fish Head at Long Khee) in Subang not too long ago. But the reason for this review was more because of the coffee spareribs. Initially when I heard Marianne mentioned about their coffee spareribs I was like "Wah seh, sounds like a very exotic dish hor. Never heard before leh." And later I found out from friends that this dish is not that uncommon. Thus I suddenly felt like I’m so ’sua ku’.

Anyway, the place is called Tanjung Bungah Curry Fish Head Restaurant. It’s located in SS2, same row of shop as Cheow Yang (SS2’s very famous hawker restaurant). For those of you who are not familiar with SS2, sorry lor. I’m too lazy to explain so much

There were Wilfy, Marianne, Thomas, Samson and me. You know what? Marianne actually arrived earlier than me. *gasp in disbelieve* She has finally shed the crown of Miss-Forever-Late for once after being crowned from since don’t know when. And I thought so till she was late again during our next outing. *tsk* *tsk* *tsk*

All right, enough of bashing on Marianne. Now, let’s get excited about the food! Let me just go through it dish by dish.

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A rainy night in La Bodega. It is a Spanish restaurant with three different sections. One is the chill out place where people drink and eat tapas, the other is the fine dining area that is cozy with the dim yellow light and lastly is the lounge that serves drinks and desserts. Currently, there are 3 La Bodegas in Bangsar, the first is in Jalan Telawi and the latest branch is in Bangsar Shopping Centre.

The fine dining area… very romantic, ok?? Guyz, please bring your girlfriend there.

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After spending half a day working on C&P *pat on back*, we headed to a nearby restaurant in the vicinity of Subang Jaya for a well deserved dinner. This restaurant suggested by Chloe, specialises in assam fish head as evident by the picture of a fish head nestled snugly in a sea of reddish gravy in a claypot on its signboard (do they have a standard signboard for all restaurants that serve assam/curry fish head??).

We reached there a little after 7 and it was already quite packed with families having their Sunday night dinner. Although there were several other restaurants along the same row also packed with patrons, finding a parking space was a breeze.

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Besides the famous ruins of what is remained of the A’Famosa Fort, Malacca is also famous for its chicken rice balls. Ask around any of your friends who originates from Malacca and I am sure that they would be able to name their favourite chicken rice balls stall. This one I had was near the town centre and it’s along Jonker Street (or maybe a street or two away from it but it’s around there). It is a restaurant at the corner of the street that specialises in chicken rice balls as evident by the huge cloth banner that screams "Malacca most famous chicken rice balls" *eyes rolling*. Yea yea yea, I know what some of you may be thinking right now: anything that advertises that outrightly is covering up for some inadequacies in their food. But heck, there was a queue of people lining up outside the shop waiting to get in, so how bad can it be right? So we wouldn’t be the only gullible ones tricked by the banner.

The interior of the restaurant is quite unique, it is reminiscent of those eateries in the olden day China such as those typically shown in the "Once upon a time in China" series. There were heavy-duty square wooden tables and matching stools. The walls were painted a bright shade of red, either a sign of prosperity for the shop owners or to match the colors of all the great building nearby. Once seated, we got down to the business of ordering. Being the newbie that we are to this, we asked for the waitress’s recommendations. She asked that we try their signature dish of assam fish to accompany the chicken rice that we would definitely be having (doh!). Being starved after a half day walking tour of all the historical buildings, we nodded our head in agreement.

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The plan that was not

As usual, the get together started off late (about 1 hour 30 minutes late ) we were supposed to meet at 11am in front of starbucks. Unfortunately Marianne (writer chick) had to go to the bank to settle some stuff first. Coincidentally, Chloe (manager chick) was waiting for Marianne to pick her up which left me (Wilfred : the pea) to sit at starbucks and update my blog regarding some interesting fact about starbucks.

The whole plan for today was supposed to take an hour or so to browse around The Curve (warning: lousy website ahead) and document their food offerings there, and then head of to a few of the choice restaurants and cafes to try out thier food and take a ton of pictures. Which leads me to the next problem… Chloe’s camera (the only camera there ) was having some vision problems, something about the CCD konk-ing out.

With little time left and a 0.3 megapixel camera phone (courtesy of me) we set off to just go for food and see what happens from there.

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