Preserved olive vegetable chicken fried rice from Tea Garden

Last meal before flying back. It's back to Tea Garden again - not that there's much options at Subang Airport. Just to trivia drop here, preserved olive vegetable (橄榄菜) is actually made from mustard greens simmered with olives (and other stuff). It's not the leaves from the olive plant. The product is salty, sweet and umami at the same time and makes great flavouring for...many things.

Anyways, decent rendition of the fried rice. Would prefer it if there were more of the preserved olive vegetable. The bits of chicken in there were really tiny. There were also a few goji berries in there. Yup, it's just a few. 

Duck Duck Fried Kuey Teow (得得地), ICC Pudu, Kuala Lumpur

More food from ICC Pudu (Jalan Kijang, Pudu, Kuala Lumpur 55100). We were curious about what made the duck kuey teow special since the name of what they sold was much larger than the name of the stall on the signage. I gather that duck eggs have a richer flavour from what I've read but I'm not getting any of that here. Tasted like regular kuey teow. There's not even much duck eggs in the plate. Not memorable.

Bobby's Burgers, The Exchange TRX, Kuala Lumpur

So Bobby's Burgers is named after a satirical character Bobby Saputra - a fictitious billionaire, playboy philanthropist heir to a bottled water empire. This character is amusing. Haha. Anyways, his burger shop has an outpost at the basement of TRX (C.59.0 Concourse Level, The Exchange TRX, Imbi, 55188 Kuala Lumpur). I really need to figure out how to decipher addresses in Malaysia from Google.

The menu's pretty simple. A couple of burgers, a couple of fries and drinks. This was Bobby's Double featuring Angus smash patties, onions, pickles and cheese with less Billionaire's Sauce.

It's actually quite nice. I'm attributing it partially to having less sauce in the burger so I could taste the other items. I guess this configuration fell in the "correct" ratio where the "other" items like onions and pickles didn't mask the meat and cheese. Tallow fries were quite good too. Flavour wasn't like how I remembered them from Omakase Burger though.

Bintang Coffee (星咖), ICC Pudu, Kuala Lumpur

Tried a claypot coffee from this stall at ICC Pudu (Jalan Kijang, Pudu, Kuala Lumpur 55100). The taste was similar to Claymug Coffee - meaning Hainanese styled and not particularly fragrant. Not a fan.

Auntie Mei's Crispy Popiah (媚姨香脆薄饼), ICC Pudu, Kuala Lumpur

Noticed this stall at ICC Pudu (Jalan Kijang, Pudu, Kuala Lumpur 55100) and was curious about what made the poh piah crispy.

Got a regular one and another topped with chicken floss. The floss was stuck to the poh piah by a drizzle of something that might be peanut sauce.

The wrap was loose and the rolls fell apart as we tried to pick up each slice. The fillings included some fried batter which made them pretty crunchy as poh piah went. The one with pork floss seemed to have more fresh vegetables and less stewed turnip compared to the regular one.

Busaba, The Exchange TRX, Kuala Lumpur

Busaba (L1.02.0, Level 1, The Exchange TRX, Imbi, 55188 Kuala Lumpur) may be the first time we've having Thai food in KL. Typically, it's not something we go for since Bangkok isn't that far away and Singapore has decent ones as well. I prefer to eat something more Malaysian which we can't get back home. And some others. But one meat kinda tipped the scales in our decision. 🐑.

We did have some things we generally like. Like tom kha gai.

This was loaded with tender slices of chicken and coconut meat. Pretty delicious rendition if I might say so.

Some pomelo salad with tempura-ish deep fried prawns.

Fried prawn cakes. Decent rendition as well.

Sadly, the lamb pad krapow that walked us in was forgettable. Super forgettable. The meat was either very marinated, very fat free or both. No even the slightest hint of lamb. Pretty disappointing for RM65.

That one item on the menu which could've been it just didn't do it. As for the other dishes, it's not exaggeration to claim that they're more or less a dime a dozen in Thai restaurants in this part of the world. Will not be coming back of course.