Cheese Pretzel Dog @ Auntie Anne's Pretzel, City Square

Last week went to City Square JB to check  for Ipad2 but unfortunately it’s all sold out and you have to wait for a month for next shipment stock…What the heck. Anyway, whenever I went to City Square, I’d never missed to stop at Auntie Anne’s Pretzel. Looked over all the offerings and decided on the Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel and Cheese Pretzel Dog.

Pretzel Dog with Caramel Dip

OMG….this thing was great. Nice plump juicy hot dog and that great pretzel exterior smothered in cheese. Expect to queue, especially this pretzel dog always sold out and they have to prepare it again but it’s not so bad because the buttery and cheesy goodness that awaits you is really worth it.

Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel

This is one of my all time favourite, would like to taste others but at the end still chose this flavor. Fresh from oven..Sweet & Yummy.

Chocolate Stix look enticing

Long Queue for Pretzel

 Auntie Anne’s Pretzel, 

MKB-03, Basement-1, City Square, 

Jalan Wong Ah Fook, Johor Bahru

+607-2272528

Cream Puff @ Beard Papa's, City Square

I’ve always been a fan of classic cream puff. There is a big hype about Beard Papa’s cream puff. So I went to City Square, Jb to get the taste of it. It was good. The cream puff was not too sweet. But be careful during your first bite, the cream filling might ooze out. I’ve tried the vanilla, which was good, and the mango which was better, unfortunately durian was sold out, otherwise it would be the best.

Creamy Filling of Vanilla Custard

From the Beard Papa’s website, the original recipe custard was discovered in Osaka, Japan. This vanilla custard is made with all natural ingredients and abundant with highest quality, imported vanilla bean grains.  The tennis ball sized cream puffs is filled with custard in arrays of difference flavors. In Malaysia, they also provide Durian flavor. This is a very delicious and satisfying snack and dessert. If you haven’t had a cream puff from Beard Papa’s, you’ve gotta check this location out. So far it’s one of the best cream puffs. So the title of the “World’s Best Cream Puff” was certainly not given in vain.

Beard Papa's

Beard Papa's Menu

Lot No.MB 10A, Level B1, 

City Square, 

Jalan Wong Ah Fook, Johor Bahru

+607-2211054

Roasted Chest Nuts @ Busan Jin Market, Busan

Strolling at Busan Jin Market, we stop by at sijang to buy some Korea t-shirt to bring back home for souvenir. Pass by one street vendor selling roasted chest nut. Saw the chestnuts were roasting, giving off such an aroma that make me standing around, transfixed, waiting to have a taste. Look enticing and straight away bargaining to buy some.  

2,000 Won ...

Basket of Roasted Chest Nuts

Chest Nuts Fruit

Sweet & Naked Glory

Chest Nuts also can easily find in Malaysia, but the only different compare with Korea is the size. Here everything is rather big size, apple, strawberry, pear and not least the chest nuts too. Roasted Chest Nuts after peels off the skin looks like small brains. It’s rather dry, grainy texture and slightly sweet, starchy taste. 

Kimbap @ Department Store, Busan

Spring season in Korea make me constantly craving for food, still hungry even after dinner and would like to munch something especially during supper time. Luckily we bought some Kimbap from nearby department store. You can find this dish almost everywhere, department store, convenience store, restaurant and street vendor. Kimbap is a popular Korean dish made from steamed white rice and various others ingredients normally vegetables, rolled in kim ( sheet of dried laver seaweed ).  Taste good, try them once and crave them forever after. But please, do not confuse this food with sushi.

Korean Kimbap

Ko Gu Ma Matang @ Shinsegae, Haeundae, Busan

This is one of the best Korean Traditional snack.  It’s chunks of fried potato coated in translucent hot brown syrup and sprinkled with black sesame seed. Matang definitely looks like shiny candy. They are sweet and crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside.  Do not forget to bite this snack because you will enjoy the sweet, fluffy, creamy sweet potato that melts in your mouth not in your hand. 

Mouth Watering Matang

Shinsegae,  

Haeundae Gu, Busan 

Korea

Koguma or Sweet Potato Fries @ Gukje Market, Nampodong, Busan

Walk through the night at Gukje Market. Nothing is more important than food on travel. Many kinds of fantastic food are prepared in Nampodong. You can find food alley called “Mokja GolMok” means Let’s Eat Alley is filled with food stands selling dukbokki, Buchimge and my target for the night is Koguma or Sweet Potato Fries.  Koguma is very delicious snack. They are sweet and super crunchy.  Very good companion while watching movie or tv.

Many Stall Selling Koguma

Koguma

Gukje Market 

Exotic Beondegi @ Busan Jin Market, Busan

After completed training we stopped by at sijang or street market around Busan Jin. I’ll find myself for adventurous search of exotic Korean snack called Beondegi. It’s a stewed and seasoned silkworm pupae served by street vendors.  First time I ate this tiny creature in 2004 during football match in SuYeong, Busan. 

Beondegi or Silkworm

Texture of SilkWorm

The smell of Beondegi kinda dirt-like but if you take it from a canned version it has a hot dog kind of aroma. Looks crunchy but it’s not…and the taste was quite memorable. The exterior texture is like a thin shrimp shell that you can easily chew. Inside was a little mushy with an extra fine grainy texture with taste like a mild protein taste of peanuts.

Street Vendor at Busan Jin Market

Street Vendor, 

Busan Jin Market,

Busan, Korea  

Hotteok @ PIFF Square, Nampo-Dong, Busan

In the evening, we went to Gukje Market to buy some souvenir to bring back home. We took a subway from Haeundae to Jagalchi at KRW1,300. On the way there we stopped at PIFF Square at Nampo-dong. PIFF stand for Pusan International Film Festival.  Every autumn, the Pusan International Film Festival, Asia’s best film festival is held with various events in PIFF Square. The whole street is always crowded with people and at night full of splendid neon signs and deep hum of thousand voices are never ended. 

Then we stopped at one stall selling Hotteok. It’s a Korean filled pancake. Handfuls of stiff wheat-flour are stuffed with a delicious mix of brown sugar, honey, generous chopped peanuts and cinnamon. It’s crispy and sweet with full flavor of several types of peanuts. It’s very nice feeling munching this snack while strolling at PIFF Square. Price about KRW900 or RM2.50.

Nice bite of Hotteok

Hotteok Stall 

PIFF Square

PIFF Square, Jung-gu, Nampodong 3-ga, 

Busan, Korea  

Beef Rendang Pau @ Pau Kassim, Taman Pasir Putih

I love to eat Pau. It’s a steamed bun with wide assortment of filling such as red bean paste, kaya paste, chicken curry, beef rendang, chocolate and many others. Probably the best pau is made by Chinese and quite difficult to savour good pau from Malays.

A good pau must be fluffy or “gebu, it has to be total white to reflect its purity. The skin should be porous and able to peel off before you can see and taste the gorgeous fluffy flesh of pau. That’s why whenever you see they opened the cover of steam cooker, resulting involuntarily severe salivation. I love to eat the skin first before enjoyed the rest of the pau. 

There’s one street stall at Taman Pasir Puteh that can be considered serve a good malay pau in Pasir Gudang vicinity. They are called Pau Kassim.    

Fluffy Pau

Beef Rendang was among the best pau they served. Beside the pau itself the most important is the filling. Personally I like red bean pau, but here the beef rendang is better. It has generous filling with full of chunky beef meat inside the pau. Totally feel like Hari Raya is around the corner.  Two piece of Pau can make you skip dinner already. I’m stuffed. 

Pau Kassim 

Pau Kassim, 

Jalan Asli 17,

Taman Pasir Putih,

Pasir Gudang

Double Cheese Crepe @ Crepe2U, Tesco

New franchise snack in town,  same like mini apam balik , but this one are called crepe. It’s a thin folded or rolled pancake with different type of filling of your choices.  This new franchise called crepe2u. They have an amazing menu to choose from and I really like to sample all. I’d tried Chocolate Almond, Chocolate Strawberry, Kasubushi , Double Cheese and Chocolate Cheese..Still have many to go, I believe they have more than 25 menus to choose from.

Double Cheese Crepe

Chocolate Cheese Crepe

Even though you can have crepe with meat like chicken, hotdog, tuna, egg or crab but personally I preferred my crepe with a sweet concoction like chocolate strawberry. For me, crepes are really meant to be just a dessert items. This devilishly decadent sweet crepe will definitely quell all the cravings. 


Yummy...

Crepe2U,
Tesco Seri Alam,
Jalan Seri Alam,
Masai

Chocolate Apam Balik @ Usup's Apam Balik Stall

Out of the blue, I just a craving for Apam Balik.

Apam Balik quite synonym with Malaysia fast food snack, beside Pisang Goreng this is one of the favourite snack during tea break or a must buy list at Pasar Malam.

Apam Balik is a soft and fluffy pancake folded over grinded peanut, sugar, butter and sweet corn. Nowadays you can choose so many flavors for Apam Balik such as Chocolate, Black Glutinous Rice and coconut.  My favourite is original Apam Balik or sometime Chocolate Apam Balik.

There’s one stall selling quite tasty Apam Balik. The Apam Balik so fluffy and yet the skin is crispy. Just bite softly, feel the crunchy peanut, creamy chocolate, sweet corn and buttery taste of butter lingered around your mouth. What a feeling! Shiok nyer….

Apam Balik in Making...

Chocolate Apam Balik

Stall Along the Street

Price : Normal RM2.50 ; Chocolate RM3.00

Usup's Apam Balik,

Jalan Mawar1,

Taman Mawar, Pasir Gudang, Jb ( Infront EON Bank )

Fried Banana @ Makcik Ahnessa Stall, P.Gudang

Not every fried banana sold at the street stall are the same. Taste and look depends on how ripe the banana, mixture of flour and other ingredients to coat the banana and oil they use to fry ‘em.  Simply delicious snack during tea break.

I ate so many fried bananas cross the country, even in Singapore but yet this fried banana is totally amazing. It got that exquisite taste and aroma. They use special concoction of several ingredients together and fry with sesame seeds.  After deep fried, this banana will become so crispy and crunchy.

See the tiny sesame seeds

Nevertheless, this fried banana looks awful…like overcook or what??? How I wish they could improve on fresh banana selection quality, otherwise it would be perfect

Fried Banana & Mushroom

But looks can be deceiving right…so try it!

Business during day time

Makcik Ahnessa Fried Banana,

Stall inside Restoran Sri Krung Theep

Jalan 10/17, Perjiranan 8,

Pasir Gudang

 (Nearby Jiason Supermarket)

014-2707334 ( Open for Order )