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Les Charlottes en Ville – Lille, France

09 Friday Nov 2012

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While strolling around the quaint town of Lille, hub and I stumble upon this little café / restaurant. It’s a bar / restaurant specialises in potato! Interesting.

I’m not a big fan of potato myself. To me, potato has always been like a supporting actor in a plate. Most of the time, I’ll leave them untouched (and hubby will finish it). Since it was close to lunch time, we decided to hop in and give this a try.

The waitress was a really sweet girl and she helped translate the menu for us.

As I was not very hungry, I went with the Entrecôte grillé, sauce poivre (pepper), crème ciboulette (abit like sour cream but, it’s made with Crème Fraiche drizzled with chives). As you can see, the portion of potato is more than the meat itself.

The steak was done to my liking (Medium Rare) but it was nothing spectacular. As for the star of the plate – the potato, it was sublime indeed. The potato is baked so well that each bite melts in my mouth. It’s almost like eating mash. The taste was so good even without the crème ciboulette. Yumz. This time, I finished up my potato…but, i was kind enough to share some with hub. hehehe…

Hubby had the Salade de Chevre (Goat’s Cheese Salad). The Goat’s Cheese was surprising light, and the citrus sauce went really well together. Aside from the slightly burned toast on the side, it is quite delicious.

For main, hub had the La Montagnarde which was basically, mountain ham with baked potato oozing with melted cheese (similar to raclette). Not a fan of the ham but again the potato was done really well… yum yum.

If you are a potato fan, give this little restaurant a try. It seriously open up my eyes about making potato the main star on the plate.

Restaurant La Potinière, Chamonix (France)

24 Friday Aug 2012

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After making our way down from Mont Blanc, we decided to stop for lunch somewhere close by. Our friend brought us to this little café-like restaurant in the Chamonix town. The weather was very nice and cooling, so, we opt to dine outside.

Here, they serve the local specialties like Raclettes, Fondues and Braserades. Since our friend made these for dinner last night at his place, we decided to skip ordering these and have something else.

He recommended that we try the frog legs. (Not sure if he was trying to shock us or not when he propose that…but, when we told him we eat frog legs quite often in Malaysia too, he was surprise. Hehehe…) The legs were served in creamy cheese-like sauce on rice. I like the sauce. But, don’t like it goes very well with the legs. (In my opinion, nothing beats steam frog legs in mince garlic ginger on soya sauce)

We also had charcuterie and grill steak. It’s not bad. Normal-I guess. But, the environment and comfort during dining is definitely great. Since it’s so close to the Mont Blanc, I suspect this café would be a frequent joint for many skiers during the winter seasons. And of course, dessert for me. (wink wink)

Restaurant La Potinière
Address: 38 Place Balmat, Chamonix, 74400 FRANCE
Tél. : 04 50 53 02 84

Restaurant Kuang Fong (Klang)

10 Friday Jun 2011

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I rarely (almost never) venture into Klang area for food. Perhaps many Klang-ians would be shocked as most believe that good and tasty foods are found there. (i.e. Bak Kut Teh / Seafood)

Anyway, yesterday I had the opportunity to venture to Klang and a friend kindly show Chulet and her bro to a nice restaurant for lunch. The Restaurant frontage seems small and ordinary. Luckily the restaurant is air-conditioned as it was a really hot day. Once seated inside, our friend started ordering dishes in Hokkien (which I don’t understand at all). Patiently, I waited to be surprise as this friend loves good food and most of his recommendations are always thumbs up.

While waiting for our food, I look around and found that this restaurant won a lot of award. They went for Bak-Kut-Teh competition, Hainam Chicken Rice competition and received recognition from the Tourism Ministry ! Wow… ! wow !!

We start off with a bowl of mee-sua with ho-chien. (rice noodle with oyster). The soup looks a little starchy but once you scoop into individual bowl. Add in a dash of vinegar and some chilli sauce. It was really good. The oysters are fresh and the noodles are really smooth and not too soggy.

The next on the hit list is the fried sliced noodle. This is a specialty of the shop. The noodle consistency kind of resembles the rat’s tail (loh-see-fun) but with more stickiness to it. It was fried like the fried kueh teow style. I really like this as the taste is very fragrant.

Next is the chicken rice ball (which was HUGE – at least double the normal size you get in Melaka). The chicken ordered was fried salted kampong chicken. Really yummy as the skin was not only crispy, it was full of flavour from marinating the chicken.

Apart from these, we order stir-fry Brinjal with Long bean and Fried Lobak.

For dessert we had deep fried chocolate ice-cream !!

It was a satisfying and delicious lunch indeed… Thanks T for bringing us there and treating us too (What a generous soul !!!)

 

The Addy :

No.211, Batu 1  1 /2,

Jalan Meru,41050, Klang, Selangor.

H/P +6012 238 8779