客家佬猪手面 • Cheras Perdana

I am in love!!!

This Hakka styled Pork Knuckle is the yummiest most flavorful piggy I have ever tasted. No smell. Fantastically well marinated. Melted in my mouth. 

Taman Indah, Cheras

This is the place. 

Pork Knuckle stall is the first stall on the right. 

 

Latin American Festival

I was astonished… this is the 16th Latin American Festival held in KL and I was only last week old to have heard about it!

Apparently it’s usually held at Low Yat Plaza, they blocked the whole road in front of the plaza, which made it a really nice enough spacious space for a giant party. Moreover directly opposite the plaza was a pathway of restaurants, with a roof. Perfect for the vendors of this festival to display and sell their food and liquor. 

Also, I have never visited Low Yat Plaza before so this is my chance. Always heard unplesant stories about that place. Maybe it was the old building but this present one was realllllly nice and bright. Better than the gloomy dark digital mall at Section 14 PJ. This plaza has a great food court at the basement, nicely maintained with a good selection of food stalls. I’m impressed. 

I came for the performances. But I didn’t have the patience to wait as in between performances there was a DJ who played music for the public to dance. So, only caught a few. 

Moreover, the crowd was huge. It was relaxing if you just wanna have a mojito and dance the afternoon away!

Funny story: There were 4 photographers who stopped by me to take photos of my tattoo!!! Only 1 person asked for permission lol. That caught me by surprise!!!

Mayor of KL, Datuk Seri Maimunah

DBKL (City Council) Dance Crew

 

Look at the crowd. 

This was just under the roof, not including the front part of the stage!!!

 

Mr Bean Experience & Pop Up Cafe

MR BEAN EXPERIENCE & POP UP CAFE

Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the first live-action episode, Acolab – a popular anime cafe – has launched the Mr Bean Experience at Pavilion Bukit Jalil from now till 1st February 2026.

We have always enjoyed Mr Bean. For me, I prefer the real life comedy and not the cartoons. 

This was a fun pop up exhibition to visit!

Big Breakfast and Fish & Chips

 

Sarawak Showcase x Food Republik

Indoor

It was advertised as one of the biggest Sarawak showcase in KL.

NOPE, it wasn’t.

In fact it was quite a disappointment to me as I have been visiting showcases and exhibitions often. 

Just because I have never been to an exhibition at this venue, Medan MARA KL, I decided to pay a visit.

The indoor Sarawak showcase was a small one and so was the outdoor food section.

Although a small showcase (to me), we managed to get to know a young entrepreneur who manages a DUCK farm in Miri. Wati has a huge farm in Miri that houses 5000 ducks (for now) and a vegetable farm. It was a delight chatting with her and learning more about rearing ducks and the work that comes with it. They brought salted eggs and egg yolks to sell in this showcase. 

That’s Wati and her sister who runs the farm together.

Mdm Porwosujarwati Suhaimi (Wati) made history when she was announced as the recipient of the Sarawak Bumiputera Entrepreneur Award (AUBS) 2025.

Terung Asam or Native Brinjal is one of my favorites to cook. Surprised to see they have ice cream now. Taste was not my cup of tea. It should be sourish like a sorbet instead of sweet. But, good effort.

The bigger “showcase” was Food Republik, really.

Being in this cramped walkway, there were many food stalls. A lot were selling an attractive variety of food. However, ethics were in the drain. No space to properly organize for queues, of course cutting queue was done in a “tidak apa” way lah. You know, just acting stupid and squeezing your way and hoping nobody says anything!!!

This is the part of some humans here that I dislike tremendously. 

Outdoor

Nasi Kerabu

 

Belle Sisoski

I am SO SO SOOOOO HAPPY to have met the awesomest multi-instrumentalist / singer/ songwriter / EDM live artist / producer…. 

BELLE SISOSKI 💖💖💖

A very inspiring young lady from Sarawak who plays 31 different musical instruments. The magical part? She incorporates the traditional instruments into today’s EDM music. 

Her live performances are electrifying!!!

Isn’t she gorgeous??? 😍

 

Festival Ghontak Nogoghi - Lion Dance Competition

My 2nd out-of-state drive just to catch a lion dance competition. This time, it was at Port Dickson. Lucky for me, this festival had other events going on so spending a whole day would be fun. 

The organization this time was lousy. Guess what time the lion dance competition started finally???

1 freaking PM!!!

By that time, I was sun burnt, grumpy, impatient, and not a pleasant human at all. 

I know by experience that lion dance competitions do not start on time: usually an hour later (which is already damn good!) than the stated time on the banner or ad. But this was 3 hours later! No respect for others’ time. I’m just grumping here cos nothing can be done. It was my choice to chase after it so I have to pay for whatever sacrifices that came with it. Oh well…

As much I love the lion dances, I struggle with posting about it. 

I cannot read Chinese!!!

Most of these teams have Chinese names in FB so it’s a challenge for me if I forget to take a photo of their flag or tshirt. Well known teams are great as they have English names and I’m used to seeing them around.

The above team Cheung Keung KL was a team I spent a whole day searching for their name!!!! Just because I was so excited with their performance I had forgotten to photographtheir shirts. So it was searching other videos to identify their uniform, trying to search for their logos, their performance theme / story, the main lion dancers (whom I had photograph). Finally found them, I had to keep double checking that it’s them before posting. 

I was so happy that I had found their name. 

Getting ready!

 

Berjaya Times Square - Lion dance

 

The 2025 National Luen Seng Cup Lion Dance Championship, Berjaya Times Square.

I SUPER DUPER LOVEEEEE lion dances!

I try very hard to catch competitions around Klang Valley. It is very challenging for me to video the competitions but I still try. I can’t stand the whole day. Legs will scream in agony. Bladder not very strong any more in this age. And my tolerance… OMG… I must say there more more idiots around, unfortunately. They claim themselves to be photographers but gave no blardy manners!!! So each competition I attend, there’s always one human that I would love to send underground HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!

When I was younger, I always thought that lion dances are mostly around Chinese New Year. I was soooo wrong. Last 2 years, I very tekun followed lion dance teams and later found out that competitions run throughout the year; minus the Chinese festivals. 

Xuan Long - great start!

Yu Hua - love their spirit

Hua Ti - great fighting spirit

Hong Teck - too cute! 

I so wanted to pull that swinging leg!!!