For Ipoh people, last Thursday was a big day because it was the opening of a new mall in Ipoh after over a decade of having just 1 decent mall to shop at. The new mall, Aeon (formerly known as Jusco) is located at Station 18. And it’s huge. The largest mall in Ipoh. So because of the new mall, it has opened up its doors for new business ventures in Ipoh. This means, new restaurants for Ipoh people!
The first Nando’s branch in Ipoh! I’m so excited about this because I have a friend who also loves Nando’s. I only had one chance to go to Nando’s while in KL because none of my friends preferred eating there. Looking forward to do some food review there.
I used to be SO EXCITED about Sakae Sushi until I found out that it’s not halal.. meaning they put alcohol in their sushi. I was so crushed because Sakae Sushi is one of my favorite sushi restaurants ever. I need to clarify what I can and cannot eat later at Sakae Sushi.
There’s also new opening for Tako Tao (my favorite!), Wendy’s (my most wished restaurant!) and Papa John’s pizza. It’s amazing and mind-boggling that all of these opened in Ipoh because these are my favorite restaurants and I had never expected they would open a branch in Ipoh – what used to be a very dead town. At least I’m glad we have more options for food outlet. Hopefully there will be more in the future.
Last February 25th was my birthday. So on March 1st I decided to have sort of like a late birthday dinner after that awful experience at Serai Satay Kajang. So I went to Kinta City’s Secret Recipe with my mom because I’ve been craving lasagna.
One thing I really love about Secret Recipe is the cake. Who doesn’t love their super awesome cakes and cheesecakes? But here’s a story. Recently I had their cakes – a slice of durian cake and strawberry marshmallow cheesecake. The durian cake was frozen – I mean so frozen that you don’t taste their durian or cake but instead chunks of ice. And then the cheesecake. Strawberry marshmallow cheesecake is my favorite so I know very well how it taste like but the one I had was SOUR. The kind of sour taste that you get in expired milk or cheese.. it was really bad. But since I had already bought it, I ate it all. I even told my mom about it.
My stomach has very low tolerance for expired stuff. So I knew the cheesecake had in fact gone bad when at 3 am in the morning I started having a serious case of extreme diarrhea. I was praying for no vomiting so thank God, I didn’t. I hate vomiting. But the diarrhea was so bad that I felt all the liquid in my body had been drained. And it went on for 2 days. It was my worst case of food poisoning. I wasted like RM60 at the clinic. And what’s even worse, was that on that day I was supposed to work at an event. So my whole day was ruined from going back and forth to the even, clinic, and stuff because my stomach was hurting so bad.
Pissed off, I emailed Secret Secret. Shortly after I received a reply, sent them my scanned receipt, and they claimed they’d do an investigation and all that. I received a call from a person from the store I bough it at (Secret Recipe @ The Syuen Hotel, Ipoh) and said they’d give complimentary slice of cake or something? But I didn’t call the person back, lost her number and I guess they’ve forgotten.
But turned out, I wasn’t the only one with a case of bad cheesecakes that tastes sour.
So anyways.
So once my palate is accepting Secret Recipe again, I ordered a slice of their Black Forest cheesecake. The taste of the cheese, and the jam, and the dark sweet cherry filling plus chocolates just melts in your mouth. It was so awesome. It was so sinfully delicious. Gosh just writing about it right now makes my mouth waters. If I wasn’t lazy, and it didn’t just rain, I’d go out and get me a slice right now.
The drink I could never go without at Secret Recipe would be the OREO MILKSHAKE. I can never get enough of this. It’s quite a bad idea if you’re having cakes with it, because it’s very thick and creamy but I never cared. I have to thank my friend for introducing me to this drink. Big oreo lover here.
My favorite of all! This is my second favorite actually.. my first favorite would be their Chicken Cordon Bleu but I was craving lasagna. At first I thought their lasagna is small.. but the meat is very filling so it was just nice. It’s all just meat in there.. I barely tasted the lasagne pasta. Just meat. They also give you a bun so you could dip it into the yummy meat filling. I’m very big on cheese so I wish the cheese was a lot more.. :)
My mom ordered their Tom Yum Noodle. I think it cost about RM14 or 15? For that price, you really get what you’re paying. The portion of the noodle is HUGE.. it comes in a HUGE bowl. I think for light eater like my mom, the bowl can feed 2 people. They’re generous with the ingredients too.. especially mushroom. I love mushrooms. The tom yam soup is a bit sour and spicy so for those who don’t like spicy, be careful. I love it spicy.
Overall it was a good meal for my birthday dinner compared to the last one at Serai Satay Kajang.
SECRET RECIPE® KINTA CITY F62, 1st Floor, Kinta City Shopping Centre, No. 2, Jalan Teh Lean Swee, Off Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah Utara, 31400 Ipoh, Perak.
If you’ve never heard of Kracie’s Popin’Cookin’ DIY set from Japan and you’re a candy lover, you’ve been missing out! These are the funnest and most creative do-it-yourself candy set that who else could create but the Japanese.
KRACIE POPIN’ COOKIN’ たのしいおすしやさん / TANOSHII OSUSHIYASAN / SUSHI SET
Ever since I watched youtube video by the popular user RRcherrypie, I’ve been hooked! These candy sets are AMAZING… I repeat, AMAZING. What you can do with it, and how it turns out at the end is just mindblowing. Who knew you could do these realistic looking miniature food set with just packets of powder?
Here’s the video of this sushi set from RRCherryPie. You can see how awesome the candy is.
I went to KL last December and I was hunting down this candy and luckily I found this in 1Utama.. You have to search for it in one of the Japanese stores and it’s quite cheap. If I remember correctly they were just RM12 a box! These sets are beginning to increase in popularity in Malaysia right now, and most online stores that I found sells this for RM25 – RM30 a box. Crazy.
This set does not contain any animal product so therefore it’s quite ‘halal‘ but if you know another set called the ‘ramen’ set, that one isn’t halal. That one has gelatin.
This post is heavy on pictures so I have to put the rest of this entry under a cut. Below the cut I’ve written extensive review on the set. Sorry that the pictures aren’t quite clear because I took them with my phone and there was insufficient lighting. Click below to continue reading about this awesome candy!
Sinfully Delicious is a food blog owned by a Malaysian 'Ipoh Mali' girl named Tany who just loves to eat and wants to share all the good Malaysian food photos and reviews with the visitors. All reviews here are based on my own honest, non-biased opinion.
Please remember, my taste may not suit your taste. I use Sony Cybershot T1 to take pictures, but most of the time I use my Blackberry Storm2 because I'm lazy to bring a camera with me. Excuse some low quality images.
