Food-tasting at Bukit Bintang

We walked to Pavilion Bukit Bintang from our hotel. On the way, we saw a shop selling crispy beef roti. There was quite a queue, which we decided to join.

This is the queue as we were leaving, not when we joined it. When we joined the queue, it also turned the corner a bit.

We could see them making the roti at the front of the store. There were two stations, for making either the beef or chicken version, and I alternated taking photos of either station while standing in the queue, which is why you will see the photos of the two mixed up below.

They first roll the dough out into a strip. (on the left are the "completed" ones; I'll mention later why I use quotation marks)

Then they spread the meat on half of the dough...then put a mound of chopped onions on it.

the mounds of onions before they roll it up

I captured a video of them rolling up the dough:

So we get the loose balls below, and the remaining part of the dough is somehow used to wrap it up into the tight balls that you saw on the side.

After that, the balls are moved to another table behind these stations, where they are flattened into pancake/biscuit shape. (which is why the word "completed" above was in quotation marks) Then they are fried in several huge round pans (covered when frying)

I snapped the photo above when we were finally approaching the counter. For some reason, they stopped taking orders when the tray on the right was empty, but the tray on the left was still there. So the queue was at a standstill for quite a long time. When they started taking orders again, we noticed that the tray on the left was the chicken version. So they only took orders when they had both the chicken and beef versions available...which was seriously idiotic if you ask me. They could have asked whether anyone in the queue wanted to buy only the chicken version. (there really was someone...)

As it was, we were waiting for the beef version, so it was fine for us...but if we had been given the cooled down biscuits after waiting for so long, I would have been extremely upset.

See the trays at the back? Those came out a while after the tray on the right started being sold.

Long queue just for one biscuit... well, it was hot from the pan, and yummy. The skin outside is crispy, the dough inside is a bit chewy, and there are pockets of meat inside. Not sure whether it was actually worth the queue, because when we reached Pavilion, we found that the same shop had a stall at the food court...and the queue was shorter. (the queue was longer by the time we were leaving the food court)

Frankly, I wouldn't have captured so many photos (or the video) if I hadn't been bored while standing in the queue. :P

In Pavilion, we tried the egg tarts from Oriental Kopi. They had a Belgian chocolate version, so we got both kinds.

They said they only sold the egg tarts in twos, so we got two of each. The original version costs RM4.90 each, and the Belgian chocolate version costs RM6.40 each.

Both tasted good. I felt that the Belgian chocolate covered up the original taste of the custard though, so I might prefer the original kind if I really want to eat an egg tart. But the chocolate is really thick and tasted good too.

Because we had eaten all these snacks, for dinner we shared a bowl of noodles and some lamb skewers at One Bowl Lanzhou Lamian.

additional photo to show the noodles

additional photo to show the actual name of the shop, which is really long :P

There was an "animated" bowl of noodles in front of the shop, so I took a short video of it. Turns out that the shop name in Malay is nicely framed in the background!

We saw a similar bowl (with the same animation) in front of another ramen shop at Lalaport, so I guess it is a popular thing for noodle shops :P