Food

Late to the party but everything is good. Depends what capacity you're going in?

If you want modern places designed for food bloggers they've got those in abundance. Turnover of restaurants is fast (faster than Singapore's food scene as they don't seem to settle) so chances are anything written here will be out of date by the time you're there - if that's the experience you're looking for.

If you're not too snobby then there's plenty of great and super cheap food (my preference was for Hokkien/Hainanese (Jalan/Lorong Petaling) and Southern Indian dishes (Brickfields/Bangsar - the latter is a bit of a trek from KL Sentral).

As @aggi said, try Jalan Alor. It is touristy but I still really like the theatre and shitness of it. It's a sweaty, stinky mess of a place at night and it's heaven. Rotten plastic chairs, dirty tables, cold (sometimes) beers, tanks full of fish and crabs, gas stoves doing their hardest and loads of stuffed, happy people.

So hungry :(

Assam Laksa. Nasi Lemak. Rendang. And and and ... Oh my god I am jealous!

Dishes from one source - yet to provide locations as he gets his cousin to just drive there.

• Nasi lemak
  
• roti pisang
  
• char kwai teow
  
• laksa
  
• satay
  
• hokkien mee
  
• pohpia (<-- this is my hot tip of hip street food which should be trending in 2017-18. Come on someone do it good so I can come eat it.)
  
• bah kut teh
  
  

Restaurants/places provided by another source:

• Ipoh Hainan chicken rice - couple of places in Ipoh
  
• kajang satay - Satay Willy
  
• banana leaf in petaling jaya
  
  

My ex-pat who just moved there and is yet to build a foodie list says:
But if they want a cool bar with great view try Fuego at the Troika building. They have nice cocktails and also good Spanish food

Got a new toy today:

Slow cooking some ribs tomorrow as a first test. So excited.

@dancing james decided to go for the big one in the end :)

Get the thermal blanket cover

It will work much better and use less fuel

Is that the Dan Boone?

They are fucking awesome

It is. I have the cover but not the thermal blanket.

Might pick it up at some point.

Has anyone used a Big Green Egg?

I like the idea of it.

I'm doing a fairly substantial (by my standards) barbecue in August - 25-35 people. @dancing james any tips on what barbecue to get? I'm fairly competent with coal (just not at scale) and don't like using gas which cuts options down. Though maybe for that size I'd need gas throughout the day? Cooking mostly beef, chicken and lamb (no pork for shame :( ) potentially fish.

I'd go for the green mountain grill, it works for smoking and bbq and at a push grilling. It has temp control and wifi connectivity. The Weber or Green Egg would need the addition of a wifi PID to get similar levels of control.

Still can't comprehend a wifi barbecue.

I have fed 75 people with a wsm and a Weber kettle bbq and could do similar with the gmg

Green eggs do look good and are thermally quite stable from what I have read but a PID controller on a wsm will be better controlled.

But for ease of use the gmg wins.

Or cut an oil barrel in half.

You're not throwing enough money at the problem...

Mortadella Gigante!

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Got back from A Coruña yesterday, bagged 180g of dulce and 75g of picante for about £4. Pimentón for dayssssss

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no sticker? I don't get it.

^needs pineapple

Nice... I'll be there in six weeks, can't wait...

Has anyone been to Oli Food Centre Walworth Rd?

I wanna stock up on a few Turkish tings, and CBA to go up to Green Lanes.

It's good, the best one is in Bermondsey tho'... Get on yer Brompton, fill up your saddle bag with cheeses, olives and bread...

Me gusta! Tnx x

@skydancer told me about this place at polo years ago, wish we had one here...

TFC chain of Turkish supermarkets too

Oli's is great, there's also a shop on the corner of St James Street and Southwark Park Road which is pretty much exactly the same as Oli's if you're over that way.

Ah new page fail on my part

@dubtap Oooooohhhhhhhh

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