Refarm - Remote Farm in Kampar

Kampar, a small town in malaysia that near to Ipoh town and it is just 1.5 hours drive from KL, is famous for their claypot chicken rice. You have not been to Kampar if you have not tried their claypot chicken rice. I do miss their local delicacy but my visit to Kampar this time is not for their local delicacy but actually to visit one farm place in Kampar called Refarm.

I got to know from one of my good friend regarding this place, and they are open for public somewhere beginning of 2015. The time I write this post, not many people know about this place yet, but it gain fame with locals stay in Kampar.

They have their own restaurant where they serve the food from the farm itself, and all the stocks and vegetables are their own grow plus they are proud with their organic method. This restaurant can sit estimate 80 people seating, and by dinner time it is packed with many people, and again it is mostly local people are coming visiting this place.

This is their mushrooms with tou foo, cooked in chinese style. It has significant taste of freshness of ingredients. The only thing that this can be improve is cooking such fresh ingredient in less time, as long as it is soft enough, it should be good.

Their boast about this dish, as it is their speciality. Organic chicken cooked with basil and some herbs. I don't really fancy this dish although some of my friend like it, as the basil they put is too much.

Another their own speciality, herbal chicken. Taste overall good except too much corn flour which they used to thickening the sauce. 

Overall this place is quite good and worth to visit, highly recommended and worth to go if you are passing by Ipoh or Bidor. 

You can find more details from their website thru this link:

http://refarm.com.my/

If you drive from KL, try exit Bidor as it is easier to go.

My rating is worth to visit of you have not been here but for another visit is not really necessary unless they improve the cooking taste. One big highlight is their ingredient are top quality.

Pork Burger at Renaissance Zurich Tower Hotel

It is my first time staying at Renaissance Zurich tower, and we do have very warm welcome greet by the staff there. They are helpful and really willing to go extra miles to help both my wife and me for our luggage. We are staying at the hotel at Christmas eve. I love Christmas feeling in Zurich and staying at Renaissance is really highlight that you can take when visiting Zurich.

It is also my first time having Christmas eve in Zurich, so I totally have no idea that most of restaurants have fully booked, my wife and me even try around 12 restaurants and all are fully booked. Too bad I can't enjoy cheese fondue, but when we are sitting at hotel, we notice the hotel restaurant still have some space and we try our luck to get a table of two.

After we ask nicely to the waiter, she let us sit in one of quiet corner of table where we enjoying Christmas eve dinner together for the first time in our life.

This is crispy pork burger that I order, and by judging the looks, my mouth already wet by my saliva. The meat is tender but what I do really love is the skin of the patty is crispy, with combination of juicy fat pork and their own make bbq sauce.

Their french fries also another highlight, the saltiness is just nice, but it is not really oily. I do suspect that they using air fryer to fried it.

What lacking from this burger is the thickness of the burger and also the arrangement. You can't take it with hand and bite it. The bread is not that good, and the portion of the bread and also meat not that balance (oh well I am more towards American style in terms of burger). Obviously it is good for Euro style as they are using fork and knife to enjoy this delicacy. If you try to take whole bite with the bread, you can find your mouth will be messy with all the juice coming out of burger but if you using fork and spoon, all that delicious juicy will be on plates.

Overall this meal is good to try but I would not put a star on it.

Home-made Pancakes

For the first time making pancakes in my house. I never know that the materials making it is really simple, it is combination of egg, butter, baking powder, flour, and water. That's it and how simple it is. One more ingredient that makes it complete is maple syrup. Below are the pic that my wife make and I help to cook it and decorate it.

I did some decoration to make it more appealing, inspired from the movie 'the hundred foot journey'.