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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Banting toddy
Hit Banting for toddy yesterday with a hangover n some of my buddies who also went to St John’s. Been to the one along Kapar Road, the shack in Brickfields, and the seafood joints at Teluk Gong and Northport, but this the nicest one so far.
Its at the back of an ol wooden bungalow, and the family has been supplying most of the toddy shacks in Banting for three generations.
Obviously there’s more to Banting than a crazy Datuk who likes to murder business associates and burn the body / bodies in his farm.
D joint. Unmarked
Mix n match
The toddy is pretty good, and served chill. Since its kinda light, we added more intoxicants into d drink, mainly Guinness FES.
And the food is good. We dug into wild boar, turkey, monitor lizard, mutton and chicken. O yea, quail too.
The spot is located in a shaded area, with chickens and turkeys loitering.
Biawak – bony
Bantaaai!
Niga reacting to his first taste of lizard
Deep-fried mini-birds
In session
Cosy enough, compared to some of the shitholes i been to
Hours
The bar
Locating it is real easy if ur comin from the Kesas Highway. Its at Telok Datok on Route 5, just before Banting town. Gotta turn into a lil driveway that’s easy to miss (on your right if Klang is behind you. Gotta u-turn further up under a bridge and come back around). It looks deceivingly like any other family home. Located here (refer to the hybrid map).
Great way to spend a Sunday.
Note: I got this joint featured on the National Geographic Channel in 2014.
To cart away bodies
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Brain damage: 7.5/10
Overheard at the lok-lok..
..the TTDI lok-lok truck. Great advise for everyone. Proof that good things happen at drunken lok-lok sessions, main one being d food.
I could live my life on this one. Some woman was talkin to her friend, another woman. Dont know what it was in relation to, but thats not important. (verbatim, but i added a line)
Speak your mind
Don’t hold grudges
Always move on
Live in the present
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Simple enough, no?
Wuz a thirsty Sunday alright
Yup, Sunday before last was Thirsty Sunday, a mini beer fest organized by Kenny of BeerBeer. Got there at 12+, and beer tastings had already begun. Damn alcos.
The sky was cloudy, and there was no heat. The weather was perfect. So got busy and started tasting all the beers available in a very organized manner. There were like 20+ to go thru.
Tried the new Jaz Fresh, which was launched two days prior at Bon Ton. Significantly better than the regular Jaz, so i had two rounds. The tasting portions were between a third and half cup, but some beer distributors were more generous.
Jaz Fresh is only served in two-liter kegs
Guests choosing their beers
A relatively new player called CDA has brought in beers like Fuller’s, which is a family-run brewery with a 150-year tradition, Birra Moretti, and Estrella Damm, which has been brewed in Barcelona since 1876.
An award-winning beer
I enjoyed the London Porter ale (5.4%), which is a traditional dark ale and very flavourful; almost coffee-like. Porter is centuries old, kinda like the origins of the stout. It was the drink of the masses in London long before lagers were conceived or modern ales were fashionable.
A major diff is that many porters are aged, usually in oak barrels, making it more complex.
Fuller's ESB and London Porter (UK), Birra Moretti (Italy), Estrella Damm (Spain) among the candidates
Guests enjoying trying chilled new beers
A major distributor with about a dozen beers on the day was Luen Heng. One of ’em is Chimay (Blue) (ABV 9%, Belgium), an authentic trappist beer, ie a beer brewed by or under control of Trappist monks. It’s one of few beers that improve with age. Only seven such recognized monastery breweries exist, mostly in Belgium.
Monks eh?? Damn alcos.
Another fave
L-R: Chimay, Hoegaarden, Stella, Erdinger Weissbier, Erdinger Dunkel, cheeeks, Pure Blond, Budweiser, Savannah cider
Luen Heng is a distribution arm of Carlsberg Malaysia, and bring in the products pictured above, except the chicks.
An afternoon of good variety in a semi-outdoor setting
Kenny, organizer
Sengeting with fellow guzzler Joyce
Some guys managed to try my homemade strong cider too, Baad Apples™ (ABV 10%, Kuala Lumpur). Feedback was good – i cant keep up with the orders!
Then Vijen of bakita brought out more artillery – grass-infused vodka. Bak’s Bison Grass Vodka (ABV 41%, Poland). Superb. Extremely smooth, taken neat.
The grass that bison feed on is a herb that’s believed would – yield grand power, increase stature, and add youthfulness. Check, check, and check.
Green Dragon springs to mind, a grass-infused vodka a friend produced. But its a different type of grass.
Zubrowka - grass-infused
Left after 8pm. Goddam.
It was a good event, providing exposure for less-common but high-quality beers. Too bad Craft Brews and GAB did not take part this time.
Fortunately, Kenny and bakita plan to do the event again, and grow it from there. To stay posted about Thirsty Sunday, you can check back here or the COCKTALES group on FB.
Well done Thirsty Sunday! Its about time some initiative is taken to do such events in this country.
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Brain damage: 7.5/10
