Phoenix Claws

I've spent the last 100 years in London going out on a Friday night for food and usually far too many drinks to unwind after busy/crap week. This week has been pretty busy and I really fancied going out for some cheap good food - so I send a message to my new friend Charles, and arrange to meet him in town later. I am hoping that he wants to go somewhere interesting (i.e. non-shopping centre) to eat, and he suggests this Chinese place called Teo Chew in Cheras.

At first he couldn’t find it – it was a little way out of the city, and it was also pissing with rain, but after driving about for what seemed like ages, and with some help from the GPS, we found it; luckily, as I was starving by this point and could have eaten (almost) anything. I say ‘we found it’, but of course I had absolutely no idea where I was!

spot the Phoenix claws lurking...

Charles did ask me what sort of food I ate, and I said “anything, except perhaps chicken feet”, and whilst I let him recommend the main bit of the meal – clay pot chicken rice – I went up to the buffet counter to look at some side dishes / appetisers etc. and picked out some veggies and a sort of boiled peanut dish, plus we had some brown eggs that didn’t look particularly appetizing, but were actually really lovely: sort of soy-sweet.

The peanut dish contained chicken feet, which were lurking underneath the peanuts and were a bit of a surprise. I ignored them and those aside, the food was absolutely spot on - just what I wanted.

After the delicious food, we headed off around town via Dataran Merdeka (Merdeka Square) where the Sultan Abdul Samad Building opposite was all lit up in ultraviolet blue, changing to a greenish yellow about 5 minutes later. We hung about waiting for them to change again (it looked like it was going to go red) but alas not, so we headed back to Mont Kiara.

Never actually saw it go this colour...