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Yes, I’m still here in sunny California enjoying the cool morning breezes and hopefully cooler temperatures this weekend. Well, last weekend, we visited Whole Foods, a grocery store that’s packed with organic food, healthy food and all that’s good and green, even for those with malignant Mesothelioma.

Well, we also found a little surprise. They have a buffet corner where you can pile your recycled paper plate with yummy, healthy food of your choice. What’s interesting is that at checkout, just present your filled plate and you get charged for your food by the pound.

This is what I had. Fish and a few chips, mashed potatoes (yes, I was starving!), salad, chow mein and curry chicken (miss my spicy so much!).

Although there’s a whole spread of eateries at the Midvalley walkway to the Gardens, there’s only one or two restaurants that we’re tried that appeal to us. One of them is Nyonya Colors which serves fairly decent nasi lemak (or coconut rice with condiments) but we’ve never tried their nyonya kuih (or cakes). There are certain prices I won’t just pay for certain food, period, especially if I know how easy and cheap they can be made at home.

This Nasi Lemak Pandan with Chicken Rendang is quite a decent portion of rice (the greenish color comes from the screwpine leaves used), fried anchovies and peanuts, half a hard-boiled egg, sliced cucumber and chicken rendang (dried curry sauce).

Another one of our favorites is Nasi Kunyit with Chicken Curry. The nasi kunyit, or turmeric rice, shaped like giant gold coins, may not look like a lot but eaten with the thick, coconuty chicken curry, this glutinous rice is very filling.

And if I’m not very hungry, I’ll order this basic, no-frills nasi lemak in a small portion that I can finish in a few scoops.

How do you usually eat your curry? With plain white rice and a veggie dish? With naan, roti canai or roti pratha (Indian bread)? Yeah, I guess that would roughly be what most of us might be used to.

But since I’m not a big fan of rice, I prefer to eat my curry with toast. It’s incredibly yummy and makes a great breakfast too. Not one of those colon cleansing foods but I assure you, once you try it, you’ll swear by it .

I have a thing for Indian curry rice. This is what I’ve been having for lunch on the weekend once in a while. Last weekend, we were at the The Curve and I ordered this plate of rice with fried fish fillet and cabbage and drowned it in lots of curry sauce. Heaven!

Although it’s a very simple meal with just two dishes and a papadam (cracker), it’s just the fix I need. You know, like those racing fanatics who can’t resist buying every Nascar jacket that’s available out there. Yep, that’s how I feel about Indian curry rice. I always end up overeating but there’s no way I can resist it !

There’s this fairly new place called Penang Recipe at 1 Utama that we’ve visited a couple of times, once or twice, for their weekday lunch time promo.

Whichever restaurant you walk into these day, you can pretty much find the ubiquitous Nasi Lemak. Penang Recipe’s Pandan Nasi Lemak with Chicken Rendang is a pretty good serving that comes with a papadam as well.

I started out really crazy about their Curry Laksa which came packed with ingredients like huge chunks of chicken, meatballs, taupok (tofu pockets), half a hard-boiled egg and even clams. Well, it’s still pretty good but the portion has shrunk very quickly over a short period of time and I’m not happy about that.

It’s sad how sometimes restaurants start out with such promise and then once business picks up, they scale back on quality and quantity to focus on their ecommerce fulfillment or whatever other business ventures they might be involved in.