September 2010

My friend, Jonathan Hiew, recently opened a new restaurant at Lintas Plaza, Kota Kinabalu. Pepper Jack’s the name. Why this name? I have absolutely no idea. I asked him this question but he replied me with non-sense.. -__-”

Jonathan requested me to do honest food review for his restaurant.

“I am going to write honestly at my blog de ohh.. you sure don’t regret ah? if it taste like shit, I’ll write shit.”

“I have confident on my food. I spent last 5 years perfecting these recipes.” he replied confidently.

“By the way, I never tried shit.. so I don’t know how shit taste like” I added, to avoid confusion

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Pepper Jack’s is still on soft-launch period, which means Jonathan is still improving the food quality based on customer feedbacks and make sure the smoothness operation of the restaurant.

Official launch on October 2010.

Where is Pepper Jack’s?

Lintas Plaza, Kota Kinabalu. Shop is located at ground floor, same row as Pizza Hut and Sarjana Bookstore.

What cuisine does Pepper Jack’s serve?

According to Jonathan, Pepper Jack’s serves fusion food. Western foods with Asian element. Food worth noting includes Tom Yam Pizza, Lamb Stew and Cream Fish Tuna Pizza.

At the time of this writing, Jonathan’s shop is still doing hell lots of offers. He gave me so many coupons I don’t know where to start from -__-

Jonathan gives out some rare coupon occasionally… 50% off from everything, which is damnnnnnnnnnn nice.

Market Fried Fish Fillet—Look at the freaking huge portion!! When the food arrives, my eyes practically looks like O_O The food portion is humongous!

If you were big fan of fish and chips, you definitely have to try this. Fries were awesome too, fried until ngam ngam hou, crunchy crunchy wan.

Fried Chicken Rice with Carbonara Sauce (Cheese Baked)—Another huge serving dish, the fried chicken is so huge that my friend is unable to finish it. Fried chicken, siram with creamy carbonara sauce, then add another layer of mozarella cheese, and bake to perfection.

Shit, my saliva is drooling while I wrote the description. You need to run 30km to burn off all the calories, though.

I wonder what Jonathan is earning from these huge food portion. No need pay rent meh?

Pepper Mayo Chicken Rice—This is what I ordered, I am a big fan of mayo, so I wanted to try what’s the best he can offer. I doubt I can finish the dish when the food arrives.

“Ui, you deep fried a whole chicken ahh? Why soooooo big wan!?” I asked him

This one is a bit dry though.. maybe no sauce that comes with it. I prefer my mayo in thick and gooey food, but that’s personal preference though.

Cream Fish Tuna—This is the most famous pizza, according to Jonathan. He receives many good feedback from his customers.. and this pizza will hit “big time” soon. I ordered this… and he is absolutely right.

Jonathan created the pizza crust with his own recipe, and added the creamy tuna (lots lots lots of mayonnaise and tuna, so freaking awesome). And again, his is able to bake the mozzarella cheese to perfect colour.

THIS IS A MUST TRYYYYYYYYY.

Grilled Chicken Spaghetti—The grill chicken had once again exceeded my expectation. I thought the chicken will be the typical lousy grill chicken including the chicken skin, but once again, I was wrong. It’s pure meat! And it’s grilled to fully cooked, and yet sealed the juice without losing the tenderness. Add mushroom sauce lagi.. what else can I say?

The carbonara spaghetti is a bit dry, I think is because I took too much time taking the food photo. hahahah. I told him to add more SAUCE to pasta to ensure it won’t be dry when he serves the next customer.

Haiyaya, this Jonathan… if he continue serves his food portion so huge, I really have to worry for him.

Two types of worry – (1) worry he cannot pay rent because all his food portion so big and (2) worry he’ll become millionaire earlier than me.

Jack’s Curry Chicken Rice – I like the presentation of this dish. The huge plate is filled up with food. Even the egg also has no space to “land”, have to land on top of the rice

According to Joseph (the friend that ordered this dish), the curry is really good. Up to standard. He has no complain, and he finished the whole dish.

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This is a official review and I didn’t write the food in Jonathan’s favour because he was my friend, the food is good and portion is huge, which is always an advantage in KK food scene.

Customers in KK tends to look for food that has “value”, which is either damn delicious, or portion is huge enough to feed themselves for whole week when disaster strikes.

“Remember, don’t shrink your food portion in future. This is your USP (unique selling point)” I told Jonathan. Of course, the food quality must be maintained too. Don’t become like Upperstar—opened up many branches but the food quality is sharply declining.

Upperstar, you suck.

So, where can you find Pepper Jack’s?

Pepper Jack’s Pizza Grill Restaurant
Lot 8-0, Lintas Plaza (same row as Pizza Hut)
Jalan Lintas Plaza
88300 Kota Kinabalu

Price
Average RM8-RM16 per dish

Contact no
088-211822 (Jonathan)

Business Hour
11am – 11pm (Daily)

Halal
Yesssssssssss (but still awaiting approval from related department)

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Hui Min invited to me have lunch at Peppermint, a Vietnamese Restaurant at Karamunsing Capitol.

Before meeting up, Hui Min purposely ask me to take photos of the food.. he knows me well. He knew I will take photos of food and blog about it. There’s something I have to let you know, I only blog about the food if the food is acceptable.

You see, I try not to blog about restaurant/food that I dislike — I don’t want to write negative things about a restaurant and indirectly affects their business. I know it’s difficult to run a restaurant, especially struggling ones. If there’s food worth mentioning, it’ll appear on Ahbing.com magically. Heh.. yes. Magically *bling*

If I write bad things about their food, they close business, cannot pay mortgage, then kids cannot go to school. OH LIN loh?! Then I become bad guy already!!  I don’t want gain bad karma, you know

If I don’t like the food, I just take photo.. and keep the photos in my blog achieve la (yes I still upload the photo, just in case the boss *lin si me or what, I write until they tutup kedai). Or else, it’ll remain in achieve.

Eh, salah topic.. I suppose to write about Peppermint, the Vietnamese Restaurant. Here goes.

Spicy Chicken Rice—Hui Min and me ordered the same dish. I believe this is the 招牌菜 that attracts most of the customers. You can smell the aroma when you walk pass the shop, almost like KFC, but different smell.

I ordered the chicken thigh, which comes in larger portion (RM7). Hui Min ordered the normal size (RM5.50), and he was disappointed.

“Ishh… why yours so huge oh? My chicken is mostly tulang!” Hui Min said.

“Sorry la, I am not sharing mine with you.. HEHEHEH” I replied.

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The other specialties offered by Peppermint Restaurant includes Crispy Spring Roll and Beef Noodle Soup, also known as Phó. I beliebe Phó is noodle in Vietnamese.. but take my words for granted. I don’t know anything about Vietnamese language. I’m just taking a wild guess.

“Hello egg-cuse me, macam mana mau baca ini ah? foh? fo? poh?”

I didn’t ask that question.. didn’t bother la. Normally I just point to the menu and say “Saya mau nombor 15″—Quick and efficient. Confirm No mis-communication.

“Hello, I want *foh“.. that doesn’t sound right.

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Wanted to try the Stuff Chicken Wings, but never had the chance. Always think about “aiyayaya… have to do extra 30 minutes workout.. I don’t want” ^^;

YES I DO LOOK AFTER MY WEIGH YOU BASTARD.

I am health conscious wan ok… but not when I’m drunk.

Photo taken at 12:15 noon, when the crowds are swarming in. By 1pm, there are customers standing outside waiting for seats.

Damn, I also want to own a restaurant like this—fry chicken and sell. This reminds me of my Final Fantasy Wing.

foh – girlfriend in Hakka. Sometimes also call foh si, or foh zai. A bit rude.

lin si – cocky, or sometimes refer as liang zai because they all call me lin si. Depends.

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