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2007-08-28T08:07:00.000+08:00

New Blog!

Dear all, I've finally shifted food-cookies to a new environment. Upgraded it a little, so do pay a visit to Food Cookies. Remember to change your bookmark.

See you guys there~! :)

2007-08-05T18:44:00.000+08:00

Hard disk Corrupted

Dear all, so sorry for leaving this blog untouched for so long. Just wanted to say that my hdd got corrupted last week. I was so sad...knowing that all my food pics, friends pics, songs, and all my other files will be gone but can't do anything.

Went to Imbi Plaza to fix my hdd *fingers crossing* hoping that they could fix it...but NO! They said some files in my D drive was corrupted. So cannot safe anything from my hdd. The only choice is, to reformat it. Haih...so there goes all my pics and songs and other files.

Luckily Shujin did backup my food pics. It's a lesson to be learn from me...always backup all your things!!! =( I'll need to wait for Shujin to send me food pics before I could start back my blog. Anyway, just wanna write down this incident...so guys remember to backup your files or pics or whatever thing that's important k.

Have a nice day everyone. ;)

2007-07-24T22:26:00.000+08:00

Hong Kong Food Culture, Low Yat Plaza

Ok, I know this is a night post. I have no idea why I suddenly want to make a post tonight. I told myself not to see/read any food blog (+pics) or post anything during night time cause it will make me hungry!!! And, my parent just got back around 10pm...They're back home with...durians!!! In conclusion, I'm really starving right now....ARGH~~!!! :'(

Anyway, just wanted to tell you guys that I've always wanted to try the snacks out at this restaurant. The small snack stall is just outside Low Yat's entrance (The one near Times Square's bridge that links us to Low Yat/Sg Wang) as my friends told me that there were some snacks which were delish. So, there we were to try out some of their snacks.

There were only 3 or 4 small tables placed next to this snack stall which can merely fit about 10-12 ppl? So do prepare to wait for tables if you wanna makan the snacks there, else you can "tapao". As all the tables were crowded with customers, we thought we could sit inside the restaurant. We asked the waitress if we could order the snacks and have them inside the restaurant on Lower Ground Floor. The waitress told us that we could sit down there if only we order the restaurant's drinks or food. Hmm, but I only want to eat some snacks. So we have no choice but to wait for place and luckily we got ourselves seated in just a while.

We ordered the black pepper fish balls. At first bite, the aromatic pepper smell lingered through my nose. Then, as the biting continues I found it to be a little too soft on the texture. But, overall the taste was ok. There were some chopped onions and stuff inside the fish balls too.

Next was the Fried Calamari. They've cleansed and kept the ready-to-fry raw calamari in a big tub/container and keep in their fridge. When you want 1 they'll simply take out a portion and dip those raw calamari into batter...then "zaaaa!!!" them into the hot oil. Minutes later, you'll be served a plate of freshly deep fried calamari. I find the texture to be super crunchy. Dip them into some chilli sauce, yummy~!

This is er..'Mah Latt' fish ball I think (If I'm not mistaken). They were soaked ~~boiled~~ into a hot pot of 'Mah Latt' sauce. I love this. Why? Cause it's spicy and the fish balls were tasty. :)

There were also other snacks like deep fried Seafood Tofu (Bright yellow rectangular tofu with a white layer in the middle), deep fried whole small crab, and others. My another friend told me that their deep fried pork intestines were lovely too, but I didn't try them out. :(

Hong Kong Food Culture
Low Yat Plaza,
Jalan Bukit Bintang,
Kuala Lumpur

2007-07-22T11:26:00.000+08:00

Super Easy Homemade Sushi

It's been a long time..those were the days where I was craving to make sushi on my own, those were the days when I searched on Google to get an easy recipe to make sushi, those were the days when I got my grandmother who was always craving for sushi and asked me to make for her and the family. :P Ok, enough of story telling. I've been using the same old recipe from the first day I make sushi. Perhaps it's because I'm too lazy to upgrade myself to make higher class of sushi. I'm just being very comfortable sticking to this old recipe which allows me to make simple sushi. ~~strictly for those who wants to make easy sushi only!~~ Tee-heee!

Well, I can't find the same recipe link that I used last time. But, this website got the same sushi recipe as mine. Scroll down and look for "Basic Sushi Recipe Ingredients" and you'll get the recipe there.

I made this sushi where I only put in some Japanese cucumbers, crab sticks, fried egg, tuna, and with lots of mayonnaise. After rolling them, put them into freezer (around 10 minutes) for easy-to-cut sushi. I'm not sure if it's my knife prob, my own prob, or the nori sheet's prob. I just find that by putting the rolled sushi into freezer helps a lot during cutting process. When you finished cutting them, pop them into the fridge for a while more for chilled sushi...voila! There you go, easy to make sushi which my family and I personnally thinks we like it. Why we loved it? It's nothing special, it's just because it's simple and yummy..that's all. ;)

So, after making the same sushi for a while I will also put in other ingredient. I used to put in fried chicken strips inside too. :D Is it better? You try it and tell me what you think. People out there, do share with me if you guys make sushi too ya~ I wanna know what other type of sushi you all make at home, compared to my this "palia" and simple sushi.

Well, I guess that's it! It's a short post. Have a great Sunday everyone~! ^.^

2007-07-18T07:23:00.000+08:00

Kaya Puff from Ipoh?

Hmm, I watched 8tv's HoChiak! sometimes when I have the chance to. Few weeks back they were reviewing about some delicious looking little mini kaya puff somewhere at Ipoh I guess. It's really enjoyable to see those cute kaya puff being processed. The owner even made their own kaya. When they pop those mini kaya puff (RM0.50 per piece) into their mouth..I can actually smell it! Oh my! ~~Faint~~ According to them, they said the kaya was very very aromatic..and the pastry...very very crunchy and not hard. Yummy yumm...

So, one day when I got home, I saw a pink box laying on the dining table. I didn't feel curious about it because the box didn't have any printing that indicates what it was. Later on, my mom told me that her friend bought us some mini kaya puffs from Ipoh. My eye turned big~!!! >.<>I ran down with joy!

Luckily Shujin left his camera at my place for a few days ~~cause he forgotten to take them home~~ what a coincidence! So, I took up my courage and brought his gear down to the dining room. I opened up the camera's lense...and shoot shoot shoot! Shoot like a mad person...put in different place to shoot..I remembered Shujin said find place with most lighting. I shoot and shoot until dad and mom had to stop me. :'( LOL. Well, the pictures wasn't as nice...so people, please bare with it~! :P

Ok, finally I tried the piece of mini kaya puff. I don't know why I'm so excited about it when it's actually left on my dining table for 1 night. (yeah...overnight kaya puff!) But, I'm telling you guys..if you tell me it's overnight-ed kaya puffs??? No! The pastry has very crunchy texture and it's like it having layers of the pastries all together. Crunchy enough but it's light and fluffy. The kaya filling wasn't too sweet or too plain. It's just of the right amount. Darn..I'm craving for 1 right now.

The only thing I want to know is...anyone knows the name of this kaya puff shop and where is it located in Ipoh??? @_@

2007-07-15T08:41:00.001+08:00

Happy 1 Year Anniversary To Food-Cookies~!

This post should have been released a week ago. On the 7th July 2007, it was Food-Cookies's 1 year anniversary~! I already wrote this a week ago but couldn't get photos on time so couldn't post it. Went for a holiday on the 8th. After holiday, went for work. Now I finally can post this. :P

Gosh, it's been a year since I had this blog. Time really flies. The first blog I wrote when I created this blog was about my 1st year anniversary with Shujin at Secret Recipe. :) I have been waiting so eagerly for this time to come. Finally, here it is...my blog's 1st year anniversary. I told myself from the beginning that when this time arrive, I'll open wine to celebrate! Ssshh, don't let my parent knows if not they're gonna kill me! LOL

This is 1 of my favourite ice wine brand, Inniskillin. My parents bought 2 types of it.

This is the silver version, Inniskillin Riesling.

This is the gold version, Inniskillin Vidal Oak Age. Both of the wine are very sweet and aromatic.

To read more about Inniskillin, click here

Well, I know that I've not been doing well for the past many months, slacked on posting frequently and etc. I hope that I can work harder by posting more nice food on this blog. Thank you very much for those who visited my blog frequently, thank you very much for those who leave comments on this blog. I really appreciate it very much. Oh, and thank you very much to Shujin for taking lovely food pictures for my blog. I hope that I will continue review more restaurants/cafes/etc and cook more.

I'm starving already~! ~~I want my breakfast!~~ Have a lovely weekend everyone~! =)

2007-07-06T08:52:00.000+08:00

Nippon Tei Two at Berjaya Times Square

Went to this Japanese restaurant some time ago in Times Square. Well, it was quite crowded during dinner time that night. We got outselves seated and looked into the menu. Shujin and I decided to order some side dishes plus the main. Normally we only order main and maybe 1 side dish.

I picked 1 and Shujin picked 1. I ordered their Ishiyaki Kanitama which was priced at RM14. It's a hot stone pot which includes crab meat, bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, eggs and some special tomato sauce. I would say that this is something very nice and warm to be eaten. It is nice to be eaten just like that as well as with white rice.

Shujin ordered Tempura Moriawase which was at RM18. To be honest, their tempura wasn't really nice. The problem was with the batter. It was hard. It wasn't the type that is fluffy and crunchy. (Shujin ordered this for me cause I love tenpura) But, their sauce was quite special. They added some garlic mesh thingy inside.

For the main, Shujin ordered Ten Don priced at RM17. Again, the tempura wasn't crunchy and fluffy.

I wanted to try something ~~different???~~ special so I ordered their Chicken Nanban Set at RM18. I wanted to say that I love this very much. I tell you, this is the 1 that saved me from the Tempura thingy. The chicken meat were fried in egg batter. Then accompanied with the sauce. This sauce have some sweet and sour taste with onions and carrots. I can taste some vinegar from the sauce thing too. The chicken meat was tender and a little bit crispy outside because of the egg batter..making it aromatic. They also served a big dollop of "modified" mayonnaise. You can enjoy the chicken in another way when dip them into the mayonnaise. They're good! Good but I'm so so bloated! @_@

Talking about this restaurant, the service was not bad. Only thing would be the tempura. Other than that, I would definately love to go back there. :)

Nippon Tei Two

Lot -03-93, Berjaya Times Square,
No 1, Jalan Imbi, 55100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: +603-2148 8177
Fax: +603-2148 8178

2007-06-27T11:53:00.000+08:00

La Manila Cafe at Mid Valley Megamall

Hohoho, although my sick marathon wasn't over yet (Yes! I know! I'm sick for more than 1 week and I not yet recover~!) but I really think I should continue to blog again now. I'll post all of my previous eating sessions as they're pilling up more and more in my food folder.

Well, some time ago ~~don't know when~~ went to La Manila one day at Mid Valley as I heard from my friend saying that they are somewhat sister/brother of Secret Recipe. I forgot to ask Shujin to bring camera that day..but luckily I borrowed mom's handphone. Again, although I pinjam mom's handphone but I don't know how to capture the photos properly. I guess it's because i faced the handphone too near to the food, that's why the food pics all ended up looking blur blur. How stupid I am. @_@

Shujin had their "Char Kuey Teow". They had some promotion, RM9.90 to choose from some limited main and free one glass of drink. Tell you the truth, their "Char Kuey Teow" is as good as some of the fried kuey teow stalls outside. There's enough "wok hei" and their cockles aren't not fresh. Their prawns were very springy but not very tasty. Overall, not bad. :)

I don't know what to eat....was looking through the menu for quite some time. So, ended up ordering two types of pies. First was the vegetable pie which priced at RM5.50. The taste was not bad but their pastry was soft and not crunchy. It doesn't really taste fresh. There were chunks of broccolis, cauliflowers, other veges and if I'm not mistaken there were also some capsicum chunks in it.

This is cornish pie (RM5.00). Again the pastry is not nice. The filling tasted like some curry puff fillings. I thought those chunks of potato-look-a-like were potatoes but, it's not. I can taste pumpkin! It's quite sweet I think it's because of the pumpkin, making it quite aromatic too.

We also ordered some side dish which is their fried tofu (RM7.00). On the menu they named it "ignots" something? I was curious and asked the waitress what it is. She told us that it was fried tofu. I thought it will be something unique as like what the name is. Hmm, nothing much to comment about it. It was like some kind of home made tofu being fried into crunchy skin. The outside was crunchy while inside was tofu with little of fillings making it quite soft and tender.

When we were leaving, I took a peep at their cake counter but all the cakes looked soggy and not fresh. Hmm, I'm not sure if they haven't upload any new cakes or was it because it's not weekend that day.

La Manila Cafe
Mid Valley Megamall
Tel: +603-22832122

2007-06-17T10:11:00.000+08:00

Sick Marathon~!

Monday was my exam day, I was so excited as this will be the last paper that I need to sit for (no exams next semester!) and yet worried that I will not do well cause don't really know what will come out and was kinda blur about the subject that I'm studying thanks to someone ~~(lecturer who do not really give lectures)~~.

Worries about exam was finally over at 4.40pm, I was filled with joy~! There's so many things I wanna do...women shopping, supermarket shopping, karaoke, steamboat, movie marathon, cooking, baking, and of course blogging!!! But, I got a briefing on Tuesday cause I'm going to work on Wednesday! Well, after the briefing I went home...feeling a little weird. Weird = Sick! @_@

I'm having a slight fever, cough, sorethroat on Wednesday morning but still headed for work at KL Convention Centre. During work I felt even weaker as there wasn't time for water when you're thirsty, no food when it's lunch time, and even no washroom when you need to "pee pee"! I lost my voice, lost what hungry means, lost my "conciousness" on how my body feels. But at least I still remember to smile to the customers. Phew~! After work I was so so sick, my back feels like breaking apart and I could not even walk properly. I can feel the heat within me..I'm feeling so so freakin hot! High fever? The feeling of sick while working and also after work was totally unbearable. Finally down and could not work for the next 2 days.

Ok, long story cut short...mild fever on day 1, high fever on day 2, nose bleed (all of a sudden, it's on and off for few hours!) on day 3, serious cough on day 4 and day 5. Can this be called as sick marathon?

Now, I'm still not fully recovered. Still have serious cough, flu, and little bit of sorethroat. I'm going to post a short and simple cake recipe that I got from the Internet. I was searching for some recipes and then I discovered this, Banana Walnut Upside Down Cake Recipe at Epicurious.com.

This recipe is easy. But based on what I baked, it's not a success or rather a failure. It's actually cake on top, slices of banana in the middle, chunks of walnuts and sugar-butter combination at the bottom before you bake it. When the cake is baked you need to invert it. It'll be sugar-butter combination and walnuts on top, slices of banana in the middle, and cake at the bottom. I do not know if I shouldn't put grease paper onto the pan before pouring the butter and sugar combination. It turned out that the sugar were all sticked onto the grease paper. I'm not sure if it wouldn't stick if it's pour straight onto the pan or not. I have to scratch out the sugar mixture from the grease paper.

Well, the cake do not look pretty but it does taste nice though. I would say it's a pretty decent cake to be eaten. I did not add in maple syrup as said from the recipe. I also cut almost half of the sugar from what was indicated from the recipe and it still tastes sweet enough. I would give it another try as it's a simple recipe. You can get the recipe from the above link.

2007-06-06T09:39:00.000+08:00

Have a Break, Have Some Cadbury Chocolates!

Chocolates anyone? Yeah, I know it's Wednesday and what am I posting??? Snacks!!! Come on people, it's snacks time~!!! Woohoo...LOL. So sorry that I got totally carried away. Was watching "28 Weeks Later" few days ago, and I found it to be a "yummylicious" movie..if you guys know what I meant. Thinking about yummy, I decided that I wanted to post some chocolates. (Hmm, don't sound like making sense don't they?)

I bought 5 packets of mini Cadbury chocolates when there were people at my college doing promotion about it. At first I was thinking about which one should I get. There was a lady who offered us some samples of these chocolates. I tried a few and they were all yummy~ Being a chocolate person, I was thinking...getting each packet of these chocolates from the Cadbury promo isn't very much isn't it? After all, it's only 5 small packets of mini chocolates in total. :P

The first will be the Cadbury's Sesame Chocettes. I was actually very curious about the combination of the "two main characters". With sesame partnering with chocolates, I find it quite special. The sweetness of the chocolates combines well with the aromatic sesame seeds. If you're a sesame person, do give it a try.

Ok, here comes my favourite one...Cadbury's TimeOut Chocettes. The light wafer with smooth milky chocolates just melts in my mouth~ :)

Another favourite of mine was the Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocettes. The outer layers of the crispy shells were soo crispy while the inner of the milky chocolates just makes me go yumm yumm.

For those who love caramel, do try this one. Cadbury's Picnic Chocettes contains some peanuts, wafer, cereal, and caramel. It's nice crunching down cereal, wafer together with peanuts and just enough caramel to make it sticky. I just love caramel...very aromatic. Yummy~

Last but not least, Cadbury's P-Nutz Chocettes. This is for peanuts lover. Contains full of peanuts pieces with a little touch of caramel. I find this to be okay. Nothing much to write about it. Keke...

Haha, well...I better continue with my revision for my upcoming exam. (I am sick with sorethroat and cough) So do take care everyone and have a nice day!

2007-06-02T14:15:00.000+08:00

Pun Chun Restaurant at Bidor, Perak

Finally!!! After weeks of waiting, I can have the time to blog again. I've been going through tough times last month, with all the assignment and final year project. Phew, now I'm free!!! (For the time being only, still got exam) This is the first time I can see more than 10 files of food photos, there were some very OLD food photos which I should have posted it months ago. So, without wasting so much time...I'll start with my visit to Bidor's Pun Chun Restaurant "品珍". They are famous for their Chicken Biscuits "鸡仔饼".

I saw lots of diners standing behind the cashier place. They seemed to be busy with something. Full of curiosity, I decided to walk over there to have a look. Pun Chun also got sell some fried snacks too. There were "wu kok" (yam paste with fillings) and "siew pau" too. I bought 3 of the "wu kok" cause it's one of my favourite. :) The "wu kok" was very tasty, crispy on the outside and aromatic fillings of meat and vege on the inside. These small little "wu kok" tasted good!

Firstly, I'm not a fan for wantan mee. But my mom kept on telling me to try out Pun Chun's wantan mee. So, we visited Pun Chun when we were at Bidor. I ordered the normal Wantan Mee with "wantan" and "char siew". Costed RM4.50 for a plate of normal wantan mee and char siew, I find the noodle very springy. Only thing is the char siew wasn't really great.

The wantan's soup was not bad and the wantan was quite aromatic. The wantan was full of meat and prawn filling.

I'm actually more interested in Shujin's duck soup. My oh my, there was one huge duck drumstick in the soup. :P The soup was very sweet, aromatic with some kind of herbs. The duck meat, tender and nice! Slurrppy! If I'm not mistaken the duck soup with dry noodle costs RM6. I bought a few packets of the Chicken Biscuits before heading back to home. ;)

Pun chun Restaurant

38 & 40, Jalan Besar,
35500 Bidor, Perak

Tel: +605-4341554/+605-4341562
Fax: +605-4346191

Other Bloggers' Reviews:

Eatingasia

A Whiff of Lemongrass

KY Speaks

2007-05-17T12:49:00.000+08:00

My Final Year Project Survey, Please Help!

So sorry that this is a food-unrelated post. I'm very busy with my projects and final year project. I need to do a survey regarding my final year project. It's actually a plus size women apparel website. This website will sells all types of trendy clothes plus other features available. Features are like allowing users to design their clothes on the website (Ie: Choose, the material, color, etc).

I know that there aren't any websites in Malaysia that sells full figure women clothes. I really do hope to see more shops in shopping malls that sells trendy and appealing clothes for full figure women. I know I got my mom and my aunties who have difficulties in finding clothes that they want because all you can see in shopping malls are clothes with stylish/trendy/up-to-date designs which their size label could be XS to a merely XL. The XL are not even a normal XL that you can get in other countries.

I want to do this survey so that I can know what are the women's opinions. In that way, I wish to develop a website which can suits all the users who uses it and make it an interesting website. Here is the survey, Plus Size Women Apparel Survey

I really do hope that you guys could help me out. Thanks a lot! :D

2007-05-08T19:26:00.000+08:00

Korean B.B.Q at Low Yat Plaza

It's been quite some time since I last went to a Korean restaurant. Indeed, I don't usually frequent to Korean Restaurants. A friend of mine asked me to join her to have dinner at a Korean Restaurant one day. I felt quite weird cause I don't recall seeing any Korean Restaurant in Low Yat. So up we went and I saw a small but spacious Korean Restaurant located on the lower ground floor which is behind the Baoz outlet.

There were lots of food pictures from the menu attached on the wall. One thing that I noted is this restaurant don't serves complimentary appetisers like other Korean restaurants normally did. Only some of the food that you order will be served with a few appetisers. One of my friend wanted to order a snack. She asked if we would like to try fried spicy rice cake and of course we agreed to it. Known as a popular street food snack in Korea, "Tteokbokki" (떡볶기) (long cylinder shaped rice cakes) are usually stir fried with carrots, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and cucumbers together with gochujang sauce.

"Gochujang" (고추장) sauce is actually a kind of fermented red pepper paste which is made of red chili powder, glutinous rice powder together with some soybeans, and salt. Some will add in honey, or sugar too. You can also see "Gochujang" being used when you're eating mixed rice "Dolsot Bibimbap" (돌솥 비빔밥) where you have a hot stone bowl with rice, different veges, meat and a raw egg accompanied with a bowl of "Gochujang" sauce for you to add in according to your own preference.

The "Tteokbokki" that I tried here is actually stir fried together with some bean sprouts and onions together with the "Gochujang" sauce. Although it sounded very simple, trust me it is very delicious~! The spiciness with a little sweetness of the sauce, springy rice cakes with crunchy bean sprouts, plus aromatic spring onions and sesame seeds were just heavenly good. This plate of "Tteokbokki" costed RM10.

My two other friends ordered the "Jeyuk Bap which costed RM12 per plate. It was actually pork stir fried with bean sprouts and other ingredients. This is another very nice dish. Another lip smacking good dish I would say. Not sure if the cook also uses "Gochujang" sauce in this dish or not.

Shujin and another friend of mine ordered "Sundubu Jjigae" (순두부 찌개). Priced at RM15 per portion, it actually comes with 3 appetisers.

Kimchi Cabbage (Baechu Kimchi)

I guess this is called "Baechu Kimchi" cause it refers to Whole Cabbage Kimchi and it looked the same with the photo that I saw from one of the website.

Kimchi Radish (Ggakdugi)

Anchovies and Fragrant Roasted Peanuts

"Sundubu" is actually a spicy stew with tofu, crabs, clams, veges, and an egg. According to the website I read, it says that red pepper paste a.k.a "Gochujang" is also added into the soup. This one is less spicy and not so salty compared to the one I had. But, the eggy soup was nice and aromatic. :)

I also ordered a soup with rice called "Doenjang Jjigae" (된장찌개) which is priced at RM15. "Doenjang" was actually a type of fermented soybean paste. It is being cooked as soup with ingredients like tofu, vegetables, clams, and crabs. I find it very tasty and a little more spicy than the "Sundubu" with very aromatic fermented soybean. But be warned cause I find it getting saltier and saltier each time I sip the soup down to my throat. I guess it's because of the fermented soy bean but no doubt that the soup goes very well with my bowl of white rice. I'm missing the soup right now cause it tasted very delish. :)

Strange right cause we didn't order anything related to the restaurant's name? (BBQ) :P

I'm actually quite satisfied with the food served here. It's actually better than the one that I visited in Mid Valley. The cook of this B.B.Q Korean restaurant is actually a lady. I was wondering if she's a local or a Korean cause she has a very healthy and fair skin. While I was having my meal, a man walked into the restaurant. He began to speak Korean to the lady. Their conversations were purely in Korean language. So, the owner and the cook of the restaurant is a Korean. :) If given a chance to makan at Low Yat I would love to go back to this restaurant.

Some of the websites that I find it quite interesting to know more about Korean food are:
Wikipedia on Gochujang
Life in Korea-Food and Drink
Wikipedia on Korean Cuisine

B.B.Q Korean Restaurant
LG 23A(24), Jalan Bukit Bintang,
Kuala Lumpur

2007-05-05T19:53:00.000+08:00

A Scent Meme On What Perfumes I Love and Wear

I know that I've been dragging for a very long time to do a meme on this. A Whiff of Lemongrass tagged me on this. I know I've been tagged ~~years~~ a month ago, I finally got Shujin to help me to take some photos of my perfumes. I know I'm ~~not rich~~ still a student, therefore could only afford to buy a few. I only have very few bottles of perfumes and I was amazed when reading Lyrical's one as she has over 20 bottles of perfumes! I still have a long long way to catch up in order to be like her. :)

Well, here are a few of the photos that Shujin and I have experimented on how to take bottle photos. He said we should try to off the lights (room's light) and asked for a torchlight and an empty white paper. We then placed the paper on a chair and then put the a bottle of perfume on the paper. He asked me to hold the paper so that it can become a background for the bottle of perfume. Place the torchlight (switched on) behind the paper that I was holding. Well, we did adjust here and there. Trying to find the correct angle of the perfume for the correct angle of light. I was quite happy with this experiment and am happy about the photos too. Thanks Shujin!

Well, I remember that I started to like Truth from Calvin Klein when me and my cousin sis saw a mini bottle of Truth sample from a magazine. We bought that magazine because there was a free sample of perfume! =) After that, I bought 1 big bottle of Truth. Haha, funny or not? So, giving out samples of products in a mag or something works for me. :P

Then came one time when my aunt gave me a cute bottle of Dazzling Gold from Estee Lauder for one of my birthday. I really really like it very much!!! The scent makes me feel so elegant (although I'm not). :P This scent made me felt very comfortable everytime I put them on. Then, when I finished using it I became very sad cause I can't put them on anymore! Haha, but then I bought a bottle of Dazzling Gold months ago cause I really miss this scent very very much. Up til now, I'm still very in love with this scent. ;)

Then, on my 21st birthday I got a bottle of True Star perfume from Shujin. I'm so happy cause at that time True Star was just being released, I guess? I've gotten the sample before and it smelled wonderful! Erm, I like True Star because of the scent not because of Beyonce. Haha, although I love Beyonce but I certainly like the scent of True Star.

Two more perfume that I forgot to ask Shujin to take photos are Moschino's Couture and Body Shop's The Spirit of Moonflower. I loved Moschino's Couture cause everytime when I spray it onto my body I can feel the sexiness of this perfume! LOL. And as for the Spirit of Moonflower, it was very light and refreshing. It's very suitable if you just want to apply something that has some light flowery kinda scent to go out for yumcha session or just a normal "girls meet up".

Well, I know that I'm like an old lady who loves perfumes that are existed years ago. But I still love the scent very much. Maybe when I go work in future I will dare to go to those fragrance counters to try out all the new ones and buy them~! Hohoho, I'm not going to tag anyone for this cause I don't know who to tag about this topic. =)

2007-05-01T09:53:00.000+08:00

Food Bloggers Gathering at Sandias, Bukit Damansara

After a long time of waiting, the day finally came! It was the first time for me to meet all of the food bloggers for the first time ever! I was really excited that I'm actually quite blur that night. If you notice me, I only post food, meme and nothing else. So, there'll only be food post and no bloggers' pics. (I only took a few pics with some of the bloggers~) :'(

Elina actually asked me if I know anyone and I quickly said Mei Yen! Haha, I think I can only recognise Mei Yen jie cause she posted her pics. :P I think I'm the latest who reached there for that night. When I walked in I was like...oh my...Who is who??? @_@ At first, I was like...where's Mei Yen jie???

I walked straight inside the restaurant and there she was. A very elegant and pretty lady dressed in a lovely + sexy black dress. =) So I went to say hi Mei Yen~! And she was like...errrr...you ar? Then I said I'm food cookies! She was like who? My heart started to breaks...haha..(exaggerating!) I replied and said "food-cookies...cookies cream???" Then she was like..oh! Food-cookies, hi! LOL. I could also recognise a few of the bloggers like wmw, kampungboycitygal, and Jackson!

Most of the tables were filled with all the bloggers. There's only a few tables with 1 sit left. Luckily Elina tried to search for a place for me. Thank you so much Fezzaboy for moving one seat up so that me and Shujin could sit together! Thanks~! ;)

Well, we were so blurred and "Good Food. Good Life." told us that we could get some drinks at the mini bar. It was nice to know him and his gf. :) So Shujin took some drinks. I'm told that it's like some cocktail. There's a few slices of grapes and 1 slice of lime in the drink which is actually called "Sky High".

Then there was also one drink called Star Dust. I didn't know how to order that drink so I just pointed and said I would like to have the 1 with starfruit one top of the glass. LOL. The pretty Martell lady then said oh, Star Dust. This drink has a very aromatic jasmine tea smell.

Shujin also grabbed 1 glass of Martell that night.

Oh, there was also a complimentary chocolate on the table and a goodie bag for everyone.

Appetiser for the night, Taquitos Fritos. I was actually quite hungry that night so I started eating them straight. Hmm, taste wise...got nothing much to comment about it. I wasn't really expecting the food to be superb cause my main purpose was to meet with all the bloggers~! =)

Another appetiser, Sopa de Calabaza Con Salsa. At first I thought it was some kinda soup with chicken broth and chicken chunks cause I could taste the "chicken-ness" from the soup. I just took a few spoons from Shujin soup. I think it's not creamy enough. I didn't really like soup which is not hot enough as it was given to us while it's a little warm only. Can't expect much huh as there were sooo many ppl that night.

Next, Pollo a la Castellana. The chicken was quite overcooked and not tender. The vegetables served were tasteless.

Pescado a la Veracruzana. At first I thought the brownish looking tiny thing placed on the plate was some part of meat from the fish. But I'm wrong! It was actually grilled banana~! Haha, all the people on the table also thought that it was some fish egg but it's not~!

Ermm, the sauce of the fish was quite normal. The vegetables on the plate were really really tasteless! Ok, I know...stop commenting. Haha

The dessert for the night, Postre Helado de Eimon. The strawberry sauce was too sweet for me.

Although not really happy with the food, but hey! I get to meet with all of the food bloggers~! ^.^ After the gathering I decided to join the rest for the second round to Attic. But, it's all fated that I should go home cause I couldn't manage to follow lyrical's car. We couldn't turn over to the other lane quick enough as there's many cars coming from the back! A car even honked us cause we were trying to turn to his lane! My hp was dead...I did not save any other hp numbers to Shujin's hp. Well, I admit I was quite "stupiak". But nevermind, I'm sure there's another time~!

Anyway, nice to meet all of the bloggers~! I'm truly happy cause my wish to meet the bloggers especially boo_licious has finally came true! Can't wait for the next round! =)

Sandias Mexican Restaurant
44 Plaza Damansara,
Jalan Medan Setia 2,
Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur.

Tel No. : +603- 2095 8431

2007-04-22T21:09:00.000+08:00

Jogoya Session at Starhill KL - PART IV

Well, this is the last part for my Jogoya Session. I didn't try all of their desserts there and was kinda regretted that I had so little desserts, but I'm still happy during the eating session. I really had fun with all the experiences at Jogoya. =)

Well, after tasting their incredibly aromatic cute little fresh coconuts (photos not taken), my friend and I was looking for something else to drink. We walked around the beverage section and saw one of the a staff making ice blended. There were different kinds of shakes and smoothies.

I took a very nice blue-ish colored lime shake. I tell you, it's very nice for those who love sour drinks. Their lime shake was so so nice and refreshing! The lime's aromatic with the sourish and sweet taste was just so cool.

We then ventured again to the beverage section. This time, I decided to try out their mango smoothie. You can really taste the richness of the mango flavor. Very very aromatic.

Someone ordered grilled mochi a.k.a Japanese sticky rice cake. It's the same like "chinese muachi" that we can get at the pasar malam (night market) here, but they grill them. To be honest, I prefer our chinese version cause I think I'm used to the soft version (tasted more delicate) versus the grilled (a little hard) one.

I don't know who took this Cheese Cake also as I remembered I only took 2 things from the dessert section, but it doesn't matter cause I'll eat it anyway, desserts leh!!! LOL. Ok, their cheese cake is not the best for me. I would say that their cheese cake was cheesy enough but not tasty enough. Don't know how to describe it. Just that the texture wasn't moist and firm enough.

Another dessert is the Tiramisu. Ermm, I would say that their Tiramisu was very ordinary. After trying out Italiannies' Tiramisu, I would say that there's nothing to comment much about this.

The 2 items that I took were the Mini Blueberry Cheese Tart and Chocolate Balls.

After trying their cakes, I wasn't giving much hope for the tarts and chooclate balls. But I was wrong! I took the chocolate balls cause one of my friend told me they were yummy. I tried and I do agree that they were chocolate-y. It wasn't too sweet, there were chocolate rice outside and the chocolate texture inside was very firm and moist. :)

This is my favourite dessert for the night. I tell you, their blueberry cheese tart was very delish!!! The cheese was soo cheesylicious and creamy, the blueberry wasn't too sour, and their tart's texture was very very crunchy and not hard~ I loved it!!! ^.^

Well, it was a thrill experience at Jogoya. It would be better if they could serves more Japanese desserts. A dessert lover here. :)

2007-04-14T10:35:00.000+08:00

Jogoya Session at Starhill KL - PART III

Well, I've covered on some of the appetisers and random food that you can get in Jogoya. It's time for their VIP items. Muahaha (Evil Laugh)...I'm quite happy that we get the VIP ticket to order the available VIP items on each of the food section. But I think we forgot to take all photos of the VIP items. Hence, only a few will be posted here.

First to come, VIP King Crab soup. To be honest, nothing special about this soup. The soup tasted sweet, with king crab flavor and crab meat chunks in it. This soup item didn't get my vote.

My favorite VIP item, fish!!! I don't know what fish is this. Is it pomfret fish? All I know was I'm too busy eating it. We were given one big whole fish! I tell you, the fish was definitely fried to perfection. It was very crunchy on the outside, they gave (add seasons to) the fish ngam ngam enough flavor for you to taste without losing the fish's freshness. The meat was succulent, sweet (from the meat) and fresh. Love it!

Next, VIP Sashimi with Fishroe. I forgot what the black colored little bubbles-like thingy called (on the photo). Sashimi, again very fresh and nice. The fishroe were fresh and tasted great too! Got nothing to comment about it cause i loved both of them. Maybe just that sometimes can't really tahan the fishroe cause too salty. :P

VIP Eel wrapped with King Crab meat. I love the eel cause it was grilled perfectly. But, don't quite like this cause I think that the eel kinda conquered the dish as I can't really taste the crab meat much. The eel's flavor overpowered the crab meat. I kinda like the black beans though. LOL

Last but not least, VIP Salmon with Cheesy King Crab. Love this dish! The grilled salmon tasted very nice. The one in the middle of the pic (next to the salmon), was actually a mixture of king crab meat with other ingredients and then top with cheese, "kemudian bawa pergi bakar". Opps, why I suddenly write in Malay. Sorry, was kinda koo-koo cause thinking about the food while blogging it. :P The baked cheese with king crab mixture was very delish! Very cheesy indeed, together with the crab meat was actually superb. Love it.

Well, I'm not sure if this is another VIP item. But, I think it is? Not quite sure. This is a very nice cake which is beautifully decorated. It's actually green tea cake. Ermm, the decoration was nice. Taste wise, I don't think it's my ~~cup of tea~~ type of cake. The green tea were too much which makes my tounge tells me that it's a little bitter leh.

...To be Continue...

UP NEXT -- Part IV of Jogoya Session at Starhill KL

2007-04-09T21:28:00.000+08:00

Jogoya Session at Starhill KL - PART II

In Part II of Jogoya Session, there'll be a random on what I've eaten. I was quite blur in searching for food. Don't know where to start from after the appetiser part. So, I hopped around from one section to another section and get the food that attracts me. Actually there are still plenty food that didn't manage to take photos.

Special Tofu. I forgot the name of it but it's definitely delicious. It's pretty cute by making them ~~(using jelly containers)~~ into flower shaped tofu. It was like some kind of seafood tofu in eggy sauce.

Phoenix ball. I took these because of the almond pieces! LOL. This is actually fish paste being shaped into balls and coated with almond pieces. The taste was pretty good. Crunchy and aromatic almond together with tasty fish paste definitely is a pretty good match.

Prawn Tenpura (Ebi tenpura) was one of my favourites. :) No doubt they were really crunchy and light on the outside. Inside were still hot and the prawns were very fresh~ Love it very much.

"Fish Tenpura" I call it. But it's like those that you can get when you order fish and chip. I'm being lured in taking them while I'm taking my favourite ebi tenpura. They do taste much more better than those fake fish and chip. The meat were tender and fresh. Outside were crunchy as well.

There were aso fried durian but I forgot to try as was busy with other sections. :( Felt quite sad that I didn't manage to take some of the fried durian.

I'm not sure if this is called pocket money or money pocket eh? Well, I forgot what was inside these pocket money already but I'm sure that it tasted nice. Forgot what's inside but remember that it tasted good??? I'm so weird.

Cheese Baked Escargots. Disappointed with it. Shouldn't have take so many of them. The cheese were so hard and the taste wasn't really nice. It's cold and the escargot wasn't so fresh. A big NO to these. Felt bad for Shujin as he loves escargots. Maybe we should head to Victoria Station for some nice escargots. :P

I made a claypot sort of thing for myself. Wee, there's mussels and vege in it. There's a few sauce to choose from when you choose the ingredients of claypot being placed at a section. Oh, there's a few mini stoves being placed on your table. So you just add in sauce into the claypot of raw food before you bring it back to your table to be cooked in the mini stove.

These mussels were really fresh. :)

Grilled eel. One of my friend's favourite. Not sure if he really loves it so much or he just loves taking this so much. LOL Cause he ordered this grilled eel for uncountable times that night. These eel tasted awesome~!!! I really love it. With the sauce and sesame on top of the eel, it was just so delish.

Last but not least, special soup. Don't know what's the name of it so just call it as special soup. Hehe. I need to tell you something, the bread/pastry on top of the cup is so so crunchy and it's freshly baked from the oven!!! I really love the bread/pastry. You can smell a strong scent of butter in the bread/pastry, it's so rich and it tasted a little sweet too. The soup in the cup were very creamy and flavorful. Dip the bread/pastry into the soup is just so yummy. I'm missing the bread/pastry right now.

...To Be Continue...

UP NEXT -- PART III of Jogoya Session at Starhill KL

2007-04-05T22:10:00.000+08:00

Jogoya Session at Starhill KL - PART I

Sorry guys, this is another "long-time-ago" post. Went to Jogoya after working for SRG. It's like a after-work eating session to us. Yes, it's a very expensive eating session indeed. But, despite the $$$ we get for and the fact that I really really wanted to go Jogoya so badly, it's something that I can't miss isn't it? ;)

Well, we reached there about approximately 5.45pm? My friends were waiting at the Jogoya's entrance. And we are still waiting for others' arrival. When everyone reached, we were given two big round tables that are available inside those see through bamboo look-a-like walls. It's like we're being isolated from the outside world a.k.a others customers in Jogoya and those food sections.

We were the earliest group to reach there that day. I assume that's because it's a weekday? Without wasting any time, we looked through the items being displayed on the table.

Some Jogoya bloggers will mention about this, bull shaped metal clips. Number of your table is attached on the metal clips. What do you do with these metal clips thingy? Bring it along with you when you're visiting those different food sections. Most of the food sections have something that will be cook by the chefs there on the spot. So, if you want something to be cook, simply ~~throw~~ put the metal clip onto the respective bowl available. The chefs there will collect and cook the items you asked for. Your food will be serve to you and the metal clip will be given back to you so that you could continue making orders.

Since we have a total of 21 people going there, they gave my friend (the one who booked for the dinner) a VIP membership card. Therefore, we got the chance to try out the VIP items from any of the section. I can't wait to venture into their food sections at that time. Why? Cause it costs RM88++ per person leh, not cheap you know. Plus, I get to try their VIP items~! =)

So, which shall I start first??? I'm so into going back to Jogoya right now as I think that there's a wide selection of food, and they're all fresh!!! I got loads of items that I didn't get to try on that day too. I think I will divide this Jogoya post into 4 different sections. Part I will be appetisers, Part II will be random items, Part III will be the VIP items, and last but not least Part IV for drinks and desserts. Was kinda sad cause did not take many other food photos. But, never mind. @_@

Due to CNY is coming that time, we got ourselves a complimentary Yee Sang~!!! (Yeah~!) The plate of Yee Sang looked rather colorful to me. I did not any good feeling on that plate of Yee Sang. As usual, all the good wishes and bla bla bla are being thrown during the "lou sang" session.

After the "Lou Sang" session, each of use took some of the Yee Sang and, oh my goodness~! Their Yee Sang were delicious~ Trust me, I did not expect their Yee Sang to be yummy. Really! LOL, but their Yee Sang did give me a good sign that their good are delish.

So, took 4 bowls of appetisers to try out as they looked cute and refreshing. First was the Kimchi Tako. Basically, there were octopus mixed with some kimchi. If you ask me I really don't know how it tasted. I think it's pretty much common hence couldn't remember if it's tasty or not.

Next, King Crab Mushroom. I must say that the mixture of the king crab with the mushroom pieces, with some nuts were actually quite nice. The aromatic mushroom and nuts helps to bring out more flavor to it. :)

We also took a bowl of the Mynmar King Crab. Well, it's nothing special. Just that there were some pineapples with crab meat in the mini bowl. Nothing spectacular about it.

Last but not least, Sweet and sour Clams. Although they sliced the clams into quite thin slices, but I find the overall of it was quite nice. A little bit of sweet and sour mixed with the thinly sliced clams were actually quite refreshing and yummy. Definitely a good appetiser. :)

Now, my all time favourite and a "can't miss it" item whenever I'm in a Japanese buffet restaurant, Sashimi!!! I tell you, their sashimi were really FRESH and tasty~! Dip them into the wasabi, yummylicious~ I'm in heaven.

I also took some prawns as they do looked tempting and fresh to me. No doubt, they were really really sweet, succulent, and crunchy. Oishii~!

...To Be Continue...

UP NEXT -- Part II of Jogoya Session at Starhill KL

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Jogoya Malaysia
Address:T3, Relish Flr. Starhill Gallery,
181, Jalan Bukit Bintang,
55100 Kuala Lumpur
TEL: +603-2142-1268
Fax: +603-2148-8171

2007-03-30T20:50:00.000+08:00

Vietnam Kitchen at Cheras, Leisure Mall

This is another CNY post. Again, an overdue post. Went out for lunch with my friends during CNY at Vietnam Kitchen. Well, I've made a Vietnam Kitchen post before this some time ago.

At first, we do not know where to have lunch. Since we are at Leisure Mall, it will normally be Vietnam Kitchen or Wong Kok Char Chan Teng. The moment we reached Wong Kok's main entrance, the waiter asked us how many people. Looking at the huge crowd inside the place, we knew we will have to wait for seats. So, we decided to jump over to Vietnam Kitchen for lunch.

Well, this is the first time I'm having Yee Sang at Vietnam Kitchen. Their Yee Sang looked so colourful~! Priced at RM38.80, there were lots of vegetables and some fruits like cucumber slices, chestnuts, carrots, dragon fruits, and many more.

After all the wishes being thrown in while mixing the Yee Sang, all of us munched on it. It was okay, but not fantastic. It tasted quite funny at first. I think the pieces of crackers "keropok" being served spoiled the Yee Sang. The crackers were actually not crispy anymore and tasted quite weird.

Moving on, below are what we had for lunch. I forgot to take photos of other food as I was too lazy. Moreover, I wouldn't be able to try them if I take the photos. So, I better take photos that I actually tried eating them. LOL

This is what my friend ordered. Lemongrass Chicken Chop with Rice. Priced at RM9.90, I think it's pretty worth it because of how well it tasted. My friend gave me a small piece of the chicken. I tried and loved it~! It was blasting with flavors and so tender. It was just so tasty. I wish I ordered that. :)

But, I'm still happy with what I ordered that day!!! Since I'm not into rice that afternoon, I decided to order the Sliced Chicken and Spring Roll with Vermicelli. Priced at RM10.90,the bowl consisted of vermicelli, lots of shredded cucumbers, raw bean sprouts, green veges, slices of chicken, one whole fried spring roll, and being topped with crushed roasted nuts. I must say that I really love it very much.

Again, the chicken were very very flavourful and tender. I don't know whether they grill them or what, but they're just awesome! Mix everything up together, I find it a very healthy meal to be with all the greens and wonderful chicken, spring roll mixed with aromatic peanuts.

Another friend of mine ordered the Vietnamese Fried Rice which costs RM9.90. At one glance, the plate of fried rice may look plain and ordinary. Without looking any further, I tried one spoon of the rice. I would describe the rice as savory, delish and enough of "wok hei". A nice plate of fried rice should be accompanied best with a fried egg. Yummy~ (Especially if it's a sunny side up~!) :P

Vietnam Kitchen Restaurant (Leisure Mall Branch)
Lot L2-26-01 Level 2,
New Wing Cheras Leisure Mall
Jalan Manis 6 Taman Segar, Cheras

Tel: +603-91309530

Opening Hours: 11am to 9.45pm daily

2007-03-22T09:53:00.001+08:00

Sek Yuen Restaurant at Pudu

Went for a dinner with my family during CNY. Forgot which day, but it isn't important. The most important are the food. Wahaha..I'm so happy that I get to eat at Sek Yuen cause it's one of my favourite restaurant. So, let's get on to the food!!!

First to arrive was of course the famous "Yee Sang"! The Yee Sang was full of blasting flavors, every bite of it was just so good. From the raw fish, crunchy bites, to fresh shredded veges, tasty sauce. It was just so amazing. I don't know how to say it but they got extra unique flavors than the others. This is absolutely the best Yee Sang that I've ever tasted since last time until now.

My dad had pre-ordered two dishes as there were some dishes that need to be book a few days earlier (I think) upon your actual dining date. The two dishes are known as (杏花鸡) Almond Chicken with fish paste and (八宝鸭) Eight Treasure Duck. So, here they are.

Almond Chicken. This dish was a little different from the one I had from another stall. At Sek Yuen, they only have the chicken skin on top, and the bottom was fish paste with almonds. Where as the other stall I tried was chicken skin, with half chicken meat and fish paste. The other one is called (白花鸡). Back to the Almond Chicken. The skin was really crunchy and the fish paste was flavourful. At one bite, you could taste the soft and spongy fish paste with crunchy skin and aromatic almonds at the same time. I like it. :)

Next was (八宝鸭) Eight Treasure Duck. At first look, it was a normal cooked duck being presented on the plate. After a while.

Voila! The duck was stuffed with many different ingredients such as (白果) "bak guo", (连子) "lin ji", mushrooms, and many more. The meat were tender, the ingredients inside were soft and flavorful too. Plus the soup was so nice to drink as it was kind of sweet with rich duck flavor and other ingredient's fragrant. Yummy.

Next up was stir fry fish with spring onions and ginger. This is another nice dish as the sauce was prefect with the fresh fish. It has the "wok hei" too~! I love stir fry with enough wok hei. Very nice, another delish sauce to go with your rice.

This dish is called "蟹 jou". I don't quite remember but I think there were crab meat inside since the name of this dish has "蟹". :P I think inside there were some vege too. Sorry for the "I think" cause I actually don't quite remember, it tasted like some hand made meat balls but delicately it was tasty and delightful. It's crunchy on the outside, inside was hot and a bit soft too.

Prawns!!! This prawn dish got another vote from me. I think it's called "gon jin ha lok". The prawns were covered with enough garlics and aromatic sauce. It was very nice as the prawns absorb the sauce and you could taste the freshness of the prawns too. We brought over the prawns for dinner and asked them to cook for us. ~~(My mom bought these prawns for CNY~!)~~.

Last but not least, it is the (排骨皇) Pork Ribs King. My dad ordered this specially for my cousin bro cause he loves this very much. The taste was again, it was savory. But, some of the meat were tender and some are not. I think it's because the differnet size of the meat pieces, hence some were overcooked and some were just nice. But, overall it was still ok. Again!!! This dish is a very nice dish to go with your white rice. The meat were very well marinated too. Yummy-licious.

Sek Yuen Restaurant

313 and 315, Jalan Pudu

Kuala Lumpur

Tel No: +603 - 9222 9457/+603 - 9222 0903

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2007-03-16T20:07:00.000+08:00

Year 2007 CNY Cookies

I know it's a bit too late to post about CNY stuffs as it's a past now. But, I still wanna share it. :)

Anyways, I've made quite little cookies this year. I've only made two type of cookies and helped my aunt to do another three types of cookies.

For the two cookies that I made, I used the recipes from All Recipes . The two types of cookies I made was Beth's Chocolate Chip Cookies and Crisp Oatmeal Cookies .

I have no regrets using a different recipe for my Chocolate Chips Cookies as there're yummy! Everytime I bake a cake or have cookie session, I would reduce the amount of sugar from what the recipe stated. If I were to follow exactly to the recipe, my bakings would turned out too sweet for me and my family's liking.

Same goes to these two recipes, I deducted almost quarter or half of the amount of sugar the recipe stated.Well, I must admit that I don't bake that often.

The Chocolate Chip Cookies actually turned out to be quite soft, or uncooked cause the recipe said do not over bake it. Moreover, my kitchen's old oven had problem telling me what exactly the degrees are. So, adjusting the correct heat would be a problem. After feeling dissatisfied about what turned out to my batches of chocolate chip cookies, I lost confident in baking Crisp Oatmeal Cookies. But I need to move on cause there isn't much time left for me to bake. CNY is coming very soon at that time!!!

I baked the oatmeal cookies as well. So, I did exactly from what the recipe tells except for reducing the amount of sugar. This time, the cookies turned out really crispy and light. I was quite happy with it. It's not that sweet, so it'll be suitable for my dad, a diabetic to consume it. But, I felt that the oatmeal didn't really appear to be what oatmeal should be. As in, the cookies was ok but lack of aroma. Perhaps I should heat the oatmeal up or give it some roast first before baking them.

Back to the chocolate chip cookies. I decided to re-bake them. Attention, I re-bake them 2 days after they're made ~! LOL. I have no regret again to re-bake them at all. This time, I baked them in my aunt's new oven. As this new oven allows me to adjust which directions the heat comes out from, it makes better baking...I guess. I started to re-bake the cookies on the sides where I placed them at the bottom of the oven, then shift them to an upper layer in the oven and to bake the center part of the cookies. The results, the cookies were super crispy and nice!!! :) I'm so glad about it.

This is what my aunt baked. The old and traditional Butter cookies that we used to had since I'm young.

It's definately one of my favorite for butter cookies. :)

Peanut cookies that my aunt won't fail baking them every single year. This time around she used a different recipe though.

This new recipe is not bad, but I preferred her old recipe as the old ones were more moist (not so hard), more aromatic and soft. She used to make flower shaped peanut cookies last time.

My aunt also baked Famous Amous type of cookies but I forgot to take pics of them. :) My aunt didn't give me any of her recipes too. So, no recipes for her cookies. But I guess no one would bother want recipes for cookies now as CNY are already over. :P

2007-03-13T21:41:00.000+08:00

Fish & Co at One Utama

Been to One Utama for lunch one day. It was quite long ago. Anyways, at first my friends thought of having lunch at Manhattan Fish Market but couldn't find any. So we went to ask at the information counter, only to know that there isn't any Manhattan in One Utama. @_@ How blur are we. So the restaurant that serves food closest to Manhattan was of course Fish & Co. Since I've never try Fish & Co before, so why not.

I had the Pink Passion. It was a mixture of pineapple, orange, cranberry, and honey. It's priced at RM5.90. I felt weird when drinking it at first. But, after that it was all ok. Quite nice and refreshing drink.

Another friend of mine ordered Insomnia. It was actually coffee with milk, honey, and salt. It's then topped with a swirl of whipped cream. Priced at RM5.90 also, I thought it was not bad. But I prefer those with strong caffeine ones.

One of my friend had the ~~"so called BEST"~~ Best Fish & Chips in Town. Priced at RM15.90, I think it was ok. Crunchy, but the batter was too heavy. The batter overpowered the fish. You can merely taste the fish but batter~!

Another friend of mine ordered the Sweet & Sour Fish. Priced at RM16.90. I think that those "dai chow" Chinese restaurant serves much more better sweet & sour fish than them. But, how come they have this in their menu? I felt so strange. I think the rice tasted SUPER weird to me. I don't know why but I don't like them.

As I normally order platter for two at Manhattan, this time I decided to order it also at Fish & Co. Me and my friend ordered the Seafood Platter for two. It consists of seasonal fish, calamari, prawns, and mussels in creamy garlic and lemon butter sauce. It's priced at RM48.90. It was really huge. Hard for 2 people to finish this whole lot!

Here are the close up pic of the calamari, mussels, prawn, and the rice. Seriously, I thought it was ok only. And guess what!!! There were bones in the calamari....why they didn't clean them properly! I really didn't like it. I was a little bit pissed off actually. If I were to compare them with Manhattan, Manhattan was much much more better than them.

To be honest, the prawns weren't fresh. I didn't really like the rice. I don't know what rice was that. I think the rice was the same with the side dish from sweet and sour fish. Is it some rice with herbs or don't know what thing..How I wonder. I prefer butter garlic rice. The sauce was ok only, not flavorful and creamy enough for me. Ok, I should stop now cause I complaint way too much.

I didn't even know my Pink Passion had a cherry at the bottom of the glass! Hidden treasure huh...luckily I like cherries. Lol, the cherry thingy did cheer me up a bit cause of the food served there.

2007-02-27T08:20:00.000+08:00

Revisit to Italiannies at One Utama

Well well, I've been waiting for this day and here it comes! Muahahaha..(Sorry ya sorry, please forgive me for my insanity) :P I've decided to go Italiannies again with my cousins(They just came back from Australia, and I told them about the eat all you can pasta day thingy) and aunt for dinner.

It's a sad case to know that they don't have the Wednesday promo "Pasta Day" on any public holiday day eve. ARGH~~~~ My cousin told me she got no mood to shop when she got a call from them telling us about it. Oh well, after some walk and did some shopping we went into the Voir shoe shop which is just next to/or opposite Italiannies. The aroma came to us and was seducing us to go there~! We were being seducedand and we can't stnad it. So up we went in there for dinner. Haha, I said until as if it's so bad. No, it's not bad at all. At least I got to try out my tiramisu? :P

Well, there's nothing much to post about as we ordered the same pasta cause my cousins and aunt never try them out before. My cousin sis wanted to order their Pomodoro with chicken, so we ordered that on a 4-8 person portion which was priced at RM43.90. It was a huge bowl of pasta. The picture did the trick, it looked small but it's not~! Don't be deceived by it~

I'm not a huge fan of pomodoro fan, so if I need to compare it with carbonara for sure I'll pick carbonara~!

Next up, a must order pasta for me (which I recommended for them, they agreed to order it also k, I didn't force them leh) LOL, Carbonara~! (Sorry, the pic is over exposed) Again it's a 4-8 person portion which is priced at RM46.90. It was absolutely heavenly delicious~! Mama mia!!! I really really do love their Carbonara. It's aromatic, the sauce was perfect, and creamy enough and milky enough and cheesy enough...blablabla. Whatever it is, I love them~ But, you know what...it's served with BEFF!!! OMG.......I was eating hungrily and only to find out ~~(Actually I was curious about the bacon bite pieces served in carbonara when eating them)~~ that it was served with beef bacon! I made a SIN, what should I do????? :'( Well, I don't know what else to say, but....to apologise to my dear "God Mother".

They have something new that I didn't see them before during my last visit (I know my last visit was tad too long), my cousin bro ordered the Florence Platter which is priced at RM29.90. There were 3 different platters to choose from, my cousin brother chose the one with lamb. :)

Picture from bottom left (clockwise) was the lamb stew I guess, then vege, chicken, and the penne pasta. The lamb was really nice and tender. It was flavorful. I loved the stewed vegetables which was below the lamb pieces (As you can see from the pic), you eat them with lamb and it was just so perfect~ The penne was ok to me. Maybe it's because I loved Carbonara too much that's why it didn't taste as good as it is. The chicken was aromatic and tasted good too. But it's a little overgrilled.

Our dessert finally came, Tiramisu which priced at RM15.90. We were all over bloated but I insisted to order it as I would not want to miss the opportunity to try them again, which I did last time. The piece of tiramisu was huge. My cousin's eyes grew big when the waiter served us the tiramisu. But, I didn't know why they served the tiramisu on a wet plate. Bad bad bad. The tiramisu ended up a little to wet at the bottom (sponge cake) which makes it a little soggy. But, it didn't let me down though. It was really good. I could taste a little of liquor, but it couldn't be cause it was halal...is it? Anyway, it was really yummy. I love it! I'm so glad that I ordered the Tiramisu. :)

Italiannies - Pasta Pizza & Vino
One Utama Outlet
F355, 1st Floor, Rainforest (New Wing),
One Utama Shopping Center,
Lebuh Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Tel: +603-7727 1399
Fax: +603-7710 3411
Email: sua@fridays.com.my

2007-02-15T21:11:00.000+08:00

5 Things You Do Not Know About Me

Well, this is another very interesting meme to do~! I've been tagged by Pablopabla when I was reading the comment I got in my post. I'm surely is surprised that I got tagged and am very excited about it. :) Today, when I was reading Mei Yen's blog I saw that I got tagged by her too for the same meme~! =)

Well, so I guess I should start posting this now...haha. I was at college just now and am writing this while waiting for my class which will be ended at 6pm. Sob sob~! :'(

5 Things Which You Don't Know About Me:

1) I hate bitter gourd, and cockles when I was a little kid. I think it's because bitter gourd tasted bitter while cockles tasted very funny to me. Well, it changed my mind for bitter gourd and cockles now. I've eaten a very nice chicken fried with bitter gourd by my mom and it tasted soo yummylicious! Bitter gourd fried with egg was heaven too.

And as for cockles, it's because I eaten once at a Thai restaurant once where they actually grill the cockles and you dip them into special spicy Thai sauce before popping into your mouth. That's when I actually loved cockles so much and got hooked to it.

2) I came to dislike papaya. I have no idea why cause I used to eat them last time. I guess it's the moment when I heard someone said that if I eat a lot of papaya my breast will grow big. Therefore, I'm afraid to touch them. :P (Don't know how true is that...but now I don't like to consume them)

3) I love singing just so so much~!!! I love to sing, whether it's going out with friends to sing k or singing at home. I used to turn on the music so loud in my room and started to sing and sing. I sing too when I'm having my shower. (I know I'm silly~but hey, I love to sing!)

4) I'm actually a very careless person (As in walking). Since I was a kid until now, I will be banging into doors, cupboards, chairs, or whatever furniture or things whenever I'm walking. I'll end up wondering why I got so much blue blacks on my knees/arms/thigh/etc...I'm such a clumsy person. Sometimes I woke up from my sleep and felt that there's a pain on my leg and only to notice that there's a blue black on it. @_@ I did watch my steps and look when I'm walking but...I just couldn't help it!

5) I'll be learning hip hop dance on March soon with my best friend. I think I'll want to learn it because it's something new and I think it'll be interesting and good to exercise a little since I'm lazy in doing excercise. :P

Ok, I've finished mine. :) Who should I tag now?

A Whiff of Lemongrass

Eat in Out

Kitchen at No. Ninteen

TzeLun.com

Sleeper's Couch

2007-02-09T20:57:00.000+08:00

Madam Kwan's at Bangsar

Went to shopping at Bangsar one fine afternoon with my friends about last 2 weeks ago. We were so hungry that day and had a late lunch. We were finding for parking for few minutes and managed to get a parking space opposite the Bangsar Village II (If I'm not mistaken, it's a new shopping mall). The moment we walked past a mamak stall I saw Mdm Kwan's. I was very excited as I've never dine in before. I told my friends about how popular Mdm Kwan's is with their nasi bojari and acar. Since they don't know what to eat either, they accepted my idea to have lunch there. Weee~~~ :)

At first we thought of sharing, whereby each person orders a different dish. But, it turned out to be 2 people ordering nasi lemak and 2 people ordering nasi bojari in the end. Hmm, although I won't be able to taste different item in Mdm Kwan but nevermind cause I wanted to try out their nasi bojari so badly after hearing about how great they are (and I really don't know what else to order).

We've been chatting along while waiting for the food to arrive. Finally, the food came. This is the nasi lemak which was priced at RM13.80. From left bottom (clockwise) they're sambal ikan bilis, cucumbers, curry chicken, hard boiled egg, and some powdery dried prawn thingy? I liked their sambal ikan bilis very much. Overall, the curry chicken was nice and aromatic.

Nasi Bojari was priced at RM19.90. From left bottom (clockwise), there are sambal prawns, one freshly fried chicken drumstick layed ontop of half boiled eggs and cucumbers, curry chicken (which I opted from beef to chicken), and of course the nasi itself. The nasi bojari also comes with a side dish which is acar. So sorry that the acar dish wasn't taken cause the pic was too blur. (Don't know how to use my friend's Olympus digi cam, and too lazy to adjust their settings.)

The curry chicken that I got was the same with the nasi lemak. I personally liked the curry chicken sauce and also the sambal prawns. The acar was delicious too! But, the fried drumstick was kinda common to me. Other than the drumstick being crunchy and fresh from the oil (freshly deep fried), the meat tasted kinda bland. I was expecting the drumstick to be very flavorful and aromatic, but it wasn't.

Overall, the meal was fine. We were all way too full to shop. But, we must make it! LOL I'm wondering what other popular dishes are there in Mdm Kwan's.

Madam Kwan's Restaurant

No.65, Jalan Telawi Tiga,
Bangsar Baru, 59100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: +603-2284 2297

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2007-02-02T10:30:00.000+08:00

Korea Kyung Joo Restaurant at Mid Valley

I'm hunger for Korean food one fine evening. I'm thinking of going to Korean restaurant at Amcorp Mall where it was recommended by my friend and many of other food bloggers. But, Shujin just came all the way from PJ after work. It's impossible if I ask him to drive to Amcorp Mall again.

So, we ended up at Mid Valley. The Korean restaurant that I used to see everytime I pass by the GSC (Golden Screen Cinema) there. It's on top of the Bubble Tea kinda taiwanese cafe. So, up we went.

They gave us the menu. It wasn't much to choose from. I remembered last time where I used to dine in a Korean Restaurant ran by a Korean woman near KLCC. Their stone pot rice was delicious~! And their omelette and grilled chicken was superb.

I'm craving for the stone pot rice actually. But apparently Shujin wanted to order the stone pot rice too. So, I have to order something else (So that I can taste different food). I turn out to order Kim Chi soup with rice.

After taking the order, the appetisers arrived. They only provided us 5 types of appetisers. And some of them don't look appetising at all. I'm curious, normally korean restaurants would serves 7 plates of appetisers, isn't it? Or it's up to the restaurant to serves the number of appetisers they want to? I think I saw some who served 9 types of appetisers?

This was the mung bean sprouts with carrots. It tasted ok.

The next appetiser was kimchi preserved salted vege? It's called "ham choi" in cantonese. Forgot what it's called in english. It tasted not bad. A little salty, spicy and sour.

This is what I've always love, Kim Chi cabbage. It's nice. I loved them so much.

Spicy slice cucumber? Not sure if it's kim chi cucumber or what, but it tasted ok only.

Last but not least, is it called spinach? Gosh, I'm so bad in remembering different kinds of vegetables or fish. It tasted bland though. Is it supposed to be like that?

I ordered the peach with red tea. I actually forgotten what it's called. It costs RM5.50. I loved it soo much. It's hot and it's so aromatic. It's just my cup of tea. :P Sorry that I didn't take the pic with the tea. Only took how the mug looked like. LOL

And as usual, Shujin's Iced Lemon Tea. Priced at RM3.90, it tasted different from other lemon tea. It's not those Nestea drinks, but it's something like plum tea or something. Not sure if it's lemon tea or plum tea...hahaha. But it tasted not bad though.

Shujin's order, "Dolsot Bee Beem Bab" (Stone Pot rice with Chicken) priced at RM16. With a glance at the photo, you'll be able to see sliced carrots and cucumbers, shredded chicken meat, seaweed, and an raw egg. They added sesame seeds on top of the rice too. I forgot what's the item in between the shredded chicken and carrots.

The stone pot came with a bowl of soup and the sauce. I don't know what's the sauce, but I know it's used to add them into the stone pot rice. You can add the sauce into your rice according to your own preference.

After it's been mixed up. I don't know why I love stone pot rice, maybe because I feel healthy everytime I eat them. Add with the sauce was just prefect. Yummy yummy.

My order, "Kim Chee Jjikeh" priced at RM18. Kim Chi soup with rice. There's clams, crabsticks, kim chi, seaweed, "dong fun", tofu cubes, and other ingredients in the soup. I loved the soup very much. It warmed my heart.

Haha, I've never tasted any kim chi soup but I find it nice though to drink it up like that. Or to eat them with rice.

Overall I find the food was okay but not very happy with the appetisers. Should go Amcorp Mall's Korean restaurant to have a try one day.

Korea Hyung Joo Restaurant
3rd Floor, T049,
Mid Valley Megamall

Tel: +603-2282 1112

2007-01-25T06:41:00.000+08:00

Station Kopitiam at Times Square

Each time when I'm at Times Square I have no idea at all what to eat. We've been walking around the floors which consists most of the restaurants and cafes to have a glimpse of what to eat. We saw a quite new restaurant just opposite The Chicken Rice Shop on the 4th floor. We decided to give them a try since the place was filled with quite a lot of patrons. So, let's see what we've ordered.

The one on the left was Honey Dew Juice while the one on the right was Nescafe Ice. The honeydew juice tasted ok. Priced at RM3.90, at first I thought it tasted a little weirdy but Shujin said it was nice and fresh. After a while, I think it's a pretty refreshing drink too. Shujin's Nescafe Ice was nice too. The Nescafe Ice is priced at RM2.50.

Shujin ordered the Pattaya Fried Rice. Priced at RM5.90, the fried rice consisted of some bite sized chicken meat, some shrimps, mixed vegetables (carrots, peas, and corns), and egg where it's all wrapped in an omelette. The rice was delicious~ I thought it would be normal but it was yummy.

I ordered BBQ Grilled Chicken which is priced at RM11.90. The grilled chicken was accompanied with fried rice, fries and boiled vegetables (a mix of carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower).

I was happy to see that the fried rice they've given me was the same with Shujin's Pattaya fried rice....but not for long. I wasn't happy at all. I ended up complaining to Shujin that the chicken's BBQ sauce was like some bottled uncooked/unheated sauce, and the boiled vegetables were over-boiled~! Last but not least the fried rice wasn't the same with Shujin's Pattaya Fried Rice. The fried rice I got wasn't that tasty. If I'm not so FUSSY, overall I would say it's still ok. @_@

But at least Shujin's Pattaya Fried Rice was nice. Maybe I ordered the wrong item. But the fried rice was supposed to be the same, isn't it? Oh well...

2007-01-22T09:26:00.000+08:00

DOME Cafe at Suria KLCC

Wow...I'm back to the blogging world~!!! It's been so long since I last updated my posts. I've been working for one month and I'm tad too busy with my working life and yum cha life, therefore there's no time for me to sleep or make post for my blog. I'm so sad cause I can't sit down and read my favourite food blogs as I miss them so so much~! I missed posting for my blog too~!

Well, now that I've finished my one month contract I shall start my blogging again. Mei Yen jie, pablopabla, jackson & etc etc miss you guys soo soo much!!! =) Now, back to food shall we? :D

I've been to DOME last month with Shujin at KLCC branch. To be honest, it's the first time I'm dining at DOME cause I only went there a few times for some coffee. We went to DOME this time cause we don't know where to dine in as we've been to KLCC's food court the other time and I've been to California Kitchen twice. Shujin suggested to dine in at many different places but I'm still very indecisive. At last I decided that we dine in at DOME cause we've been standing in front of DOME for a few minutes looking as if we're lost.

Since it's the first time dining at DOME I really don't know what's nice there. But I know that their breakfast are recommended by Mei Yen jie. Shujin ordered their Fish & Chips and Iced Lemon Tea (He always order Iced Lemon Tea whenever he sees it on the menu.) I've been looking at the menu for quite some time, at last I ordered a Spicy Olio Chicken Ham Spaghetti and a glass of Iced Peach Tea.

Both the Iced Lemon Tea and Iced Peach Tea costs RM7.95 per glass. We didn't order any coffee cause we afraid that we can't sleep after drinking them. Therefore, we opted for tea instead. (Lemon Tea and Peach Tea won't kill us). LOL

Shujin's Fish & Chips came and I saw that the fish were quite over fried. It cost RM22.50. There were fries, salad, and mayonnaise as sidelines. Overall it was okay. I think the fish are common. But fish & chips are common anywhere. DOME's fish & chips are fried until they were really crunchy on the outside. I wonder if they over fried them on purpose or what...

My plate of pasta came. It looked quite normal to me. Costing RM18.95, you can see in the picture that there's ham slices, chilli flakes, some bell peppers, and thin pieces of cheese. I don't know what's the leave decoration thingy. Was it mint? I really have no idea. This simple dish actually got my vote. I find it very simple, light and yet so delicious. It's so easy to eat them and I find the mixture between the ham and chilli flakes to be quite mouthwatering to me too. =}

Some other time I should try out their breakfast items as per mentioned by Mei Yen jie. :)

2006-12-24T14:07:00.000+08:00

Hotz Cafe at Yulek a.k.a Taman Cheras

Gosh~! It's been 7 days since I started working as a CSP (Customer Service Professional) at SRG Asia Pacific. I'm working on afternoon/evening shift until midnight. I don't have much time to go out and have fun, talk to my parents and not to say blogging!!! Well, I have to work today as well as tomorrow. Although I couldn't hang out with my friends and celebrate Christmas but at least I got triple pay. Yay~!

Well, back to food. I've been to this cafe once which is located at Taman Cheras. It's at the same row as the Flydance Cafe. I made a post on Flydance Cafe before on October 2006. The cafe was packed with patrons during lunch time. But luckily we got our seats as there's still a few empty tables outside.

I ordered honey milk which was one of my favourite. Okay, the good side is they put in a LOT of honey into the drink where other places try to put in as little as honey they can into the drink to save costs. The bad side was it's tooo SWEET cause they put in too much honey. :P Aniways, the drink costs RM5.50.

Shujin had the Ice Blended Mocha which costs RM6.90. The ice blended mocha was very rich in coffee and the aroma was great. The cream on top of the drink though wasn't as nice as those in Starbucks or Coffee Bean. But I can't ask for more cause the price here and the price at Starbucks or Coffee Bean was different~

But one thing that I think was, it's better if they serves their drinks on tall glasses instead of those plactic cups.

We ordered one snack to share along. We had the steamed radish cake. The radish cake costs RM2.50. At first it looked quite normal. Later did I noticed they actually sprinkled some crushed dried prawns on top of the radish cake. The radish cake was soft and warm, plus the spring onions and the dried prawns it was absolutely aromatic.

I ordered the claypot Loh Shu Fun. It costs RM6.90. When my food came I was like, okay....3 small prawns, minced meat and that's it??? One more complain is that it was tad too oily. The oil was enough to fry one egg. LOL I stopped complaining and start to eat. I was quite surprised cause the food looked really common but I find it very tasty. It was delicious. They add in spring onions and a dash of pepper into the loh shu fun. The aroma of the minced meat was really nice. I think they mix something with the dark soya sauce which they used to put into the loh shu fun.

Shujin had their Kung Po style chicken with rice. The rice came in a claypot style too which costs RM6.90. As usual, there were cashew nuts and dried chilis. Their kung po chicken was okay. I liked the cashew nuts they put in. Quite crunchy. But I still prefer those at the "dai chow" one. Forgot where I ate once at a "dai chow" stall and their kung po chicken was very very nice.

The bill came with a 5% of government tax. Overall, I think that their food were okay. I think I'll go back to this cafe to try out their other food. I didn't know that the one at Taman Cheras was a branch until I get their name card. If I'm not mistaken, according to the address given there's one at The Mall.

Hotz Cafe
(Taman Cheras Branch)
Lot33, Block G, Jalan 3/101C,
Cheras Business Center,
56100 Kuala Lumpur

Hotz Cafe Sdn Bhd
Lot G.43, Ground Floor, The Mall,
Putra Place, 100 Jalan Putra,
50350 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: +603-40447118

2006-12-14T22:02:00.000+08:00

Vietnam Kitchen at Leisure Mall, Cheras

Shujin and I were walking around Leisure Mall and we were hunting for food. We had no idea at all on what to have for our lunch. As we were walking and walking, we passed by Secret Recipe. I thought, nah..I'll have them the next time cause not in the mood in having any western food. Everytime I visit them I'll choose either spaghetti or the chicken chop rice. I wanted something different.

Opposite Secret Recipe was Vietnam Kitchen. We tried at this branch before and ordered set dinners. I don't quite like it that much as most of the dishes were like pre-prepared ones. But somehow it allured me to give them another try. Shujin and I then went in to the restaurant.

Shujin had the Water Chestnut with Egg drink. It was priced at RM4.90. It's a cold and refreshing drink. With the egg pieces and chunks of chestnuts, it's quite fun to drink this down while eating the chestnuts.

I want to have some hot drink, thus I ordered the hot Lemongrass Tea which was priced at RM4.90. It was nice. I loved lemongrass tea as it tend to give me a soothing and comfortable feeling. Shujin didn't really like it though. Some people cannot stand the smell of it. But I think it smells superb.

We had one side order which is the Fresh Prawn Spring Roll. It costs RM6.90. It came in 4 pieces and a plate of dipping sauce. The spring rolls were wrapped with fresh shredded carrots, and cucumbers. There were also chives, vermicelli, prawns and some vegetables(smell like herbs) to wrap together with very thin "cheung fun".

The dipping sauce was quite special. There were some crusted peanuts, fried shallots, and some shredded vegetables on top of the sauce. Mix them up and dip the spring roll before eating. The dipping was very sweet. The spring roll was very fresh as the vegetables together with the prawns gave a very healthy feeling as there isn't any oily food in it. I wonder will I slim down if I consume it everyday, minus the dipping of course. :P

Shujin ordered Chicken Curry Rice. It costs at RM9.90. The curry looked very redish. I was a little surprised when I took a piece of the potatoes. They aren't using potatoes, but sweet potatoes. I find the curry quite special, just that it's a little too sweet. I'm not sure if it's because of the sweet potatoes. But overall, it tasted quite special and it gives more flavor to the curry as the potatoes are sweet.

At first, I thought of ordering the XO Fried Vermicelli (I tried it once at One Utama outlet and it was delicious! But very oily and spicy too) but I wanted something with gravy. So I opted for the Seafood Fried Noodle which cost at RM11.90. I find the prawns very fresh and the broccolis were very crunchy. The chicken meat was tender too. I loved them adding sliced capsicums and onions. But, I don't know why the sauce was a little too sweet. Another thing that I found it surprising was that the mushrooms tasted very buttery. Haha, I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because they sauteed the mushrooms with butter?

I am wondering if Vietnamese food tend to be a little sweeter than other cuisines. Can someone enligthen me on that?

Vietnam Kitchen Restaurant (Leisure Mall Branch)
Lot L2-26-01 Level 2,
New Wing Cheras Leisure Mall
Jalan Manis 6 Taman Segar, Cheras

Tel: +603-91309530

Opening Hours: 11am to 9.45pm daily

2006-12-05T11:55:00.000+08:00

Golden Bread at Sri Petaling

I've always wanted to try out at this restaurant. The restaurant have a very nice signboard with a pair of the "yau tiu". :) The environment was not bad. The wall were full of large printings of the food pictures. They serves snacks, set lunches, and desserts.

There was a paper printing the set lunches available. It was quite a wide choice that they had. I didn't know what to order too. The waitress recommended me this one, Chicken in Garlic sauce with Rice. Priced at RM8.99, it includes one drink. I had iced lemon tea.

The rice was okay. The chicken meat was quite tender. They deep fried the chicken strips first, then only add in the garlic sauce. Garlic were fried too. The garlic sauce was not too salty nor too plain. It was just nice. But I would prefer it to be more flavorful. The sauce was too watery though.

Shujin and my friend both had the Cheese Chicken with Rice. Priced at RM8.99, it also includes one drink. At the first look, I was a little worried about it cause the cheese rice looked quite different from other restaurants that serves it. The cheese were a little burnt. But, I was wrong! It turned out to be quite delicious. There were some vegetables ingredients in it. Chicken meat, and I forgot what's inside. There were some tomato sauce underneath the cheese too. Mix it up together with the cheese, I find the Cheese Chicken with Rice quite yummy. :)

My another friend had the Yong Chow Fried Rice which was priced at RM6.99. The set lunch also includes one drink. There's nothing to shout about the fried rice. The rice have only some diced "lap cheong" waxed meat, and little fried egg pieces. The rice were topped with some shredded vege which were already turned into yellow, and one sunny side up. I don't think it's worth it.

Other than the set lunches, we also ordered the "Char Kui Combo" which the waitress claimed to be one of the most popular item on the menu. Priced at RM8.80, the combo came with Hong Kong "Char Kui" rolls, Salad Golden Treasure, and also one huge plain "char kui".

The "Char Kui" rolls were nice. The "Char Kui" were wrapped with "cheung fun" and sprinkled with some spring onions, black sesame, and some soya sauce.I really liked it as the crunchy "yau tiu/char kui" wrapped with the soft and tender "cheung fun" gives it a unique combination. The sambal/chili sauce given was yummy too.

Salad Golden Treasure, inside were some fish paste. I supposed outside were the "Char kui". The side of the "char kui" were being dipped with sesame. Black sesame and mayonnaise were drizzled all over the "Golden Treasure". I must say that this is delicious too. It was very aromatic. The combination of the mayonnaise with the fish paste and sesame were totally perfect. :)

Next was the huge plain "char kui". I was so happy to see such a huge "char kui" but wasn't very happy when I eat them. It wasn't really that crunchy although it looked like they are crunchy. It's ok but I'll prefer the one selling "yau char kui" at Yulek's "Wai Sik Kai".

I was already very full and guess what...We were also given a plate of complimentary fried chicken wings stuffed with glutinous rice. The waitress suddenly came and said that this was given to us by the chef. I guess it's because they saw Shujin taking photos of the food?? Hmm, they thought that Shujin was some kind of food reviewer for magazines? LOL :P

Well, although I'm very full but the fried chicken wings were really crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. They make it to become like, chicken must be crunchy and the glutionous rice inside must be pipping hot and soft and aromatic. There were diced waxed meat inside the rice too. :)

No.48, Jalan Radin Anum 1,
Sri Petaling
Tel : +603-90591998

2006-11-29T21:41:00.000+08:00

Baskin 31 Robbins (BR)

Finally, I'm free from my assignment and presentation. I can finally relax for a while...but not long cause I need to prepare for my exam which is in 12 days time. Now, I can post for my blog again. I missed the blogging world so much!

Well, it's time to post for ice cream. I had Baskin 31 Robbins last month. I had a waffle berry sundae with Shujin where you can choose any two flavors. It costs RM15.54 including government tax of 5%. They had the "Flavor of the Month" which was 'Chocolate Escape'. It was a mixture of chocolate and also swiss chocolate with pieces of chocolate ganache cake and chocolate flavored chunks. I got one scoop of that. Need not to say, it tasted extremely chocolate-y! It was very very nice. It was just prefect for chocolate lover out there!

The second scoop that I got was 'Swiss Mix'. It was a mixture of chocolate covered with peanuts, raisins, and banana chips. There's also shredded coconut and peanut butter pieces. I loved the banana chips very much! I've never eaten any banana chips before and it was extremely delicious! With all the ingredients that mixed together, it was just too good to be true. I love peanuts and the peanut butter pieces..added together with the aromatic shredded coconuts and chocolate + banana chips...mmmm mmmm~! ;)

Forgot to mention that the waffle was extremely crunchy and nice! With the chunky peanuts and cream on top of the ice cream plus the chocolate sauce topping were just lovely.

So sorry cause Can't see the ice cream at a closer look from the photo. I was too busy eating, Shujin only managed to take the overall look of the waffle ice cream.

2006-11-18T21:06:00.000+08:00

Pancakes with Pillsbury

This is the first time I'm making pancakes, and it was with Pillsbury! I was shopping in a supermarket and suddenly thought of wanting to make pancakes. I straight away grabbed one box. It was a One-Step Pancake Mix with Buttermilk. there are two packets of the flour mixture in the box.

So what do you need? One packet of the Pillsbury pancake mix, and 240ml water/milk. Adding milk will make the pancakes creamier but I used water as I ran out of milk. Only these two ingredients, it's as simple as that!

Just mix one packet of the flour mixture and water until the flour mix well with the water.

You then drop one spoonful (for each pancake) of the mixture onto a pan and fry them. Once there's some bubbles seen on top and they breaks, you can then flip over to the next side.

Well, I must admit that I did not pan fry the pancake nicely as it does not look flat and looked a little uneven. My non-stick pan had gone a little "koo-koo" so I couldn't really lift the pancake up nicely.

After frying the pancake, I placed them nicely on a plate and put a few pieces of butter on top of the pancakes. I then drizzle honey all over the pancakes and onto the plate. :) I do like the pancakes as they were fluffy and soft. It was wonderful to have pancakes with melting butter and honey. Totally yummylicious. Although the pancakes don't looked nice but it does make a wonderful breakfast for my day~ :)

I shall make real (not with pancake mix) pancakes myself the next time I hunger for pancakes at home. :)

2006-11-12T10:05:00.000+08:00

Blue Zone Cafe

Hi there...it's been a while since I last posted. I've been busy, there's pain and I felt a little tired. Just finished one test, and I'm in pain because of chiropractic. I've a neck and shoulder pain for a long long time. I've twisted my leg a few months ago and it's not cure yet. I know I should go see those chinese traditional "tit-da" but there's one that I used to frequent have closed down (I think). I don't know where else to go, so...hmm. I had the most painful treatment few days ago in my entire life! Chiropractic, with needling. :'( It's really painful, but I'm thinking that I'll get better. It's been 4 days now but my shoulder is still painful and I need to go back for needling next Wednesday! Argghh!!! I need to ice my leg twice everyday for at least one week.

Okay, enough about my story. Back to food, shall we? I've not been eating outside this whole week except in my college's cafe cause of test. I went to Cheras Leisure Mall few weeks ago. I had lunch at their 'food court'. I've got no idea what to eat there, so we decided to pick the one with the most customers. I've been to this Blue Zone Cafe once but forgotten how their food tasted like.

So, up we went there to find a spot to sit, place order at their counter, pay, and wait for your food. It's a self-service basis.

I ordered their claypot chicken rice priced at RM4.50. It tasted very normal. Not the best, nor the worst. It's just very okay only. They gave a quite big piece of the salted fish though. I prefer them to have the sauce to be a little darker, and with more aroma. I love rice to be in great taste with the sauce. The sauce wasn't enough, and the chicken was okay but not as smooth and tasty as those pro claypot chicken rice stalls.

Shujin ordered kuey teow soup which is priced at RM3.50. First of all, the soup was quite nice. Secondly, the shredded chicken was given in a generous portion. There's sliced fishcakes, and I loved fried shallots. The only complain for me was their shredded chicken meat. The meat texture was quite hard..hmm.

Overall, this is the cheapest food I think I can get at this mall. There's also a shop selling some economy noodles and rice near the arcade place.

Blue Zone Cafe
Cheras Leisure Mall

Tel:+603-91307080

2006-11-02T21:50:00.000+08:00

Shi Zen Green Tea

Well, I got free drinks from college again~ =) Happy-nya. Well, this time it was Shi Zen tea. I got one can and Shujin got another can with different flavors.

Shi Zen green tea with Jasmine flavor. It has a light taste of the jasmine and green tea. It's not sweet and is suitable for people who love refreshing with light taste.

This one was Shi Zen green tea with Calamansi Lime flavor. The can stated that it has been added with Vitamin C too. Well, this one was sweeter than the Jasmine flavor. It has the sweet with little sour taste. For those who love stronger taste, this is definitely the choice.

2006-10-30T20:01:00.000+08:00

The Manhattan Fish Market

I've been busy for few days, then sick for few days during the DeepaRaya holidays. That's why I got no mood to communicate with my computer. :( Didn't post up anything for quite some time. Well, it's time for me to post now as I'm getting better from my sickness.

Sorry that I'm posting this when the promotion is over. :'( Well, Manhattan had a promotion for the month of October which is from every Monday to Thursday. They have 2 promotion. The first one was 1/2 price for sizzling Louisiana Prawns at only RM9.95. The second promo of the month was Garlic Butter Mussels at RM6.95.

Ordered the Garlic Butter Mussels. Oh my gosh, they are so scrumptious! The sauce was so buttery, with the aroma of garlic, it was so satisfying~ Not to mention, the mussels were fresh too! Too bad I didn't have their Sizzling Louisiana Prawns. I've actually missed two great opportunities upon going to Manhattan... :'(

What I loved so much was their garlic rice. It's RM3.90 for a side order. Everytime I visit them, garlic rice would be one of my favourites! They're a great companion with the delicious seafood. The rice, with mixed herbs and shredded carrots was just so yummylicious. I loved the taste of the rice with garlic...I'm a garlic lover. The rice was super yummy when eaten with the mussels' buttery sauce. ^.^

This is the first time attempting their soup. Their soup of the day was Minestrone soup which priced at RM6.90. They have complimentary bread and some dipping (soup or sauce?). Just took the bread, did not take what's in the pot hence don't know if it's soup thingy or sauce. Well, I didn't really like the Minestrone soup cause I'm not a Minstrone fan. I'm more to like a mushroom soup fan. LOL. Shujin ordered the soup and he said okay...so ok. Well, all in all it had lots of ingredients in the soup and it was flavorful too. But I still prefer others.

The Manhattan Fish Market
LL2.49-50 Sunway Piramid,
No.3 Jalan PJS 11/5, Bandar Sunway.
Tel: +603-7491 3683
Website: www.manhattanfishmarket.com

There are many places more that Manhattan Fish Market are available: (You can find out the address and contact number for each of the following by visiting their website)

1)Alamanda Putrajaya
2)Ampang Park
3)Centre Point, Petaling Jaya
4)Ikano Power Centre
5)IOI Mall
6)Mid Valley Megamall
7)Sogo
8)Subang Parade
9)Suria KLCC

2006-10-22T22:01:00.000+08:00

Italiannies at One Utama

I've heard a lot about Italiannies and now it's time for me to try out their food. It's a Wednesday and it's a "Eat All You Can Pasta" day. We went there, and start to think what to order first. Basically, it's very easy. You tell the waiter/waitress what kind of pasta you want, what sauce you would like it to be and with what toppings. You can order as much as you want.

We were given a complimentary plate of plain bread and herbs bread. The waiter then poured some olive oil in herbs and a dash of dark vinegar into a plate for dippings. I love them! Especially the herb bread. I'm a herb lover person...so I think the herb bread thingy was really brilliant. The olive oil with the herbs, and the dark vinegar was fabulous.

There were five choices of pasta, five choices of sauce, and eight choices of toppings to choose from. Below are the choices:

Pasta:
1)Spaghetti
2)Penne
3)Linguine
4)Angel Hair
5)Fettuccini

Sauce:
1)Pomodoro
2)Arrabiato
3)Carbonara
4)Spicy Marinara
5)Aglio Olio

Toppings:
1)Shrimp
2)Fried Calamari
3)Beef Bacon
4)Clams
5)Chicken
6)Mussels
7)Broccoli
8)Diced Salmon

We only order a few of the toppings. Beef bacon, clams, chicken, and broccoli were not ordered. I don't take beef, there isn't anyone wants clams but mussels, there's isn't anyone who wants to eat pasta with broccoli, no one wants to have chicken but prefer salmon more. Therefore, we ordered other toppings instead. LOL

Okay, the first round upon ordering, each person ordered a different pasta sauce .

Fettuccine with Shrimp in Carbonara sauce. I know it's not right to start your first dish with carbonara sauce but my friend just couldn't resist it! I am really SERIOUS, the carbonara was HEAVENLY DELICIOUS! =) It was really really really truly truly truly yummylicious. The sauce was thick and when you eat the fettuccini with the sauce, it's telling you that they are delicious. The sauce was smooth, with great aroma, the cheesy and milky thick sauce just makes you wanna "mmm-mmmm~". This plate of pasta was finished off clean and shiny. LOL~ I guess this is the best carbonara I had so far. Am drooling now even when I'm writing this post!

Next up is Spaghetti with Shrimp in Pomodoro sauce. Pomodoro was actually tomato sauce and it was quite sour. I prefer tomato sauce with bell pepper. But the pomodoro was nice. I had a friend who do not eat cheese, that is why she ordered the pomodoro. :) The shrimps was crunchy. Sorry that there was no picture of this pasta as everyone were too busy eating. I thought my photographer did take the pic but...There is a small pic of the Shimp Pomodoro which is in the first pic of this post. The one one the top left was the Spaghetti with Shrimp in Pomodoro sauce :P

The third plate was Angel Hair with Mussels in Arrabiato sauce. I really really love this! The mixture of the pasta, garlic, tomato cubes, mussels, mushrooms and shredded cheese with a hint of crushed chillies (chili flakes) were really tasty. It wasn't too salty, it's just nice. I really love it but, it was a little oily. There was some kinda wine inside, or is it rum? I forgot but I remember Arrabiato had some liquor inside if I'm not mistaken.

Spaghetti with Shrimp in Aglio Olio sauce was the fourth plate. I was kinda dissappointed with this though. I love Aglio Olio and ordered it. But they don't taste like what I expected. There was some burnt smell on the pasta. I don't like it. *sigh* I'm missing a nice Aglio Olio soo much when I'm eating them. :(

Oh ya, anyone knows what is the mushroom on the picture? The mushroom was in the Aglio Olio and they have a very weird shape and tasted funny as well. I don't know if it's the mushroom that tasted funny too or was it the burned sauce that makes the mushroom tastes weird.

After the first round, we rested for a while and then we go for second round. We ordered Penne with Salmon in Pomodoro sauce. The salmon was nice but I don't quite like the strong smell of fish, as in "seng mei in cantonese". The smell was really strong, but that's what my friend claimed it to be..fresh.

We also ordered Linguine with Fried Calamari in Spicy Marinara sauce as we wanted to try out their fried calamari. The fried calamari was very nice..crunchy and not chewy inside. The sauce wasn't spicy at all. I think they just put a little chili flakes.

This is our third and last round upon ordering the pasta. We couldn't resist it (Carbonara!), hence we ordered Fettuccine with Mussels in Carbonara sauce. Again, I really really love their carbonara! The mussels were fresh, and it was absolutely ambrosial when you eat the mussels with the sauce~ ^.^

Last but not least, we ordered Linguine with Fried Calamari in Pomodoro sauce cause we want to eat the fried calamari again. Calamari was nice to be eaten with Pomodoro sauce. ;) Crunchiness of the calamari with the tomato sauce was great~ =)

I was just too full that I could barely walk. There's one bad news, I did not have the chance to attack any of their desserts. Don't say attack, even nibble also can't. :'( Sad sad~ Nevermind, I shall visit them again and try out their reputable "Tiramisu". :)

So, if you're carving for lots of yummylicious pasta (especially carbonara) go for Italiannies. The pasta promo is on every Wednesday. It is priced at RM19.90++ per person for unlimited pasta! There's also an outlet at The Curve, Mutiara Damansara.

Italiannies - Pasta Pizza & Vino
One Utama Outlet
F355, 1st Floor, Rainforest (New Wing),
One Utama Shopping Center,
Lebuh Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Tel: +603-7727 1399
Fax: +603-7710 3411
Email: sua@fridays.com.my

2006-10-17T22:18:00.000+08:00

Jack's Place at Sunway Piramid

Jack's Place have been having daily set lunches promotion from July to October 2006. Shujin went to Sunway Piramid and got me some food promotion brouchers. That's where I found about Jack's Place. We went to try out Jack's Place few days later.

They have different main course for different days. Each day with two main course for you to choose from. Let's see what do they serve for different days:

Monday
Main Course
Option 1 - Grilled Boneless Chicken with Plum Sauce topped with Sesame and Coriander
Option 2 - NZ Sirloin Steak with Cajun Sauce

Tuesday
Main Course
Option 1 - Grilled Fillet of Fish with Spicy Calamansi Sauce
Option 2 - NZ Sirloin Steak topped with Fried Seafood Stick

Wednesday
Main Course
Option 1 - Grilled Boneless Chicken with Satay Sauce
Option 2 - NZ Sirloin Steak with Mustard Seed Sauce

Thursday
Main Course
Option 1 - Grilled Fillet of Fish with Thai Chilli Sauce
Option 2 - NZ Sirloin Steak with Brown Sauce topped with Fried Onion Rings

Friday
Main Course
Option 1 - Grilled Boneless Chicken with Longan Sauce
Option 2 - NZ Sirloin Steak with Cream Sambal Sauce

Saturday
Main Course
Option 1 - Grilled Fillet of Fish with Lemon Butter Sauce
Option 2 - NZ Sirloin Steak with Mexican Sauce

Sunday
Main Course
Option 1 - Grilled Boneless Chicken with Garlic Teriyaki
Option 2 - NZ Sirloin Steak with Mushroom Sauce

Basically there's only either a chicken/fillet fish or Sirloin steak to choose from each day with different flavors of sauces. All of the set lunches are priced at RM13.80++ for Chicken/Fillet Fish and RM18.00++ for Sirloin Steak as main course. The set includes Soup of the Day, Main Course, The Day's Dessert, and Cooffee/Tea.

Since today is a Tuesday and we don't take beef, we've opt for the Grilled Fillet of Fish with Spicy Calamansi sauce. We ordered one set so that there's room for another place since there's also promotion going on at a Thai restaurant.

Soup of the day was ABC soup kinda thingy. At first, it was kinda weird cause I felt weird...hmm, what am I saying. Nevermind, forget it. :S The soup turned out to be pretty good. It was flavourful. Very heart warming indeed. Nice. :)

The soup was accompanied with 2 slices of garlic bread. The garlic bread wasn't my type. It was too soft, and little chewy. I like garlic bread to be a little soft in between and crisp on the outer of the bread.

This is the main course. At first, I was like..okay. The fish went well with the sauce given. Never the less, the fish was fresh.

With fries, cauliflower and carrots as sidelines was very nice. The sauce was kinda like Thai style spicy sauce.

I asked for tea as I don't drink coffee much.

Dessert came. I don't really fancy the jelly thingy as it tasted a little weird and it got a little sourish taste. Hmm, Shujin claimed that this kind of jelly do taste like that. I think maybe it was some kind of barley with lime jelly? But there wasn't any sign of barley seeds in it. Anyway, I just had a bite and the rest was finished by Shujin.

Other than the set lunch, I also ordered Mango Jelly Delight as it looked special on the menu. There's mango ice cream, colorful jellies, fresh cream, decorated with 2 chocolate sticks and a cherry. This dessert is priced at RM6.50++. It was presented in a very nice way which brighten my day up~! =) First spoon into my mouth, why does the ice cream tasted like some "nangka" ice cream??? @_@ Well, then I go on eating this lovely-looking dessert. After a while, I sort of mix up the cream with the ice cream and the jelly thingy. It tasted better than the first few mouth. It was nice as it was quite special. The mango ice cream do tasted nice with the jellies and cream. Not too sweet nor no taste. ;)

There are even "Exclusive Set Lunch" too. The following are the exclusive set lunches to choose from:

1) Deep Fried Dory Fillet priced at RM18.00
2) NZ Ribeye Steak with Brown Sauce at RM26.50
3) NZ T-Bone Steak with Brown Sauce at RM28.50
4) NZ Sirloin Steak and Chicken Combo at RM24.50

Besides that, what else can you get for your set lunches?

You can upgrade your meal~!

Add RM4.00 for Lobster Bisque
Add RM3.00 for Other Soup
Add RM3.00 to change the sauce of your main course
Add RM2.00 to upgrade normal coffee to freshly brewed coffee

Well, I would say the the food there wasn't bad nor good. It's okay. The main course was nice, but the dessert need to be changed. But, at a cheap price of RM13.80, you get soup of the day, main course, dessert, and a drink is a nice catch I would say. Shujin and I were even full after the set lunch with the Mango Jelly Delight. Two person with one set lunch, hmmm. I was really hungry that day but don't know why after nibbling here and there from the set lunch and from my mango jelly delight, I was full.

*There's also set dinner starting from RM28.00++

Jack's Place at Sunway Piramid
OB-K4C & D, Oasis Boulevard,
No.3 Jalan PJS 11/15,
Bandar Sunway, 46510
Petaling Jaya
Tel: +603-7491 0681

Jack's Place at One Utama
One Utama Shopping Centre (New Wing),
F346 First Floor Raunforest,
No.1 Lebuh Bandar Utama.
Bandar Utama Damansara,
47800 Petaling Jaya
Tel: +603-7725 1433

2006-10-13T21:32:00.000+08:00

Food at Neway Karaoke, Cheras Plaza

Neway~! It's so fun to go to such a nice place where you can sing and enjoy nice food~! Yes, Neway is a karaokae place. This place iss nice, services is good, food is nice, price for lunch time ~~not expensive~~ reasonable (cheap), plenty of songs for you to choose from..what else can you ask for~! =P

For the lunch session, you just need to pay for the lunch that you order and you'll get to sing for 3 hours + food! If you are Neway's member, you get a 10% discount from the total bill. Sounds great, isn't it? ;)

I used to go to Redbox last time, but ever since I was introduced to Neway...I love them~! :) Their food was very nice compared to other ones. I went there for lunch session (from 11am to 1pm) but my friends and I were late..it was already 12.30. Guess what, they let us in for lunch session. However, our time is deducted though, from 12.30pm til 3pm. Hmm, we lost half an hour...but nevermind cause we eagerly wanted to sing and eat with cheap price!

Those days where we got limited beverages(two small glass of drink?) during the singing session and everyone got super thirsty in the middle of the session...Well, now you don't have to worry about it as they provide free flow of drinks where the drinks are available next to the receiption counter. Three cold beverages available: Orange, Peach tea, and Ribena drink.

Hot beverages available: Hot milo and nescafe.

Not only you can get free flow of drinks, they do provide us a mini bar salad buffet. You can take whatever you want, ranging from salads to desserts to soup and even "yau choi" kinda veges! Pasta salad, coleslaw, egg salad, green salad, baby tomatoes, and many more for the salad part.

The pasta salad were nice. With a mixture of the shell shaped pasta, crabsitcks, tomatoes, bell peppers, and thousand island sauce. I found it refreshing and yummy. The nice aroma of bell peppers with the sourness of tomatoes...the "Q-ness" of the crabsticks and pasta...yummy~!

Coleslaw, a look from the picture already tells you what I wanna say. Lack out of mayonnaise sauce! It was okay, but not really tasty.

The egg salad tasted nice, with chopped chilis and chinese parsley a.k.a coriander. I love corianders~ ;)

There are also ham salad. It was pretty tasty too. A mixture of sliced hams with bell peppers. I think they seasoned them with some peppers too. It tasted just nice, not too salty nor too bland.

Desserts are fruits, and jelly. The watermelon were sweet and nice as you can see the redness of them from the photo above. The jellies were okay. Just like those that you get to eat. The white one(nata de coco) was one of my favourite. I forgot if there are any "kuihs" cause we were too busy taking other stuffs.

There were two type of soups available which are tomato soup and "ABC" soup. The photo above is tomato soup. I didn't aspect their soup to be delicious. But the tomato soup does taste nice. It was not too sour nor too sweet. It tasted like a warm tomato soup minus the sourness and tasted creamy.

The "yau choi" side presented a range of raw vegetables where you basically pick and ask the chef to boil them and then put some sauce on the veges.

The taking food and beverage session ends at 1pm...we have only about 20 minutes (upon settling everything and getting us a room). So, we hurried to get as many cups of beverages and food as we can!

These are the lunch set that we ordered.

American style set lunch. The set was priced at RM16++.

The set includes from left to right starting clockwise:

Grilled lamb and chicken, fruit salad, mashed potatoes, tuna sandwich, two hotdogs. and some sour & sweet tangy sauce for dipping.

I've always loved their mashed potatoes as it have a just nice texture. I love mash potatoes where they still have little pieces of "unmashed potatoes" inside. It was creamy enough, with a hint of butter smell. Don't be cheated by their apperance although they may looked a bit "eww" in the photo. ;) I definately love it~! Even it's without gravy. =)

The lamb grill were nice but tooo salty~! The lamb were quite well marinated as there were nice aroma of herbs. It's really a waste to see two big pieces of lamb being untouched on the plate as I loved grilled lamb. As for the grilled chicken, I found it too dry. Nothing so special about it as I cannot taste what's from the chicken except the chicken bland taste with it's dryness.

I did not try the tuna sandwich and fruit salad. My friends said the tuna sandwich have some weird sour taste and the fruit salad was very weird according to the items being mixed together.

I ordered "fu yu" a.k.a fermented bean curds chicken with rice. It was priced at RM10++.

The rice came with a generous portion of "fu yu" chicken with black fungus, half boiled egg, and eggy rice. Haha, allow me to aplogise as I'm not really well in using bombastic words. Note that in the pic the rice was mixed with some fried eggs. The plate of rice was decorated with some boiled vegetables too.

I would say that I didn't really like this chicken. The chicken was a little too dry for me. The taste was quite bland. Perhaps it's because I've eaten too much of the food we took? They should give me more of the chicken sauce. But this is definately the poorest dish I've ever ate in Neway as their food were all yummy.

Shujin ordered wantan noodle soup. It's priced at RM13++.

I was quite surprised that he ordered that cause usually I'm a little "curious" about soup noodles thingy in karaoke places. :P But it turned out to be not bad at all!

The bowl of noodle consists of two crabsitcks, four huge wantans, presented with boiled vegetables and decorated with chopped spring onions and fried shallots. The soup was clear but good enough to give the warm and nice taste. It does not taste bland, and the nooodles were special. They weren't like those noodles where you get from the wantan noodle stalls. They looked abit thinner and it was quite springy, and quite smooth too.

It's really worth the price for what they offer. If you're a karaoke lover and loves to enjoy food, do give Neway a try. But, beware..as by the time when you reach there you won't know whether to sing or to eat. LOL~ ;)

Neway Cheras Plaza Outlet (Just behind Cheras Leisure Mall)
Mezzanine Floor, Cheras Plaza, Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603-9131 1499

Neway Berjaya Times Square Outlet
04-85, Level 4, Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603-2143 3999

Neway One Utama, New Wing Outlet
Lot EZ 502,5-6/F,
One Utama Shopping Centre,
No.8 Dataran Bandar Utama, Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Tel: +603-7728 1499

2006-10-10T20:18:00.000+08:00

F&N and Seasons Can Drink

My college often have some people who come to give us free drinks, free trial of shampoo products, and etc. This was eventually done by the certain brands to introduce us to their new products everytime they release one.

This time around I got free can drink from F&N. F&N Blazt was a very nice and refreshing drink. It was a mixture of orange and mango. The aroma of mango and orange, the drink was gassy..it's just fantastic for a hot day. But it is a little too sweet if you drink it straight from the can (Maybe it's just me). It's the best to add in a few cubes of ice into a glass with the drink. =)

Another review of can drink was the Seasons brand. The new flavor that they've came up some time ago, red bean flavoured Soya. My friend kept on wanting to try this drink. So I went to buy a can for her as well as for me to try it out.

It has a weird taste. Well, it was weird. Don't know how to explain it...it's just so weird. Perhaps I can't accept that kinda taste. Nah, not my type of drink. Haha...

2006-10-04T20:50:00.000+08:00

Flydance Cafe at Taman Cheras a.k.a Yulek

I do not know what to have for dinner so decided to try out a small sushi house at Taman Cheras. I do not want to go into details about that sushi house but their services were just...psffff~!!! Okay, so we stepped out of the sushi house and went on to search for food.

I suddenly thought of Flydance cafe. So off we went to the cafe. I've been there twice. Their food weren't bad and the price was reasonable. I was soo hungry.

Without hesitating, I ordered the Wasabi Mayo Crispy Chicken priced at RM12.90. My friend ordered that before on our last dinner there and he said it was nice.

There were two pieces of chicken (was is chicken breast?), sidelines were fries and coleslaw lay on top of lettuce and topped with slices of cucumbers. The chicken were deep fried and being drizzled with tomato sauce and mayonnaise. It was nice. the first mouth of the chicken bite you can taste wasabi. Haha, it's not much but you can taste that there's wasabi. The wasabi have already being mixed with the mayonnaise.

Shujin ordered chicken sausage spaghetti in creamy sauce. But they ran out of creamy sauce, so the spaghetti came with tomato sauce instead. Nothing special. The spaghetti sauce was not flavourful enough. Not enough tomatoes, not enough herbs..lack of something. Priced at RM7.90, the plate of spaghetti was quite generous though.

The last time I went I tasted their spaghetti aglio oglio and it was nice. There's green mussels, squids, prawns, and fish bites. It was cheap too.

On the left is Chocolate Banana milk shake priced at RM5.50. It was nice. Reminds me of Secret Recipe's chocolate banana cake...hahaha. :P On the right was Ice Lemon Tea priced at RM3.00. Shujin claimed that it was too sour, but I kinda liked it. =)

I will go back there..but will not pick during peak hours. As, their food quality are not very standard. When there are a huge crowd on weekends, the food seemed to be out of quality. This cafe does food catering as well.

About the direction, Flydance Cafe is just behind the shop lots like Janbo Restaurant, Coffee and Ice Cream House, Blue Dragon Cafe, One Pandan Leaf, and etc. When you are behind, you'll be able to see Restaurant Pattaya Thai Seafood at the corner lot. Flydance Cafe is in between the Restaurant Sornamm Curry House and Zex Salon.

Flydance Cafe
27, Jalan 3/101C,
Cheras Business Centre,
56100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603-91317131
H/P: +6012-3143086

2006-09-30T17:47:00.000+08:00

Seven Songs You're Listening to These Days

Wow~ I've been tagged for the first time. This is fun~! :) I've been tagged by the cute and nice lady, Mei Yen. =}

There are rules to be followed:

Okay, what are the 7 songs that I've been listening these days? (Gosh, I'm listening to soo many songs everyday.) @_@ The songs that I pick can be of any genre, with or without lyrics. Haha, and the most important thing is I won't get bored of these songs? These are the rules. Okay, let's get the party started~!

The 7 songs that I love to listen to are:

1) Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away

Walk Away Lyric

2) Queen/Suzie McNeil (from Rockstar INXS) - Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody Lyric

3) Fergie - London Bridge

London Bridge Lyric

4) UVERworld - D-Technolife (Bleach 2nd opening theme)

D-Technolife Lyric

5) Joey Yung (容祖儿) - 心淡

心淡 Lyric

6) Landy Wen Lan (温岚) - 爱回温

爱回温 Lyric

7) Jaclyn Victor & Misha Omar - Cinta

Cinta Lyric

8) ...Opssy, I couldn't control myself. Sorry. :P

Okay, so now I'll need to tag 7 other people?

Hmm, let's see...okay. The 7 are:

1) Life of A Food Lover (Joan Chew)

2) Tummythoz (Tummythoz)

3) The Perspective (Elrohir Telperien)

4) PabloPabla's Whatever (PabloPabla)

5) Eat First Think Later (Teckiee)

6) Living in Food Heaven (Jackson)

7) kyspeaks.com (KY)

2006-09-27T09:30:00.000+08:00

Yuen Buffet Steamboat at Sunway

I'm at Yuen buffet steamboat to celebrate one of my friend's birthday. :) We used to be there whenever we finishes our projects and exams. But now we seldom go there as degree level was getting tougher. (I know things can be even more tougher than this).

It's the first time we're having steamboat on the upper floor. Yeap, this restaurant consists of two floor. I was quite suprised to see the crowd as it was a weekday. There were soo many people dining there wearing their formal clothings, I bet they go there straight away after work huh. Release stress =)

Well, as usual the first thing we usually do is to grab those bbq/marinated chicken wings. Their chicken wings were always the hottest one to be "snatched" away by the customers (us!) leaving the empty tray for others...hahaha. Those who were not alert about the chicken wings' existance when they (chicken wings) came out from the kitchen will have nothing left but the empty tray. Therefore my group was always very alert about it. :P But I don't know why I wasn't into the chicken wings that night, I only ate a pair of the wings. Okay, enough about the story. Let's move on to the other food part, shall we? ^_^

Coming to this restaurant, one can get lots and lots of plates of food. They serves a big variety of food, ranging from meat to veges to seafood to desserts and plenty more. Well, normally my friends love to take lots of seafood to give more flavors to the soup. There's crabs, 2 or 3 types of prawns, lala, mussels, few types of fish, "zuk tan in cantonese" don't know how to translate them in English, and there's baby octopus too~! Fish noodles, fish wanton are not to be forgotten as well~ But I did not take any seafood cause am afraid that will be alergic to my skin. I had a crazy skin as it sometimes will be allergy to certain food but sometimes not. I think my skin has mood too. LOL

Other than seafood, there's also many different types of balls.

To name some are raw fish balls, fried fish balls, vege balls, and etc.

Chicken meat pieces, wantons, mini hot dogs, tofu, fu chuk and lotsa stuffs are also available~! I just can't finish the listing down the food there's available there.

Fried rice, fried bee hoon, curry chicken are also available. I remember tasted a little portion of the fried rice and curry chicken the first time I went there and thought that it was pretty good. Normally, those buffet's sidelines a.k.a curry chicken/fried rice and bee hoon are just for presentation to show us that there's lotsa food and they usually doesn't taste well. But theirs are not.

Just like all the normal steamboat restaurant, there's also noodles and eggs and veges. They have other types of noodles here. They have yee mee, and bee hoon which was common. They also have those kinda maggi mee type with different color. Eh, not color la..I think the yellowish was the normal type, and the green one is spinach type?

Oh, another hot item in the house is the ice cream. Haha, you'll always have to queue up to scoop your own favourite flavors. There's quite a number of flavours to choose from. But they only take out four flavors at a times. Once the ice creams are finished, they'll replace them with other new flavors.

One of my favourites is always the honeydew. The honeydew was actually like the dessert (tong sui) honeydew with sago as there's really sago inside the ice cream. Yummy-licious~! =)

Another favourite flavour of mine is the corn ice cream. It's super yummy. You can taste that there's really corns in it! I'm missing them badly right now. :(

Another way to enjoy the yummy ice cream is to accompany it with the watermelon fruit. ;)

Other than that, there's also other kuihs for some sweet tooth people. The kuih talam was not bad. There's also some other kuihs which are being covered with shredded coconuts. Yam cakes are also available.

Haha, don't know why I asked Shujin to take a photo of a plate of ~~rubbish~~ sisa-sisa junk/prawns shells,bones?

Priced at about RM19.80 per person which includes drink (tea), I think it's another good place to go for if you're craving for steamboat with lots and lotsa food to enjoy for. :)

If you're going on a big group and it's a weekend, you better make a reservation before going as there would be a huge crowd there. :) I made a reservation even it's a weekday and am surprised to see such a crowd.

Yuen Buffet Steamboat Restaurant
32A-1, Jalan PJS 8/6,
Mentari Plaza, Bandar Sunway,
46150 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan
+603-5637 5825
Fax: +603-7803 3229
H/P: +6016-208 6678

2006-09-25T20:23:00.000+08:00

Nando's at One Utama

I was at One Utama cause Shujin wanted to go there to shoot some photos. There's some events going on there. It was actually a great opportunity for me to try out at Italiannies but I had pasta that morning (The Macaroni in carbonara sauce)...so I don't think I'll be wanting to eat pasta and stuff. :(

Well, since I wanted something different...I suddenly thought of Nando's. It's been quite a while I last visited Nando's and I missed their coleslaw and Mediterranean rice. So up we went to Nando's.

Shujin and I both ordered the 1/4 chicken set that comes with two sidelines. Mine was the Mild Peri-peri chicken with chips and the Mediterranean rice as sidelines.

Shujin had the Lemon and Herb chicken with Peri chips and coleslaw as sidelines. Priced at RM11.90 per 1/4 meal with 2 sidelines is worth it, or is it not? Haha, I thought it's a pretty nice catch.

The coleslaw was as tasty as before. Very nice. =) The chicken is flavorful too.

The Peri chips was nothing special though. It was just like the normal chips, the only thing is that they sprinkled some chilli/peri (or whatever) powder on the chips and that's all.

But the Mediterranean rice was a little lacking too. It wasn't as tasty as the last time I dine in at Nando's.

I forgot to order their Milk shake. The last time I tried their chocolate milk shake thingy, it was fabulous~!

Something not related to this post, I had lunch at Times Square's Kenny Rogers this afternoon. Ewww....their food was soo sooo not nice! I did not take any pictures (cause I don't have a camera and my hp's screen "kong" adi) and I don't think I wanna take any pics too. The sidelines, mashed potatoes was aweful. The mashed potato's gravy was very watery. The gravy for the chicken was not tasty also. The chicken was okay, the other sidelines (graden salad, and macaroni and cheese) was okay. What happened to them? I think I won't visit them for a longgg time already.

2006-09-23T09:06:00.000+08:00

Macaroni in Carbonara Sauce

My first recipe in this blog! :) Yeah, this is the first time I'm posting on what I cook. I've never posted any. So, here's one. This is a very very easy dish. Carbonara has been very easy. :P

I was hunger for carbonara one find morning (I know I shouldn't~!) so I take out all my stuffs out to cook. And I found out that I ran out of spaghetti. All I left was half a packet of macaroni in the shelve, so I have to use that.

I know macaroni was supposed to be cooked in "macaroni and cheese" style, but err...LOL. So, what have I used to cook this meal?

Ingredients:

3/4 cup of Macaroni (You can use any type of pastas, and you can adjust the amount of pasta you want)
1 egg
1 teaspoon of oil (Olive oil will be better)
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 Ayamas Cheese sausage, sliced (Usually I and everyone use slices bacon, but I don't have any in the fridge)
1/2 cup and 2 tablespoon of Cream
1/4 cup grated Parmesan Cheese
Ground black pepper to taste
Salt to taste

Steps:

1) Put macaroni/any pasta into a pot of boiling water with salt (Usually everyone do as what the packet has instructed) :P
2) Heat up a frying pan, and pour in the oil.
3) Then add in the garlic. Fry until fragrant, not brown.

4) Add in the sliced sausage.

5) In a bowl, add in the cream, cheese and egg and mix them well.
6) Drain the pasta up once they're ready.
7) Add the pasta into the pan which contains the garlic and sausage.
8) Pour in the mixture of cream, cheese, and egg and toss them over low heat. Do not overcook them as the egg will scramble.
9) Finally add in salt and pepper to taste.

Tadaaa~~~ My breakfast is ready! Hmm, though it doesn't taste as nice as when there's bacon in it I'm still fine with it. I'm craving for a carbonara so, no matter how I must have one no matter how not original the carbonara is. :P

2006-09-20T22:00:00.000+08:00

Lebanese Cuisine and Thai Cuisine at KLCC Food Court

I was at KLCC to walk walk as it's been quite some time since I go shopping. Err, window shopping actually. But I hate to do window shopping cause if I were to do that, I would rather go shopping. Buying nothing when you sees something you like is very painful. :P

Well, Shujin and I went to hunt for food instead. It's a headache to think of what to eat as there's just too much choices for you to choose from. Finally, we decided to travel to the KLCC's foodcourt which was situated at the second floor.

There were so many different kinds of cuisines served at the food court. From Chinese, Western, to Indian, Japanese. As we were walking I got attracted to the Thai Cuisine which was located just next to the Sushi King. Rama9, was the name of the Thai cuisine stall. We ordered the Green Curry Chicken rice which was recommended by the owner of the stall.

Well, there was nothing to shout about for the Green Curry Chicken rice. Priced at RM7.90 it came with a rectangular shaped rice, a bowl of green curry chicken. It was very oily, the sauce was quite sweet, the brinjals were TOO raw, the chicken pieces came in tiny miny pieces....oppsy. I guess I complained too much about it, ain't I. But there's one thing I need to complain which is the fried anchovies they gave us was not crispy at all.

We also ordered their Mango with glutionous rice. It was priced at RM6.00. Well, critics critics and critics. First of all, the glutionous rice were not even cooked! Pffff....what a waste. I ate a mouth full of the rice, mango and the coconut sauce with some puffed rice (with my happy face). I ended up pulling my face down. I was so desperately wanted to eat mango with sticky rice so much cause I missed them soo soo much! Aiksss..how sad it is.

The owner of the stall even recommended lemongrass drink too and I ordered one. I personally think that the drink was not bad. Very refreshing and nice.

Next is the Tarbush Restaurant which Shujin finds it very attractive and special.

He asked me to try it out. I thought, why not since I've never tried any Lebanese cuisine before. I went to have a look and everything were so ~~alien~~ new to me. So I have to ask the owner of the stall to recommend me what to eat. He asked me if I take lamb and I said yes.

He recommended me with Sharwarna Lamb.

Priced at RM7.00, the Sharwarna looked just like some kebab lamb being wrapped into a flat bread kinda stuff. It's very yummy~! Delicious... :) In the flat bread, there were lamb pieces, tomatoes, and raw onions. The lamb pieces they gave were generous enough. There were some dressings, eh..some kinda white sauce. I wonder if it is sour cream. I really liked it very much. =)

I shall try Tarbush again with some other of their dishes and venture to other stalls at the food court there as well the next time I visit KLCC. =}

2006-09-19T19:15:00.000+08:00

T.G.I Friday's at One Utama

Ahh, finally I'm back to my blog. It's been a week I'm away from my blog. Miss my blog soo soo much~! Well, this time I've "travelled" to T.G.I Friday's at One Utama.

First time going to T.G.I Friday's for my friend's celebration. I've always wanted to try out their food. :) My poor friend was being tricked by the T.G.I crews...haha. With all the crews asking him to stand on top of the table, and using a straw to blow the candles on the cake which was quite far away from him~!(Sorry friend, I didn't know that T.G.I will do that to you. If I knew, I wouldn't have asked for 21 candles but 3 candles instead~!). The crews even sang a mix-rap kinda thingy birthday song for the birthday boy. It was fun~ =)

Well, I do not know what to order there but I know their Buffalo Chicken Wings were popular. They have a three course meal which cost at RM39.90. Without hesitating, I ordered the three course meal. I ordered the Buffalo Chicken Strips for the appetizer, BBQ Chicken for the main course, and Double Chocolate Brownie for the dessert.

The appetizer, the Buffalo Chicken Strips. It was actually fried chicken strips with Buffalo sauce served with celery with the dipping sauce (what was it? sour cream? cheese?). At first I tasted one piece of the chicken and...so sour! Ewww...Then I dip the chicken into the dipping sauce, and they tasted quite well actually. Silly me.

One of my friend ordered the course meal and ordered the 3 Chillies Fiery fried calamari for appetizer. It tasted okay. Nice and crunchy.

Another friend of mine ordered the chicken burger thingy. I thought it was okay but doesn't really fancy the caramelised onions inside the burger though.

My main course, BBQ chicken. Two grilled chicken drumsticks, served with the BBQ sauce. The sidelines were mashed potatoes,and two grilled corns. I thought it was yucky~! I do not know why but the chicken were a little over grilled, the BBQ sauce was tooo sweet! The grilled corn, yucks! Tasted like some kinda medicine and raw. I did not touch the corn at all. The mashed potato was sweet. Everything was just sooo sweet. Maybe this dish was meant to be sweet? Oh well, ~~I wonder why~~....

I was kinda dissapointed with the meal I had as I've expected high quality of their food as many have reviewed T.G.I as a nice place to eat. Perhaps I ordered the wrong thing then ~~or the chef mistakenly pour in sugar instead of salt~~.

Hahaha, but everything was finally forgiven when my dessert came~! The double chocolate brownie. Yummy-licious~! ;) I know their mud pie was popular as well, but maybe next time cause there weren't any mud pie in the 3 course meal category. 3 layer of brownie stacked together. Chocolate and caramel sauce were drizzled all over the plate...and finally one scoop of Vanilla ice cream topped with crushed nuts. Super duper yummy~ I love the vanilla ice cream as they doesn't taste like other vanilla ice cream that you get outside. Really nice dessert.

I was soo bloated with the meal. I shared the 3 course meal with Shujin and yet I am soo full~! Maybe next time I'll visit T.G.I to try out their mud pie.

Another nice dessert that one of my friend ordered. I forgot the name of this dessert but I know there's one word the dessert was called, "turtle"~! Don't know what turtle. Ermm, note that there's a piece of brownie being placed onto of the dessert. It's actually one of my friend who place the brownie there..haha. Not from the dessert itself. But, the dessert also contains brownies with chocolate and caramel sauce I think.

2006-09-12T09:46:00.000+08:00

Saisaki Japanese Buffet at Wisma UOA

I've been there once about years ago and now I'm going back there for the second time. Wanted to try out at the famous Shogun at One Utama. I called them a day or two before Merdeka day and they said it was fully booked. So my friend asked me how about Saisaki and I said okay.

So here we are at Saisaki. It was Merdeka's day and there were crowds waiting outside for empty tables. Inside was...oh my gosh! I've not been there for so long and they've renovated the place and added lots of other food sections. There are so many choices of food for you to choose from. First thing first, of course my first stop will be at the sashimi bar there~ :P Sorry that I didn't take much photos and some ~~all~~ photos are blur. Well, I do not own a camera. So mostly the photos that I posted are taken by Shujin(my photographer), my friends' cameras, or handphone(s).

Well, there are smoked salmon rolls, baby octopus, sashimi, ikura (salmon roe). Hehe, sushi~ The sashimi was very very delicious~! Baby octopus are my favourites too~ They didn't wrap the gunkan(sushi where the rice was wrapped around with seaweed) with seaweed(nori) but with some "eggy" thing? Haha, I didn't experiment what's the sheet that's around the rice cause I was too hungry~!

Cheese Baked Oysters~! It was a complimentary dish by the restaurant. Of course one oyster per person only. LOL. It tasted okay. One of my friend took "Peking duck wrap" (forgot to take photo of it) which I thought it was brilliant. It was situated in front of the ice cream section.

Eggy thingy wrapped with nice stuff (forgot what's inside). Very very nice roll.

Tempura~ There's soft shell crabs, prawns, fish, and other vege tempuras. Yummy, crispy and fresh as they deep fry them on the spot. There's also cheese baked scallops and green mussels.

Do-it-yourself miso soup~ This is the first time I make my own miso soup with the prepared ingredients and a pot of the dashi stock soup...hehe. I added everything that's there for my bowl of miso soup. There's wakame seaweed, tofu pieces, chopped spring onions(scallions), and katsuobushi(thin shredded pieces of dried skipjack tuna).

Err, the infront one I think it's dried baby octopus? Whatever it is, they are delicious~

Fresh hand rolls that you need to order from the chef. On the right side of the plate was, err..pai tee thingy. Inside the pai tee was some mayonnaise, tuna with some wine? I forgot what the black color paste thingy called.

Another thing that I will not miss in Japanese buffet, edamame(green soybean). =) I love to dip them into wasabi(Imitation:Made from horseradish, mustard, and green coloring for food) and shoyu(soy sauce) and suck the beans out~! ;)

Green tea ice cream. Their green tea ice cream wasn't really nice. Very powdery and was a little bitter.

But their mint and vanilla lime ice cream was yummy yum~!

Overall, I find the food nice. Business hours are from 12.00pm - 2.30 pm for lunch buffet and 6.30pm - 10.30pm for dinner buffet. The lunch buffet is RM39+ per pax(if I'm not mistaken) and dinner buffet is RM43+ per pax.

My other favourites are Bangi's Equatorial Hotel Kampachi Japenese Restaurant and Legend Hotel's Gen Japanese Restauran. I should try out other Japanesee buffet too.

Restaurant Saisaki-Japanese Buffet
Unit No.1-9, 1st Floor,
Wisma UOA II, No.21, Jalan Pinang,
50450 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603-21663728
Hunting Line: +603-21664728
Fax: +603-21666728

2006-09-10T09:01:00.000+08:00

Yoshinoya at One Utama

We went for a movie "Snakes on a Plane" on the Merdeka's day. Gosh, I've heard a not so good review about this movie but I thought it was pretty good. There's one scene that have actually "freaked" me out. LOL~ We actually have no idea of what to have for lunch as you know, One Utama got soo many choices of food for you to choose from. As we are heading for a big feast at Saisaki for dinner buffet later that night, we got to have something that's not so "big". I bumped into Yoshinoya and hence we tried it out as we never try them before.

I individually felt that it wasn't that nice. Yoshinoya was fast food chain, aren't they? Hmm, their service was fast though. The food came out really fast without having you to wait. This is what I call fast food services. =)

Well, I had their chicken teriyaki rice which cost RM8.90. The set comes with either you choose miso soup or drink. There's rice, chicken teriyaki with the sauce, with some vegetables. The chicken tasted like steamed chicken. I don't find anything interesting in my bowl of chicken teriyaki. Well, the soup was okay but a little too salty. I guess they smashed the tofu pieces in the soup as they use those "miso soup dispenser" for the miso soup.

Shujin had the chicken udon which priced at RM9.90. Shujin also chose the miso soup. Err, actually it was my mistake. Shujin didn't want miso soup but I heard wrongly. He actually wanted drink but...haha. Sorry! Well, The bowl of udon contains udon(of course got udon :P), pieces of seaweeds, one quite big piece of chicken meat, and sprinkled with some chopped spring onions. Look at how over grilled is the chicken meat! Or was it meant to be like that? I don't think so~! The soup was okay, and the udon was overcooked. Overall, I don't find anything interesting about his udon either.

One of my friend had their onigiri. She said it wasn't really nice also. I would probably not going back to Yoshinoya, but perhaps it's because I was too used to real, original Japanese food at those Japanese restaurants? Haha. :P

2006-09-08T10:09:00.000+08:00

Durian Cheese Cake at Serai House

My grandmother need to go for eye check up at Taman Tun, so me and my family went there to have dinner as well. This fine malay cuisine restaurant (Serai House) was opened by my cousin brother's friend and her business partner.

The restaurant serves pure Malay food, this means there will not have any mix of other cuisine like Thai, Indonesian, or etc. The environment there was very nice and looked classy. :)

Well, so sorry that I did not take photos of what I've eaten but there's one thing that I'm sure I must recommend to you all. They serves superb durian cheese cake. The cheese cake contains durian flesh. It's really rich and moist. Yummy yummy~Though I'm not sure if they still have it because I believe that durian are only available in certain season. If you love durian then you must try them~

Overall, I would say that their food was delicious. I'm missing their "kerabu pucuk paku", "nangka kari ayam" and also "ikan percik". What I missed the most was their desserts~!!!

We had the cendol ice cream, durian ice cream, and also the durian cheese cake. I tell you, the desserts were all yummy~ They even make the ice cream themselves. The cendol ice cream and durian ice cream was delicious~! You can eat the durian flesh inside the durian ice cream.

We couldn't resist the durian cheese cake hence my cousin brother ordered two whole cake. ^^ One whole cake is selling at RM80 for, erm not sure if it's 1 or 1.5 kg. I was so happy when my cousin brother's friend deliver the cake right to my door step. Do try this restaurant out as I would like to visit them again.

Serai House - Fine Malay Cuisine
44, Jalan Datuk Sulaiman,
Taman Tun Dr. Ismail,
60000 Kuala Lumpur
Tel/Fax: +603-77296622

2006-09-05T08:10:00.000+08:00

A&W

Shujin and I went to A&W after our part time work. It was quite some time since we last visited A&W. I made a review about "Waffle Stop" previously and it was a dissapointment. A&W's waffle are much more better~!

Curly fries, another item that I like in A&W. =) Well, as usual nice and crunchy.

This is what Shujin had. Coney dog...it was quite nice. :)

Well, this is the waffle~! Waffle with single scoop ice cream. It's being topped with one scoop of vanilla ice cream and also strawberries. >.< Now this is what I call a waffle (though they are common in terms of toppings) but who cares? They are still great! The waffle was very nice and crunchy. (Sorry that the ice cream was melting inside the photo..keke)

I had the chicken sandwich. Well, there isn't any photos of the chicken sandwich and root beer. Sad to say that some of the A&W branches were closed down. I hope they will improve their services (etc) to keep the business going. I will miss their waffle and root beer float if they are gone! I feel like going back for waffle and root beer float now~! @_@

2006-09-01T08:32:00.000+08:00

Tian Shan Restaurant at Berjaya Times Square

I wanted to try this restaurant as there were some bloggers who have blogged about it. Finally, I went to this restaurant during Gary Chow's M'sia tour. Had dinner here with friends. Well, the place was nicely decorated, very unique. =)

What I saw from other reviewers are they had the chicken chop noodle, and "xiao long bao". I decided to give it a try.

This is the "xiao long bao". It was something like dumplings, steamed. It tasted okay but I find it a little too salty. The skin dries up very quickly. RM10 for 10 of the dumplings.

This is the fried dumpling a.k.a "wo tip in cantonese". This was nice too. The skin of the dumpling was crispy on one side and soft on the other side. This is same with the "xiao long bao", RM10 for 10 of the dumplings.

This is the "zha jiang mian". It was a very huge bowl when it came. I was kinda shocked...haha, such a big bowl of noodle. They gave big portion cause this bowl of noodle costs RM9.90. As you can see on the pic, there's minced meat, noodle, with lots of shredded carrots and cucumber sprinkled with spring onions. It was not bad too.

This is the chicken chop noodle that costs RM10.90. I loved the chicken meat as it was tender on the inside and crispy on the outside. Very nice. The noodle though was simple cause the soup was very common, sorta like lack of taste. The type of noodle was the same with the "zha jiang mian". Note that the bowl of noodle given was very huge too. How to finish it by one person?

Sweet and sour chicken rice priced at RM10.90. I must say that although you can get this anywhere, but the sweet and sour chicken was nice. The sauce was very nice. The chicken meat accompanied with capsicum, cucumber, tomatoes, and sesame was nice. The sauce was just somehow very nice.

Tian Shan Restaurant
Lot 03-92, Third Floor,
Berjaya Times Square,
No.1, Jalan Imbi, 55100, Kuala Lumpur
+603-21449829

2006-08-27T22:02:00.000+08:00

Rabbit Cafe at Sri Petaling

This cafe opened a few months ago in Sri Petaling area. I went there once and think that there are worth to visit again. I decided to go there again with Shujin as he did not try that cafe out yet.

There are set lunches at the cafe which are quite attracting. All the set lunches are prices at RM10.90 and they are only available from Monday til Friday. I decided to order their set lunch which come with Nestea green tea, black pepper chicken rice, and fruits. Shujin ordered their set lunch too. His set comes with Nestea green tea, special nasi lemak, and fruit rojak.

I must say that rojak was nice. The rojak consisted slices of water pink guavas a.k.a jambu lilin merah, pineapples, cucumbers, water chestnut, raw papaya, and mango I think. Then it has prawn crackers and rojak sauce with crusted peanuts and sesame seeds. I like the rojak except for one thing, which are the prawn crackers. They are not crunchy. :(

Well, let's move on to the main course, the nasi lemak special and black pepper chicken rice. The nasi lemak is quite nice. The chicken is flavourful and the peanuts were nice and crunchy. It has achar too which was nice. One thing was, where are the anchovies?? The sambal was a little too sweet for me though. But overall, it was quite nice.

The black pepper chicken rice. First of all, the pros are that the chicken meat was tender in the inside and the flavour was nice. The cons are the black pepper sauce was too sweet for my liking. I prefer black pepper to be full of black pepper taste. I can taste that the chicken are being marinated with honey, I think as it was very nice. =)

The fuit platter comes with slices of mango, dragon fruit, and watermelon.

Overall, the cafe have a simple environment but comfortable. There are free wireless online access at the cafe. Besides that, there are also unplug singing at every Wednesday and Saturday from 9pm til 12am.

If you are coming from the Bukit Jalil lrt station's road, go straight and you'll see a traffic light. Turn right and go straight. You will pass by the IMU university and Sri Petaling lrt station. Go straight and you'll see a traffic light. Go straight until you see the second traffic light and turn left. You will then see a school on your left. There are rows of houses and also a few rows of shops on the left after you see the school. Turn into the road that leads you to the shops. The road sign is Jalan 16/149L.

When you turn in you'll be seeing the Nasi Ayam Ipoh Restaurant in front of you and the Restaurant Ajimal Razim at the end of the row. Don't try the nasi ayam ipoh as I think that it's horrible. After the turning don't go anywhere but straight and you'll see the 83 Food Court "Pat Yeh Tin in cantonese" which is just behind the Nasi Ayam Ipoh Restaurant. Turn left and you will be able to see the Rabbit Cafe. :)

Rabbit Cafe
No. 12G & 14G, Jalan 14/149L, Zone P,
Bandar Baru Sri Petaling,
57000 Kuala Lumpur

2006-08-22T20:33:00.000+08:00

Indian Fried Snacks

This little snack was one of my favourite when I was young. If I'm not mistaken, it is called "Vadai". So sorry that it was half bitten as I couldn't control myself from eating them~ haha. It was really nice..... :P

The texture was soft inside, the aroma was so nice. I just love eating this. :)

This is another kind of the snack. I don't know what is this Indian fried snack called. It was sort of like the vadai but this one is harder than the vadai. I think the taste is a little stronger too. It had some yellow (dhal) beans, chillies, and other ingredients. It's aroma was nice too.

I bought them at the Bukit Jalil's lrt station. There is a stall outside where the Indian lady that sells newspapers and also these fried snacks. RM1.00 for any of the 3, you can mix them. =)

2006-08-17T22:14:00.000+08:00

Oriental Cravings at One Utama

Shujin and I went to One Utama for the Miss Dragon-i event. The event turned out to be at 8 pm. So, we thought of having something for dinner. We walked and walked as I could not decide what to eat. Finnaly, we are at the Oriental Cravings.

We have a try there as the restaurant was packed with people. Their fried vegetables looked good. We sat there and the waitress gave us the menu. I was looking at the menu for less than few minutes and the waitress asked us what would we like to have. I asked her could I have a look at it for a few minutes more. Not even a minute pass, she was back and asked us. I was totally speechless as I was still looking at the menu...hahaha. She then recommended me the "fried tung hoon special" which was fried glass noodle.

I must agree and thank her for the recommendation as it was really nice. It has the "wok" taste. I first thought that okay, this is all I have for a plate of fried tung hoon at RM11.90? It has shredded cabbages, bean sprouts, shredded carrots,shredded onions, shredded chilli, shredded chives, dried prawns, eggs, decorated with one slice of cucumber and tomato, chopped spring onions and that's it?

Later did I notice, there were two big prawns hiding under the noodles. Slices of mushrooms were found too. :) Hmm, the only thing that disappointed me was the prawns. They were tasteless, not even the taste of the prawns..hmm.

Shujin had their "Laksa". It came at RM12.90 with three big pieces of aubergine a.k.a brinjal/eggplant, three big pork balls, slices of roast porks, long beans, bean sprouts, tofu pieces (toufu pok in cantonese), and decorated with coriander a.k.a chinese parsley.

The laksa has roast pork inside too. There were okay cause when you eat them with the noodles you don't really get to taste the roast pork.

Look at the pork balls~ =) It was nice. My only complain was the aubergine was a little too raw and the soup was a little too oily. The sauce was quite thick. The first spoon of the curry soup into my mouth made me think that it was satay's dipping sauce. The sambal chilli wasn't my favourite type as it was sweet and has no belacan taste.

I will surely re-visit this restaurant one day if I happen to go to One Utama as I find the food was not bad. Most of the customers ordered their fried vegetables. The waitress too recommend the restaurant's specialty "special toufu"/"jiu pai toufu in cantonese" to all the customers and most of them ordered.

Oriental Cravings
G359, PHASE 2, ONE UTAMA,
Tel: +603-77272581

2006-08-14T23:20:00.000+08:00

Wong Kok Char Chan Teng

Went out for a drink with friends at Wong Kok Char Chan Teng, Leisure Mall. The first one was Chocolate Lava.

The outer layer of the cup was decorated with peanuts. It was not bad, but it was kinda too sweet for me.

Next up, the Ice Honey Peach Passion Fruit Tea. It was fruity and refreshing. The tea was topped with some fresh cream (which I thought it was kinda weird).

The photo was kinda blur. It was Mango Honey Dew...forgot what's the name as well. It was kinda nice too. All of the drinks are priced at RM5.90 each.

No food photos cause wasn't having dinner there that night. I've been there a few times and their food was not bad, especially their special chilli sauce.

Address:
Wong Kok Char Chan Teng
L2-26-03, Cheras Leisure Mall
Jalan Manis 6, Taman Segar,
Cheras, 56100 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: +603-91328611

2006-08-12T07:58:00.000+08:00

Thailand's Snacks

My parent went to Bangkok while my aunt went to Chiang Mai for a trip on the same week. @_@ They brought back souveniers, and of course snacks~! =) Hmm, when talk about Thailand I will think about the mango and glutinous rice. It's my all time favourite~ Of course, very very nice Thai style fried rice and Tom Yam. The first two snacks was brought back by my aunt from Chiang Mai.

This is called fried "dried meat". My aunt said it was like our local's dried meat, but the only difference is they fry them, not grill them. It was actually in big pieces but to allow them to be stored into containers, my aunt crushed them into pieces. :P

Next, the pork floss black sesame roll. Inside was pork floss. I must say that these are very very delicious~!

Okay, lets see what snacks did my mom bought from Bangkok, shall we? The above was called chicken floss rice crackers. Sorry that you couldn't see them in pieces as they were arranged badly on the plate. It was flavourful and crispy.

This is another version of rice cracker with dried prawns topping. It tasted okay but you could smell the dried prawns..ermm..how should I explain them? :D

Last but not least, fried pig's skin~!!! Yummy yum~ Actually I don't like any pig's skin or lard thingy but this was very very nice. Very crunchy and smells superb~! At first I was kinda doubted about their looks and knowing what are they...but in the end I can't seem to stop stuffing them into my mouth! hahaha...silly me.

2006-08-10T22:20:00.000+08:00

Mee Jawa - APIIT, Bukit Jalil

What you get to eat in a college's cafeteria? Well, what my college's cafeteria normally sells are mixed rice, economy fried noodles, fried rice, chicken rice, noodle soup, bread, chee cheung fun, curry puff, western food, kuih-muih, etc etc. What I like was that they do sell other types of noodles beside fish ball noodle soup or curry noodles. The cafe also serves "Lam Mee", Assam Laksa, Thai Laksa, and also Mee Jawa according to different days.

It was Wednesday and they are selling Mee Jawa. The Mee Jawa was the most worthy noodle dish among the others. Pricing at RM3.60 a plate, the below photo showed what they had inside the noodle.

The noodle comes with bean sprouts, shredded cabbages, slices of fried tofu, mamak stall's fried flour paste, half-boiled egg, baby squids, slices of steamed/boiled potatoes, and being decorated with green chilies and fried shallots. Not to forget, a squeeze of lime.

My plate of Mee Jawa was the usual ones with ingredients, sauce but the yellow noodle was substituted with bee hoon. This is simply because I can't take the yellow noodle as I have gastric. I'm not into the yellow noodle too as it always have one kind of taste. Tasted nice as I love the sauce that has the sour, spicy, little bit sweet and salty taste. Yummy~ :D

APIIT College is situated inside Teknologi Park Malaysia (TPM) at Bukit Jalil.

2006-08-09T14:30:00.000+08:00

Taman Cheras a.k.a Yulek Food Stalls (Wai Sek Kai)

I was actually going there to have dinner. There's a stall there that sells prawn noodles which are good. I was there on a Saturday and was surprised to see them (the prawn noodle stall) having a day off. Hmm, well it was raining...so I decided to eat other food. I decided to have the fish ball noodle soup. I have actually tried them a couple of times and they were not bad. The stall ran by two men, I forgotten one of them is Teo Chew or both of them are Teo Chew people. It wasn't nice, not the soup and not even the fish ball! What happened??? Last time their standards wasn't that bad. The fish ball was very soft (not bouncy at all) and tasteless. The soup was...*sigh*.

Shujin had pan mein. For me, it was aweful. They are a stall who sells pan mein, how can their broth be like clear water? The noodles were okay, enchovies not crispy...lazy to complain. I was totally disappointed again throughout the meal.

What saved the day was the "yau char kuai" that I bought. :D The stall was run by two Indian men with the help of a woman. They make very nice yau char kuai. They also sell other stuff that you usually get to see when you are at a yau char kuai stall. It was very crispy on the outside. The ones I get from other place usually wasn't that crispy.

I ate it with sweet soup. The sweet soup stall had been there for very long. When my dad was young, the owner (uncle) used to ride a bicycle and sell sweet soup around Cheras. Now, I don't know who take over the business.

The red bean was not bad, with a dash of coconut milk. It was nice to accompany with yau char kuai. :)

This is "mak chok" sweet soup. I forgot what is it called in English, malt or raw barley? @_@ haha...inside was some beans, but not sure if it's raw barley or not.

Taman Cheras a.k.a Yulek is just opposite Taman Midah and next to Leisure Mall's side. If you come from Loke Yew highway and go straight to Cheras, you need to avoid the highway (don't go up to the highway to Leisure Mall) and turn left when you see a round-a-bout. You will come accross a traffic light. Turn right (Go straight will lead you to Pandan Indah, Setapak) and go straight. You will see a petrol station on your left and 7-11 shop on your right. In front of the 7-11 and King's Confectionary is the "Wai Sek Kai" food stalls. The road is called Jalan Kaskas 2.

2006-08-08T06:58:00.000+08:00

Waffle Stop - Outside of Lot 10 Shopping Centre

I actually wanted to try out the waffles from this (kiosk?) shop when I saw it few weeks ago or so. I finally had a chance to do so when my mom asked me to buy her a cap for her trip to Bangkok. This kiosk was located outside Lot 10 Shopping Centre (Opposite of Sungei Wang Shopping Centre). If you are at Lot 10, just walk out from the main enterance where Guess shop is on your left. Turn left and you will be able to see Samsung and New Straits Time booth/kiosk. Keep on walking and Waffle Stop will be there.

They have differet categories of waffles for you to choose from. Four categories which are Classic, Chocolate Galore, Ice Cream and Fruit, and Savoury Special. Waffles can be served in two type. One is the normal type which is "Belgian" (circular shaped waffle with toppings) and the other is "stick" where the smaller size of a square shaped waffle comes with a stick for you to hold. Other than waffles, they also sell brownies.

This is what I've ordered. The Cookie Double Chocolate Belgian priced at RM10.90. The stick one is priced at RM6.90. I was so happy to see it but ended up disappointed when I eat them. Well, there's nothing for me to shout about this particular (stall/kiosk?) as I don't really fancy their waffle.

The waffle does not taste that nice as I can still taste the flour (Not golden brown enough). No nice smell of the waffle, crispiness okay only. The ice cream wasn't that nice, but the cookies, peanuts and chocolate syrup was okay....but my main concern was the waffle.*sigh*

I would prefer Waffle World or A&W rather than this. I used to go to the Waffle World's branch at Sri Petaling but now they have closed down.

2006-08-07T18:04:00.000+08:00

Thousands of Apologies To Those Who Have Commented~

I'm so so sorry to all of you who have leave a comment on my blog~ :'( I was just too STUPID to have not check my e-mail account until today...and I saw there are people who posted comments on my blog! I'm sooooo HAPPY~ :D

I was just so STUPID to did not realise that in order for my blog's comments to be published I need to verify them. I did not change the setting...(duh-nya~). I'm really sorry about that...so please don't misunderstood and think that I'm the kinda "Sombong" and "malas" person who do not want to reply... :P You know what, each time I post one food blog I kept on waiting for someone to leave a comment on my blog. I was kinda disappointed that there's no one who write a comment to me...maybe it's because no one reads my lousy blog. *sigh* But there are!~~~ :)

Replies to comments:

30th July 2006 on Fried Dumplings and China's Hamburger
Lin Peh - See you? You also stay in Taman Midah as well ar? :P

Boo-licious - Oh, the night market at Taman Midah is on every Saturday. I've seen some same stalls running business at Taman Connaught's night market too but am not sure right now. Quite long never visit to Connaught's night market already. :)

1st August 2006 on Fish Head Noodle Soup
J - Yeah, it's irritating because it's about fish head noodle...I don't like bones! hahaha. Imagine if you get a bowl of prawn noodle but they put in tiny prawns that people used to put into fried rice...and broth is not prawn flavour..yeww~~

Gary@Sandy - My dad tried at the Adai Fish Head Village before but he said it wasn't really that good...hmm. Maybe he went there at the wrong time? :( Btw, are you the Sandy I know? :)

babe-kl - Oh, I know you say which one..there got 2 pan mien stalls right? Opposite got stationery shop and next to it got coffee shop? Last time (years ago) their pan mein were very nice, but now it's standard just dropped down the hill. Don't know what happened to them.

5th August 2006 on Pizza Hut Cheesy Bites
Jason - Oppsy, sorry about that. What made me to put your link into that category? @_@ Hmm, I corrected it already...hehe. Sorry about that. :)

Elrohir_Telperien - haha, the pizza was indeed yummy..aren't they? ;)

2006-08-05T15:11:00.000+08:00

Pizza Hut Latest Promotion - Cheesy Bites

I just finished rushing a project today. I was very very hungry, and I was finding a place to dine in because my mom didn't cook dinner today. As my college was situated at Bukit Jalil's TPM,there's only a few selections that you can have at Bukit Jalil's neighbour Sri Petaling. I was thinking of going to the Rabbit Cafe which I've been there once. Rabbit Cafe is near the Ajimal Mamak Corner. This cafe serves local and some Hong Kong style Cafe food.

It was when one of my friend told me that they've been to Pizza Hut not long ago and tried out their latest promotion that changed my mind. The latest promotion Cheesy Bites pizza which she said that it was very yummy.

The moment we went there, the staffs greeted us. Their services have improved compared to the last time when we went there to try out the (Hawaii/Waikiki?) promotion. I must admit that the environment at Sri Petaling's branch is always freezing! haha..but then later on they switched off the air-cond.... @_@

So, what have I ordered? The "Combo Bites 1" as it is for 2 person priced at RM27.90. Let's start with the food journey, shall we? What does the combo comes with?

As usual, two glasses of Pepsi.

Of course, as usual as well two bowls of soup of the day. It's always cream of mushroom soup. I don't fancy Pizza Hut's soup as I find Shakey's one tasted better. I even make better Campbell's soup which I used to add in cheese, milk, chicken stock, black pepper, sliced button mushrooms, and sometimes chicken meat. :) This method is taught by my lovely cousin sister. It is very nice to add it into your rice and eat them! ~yummy yummy~ Oppsy, out of topic. Let's get back to the journey of Cheesy Bites. (paiseh~)

Breadstixs. It came with 4 pieces of the breadstix. I actually forgot that the staff who takes our order did not ask what flavour we want for our Breadstix as it stated that they have either sesame cinnamon or parmesan flavour. We got the parmesan flavour. Sorry about one of the half looking breadstix as I was really hungry..hehehe. I straight away grab one of the stix and start eating...until I realised that my partner forgotten to take the photo of it. It was okay but I prefer their garlic bread.

Tadda~The main course! A Regular Cheesy Bites pizza with Chicken Supreme flavour, and 18 cheese-filled bites. The motto was "Pick it, Pull it, and Pop it!". Well, I did it..hahaha. The bites were filled with Parmesan, Mozzarella, and Cheddar cheese. It does taste nice, inside soft and outside little bit of crusty.

The Chicken Supreme was a nice one as the pizza was topped with capsicums, a hint of sliced onions, chicken sausage (which tasted awesome!), chicken stripes/ham, chicken slices, with lots of tomato puree, and melted cheese.

Overall, do give it a try as I think that it was delicious. They are having a "Snap it, Sign it, Sent it" contest. What you do is simply take fun photo moments with your Cheesy Bites Pizza. The contest will end on the 09th of August 2006 though. I was kinda late to review this promotion. :P

2006-08-01T07:06:00.000+08:00

Fish Head Noodle Soup - Taman Midah Food Stall, Cheras

The popular fish head noodle soup for me is always the famous one that you can get at the Taman Desa area which have branches at Pudu, or near Salak Selatan area. My mom though claims that the fish head noodle soup that caught her heart was the one near Cheras Leisure Mall. The shop was called Kaki Bola (not sure which road). I have not yet try it out and would like to try it one day.

Surprisingly, I found two stalls selling fish head noodle soup on the same row at the main road of Taman Midah, Cheras. Last time there were only one. My friend decided to try it out from one of the stalls (the older stall). This stall is situated just in front of the Magnum 4D shop. This stall not only sell fish head noodle soup but also Tom Yam noodle soup and char kueh teow.

The soup was not bad. This stall put lots of ginger into the soup which makes it full of ginger flavour. I find it not bad as I love ginger. :) Overall, I would say that the fish head noodle soup was just okay. What spoil the bowl of noodle was the fish. I don't really like the fish they put in. The fish was meatless and not crunchy. Only one piece of the fish was with meat and the rest were bones. I think fish plays quite an important role in the fish head noodle soup, don't you think?

On the other hand, the other stall sells only fish head noodle soup. A few bottles of the "siu heng" wine, evaporated milk, and rice vermicelli was displayed on the stall's shelf. This stall looks more "professional" I would say because they only focus in selling fish head noodle soup. I didn't try that stall because was too full to try them.

2006-07-30T08:58:00.000+08:00

Fried Dumplings and China's Hamburger - Taman Midah Night Market

It was quite some time I did not visit my area's night market. As usual, the street of the night market was full of people selling food, snacks, fruits, clothes, and the list goes on. But I do see some new faces who sell new things (haha, at least to me cause I've not been visiting night market for some time).

I saw a stall which sells fried dumplings ("woh tip" in cantonese). I saw a man was frying them and it looks good.

This stall sells three different kinds of fried dumplings. There is a smaller version of fried dumplings. The small version has cabbage with chicken fillings. The bigger version has two types. The first type is chicken, tofu, with celery. The other type comes with pork with chives. The smaller version selling 4 for RM2.50. The bigger version selling 4 for RM2.70, 6 for RM4.00, and 10 for RM6.50.

I bought the 4 pieces of the bigger version ones. I had two for each of the type. I must say that it was yummy. One side of the skin is crunchy and the other side is soft. It was stuffed full with ingredients. I love celery and chives, so.. :)

On the other side, I found another new stall. This stall was owned by a woman from China. She sells a snack from China which she calls it "China's style hamburger". It was kinda strange because I don't see her grilling any meat and put it into any burger.

Well, this hamburger is actually made from flour mixture and egg. Inside of the flour mixture consists of mince meat, chopped "choi pou" in cantonese..what do you call them? She first ladle one spoonful of the flour mixture into the heated circular mold pans. She then flips the flour mixture until it is half cooked, take it out and crack an egg into the mould and place the flour mixture back on top of the egg. Grill them until the outer layer turns brown, there goes your hamburger~

I find it a little over-grilled for me. It smells very nice, but the egg was tasteless. The flour mixture was okay, but I find it hard to spot any ingredients when you bite them. Overall, so-so for me.

For those who are not familiar, Taman Midah is located at Cheras. It is opposite Taman Cheras a.k.a Yulek, and near the Makro Cheras. The night market is just next to the main road (You can see the night market when you reach the taman.) The night market opens on Saturdays.

2006-07-29T10:26:00.000+08:00

Fried Sweet Potato Balls - Petaling Street KL

Anyone who have been to Petaling Street will surely come across this famous stall. This stall is famous for their deep fried sweet potato balls.The business is run by a couple and they have been working there for the past 20 years. A bag of 10 sweet potato balls are selling at RM2.00.

Besides selling the fried sweet potato balls, they also sell other snacks like fried spring rolls with chicken floss or dried shrimps,and pineapple tarts. They also sell cookies during Chinese New Year festival. They were really busy selling cookies when Chinese New Year festival is around the corner. When Chinese New Year is reaching, they are always being surrounded by a huge crowd.

This stall is located in front of the Tang City Food Court. You will be walking on a street whereby the Popular Bookstore is on the corner lot. There are a few popular dried meat (bak kwa in hokkien) stores there too. Foong Wong bakery shop is just next to the Tang City Food Court. Tang City Food Court is at the end of the row. Next to this stall, there is another stall who sells curry puffs and also mini peanut puffs.

Do give this a try as I think the sweet potato balls are delicious, especially when they are freshly fried! Crunchy on the outside...smells nice and soft on the inside. The couple make the sweet potato balls continuously and fry them continously to make sure that they are fresh.

They will be available around 8.30am to 2-3pm. Not sure when is their off day.

2006-07-07T12:26:00.000+08:00

Secret Recipe - Cheras Leisure Mall

I've visited Secret Recipe many (uncountable) times because I think they have lovely cakes that makes you go "mmm" everytime you eat them. :) Other than that, their iced lemon tea and smoothies are also very yummy. I've been to Cheras Leisure Mall once to have lunch at Secret Recipe. The restaurant was located next to the McDonald's. I totally made a mistake as I had their chicken kebab rice. It was horrible! The kebab looked like they kept there for years...(oppsy, over exaggerated) maybe months? It was super dry, over grilled and tasted like.......Oh well, let's forget about it.

I've never been to Leisure Mall's Secret Recipe since that time. Now, after Leisure Mall had renovated and had lots of new restaurants and shops (It is at the GSC cinema's side) they had another branch at that side too. For those who did not really know about Leisure Mall, they have two buildings with a connecting bridge . Well, now both sides of the buildings have Secret Recipe. It was just next to the Starbucks cafe and also Wong Kok Char Chan Teng cafe. I decided to give it another try, not thinking about what happened last time when I was at the McDonald's branch. This place was looking quite fresh with nice lighting and the design was kinda cute. :) Below is what I had for dinner...

I chose the chicken spaghetti cause I was having a sorethroat (no spicy, fried stuffs). Well, as usual the spaghetti gives a nice aroma from the cheese, sauce...yummy! But would love it more if they remove the carrot cubes and add in capsicums a.k.a bell peppers instead~

This is chicken lasagne. It is also one of the favourites. :) Smelling sooo good, cheese again!!! It's so yummy....

For dessert, this is the very sinful but delicious chocolate walnut brownie. It has lotsa walnut pieces in it. The chocolate syrup was warm....ahhh... =)

Another dessert, banana split anyone? haha...nothing special about it. Just felt like eating ice cream top with some fruit (banana). Well, they put too much of the cream though...Note that in the photo, both side of the plate was full of cream being sprinkled with chocolate rice...and in the middle was a whole lot more of cream with a cherrie on top.