Easy to make ~ Steamboat (chicken stock base)

I love steamboat. Who doesn't? On cold, rainy day, it's the best thing ever. And it's easy to make, easy to serve to a large group of people and it goes well with a good conversation.

Foodie @ KLCC ~ Parkview Deck Café

It was over tea and cookies break that I was pondering what to have for lunch aside from the conference food, because the day before experience with the free food really sucks... I am not picky, but the chef must have forgotten to add salt or to kindly provide a salt packet with the food. Nevertheless, I was totally bummed by the crummy food and spent the rest of the evening feeling hungry in the cold conference auditorium. Thank goodness there was endless supply of cookies and tea / coffee.

Peace... @ Purple Cane Teahouse, Ipoh

 Here you get the Zen feeling while sipping high quality tea... Screw the traffic jam and difficult parking. It's worth the trouble to get here, that scratch - and - win parking ticket too.

Simple grub @ Gino, Ara Damansara

It's one of those days when we crave for simple Italian grubs for lunch where nothing is too complicated and everything feels familiar... Again, Gino at Ara Damansara. And goodness me, now the waiters have known all of our faces :D

Hey ho Penang 09 ~ Breakfast Day 2 @ Golden Sand Resort, Penang

On the 2nd day, breakfast was lighter for me since the buffet is pretty much the same, I took only what I did not take the day before. Plus all the durian and yesterday's food, so I thought I'll give it a rest today... So that's my pink guava juice while waiting for others at our table.

Hey ho Penang 06 ~ Breakfast Day 1 @ Golden Sand Resort, Penang

A good breakfast make a good start for a day, especially if you're gonna roam through Penang. And Golden cafe offers quit a scrumptious fare. Good old me started with congee loaded with pickled turnips and cilantro with a dash of sesame oil.

A Delicious Moment @ Delicious Cafe, One Utama Damansara

Breakfast time! ^_^  An excuse to drop by at Delicious again after some time.

 Corned Beef Hash with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes & two Fried Eggs. Initially I thought it'll be served as egg dropped on top of a mushy beef hash, the yolk soaking in but this is OK. i just dipped my hash into the yolk instead. Very hearty. Bread a bit dry though.

Roasted Vegetable Salad with Baby Spinach & Oriental Dressing. Tangy oriental dressing, a hint of lime juice there. Colourful ^_^

Breakfast hour is from 8 to 12 am with a special breakfast menu and kids menu. Dessert and other mains available.

Lot G316, Ground Floor, One Utama Shopping Centre (New Wing)
1, Lebuh Bandar Utama, Bandar Utama City Centre,
Bandar Utama, 47800 Petaling Jaya.
T: 603 7724 1086  F: 603 7726 3441

B: MON-THU: 11.00am - 10.00pm, 
    FRI: 11.00am - 10.30pm
    SAT, SUN & PH: 10.00am - 10.30pm (Full Breakfast Menu Available till 12 noon)

Windmill Restaurant @ Shah Alam Mall - a trial of my hometown Western food diner

It was there for quite some time until for some reason I decided to drop by. I meant, few blogs offered a so - so opinions on this place, so of course I wont be jumping to go.

 But anyway I decided to drop by one day at the restaurant, at level 2 in Shah Alam Mall.

 My first thought was, why the tacky balloons and blue and pink cloth hanging up there?

Ok, a better view. Looks cozy enough.

 The Windmill.

I am expecting better than this. Can someone please learn to produce a signature in - house bread and butter please?

 Starters: shrimp cocktail salad and onion soup. I feel that they can do better with the shrimp cocktail salad by not using just plain old thousand island sauce. Onion soup was OK, but need to cut down the salt a tad.

Too buttery escargot, kinda overpowered the escargot taste a bit.

 Lobster baked with cheese. OK la. But what's with the frozen vege...

 Baked black cod.Typical Malaysia style of Western menu, french fries and coleslaw and salad.

But the pricing was quite OK, considering that it is not a fine dining place. A family restaurant, if I may. I still feel that it needs some polishing up especially on food presentation. A pity for the lobster.

By the way, what shall I classify this under?

Italian food @ The Italiannies @ Empire before it blew up

I haven't got over the shock of Empire blowing up like that in a gas explosion. I mean, gosh, it was one of those popular shopping place ever with pretty much high end stuffs. It's kinda a let down that such a grand - looking building can actually have a lousy happening as that. I wonder how long would it take to restore the Empire again.

My last dining visit to Empire was to the Italiannies to have some grubs with some people. Though previously I've sworn to not go there again, in the end peer pressure wins hands donw =p Oh well, majority rules.

 Rustic bar style kinda ambiance as compared to their other branch.

 Nope, nobody's performing.

Strawberry splash - which actually is OK.

 Quattro platter of calamari rings, fried vege, some cheese balls and and couscous balls. Huge platter, not for 3 small sized persons.

To counter the friend stuffs, we had the caesar salad. I must say that artichoke is an acquired taste.

I must say that I enjoyed the conversation more than the food. In the end, my opinion still does not change. Maybe it's just me.


Italiannies Empire Shopping Gallery
G16, Empire Shopping Gallery,
Jalan SS16/1, 47500 Subang Jaya,
Selangor, Malaysia
tel: +603 - 5637 7259
email: usersupport@italiannies.com.my

Train sushi @ Sakae Sushi again!! At OneUtama

It's one of those days that you just feel like having train sushi. Where else except for my favourite Japanese food joint in OneUtama after a long day shopping =)

One thing about Sakae Sushi is that they always have some sort of promotion going on with a particular theme. I think this one is the salmon promotion but I only took what that seems interesting and some old favourites.  Though sometimes I have to admit, I simply grab whatever that looks interesting to me. Sakae Sushi never fails to give a twist in every sushi they created. And it's cheap, just nice for snacking.

 Like this seasoned octopus with chili flakes

 I just love this one, salmon with those tomato cherry slices on top.

 shrimp with salmon roe

 hamashi sashimi

 soft shell crabs in thin omelette wrap. Crunchy!

 The whole table spread! As usual, my inari and miso soup are a must!

Finishing of with a dessert of lemon sorbert.

I am cooking... Grilled beetroot with lots of other veges

 I love beetroot! It has its own taste of sweet and sour with the texture of potato. And that colour! 

Anyway, I was making this to accompany my roast chicken. The choice of vege is actually a liberal one, I sometimes use potato, asparagus, baby corn, tomato, onions, shiitake etc. It so happen that I was using the ones listed below when I decided to post this.

Japanese food @ Senjyu again @ The Curve, Mutiara Damansara

My second visit to Senjyu after a while ^_^ As usual, service and food are impeccable!

Jasmine Faery again! Simply love it ^_^

Starter: seasoned jelly fish @ Chuka Karaage. Crunchy!

From left: Hamachi, Inari Lobster Salad, Toro

Instead of the usual set meal, we took the garlic fried rice with yasai miso shiru (vege miso soup) and Unagi Kabayaki (grilled premium eel)

I love this picture, it was caught in a dream like quality. My dessert: mochi crepe with vanilla ice cream.

My second visit to Senjyu after a while ^_^ As usual, service and food are impeccable!

Japanese food @ Rakuzen , Empire, Subang Jaya

It's becoming a Japanese food monthly galore for me ^_^ And this post is dedicated to Rakuzen, another high end Japanese food restaurant. For me this means seafood feasting more than anything else as high end restaurant usually served high quality seafood.

The hotata miso soup almost out from the picture as the hotate and salmon sashimi shines.

Above: Dragon roll consisting of a king prawn and avocado maki.  Below: my toro and ni anago sushi. Toro (fatty tuna) beats salmon, salmon belly and maguro (plain old tuna) thoroughly in taste and texture and price, while ni anago (sea eel) beats the hell off even the premium river eel as it melts in your mouth!

Cooling down with dessert: Strawberry Ice which is strawberries cored and filled with vanilla ice cream on a crown of cream

Total up - RM 111.35 for all these goodies.



NOTE:
Status: Serve no pork. Cooking may contains alcohol


Service: Excellent! Any place that refills my tea without prompt is always good ^_^

Japanese food on a lonely day @ Kampachi, Pavillion, Kuala Lumpur.

Frankly speaking, I was in a bad mood. So the pic quality kinda sucks =P And I was eating alone so nothing much. 


But to be fair, I'd mention a little about Kampachi. Touted to be one of the best Japanese restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, Kampachi did not disappoint. They have large selections of tea, sashimi flown weekly fresh from Japan and set meals among the menu. 

To start with, I selected the strawberry and vanilla green tea to sweeten my mood. It has a very sweet aroma with a nice aftertaste of the flavoring, but not too strong to overlap the green tea.

Seafood Teppan set, with garlic fried rice (exchanged with white rice with additional price). The garlic fried rice was among the best that I've tasted, tangy but not overwhelming. The seafood teppan consisted of salmon, fat hotates and shrimps. I had Hotate in Butter Sauce to accompany the meal (sorry, it was at further back) but I'm not too fond of ginger, which flavored the butter sauce so I kinda not like it that much.

For dessert, Goma ice cream special with Japanese sweet condiments.

Overall it was a lovely experience eating at Kampachi but the parking ticket at Pavillion almost gave me a heart attack (RM 10 for 3-4 hr).






Status: serve no pork, serve alcohol, cooking may contains alcohol


Pricing: RM 15 - RM 100++ especially sashimi


Rating: 4 1/2

My 2nd Kiku Zakura visit @ Tropicana City, Damansara

I'm  hooked with Kiku Zakura at Tropicana City Mall ^_^ For the second visit we had more stuffs.

Tuna salsa. A bit like sweet and sour broiled tuna. Sorry to say but that's how it tasted.

Takoyaki, my all time favourite snack! Not enough tako though...

Assorted temaki set

This was the star on that day. Premium eel done nicely with teriyaki sauce on sushi rice, accompanied with assorted sashimi, pickles and miso soup. I can't remember the set name but it was RM 99.

I think this one is choco banana with macha ice cream. Lovely!

And this one, we requested to change a scoop of macha for goma with an extra charge. I can't remember the name but I did love the crunchy cornflakes and raisins at the base.

Contact:

Lot 1-53, Ground Floor, Tropicana City Mall, No. 3, Jln SS 20/27, 47400 Petaling Jaya. Selangor.
Tel: 03 7728 6598

Japanese food @ Senjyu, The Curve, Mutiara Damansara

Finally, after reading so many reviews about Senjyu and the quality of Japanese food served there, I decided to give it a try.

Senjyu is reportedly, a high end and high class Japanese restaurant, and here I may confirmed that those reports and reviews on many blogs are delightfully true. Indeed, it was a wonderful experience to enjoy good Japanese food at Senjyu.

My jobless picture of cutlery and the menu while waiting for the food to arrive. Dunno why the lighting was so orenge-y.

My beautiful Jasmine Faery tea and my lovely lobster chawanmushi. There is no simple green tea here; in Senjyu the green tea are steeped with flowers, giving it a hint of sweet aroma with an exotic tang.

My beautiful Faery in the beautiful cup ^_^

Carppaccio Moriawase: half broiled salmon, tuna, butterfish accompanied with 5 condiments (sake is the clear coloured one, ponzu sauce, soy sauce, spicy sesame oil, sesame seed) and sprinkled with salmon roe. Loved the popping!

I could not get enough of the salmon roe so I had the sushi, along with premium river eel (Jyo Unagi Sushi, which tasted better than the usual eel, but cannot beat the sea eel) and surf clam (Hokkigai Sushi). Above is my salmon belly sashimi which was superb with a pinch of lemon!

Oyster! Made into Oyster Roll with the combination of light tamago wrapping around the oyster and Japanese mushroom, prepared in a special sauce.

My hotate... freshly flown in. Ike Hotate & Kinoko Yaki : they serve this in simmering broth in the scallop shell. I quickly took the poor hotate off the fire and asked the waiter to take the fire pot away as it was getting too hot... =p

Lastly, a dessest of plain old green tea ice cream ^_^

When the bill came, it total up to RM 157.76 including taxes. Considered excellent for the load of seafood.




Note:

Status: serve no pork. Cooking may contain alcohol


Service: Excellent! The server explained the menu well, keep appearing to refill the teapot, and I changed my plate 3 times (they keep offering to change for a fresh plate)!


Ambience: lovely! Tatami sitting on cushion actually but who cares.