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Honeymoon Dessert, 香港滿記甜品

2011-04-25T16:05:00.009+08:00

At Hong Kong, the desserts are definitely be listed in my food-craving list. Honeymoon, one of the famous dessert shop at Hong Kong. I will share with you guys about the desserts from Hong Kong branch which is located at Langham Place, Mongkok; and the Singapore branch at Bugis Junction.

The Hong Kong outlet at Langham Place.

Too bad I didn't take any photo of Bugis outlet except the desserts there.

For durian-lovers, I strongly recommend this cold dessert, Durian Pancake, with the durian paste and cream in the "pillow". It is so nice until i was unable to take the picture on the paste before it slipped into my stomach. Haha..

Mango Pudding. Its specialty is that the "real" mango cubes can be found in the pudding instead of Nata de coco used by most of the other puddings.

There are too many desserts... I can't introduce them one-by-one. Better you guys find it out yourselves. lol..

Sesame paste & walnut paste.

Grass jelly in redbean soup with ice cream.

Mango in vanilla sauce with Thai black glutinous rice.

Mango pomelo sago.

Mixed fruits sago.

Finally... WOW, totally dark, can't even recognise it. Haha.. It is actually Sesame soup with redbean soup, with addition of dumpling. Don't judge it by its look, it is nice actually..

Since my visiting on various dessert shops, Honey Moon has got the most choices, many "creations" but those traditional desserts are retained. And the nice ambience makes me go for it again.

Tim Hou Wan Dim Sum Restaurant @ Mong Kok

2011-01-17T17:16:00.008+08:00

For those who come to Hong Kong, don't miss this restaurant, Tim Hou Wan! This restaurant is owned by a former dim sum chef of Four Season Hotel, and is known as the cheapest Michelin star restaurant of the world!

To avoid the long queue, we arrived the restaurant in the early morning. But once we reached there, we was surprised by the crowd in front of the restaurant. After taking number, we place order by filling a form while waiting outside.

The restaurant is so small that we have to sit side by side with other people.

Anyway, space is not a big deal. The focus is on the dim sum!

Baked Char Siew Bun. The Char Siew bun are always steamed in our country, but at here, their signature bun is baked yet different from taste of bread.

Siew Mai.

Har gao.

Stewed chicken feet.

Glutinous rice in lotus leaf.

Steamed Noodle Rolls with Shrimps. Served with soy sauce.

Fried Shrimp Roll.

Osmanthus Cake. The cake is jelly-like and there are wolfberries in the cake.

Although the restaurant is very ordinary and small, but the food is superb! And due to size of the table and freshly preparation of dim sum, the dishes were served one-by-one. Luckily, we didn't order too many dishes so that we were able to finish all of them. The price is also reasonable and affordable! Really worth to go for it again! Anyway, Hong Kong Dim Sum can easily make people full. LOL...

The Sweet Dinasty, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

2010-12-20T12:21:00.008+08:00

After watching "Symphony of Lights" at the Avenue of Stars, we started our food hunting at Tsim Sha Tsui for our supper. Soon, we were able to find the famous dessert shop, The Sweet Dynasty.

During searching for the dessert shop, I was imaging about its appearance, which is small and tiny like other dessert shops. But when I reached the front door, I was kinda suprised by its appearance, it is nothing different with other luxury chinese restaurant.

The restaurant consists of 2 level, and the golden-themed decoration are very elegance too.

Let's start to eat!! :D

This is the food ordered. Let me introduce 1 by 1.

Tofu Pudding with Red Bean Soup

The pudding is silky smooth; The red bean soup isn't too sweet but there is a thin orange fragrance from the soup.

PS: Tofu pudding is a must-try food at Hong Kong!

Egg Tarts with Bird Nest

The skin of custards looks rough because of the bird nest as the topping. The pastry is very easily crumbled so do hold it very carefully!

Steamed Noodle Rolls with Shrimps

At Hong Kong, the rolls are always served with soy sauce which is different with the sweet sauce or chili sauce for Malaysia's one.

Chilled Bean Jelly with Fresh Mango & Fruits

The chefs use dry ice to create nice visual effect while keeping the dessert cold.

The fruits bring varieties of taste to the springy bean jelly, nice!

Although there was a lot of people in the restaurant, the food were still able to be served in a short period. There are not only snacks and dessert but also dim sum and other cooked food with reasonable price.

Address:
G/F, 100 Canton Road,
Tsim Sha Tsui,
Hong Kong, China

Phone: +852 2199 7799

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A Lorcha Portuguese Restaurant, Macau

2010-12-09T17:05:00.006+08:00

The first thing to do once we reached Macau was looking for the Portuguese restaurant. Based on the information of locals, we were able to locate the famous restaurant -- A Lorcha. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy the meal as i wasn't feeling well. T_T

The restaurant is very small but the ambience is very nice, with Portuguese decoration.

Octopuss Salad with Garlic, Parsley, and Olive Oil

The octopus is served raw by marinated with garlic, so there is a strong taste of garlic. But the looking of the appetizer is not attactive. lol

Spicy Charcoal-Grilled Chicken

This one is superb!!! The chicken is very fleshy and with its little chili spice on it, I had gain back my depleted appetite. Haha...

Macanese Coconut and Turmeric Chicken

Another "thumb-up" main course. The chicken in thick curry and coconut aroma. It is very nice to be served with plain rice.

We were surprised by the portion of the dishes which were served in big portion, each of them are suitable for 2 or 3 persons. The overall of the food is delectable except the appetizer.

The staffs are friendly and they have very nice service. This is the restaurant which shouldn't be missed in everyone's Macau trip. (",)

The China Club Singapore, Tanjong Pagar

2010-12-02T13:52:00.014+08:00

"THE CHINA CLUB SINGAPORE"

I had my company lunch at this classy restaurant to celebrate birthday of my colleague. The restaurant is located at 50th floor of Capital Tower.

As all of the seats are arrange beside the window, people can have a stunning view on the city and the port.

Before the lunch was started, we were able to have little chit-chat while having some drinks.

The restaurant had prepared a private room for us.

Soon, we have our lunch started.

Combination of Roasted Meat and Dim Sum

I really like all of them especially the roasted meat on the upper left part. I found that there was a thin fragrance of wine within the roasted meat.

Double-boiled Seafood Soup in Mini Pumpkin

All of the seafood had been cut into tiny pieces. The soup is rich and the taste of pumpkin makes a good combination with the soup.

Sauteed Fresh Scallop & Sliced Empress Clam with XO Sauce

This is what a fresh scallop should be!! So tender and juicy. The XO sauce is kinda spicy, but I love it very much!!

Steamed Fillet of Sea Perch

The fish is very soft, and the taste is enhanced by the lily buds and wolfberries.

Longevity Ee-Fu Noodles

This dish is kinda inferior than other dishes because of the noodles which had lost its springiness.

Chilled Avocado Cream with Vanilla Ice Cream

This is the worst ice cream that I have ever met. First, the ice cream tasted like coconut more than vanilla, and it was "over fozen" until hard to be scooped by the spoon!!!

The ambience and location of the restaurant makes it a perfect place for fine dining or business dining. The food here didn't totally meet my expectation (the ice cream contributed the most) but it still costs about S$106 per person. (0.0)

Anyway, what a regret that the China Club is only opened for members. (",)

Adress:

China Club Investment Pte Ltd
168 Robinson Road
52/F Capital Tower
Singapore 068912

Tel: +65 6820 2388
Fax: +65 6820 2788

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Lu Gang Xiao Zhen @ Ion Orchard

2010-11-16T12:58:00.004+08:00

We had our food hunting at the Ion Orchard during weekend. Since I always have my dinner at Japanese restaurant, this time I would like to dine at Lu Gang Xiao Zhen, a Taiwanese restaurant.

I was glad that there wasn't a long queue, so we was able to have our seat immediately.

Soon, we had our order...

The Eggy Bowl of Rice. It is served in a tiny bamboo with minced meat on the rice. Nice...

I can't remember the name of the fried rice. There is no much difference with fried rice from other Asian Kitchen restaurants.

The signature of the restaurant. Guitar Duck! There are four kind of sauce and we chose the sour plum sauce (not really remember :P).

The meat is tender and juicy. But I don't really that additional charge applied with extra sauce. :(

Bacon wrapped Cabbage. This one kinda dissapointed, there was just one or two pieces of bacon on the cabbage and the taste... I think it is kinda salty, not special at all.

The environment and the service of the restaurant are standard, quite comfortable. But I wasn't impressed by their food, is it because it just likes other typical restaurants, neither dissapointing nor surprising; Or Taiwanese food not my favourite? lol...

I would like to have it 2.5 stars. Anyway, I will still recommend this restaurant for those who like Taiwanese food or Chinese food..

Lu Gang Xiao Zhen (Asian Kitchen) @ ION Orchard
2 Orchard Turn
#B3-22 ION Orchard
Singapore 238801

Tel: +65 6509 1128

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Ramen Play, 313@Somerset

2010-11-08T17:11:00.012+08:00

While I was walking around at 313, there was a restaurant located at level B3 attracted me, Ramen Play, a very interesting name.

The interior design of the restaurant makes people feel comfortable.

Due to my first time visit, all food i ordered are chef-recommended.

The very first of the introduction is the restaurant's signature Ramen, Sanpou Shoyu Ramen. There two choices of soup base (Tonkotsu/Shoyu), but the previous one wasn't available.

Sanpou Shoyu Ramen.

I really really like it! The soup, the pork, especially the noodle! Before writing this article, I tried Ajisen Ramen to make comparison, the result came out with Ramen play as a winner (personal opinion). Because the noodle of Ramen Play is softer without losing its springiness. So does the Cha Shu (braised pork belly) is very juicy!

Unagi Toji Set. Grilled unagi wrapped in soft eggs and served sizzling hot in a pot. Comes with miso soup and rice.

This one is not as nice as the ramen. I don't like to have my Unagi cooked in soy sauce which will only make it even salty and i can't feel there is any springiness retained in the Unagi.

Side Dish...

Mustard Chicken Platter.

Mustard chicken

Vege Prawn Roll

Crispy Dango (Don't be cheated by its appearance, it is not Takoyaki!)
Ideally for 2 persons, it doesn't occupy too much space of your tummy and the vege roll is a nice appetizer as the roll was served with Thai sour sauce. And the Takoyaki look-like Dango is actually chicken meat ball, nice too.

The restaurant service is nice, the stuffs are always alert and friendly. Again I wanna mention, the noodle of the restaurant is really nice, it stimulate my interest on Ramen which is not my favourite. I would like to recommend this restaurant. (4 stars)

Address: 313 @ Somerset, B3-04313 Orchard Road

Tel: 6634 0051

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The Handburger, 313 @ Summerset

2010-07-24T16:35:00.010+08:00

The Handburger, it is located at 313 summerset. Actually I don't really like to eat burger, but this restaurant has its burger impressed me.

It is always crowded in the restaurant after office hour, so better reach there early...

There is a tray on seats, but the seats kinda close to each other. :(

The menu...

The set meal oways includes a main course (burger), a side dish, and a glass of drink.

Onion Ring. I love to have it dipped with the special sauce. It is different from what we have at other restaurant. Damn crispy!

Another side dish, mixed green salad.

When it was served, I didn't put too much attention on it. But the special mayonnaise (maybe) makes the salad different, there is sesame in the mayonnaise so that it has got nice smell. I like its salad more than the 1 I had at Trattoria(at Summerset too).

Now, the main course.

Tandoon Chicken Burger. This burger is Asian style. I like its bun, it is very soft and fluffy, different from the other bun.

I don't like the chicken (chest). It is tasteless at the inner part.

Now is another burger ordered by my friend.

Chicken Caesar burger. This one better than the previous. There is bacon wrapping the chicken, nice to be eaten with the mushroom paste n caesar sauce.

Actually the restaurant's attraction is their special made sauce applied on the food, so that an ordinary food can become very nice after topping with the sauce. The only thing is the restaurant is a little too packed, not suitable for a casual dining. And because there was too many customer in the restaurant, it took quite a long time for our food to be served. And the last thing is the price, hmm... seems expensive, the food shown just now, together with 2 glasses of drink already costed over S$30.

I would like to put 3 stars for the restaurant.

Address:

313 @ Somerset

B2-7/18/19

Singapore 238895

Tel: 6509 6214

Ji De Chi Dessert Shop @ Liang Seah Street

2010-07-08T22:22:00.008+08:00

There are quite many Chinese style dessert shops along Liang Seah Street, which is just behind Bugis Junction. And this is one of those on the street -- Ji De Chi. This dessert shop provides more choices of cold desserts while the others more on hot and traditional desserts.

The shop is very small and there are always crowded at night. So everytime when I visit the cafe I have to wait till the previous diners leave the table.

Shooting on the interior of the small dessert shop...

The cafe was awarded by The Green Book, seems like it is worth to have a try on it.

Start ordering...

Yin Yang Mango Black Glutinous Rice

This is quite special since there are red beans in the mango ice. Anyway, this is not my favourite.

Durian Snowy Ice

That's it! My favourite! I like the durian smell especially the cream on the ice. This kind of dessert can be found at anywhere else but the topping of the ice make it special. Besides the durian cream, there are also pomelo and yogurt balls as the toppings too.

Strawberry and Passionfruit Snowy Ice

I wanna say that actually the ice is not very sweet as you think, even my friend claim it not sweet enough. I like this, having with sweetness of strawberry and fragrance of passionfruit. Sometimes having with mango and other toppings, really enjoy it!

The dessert shop serves snacks too.

Mango in Glutinous Rice

The green tea flavour glutinous rice is wrapping the mango and red bean. Kinda Japanese style but not really because there is shredded coconut on the outer layer of the roll. The most important is the every part of the roll doesn't overcome each other's role. What a impressive match!

Honestly, the environment of the dessert shop is not that pleasant. I had my desserts with sweat terribly. Anyway, if considering the desserts and snacks, I still think that it is worth to go for. I want to rank the food here as 3.5 per 5 stars.

Address:

8 Liang Seah Street #01-03 Singapore

PS: The street is just behind Bugis Junction

MOF の My Izakaya @ Bugis Junction

2010-04-11T14:27:00.016+08:00

This is my second time to dine at this restaurant, MOF の My Izakaya. It is located at the second floor of Bugis Junction. Although the restaurant also provides a variety of attractive desserts and drinks, the main reason for me to come for second time is because of the quality of the food and the environment here.

Maybe because the restaurant owner wants to provide more seats, the seats are arranged quite closely.

This is the best corner to have our dinner.

As mentioned, we came to this restaurant for the food, so we didn't order any special drinks. Green tea only we ordered.

The green tea is served in a pot and it will be put on a mini stove to maintain the temperature. It can be refilled if the tea is finished.

Let's see the food we ordered, some are recommendable, some are not.

Soba Crepe -- soba wrapped in seaweed and egg crepe roll.

I want to praise the chef who makes it. Actually it is very hard to have the Soba stick together if compared to the Sushi rice. But this one, I took it with my chopsticks and non of the Soba dropped.
Unfortunately, I still prefer the original shape of the Soba.

Seafood Toji Tempura Set. The Seafood Toji is worth recommended. The seafood are fresh, cooked in an egg soup. Yummy!

Seafood Toji.

This is the one I ordered for myself. Chef recommendation.

Ebi Fry Curry Rice. I really like fried prawn, it is crispy but not oily. The curry is nice too.

Tan-tan Ramen -- Minced beef and pork ramen in spicy sesame soup.

Unagi Bento. I like the Unagi, it is not too salty and nice to be served with rice.

Yasai Tempura Bento.

Unagi Hot-Stone Rice -- unfotunately, i was unable to take the picture before the waitress mix it with the sauce. T_T Anyway, the rice can be still hot even at the last mouth.

The price of the food here are quite reasonable. I like here because the food here are quite different than other Japanese restaurants. The most important thing is the ingredients of the food is fresh. I also want to suggest this restaurant to dessert-lovers who like Japanese food.

Although the environment here is comfortable, the arrangement of the seats are quite too close and I really don't like there are some steps in the restaurant. My friend almost felt down due to it.

At last, I want to give 3 stars for this restaurant.

MOF の My Izakaya
#02-45 Bugis Junction
200 Victoria Street, Singapore 188021
Nearest MRT: EW12 Bugis MRT
Opening hours: 11.30am – 10pm daily (till 11pm Fri/Sat)
Tel: +65 6338 6466

Din Tai Fung at Mid Valley; Near to Kuala Lumpur

2010-01-12T20:33:00.005+08:00

After having a whole day fun at Kuala Lumpur, my family and I had brunch on the next day at Din Tai Fung Mid Valley. This restaurant is famous with its "Xiao Long Bao".

The restaurant impressed me with the modern casual dining environment.

The chili paste is very nice, even my stingy mother love it.

The first dish we ordered was the classic "Xiao Long Bao". Since we ordered the "Xiao Long Bao" in combo set, the crab meat and pork "Xiao Long Bao" was served together.

The way to eat the "Xiao Long Bao" is dipping it into the vinegar and have it with ginger.

The Classic "Xiao Long Bao"

Crab meat and pork "Xiao Long Bao"

We also tried other dish, but not all of the dish satisfy us.

House Special Appetizer

Shanghainese Druken Chicken. The chef recommended it to be served cold.

Tofu with Spinach. I like it the most.

Actually I don't recommend the noodle of the restaurant. The "La Mian" or so called Ramen was unable to remain its elasticity since it was soaked in the soup in too long time. I have tried lots of Ramen better than this one.

La Mian with Tofu in Plain Soup. Not special at all, disappointing.

Cha Jiang La Mian. Also disappointing.

The restaurant actually doesn't make me feel enough for once only. The only thing worth recommended is the "Xiao Long Bao". I want to mention that the restaurant serve the plain rice without fully cooked, this will significantly affect the restaurant's image.

Anyway, the service of the restaurant is sistematic and quite satisfied, the staff cleaned the table immediately once we finished having our meal.

Finally, I would like to rank the restaurant as 2 stars. Not really worth to dine with expensive price.

Red Star Restaurant @ Chinatown

2010-01-06T20:13:00.008+08:00

This is the restaurant recommended by my relatives. But the restaurant is really hard to be found if you never been there before. It is not located at the main roadside but at the 7th floor of a HDB-looking building.

I have been having the Hong Kong Dim Sum of Red Star Restaurant for two times. The Dim Sum of the restaurant is the main reason for me to come here.

Like before, once we reached the entry of the restuarant, the queue was so long until it reach the staircase. Since the restaurant is so famous among Chinese people, even it is inconvenient to get to the restaurant, there are still many people go there. Haiz.. So it is better to reach the restaurant as early as possible to avoid long queue.

The cups and certificates of the restaurant. The chef of the restaurant is also famous, but I have forgotten his name..

After seating, the first thing to do is to order China tea.

There are many trolleys with different Dim Sum move around.

The first Dim Sum I ordered was "Ha Gao" and Xiu Mai", the most known Dim Sum.

Ha Gao (prawn dumpling)

Xiu Mai (pork dumpling)

Char Siew Pau - my favorite. The bun is very soft. This is the one I would like to recommend.

Egg tart. The tart is very soft and crispy, but the egg jelly quite sweet.

Fried Prawn with Banana.

"Chee Cheong Fun" (rice noodle rolls) with scallop. Tasteless; Not worth recommended.

Fried dumpling.

Beside Dim Sum, there are also roasted meat like "Pei Pa Duck" (roasted duck), roasted chicken, roasted sukling pig and so on. But the prices are quite expensive.

Roasted Sukling Pig. Quite salty. $18

These are the food that I ordered and I unable to tell the price one by one, but I remember when I paid the bill, it was around $50. Quite expensive.

The service of the restaurant are also good. I was seek for the egg tart but the egg tart had already finished. So I asked from the waitress and she immediately took for me.

Better don't enter the restaurant from backdoor although there is another entry of the restaurant because you will see the kitchen and the hygiene of the kichen really need to be improved. And I noticed the hygiene of the restaurant was ranked as "B" by National Environment Agency.

I actually wanna rank the restaurant as 4 stars but the hygiene of the kitchen make it only 3.5 stars. However, the food really worth to give a try.

Location:
Blk 54 Chin Swee Rd #07-23
Singapore 160054

Trattoria at 313@Somerset

2010-01-03T20:06:00.000+08:00

When I was in the 313 I was attracted by the appearance of the restaurant. Since it is an italian restaurant, I would like to try its cheese.

Based on its name and design, most of the people will know the restaurant provide a casual dining place. Trattoria is less formal then a ristorante, but more formal than an osteria.

I was kinda dissapointed by the choice there. There were many courses unavailable because the restaurant was just opened.

The appearance of the food was not really surprising me, but I like the cheese used by the restaurant very much. The cheese are imported and the ingredients are freshly prepared.

Soup of the day. The main ingredient is corn.

Mushroom soup. The taste is thicker, I prefer this one.

Caesar Salad, with parmesan cheese and caesar dressing.

Lasagna Bolognese, grana cheese is used for this dish.

4x Cheese Pizza, I am not sure the cheese found in the pizza.

Spaghetti Carbonara, with bacon, egg yolk, and pamesan rich sause.

The chef the restaurant is able to apply the cheese in the food so that the food look simple but taste great.

Beside the starters and main courses, I would like to mention a little bit about the dessert and drinks.

Tiramisu.

San Pellegrino, Mandarino.

The overcrowded restaurant made us unable to dine freely, the furnishing of the restaurant was quite packed. But the food are worth recommended since the taste of the cheese are nice. The service are also okay. I wanna rank it as 3 stars. It is a good place for casual dining.

Wan Chai Hong Kong Tea Room at IMM, Jurong East

2009-12-29T20:19:00.005+08:00

This time I wanna try something from Wan Chai due to my friends recommendation, and I will mention it later. But we gotta queue before entering the restaurant since there were too many people in that restaurant.

Everytime when I pass by this restaurant there must be fully seated.

This restaurant has got kinda different system which all the customers need to pay the bill once order.

Before the main course, we had some side dish. The first one is "Crispy Silk Beancurd with Pork Floss". When the beancurd was served we had it immediately and... WAAAHH... It is too hot! The inner part of the beancurd was extremely hot! By I still love its nice smell.

Crispy Silk Beancurd with Pork Floss. $5.50

The second dish is "Prawn Paste Chicken". This is what my fren recommended. The chicken is crispy and it is little salty for me because of the prawn paste.

Prawn Paste Chicken. $5.50

Now is the main course, "Baked Seafood Rice with Wasabi Cheese". Maybe most of the wasabi lovers will like it. The rice is coved with cheese but it has thin wasabi smell, so the wasabi doesn't cover the taste of the seafood and cheese.

Baked Seafood Rice with Wasabi Cheese. $8.50

This is the one i had, which is "Baked Scallop, Salmon, and Asparagus Rice with Cheese". The only difference with others is the cheese used in this baked rice is original flavor.

Baked Scallop, Salmon, and Asparagus Rice with Cheese. $9

Then this is the most popular main course in the restaurant, "Baked Chicken Portugese Curry Rice". The rice is not only covered bt cheese but also curry, but the curry is not too thick, and it is acceptable by people. But one thing is I noticed there was excess water in the rice and thus affect the texture. And the portion seems too big for 1 person.

Baked Chicken Portugese Curry Rice. $8

Finally, we had some dessert. This is the "Silk Beancurd with Aloe Vera". I like it because there is no Aloe Vera smell and it match the silk beancurd.

Silk Beancurd with Aloe Vera. $2.80

Beside the food is served by the waitress, other things like taking spoons and sauces are all self-service. It can't be helped since the restaurant always full with people.

This restaurant also serves toast and other Hong Kong - Local fusion food which is popular. There is an ideal place to have simple and comfortable dinner. I would like to rank this restaurant as 3.5 stars.

Location:
IMM Building
2 Jurong East Street 21 #03-51
Singapore 609601

http://www.imm.sg/find.htm

Yakiyakibo @ Jurong Point

2009-11-12T19:39:00.004+08:00

There is a Japanese Street in Jurong Point which consists of several Japanese restaurant, but most of these restaurant are crowded during dining period everyday. =_="'

The restaurant I dined with my friends was Yakiyakibo because this is the only restaurant not too crowded.

The restaurant is quite small.

After taking our seat, we started to ordered. But one thing quite funny is we entered a teppanyaki restaurant but we didn't ordered teppanyaki food, we ordered...

Spicy Ramen in soup... The soup is thick but I unable to describe its taste, it has kinda smell that I nerver met before.

Fried Ramen. My friend who ordered this dish still prefer to have it at Ajisen Ramen.

Okonomiyaki. Oni this one kinda related to teppanyaki...

Takoyaki

My friend ordered Okonomiyaki and the taste just like takoyaki we had usually, but the takoyaki we ordered is different from the one we had at other restaurants or stalls, it is quite special..

The restaurant is quite small and I feel like little packed. And there are only a few seats in the restaurant.

The dishes they serve are quite big portion and both of my female friends was getting full before finish the food. Anyway I like the takoyaki because its taste is different from other places.

I would like to rank this restaurant as 3 stars. Next time I wanna try on other restaurant on this Japanese Street.

A Buffet dinner at JOGOYA, Starhill Gallery

2009-10-10T12:47:00.009+08:00

19th August was my convocation, so I celebrated my graduation with my family by having dinner at Jogoya. After a terrible traffic jam, my family and I able to reach there in time.

The restaurant has very comfortable and nice environment. And the restaurant is also huge until the stations are far from each other!

Steamed food station

Hot porcelain grill station, this station only provide raw material to grill yourself.

When you come here, you should try the coconut water, it has very nice smell.

Unlimited flow of white wine and red wine.

My first food to be taken was sashimi because it is my favorite!

There are also many appetizer too...

Smoked Salmon, Deep Fried Salmon Skin... others I not sure their name.

Marinated tomato, sharkfin, eggs...

Shark fin soup with crab meat.

Mushroom soup. I like the crispy crust.

Tempura, some of them I never tried before.

Not sure what is this, kinda like snail.

Fried oyster. I don't like it because the taste of oysters was covered by the fried oil.

The Chinese Cuisine...

Steamed dumpling with crab meat.

Black pepper crab.

Sweet sour chicken.

Steamed scallop.

Steamed fish. Every serving only has got small portion of fish, not enough for me.

The special one...

Paper steamboat on the porcelain stove, my own combination.

Finally, the desserts...

There are too many choice of desserts until I was unable to try all of them. Especially the Chocolate Fondue, I was so regret that I was unable to have it.

Cake and pudding station.

Puddings...

Cookies on the right while muachi on the left.

Cookies... and Dorayaki.

Muachi! I didn't try it because I will be getting fulled easily with it.

Ice cream Station, but we cannot take the ice cream by ourself...

Haagen-dazs ice cream. I only tried peach flavor because I had already fulled.

When I decided to have my dinner my family here, I was worried about my mum and aunt's comment. But after the dinner buffet, I was glad that they think the restaurant is worth to go again.

I also like the restaurant very much, the food of the restaurant are on par with its classy look. But one thing make me regret is that I was unable to try the VIP dishes there, especially the Cheese Baked Oyster, it is my most favorite one!

The service of the restaurant is also good. I still remember that I was once forgot to bring the clip to order Unagi, but the cook still gave me a plate of it and remind me to put clip into the ordering bowl next time.

As conclusion, although the price of the buffet is expensive, it is worth to have it. 4.5 stars for Jogoya.

Fong Lye Taiwan Restaurant @ The Gardens, Mid Valley City

2009-10-10T10:50:00.005+08:00

Everytime when I pass by Fong Lye Taiwan Restaurant, there always be a long queue during dining period. So this time I decided to dine at this restaurant. Although there wasn't any long queue outside the restaurant, the restaurant was still crowded and we still had to take the number before enter the restaurant.

Before we started our meal, we had a pot of tea, Taiwanese Rose Oolong Chinese Tea.

Fried rice, forget its name already, nice but a bit oily.

My friend ordered fresh tomato fried egg with fish fillet set. This one seems too much for 1 person, except he/she has a big appetite.

The fish fillet and fried egg are soft and the sause is nice too.

We also ordered glutinious rice sausage but I forgot to take the picture, it is a bit pity.

Maybe because the restaurant was too crowded, the serving of the restaurant wasn't satisfied. The seats of the restaurant was also too close to each other, this condition make me feel not easy to have my meal. Anyway, the food of the restaurant is still my favorite.

I would like to rank the restaurant as 3 stars. And it is better to dine at this restaurant during non-peak time.

Hi-Tea Buffet @ Pariss International Buffet, Marina Square

2009-09-17T22:31:00.006+08:00

Wow! It has been a long time I do not update my blog. This time I gotta refresh about my lunch at Marina Square.

Pariss International Buffet

After attending the travel exhibition at Suntec City, I had my lunch together with my aunt and her family. When we arrived the restaurant, they served Hi-Tea Buffet. This restaurant is my aunt's favorite because of its food and the classy environment.

I realized that the Hi-Tea buffet served limited kinds of food and I can't even see my favorite sashimi! Anyway, there are still some food worth recommended.

Appetizer - Konbu, seaweed, veniger fungus, mango pickle.

Grind potato, Mexicon Grill Fish, prawn salad, and "Devil Egg".

Sweet Sour Fish, Sanbei Chicken Cube, Thai Beancurd, and Salad with Chinese Twist Cruller.

Assorted fries, the round one (middle) is potato wedge and another (flower) is chives pancake.

Taiwan Sour Spicy soup.

Chinese dumpling.

Soba noodle.

There were quite many desserts and cakes.

The chocolate mousse can be eaten together with the small chocolate cup.

Actually I am not that satisfied with the overall choice of food but it was only Hi-Tea Buffet, I cannot put too much expectation on it. My aunt and uncle also said the Hi-Tea Buffet cannot compare to the dinner buffet. So if I have got chance, I will have dinner buffet of this restaurant.
I rank this restaurant as 3.5 stars and according to the opinion from my aunt's family, it is not worth to give a try on the high tea buffet.

Hip Diner USA @ Cineleisure

2009-06-13T22:31:00.000+08:00

Hip Diner USA by Billy Bombers. Actually I didn't feel like dining here, but my brother insist to dine here because he still can't forget the food here.

American-style decoration in the restaurant.

I think the restaurant mainly promote burger besides grills. Like other people, we only ordered plain water. According to my brother, plain water is more suitable since the food served are in big portion and easily get fulled.

The starter:

I forget its name already, but I remember the smell of cheese, really nice.

Main course:

Mix Grill. S$18.90

Got egg, sausage, bacon, chicken, fish and mashed potato. The portion isn't too big but the mashed potato can make people getting fulled.

Hip Diner Burger, recommended by chef. S$23.90

Too big until most of the people unable finish it.

I am not regret to dine here, and the grills, I really like it because can taste different grills in one time. I still wonder how the chef cooked the broccoli and carrot which served with the grill, the vegetables was so soft and juicy, really nice! I also like other food like the fried onion ring and French fries, perfect match with the cheese.

The service here quite okay, the only thing is quite hard to call them, maybe they are too busy.. Anyway, I will rank this restaurant as , it is worth recommended.

三盅两件 (Soup Restaurant)

2009-06-07T21:30:00.000+08:00

This time I had my lunch at "三盅两件" which is recommended by my relatives live in Singapore. 三盅两件 has got many branches in Singapore, and we go to the branch located at Century Square, Tampines. The restaurant is quite famous with its soup in Singapore.

The environment of the restaurant is nice but a bit small, most of the waitress here are from China.

Marinated peanut was served after seating.

We ordered a set meal that is suitable for six people, but it is a bit regret that I was unable to take a photo on some food, they were eaten away too fast!

Samsui Ginger Chicken, the recommendation of the restaurant. This one really nice, the chicken is soft and not too oily. Special to have it with lettuce.

Venison Fried with Ginger & Spring Onion

Tofu Prawn

Ah Kon Fan Shu Leaves

Yong Chow Fried Rice. But I think plain rice is more matching with other food.

The other dishes are Steamed (fish) Uncle Lapan, and Boiled Soup of the Day. Due to promotion, we ordered one more dish with only $1.

Claypot Sea Cucumber with Duck Wing.

The set menu for six people costs $128.80. All of the food were served in big portion until we couldn't finish them.

Dessert of White Fungus and Ginkgo nut. $6

The food of this restaurant is really nice, not too oily and salty. especially the Samsui Ginger Chicken, really impressive. The soup was served in clay pot and the soup is thick, seems like being boiled for quite long time. The china tea we ordered was not served in a teapot but in glasses, and everytime the waitress will refill the glasses.

But I want to mention again is their food served were too much. Food will become testeless when eat too much. It is also wasteful because unable to finish the food.

As a conclusion, the restaurant is worth recommended and 3.5 stars for the restaurant.

Kimchi & BBQ -- An Authentic Korean Restaurant

2009-06-07T17:55:00.011+08:00

After reading the recommendation on the forum, I decided to have my lunch at Kimchi & BBQ. But the location of the restaurant cannot be recognized easily, it is located in uptown area behind Plaza Pelangi. I think only local people will notice its existence.
The reason attract I come to this restaurant because the restaurant is opened by a couple of Korean, which means that the food here should be "authentic" and more "original".

There are two different stoves on each table, different meat uses different stove.

The exhaust fan

The Korean-style spoon and chopsticks.

I ordered a set meal which is suitable for 3 persons. At here, we just concentrated on eating because the waiter there helped us to grill the meat. It is quite convenient, but one thing not convenient is that the waiter will still beside us while we were having our meal.

Pork Spare ribs with bone

Thick sliced pork belly special

Roasted saury

Ginseng chicken soup

Kimchi Pancake

The food mentioned are include in the set meal, but a set meal seems a bit expensive, which is RM100++. Beside set meal, we ordered other food too.

Fried Korean rice cake with Kimchi. Quite expensive, RM25

Beside the main dishes, the set meal also includes lots of side dishes. Like Korean-style too, the dishes were served in small plates.

Nine side dishes. The lettuce is for grill.

Nice arrangement!

Take a closer look!

The waiters will teach every costumer the way to have grill in Korean-style when they help to grill.

Before and after the meat is being grilled.

This sour salad is served with grill and lettuce.

After have meal, customers will be served with a Muachi and unknown juice. According to the Korean (owner), the drink will help to improve our sight.

I really like the environment of the restaurant, like is tatami style seating. Especially the staffs of the restaurant, they are really hospitable. But, the grill seems a bit too less for me.
Even the price of the food here is quite expensive, but I still recommend this restaurant. I rank this restaurant as 4 stars and it is worth to give a try.

Greenland @ Sutera Mall, Johor

2009-06-07T17:10:00.005+08:00

Home sweet home... Now I am already in my hometown, Johor. This time I have my lunch at Sutera Mall which is located at Skudai. There is a restaurant, Greenland which is recommended by my relatives.

The restaurant is quite big, and the environment makes it looks like a chinese restaurant. But the restaurant serves both western and eastern food. Because of its reasonable price, many people have their lunch at here.

There are some pictures taken from the menu. Unfortunately, I didn't remember the names of some food.

Fried prawn with Japanese pumpkin sauce.

Fish curry

Baked rice with cheese and vegetable

The food we ordered are quite "traditional".

Special beancurd with two flavour. The beancurd with mayonnaise seems not fresh...

Fried baby kailan with shreded tuna. Ops! The colour of the picture makes the vegetables look overcooked.

Original home made yam basket.

Steam fish head with black bean sauce.

The food of the restaurant are actually quite ordinary, but I belief that these food suit most people's appetite.
But maybe there was too many people, it needs quite a long time for us to call the waitresses.
Anyway, the the restaurant is still acceptable since we can have our meal in an comfortable environment with reasonable price on food.
The restaurant is ranked as 3.5 stars.

PASTA de GOHAN @ Sunway Pyramid

2009-05-18T01:44:00.005+08:00

Maybe, after this time, it will be very hard to see me write review of food in Selangor area. Because few days later I will go back to my hometown, Johore. Anyway, let see what I had for this time.

Actually I had been noticing this restaurant since I came to Pyramid for the first time. I was attracted by the decoration of the restaurant.

There are many "food" in the display window!

The restaurant mainly promotes its pasta or spaghetti, and the food are japenese-western fusion. The restaurant also has got Pizzas and other western food.

Although the restaurant isn't big, the seats are comfortable.

Take a closer look on their food...

Spaghetti, there is black spaghetti which is made of squid "ink".

Pizzas...

Ice creams... look yummy!

Some of the food and drink we have order...

Pink guava juice. RM4.80

Penne with wafu mentai mayonnaise sauce, scallop, and spicy cod roe. RM18.80

Rice with wafu mentai mayonnaise sauce, potato, and spicy cod roe. RM18.80

For the cheese baked rice, I was shocked when it was put in front of me because it was quite small portion. But after having it, I realized that it is served in small portion because of the cheese which will make people easily feel fulled. Anyway, I am satisfied with the food there. The environment of the restaurant is also pleasant and comfortable. If I have got second chance to dine here, sure I will try their pasta, but it seems impossible for me to try all the flavors in one time!

Have to mention that Singapore has also got Pasta de Waraku which is under the same company too.

I rank this restaurant as 4.5 stars, and it is worth recommended.

Steamboat Buffet at Hoi Tong, Serdang

2009-05-17T02:40:00.007+08:00

"Steamboat buffet" always make me think about "Yuan Steamboat" at Sunway. But this time I have it at Serdang.

Actually the restaurant isn't easy recognized since it is located in the uptown, not beside main road. But there are still many people dine there especially UPM students.

The restaurant's appearance is very very common, but it is quite famous among UKM and UPM.

There is an iron ring on each stove which functions as grill.

For the food, there are quite many types of raw food for steamboat and grill. But I prefer "Yuan Steamboat" at Sunway because there are more choices.

Food for grill purpose, I like the black pepper lamb very much.

I need to comment for this part because the fruits are arranged together with raw food like fishballs, not hygiene.

Vegetable, quite a lot.

Butter, for grill purpose.

I like the grill part very much since unlike other grill restaurant, the grilled meat of this restaurant doesn't stick onto the iron since it has got banana leaf as underlay. But the pot seems a bit small for us, and the lid can't be removed bare handed, it is hot!

For the overall, I like this restaurant, especially their grill part. Honestly, if this restaurant only provides steamboat, I think I will only dine at "Yuan" since there are more choices, and that restaurant is air-conditioned. So I was sweating while dining at Hoi Tong.
The price of the steamboat buffet is also reasonable, it is about RM21.
I rank this restaurant as 3 stars.

Milwaukee Steak Corner @ Balakong

2009-05-10T19:36:00.005+08:00

It has been long time that I didn't have any steak. So I decided to dine at Milwaukee Steak Corner, which is near to Jusco Balakong. The restaurant consists of two levels, the air-conditioned upstairs and open-style downstairs. According to my friend, the menu of these two levels are not same, the upstairs provides more choices. But the food of upstairs seems more expensive.

The restaurant is just beside the main road, very easy recognized.

The upstairs and downstairs have totally different environment.

Today is Mother's Day, every table has got a carnation.

There are quite lots of drinks, but most of the drinks not cheap.

Guava fruit, dragon fruit, and apple juice. The juices are quite diluted, not satisfied.

For the steak, there are many choice but most of the steaks are quite expensive.

Hawaiian (charbroiled) chicken. Special, served with mushroom ang KaiLan. Western and Eastern fusion.

Original steak (chicken). The only defect is the mashed potato, it is a bit rough.

Tomato sauce pasta with beef.

The overall of the restaurant is quite satisfied. The grilled chicken is juicy, not to dry and hard. But I can't taste any special from the steak, there is no surprise.
The staffs there sometimes too concentrate on their own work until we were once neglected. Anyway, the environment of the restaurant is pleasant.
3 stars for this restaurant.

Shogun Buffet @ One Utama

2009-05-09T10:55:00.011+08:00

This is my first time to dine at Shogun, although most of my friends don't recommend me to eat there. But curiosity overcomes my will. Further more there was promotion too. So I decided to dine there.

The entry.

The restaurant is quite big, and the food stations are near to each other. Convenient for us to take the food.

One part of the restaurant.

sashimi and sushi station. There are many kinds of sushi.

There are quite many sashimi too.

Cooked food and soup station.

Steamboat ingredient station.

Actually I didn't expect Shogun also provide steamboat. But I don't like it since my purpose is just to have Japanese food, steamboat seems too much for me.

The steamboat has already got a lot of food, but there are still more ingredient at the station.

Bamboo scallop, served with steamboat.

Every time I go to have buffet, the first thing I will take is sashimi. But the sashimi of this restaurant is a bit inferior compared to other restaurants that I have ever been. Especially the abalone sashimi, it is very hard.

The sashimi, there are crab stick sashimi too.

Seasoned baby octopus. I dislike that the octopus is cut into tiny pieces.

Seasoned abalone, prawn, kimchi,
scalop with black fungus, seaweed, and jellyfish.

Cooked food. Most of the food are not tasty, very tough and dry. Baked oyster here is the worst that I have ever met.

The tempura is crispy. The braised sea cucumber is acceptable too, not too hard.

Beijing honey roast duck, rolled with cucumber and sauce. I like it, but easy getting full.

I really can't accept these three things! Especially the lowest one, salmon burger, the salmon paste taste awful!

Grilled eel (Unagi). It is in white colour, taste good when served with teriyaki sauce.

Chawan mushi. It seems is added with fragrance. Unable define its taste, but I don't like its taste.

Shark fin soup. Nothing special.

Sushi provided by Shogun are more special and attractive than other buffet restaurant.

I like Shogun serves quite many types of desserts and fruits.

Sweet sago soup with honeydew. The coconut milk seems a bit too thick.

Mixed fruits cocktail.

Sea coconut with white fungus. The sea coconut is too less, and the white fungus is too big!

Sago with gula Melaka, mango pudding, fried banana with cheese, and "tasteless" jelly.

I like their cake. The cakes are cut into right size, so they are not too much for me.

"Nestle" ice cream.

There are many kinds of food to be chosen, but there are also many kinds of food not satisfied. I would rather Xenri D' River View, although they serve less types of food, but the food there are better than anywhere else.
I also dislike staffs of Shogun since they stopped me to take the photo around, but other service still okay.
Anyway, the food of this restaurant were not on par with the price we paid, a bit dissapointed. (2 stars)

YAKI-YAKI Japanese Barbeque Buffet

2009-04-29T08:35:00.017+08:00

After reading so many people's blog about Yaki-yaki, I think I should give a try on it since there is promotion until end of this month.

The location of the restaurant is just beside the Low Yat, very easy to be recognized.

Customers have to pay at counter before enter the restaurant.

After payment, we followed the number on the receipt to find our seat. For those have booked, they can dine at the centre part of the restaurant.

The decoration of the restaurant is nice, the restaurant is well ventilated, so there is no smoky smell in the restaurant.

The first station will be noticed is Japanese cuisine part. The most of the food are put on the ice to keep their freshness, the ice effect is also nice.

Sashimi part.

Some marinated food, got kimchi too.

Side dishes.

Sushi part, but there are only a few choice.

For the inner part of the restaurant, there are still more stations.

Ramen station.

Tempura station.

Drinks station. There is a fridge beside the station (photo of lower right) which has got dessert.

Anyway, it was a bit disappointed since there wasn't any fresh coconut drink. Maybe it is only provided during dinner buffet.

After that, the cooked food station can be seen. Most of the food are cooked in chinese style.

Cooked food station. Although the crab was looked tasty, but nobody took it since it is troublesome to have it.

Soup part. The nearest part is miso soups while the others are different types of tonic soups.

After cooked food station, there is a alcoholic drink station, but the drinks are not included in the buffet.

Bar. A bit weird that the fruits were placed on it.

The main station of the restaurant -- BBQ food station. All of the food to be grilled can be found here. There are many types of BBQ meat in different flavor. For those who don't know to grill, there is an instruction beside the station to be referred.

Left: lamb and beef
Right: sliced chicken

Chicken wings with different flavor.

Upper left: lamb and beef.
Upper right: processed meat, e.g. meat ball, sausage etc.
Lower left: vegetable, the one sealed in aluminium foil is potato.
Lower right: seafood.

Mussel. There is a instruction shows that some chinese rice wine should be added before "grill".

Feel not enough? There is a menu on everyone's seat, and the food can be unlimited ordered.

There are two sauce station on both side of the restaurant. The some of the sauce are special, such as apple BBQ sauce.

Sauce station with 7 kind of sauce.

Now, back to the seat. Actually the stove seems a bit too high, so when we grilled the meat, we had to stand up.

The stove really mess. Sometimes the Sashimi were also grilled!

There were too much food on the table, so some of the picture aren't looked nice, and some of the food were not captured.

The lower right photo (black plate) shows Shishamo fish, rice cake or muachi, and unagi (sliced). The Shishamo fish is small like adult finger.

Scallop and chicken in rice wine. But the wine is too thin, seems like water-cook food.

The unagi really bad because the sauce on it is different with other unagi that I had before.
The scallop is okay, smell nice with butter and garlic after being grilled.

Beside grilled food, we also had other food. But some looked not nice.

Sashimi, including abalone sashimi! The sashimi are looked nicer compared to other restaurant that I have ever been.

The octopus is really bad because it is too tough, hard to chew!

Marinated seaweed also taste bad!

Hotspring egg, as usual.

Up: double-boiled soup, left is chicken, right is fish (maybe).
down: Shark fin soup and mushroom soup.

Sushi, just for picture purpose.

Some of the food below looks not tasty, so I even didn't touch them.

The "baked oyster" is actually fish paste, feel like being cheated!

Chinese style cooked food. Look general, so didn't eat it.

I only tasted the spaghetti (left one), nothing special.

For the dessert, the choice seems too little.

The pudding are the same actually, even the fruit inside.

Although there are quite many kinds of ice cream, but some of them can't even swallow, especially the green and orange colour ice cream!

The service here is quite okay, but it is forgivable since there are many people having buffet. But sometimes the food will only arrive after order twice. The charcoal were replenished about 2 hours, so it is not enough for us to grill. There are quite many things to be improved for this restaurant, especially its food (as mention).
For the overall, the restaurant is just okay for me. I rank this restaurant as 3 stars. But if there isn't any promotion, as my friend said, Jogoya is more worth.

Xenri D' River View -- Buffet Lunch

2009-04-20T13:16:00.014+08:00

One day after sushi Zanmai, I had another japanese meal with my friends. This time we had a buffet lunch at Xenri D' River View which is located at Wisma Elken, Old Klang Road. The restaurant only provides buffet lunch on Sunday from 12-3 pm.

The restaurant's location isn't obvious. It will be hard to notice the restaurant if there is no signboard.

The look is more like cafe than Japanese restaurant.

Actually the restaurant isn't big, and the ornaments make the restaurant look even smaller. But I still like their decoration.

The entry.

This place resembles "wing-room".

Before taking the food, I had a look at their food. The staffs also friendly and allowed me to take photo at their food.

The station is not big, so most of the food are arranged together.

The sushi bar is actually for dining, but now become filled with food.

Seasoned food

Sashimi and Sushi.

The roasted and fried food are available outside the restaurant.

These are the main food found in the restaurant. Luckily the table is big enough for us to put so much stuff on it.

Let me introduce them one by one.

Fried dumpling, fried chicken (looks like fried onion), and cheese-baked oyster. The oysters have thicker cheese taste compared to Kin No Uma's oysters.

Sashimi -- Tuna, Salmon, Ling and Octopus.

Baby octopus and seasoned scallops.

Seasoned seaweeds, jelly fish and mussels.

Fresh oysters.

Roasted chicken and Salmon. Usually I dislike these food since the meat is hard. I prefer eat raw Salmon than roasted one.

Unagi and fried scallop. I really like the Unagi which is very soft and melts in mouth.

Assorted Tempura.

Finally, the dessert part. Their dessert is not as good as other restaurant that I have ever been. Less choice and not special.

Muachi, jellys and fruits.

Nestle ice cream.

Ice kacang -- come out from my own hands.

Actually the buffet has got two bad points, the first thing is the buffet doesn't include drinks. So once I see the bill, I was shock. Even for a hot green tea, it costs RM3. Pity my friend who had a cup of coffee which costs RM7.50. But luckily the green tea can be refilled. Another point is the buffet hasn't got that much choice, especially the desserts. The price of the buffet is around RM45, so still acceptable because there are unlimited oysters served.

Other things are still acceptable. The service of the restaurant should be praised. The overall ranking is 3.5 stars.

Sushi Zanmai @ The Gardens

2009-04-04T23:08:00.004+08:00

This is my second-time to visit Sushi Zanmai at The Gardens, but this time I go with my younger brother. Luckily we arrived in time and there was nobody waiting outside of the restaurant. When we were waiting for the empty seats, I noticed that it was a long queue behind us.

Last time I had seat far from the belt, so this time I asked the waiter to let me have seat beside the belt.

There are so many chef (>10 person) preparing the food ordered. They are also very proficient in preparing the food, very fast!

Recently I noticed that Sushi Zanmai put a lot of effort in their sushi decoration. The taste of the sushi here also not bad.

The sushi on the belt are divided into 5 group with different price:
Yellow plate: RM 1.80
Blue plate: RM 2.80
Pink plate: RM 3.80
Black plate: RM 4.80
Red plate: RM6.00

Black: I not sure what fish is it, it is fried and a bit spicy.
Blue: Special omelette sushi. I like its baked cheese topping!
Pink: I forget its ingredient, it seems like has tuna with baked cheese on it.
Red: Soft shell crab inari, it is a bit oilly, but still acceptable.

Besides sushi, we also ordered their ala carte.

Tendon (assorted tempura with rice), RM 8.80. Although it is S-size, it is still quite big enough. The tempura were also freshly prepared.

Katsu Zaru Soba (Cold soba noodle with fried chicken), RM8.80. This one really worth! The soba is much more better than Sushi King. But besides crispy, nothing can be described for the fried chicken.

Finally, the "this week promotion" dish. Sushi Zanmai prepares many kinds of sushi which will be promoted independently every week. This time we able to taste their "Crystal Roll".

Crystal roll (RM12.80) contains tempura in it, topped with sliced cucumber, mushroom, fish roe...

Sushi Zanmai is really on par with Ichiban Boshi, which is another conveyor-belt sushi restaurant at Pavillion. The price of the food here are also reasonable and some of them are more worth than Sushi King. I also wanna praise the staffer of Sushi Zanmai, they all really agile and hardworking until most of them were sweating (Oh My God! I almost have lost my appetite!). But what I wanna complain is that their menu is too big until occupies most of the space. (3.5 stars as ranked)

Palace of the Golden Horse - Kin No Uma Japanese Restaurant

2009-03-31T07:45:00.000+08:00

There is a promotion at Kin No Uma restaurant recently. I was totally attracted by the price of the lunch buffet, the price was cut from RM75++ to RM45++ only!!!

Before reaching the restaurant, I was attracted by the lobby of the hotel. It looks so grand!

Actually the japanese restaurant isn't obvious, we gotta follow the signboard, passing by some shops and cafe, to a T-junction of the corridor.

Right: Kin No Uma Japanese Restaurant
Left: Kin Ma Chinese Restaurant

The landmark of the restaurant, just beside the corridor.

Before the restaurant entry was in my sight, I noticed that there were quite many food on both side of the corridor.

This is my first time to see the restaurant put their food outside.

Salad, jellyfish...

The entry, with a logo beside it.

The environment of the restaurant is quite nice, but the only objection is the structure of the restaurant. The restaurant is L-shaped, and there are many large pillar which became my sight barriers.

There is a teppanyaki counter, can you notice?

Many people ate. Luckily i did make a reservation.

The food displayed are nice, the choise of the drinks is limited like orange juice, fruit punch, cappuccino... But the drinks can be found at every corner of the restaurant. The waiter/waitress served us with hot green tea frequently.

There were still more sushi well displayed. But some of the sushi looked strange becouse they were nyonya-jap fusion.

Awesome! Sashimi, my favourite!

It's time to start our battle...

My weapon, hehe... But the cloth is hard, next time gotta put more softener.

Fresh oysters and sashimi sure became my first choice since it has been a long time that I haven't eaten sashimi!

The oysters were so fresh and juicy!!! This is my first time to eat raw oyster but i become addicted to it!

The sashimi was so fresh and still retain its elasticity, no smell at all.

Sushi - the green and red one can always be seen. But they also served nyonya-jap fusion sushi (top with gula Melaka, 椰丝，虾米碎).

Take a close look, they are actually the same thing, only the topping is different.

Chawan mushi - it is the most delicious that i have ever met.

Assorted tempura were taken from outside of the restaurant which was fried on the spot. Beside it is lamb and fried chicken, the lamb is just like chewing gum.

Cheese baked oyster, fried squid, and Unagi. All these got the highest ranking!

Cheese-baked oyster. Actually i prefer this one if compared to fresh oyster.

Unagi - seems like a mess. This is my first eat so many unagi in one time!

It is just a soup, nothing special. But there were still more soup to be chosen.

There were still more and more food which i didn't capture, like teppenyaki dishes, octopus, steamboat... Finally, we came to the desert part. There were many refreshment too, like many kinds of cake, kuih nyonya, and other baked products. For deserts, they were fruits, ice cream, ice kacang and so on.

This ice kacang was made by my own. Nice, rite?

I really regret that I was unable to finis all of the refreshment there, especially my favourite cheese cake! What a waste!

The service of the restaurant is really creditably. The waiter/waitress always take away the used plate, so it is needn't to worry about it. For the food, I found that a tiny part of them weren' that nice but the overall still very good. I rank this restaurant as 4.5 stars. It is worth to give a try, but if there isn't any discount, I won't go due to out of budget. Hehe!

Note: more pictures on facebook!

Sungei Wang — Sushi Station

2009-03-08T12:03:00.000+08:00

On 6th March, My friend and I actually wanna go to Xenri D’Garden Terrace to have buffet lunch, but a terrible traffic jam made us scared to move further. So we just decided to eat at Sushi Station at Sungei Wang. Anyway, when we reached the restaurant, it had been around 5pm already. “Dinner” is more suitable. (T_T)

The entry is easy recognized.

After choosing a prefered seat, i realise that the atmosphere of the restaurant seems not good, maybe due to the light, the dim light. But what I was focusing was the…

The train is fetching many sushi...

The sushi on the train are just for look, not delicious at all.

After we chose the buffet package (you can choose either buffet o not), the waiter prepared a steamboat for us because BBQ steamboat is included.

Pieced chicken, vegetables, and fishball were served with BBQ steamboat. So many things! How could I order other food?!

Unagi -- the texture is soft but the sauce seems a bit too thick until cover the original taste of unagi.

Oyster teppanyaki -- Since I dare not to try raw oyster, I had ordered this one. I like it, the juicy oyster.

The following dishes can be ordered unlimited.

Assorted tempura -- a bit oilly, I don like it.

Mussel -- forget its full name already, so-so only.

Fried tofu -- okie only, not special.

For other dishes, I didn’t take the photo because they are worse than these dishes in the pictures. I also won’t remember the Chicken Teriyaki, it was too salty until i have to dilute it with steamboat soup before eating.

Overall, the buffet is not expensive, it is RM30++ only. But, when I was in the restaurant, I feel like dining in a food stall. And I really can’t accept the food there. The only thing can save the ranking og the restaurant is their service, which is better than many other restaurant.
Anyway, each person has got their own interest, I still can see there were a lot of people in the restaurant. (1.5 stars for the restaurant. Gotta put more effort in food…)

A BUFFET DINNER AT SUBARASHI NIHON RESTAURANT

2009-02-22T11:20:00.000+08:00

It was a rainy evening on 20th Feb. However, I still felt like going out to have a long-period-dinner because it was so boring. Finally I had dicided to have a buffet dinner at Subarashi Nihon Restaurant, which is located at the first floor of the Oriental Crystal Hotel, Kajang.

The front door of the restaurant.

The restaurant is not big, like other japanese restaurant. Anyway, the restaurant has a very comfortable and quiet environment, with traditional japanese music. The waitress are hospitable and kind.

The seats of the restaurant are comfortable, and also the environment.

The seat we chose.

There are only soy sauce and chili powder on the table, so it is inconvenient for me to take the wasabi and ginger from the station.

The tableware, when u sit down, the waitress will give you a wet towel.

The buffet is divided into two packages: RM38++ and RM50++. There are not too much differences between two package. The only difference is the later one includes limited serving of sashimi and oysters. But there are already many kinds of foods, so I chose the previous one.

There are many kinds of food available at the station, but if it is not enough, you can order other food via the menu on the table.

The food arrangement are beautiful (especially the middle one) and easily to be taken.

There are only two types of drinks available, but it is ok for me since the waitress serves with green tea frequently.

There are only pictures of some dishes since sometimes i was too hungry until forgot to take the picture.

Teppanyaki Chicken - served with special soy sauce and chili sauce.

Soft Shell Crab - it is crispy and fresh with drops of lemon juice on it.

Seafood Soup - there is scallop at the bottom, but it is not that good because of the raw-seafood smell.

Assorted dishes - taken from the station, consists of octopus, ikan bilis, mushrooms, Kimuchi, seaweed, mashed carrot (may be).

Sushi - but this is not mine, they send to wrong table already. hehe...

Salmon, Prawn and Soft Shell Crab Sushi - I like it, but there are still many types of sushi I didn't capture.

Tori Teriyaki (chicken) - it is better than the previous one.

Chawan Mushi, Sauced-beef (don't know its name), and Mashed Potato - I didn't touch the beef, so it is wasted.

Forgotten its name already, but this one is my favourite! Juicy and fresh!!!

Teppanyaki Seafood - this one is very bad, the sauce doesn't match the salmon and prawn.

Vege-tempura - as usual but it is freshly come out from the kitchen. Crispy!!!

Finally we had come to the dessert part. There are red bean and mango jelly, ice cream, red bean soup with tang yuan, fruits (basic one) and so on. I noticed that most of the desserts involve red bean.

Red bean dessert with jelly.

Ice cream - a bit shock because in the menu it is much bigger, so we ordered one more.

ABC - you can either make by yourself or ask the waitress.

As the conclusion, I like the restaurant very much especially the serving of the restaurant is very good. But I have got a bit regret that I didn’t taste all of the food there… I think I will go there again for the second time. (4 stars for the restaurant, hehe.)