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  • A Dinner at Ferringhi Garden Restaurant, Batu Ferringhi

    A Dinner at Ferringhi Garden Restaurant, Batu Ferringhi

    A week ago, I went to dinner with my dearest Hueisean to celebrate our five months together. Ok stop here for the story. Haha. I have been hearing a lot about Ferringhi Garden and finally I got a chance to go check it out. It’s really a nicely decorated restaurant with a lot of greens and lights. It’s really like dining out in the garden but because of hating the mosquito, I picked to dine indoor. The indoor’s atmosphere is still awesome.

    The restaurant is very easy to be seen, they have a huge signboard at Batu Ferringhi after Park Royal Hotel. The pricing are quite expensive, starts from RM25++.

    First up, they served garlic bread as appertizer and it’s just a normal garlic bread to me.

    I ordered an oriental style chicken chop. The sauce is kinda sweet and nice. As for the chicken, it’s just battered and deep fried. Not a bad one.

    My friend ordered a fish and chip. Deep fried again but somehow, I feel this is better than the chicken chop. =)

    Lastly, I ordered a dessert. It’s a chesse cake with a scoop of strawberry ice cream. Well, this dessert is the best part of the night. The cheese cake has chocolate biscuit at the bottom and the strawberry ice cream is delicious. =D

    To conclude about the restaurant, it’s a romantic place to go with your loves one, but the price is the point that is repelling me. However, if there’s birthday or other occassion, I may go back again.

    And one more thing, Happy New Year! May your 2011 filled with awesome foods.

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  • Buffet Breakfast at PJ Hilton Hotel

    Buffet Breakfast at PJ Hilton Hotel

    I love buffet breakfast provided by hotel most of the time especially at a hotel with good reputation and stars like the Hilton Hotel at Petaling Jaya. A couple weeks ago, I was staying there for a night with my parents and we were given free buffet breakfast. Since it’s free, for sure I would wake up early to check it out. I heard that these buffet breakfast can cost up to RM50.

    With a variety of International cuisine ranging from Chinese, Western, Indian to local Malaysian food. They are good, but, I felt they were not the best hotel breakfast to me. I still like the one at Sensa Hotel, Bandung, Indonesia which have a better dining experience and food.

    Do you bother about the hotel breakfast or just oversleep for you trip? =)

  • Crepe Cake at Indulge Cafe, Kuchai Lama

    Crepe Cake at Indulge Cafe, Kuchai Lama

    I didn’t really know about this place and if you ask me where is it right now, I still couldn’t tell you where is it but I have a business card here. The cafe is located in Kuchai Lama, KL and the name is Indulge Cafe. So how I went there was basically the guide of the GPS. Haha.

    So last week, I went to this Indulge Cafe just to try a crepe cake, introduced by my friend Wanyi. I don’t really know what’s a crepe cake, it’s like layering cake and it’s cold and best of all it’s yummy! Wonderful homemade crepe cake. We ordered a big cake of it for Nita’s birthday and she was happy and everyone was happy too! I like it.

    They do serve western food other than desserts.

    =)
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  • Hup Kee BBQ Roasted Char Siew Pork Restaurant at Bandar Sunway

    Hup Kee BBQ Roasted Char Siew Pork Restaurant at Bandar Sunway

    First of all, I finally found a roasted pork ala char siu (penang hokkien:char sio) ala siu yok (penang hokkien:sio bak) restaurant in Bandar Sunway and that is Hup Kee BBQ Restaurant near to Mentari Court. I was looking for nice char siu and siu yok in KL and PJ for quite some times after I came here to study. I kinda miss it because my campus is selling all the halal food and I’ve tried a few out there at the coffee shop but they are not very good yet.

    The place is kinda nice, not like typical chicken rice roasted pork kopitiam. They sell roasted pork, char siu, siu yok, chinese sausage, roasted chicken and roasted duck, serves with chicken rice or noodle, dry or soup. The best part of it is that they have noodle, just like eating the wan tan mee but with chicken or pork. As for the pricing, it’s typical KL price which starts from RM5 and then differ with the combination of meat. One can reach as much as RM9 with 3 combination. However, I don’t want to say it’s the best, but it’s a lot a lot better than other chicken rice roasted pork shop at there.

    One more thing, it’s opens from morning until afternoon. It’s a good lunch place.

    If you ask me where in my mind is the best, I’ll say Sin Lam Huat Roasted Pork Chicken Rice in Penang. =D

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  • Lunch at Sushi Zanmai, Sunway Pyramid

    Lunch at Sushi Zanmai, Sunway Pyramid

    I don’t really understand why there’s a long queue every time I passed by Sushi Zanmai outlet in KL like at The Gardens and 1Utama. It was a Tuesday and I went to the Sushi Zanmai at Sunway Pyramid for a lunch. This Sushi Zanmai is just another Japanese restaurant with sushi belt like Sakae Sushi and Sushi King but then it’s not available in Penang. My friend told me that their food is low in price but to me it’s just almost the same except the salmon sushi is kinda cheap. =D

    After all those wondering and don’t-understands, I finally made myself there to know why. Actually there’s no why. LOL. It’s just felt better than Sushi King and cheaper than Sakae Sushi IMO.

    A plate of Salmon Sushi is priced at only RM3.90 of two but then I never see it on the belt and we have to order from the people there.

    A nice big slice of fresh raw salmon covered a rice ball. The freshness cannot be said as super fresh but it’s fresh in my mouth, I felt. Some Japanese restaurant served salmon with smaller size. This is good.

    My main dish was a I-ve-forgotten-the-name, Chicken Katsu something, it’s deep fried chicken with mayo sauce, a little bit of seaweed strips and Japanese rice. To be honest, it’s not really a good one as the chicken is kinda tasteless. I ate it with wasabi and soy sauce. This is only a small one, I wondered how big is it if I order a big one.

    Here’s another I-ve-forgotten-the-name sushi, I know it’s Unagi something something. Haha. It’s a nice unagi sushi and it’s a must-order if you are a unagi lover like me! =)

    Sushi Zanmai is available at:

    • Sunway Pyramid
    • 1 Utama
    • The Gardens
    • Low Yat Plaza
    • Fahrenheit 88
  • Kampar Claypot Chicken Rice in Penang Pulau Tikus

    Kampar Claypot Chicken Rice in Penang Pulau Tikus

    Kampar is a little town in Perak and it’s famous for UTAR (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman) but I never know what food they are famous of. Haha. Recently, I went to a coffee house at Pulau Tikus, near to the market there and found out a Claypot Chicken Rice from Kampar. It’s featured on the Chinese newspaper according to mom and I ordered a set for 2 for lunch.

    It came in a big pot. A nice egg is placed on top of the rice and it’s cooked with the heat from the very hot claypot rice. We have to mix it with the rice before taking out to eat. Well, it’s not a bad one but with extra lap cheong (Chinese sausage) then I think it would be nice.

    Do go and check it out if you are a claypot chicken rice fan. =)

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  • Nice 滑蛋河 Wat Tan Hor In Penang for Dinner

    Nice 滑蛋河 Wat Tan Hor In Penang for Dinner

    滑蛋河 also pronounced as Wat Tan Hor in Cantonese, mostly known to KL people and here in Penang they called it Char Hor Fun with waterish egg sauce. Some like hor fun in dry state, some like it wet a bit, some like it with extra egg and waterish. I like the one with extra egg and waterish and it’s yummy! I always eat this dish when I am in KL.

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    Recently, I found a place that sells nice Wat Tan Hor in Penang and that is somewhere on Cintra Street, at the intersection of Kampung Malabar in town.

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    Located on a corner unit of a row of shop houses on Cintra Street. They sell not only Wat Tan Hor but various fried hor fun and bee hoon.

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    If to compare with what I had before in KL, KL still have a better one but this could be one of the best in Penang already. =) What do you think?

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  • Breakfast at Dome Cafe, KLCC

    Breakfast at Dome Cafe, KLCC

    Dad brought me to DOME for breakfast at KLCC last weekend. We were actually wanted to go to Mandarin Oriental Hotel for dim sum breakfast but then the restaurant wasn’t open that day. So went to walk around Suria KLCC to look for breakfast and we found DOME.

    Food price at Dome Cafe would be rather expensive but we had no choice but to breakfast in there because mom and dad are not a fast food person. I ordered myself a cup of hot chocolate. Expensive stuff comes with a nice chocolate presentation on a nice Dome cup.

    Ta-daa. Here is my Chicken Ham and Eggs on Toast. The egg, the ham is awesome and also the sauce too. Just that, I wonder why English’s croissant is so hard to bite.

  • Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt at Island Plaza

    Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt at Island Plaza

    More and more franchise is coming to Penang, just like recently the Burger King at Lebuh Sungai Pinang and now Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt which is very common here in Kuala Lumpur is now in Penang, opening its first outlet at Island Plaza.

    Although I am now residing in Kuala Lumpur, but I didn’t really bother to visit it only when I was back to Penang last week, I brought my girlfriend, Hueisean to Tutti Frutti at Island Plaza to try out the yogurt after our movie at the new W Cinemax.

    This is something pretty cool. It’s actually self-serviced cold yogurt of different flavours. You pick your favourite flavours, bit by bit, add in some topping like nuts, cereals, chocolate and candy then the price is according to the weight. Not cheap IMO. Mine was like RM12.30 with 3 yogurt, Apple, Strawberry and Vanilla.

    Perhaps this is more healthy, but somehow I prefer gelato ice cream more. =D

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  • Snowflake Taiwanese Dessert At SS15 Is Wonderful

    Snowflake Taiwanese Dessert At SS15 Is Wonderful

    Victor and Yong Xiang introduced me about this Snowflake Taiwanese Dessert cafe at SS15, just right opposite of the famous-to-student Asia Cafe. By hearing the name, I thought it was just some typical snowy type dessert. In fact, it’s not what I was expected and it’s something that I come across for the first time.

    Located right opposite of Asia Cafe on the first floor, so you might need to look up to spot the cafe when you pass by that place.

    It was Thursday night and it’s already 1030pm, but then the crowds kept coming in and the queue was pretty long. Whole house was filled with people and I started wondering what’s so awesome about this Snowflake. So I made my way through the line and ordered my very first Snowflakes Special Hot, I was have a fly at that time.

    After ordering my dessert, I was given a round gadget thing which they called it the Beeping UFO. Makes me felt so Star Wars or Star Trek and it’s pretty cool. I took the thing to my table to wait for my command from the spaceship captain.

    After 5-10 minutes of waiting, it blinked and vibrated. I knew that I was ready to go to my spaceship.

    So here’s what I ordered, you see nothing right? It’s actually grass jelly with peanut and taroballs. You will think, “what?! grassjelly?” I tell you, the grass jelly is different from what you order out there, it’s, just special. And the taroballs is something chewy and nice to put inside my mouth. I have no idea how to describe it. Although I ordered a hot one, but then it came out warm which didn’t burn my tongue or throat and turned out nice.

    I recommend this place. =D Too bad they didn’t offer WiFi at there, else I would be sitting at there all night long surfing the net and blog more already.

    They have another outlet at Pavilion too. So in case you are far from SS15, Subang Jaya, you can check out the one in Pavilion. =)

    Snowflake Taiwanese Desserts Secrets
    No.61A, First Floor,
    Jalan SS15/8A,
    47500 Subang Jaya,
    Selangor.
    Tel: 017-623 8966

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    Pavilion KL
    168 Jalan Bukit Bintang,
    55100 Kuala Lumpur.
    (Outside Padini Concept Store)

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