Eating Mexican food

Fresca Mexican Kitchen & Bar serves classic Mexican cuisine. It has two outlets in Klang Valley. We had lunch at their outlet at Lot G-242A, Ground Floor, The Gardens City Mall, 59200 KL on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. Opening hours are from 11am to 11pm daily.

We ordered their weekday set lunch specials  which comes with soup and drink.

  We shared fish tacos (RM34) and grilled chicken with white rice (RM30).

Location ~ nearby

Seating ~ indoor and outdoor 

Portion ~ typical

Food presentation ~ nice

Taste ~ good

Price ~ quite pricey

Service ~ hard to get any

Coming back?  I don't mind trying their other dishes.

Till next week, looking forward to join the Allianz Pacer Run 2017 this Sunday.

Eating Vietnamese food

Pho Vietz Restaurant serves authentic Vietnamese food. It has a few outlets in Klang Valley. Three of us treated a friend for lunch at their outlet at No.2, Ground Floor, Jalan Radin Bagus 7, Bandar Baru Sri Petaling, 57000 KL on Monday, April 24, 2017. Her actual birthday was on Saturday, April 8. Opening hours are from 11am to 9.45pm daily.

Vietnamese cuisine always has a combination of fragrant, taste and colour. Vietnamese dishes include five fundamental taste senses: spicy, sour, bitter, salty and sweet corresponding to five organs: gall bladder, small intestine, large intestine, stomach and urinary bladder.

We ordered prawn roll (RM9.90),

traditional Vietnamese cup cake (RM8.90), flat rice roll (RM9.90), sugar cane prawn (RM11.90),

celery beef set (RM19.90)

 and Vietnamese Atiso tea (RM7.90).

Location ~ not too far

Seating ~ indoor and outdoor

Food presentation ~ acceptable

Taste ~ alright

Price ~ affordable

Service ~ ok

Coming back? Not so soon.

Till next week, looking forward to another long weekend.

Eating Chinese food

Last Thursday, December 8, 2016, three of us met up for dinner at Dolly Dim Sum located at LG.43, Nu Sentral Mall. Its business hours are from 11am to 10pm daily.

Dim sum is a style of Chinese cuisine prepared as small bite-sized portions of food served in a small steamer baskets or on small plates.  The serving sizes are usually small and normally served as three or four pieces in one dish. It is customary to share dishes among all members of the dining party. Because of the small portions, people can try a wide variety of food. That definitely suits us.

We had baked mini egg tart (RM8.50)

~ oven-baked flaky egg custard puff pastry ~

yam croquette filled with diced flavoured meat, mushrooms and peas (RM8.90),

 radish cake with dried scallops (RM8.50)

~ steamed radish cake with prawns and dried scallops ~ 

egg custard bun (RM7.80)

~ steamed white buns with flowing salted egg yolk caramel ~

 stir-fried siew pak choy (RM20.50)

~ leafy green stir-fried with garlic and topped with fried cuttlefish crunchies ~

 homemade fish ball (RM8.30)

~ fresh fish balls steamed on a bed of spinach ~

siew mai dumpling (RM9.80)

~ tender chicken and prawn steamed with mushroom ~

crispy shrimp cheong fun (RM12.50)

~ shrimp and turnip filling double wrapped in a crispy cheong fun skin topped with chicken floss ~

 roasted BBQ bun (RM8.80) ~ white fluffy buns with Dolly's signature honey BBQ meat filling ~ and

sweet and sour beancurd roll (RM9.80) served in plum sauce with black fungus.

Location ~ next to the office

Food presentation ~ conventional

Taste ~ delicious

Price ~ expensive

Service ~ good

Coming back? Definitely

Coming up next, lunch on a Monday...

Eating Taiwanese food

Little Taiwan was established in 2000 by Vivian Chai to bring tasty Taiwanese cuisine to Malaysia. Their first outlet was opened in Mid Valley Megamall. 

Taiwan food today is a combination of the Chinese, Japanese and its local cuisine. In order to accepted in Malaysia, Little Taiwan has reformulated their Taiwanese cuisine into Halal Taiwanese Cuisine.

On Sunday, April 29, 2012, we had lunch at their outlet at e@curve. There is a lot to choose from the menu.  

We ordered salted chicken rice set

braised chicken drumstick rice set

and drinks ~ mango juice and peach rainbow crystal special mix ~

The food portion is small but tastes good so it doesn't matter. We'll definitely come again. 

Till next week, let's get ready for the Charity Week activities next week.

Eating Italian food

Last Sunday, four of us met up for lunch at Italiannies Pasta Pizza & Vino, The Gardens.  We were schoolmates during secondary school and haven't met each other since we left school which is ages ago... so this is sort of a secondary school reunion ^^  

We had shrimp aglio olio ~linguine with shrimp, artichoke hearts, oven dried tomatoes, black olives and garlic~

shrimp linguine ~sauteed shrimp served with marinara sauce~

pepperoni pizza ~beef pepperoni, mozzarella cheese and shaved onions~

lamb chops with basil ~basil marinated lamb chops served with mashed potatoes and Marsala wine sauce~

and seafood risotto ~a medley of seafood sauteed in white wine with Arborio rice simmered in clam and chicken broth~

It was great to meet up after all these years.  Definitely a lot of catching up to do.  Everyone pretty much looks the same, only older.  The food was good so is the ambience.  Well, most important of all is of course, good company ^^

In Italy, families and friends gather together come dining time, sharing the stories of the day.  At Italiannies, this rich tradition is followed faithfully with an ambience resembling authentic everyday Italian households and an amiable staff.  It encourages guests to share their orders in the true Italian tradition as they believe strongly that the best ingredient for an enjoyable dining experience is some company to share good food with.  Too bad, the only food we shared was the pizza... not being so Italian huh?

Till next week, looking forward to another reunion.

Eating Thai food

Decided to go for dinner at Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park after work last Friday. With so many choices, we just drove around and saw this cafe - Thai Kopitiam.  I'm a big fan of Thai food so we decided then and there to have dinner there.

We choose the tomyam seafood soup set

and the curry seafood set.  

Both sets come with fish cake,

 white rice,

 mango and sticky rice

and lemongrass.

The food tastes good especially the tomyam seafood soup but the sticky rice is realllyyy sweet.

Till next week, let's have more Thai food ^^

Eating Balinese food

Last Tuesday was a public holiday so I had a very late lunch.  I know I was hungry but just didn't know where to go.  Then I remembered there is a retail complex in Bangsar South which I've never been before. We went there and ended up having lunch at BaliFeel. 

It is located at The Sphere, Avenue 1, Bangsar South

It offers authentic Balinese dishes. 

We had Kenangan BaliFeel (a combination of grilled chicken wing, sate lilit and cumi cumi served with lalap and spicy sambal)

Siap Megoreng (deep fried marinated half chicken served with lalap and spicy sambal)

Wadeng Sareh (lemongrass tea)

and Es Teller (mix fruits dessert)

Well, nice food, affordable, cozy environment, easy to find parking... didn't know there is such a place in this part of the city

Till next week, let's find something to eat :)

Eating Lebanese food

Work had been pretty intense lately so I was looking forward to this Chinese New Year break.  Haven't been spending much time at home so I was happy just to be relaxing in my little crib.  

Didn't spend the whole time at home though.  Come on, a girl needs a breather from home-cooked meal *_^ Opted for Middle Eastern cuisine so we went to Marosh Restaurant in BB Park for dinner on the second day of Chinese New Year.

We had lamb chop

~ comes with pita bread ~

beryani rice

and shish taouk 
~ also comes with pita bread ~

Apparently, pita bread is an essential part of any Lebanese meal.  Each serving is so big it is more to cater big eaters.  It has been an interesting experience and I don't mind trying their other dishes.

Till next week, let's all hope that the auspicious year of rabbit brings wealth, happiness and excellent health

Eating Japanese food

I've heard of Sushi Tei but never been there before. Sushi Tei launched its third restaurant in Malaysia at Pavilion on September 21, 2010.  The other two outlets are at Tropicana City Mall and The Gardens Mall.  Decided to go to the one in Pavilion as it is the nearest to the office. 

We started with kaisen kaminabe (a mixed seafood paper hot pot of prawn, scallop, zuwai crab and salmon)

and special unagi

followed by yakiniku don (pan fried beef on rice), ten don (mixed tempura on rice) and yakitori don (pan fried chicken on rice)

takoyaki (octopus balls) 

soft shell crab maki

and volcano roll ~yummy ~

I've always like Japanese food and I'm coming back for more ^_^