Tomorrow is the New Year Eve, represents the end of 2010. So, if you want to celebrate it “kaw kaw” with your loved ones, Bossa Nova has a special menu offer for you. For those who never heard of this name, this restaurant is located in the Parkroyal Hotel. This special set menu is for 31st of December 2010. Book a.s.a.p. to avoid disappointment. This post will sneak peak preview of the items to be served.
Above: Bossa Nova at Parkroyal Hotel
This is my first time of doing Secret Santa gift exchanges during Xmas, it was exciting and fun I would say, to buy something nice for a friend without him/her knowing who and has to guess for it ! After a much arrangement, twice of assigning who’s who Secret Santa, we finally met at Betty’s Kitchen with our gifts, feeling excited to receive one as well.
Above: Funny picture for the album!
Ever eat only cakes for dinner? I never. However, you could do that at Swiss Garden Xmas buffet, simply because of too much cakes to try. Before you knew it, you were already full. However, I always try to be health conscious, cannot get the sugar rush in all the sudden, right?
We’re invited to have lunch with the special boys from Agathians shelter at Prince Hotel. This place is the heaven who cares for not only orphans, but also for abandoned, neglected or abused children. We saved our stomach for the lunch, actually we did not feel hungry due to late woke up 
Above: Gingerbread house 
Love pork? Then this is the place for you, the Pork Place, the place for pork. I saw this new restaurant every time I drive pass it, finally decived to give it a try.
Above: Bacon and Cheese Burger (RM19)
My wife and I love Italian food, she loves pasta and I love minestrone soup. This time around, we went to Marche at Renaissance Hotel. In Marche, of course they not only serve pasta and soup, while a range of main courses from pizza, pasta to meat lovers.
Above: Balsamic Brushed Lamb Cutlets (RM66)
Roger ! When I saw the yummy look of chickens at Kenny Rogers. Don’t you agree it’s so tempting when you see the picture below? Feel like want to rip the drumstick off and give myself a big bite ! Upon seated, I noticed there is a promotion going on. It’s Chicken and Pasta meal set with drinks.
Above: Freshly roasted chicken at Kenny Rogers
Before reading on, let me warned you that this is a meat mania post ! If you’re vegetarian, kindly exit by clicking the X button at the upper right corner.
Christmas is near !! HO HO HO…. but shame to say that I normally failed to plan a nice Christmas dinner with wifey, due to too expensive customized menu for Christmas and a lot of restaurant just don’t serve their normal menu. However, Tony Roma’s Christmas menu for this year 2010 is pretty affordable with huge portion to ensure you’ll be full.
Above: Beef ribs galore
Who can’t ever resist the mom’s home-cooked dinner after working a long day out, isn’t it? Now, you can have it in the restaurant, available to the public. Now, Kota Damansara folks can enjoy Mum’s Seafood Noodle House everyday as it’s so near to them ! First picture is of course the signature seafood noodle.
Above: Mum’s seafood noodle (RM13.80)
After my 1st experience at Jin Xuan with foongpc, caroline, conancat, ericlee, quachee and ericatoh, I decided to bring my mom out to try this, especially when my nephew loves dim sum a lot. So, here we go, re-visited this place again. We reached at around 10am and we had to take a number, then queue up outside while waiting for a table. We waited about 20 minutes before given a seat.
Above: Restoran Jin Xuan Hong Kong Dim Sum (located behind HSBC bank in Puchong)
Ever thought of how Cantonese fine dining going to be? When I entered into Zing Chinese restaurant at Grand Millennium Hotel, the interior decoration reflected Shanghai in the 1930′s with a touch of traditional elements and furniture, especially loved the armchairs with long and curved settees adorned with comfortable cushions.
Above: Classy lamp giving a soft glow inside Zing Chinese Restaurant
If you know me, I love Balinese food, so Bumbu Bali is my favourite but can’t always spend so much on food, so I only visited there once till now. Now, Eccucino has partnered with Bumbu Bali to offer Balinese food in their buffet spread. Take note that this is just for a limited period! So, grab a seat now !
Above: Balinese food
Sometimes, I would crave for local Malaysia food but being choosy, I wish to have it somewhere clean, comfortable and “not smokey”. I always saw this place Asia Café everywhere, feel like it’s a franchisee! There is one newly opened at Kota Damansara, so we went there with a group of friends to try out some of their specialties. The cafe is located just next to Tune Hotels Kota Damansara, at Persiaran Mahogani. Parking is currently free!
Above: Asia Cafe Kota Damansara
Few weeks ago, Wifey and I went to indulge ourselves at the One World Hotel Seoul Good Promotion at the award-winning Cinnamon Coffee House. One World Hotel had specially flown in two guest chefs all the way from Seoul Palace Hotel, Korea, to showcase the authentic Korean cuisine. Both Chef Jang Yong-jun and Chef Jeon Dai-hwi had prepared a majestic spread of Korean dishes such as Tteokgalbi, Kimchi jeon gol, fresh ginseng salad, Grilled Deodeok, Bulgogi, Beef Taik Gom Tang and Yuk Gae Jang during the dinner buffet. Definitely the spread was beyond the norm!
Above: Roasted rack of lamb
Upon entering this new café, I was brought back to the past. the café’s name itself – Reminisce is definitely promise a new dining experience with “special” feelings with you. You will see what I mean when you see the pictures below.
Above: The entrance to the past
I have once attended this truly Lebanese cuisine at the Pavilion, and straightly fallen in love with the offerings here, especially the “bottomless” complimentary bread ! Right after attending the Gala night of MIGF 2010, the owner of this lovely restaurant invited us to taste their MIGF festival menu, which was absolutely a cant-say-no reply.
Above: The entrance of Al-Amar
Super Kitchen is now open at Bandar Puteri Puchong! This is the a 2nd time revisit to Super Kitchen Chilly Pan Mee. Previously, wifey and I tried it more than a year ago, at the outlet in Kota Damansara. The first time we tried it, we had a mistake by keep putting the chili flakes when we saw the next table doing that. We did that before we took the first bite ! It was a wrong move. Now, assuring myself I’ll not do the same mistake again, I put just a spoonful of the chili, mmmm after the first bite, it was not spicy enough. Looking at how Ken and Bok put 4 spoonful of it, I brave myself to put 4 spoons too. It tasted great, but after 2 minutes, sweat started to “rain” down on my forehead.
Above: The entrance to Super Kitchen Chilli Pan Mee
As one of the participant in MIGF this October, wifey and I went to sample the MIGF Festival menu by Sagano Japanese restaurant this time, located at Renaissance Hotel. Japanese Chef Yasutoshi Ito and his culinary team lined up an enticing menu of SEVEN course, infusing a unique cooking style where he cleverly balances the foundation of traditional cooking with innovative touches of contemporary trends.
Above: Rare Wagyu Beef, Sesame Wasabi Dressing
Malaysia International Gourmet Festival (MIGF) has been promoting fine cuisine of Malaysia since the last ten years. It gathers only the best chef around Malaysia. Today, more than 70 fine dining restaurants have mushroomed around the country, thanks to the effort that is Malaysian Gourmet International Festival (MIGF). This time around, MIGF showcased finest cuisine from 30 top fine dining restaurants throughout the month of October and I was one of the lucky person to attend the MIGF Gala Launch last week, with the Festival theme of “Magical Chefs”.
Ok, it’s pan mee again ! As Malaysian love pan mee and it’s mushrooming all over the place, this time I went all the way to Taman Danau Desa in KL just to taste a creative and innovative pan mee. Wanna know what makes it so special? Continue reading. The restaurant name Ceggo Pan Mee, offers you the way to taste pan mee like never before, with dishes like tomato pan mee, Malat (Spicy Sour) pan mee and pumpkin soup pan mee. Of course there are traditional type of pan mee if you’re not adventurous enough. First, my favourite of all, tomato soup pan mee!
Above: Tomato Pan Mee (RM7)
This time around let me bring you to Jakarta for its street food. This meant to be cheaper version of Jakarta food offerings. Waroeng Little Jakarta is a relatively new outlet, owned and managed by a young a passionate Remus Chong, who spent a large part of his life in Jakarta.
Above: The entrance to Little Jakarta Restaurant
I’m going to blog about my birthday celebration. First of all, a pre-celebration dinner with my family members at Kim Gary. We got 50% for birthday, a definite worthy treat !
I begin to love Balinese food after I tried the Ayam Penyet @ The Curve Damansara. My best friend, Vincent brought me there and since then, I have good feeling whenever I see Balinese cuisine. This time around, I visited Bumbu Bali, which I rate as one of the best Balinese food I ever tried. With big portion, flavorful, aromatic and enough spiciness. We ordered the Nasi Ayam Bertutu, which came with a half chicken! It was also served with some belacan kangkung, as with typical Balinese restaurants in Bali itself. The chicken was tender and very well marinated with hints of turmeric, garlic, onion and chillies, and then roasted to perfection. It was really flavorful and went very well with the nasi kuning (yellow rice) served along the dish.
Above: Nasi Ayam Betutu (RM24)
The title says it all :-) Guess how old am I now? A lot of things is going to happen to me today that I’ll need to tackle one by one. May it be a wonderful day !
Garden Lifestyles, a name which is no stranger to all to us. It’s started to mushrooming to everywhere, from 1U to The Curve and it’s going to expand not less than 20 outlets soon. Wifey has been bugging me for many times to visit this lovely garden theme restaurant but I thought it must be expensive dining there. I was wrong ! It was surprisingly affordable, you can get a Chicken Burger for RM15.90 only and Spaghetti Vongole RM15.90 only !! Can you believe it for such heavily invested garden theme design?
Above: The outside of Garden Lifestyle @ The Curve
As the Ramadhan month is getting to the end, so I’m rushing to post the buffet posts a.s.a.p. Last week, I was invited by visit Golden Palm Tree at Sepang Gold Coast, which is about 70km away from Puchong. Upon reaching, I was hardly believe I was actually in Malaysia ! Such a luxury resort hidden beneath the village.
Above: Dine by the pool, unwind while enjoying your dinner after a whole day fasting.
As mentioned in earlier post, this post is again about what SIME Darby Convention Centre has to offer. By dining at the China Treasure, you will get the buy the Moon Cakes at RM10++ PER BOX (Total of 4 Moon Cakes). I repeat, it’s total of 4 moon cakes at RM10++. Yes I know Sime Darby just reported a pre-tax revenue loss of 43%, but that doesn't stop me to enjoy the delicious Chinese Treasures + the moon cakes :) Of course the first picture must show the restaurant front with “lengchai”, right?
Ever wonder how it feels like to have Yee Sang and Moon Cakes for “Buka Puasa” in the month of Ramadhan? What if the moon cake is just RM10++ per box? What if you also gets a pretty wooden box as the packaging? Unbelievable? Yes it is as true as pearl !! (Translated from Cantonese, lol). This is awesomely made possible by Sime Darby Convention Centre’s Ramadan Special Set which is ONLY available throughout the month of Ramadan.
Above: Conventional Bake Moon Cake
It’s time for Buka Puasa again! This time at Serena Brasserie, featuring four different Malaysian States and village favorites for all to breakfast with families and friends. This offers only on the Ramadan period (11th August to 10th September 2010), so be quick. You snooze, you lose !
Above: Square “Ketupat”
After having a buffet spread in the month of Ramadhan, it’s time to “buka puasa” with a healthy meal. A place no stranger to anyone, I know you would agree this is the healthiest choice with O’Briens sandwiches. Errr….now ignore the chips, ok?
Above: Tuna Swiss Melt @ RM14.10
As it’s the month of Ramadhan, there are so many promotions out there, especially buffet style. This time I’m going to introduce to you one of the good destination to savor your hunger after a day of fasting. Of course, moderation is a must when it comes to buffet. Just a little of everything ya ! Upon entering the Cinnamon coffee house, one will be welcomed by the Roast NZ whole lamb with briyani rice, aparagus and mini potatoes. As if it’s welcoming you to eat it ! Lol
If you know me well, I always have a heart for Indian cuisine, not “roti canai” mamak. But I mean real fine indian cuisine. As again, we were getting fed up with Australian food, we walked about 20 minutes away to Taj Agra, a restaurant you can’t miss if you’re along Maroondah Highway, Ringwood.
Above: The entrance of Taj Agra (Photo taken with Iphone)
This is again more of Melbourne trip post. As we were getting sick of Aussie food, so we wanted to have something Asian. So, we wandered around Chinatown and finally settled for this restaurant. The truth is that I seldom and almost never feel hungry, guessed food is always available to me, lol.
Above: Da Hu Peking Duck Restaurant
Benkay@Nikko has always been a great place to have a high quality Japanese meal and been close to my heart ever since I had my first time experience there. This time, I’m visiting there again to try out their new sushi creation. Without wasting any precious time, let me introduce you to the first creation, which I believe was the favorite of the night !
Above: Eel Maki with Avocado, Deep Fried Soft Shell Crab Sushi Roll with Almond Sauce
Mid-Autumn festival has always been something I look forward into every year, because I just simply love moon cakes. To date, many moon cakes producers have been creative and tried to be stand out from the competitive market, especially when even Haagen Dazs and Starbucks also introduced their own moon cakes.
This year, Hotel Nikko has come up with their very own creativity based on the Chinese 5 elements of Fire, Earth, Water, Metal and Wood. Each element is represented by a specific colour, as colour is the easiest way to use the five elements principle to bring harmony and suspicious overtones to any celebration.
Above: The Five Elements Moon Cakes
Everyone knows Melaka is popular of the Nyonya food, also referred to as the Straits Chinese food, is an amalgamation of Chinese and Malay cuisine believed to have originated from the Peranakan (Straits Chinese) of Melaka over 400 years ago. This was the result of inter-marriages between Chinese immigrants and local Malays, which produced a unique culture. Here, the ladies are called nyonya and the men babas. Taragon Restaurant and Bistro is a relatively new restaurant located smack in the Melaka city riverside, serving authentic Nyonya and Western food while providing a magnificent view of the Melaka River. (Source: iamthewitch.com)
Above: The night view of Melaka River
Back to 2 years ago, that was my first time stepped into this secluded restaurant, after recommended by my friend, Jit Shen. We were not having dinner, but went all the way there for a piece of cake, each. After tasting it the first time back then, I realized why he brought me there :-)
Above: The front view of Food Foundry
As we travelled to Abbotsford, which is around 40 mins drive from Boronia, Lia the project manager brought us to try out one of the famous Vietnamese restaurant here. From what I heard, there are multiple of Vietnamese restaurant here and it’s kind of Vietnamese monopolized area, lol. The photos were again taken with my iPhone, pls bear with them.
Above: The entrance to Loi Loi
I’m going to blog about this restaurant that I have been to many times since I am in Australia. The restaurant is Balsamic, located inside Eastland Mall, Ringwood. This is a quite popular place to have dinner as you can see lots of people eating even on weekday. Some dishes that we have eaten so far. Photos taken by iphone in dark environment, so please bear with the photos.
Above: Grilled Atlantic Salmon at $27.90
As mentioned earlier, this post is about my company in Boronia, all pictures taken with iPhone. Below is how the entrance looks like.
