Lai Foong Restaurant

Maybe in the olden days, people see coffee shop as a restaurant. =X

Fehmes Kolo Noodle stall in Lai Foong

It is said that Lai Foong is well known for this noodle stall for its wonton mee. So, the Kuching trio (ahlost, yien and I) led by the 2 KL zai (JJ and Kelson) went for our second round of lunch here.

Char Siew Wonton Mee

Just look at the glorious shiny char siew! The kolo mee is quite different from Kuching’s kolo mee as they add Soy Sauce. Plus, it’s very oily compared to our local kolo mee. Heehee.. The Char Siew Kolo Mee comes with a bowl of soup and 2 wonton in it. The noodles are Q~

Chicken Feet Kolo Wonton Mee

This is flat kolo mee with chicken feet. Also comes with a bowl of wonton soup.

slurps

The noodles is really tasty and flavourful! I don’t know what they put in it, all I can say it’s delicious. The chicken feet is superb!

Green chillies

Throughout my time in KL, I never get a saucer of spicy chillies. It’s green and sometimes red, but never spicy. T____T

Shin Kee Beef Noodles Specialist

Shin Kee Beef Noodles Specialist is located in Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, not very far from the entrance of Petaling Street (aka Chee Chiong Kai). To make it easier to locate, it is situated directly opposite Lai Foong Restaurant.

Lai Foong Restaurant

It is also just accross the road from Wisma Fui Chiu and behind the wisma is the Maybank building.

Wisma Fui Chiu

If you’re still unsure of the location, refer to the location map here.

Shin Kee Beef Noodles Specialist location map

If you were to take LRT, you will take off from the Pasar Seni RapidKL.

Now, back to Shin Kee. It is well known for its original recipe and taste of beef noodles. It is very different from the Taiwanese beef noodles, and of course, different from our Kuching’s Ah Mui beef noodles (fehmes in Open Air).

LSS (Leung Shui Shuet) aka Liang Teh

The only drinks I first and know to order in any coffeeshops is none other than LSS (leung shui shuet) aka liang teh. LSS can be any cooling tea (something like “tea of the day”) such as chrysanthemum tea, sugarcane, herbal tea, air mata kucing and etc.

Chopsticks, saucers and chilli sauce

On every table, there are chopsticks, saucers and chilli sauce. So, while waiting for our noodles, we prepare our eating tools. :3

special chilli sauce

Shin Kee has its own homemade special chilli sauce which is very nice! Woo~

Couple spoon: Hen and Rooster

The spoons kinda give me an impression that the place exists for many years already!

Shin Kee Beef Noodles

This is the original Shin Kee Beef Noodles, just order it as “Ngau Miin”. This one consists of egg noodle with special beef sauce on it and spring onions.

Shin Kee Beef Noodles + Kueh Tiaw

This is a special Shin Kee Beef noodles combined with kueh tiaw, just order it as “Ngau Miin Hor Fun”.

an eccentric combination of noodles and hor fun

Even though this may look weird but surprisingly, it tasted great. Q noodles and soft hor fun.

Beef Cheng

Each bowl of beef noodle comes with a bowl of soup with tender and juicy beef slices, beef balls, and innards.

Beef soup contents

tender and juicy beef slice

Q beef ball

innard

Full set of Lunch

This is how our full set of lunch look like, an extra bowl of soup for the other bowl of beef noodle which is being eaten when this picha was taken. lol

Price list

Shin Kee Beef Noodles Specialist operates daily from 10.30 am to 3.30 pm 6pm – 11pm. Closed on Wednesdays.

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picha taken from yienyien.com

My second day in KL, Hikaru brought me out for lunch at Jojo Little Kitchen in Kuchai Lama. Jojo Little Kitchen is well known for its Pan Mee. Pan Mee is a type of Hokkien-style noodle made of flour and egg. The name Pan Mee literally means flat flour noodle.

Jojo Little Kitchen location map

Jojo Little Kitchen is located somewhere in Kuchai Lama, Jalan Kuchai Maju 9, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama. This is the direct link of the map *click me* so you can sorta surf around to get a clearer picha of the location and how to get there.

So far, there are two places I’ve visited which sells Pan Mee at Yam Seak coffeeshop (next to Fock Hai coffeeshop), Padungan and Fat Cat Cafe.

Pan Mee @ Fat Cat Cafe, Stutong area

Both their Pan Mee is similar. The type of Pan Mee they sell there is soup pan mee served with nuts, seaweed and fish balls and meat. So, when Hikaru said Pan Mee for lunch, I just sat in the passenger seat imagining the same if not similar type of Pan Mee I had back in Kuching.

Ice Lemon Tea & Honey Green Tea

The drinks are served in tall glasses. The honey green tea is however not as nice as the one I had at Xi Men Ting.

Latt Jiu Pan Mee @ RM5.50

Jojo Little Kitchen is fehmes for its Latt Jiu Pan Mee (Chilli Pan Mee). Since I love spicy food, I ordered the pan mee as recommended by Hikaru. The chilli pan mee is served with sunny side up egg, minced meat, and crispy ikan bilis (anchovies).

Minced Meat

Sunny Side Up

Love this type of egg. Apparently, I was told to break the egg yolk and then mix the Pan Mee with it. When I mix the flat floor noodle with the creamy egg yolk, the whole bowl became sticky!

Spiceh homemade chilli

Each bowl of Latt Jiu Pan Mee is accompanied with a spoon of homemade chilli condiment. Hikaru said that I can add more of the chilli according to my own taste preference of hotness and spiciness. He took the condiments container and started SCOOPING spoons over spoons of chilli condiment into my Pan Mee. Heh..

When you mix the chilli into the pan mee, it immediately changed and looked like Malak Mien (Spicy noodle).

Tastewise: SPICEH to own desire and noodle is Q~ Lovely Pan Mee!

Chicken Herbal Soup Pan Mee @ RM7.00

Hikaru ordered the Chicken Herbal Soup Pan Mee, another well known dish in Jojo Little Kitchen. It is soup based Pan Mee served in chicken herbal soup.

The soup tasted sweet and looks healthy (clean and not oily).You can also add in the chilli condiment at your own taste preference to spice up your meal.

It sure is an eye opening lunch as the Pan Mee here is very very very different from Kuching’s. Gotta say this, Kuching is known for its food, but KL is like the HUB of food! Food from different culture and cuisines!

The Fusion Cafe Lunch Promotion

Lunch Promo

The lunch set is cheap affordable at RM6.90 only!

Lunch Promo @ RM6.90

Iced Red Tea

Each lunch set comes with a glass of Iced Red Tea:

Iced Red Tea aka Teh-O Peng

It’s not as plain as you think it is, just put in some fun….

Iced Red Tea with a glow

…and you get a glass of glowy iced red tea.

Soup

Soup

The lunch set comes with a bowl of Sze Chuan and Chicken soup. Not sure if the soup is the same everyday, but the other day we had this soup. It’s tasty!! Love it (simply because I love sze chuan veggie )

From the Lunch Promo Menu

Lunch Promo Menu

There are a variety of food to choose from the lunch promo menu: Chicken, Pork, Fish; from Rice to Noodles. Among them all, these are the ones we tried:

Orange Mayo Chicken Rice

Orange Mayo Chicken Rice

Cheong ordered this Orange Mayo Chicken Rice. According to him, it’s not bad. So, I reckon it’s good

Up close shot in case you can't see

Well? Doesn’t it look good to you?

Chicken Salad Rice

Chicken Salad Rice

John had this Chicken Rice Salad. He said that there were a lot of chicken skin =/ So, was it crispy?

Chicken Salad Rice

Here’s the funny part. How come the Chicken Rice Salad’s sauce looks more Orangey than the Orange Mayo Rice? hahaha..

The chicken for both the Orange Chicken Mayo Rice and Chicken Salad Rice are the same. Deep fried chicken with different sauce on it only.

Pork Salad Rice

Pork Salad Rice

This is what I ordered, the Pork Salad Rice. Porkie porkie porkie! :3 The pork fillet is deep fried and topped with salad sauce. Love the porkieness. It’s chewy and crispy on the outside. Plus, the salad sauce is not bad. But the meat is a bit too hard for my liking, slightly tender would be the best already.

My RM6.90 lunch set

There are like 10 more items from the Lunch Promo Menu that I haven’t try yet. The next thing I want to try is the Black Pepper Chicken Rice. teeheehee..

So, who want to join me lunch at The Fusion Cafe next?

The Grand Malay Wedding @ Civic Centre

The family members personally designed and built the props on the stage! So terror, kan?!

The one vast difference between a Chinese and Malay wedding banquet is the food.

5 in 1

Every table comes with a tray of food. There are 5 dishes in each tray and the serving is estimated for 10 person. For big eaters like us, we need at least 2 trays. LOL!!

The famous Ayam Masak Merah

You never fail to taste ayam masak merah in any Malay wedding banquet, Hari Raya open house, and celebrations. It is like their favourite dish and signature dish. Personally, I don’t like it because it is not spicy. Hehehe..

Lamb Curry

My favourite among all the dishes they have is the Lamb Curry. It was everyone’s favourite. Have to scoop it fast otherwise, you end up having potatoes only.

Nasi Kuning

The fragrant spells “Dig in”. So like this rice. Reminds me of Sugarbun’s savoury rice with raisins in it. Too bad the current Sugarbun doesn’t serve yummy food like the old time.

Pineapple Chutney

This is delicious, although it looks so gelik. It’s grated fresh pineapple, cooked and chilled with raisins. It somewhat taste like my mum’s homemade pineapple jam.

***Remind me to share the pineapple jam recipe. It is so easy to make! It is so good with toasted bread and melted butter on it.***

Oh yea, we were all given a door gift but I forgotten to edit and upload. Another time then I show off lah.

Soup of the day

The soup is very creamy and because it is such a big bowl (refer to the picha below), I filled half my tank with it. The soup tastes yummy with more pepper.

Rich & Creamy Soup of the Day

Want to bet that those black spots are mushroom? Those are blended mushroom weii!! Super rich and creamy soup!

Big Bowl

FYI (for your information), the soup comes alone, no bread. If you eat bread with the soup, that settles for a meal already. Must save some space for the main course mah.

For the main course, there are…

Set A

Penne All Arrabbiata

The tube pasta with spicy tomato sauce topped with cheese and nothing else. I really like this plate of pasta as it is spicy and a tinge of sweet and sour from the tomato sauce. The pasta is well done. Not too soft – overcooked and vice versa. This is my favourite among the 3 sets.

Set B

Spaghetti Bolognaise

The Spaghetti Bolognaise is superb as well. The sauce is creamy and the spaghetti is well done. I like the sauce though. Really have the authentic Italian taste and the Chef uses the whole tomato for the sauce rather than using tomato paste (perhaps he added a bit of the paste).

I chia you one bite

Yet another satisfying plate of pasta.

Set C

Pizza Di Funghi E Prosciutto (6")

The Pizza Di Funghi E Prosciutto consists of tomato sauce base, turkey ham, mushroom, and uber lots of mozzarella cheese! Definitely love the pizzas here.  You get to taste the real deal here, my friend. Satisfy your Italian Pizza crave here. It beats all other pizza outlets in town by taste, price (RM23 for a large pizza), quality and satisfaction. The crust is thin and crispy, the toppings rich with cheese, just how I like my pizza to be.

Unlike *referring to some Pizza chain restaurant* where they serve pizza with thick crust and pathetic portion of toppings and service so terrible that I don’t even bother to dine in it again. I’m sure many are full from eating the crust itself. Might as well buy roti (bread) and toast with bolognaise sauce and cheese on top.

Personal pizza bigger than my face!

The size of the personal pizza is very big and it is highly recommended that you share with your friends and family. Order a few different sets and share it among yourselves. That way, you get to sample 3 different Italian dishes in one meal. If you add RM6 more into the set, you will get one portion of Insalata de Cesare (Caesar Salad).

Uber long table

I like the hospitality given by Silhouette management. They specially prepared these table settings for us so we can have a proper meal together. Supposedly, the tables they have inside are all round tables and it would be pretty inconvenient for us to have a meal together with such a large number of hungry people.

I’m glad that everyone was enjoying themselves with the pizza and pasta here, except for my uncle who does not enjoy Italian food. *dang* Good thing Silhouette serves something else apart from just Pizza and Pasta. *phew*

Calamari with Spicy Sauce @ RM10

If Unc says it’s good, it’s good. I’m going to try this on my next visit. I <3 squids!

My Uncle enjoyed the Calamari in Spicy Sauce and the fried chicken wings.

Fried Chicken Wings @ RM15

Unc enjoyed it, the kids enjoyed it. I will give it a try when I’m done trying all the pizzas they have here. Kekekekkee.. (I don’t fancy fried chicken wings. I prefer roasted/bbq chicken wings)

After feasting and temporarily imagining ourselves in Italy feasting on Italian cuisine, we had 2 rounds of Bingo  (brought from home) before heading back to my place.

Overall, it was a memorable, fun and bloatful Christmas lunch party with my family.

HORROR!!! Found this 6 months old post in the Draft folder. It never got published even when it’s a completed post!

SCR Express the new eatery (not so new anymore since this post appeared 6 months late) in the Spring.

SCR Express

Located just opposite Kenny Rogers and beside Manhattan Fish Market. Everyone can foresee how affected the two other restaurants will be once this SCR Express operates just a door away from them.

Looking in

The interior is simple and BRIGHT. I like the color combinations of red and orange used here.

Chicken Rice Set

This Chicken Rice set (if I’m not mistaken) is RM5.30, comes with steamed rice, choice of steamed chicken or fried chicken and a glass of drink (syrup drink).

Steamed Chicken - Drumstick

If you prefer drumstick chicken, you’ll have to fork up 50 cents or RM1 more.

Steamed Chicken

Otherwise, just pay the normal price and request for breast meat. I hate  steam chicken wings. Always have to remind them for chicken breast meat when I order chicken rice.

Fried Chicken - Drumstick

The fried/roast chicken is not bad, but I still prefer steamed chicken.

Condiments

Yea, there’s free flow of condiments too. Damn love the ginger condiments to go with the chicken rice.

French Fries

SCR express serves other types of food apart from just chicken rice. There are also stir fry noodles, side dishes such as fries, fried spring roll, fish something balls, etc..

Iced drinks

Drinks come in fancy shapes of glasses and the Kopi-O Peng is up to my liking! The black and white is Soya bean milk with cincau – not my liking as I don’t take soya bean. The coke is Coca-Cola and tasted like Coca-Cola *lame*

butt show

Yea, get to see butts too.

Overall, SCR Express is a nice and affordable place for meals and definitely EXPRESS.

Business hours: Monday – Sunday | 10am – 10pm

Sometime in June, z left a comment on Lunch Buffet at The Eatery, Four Points by Sheraton inquiring the current price for the buffet. I didn’t want to reply back then as I can’t confirm on the price and also because I was waiting for Four Points’ reply (found out they have Twitter, so I twitted Four Points). My guess, someone finally login to twitter after so many months registering the account and saw my message, hence replied my tweet. At least they replied. So, here’s their current price:

Lunch is RM 38++ and Dinner RM58++ (Sun-Thurs)/RM68++ (Fri & Sat)

Current Ramadan Promo is RM69++

Do you know that yesterday was Malaysia Day? September 16, 1963, was the day Sabah and Sarawak joined the Peninsula Malaysia to form a bigger piece Malaysia. I only realised it when I wrote the date on my notebook in class. KNS! How come no holiday??

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PROcrastinator at her best

No make up nor touch up. Total nude face. Yesterday’s weather was so bright and sunny! A good day to run some backlogging errands and also some other stuff.

This is my Homer Simpson's Tee

Bro picked me after his class and we went to Fang Yuen for lunch.

Chicken and Char Siew Pork Rice @ RM5.00

*Slurps slurps* love those Char Siew Pork but too much lean meat, more fat would be fantastic.

How many of you notice the yellow fences around Ang Cheng Ho area and the Cat Statue?

Digging for gold?

Did someone discover gold or something? Hahaha.. Guess they’re doing some drain works.

After a long hot day outside, we went to the Spring for free aircond. There were some postage stuffs to do (there’s a mini post office on the Basement level). Then, we went up to MBO to get the “Where Got Ghost” movie tickets for bro’s friends. Apparently, the 8pm show is full house….AGAIN!

Tsunami

Saw this “Tsunami” movie poster while waiting for our turn at the Ticket Kiosk. Looks good. I’m looking forward to it. Hopefully it’s not fully booked during the Raya weekend.

On the way down, we stopped by Fitness Concept and checked out their treadmills. I’m looking for a good yet affordable treadmill. Need to get one at home since I stopped gyming a year ago =X Starting to feel fat. Need to lose some fat! Weight is not an issue, fat is. But a treadmill would cost up to RM5k!! Huuhuu..

The cheaper or FOC way is to do jogging every morning, but the problem is that it’s so hard for me to wake up early and feel so lazy to run in the morning. Perhaps run around my own living room, can? lol.. At least with the equipment at home, I can run on it whenever I’m free.

with the punchman

Am still considering whether to get it or not, but it’s a bit over my budget. Left the place with my two new  4lbs. dumbbell for RM18 each (quite cheap). teehee.. Time to tone up. Look at that arm!!

Yoghurt Ice Cream @ RM2.00

We stopped by Sugarbun for ice-cream. They were selling the new flavour, YOGHURT (which was typo error there). The lady serving us was promoting the new flavour and kept persuading me to try.

Me with RM2 yoghurtish ice cream

Nuff said, her persuasion succeeded. I bought myself a RM2 yoghurt ice cream while bro didn’t want to risk it, stick with the RM1.50 original ice cream.

The yoghurt ice cream is tasty and yoghurtish. It’s like eating yoghurt itself, just colder and more fattening. It’s a bit sour, sour like yoghurt. It’s still soft and smooth like the regular ice cream. The portion is still the same despite the extra 50 cents.

Dua Ringgit Malaysia Sahaja

For yoghurt lovers, you’d absolutely like this BUT ignore the fattening facts.

]]> http://annna.net/project-365-day-173-september-16-2009/feed/ 18 http://annna.net/date-you-for-lunch/ http://annna.net/date-you-for-lunch/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:11:13 +0000 annna http://annna.net/?p=3991 It’s been awhile since I last lunched at Soon Fatt Cafe. Let’s do lunch together today. I’ve been craving for some Chow Chai Bee Hoon.

My favourite chow chai bee hoon @ RM4.00

12.30pm yea.. Featuring special lunch guest this round.

Green tea, Kopi-O Peng and Kopi-O Peng

At first I thought the Green tea they have here is Yeo’s Green Tea, but later turned out to be fresh from the leaf! Very healthy drink. Look at the Kopi-O Peng, there are 2 layers of it, the coffee and sugar syrup.

chopped cili padi

The soy sauce presented on the table is the light soya sauce. For dark soya sauce, you will need to request for it.

Here comes the Ho Chiak Bak Kut Teh:

Bak Kut Teh @ RM6.00

Frankly, I find it not that Ho Chiak as the signage because the soup taste is pretty tad and not very strong. The portion of ingredients pretty little for the price. =x nontheless, it’s still a not bad Bak Kut Teh.

Pork ribs and spare parts *Slurps~*

The Bak Kut Teh comes with a bowl of steamed rice. You can add on RM1.00 to get garlic rice. I guess that would be tastier. But I didn’t try it. huhuhu.. Maybe next time.

yew char kueh @ RM1.00 each bowl

The Yew Char Kueh (fried bread sticks) is ordered as a side dish. It’s not inclusive with the Bak Kut Teh.

The highlight for this post would be this:

Dried Bak Kut Teh@ RM6.00

This is my first time tasting Dried Bak Kuet Teh and I like it more than the soup bak kut teh. It tastes very different from the soupy Bak Kut Teh. The pork ribs and some other parts are fried with lady’s fingers, shredded octopus, dried chillies, and some other ingredients.

Succulent tender pork rib

Spare parts - pork intestines

shredded octopus

This is very nice! I like this the most in the dried bak kut teh. At first I thought that these were ikan bilis (small anchovies), but later realised that it’s the shredded grilled dried octopus from its texture and taste. It is chewy and flavourful.

Another must try from Ho Chiak Bak Kut Teh:

Wine Chicken @ RM6.00

If you love ginger, you’d love this one. The all wine and ginger soup with chicken. A hot (as in warm not spicy) bowl of soup to keep your body warm especially during that time of the month. *chuckles*

Lots of ginger and wine

All the claypot dishes comes with a bowl of plain steamed rice. Here’s a preview of their menu:

Ho Chiak Menu

Should give it a try.

Planet Sambal Cafe

I like the interior very much. Simple, modern, chic and  retro yet sophisticated. I like the color combination used here; white, black and pink. I like the lightings.

Spot anyone familiar?

I like their decorations and furnishings and I especially like the table mat.

The cafe serves mainly local cuisines. There are various types of food to pick from. From Fastfood to slowfood ordering from the menu.

Varieties of food at the Fastfood counter

If you have short lunch hour like mine which is 1 hour only, go for the fastfood. Unless you have plenty of free time to spare and patience to wait, go ahead and order from menu – only applicable during peak hours like Lunch.

By the way, it is self service at the fastfood counter. You scoop your own dish.

My RM7.50 lunch plate

This plate of lunch, my friends, costs me RM7.50 for steamed plain rice served with Sambal Sotong, Beef Rendang and pickles. Some say it’s expensive, I’d say it’s worth it.

The Sambal Sotong is superb! The sambal sauce is like the nasi lemak sambal and it’s SPICY!! I hate sambal which is not spicy at all or tadly spicy. I want SPICY! *in the SPARTAAA tone* Rating this at 8.5/10

The Beef Rendang is delicious!! Savouring the tender and succulent beef. The rendang is just that good. Rating this at 8/10

Yummylicious Sambal Sotong and Beef Rendang. My fav

Ice Nescafe @ RM2.50

Iced drinks are pricier than Kopitiam but the hot drinks are ranged from RM1.50 and of big cups.

Hate to say but their service is extremely slow. A colleague of mine  ordered Mee Goreng and she waited for more than 45 minutes and her noodles never came. We accompanied waiting with her even after we finished  our lunch. In the end up, she gave up waiting and we left with her empty stomache as we need to rush back to office.

Menu #1

There were many pages from the menu but I only select 2 menu pichas to share. Hey, I don’t want to risk my head on the plate showing everything they have. Pay a visit to experience the food here.

Menu #2

The food here are affordable and reasonable plus the portion is pretty big. How do I know even when my colleague ditched her meal after the long wait? Well, I peeped on the neighbour tables. Hehehe..

For Project 365: Day 69 June 4, 2009

Hopefully the food quality maintains and service improves, so I can enjoy these yummilicious food again on my next visit.

Location map

Several reasons why we picked the place: it’s nearby, they never tried it and there’s lunch set.

The lunch set is priced from RM8.90 to RM12.90 (I think). The lunch set comes with drinks of your choice (ice lemon tea or ice plum juice) and creamy mushroom soup.

Ice Ribena

They ran out of Ice Lemon Tea and Ice Sour Plum Juice, so they replaced with Ice Ribena. Maybe I should just order a kiddy meal. -________-|||

Creamy Mushroom Soup

Among all the food we had, the creamy muchroom soup is the most satisfying one. It’s creamy and rich in flavour. Goes very well with the garlic bread.

Garlic Bread @ RM2.30 (add ons from Lunch set)

Crispy and tasty tho slightly burnt garlic bread.

Set 1 - Spaghetti, Drink and Soup

Seriously, I have no idea why almost all the pizza restaurants I’ve been to, they serve super small portion of spaghetti. Just 2 to 3 fork of this, you will next lick the plate.

Set 3 - Hawaiian Chicken Pizza, Drink and Soup

Chicken and Pineapple toppings

Burnt crust

Set 4 - Pepperoni Pizza, Drink and Soup

Pepperoni topping of course

Would be nicer with ROUND and not semi-round pepperoni

My 3 cents on the pizzas:

Cent #1 – The pizza crust is crispy but slightly burnt. Generous amount of cheese, very cheesy but toppings very little.

Cent #2 – Thanks to Tabasco sauce I manage to down 4 slices. =X The Hawaiian pizza is not my liking. The pizzas taste pretty tad and needs lotsa improvement – MORE TOPPINGS! kekeke..

Cent #3 – The lunch set pizzas are of the size of a regular pizza from Pizza Hut. Recommended to order a few sets to share with friends or family.

French Fries @ RM3.50

When we wanted to order the french fries, we asked the waiter how big is the portion. He described it like it’s so much that we ordered 2 portions. But turned out to be disappointing “BIG”. This is not so bad as the fries is served with some fresh crispy lettuce and tartar sauce.

Fries with Green Salad and Tartar sauce

The food quality has dropped from my last visit for Aaron’s farewell party. Overall, it was still a pleasant lunch because we had lots of fun and laughter (one of it would be laughing at the expressionless waiter).  *blek*

As for the birthday girl, we made a birthday card with special characteristics on it. Hope she likes it, well, she better likes it. Kakakaka..

A simple handmade birthday card

with cute little animals For Project 365: Day 62 May 28, 2009

I’m on a mission to clear the draft posts  available in my  “storeroom” wordpress so I don’t feel guilty leaving them sitting in there. Therefore, if you see any extreme outdated posts just pretend you read them long long time ago.  Hahahahaha..

Once upon a time, I was invited to join in with a few other bloggers to Rakutei Japanese Restaurant for food tasting on their new and promotional items . I’ve posted on the promo here but I haven’t get into the detail on the food because till today I haven’t got the details on them. So and therefore,  no name for the dishes (will self name them) and no price listing this time.

Alysha and I camwhoring at the entrance

Rakutei Japanese Restaurant is located in Crowne Square,  Jalan Pending. This Japanese Restaurant is more modernised. It’s more of a Fusion Japanese Restaurant in terms of its interior decorations, utensils and food. A more traditional type of Japanese restaurant would be Ten Ichi Japanese Restaurant.

Rakutei Japanese Restaurant serves no pork. I’m not sure if they are certified as a Halal restaurant, but it’s pork free.

Ocha

The Ocha (Japanese green tea) is served in a tea cup with saucers. Told ya it’s a modernised Japanese restaurant. I still of course prefer Ocha served in Japanese handleless cups.

Special Juice - Thirst quencher

Rakutei’s Special drink, Plum Lime Juice is very concentrated.

It’s very typical to find bento or set meal in a Japanese restaurant. There are various sets to choose from:

Maki set

Maki set comes with a plate of sushi of 3 kinds, miso soup, salad (potatoes.. yum yum), yellow radish and fruits. This set is definitely not enough for me. LOOOL.. So, to fill up the tank, a few side orders would do good. We had

Grilled Mackerel set

my guess: Chicken Tenpayaki set

Hiyashi Ramen

Tori Teriyaki Soba

Soba in Miso broth with lotsa seaweed

Sashimi

A plate of Sashimi of 4 kinds – Salmon, Mackeral, Red Tuna and white fish.

California Maki

This is delicious. Well, don’t mind the picha as it was taken with my 2megapixel phone camera. haha..

FIFA Sushi Balls

Sushi balls to signify the FIFA match season. Rice balls wrapped with Salmon, white fish and Tuna.

Ice Cream Puff

Special dessert complimentary from the Chef – Ice Cream puff

yum yum

Giant Roe

For illustration purposes only. Do you really think they are going to serve you such big sushi?

The pichas are all taken using my Nokia N72 with 2megapixel only. Those were the days when I was still Digital Cameraless. Otherwise, these food porn would be more lustful. LOOOOOOOOOOL!!!

Rakutei Japanese Restaurant
Opening Hour: 11am to 10pm
Address: No.88, Grd Floor, Crown Square Shopping Centre, Jalan Pending, 93450 Kuching
Contact No: 082-346612

Kim Yu Li - Kueh Chap Special

Kim Yu Li is located opposite Sunny Hill School. In the same spot as third mile’s old market. Just before the traffic lights to Batu Kawa, the coffee shop is located on the left side and you can see the KIM YU LI signboard which is so big, even the short sighted can see it without glasses! lol..

Several days before, we planned to have coffee drinking on the Hot Sunday Afternoon at Deli Cafe as Alex Wong recommended the place. But the plan was postponed because there was introduction of 15 finalists  of Ethnic Beauty Pageant Miss Fair & Lovely World Harvest Festival 2009 held at the Spring. We love to take pichas so we were there for the pageant.

15 finalists of various ethnics

Will post a proper post for this pageant as I took many pichas of the finalists. Some are really hot and pretty like No. 1 – Janet Bennet who won the Miss Spring Time 2009. Congrats to her and all the best! She won a free return  flights to Singapore via JetStar airline.

After the pageant, we went window shopping around and I……………….saw shoes in Vincci and…………………………………I went to see only and…………….tried a few and………………………totally loved the ones I tried but……………………….I can’t have all of them because………………..there were no Sales, but………………….there were preSales (20% discounts) for Vincci members and…………………….Evey has the membership, so I………………………………accidentally bought two pairs. =X

Vincci shoes

We spent hours in Vincci, ok.. not hours, just an hour plus in Vincci waiting for me to decide which shoes and which color was suitable for me and which ones I love more. Teehee.. Thanks for being so patience, Darrel, Evey, TMOT and Ting!

Ting, Evey, Na and TMOT (with his new Billabong jacket)

A group camwhore picha before we leave. Where’s Darrel?

Another thing that hit us straight to our heart is this:

Soon Fatt Cafe's Fish Fillet @ RM10.00

Tasted so similar to Dad’s cooking. Still, dad’s crispy fish fillet is nicer, tastier, crispier and lovelier.

I miss him.

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After work, met up with Alex Wong from SingleTrackMind for coffee at Deli Cafe. Alex mentioned in his previous emails that the best coffee he ever tasted is from Deli Cafe. The place closes early at 6pm. I get off work at 5pm, by the time I reach the venue it was already 5.15pm. When I arrived, they were cleaning up already, and Coffee’s out.

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annna & alex wong [STM

Thanks, Alex for introducing the place. Will definitely go back to try the coffee.