A shot with the Orchid Garden Coffee House signage is a must!

For Mothers Day, we went to Orchid Garden Coffee House, Grand Margherita Hotel (formerly known as Holiday Inn) for dinner. There were several reasons why we chose GMH in the end.

"Happy Mother's Day" fruit & veggie carvings

#1 They are celebrating Mother’s Day

Mum eats for free

They have one of the best promotions offered on Mother’s Day – Mum eats for FREE and FREE wine. So meaning, instead of paying RM79++ per pax, we are paying RM68.14 (3 x RM79 x 15%/4) per pax. A great saving of RM22.71 per pax and total savings of RM90.84!

P/s: The dinner buffet is RM79 and subject to 10% service charge + 5% government tax = RM90.84.

#2 Complimentary FREE wine (choice of Red or White)

FREE wine

Each diner is served with a glass of Complimentary house wine (except Muslims). They only serve the wine upon request. I saw few tables don’t take wine and requested the Captain for more wine. He was reluctant at first telling us the reasons that they serve based on per head. Told him that since other tables are not drinking, we help them drink. And again, the Captain regrettably apologize that it couldn’t be done.

camwhore with the FREE wine is a MUST

Nevermind lah.. It is okay if we can’t get extra pouring of wine, the wine not that great anyway (the white wine is not even chilled! wteff).

Anyway, 15-20 minutes later, the Captain, he came over to our table with 4 glasses of wine!!! LOL! So sweet of him.

P/s: Pretty disappointed with the wine served (tasted cheap =x)

#3 FRESH RAW OYSTERS!

Oysters chilling out on the ice cubes

They serves real fresh RAW oysters. The all you can eat!! <3 <3

Oyster said, "eat me eat me"

They refill this section pretty often as it is one of the section which finishes within seconds!

I had plenty of Osyters

They are smart to place dessert plates near the salad bar. So, the max you can fit on the plate is 3 Oysters, unless you stack them up, WHICH I don’t advice you to do so lah.

Good for men

Yesterday, princess_Yen mentioned on Twitter that Oysters are GOOD for men in the ahem aspect (improves men’s sexual health). A real eye opener lah.. So guys, how true is this? LOL! share share lah..

Juice it, Slurp it

So, how do you eat raw oysters?

Some prefer to taste raw oysters without any seasonings, while others prefer seasonings like lemon juice, cocktail sauce, tobasco sauce, etc sauce. The usual one is lemon juice. Personally, I love it with a squeeze of lemon juice.

Using a fork, work it under the juicy oyster to detach it from the shell.

Juicy raw oysters

Place the oyster shell at the bottom of your lips and give it a big suck like how you take a deep breath but with your mouth (duh!) and slurp the oyster into your mouth.

Last but not least, don’t just swallow it. Give it a chew, else how would you  taste the hamness (oysterness).

I <3 Oysters

#4 Seafood, See Food

Grilled Scallops

This is damn sedaps!!

Seafood Squid: Fish, Squid & Prawn

Superbly great with Tabasco sauce <3

Pacific Clams

The veggies not really ngam (suitable) with the clams. =X

[please imagine pichas of PRAWNS]

There were grilled prawns, butter prawns, and something prawn. Totally didn’t dig any prawns (except the seafood kebab), because I was lazy to peel the skin off. =x

#5 Japan was in Orchid Garden

Chuka Idako & Wakame

They also have seasoned scallops which I screwed up on the picha and hence, no picha for display.

Red & White Tuna sushi

The raw fish is fresh, but the rice =/ taste farny.

Salmon & Tuna sushi

Unfortunately, they don’t do Sashimi (even though we requested the sushi master for just raw fish without rice). So, we ate the raw fish only and left the sushi rice for something else (see below below) =x

Fish Roe sushi, Tuna sushi & California Maki

Fish Roe sushi & Chicken Floss sushi

If you don’t like their sushi, you can always DIY your own:

Special DIY sushi

Give it a wild guess for the name of this sushi.

(THIS IS JUST A JOKE)

#6 Meat Galore

They have varieties of meat to choose from; chicken, duck, lamb, beef and NO PORK lah. Meat in different cooking styles; steamed, sauteed, roasted, grilled, you name it.

Roasted lamb & veggies

This is one of my favourite among all! I love their mini roasted potatoes. So cute and sweet. :3

Mixed Grill

The sausages are grilled on the spot and you need to wait…with patience.. for them and the beef steak is ZOMGood!

Roasted Smoked Duck

Bro didn’t like the roasted duck as it has a mild smokey taste in it. Surprisingly, the duck is smoked before roasting (I think).

#7 Soup needs improvement

Tomato soup and brown bun

The tomato soup is too diluted =x and tasted like my spaghetti bolognese sauce with extra 1 liter of water. (just saying)

[a picha of screwed up Ginseng soup]

I’m very sorry for this very harsh comment on the soup but seriously,  does the chef knows what he is cooking?

As a Chinese who drinks soup at every dinner since she was born, I can cook Ginseng soup (sedaps lagi enak) with one eye closed.

second helping on Ginseng soup

Or maybe I’m not a pro Ginseng soup drinker as I watched a lot of people scooped ounces of the Ginseng soup.

#8 Desserts

Tropical Fruits: Papaya, Honey Dew, Watermelon

The fruits are very sweet *thumbs up*. They have fresh pineapples as well, but I dislike pineapples. Every time I eat fresh pineapples, without fail, my tongue get cuts and sometimes, I get ulcers from it.

Red Dragon fruit

They didn’t peel the skin off the fruit! Why? To show how dragonish the fruit is? ~..~

A MUST Mothers Day Cake

And of course, on this memorable Mother’s Day, how could we miss out on the cake.

some bitter pudding

A sweet mango pudding topped with fruit parfait and perhaps a small slice of strawberry on top would be lovely. But what they have here is some pandan pudding burnt sugar syrup on top (which made it bitter) and topped with almond flakes.

Not so Banana Chocolate Cake

LOL! Remember my Banana Chocolate Cake? This is so opposite of it! The chocolate cake is decorated with BANANA CRACKERS! What a combination of sweet chocolate and salty, crispy banana cracker.

At this point, I wonder if there is any vacancy for food taster. I want to apply, can?

Chocolate mousse & Pandan agar-agar

Pandan & coconut milk agar-agar lapis

The Pandan layered jelly is really the opposite of yum. T___T I love agar-agar and jelly but this is beyond likable. The whitish green is coconut milk/ideal milk flavoured tasted very geli!

P/S: Seriously need improvementssssssss.

Bro making a statement

*scared*

Chocolate Mousse

This is the best among all the cakes and puddings. The chocolate mousse is very delicious! But I don’t like the pink deco (DIY on sushi rice).

Ice-Cream and some cheesy cake

They have ice-cream too. There were two flavours of ice-cream that night; strawberry and peppermint. Got lotsa toppings to go with the ice-cream too; almond flakes, chocolate syrup, berry syrup, chocolate rice, colorful thingy, etc..

The cakes are pretty okay. Just okay only.

#9 Miscellaneous

For display only

They have this candle in XO glass, but they didn’t light it.

Bro making another statement

Bro: what’s the point of having it on the table if they’re not going to light it.

Me: DECO bah

What is wrong with this picha?

You tell me lah.. LOL..

Overall, the dinner buffet is okay lah. I enjoyed the seafood and meat (YUMYUM) minus the desserts (no offence). In fact, I was looking forward to Oyster shooters!! Well, I hope they serve that again in future

waiting patiently for the arrival of YB Makanan. Look at bro's hand grip

As it was a Wednesday (ladies night at Silhouette), we enjoyed our dinner with free house pouring of the night, Gin. There were two types of mixture: Gin Tonic or Gin with Sprite.

Gin Tonic

I ordered Gin with sprite as my first glass and it tasted somewhat terrible to me. Then, I tried marther’s Gin tonic which tasted much much much better. My seconds and onwards was Gin tonic.

Imported lemon

Bro didn’t order any liquor that night as he wanted to try out the Italian Ice-cold sodas *roll eyes*

Italian Ice-Cold Soda - Green Apple @ RM8

Bro ordered this apple soda which tasted like Baby Borneo the apple flavour ones. fuhhh.. Really brings back the good old time taste! Anyone knows where to buy Baby Borneo? Or has Borneo discontinued that product?

just soda with green apple syrup

Perhaps we can start making our own Baby Borneo from home. teehee.. Just need to find out where to get the green apple syrup and mix with soda.

For dinner, we ordered 3 dishes of pasta and pizza:

Spaghetti Aglio e Olio @ RM17

The spaghetti is cooked with olive oil and garlic. I normally toss the spaghetti with lots and lots of Tabasco sauce to give that extra kick *slurps*

Pizza Funghi e Prosciutto @ RM23

The pizza funghi e prosciutto consists of turkey ham, mushrooms, tomato and mozzarella cheese. We love this pizza the most among all they have in Silhouette. Also, I recommend this pizza for you to try!

Pizza A'matriciana @ RM21

Pizza A’matriciana consists of beef bacon, onions, chilli, tomato and mozzarella cheese. This pizza is slightly spicy. I liked it but not bro as he don’t take spicy food.

After our dinner, we continued drinking and hee hee haa haa… Then, we went home. After an hour later, I was back in Silhouette again for second round, and this time with Evey. Then, Ehren dropped by and joined us.

Ehren and I

Later that evening, the surprisingly familiar faces, CKY, Brandon and Kat joined us.

Brandon, CKY & Evey *high five*

So surprised to see Brandon with CKY. hahaha.. It is either Kuching is such a small city or CKY knows everyone. LOL..

Brandon, CKY & Evey doing random stuffs

That night we were quite happy so I ordered a round of tequilas. There was an extra shot that Eve doesn’t drink, so CKY sneakily poured into Brandon’s Graveyard. BAHAHAHAHAHAH!! Till today, I don’t think he realised the extra shot in his drink as Graveyard tastes really strong and yucky!

A toast for the random crowd

Now I mish the random crowd doing the random things..

]]> http://annna.net/pre-birthday-dinner-at-silhouette/feed/ 8 http://annna.net/carvery-restaurant/ http://annna.net/carvery-restaurant/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:32:46 +0000 annna http://annna.net/?p=4023 As promised, we had dinner at Carvery Restaurant for Mummy’s belated birthday in August.

ya ya.. A super late update.

Mum's personalised gift voucher

To date, the voucher is still visible on her dressing table. Let’s hope she won’t suddenly jump from behind to “claim” again. *LAMAO*

The Carvery

Carvery Restaurant is located in Pending and it’s not very far from the town. Carvery is well known for its meaty lunch and dinner buffet. You get to taste a wide variety of meat right from the skewers!

Here’s the location map:

Carvery Restaurant location map

View Carvery Restaurant in a larger map

It’s not surprising that the place is packed almost at all time and especially full house during the weekends.

Full house as usual

It is advisable to make an early reservation before hand. This is to secure you  a table and to avoid disappointment to go all the way to feast and yet FULL HOUSE. By then, Super GG lorh..

The buffet consists of a wide range of salad, saute veggies and meat, soup of the day and non-stop serving of 14 baked, grilled and roasted meat and seafood (may be refilled).

The Salad Bar

The salad bar looks very inviting. We all need to maintain a balanced diet, veggies is also a MUST to feast on. Apart from that, who would say “No” to those crispy fresh imported lettuces? Plus, there are imported chicken and turkey ham. Yum Yum!

Lettuce, Olive, Pickles and cucumber stick

PICKLES MY FAV!! <3

Appetizers

There are spaghetti/pasta, baked potatoes <3, saute veggies, and meat, steamed veggies, beef stew, and much more…

Starters

For starters, I had the salad and veggies.

Freshly baked bread

On every table, there is a freshly baked bread. Every table has different types and sizes of bread.

Fluffy bread

The bread is very fluffy and soft, and goes very well with the soup.

Hot Cream Soup with bread

Don’t take too much of the soup. You definitely don’t want to fill up your tank with just soup and bread.

Before serving all the meat to every table, they served us the two sauces to go with the meat first. There are the black pepper sauce and brown sauce.

Black Pepper Sauce and Brown Sauce

How I wish they have tabasco sauce. Heehee..

Waitress at Work

The meat buffet consists of chicken, lamb, beef and sausages cooked in many ways; grilled, roasted, and saute. They are brought to the tables still on the skewers and we can decide the cut size of the meat

Roasted Lamb

We all get small slices of meat. If you think that the waitress is ngiawchee (stingy) for serving us such a small piece of meat, you have mistaken her for it. They serve us in tiny pieces because there are approximately 14 kinds of  meat and seafood for us to try!

If they serve us in big pieces, by the time we reach the 4th or 5th piece, we are full already. Then, we won’t be able to try everything they have prepared. If you accumulate all the small pieces of meat in one plate, you’ll get a mountain of meat! Don’t believe me, see it for yourself and add them all up on a plate:

Grilled Lamb Chop and Chicken Wing

Mussel

Butter grilled fish fillet with lemon topped with saute pepper

with bread

Bro said the grilled fish is a bit too plain and nothing. So, he made a “toast” by putting the fish on his freshly baked bread.

Chicken Sausage and Chicken Wrapped with Turkey Ham Roll

The pulps on the turkey ham roll are lemon pulps. Mum added lemon on for the extra tangy taste.

Beef sausage and Smoked Chicken

Smoked beef

Sirloin Steak

Roasted Lamb Chop

Roasted Turkey

All these can be refilled upon request but one round of them is enough for me. I’m so bloated having to try every single one of them.

Love the buffet here

Feast on till you Bloat!

Price per adult: RM48 Nett (RM27 – Child below 12)<– The buffet is worth every single Ringgit you pay!

Carvery Restaurant
Lot 2069, Jalan Utama,
Bintawa Industrial Estate,
93450 Kuching, Sarawak.

Tel: 082 345 429
Fax: 082 345 428

Opening Hours :

Monday – Saturday (Lunch): 11.30am – 2.30pm
Monday – Saturday (Dinner): 6.30pm – 10.30pm

Close on Sunday

The Birthday Cake from Secret Recipe, Marble CheeseCake

Was invited to a dinner at My House Steamboat 2 weeks back (which reminds how outdated this blog is now =/).

For Project 365: Day 98 July 3, 2009

Thanks for inviting me to your birthday dinner!~ I filled my tank fully. I’m tankfully.. LOL

Candle picking (18 years old aje)

Happy birthday again to our Surreptest Utmost Premium, Gordon!

Last night I had dinner with Angel and AhGe.

annna, Gel, ahGe

Friends since primary (angel) and high school (ahge). After so long, we finally had the chance to sit down for dinner together. Yomi missed it tho. No worries, we’ll arrange another meet up again yea!

I had Mr. Ho’s Special Prawn Pasta….again. Teehee.. It’s very nice. HOWEVER, they no longer server tobasco sauce! If you like to have that to go with your food, you need to buy a bottle (or bring a bottle from home). Instead, the captain offered spicy mustard which tasted like wasabi. -_______-|||

For dessert, I ordered a slice of Chocolate Truffle Cake. It’s partial chocolate cake and chocolate moose. It’s pretty good. With almond slices and bits on top.

Mr. Ho's Fine Foods - Chocolate Truffle Cake @ RM9.00

Angel ordered the Chocolate Fondue. They ran out of strawberries, so they gave us more grapes and marshmallows. =/

Personally, I think the grapes and marshmallows are too little for a set of fondue. Don’t you think?

Mr. Ho's Fine Foods - Chocolate Fondue

Anyway, the grapes are seedless. LOL

A group picha:

annna, ahGe, Gel

It was a great evening with you both just catching up, chit chat and sharing opinions and thoughts. Although the evening was just a shortwhile, it was worthwhile.

a candid shot of everone busy eating cake

..the company,

with the babes

.. the fun and laughters,

with the boys

a bagful of pressies

..the presents and cake,

happie with lotsa pressies and yummilicious cake

Last but not least,

Though this picha is blur, the memories held in it, lasts forever.

Don't know anyone else as crazy as you all!! WHERE'S EVEY?

Credits to Darling Evey for all the pichas taken with my camera.

Thanks for the MEMORIES!

I’ve known Lok Thian Restaurant(s) for half of my life. Since I was young I dine a lot at Lok Thian, it’s like Kuching’s best known group of restaurants for all goodie food. Browse annna.net archive’s, you’ll get a lot of food reviews on Lok Thian’s restaurants (Chinese, Shanghai, Japanese, Thai, Hong Kong, etc cuisines).

It’s so unfortunate that I couldn’t join in celebrating the big occassion. It’s such a heartbreak knowing that I won’t be able to feast with everyone for the big day.

I wish Lok Thian group all the best and many many more anniversaries to come. Congrats again!

I was holding my chopsticks and before I start to attack the food, I exclaimed, “Itadakimasu!” which means, ‘Let’s eat’ in Japanese.

It’s time to MAM MAM (eat) YA MA (shi ma)?

Even the outside is decorated with Japanese ‘landscaping’

Momoyama is just a walk away from my college, SEGi College Sarawak.

I went to Momoyama with my one of Graphic Design coursemates. It was our first time dining there, so, it would be a great experience there. Hurhurhur..

Just as we stepped our foot into the restaurant, the waitresses inside greeted us. Then, we were seated and handed with the Menu.

(Click on the pictures for larger view. You’d be able to see the food they serve as well as the price.)

*Price is subject to 5% of Government Tax*

The Today Special almost choked me with my own saliva. RM 100 for some Kobe Beef!

After ordering, they served us cold napkins. Then, came our Green Tea (RM5.00 per pot, RM2.00 per cup). I like to drink Green Tea because I feel green after drinking it aka Fresh. Also, it’s not bitter unlike some Chinese tea. Bluek..

She’s very sweet. When I told her that I’m going to take a picture of her, she smiled shyly to me. Kawaii ~^.^~

Beautiful tea pot and giant tea cups

At the bottom of the cup, you will get this tea cha cha (leftover bits)

Bukti Original Green Tea leaves were used. XDDD

My Saba Teri-yaki set @ RM17.00

That’s a Saba Mackeral grilled with Teriyaki sauce and served with side dish (Kimchi), soup, pickles and rice.

Psst.. Tastes like kampung fish to me. =x

I still prefer smoked mackeral on sushi.

Tori Teri-Yaki set @ RM16.00

The tori is chicken. The chicken is grilled with teriyaki sauce and also served with side dish (Kimchi), soup, pickles and rice.

For dessert, we got complimentary mooncake (red bean filling).

This is very nice. Too bad they gave us one only.

Another fulfilling lunch with Dine with Anna. Hahaha…

The dishes on that night was superb! Good thing we came over for dinner, again.

Singapore famous Chilli Crabs

One of the best dish of the night. I’ve never tried chilli crabs in Singapore before, but tasted it onboard. Spicy spicy sauce, sweet sweet crabs.. Best.. d(^.^d)

Grilled prawns

Another Goodie dish of the night. Seafood themed. Good thing it’s buffet style. XDD

Apart from goodie seafood, there were sushis too. When I walked in, I saw lots of California Maki (sushi covered with fish eggs) but when I went to grab some, only left this maki covered with fish powder. Some people are so sonic.

Lemons wash away those fatty fatty intake

Even got special fruit here, Longans. It’s been centuries since I last taken fresh longans with its skin on it. Usually I buy canned longans cause more convenient and last longer plus they are hootless seedless.

My most favourite food onboard, Chockie Fruits!! See, I koreked all the cherries. XDDD

Most of us enjoyed second round as we can eat as much crabs, prawns, and chockie fruits as we want. Best of all, we can use our hands here. In Bella Vista, everything were manners manners manners and utensils protocol.

Did I gain weight during the trip? You guess.. I’ll tell you on the next post.

At first, we wanted to have dinner at the Pavilion Room as they serve Shark fin and Abalone during Captain Gala Dinner. Unfortunately, we were too late to make the reservations. It happened that few China groups joined in the 3 Nights Sunday Cruise and they happened to pre-book the dinner several months before getting onboard whereas we only made the bookings one month before.

We had our dinner at Bella Vista, the International Restaurant. It was a very grand dinner. The Captain dines with the finest people onboard and seated in the special table. Whereas we (normal people) dines around them.

Settle down everyone.. Let’s order dinner.

Due to the capacity of the restaurant, there were two seatings for dinner. First seating at 6.30pm and the second one at 8.00pm. If we die die want to have dinner at Pavilion Room, we would be at the second seating. However, old folks cannot tahan till 8pm then eat mar.

Anyway, let’s hop into food. grok grok

For appetizers, we have choices of Green Salad, Chicken and Duck and Salmon.

Eat green. There’s crispy lettuce served with tomatoes, grapes, crackers, caesar dressing and topped with cheese.

Looks like fish cake product, the chicken and duck done in the same method just with extra ingredients in it; olive, pickles, etc. Served with crispy curly lettuce on starfruit.

This salmon is done like canned tuna. xDD Mashed salmon topped with mini raw taugehs (bean sprouts), served with a spoonful of mango cocktail and crispy curly lettuce sitting on cucumber.

One of the best Mushroom Cream Soup I’ve tasted. Best!

I like.. <3

Crispy chicken with breadcrumbs on the outside served with boiled veggies (carrots, celeries, peas), sitting on rice.

Grilled fish (I think it’s Dorree Fish) served with rice, asparagus, and mushrooms.

Seafood ala blablabla (can’t remember). Prawns, Squid, Salmon, Scallops, asparagus, brocolly, tomato and lemon sitting on the pastry surrounded with buttered rice (damn hard as if not cooked *choked*)

I like this the most. So cute. Got star on it somemore. v(^.^v)

It’s actually beef covered with pastry served with veggies.

Dessert: Ice Cream Cake (Top: Strawberry; Bottom: Vanilla) served fruit parfait.

At the end of the dinner, we were served coffee/tea and miniatures cakes and chocolates.

One of my favourite group of people. The man on the far right is Uncle Dennis. He owns a DSLR!! He self study photography many many years ago. How cool is that?? Imagine your grandpa snapping pictures with a DSLR.

This group ok lar.. A bit complainish, at least I can still swallow food.

3 couples, 1 have a lot to say about EVERYTHING! Urgh! Can’t sleep in a piece peaceful dream.

MY GANG! woo hoo.. coolest people on earth.

Far left, my aunty (boss). On her right are her cousins Ms Yii & Ms Yu ( 2 beautiful people and very SIAW too).

Far right are grand-aunty and uncle. Learnt many new things from Ms Yii and Ms Yu. *—*

The lady in helmet is the youngest in the tour group.

To some of us, dinner was not very fulfilling. After Bella Vista, some went back to cabin to change and we went over to The Mediterranean Buffet for second round. It’s like most of the things we do onboard is Eat Eat Eat..

Next on.. *Ting Ting Ting* ROUND TWO

@ The Mediterranean Buffet and Terrace

Every morning, for breakfast, we would dine in The Mediterranean Buffet and Terrace as there are gazzillions food, ranging from Western (Salad, buns, sausages, eggs, baked beans, etc) to Chinese (Dim sums and porridge) to Indian (Curry, Naan bread, papadham) and lots and lots cake plus free flow of fruit juice, tea and coffee.

There were so many food here that we had lunch and dinner here too. Everyday, the Mediterranean would serve different dishes. One of the days, we had Mexican food as one of the dish offered. I’ve never tried this before and it’s really good.

Sometimes, we would try something different and as our group consists of mostly elderly people and we had lunch at Pavilion Room.

Chicken broth with wintermelon and dried red dates for extra sweetness to the soup. It’s good to start a meal with a bowl of soup. Helps your tummy to warm up first before all the goodies go in. XDD

This Thai Fish tastes like those Mango fish we used to have in Kuching, just that there’s no fresh mango slice on the fish. It’s spicy and sour. One bowl of rice is not enough to go with this. It’s really good.

This is everyone’s favourite, Stewed Pork Leg aka Tu ka. Best part would be the fatty wobbly piece of pork leg. A little chewy and soft on the fat and sweet and tender on the meat. Amen.

I’m not a tofu eater aka I don’t eat tofu nor drink soya bean. I just don’t. I just tried the crab sauce and that white crystal thingy that tastes like hard jelly. I think that’s either sea coconut or rambutan. I don’t know what that is, but it’s sweet.

I think they call this spinach. Just cooked in Chinese style. Normally, at home, dad fry this with ikan bilis, here, they do it differently (of course la). They simple fry with garlic and served with small dried red thingy and fried ikan bilis.

I don’t eat brinjal. I don’t eat brinjal. I don’t eat brinjal. But what the heck, I took a piece of BRINJAL and had a second one. It’s very nice. Should opt my daddy to deep fried brinjal, Tempura style. Brinjal tastes nice this way.

This was what we had for our dessert at the end of our meal. It’s a warm dessert. I would prefer something cold for dessert like Honey Dew Sago.

Even if we dined here, we could still move to The Mediterranean Buffet to eat. Most of us would go over for fruits and desserts. I would go for Cherries hunting (korek cherries from cakes) and coffee.

Next post on Captain Gala Dinner. MORE MORE YUMMYLICIOUS FOOD! kikiki..

I’m back! I arrived Kuching 20 minutes earlier than scheduled last night. Thumbs up to Airasia. Will update on the cruise trip when I get the pictures ready.

Here’s a peek:

We had lunch at Ocean Palace, one of the most exclusive restaurants onboard. Normally, they have the Meet the Captain Gala Dinner here.

When you walk in the ‘Palace’, there is a mini Gemini welcoming you. So cute lar.. I wish I could bring it home with me. Wuekekekeke…

When we are to be seated, the waiters pull the chair and led us to the seat. Gentlemen sekali… Then, they align the napkin on our laps. The waitresses served us drinks. Again, I had fruit punch. It’s like my favourite drink onboard. Hohoh..

While waiting for our appetizers, we helped ourselves with buns. I had one bun as I was very hungry because I didn’t take breakfast that day. *Grok Grok*

We were to pick one appetizer out of Caesar Salad, Sesame Dipped Prawns and Corn Soup. For the main course, we have to pick one out of Red Snapper, Chicken Breast and Vegetarian Curry with Naan Bread. As for dessert, that was the hardest to choose, between Mango Parfait and Cheese Cake! HMPH!!

I had Sesame Dipped Prawns. Obviously, the prawns are dipped into special sesame batter and deep fried. It is served with tropical fruit salsa and Asian spiced mayonnaise. The prawns are very Q (springy), very very good. Goes well with the mayonnaise. After having the appetizer, my hungriness rate dropped 10%. The buns filled up 5%.

The lady from another travel agency sitting opposite me was having Caesar Salad. I pai seh want to stop her from eating, so, I just snapped a picture of the salad. According to the menu, the Caesar salad contains Romaine Lettuce with Caesar dressing, Shaved Parmesan (omg lar.. Shaved! Meaning they use shaver!! XDD), and Garlic Croutons.

Waiting for the main course took awhile. So, I took some pictures but most of them turn out cacated. =(

By the way, Ocean Palace is at the head of the ship. So, we had a great view looking out but err.. our river very muddy and can see sampah along the side. Mensiasoikan.. tsktsktsk..

Finally, food is served! My red snapper serving looks small, big plate. However, I struggled to finish it. My fullness rate is like 99%!! Never underestimate its size. The seared fillet of red snapper sitting on fork crushed potato (partially mashed potato), served with ribbon vegetables (Xiao Bai Chai), and Ginger Butter Sauce. The fish itself is sweet added with the rich butter sauce, definitely fulfilling.

This soy glazed chicken breast with Asian green vegetables sitting on jasmine rice and sweet satay sauce, not forgetting curly fried ginger slice. According to the lady sitting beside me, who ordered this, she said that it’s very delicious but she couldn’t finish the whole thing. In the end, she returned half of the rice to the chef (literally).

After finishing our main course, our desserts came.

The Mango Parfait is like ice cream. The yellowish sauce around it is Rum Lime Syrup.

I decided to have Cheese Cake. It is very very rich and creamy. One of the best Cheese Cakes I ever tried. The Graham Crackers Crust is however, too soft and it cracked easily. A bit too oily too (too much butter). The red fruit compote is there for a reason other than decoration. It’s sweet and sour. Because cheese cake is very very rich that when you eat it, at a certain point, you will feel gelik and this red fruit compote, helps the cake taste gelikless. Very good combination!

That’s all for the makan makan onboard!

Need to pack my things for my trip tomorrow~!!!!

The Vanilla Ice Cream Sundae is like those McDonald’s Ice Cream. The soft milk ice cream. Everyones favourite.

Not everything in the cafe is Elephantish. The toothpick holder is sure damn cute! It’s the shape of a tooth with a hole at the top for the toothpick.

If Vanilla Sundae is too plain for you, you can opt for Caramel, Strawberry, Blueberry, Chocolate and Peanut sundae. The sundae is topped with the flavoured jam or syrup. As for this Blueberry Sundae, the ice cream is topped with Blueberry jam.

Grandad had Chocolate Sundae. I didn’t have the chance to take a good picture of the Sundae. He enjoyed the sundae very much. He was smiling while enjoying it. Glad that he enjoyed dinner.

If you like to have bananas to go with your sundae, just add in RM0.50. To me, anything with banana is great.

After having dinner at the Elephant’s, we went over to Uncle’s house for some wine and fruits. That’ll be another post. =D

Please make sure that you have taken Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner before continuing scrolling down. The following content may or may not cause you hungry and drooling all over your keyboard. However, just a small warning to you guys. (Macamla my this post can cause so much trouble)

Starting with pasta…

This spaghetti is specially made with the Chef’s special tomato sauce and topped with Cheddar cheese. Look at the cheese.. Fuhhh… Cheesy… Meaty… Tomato-eey.. Slurps..

The origin of the chicken is Maryland. Actually, that’s not true. The truth is that this is a special marinated chicken. Taking a bite of this tender roasted chicken would bring you to Maryland or as what Ehon would call it, La-la-land. The chicken Maryland is served with rice or french fries and coleslaw.

Fish and chips is everyone’s all time favourite (maybe to some only). Why Ole Fishies? Do you remember when we were young and we normally say “ole ole” (shy shy /shame shame). So, the fish they use here is called Ole Fishies as the fishes are shy. Really!! *Giving serious big eyes look*

Anyway, the deep fried battered fish is served with french fries, tartar sauce and a wedge of lemon.

For those who prefer to have something light, this pan-fried cajun fish cutlet seals the deal immediately. Served with french fries, vegetables and tartar sauce.

I tell you now and I’ll tell you again, this is one freaking GOOD Lamb Curry! The lamb curry is served with white rice, pickled vege (archar) and crackers (papadham).

Although at Elephant Cafe, they don’t serve elephant meat, but the serving of Grilled lamb chop is ELEPHANT (big). The seasoned and grilled lamb chops comes with french fries, coleslaw and few slices of cucumber. Brown, black pepper or mushroom sauce at your own choice.

This is the DISH of the night. The stewed lamb shank is cooked in tomato gravy till tender. My gosh.. It’s so tender that you don’t even need the knife to cut it. Just by using the fork, you can easily scrap the meat off the bone. The lamb shank is served with mashed potato and veggies.

This beef steak here is another STAR of the night. The grilled beef steak is served with mashed potato and veggies. Choices of sauces are brown, black pepper and mushroom.

As I mentioned earlier, the beef steak is the Star of the night. Please meet Elephant’s very own Fido Dido. Ngekngekngek…

The tender traditional roasted beef slices  are very very very sweet and juicy. Bare in mind, when you order red meat, be sure that your meat is at least medium. If too well done, the meat tend to be very hard and chewy and you could probably get choked. *choichoichoi*

The roasted beef is served with mashed potatoes and coleslaw. If you like to have veggies instead of coleslaw, you can always request for it when ordering. Oh and also you can choose sauce of your choice, brown, black pepper or mushroom sauce.

The mix-grilled is a mx of chicken chop, lamb chop and sausages, served with french fries and veggies. Choices of sauces are brown, black pepper and mushroom.

Fiush…  *wipes sweat*Finally, I completed this post. Long one indeed. I hope that you guys would go to Elephant Cafe and dine there. It’s a nice place. And I hope that this post can help you guys know what kind of dishes they serve and would try them out too.

By the way, i’d like to add another part for this Elephant, Dining with Elephants III. After a review of drinks, starters and main course, any idea what’s going to be in Dining with Elephants III ?  *wink wink*