Tappers Café @ SetiaWalk Puchong

Recently this place is where our family keep visiting, seriously like up to four times a week!(scary huh, I bet the waiter there already so familliar with us if we don't go it'll be weirder haha).

 

The main reason for our love for Tappers is their WONDERFUL breakfast sets. I'm not a morning kind of person, but I really do love western style breakfast! But you can't really find a great one easily in Malaysia, so that's sad. But now we have Tappers and we are like going every other day so I'm pretty much satisfied! Their sets are pretty cheap too, which include drinks (fresh milk!!).

 

 

 

I kinda hope it was always so empty..due to the good food it has always become rather full.

 

This is my first try on their breakfast set - English Breakfast (sausage, chicken bacon, 2 sunny side up eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and toast); my drink of the day - Cold fresh milk~ I love this set because of the baked beans and mushrooms, too bad my favourite set doesn't come with them, will talk about it later.

 

My mum's favourite set previously (now she is trying out other menus) - Tappers Breakfast (Romani salad, baked beans, 2 sunny side up eggs, sausage, chicken bacon and foccacia toast); the drink she always take is Long Black coffee.

 

 

This was ordered when my mum and sis were feeling adventurous - Cheese omelette with sausage and toast. And now they kinda order this every now and then (I haven't tried ordering one myself), but the cheese omelette is super cheesy!!cheese flows out when you cut it, yum.

 

Tadaa~~ Here comes my ultimate favourite!! American Breakfast set - Sausage, Chicken bacon, 2 sunny side up eggs, and 2 pancakes. I absolutely ADORE the pancakes!!! It's somehow different from the usual pancakes, this one look more like scones but whatever la they called it, it's really delicious!! But I complain every time I ordered it, reason being I prefer baked beans and mushrooms included! (I'll be really happy even if there's only baked beans). In the end i'll still go back to this because the pancakes are really irresistable.

 

See how we always finish our food, hahaha.

They have lunch sets too, but what we always order is either Aglio Olio pasta (sorry no picture) or sometimes Carbonara spagetti. Other foods from the menu were meh, I tried their normal menu once and I was kinda dissapointed; so nevermind, will stick to breakfast and the usual pasta!

 

 A picture of Carbonara spagetti, with poor yellow lighting. I have high standards for Pasta so don't ask me hahaha, I only love Tappers for their breakfast anyway.

 

Here's the menu for both breakfast and lunch sets:

Breakfast Menu

Lunch Menu

 

The menu looks different from what I usually see, maybe they have different menu for different branches, but it's roughly the same ^^

 

So do try their breakfast out if you feel like having a great meal! Breakfast time is up to 11am for weekdays and 2pm for weekends (but sometimes I woke up late they still allow me to have breakfast la).

 

Visit their home page: http://www.tappers.com.my/index.html

 

Cheesy 7 @ Pizza Hut

I missed Cheesy 7 from Pizza Hut before, and now that they are back (since Oct 11, 2012), I'm dying to try them. Am a fan of cheese you know~

But so sad, I'm quite dissapointed after trying it out, excitement died off haha. I guess it's because it didn't really satisfy my cheese cravings? Was quite dissapointed with the cheese balls too, it tasted more like cream balls haha.

 

Anyway, Cheesy 7 pizza claims to have 7 different types of cheese: Mozzarella cheese, Cheddar cheese, Monterey Jack cheese, Provolone cheese, Romano cheese, Parmesan cheese & Cream cheese. Sounds super cool but doesn't taste so. I just can't feel the cheesy-ness in the pizza, maybe my problem, I don't know.

Here's some pictures:

I know right..from the pictures it looks so delicious, haha. But no, I don't really like them, too bad for me.

My slice with double cream cheese balls, dad gave his to me ^^.

I guess I really do prefer Dominos over Pizza Hut, Domino cheese crust is always so cheesy and creamy! Pizza Hut ones are dry and dry and dry (even with the cheese). Look at the pictures also don't realy have the mood to continue type, so bye!~
 

Uncle Jang Korean Restaurant @ Bandar Puteri Puchong

This restaurant was opened for quite some time in Bandar Puteri Puchong, I've always passed by but never thought of going in as I thought it's just some other Korean BBQ restaurant and the sign board was really not attractive enough for me to go in haha (plus there's other Korean restaurants in Bdr Puteri so I usually ignored Uncle Jang). UNTIL two of my friends, ChenChin and Shirley went there (without me, how sad) and told me that the food there is good, and it's not like the usual Korean BBQ. They just left me with a super vague explaination so I was totally blur until I step into the restaurant - obviously it's not going to be like the usual Korean BBQ as they are selling Dak-Galbi DUH!

 

Here, let me save your wiki/google time. Dak-Galbi: "A popular South Korean dish generally made by stir-frying marinated diced chicken in a chilli pepper paste based sauce, sliced cabbage, sweet potato, scallions, onions and rice cake, together on a hot plate".

 

We were very skeptical when we went in, as we could not understand the 1 page menu AT ALL (the menu was displayed outside the restaurant); but thankfully we were still brave enough to go in. If bad nevermind la, one meal only.

 

So here's the menu:

 

This "menu" has only one single dish, and the entire page was explaining about the "order to eat" of Dak-Galbi. The "menu" is really confusing and we had a hard time figuring out what is happening, I'll copy down the "order to eat" list exactly as written from the menu, there's problem with their English so please bear with that:

 

1. Choose and Order hot spicy or normal spicy as your taste. (Tip: you can order mixed-flavour)

2. Choice and Order your additional dishes (Sari), Just wait for around 10 minutes

3. At first, enjoy the rice cake and then chicken with vegetables.

4. After finishing 2/3 or 70% of your meal, order fried rice.

 

Imagine it's our first time there and reading all these, how confusing. So we had to ask for help from the waiter, he was quite shocked that it's our first time (got so famous or not haha). Anyway, it's just very easy, just order the toppings you would like in the dish, and that's it. People will be cooking in front of you, cooking done, eat, finish! No need to think what to order, how easy.

 

We don't even have to think of what drinks to order, unless you prefer beer. Ice water is served!~

 

Refillable ice water. With metal cups haha.

This is the...erm...side dish i guess? There's Kimchi and garlics...and a really nice sauce to eat with your Dak-Galbi. AND there's this raw leaf vegetable; I always wondered what am I supposed to do with it, since it's always there in whatever Korean restaurant I go.

So cooking starts!

This is our chef of the day.

Look how fast he cooks haha. Seems easy though, just mixing around.

And....DONE! We ordered ramen for our first round (because apparently after finishing 70% of the meal we are supposed to order rice to mixed in). It looks super delicious, smells really really good too. I'm getting hungry while typing this, haha.

 

We were very obediant to call the waited when we are done with 70% of our meal:

 

And now fried rice time!!

 

You can choose not to order rice, but we did so since it was suggested in the "menu". Can add cheese too! although we didn't add cheese this time.

 

It's definitely a great experience going to Uncle Jang and I won't mind going over and over again! But you need at least 2 people to order la, loner cannot haha. Do go and have a try!

 

Uncle Jang Korean Restaurant (Puchong)
No,1-1, Jalan Puteri 1/7,
Bandar Puteri, 47100 Puchong,
Selangor, Malaysia.
Tel No.: +603-8051 2208
Business Hours: 12pm – 3pm, 6pm – 11pm (except Tuesday: 6pm – 11pm only)
Price: RM19+ per person, minimum order 2 person

JRockの集い- JRock 1st Gathering

Just like the title says, this is JRock no Tamashii first gathering~ It was on Oct 7, 2012 2PM-5PM at Pavilion KL Tokyo Street (yeah I know my update is like a month late). I have been wanting to go look see the gathering to show some support in Malaysia's JRock community and of course, eat ramen + walk around Pavilion KL.

 

I was there for just a very short 30 minutes or so, chatting around and made some new JRock friends~ Met some people I know, Jourdan (who went there alone, and i hope he is not too bored), Adam Genesis (his FB name, since I don't know his real name), Dante, just to name a few.

 

Am glad to know that bands and solo singers could send their resume to JRock Tamashii to get informed of stage related events and opportunities. This is really a great help for performers who wished for a place to perform! Thanks a lot to JRock Tamashii crews~ Love you guys ^^

 

Come back to the gathering, there's a chance to win the "best dressed" award so I sorta participated, although I did not dress up JRock/punkish haha. Was feeling a little lazy to be punk rock and so I whipped up a JPop-ish/oshare/black gyaru cordinate for the day: 

 

Color cordi: Black x Wine red. Black lace dress from H&M Singapore, with wine red accessories, beret and over-knee socks.

 

Me with Gloomy, head only haha. There's nothing much to take photo with so I randomly grab this cute furry Gloomy. Thanks to Jourdan for the above two photos~ Kinda regretted not taking more photos coz I wonder when will be the next time I'll do this cordi again.

 

To enter the "best dressed" contest, I'm supposed to spend RM5 on a chekki (instant photo) and then fill in my contact details. I knew I won't win anything but I just had to join because the chekki is in Rilakkuma design!! Ohmygosh, it's hard to come by so photo taking is a must!

 

 

My cute rillakkuma chekki!~ It's small and lovely, can put in purse but i'll never do it coz I'm sure I'll lost it within days. I kept it well with my other beloved purikuras~ I miss Purikura now, who's gonna take with me? (I wanna try going alone too >_<)

 

The "I LOVE JROCK" fusha pink badge is something I bought from the counter; figured that if i wanna support Jrock Malaysia Community might as well buy some prove! and it's cute so of course I'll grab it with no hesitation haha.

 

I never throught that my day will be a more Rilakkuma day rather than a JRock day. Some how the gathering has some Rilakkuma merchandise, my chekki is Rilakkuma, and that there's a shop in Tokyo Street FULL of Rilakkumas!!! Ohmygosh, but I only buy 1 HP earplug la, i'm controlling not to buy any other stuff, perhaps I will get more stuff when I visit there again.

 

We did Gachapon. And. Rilakkuma. AGAIN. Me and mum picked the Rilakkuma one to try, while sis played some Panda in a soup/dessert whatever.

 

What I got from gachapon: Rilakkuma mini mirror! It's very small and useful, can hang anywhere ^^. Mum turned and got the exact same one as mine, so no need to exchange.

 

 





This is my Rilakkuma hp earplug from that Rilakkuma shop! Super cute! Rilakkuma eating chocolate on his own head =_= (my hp cover is a Rilakkuma head, can see the ears). Mum even thought I would buy two for myself but I only took one.

 

Anyway I had a great Rilakkuma invasion + JRock + Ramen day~ Would like to go for the second gathering (and have to be Gazette theme summore) as well but I will be quite busy until Mid-December so I'll hold off the urge.

Hokkaido Ramen Santouka @ Tokyo Street, Pavillion KL

I had been wanting to try this since I've gotten the news that the famous ramen chain from Hokkaido has finally set its foot in Pavillion KL. Friends and friends who have been there gave great comments and urged me to try out this rave. And so here I am, blogging about finally trying out my long craving ramen restaurant.

 

Santouka, written as 山頭火 in Japanese (i read them reversely until my sis told me that I'm wrong). There was already a line there when we reach; the waitress gave us the menu while we were queing for seats so that we could order our food first and have our food served when seated. In the end we didn't wait long because we are sharing a big table with 2 other groups (2 Japanese guys and a family of 3).

 



 

The usual drink : Green Tea; but this time all of us had cold green tea as we were pretty exhausted after walking through that KLCC-Pavillion bridge (especially me when I wore my usual super high heels). Mum accidentally spilled some green tea on one of the Japanese guys, but she was fast enough to stop the tea from flowing (some skills). Sad that the tea here is non-refillable since we wasted a little of our tea.

We ordered 1 set of Tokusen Toroniku Ramen Shio based (Small for RM33.50) since it's the signature dish there, one Shio Ramen (Small - RM22.50) and one Miso Ramen (Small - RM22.50). Apparently their pork based soups are made by simmering the pork bones for 20 hours before adding the other ingrediants so the colour of the soups are milky bla bla bla. Personally I think the Shio based soups are a so-so, since i prefer broth with stronger flavor, Santouka's 20 hours simmering soup is not enough thick and strong enough for me! (or maybe they didn't boil it for 20 hours, who knows? haha.

 

Mum's Miso Ramen tasted better than my Shio one, since it's a little more flavorful. I only had one bite so i'm unsure whether it's something I would say I really love. BUT!! I have to say I'm so in love with the pork cheek meat!!It's really soft and tender, and not dry! (it's like melting in my mouth~ yum) Since it's rare (from Santouka website: only 200-300g can be taken from each pig) so there's only limited amount to be sold daily. The flavor is something I would wanna try again one day soon!

 

Okay so pictures now:

My FAVOURITE Toroniku!! We shared this among the 3 of us, really lovely and unforgettable.

 

Tokusen Toroniku + my Shio Ramen

Sis's Shio Ramen, with thick slice of Japanese char-shu, sliced bamboo shoots, seaweed, a slice of cute pink x white fish cake, shredded spring onions and a small pickled plum.

 

Mum's Miso Ramen, same ingrediants with Shio ramen, just without the pickled plum and with additional miso flavor. Both mum and sis love the ramen (especially toroniku), phew, if not it'll be waste of our travel time!

 

And one last picture! Me and my sis (being thoughtful that mum doesn't like her pictures to be in public).

 

Pesta Tanglung USJ & Hari Malaysia 2012

I had celebrated a rather different Mid-Autumn festival this year. As much as my love for festivals, Mid-autumn festival is always not my top favourite due to my dislike of mooncakes. I always feel dreadful having to even eat a slice of lotus paste mooncake which I felt like swallowing some concentrated lump of sugar. But there's still good stuff about mooncake - the salted egg yolk and some other less sweet/more interesting flavors ^^.

 

Skipping the introduction, this year Mid-autumn I was invited to perform at Pesta Tanglung USJ & Hari Malaysia 2012 as a guest performer. This event is organized and hosted by the assemblywoman of Subang Jaya, YB Hannah Yeoh. Seeing that I have to at least perform songs which somewhat related to the theme, I had quite some fun (and troubles) finding songs relating to moon.

 

At first I was informed by the event organizer, Mr. Loka Ng, to prepare 3 chinese songs for the night; and so with the GREAT help from DJ Nataka (Amamizuka), he suggested 3 songs for me to sing for the event, with one of them a self composed song by truly himself specially for Mid-autumn. I was pretty excited and honoured and proud to have the chance to be the first human to cover his song (his songs were mainly for Vocaloid China version), and of course to tell the audience that I'm performing a song composed by a friend made me raise my head up higher. Being an even greater friend as he is, he helped me arranged the other two songs to suit the event/me better (if not my performance would be a rather boring one using karaoke available online), mine was one and only in the world!

 

Oh before I forget, around 2 days before the performance, Mr. Loka suddenly suggested for me to sing an English song, and my performance will be splitted into two sessions, 2 songs each. Thanks to Carlson (my CrestFall band leader), I managed to download the instrumental for the song on the same day itself.

 

I shall stop rambling how greatful I am, and move on. On the day itself I wore something pretty simple, as I don't wish to get all sweaty in an open air environment. Unable to think further I just mashed up my lovely lace top with my sky blue skinny jeans.

 

And since I have extra time (outfit was too simple; did some light, sweet makeup), I worked a little on my hair~ Reading magazines/watching video tutorials do work because images of new styles are like burnt into my head =_=. For this day I did a side braid bun with a red bow clip as my accessory. Am definitely trying out for more hairstyles next time!

 

I was asked to reach one hour before the event starts, for sound check; which I'm really glad I did. Mr. Loka was kind enough to provide me dinner (McD McChicken) but sadly I only had them after the performance because I can't really eat before singing. After the sound check I was pretty much left alone, lonely, with other kids who were performing dances that day. I wanted to have some chat with those older kids but they were either too shy to even have a normal conversation, or just don't know how to speak to someone elder than them.

 

After warming up and going through my singing/speech for countless times in my head, I was SUDDENLY called to perform first. Apparently all other 5 performances (dancing) brought their mp3s and none of them are working =_=. What luck. And so my first session was rather sudden, but everything is fine as I don't particularly felt nervous at all for this event.

My song list for the day:
Session 1:-
1. 月儿弯 by 彭佳慧 (rearranged by Amamizuka)
2. 秋月吟 composed and arranged by Amamizuka

Session 2:-
3. Talking to the Moon by Bruno Mars
4. 但愿人长久 by Theresa Teng/Faye Wong (rearranged by Amamizuka)

 

My two sessions were over in a split second. Well not really split second, but thats how I felt being alone backstage. I managed to get to know some volunteers there and am glad to have several adults to talk to that night. After my performances, I was given a hamper as appreciation. No one did tell me about it and so after my performance I was happily chatting around with the volunteers; therefore I'm really sorry that I did not appear on stage even after having my name called several times. Really sorry T_T.

 

Photo of me receiving the Hamper gift from YB Hannah Yeoh.

My hamper! Forgive the blings and cute editing~ It's pretty fun playing around with Iphone photography apps, don't you agree?

 

After the hamper receiving on stage, I finally have time to spend with my family! We had fun lighting up the lanterns, which my sis once again burned hers.

 



 

We were given goodie bags which includes lanterns, candles, water, and a mini mooncake (which is unexpectedly good since it wasn't very sweet). There were other programs that day as well, such as Lantern Quizzes - which was over once I'm done =_= (but my dad did joined!). Around an hour later there was this free ice-cream redemption which we could redeem from the coupon in our goodie bags. The line was long but we had fun waiting, especially due to the fireworks! It was rather romantic seeing fireworks at night, feels like matsuri.

 

And here comes the interesting story: there was a man, with his family cutting queues and formed another line in order to receive their ice-cream faster. And of course, the workers refused to give him his share of ice-cream because you know, it's unfair for those who have waited for quite some time. He was furious, scolding the workers and volunteers, screaming with vulgar words about how he should have the ice-cream first. We were speechless about the situation but we did let his family to have their turn first because it's funny to fight over a free ice-cream. After some quarel between him and the volunteers, he threw his ice-cream on one of the volunteers!! How ungentleman and crude. And being the collateral damage, mum, sis and I had some ice-cream splashed on us since we stood rather near from the volunteers. It's sad to see that there are still many uncivilized people out there.

 

Even so! The night was great as I get to experience the stage, the lantern and the ice-cream splash haha. I wish to be given more stage opportunity some time again soon~ See ya ^^

Jogoya @ Starhill KL//Delicious @ Sunway Pyramid



Shirley, Bao (ChenChin) and I had an outing/gathering before Bao flies to UK for her studies (although our outing were more like a food marathon). Shirley has this coupon printed online to eat at Jogoya lunch hour for only RM49.90, and both of us except Bao have not tried this Japanese buffet restaurant before, we decided to give it a go; Although Bao did warn us that the food was nothing great, just that it was better than Tenji restaurant.

 

Bao's words were right afterall. The best memory I had for Jogoya was just the small coconuts with refreshing and sweet juice, haha. Almost all the foods there were below average, some even tasted bad despite their looks. To me it's not really a Japanese buffet, more like international buffet with chinese, western food, etc..Personally I still prefer authentic Japanese cuisine above all, but anyhow here's the pictures!

 

Obviously the lovely coconuts. Can you count them? 11 in total!! We had all 11 of them in less than an hour! Amazing not? We decided to keep the coconuts on our tables so that we could take a group coconuts picture but were STARED by the waitress whom for no reason just wanted to keep our cocounts. Of course we won, since we stubbornly wanted our cool photo haha.

 

Shirley and Bao taking pictures of the coconuts after we decided that if we had anymore all of us would have stomach ache/diarrhea.

Bao borrowed Jogoya member card from her friend, and so we had the chance to try out some foods which requires member coupons. We were given 3 coupons, which we used it to try two so called more "rare" dishes.

 

King crabs in chinese herbs! It was meh..just that there's a lot of flesh in those shells. It would be a lot better if the crabs were fresher, or cooked in a different sauce.

Mantis prawn - this was terrible. Yeah you got me right, it's terrible. I just don't want to recall it anymore. I don't understand this dish at all.

 

Other lousy foods we had was the ramen. I remember it well because I was craving for ramen that time and I was getting hyper seeing ramen there. But it was an utter dissapointment. How sad. Sashimi there were frozen and not fresh at all. Thinking about it while writing this post made me lose my appetite =_=.

 

Desserts! Supposed to be the most anticipating one, but again a dissapointment. This picture is good though. None of the desserts were good as per my memory.

 

We left Jogoya after 2 hours because we had only 2 hours to eat before someone chased us off haha. Apparently we could only stay there for 2 hours for the lunch deal, maybe they were affraid that someone would swallow all their foods down and they would be bankrupt haha.

 

Some photos taken after the meal:

 



My outfit of the day~ Knitted blouse from Stradivarius (bought in Spain), Washed-turqoise colour shorts from Uniqlo Singapore, Over-knee socks from a Japanese brand I forgot (bought in Singapore too). I wanted to wear something casual with them and I love this colour combination!

 

Two group pictures~ Taken at a large mirror at Starhill after our meal. I really do miss our days together when looking at the pics. Eating was always fun with both of them (thanks to them I was fat during those days haha).

 

We walked around Pavillion, mostly to sports shops as Bao wanted to get herself a shoe to replace her old one. In the end she couldn't get the design she wanted at Pavillion, and the sales person checked that there's still stock in their Sunway Pyramid branch. And so? Off we go to pyramid.

 

After the shoe shopping spree, I got hungry. Hahaha, both of them were pretty shocked about it. I guess it was because I did not take much food during lunch at Jogoya. Shirley suggested that we go try out Delicious, I agree because it'll be my first and I thought I could find eggs benedict there.

 

But no luck. Their breakfast only available on weekends, before 12pm. I wonder where can I try a good eggs benedict T_T, who can bring me to try?? Anyway, we ordered two pastas and a main course meal to share among ourselves.

Spagetti Carbonara(RM25.50). The classic one. Except we switch beef to chicken (Bao can't eat beef). The sauce were too diluted, I had to add HUGE amount of cheese powder for taste. It was not too bad, just average; and I personally prefer fettucine to be together with carbonara cream sauce.

 

Spicy Crabmeat Linguine(RM26.50). This was rather interesting. After getting bored of the diluted cream sauce, this tasted slightly above average. One good point about this is that the pasta is not too heavy and thick, crab meat tasted good as well (oh that's two good points).

 

Pan-seared Cod(RM50.90). This is the best among the three. The cod were fresh and juicy, and lovely. I had thought that the meat would be dry since it's rather a big piece but it's totally not! The sauce is okay, but i like it more if it's grilled with some teriyaki/black looking sauce.

 

After the meal, I brought both of them to a Korean accessories shop - Da Louis. I was pretty happy that they both loved the shop and bought something for themselves. Shirley was looking for a thin designed ring that fits her finger and she got it finally; while Bao got herself a gorgeous earphone plug to match her iphone.

 

I'll end this post with one more group pic~ Edited by Shirley. I hope that we could stay like this as long as we could, with all of us busy with our own lives but still not forgetting each other; looking forward to see you guys sometime soon~