Yummy Foods!

This is gonna be a blogpost with less words but full of pictures, food pictures to be specific. These are all the foods and places I've tried in the past weeks/months.

Frisky Goat

Went here with Nicole and Juri during lunch. Kinda like the creamy pesto pasta here, and also their breakfast.

My TWG Silver Moon Tea.

 

Nicole and Juri ordered latte and some coffee drinks I can't remember. Gosh sign of old age.

 

Egg Salmon Royale - seared salmon with poached eggs over waffle, served with sauteed mushrooms, tomato hollandaise sauce and toast. Not a bad choice!

 

Creamy Pesto Pasta!

 

I've forgotten all names of the cakes I've tried lol. And lost count also.

 

I remember this was great! Espresso Creme Brulee if i'm not mistaken.

 

Some cheese cake.

 

Group picture~

 

Miam Miam (Revisit) 

Revisited this place with my Japanese team leader, Yukari-san. We worked till rather late during the previous quarter closing and she invited me for dinner. I let her pick the place and we've finally decided on Miam Miam.

I ordered this -- some soufle egg omu-rice. It tasted really good! I have cravings now and then to eat this again haha. Yukari-san ordered some seafood pasta, and she said it was not bad as well.

 

ZEN

I've been here several times, but just gotta include this in the blogpost because this was my first Ootoro~ Had this with my sister during one of my summer Friday break.

Garage 51 (Revisit) 

Second visit with my mum and sis. 



 

Beautiful baked eggs. Tasted averagely okay to me.

I think my sister ordered this.

 

Something huge that my mum ordered. She said it was quite dry and she would prefer something more delicate haha.

Betjeman & Barton

This place wins the worst afternoon tea set I've ever tried. And expensive. ERGH, blogging about this makes me angry.

Three-tier Tea set. Despite the pretty looking plates and desserts, they all tasted pretty bad =___=. Well not as bad as the ones at Tokyo Pastry though, those are marginally edible at most.

 

Macarons ---- Worst I've tried.

Some amazingly dry puffs, madelines, and tarts.

 

Don't try this place if possible. Their tea is sobbingly sad.

 

Rakuzen

My favourite Hotate Mentaimayoyaki

Fresh Sashimi.

 

Kyochon

My first and second visit to Kyochon ^^. Remains as one of my favourite fried chicken place till now haha.

Spicy Drums.

 

Honey Wings.

 

 

Chicken breast strips. Tasted really good and matched really well with the honey mustard sauce.

 

 

Tried their set during my second visit. Too bad they don't let me order kimchi fried rice ala carte haiz.

Sushi Tei

They look great but tasted average.

TWG

Prawns were not fresh =____=. Kinda hate this meal. Liver Pate wasn't good as well haiz, dissapointing.

My sis's Wagyu green curry rice were really good though!

Pickle & Fig

Friday consolation lunch session with Nicole and Juri.

It takes a while to read the entire menu on the board lol.

 

My Gryphon Tea - Earl Grey Lavender. Not bad ^^.

Some avocado salad.

Nicole's big breakfast. The sausages were really good.

Mine! Smoked salmon and cream cheese foccacia. Wonder if I will get to try the other sandwiches, particularly interested in this pesto chicken one. And I have to say I LOVE their wedges!

L-Table (Revisit)

 

Went with Benjamin this time.

Yummy potato croquette. But a little dry.

My yummy scallop pesto pasta ^^.

 

Benjamin's boring red sauce pasta hahaha. Crabmeat Linguine if i'm not wrong.

Dave Deli

There's 30% discount during weekday lunch hours. I ordered beef lasagna because that was what I always had when I was a kid. Mum would always bring me for dinner before my piano classes ^^. It was overcooked though, I guess they cooked loads of it to cater for lunch crowds.

Menya Musashi (Revisit)

Went alone hahaha. I wanted to spend my two hours lunch in leisure, having the food I want and shop around feeling relaxed, so I decided to reject all lunch invitations that day hehe. And true enough it felt really great!

 

Am gonna end this post with nice ramen picture hahaha. It's taking forever to clear off the backlog posts =____=, there's around 15 more left! And harder posts like AMG, I haven't even blog about C2AGE ergh. Not gonna update though, am going Japan next week for vacation ^^

Bistro a Table, Section 17 PJ

19th June 2014

Peggie and I decided to have her birthday celebration at Bistro a Table, Section 17 PJ two months ago. I was the one who suggested the place because I've always wanted to try this French restaurant; heard that it wasn't extremely pricey like the ones in KL, but with good food quality. I'm glad that Peggie was satisfied with the place because if not, I'll feel soooo bad since this place isn't cheap and it's her birthday celebration afterall, it would be great if she enjoys it.

 

We both went there after work. It was supposed to be a tough challenge for me finding the place (ahem you all know my standards), but my dear colleague Nicole decided to sit in my car just to show me the way!! I secretly admire her courage to sit my car lol

 

So yeah I had zero problem reaching there because I was with Nicole, and Peggie reached there around 15minutes before me, so she was walking around the shop houses peeping at other restaurants. 

 

We were greeted politely and brought to our table upon arriving. I really like the ambience and enjoyed the privacy there.

 

Bread and butter. Peggie's pink guava juice behind.

We asked one of the waiters to help us take a photo, he ended up taking xxx number of photos =___=. We both smile until kayu already he still wanna keep taking. Nonetheless I still like the photos~ Posted only one because they all look the same anyway lol.

 

There are two types of degustation menu on that day: the Degustation Menu, and the Deluxe Degustation Menu. Peggie picked the first while I took the latter so that we could try out everything together haha.

 

My Deluxe Degustation Menu.

Peggie's degustation menu.

Our desserts menu!~ We picked the Mangosteen Pavlova and "MindScrew".

Wine list. I ordered a Chardonnay (Mendoza Tilia Chardonnay 2010) to pair with my caviar cold pasta.

The ala-carte menu that we didn't touch. Hope to try them out next time!~

Bistro a Table's star dish:

Signature Coddled maple syrup egg with crouton dust & Fleur de Sel

This dish is quite famous if i'm not mistaken. It's really delicious and special! To eat it, we gotta mix the crouton dust into the egg using the small metal spoon beside. Both of us agreed that it would be better if there's one more asparagus though, one is too little. Still great though!

Traffic light chilled soup of ice tomato, smoked yellow capsicum & creamed cucumber

LOL with the looong menu names. I really like this chilled soup, mainly because I LOVE tomatoes, and I like chilled soups haha.

Seared Hokkaido Scallops with orange, wilted witlof & cauliflower puree

Please don't ask me what is "wilted witlof" coz I have no idea lol. I think the scallop is good though~ Peggie likes it too. The scallop is really fresh ^^.

 

Avruga Caviar cold pasta with Soy, mirin & White truffle oil

Paired with my Chardonnay~ The caviar tasted fine but I prefer the pasta to be less salty. This should be one of my least favourite dish among the entire deluxe degustation menu.

 

Pan-seared Red Pearl fish with salted cod brandade & tobikko buerre blanc

Peggie's 2nd entree. Couldn't comment much because I've forgotten the taste (only tried a bite), but should be nice.

Shredded Duck confit & leek fettucine

 

Peggie's main dish. She likes the duck confit a lot~ I prefer my pasta which is coming next.

Boston Lobster Spaghettini with Vermouth & Cognag Veloute

I really love this Lobster Pasta!! It has a really strong cognag flavor but still compliments well with the lobster. Great dish!!

 

Overall I enjoyed my Deluxe Degustation menu a lot, other than the caviar cold pasta which is a tad too salty for my preference. My chardonnay paired well with the caviar though, so I'm still very pleased.

 

Before our desserts were served, the owner of Bistro a Table - Ms Isadora Chai came by and asked if we would like to share our desserts because if we wanna share she would prefer two MindScrew (next dessert) sweets for us! How sweet and thoughtful! This really enhance our entire experience here and we had loads of fun with the taste play. Will come back to that later.

 

Mangosteen Pavlova with Chantilly cream & candied cucumber

Very interesting combination! I love mangosteen to begin with, and this pavlova wasn't overly sweet. Though I'm not really a pavlova fan, perhaps I have yet to meet one that I really like.

 

Next is the super interesting and FUN "MindScrew"!!!

The instructions lol. This may just win the most interesting food I've ever tried haha. Basically we were asked to try out the fruit dessert given to us first, and they were just tasteless. Like completely tasteless. Apparently they reduced out the sugar from the desserts.

And then, we were given this medicine looking lozenges, and were supposed to suck on it until it fully dissolves (make sure the whole tongue is coated). And after that....MIRACLE happens!!!! OMG. Everything just tasted sweet!! We were given pieces of super sour lemon (we tried it before taking the lozenges and it's EXTREMELY sour), and it tasted sweet and yummy after omg, just like those refreshing lemonade.

The two Lozenges and super sour lemon for us to play with.

 

This is the supposingly tasteless fruit desserts. After the lozenges, all the fruit flavors came out! And they all tasted really good! lol we were acting like little kids and were so amazed with the change in flavors. Apparently the lozenges has this berry that Ms Isadora found out from Africa, so she decided to use it in her dishes.

The happy us having fun~ The sweet effect lasted for around 3-4 hours so I suggested Peggie to come to this restaurant again with her boyfriend coz it'll be really romantic for them (imagine all kisses tasted sweet!) lol.

 

I seriously hope I could come back here again haiz...It has been my target to try out cool places and splurge once every month, but I'm having a serious problem with finding a food tasting partner who wouldn't mind to try everything with me sobs. My family is becoming rather stingy lately so it's hard for me to bring them around to share my food experience and excitement with them. Not to mention it's practically impossible to go to these kinda places alone.

 

Anyway! Am still eating fine, trying as much new places as I can with people who are kind enough to go with me ^^~ Thank you very much!!~ I think I've almost finish trying out 1 Utama and nearby places, left some at TTDI, Uptown and Damansara areas. Looking forward for more foods!