MOF & Shabu Shabu Train

I forgot to blog about the pre-birthday-dinner of Calvin’s!!! We went to Pavillion to collect his surprise and since it was still early, we went to MOF for something light because I was very hungry at that time. We shared this mango ice cream thingy with jelly a the bottom.

 

 

The mango ice cream was really good. The jelly at the bottom is some kind of healthy food where it actually benefits your health. I read it from the menu. I have no idea why do I love to read menu so much. Whenever we are in a restaurant, I will request for a menu to be left on our table after ordering. I just love to read what other food that they have and maybe plan for the next visit’s food, if they are really good. Hehe. I have been to this place before with TW previously where I comment their mango’s dessert has a stale taste, as in the fishy taste. I know it’s weird but I have a weakness in describing taste okay. Let’s not start with empty cupboard taste :p

Talking about ice cream, there’s this place in Berjaya Times Square call Shabu Shabu Train that serves Japanese and Shabu Shabu. We went there for dinner after work. It was raining that day, so the first thing that never fails that come to my mind will be steamboat. Hehe. I love steamboat very much, and it’s driving TW crazy because I always request for steamboat for my birthday dinner with the girls. Hahaha.

 

 

 

 

 

They have mini stoves on each table for the shabu shabu, which can be pushed to one side if you are not in the mood for shabu shabu. There are a few wagons on each side of the restaurant with plates of things that you can add on to your shabu shabu. The coloured plates represent the price of the food. They have everything, from processed fishballs to vegetables, noodle, egg, seafood and meat.

 

 

 

 

 

Our dinner for that night. I ordered the shabu shabu set with tom yam soup. Calvin ordered the chicken rice set which comes with California roll and ice cream.  The shabu shabu was okay but the sauces were not really good. The green chilli paste from Pulau Ketam will always be my number 1 sauce for steamboat. Hehe. Calvin said his chicken rice was okay but the rice was a little bit cold. The ice cream was quite good and I finished most of the ice cream myself. There goes my diet plan. Hehe *shy*

I am super hungry now, have to go buy/make my lunch. That’s all for now.

~BuHBaI~

Three Cup Chicken Restaurant

There’s this place called Three Cup Chicken just at Taman Muda. I love three cup chicken, especially the one from Taiwan because they will put this leaf which is absolutely fragrant. Me like :) We went home after work one day and realised that mom did not cook dinner. So I suggested this place since I know my parents will never eat at a restaurant that they have never been to and was not recommended by their friends. My only chance to try a stranger restaurant will be with Calvin :)

  This is Calvin, busy with his phone. Currently we are playing this game on our phone call Alchemy where we can combine materials into new things. It’s really interesting. They have 300 elements and so far we managed to unlock 285 elements. Hehe. Smart right? *evil laugh*

Our dinner for the night. Chicken floss and century egg with tofu, three cup chicken and green vegetable. The tofu combination tasted a little bit weird for me. The weird taste didn’t seemed to bother Calvin though, as he’s a big fan of tofu. Hehe. The three cup chicken was quite good. I think the leaves that I mentioned earlier are basil leaves. Now I know where to go if I want three cup chicken for dinner. Hehe. But I will not order the weird tofu again. Maybe something normal, like omelet or something. Haha.

~BuHBaI~

Korean big wok

I was craving this korean big wok one day. I forgot the name of the restaurant but it’s very near to the MRR2 and Ampang exit. Introduced by Pui See and fell in love with it on the first bite. It’s actually a really big flat wok in the middle of the table where the waiter will cook the food in front of you and once it’s done, they you can scoop out the food from the wok and eat it. Absolutely yummy and hot hot hot!

  First, we were served with this cold vineger drink as appetizer. It was quite sour so Calvin didn’t like it at all. Hehe.

 

I love their raw onion in some special sauce and served cold. I can’t stop nom-ing on them. Hehe. We did not touch the kimchi though because both of us don’t really like the taste. There was also a plate of vegetable for us to wrap our food with it and eat it together. Then there’s the korean sauce and raw garlic to go with all the wrap foodie :)

 

 

This is our waiter for the night. Hehe. Our food consist of nissin noodle (extra order), chicken, vegetable, korean “nin gou” and chilli paste. We can choose the level of spiciness of our food. Since this Calvin can’t take too spicy and I have been having upset stomach for the past few days, we ordered the normal one. Calvin absolutely love the food. Am glad that he enjoyed the meal because it means will be visiting this place again for the yummy food with Calvin. Wooohooooo. And my dear girls, please organize an outing at this place again okay :) Me likey…. very much :) Even Wai Kin, my ex-colleague love their food as well. I briefly introduced her to this place when we were having Korean food for lunch not long ago. It’s easy to tell her where the place is because we went out together for drinks at her friend’s place which is just 3 to 4 shop lots away. Hehe. She brought her friends to this place after I introduced it to her and she told me that she love the food very much. Hehe. Am so proud of myself. Haha. Okay, new rule. Whoever who wanted to try this place must bring me along okay :)

~BuHBaI~

The Pink Sage Relocation

Calvin do crave for American breakfast once in a while, but one day he said he wanted The Pink Sage. I was surprised by his request because I never thought he love that place as much as I do. I Google-ed about the location again since it has been a while since my last visit. Somehow, the results showed that the place has moved to Damansara area. I thought that it is another branch, so we went to the Chulan Square anyway. We were surprised to see a mamak stall at the place where The Pink Sage was supposed to be. I recalled seeing the word Solaris Dutamas in my search result earlier and thought it was at the Solaris in Mont Kiara. So we took the route where my sis used to take when she was working in Solaris Mont Kiara. We were really lucky because we passed by the real Solaris Dutamas and it is actually not the one in Mont Kiara. It’s very near to the Sri Hartamas housing area. We managed to find the place easily as it is facing the main road.

 

 

I prefer the current place because it is more spacious, unlike the previous place where they have less than 10 tables. They have indoor sofas and tables as well as outdoor tables for smokers. It is located on the first floor of Solaris Dutamas.

 

 

 

I ordered English Breakfast tea for myself and Calvin had iced coffee. He said that his coffee was really good. They gave us free drinking water in the cool looking bottle as well. Me like, especially after a meal of all those fat and sugar, it’s better to drink some plain water so calm the stomach down a little bit.

 

 

Calvin loved their stacked breakfast from the previous visit, so he ordered it again this time but with different sausage, bread and ham. The only thing that remained the same this time was the way the egg was cook. Sunny side up, with the yolk still raw. Hehe. I ordered pancake because I love their maple syrup very much. Besides, their pancake is really good as well. I drizzled a lot of maple syrup on my pancake and it was absolutely yummylicious :)

I have yet to try them out for lunch and dinner. From the menu, everything looks really yummy. Hehe. *hint hint to Calvin*

~BuHBaI~

Waterlily

I totally forgot about Waterlily, the place for our girls outing. Hehe. It was like one month ago when we visited Waterlily and I totally forgot to blog about it. Haihhh……. that is just another concrete proof of my aging process. Hehe.

Waterlily is located very near to the Tropicana Bungalows and Country Club. Since Mei Yee wanted something near to her house, this is the place that Hsiao Shin suggested that we could give it a try. We never tried Balinese food before as our girls outing dinner :)

I have made a table reservation for us because it was Puasa month and we were in a large group that time. So to avoid sitting separately, I called up the night before to make a table reservation. Me, Calvin and Jonny were the first 3 to arrive. So Calvin had the chance to walk around the restaurant and took some photographs for me.

 

 

 

 

The restaurant was decorated, well Balinese style. It felts like we were in Indonesia at that time and we’re in a very expensive restaurant with huge tables and chairs. Hehe. They have indoor and outdoor tables to cater for smoking and non-smoking customers. Our tables are on the first floor. I love their outdoor area where they have long bench and pillows. Suitable for girls talk/gossip. Haha.

   

Another place that I love is the toilet basin area. I asked Calvin to take a photo of that area because it was superbly decorated. I love the huge flower piece in the middle and the basins are really pretty. It gave me a new inspiration for my dream house. Hehe.

 

The food that we had that day. I ordered a salad and Calvin ordered the main course. The portion of the main course was really huge and we have to share our meal with Keng Fei, who was fortunately sitting just beside me. Haha. I have never try Balinese food before and I must say I quite like it. Maybe it’s because of most of their food are spicy and a little bit sour, perfect for me :) This place is recommended if you would like to try Balinese food and also to hang out with your friends, talk heart to heart over drinks, and catching up with each other busy life. Hehe.

After dinner, we went over to Mei Yee’s house for girls talk until around 4am in the morning. We talked everything, from our past, present and our future as well. I just love girls talk. But once the light is off, I dozed off and completely lost track of what the girls were talking at that time. Hehe.

~BuHBaI~

Calvin’s First Tony Romas

Me and Calvin seldom go to Pavillion because it’s really near our working place and the last thing that we want to do on our weekend will be going anywhere near our working area. Haha. But there were times when he would go to my office to pick me up from work and we would look for a place nearby to have our dinner and to wait for the traffic jam to subside before sending me home. Hehe.

I suggested Tony Romas to Calvin since he has never been to the place before as my “leuk” dinner to him.

 

The sauces that they have to go together with your meal. I suggested Calvin poured a little bit of each sauce before deciding which he wanted. Hehe. I guess he preferred the original sauce more.

Our complimentary bread with garlic butter as our appetiser. I missed the warm bread very much. Hehe.

 

Our refillable drinks. I ordered apple juice and he ordered orange juice. We did not ask for refill as because we were really stuffed at the end of our meal. If you take a look of our main course, you will know why. Hehe.

 

In order for Calvin to savours most of the Tony Romas specialty, I ordered chicken with ribs and he ordered the sirloin steak. It was also my first time trying their chicken, which was quite good. It was grilled with the BBQ sauce and the meat was really juicy. At first I just wanted a Caesar’s Salad for my *ahem*diet*ahem* but then I could not resist the temptation of meat from Tony Romas. Hehe. Their ribs were cooked until very soft and it doesn’t stick to the bone. Plus their fries was really good, Calvin finished almost all of my fries. Hehe. His sirloin steak was medium well. Quite soft and not too chewy. I loved the boiled broccoli (replacement of my Caesar’s Salad.. hehehe).

I’m glad that he enjoyed the meal. We went there on a Friday night and the restaurant was packed with customers. After dinner, we enjoyed our drinks will chatting our nights away. I just love the way we spend a Friday night. It’s always simple and slow with a recap of the week’s gossip over a nice meal like Tony Romas or just simple chinese cuisine like our favourite TTK Bak Kut Teh. Haha.

~BuHBaI~

Hong Kong Day 4 :(

This will be our last day in Hong Kong :( but our flight is in the evening so we roamed around aimlessly in Hong Kong in the morning and afternoon. Hehe.

We had the best breakfast in our history of life!!! I’m not a big fan of bread but I love what I ate for breakfast that day, which was bread and egg. Yummylicious betul!!!

 

We went to Australia Dairy Company for breakfast. I heard that their breakfast is very good and they have eggs cook in all sorts of way. Calvin is a big fan of half boiled egg and he prefers his fried egg with raw egg yolk. So we went to this place for breakfast. We have to queue up to get a place but we did not wait long in the queue. More like 2 minutes and we were instructed by the waiter to follow him. As usual, we have to share a table with a lady. But once my ass hit the stool, the waiter straight away asked us “Want to eat what ah???”. I was shocked and ordered the breakfast set. Luckily I surveyed about what each restaurant’s specialty before visiting the place to ensure that if their waiters are very pushy, I will know what to order. Haha. I ordered the breakfast set and also and ala carte scrambled egg with toast. The soup macaroni was a big no no because it’s extremely salty and I don’t like macaroni. Calvin’s had the fried egg and bread. He said it was really good. But the best of the best would be my toast bread with scrambled egg and a slice of ham. It’s super duper yummy. I took the first bite and I can’t help but smile. Hehe. Calvin’s reaction was like from o_o to O_O. Haha. I enjoyed the breakfast very much, food wise. But then it’s quite stressful eating in the restaurant because it’s always full of people and the waiters were walking around the restaurant really fast with the hot beverages and food. Besides that, the waiter would instruct customer to stand behind us and said “They are going to finish soon, you can have their seats once they left”. I was like…. omg omg omg. Eat faster, eat faster!! Haha. I don’t like the feeling of people standing behind me, staring me from behind while I’m eating. It’s just really stressful. Hehe.

After breakfast, we went to the Avenue of Stars but it was raining lightly, so I didn’t take any photos with the camera. I was too busy holding the umbrella for Calvin as he took photographs with his camera :) We headed back to Yau Ma Tei for lunch. I forgot to survey about lunch near hotel so we just randomly pick a restaurant with air conditioner. There’s this restaurant just next to Ocean Empire Food that is like char chan teng. The name of the Restaurant is Delicious Cafe. Hehe.

 

This restaurant’s specialty is Hainanese Chicken Rice. When Calvin  told me that they have Boneless Hainanese Chicken Rice, I said, “Okay, I’ll have that”. I can’t say no to boneless, chicken and rice. Haha. It turns out to be as good as the one that we have in Malaysia but the chicken is a little bit over-fat. Haha. Calvin ordered Indian Curry with Pork Chop. He said the pork chop was really good but the curry was not nice at all. He said that it has very strong spices flavour to it. Hehe. As usual, their tea with lemon never fail me. I just wish that the ice lemon tea in Malaysia would be as good as theirs. Hehe.

 

We went back to our hotel to collect our luggage and took the Airport Express to the airport. It’s quite fast and comfortable travelling through the Airport Express. The train directly stop inside of the airport. Once you got off the train, there will be trolleys arranged nicely for you to put your luggages. But just make sure you know where is the check in counter for your airline because they have Terminal 1 and Terminal 2.

While I’m waiting for check in, Calvin went to return the MTR ticket to get the HKD50 refund back for each card. After passing through the custom and security, I suddenly felt like eating McD but there was no McD in the airport. So, we choose Starbucks instead.

 

We shared a Caesar's Salad, orange juice and …. I forgot what that thing is because it was for Calvin. Haha. After the light meal, we board our plane on time. We had our dinner on the plane as we have pre book our meals online when we purchased our tickets.

 

 

I ordered Nasi Briyani and Calvin had Nasi Lemak. I just love eating flight food. I have no idea why. Maybe it’s because MAS has this big tray of food ranging from appetizer to dessert, all on the same tray that you can enjoy from your seat. Haha. Anyway, my nasi briyani and his nasi lemak was just average. I bought a Ribena for myself this time. Hehe. The flight back to KL was shorter than to Hong Kong because we arrived 30 minutes earlier than scheduled. Hehe. Speeding pilot eh :)

That’s all for my Hong Kong trip. Had fun trying out all of the yummy food and visiting their malls. I think Hong Kong is a really fast paced city because everyone was like walking really fast all around the city, including aunties and uncles. Even their escalators are faster than ours. You can find Sasa, 7-11, Bonjour, Maxim and Hui Lau Shan almost everywhere in Hong Kong. I love their MTR system because it’s all linked up nicely and interchange stations are just walking distance away. Furthermore, most of their MTR stations are underground, so you don’t have to worry travelling around when it’s raining.

All I can say about Hong Kong are convenient, fast and yummy food. Haha.

~BuHBaI~