Rama V

Rama V is a Thai restaurant near to the US Embassy which me and Calvin visited for Thai food. Read a few good reviews about this place and had a tough time locating this place. Since I was being really mysterious and secretive about this place, we ended up at the end of the road in a really rich kampung rich where the houses are nearly the size of those in Tropicana. Hehe. We were lucky that day as Citibank cardholder enjoy 20% discounts

 

The entrance of the restaurant. It is actually on a bungalow lot where there are plenty of parking spaces. The whole restaurant was decorated really Thai-ish and expensive.

 

Our candle light dinner in a Thai restaurant.

 

The interior of the restaurant. It’s exactly like those expensive western restaurant. I have never been to a place as expensive as this for Thai food. Ohh yeah, I have been. Will blog about it soon :) But this place is really good as well.

 

They have out door individual small huts for more privacy as well. I am not really an outdoor person especially at night where they will be plenty of mosquitoes. Hehe. But it is really pretty out there.

 

We order one set meal for 1 person and additional food to share it between the 2 of us since the both of us were not that hungry that day. The dinner set was absolutely yummy. Hehe. Me like. From appetizer to dessert :)

 

Our appetizer. Chicken cooked in some sweet sauce, served together with rice crackers. Absolutely yummy. The chicken is a little bit too sweet, so eating it together with the rice crackers is a must. Both me and Calvin love this.

 

This will be stir fried egg with basil leaves and chilli. Spicy but yummy as well. Even Calvin who don’t really fancy sour food love this as well. Hehe.

 

Our seafood tomyum. Really good. Not too spicy or too sour. The seafood ingredients were quite fresh as well. They gave us a lot of coriander leaves which made me really happy. Hehe.

 

The rest of the food. Pandan chicken our side order and it’s really yummy. I don’t really know how to describe the yummi-ness of the chicken but it is really yummy. Trust me in this please. Hehe. Green chicken curry was really yummy as well. It may be a little sweet but not really spicy. The black pepper fish was not really good. It is exactly like fried fish fillet with black pepper sauce. Hehe.

 

Our dessert. Sweet and cold. I finished the whole thing myself. Haha. I don’t really know what it is called but then the combination was absolutely yummy. Hehe.

In short, I really love this place because of the ambience and food. They have other selection of dessert as well. Some look really good. But then we were really full so will leave it for the next visit. Yes, will be back again!! Wooohoooo~~

 

~BuHBaI~

Room 18 Again :)

Room 18 is one of the place that serves really good chinese food. At least better than Canton Bay. Haha. Their outlet in Mid Valley is always full with people. They have an outlet in Times Square as well. So me and Calvin went there for dinner after work one day. 

 

The free Malay kueh that they gave us. I think it tasted kind of like those kueh that is red, white and pink colour that was used for praying purposes. “Fatt Kou”.

They have set meals again. I kind of like set meals nowadays where the 2 of us can share our food and we get to try varieties of yummies. Besides that, we don’t have to crack out head to choose what we want to eat. Just have to choose from the selected choices given :p

 

What attracted us the most in the set meal was we get to choose roasted items that we want. I’m always a big fan of duck so we ordered roast duck. It may be a little bit dry and cold but not bad either. Still acceptable.

 

Our wantan soup where the soup was absolutely sweet. Haha.

 

Our spinach soup with century egg and tiny fishes. Haha. I have no idea what it is called in english. I would love this more if it was served hot.

 

When there is Calvin, tauhu is a must because he loves tauhu. I love this dish as well because it was served hot. I love white and Japanese tauhu only. Hehe. But he, he loves all kind of tauhu. As long as it is tauhu. Hehe.

Overall, Room 18 is one of those chinese restaurant that I really love. The roast duck and meat are fast selling items. The first time I went to the Mid Valley outlet for dinner, all of the roast items were sold out. Luckily managed to try the duck this time. Hehe.

~BuHBaI~

Muse – The Place of Large Pizza

Muse is a pub/bar/restaurant located at Jaya One near Brussel and Kissaten. I thought it’s a pub/bar but have no idea that it’s a restaurant as well. Since I have training every Thursday, I asked Calvin for dinner at that place.

 

Poor thing. He waited in the restaurant for 1.5 hour because my training ended really late. Being the most understanding bf, he kept on assuring me that it’s okay when I would not stop apologizing. Hehe. Thank you dear. He even smiled Mashimaro style for my camera when I told him I need a photograph of him. Hehe.

 

Love the menu cover. Really artistic. Hehe.

 

It’s a little bit dark inside, so have to turn on my camera’s flash. Our drinks. No prizes in guessing what drink that I ordered :p

 

This is our large pizza. And by saying large, it is actually nearly the size of our table. When we asked the waitress how big is the pizza, she made the hand gesture that the pizza is nearly the same size as pizza hut’s medium pizza. But when they brought us the plate with pizza, it left us speechless. The plate is really big. We ordered the 4 seasons pizza. It has seafood, lamb, chicken and beef on it. I personally love the seafood pizza while Calvin prefer the lamb pizza. We were unable to finish the gigantic pizza. I think the pizza was meant for sharing with 3 to 4 people. Haha. Luckily it is quite good. Else, I would have demanded the waitress to bring it back and bring the smaller one because it is totally different from what she described. Hehe.

~BuHBaI~

Nambawan is my Number 1 place for western pork :)

I have this habit reading news from The Star Online every morning in the office before starting work. At least I will be updated with the current and biggest news here and around the world. I will click to Kuali page once every week to read about the food review. I even tried those being reviewed on the site with Calvin on several occasion. Most of it are really good.

Nambawan is one of the restaurant being reviewed. What attracted me most about this place was it serves pork. It’s kind of hard to find pork being served in western style. I told Calvin about this place and decided to check this place out before sending me home. It is located in Taman Sri Manja, somewhere near Sunway and Old Klang Road. I have been to that area before for Sathiya baby’s full moon.

 

I have to read the name of the restaurant several times before realising the resemblance of the name with Number 1. Hehe. They have several porky dishes. Both of us were still quite full that day and decided to order the one that sounded the best.

 

We ordered Charbroiled Pork Belly. Pork belly has to be the most moist meat for the whole piggy as it has fat contents. Hehe. We did not regret out choice because it’s really good. The pork went well with their gravy. Their potatoes were really good as well. Really happy with this dish.

But if we were to visit the place again, we will go at night because it’s really hot inside of the restaurant. I think they did not turn on the air conditioner that day but the pork belly compensated the discomfort. Hehe.

~BuHBaI~ 

Vietnam Kitchen

Vietnam Kitchen is my favourite place for Vietnamese food except for beef noodle cause the one in Australia is still the best ever!! So when me and Calvin went to Leisure Mall the other day, I suggested this place over Wong Kok as it has been ages since I last dine there.

They have set meals now which are suitable for 2 to 3 person, 3 to 4 person and etc. I guess will have to introduce the lemon grass chicken rice to Calvin next time. I personally have not tasted any ala carte items on the restaurant. Usually will go for the dry beef noodle or some other rice dish.

 

We choose the set meal for 2 to 3 persons. Everything were really good. The one that was least nice would be the pork. Maybe it’s a little too sweet for me. The taufoo with minced meat went well together with white rice. Sweet and sour chicken was amazing. Me like. The garlic taugeh was not bad either. Overall, it’s a good dinner there. Will be back for the lemon grass chicken really soon :p

2 not good steamboat within 1 month :(

Steamboat has always been my favourite of all time. My dream steamboat combination will be Ho Ho’s steamboat fresh ingredient, Coco Hot Pot’s pork bone soup and friend yam with Pulau Ketam Steamboat’s green chilli. Wooohooooo!!! That will be my ultimate steamboat meal :)

Tried 2 different steamboat restaurant over the month and it’s not good at all.

First one will be Hotpot Garden Restaurant. It’s a newly opened shop at the new shops facing the road near the 2nd roundabout at Taman Muda.

 

They have a few sets where the seafood and special sets are more expensive than the normal one. We ordered the normal one cause by the volume of customers they have, I highly doubt that their ingredients will be very fresh. It is not worth paying the a big sum for not fresh seafood right? I did not regret my decision as the items are not very fresh at all. They don’t have much varieties of steamboat items though.

 

Feeling a little bit hungry, I ordered fried chicken wings. It was just normal.

The chilli that they have is the watery green chilli in sweet and sour sauce. It’s the same chilli that can be found at the Teochew Braised Duck restaurant near Leisure Mall. Seriously, I cannot find any better chilli than the green chilli at Pulau Ketam Steamboat. Wuu wuu wuu.

 

The next not good steamboat restaurant will be Potluck Restaurant at Sunway Giza.

 

Giza Mall is a newly opened mall that looks like Clarke Quay in Singapore. But it is filled by mostly restaurant instead of clubs and pubs. Hehe. Read about this in one of the food magazine and decided to give it a try.

I don’t really like this place is because….

Their sauces don’t go well with the steamboat items. Most of them are over spicy even if you take them in small amount. I can hardly taste the fishball or meat ball after that. Besides that, their waitress are very forgetful. When they brought us the bowls and chopsticks, they didn’t brought along the steel ladle (with and without holes) for us to take out steamboat items. So I asked them to bring 2 pairs for us a few times but still no show. I gave up and just used what they gave me for the entire meal.

 

Their style is individual hot pot on the side at each seat. In the restaurant, there will be a conveyor belt with steamboat items on it. We choose to sit outside because it is more windy outside compared to the stuffy inside even though it’s air conditioned. Calvin choose the ginseng soup while I ordered tomyam soup. The only good about this restaurant will be the ginseng soup as it’s really yummy. The tomyam soup was very sour.

 

 

We ordered the set for 2 person. The items came in those old chinese basket where the upper portion were filled with processed meats and others while the lower portion were filled with beehun, abalone mushroom and tauhoo. The fishballs were very stale that we did not finish them. I would still prefer steamboat with yee mee though.

Seriously, I think the boss really need to reduce the spiciness of their sauce cause it’s really too spicy. If you make it too spicy, people will just take a plate of it and eat very little of it. Such as waste. I really hope to go again but if there is no changes in the sauce, I really won’t go there anymore. Not to mention the prices are much higher than the one outside. If the food is good, I don’t mind paying. But with such quality, I’m afraid that it will be difficult for me to go there again.

~BuHBaI~

Girls gathering at The Havens

I suggested for a girls gathering few weeks ago as I missed them so much and it will be the first time for two new male member to join our gang :) Suggested The Havens at Look Out Point as it we can enjoy the scenery while chatting the nights away. The last time I was the, the food was really good.

Me and Calvin with Tsuey Wenn reached there quite on time and waited for 1 hour plus for the vain ones to arrive. All ended up reaching late. Tsk tsk tsk. International time betul. Haha.

Their menu has changed. Totally different from my first visit there. They have taken out some of the food from the previous menu. The current one is much simpler. Deciding what to eat is still the most challenging thing ever. Wanted to try nearly everything, I asked Calvin to choose one food for me and not telling me what it is. I will just eat whatever that is served in front of me. When he was placing order that time, I just closed my ears. Haha.

 

In the end, Calvin ordered Surf and Turf for me which is lamb and prawns. The lamb was quite good. But the prawns were not really fresh. I am quite unlucky with prawns nowadays even though they are one of my favourite dish. I always get the not fresh one :(

 

Vince’s salmon which is quite good. Presentation was really beautiful especially when the grill lines are very visible on the meat. Love this very much on the first bite. Hehe.

 

A lot of people ordered this. Taste wise, so-so only. Normal chicken chop la… haha.

 

This is the nasi lemak which I did not taste. Not in the mood for rice that day but the sambal looks really good here. Hehe. But the if they give me fried egg, I won’t be too happy. I prefer hard boiled egg :)

 

Grilled chicken with sausage was really dried. I don’t really like black pepper sauce cause it is always inconsistent in taste at different place. Since it’s quite dry, I don’t really like this dish.

 

This is the huge pizza that Deane and Pui See ordered. I forgot how it tasted like but should but so-so only. Or else, I would have remember if it’s really good or really bad. Hehe.

Overall, this place is so-so only after they have changed the menu. I still prefer my stingray rice on my last visit there. Absolutely yummy. But then it’s a better place to hang out compared to Gasoline cause their food really sucks to the max.

 

~BuHBaI~