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the next post here is a hotpot place in kuala lumpur. xiao fei yang can be directly translated into english as little fat lamb and is apparently quite popular in china and hong kong! so how did the kl branch fare?

the restaurant is located close to berjaya times square. i estimate that it is about 5 mins walk from the shopping centre (and therefore the monorail station). again a common theme with the restaurants we go there in kl, they are located in scary neighbourhoods. it’s okay if you drive over and park close to the place, but if you walk over you might meet some scary people. the place itself is located in an old looking building.

when we arrived we were given some interesting looking fruit which none of us are game to try. i reckon it’s a type of citrus fruit bowls and cutleries are hygienically presented, shrink wrapped in clear plastic. we were also given three complimentary sauces (satay, chilli oil and other both of us cannot recall.

we opted for the herbal soup (rm 20). the soup was very yummy and set a delicious base for all our dishes. you can also pick the hot and spicy option or the combination soup option.

we ordered:

gluten balls (rm 4) and fried bean curd skin (rm 5)

us beef tendon (rm 18), which is actually just sliced beef

fei yang noodle (rm 6) and lotus root slice (rm 7)

buck choy (rm ?), crab sticks (rm 6) and chicken sausage with cheese (rm 10)

all up, including soft drinks, set us back a cool rm 120, which is pricey by malaysian standards. indeed, it’s about aud 40. the food was very good, but was accompanied by a high price tag, and i believe you can do better elsewhere with the money.

hi all,

this is the second of the malaysian posts! we went to sunway lagoon during the morning. i highly recommend that you visit sunway lagoon if you go over to kl, it’s closer than genting highlands, and it has quite a wide variety of rides, even a man-made beach and sea! after the trip we went shopping at sunway pyramid located just beside sunway lagoon, and had dinner at this place called fullhouse lifestyle store and cafe, which from now onwards shall be called fullhouse cafe just because i am lazy!

the interior of the store was very pretty. see the pretty tables and chairs! there was mini store selling apparel too, but we didn’t go there.

likewise, the menu is cute! it has lots of pretty pics so you know what you’re ordering!

we started off our order with some drinks. c ordered the jasmine green tea (rm 6.90) while i ordered watermelon juice (rm 5.90). she seemed to like it, mine was excellent and sweet! a good thirst quencher in such a hot country.

for starters we ordered onion ring (rm 8.90) and korean chicken wing (rm 8.90). the onion ring was quite standard, crunchy and delicious. the korean chicken wing, on the other hand, was not as good. there was no photo of it in the menu, so we were pretty surprised that it wasn’t golden and crunchy. it was covered in some sweet and sticky sauce and was not crunchy at all. thumbs down for the korean chicken wing.

on to the mains! c ordered the rome salad with beef bacon (rm 17.90). she didn’t have much complaints about it, so it must be clean as c picks out every soil/bug/rotten leaf in her salad. my salmon fillet (rm 34.90) was alright, but was nothing to shout about.

both of us were pretty full then, so we ordered one dessert to share: green tea tiramisu (rm 15.90). green tea is c’s favourite flavour for almost everything: yoghurt, ice cream, soup, etc so she had nothing but praises for it!

fullhouse cafe has a nice theme and environment, but could be so much more. food and service were alright and the prices are quite expensive by malaysian standards. getting to sunway pyramid can be difficult, we took the rapidkl bus service from central station. first timers and those who do not gamble should just get a cab.

we’ve just returned from malaysia, having eaten a lot there we certainly have quite a few posts to publish! here’s the first one, a nice restaurant called twentyone kitchen + bar which is located on cangkat bukit bintang, kl. it’s about 5 minutes walk from the shopping malls such as pavillion, however looking for it proved to be a bit of a challenge; we took a long time looking for it!

the interior was nicely decorated and the seats were comfy!

c ordered a glass of coke! i should also note that all alcohol is  buy one get one free during dinner time as it’s considered happy hour, so get a  good deal on alcohol! unfortunately c isn’t big on alcohol and i didnt think i can stomach 2 beers.

we started off with free bread with dips, olive oil and some crunchy herbs/nuts which c reckoned is dukkah. the bread didn’t really do it for me, but c liked it with the herbs/nuts dip.

our entree for the night was the popcorn chicken with lime wedges and garlic aioli drip. this dish was omg so amazing. the chicken was nice and crispy, tasty, and tasted so good with the garlic aioli. you have to order this when you go over. you have to.

c ordered a caeser salad with beef bacon, grilled chicken and egg. the egg was too uncooked for someone who only eats fully cooked yolks so i got the egg from her. the beef bacon tasted almost exactly like bacon. the portion is fairly generous and tasted pretty good!

i on the other hand am a meat eater so ordered a steak and chips with bearnaise sauce and garlic rosemary jus. the steak was ordered medium and came as medium, and was a good juicy steak. the highlight of this dish is the chips, however. stacked prettily, golden and crunchy it’s one of the best chips i’ve had in my life.

for dessert we had chocolate molten with ice cream and white chocolate foam. the dessert was pretty fun, when we broke off the outer crust, molten chocolate flowed out like lava. and who doesn’t like ice cream and chocolate?

we left full and satisfied, service was beyond excellent. my only problem? location, we have to walk through a scary neighbourhood to get there!

my friends and i came up with this rather remarkable idea to have lunch at the diggers club, mayfield on the train to sydney last weekend. since tuesday is cheap for members (only $10.90 for all you can eat!) we wanted to give it a go, and we did so yesterday during lunch. membership costs $5 for a “year”, as turns out the year ends on 31 december of the year so really if you join at in say, december, your membership is only for a month. anyhow, non members pay $15.50 so you kind of make your money back on the first visit.

the dining area is rather big. according to their website, it seats 400 people. as you would imagine, there are plenty of patrons on tuesday when we went.

there was a wide variety of food, actually a wider variety compared to grace hotel i went to recently. being lunch, the seafood options are very limited, but i was told that there are prawns and oysters for dinner, which is understandably pricier. the buffet was divided into several sections:

roasts

salad

deep frieds

western

dessert

and asian food, which i do not have an sharp photo of; 2 of the photos i took were blurry, as i was trying to juggle a camera and a plate of food at the same time =D

the chocolate fondue, soft serve machine and coffee machine is rather hidden in the corner, so you do have to walk around a bit to find it. there are marshmallows too, so my friend dipped his marshmallows in the fondue before placing it in his bowl. here’s also a pic of the soft serve dish my friend whipped up for himself.

my personal picks from the buffet are the chicken with pesto, deep fried tuna bake, char siew, prawn crackers and malaysian chicken. soups are also available in three flavours, chicken and corn, seafood and pumpkin (this one i cannot remember).

the buffet was excellent, and definitely value for money; become a member to enjoy $10.90 tuesdays!

when we went to nelson bay in december 2012, we stayed there for 3 nights and ate out twice. both at this place oddly named bays more then a chook! bays more then a chook is located in the small town centre about 10 minutes walk from where we were staying at oaks lure. it’s a small chicken takeaway shop, with a few beef burgers and gravy on the menu. i believe they do have the obligatory salad as well, but that wasn’t something we ordered; in fact, both times, we ordered the whopper, which is a beef burger, and a quarter chicken with chips with a coke. the second time we got a takeaway, and bought an extra gravy with it.

the whopper itself is an amazing burger. it’s got a piece of steak in it with lettuce and sesame bun. its way better than its hungry jacks counterpart, and i believe that it costed us under $10. see the large featured image for a view of this burger.

the chicken, on the other hand, is your standard roast chicken. chips were good, but again most chips are very good (for the record, i do love hungry jack’s chips). the gravy, however, was rather bland, and i would skip the gravy if and when we go there again.

port stephens is a lovely place to visit for a couple of nights; we went fishing and quad biking and dolphin watching! the beaches are nice, oaks lure is also a good place to stay at if you’re visiting. if you like in nsw and haven’t been there, you should, as there is a direct bus service from newcastle, or it’s even close enough to drive over from sydney!

hi all 🙂

a few weeks ago, fiance and i went to the meeting point for the second time with a voucher. the voucher gives us 1 mixed entree sample or deep fried soft tofu with sweet chilli sauce, 2 shabushabu hotpots or 1 spicy dry pot. 1 fried rice with pork or prawns and 2 berverages. we went with the deep fried soft tofu with sweet chilli sauce, the spicy dry pot and the pork fried rice with red wine and a diet coke. the night we went was a particularly cold night, perfect for spicy food. we were seated upstairs where you can look down and see the mini stage. there was a group of about 4 people playing different genres of music including one of my favourite jazz song “fly me to the moon”. we really liked where we were seated.

after a bit of chit chat, we then proceeded to order. the first to come was the deep fried soft tofu with sweet chilli sauce. it came pretty quickly and we were starving by the time it came! the deep fried tofu were very thin and cripsy and soft in the inside. it was moderately spicy for me and by the time i finished, i was a little suprised by how full i was getting! not a good sign seeing as that was just entree…

we found the pork fried rice a little oily. it was nothing too special but looked very pretty! we would later realise that the pork fried rice would come in handy to cool us down while we ate the dry pot…

for the dry pot, we were first asked to choose the level of spiciness (mild, hot or super hot) and then five different types of meat, seafood and vegetables. we ordered mild with stuffed fish ball, pork belly, beef, lotus root and “yang cheun” noodles. when it came, we were amazed by the amount of chillies we saw! almost one third of the dry pot dish consisted of red and green chillies. i was really excited about the lotus roots because i had a craving for it a couple of days before going to the meeting point. what i liked best about the dry pot was the pork belly, stuffed fish balls and the noodles. unfortunately, the dry pot was WAY too spicy for both of us so we could barely taste the actual flavour (although when we did, it was pretty awesome). we kept drinking water and stuffing ourselves with the fried rice to cool our mouths down. my fiance was sure they got our order wrong and gave us the super hot one. we never did find out!

maybe we just can’t handle spicy food like taiwanese people. we ended up taking away about half the dry pot and fried rice. we later realised that the dry pot had A LOT of chilli oil at the bottom. overall, we really liked the food and the ambience of the place. however, as i pointed out about a million times, the dry pot was too spicy for us and the food was generally a bit too oily. though having said that, i would definiately go there again!

 

hi 🙂

so it was mother’s last sunday! although we didn’t have wagyu, we did have a nice japanese dinner out in belmore. i also bought a green tea cake for my mum from breadtop in strathfield. we were initially going to buy it from “hello happy” in strathfield but they were being ridiculous and didn’t let my fiance take a photo of their cakes so i can choose one (i hurt my leg so i stayed at home while he went out to buy stuff). oh well, it’s their loss!

the green tea cake we chose from breadtop (they call it the green tea gateau) was awesome. it costs $32 and it’s about 8 inches in diameter. my mum and the rest of us really liked it. it wasn’t overly sweet and creamy. here are some photos.

this was actually entree for us because we went out to sushi bluefin right after the cake. it probably wasn’t a good idea seeing as we ordered way too much at sushi bluefin! we have been to sushi bluefin a couple of times before this. i remember we went there last year for mother’s day as well! first up were the oysters and some kind of spicy octopus salad. neither of us tried the oyster but my mum said it was very sweet and fresh. fiance liked the octopus salad but it was a little too spicy.

next up was the chicken katsu. it was alright. crispy and generously covered with panko. it wasn’t anything special but it’s always a good dish to have. it came with a serving of tonkatsu sauce though fiance did not know that…

the tempura we ordered came with prawns and a variety of vegetables including potato, sweet potato and zucchini. we had initally wanted to order the tempura separately but the waiter said it’s better to order the mixed tempura platter. i thought the tempura was average. the potato and sweet potato wasn’t as crispy as i had expected it to be but fiance liked his tempura prawns very much.

some of the sides which comes with the sushi and sashimi platters came next. one of the favourite things i like about sushi bluefin is their cheesy baked scallop with rice and possibly onions. as usual, since i’m not a fan of most seafood, i gave my bit of scallop to fiance and devoured the cheesy rice. i had a couple of the tuna sushi rolls which were simple but nice. we were also given complimentary fried salmon belly, something they do everytime we have visited. my mum and dad loves it but we both found it too bony. it was the first time i tried it so i guess next time, i’ll leave it to my parents!

finally, we are getting to the sushi and sashimi. the sashimi platter came first. we were a little suprised by the fish in the centre because they have never served us that type of fish before. fiance thought the fish was alright but my parents, again, loved it and found it special. other than that, fiance loved the rest of the sashimi and especially the salmon. the layout of the sashimi platter was wonderful as usual. by the time the sushi platter came, we were almost full. the sushi were neatly lined up and my first thought was to try the seared fish sushi on the far left end since i don’t eat raw fish. it was almost like salmon but the texture of the fish was a little different. the salmon fat looked so beautiful but it’s too bad we didn’t eat much of it at all. we ended up taking away more than half of the sushi platter.

the staff were friendly (as usual) and helpful. one of the waiters helped us pack the sushi into a nice round takeaway container. one thing i regret is not asking for the names of the sword fish like fish and the name of the seared fish sushi i had. i’m glad we went to sushi bluefin that night as they have never disappointed us. i wonder when we’ll go there again..

this is the fiance’s post! here i present yass buffet at strathfield,  which we went sometime in December 2012! the part that attracted us was the cheap lunch buffet; however, upon calling, we found out that there is no wagyu for lunch (yes we love our wagyu!) and hence we booked a dinner buffet instead. the place is quite close to strathfield station, so it was a quick walk to the restaurant.

first impression, clean and nice, plenty of good. the good lady assured me that there is no time limit, so we can take it easy. the service is good, grills are changed frequently (and they do get dirty quite quickly!) and food is yummy. i personally loved the wagyu, and both of us ate a lot of it! here are some photos of the wagyu taken pre-cooked and during cooking:

a close up of the octopi we had:

c enjoyed cooking octopus so she did that; i just ate them!

some other dishes of the night including prawn tempura, sushi, japcheh and honey chicken. there was also soup and rice, but we didnt have much of that. i think we did have ice cream for dessert, but that was so long ago and we don’t have any photos of that.

the buffet was yummy, price was reasonable at $30 per head, all in all a good night!

hi 🙂

so as promised, i’m updating this blog as much as i can!

i’ve wanted to write about ben’s thai for a long time already so i’ve decided to finally dedicate a post to their awesomeness. my fiance and i have shared a lot of memories at ben’s thai, we’ve been there many times both before and after we started dating. the first time my fiance went, the lunch menu was only $6! now, i believe it has gone up to about $8 (which is still unbelievably cheap). every time we go, he would order 101 (deep friend chicken) with fried rice for an extra $2 (i think). i would almost always order the lard na with beef (gravy soup flat rice noodles with beef).

the lard na is served boiling hot – so hot that it is still bubbling. i always manage to burn my mouth when i eat it but it’s worth it! with winter coming up, i can’t wait to have it again!

i always end up eating at least a quarter of my fiance’s meal… but of course i’d let him eat some of mine as well. ben’s fried rice is amazing. it is quite oily but the veggies that come along with it cancels out the fattyness. right? haha!

i’ve also tried the pad see ew and the sukiyaki. even though they are both amazing, i just keep going back to lard na. though maybe next time, i’ll have the sukiyaki again… *drools* we both can’t wait to go back to ben’s for a cheap and satisfying meal again!

c