... as usual, I'll ask for both benta kaya and gula melaka for my homemade dumpling.
Rating: 4.5/10
I don’t have any appetite today, so I’ve only ordered homemade dumplings for lunch. My homemade dumplings came very late cause the waitress didn’t not place my order, despite I made it clear to her that I wanted both benta kaya and brown sugar as condiments. The taste was pretty much the same as the last time I had it.
Location: N3 04.461 E101 35.191
... polo bun, looking similar to a pineapple.
... mushroom garlic bread, costing RM2.20 each. A bit steep.
... Japanese chiffon cake, taste pretty good.
Rating: 6.5/10
I liked their chiffon cake quite a lot. Previously, I’ve tried both the vanilla chiffon and Japanese chiffon cake. This time, I bought the Japanese chiffon cake again. Though they tasted quite similar, but Japanese chiffon has larger pores in it. They are very soft and plushy, very nice indeed. Unfortunately though, the polo bun wasn’t that nice. And the mushroom onion bread was a bit too costly.
... the last piece of Mango Delight in the counter. Yes, it was leftover from yesterday.
... ALGJ's set lunch, chicken in tomato sauce, if I'm not mistaken.
... the aptly named flavoured latte. I went with hazelnut syrup.
Rating: 4/10
My Mango Delight cake was a mess when it was delivered to me. Instead of standing by itself, it was laid down sleeping like a lazy pig. What a way to serve your patron their precious slice cake! I had to flip it up to take photo of it, though the cake looked like it was just gutted by a robber. My latte was nothing to complain about, but for RM7.50 each, I prefer something more tasty.
ALGJ’s chicken set looks nice though, especially that sauce. I might have guessed it wrongly, it could’ve been sweet and sour sauce. Unfortunately, she was super hungry today as she cleaned the whole plate, without any leftover for me to try.
Location: N3 05.692 E101 35.231
... aglio olio pasta.
Rating: 0/10
This aglio olio linguine was very spicy and yet it was tasteless. Not salted at all. I was expecting it to be soak in olive oil with plenty of garlic, unfortunately, it was soaked in spicy oil. The only tasteful stuff were those beef bacons. Fortunately, the Extreme Latte was still nice. At least it was nicer than The Ultimate Extreme Mocha from Coffee Bean that I had last night, which was practically tasteless and lacked of coffee fragrance.
... Shihlin's boneless fried chicken.
Rating: 5/10
A new outlet of Shihlin opened in IOI Mall’s new wing. AT spotted it from where she sat. If I knew Shihlin was there, I would’ve had it for dinner as I was thinking of having it before looking for EL & AT, but time wouldn’t permit. Perhaps next time I’ll have dinner there instead.
... lamb on left, chicken on right.
... fried chicken.
... fried fish eggs and squids
... fish cutlets.
... rice on banana leaf with limitless papadam.
... according to MSF, these were fried bittergourd. Though they weren't bitter at all.
Rating: 6/10
The place was packed with crowds. The people keep coming and going, throughout lunch hours. MSF told us that they don’t use MSG in their food, hence the mildly flavoured gravies and stuff. The lamb was like quite normal, though the curry chicken was nice and tender. The fried chicken was disappointing. Fried fish egg was something new to me, though I don’t really like it. As for my favourite fried squids, it was pretty… tastely. Not salted at all.
The bill came up to RM80 for the 4 of us. Seems pretty steep for the amount of food served.
Location: N3 06.099 E101 39.226
... sandwich fo the day, Saturday Dreamer.
Rating: 6/10
My bread was toasted till crisp. Hence the darkened colour of the surface. It has seafood and crab sticks laden with mayonnaise.
This post was made specially for EL because he said I didn’t “eat enough” of Subway’s because I said I’d frequent it more often. The fact was, I ate enough but I didn’t post them up as I didn’t take any photos.
Location: N3 04.546 E101 35.433
Went for Ice Monster for some desserts before we left the place. I was telling him that the mango ice-cream here was superb, tasted like like a real mango. So AC was tempted to try it out.
... mango flavoured ice-cream on the front and passion fruits flavoured ice-cream on the back.
Rating: 5.5/10
The mango ice-cream was indeed very mango-ish. There were even fibres in the ice-cream itself. Though I wonder how’s the mango sorbet would be like. AC had the passion fruits. Which was a tad sourish and very sweet. Tasted more like syrup ice-cream than authentic passion fruits ice-cream. I guess the one from Haagen Dazs was just so much better.
Today I celebrate PCL’s belated birthday. Brought her to Sunway Pyramid for some shrimpy actions. We came here once long long ago, which I didn’t not blog about. And back then, it was newly opened and do not accepts credit cards. Which surprised both of us. Past experience told us that, this place has some really nice tasting shrimps, not because they were very fresh, but the preparation method was excellent.
... PCL ordered the Bourbon Street Baramundi.
... while I ordered the Shrimp New Orleans.
Rating: 7/10
It was difficult to choose which was better from the 2 choices that we made. The Bourbon Street Baramundi has the shrimps all stripped naked of its shells, soaked in special mixed sauce. Garnish with a big slap of mashed potato acupuntured with stripped tortillas. There were some fish fillet laid over the mashed potato, which was similar in colour. Fish fillet was mildly grilled to retains its moist. Though the fish fillets weren’t very fresh because PCL was irking over the foul smell emitting from this type of fish.
As for the Shrimp New Orleans, the shrimps were half shelled and sauteed over garlic butter sauce. The shrimps have good fragrance to it because of the sauteed garlic butter, which soaked deep into the shrimp’s meat. This style reminds me of the Cajun Shrimp I once had on my first visit here. It even has a similar piece of garlic bread on it. The only difference was, this has a bowl of rice over it. The sauce from the effect of sauteed was good to be eaten together with the rice.
The shrimps used weren’t overly fresh, though they could’ve been better. But the preparation methods was great, which made everything tastes quite nice. Based on my first experience, do stay away from fried shrimps in batter. They aren’t nice.
Without taking the price into consideration, it could easily score a well 8/10 on it because they were quite good, especially the sauteed items. But the price was indeed a bit steep just for a lunch. And the nature of this diet was really bad. I bet my strict diet monitor was wailing.
... DOME Cafe's Lot Burger. It was so good that I wanna have it despite my strict diet.
Rating: 6.5/10
AC had this burger on our last visit to Dome Cafe. He let me had a quarter of it and the taste was good. This time, I decided to have the burger all to myself. The sauce used was really nice, though half of the burger was already enough for me. Stuffing the whole thing down kept me full until evening.
... my bowl of cendol has abundance of green cendol jelly.
... barely visible brown sugar.
Rating: 4/10
After having asam laksa, we went for dessert. The famous cendol stall in Penang Road. There were 2 stalls opposite to each other, but the stall was basically swatting flies busy. I’ve had this many years ago. It seems, the taste doesn’t change much, if I recalled correctly. The lacked of fragrance from the brown sugar made this cendol rather Plain Jane. Give me Nancy’s Kitchen’s cendol anytime, or even PappaRich’s will do.
Location: N5 25.027 E100 19.839
