Le Garden

I was dining at a vegetarian restaurant nearby my area with some friends. I'm not a fan of of vegetarian, in fact, I hate vegetarian. I'll try to avoid as much as I can whenever I heard someone suggested that we were going to dine in a vegetarian restaurant. One of my friend, itu celaka Nian You, told me that the food there is soooooooooo nice that it's worth trying. I stopped trusting his taste ever since.

The food I ordered, which I don't even want to remember its name, taste so awful that I almost vomited it out. It was a torture swallowing the food into my throat and I almost died of starvation in the process. Vegetarians believe that there'll be good karma if they stopped eating meat (am I right?). Well, that's so true! After a few swallowing of the rubbish food, Jason SMSed me. He told me that there was a food review he need to do and he need someone to help him to finish the food. The place will be Le Garden in Dataran Pahlawan. Only idiot like Jian will reject the offer, right? Furthermore, I suck at food photography. This is the best time to polish my skill on food photography. Without hesitation, I agreed and off we went to the restaurant.

We met Allison there. Jason will be in charged in photographing while Allison was doing her interviews with the staffs there. My job there was the simplest - help them finish the food while snapping some pictures along the way. Shiok tak? Bwahahahahahaha

Here comes the food served that day...

















Look at the cheese dripping out from it!!! Among all the pictures I took, I guess this is the one I satisfied the most, and of course, the most presentable one... hehe...





I suck at food review, so please head to Jason's post for the review done by him :P

So guys, eat more vegetarian, good karma will come to you. It's proven by me! LOL!!

Korean Steamboat

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I'm not a fan of Korean food just as the Korean dramas, but when we've ran out of idea where to dine for our dinner, we headed to Korean Da Om BBQ house at Jalan Song, Kuching.



The restaurant is opened by a Korean family. The whole family migrate to Kuching as the dad works for an electronic company here. I guess the mum is too bored staying at home, thus she starts a Korean restaurant to ease the financial burden. You can hear the family chatting in Korean which made me feel like eating in Korea.



After scrolling the menu, the four of us decided for Boo Dea Ji Gea, a spicy steamboat with pork, kim-chi, ham, sausages and crab sticks.


Jack and his "sister"

Other than the one we ordered, there are other 2 more choices, which are: Bool Go Gin Jun Gol, a beef and vegetables steamboat with Korean noodle and a Hea Mool Jun Gol, seafood steamboat in Korean style.


Jian trying to snap a hot chick's butt

The name sounds funny to me.

A: Which one you want?
B: Hea Mool Jun Gol.
A: Hea Mool Jun? Which team's player? How he scored the goal?
B: ...

The steamboat comes with 4 side dishes.


Bean sprout


Anchovy


Kim-chi

The Kim-chi is so spicy that the moment I put it into my mouth, tears started forming in my eyes, my body's temperature rose and I was sweating.



I don't know what is this but it tastes like a pancake to me.


The tea for the dinner



The steel chopsticks is heavy and slippery. The food keep on slipping away from it, trying to escape from my hungry stomach.



Guess what is inside this UFO lookalike bowl?









Surprise! It's just white rice... Zzz...

Don't ask me why the rice need to be covered. I guess it's to prevent cockroaches from falling inside XD


The mini stove for the steamboat

And finally, what we are waiting for...



The steamboat, with a slice of cheese on top!

The soup is spicy and hot, just as it is stated in the menu. I did not realized it as I was busy looking at the ingredients inside the soup back when we were ordering.

Throughout the night, my mouth is kept open for eating and sucking in cool air to cool my mouth from the hot and spicy food. For all the time I though Korean soup is tasteless, but the flame inside my mouth proves me wrong.

Ice-cream Phobia Day

Haagen-Dazs is having an ice-cream buffet at Bangsar Village 2. With RM33.90, you can eat as much ice-cream as you can, but you can only eat 8 selected flavors. I reached KL around 4pm and my friend, Mahui fetched us to Village 2.



Upon reaching, Haagen-Dazs was packed with people. We need to wait for our turn to feast on the ice-creams. It didn't take for a long time before we got ourselves a seat. I started eating scoops by scoops, bowls by bowls. On the seventh scoop, I had to call it a halt as the ice-creams are too creamy. We left Village 2 and headed to 1 Utama for a walk and a dinner.



After hours of deciding where we going to have our dinner, we finally made our decision to dine in Zuup. It is just located beside Pets Wonderland.



I never knew that there's a small chamber hidden behind the wall eveytime I passed by. This was my first visit. We found a place and started to order from the menu.



Spaghetti Bolognese, ordered by Mahui.



Sirloin Steak. I asked for 75% cooked. Overall, the steak tasted just fine. Tender and juicy. Not bad.



I've forgotten what dish is called. I just know that it's a fish... Hehehehe... The Spaghetti Bolognese costs RM12.90. While the sirloin steak and the fish costed RM18 with a drink or dessert of the day. When we were about to leave the cafe, the waiter took out a free dessert for us as complementary, which is...



My eighth scoop of ice-cream of the day *sweat*

Pig Mooncake

Since mooncake festival is coming soon, you can see shops or booths being setup and start selling mooncakes. Eventhough the mooncakes come with different flavors from the traditional red bean paste to strawberry flavor, the shape of the mooncakes are still the same - cylinder.



However, one particular shop came out with a brilliant marketing idea. Since this year is the year of boar, the shop makes the mooncake into cute little pigs!



Look at their watery eyes, it's like begging you not to eat them... but it doesn't work on me... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Other than the pig, inspired by the famous internet songs "Mouse loves rice", they came out with...



There's one with porcupine shape but too bad I didn't snap the picture.

I need to finish off the pork pig mooncakes as soon as possible before "someone" starts to accuse them for causing river pollution *cough*

And when will they make the mooncake that look like the poo in my banner? Hmmm... I promise I'll buy one if they ever make it :P

Fanta C

When I first arrived at Melaka, I took my dinner at a kopitiam near my campus. I ordered Strawberry C for my drink but the auntie gave me a weird look and asked me what is that. Only I realized that such drink doesn't exist in West Malaysia. If you go to Kuching, any kopitiam serves this drink fyi.

I bet a lot of you out there are wondering what drink is that too. So, I'm going to teach you how to make one yourself.

You need a can of F&N Flashy Fruitade (or Strawberry, I haven't tried with other flavors yet, and if you had, do let me know about the result). F&N Flashy Fruitade was called Fantasy before they changed it to the current name if I'm not mistaken, we (Kuchingnite) call it Fantasy Green, hence the name Fanta C, where C = milk added.



Then you need Ideal Milk from Nestle. Other condensed milk aren't preferred as it need some time to completely dissolve into the soft drink and it doesn't taste as good as the one with Ideal Milk in it.



Fill the Ideal Milk 1/8 of a mug.



Pour in the soft drink into the mug.



You'll see thick foam of bubbles starts to build up on the surface when you pour the soft drink into the mug and there you go, you have a Fanta C. Simple yet cooling especially under hot weathers.



Eh, you West Malaysian be a bit more creative can? XD

*burp*

Nando's Jusco Melaka

After having heard that Nando's is offering unlimited free refill of soup and garlic bread for RM7.25 and unlimited free refill of ice lemon tea for RM5.25, something like a all you can eat buffet, I headed over to the branch at Jaya Jusco, Melaka for my lunch + dinner.

After ordering the food, we are requested to fill the empty bowl given with soup and garlic bread on another plate give on ourselves.

The chicken mushroom soup served that day tasted like the one from Campbell's, the only difference is that they've added some chicken slices, probably to convince you that you're really swallowing a chicken mushroom soup. Not much complains about this since almost all the franchise serve this kind of soup, nothing special bout it.


The common chicken mushroom soup that I know how to cook

I'm quite disappointed with the garlic bread. The bread is cold and soft, too soft for a garlic bread. It's baked for some left and they just leave the bread on a place with a cover for customers to take whenever they've finished their garlic bread without even keeping it warm.


The lao hong garlic bread

Other than that, I've ordered a 1/2 chicken with coleslaw and french fries as side meal. The chicken meat is too stiff and dried. It's not juicy and tender like Kenny Roger's. What made it worse is the coleslaw and the french fries. I was like eating just raw vegetables - tasteless, and the amount of curry powder spread on the french fries is too little.


Mild peri-peri for me :P

The only thing that cheer me up that day is the sweet cold ice lemon tea, and I get to refill for more! Okay, I admit that ice lemon tea is one of my favorite drink :P


How I wish if they let me bring my empty bottles and fill them up

After the meal, I went to watch Ratatouille (oooh, I spelled it right in my first attempt! Wahahaha). Quite a nice movie. I wonder when will my gerbils cook for me... *starring at the stars outside, dreaming*

Kuching Laksa

It travels all the way from Kuching to Melaka, and it's one of my favourite food. Eventhough the soup is a little bit dried up, it is still tasty like how it should be.



It's been two months since I last ate Laksa when I was in Kuching two months ago for my semester break. I finished every single bee-hoon and every single drop of the soup. Conclusion? Satisfaction!

Seremban's Siew Pao

It’s been a long time since I last ate siew pao from Seremban. Just before heading back to Melaka, we headed to one and only one shop that is still open for business as most of the shops close at 6-7 pm and it was around 9 – 10 pm when we decided to buy siew pao before going home.



The shop is inside a complex just located beside the PLUS highway, you can spot it easily on the Seremban – KL route. The name is amusing though. I still remember that back in the secondary school, I’ve studied the Roman Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Chinese Empire… but the name of this complex is: Empayar Siew Pao Seremban (aka Seremban’s Siew Pao Empire). This makes me wonder that when Japanese came and conquered Tanah Melayu during the World War 2, the Seremban folks rebelled by throwing siew pao at the Japs, hence given the name Seremban’s Siew Pao Empire. It might be one of the reasons why Japs retreated other than the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.



We reached at the stall and when we were just about to place our orders, the boss told us that all the siew pao has been sold and he will bake for us if we were going to buy 30 siew pao from him. We start to collect the orders and managed to come up with 80 siew pao. Remember the Empayar Siew Pao Seremban story I told just now, it was late that time and I think we should buy more so we are able to defend ourselves when we meet up with robbers or rapists.



After one hour, we headed back to collect our siew pao. We can feel the heat from the freshly baked siew pao. The outer skin is crispy and the ingredient inside it is hot and juicy.





I bought 15 siew pao for my friends and housemates and I ate 4 of them. Too difficult to resist something that’s just came out from oven. The price? It costs RM1.10 per siew pao.

Fei Chai Restaurant

After finished eating the crabs, we headed to our second destination in Seremban, Fei Chai(肥仔, ok lar, not that 肥仔 lar, it's a restaurant named 肥仔) Restaurant.

Our dishes for that night:


Lala, one of my favourite seafood but I only managed to eat two of them that night :(


Sweet and sour pork with yam


Veggie, what’s the name for this ah? Any idea?


Salad Chicken


This one I tell you, at first I though it’s pig intestine, but I was wrong. Guess what is this?


C’mon, give it a try


I’ll reveal the answer in the next post, so see you in the next post!

Ok lar, just kidding…

It’s a… pig’s Fallopian tube!!! Yes, the SMART tunnel where the ovum has to travel from the ovaries to the uterus. I only eat one of this after I know the answer, it tastes something like the pig’s intestine but without the dark grey thing inside the intestine.


This one I forgot what chicken already :P

And for the grand finale…


The pig’s handfoot FTW!!!

See… this is where you’ll end up if you molest girls.