Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Saturday, September 22, 2012 0 comments By: cyn~♥

Weekend Penang -> Kuala Lumpur trip summary



Another short trip to run away from my hectic life. This time our trip was weekend trip, Penang -> Ipoh -> Kuala Lumpur. -> Penang.

What so special about this trip? Yeah we were celebrating our engagement. So this time we picked a very high class hotel to stay in. Which is a new hotel, Grand Hyatt. A 5 stars hotel which located just next to KLCC and we book a suit for the night. Want to know how great the customer service and the place look like? Click the link below for the blog post. We had a wonderful experiences during the stay because of the awesome room and services. Beside that it cost RM2,700++/ night including tax. 

On our way to the hotel we drop by some delicious makan place as well, click the link below to see more.



Weekend Penang -> Kuala Lumpur trip summary

1- Under Big Tree, Ipoh
2- Grand Hyatt, Kuala Lumpur (Coming Soon, stay tune)
5- Home Sweet Home A.K.A 43 Cafe


1- Under Big Tree, Ipoh (Coming Soon, stay tune)

2- Grand Hyatt, Kuala Lumpur (Coming Soon, stay tune)

3- Pepper Lunch, Kuala Lumpur (Coming Soon, stay tune)

4- IKEA (Coming Soon, stay tune)

5- Home Sweet Home A.K.A 43 Cafe


Disclaimer: This is a personal food blog. The opinions expressed here are my own, based on my personal taste buds; others may have different opinions. Also, as we all know, qualities & standards of individual restaurants/food may change over time, so do note the time stamp on this review.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6 comments By: Chan

Chez Weng Modern Grill Restaurant Precinct 10 Penang



Precinct 10 had given Penang people another place to chill out. A lots of new food place had set up in this new premium food & beverage hub. It is another branch for Classic at Bellisa Row Pulau Tikus, Penang. This time they had Modern Grill concept for Chez Weng. It is a great place for friend and family as well.

Chez Weng when i heard of the name i though is a Chinese cuisine restaurant. The name is actually in French. They serve fine dinning food. 

Front view of Chez Weng.

Ambient of Chez Weng shown below.


The place is actually simple and cozy. The setting actually give you a down to earth feeling even though they are serving sort of fine dinning food :)

First to come is fresh bread and Dukkah. It taste good cause It was on the house :)

It served with Extra virgin olive oil and Dukkah. (Duqqa [also spelled dukkah or dukka] is an Egyptian side dish consisting of a mixture of herbs, nuts, probably hazelnut, and spices. It is typically used as a dip with bread or fresh vegetables ~ Wikipedia)

Caesar Salad (RM22.00). Look normal but it taste good and we love it. It contain butter-head lettuce, cheese, fresh herb, croutons, extra virgin olive oil, mayonnaise and dash of paper. It was a fresh dish to start your meal :)

Mushroom soup RM15. Hot fresh mushroom soup in a fancy big plate and topped with some frsh herb, it was good .

Want some hot mushroom soup?

Smoked pork chop RM32.00. In the menu it mention onion ring but i can't find any of them in the dish. Well cooked juicy pork chop, sweet potato mash, garlic fried Chinese kale and super good caramelize onion sauce. Everyone been dipping in this sauce. 

Duck Conflit RM38.00. The duck was not dry as i liked. Still a bit moist that it got that smelly duck smell.  The smoke sausage was so good. Look the way they make the sausage skin crunchy :) It also came with boiled broccoli, mash potato , orange glaze and topped with some fresh herb. 

Duck was ok but the sausage was so good that they should just sell smoked sausage.

The most expensive piece of meat for the day, Australia Wagyu Sirloin 220g RM98.00. It came with expensive piece of wagyu beef of cause,  boiled broccoli, mash potato, reduction red wine sauce and fresh herb. 

See how marble was the wagyu beef? The marble was the reason why wagyu so tender and juicy. The mouthwatering meat was well cooked to medium, soft, tender and juicy. We love it but cry later when paid the bill :)

Pizza - Prosciutto, pear, rocket and a lot of parmeson cheese. Yeah you read it right it was a PEAR. Pizza :)

You can see the pear was thinly sliced. It gave the pizza a great pear aroma and sweetness. The prosciutto was salty so the sweetness of the pear sort of neutralist each other. Fresh rocket went well on this pizza. I not a fan of rocket cause it's bitterness. It really went well with this pizza :)

Panna Cotta and fresh berries and chocolate sauce RM16.00. I don't really like our sweet ending. I found it kind of plastic feel after eat. Although i needed to give them credit on using the real vanilla bean.

Over all dinning experiment was good. The server will explain every single dishes when they brought to you, so kind of new to us but in a good way. Beside that they will approved you and asked about your food. Whether you like it or not. Not sure if you answer don't like it will they still charge you :P The food was expensive but great cooked, great ingredient and great service. So it is a great place to bring you love one to celebrate or enjoy once a while.

They also served set lunch (RM38++ to RM58++) and set dinner (RM48++ to RM88++). It come with a starter which you can choose either soup or salad, a main, dessert of the day and coffee or tea.


CHEZ WENG @ PRECINCT 10 Penang

10-C-18 & 19, 
Precinct 10, Jalan Tanjung Tokong, 
Tanjung Tokong, 10470 Penang, Malaysia.

Business Hours: 11.30am ~ 11pm Daily, closed Monday.
Contact: 604-899 9878


GPS: 5.448970, 100.306020



Disclaimer: This is a personal food blog. The opinions expressed here are my own, based on my personal taste buds; others may have different opinions. Also, as we all know, qualities & standards of individual restaurants/food may change over time, so do note the time stamp on this review.

Thursday, February 2, 2012 0 comments By: Chan

Molten Lava Cafe at 1 Utama Petaling Jaya



It is located in front of the cold storage of 1 Utama. It is a quiet side of the old wing 1 Utama . So you might need to walk for a while to there :) We get to know this shop by Google review online.

Front view of the Molten Lava Cafe. It is a very attractive shop that stand out at the quiet corner. 

Ambient and some of the dessert they serve there.

You can sit inside the shop or opposite the shop. I recommend you to sit outside because inside is a bit hot and oily.  

Churros  were made upon ordered. So you will had your Churros fresh and piping hot. Enjoy it slowly to prevent lips burn.

Molten Chocolate Dip Churros (RM5.80). Churros is a Spanish sweet snack consisting of a strip of fried dough dusted with icing sugar or cinnamon. 

It came with a molten chocolate, it taste familiar. Cyn suspect it is a melted Cadbury Chocolate sauce. Anyway we will try out at home to confirm it. The chocolate dip is good even it eat alone. 

Although it was dusted with icing sugar but it was not sweet even dip in the chocolate sauce. Looked yummy? Yeah it certainly yummy but abit pricey for 4 batang of fried donuts. 

Next we ordered the Macaroon. They were Salted caramel and hazelnut flavor Macaroon (RM3.30 each). Cyn was into making her own Macaroon so when she saw this she wanted to try it. Sad to say they Macaroons were lousy. 

The Macaroon were dry. Second macaroon had a huge air bubble on the top piece. To pay RM3.30 per piece we should get a better quality macaroon. 





Our KL Road Trip: 
Disclaimer: This is a personal food blog. The opinions expressed here are my own, based on my personal taste buds; others may have different opinions. Also, as we all know, qualities & standards of individual restaurants/food may change over time, so do note the time stamp on this review.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 0 comments By: Chan

Ben's at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur



It looked like delicious type of cafe. Food and price wise within our budget. Ben's was voted Best New Restaurant in the Time Out KL Food Awards 2011. After some google-ing on the phone we decided to dine in ben's.

The outlook of ben's at Pavilion KL. Look classy rite?

Simple and elegant design at ben's.

The place was crowded with people during our lunch time at 3.00pm.

They also have outdoor area for smoker to dine in.

If you worry to get bored or out of topic during dine in. Don't worry, ben's have a box of card board of different topic to keep you from being bored at the table. They were Recipe, table topic and suggestion. 



Cake area to show off their cake. I went there to see which one i going to have later but none of them were choosed because i planed for other dessert. 

Chunky Mushroom Soup (RM11.90). It taste good doh, with a lots mushroom blended inside. 

It came with truffle oil and garlic toast. Although we not really a fan of truffle oil.

Crispy Duck Confit Spaghettini (RM22.90). We ordered this because we loved this dish at delicious so we wanted to compare them. ben's didn't fail us doh. Although the duck meat not crispy enough cause it was thick. 

It was covered with a lots of rockets and sun dried tomato. Although we are not a fan of rocket but it serve right with this dish. We loved the sun dried tomato as well. 

Quiche Lorraine (RM15.90). Not really a fan of this dish although it taste good but it is very filling. After we ate half of it we don't feel like finishing it already.

It contain beef bacon and caramelized onion. It also came with a bowl of salad. 

I also into chilies flake so i also try out their chilies flake. Not spicy and no kick for me.


It is quite a good place to dine during your visit to KL.

ben's

Level 6, Pavilion KL
168, Jalan Bukit Bintang
Kuala Lumpur

GPS: 3.148872, 101.713368

Business Hours:
10.00am – 11.00pm (Daily)

Contact: 603-2141 5290

Disclaimer: This is a personal food blog. The opinions expressed here are my own, based on my personal taste buds; others may have different opinions. Also, as we all know, qualities & standards of individual restaurants/food may change over time, so do note the time stamp on this review.

Day 4 KL Food Road Trip CNY 2012



The last day in KL we went to 1Utama for last minute shopping. After we settled the shopping and our stomach, we hit the road to balik Penang. During the balik kampung trip we planed some small trip to Hot Spring (Taman Rekreasi Air Panas (TRAP) Sungai Klah, Sungkai, Perak). Eventually we just drop by the hot spring and didn't went in because we were not prepared for it. We might plan for next road trip to KL.


First stop was Mister Donut. I came across this donut from my Japanese friend. She told me that the best donut she ever had was this mister donut. It even better then J.Co or  krispy kreme. So once i walk pass Jusco food court and saw this i immediately wanted to try this out. 

While i looking at the donut i saw their best selling donut was this Pon De Ring (RM2.60). It said it was Japanese most famous donut with "mochi-mochi" texture. 

The ambient of the Mister Donut, simple yet nice.

So we ordered the Pon De Ring and the Angel Cream (RM2.60 ~ 2.80). Not sure the actual price. Anyway i love the Pon De Ring texture. The Angel Cream was the top 4 best selling donut. The angel cream was fresh whipping cream dust with icing sugar donut. It was good too. 

Recently i am into Pork Burger. I been eagle to try out this Japanese Pork burger, Ninja Joe. I heard of this burger from a ex-flogger so without much though we walked in for our lunch.

The menu was simple and the place was too. 

Too bad the pork burger taste very porky and cold. Quite disappointed with it. 

Cyn can't stand the porky smell and wanted to had some thing else to take away the porky smell. So we went to the opposite shop Hokkaido Ice Cream. 

We order the Vanilla and salted caramel (RM6.80).  If you notice that the ice cream was half finished. Funny thing during the purchasee of the ice cream. Cyn didn't pay for the ice cream and walk away eating it. So when i walked away from the shop the server called me to pay. See la how power is the porky smell pork burger. 

After Ice Cream, Cyn still can felt the porky smell in her mouth. So we went for some thing stronger (Cinnabon) to take away the smell.

Shop ambient of Cinnabon 

We ordered having here but the server packed it for us.

Mini Cinnabon roll (RM3.80), It was good but not hot. Actually you can ask the server to heat up for you.

After we clear the porky smell we hit the road and balik kampung. Along the way we went to Restoran Wing Lok Yuan 永樂園餐廳 for the famous claypot chicken rice.

For more review regarding Restoran Wing Lok Yuan 永樂園餐廳, CLICK HERE. (Coming Soon!)  





Disclaimer: This is a personal food blog. The opinions expressed here are my own, based on my personal taste buds; others may have different opinions. Also, as we all know, qualities & standards of individual restaurants/food may change over time, so do note the time stamp on this review.