One of the reason that visited this buffet was my dad saw some blogger post that circulate in email and he had been asking us to come for the past 2 months since it had open till now we decided to come along.

It is very interesting to see how the whole new concept that they have build to another brand with very Japanese exterior and interior. ..

You can be seated in a few sections, this is a private room that can host up to 10 pax and you have to remove your shoes and put outside.

this section would be their outdoor area. . .

as me and my family was quickly seated, I walk around the whole restaurant to check out what is there to offer.

The range of food that they offer is pretty interesting. One of the best is not to miss on their homemade, fish, sotong and pork ball. . .

Fresh Oyster, Salmon with huge piece, scallop are all in this fridge for you to finish. Another fridge with lots types of seafood, for you to choose from.

This would be the best section to me with variety of meat to offer. I have tried all the meat and those lamb, lean pork, pork bacon, korean style pork are the one you must look out for. . .

Soft drinks counter and you just need to request a glass with ice in it.

Desert counter.

Variety of sauces available as one of the reason that, you are going to mix and learn to cook on the  on with their grill charcoal stove on your table.

ice cream that alot of kids attack on.

We ask on the waiter what soup is good and he recommend that most customer would opt to try their signature soup which is the clear soup base ‘Shabu Shabu’ (昆布柴魚湯)

In your table you will be provided with this utilities for you to play with . .

My meat plate..wakkaka~ and more that I have had till my parents surrender.

What is so unique about this whole new concept is that they have this charcoal grill stove smack right in the table for you to bbq your dish. Most of the meat or things available are already pre marinated and now you will look like a cool Japanese chef in training.

put all the item that you would want on this grill and just turn around as you want.

You can put your huge chunk of salmon, prawns and other seafood to cook along.

Huge scallop to be stim on ..

and this is what happen to our pot of shabu shabu, as my mom loves it.

Each table will come with all these few basic ingredients, one of the reason if you do dine in Teppanyaki restaurant you see those chef add on those pepper and salt, now you are your own chef to do it and play around with these to make your food tastier.

This are the Opening promotion that they have now, and if you can really eat and do not mind getting fat, join their Supper happy hour which is Buy one Buffet at Regular Price and 2nd person 50% which is really worth it.

Among many buffet out there, certainly I am recommending this to go with its price smack on at RM48++ that comes to about RM55 per head that offer lots of seafood and meat for you to eat on. Having great sessions with friends I am looking forward to come back for another round.

Food taste is pretty good and did not disappoint us.

Best advice to call in for reservation that will convenient you.

***Remark you need to spend at least 2 hours to eat cuz of the grill time it takes to cook. Me and my family find that 2 hours is not enough cuz we went for late lunch as they were to close for that hour. 

-= KA CHING =-

Food rating 8.5/10 , Pretty value for money~ RECOMMENDED -Stamped-

Location:
Ground Floor, Penang Times Square,
Jalan Dato Keramat, 10150 Penang, Malaysia.

Contact:  604-229 7826

Business Hours:
6.00pm – 1.00am (Monday – Thursday)
12.00pm – 1.00am (Friday – Sunday & Public Holidays)

GPS: 5.411728, 100.324879

With just a few days away from Valentine’s Day, Moët & Chandon is transforming champagne lovers into artists by coming out limited edition Moët & Chandon Rosé Impérial, the most extrovert and seductive expression of the Moët & Chandon style. You can Express your inner graffiti artist and boldly declare your love with the unique digital experience and the customisable magnum. Tag your love, tag your Moët!

Known for its glowing pink colour with amber highlights, the assemblage of Rosé Impérial reflects the diversity and complementarity of the three grape varieties: the intensity of the Pinot noir (40 to 50%, of which 10% are red wine), the roundness of the Pinot Meunier (30 to 40%, 10% of which are red wine) and the elegance of the Chardonnay (10 to 20%). The use of 20 to 30% of carefully selected reserve wines completes the assemblage and enhances its intensity, subtlety and consistency. The flamboyant palate fuses intensity and roundness—fleshy and juicy at first, then firm (fruit stone), with a subtle herbal (mint) finish. The quality of all Moët & Chandon wines is a reflection of the exceptional diversity and richness of the House’s estate vineyards, the largest in Champagne.

So those of you going to Moët & Chandon Rosé Impérial Party.. see you guys on the 13th~

Those of you would want to get this limited edition bottle, just drop by at Pavilion from :

from 8th of February until the 14th of February 2012 only, at Centre Court, Pavilion KL.

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A restaurant that will cater many people that they have actually taken up about 2 shoplot that offer lots of space.

Their business is quite good as when we left all the tables outside were taken out.

For me I still prefer to have my steamboat inside with some air condition if not I will be drench in sweat.

An advantage of this outlet is that they do offer bbq section with chicken wings. . .

BBQ Seafood like crab, sting ray, satay, prawns and squid.

On the inside for you to choose to hammer inside your soup base quite a selection of fish ball. . .

noodles and the usual item that we have.

Seafood lovers this section certainly is your choice with many types of seafood for you to choose from.

cold platter

Some mini buffet pan fried section . .

Fried stuff. . .

Best of all also you get to have free flow of slice meat which is my favorite

There are 5 soup base for you to choose from . . .as was told by one of the staff that Fish Head soup is one of the preferred by customer.

We tried on the Tom Yam Soup and Umami Chicken soup. Both of the soup turns out to be better than alot of places that we have tried before. . .

As for desert they do have jelly and Ice Cream to offer you  . .

Overall, with about total RM30 per head I find it quite okay on pricing and quality. If you ask me to choose, I would opted for other choices but if you plan to have a great steamboat range, Umami can be one of the choice in my list as I have tried others which is much worst that I don bother even to blog about it.

On the up side, this outlet is pork free that I see a few malay families dine in here.

I am keen to try out another outlet in Wangsa Maju as I was told by a friend that they over a very good range and cheap too. Will arrange to go luuu . . .

Pricing
Adult: RM26.80++

*Pork Free

-= KA CHING =-

Food rating 7/10 , not bad Lah~ -Stamped-

Location:
Umami Steamboat
12a (Ground Floor),
Jalan PJS8/17,
Dataran Mentari,
46150 Petaling Jaya.

Operation Hours: 11am – 12midnight

Tel: 03-56222663

Website: http://www.umamisteamboat.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UmamiSteamboat
Twitter: https://twitter.com/umami_MY

Genre: Crime/ Thriller

 A movie on a innocent cop got frame and went to jail then futher sentence to another 25 years prison. In attemp to prove his innocent, how far would you plan your step and what are you willing to sacrifise?

A movie that looks like a cheap production but sure do have a nice story line that keep it going. Worth to watch.

– Tik Ching, Pass, Stamped –

Overall ratings 7/10, okay ahh. .  . .

– The movie rated by me is by my own personal preference. Watch it at your own risk –

Genre: Action/ Thriller

Its about an agent got set up during a mission and after she found out that she had been set up, she is up and would like to hunt back who had set her up during the mission.

NOt a great movie as what it seems in the trailer and in the trailer is all the action pack. Do not bother to watch this movie also. Its a movie that will hit top in my list of 2012 to kick start off with bad movie of the year.

– Tik Ching, Pass, Stamped –

Overall ratings 3.5/10, forget about watching this. .  . .

– The movie rated by me is by my own personal preference. Watch it at your own risk –

The only difference in this shop is the crowd as I remember few years back, to get a spot in this shop is quite hard, as it was one of a famous Lam Mee shop in Uptown or among the neighborhood as my friend recommend to me.

Well, I still stick to their traditional signature ‘Lam Mee’ whereby the difference compare to Penang we call this ‘Loh Mee’ as our Lam Mee is in clear soup version. You get to choose their thick noodle or thin noodle as I still remember they are famous for their thick noodle. The soup base is still thick and a bit starchy yet still the same taste as I previously ate before the only difference is the texture of the thick noodle had change. Find it a bit sticky not so nice to chew compare to last time and I prefer mine to add on with their 2 small plate of sambal to make it extra kick! If next round I would order, I would go for their thin noodle. I think it would be better.

Only difference between the thing is the noodle and of course price had increase. A plate of Lam Mee, 2 pieces of ‘Fried Sui Kaw’ and 1 chinese tea cost RM10.10. 

-= KA CHING =-

Food rating 6/10 , Okay Lah~ -Stamped-

67, Jalan SS21/37
Damansara Utama
47400 PJ, Selangor

Tel: 03-7727 4126

Time: 8.00am – 3.00pm

GPS: 3.133060, 101.622194

This street is very near to 1st Avenue mall which is like 2-3 streets away from the mall that if you plan to walk here from 1st Avenue, it takes about 10 minutes walk. This hawker center area is located the same street with Kwang Hwa newspaper factory.

This is the street hawker center of Sah Tiau Loh (三条路小贩中心) which many kind of food to offer with the corner shop is a coffee shop that host many hakwer stalls and those that spill over to the road side. Some of the street hawker food unable to serve food into the coffee shop due to some conflict. It is best you ask them before you order if you are seated inside the coffeeshop.

Well, anyone of you heard about the recent competition of Hokkien Mee in Penang? It was held at Times Square on December 2011 that  Penang Best Hokkien Mee stalls in the state were spotted and came by to compete to emerge the best as these were voted by the public.  888 Hokkien Mee emerge as crowd favorites and won the best in this catagory (click here for The Star News also to spot top 3 hokkien mee stalls in Penang) I am not sure that the winner of 888 hokkien mee is the same as this or not as they mention near Sunshine Square. and this is at Town area but to me still the same name and take it as another branch.

Before the wont this category, this stall had already been very famous among neighborhood and since when I was a kid I came by to eat with my grandfather and recently been craving for it so bad and manage to get my satisfaction. In the order you can choose to add on some ingredient like pork ribs, intestine, and others.

You can add on some ‘siew Yuk’ too but the siew yuk for the day not so nice.

This is how cramp the place look like that solely sole for Hokkien Mee only. To get a spot is pretty fast as the turn over per table is quite quick.

This is my order of Hokkien Mee @ RM 3

Why is it one of my favorite is definitely because of the soup base, its sweet with prawn taste and know that its cook along with prawn shells also, not only that its also cook along with pork bones and meat that make it so nice. It is serve along with small prawns that cook inside the soup for long time and some pork. I wanted to add on some pork ribs and other ingredient was sold out.

It is best advise to go before 10.30pm as most of their add on ingredients get sold out very very fast.

Pricing of add ons:

Normal Noodle @ RM3

In front of the Hokkien Mee stall comes this very busy Wan Tan Mee Stall also. I see alot of people flock on this stall and decided to give it a try too . . .

I was sitting there for 45 minutes, and this guy was so busy for 45 minutes and its non stop action. I forgot to take the picture of Wan Tan Mee but I find it nothing much to shout about as the unique is the noodle which is just a bit springy as I have better ones in other coffee shop in Penang.

Overall, if you are in Penang to hunt for very nice Hokkien Mee (prawn Noodle) this is one of the stall highly recommended by me, as during CNY holiday I came here 3 times. .

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 10/10,very good, highly recommended Hokkien Mee!!~ -Stamped-

–Warning– This is based on my individual taste. Try it at your own risk-

Location:
Presgrave Street Hawker Centre
Lebuh Presgrave

*NON-HALAL

Closed on Thursday
Daily 4.30pm-12.00am

View Presgrave Street Hawker Stall in a larger map

Genre: Comedy

Another following succesfull well receive movie I love Hong Kong 2011 and here comes I Love Hong Kong 2012. Another Chinese New Year movie. I Find that this year chinese NEw Year movie is all about Family values, to love and treasure those who are around you. AS this movie saying that the super rich tycoon in Hong Kong are doing a fake short film to lie to all the residents in Hong Kong that 2012 will be the end of the world with asteroid hitting the earth soon, as the super tycoon control most of the market in Hong Kong and this havoc had make their business even better.

In the movie also saying that, many of us pursue  our dream till the end some gave up half way. Family and relationship always quarrel but end up getting back. So how many of you do you actually see your love ones during Chinese New Year?

A movie so so also but many of my friends said that this is better. I find both movie I love Hong Kong 2012 and All Wells, Ends well, are so so only.

– Tik Ching, Pass, Stamped –

Overall ratings 6/10, so so only . .  . .

– The movie rated by me is by my own personal preference. Watch it at your own risk –

Genre: Action/ Adventure/ Family

A great 3-D adventure in Part 1 that leads to this sequel part 2 as this round The Rock star the movie as a step dad to a kid that the kids family had been hunting for this mysterious island for generation till he received a mysterious signal that leads the rock, the kid, pilot and the daughter to the mysterious island.

In this island is all on your imagination that the animals that are big become small and those that are small become big. Are you ready for this adventure? Pretty interesting movie but I find that Part 1 still the best with much effect and better view. Part 2 is not bad still worth to watch on 3-D.

If you plan to watch on normal screen you can buy dvd to watch.

– Tik Ching, Pass, Stamped –

Overall ratings 7.5/10, not bad lah . .  . .

– The movie rated by me is by my own personal preference. Watch it at your own risk –

To-date, 46 winners were identified nationwide and few winners who are able to make it today will receive an exclusive Vespa LX150 that worth RM 10,988.15

Congrats to those who have won on the first round~

According to CEO of Celcom,  Zalman Aefendy Zainal Abidin  with the success of first launch of Talk-A-Thon and now he is excited to launch another one as the response is good that now will add in better prizes to rewards our customer. Besides that he also found out that now, more people are using text and one of the reason they reward customer more on calling as he find that by calling will get more personal feel.

What you waiting for? As to date there are only 46 winners and there are 74 more chances for you to win that the contest is ending 31^st March. What you need to do is very simple as an existing Celcom user, you just need to make additional extra 3 calls each day for the month on top of your normal calling trend per month then answer simple questions and winners will be selected randomly on a daily basis. To check your eligibility and the average trend calls on the previous month, simply dial *128#.

Good news is that, if you make more efford during this Chinese New Year, you stand double the chance on winning the Vespa as winners will be identified and announced on Celcom’s website.

For more information, please log onto www.celcom.com.my or visit the nearest Celcom branch or call Celcom Customer Service at 1300 111 000 or 1111 from Celcom mobile.

Genre: Action/ Drama

Another action pack movie from Danta Lam that this round field 2 famous cast Nicholas Tze and Jay Chou in Viral Factor. A story that bring two of them together that since child they were both seperated as the mom bring Jay Chou off from the hard core gambling dad and left Nicholas Tze behind.

Since then, Jay Chou had become a cop and Nicholas Tze had become a bandit in Malaysia. A film that shot 70% in Kuala Lumpur that makes the whole scene pretty interesting. Never thought that this movie feature Malaysia so much.

A great action movie with great story line. Worth to watch and Recommended!!!

– Tik Ching, Pass, Stamped –

Overall ratings 10/10, great action movie, Recommended . .  . .

– The movie rated by me is by my own personal preference. Watch it at your own risk –

Genre: Family/ Comedy

Another local production that feature back the same cast from MYfm which they have done their successful CNY movie for the past 2 years starting off with Tiger Woohoo and another movie I suddenly forgot the name.

Ah Beng the movie : 3 Wishes let us know family value and treasure what you have and improve it as health is the main factor. The guy was given 3 wishes and he wished, by wanted to see his child grow up, as he was in 30 years ahead of his year and found out that he had pass away when he saw his child and mom when crazy because of the impact of losing husband and house were in blaze.

Movie filled with laughter and touching moments. Another great production by them.

– Tik Ching, Pass, Stamped –

Overall ratings 7.5/10, quite like this movie . .  . .

– The movie rated by me is by my own personal preference. Watch it at your own risk –

Genre: Romance/ Comedy

Another sequal of the following year from 2011 and now its 2012. A love comedy that feature some of the famous stars in Hong Kong that set this movie up. Not much CNY mood in this movie more like a love movie and I find it so so only.

Skip this movie if you can ..

– Tik Ching, Pass, Stamped –

Overall ratings 5.5/10, so so only . .  . .

– The movie rated by me is by my own personal preference. Watch it at your own risk –

Another year had pass and now we are ushering year 2012 Chinese New Year and I just cant believe that time flies~

I would like to wish all of you:

Happy Chinese New Year for the year of Dragon and wish every one of you prosperous, good health and HUATTT ahhh~!~!~