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In Ampang/Cheras By Taufulou 5 Mins Read

Back Alley Pasta @ Ampang

30/10/2021 1 Comment

Now as all local businesses are gearing up for MCO phase 4 where alot F&B is already opening up for business. All of us are already flocking out to support local businesses by dining out. Latest hidden gem discovery in what to eat in Ampang is this Back Alley Pasta helm by Chef Jay serving classic Italian and Japanese food range. the place is indeed hide behind a row of shoplot BUTTTT in the back alley “lorong”.

If high end dining is out of your budget then I would highly recommend this private dining concept that would not break your pocket. Not a fancy restaurant but my kind of dining concept by sitting the kitchen while watching chef in action.

I enjoy one of my best dining experience in Melbourne – Press Club Experimental Kitchen . Although cannot compare, but its a great start for our local scene

I am starting to get impress with all our young local talent as Chef Jay is currently only 31 years old hand having being train with a few famous culinary chef in Singapore and now is back to Malaysia, ready to penetrate our local market, for Italian food in KL.

This is just fun as we will be dining like a private kitchen dining that able to cater for only 9 pax. So reservation is highly recommended as while I am there chatting with chef, his reservation right now is 1 month in advance booking. I am lucky to get a spot here with 10 days in advance.

Chef Jay will on serve us best ingredient that he can source with affordable price, so that all his customer would get to enjoy best of his cooking. All his pasta are also made fresh daily right before open for dining.

The little trick is, do ask chef what he have special of the day. It is not in the menu. Special of the day is base on the best ingredient he got for the day to shape it out. The 2 item I order maybe might not be available during your time of visit.

Starting off with Crisped cocktail potato with thyme @ RM 18. Simple dish that elevate it to another level. A dish that is cook with pig oil, let it pan fry till it is soft and topped with variety toppings and end with with cheddar cheese on top. Soft and fragrant.

This is Chef Special in hidden menu or his special of the day. Today we got Hokkaido Scallop Pasta. One of the best dish for the night as the spaghetti is al dante, broth that cooked along shimmer to perfection. Topped with variety condiments and with torch burned fresh Hokkaido Scallop. – recommended (sorry I throw away my receipt – forgot check price)

Another special dish in special menu is this Salmon Belly Don. Another perfect dish as the cut of belly and you justlook at the layer of it. Well balance and topped with fish roe. Best of all is, soy sauce is chef special homemade soy sauce. It is good, light and not too salty yet goes very well with the whole bowl element. With special season daikon in it give a balance of crips where it needs.

Next is this chef famous signature dish : Squid Ink Tagliolini Carbonara with Smoked Bacon and Soft Boiled Egg @ RM 27. Near classic style of cabonara that is topped with chef onsen egg. Yolk that ooze out makes it slight creamier and is also another of my favourite.

Those of you are not use to “too” creamy then this would be best to share.

After finish the top, I still wanted to try more by ordering another best seller : Antipasti : Quinoa, Spinach and Truffle Arancini with Pomodoro Sauce. @ RM 22. I was lucky as this was the last portion for the day, which was only at 7.30pm. Means those diners after me will no longer get to try this.

To avoid disappointment, this is best to pre-order along your reservation.

This is fried to perfection, crisp on the outside with hint of spice on the layer and the filling in it just burst with flavors.

do note that the place do not serve Alcohol, so you can do your own BYO at only RM 10 corkage fee. But do not have ice also. that is why it is so cheap. Do not expect fancy wine glass as they only provide some glasses, which I am happy.

I know it is Japanese and Italian fusion, I brought along a bottle of White wine and just pairs so well with all his food.

I am happy for my food for the night. My total bill came about RM 180. Certainly would want to come back with a larger group. One of the best Italian Food in KL for such concept.

Make your reservation thru their insta @backalleypasta

If you do not want to dine in, then you can order take away from Beepit

Other local young chef recommendation will be as below:

*NON-Halal

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 9/10, love it!!!~Recommended-Stamped-

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

Location:
Back Alley Pasta
No8 jalan 1/67b, Off,
Jalan Mengkudu,
55000 Kuala Lumpur

Operating Hours: 5pm – 10pm

Tel: 014-758 5780

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MomoChan @The Square, Jaya One

09/12/2019 2 Comments

MomoChan a fusion Japanese dining in The Square, Jaya One PJ. Not only this, as it is also a pet friendly restaurant. Those of you with furballs that would want to bring them there, there is another section for you to be seated. Just ask the staff and they will be able to assist.

As Christmas is just 2 weeks away, check out MomoChan Christmas Menu 2019. A menu that is specially curated by the chef himself. Vegetarians options are avaialble too. The menu is starting from 10th December onwards till they announce in Facebook or at outlet.

If you are looking for simple comfort food and a Christmas menu that does not break your banks, this is certainly one of the place to look after.

Starting off with Shiitake Nanban @ RM 12.90. an interesting combination of Shiitake Mushroom, paired with chicken breast and deep fried in special Nanban sauce. Chicken is tender and juicy with shiitake mushroom taste and the sauces goes very well with it.

Plain Chawanmushi with Yuzu Chili @ RM 5.90. A simple dish with silky smooth texture along with fragrant soy sauce. Love it.

Japanese Karage Winglets @ RM 12.90. A special marinated with soy sauce, sake and ginger. A simple food that gives satisfaction. One of the best starter in the list. Fried to perfection, fragrant and crispty. I do not mind to have 2 basket of this for myself and a bottle of Kirin beer.

If you just would want some simple food, then Japanese Southern Fried Chicken @ RM 20.90. Marinated in buttermilk, batterd and serve with wasabi coleslaw and mashed potato.

Christmas Beef Special (150g Australian Tenderloin) @ RM 31.90 – pan seared, sous vide, then char grilled with Japanese Ponzu Sauce and gratted raddish.

Meat cook to right texture as it is seved medium rare.

For a vegetarian dish, Momochan Love Vegetable @ RM 18.90 is pretty good in flavour. Their chef made tomato and pumpkin puree base is light and fragrant. Topped along with Enoki Mushroom Tempura.

Homemade Belgian Chocolate Ice Cream @ RM 11.90. One of a great ending as the chocloate is bitter to my liking, smooth texture and I had both myself.

A place that serve simple great Japanese food in PJ that doesnt break your pocket.

Location:
MomoChan Jaya One
G.002 the square, Jaya One,
72A, Jalan Universiti,
46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
(Same lvl as Starbucks or next to Tigar Sugar)

Operaating Hours:
Tuesday – Sunday – 11.30am – 10pm

Tel: 03-7453 8988

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A’ Perfetto @ Ss2, PJ

19/12/2015 4 Comments

SS 2 is one of my lunch area but little did I know that there is actually a nice restaurant that sits in this quiet neighbourhood (I mean the stretch of Kayu Nasi Kandar). A’Perfetto is a Italian-Japanese restaurant that serve modern cuisine or you can say modern fusion food.

A restaurant that sits in this neighbourhood with such ambiance is consider posh for me.

Food and price in the menu consider pretty reasonable.

The super main catch that makes me coming back for more is their special in house promotion. Buy a mains and you get a glass of wine and best of all is FREE FLOW all night long. (yap, with just 1 MAIN and you get it)

Mushroom Soup is pretty good. Not too thick nor too watery as its cook just nice and top with olive oil. Rich enough to my liking that serve with two slices of garlic bread.

For easy bites to go along with their wine is Golden Mozzarella Cheese Puff with Spicy Mayonnaise sauce. Puff is bake to perfection where is crispy and crunchy and cheese add on the salty taste with little burst flavour from ebiko and spicy mayo enhance the end taste of it.

This is one of my favourite, Wagyu Beef Hako Zushi is a great twist of combination modern food. In the sushi they add in ebiko that gives bites that creates a little burst in it and wagyu is add on to enhance the flavours of it.

Their pizza is kinda unique where its super thin crust as its more like a tortilla-base. Japanese inspired version pizza where it is filled with smoked duck breast, quail eggs, avocado paste & truffle oil @ RM29

Scallop Risotto with Crab @ RM 35. Lovely dish as it is cook very different as compare to those I had, this is more soft and it is definately very filling. Best to advise to share. Love it as the taste have sweet hint of seafood from the broth that they cook with and a mild hint of mushroom.

Another simple yet nicely done by them is Wagyu Beef Hako Zushi With Truffle Sauce. Beef is cook medium well to suits many peoples taste bud a simple rice dish pack with flavours.

Naughty Duck – duck leg confit with potato tempura and flavorful herb sauce. @ RM 30

Fried Ice Cream for dessert.

Been here couple of times for their mains and free flow wine. A great place to hang out with friends.

*Pork Free

-= KA CHING =-

Food rating 8/10 , One of my fav place with free flow wine. Recommended! -Stamped-

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

Location:
A’Perfetto @ Chow Yang
22 Jalan SS2/10,
Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Operating Hours: 11am-10pm

Tel: 03-7865-5139

Coordinates: 3.115639, 101.616688

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Ido Ichi Japanese Cuisine @ Island Plaza, Penang

24/04/2013 5 Comments

When back to Penang usually, I always wanted to go back street food but my friend always end up bring me to this kind of places. When they told me to dinner is at Island Plaza, I thought they must be joking till they said I must try this Japanese Restaurant – Ido Ichi Japanese Cuisine. Who can really resist Japanese Food?

Well, Island Plaza used to be one of the hottest spot to hang out 15 years ago before Gurney Plaza was constructed. One of a major place that most teenagers to hang out at that time, with many prime brands hosted there. Now they have gone major upgrading work to make it another look and feel.

I got to know thru a friend that Ido Ichi Japanese Cuisine is actually under the group which Azuma Japanese Restaurant is also one of theirs. When I arrive, I am surprise by huge crowd and have to wait for 20 minutes for a table. Seldom will see this situation happen in Penang and its located inside Island Plaza, that makes me curious.

They are operating 2-3 lots that make the dining area spacious with a few sections including sushi bar and close up area.

Price here are pretty decent and I compare to another of my favourite brand Sushi Tei in Gurney, its pretty much similiar

Then we ordered quite a lot for 5 pax and started of with Salmon Sashimi. Finely cut and its very fresh! @ RM 28

For rolls, I would say that they have created their own signature style compare to others and tried both their Una Cheeze Maki @ RM 35 & Shake Mayo Mentai Roll @ RM 30. Both are equally good as ingredient are pretty generous and I like how the cheeze flavour makes it more unique with their own light sauce.

I order something new that my friend have yet try is Tenderloin Cappaccio @ RM 35. It was all gone after I snap the picture. Thin slice beef that cut to perfection, with shoyu sauce and mayonnaise with the fine cut that makes it nearly melt in mouth. Order another plate again.

Volcano Roll is not the best I have come across as I have tried better ones before. Overall, the cheese and mixture of ingredient in it is quite not bad for a Penang version. @ RM 28

This is the fellow who always wanted to maciam maciam places!

Sukiyaki is pretty good too with the soup base quite salty as what I have learn, flavourfull that serve along with fine cut beef slice. It will be perfect during rainy season. @ RM 30

Yaki Gyuza @ RM 8 both item is nice to go along as Gyuza here won many places that I have tried, by pan fried the base perfectly to golden brown and ingredient in it a bit solid.

Both Fried rice are equally good and I prefer more Scallop Fried Rice @ RM 12. Very fragrant with garlic with wok hei. We add extra garlic into our rice to make it extra kick. Seafood Fried Rice @ RM 12

By the time comes to this Avocado Guratan we are all very stuff. Ended up I finish all this. If you love cheeze potato and some seafood this would be ideal for [email protected] RM 18

Kimuchi Ramen turns out to be pretty good, mild spicy and sour end with thin slice of pork in it. Ramen is slightly overcook and if they can make it al dante then would be perfect bowl of noodle. @ RM 18

At the end of the meal, it was a very satisfying dinner with great food. If you are looking for some nice Japanese Cuisine, this outlet certainly would be one of my recommendation.

-= KA CHING =-

Food rating 8.5/10 , Nice ambiance and great food~ Recommended! -Stamped-

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

Location:
Edo Ichi Japanese Cuisine 江戸一
G-05 & G-06 Island Plaza
118 Jalan Tanjung Tokong
10470 Penang
Tel: 04 – 890 3199
Business Hours: 11:30am – 3:00pm & 6:00pm – 10:00pm (Mon – Thu)
11:30am – 10:00pm (Fri – Sun & Public Holidays)

In Buffett By Taufulou 4 Mins Read

Jogoya Japanese Buffet @ Starhill Gallery, KL

02/12/2011 No Comments

Anyone of you can think one of the best Japanese buffet spread available or to recommend? This is the constant question I got asked by my friends as they know I always hunt for food. Well, one of the restaurant I can remember was this restaurant Jogoya Japanese Buffet which offers a huge Japanese Fushion Buffet that located on the top floor of Starhill. My last dining experience in this restaurant was 3 years ago where Jogoya was the most popular buffet spread available that often customer are spoilt with their huge selection, which I think offer more than 100 types of dishes.

In Jogoya, if you are a VIP member, you get to try out some special food selection compare to other normal diners as they reward more exclusive range that will be given a certain numbers of special receipt to clip on and drop to the bowl.

As 3 years ago, this restaurant also offer one of the finest quality in buffet spread as overall they fare pretty well. As time pass, I wanted to visit this place again, alot people told me that their standard drop had then stop me from re-visiting not until recently, friends came down from Penang and requested that they wanted to dine in here. So, here we go again on coming here enjoying this buffet.

This round I am not going to write alot but to spam alot of pictures on what is available in this restaurant.

Their interior design of the place is very cozy, filled with hard cement flooring, filled with wooden chairs and tables… Dim orange lights are shine towards each individual tables that provide you a cozy dining experience.

Let’s head what is available in the store:

always in Japanese food, the first section that every one will attack is this sashimi area which filled with lots of raw food.

Fresh Oyster. . .

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Cheap Japanese Meal at Nihon Kai @ Old Klang Road, KL

23/11/2011 12 Comments

I might have been selfish in sharing food places at times or another way to say it, I have forgotten to blog about it till I look thru my old folder. If you are craving for Japanese food yet you are a bit tight in pocket? well, there is this place I went so often with my ex-colleague and friends, is this Nihon Kai, Japanese Restaurant located at Old Klang Road which is a hidden gem in the area.

For this post, you might think I am being lazy, reason is I have lost this receipt and its a combine pictures of many occasions I went there.

The shop is very hidden but yet they enjoy brisk business for lunch and dinner. One of the reason they are always full is their generous portion of serving at economic price.

There are 2 levels in the shop that mostly cater for 2 – 4 pax and if you have bigger group you will be seated upstairs. .

So during my last week in my ex company, they did a farewell for me in this restaurant again, we book the whole tatami section . . .

You can just see what’s their price range. We find it cheap and nice. .

Itako

Sashimi Platter @ RM 53

This is the set lunch/ dinner that we usually order that they do have about 12 sets to choose from. This is Unagi Set

Grill Fish Head

Seafood set

Torikatsunabe + Sashimi @ RM 20 – Chicken cullet with scramble egg and raw fish, even in the set, you can see how thick they cut the sashimi for you, some even about as thick as 1 n half inch!

California Roll

Here we go, these people are my best colleague that I have been working for the past 2 years, cheerful and helpful . . Thanks to many of them in the company for making the work flow so smooth . .

Set Price start from RM 16 and ala-carte starts from RM 4 . .

Alright, this is a highly recommended Japanese restaurant by me if you are referring to the price and quality. Do not over expect it~

*NON-HALAL

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 9/10, value for money..highly recommneded -Stamped-

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

Location:
Nihon Kai Restaurant
No. 4-2, Jalan Telok Gadong
Off Old Klang Road
Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 03-79823668

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