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In Bangsar By Taufulou 2 Mins Read

The Press Room @ Bangsar Shopping Mall

24/06/2013 No Comments

Another new discovery for me as I seldom come to this Bangsar Shopping Mall. First discovery was a dining outlet next to this, WIP is pretty good and worth recommended the now after being invited to Nokia 501 Asha Launch with dinner incuded, I must say the 3 course meal of food quality is quite impressive at The Press Room.

Pressroom is an interpretation of a vintage European brasserie. The emphasis is on simple Anglo-French brasserie food made from the finest ingredients.

Love the ambiance, as its interior is modern European style.

Since there are 2 of us so I order 2 different sets of dinner.

I have never put any expectation in this dining as usually the food catering is pretty let down and start off with Pumpkin Soup. I must say I am suprise with how good this soup is. Slightly thick and creamy that good enough with well balance of taste. Not too strong or thick with pumpkin and well mixture of little cream that they are using. It was gone within seconds. One of the best pumpkin soup I can come acorross in KL.

Casear Salad is pretty decent.

Pan Fried Sea Bass with Spiced Chick Peas and Tomato Ragout. Fish is freash and being pan fried to perfection that the skin is slighlty crips with mild salted end along with fish meat is soft. Season spices chick peas pairs well with tomato ragout and fish. I put 3 of the ingredient onto my fish that burst in flavours. Loving it.

Grass Fed Rib Eye with Mixed Salad and Black Pepper Sauce

For such a place, I never thought that the Rib Eye is awesome. Soft and juicy. Serve medium and top into our list too for steak now.

For Carrot Cake, its one of the best I have come across, moist enough, not too dry and the icing is not to sweet. Perfect to eat along with a good coffee

Apple Tarte Tartin

Latte for the end of the meal.

For a nice dining or catch up with friend, this outlet had fallen into my recommended list also. Price are reasonable. Easily RM 40-RM100 per head depending on what you are ordering.

Location:
The Press Room
Lot G110 Ground Floor, Bangsar Shopping Centre,
Jalan Maarof, Bangsar 59100 Kuala Lumpur
(facing main road)

Tel No.: 603 2095 8098
Email: [email protected]

Opening Hours : 11.30am to 2.00am daily

In Chinese Food By Taufulou 3 Mins Read

Kang Beef House @ Jelutong, Penang

17/06/2013 3 Comments

A new discovery by my friend last round and they are so keen to bring me to this place that they said its one of the best for beef soup so far and before I fly back to KL we stop by this shop to have our dinner. Kang Beef House is easy to be located as its located nearby the junction of the triangular in Jelutong heading towards Perak Road on the left side.

Upon walking into the shop near to this little stall, you can smell the fragrance of the soup trailing into the air that makes me instantly hungry and looking forward.

not only famous for their beef noodle, also famous for their Beef Steamboat which I would surely come back next round to try it out.

The outlet is semi air condition as they use alot of chilling fan.

Price here are very reasonable for a bowl of beef noodle.

Ordered Crispy Beef Balls @ RM 5 which is quite normal & Deep Fried Beef Lobak with their own special seasoning and eat with chili is something good to kick start with @ RM 5

Beef Noodle soup with all ingredients added in, from beef slices, beef cubes, beef balls and all other spare part. The soup is thick in flavour, very aromatic and little herbal light taste on the end and love the taste of radish sweet taste. – Recommended~

Crystal Beef Fried Rice @ RM12.80 is something very unique. I mention unique as with the wording crystal and they actually fried something out with every bite is very crispy with very small tiny cube of crisp. Beef slice is soft and the rice fried with wok hei.

Claypot Beef Soup @ RM 15 for 2 person with a mixture of beef slices and tendon. Love the soup as its more peppery spicy base with chili padi end that makes it very umph! – Recommended!

Black Pepper Beef @ RM 15 small is fried to perfection that the beef slice still soft and not over cook and black pepper sauce all well coated onto the beef slice.

Surely, this is one of the place to hunt for if you love beef noodle soup or steamboat to kill for. Will be back.

-= Ka Ching =-

Food Rating 8/10, pretty good -Stamped-

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

Location:

Location:
Kang Beef House
474 Jalan Jelutong
11600 Penang

Tel: 04 2810892

Business Hour: 12pm – 2.30pm & 4.30pm – 10pm

Close on Tuesday
GPS Coordinates : 5.392588 100.313886

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In Chinese Food By Taufulou 7 Mins Read

Homecook Hong Kong Food at Private Kitchen (私人厨房 ) @ Uptown Damansara

02/11/2012 No Comments

[Update: 1/5/2016 – now have move to SS2)

Damansara Uptown is famous for a eatery place whereby we can hunt a few nice place to eat with a great mix. One of the latest addition outlet to the area is this Private Kitchen that I have been told that they started off with small little privite dining and its popularity had grown then they have to operate into a shop. Hence Private Kitchen was the name and now is available in bigger space with both ground floor and first floor (more for private functions or family gathering).

I have travel to Hong Kong a few times and yet find something similar here. Hong Kong food is definately must not miss. Well this new discovery,Private Kitchen is no ordinary shop like those restaurant in shopping mall as they are offering more authentic home cook Hong Kong Cuisine. The man behind the master creation is Chef Lam with experience of more than 20 years on him. Being in Malaysia for less than 18 months, he had creatively come out with many unique dish to impress.

A cosy dining area with wooden chairs with many pictures that resemble on Hong Kong that certainly makes you think you are in Hong Kong Restaurant.

Chicken wings are well deep fried to golden brown, crisps on all edges, with mild spicy and salty at the end. A great way to start off our dinner.

Follow by this delicious Smoke Duck with Mango. Juicy and chewy slice of smoke duck which is aromatic and blend well with light sour sweet mango, perfect! – recommended

I love my meal to start off with soup, and this double boil soup.

Is just a great way to make our stomach warm. Boil along with pumpkin, pork and some other ingredient makes the soup sweet enough just as I like or its just me that love soup, any kind of soup is tasty to me. 🙂

As we all had the introduction of the meal, then we head to the next meal section which is their set lunch menu that I am totally jealous with most of the office worker working around the area. Set lunch start off with as low as RM 7.90 and below are some of the items can be found.

Hong Kong style steamed chicken in sand ginger powder noodle soup @ RM 9.50

Finely chop ginger slices is one of the extra condiments that you must not miss out to pair with the chicken. I finish it and asked for another additional. Not too spicy ginger taste which had tone down and suits many people I think. Well, if you are not a ginger person its worth for you to give it a try.

This is no ordinary steam white chicken. Been perfectly marinated and bath with ginger serve along with hot soup noodle is one of the way to satisfy your lunch. Soft tender chicken meat, with slightly fragrant sauce that blends well with the noodle soup. If I drink the sauce it will be too salty as it is not meant to drink that way. I pour the gravy into the soup it made it extra flavorful.

noodle in the soup to pair with the chicken

Noodles with mince meat & fried egg in tomato soup @ RM 7.50

This is no ordinary instant noodle. Well, I often got scolded for ordering instant noodle at restaurant because of the pricing and its easy to cook. Sometimes I just crave for it and cant help it. This here is a must try. It look pretty ordinary or simple yet the hidden ingredient why I love it so much is they cook their own soup base with tomato and pork that makes it sweet enough (something like ‘Loh Shun Tong’) filled with mince meat and a simple sunny side up. Love the soup as its slightly sour tomato base and we just finish it within seconds as the instant noodle cook to springy. – highly recommended

If you love to have some pork, then you can opt for this Typhoon shelter noodles with Pork Chop in Chili and Garlic Soup @ RM 15

Comes with deep fried pork as the side dish and noodle, perfect for raining weather at this moment.

Stir Fried Pork Ribs with Rice @ RM 12.90

Sweet and soup pork ribs might looks ordinary, but this is a well balance taste, mild sweet and more pineapple sour taste as they cook along where you can buy chunks of pinapple. Deep fried pork are in cubes and soft that pairs well with the rice.

Fried Rice Portuguese Style with braised pork belly & Seafood @ RM 16 is filled with wok hei and too bad that they don have sambal or chili oil to pair with. If not it would make it more outstanding.

Private Kitchen Stir Fried Prime Beef Fillet with Strawberry Pepper Sauce @ RM28

Now lets head to more of its ala-carte menu. Begins with this is pretty unique dish with me, as strawberry is being used to cook along in this dish.Cook till the gravy is well coated onto the beef, tender soft and juicy with mild pepper spicy after taste makes it a great dish for me.

Something creamy and palatable then go for this one of my favorite for the night, Deep Fried Pork Ribs with Special Salad Sauce @ RM32. Me and Ken just enjoying this dish by just munching it half a plate with it well coated salad sauce, sweet and slightly creamy that make it appetizing.

Creating your taste bud dancing, Stir Fried Squids with vermicelli in Special Chili Sauce is next to hunt for. YOu have to eat it pretty fast and if not, the vermicelli will soak the soup pretty instantly. Soup taste of it is pretty amazing lime, sour spicy and squid is just fresh, chewy bouncy as I like. RM 28

oh oh, this dish is pretty Hong Kong style as Portuguese Style Baked Chicken Chop @ RM 18. Slightly can taste on powdery ginger curry taste which definitely relates back to HOng Kong dish as the chef hvae slightly change the ingredient as he mention the ingredient here is pretty good and the base of it is potato is amazing. -Recommended when you have your rice.

Some of you might find the curry slightly powdery but that is what Hong Kong curry taste like. 😉

I know I am being called taufulou, yet this is another amazing by the chef. Crispy fried Tofu with Salt & Pepper @ RM 16

The chef have made the toufu so delicately soft that nearly melts on your tongue with crispy base outside with light after taste of pepper and the bite of it taste as soft as taufufa. Is the chef special mixture to make it outstanding. If you have beer on your side, this would be the best option!

another dish that was gone within seconds as the aroma of the spicy garlic trail on our nose that make it so tempting. Private Kitchen Typhoon Shelter Prawns with Chili & Garlic @ seasonal price. Huge succulent prawn being deep fried along with chili and garlic make this dish simple and nice.

Any vegetable with pork, I am up for it. Private Kitchen Sautéed Chinese Chives with Dried Shrimp and Shredded Dried Cuttlefish @ RM18 is a well balance vegetable that comes with me, and the best part is the small little salted fish is crispy and the saltiness that bite after it with the vegie and pork.. ooo so hard to resit!

End with this healthy herbal jelly. Not many people will like it but its something unique to end off with. I am okay with it and I believe my parents would love it.

I must say, this is one of the most impressive Hong Kong Restaurant that I have come accross and you do not know where to dine, this is one of a highly recommended restaurant in my list for Hong Kong Cuisine.

*NON-Halal

all pictures are taken by Samsung NX210

Location:
Private Kitchen Hong Kong Cuisine
103 Jalan SS21/37
Damansara Utama (Uptown)
47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
(same stretch as HSBC or nearby Ryokan Hostel)

GPS: 3.13451, 101.62378

Tel: 03-7728 8399
Hours: 11:30 am – 3 pm, 6 pm – 10 pm, closed on Monday

In Buffett By Taufulou 3 Mins Read

Food Tree offer 1st Ramadan Buffet Dinner @ Glenmerie, Shah Alam

12/07/2012 1 Comment

Usually I do not really head to Shah Alam as this would be my 3rd visit into Shah Alam. Mostly I will pass by and head direct to Klang for food hunting. Quite a new discovery for me yet I am quite surprise to find this new eatery location for our upcoming Malaysia festival which is Ramadan month that is smack right in the famous Glenmerie industry area. A brand that is new to us and suprise to find out that, there are many famaliliar brands under stranger this company OWG.

Restaurant Food Tree is one of them. Food Tree was establish in year 2010 that offer wide range of local and western food with some of their chain ‘Only Mee’, Shanghai 10 and other brands that they have. They also do provide off-site business meetings with full conference facilities, free Wi-Fi, and a special VIP room for press conferences and private functions.

MD welcoming speach to all of us. ..As being in the industry for more than 30 years, finally they had taken steps to do their very first Ramadan buffet by gather a few talent chef to come out with these range.

Here is some of the signature food and there will be more offering during that day.

Deserts to close on your appetite.

Then Eric wanted to be the ambassador for the mooncake as I told him, you will just spoil the brand.

Here are some of the range of mooncake that they are coming up with. . .

Then we got a private session on how to make mooncake with the chef that prepared all the range.

It look rather simple just by taking a roller and roll on the dough till its flat. .

added some flour into the wood crafting design as the ball will be store inside it. . gently press firmly onto the mold . . .

Then bammmm, hard on the table to let the mooncake flop out from the wood. .

Tadaa, here is the few mooncake that is out. Snowy skin version.

Then we have Evelyn and Chou Yin on the stage to learn how to make mooncake. Much to their discovery, it is not that hard after all with correct method and pressure apply they can do it too. 😀

Their durian pancake is heaven that made with D24 durians and evenly spread with cream and skin is just very thin. Too bad its not included in the Ramadan list. Would be available as ala carte.

Reasonably price at RM 78++ per pax that wil have a few stalls being station outside the buffet area and not only that, you will get to enjoy some street shopping too as they are pairing it with a mini market stalls just right beside it.

Location:
The FoodTree
Only World Group
No 10 Jalan Pelukis U1/46
Seksyen U1
Temasya Industrial Park
40150 Shah Alam
Selangor

Phone: 03-5566 8000 / 03- 5566 8079 / 017-289 0566 (Call 8.30am – 6pm daily)

In Bangsar By Taufulou 3 Mins Read

Wine & Dine with Craggy Range of Martinborough, New Zealand @ Cava, Bangasr

25/06/2012 No Comments

Bangsar sure is a place for diner’s paradise. There are actually many hidden restaurant around the area. This would be a new discovery for me that there are actually a stretch of shop lots right opposite a housing area host many outlets here.

I reach here about 7pm and quite suprise to see that many of the outlets are pack with happy hour drinkers. Some holding wine glass and beer mug. After some chit chat only discover that they have their very own crowd to dine there as the food quality and price tag are reasonable.

Cava Restaurant serve Spanish and Mediterranean Cuisine.

The place is quite dim with orange light that provides comfortable dining experience.

For tonight, I was lucky to be invited by Cheng Yi (FatboyBakes) to sample along with great food and wine pairing dinner, as the range wines offer is by Craggy Range.

The wine are branded under 2 labels which the Wild Rock is the more easy to drink and Craggy Range come with more character on it. In short Craggy Range bottles are on the higher end side. This would be my first time trying out New Zealand wine.

Menu for the night~

Upon arrival, we get to sample their first range, The Sauvignon Blanc 2011 Wild Rock, New Zealand wine. I am quite fussy over my white wine as it is hard to find something I like and to my suprise upon my first sip, I fell in love with this bottle. It is easy to drink for a wine, smooth texture before begin starter. A young wine that can provide such taste and texture I am impress. Surely its a highly recommended wine~

salsa, garlic balsamic vinegar mix and breads just pair well with my wine.

In my thought, in a Spanish restaurant what can this be serve? Thought it would be like Chinese dining experience like those Herbs chicken. Guess what? Its:

Mushroom Cartaccio With Foie Gras consist of Button, Portobello and Enoki Mushrooms in White Wine, Herb.

Wine : Craggy Range Fletcher Family Riesling 2009

As the night progress, we get to sample more and more range including the red. Red with their two range.

Oxtail Cocido

Braised Oxtail with caramelized onion, roasted sweet potato and grilled asparagus paired with a glass of WILD ROCK GRAVEL PIT RED HAWKE’S BAY MERLOT MALBEC 2010

Mains – Setas De Pierna De Cordero & Grilled Prawn

Roasted lamb leg, stuffed with foie gras, pimento, mushroom served red wine pink peppercorn sauce and Tuscan beans and grilled butter King Prawn

Wine : WILD ROCK CUPID ARROW PINOT NOIR 2009 & CRAGGY RANGE TE MUNA ROAD PINOT NOIR 2010

Dessert Platter – Spanish Cheese Platter served with fresh & dry fruits, nuts, crackers & berry compote

Monica an expat blogger which is cheerful and excited whenever talk about food and wine – Me and Ken

Alison and Cheng Yi both of them are just a good wine drinker. .

It was a great small event organise and get to know the Craggy Range Manager – Brent Hindman himself and most of us got back with new friends and enjoy this new wine range.

To me, its my first wine range that I sample I love their both White and Red range. Surely a recommended brand by me.

Click here to learn more about this brand

Location:
Cava
71 Jalan Bangkung,
Bukit Bandaraya,
59100 Kuala Lumpur
03 2093 6637

In Featured By Taufulou 5 Mins Read

French infuse dining at Petite Millie @ 1-Utama

05/06/2012 No Comments

If you been to the new One Utama on their newly refurbish wing, you can get tons of F&B outlet there easily. One of the new discovery that we came accross is this shop located in between old and new wing right in front of Carls Jr I am not mistaken is this shop called Petite Millie.

[Update – No longer in Operation – Currently is Franco]

A shop that had another outlet in Menara Kencana Petroleum in Solaris Dutamas called Millesime which some of you might heard of it before, along with the meaning of ‘vintage’ or ‘good harvest’.

Why is it called Petite Millie? Is literally translated as ‘Little Millesime’, which opened its door early this year with the concept of modern European casual dining as well as the incorporation of fine dining as Millesime’s heritage.

The restaurant serve some French-influence cuisine fresh with daily ingredients.

The interior of the area furbish with modern European dining concept. .

Price in this outlet are very reasonable ..

1) Leprechaun’s Brew @ RM 14

3) Goodness, Gracious, it’s Green @ RM14

Chef Adam

Here comes our dish and being bombard with first Roasted Leek and Potato Veloute @ RM12.50. Looks Creamy and pale to me that garnish with chives and avocado oil and certainly did impress me with the taste of it. Simple, not too creamy yet thick along with the taste of the fish is being detected.

Provencale Root Vegetables and Brolotti Bean @ RM12.50. The tapenade is made with black olives, blended in a food processor until it becomes very smooth. I usually do not like anything that have tomato in it especially in soup but this is something that I can accept and well cook along with the carrot is soft by eating along with the soak crouton is just nice~

Luv a Duck is a must that I had feel in love when it was serve. Simply look delicious from the serving itself. .Maybe I am a sandwich lover that something came out like that is hard to resist that serve along with peppered duck breast and fresh rocket leaves. The crust bread at the bottom is soft and pair well with all the ingredient and the duck breast is simply being cook well. @ RM23.50 – Recommended!

One thing that caught my attention that it had been long time since I had dine along something with poutine and this restaurant do serve it. Poutine is actually a dish of French Fries and fresh Cheeze curds covered with brown gravy sauce that origin from French Canadian. Some other restaurant have their own recipe or other ingredient being added along too.

I must say Poutine Cheek in Petite Millie is impressive! Taste of thick brown gravy cook along with shiitake mushroom with chunks of beef being cook medium well is just perfect. Cant stop eating this dish. another dish to be recommended! @ RM26.

First of all the name of this dish is very tricky as it is called Very Atas One @ RM26. When other’s ask me what is the name of this dish, I told them is Very Atas One then they said woi..what is the name of the dish, I repeated myself again and they said don play la. . I show them with my very serious face~ Really!!! its called very Atas One, and they thought I am joking till I need to show them the menu. 😀

One of the reason that I think its called ‘Very Atas One’ as they have the might cube of blue cheeze sitting on top of this dish cook along with thinly sliced of beef, and caramelized onions. Its a love and hate relationship of this dish either you enjoy or you do not like the taste of it. SEriously the blue cheese they have tone down already and its not very strong in smell nor taste. I guess its to suits every one taste bud. You have to mix it well, if not I manage to bite a chunk of blue cheeze that will just make you go beserk . .:D

Iberian Beef Cecina serve along with Sliced air dried beef loin and capsicum concasee @ RM19,50

Avocado and Crab… c’est une boone vie prepared with thyme, balmy lemon oil, refreshing chive, crab meat salad and Avocado @ RM19.50. I would called this French Pizza that serve in thin crust bread. Fresh baked and eat it while its hot.

Another delightful dish is Emilia’s Tagliatelle al Duck Ragu is two ducks preparation, pesto and oregano. Love the texture of it and eat along with duck ragu is just aromatic in one bite! @ RM28.50.

One of Petite Millie Signature is White Truffle Oil Fish Pie @ RM36.50

Love the pippin freshly toast crust that being cook along with white truffle oil baked fish pie with shiitake mushroom. After cutting the crust with cracking sound then the aroma of the soup just burst into the air make all of us eager to try it out. A bit creamy soup base and eat along with the crust is just a perfect pair~

Bourguignonne Style Beef Bavette @ RM46.50

The Angus Flank of beef braised with shallot, mushroom and demi glace lied pleasantly.

Millie Mascarpone @ RM16

Panna Cotta @ RM16

Apple Crumble @ RM16.90

Malaysian Treasure -Coconut Cheesecake.

Banana Cheesecake.

If you are looking to dine something with French Infuse restaurant, petite Millie would be one of the restaurant to head too as there are a few dish that I recommend is worth to try .. .

*Pork-Free

Location:
Lot G 146, Ground Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Centre Petaling Jaya,
Malaysia 47800

Contact Number : +603- 77320395

e-mail : [email protected]

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PetiteMillie

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Wine & Dine with Craggy Range of Martinborough, New Zealand @ Cava, Bangasr

French infuse dining at Petite Millie @ 1-Utama

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