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Sometimes, its really good to have a nice neigbourhood bar or I consider those outlets inside Hartamas is part of neighbourhood driven. Nevertheless, there is one new bar that open its door few months back and just recently discover on it. I did pass by here many times and notice on it as just didnt pay a visit till 2 weeks back. PReviously was another pub and now being taken over by new group had turn it into Chapter One.

Then our funny question came about, where is Chapter tWo and Three. Eventually we found out that their future expension is going to go along that line, to mark on how many outlets they have.

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something I love about this place is they comes with free Jockey service and this definately give them an advantage to many players in this area and for ladies, you don have to be worry cuz their service is from 6pm till you drunk. Love how they put it their operation time. 😀

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with new management, it also means the whole interior also change, as its more nice and love how they cleverly redesign their bar.

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I was there from 7.30-11pm that nite and this pool table were never once empty. It was being monopolise by those few guys the whole night and of course with the rules, winner stay.

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They serve 5 GAB draught beers (Guinness, Kilkenny, Heineken, Strongbow, and Tiger) ranging from RM12 up to RM16 for a glass, RM17 to RM23 for a pint and RM45 to RM60 for a jug. There are no happy hour for beers, but the ala carte price for the beers are reasonably priced. So, that’s beer hours for all day long! Apart from these selection of beers, there are also other beers sold in bottles.

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Their food range is pretty okay . .

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And since they have something new in this outlet, the bar manager creatively combine a few beers to make up his very own special beer cocktail and its in the menu now.

1) Strongbow Mojito – On our hot day, this will comes in good. Refreshing as it comes with a few flavours. Apple do pair well with this as Strongbow do have sweet end taste.

2) The Sex on the Beach is a mixture of Skyy Original, Peach, Cranberry and Orange juice.

3) Strawberry Daiquiri, mixture of Bacardi Carta Blanc, Creme De Fraise and Lime Squeeze. The presentation is cute.

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Beer Cocktail Promo with a choice of 2 form the list:

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Let me introduce you one of my favourite unique beer cocktail first. Comes with A mixture of Guinness, Bailey’s and Irish Whiskey.

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The Irish Whiskey is added into the glass before dropping the “bomb” (Bailey’s).

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Once the bomb is dropped, this need to be drank up immediately! Love the creamy feeling and once down, you burp and you feel the heat in your stomac. Its something like Flaming Lambo but this is the beer version. Perfect gift for birtday boy and girl.

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Other beer cocktail I find it interesting is of course

1) The Snack Bite Black Pint looked like a sunrise in a pint. It is a combination of Strongbow Apple Cider, Lager and Blackcurrant

2) this name caught our attention – Lunch Box for a beer cocktail name, it’s catchy.. Lunch Box is a mixture of Lager, Orange and Amaretto Disorono..

3) Previously I have seen so much about the posting of this combination of Strongbow and Guinness but yet find any outlet that promote it and now this outlet has it.. Its a bit smooth on the top cuz starting off with Guinness and further down its a great mixture of bitter and sweet end. Not bad~

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Chapter ONE Seafood Salad consists of prawn, mussels, cuttlefish, onion rings, croutons, coral lettuce, olives and cherry tomato, served with homemade thousand island dressing. I must say, the salad do impress me and its pretty good.

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If you are here for their live band and beer, then Crispy Pork Ribs is a MUST HAVE! The pork ribs are well marinated with fermented bean curd and served with sweet and sour homemade Thai chili sauce. It is serve pipin hot, with a bit crips on the end and aromatic. Perfect to go along with any alcohol on your table. .

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Pork Meatball

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Chapter ONE Sliced beef consists of grilled Angus Beef slice served with Japanese Soya Sauce and Wasabi. Its pretty good stuff, and for a price of RM 18, its a good bargain with many slices and its juicy.

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Pan-Seared Black Bass @ RM26

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Classic Pork Burger here are done with homemade style. weight about 200g per patty served with melted cheese, grilled red pepper, sauteed onion, mushroom and potato fries @ RM 28.

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Braised Lamb Shank @ RM38

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Their Spaghetti range is not bad too. We took off with Spaghetti Carbonara @ RM18 light creamy base although I always prefer mine to be thick as not many people like that. This is more generic.

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Spicy Seafood Aglio Olio Pasta not the best but certianly better than quite a number of places. With hint of garic spaghetti moist enough. @ RM23

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Pork Meatball Pasta would be better if the sauces can be slightly more sourish. @ RM20

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Another extra point for this outlet is that their live band is good and its available everyday EXCEPT SUNDAY. Service here is good too.

Location:
Chapter ONE Bar & Bistro
No. 70 & 72, Jalan 27/70A, Desa Sri Hartamas
Kuala Lumpur 50480

Tel: +603 6211 7484

FB: chapter1bistro

Opening Hours:
Daily from 12pm to 1am

Omg! Time just flies as last month I was compiling my collage for Last year main event Arthur’s day for photo print and now I got invited again for this year GUINNESS Arthur’s Day 2012 Media Launch on 23rd August. Times really past in a blink of eye. This round the launching took place at one of a new bar in Tropicana Mall, Studio Lounge.

It will be another month long celebration with promotions for this year Arthur’s Day 2012 with more than 11000 outlets nationwide starting from 23rd August 2012 till the 30th of September 2012. The celebrations will also see the return of the Guinness arThursday Music Parties, which take place every Thursday in selected outlets across the Klang Valley.

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For this year, the themed “A Celebration Made Of More”, inspired by Arthur Guinness’ bold legacies, Guinness fans and music lovers this year will have 3 unique music events taking place simultaneously, citywide on 28th September 2012. It will be another  music celebration this year as they provide music lovers an evening of live music spanning over 5 hours in 3 separate locations around Kuala Lumpur.

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As I reach the location, I am suprise by this converted Trailer with a few bar counter in it to serve Guinness.

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Many pretty Guinness girls are helping out. .

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This is what I mean with a few mini bar that serve Guinness.

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By standing behind here, gives me a great memory when I was working in a bar during my study period oversea, and in here we get a chance to stand behind the bar to make our fresh pint from the tap along to learn from the pro’s how to pour a perfect pint.

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Here is how you pour by tilt 45 degree and let it flow from the tap till it reach Guinness word then let it sit still for the creamy foam to flow up then continue pouring till it fills up.

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Here is my perfect pint pouring.

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As you walk till the end of this trailer then you will see all the Guinness merchandise for sale and nice item they have here, especially the can opener.

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not long after that, guest and media start to fill up this place pretty fast.

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This is the cool stage that they have converted it into for some of the local band performance later and the launching.

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Food being serve to all of us . . .

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all of us are enjoying ourselves here, with Benjamin, Simon and Me

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Anna, Naomi and Me

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How can we not have Guinness on our table to celebrate this great launch together with the rest.

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These are the few crazy people after down some pint.

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ahhh..this guy is classic, Yatz that have been Mia in Blogging scene for quite a while and now great to see him back. 🙂

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As the night proceed, emcee for the GUINNESS® Arthur’s Day media launch is Serena C, that is welcoming guests at the start of the festivities.

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Not only this as ‘A special addition to the celebration this year, in tribute to Arthur’s philanthropic legacies, is the launch of the Arthur Guinness Fund in Malaysia in partnership with British Council, Malaysia. More than RM200000 will be channeled to the program which aims to support local Malaysian social entrepreneurs with the passion for the Malaysia community to deliver measurable, transformational change in our local communities.’

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To Arthur! The man that gave us the world’s favourite black brew and left us a legacy inspired by many.

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Right after that, we were greeted with many local bands performing hard to get a chance to perform on the actual day of Arthur’s day event. It will be the same like last year’s success  ‘arThursday Talent Search’, again they are giving an opportunity to aspiring Malaysian artist a platform to promote their music. For this round there will be 6 up coming local music talents will be battling it out for the once in a lifetime opportunity to be the opening act for ‘Creed’ at the Arthur’s Day concert in Indonesia this year.

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These will be the few bands that going to perform on selected locations in the spread of upcoming 3 weeks, Underheadlights, Car Crash Hearts, Once Upon a Time There Was a Sausage Named Bob, Rhythm Nation, SonaOne, and Busco.

Arthur’s Day 2012 promotions (Everyday) over 11000 bars and pub nationwide starting 1st Sept – 30th Sept 2012.
  • Buy 1 bucket of Guinness Foreign Extra Stout or 4 glasses of Guinness Draught and get an exclusive Guinness Arthur’s Day Pen. There are 3 designs available.

arThursday promotions (Every Thursday)
Guinness will be hosting arThursday over 600 parties at more than 175 selected outlets starting 1st Sept – 30th Sept 2012. Evnjoy Guinness at a special price every Thursday in the month of September.

Here are the selected scene in Klang Valley:

The Asahi event kicked off last week at the Carlsberg Brewery and upon arrival we were greeted by Mr.Asahi the robot~

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I believe many of you have not met Mr.Asahi, the World’s First Ultra Robotic Bartender which can serve a lot more than a normal bartender can at a time. He is capable of opening bottles and pulling 300ml pints and can, serve up to 16 half pints or bottles at a time in less than 2 minutes.

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Asahi is a very well known brand in Japan and Asahi Super Dry is now available here, brewed exclusively by Carlsberg Malaysia in Shah Alam.

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Before the event started, those who came early were lucky enough to catch the Brewery Tour. But that was just the beginning of an eventful night!

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And of course, what better way is there to start off the night than to have a pint of Asahi Super Dry fresh from the tap.

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It is brewed with a unique karakuchi style to give a clean, crisp & refreshing taste with no bitterness at the end.

The event officially kicked off with a welcoming speech from the gorgeous Emcee.

After everyone had their meals and were all ready with a pint in hand, the first round of performance by the Asahi dancers performance started and it was pretty impressive!

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My own dance performance was nothing compared to theirs 😀

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Here comes the participant contemplating on whether to join the dance-off or not. Jackie was being persuaded to join. .

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All of us cheered for him . . His dance moves were pretty good too, which I think is definitely better than mine. (click here, my previous Asahi post with my robot dance video)

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Jackie won himself a prize too along with all the other participants. It might look easy to dance but it’s actually really tough as this dance move takes up a lot of body energy, and is challenging yet interesting. Groovey~

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Last but not least, here’s a picture of the great people behind Nuffnang. Great to see some of them there 🙂

Before we left, we were given a special door gift containing a can of Asahi, a coaster as well as their really cool signature glass.

Special thanks to Asahi for the wonderful night, and I hope there are more events to come!

 

World Cup fever is on at the moment, no matter where you go, restaurant, mamak, coffee shop, pub or club as long as any where there are TV or Plasma, you will see people sitting there cheering and shouting for their favourite country. Sid’s Pub is one of the place to be.

Sid pub is located at Bangsar South one of the new development area, and I would just say, regulars who patron this place would go back constantly after that. Frank which one of the owner, greet every one of his customer including us and he believe that there are no boss – customer relationship just that every one in the shop are friends that never talk.

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In the signage already mention that they are a pub in a friendly neighbourhood, therefore you can expect full house most of the time.

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The interior is very classicly decorated with old pictures and news paper cutting with old wooden style on the ceiling to create the ambiance out similiar like England.

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In the bar, they serve variety of shots, cocktails and few choices of draft to choose from, one of their famous one is Strongbow.

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For me and my siau friends, we always stick with Guinness and the other one stick with his favourite Budweiser.

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These are my two siau friend + Colleague..

One of the reason we revisit this place is, the Happy Hour for Guinness is RM17++ per pint all night long and the place close on last man standing, with this kind of hospitality, what could we ask for. . .

Location:
Sid’s Neighbourhood Pub
Jalan 112h, Kampung Kerinchi,
59200 Kuala Lumpur,


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To be honest, I did not know what is St.Patrick’s day until 2 years ago when I started to read blog, and all I know it Guinness is associated with this event which comes to a conclusion to me that St.Patrick’s Day = Guinness. Then only I get to know what the meaning is all about. It is a annual holiday that is widely celebrated on the 17th of March as to name after the Saint Patrick which is also known as Catholic holiday and had become a big celebration in Ireland after 1600s. Now with this annual event had become a global signature and widely celebrated around the globe.

Then back to my study life when I enjoy my very first encounter with Guinness was thought by a good friend of mine Mervyn and I still remember that time Mervyn and Mike keep telling me, lets go and enjoy BLACK JUICE. I was puzzle and thinking what the hell is Black Juice, not until we reach Crown Casino in Melbourne where there are happy hours going on, they order 3 pint for me. I was like Stim, how to finish some it taste awful. From there, they teach me how to enjoy this great drink till today, Guinness is still one of the drink top in my list. Seriously, a drink that toast to them for teaching me and also TO ARTHUR!

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And to celebrate this great event, we had our very little outing in this restaurant.

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Modern concept of interior with a classic 70’s style live band performance area. .

 

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This place is what known as the cigar or the VIP room.

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For smokers, definately outdoor is a great place to hang out too.

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when we were seated not long and exchanging name cards, what was serve next is of course the Black Juice!

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Most of the meal prepared that night are specially for this occasion and either, season with stout, mix with it or any you can think of.

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It might look plain on this chicken strips but the hidden taste is it had been season with stout for couple of hours and deep fried. Dipping it with the mayonise is finger licking good.

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Sausage is very juicy and meaty and the catch is the dipping sauce, that had mix with some stout and blend in well.

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the meat in it had cook with stout too.

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Except for deserts, they are originals. No alcohol involved.

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You need to slice this open in order to get the umph out of it.

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Chocolate that will flow out once you put through it.

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A experience chef with more than 10 years in the kicthen that had come out with the great menu.

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and all night long me and Ken enjoy our stout not one glass but many glass.

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Saucer and Sunny.

We had a lot of fun that night with Suji, Elaine and Issac (thanks to you guys)from G2 Public Relations and with the rest of us. We had our share and have you?

If you feel you have not enough of Stout or miss the St.Patrick day event, just don miss this great upcoming event that going to be held at 1-Utama shopping mall on 19th of March to celebrate the Guinness St.Patrick Festival 2010. Venue will be held at Central Park Avenue and it will be full of laughter with top Malaysian standup comedian like Douglas Lim, Kuah Jenhan and Kavin Jarayam and couple of top rocking band and activities.

To find out more about this event as well as food promotion, log on to www.guinness.com.my/stpatricks.
I will be there~ see you guys~

Location:
Santini Italian Restaurant
Ground Floor, Tropicana City Mall,
Petaling Jaya.

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