Tampopo - Favorite Food Scene

Daorae, Sri Hartamas/Mont Kiara

From Min Park.
From my sketch journal.
Min Park introduced me to a fantastic Korean BBQ joint which is situated right above a Korean grocer. Awesome! Fantastic ambiance with fantastic food and great company. Lovely! Sam Gub Sal/ Pork was ordered and the tiny platters of sides starts pouring onto our table.



See the lovely cuts sizzling on the iron grill pit. I appreciate that they regard garlic and onions as mandatory ingredients in this meal.
Kimchi cabbage is a must have.
Their soup tastes similar to Japanese miso only spicier.
Min working the chops for the BBQ.


I love this side dish of spicy spring onions. Though quite a huge meal, I still felt very healthy after partaking it cos apart from the pork,everything else was rather light.

Our kimchi pizza. Light,fluffy and I totally dig the flavors with the onions innit.


Tasteful decor. There's actually another floor above us which has private dining rooms for customers to enjoy without the hustle and bustle and loud chatter experienced on our level.

Dim Sum @ Taman Megah Dec 2008

If you're hankering for Dim Sum, I don't have to look any further than my ol' neighborhood's Dim Sum shop which has been there since I can remember. Well prepared and with a wide variety to choose from. Congees, siew mais,har gows, loh mai kais, Hong Kong Chee Cheong Funs, Crispy wan tons, Fried carrot cakes ...the selection is endless! Pity I can only gorge so much in one sitting for breakfast.

Dessert at Svensens @ ss2

Chan Ghee refused me the chance to treat him dinner at Sugimoto but gave in when dessert was suggested. We had their sizzling Apple Crumble with syrup,butter and ice cream. So very good!

Delicious at Bangsar Village

I treated my partner in food crime,Viv, to a late tea cum dinner at Bangsar V's Delicious. All the food we've ordered there has lived up to that title, I am pleased to say. And thankfully after past experience, we have wisely opted to share our dishes together enabling us to order more for our enjoyment. We ordered their spaghetti cabonara.
Huge portions coupled with good flavors,good ingredients and tasteful preps makes it all worth the price one pays for it. I like the chef's idea of putting a single basil leaf on top to add contrast in color to the plate. And I appreciate the flavorful crunch it adds to the bite.

My order of Ceaser Salad. So so good! I will def order it again and again whenever I'm dining here. First I'm having my salad with the egg cooked as a separate entity and not mixed in with the salad dressing as I anticipated. But most prob another egg has been added to the dressing already. thin anchovies strewn along the top of the pile with huge chunks of bacon and sliced of toasted baguettes subsidising the usual croutons makes for a very very good Seaser indeed. I just love this dish.

My Vanilla Milkshake over Viv's Mint Iced Lemon Tea. I go for Creamy,baby!

And an order of their Antipasti Platter for pure decadence. Always a winner at the table. Duck/Chicken? liver pate with melted butter on top, with a side of grilled tomatoes in olive oil dressing (my fave), grilled mushrooms, grilled whole garlic clove(another fave of mine), puree egglant, grilled asparagus and grilled squid. So so very good with a basket of toast baguette slices. We had to order another basket to balance the mouthfuls of antipastis.

Delicious comes very highly recommended as it is affordable with very well prepared dishes to please anyone.

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Debs took mum out for her birthday here and kindly made room for me to join in which I was thankful for cos the food was good. But it would be a meal I would regret cos I had to endure weeks of bowel twisting and tummy aches after that. Too much of a good things should be monitored. What I enjoyed from most buffets is the salad bar spread. If its good,I'm happy. And if they have an ever better dessert spread,then WHOOPEE! This particular joint had a good sushi bar which I shamelessly left my mark on,visiting it after each empty plate.

Gorging on sashimi all sorts is a thing of joy!



Their tomato aioli.
Squid ink pasta in tomato sauce.

Stir fry chicken,prawns and squid in cream was sooo sinfully delicious to the last bite.
Le Meridien and the Hilton joint? at Midvalley boasts the best dessert table I've ever enjoyed. You can see I had a ball creating my own dessert art. Waffles oozing with butter and maple syrup with ice cream,fudge and choc stick with nut sprinkles is sooo decadent and heavenly.


Their other options,I wasn't so crazy about...just for my own creations of delight.

Cafe Pat Kin Pat Sun in Cheras

I'm so glad Barb introduced me to this new place in Cheras that's different from our regular food dives. Def an improvement on the usual grub we get at Cyberjaya.
So far we've done 2 visits,but their huge array of food choices prompted me to make this an eating target till I've covered a fair amount of ground going through their menu.
What we had so far.....

Crispy Crabstick roll from their Dim Sum menu. Yeap, they have a Dim Sum menu along with their already full ala carte and set menu. Sooo many things to try, so little tummy space.

Steamed Bean Curd Rolls. Most of their dim sum items range about RM3.80 a dish so it allows us to try more just one or 2.
Their Har Gow was better on our second visit. More moist and juicy compared to the dry and hard centre from the first batch.
Crispy fried rice for RM8.50. So good,we'll def order this again and again and again.
Their Dory fish fillet with house special sauce which is basically garlic cream with herbs and I suspect,cheese. Sooooo sinful and tender,juicy and succulent,we now order it everytime we pay the cafe a visit. Oh,and RM12.90 per order.
I love mopping up the sauce with my hot bun.

CAFE PAT KIN PAT SUN (like a Hong Kong inspired theme cafe)
111G-115G Jalan 1/91
Taman Shamelin Perkasa
Cheras 56100 KL
tel : 603-92831929

Zakura

Viv recently treated me to a Jap dinner last Saturday at a quaint looking little Jap restaurant called Zakura something...sorry. Viv,can you help me with this? Decent chow at decent pricing.
Thank you so much,Viv! I won't go greedy with the Tempura ice cream ever again.
Vivs tempura sashimi and unagi bento.

My tempura sashimi bento.



The tempura batter had yam and chocolate flavored ice cream inside. Never again...too heavy a bite to handle after the bento.

Viv's order of green tea ice cream wth red bean paste.

A typical Chinese dinner at PJ Old Town.

Crispy bass in a bed of soy sauce.

Pork ribs. No dinner is complete without some prokers on the side.
Stir fried long beans.
I love this beancurd stew dish. Oh so good!
Black pepper beef strips.
The Pièce de résistance...Braised Duck! I'm in love!

Old Town Kopitiam chain

Some small in portions, but quite tasty enough nontheless. Though it can burn the wallet for these standard dishes. I'll usually order their ipoh hor fun with a side of omega eggs or their nasi lemak with crispy chicken or their curry chicken with rice for a quite satisfying to my tum meal. I won't be ordering their eggs on toast anytime soon though their kaya with butter and toast is really awesome with a cuppa ice milo. Yum! I dig having a side of curry puffs too to lap up the curry chicken gravy.

Lunch at Padi

My order of Thai Style Crispy Chicken Rice with and egg on top. If I'm not mistaken, it costs about RM6.90 or was it RM7.90 each ? Ah well....anyways, it all looks appetizing and pretty, but the overall taste came out really bland than what it actually looks like. Most of the stuff I've eaten there so far is kinda on the bland side,save for their dried fish fried rice. Their fries are pretty decent and good but I wouldn't order the onion rings again, good as it was due to the really small portions served. I've as yet to test more of their menu options so we'll see how that fares.
Cheers folks and happy chowing!