The Colonial, Taman Danau Desa

I don't usually go to Taman Danau Desa, but over the weekend I was there with my boyfriend because he has a appointment with his client. Our plan was go there for lunch first then only see his client. We don't know what is good to eat, we just park the car near the client's place and walk around see what's good to eat.

As we walk around, we saw this shop call The Colonial. This shop caught my attention because of it's old colonial style. We look through the menu first then only decide to dine here.

Following is what we ordered:

Butter Pork Rib with rice

The meat is slightly tough. Overall the taste is nice and
the butter sauce is great to mix and eat with the rice

Char Kueh Tieu

Hawker stall char kueh tieu is still the best. The char kueh
tieu is very bland and I think the chef didn't fried with very
high heat otherwise can taste the flavour on each and
every piece of the kueh tieu

Service ***
Taste **
Presentation ***
Price ***

The Colonial
19, Plaza danau 2,
Jln 4/109, Taman Danau Desa
58100 KL
tel: 7984 8884

Korea wave

My boy friend and I have always been a fan of Korean food, especially Kim Chi and barbeque cuisines. Last Sunday evening both of us were watching K-drama and were thinking where we should we go for dinner. Suddenly the TV screen show a scene of a family eating korean barbeque beef. At that moment both of us have the urge of eating korean barbeque. I suggested why not we go to Seoul Garden in One Utama for korean berbeque buffet. Without second thought he said yes.


When we reach there, we were kinda disappointed because it doesn't have large buffet selection as what others buffet offered. The buffet line here has 2 selections: barbeque and steamboat selection. The soup for the steamboat you may choose tom yam, chicken or kim chi soup. Since we are craving for korean food of course we go for kim chi soup. The soup was bland, it was like they add a touch of kim chi and boil the soup. So what I did was, I took some kim chi from the buffet table and add it into the soup to make it more tasteful.

I'm not going to talk about every single dish one by one. But there are 2 dishes that I would want to share because I really like it. Firstly is teriyaki fish, the fish was fresh, juicy and chucky. Secondly is the mutton, it's not label so i'm not sure what kind of marinade they used but it taste great. Most of the mutton is fat cut and I have to slowly dig for those that got less fat.

I'm surprise to see bloggers give good comment about this restaurant. Was I too picky or I put too high expectation? Frankly I find RM35+/pax is not worth to pay for this kind of poor selection.

Service ***
Taste *
Presentation **
Price ***

1 Utama
Unit F235, First Floor

tel: 03-7722 1339, 012-609 7385

Umai-ya @ Damansara Perdana

2 weeks ago we ( Kar Yen, Jien Feng and I) gave SP a birthday treat at Umaiya. I insisted that we go to the outlet in Damansara Perdana because I find the food here is better as compared to the other outlet in Uptown.

We were lucky to have a private room because we never make reservation. Everyone had great time and were satisfy with the food served. Most importantly the birthday girl enjoyed the food especially the udon noodles. She claimed that it was the best udon noodles she ever tasted.

Dragon Maki - unagi, cucumber, prawn and avocado

My all time favourite maki. It was a superb
combination of flavours.

Saba shioyaki - grilled mackerel

Must order this, it was a awesome dish! Imagine alone
I can finish the whole fish

Una cheese maki - rice roll with unagi, cheese and fish roe

The taste was good, but I don't quite like the texture because this
maki doesn't taste how a original maki should be. Rightfully,
a maki should consist of crunchy ingredients such as
soft shell crab or tempura prawn.

Chawanmushi

silky smooth chawanmushi

Sushi platter - part of the bento set

Veggie tempura

Green tea ice cream and Goma ice cream

Goma ice cream made of black sesame and peanut. The great thing about this ice cream is the sweetness of the ice cream is balanced by the saltiness of the peanut.

Service ****
Taste ****
Presentation ****
Price ***

Umai-ya Japanese Restaurant ( Damansara Perdana)
G-3A, The Place, Jalan PJU 8/5D
Bandar Damansara Perdana
Petaling Jaya
Tel: 03-77290015