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

Restaurant Jin Xuan Hong Kong S/B

For real and good quality dim sum, go for Jin Xuan Hong Kong newly opened dim sum shop in Damansara Jaya. Jin Xuan offers good selection of authentic Hong Kong dim sum. With its good food, is always crowded and you'll probably have to queue.

Marmite pork ribs RM10

well seasoned and yummy

3 baskets of dim sum RM3.50/basket

All the standard dim sum were fresh and delicious


Fried glutinous rice RM5.00

Tasty and chewy, with a firm texture

Porridge RM4.00

Porridge is very smooth

One good thing about this place is the wide selection of dim sum that you can choose from steamed dim sum selection and deep fried dim sum selection. They also served dessert like kwei ling kao ( herbal jelly) and pudding.

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

Restaurant Jin Xuan Hong Kong S/B
No.59,61&63, Jln SS22/19,
Damansara Jaya 47300
03-7729 6866
7am - 3pm

Birthday dinner @ Oasis Rib

09.09.08 was Kyren's 4th birthday. He requested to have birthday dinner at Uncle Vernon's place aka Ribs@Oasis.

Fish and chips

Thumbs up, the batter was nice and crispy. The fish was moist and tender.

Meatball spaghetti4 huge meatballs, tasty seasoned. The spaghetti was a bit soggy


Leek and shrimp pasta

Leek is perfectly cooked in this creamy pasta recipe

After an awesome meal is time to sing Happy Birthday song.

jelly cake as desert.

Rating:
Service ****
Taste ****
Presentation *****
Price ****

Ribs @ Oasis
Lot 1-1, BU4, Oasis Complex
No.1, Jln Changkat Bandar Utama
47800 Bandar Utama
03-77298921

tea time @ rasah jaya, seremban

Recently, I went to Seremban to attend my cousin's wedding. As we all know that normally Chinese wedding dinner never start on time and always start late like 8.30pm. Normally I'll have something light so that I'm prepared for late dinner.

My uncle took me to this restaurant in Rasah Jaya to have tong sui before we go for the wedding dinner. Restaurant Bubur Manis Zhuan Kee is a place to meet whereby in front of the shop have ample of parking and they snacks that they served is cheap and tasty. Here they have variety of hot and cold dessert, wide selection of kuih-muih and local fried noodle.

Indulge and enjoy colourful dessert

Yam cake

Black glutinous with santan

The joys of living in a small town like Seremban is you can find good food for cheap.

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

Restaurant Bubur Manis Zhuan Kee
Jln 6/3, Rasah Jaya
Seremban

Choco Pie: cake with marshmallow cream inside

I was watching a drama starring Rain. In that drama, his daughter, Bori loves to eat choco pie. Choco pie is a popular snack in Korea. It is actually two layers of cake with marshmallow in between and chocolate coatings.

Last weekend I bought a box of choco pie from a Korea Mart in Desa Sri Hartamas to give it a try.

One box contain 12 packs of choco pie RM10.90

After a bite, I love it very much. It felt a bit chewy on the mouth and that was the marshmallow has the chewy feeling. The cake was foamy, soft and coated with rich chocolate but not too sweet.
Choco pie makes a great snack for kids and after dinner dessert for a family.

Naili's Place @ Sentul

Naili's Place in Sentul was a nice place to go for dinner. The place is surrounded with music and natural setting. The food was great, especially the nasi lemak and ABC.

ABC special RM6.00

Still taste good like last time.

Rainbow Tree RM10.90

Mixture if Kiwi, Strawberry and Mango. Refreshing
drink but is kinda too rich and is very sweet.

Spaghetti Marinara RM15.90

Seafood sauce with prawn, squid, tuna and musses.
Nice sauce but the spaghetti is a bit too soft.

Fish and Chips RM18.90

Fish fillet is over fry, the batter coating is too hard.

Tom Yam Beehoon

Tom Yam soup is nice.

Sizzling Chicken RM27.90

The sizzling plate is too hot until the gravy all dried up.
The potato wedges and broccoli is burned due to the plate over heated.

I was kinda disappointed with the food, it just doesn't taste as good as it used to be. The standard dropped a lot compared to years back. Is either they have change the chef or business is too good that they don't bother about the food quality?

Rating:
Service **
Taste *
Presentation ***

Price **

Naili's Place
116C, Kg. Chempedak,
Jln Tmn Dato Senu,
51000 Sentul KL
019-2020755, 019-3930878

Leo's Cafe with Amber Chia as ambassador

Cafe also have ambassador???

Leo's concept - Trendy cafe offers a unique lifestyle concept in the food and beverage industry. This uniqueness is based on its innovative & creative selection menu for the current food trend, coffee, pastry and in-house made Gelato.

Go Green RM5.80

Green tea with a wedge of lemon. The glass is very small
and filled with a lot ice and a huge lemon. Therefore the
drink is very little and it's freaking expensive drink.

Leo's enrich coffee mixed with milk tea RM2.50

Leo's 'cham' is too diluted.

Clay pot teriyaki chicken rice RM8.80

This is one of their recommendation dish. The chicken thigh
cooked with kikoman teriyaki sauce is juice and tender but
it's cold when it served. I don't find this dish special and is
not up to my expectation. If this is really their recommendation
dish, I think the owner have a lousy sense of taste. One more thing
I must highlight, this dish wasn't cook in the clay pot, it's
actually served in clay pot.

X.O sauce Fried rice with chicken RM7.80

Hardly can taste any X.O sauce and it's luke warm when it served.

Nowadays there are so many of this kind concept cafe with great interior design, cozy and innovative menu. But end of the day how many of this concept cafe serve great food? Normally I don't set too high expectation towards this kind of concept cafe.

The food price is reasonable but the drinks and dessert is expensive .

Rating:
Service **
Taste *
Presentation ***

Price **

Leo's Cafe
61-9Grd Flr Jln SS2/75
47300 Petaling Jaya
03-7875 2978