La Gourmet House @ The Curve

I've always like going to The Curve. I love the food that can be found there. As far as I can remember, La Gourmet House have been around The Curve for a very long time but I never got round trying it. So this time, I've decided to give it a try with my bf.

It was a windy day so we decided to sit outside. We can enjoy the wind and also enjoy the view. hahah... See everyone passing by with lots of purchases in their hands.

One thing that really caught my eye once I sat down was this. hmm... You can sit at your place, press the button to ask for the bill or water? I never got to try it, I am not sure it works though. haha... coz... all the waitresses was standing outside, I don't get a chance to try it. :p

Since I lost my receipt... I can't remember what I ate. But as you can see, what I had is actually sausages with mashed potato and some salad. It says in the menu that the sausages suppose to be cover in tomato sauce, for some reason mine came with mustard. hmm... Anyway, the sausages taste REALLY good. :D The mashed potato taste really good too. Personally I don't like mashed potato to be overly mashed till its creamy. I like it a bit dry and hard and I don't mind it with chunks of potato too!

The salad was really unique. Everything is sour. =_= I've never had salad like this before... but it didn't taste bad, it's unusual for me, but it taste quite nice.

My boyfriend ordered lamb pie. It looks more like lasagna than pie to me though. The pie taste excellent too! The top layer is nicely baked and inside there's loads of minced lamb. :) Smells good and nicely cooked.

The sauce for the pie came seperately. If you have the pie with the gravy, it taste even better! yummy!!!

The meal didn't come cheap though and it's not to say overly priced as well. Average each meal cost RM 20++ and not to forget 10% service charge and 5% govt tax. The food is good, I will definately go there again and try other food from their menu. :D

Paddington Pancakes @ Plaza Damas

I know I haven't been blogging for a looong time. Anyway... here goes... haha... Some time ago, my ex-colleague - WN came all the way from Old Klang Road to Mont Kiara to find me for lunch. We ended up having pancakes at Plaza Damas.

We all know that paddington pancakes are expensive but we never knew that they actually have set Lunch! The have set breakfast as well. Since the day we went was a Thursday, we had Atlantic Thursday which is actually fish burger.

Set lunch comes with softdrinks or tea. I had Earl Grey Tea. It comes in packet and a glass of hot water. No sugar provided, there's honey for you though. Depends on thick you like your tea, you can take out your sachet of tea anytime. I had to take it out after a while coz my tea was getting too thick!

Then... the main course came... To our horror!!! It's HUGE!!!

Look at it... it's HUGE!!! How can any normal human finish this fish burger? There's like 3 slices of pancakes and the fish is like so huge... comes with chips as well. >.< _=" The">

Paddington Pancakes @ 1 Utama

I first saw Paddington Pancakes at The Curve. Never been in there before. Then I saw another branch at Plaza Damas and I had my first pancake lunch with my bf and it's excellent. Then, somewhere last year, the open a branch in 1U. They've open quite some time, but I never got a chance to eat there.

Last week, before the movie, I went there with my bf. The branch here looks really nice. Since there's an outdoor seatings area and you can have seats that can enjoy the "forest" view.

Paddington pancakes kitchen are open. Basically you can see how they operate from wherever you sit. The food here are very costly so I don't come here often. hahaha... But it's also well worth the price. There's plenty of pancakes for you choose from in their menu. From dessert pancakes to savoury pancakes to burgers made out of pancakes...

Their pancakes looks really declicous from all the pictures. One good thing about Paddington is, what you see is what you get. Which means, what you see in the menu, you get exactly the same thing on your table. I know many places where food looks good in the menu but it turns out otherwise when it's served.

Since I already had a heavy lunch at Fish n Co before this, I only order one drink. Mango Orange Fizz. Damn expensive man! The drink cost RM7.50!!! Anyway, my bf was damn hungry. haha... So he ordered Mexican Double Cheese Burger. Look at the picture! Yah... the burger bread is made out of pancakes la. Pancakes here taste really good!!!

I thought their main attraction is pancakes. I never thought they cook their beef so well and serve really good beef! You can just cut through the beef so easily with just a normal dinner knife and not those steak knife. It taste really really good!!! BUT... it's not cheap la, RM 25.50++.

But for what we eat, I think it's well worth the price. If I am richer, I might go there more often lor. Unfortunately not hehe...

Fish n Co @ 1 Utama (Again!)

I was out shopping with Sylphiel, haven't seen her for a loong time. She's got new hairstyle and new hair color. hahaha... I shall not comment about it here. hahaha... Anyway, poor her, getting all stressed out at work.

Anyway, since she usually don't get anyone accompanying her to try out new food, this time around, I told her to choose a place to eat. So... we ended up at Fish n Co. Previously, Xell ate there too. Please refer to this post. She ate something else, but the best food in Fish n Co is definately their Seafood Platter.

It's not cheap of course, but you get a lot of variety of seafood. This has always been my favourite dish here. In fact... nearly all the time I go there, I'm having their seafood platter. Seafood Platter comes with loads of fried calamari, fish, 8 prawns, 8 mussels, rice and chips. This time I went, they gave 10 prawns and 6 mussels instead. lol... I remember coz I used to count.

The one we ordered is Seafood Platter for 2. It's so huge that usually it's enough to serve 3 person. There's also seafood platter for one. However, if you ordered for one person, you don't get mussels. The best dish in Seafood platter is their Fried Calamari. Yummy! But there were too much calamaris and chips. Sylphiel and I just couldn't finish our food :(

The meal cost RM 56.50 after tax. A bit pricey but it's definately worth the price!

Porto Romano @ TTDI

Porto Romano, an Italian restaurant which is opened very recently at TTDI. It's next to California Pizza and it's quite difficult to miss with the large purple restaurant name. I've been making noise I want to dine there ever since I saw it opening. So... one fine, nothing-much-to-do Sunday afternoon, my bf and I, not knowing where to have our lunch at TTDI (it's about 3pm), we ended up in the restaurant.

There was a warm welcome when we step into the restuarant. The staffs were very polite. Since it's a 3pm afternoon, we had the entire restaurant to ourselves. The restaurant is lightly decorated with Christmas ornament to bring out the Christmas mood. There's some light Italian music playing on the background. It's really a very comfortable environment to dine in.

The restuarant looks quite posh however the prices in the menu is cheaper than I expected. The food range between RM 10 - RM 40. They have all sorts of wine glass on display, I believe they do serve some good wine here.

There's also an open area for smokers or for anyone who wish not to dine in an non air-conditioned environment.

Since I am not suppose to be eating "too" much, I ordered one of their house specialty - "Porto Romano Seafood Soup". I think that's what it's called. :p The soup looks really good once its serve. There's a generous amount of calamari, prawns and clams filled with tomatoes and garlic taste. There's plenty of tiny garlic cubes in the soup. For someone who doesn't likes garlic, this is not something they will like. I am a garlic person, I seriously enjoyed the soup. There's also just nice amount of black pepper taste in the soup.

My bf was really hungry. We didn't know what to order, so the usual thing we like is Beef Pepperoni Pizza! It's known as Devil's Pizza in the menu. :P And my my, when the pizza came, it really made me drool! The smell of the pizza is just soooo nice!!! It's really cheesy and with lots and lots of pepperoni. All big pieces!!! The crust is so thing it's like having cheese on top of biscuits. This really is one of the best pepperoni pizza I've eaten.

The restuarant not only have many house specialty food, they have their own chilli sauce too! This Chilli sauce is made out of red chillies, vinegar, ginger and salt. And this is what I call Chilli sauce, it's really spicy!!! Those Campbell, Heinze etc chilli sauce really cannot compare with this. hahaha.... oh... the chilli sauce is suppose to goes well with pizzas and pasta. I didn't have much coz I find it very spicy. :P (This is not something Xell can touch!)

Without the need to request, there's parmesan cheese and dried red chillies served right at table. :D Excellent service! hahaha....

This was really a satisfying meal. I felt so happy leaving the place and I must go back there again. For some reason, I really enjoy Italian food. :D I love the food at Antonio's too! Though the 2 restaurants have completely different ambience and theme so you will have a different dining in both of these 2 restaurants.

p/s: Xell, Ya, J... You guys wanna dine here next year? I think we still owe you guys one meal :D Since this place is not that bad...why not we have our meal here?

Zuup Bar @ 1 Utama

Zuup Bar is one of those places we've frequented for many many years. We love the food and we love the people working there. The bosses are extremely nice people!!! We always chat with them and their name are Gavin and Mike. Anyway, there's been quite some changes to the shop and menu ever since we started eating there. Change for the better of course!

Zuup ...the name sounds like soup right? haha... They sell all sorts of soup here! Most famous for their Mushroom soup I guess. It's really good. After all the changes they've made, Zuup now has a soup menu and a normal menu with every other food other than soup. hahah... They also took over Famous Amous shop lot and now Zuup has an inner room which is pretty hidden.

I've tried most of their soup. Personal favourite is... their Irish lamb stew!!! This time around, Ya and I had clam chowder.

Look at the soup! yummy! it's really thick with a lot of clams in it! You can have the soup in a bread bowl but we were having meal and the soup is plainly for sharing, we didn't. Otherwise there's no way we can finish our food. :P

Ya had mushroom spaghetti. Or I think that's what they call it in the menu. ahhaha... The spaghetti is pretty much cover up with mushroom soup. They serve very good mushroom soup here but this spaghetti is something new on their menu. It taste good!

As for me, I had black pepper chicken chop. It was good except for there weren't enough sauce. And of course, with excellent customer service here, I was given extra sauce. :D And my, the piece of chicken was big and I really had to stuff myself to finish my meal coz we had soup as well.

And this is Xell's favourite. She nearly ordered this EVERY single time she eats here. It's call chick on toast. There's this big chunk of chicken, with ham layered on a slice of toast!

Usually the thick sauce with lots of mushroom is serve with Chick on Toast. Since Xell hates mushroom, she requested for the sauce to be serve seperately. Or shall I say... Gavin/Mike knows that Xell hates mushroom so they wanted to serve the sauce without mushrooms. Ya was saying she will have all the mushrooms (which in the end she didn't), so Xell was ok with the sauce having mushrooms inside. But to our surprise, there were LOTS of mushrooms. hahaha...

It's a really relaxing place and it's one of our favourite restaurants. The restaurant has Free Wifi and also PS2! Play all you want, it's free. :D Do go there and you won't regret.

Zuup Soup Bar (pork free)
LG 223, Lower Ground Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Centre, Lebuh Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya,
SELANGOR
Email: zuup@ycan-ventures.com
Operation Hours: Monday to Sunday From 11:30am to 10:00pm
www.zuup.com.my

Fish n Co @ 1 Utama

Last two Saturday's ago, I finally had a hair cut... yes, I can hear all my friends and stylist cheering as I was starting to look like a cult member but I wanted to keep my hair long so that I could swish my hair like the actress in "My Sassy Girl" but unfortunately, my hair's too thick to swish and could kill somebody in the process instead...

Anyway, after chopping off few inches off my long locks and my stylist was very happy with the results, she was swishing my hair left and right as it was so much more lighter now, me and ah ya had lunch at Fish n Co. We were given a very warm greeting (I'm not being sarcastic here, the waiter was really super friendly) and an introduction on the menu and the chef's recommendation for the day. Anyway, he was wasting his breathe on me coz I always eat the same thing... hahaha and when he mentioned that the chef's recommendation dish is a bit spicy, and I went "Spicy?" and he kept insisting that it's a BIT spicy. But like I said, he was wasting his breathe on me coz I already knew what I wanted. Anyway, to make his speech worth it, ah ya had the chef's recommendation and you know what, I actually forgot what the hell is the name of this dish! Haha...

And as usual, I had my Fish and Chips... yes... I love fish and chips.... Anyway, I love their fish and chips, the batter was crispy and not soggy and doesn't make me feel like puking after a few bites. So, I heavily recommend Fish n Co if you're looking for good fish and chips!

And we couldn't order any shakes as their blender was down that day but I had ... ok I forgot what's the name of this drink but it has cranberry in it coz it taste like my fav medicine when I was a child... And ah ya had 2 glasses of some lime drink as it was under this "Buy 1 Free 1" promo and in the end she couldn't finish both drinks coz I didn't want to drink it, it was dreadful! It's sour and bitter! Bleurrgghhhh!

California Pizza Kitchen @ KLCC

Prior to the concert, all of us had our lunch in California Pizza Kitchen. Since this is not the first time I had a meal here, I very much look forward to having something different from what I had previously. My previous meal here was very satisfying. :D Though it's a couple of years ago (i know...haha)... I would assume that restaurants in KLCC would maintain a certain level of quality in their food.

California Pizza Kitchen is located at Park Mall on the first floor. If you take the escalator there's no reason why you will miss the restaurant.

The interior of the restaurant looks really classy and very comfy. If I didnt remember wrongly, if you look out the windows, you get a very nice view of the park. Unfortunately we didn't get the window seat. But since it's afternoon, it would be too bright for us if we were to sit there.

Peking Duck Pizza

I was getting a bit adventurous on that day and since my friend highly recommend this pizza, I gave it a try. And from what you see in the pic, it's no normal pizza. It's Peking Duck Pizza! There's pieces of duck, with peking duck sauce and there's lots of spring onion on top. First bite... *speechless* second bite... *speechless*

Overall, the pizza just taste very weird to me. =_= I dunno why my friend like it so much. I guess I am just not used to sweet pizza with spring onion taste. It was really really weird and I didn't quite like it. :( And I was not the only one who didn't like it, J find it weird too! This is definately a big NONO to me when I go there again. There's plenty of other good pizzas. :D

Rosemary Chicken Focaccia

The second dish we had is Rosemary Chicken Focaccia. Looks very promising, unfortunately... it tasted weird too. :( Ah...all the weird dishes in a day. The salad was really good! But the chicken was weird. It's written in the menu that there's white wine in it. I don't think I tasted much of the white wine. I tasted wasabi instead. =_= I think it's mustard.

According to one of my friend... she say the whole thing taste good if you eat everything seperately. =_= As in eat the bread, then eat the chicken... just dun eat them together, then it will be weird. Must be the mustard!

So sad that my second trip here was not a satisfying one. Ordered wrong food. :( Do go there and order other dishes coz the food is good. Maybe there's a lot of people who likes these 2 dishes, but definately not for me. Be prepared before you go to the restaurant coz the price is slightly on the high side. The peking duck pizza cost RM 30. I can't remember the price of the second dish.

I will definately go there again as they have plenty of other dishes to offer. :D