Luk Yu Tea House

After tried their dim sum selections, we went back to the same restaurant to try other food from the menu. Coincidently, they were having promotions during our visit where we could order their rice and noodle selections with reduced prices. Of course, the portion was small than its usual one but it is good to try since we wanted to try many different food.

Yang Chow Fried Rice
Simple fried rice, enough taste and not too dry. The portion that they gave us was enough for two bowl.

Fried Kuay Teow with Beef and Fried Loh Shu Fun
This fried kuay teow may look small portion but it is quite delicious and it tasted better than the fried loh shu fun below. The ingredients included the sliced of beef, bean sprouts and egg.

And this fried loh shu fun looked quite delicious too but still not enough taste. I did not know whether it was because I ate the fried kuay teow first, then I found this noodle not enough taste. However, it gave quite a lot of ingredients which include minced meat, bean sprouts and kau choi.

Fish Head Noodle
Another good try was their fish head noodle. I liked the fish head soup with milk. It is very delicious. It gave few slices of the fish meat with some tomatoes, ham choi and fried onions. It always go well with rice vermicelli.


Also visit my other reviews on Luk Yu Tea House,
http://liyenz.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/luk-yu-restaurant/
Location:
Luk Yu Tea House, Feast Floor, Starhill Gallery, 181, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Kim Lian Kee

Today let me bring you back to Petaling Street and stop by at this famous Chinese restaurant called, Kim Lian Kee which is located next to another famous soya bean stall at the T-junction of Jalan Petaling and Jalan Hang Lekir.

I brought my colleague from Singapore to try the black-colour version of Hokkien noodle sometime ago. So, first thing first, we tried the fried Hokkien Noodle. Again, I am not a big fan of Hokkien noodle but with a small portion of this noodle, it is enough to give comment. Overall, it was enough “wok hei” (wok heat) and I can smell the “delicious” coming out from this noodle. The thick yellow noodle was not too dry and the sauce just thick enough. It used lards to fry this noodle.

This is how it looked like. The ingredients inside this noodle included some sliced pork meat, few prawns and some vegetable. Eat it while still hot, Slurrpp! You can try this noodle at Lot 10 Hutong

Because my colleague likes to eat spicy food, we ordered two additional dishes. The below picture shows the fried chicken cubes with dried chillies. The amount of chicken cubes is almost equivalent to the amount of the side ingredients such as shredded carrots, onions, capsicum cubes and dried chillies.

Next, fried prawn in kam heong style. It is another spicy dish and I quite like it. The kam heong’s smell was great! I cannot resist from eating it.

Location:
49 Jalan Petaling  50000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Amarin Thai

It was nine months back, when I revisited Amarin Thai in Mid Valley for lunch. It was a team lunch with my teammates and my manager then.

We went to Amarin Thai because we have a teammate who likes to eat spicy food. It was his last day of his 2-week working trip in KL before leaving for Singapore. It was a big feast because we ordered quite a lot of food to eat.

The Pineapple Fried Rice was one of them.

I think Tom Yam Goong is a must try dish in every Thai restaurant that you visited. We ordered the clear-soup Tom Yam Goong with seafood. We told the waiter to reduce level of spiciness. However, it turned out to be out of our expectation. It was very spicy! My teammate who took his first sip of the Tom Yam soup when it was served, has expressed the spiciness with the word, “Wah! Very spicy”.

The waiter who took the order for us happened to pass by our table and overheard what my teamamte said, smiled and said, “Yes, it is very spicy”. *Eyes rolling* Did not we ask for less spicy?

Although it is spicy, indeed, it is a great Tom Yam Goong and the ingredients inside were not anything less than the mushroom, fresh big prawn, squids and slices of fish meat.

We wanted to order the Banana Leave Chicken but five of us could not share four pieces of chicken and we thought eight pieces of chicken were too many and we could not try other food. In the end, we ordered the Chicken Cubes in Yam Basket.

Lastly, we ordered the Steamed Siakap with Lime Chili.

You may check out my other reviews about Amarin Thai,
http://liyenz.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/amarin-thai/

Location:
S045, Level 2, Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Pancake House

Pancake House opened its business for quite sometimes already in Mid Valley. Please do not mix up this restaurant with Paddington House of Pancakes which is located at The Gardens, Mid Valley.

I went to the Pancake House, which is located at 1st floor of Mid Valley. I went there during my lunch time with my friend. After going through its menu, we decided to go for something light and simple.

Spaghetti with Sandwich
It is just a simple spaghetti bolognese with toasted sandwiches. It is nothing much special to mention.

Another view of the spaghetti.

The set comes with a glass of Ice Lemon Tea.

And of course, the pancake. They gave us the butter and honey to spread on to the pancake.

Location:
Lot F-048, First Floor Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, Kuala Lumpur.

Wendy’s

With the given Wendy’s vouchers, I went to buy my Sunday’s lunch at the Wendy’s outlet which is located at Jalan Sultan Ismail. When I went into this fast food restaurant, there were some “mat-salleh” eating burgers there. The place looked quite empty.

I spent quite long looking at this menu before I decided which set I wanted to try.

Finally, I decided to get 2 sets of the Premium Fish Fillet (Cod Fish).


I quite like their big fries. Unlike McDonalds, their fries’ cutting is bigger than McDonald which I feel it is more filling.

This is how the burger looks like. From my personal taste, it is just another fish fillet burger, no further comment.

With purchased of 2 combo sets, I can get six pieces of nuggets for free. Yes, it is also part of the given vouchers. The nuggets were just normal nuggets that we can get it from the supermarket.

Then is there any specialities? I do not know. By the way, it is my first time eating Wendy’s after it has opened for few years in Malaysia. If you choose to eat here, you can get free refill carbonated drink.

And ample place to sit.

This is how their kitchen looks like. I waited quite long to get my burgers ready too. I guess it is because the burgers were not ready made like other fast food restaurants. They only cook when there is an order by customers.

Location:
Wendy’s (Besides 7-Eleven and Standard Chartered Bank), Jalan Sultan Ismail. 50250 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Little Taiwan

Sometimes ago, I tried this set lunch offer from Little Taiwan. The Tang Tang Noodle with salted vegetable, some minced meat and an egg and 2 sliced of beancurd. I think the set lunch is no longer in their menu.

However, the Spicy Dumpling Noodle is surely still available in the menu list.

For more reviews about Little Taiwan, you may check out my posts below,
http://liyenz.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/little-taiwan/
http://liyenz.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/little-taiwan-2/

Location:
No. T023A, Third Floor, Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Lot 1.46, Food Republic, Level 1, Pavilion, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Ko Hyang

I went to have my lunch with my team-mate and a colleague from Finance department. We decided to eat at Ko Hyang, which is located at Lower Ground, The Gardens Mall. When we reached the restaurant, it was full house. The waiter asked us to look through the menu and place order while waiting for a table.

Soon after we placed our orders, we got our table at one of the corners. As we sat down, the drinks that we ordered were served. As usual, I prefer to drink green tea. They used the same green tea bag as the Kyung Joo Korean restaurant at Level 3, Mid Valley.

Then, the side dishes consisted of kimchi, anchovies and shredded carrot and sengkuang (yambean). I am not sure if this side dishes can be refilled or not as I did not see any waiters refilling the side dishes for us.

The main dishes that we ordered, the Kim Chi Ji Gae, a thick and rich kim chi stew
with rice.

Kal Guk Su – Handmaade spinach noodle with seafood.

We ordered the Kimchi Pajeon, a seafood pancake with spring onion. They also gave a small plate of kimchi paste.

Location:
LG K-05, Lower Ground Floor, The Gardens Mall, Midvalley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, Kuala Lumpur.

Sushi Zanmai

Chicken Katsudon
I went to the Low Yat Plaza’s branch on last November 2010. The promotion that they were having was the Chicken Katsu Don with Ice Lemon Tea. It was RM8.80 only. I looked back some old pictures posted here, I did try it before but I did not remember.

Here is the whole set offer.

Yaki Udon
We ordered another small plate of Yaki Udon. It is a fried udon with some vegetables and cubed chicken meat. It has an option to fry with udon or soba. I think it is good to try the fried udon because the udon is thicker than soba.

You may check out my other reviews on Sushi Zanmai,
http://liyenz.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/sushi-zanmai/
http://liyenz.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/sushi-zanmai-2/

Location:
Lot G005 & G005A, Ground Floor, Plaza Low Yat, No.7 Jalan Bintang, Off Jln Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.

TGI Friday

It was suggested by my colleagues to go to the TGI Friday at The Gardens, Mid Valley on Thursday’s evening for dinner. She said she thought of eating there all of sudden and wanted to celebrate another colleague’s belated birthday. All of us headed to the restaurant shortly after 6.30PM.

As we settled down at one of the corner tables at the restaurant, we went through the menu from front to back, from appetiser to main dishes. We spent quite long time to decide what kind of good food to have on that evening.

While waiting the food and drink to come, I took this picture below that showed the Chinese New Year decoration at this restaurant. Simple better than nothing.

Okay, my bottomless Iced Lemon Tea

Fried Mac and Cheese
Our appetiser. It was crunchy outside, cheesy inside. For me, the creamy cheese inside the crunchy breadcrumbs was just right and not too strong.

This was how it looked like when I bit it into two pieces. The creamy cheese and the macaroni.

Here is our main courses. It consisted of Cedar Seared Salmon Pasta. The salmon was pretty big pieces, almost covered the whole plate of the pasta. Haha, actually, it is because the plate was quite small. But, the salmon were really generously big pieces. 

Chicken Caesar Salad
This round, the plate was big and the salad and chicken breast meat were big too. It was quite nice with its special dressing.

Let us have a closer view of the salad.

The beef steak. I am really sorry, I do not know much about eating steak. So, I trusted my colleagues to decide the level of rawness of this steak. Was it medium well?

Let us have a closer look. It was suggested by my colleague to display the steak in this way. It garnished with many fries and some broccoli.

We were very full to finish all these food, but luckily, we have a guy to finish it all. After all, we have a lot of fun being together outside of the office.

Also, visit to my other reviews about this restaurant,
http://liyenz.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/tgi-friday/
http://liyenz.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/tgi-friday-2/

Location:
Lot F226B, 1st Floor, The Gardens Mall Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

1901 HotDog

I wanted to look for some simple food for lunch and coincidently it was 19th of the month, where the 1901 Hot Dog was having promotion for their hot dog selections. At RM 2.90, I can get the one-foot-long hot dog sandwich as below.

The hot dog is nicely wrapped in between the long bread with mayonnaise and tomato sauces on top of the long sausage.

At the sides, they put some sliced kiwi (is it kiwi?). I felt satisfied after eating it. Good try!

Location:
Concourse Level, C01B, Suria KLCC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.