Pasta Zanmai @ 1 Utama

This is my second post for Pasta Zanmai ; however, with more food to intro this time :)
Let's start with temaki or known as hand rolled sushi.

Chicken Teriyaki Temaki (RM4) and Soft Shell Crab Temaki (RM5)

For temaki, you could opt for either tortilla or seaweed wrap. This time we go for tortilla wrap and it was surprisingly good! A change from the normal seaweed wrap. Chicken teriyaki temaki is chicken in teriyaki or sweet sauce wrapped in tortilla with rice and lettuce. As for soft shell crab temaki - soft shell crab with rice, lettuce and fish roe wrapped in tortilla.

In case you wonder what is tortilla - itz some kind of a bread/pastry ; almost same like pita bread.

Meat Omu Set - RM22

This set comes with a bowl of salad and miso soup. This dish is acutally rice wrapped with egg served with tomato based meat sauce. Taste somewhat like you are eating spaghetti except itz rice.

Kani KouraGratan - RM10

This dish is something like au gratin. Pieces of crab meat baked in cheese served in a crab shell. When you first dig into this dish, it taste salty as they put rough salt on the edge of the shell. This dish is not worth the money coz itz really small.

Unagi Set - RM20

This set comes with a bowl of salad and miso soup too. Slices of unagi or eel drizzled with sweet sauce served with a bowl of rice. yummy~

Asari Curry - RM26

You can choose this bowl of noodle soup for wafu soup (clear soup) or curry. This time we chose curry. Asari is actually lala/clams. Handful of lala served in curry soup. Worth a try.

Sirloin Steak Set - RM30

This set also comes with salad and miso soup. Strips of grilled sirloin steak with teriyaki sauce? served with rice. Side dish for this steak is mashed potato. The steak taste ok but after a few strips I began to feel 'fan wai' ; maybe because it was half done. Then I pass the whole dish to my bro. Haha..

Hotate Pizza - RM26

This dish is my fave!! Hotate or scallops with mushroom baked pizza. I cant remember the sauce they put on top of the pizza but it is so yummy yummy~

Sansu Mori - RM12

Desert time!! This desert comes with 3 scoops of ice cream - black sesame ice cream, macha/green tea ice cream drizzled with azuki/red bean sauce and chocolate ice cream served with crispy waffle slices, drizzled with chocolate sauce. My pick goes to black sesame ice cream! which taste the best among all.

Strawberry Parfait - RM15

This glass of desert comes with a few layers. Top part was strawberry ice cream with whipped cream and chocolate sauce; then a layer of cornflakes ; then a layer of strawberry ice cream again ; finally strawberry puree at the bottom of the glass. Yum~

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Add-On to the above: My first visit to MidV Pasta Zanmai.The food served is just as delicious as the one in 1U.

Special Ice Green Tea RM 3/glass- the taste is different, not sure what they mixed in. It could be some milk powder or creamer, but I kinda like it.

Salmon Sashimi to Ikura Okonoshi no Pasta RM26/set - Raw Salmon & grated radish with salmon eggs. Set comes with a bowl of fresh salad and miso soup.

Ebi to Mochi no Cheese Pizza RM26 - Prawn and Japanese Rice Cake Cheese Pizza.

TGIF @ The Curve

We have our Christmas dinner at TGIF and decided to order the RM39.90 set dinner menu.
For RM39.90 you would get an appetizer, main course and desert.

The set menu is divided into 2 categories choice of food : healthy or sinful

Lets start with the healthy alternatives :

Boneless Wings (Appetizer)

Strips of marinated boneless chicken wings served with celery sticks and mayo dressing. The chicken wings taste sour - not to my liking.

Shrimp Martini (Appetizer)

As the name suggested, handful of shrimps cooked with cucumber and tomato dices served in a martini glass. Doubtful that the shrimps are cooked with alcohol though.

Chicken Caesar Salad (Main Course)

Loads of lettuce with croutons served with chicken breast. The chicken was good but they put too much mayo dressing. Not so healthy huh.

Key West Whitefish (Main Course)

Whitefish as mentioned would be sauteed dory fish served with brocolli in a special sauce. This is my fave so far.

Cookies & Cream (Desert)

2 big pieces of chocolate chip cookies served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, drizzled with caramel and chocolate sauce. yummy~~ this desert taste much better than the choco cake below.

Next the more sinful option which means more calories loaded food.

Mac & Cheese Bites (Appetizer)

Deep fried hand battered flour bites with oozing macaroni and cheese on the inside. yummy~

Chicken Alfredo (Main Course)

Spaghetti in creamy white sauce served with a strip of marinated chicken breast.

Chocolate Malt Cake (Desert)

This cake taste like the ordinary chocolate cake that you could get from any bakery shop.

Merry Christmas everyone!! Do stay tune for more posts in the future.

"Ji Mui" Sea Park @ Bandar Puteri

The famous legendary Sea Park curry laksa has finally open their branch in Bandar Puteri.
We had ordered beef noodles, curry laksa and clear soup noodles. To be honest, nothing much to shout about. All are at normal standard except curry laksa is above average =).
Oh yeh.. the beverages is good. Not like those made of "sugar water" drinks !!! Hehehe.....
Pricing is reasonable as you can see from the banner itself. ~~ Have a try ~~

mY VegetarI'an! @ Bandar Puteri

Mini steamboat set with the price at RM19.90. Kinda comfortable environment where WiFi services is provided at the cafe. Bundles of mags for your reading, astro under wide LCD screen and many more. Worth for a visit!

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Well Cook Gourmet @ SS14

Fried Mee Suah and Fried Asam Laksa.
Reasonable price start from rm5 per serving.
The Laksa taste superb. It has almost the same ingredients as normal Asam Laksa (eg: bunga kantan, sliced onions, cucumber, taugeh...& it's being fried) Since the taste is strong, you are advice to have the fried mee suah before laksa else mee suah will become tasteless ~
They do have claypot pan mee and curry laksa. Looks good. Well, will try it out someday =)

Surprisingly, it came out in the newspaper > TheStar on Dec 21, just about a week after this article was posted!!! Blogger epicuriousgirl said "warrants a re-visit". So what do you think? Tempted????

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Rakuzen @ Hartamas

The birthday dinner venue is Rakuzen!! Not for my birthday though :p
This Japanese restaurant is located at Hartamas Shopping Centre. I have been here once and I simply love the food!

For starters we have Hako Kani Salad. Loads of fresh garden salad, chunks of tomatoes, slices of fresh crab meat (which were served cold), top with lotsa tiny fish roe ; served in a special sauce. The green leafy was really fresh as well as the crab meat. I could not really tell what made up the sauce but it really blends well with the whole bowl of salad. Though RM28 is a lil bit pricey for a bowl of veges but itz worth the money as everything taste fresh and the portion is big!

Hako Kani Salad (Big) - RM28

Then, comes the Sashimi Unagi Zen. This is a bento set which consist of a big slice of unagi (grilled eel in sweet sauce), sashimi (slices of tuna and salmon), miso soup, fruits, chawanmushi and a bowl of rice.
The unagi taste yummy and the sashimi was fresh! Superb!

Sashimi Unagi Zen - RM48

My friend ordered Soft Shell Crab Temaki. Big chunk of soft shell crab with rice and lettuce rolled with a piece of seaweed. *drooling*

Soft Shell Crab Temaki - RM8

Next is Saba Shioyaki. Two pieces of Saba fish grilled to perfection with salt sprinkled on top of the fish skin. Taste is marvellous!

Saba Shioyaki - RM16

After that comes Rokkaku Bento. Prawn and vege tempura, slices of sashimi, unagi, slices of fresh octopus, steamed radish served in a big laquered box. This set comes with a bowl of rice, mixed salad, miso soup and chawanmushi. I did not try the radish coz itz my least preferred food. I tried the octopus slice and it was surprisingly good. It was chewy and taste good with some sesame sprinkled on top.

Rokkaku Bento - RM60

A close shot of salmon maki and fish roe sushi. Notice the big fish roe biji-biji? *Woooott* Super!!(though itz salty, really)

Here comes soft shell crab. Crispy soft shell crab *Yum *Yum*

Soft Shell Crab - RM22

Next is Rakuzen Bento. This is the largest portion of bento in the menu. Enough for 2 person! This set comes with octopus slices, steamed radish and a piece of perfectly grilled cod fish. The cod fish was really good!

This bento set also served with few slices of sushi (salmon, fish row, scallop, mackerel and tuna sushi)

Chawanmushi - RM10

Not only that, this bento set comes with the following! Prawn and vege tempura, skewered chicken slices and "see ham", chawanmushi, salad, fruits, rice, salmon and squid sashimi, fish roe and miso soup! Huge portion rite?!

Rakuzen Bento - RM75

I was too full to eat anymore but I still managed to stuff myself with the skewered chicken slices :p The grilled chicken is nothing to shout about though.

Da' birthday babies

Then itz time to wish the birthday boys and girl. I thought the restaurant waiters would come up something creative besides than singing the birthday song but it was quite a disappointment as we sing much louder than them. Huhu.. However ,customers from other tables were clapping for us. Hehe..

We bought a kiddy "cake" for the birthday boys and girl. Hahaha..

Let's see a close-up of the "cake"

Cute heh? Itz actually made of jelly!

Overall, the dinner was good. The food might be a lil bit pricey but it is really worth the money. We all left with a happy heart :)

Sakae Sushi

"I need to eat something less oily and non-spicy" : "Alrite, then let's have japanese food" ; "Sakae Sushi lar" exclaimed the other.

Sakae Sushi originates from Singapore.This restaurant serves variety of sushi, ramen, bento, teppanyaki and the list goes on. Sakae Sushi is much of a newcomer than Sushi King but many customers are flocking to this restaurant these days. Thanks to err.. their "tech savvy" way of ordering food? Customers would place order with a click of a mouse. The orders would then display on the LCD monitor. Once you confirmed those orders, food shall be served shortly by the waiters.

Salmon Temaki - RM3.90

Salmon pieces with lotsa wasabi, lettuce, radish and rice wrapped in seaweed that forms into a cone shape sushi.

Teriyaki Chicken Ramen - RM12.90

Ramen in broth soup served with hard boiled egg, bamboo shoot, green vege and teriyaki chicken pieces. The soup was ok but the chicken slices served were very little.

Chawan mushi RM3.90
Custard consists of an egg mixture flavoured with soy sauce and shiitake mushrooms, and boiled shrimp placed into a tea-cup-like container. This dish is similar to that of Chinese steamed eggs but the toppings might differ.



Special Makimono : Unagi Maki - RM12.90

Hand-rolled sushi stuffed with seaweed, tamago (sweet egg) and cucumber topped with slices of unagi; drizzle in sweet sauce.

Soft shell crab crepe - RM5.90

Deep fried soft shell crab pieces with slices of cucumber rolled in an egg crepe.This dish a lil' bit salty but plus points for its creativity.

Salmon Mayo Inari - RM3.90

Loads of salmon bits mixed with mayonnaise stuffed in inari (sweet beancurd skin). Surprisingly there is no rice in this dish, just pure salmon mayo.

Tempura Ramen - RM13.90

Ramen in broth soup served with prawn tempura (pieces of prawn are dipped in flour, then the batter and deep fried in oil). The prawn tempura pieces are much smaller than the ones you could find at Sushi King or Kiku Zakura.