Japanese dinner @ Sakae Sushi, Subang Jaya

It was a belated birthday celebration for me sis-in-law and we ended up at Subang Parade. I suggested going to Sakea Sushi since i knew she liked Japanese.

It was a Saturday night and there was a queue formed outside when we reached there. A good sign.

i was hungry and i started off with this before the mains arrived.

It was rice and mango wrapped with salmon. The mango went really well with it.

I had Chicken Katsu Curry rice. it was kinda small for me - yes, i'm comparing with the portions found at Misato, London (must blog about that another time). But it was nice. Typical Japanese curry. The photo was too blurry so i won't embarrass meself by putting it up!

Me sis-in-law had the Beef Bibimba - according to me sis, this is a Korean style dish.

Basically, the food is served on a hot stone bowl. Not too bad.

I ordered soft-shell crabs which were nice too.

And i really wanted to try their special makimonos - i ordered the Sunshine Maki - generally prawn in rice wrapped with mango. A wonderful blend of tastes. Nice!

Another plus point of this place is that they have kiddies sets too. Me niece had a 'Minibus' set!

Will definitely go there again. It came up to RM210 (around 30 quid) for 5 adults and 2 kids.

French fine dining @ Lemon Grass, PJ

I believe the name of the restaurant is Lemon Grass. It is actually part of the Taylor's School of Hospitality and Tourism. The students run the place and get practical training.

They were hosting the dinner at the end of the National Rounds of the LawAsia Moot Competition 2008. We were tired exhausted and just wanted to be fed and go home and sleep. Yeah, we were sore losers! Lol!

The table set-up. Looks good-eh?

We started off with some finger food. Nothing to shout about and the baguette base wasn't nice - 'lau foong' edi!

We had some not impressive mock-tails to quench our thirst too. I went for fruit juice after this and even that wasn't very nice.

Here's our menu for the night:-

Appetizer - Paprika oil seared scallops on yellow watermelon with coriander pesto, alfalfa sprouts and coconut lime foam.

I was ambivalent about this. Scallops were nice. It however din go too well with the watermelon.

This was followed by pumpkin soup (for details, refer to the menu above). No one around me liked the soup at all!

The main course - cod fillet on a bed of mash potatoes

I thought the fish was a bit... fishy (in cantonese, 'sang') but the rest din think so. Still, it was nice and fresh.

The best part tho was the mash potatoes. Lovely!

And finally, the desert! Mango and Passion fruit mousse cake, chocolate macaroon and citrus crème brûlée (burnt cream!).

The mousse cake was too sour for the guys and too sweet for the girls!!!

The remaining two were winners to all of us! Yup, end off on a high note. Only small complaint wiil be that they were too small!!! A good complaint, dun u think?

Prawn Mee @ Tan Kee, Jalan Pahang

We actually set out to look for this curry laksa place. But due to moi, we arrived there late and the food was sold out. So using Al's GPS gadget, we decided to try out this prawn mee place which is situated along Jalan Pahang - some people have alleged that this was the best prawn mee in town.

It's called Tan Kee - a little shop which only sells prawn mee.

When the food was served, it looked promising!

There were large prawns on each bowl. And the surprise was that it was served with some pork ribs too. The meat was tender! The soup was a little salty.

The damage - RM24 for the 3 of us!!!! That includes 3 bowls of prawn mee and 3 iced chinese tea. The mee should be RM7.50 a bowl which isn't so bad seeing the size and amount of prawns served.

However, we really din think much of it. The prawns were nice and big. The pork was yummy. Overall, it wasn't bad but it sure wasn't that good. It lacked the prawn taste in the soup. But that's our view anyways.

Seafood bak kut teh @ Bandar Nam Tung, Sandakan

Me mates told me that in Sandakan, i have to try their seafood bak kut teh. Well, i like seafood and i like bak kut teh. So i had to try it once i was there.

I managed to find out the place to go to from a taxi driver - but it wasn't necessary as one of students kindly took me there in the end! Cheers, Sam!

Located at Bandar Nam Tung, just take the Leila Road and head out of town for around 3 km (my estimation).

I found out that unlike the bak kut teh here where you out everything in together, the seafood bak kut teh is served separately. So Sam ordered pork, prawns and fish slices. It came in 3 different bowls.

The seafood bak kut teh is cooked with a lot of ginger so it ended up giving it a spicy kick - not that i din like it!

The prawns were super fresh and lovely. The seafood and ginger gives it its own distinct taste. Not bad, not bad at all! Although i have to admit that bak kut teh cooked with pork is still the way it should be! Pork with all the 'spare parts'! ;-P~

Tomato Mee @ Taman Hui Sing, Kuching

I guess it's only right that the first post on this blog is regarding the food i ate when the idea of this blog came up!

It was the last nite of my 3rd trip to Kuching, Sarawak and i guess i had to finally try the Tomato Mee. Ru took me to an open air food court near to the Kuching International Airport and i finally tried it. To be precise, it was at the Hui Sing Hawker Centre, Lorong Taman Hui Sing 3. It was there that Ru suggested that i start a food blog! And as they say, the rest is history!

The Tomato Mee din blow me away like the Sarawak Kolo Mee but it wasn't too bad. I was surprised to find out they used a deep fried noodles for it - something like the crispy yee mee. The tomato sauce with fish slices, prawns, sotong and char siew is poured over it. The sauce is alrite - not too sour a'la bolognese and not too sweet like the sweet and sour pork. More on the savory side.