Bavarian House

As a typical girl, I like to online shopping and of course always lost control to buying unnecessary things.
Voucher from online group purchase company such as Groupon and Living Social is one of the items I always spend on.
And also, this is the reason I have been Bavarian House with my bii and his besties.

I felt this restaurant have grand decoration when I stepped into the restaurant.

But, I did wondered why no other customers although I went there at weekdays.
Afterward, I think they are located inside the residence area and not much outsider realized that it is a restaurant here.

By using the groupon voucher, we got a package of pork platter and spaghetti.

 Pork Platter - consists of pork knuckle, jaegar schnitzel, bratwurst, frikadalen, streaky bacon and cocktail sausage. 

Aglio-Olio Pasta - this is in small portion which is consider too less for 4 pax.

Before enjoy our food, we had done the usual action "Wait.. before eat, let us take a selfie...."everyone did nowadays.

Saravanaa Bhavan @ Bangsar

Due to working in service center of a MNC, I always deal with foreigners.

Sometimes they will come KL office to join discussion or training.

When they are here, we have the responsibility to be tour guide and their companion.

Hence last Tuesday I had my very first time to had dinner at South Indian Restaurant.

Saravanaa Bhavan is a South Indian vegetarian restaurant which have many branches in different countries including Singapore, New York and so on.

According to my colleagues, the food is served well and the quality is premium. The best point is the inexpensive price.

*Ps. why is the comment based on my colleagues? I have less interest on Indian and spicy food. So my review might various with yours*

# Sorry that I could not recall the food name and price, but I left my own review #

 It served hot, and it is hot till I can't tear it with bare hands. It is made with flour and spices. So recommended to eat it with the curry sauce to avoid feel full after finished the appetizer.

Erm.. it tasted a bit like our Malaysian style murukku.

I liked this most in the whole dinner. By tasting the sauce only, the orange sauce is a bit sweet and little mint taste, whereas the green sauce is strong mint taste and little spicy.

This is one of the main dishes. Unluckily I have to said I don't like it because it is made by 100% flour. (Ps. I am weirdo. I like bread, but I don't like carbonhydrate food like this) 

This is same as the dish above, but it is in smaller size and can eat it whole with 1 bite.

It is butter bread with cheese and eat with curry. It is tasted a bit like North India cuisine instead of South India.

This is the North India bread. It is crispy and crunchy.

Erm... It is looks like Chinese "tang yuan". Mostly tang yuan is tasteless and cook with sweet soup/salted soup, whereas this Indian dessert is a round ball of floor and soak in sugar syrup. It is so sweet. You could try it out if you are sweet lover.

Saravanaa Bhavan

No. 52, Jalan Maarof,

Bangsar, 

59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Contact: +6 03 2287 1228

Rakuzen Japanese Restaurant @ Publika

Hey babes~
Would like to ask where will you go when dating with your loved one?
I and my bii always go different places to try delicious food.

Last weekend, we decided to go Publika after bii took photo album at Jalan Ipoh. (Ps. my bii is part time wedding photographer. You could contact him for more information.)
Coincidently that day is Publika Cosplay Day.
There is lots of cosplayers mingles around and taking photos everywhere.
And also, there has bazaar and half of the booths is operated by foreigners so you could find classical design decorated items or accessories depends on where they're from.

After walked a round in the bazaar and bought an Ukulele, we saw Rakuzen and decided to have lunch at there.
Under a nice and quiet japanese decorated environment and the food is well served, we were very happy and satisfied with them.

Below is the food we had.

Nabeyaki Udon to Salmon Don Zen (MYR 33) - consists of 2 main courses : claypot udon soup & raw salmon with rice and few side dishes : chawamushi, fruits & pickled fish slide.

Chicken Katsuiyu Set (MYR 23) - includues appetizer (miso soup & pickled fish slide), main course (chicken cutlet with egg & rice) and dessert (chawamushi & fruits)

Itachoco Monaka (MYR 8) - wafer with vanilla ice cream and chocolate slide in the middle. It is give a unique chewing feel and different with usual vanilla ice cream wafer.

RAKUZEN JAPANESE RESTAURANT @ PUBLIKA
No.6, Level G2,
Publika Solaris Dutamas,
1, Jalan Dutamas 1, 
50480 Kuala Lumpur.

* More superdining restaurant *

Caffebene @ Solaris Mont Kiara

"hey... what are you doing there?"

"doing nothing... snake at home... why?"

"do you want high tea? Today weather is so hot. I feel like to have cold drink or dessert..."

"Ok ya... when you come take me and where we go?"

"How about Caffebene? It is quite popular recently."

"Is it? Fine... we go there... I wait you..."

"Take you at 3pm... See you..."

"See you..."

The conversation above is the reason we were at Caffebene @ Solaris Mont Kiara last Sunday.

There have another outlet at Sunway Pyramid outlet.

Maybe I can try this out by this week.

It maybe another high tea day for Suk Yian | Suk Ping | Suk Wei.

In Solaris Mont Kiara outlet, there have indoor and outdoor seat.

Unfortunately there was crowded at weekend, we only managed to get a table outdoor and had high tea in hot air.

To prevent we occupied the table too long time and make the queue longer, we had ordered the desserts and beverages in 5 minutes.

Oh ya... there is self service cafe which you have order in counter and get the orders in food and beverages bar.

Not more than 10 minutes, we got our orders as per images below.

Iced Misugaru Latte - it is a multi-grain non-coffee beverages. With multi-grain powder, the texture is not as smooth as milk tea, but the taste is good and unique with the mixture of multi-grain (healthy ingredient) and milk tea (fattening ingredient). 

 Green Tea Bingsu - a ice parfait in green tea flavor with many add-on includes nuts and red bean paste. Oops... there is also a scoop of green tea ice cream covered by whipped cream.

 Cookies & Cream Bingsu - it is same to the green tea bingsu. Just the ice parfait is no flavor (plain ice), mix with orea cookies, red bean paste, cookies chips in middle and coffee flavor ice cream covered by whipped cream. 

Gelato Waffle - you can choose the gelato flavor and coffee is our choice. Same to the waffle, you choose to have either plain waffle or blueberry waffle and we chose plain waffle. The waffle is crunchy and with vanilla essence smell. 

Caffebene, Solaris @ Mont Kiara

K-G-04, Solaris Mont Kiara,

50480 Kuala Lumpur.

Business Hour : 9.30am - 12am

Caffebene, Sunway Pyramid

Lot OB5-G-2

Business Hour : 10am - 10pm

Nadeje Cake Shop

Here seems like become a famous place/attraction of Melaka.

Here is famous with their mille crepe cake which is the first cake shop selling it in Malaysia.

Here also have few branches that selling same premium quality mille crepe cake, which includes 3 shops at Melaka (Plaza Mahkota, Mahkota Parade & Jaya 99) and 2 at Klang Valley (PJ 3 Two Square & Sunway Giza).

After gave so many hints, you must able to shout the shop name out correctly.
Yes. Here is represents that Nadeje Cake Shop.

Maybe I have not been there for long time.
Erm... around 2 years.
I realized that there is 1 more shop lot extended in HQ branch and the decoration is classy and great.
Obviously I will choose to sit there since I am people like to try new thing.

Dang dang... it is me... thanks for my bii took a nice photo for me. ILY

As usual, we shared 3 slides of cake among 4 of us (me, bii, Cheryl and her boyfriend).

 Original Mille Crepe Cake - this is my flavor. I must order it everytimes I been there. It tastes not so sweet although it full with fresh cream.

 Royal Milk Tea Mille Crepe Cake - first time tried this and from today onward, it become my flavor as well. The taste of royal milk tea is rich and give feeling of princess enjoy milk tea in her palace.

Double Chocolate Mille Crepe Cake - it is Cheryl's choice. To me, it is too sweet. (Ps. I like dessert and pastry but dislike sweet thing. So my sweetness level or comment might be different with you.)

Iced Tropical Fruit Tea - It is not sour and not sweet. Erm... consider tasteless.

Hot Green Tea Latte - sorry to say NO for this nice decorated beverages. The real thing covered by the beautiful outlook is bad. It tastes like just adding green tea powder into low quality coffee. Disgusting....

Nadeje Plaza Mahkota

G-23,25 & 27, Jalam PM 4,

Plaza Mahkota,

75000 Melaka.

Tel : 06-2838 750

Operation Hours : Daily 11am-10pm

Encore Patisserie Cafe

My lovely mummy always complaint that she never try a nice decorated coffee.
To make her dream come true, I decided to bring her to Encore Patisserie Cafe after we had Mother's Day celebration dinner at Nihon Kai.
The reason why I choose Encore is the location and review in the internet.
Encore is located at Taman Bukit Desa which nearby Nihon Kai.
And also many people gave good review and suggested people to have a try.

Once step into the coffee shop, I saw a wall with simple photo frames decoration and plain color furniture.

The next one came into my eyes is their counter (from left to right : bar space, cashier area, cake display fridge)

Then we chose to sit in sofa area which is not showing in any photos. (Ps. the lighting is not good enough for indoor photo taking unless you have own softbox or apply photoshoot afterward)

Besides that lighting not so nice, the pastry and coffee are not as good as those reviews in internet.
Or maybe I am so unlucky to choose a wrong timing to visit this cafe.
Well.. The wrong timing I means is the barista and baker possibly in a bad mood when preparing the food and beverages.
Don't waste time to writing so much. We just view the photos and comments I gave in below.

Salted Caramel Latte - the taste and smell is not bad, but unfortunately the decoration is really spoiled the image of the coffee. 

 Hot Mocha - firstly I thought the decoration is sunrise but lastly I realized they are just simply pour the cocoa powder on top of milk foam. Anyway the taste is just ok, not so impressed me.

Hot Cappuccino - Again !!! Simply using the cocoa powder. I really could not stand this lousy decoration. If really can't make it nice, please do not tell that premium coffee is served here. 

 Jasmine Green Tea (1pax) - fine~ this is the one no need any decoration at all. So no comment =_='''

Scones with Fresh Cream and Jam - the scones are hard to bite, especially when you wanna cut the middle partially horizontally, the scones is direct break into 2. Strawberry jam is packaging items and it is not fresh at all because the jam is in solid form and you can take out with 1 fork and it still maintain the shape as the container after few minutes (make me feel like the jam is going expired soon). Cream is fresh and not oily (the one and only thing I like in this set of dessert). 

Lemon Tart - I picked this among all tarts because I don't feel like to eat heavy taste dessert during drinking coffee. But the bottom of the tart is hard until can't break it by using spoon and fork, hence I have to eat it by hold it with my hands. The lemon taste custard is over sour and the top part already dry and have around 3mm thickness jelly-form skin. Can't imagine how long the tart stay in the fridge.

Well... I would definitely not revisit this cafe.

It is awesomely disappointing.

Encore Patisserie Cafe

No. 1, Jalan Bukit Desa 5,

Taman Bukit Desa, 

58100 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel : 03-7972 7988

Business Hour : Tue-Sat 12pm-12am & Sun 10am-12am

Nihon Kai Japanese Restaurant

To celebrate Mother's Day, we chose to have dinner at Nihon Kai located at Off Old Klang Road.
I have been here few times with colleagues, friends and my bii as well.
Now it is turn to enjoy it with my family.

Normally customers will make reservation to avoid waiting up to 1 hour for seats.
Unfortunately we decided late and unable to book it.
So we decided to tried our luck whether can have a table with walk-in.
Luckily we got it because we arrived early around 5.50pm.
After 10 minutes, it is crowded and more than 15 people are waiting outside to be served.

First thing after sitting down, of course it is open the menu and recommend the delicious and suitable food to my lovely family members. *They are my pretty mummy, my kindness grandma and my stylish sister cum driver.*
To have fully enjoyment, we ordered whatever we feel like to have and below is what we ordered.

 Potato Salad - add the lemon juice and make it taste less greasiness

Itako & Kurage - sour taste jelly fish and chewy small octopus would be a good choice as appetizer for Japanese meal 

 Tamago Sushi - maintaining high quality..

 Salmon Shioyaki - A set come with appetizer (miso soup, sour pickles & sesame macaroni), main course (steamed rice & salty grilled salmon fillet), dessert (chawanmushi). Sorry that no comment on due to I only consume raw salmon, not cooked salmon.

 Torikatsunabe Sashimi Set - A set come with appetizer (miso soup, sour pickles & sesame macaroni), main course (steamed rice, soy sauce chicken cutlets with scrambled egg & salmon sashimi), dessert (chawanmushi). It is always my choice.

 Soba with Ebi Tempura - the soup is disappointing me because the taste is too mild like eating soba with plain water, but thumbs for the ebi tempura.

Vegetable Tempura - several vegetables served includes carrot, brinjal, sweet potato, vege sushi row & thin noodles. My unique way to eat it is starts from squeezing lemon juice into the soy sauce then dip the tempura into it and dip again into the wasabi sauce. Fresh (lemon juice) ! Soft (soy sauce soften it) ! Spicy (soy sauce bring out the wasabi taste stronger) !

Soft Shell Crab Karaage - what to say? Of course it is delicious, but the sauce is too salty to me.

Nihon Kai Japanese Restaurant
No. 4-2, Jalan Telok Gadong, 
Off Old Klang Road, 
58100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tel : 03-7982 3668
Business Hour : Mon-Sun 12-3pm & 5-10pm