Star Village - Pandan Indah Branch

Just back from a tired and hot trip. And i feel terrible tired after that and no mood to update my blogs. Now quite free and bring up my mood to write...lol..

Before i went to trip, i had a dinner with my friends at Star Village which newly open at Pandan Indah. We are actually planned it quite some time to celebrate 2 of our friends birthday. As you seen, i did went to one of the branch before which is at Kota Damansara. Actually i noticed this new branch in a directory magazine(forget the name already...its something like advertisement magazine too...) which sent to my house and for me who like to try new place would love to try it too...

We have look into their menu and some of the foods is recomended by one of the waitress there. She is quite friendly and did not mind wasting some time to explained to us about the foods and drink they offered in the menu. Lets see what we have for that day:

They have quite a lot of drinks to be choose from. There will be hot and cold beverages. Some of us has choose to have jasmine tea( which i think this is more worthy because the portion is bigger) while some of us choose to have fruit juice(watermelon, honey dew, apple etc). I juz able to take few photos of the drinks as below for my blog purposes:

Hot Honey Milk(RM4.50) - Good for those milk lover.. but heard my friend say it is too sweet...

Hot Lemon Tea(RM5) - Nothing special but must drink while it is warm. If not, you will really feel bitter.

There are wide range of foods being offered there such as chicken/ lamb chop ; fish & chip; king sausages- all this will come together with french fries & salads; spagetties; soups & snacks too. Photos as below :

Black Pepper Chicken Chop (RM12.90) - chicken with thick black pepper sauce...

Garlic Cheese Chicken Chop (RM17.90) -There is a small bun there..it would be yummy for those cheese lovers. A slice of cheese and slowly melted into the chicken chop which sprinkled of those garlic butter or maybe garlic butter sauce, i think...

Chicken Maryland (RM16.90)- deep fried chicken chop which includes a fried banana & a sausage...weird to have a banana rite? But my friend say chicken maryland set is like this in everywhere.

Honey Lamb (RM19.80) - The dish looks little dry and portion is quite small to what i saw before when my bf ate it at Kota Damansara .

Cheese Escargot (RM13.90- 6pcs) - escargots on top of the melted sliced cheese. I dont eat this. My friend told me it is not what she expected. I think taste should be ok since they all finish it too...


Sizzling Salmon Steak(RM18.80) - quite a big pieces of salmon fish. Taste is quite ok but i smell it "fishy" once the dish turns cold...Good to eat while it is hot and that why they put on a hot plate or it actually for nice presentation purposes?? lol...

King Sausages with Cheese (RM16.80) - my dish on that day. The plate is so big and long...Might be is to accomodate the 2 king size sausages...haha..nola...not that big but once it served to me, my plate is the biggest compare others. I let everyone taste a bite of it. Erm, what to expect? Nothing much but it is nice to eat since there is cheese in between the sausages..Trust me, i felt really full after this. Never under estimate this dish. And there give 2 kind of salads which i think it is too much. I would rather they give me more fries...haha...

Mexico Chicken Chop (RM19.80) - below of this chicken chop, i noticed there is a kind of gravy which look like tomatoes sauce for spagetti...haha..But this is recommended by the waitress there which they say it is quite special. And guess what, this is the dish which waited quite some time and is the last dish being served to our table. Poor to my friend who order it.

Map to the place

Star Village Steakhouse (Pandan Indah Branch)

No.2 (Ground & Mezzanine Floor),

Jalan Pandan Indah 4/33,

Pandan Indah,

55100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 03-4291 1450

My Elephant Thai Restaurant

After sick for almost a week more, finally i be able to have a nice n truly big meal last weekend. You would never know, I have been food poisoning last 2 weeks and the continuous last week, i was in fever and cough. But lucky it is not H1N1. But when i cough a bit, everyone is looking at me like an alien already....No choice...

So to fill up my stomach, me and my friends is actually decided to try this Thai restaurant which got quite a good review from the internet. You would never know there is such a restaurant in the housing area there. eh..look like a few block of old flat and this cozy restaurant is located just below a block. haha...Most of my friends are suprised to see it when they reach and asked me how i got to here...If you have the GPS like one of my friends, then it will be a lot easier to search...

Okler, let get back to my food....here are the orders...those guys lazy to pick the order and just left me and my other friend to make the order. Lucky some of the dishes is quite nice and we also ask for recommendation. But pls take note, most of the dishes is quite standard(small) which just suit for a table of 4-5ppls. That time, we ordered few more choices as we have 9ppls who will be dining in....let's see:

Our drinks

Krachiap Cooler - Thai Roselle Herbal Tea - a Vitamin C Booster & Cholesterol buster...quite nice to drink and and good for my current health...need a lot of vitamin to maintain my good health back.

Thai Iced Coffee / Tea - erm, nothing much special.. simple iced coffee / tea...

Mango Mojito - quite refreshing drinks. But bottom of the drink look like passion fruit to me instead of mango...top is soda drink.....

Our foods

Gai Tod Gratiam Prik Thai - myElephant’s special deep fried chicken strips with Kaffir lime leaf, garlic and crushed Thai peppercone. This is the waiter's recommendation to us.. Good and we love it too...

Tom Som Fish - clear galangal-lemongrass-Lime Soup with Aromatic Thai Herbs. Nice to drink but some of us feel the soup is quite hot when taken after few scoop. The soup is really clear and not like those tom yam we have other side. Thats y it called tom som le.. this is my 1st time heard of this word. Inside the soup, there is star fruit, tomatoes, garlics, gingers and mushroom. Good to hav it while it is still hot.

Thai Green Curry Chicken - No worry as this is not spicy at all. But i feel it full of coconuts milk and very creamy.... But make sure dont ate some of those which look like a green peas...It bitter...haha..coz i accidentality ate it.

Khai Jiao Homok Egg Otak-otak - it is their special egg omelette with Fish Otak-Otak and some slices of tomatoes. Indeed a quite small portion. Lucky we all still taste a bite of it. But i dont able see any fish otak otak..who ate it?? lol...

Tauhu Tod Preow Wan - Deep-fried Tofu with Sweet & Sour Sauce. This dish look like sweet sour pork to me and the different is pork in exchange with tau fu and with some tomatoes, cucumbers and onions. This is dish thatwe do not like it so much.....We thought it would be like deep fried tafu with Thai Sauce...

Jungle Vegetable of the Day : Paku Pakis - I think this green vegetable is very nice to eat especially when it stir fry wit belacan or dried shrimp. I think KL do not have this so much. But my bf's hometown have a lot. I get to know this vegetable from their family and it juz breed by it own behind their house...haha...

Brown Rice - to fill up our stomach with all the dish above....



My Elephant Thai Restaurant

Block C-G4 Happy Mansion,

Jalan 17/13,

Section 17,

46400 Petaling Jaya

Reservation Tel: 010 220 1283

http://www.myelephant.com.my/

Restoran Hong Kee Tim Sum

Supposingly last weekend, i have planned to have morning dim sum at Axian Dim Sum but once we reached there, the place has been full already. Quite disappointed and without a choice we just spotted other dim sum restaurant nearby. Hong Kee Tim Sum....it is sound familiar?? I think so. I just saw this same restaurant nearby PJ if not mistaken.

The restaurant is quite big and spacious. They dont have much small table for 2 and the end we have seated on a medium round table which can accommodate about 5ppls. ..haha ..paisei ..paisei...each table is covered with a red plastic sheet.....is for easy to clean up the table to prepare for the coming new customers.

We begin to order our drinks and slowly as usual, waiting for those dim sum cart/ ppl to come to us. As we can see, mostly they served a lot of those fried dim sum which is not our choice for that day. In the middle of the restaurant, i saw some staffs were busy taking and arranging those hot dim sum to be served to customer.

After a few minutes, we slowly get to choose our dim sum. Just dont worry, there are a lot of choice for you all to pick . It just 2 of us cant take much of the dim sum variety there...Then,we slowly noticed that the place is getting packed with customers. And here we saw their services get quite messy that time. The thing we want, it dont seem to come. Since we came in, we order for Char Siew Bao.....but never seem to come till we request again from a lady boss. haiirs...when more customers coming in, sure happen all this...

Here some of the dim sum we ate that time :

"Wu Kok" - Fried yam stuffed with meats. Outside looks nice but the taste quite bland...

Stir-fried Glutinous Rice - to be honest, this come out to be nice. Me and my bf love to eat it. There are chinese sausages, some fried eggs, spring onions etc...

Steamed Chicken Legs - My bf favourite dish. He say eat more good for our legs oh...But i never touch it...

Pumpkin "Siew Mai "- This "siew mai" is little special because they have put some pumpkin into it which make it taste sweet.

"Char Siew Pao" - nothing much special...

Restoran Hong Kee Tim Sum
No.31 Jalan Puteri 2/5,
Bandar Puteri,
47100 Puchong,
Selangor

To Yin Vegetarian Restaurant

Vegetarian time again....which means, i will be having dinner with my lovely ex-colleagues. Sometimes, having vegetarian is quite enjoyable. To be honest, i quite enjoy it too.. My favourite vegetarian dish is Vegetarian "Char Siew" and Fried Vegetarian "Duck"...

Here the dish we have. Please take note all the below is vegetarian....lol

Lemon "Chicken" - Look like lime chicken to me. Lemonly sweet and sour...

Asam "Fish"- This is actually my fav also...There is vegetarian fish cut into slices together in a sour and hot assam gravy which have lady fingers, tomatoes etc....

Hot Plate Tau Fu- a mixed of green vegetable with cubes of taufu. It is nice to eat together with rice.

Fried "Mou Ku"-I cant remember what this mushroom name in english...But is crispy. Very nice to eat....A must to order in every vegetarian shop...


Salted Vegetable & Tau fu Soup - I heard from someone say this soup can lower our body heat. Inside there is salted vegetable, tomatoes, slices of carrots, tau fu and "fishball"...

hehe...my favourite - Fried "Duck/ Goose"....I think is actually a tau fu skin which it deep fry to get a golden skin. It is crispy when eaten...

Hot Plate "Prawn" - this is is slightly same as the hot plate taufu but just they replace taufu with "prawn"..do the vegetarian "prawn" look alike with the real 1?? hehe...

Please take note, they do offer steamboat too...Wish to try it one day too..

To Yin Vegetarian Restaurant (nearby Pandan Safari)

33, Jln 6/4, Pandan Perdana,

55300 Cheras,

Kuala Lumpur.

Tiramisu

Tiramisu is an Italian dessert consisting of layers of lady fingers ( or sponge cake) soaked with coffee and liquer . Then it is layered with mascarpone cheese, dairy whipping cream and topped with cocoa powder (dusting)....Tiramisu is simply means "pick me up". A dessert which simply just made for love....

This time, i have tried to make it. I have search for the mascarpone cheese for some time which is one of the ingrediant in making Tiramisu. I found out that it is not easy to get it at the normal shopping mall. At last , i just get it at a bakery shop and it is quite expensive. It cost me RM20++ for 250grm .

Overrall the taste is quite nice. The taste is quite ok even with the first attempt . Still maintain a normal shape but little watery. Maybe due to the lady fingers which dipped quite long on the mixed coffee & little brandy. This is my first time making it. I have distribute some to my bf. Let him be my white mouse. If can go through, then next time i make better for all my friends..

I have to ganbateh more ....