CEO Karaoke Box @ Fahrenheit 88

This is my second time sing K here at CEO by Neway. I came here 4 months ago for my last 21st birthday party with family. What makes me come back here again? Actually it's their buffet food ! I have tried most the karaoke place dinner buffet at different places such like Green Box (Sg Wang Plaza) , Red Box (Low Yat Plaza) & Red Box Plus (Pavillion , KL) but not as good as here. 

#1 This is the sushi counter & my favorite counter among the food they serve here. Can you spot the menu on the right side of the picture? They do serve unagi & tuna sushi if is available on that day although the menu didn't show the unagi or tuna. I got to know that they serve unagi & tuna when I asked the chef whether they serve unagi. He respond to me, "YES we do serve unagi" & said I'm "a good eater" =P.

#2 They serve vegetarian too

#3 A lot variety of cakes , jellies and fruit tart.

#4 I'm ordering teriyaki chicken at this counter & they cooked on the spot. Previously I came here they cooked clams with "belacan sauce".

#5 A wide variety of fresh salads , hams , pepperoni ham & sausage salads .

#6 You can order 3 sushi per time so I decided to order salmon & ebiko sushi. The only thing I remember in my mind about this buffet food is the freshness of the salmon. This salmon sushi tastes much better than Sakae Sushi or Sushi King in terms of the sweetness of the salmon & freshness.

#7 As usual my youngest brother and my niece love tamago sushi alot! Right side of the picture is chuka sushi or known as octopus sushi

#8 This is white chocolate fondue although it looks like soup bowl but actually last time

they have a huge chocolate fondue machine here dripping from level to level.

#9 Chocolate flavor fondue serve with watermelon or honey dew.

#10 I knew ice blended can make me full very easily but it's my favorite.

#11 Although the chocolate and white chocolate fondue are meant to be served with fruits but I put the fondue on top of my ice creams as topping flavors. The white chocolate doesn't really taste very sweet & it's just nice to eat. They serve 4 ice cream flavours. I love their honeydew flavour because inside the honeydew ice cream got sago too & it taste like the honeydew lolo.

#12 This is tuna sushi. My first time experience eating tuna sushi is at Shogun ( Fahrenheit 88) and it was so soft and tasted terrible to me. My younger brother told me their tuna sushi at here very fresh so I figured why not I give it a try again. Their tuna is very fresh too like other sushi & it's not shown at the menu too. You have to request it from the chef & it is subject to availability also.

#13 Salmon sushi , salmon sashimi and wasabi.

#14 Top of the 1st  picture   - You can get to try their Chinese Chicken Soup here.
                        2nd picture  - Front desk of the CEO Karaoke & their Halloween theme.
                        3rd picture  - 30% discount on head charge for all ladies (Sun -Thurs)
                                           - 20% discount on head charge for all ladies (Friday -Saturday)
                                           - During normal hour session check in before 9pm
                 
                        4th picture  - Wifi couldn't connect to iPhone but can connect to Android user.
                                               My brother is using Sony & can be connected.

     Bottom of the 1st - 4th - CEO menu, 2 drinks can be ordered from the 2nd picture to the 4th picture.    

Address

Fahrenheit 88, 

Jalan Bukit Bintang 55100

Kuala Lumpur

Directions

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Tel

03-21482600

014-6692600 (SMS Hotline)

Email

customer @newaykb.com.my

Price

-RM58 ++

-Number of head count should not be reduce after check in

-10% service charge & 6% government tax

Overall

The room in this karaoke was quite small maybe the table is not movable and small space to

walk around . You will have your own personal washroom for every room. The staff here are friendly & everyone can sing from 6pm till 4am!!! That's the best part after all.

Umai Bento House @ Kuchai Lama

It has been some time since my family came back to this restaurant to eat. This is what happens when everyone in the house is lazy to cook, but it's a bonus for you readers because I'll be eating out :P

Butter Chicken Set, RM 9.90

I ordered Butter Chicken Set. God knows why I ordered chicken, when I usually ordered fish. This dish costs RM 9.90. The set comes with a bowl of soup which I love because it's not super salty that you'll think twice about taking it in and a plate of fruit. I don't like it very much because I don't like cartilage in the meat.

If you want to try a good Butter Chicken rice, go to Rabbit Cafe in Seri Petaling (Near Saujana school).

When I was eating the tofu (bottom right of the picture), I spotted a small strand of hair.... umm.. eee. I left the tofu alone.

The plus side of this dish? There are a lot of chicken meat balls.

Tofu Minced Meat Set, RM 8.90

Twin number 1 ordered Tofu Minced Meat Set. This costs RM 8.90. It also comes with a bowl of soup and a plate of fruit. She said it was okay and she'll order it again.

Teppanyaki Fried Tofu with Egg, RM 11.90

Twin number 2 ordered Teppanyaki Fried Tofu with Egg. The price is RM 11.90. Again, it comes with a bowl of soup and fruit. She likes it and when asked if she would order it again, she said "I guess so." The tofu reminds me of my childhood. Back to the past. Whoosh!

Salted Egg Chicken Set, RM 9.90

Dad ordered Salted Egg Chicken Set. This dish costs RM 9.90. My dad said it's very filling and the egg was quite good.

Hot Longan & Winter Melon, RM 3.00

The drink I ordered was hot longan and winter melon. It costs RM 3.00. I like winter melon since I was young so I like this drink. For those who doesn't like sweet drinks, I don't think you'll favour this.

Hot Lime & Plum Juice, RM 3.20

My dad ordered hot lime and plum juice. It costs RM 3.20. It looks good but I did not try it. My dad did not complain about the drink so I guess it was nice, not too sweet etc.

On an unrelated note, their receipt is printed on hard paper. Well, tougher and feels stronger than the usual receipt papers. Ada quality. ROFLMAO

Address:

12A, Jalan Kuchai Maju 9, 

Jalan Kuchai Lama

58200 Kuala Lumpur

Directions:

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Contact number: 03- 7983 9262

Email: umaibentohouse@gmail.com

FB Page: Umai Bento House

Service charge 5 %

Ichiban Boshi @ Pavilion

Brought my dad here because I wanted him to try the Japanese Bibimbap I ate in the Sunway Giza branch. However, the branch in Pavilion serves a different menu... they don't have the bibimbap... tak apa makan aje!

I tried the Cheese Doria Gozen. It costs RM 21.90. It looks small but looks can be deceiving, and it's cheese and sprinkled with sesame seeds. Inside it is chicken meat and rice. The cheese is sweet/ milky for me. I don't know if it'll be weird for you guys. Basically, a cheese baked rice :D

I like it :) The waitress will greet you by saying, "Enjoy your meal" when she serves the food. Haha!

Address:

Lot 1.14 (Level 1) Pavilion

Directions:

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Contact number: 03- 2141 6621

Fax: 03- 2141 6641

Email: contactus@res.com.my

FB Page:
Ichiban Boshi Malaysia

Service charge 10 %

Govt tax 6%

Fruits Salad Cube

This is my first attempt to make fruit salad cube. I asked my younger brother make this together with me since he just completed his PMR examination. We have been talking about making this fruit cube for months & it finally materialized ! I got this idea when I saw the picture Adeline tagged me in Instagram.

After cutting cube by cube from different fruits, I find cutting the kiwi fruit the hardest among the fruits. Maybe it's because the kiwi is oval shaped. 

We put this fruit salad cube in the freezer for a day because my brother felt lazy to help me take picture

with his DSLR camera. Lol.

As you can see from the picture, the frost can still be seen on the fruits. It's the ice from the freezer.

Ingredients 

Kiwi-  x 4

Watermelon

Tools

Knife 

Ruler

Cube shape cutter (can buy from bakery shop)

Cafe Barbera at Setia Walk Puchong

Hello everybody!!!!!!!

When I say pizza what is the first thing that comes to you mind?! I think most people would say Pizza Hut, Domino's or even Papa John!!! But after awhile you just kinda feel like you wanna try something new just to change it up a little, then Cafe Barbera might just be the place you're looking for!!!!!!!!

This time me, Andrew, Tyng and her cousin decide to try the one in Setia Walk in Puchong.

As this is my first time being there I would like to talk a little about the place. As you can see from the picture above it has various fountains and water features or would I say like a small lake in the centre of Setia Walk, being a place with so much water you would think that its airy or at least not hot but WRONG!!!!! I don't know it is the weather that day or its the place but its super hot the four of use are sweating like hell!!!! Ok!! Now back to the cafe!!

First of all the cafe is air-conditioned, if not in the hot weather no one would wanna go in, the environment is very Italian coffee shop you have the dark wood interior with some poster on the wall and on the ceiling yes ceiling!!

We decide to order the set dinner to share since its already 9.30 pm, the set comes with a dessert and a of drink. The main course you choose will determine the price of the set, you can choose from pasta to pizza and even local cuisine. We decided to go with the Hawaiian Chicken pizza.

                                          Hawaiian Chicken pizza

As you can see the pizza is around the normal 9 inch pizza that we get from Domino's and the size is just nice for the four of us. I must say, this is one of the best Hawaiian Chicken pizza I've tasted and they all agreed too!! There is a good mixture of flavours and the portion is just right unlike the ones I've tasted its either too much of the tomato sauce or too little of the chicken, but this as you can see the ingredient is evenly spread across the pizza. It crunchy, have a perfect amount of cheese and when you pull the pizza you can see the cheese still stringed to each other.

After having the pizza, they then served us the dessert

                                          Dessert: Vanilla Pudding
The dessert is not actually called Vanilla Pudding  but I don't remember whats it called and it tastes like Vanilla Pudding so I'll just call it that. You can see that there are like chocolate sauce over it but actually its a mixture of chocolate and coffee. The pudding its kinda sweet for me and Andrew, but Tyng say its ok. It a nice pudding but if it would be less sweet then it would be better for me. Oh, can you see the glass of drink in the picture above ?! Thats the drink that came along with the set, its Lime juice but it tastes more like sky juice to us.

The whole set cost RM 25 plus a 10% service charge.

Overall I would say its a good place for having Italian food with a reasonable price.

Address:

G-3-G, Block G, Setiawalk,
Persiaran Wawasan, Pusat Bandar Puchong

Telephone number & Fax: 03-5885 3186


P.S: Did I mention they also have wide selection of coffee?! Yes they do!!!!!

Vegetarian Indian Banana Leaf Rice at Lakshmi Vilas

Good evening!

As I have promised you last night, this post I will be writing on a similar note of indian banana leaf rice, but a slight different restaurant, although they are operating just next to each other in the same street. LOL.

Introducing Lashkmi Vilas, also a pure vegetarian restaurant which my friend, Deepa has introduced to me my first vegetarian banana leaf rice about 3 years ago.

Here they called themselves the Superior Vegetarian Restaurant. LOL.

Their operating hours are pretty similar, runs only during lunch hours, assuming from 12pm onwards and they do not serve other meals in between of the banana leaf feast.

They are served with water on every table as well and you can request for canned drinks of you wish to have a little carbonated after burp in your tummy. :)

Introducing their thick dhaal version. I love this as it is very flavorful and less spicy as compared to Woodlands.

They had the long beans too but this is definitely has more kick on the overall flavor but a little too cooked for my preference.

Another potato dish where you can it a little more solidified compared to dhaal. :p

Fried Brocolli! (in red color) I loike this. Its great that they deep fried with their own curry powder and it has more indian taste to it. Definite refill dish for me.

This tasted almost like the white sauce you usually eat with Thosei, where Thosei is complimented with two of its distinctive sauces, one of it looking like this, but a bit more liquified and the other in pale orange. The pale orange sauce is the spicier one and this tastes almost the same, with less spice and a bit more savory and generally more appetizing.

Served with a must, the Papadam! We will always refill this 2-3 times. Hehe! Also, take note that they pour the sauces into your rice, making somewhat like a whirlpool of different sauces and almost drowning all of your white rice. Or I like to call it, Banjir. ;D

Notice the difference between Woodlands and Lakshmi now? They are still served with banana leaf, just that the presentation of food rather sets them apart from two different vegetarian restaurants. This way, it is more authentic, leaving the original shape of the banana leaf, a bit trimmed to have a standard size, but nonetheless, there is nothing else served below it. if you're gonna have your sauces, flowing out, then so be it. LOL. And this way too that the restaurant workers will know if you enjoyed the food! Closing one side of the banana leaf into your direction (folding inwards) is to show that you liked their meal and would come again, Closing on the opposite direction (folding outwards, from you) is to show that you're not satisfied with their meal. How cool is that?? (and yes, my friend taught me this too. :p )

Another  new version of Payasam! Its supposed to be a liquid dessert which I have been looking forward to try but instead I got this. It had the same taste. just that this time they made it into a pudding-like, kuih texture. Very milky and you can taste the fine bits of it. Yums!

I do not have any interior picture of the place but note that they too has two floors and the upper floor is opened for air conditioning seating and when the lower floor is full. I think half the time I sat at the upper floor because it is always packed with people at the lower floor!

I understand that because in my personal opinion, I actually still preferred to dine here than in Woodlands. Its simply because I find the place more homely (comfortable) and the people are just as friendly, but the definite reason that sets apart are meals served here is definitely cater to my level of tolerance to spicy food, the overall taste of the vegetarian meal and the originality of the meal is presented.

Do take note too that they bring in their banana leaf supply everyday so do not worry of being re-used, like the satay celup concept in Malacca which I find it horrifyingly disgusting.

All in all, my meal here cost only RM6, one ringgit cheaper than Woodlands, and sadly, you do not get to have Wi-Fi services here (although you can go surf the net at the Cyber Cafe located at the upper floor) so you will enjoy your company/ friends better and chatter mood in the restaurant.

To keep it simple for you readers, here is a quick comparison between both restaurants which I have tasted in two consecutive days;


Type of meal served: Indian Vegetarian Banana Leaf Rice

How they are served: Bakti Woodlands: Circled-shaped banana leaf in a metal pan
                                   : Lakshmi Vilas: Standardized banana leaf rice

Food serving: Eat-All-You-Can/ Unlimited with an average of 6-8 side servings including vegetables, sauces, curries and sambals with rice and local dessert/ sour milk.

Price: BW: RM7
         : LV: RM6

Operating Hours for Vegetarian Meal : Lunch Hours only (preferably from 12pm onwards)

Wi-Fi hotspot: BW: Yes
                       : LV: No


Address;

Lakshmi Vilas
57 Leboh Ampang, Kuala Lumpur 

Contact
03- 20722166.
  

There you have it! Do give it a try! Not many people will be open to such a new taste but its definitely worth the trip!

P.s: Since Lakshmi Vilas is just next to Bakti Woodlands, you can just look up for directions in my previous post on Bakti Woodlands and head up there!


Cheers!

Lezzetto Gelato

I got to know about this gelato through a Groupon deal. I bought it on 19 of October because I wanted to eat ice-cream at that time. It was a craving! XD The offer was two 500ml tubs of Gelato for RM 18, instead of RM 35.80. The gelato was collected from Fig & Olive in Sunway Pyramid. The gelato are manufactured by Joshafa Sdn. Bhd.

There are five other Lezzetto branches where you can get this gelato:

• Giant Sungei Wang Plaza
• Sungei Wang Plaza
• Central Market
• Pertama Complex
• Subang Jaya (their office & storage)

I got to choose 2 from 5 flavours. The five flavours were:

• Mango
• Chocolate
• Teh tarik
• Strawberry
• White Chocolate Chip

They also have a Durian D24 gelato but need to pay extra so I did not get that flavour. I got Teh Tarik and White Chocolate Chip flavours.

By the way, it is halal.

The Teh Tarik gelato was harder to dig out than the White Chocolate Chip gelato. It was rock hard! The White Chocolate Chip gelato was easier and softer than Teh Tarik gelato. Both tubs have been kept in the fridge at the same time and taken out at the same time. My dad commented that if the ice-cream or gelato is this hard, it is not of good quality. -_-" Ahh dad...

Taste wise, the Teh Tarik gelato was very sweet. My dad said that it was too sweet for him.

White Chocolate Chip was awesome for me. I love the taste of it and I like to chew the chocolate chip bits.

White Chocolate Chip gelato wins hands down this round.

The side of the tubs:

Sister was waiting for her Teh Tarik gelato

The side reads, "Premium Ice Cream. Just Enjoy It!"

Inside of the Teh Tarik gelato tub:

Those curled bits were the sections where we tried to dig out the Teh Tarik gelato.

Inside of the White Chocolate Chop gelato tub:

The easiest to dig out so we ate this flavour more XD Yum yum!

Website: Lezzetto

FB Page: Lezzetto

Email: online@lezzetto.my

They were featured in NTV7 too.

Vegetarian Indian Banana Leaf Rice at Bakti Woodlands

Good evening everyone!

I know my timing to post such delicious meal at this hour is really tempting your taste buds and I admit I am being mean of doing this but more the reason for you to look out for this restaurant!

Can I see how many hands up for Indian Vegetarian Banana Leaf Rice?
Has any of you heard of it before?

Well, I have been a vivid fan for vegetarian banana leaf rice since back in my college years (which was only 3 and a half years to be exact!) when I was introduced by my dear noisy loud friend, Deepa (she's gonna be so famous now).

However, throughout the years, I have only tried one particular restaurant in Masjid Jamek and little do I paid attention to the other vegetarian restaurant just next door!
This time, I was introduced by my friend, Denise and I decided to bring along my partner in crime from university, Coddy to try out the difference offered by this Indian Vegetarian Restaurant.

Its called Bakti Woodlands- Pure Vegetarian

One important thing to know; they only serve their banana leaf rice ONLY during lunchtime on weekdays, from 12pm onwards. If you come any later than 2pm, you may miss out some of the side dishes as they are served finish because Indian Vegetarian Banana Leaf rice is Eat-All-You-Can concept!

In Woodlands, their banana leaf is cut into perfect round shaped to compliment the size of the metal plate and served with 8 different size dishes comprising of vegetables, potatoes, sauce, dhaals, curries and desserts. I personally think this way is served cleaner and more systematic as compared to Lashkmi Villas (that will be another restaurant I usually go to blog post). However, it losses the authenticity of eating from a pure banana leaf rice style as served in Lashkmi. The usual dishes offered in a vegetarian banana leaf rice comes with till-you-say-stop rice intake, papadam (fried cracker), some dried fried chillies, and salted mango sambal and the side dishes as mentioned above. Apologies for not remembering all of their specific names, I'll keep a note to ask and jot down next time!

One of the 8 dishes served in mini metal bowls. This is long beans served with dried chilli, carrot, and peas.

One of my likings goes to this side dish, Potato with curry leaves, onions and curry powder.

This is their version of payasam. Its supposed to be the dessert which tasted like sweet gingerish taste to it, almost similar to one of their candies. This version is something new to me as the other restaurant I tried does not have such creamy bits of texture to it like this. I think they blended the ginger, some hidden indian sweets, cinnamon, another type of spice I forgot the name and sago! I always look forward for the dessert as it gives me the final taste of the banana leaf adventure.

Sour milk, or they call it fermented cow yoghurt. Its very sour yet has the milk-ish taste to it. I am not used to it as it is too sour for my preference. Those who are not familiar with this at all may thought that this has turned bad.

Of the many variants of sauces to compliment your rice. Some may come a little sour because of the assam they put in, but usually you'll get the hang of it when you throw all of the sauces into your rice altogether! :D

I am not too familiar with this, but I am guessing this is the old cucumber (in chinese they call it 'lou kua') with clear curry sauce to it. Take note that all of their sauces do not use santan, all pure curry taste.

Also one of the curries, this is the sour type. You can see that the curry is cooked with curry leaves, carrots, onions and perhaps more condiments. Since this is a vegetarian restaurant, the materials they use are pretty similar, they mainly played on the taste and the spiciness. ;)

If you notice the fried cracker, the next companion to it is the salted, sour mango sambal. Don't, don't throw everything into your rice, before having a small taste before. I did throw half of it into my rice and Denise stopped me, 'Don't put all of that! It's really sour!'. Imagine salty and sour comes into place. A bit of mind and taste bud tingling for me. Oh btw, during this time of the hour, they DO NOT serve any other meals like mee goreng, roti canai or even teh tarik. The best way (complimentary drink) is to have it with water, which they serve on every table. You can opt for canned drinks, if you think it is too hot to handle with just water. :p

View from the inside of the shop. In case of the lower floor too packed with people (don't mess with their lunch hours), they have a second floor equipped with air-conditioner. yeap, You heard me. Air conditioned comfort while eating. :p Also, it is preferably to be eaten with hands, as the culture is to eat with hands, but my hands were dirty from traveling by train and my nails were long at the time. I'm not saying that they do not provide a wash hand area and toilet, I'm not used to eating with hands in public just yet. :p I tried before awhile back, its quite exhilarating. You'll get all messy in the end. Hehe.

All in all, my meal here cost RM7, slight dearer compared to Laskhmi Villas. The great thing is, Vegetarian Banana Leaf Rice is eat-all-you-can concept, where they serve you rice and the side dishes until your stomach can't take it anymore.

Other than that, this restaurant offers free Wi-Fi hotspot, and Uni-Fi powered too so you will expect fast speed internet checking in while eating. Password is given upon request.

In my opinion, this restaurant is definitely equipped with friendly workers serving us meals and rice every time and their command for English/Bahasa Malaysia are slight better compared to the other restaurant.
But take note; their vegetarian meals here is spicier too, than Laskhmi, which I find it a little struggle to consume but nonetheless, the authentic taste of the Northen Indian meal is definitely lived up to its expectations and I had been a satisfied half vegan for the day. :D

For easy access through public transportation (do it like me!), it is very easy to locate by just hopping into Star LRT and stop for the Masjid Jamek station. Upon leaving the station, you will see a busy two-lane road with a McDonald's at the corner lot. (McDonald's is just next to Guardian's, very easy to spot on.)
Walk past McD and you will see a junction with a traffic light and turn left. You will notice the street is filled with Indian ornaments, and just at the opposite you will see the signboard in bright lime green that says, Bakti Woodlands. :D

If you wish to have another alternatives,
Here's the address;

Bakti Woodlands
55 Leboh Ampang  50100 Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
03-20342399


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P.s: I will do a comparison post soon between Bakti Woodlands and the much talked about competitor restaurant, Lashkmi Villas. They're just next to each other! LOL.

So stay tuned!

Till then, cheers!