Set Lunch @ Teeq Roof Top, Lot 10 Bukit Bintang KL

Top image: Breakfast set (RM15++) come with free refillable drinks. Although this is available during lunch hour from 12- 2.45pm but it was called as breakfast set. The bacon was a beef in the set.

Bottom image: Beef Burger (RM25++) come with free refillable drinks. All of my friends agree this was the best meal of the whole set lunch because of the juiciness of the beef.

The ambience of the shop and free sky juice in the champagne glass facing KL tower ;D

Top image : Beef Kuay Teow (RM12++) with free refillable drinks. This was the cheapest set offered by Teeq. The beef was given in slice and my friend ordered this for the second time because it was delicious.

Bottom image : Butter fish (RM15++) with free refillable drinks. This tasted so-so only.

I ordered Ice lemon tea (free refill) and every sets come with free bread. You can dip the bread into the olive oil too. Happy hour from 5pm? You can get a cocktail from RM13! I would love to try that if next time I pass by there.

Free refillable drinks from all carbonated drinks (Pepsi, Ice lemon tea and so on). The waitress serve us well and ask us whether want to get a cup of coffee or tea. The picture of the liquor is not free. haha. I have been there twice and the service was as good as Shangri-La Hotel KL and for a very affordable price too.

Address

Level 8, Rooftop, Lot 10

Shopping Centre, Lot RT3, 50

Jalan Sultan Ismail

50250 Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia

Business Hour

Mon - tue : 12.00 - 15.00,  18:30 - 23:00

Wed -Sat : 12:00 - 15:00, 18:30 - 01:00

Sun : 12:00 - 15:00, 18:30 - 23:00

Directions

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Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Teeq-Brasserie/166480816743566?sk=page_map

Contact Number

03- 2782 3555

Email

info@teeq.com.my

Website

http://www.teeq.com.my

*SERVICE CHARGE 10%

*GOVERNMENT TAX 6%

LOKL Coffee Co @ Jalan Tun H S Lee, Kuala Lumpur

It has been a month I didn't blog about food but my Instagram account @foodlovers , is active almost everyday, so you can check through my IG account with a lot of delicious food without a lot words. 

Two of my friends ordered these when we tried out LOKL Coffee which is nearby SEGi College and this brownies (RM8) tasted so much better than the ones in Secret Recipe. I can taste the chocolate very much and it was not too hard to eat. Overall was just nice to eat with Gelato vanila ice cream (Add RM 3).

I ordered Mocha Crepe Cake. Softer than I expected and it tasted so-so to me. All the crepe cakes that I tried were from Nadeje @ Melaka or Dreamz Bakery @ Kota Damansara. In my own opinion, the taste of the crepe cakes from all the cafes do not taste very special to me except the one at Indulge Cafe @ Kuchai Entrepreneur Park which is offering Durian flavours crepe cake. That was like the best and the strongest taste with the flesh of the durian ! I really love it! 

Lavender Earl Grey Crepe Cake.

The ambience of the shop.

 3 COURSE: Starter, week's special and dessert for (RM27.50++) and it come with this starter called Corn Fritter. 

How does it taste? It tasted crunchy and very aromatic with the corn. I will order this again in the future if they are offerring this menu again because the set lunch will change every week (according to the waitress). 

You can choose drinks or desserts of the day if you have choose the set lunch. So I decided to give  their Ice Cappuccino a try, which was what the waitress suggest to me. One of my friend fell in love with the hot latte. 

Hot latte (RM10.90++) with love foam. One of my friends said looks like a white onion foam. LOL

Feeling a little cold inside the shop? You can always choose another option to sit outdoor.

Here comes my main course meal which is Lemongrass Chicken Sandwich. Grilled lemongrass chicken served on a thick sandwich loaf, with onions, cucumbers and peanut dressing. I like the chicken and the sauce but not the sandwich loaf which was hard for me to bite. The waitress asked every table including me "How was the food ?" and I replied her the same comment that I wrote above.

Entrance of the shop.

The menu of LOKL Coffee Co.

Sky Juice is free and refillable in the bottle. It is a very good place to hang out with friends by having their cakes here or drinking coffee too.

Overall the shop is good but I won't be eating the sandwich again in near future because it is expensive for a SEGi students to have a lunch for RM30.25 after service charge for a 3-course meals. The service was excellent here and the waitress was friendly too. This shop doesn't judge customers to serve food like the other restaurant I went to in the same area which was Reggae Mansion KL.

Business Hours

Monday to Saturday 7.30am - 5pm

Website

WWW.LOKLCOFFEE.COM

Directions

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*10% SERVICE CHARGE

Arenaa Diner @ Jalan Tun Perak , KL

I got to know this restaurant when my friends told me that there's a cafe opposite SEGi College  offering a lunch special for RM10++ . My course mates asked me to give this diner a try since we ate around college until we got bored. Usually my course mates & I will come to this diner when we have a long break time.  As a college student here, I don't find any delicious food here because of always eating the same food like McD , chicken rice, back streets food or mamak stalls.

This is the shop name & slogan.

The interior of the shop. While waiting for our food, one of the waiters mopped the floor under my chair. Actually we wanted to sit somewhere in the middle of the restaurant but the waiter insisted us to sit at the last 2 tables. After we ordered our food, the waiter started mopping the floor below my chair. (=.=!)

 From the menu you can see a wide range of food, ranging from pasta , burger , japanese rice bowl & so on. The price is affordable too as you can see from the picture. There is a beef burger called Sloppy Joe for RM12 & my course mates said it was delicious yet can feel the beef juiciness. 

This is another side of the menu offering side dishes , desserts, soup & drinks. What caught my attention from here is the milk's shake from RM5 to RM6. In KL so rarely you can find a milk shake that is so affordable. I will try that next time! 

Today lunch special offered BBQ chicken (RM10++). Three of my course mates ordered this. Everyday they offer different food for lunch special. I have tried Japanese Curry Katsu chicken , Japanese Bowl Rice & Mushroom chicken. Those lunch special tasted good for me and my course mates too.

Side dishes that we ordered called karaage or nuggets (RM5++). I can taste the chicken meat

better than the popcorn chicken sold in KFC . You can see steam coming out when you have the first bite. lol

Here comes my chicken katsu burger (RM9). Although this is not the 

best burger I have ever had but the combination of the chicken with the cheese & wasabi coleslaw 

is perfect. Actually the wasabi is inside the mayonaise & it's not a very strong wasabi. It taste just nice for me. Overall is still better than McD burger & value for money also!

By topping up RM1 you will get Iced lime tea. This is better than iced lime juice maybe because

I don't like sour taste.

There is a stage at here. Maybe at night there's a live band.

I didn't spot this inside the diner until my course mates told me. 

Some beer inside the fridge right in front of the shop.

This shop is located at the corner & ground floor of Arenaa Mountbatten Hotel. Wanted to take picture of the shop but it turned out I took a picture of the motorcyclist kissing? lol

Directions

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Address

No. 23 Jalan Tun Perak , 

50050 Kuala Lumpur 

Wifi

Available

Email

arenaa.diner@gmail.com

Public Transport

5mins from LRT Masjid Jamek

Parking

Street or Parking bay beside ChaTime

Toilet

Have to go into the hotel toilet

(Last time I went there but locked)

Business Hour

24Hours

FB page

www.facebook.com/ArenaaDiner

Government Tax 6% 

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!

Food Foundry 21 09 2012

Hello hello everyone and good evening.
Le me shall announce as the first post done by me in this collaborated blog with le friends.
So on the date as mentioned above, four friends and I have met up and decided to go to a place which I have never heard before (but was claimed by my other friends that this place was a to-look-out and was covered by quite a number of bloggers). Since it was my first time, and according to my trustworthy friends, it was rather a good place (odd location though) served with good food. Heard that the mille crepe cakes were the main attractions.

Located in the hot area or should I say rather a secluded and odd (like I said earlier) in SS17, pretty much hidden within a neighbourhood with flats. You'd never expect a place that kind of fancy dandy to be located ina low cost flats neighborhood. To get there, we got lost and missed a few turning, which led to my friend took a very illegal and dangerous maneuvering of the car to do a quick 3 point turn.

The exterior of the cafe

Funnily, the cafe is divided into two parts (like literally) and to get to the crepe cakes (no, we weren't sitting at the side where the crepe cakes were), we had to walk out of the cafe, choose the cakes we want and walk back to the other side of the cafe. Odd much again.

I only managed to take our side of the cafe because my camera battery decided to go low after not charging it for two days. Meh.

Spot one of the bloggers' head? :p

One of the paintings around the wall

The divider is adorned with some clean cut, chic decorations which you can usually see in fashion interior design magazines and blogs.

Some mini decorations on every table

One of the bloggers on action! Checking in on Foursquare that is! xD

Okay. To the menu, because all of us were pretty much hungry that time.
We were given the menus, in old style diner notebook style, which reminds me of waiter's book to jot down menu. Looks like this time terbalik.

We ordered our own respective dishes accordingly, however the waiter's service disappointed me because he made two mistakes. Firstly, when a person usually orders a pasta, naturally in your mind there will be a few selections of the types of pastas you can choose to compliment your pasta delights. But no, when he took down my menu, he did not ask for my pasta preference and just walked off.
Hoping he'll realize his mistakes and come back to me (Celine Dion's song at the background), there's the second mistake he did. He did NOT came back.
Instead, he bluntly serve my pasta in spaghetti type and walked off. Perhaps he was not too happy since the restaurant does not charge for service and government taxes.

Speaking of price, in my honest opinion, with the overall value I see in the pasta as served to me, I do not think RM19 was worth to pay. Plus, I am not full (nor nausea from having too much cream on my alfredo).

Qi Tyng's bacon carbonara? I forgot the exact name for this pasta. I don't think they served pork so its a halal restaurant so I am guessing these are beef bacons. :D The taste is creamier compared to my alfredo, and.. that's about it. Oh, and slight more flavorful(salty) because of the bacon. RM19

Andrew's Cordon Bleu. RM20. Looks good? Except the mashed potato. My friend in Facebook commented the look of the potato is very sad and unappetizing. Lol. I did not manage to try the full taste of this but the cordon bleu tasted alright at first bite.

The actual size on the ratio compared to the plate served. Quite a small portion to me.

This is what I call value for money. In terms of size, that is. Roasted 1/4 chicken with lemon and garlic with fragrant rice served with undercooked carrots and overcooked vegetables. RM20. The half lemon they gave is generous also. Wondered if the chicken was not marinated good enough and the lemon was there to help save the day? Taste wise; disappointing. chicken was too cooked, rice too dry, vegetables have been explained above.

Mhun Yee's Fish and Chips RM20. I find this fish fillet portion damn sad because to me, it is too small. And the presence of the huge fries at the back is purely to compensate the sad size of the fish. Crispy on the outside, slight burn taste but the dory fish inside is alright. Juicy and melts in your mouth.

Ahh. Here comes my prized dish. Smoked Salmon Alfredo. RM19. Seriously, I had a hard time trying to differentiate the taste of my alfredo and Tyng's carbonara because mine came out to be so mild and bland that I felt like I am eating a sick person's meal (Tyng had the same problem too because we tasted each of our pastas). I was full expecting to be burst of flavors and as mentioned in the link (can be found at the bottom of the 2nd picture) but no. Even the salmon I couldn't taste whether it was smoked or cooked or grilled in the first place. Sad much. The only thing I find the pasta was generous is the amount of porcini mushrooms thrown inside. Perhaps another sad attempt to compensate the taste?

Original portion of the pasta VS the plate size.

Well, I got curious for the better to understand what is the distinct difference between alfredo and carbonara sauces so I went to look up in Google to get the comparison.

Differences between Carbonara and Alfredo sauces

What is great to find out that my alfredo is supposed to be served with fettucine pasta! The exact pasta I wanted to compliment my sauce but the waiter decided to be ignorant about it. Heh.

Anyway, to the dessert corner.

Selection of mille crepe and different cakes available

The price is somewhat expected for a fad food like this.

As recommended by tripadvisor. I'm not one of them though. Lol.

This cake appeals to me, but for a slice with that price, I can eat two big bowls of meehoon soup and have a change.

Tyng opted for the Apricot Mille Crepe. RM11

Andrew opted for Chocolate Mille Crepe. RM9

Me and Wei Ying decided to have a fair share at Vanilla Mille Crepe. RM9.

The winning piece? Me and Wei Ying's. You know why? Because of its fresh, distinctive taste of vanilla, cool bitten into your mouth and the layering of the vanilla scent compliments to the not-so-sweet, just nice sweetness level. One of the most satisfying mille crepe cake I have eaten/tried.

Chocolate was a bad choice though, poor Andrew. Haha.

Tyng's mille crepe wasn't bad either, if you like apricots(which is hard to get by anywhere nowadays), you can always opt for hers.

All in all, this place ranks so-so to me, I had a little too high expectations when I heard reviews from my friends so you would say I am rather dissapointed.

On the bright side, this cafe does not charge service and government tax, so you save 16% off your overall bill.

Free wi-fi service and in my opinion, just gives them the advantages to let their customers do the free promotion for them, as offered by many cafes nowadays.

You can locate them at;

Address: BG8 Happy Mansion,, Jalan 17/13, 46400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan.

Phone: 03-7955-388

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Lunch hours maybe a little pack so I'd suggest to come by here for a tea time chat with friends or perhaps dinner for the ambiance.

Thank you for the time reading and hope I'll drop by another review soon. :)