Kuching Part 2

If you want to read the first part-> Kuching Part 1

If not, you can continue reading this post XD

The next day we had breakfast in Kim Yu Li Cafe at 3rd Mile Pasar. It's opposite Dunlop and Silverstone. Hahaha! That's the best directions I can give.

We tried Kueh Chap. It's all pork meat. We did not order the ones with internal organs. For small it's RM 4, medium is RM 5 and large (they call it zhen) is RM 6. Obviously we took the small bowl. Those who like Chinese food will like the taste.

Kueh Chap small, RM 4

For lunch, we had Kolo Mee. I don't know the shop's name but it's at Green Road, near Gosaylak grocery shop. One bowl costs RM 5. Xu Vin suggested that we try the Kolo Mee with pork oil, which gives the red tint on the noodles. It was yummy and filling on a rainy day.

The picture below shows the difference between the noodles with and without the oil.

Kolo Mee, RM 5

We also ordered Teh C Ping (Ice Teh C).

Teh C Ping

We also went to Song Kheng Hai Bazaar.

We ordered:

• Sotong Kangkung (RM 3.50), 
• Belacan Mihun (RM 3.50), 
• White Lady (a dessert, RM 2), 
• Matterhorn/ Metahorn (a dessert, RM 2)- It sounded like a beer name to me (Beach Life's Cape Horn) but my cousin said it sounded like a name for a Transformers robot.
• Kong Pia (RM 0.80 each)- sounds like scolding someone, no? :P

For someone who doesn't like sotong and kangkung, Sotong Kangkung is delicious. Not joking here. I don't like sotong and kangkung but I like this dish.

Sotong Kangkung, RM 3.50

Belacan Mihun is nice but because I am not used to belacan, it's going to be biased if I describe any further. Of course it's edible! My cousin and her friend liked it and I ate some of it.

Belacan Mihun, RM 3.50

We ordered two desserts called White Lady and Matterhorn/ Metahorn. Not sure of the spelling for the latter but it sounds like that. Both are good but if I am asked to choose one, I'll go for White Lady.

This is because I am a sweet-tooth, not a sour-tooth (if the word exists!) Matterhorn/ Metahorn has a bit of sourish taste.

Matterhorn/ Metahorn, RM 2

The picture above shows Matterhorn/ Metahorn. I feel like I am introducing a robot, like how they introduced Megatron under the dam. You can see that there are watermelon cubes, cendol, cincau jelly, ice (duh) and lemon. Sour sour.

White  Lady, RM 2

Here comes the White Lady. All bow down please. Ok, now you can stand up. This dessert is more milky and sweet. I like. I like. I like. :D No need to say anymore.

Kong Pia, RM 0.80 each

Last but not least, my new favourite food. Kong Pia! Can tell people off with this word and it's friendly too because it's a name of a food. Nyehehehehe. You Kong Pia! I was told it's a food from Sibu. The one we ordered had pork filling but there are other fillings to such as kaya.

To me, it's similar to Char Siew Pau.

And a last picture to recap what we ate.

From clockwise top right: Kong Pia, Sotong Kangkung, Metahorn, White Lady, Belacan Mihun

Posts after:

Food in Kuching Part 3: Foochow Food

Food in Kuching Part 4: Going back in time

Outdoor Adventure, Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park

Why hello and greetings on a sunny month of May day! Just a matter of time the weather decides to change and rains heavily. *shrugs*
I know I have not been blogging for months now (please don't slaughter me) due to previous semester's heavy workload of staying back to complete sewing my garments (yes, I'm le fashion student kononnya muahaha) but now I'm here to re-pay my debt to all of you!
And I promise on a good post on foooood. :D
That means true comments on the food, be it good or bad.
However, this post from me won't suit to all readers because it is a non-halal restaurant that me and my friends went but if you are interested, do read it with an open mind. :)

As the title goes, the restaurant's name is called Outdoor Adventure (but I kept dismissing the word 'Outdoor to Outback' which has a similar westernized restaurant down in Bukit Bintang area). This restaurant cum bistro is located in Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park, along the corner lot of Star Village. Apparently Outdoor Adventure is a sub-restaurant family by Star Village. This is not only Outdoor Adventure is owned by the same company, but the interior and the feel of the overall restaurant is very similar to Star Village. And the funny thing is, these two restaurants are just side by side. What a weird location decision done. I'm not sure if Outdoor Adventure is a new alternative to change Star Village's name and concept but they're not exactly doing it right. (just saying)

Anyway, we got to know of this restaurant through Groupon deals where one of my friends spotted its affordable pork platter+beer set and its strategic location to most of us. It costs RM138 for 6 people and it comes with various choices of pork assortments from pork knuckle, smoked pork bacon, foot-long frankfurters, roasted ham, roast pork, cocktail sausages, and cheese pork sausages. They even have mango salad and mixed salad to flush down those fatsss. :P

We had a choice between Asahi or Calsberg beer which I immediately say yes to Asahi because I really dislike how Calsberg tastes. Since I have not tried Asahi (they have sponsored numerous events and raves these days so it makes them quite in demand now) so me and a few more who are more beer-pro (cheh wah) decides that Asahi is the ideal beer to drink for the night!

Size of the Asahi beer comes in about 2litres. At first we thought it wouldn't be enough to fit all 6 of us but we ended up playing beer games and finished it just enough.

The taste reminds me a little of Hoegaarden and Tiger beer infused in it. It has a rich taste to it and unlike Heineken, which I can literally drink as water. Lolol

The pork platter and the salads

The pork bacon here has a rather nice fatty taste to it but too bad it was just enough for one slice for each person. :(

The roast pork and the frankfurters platter. To me, the frankfurters were very normal, nothing great or unique to it really. The ham was okay, well seasoned and not too dry. The roast pork has a lot of white pepper in it, be it ground or crushed ones. The fat content of the roast pork is also very heavy which I am not into it.

The pork knuckle. Seriously, my friend struggled to cut this pork knuckle into pieces and there were way too many parts that were overcooked. Or I am thinking that this pork is very old, thus the hardened fats and muscles. Not really a good impression of a pork knuckle to me. :/

Upclose on the frankfurters platter. Apologies for the blur, pixalted pictures. All of the pictures are taken through iPhone (not mine) and I didn't bring my handy ol' DSLR for this round's post. :(

Mango Salad. Served with mango( of course), raisins, cucumber, turnip, pineapple, lettuce, purple cabbage, tomatoes with thousand island

Another round of salad but this is not as sweet as the mango salad. Served with cherry tomatoes, turnip, big onion, purple cabbage, lettuce, green pepper, pineapple, cucumber and raisins with thousand island sauce.

Upclose of the mango salad

Despite the lack of spark in the food we ate, there are some good pointers I managed to find out. For one, I have noticed is that the waiters serving there are rather friendly and mostly done by non-local waiters (something hard to find). One of them are even so fluent in Cantonese! And since one of my friend had just passed her birthday, some of us decided to buy a slice of cake for her. The staffs from the Outdoor Adventure dimmed the lights and played a birthday song for my friend. Lucky her. And they have a really nice candle that looks like a flower that blooms with candle lights and even played song in it! But Tyng said that the candle was originated from Star Village, which I have no clue of. Maybe they're just reusing it I suppose. But the epic part hasn't come just yet. One of the waiters actually brought two Afro wigs for the birthday girl to wear! Hahaha. Indeed it was a memorable one. I'd post a picture of her and me (yes, I wore the other Afro hair, rainbow colored!!) but then I don't want to embarrass her.XD

Although there is oneee thing I'd like to point out; despite the friendly customer service they have, one of the waiters had a bad body odor which I can't seem to avoid to notice. In my opinion, overall appearance is very important in sustaining a good customer service.

Well, hopefully he notices his own manly smell and change to a more manly fresher, acceptable to everyone's smell. xD

I have looked through their ala-carte menu and the type and food serving served there is very similar to Star Village. An average chicken chop can fetch up to RM23, which I deemed to be quite pricy. But maybe they will have a better taste than other westernized restaurants, I'm not sure.

Will I go back? Only if there is another Groupon deal for their ala-carte menu.

Oh, if it helps, we went at 7pm for dinner and they start their operating hours from 6pm onwards for the 2nd session. But then it merely depends because they insist on calling before coming over.

Wi-Fi: Yes (UniFi)

Operating hours: Monday-Saturday: 5pm – 11pm / Sunday: 12pm – 11pm

Address

Outdoor Adventure 

No. 2, Jalan 11/116B, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama, Kuchai Entrepreneur Park, 58200, Kuala Lumpur

 

 

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Tokyo Pasta Mario in 313@Somerset

Hi guys. Ever since I hit the maximum photo upload quota, I feel very lazy to blog because it took a longer time to complete a blog post. It has become a hassle of some sort. If you guys have any simpler photo host to recommend, please let my friends and I know. I am using Flickr and it is a pain.

Anyway this is the Singapore post which got delayed.

My family and I went to 313@Somerset and ate in this shop called Tokyo Pasta Mario. Sounds like a n arcade game no?

You can choose to sit at the counter or you can look for more tables and chairs at the back. At the back, there's a long table. That was where I sat.

Look at this HUGE plate on display. The plates on the left are the regular sizes.

I took the menu for everyone! XD On the bottom left corner, you can see the Spicy Choice and the notice that says their curry contains pork.

There is curry for everyone. You can choose the level of spiciness for your curry. There are 5 types of spicy: Normal Hot, Extra Hot, Very Hot, Super Hot, Monster Hot. All of us chose Normal Hot.

Once you order, you'll get the familiar UFO. When it blinks or flickers red, it means your dishes are ready to be collected.

Fish Fillet Curry,  S$ 8.80

This is Fish Fillet Curry. It costs S$ 8.80. It was nice and all-meat. However I don't really fancy the salad dressing. The salad dressing did not taste like thousand island and was very sour for me.

Chicken Katsu Curry,  S$ 9.80

The next dish is Chicken Katsu Curry. It costs S$ 9.80. The fried chicken is not oily and done just nice. Juicy meat with yummy rice! Om nom nom! The curry got salty for me after awhile but it is alright when eaten with rice and the chicken meat. There is pork inside the curry so it is not halal.

Cheese Chicken Katsu Curry,  S$ 10.80

My cousin ordered Cheese Chicken Katsu Curry. It costs S$ 10.80. When it came to the table with Chicken Katsu Curry, we could not differentiate which was with cheese. We decided to taste the meat from each dish but it both tasted the same and we could not taste the cheese! Both of the dishes tasted the same so we just chose a plate and got on with eating.

Pork Katsu Curry,  S$ 9.80

The Pork Katsu Curry costs S$ 9.80. My dad said it was nice.

Cheese Omelette Curry,  S$ 9.80

My sister ordered Cheese Omelette Curry. It also costs S$ 9.80. This dish has only pork meat in the curry. She finished eating all the curry on her plate.

Address: 

313@Somerset,

313 Orchard Road,

#05-01/ 02/ 03,

Singapore 238895
(Food Republic, Stall 24)

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Contact number: +65 6509 6643

Charcoal BBQ House @ Seri Kembangan , Selangor

My friends brought me here for the second time because first time came here it was closed on Monday for the charcoal bbq. She bought a Groupon deal for this charcoal bbq for only RM35 (4 person)  & additional side order will be less 20%.

The drink was part of the deal. I regretted to order this hot green tea because the staff put too many green tea leaves into the pot until the teapot itself was stuck so cannot pour out. ==.! Order cold green tea is better.

Our dish ordered from the menu to bbq later. Everything tasted alright to me except pork belly, which is at the bottom row, in between the sausages and beef in the picture. We used the pork belly to make the fire bigger in the bbq pit. Hey, it works! XD

Charcoal BBQ House menu. 

2nd page of the menu.

We are waiting for bbq pit! 

Here comes the bbq pit.

Ivan helped to cook lamb at the bbq pit.

This is also part of the deal. I love the white button mushroom so do my friends & I can taste the sweetness of the mushroom . Adeline love to eat the "kam chin yuk" which is the red meat on top the picture & Grace love the meatballs.

You can adjust the fire on the bottom of the pit. 

All of us love the sauce & it's not spicy.

Boiling soup with full of vegetables & mushroom. 

This is part of the deal bought from Groupon.

We ordered additional meatballs &"kam chin yuk" for bbq. The boss treated us additional ham plus mini sausages also. Grace told me that the meatball is smaller than first served.

The surrounding of the shop. 

We wanted to order fried ice cream but the boss told us that the fried ice cream they had was not fresh. He decided to treat us other ice cream. 

This is set dinners they offer in the restaurant.

Outside of the restaurant.

Boss name & handphone number.

Address , contact number & email are given in the name card.

Directions

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