Chinoz On The Park @ KLCC

Since I just finished my practicum, I have some time to blog about food. My family and I finally got the opportunity to try the food in Chinoz On The Park in KLCC. We went there for breakfast.

They serve breakfast buffet but they also have a la carte meals as well. It is also halal. When we sat down, no one came to give us the menu. We waited for some time with waiters walking all around our table. In the end, I asked a waiter for one and then only it came.

I did not take pictures of the buffet because it was not appealing to me. :P I saw cakes, cereals, fruits, yogurt, nasi lemak... well, it was breakfast time. Next time I'll go during lunch time.

Not to worry, the food was good as well. My dad said it was cheaper and better than Domes. So there you go. Large portions as well.

My sister and dad ordered English Breakfast. It costs RM 28 for one, and comes with coffee or tea.

English Breakfast, RM 28

There are eggs, sausages, baked beans, 5 cherry tomatoes, fried mushrooms (which was juicy and yummy. Dad said it's English style so yeah English Breakfast), ham and a crust of bread. My dad said it's supposed to be served with bacon, not ham.

The English cook their tomatoes until it's mushy, which I didn't like. My dad also told about his experience eating breakfast in London when he was in a residential college, telling us how the English cook their meals.

I had time to play with their food too. See what I saw XD

Mr. Smiley

Ultraman

I ordered Mascarpone Cheese Pancakes with an assortment of fruits. I cannot recall the exact full name of the dish. I love the taste of mascarpone cheese! Yum yum. It costs RM 18.

Mascarpone Cheese Pancakes with fruits, RM 18

There are 2 slices of fluffy pancakes, peaches, blackberries, honeydew, blueberries, strawberries and mascarpone cheese. Berry berry full. Berry berry delicious. I would order this again. I even ate cherry tomatoes because my sister do not like tomatoes. XD

My drink was called the Eye Opener. They blend oranges, strawberries and carrots. It costs RM 15.

Eye Opener, RM 15

Address:

Esplanade (G47)

Suria KLCC

50450 Jalan Ampang

KL

Contact number: 

03- 2166 8277

Email address:

chinoz_klcc@chinoz.com.my

Mickey Mouse sushi

This is the second part of the sushi story!

The previous post was Hello Kitty and friends sushi. In this post, it's all about Mickey Mouse.

The ingredients and materials you'll need:

• Japanese rice
• Seaweed
• Cheese
• Carrots
• The punchers (shown in picture below)

These are to make the eyes, whiskers and mouths. What you do is, put in the seaweed and press.

That same day, Alfred attempted to make Mickey Mouse.

This was the end result.

What he did was roll the rice into balls with his hands. Then he used the punchers to make the eyes.

For the ears, I cut out seaweed circles. The three of us experimented using carrots for the noses and cheese for the mouths as well.

The Mickey Mouse at the top left and bottom corners have a cheese hat!

It was fun to make :)

Hello Kitty and friends sushi!

The two brothers: Andrew and Alfred (his brother) dug up their sister's sushi molds and decided to make sushi using the molds. I just pat gua. I want to do also. ;)

The materials you need:

• Japanese rice
• Sushi molds
• Carrots
• Cheese
• Seaweed

These are the items we used:

The left are the 3 molds with handles. The heart shape plastic is to make the ribbon, flower, nose and ear. The bottom two punchers will be explained in the picture below.

These are to make the eyes, whiskers and mouths. What you do is, put in the seaweed and press.

You can get these items from the shop: Xuanie's Paradise

First, we need to cook the Japanese rice. Once it's done, we can mold the rice using the plastic molds.

Be careful because the rice is sticky and may be stuck (actually it will) in the mold. What we did to prevent this was by rubbing the insides of the mold with vinegar before we stuff the rice into the mould.

We used seaweed to make the eyes, whiskers and mouths for the respective characters using the punchers. Punch them into a plate or bowl so you won't be missing any part of the body :P You'll be eating lots of seaweed while doing this.

To place the eyes, whiskers, noses and mouths on the sushi rice easily, use two toothpicks. One to pick the seaweed up, and another to readjust.

For the ribbons and flower, we used carrots. For the nose and ears, we used cheese. Yep, you'll be making the sushi and snacking at the same time. 

The before and after:

Without nose, to cheese nose :P

Without ears, to cheese ears!

The following are the products of the day:

The sushi on the bottom right: It's a bear wearing spectacles. Well, kind of. 

Yeah we didn't only do Hello Kitty. 

We improvised a little and made a bear using the heart mold too.

The bear with a heart face :D and cheese ears!

If you noticed, I did an evil face sushi too.

I did not plan to make the sushi that way but it did. I was trying to use up leftover carrots and it resulted with this...

Evil bear sushi...

I have an Amelia Earhart sushi too.

A sushi wearing goggles.

Ok, it seems displeased. XD I tried to make it smile but it did not turn out that way.

At the end of the day, we packaged all the sushi into plastic containers to give away to our friends and for me to bring back home for my sisters :D

Suitcase on the bottom left!

Check out the next post: Mickey Mouse sushi !

Paddington House of Pancakes @ The Gardens, Mid Valley City

The day we went to watch Skyfall, we had breakfast first in Paddington House of Pancakes. It is considered as one of my favourite haunts because I have really no idea where else to eat o.O The same people are still working there. Wow.

I would declare that this restaurant serves the best carbonara to my liking. I hope the quality doesn't drop as this happens to a lot of eateries. Food are mostly made by humans after all.

The price for the carbonara is RM 15.00

Inside this carbonara, there is a poached egg, chicken bacon and mushrooms. It not not super creamy. Those who doesn't like creamy food can take this. It doesn't make you jelak. The portion is also just nice for a small eater like me. Even for Andrew it was good enough to fill his stomach :)

As I said, we all love carbonara so the four of us ordered that!

My cousin, Qi Wen, ordered the drink called Immune Zoom. What made it special for me was the thin slices of apple stuck on the side of the glass. The picture will explain it better than me XD Inside Immune Zoom, they blend peach, honeydew melon, apple and cranberry. Both of us love to crunchiness of the apple slices after drinking this.
It costs RM 9.50

I ordered Hot Chocolate. Can you guys see the smiley face made using marshmallows?! So cute. The drink was nice but there are better tasting ones out there. The difference is the marshmallow smiley face :) It costs RM 7.50.

Address:

Unit LG-216, Lower Ground Floor,

The Gardens, Midvalley City,

Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 KL.

Directions:

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Contact number: 03- 2287 4872

E-mail: franchise@paddingtonpancakes.com

Website: Paddington House of Pancakes

FB Page: PHoP

Service charge 10%

There's tax too.

Heart Shape Watermelon

Feeling a little thirsty? This is my first time attempt to do this heart shaped watermelon fruit juice with my younger brother, Alfred's help. It is quite easy to do on your own too. I got this idea from somebody's post in Instagram.

 Step 1 -Buy watermelon from nearby supermarket & cut watermelon into half.

 Step 2- Use chopstick to sketch a heart shape by poking small dots.

 Step 3- Use spoon to carve deeper into the watermelon & reshape into heart shape.

Step 4-At first I'm making green apple & watermelon juice but the color is not attractive so I decided to blend half of the red dragon fruits, as shown in the picture above.

Step 5- Pour the juice into the heart of the watermelon.

Step 6 (Final)- Feel free to decorate anything around the watermelon like putting mini umbrella & straws too but too bad my house don't have any of that so I decided put the other half of the dragon fruits to fill the empty space.

After drinking the juice & still left half of the watermelon to eat ! Wahaha =P

Ingredients
-1 Watermelon
-1 Dragon fruit
-1 green apple

Tools
- Spoon
- Chopstick
- Knife

Just a random post :)

I was eating dim sum for breakfast with a few of my friends. When I eat dim sum, I like to eat it with the hoisin sauce. I took the bottle of hoisin sauce and squeezed it onto the plate and it came out like this.

Do you have any inkling what came across my mind when I saw this?

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I thought of Hello Kitty.

It's not an accurate depiction but the overall shape is there XD

Sorry, I don't know how to use Photoshop or any drawing programmes in my computer.

Tell me what you see!

Come let's play a game!

Anyone can join in and this isn't hard at all.

In fact, it might train your imagination :D

Ain't that good?

The picture below is taken from Andrew's Instagram.

You can check his account through Statigram.

You can click on the Instagram logo at the sidebar on the right here.

That logo will lead you to his Statigram account :)

So, tell me what you see in the Comments and I'll tell you what we saw!

Quirky picture number 3.

(p.s- Quirky Picture 1, Quirky Picture 2)

This was what we saw:

• They look like eyes
• With way too many green eyeshadow on
• With way thick eyeliners

What else could you see or imagine?

A&W PJ Drive In

If you have felt that A&W is disappearing, you are not hallucinating.
The A&W outlets in Malaysia are closing down one by one.

You can read this article to find out why:
KUB to exit fast-food biz by year-end

Andrew and I decided that we should dine in A&W while there are still a few outlets open.

We asked Amelia to come along too.

I like the A&W in PJ because they have the diner feel. 

Very classic.

They even have the drive-thru signboard.

The signboard says that you can drive-in and it's open for 24 hours.

There were lots of people flocking A&W that night.

We could see families and couples dining.

Almost no parking spaces.

If you have children on tow with you, you can let them sit on some of the rides available outside the diner.

If I am not mistaken, it costs 50 cents.

I saw a grandfather letting his grandchild sit on the ride.

His grandpa went inside to ask how much the ride costs and I overhead :P

Lovely grandpa!

Here are some of the things that you can see once you enter the diner.

I made it look a bit classic. :P

The original colour!

My dad said when he started working in KL years ago (when he was still a young man and I'm not sure whether he married my mum yet. LOL), he always ate the coney dogs.

From this we know that this diner is OLD!

There's some history in this building.

Imagine all the good times and bad times people could have experienced in here.

Of course we have the famous mascot!

I find it interesting that we order and pay for everything at the counter and then we wait for our waffles at another station.

It saves time and keeps the crowd moving.

Try to spot Andrew (for those who met him before XD) in the picture below.

The waffle and ice-cream station!

The three of us shared a large root beer float, curly fries (I love them) and an ice-cream waffle.

The root beer tasted flat. It was like it was not carbonated anymore.

The ice-cream was already melting when it was handed over to us at the counter.

Usually it would look round and solid.

Something wrong with the ice box that night probably.

Anyway, it was still an enjoyable drink.

The fries was awesome and crunchy when it was still warm.

This branch still serves the best A&W waffles.

It was vanilla ice-cream with Hershey's chocolate syrup.

We find that the chocolate syrup tasted more authentic than the strawberry syrup.

Once, I ordered butter and maple syrup waffles in another A&W branch that resembled a fish to me.

I used lines and circles to help all of us see what I saw.

It reminded me of Flounder, the yellow fish from The Little Mermaid.

From our seat, we saw an old picture of A&W.

Look at that!

Hot dogs were only 10 cents in the US at that time. 

Root beer was 5 cents.

The receipt below showed how much we spent that night.

If you're wondering whether A&W is halal, it is.

Free Wifi is also provided.

Best to have your fill of A&W before they are gone from Malaysia forever!

Address:

9 Lorong Sultan,

Seksyen 52, Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Telephone:

03-7957 6250

Direction:

                             
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