LYN Nintendo DS Gathering 2008 - January edition

January 2008
Time : 1100hrs - 1700hrs;
Date : Saturday, 19th January 2008;
Battleground : Hartz Chicken Buffet, Sunway Pyramid, Bandar Sunway;
Status: Great Success!!!;

Attendance
01) andy_lhc;
02) Pr1me_Minister;
03) Corez
04) mecharojak;
05) Aron (mecharojak's fren);
06) kelvint83;
07) penman;
08) why_79;
09) Bose;
10) Kyogami;

The New Faces

Games Played
DS
• Mario Kart DS;
• Club House DS;
• Tetris DS;
• Bombermen Land Touch;

Arcade
• Mario Kart GP Arcade;


Mario Kart DS





Club House DS





My Thoughts
It's certainly great to meet some new faces. Welcome and wish you guys will come again for the next gathering. Hope the attendance will be maintained or improved.

Thank you guys, for making this another successful gathering!

^0^


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How to get there
By Public Transport
Via Bus (from Kuala Lumpur to Sunway Pyramid)
Metro Bus No. 10, 11 & 13;
Park May Bus No. 51;

Via Putra LRT
Feeder Bus No. 2-900 from Kelana Jaya Putra LRT Station to Sunway Pyramid.

Via KTM Commuter
Feeder Bus Intrakota from Subang KTM Commuter Station to Sunway Pyramid.


For additional info, read:

• Metrobus Route;


• Rapidkl Bus Route;


• KTM;


• How to get to Sunway Lagoon Resort;

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Read also:
• The Great LYN Nintendo DS Meet up - November edition;
• The Great LYN Nintendo DS Meet up - August edition;
• The Great LYN Nintendo DS Meet up - July edition;
• The Great LYN Nintendo DS Meet up;

Melaka Dec 2007: Part 02 - Jonker Street

One of the reason that makes me keep visiting this historical city, is the colourful Street of Jalan Hang Jebat, or a more popular/recognisable name - Jonker Street.

This street is full of food, antique goods, old architectures, cultural stuffs, fashions, etc...

On Friday and Saturday Night, the street will be closed, and transformed into a weekly carnival.

There isn't any specific best time to visit, however, I'll recommend 2 weeks before Chinese New Year, or during the Christmas & New Year Eve week. Because during these 2 festive seasons, the streets will put up with extra lights and decorations

It's a definitely an excellent place to hang out and celebrate Count Down!

I took a series of photos and I classified them into various colour themes. And here they are:

Melaka Dec 2007: Part 01

I was in Melaka the last few days before Year 2007 ended. This is like the Nth time of Wildchild & I visiting Melaka. Both of us just love this old city.

The place is just so authentic, historical, arty, cultural, colourful, friendly, and lotsa food!

Here are some glimpse of the city in different time...

Plus One Shabu Shabu 壹加壹

This is a new restaurant at 1Utama New Wing (1 floor below Shogun), serving Taiwanese Style Shabu-shabu.

Each table is installed with electric hot plate, where you cook your food with a pot. There's a power level attached to the table side, where you control the heat level.






You have a choice to order set, or a la carte (individual dish). There are few types of soup base, we had Pork Set Special and Japanese Miso Soup. Here're some of the food we tried, and we liked all of them.

Besides that, I had 2 bowls of rice. For some reason, not sure whether is the way they cook the rice or they used premium rice, the rice really taste good, smells good and feel good too.




By default, the drinks are freeflow. You get 3 choices - Nestle's Nestea: Ice Lemon Tea, Ice Peach Tea, and Orang Juice. If those are not your choices of beverages, you can order Premium Chinese Tea, and some other soft drinks.

The Soup is a bit tasteless for our taste, or it's probably suppose to be like that, I'm not sure. But don't worry, 'cos the food goes well with the variety choices of sauces available atthe Sauce Counter.





I'll definitely going back again. Do check this place out!

^0^

J. Co: Donuts & Coffee

There's rumour saying, a new PWNING donut shop is in town, a very very long "S" que always sighted at there outlets, it's - J.Co Donuts & Coffee. The latest Indonesia donuts chain store in Malaysia.

After dinner on Friday night, LµÇkÿ $†àŘ, Wildchild and myself went jalan-jalan at New Wing, Sunway Pyramid. And we witnessed the "rumoured" que... and it wasn't rumour, it's real. Being a typical Malaysian, we went and join the wagon.

Nice interior setup, interesting operations for a donut shop (not that I'm an expert in donutology). I was snapping non-stop til 1 sales attendant stopped me.

Anyway, they offer various flavoured of donuts, we bought 6, but managed only to try 3, 'cos we were to greedy & full!!!

I managed to photographed these extras, thanks to a friend - Ling., who bought a dozen for her family on another day.



Courtesy Donuts from Ling.


Managed to find a spot for ourselves, sit down, we were kinda puzzle, how to start/eat, 'cos these donuts are covered with toppings... and the following are the experience of our FIRST ENCOUNTER...









Facts:
For some reasons, all my friends that have tried J.Co, we all agreed & shared a common experience... all of us encountered the same feeling from the first bite - IT'S LOVE AT FIRST BITE!

I don't know about others, perhaps you can try and share your experience with others too...

HAPPY SPREADING THE LOVE!

^0^


External Link
• Official Site;
• Sunway Pyramid;

Hartz Chicken Buffet

When Hartz first opened at Sunway Pyramid, me and my college mates used to storm the place once a week. We were actually sort of "black-listed" by the store, as we really cleaned up the place.

LOL~ But we got sicked and tired of the food later, and I've stopped going there for years, until recently we had our DS Gathering there... and it's back in the picture.

It used to be located above the ice skating ring. Currently moved to LG, near the new phase, with new and nice interior set up.

There are a few rules:
01) You pay first - around RM19++;
02) Each customer is limited to 2 hours stay;

Upon paying, you'll be given a piece of regulations, printed with all the house rules.













My Thoughts
To be honest, I find the food just OK only, however, it easily PWN any fast food chain out there, any time, who claim themselves to be Chicken experts. More over, with RM19++, you get to "all you can eat" Buffet.







Go find out yourselves, one of these days~lah!

^0^



External Link
• Sunway Pyramid - Tenant's info;
• Sunway Pyramid;
• Official Site;




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How to get there
By Public Transport
Via Bus (from Kuala Lumpur to Sunway Pyramid)
Metro Bus No. 10, 11 & 13;
Park May Bus No. 51;

Via Putra LRT
Feeder Bus No. 2-900 from Kelana Jaya Putra LRT Station to Sunway Pyramid.

Via KTM Commuter
Feeder Bus Intrakota from Subang KTM Commuter Station to Sunway Pyramid.


For additional info, read:

• Metrobus Route;


• Rapidkl Bus Route;


• KTM;


• How to get to Sunway Lagoon Resort;

The Great LYN Nintendo DS Meet up - November edition

November 2007
Time : 1100hrs - 1700hrs;
Date : Saturday, 24th November 2007;
Battleground : Hartz Chicken Buffet, Sunway Pyramid, Bandar Sunway;
Status: Great Success!!!;

Attendance
01) andy_lhc;
02) Corez;
03) Pr1me_Minister;
04) Hing (andy's colleague);
05) hamtarox;
06) kelvint83;
07) penman;
08) sihumchai;
09) sihummoi;
10) why_79 (appearring to most for the 1st time);











Games Played
DS
• Mario Kart DS;
• Mario Party DS;
• Contra 4 DS;

Arcade
• Mario Kart GP Arcade;
• Hyper Bishi Bashi Champ;
• House of Dead 2 & 3;









My Thoughts
Another successful gathering! We all had fun eatinig and gaming.

We had fun at the arcade too, especially playing Hyper: Bishi Bashi Champ. Good news!!! The price per game for Mario Kart GP Arcade has reduced from 2 Tokens to 1 Token now. However, I was quite disappointed with the arcade's maintenance... it's so typical for MY Arcade operator to offer faulty gaming machines to customers. Next time before you insert any tokens/coins, please check the conditions (at least the physcial parts), as we got "conned" for playing House of Dead 2 & 3, as both machines came with spoiled guns.


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How to get there
By Public Transport
Via Bus (from Kuala Lumpur to Sunway Pyramid)
Metro Bus No. 10, 11 & 13;
Park May Bus No. 51;

Via Putra LRT
Feeder Bus No. 2-900 from Kelana Jaya Putra LRT Station to Sunway Pyramid.

Via KTM Commuter
Feeder Bus Intrakota from Subang KTM Commuter Station to Sunway Pyramid.


For additional info, read:

• Metrobus Route;


• Rapidkl Bus Route;


• KTM;


• How to get to Sunway Lagoon Resort;

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Read also:
• The Great LYN Nintendo DS Meet up - August edition;
• The Great LYN Nintendo DS Meet up - July edition;
• The Great LYN Nintendo DS Meet up;

Beard Papa's

Beard Papa's has been around at Jusco Supermarket, 1Utama (old wing). I just never border to give it a try, until yesterday. And it was a Love at First Bite experience!!!

I personally never like cream puff, because normally it's either the cream is not fresh, yucky and the puff is softed.

However, Beard Papa's is crispy & crunchy!

There are 2 flavours - Chocolate and Vanilla. Wildchild and I actually prefered the chocolate flavoured!






Besides cream puff, Chocolate Fondant is available too! We'll try out that next time.




External Link
• Official Site;

Noodle Stall @ Jeong Hin

The reason I keep visiting Jeong Hin, because of this ultimate noodle stall - The Kon Lao Mian Stall (aka dry noodle in Hakka dialect).

-_-"



It doesn't have name, we've been referring it as "矮仔面" (Shorty Noodle) all these years.

Anyway, the stall operator isn't short (obviously... -_-")...

"Shorty" is actually refering to the shop owner by the townfolks. The stall owner is actually from Sibu, Sarawak. But he has been selling kon lao mian at Jeong Hin for 30 over years.

@_@"

A long time tenant indeed, and I've been a proud loyal customer too, for 29 years!

^0^

Anyway, check out the popular - "Kon Lao Mian".

The noodle is homemade (not sure by him personally tho'), mixed with onion oil, sprinkle of deep fried red onions, served with Char Sao (BBQ Pork), Sao Nyuk (Roast Pork), and Sabah Famous - Chun Ghean (Spring Roll).

Most people are there for the noodle, however, I prefered the "Mi Foon" (aka Rice Noodle). Because I'm more of a "Mi Foon" person than a "Mian" person.

To me, this is a legendary food!!! Period.





Just by looking at the picture, I'm drooling & starving...

I miss home already... T_T


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Read also:
• Jeong Hin, Inanam;

Jeong Hin, Inanam

Inanam is an industrial area, a small town not very far from the City. It's currently one of the busiest satelite town in KK. I never stay here, however, Inanam has always been part of my childhood. Because this is the place my great grantparents first set foot, when they came from China.

My home church - BCCM Inanam, is here too. I used to visit this town every Sunday, for 20 over years. I never realise that Inanam, meant so much to me, until I left home for studies.

I can remember most of the old shops here, particularly this shop - Jeong Hin.

Jeong Hin is one of those small town kopitiam, where you sit back and enjoy your kopi, freshly steamed bao, while reading newspaper, and social with other folks at the same time.

I used to have breakfast here, almost every Sunday, before I go to Church. It was at the "new" old shops, then they shifted to the new shops many, many years back.

The shop owns by a tiny little old man, that married a very fierceful wife. When I was a kid, I always scared of her, but she's actually a kind lady, when she's not bossing around.

Jeong Hin is famous for their home made - Bread, Pastries, and Baos (Chinese Hamburgers!!!). Check out this pork Bao, or also known as - Zhu Nyuk Bao in Hakka.




A little story...
The tiny old man is probably one of the most hard working person you've ever met. You always find him, either busy making drinks for the customers at the back of the shop, preparing ingredient for the Baos, or doing some cleaning.

Over the years, he has passed on his leet skills in baking bread & baos to his son and son-in-law. The son-in-law was working side by side with the master for quite a number of years. He showed great passion in doing it, worked hard hopefully to master the skill one day. In fact, most customers find he's better than the master himself later.

A few trips back, my parents told me, the son-in-law had started his own business. Rumours has it that the son got jealous with him... some family disagreements, and he decided to leave and move on.

I no longer see the tiny little old man at the shop either, I'm wondering what happen to him? Hope he's healthy & strong.


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Read also:
• Noodle Stall @ Jeong Hin;

a place I called home - part 01

YAAAATAAAA!!! I'm back home!

so happy+excited!

missed the air, people, food, sky, moon so much!!!

Had good food (went to 3 eating places in less than 5 hours time... -_-")



tomorrow will have breakfast with penpa+penma before heading to National Park and spend a night.

I heard it's really cold now, up there...

LOOK FORWARD!!!

HoooOOoooO!!!

William's @ Taman Mayang

The ex-members of Band of Hawks (KL/PJ Division) had a fellowship, to celebrate Thuselah's birthday.

Attendance
01) Valevia (Undead Warrior);
02) Ashodin (Tauren Druid);
03) Bladee (Orc Rogue);
04) Doji (Orc Warrior);
05) Alex (Bloodelf Paladin);
06) Zouljin (Troll Rogue);
07) Immortalbird (Undead Female Mage);
08) Bigmow (Tauren Shaman);
09) Thuselah (Undead Warrior);


The celebration took part at William's, the famous Fushion Mamak Stall, located at Taman Mayang, PJ. Besides serving Roti Canai, Murtabak, Nasi Lemak, Mee Goreng, etc... (the usual Mamak Stall Food), you can find RM40 Steak or RM25 Pasta, available here too.

The unusual Mamak Stall Food...
Most of the dishes served here, come in Super-Size portion.

Ribena Longan - LARGE

Ordered by: Thuselah, Immortalbird, Valevia;
Recipe: Ribena Black Currant, Longan, Ice and Big Mug;
Price: RM6;

PASTA - Seafood Special

Ordered by: Thuselah;
Recipe: scallops, big prawns, clams, sotong, pasta;
Price: RM25;


Ordered by: Immortalbird;
Recipe: Cabonara sauce, minced beef meat balls, cheese, pasta;
Price: RM15;


Ordered by: Valevia;
Recipe: chicken, spring onion, vege, egg, kuay teow;
Price: ???;


Ordered by: Ashodin;
Recipe: tom yam soup, chilli, lemon grass, chicken cutlets, sotong, chilli, and chilli;
Price: ???;


My thoughts
Taste are alrite, price is above average mamak stalls' pricing, however, the portion is HUGE. None of us can finish our food.

As for me, I believe I won't be visiting Williams' for now or the near future... read on to find out.

Facts
After dinner at William's that night...
• Thuselah had to use the bathroom, when we were back in office...
• I had an unusual toilet session in the following morning...
• Ashodin vomitted at about 100m from the stall. Later of the night, she was admitted to SJMC due to severe food poisoning...
• and I have yet to hear from the rest of the gang...

...
-_-"

Vivo

Vivo is a fushion restaurant in The Curve (above TGIF). They served Italian+Americano style food, with quite a nice & cool set up.

The environment



Some of the food, we normally order...





the ultimate - BLUEBERRY PIZZA, made of crackers based, topped with blueberry sauce and nuts, served with a scoop of vanila flavour ice-cream. Yummmmy~


My thoughts
We went there last year around this time, for the first time. It was one of those Friday night, both wildchild and I had difficulties deciding where to eat.

As we walked past the restaurant, a staff handed out a flyer printed - "Merdeka Promo" 30% OFF. Being a cheapskate working class, immediately we grab a seat and started browsing their menus.

It wasn't a very good experienced for us.

First, We were "briefed" - "How to make orders?"

1. See Menu;


2. Fill up the "Order Slip";


3. Pay at the counter;


4. Wait for your food to be served;

we were liked ... -_-"

"what kinda system is that?"

Secondly, we waited for more than 20 mins for our food.

Thirdly, the food was ok, but not that great.

Fourthly, I find the logo of the restaurant, wasn't appealing to food, especially the colour. No wonder it never caught my appetite.

That's bad enough for us not to come back again.

However, the staffs were well trained & professional, eventhough the management has a weird system operating the restaurant. They were polite and nice, not like some restaurant one level below them, which is stucked up and rude.

That made me feel like coming back.

And we did. Every time we were there, I always make use of the Feed back Slips, leaving my thoughts, for them to improve.

Over the months, it seemed that the management was doing their homework. They took the customers' feedbacks seriously, and did some changes to improve the system, which I appreciated that.

Now if you visit Vivo, this is how it works:

1. Take a seat;


2. See Menu;


3. Fill up the "Order Slip";


4. Ask for a waitor to take your order


5. Waitor will repeat your orders, before submitting it to kitchen;


6. Wait for your food to be served;


7. Food will come with a "Check List", which is also the "Receipt";


8. When you are done, check the "Receipt";


9. Prepare your money, ask for the waitor;


10. Wait for your change, and come back again

This is the kind of restaurant that makes you feel like coming back, not like some restaurant one level below them, which is stucked up and rude.

However, I still find their logo not appealing to people's appetite. -_-"

Buon appetito! ^0^

Restoran Sun Yen 新园茶餐室@ Section 17

People refer Restoran Sun Yen 新园茶餐室 as "the shop that serves game meat 野味 at Section 17", i.e. wildboar, deer, etc. AS there's a stall does serve such dishes.




It's been awhile since we came here for lunch, because we don't really fancy game meat 野味. However, we were there last week, because we really ran out of ideas where to have lunch. LOL~ There are other stalls too.


Our food

Hokkian Style Fried Kuay Teow (using Charcoal flame)

Believe it or not. Food that is cooked on charcoal/wood fire taste better. This dish is awesome! Perhaps like the Chinese old believes, cooked food must be blessed by good flame.


Curry Noodle



This curry noodle is quite happening. However, I ordered, as I'm more a dry meehoon:
Dry Mee Hoon with Curry Gravy



Kopi Ping (Ice Coffee)

I don't drink coffee, therefore, I can't comment much about this drink. However, I was told, the Kopi Ping is one of the famous drink here.


Facts
Besides the mentioned, there's a famous Bah Kut Teh stall at Restoran Sun Yen 新园茶餐室 too. I'll blog about that next time.

Nihon Kai Japanese Restaurant 日本海

Sammie suggested this place to me a few weeks back, and since dylan was in town, we went to check out last nite. It was last minute, therefore didn't manage to ask everyone. Gomen nasai (I blame dylan).

Anyway, the place has a normal Japanese Restaurant set up, nothing fancy (who cares?), however the food is GREAT!

Nihon Kai Japanese Restaurant 日本海



Very kind of enjee, she managed to call up and get a room for us ('cos she very free nowadays! >_<).

The Gang



Our order (6 of us...)



My ultimate Katsu Kari Raisu

Besides the Katsu Chicken, there were stewed beef in the Kari too. Nice and tender.


My thoughts
OMAIYOOOOOO!!!

NICE. REASONABLE. Authentic. Go check it out~lah!


Facts
I took 1 of their business card before I left, and I discovered this:

can it be...? LOL~


How to get there...
If you are coming from Mid-Valley/PJ direction towards Old Klang Road, once you have entered Old Klang Road, keep LEFT. Then try to look out for small road/junction between Michelin Tyre Shop (a row of shop houses) and Shell Petrol Station. Turn in and you can see Nihon Kai Japanese Restaurant 日本海.

Or you can refer to this map.


^0^

Nihon Kai 日本海 Japanese Restaurant
4-2, Jalan Telok Gadong,
Off Jalan Klang Lama,
Batu 3 1/2,
58100 Kuala Lumpur

tel/fax: +60-3-7982 3668

Operating Hours are:
Daily
Lunch 12.00pm - 3.00pm
Dinner 6.00pm - 10.00pm

BEST!!! Pan Mee @ Lucky Garden

When I was staying in Bangsar a few years ago, this is one of my regular spot for breakfast and lunch - Kedai Kopi dan Makanan Chun Heong 全香茶餐室


Here's a few recommended stalls, you can check out:
01) Pan Mee; (my favourite!!!)
02) Pork Noodle;
03) Wan Tan Mee;
04) Duck Noodle;
05) Mixed Pork Porridge;


Our order
Pan Mee

You can order, thin, thick or peel versions of the noodles. Then to have it soup or dry.

My Thoughts
This is my favourite Pan Mee stall, the best so far, I've tried (Jess, the 老母 of Joel couldn't agree more to that! ^0^). The texture of the Pan Mee is just nice, crunchy and right, not like some stalls, when you are eating it, you feel like you are chewing rubber in your mouth. @_@"

Then the gravy, mixture of soy sauce, shredded pork, "dog vege", spring onion, ikan bilis, with fried small red onions... WAH!!! think only I drool! wooOOOTTTT!!! ^0^

I used to order a RM5 Dry Pan Mee, which is not on the menu. LOL~


Pork Noodle 三间庄猪肉丸粉

This is the famous Pork Noodle Chain-stall, I believed it's a branched out from this old kopitiam (forgot name... -_-") at PJ State. You can find it at most townships within Klang Valley, such as SS2, Lucky Garden, S17, TTDI, etc... They even have a Koptiam Concept shop (air-con, nice interior, etc) at Lucky Garden (same row as, Chun Heong, next to Alliance Bank).

My Thoughts
It's very wise of the owner, to market their business as Chain-Stall, to expand the business. They serve the same noodles, same meatballs, same gravy... pratically identical, however, they don't taste the same. There are no consistency in the quality. Only a few stalls I prefered, i.e. the stall at Lucky at Section 17, the Concept Store at Lucky Garden, and of course, the original shop at PJ State.

They do not have a very mature duplication system, perhaps the owner would like to check out this book Copycat Marketing 101: How to Copycat Your Way to Wealth, to understand more.

GANBATTE NE!!!

^0^



Facts:
Kedai Kopi dan Makanan Chun Heong 全香茶餐室 has the most Hakka stall operators, I've ever been to any Kopitiam in Klang Valley.

LOL~ and I feel HOME.

>i)

The Coast Mudpie @ The Coast Southwest Grill

After dinner at Rakuzen on Friday night, we went to The Coast.

At the entrance, before the waitor gets to greet me, I asked: "Do u have mud pie today?". "Yes, we do sir.", he replied with a smile, as he can recognise me.

"U sure~ah? 1 Mud Pie PLEASE~!!! WOOOOOOTTTT!!!"
He smiled and lead us to our table.


YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!!! MUDPIE!!! FINALLY!!!


My Thoughts
Picture Speaks A Thousand Words... let the mud pie speaks for itself!

The Ultimate Coast Mud Pie



The Coast Southwest Grill
LG18 & 19
Hartamas Shopping Centre

tel: +60-3-6201 2680

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Read also:
• The Coast Southwest Grill @ Hartamas Shopping Centre;
• My 2007 Birthday... @ The wild journey...;

Rakuzen 樂膳 @ Hartamas

This is a Japanese Fancy restaurant. The environment is superb, nice place to chill out. The whoole restaurants are partitionedd in cubicle form. They have:
• small cubicle - for couples;
• medium cubicle - 4-6 ppl;
• larger cubicle - 8-10 ppl;


Rakuzen 樂膳

there are lots of "hidden doors"


I didn't really get to explore the place, 'cos I afraid that I might disturb other guests. Anyway, here's how our seat looked like:

Our seatings

a platform (i.e. table) is attached to 1 corner and leaves a L-shape seating area.


Table Set up

WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE LAMP ON THE WALL!!!


My thoughts:
Nothing great about the food, and it's a bit over priced. However, it's a nice place for a guy to take his girlfriend/wife, for a nice date, anniversary or birthday dinner. For business pleasure, you can consider bringing your clients too.

Here's what we ordered:
C Salmon Roll



Yakiniku Zen



Wasabi & Friend



Facts
While we were here that night, we noticed there were lots of reservations made earlier, and there were some ques at the entrance. Therefore, it's better you call up for a reservation, before you come.


RAKUZEN 樂膳 Japanese Restaurant
Lot P17, Plaza
Ground Floor
Hartamas Shopping Centre
60 Jalan Sri Hartamas 1
Sri Hartamas
50480 Kuala Lumpur

tel: +60-3-6201 2060
fax: +60-3-6201 5060
mob: +60-12-410 3060
email: ht-rz@superdining.com.my

Operating Hours are:
Mon-Thu
Lunch 11.30am - 3.00pm
Dinner 6.00pm - 10.30pm

Sat-Sun/Public Holidays
Lunch 12.00pm - 11.00pm

The Coast Southwest Grill @ Hartamas Shopping Centre

It's been awhile since the 3nity & Chimera gang met up, everyone was so caught up with life & work. So I decided to do the long awaited & overdue gathering, in conjuction to celebrate everyone's belated birthday (from Jan - Jul)...

and here we are:
The Coast Southwest Grill

the environment


The Gang

in order of appearance
01) jiajia;
02) dare_c;
03) leena;
04) mejesmin;
05) kalv;
06) wildchild;
07) penman (not in the camera again... -_-");

(note: too bad, denku can't join us that night... he got class!)


My thoughts:
This restaurant came to our discovery on one weekend. What caught my attention was "The Coast Mudpie". Wildchild and I decided to celebrate her birthday here for the first time.

The Coast serves similar food on their menu as TGIF & Chilis. Personally, I find the food nice and offers at a more affordable price.


Our order
Mushroom Cream Soup with Chicken cutlets

Soup of "that" day


Caesar Salad



Southern Fried Chicken Salad



Fish Sandwich



Mushroom Salsa Fish



Hawaiian Sandwich



Lemonade & Iced Leman Tea



Facts
You won't get to order "The Coast Mudpie" everyday from The Coast. I've been here 3 times, and I managed to eat it ONCE. After two great disappoinments, I finally learned from the staff that "The Coast Mudpie" will only be avaible in every 4 days. Therefore, I suggest you call them first, before going, if you intend to have this ULTIMATE dessert... to avoid potong stim!!!

Don't get me wrong, they serve other dessert too, such as brownies, etc... but I WANT MUDPIE!!!



The Coast Southwest Grill
LG18 & 19
Hartamas Shopping Centre

tel: +60-3-6201 2680

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Read also:
• The Coast Mudpie @ The Coast Southwest Grill;
• My 2007 Birthday... @ The wild journey...;

Ho Ho Steamboat

When it comes to steamboat, we always pick Ho Ho Steamboat Restaurant. Simply because the food is fresh, tasty and reasonable pricing.

We used to travel all the way to Sri Petaling for this nice steamboat, however, we no longer do that, because they have a new branch at Kota Damansara.

Ho Ho Steamboat Restaurant@Kota Damansara



utensils





My thoughts:
Normally, if it's only the 2 of us, we'll order the mininal set, with extra dumpling, meatballs, and "UFOs".

ingredients



Right after you put all the food into the steamboat, don't forget to add a little bit of the sesame oil.

Sesame Oil with fried onion

this will make the soup and the food smells & taste good.

Steamboat



And it always go with a pot of tea. For our choice, we normally go for jesmine tea or tie guan yin.

a pot of "Tie Guan Yin"



Facts:
Ho Ho Steamboat Restaurant is probably the first and only steamboat restaurant that has a website. There are currently 4 outlets in Klang Valley, you can locate their outlets here.

To find out more, you can visit - www.steamboat.com.my.