Limablas, Changkat

I went to this restaurant last Wednesday for a farewell lunch for my friends who came from thousand miles away. A good choice to have a farewell lunch for them, to let them have a taste of Nyonya food. 5 of us and we ordered 5 dishes including 2 set lunch and dessert. We could barely move after the satisfying meal.

The owner of Limablas is a Chinese uncle, who usually sits outside in the open air area of the restaurant during lunch time. I have been told by my friend that all the food are prepared by the owner himself. Limablas serves really tasty Nyonya food and the interior of the restaurant is designed and decorated to be like an old school grocery store, which is pretty cool. Great for photos as well, if there is no one sitting nearby.

As set lunch are meant for one person, the portion of the chicken that come as part of the set lunch is quite small to be shared among the 5 of us. But in our case, it's probably for the best because of the amount of food we ordered. It's best not to waste the food. We ordered the set lunch for Tamarind Chicken and Chicken Pong Teh. It was so good. The sauces, were perfect. Sweet, yet savoury at the same time. I could finish the whole rice with just the sauces. The cincaluk omelette were good as well. We ordered an ala carte dish of the Cincaluk Omelette. It's good, but its a bit salty if it's only the omelette without any rice.

 



Tamarind Chicken Set Lunch with Cincaluk Omelette 



Chicken Pong Teh Set Lunch with Cincaluk Omelette 

We also ordered Nyonya Fried Noodle and Nyonya Fried Rice. The Nyonya Fried Noodle feels very much like Hokkien Style Fried Noodle. It's only mediocre for me, not my favourite. The Nyonya Fried Rice was the boom! All 5 of us love the Nyonya Fried Rice. I strongly recommend the Nyonya Fried Rice. Unfortunately, I have no photo of the Nyonya Fried Rice, you could see it at the background of the first photo of this post though.



Nyonya Fried Noodle



 After that, we decided to order ABC and Cendol. The ABC was disappointing, would not recommend it at all. It was bland, almost tasteless. The Cendol was one of the best I have ever tasted. The gula melaka was sweet yet not to the extent that I would feel like getting diabetes soon. Perfect for a hot weather!

ABC and Cendol

Limablas

15 Jalan Mesui, off Jalan Nagasari

Kuala Lumpur

Tel: (+6)03-2110 1289





Xenri D' Garden Terrace, Menara Hap Seng and Oishii Ramen, Jalan Tun H.S. Lee

Yesterday was a day dedicated to Japanese food.

I went to Xenri D'Garden Terrace yesterday for lunch with my colleague. I know, quite a pricey lunch. But they serve really good food, even for set lunch only. The set lunch prices range from RM34 to RM48 in general. The most expensive set lunch is RM70, which looks really good. The ambience and atmosphere of the restaurant are very quiet and comfortable.

It was my second time to Xenri D'Garden Terrance. I ordered the same set lunch again, salmon minute steak and teppanyaki vegetables served with agedashi tofu, miso soup, cawanmushi and fruits. But this time I requested for salad instead of rice. Salad made me feel healthier, especially with the amount of food they serve for a set lunch (incredibly much).

Salmon Steak and Teppanyaki Vegetables
served with Agedashi Tofu, Miso soup, Cawanmushi and Fruits

The Beef Sukiyaki that my friend tried



At night, I went to Oishii Ramen for dinner with a few of my mates. I wanted to go to LOKL Coffee opposite Oishii Ramen, but they were closing and they served only dessert and coffee by the time we got there. Anyway, I have read about Oishii Ramen on Eat Drink KL and have been wanting to try the food.

I didn't try the Ramen, but I had the cold cha soba instead. It is good, I like it better than the cold soba serve at all other chain restaurant. The sauce/soup for the soba tasted different. It's a pleasant difference which I really don't know how to describe. The soba comes with tempura. I had one, it is different from those at Sushi Zanmai and Sushi Tei. Personally, I like this one better as well.

Cold Cha Soba with Tempure

One of my mates tried the Beef Ramen. His reaction when he had the soup was "Not bad wor". I think that reaction came mainly from the fact that Oishii Ramen was empty when we were there around 7.20pm and we were the only customers.

Beef Ramen

Xenri D' Garden Terrace

Lot 2-04, 2nd Floor, Menara Hap Seng,

Jalan P Ramlee 50250 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: (+6)03-2078 6688
Click here for their website

Oishii Ramen

21, Jalan Tun H.S. Lee
50000 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: (+6)03-2022 0543

Click here for their Facebook page

Simple Life, Setia City Mall

I didn't realise there is an organic vegetarian restaurant in Setia City Mall until recently when one of my friends posted a food photo on Instagram. I decided to give it a try and went to the restaurant yesterday. 

It is located at the Food Hall area of Setia City Mall, a very small shop next to Taste Better (the shop that sells durian cream puffs). Simple Life serves a range of set meals as well as a la carte dishes, at a very reasonable price. It is cheaper than Wood Bio Marche that I went to early this month. (Or was it last month?)

I can't made up my mind on what to order as my main course, so I went for the best seller i.e. Lei Cha (擂茶). I only knew about Lei Cha 2 months ago. It is a traditional Hakka tea-based beverage or gruel. Nowadays it is mostly taken as a dietary brew, served together with rice and other vegetables. It is a dish very commonly seen on the menus of many organic and/or vegetarian restaurants.

Lei Cha

I really like the color of Lei Cha. It is so colorful, and the fact that it is healthy served with brown rice just made it one of my favourite. The teapot at the back of the photo contained Lei Cha, a green color beverage, for us to pour into the rice and mixed it up with other side dishes shown in the photo.

before pouring Lei Cha into the bowl

I am a person with no immune system towards food that are made like sushi rolls. So I ordered a side dish i.e. the Japanese Egg Vege Rolls, despite the main dish that I was not even sure if I could finish it.

Japanese Egg Vege Roll

Look how the egg rolls is filled with carrots and other vegetables so finely cut and sliced. Definitely my favourite. Although I would prefer it with lesser or no mayonaise. It also comes with a side salad, a bit similar to coleslaw but I am pretty sure they added a bit of vinegar to it. Tasted really good too.

Simple Life Healthy Vegetarian Restaurant
Click here for their Facebook page

Black Market, St. Mary's Residence

The Boss bought the team members lunch last Friday because we celebrated her birthday with a cake and a birthday card. There was consideration, just not of equal value. The consideration given by the Boss was definitely much more than all of us.

It was a mixed feeling going there for lunch. Excited and happy to have a good lunch, paid by the boss. At the same time, it's a bit intimidating to have a meal together with 7 other people who are all your senior. It was however, a good experience, largely thanks to the ambience and food of the restaurant.

We all ordered set lunch. It comes with a soup(mushroom/spanish vegetable/another-choice-of-soup-which-I-cannot-remember-yhe-name (I think there is a third choice), main course and tea/coffee/ice lemon tea.

 

Mushroom soup and Spanish Vegetable soup

 

I had spanish vegetable soup, which tasted similar "luo song" soup. I also tasted a bit of the mushroom soup. We like both of the soups, the taste of the soups were not too bland and not too heavy. Still remember the joke the Boss said when my spanish vegetable soup took longer time than the mushroom soup. "They need longer time because the vegetable are flown in from Spain."
 

Front: Vin du Pork (Pork with Red Wine Sauce)
Back: Black Market Pork Shoulder (with Black Market sauce)


I ordered Vin du Pork i.e. pork with red wine sauce. We think that the Black Market Pork Shoulder (I think that's the name, the description said it's served with Black Market sauce) tasted better than the one with red wine sauce. But both of them were definitely better than carbonara, too cheesy for us. You will probably hit your cheese quota for the week after having half of the carbonara.
 

Chocolate Lava cake with Vanilla ice-cream

The best part of it is that the Boss ordered desserts for us. Chocolate Lava cake with vanilla ice-cream. The moment we start helping ourselves with the chocolate lava, the chocolate moist started flowing out as if we just unbarred a floodgate. Together with the ice cream that chill you all the way down to the spine, it was good. Especially the cookies crumbles base of the chocolate lava, that's my favourite. Downside, it was too sweet, after a few tea spoons of the chocolate lava with vanilla ice-cream.



 

Black Market

No. 1 Jalan Tengah,

50250 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: (+6)03-2022 2060

Click here for their Facebook page

Banana Leaf Rice at Sri Nirwana Maju and Dessert at NOSH

Finally! I went to have the famous banana leaf rice at Sri Nirwana Maju, Bangsar with 2 friends of mine. I passed by the restaurant a few times when I went to Number 76 Style for my hair cut, but I didn't know that it is the restaurant famous for banana leaf rice. Seriously, how could I not know about it at all?

Basic Banana Leaf Rice

We had the basic version of banana leaf rice i.e. banana leaf as the 'plate' with rice, 2 vegetables (one of it is cucumber), fried bitter gourd topped with chicken and fish curry sauce. I was reluctant to try the fried bitter gourd initially because I am never a fan of bitter gourd. But I couldn't stop having it after I ate one. It is not bitter at all. It is just really crunchy and addictive. Definitely one of my favourite sides now. I could do with just refilling the 3 sides that come with the basic banana leaf rice without adding any meats.

with Fish and Chicken curry

After that we went to NOSH for our dessert. I was quite happy that I finally had the chance to visit NOSH after all the good reviews I heard and read on the net. NOSH serves desserts according to the season apart from the standard ones. We had 2 of the Autumn/Winter (I can't remember) desserts, recommended by the waiter. We were quite happy with the desserts because they weren't too sweet, just nice for us. If I had to choose, I prefer Peanut Butter Heaven, mainly because it comes with cookies crumbles and I always love combination of something crunchy in soft food. Example, mint ice cream with chocolate chip, Ben & Jerry Cookies and Cream and Haagen Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake.

Berry Heaven and Peanut Butter Heaven

Sri Nirwana Maju

43 Jalan Telawi 3,

Bangsar, 59100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: (+6)03-2287 8445

Click here for NOSH's website

Menya Musashi, The Intermark KL

I went to this Japanese ramen restaurant, Menya Musashi at The Intermark, KL last week because of it's deal on Living Social. The promotion was RM20 for RM40 food and drink voucher. Multiple vouchers can be purchased and redeemed for the same receipt, and no limitation on the number of vouchers that you can use to redeemed. I bought 2 of it.

Just for those who haven't heard about Living Social, it operates the same way as Groupon. But nowadays Living Social has better deals than Groupons. For example, Dining in the Dark.

I hadn't heard about it before I saw the deal on Living Social. But apparently it is a very successful ramen shop in Japan and Singapore, and Malaysia (I think).

Anyway,back to the KL one. It is located just right in front of Jaya Grocer's payment counters. It is quite a small shop. I was lucky to get a corner table. Personally don't fancy sitting in the middle of restaurants. Always make me feels awkward. The ramen comes in red (chilli), black (fried shallots with garlic) and white (onion oil) soup. There is also the tsukemen. Similar to cold soba, except that you dip the noodles into a bowl of hot soup instead of a cold one.

The Ajitama Black and the Ajitama Red

I can't tell if the black and red are good because I didn't really try them and I wasn't interested in the red and the fact that it looked very oily (compared to the rest) really don't make it my choice of food. But, the 2 guys who ate them said they are both quite happy with the ramen and the soup. So I guess the black and red ramen are both okay. By the way, the portion was quite big that they were struggling to finish it.

Musashi Tsukemen

This was the one I had. For this one, you can upgrade the portion of the noodle for FREE. I upgraded it to x 1.5 since I was sharing with my sister. I really like this one. I like the warm soup and the noodles are different from usual ramen. The soup is really good for dipping the noodles in it, but it is bad to have it without the noodles. TOO salty, at least for me. I would really recommend this, just because I personally love this very much.

By the way, the egg was good. All of us love it. I would have added extra egg if I wasn't too full to eat anymore.

Menya Musashi
LC-01-05, Intermark Mall
348, Jalan Tun Razak, 50450 KL
(+6)03-2181 7199

Click here for the deal on Living Social

Organic Vegetarian Restaurant, Woods Bio Marche

I have been slightly more health conscious recently, trying to lose weight, lose fats and tone up. I stumbled upon this restaurant when I was google-ing for restaurants that serve healthy organic food. After looking at a few reviews and the food menu on the website, I decided to pay a visit to Woods Bio Marche.

They have 2 shops currently, one located at SS2, Petaling Jaya and the other one at Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur. I went to the one at SS2, PJ. Personally, I am not a big fan of vegetarian food and I don't really like going to vegetarian restaurants because of the smell that all vegetarian restaurants have. Woods Bio Marche has the same smell, the smell which I forgot until I pushed open the door and needed some time to get use to it.

For each day, they have 1 bento and 1 main course (both serve with soup of the day) and are only available on that particular day. Other than that, they have noodles, rice and other dishes that are available everyday. They serve organic cakes (including tiramisu) and sell organic products as well.

I did not take any photo of the shop. So there will only be pictures of food. 

Mamak Mee (with wholegrain noodles)

I only tried a tablespoon of the Mamak Mee. To be honest, the look of it was not very appetizing. The taste was ok. Not my favourite. But it is probably a good alternative for those who love Mamak Mee yet worried about gaining weight, fats etc.

(a) Bento for every Saturday
(b) Kale and Apple Smoothie

The Bento was served warm. I really like the look of it. So colorful and most importantly, healthy. There was grilled sweet potatoes as well, on the top left corner, covered by the lotus roots. The mixed grains/brown rice (I am not so sure) and black beans (I think) with the sprinkle of black sesame on top was the best. The black sesame just enhanced the whole thing. Amazing. I finished everything else apart from the rice. It was too much for me.

Woods Bio Marche (click here for the website)
Petaling Jaya SS2 Outlet
11am-9pm Tues to Sun
Tel: (+6)03-79600260