Kin Kin Chili Ban Mian @ KL

Perhaps there is plenty of you all have no idea what " ban mian" is. Let me do a little explaination for it. " Ban Mian" is just actually noodles, just it was lengthen in it's width, like 1/2 inch, then flat and long. It was something like " kuey teow" but was thicker than that.

"Ban Mian" was usually match well and cooked in soup based style. But, in this shop, you can only found one kind of noodle, which is in dry based, and the boss named it as " Chili Ban Mian" .

Restoran Kin Kin

When the boss served the noodle, it was just looks so plain and there is no diffrent with normal dry-stir noodles. Then I was decided to have a taste of it and it just taste simply plain and can can is zero taste at all.

However, after i put in a scoop of the dry chili which prepared on the table, miracle happened!! The taste have an overturn of 360 degree which you will ever feel that this was the most delicious noodle that you ever ate before. I will suggest that when you are there and having this, you increase the amount of the chili powder gradually as the tastiness is different for each individual.

What special about this Ban Mian? What make it outstanding from others? The secret is inside the chili. Beside spicy, it has its special fragnance. Is it garlic, onion or whatever which enhance its fragnance?? There was a notice sticked on the wall showed that: "Don't steal the chilli." Now you know how many opponents it has who try to steal its recipe.

For majority who live in kl or study there, there is currently a few branches for this shop. However, I would still recommend that all should come to this original shop and the it definitely provided the authentic taste of this chili ban mian. (This is share by my friend whoever visit the branches)!!

Chili Ban Mian served together with fried egg (Original looks before adding the chili powder)

The tasty looks of the chili ban mian (adding of chili)

Additional dish to add on

The miracle ingredient-chili powder

Lastly, the price of this chili ban mian is only RM 4-5. It also serves with a big portion. It also kinda inconvenient if you are not driving.

Address: Lorong Tunku Abudul Rahman 2, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Pepper Lunch @ Sunway pyramid

      This is a restaurant introduced by my friend. When we both hungry and passed by this restaurant, the smell of food came out and attracted us to walked in the restaurant. 

Pepper Lunch

     This is Japanese style teppa restaurant. You will be served with a sizzling hot plate of fresh vegetable and meat. Then you can "cook" by yourself by adding the special sauce they have prepared for you. The sauces are honey brown sauce, garlic soy sauce and other seasoning like pepper and salt. When you pour the sauce onto the hot plate, sizzling sound and smoke come out and be careful of the oil spillages. 

seasoning

     There is quite a variety of the menu. There are pepper rice which has chicken, beef, salmon; pasta; curry; premium beef set and etc. I ordered the salmon pepper rice and I felt it was marvellous! The salmon was cooked in suitable texture and slightly salty which was match with the rice. One thing I like the rice was the presence of corns which gave it juicy taste. Not need to pour too much seasoning to avoid over salty taste.

Salmon Pepper Rice (RM 16.80).
The cheif was so generous and gave me a lot of salmon~

      Besides, curry chicken pepper rice was totally different with the salmon set. It has it own gravy which will flow out once you stir the rice. Thus, I don't think you need to add on the seasoning. You are the cheif on your own, so you can determine how many percentage the meat is gonna to cook. Since the chicken is bigger bulk compare to salmon which is thin slide, I suggest you can cook it with longer time. 

Curry Chicken Pepper Rice 

     Don't underestimate the sizzling hot plate. This is a special electromagnetic cooker, which can heats up 260c in 70 seconds and remains 80c for 20 minutes. So must be bear in mind there, don't ever try to touch the hot plate with bare hand! There is a paper wrapped around the hot plate and its function as prevents oil spillage in addition act as a barrier to protect you. I still felt hot when I was having the meal in half way. How efficient the hot plate is!

     The ambience was good and comfort. The screws were always friendly and there provided free, self-service ice water. It was soothing effect to take the ice water after the 'hot' meal.   

     Overall, this was quite a nice place to have your lunch here. The price is reasonable and Salmon set was really nice! 

Pepper Lunch

Address: F1.05, Lv1, Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall, PJ.

Branches: Mid Valley, Pavillon, 1 Utama, Suria KLCC

Website: http://www.pepperlunch.com.my/

     

Toast & Roast @ Ss2

Want to grab a great taste of authentic roasted chicken and pork ? Here is the place where you must visit. This place located near SS2, and is a hot and favorite place to visit by the student as there is plenty of university at the vicinity area. The first time when I taste the roasted pork - char siew, it totally enlighten the my's taste bud as this is the first time that the writer taste such a great taste on the roasted items.

Roasted pork-char siew

The recommended food to order is noodles and char siew, as it matches perfectly with the char siew. If you worry will feel hungry, can order rice as well. This restaurant also serve with plenty of varieties for the customer to chose with, like for example: fried bean sprout, roasted pork (shao rou), roasted chickeng and steamed chicken and so forth

Toast & Roast

The menu for toast & roast

I will greatly recommended that while enjoying the delicious lunch, can order a glass of lemongrass drink as it definitely add the point to the whole set meal and smoother your throat as the restaurant is kinda lack of air ventilation system, so you might feel hot and sweat when enjoying the lunch.

Toast & Roast

Address : 20, Jalan SS2/72, Petaling Jaya, 47300 Selangor.

Reminder : As there is always plenty of customer, remember park your vehicle at the street behind the restaurant

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Italiannies @ Paradigm Mall PJ

Italiannies has several branches in the country. The one I visited was at Paradigm Mall.  From the minute you walk into the restaurant, you will be greeted with black and white photographs  decorating the walls, warm, yellow lighting and dark wooden furniture which all add up to Italiannies homey ambiance. The open kitchen where the chefs bake the pizza attracts people to stop their move and watch. The chef put the dough into an old style wood fired oven to bake it. Can imagine that the pizza must be delicious.

The wall was decorated with black & white historical photographs.

Minestrone soup quite nice.

artichoke crostini

complementary bread

       You will be served with complementary breads. The appetisers we ordered was artichoke crostini. The layers texture of the artichoke gave us a special taste. The cheese melted on the roasted bread and we already half full after ate it and the minestrone soup. The minestrone soup quite nice too.

     We decided to ordered pasta as our main courses. Penne Bolognese was nice. The bolognese sauce and the minced meat made you can't stop your spoon in order to finish the penne. In addition, Parmigiana which was a  Southern Italian dish was made with a shallow-fried sliced filling, layered with cheese and tomato sauce and then baked. This was match with the angle hair pasta and definitely full and contented after eaten. 

 

Penne Bolognese

 Parmigiana

     There was a promotion. You can enjoy 1 main course + 1 appetiser for only RM25.90++.  A good ambiance and delicious food for you to have a gathering here. Be alert with the promotion period as you can enjoy the meal with cheaper price!

Italiannies Paradigm mall
Lot CF15 & 23, Level CF, Paradigm Mall,
Kelana Jaya, 47301 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor, Malaysia.
tel: +603 - 7887 4677

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Bar B. Q. Plaza @ Berjaya Times Square

     Berjaya times square is a nice shopping complex in KL. Beside shopping, there is a theme park too. After playing the theme park, you may feel hungry and don't know where can eat. So, Bar B.Q. plaza is one of the choices where you can enjoy the BBQ! (note: it's non-halal)

Supreme Mixed RM34.90

 BarB Gon is the mascot of Bar B Q Plaza. He is a cute cheerful dragon.

      The menu is variety in combination. They have family set, supreme set, economic set and bbq items. So the price range from affordable to little bit pricey. The way they decorate the food is fascinating. This enhances  our appetites too. The set includes the meats and vegetables where we can experience self-grilling. Such cooking experience makes dining at Bar B Q Plaza enjoyable and mesmerising. The air convection is good so you won't feel smoky and stink after the meal. The meal is also accompanied by specially prepared sauce, which taste just right for grilled food. There is also lemon juice, chili and garlic prepared. You can mix them with the sauce or cook it with the meat. All up to you as you are the chef!

     The supreme mixed set has sirloin,beef, bacon, chicken, squid, udon, shrimps, lettuce and other vegetables. The meat are cut into thin slides and easy to grill. You will see the beef turn into brown in less than 1 minute time. Dip the meat with their sauce and it tastes sweet! It is good to eat without the sauce too. Besides, the shrimps are really fresh and nice! You can add on the water in your pot. So that you can cook the soup which has accumulated all the meaty essence. The soup was suitable to cook the vegetable and meatball. You can also boil your meat or shrimps.

Supreme set 

Grill the meat on the center of hot pot and boil the water which surround the center.

     The appetiser we ordered was soft crabs salad. The soft crabs were crunchy and salty whereas the salad was sour sweet and crunchy peanuts gave another texture to this dish. Not bad.

soft crabs salad

Bar B.Q. Plaza
Berjaya Times Square, Lot 03-115Tel : 603 - 2145 8148

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Uncle Jang Korean Restaurant @Solaris Mont Kiara

      This is a restaurant which located at the 3rd floor of the building. When I first visited this restaurant, the staircase was in dark and the basement was lighted up by using few candles. First I thought it was purposely designed like this, such romantic idea. But the truth was always cruel..Light bulb was spoiled..

     When I stepped in the restaurant, it was happening. Here has no luxury design and quite disappoitning at its interior design..or I should say it has no design at all. Every table will have a big sizzling pot. The environment was little bit crowded and the air convection was really quite bad. You will feel hot and the smoke kept came out from the sizzling pot which may make you breath harder if there was no fan there. 

     

     Nevermind, we focus on its food. It's famous of Korean traditional food: Dak-Galbi. They fry the chicken, cabbage, rice cake and sweet potatoes on a big sizzling pot in front of you. They will put their special sauce and make it appears darker. Basically, just mix up all the ingredient. So the taste was really not so great..I like the ramen (with additional price of RM6) and the sweet potatoes.Beside that,  I really can't find  any special thing in this dish except the way they cooked ( cooked in a big sizzling pot in front of you and made you smell like stinky after backed home).

     Oh ya, another special thing is you have to wear the apron to protect yourself. Otherwise, the gravy or ingredient may spilled on your cloth. Don't put your handphone or purse on the table while they are cooking unless you wanna taste your phone or purse too. 

     The menu was really limited. The price also little bit pricy, RM22. There is a rule that you must ordered at least 2 people portion then so they will cook the Dak-Galbi for you. I think 2 person meals was enough for 3 small appetite girls. The sides dish they gave were merely kimchi (not really nice, strong preservative taste) and salad. 

     The impression it leaves: It is just good enough to come once time. Quite unique experience as you have to wear apron and enjoy the waiter cooks with the big sizzling pot in front of you, good interaction.

Before cook

cooking

almost done

fast cook

done! Ding! Ding! Ding!

the small proportion side dishes

The simple environment and big sizzling pot which is very close to you.

Proctective attire: apron

Uncle Jang Korean Restaurant

11-3, Solaris 1, Solaris Mont Kiara
http://www.facebook.com/unclejang

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Pitstop Cafe: coffee~ dine~ games @ PJ

   
     When you are waiting for your meal in a cafe, what would you do? Playing candy crush? 4 pic 1 word? or just Facebook or twitter? The modern technology makes us indulge into our Ipads or smart phones and less connectivity between human. Let's us abandon our technology devices and start to play a game with friends while we are waiting our meal!

This game only suitable for 3 years old child.

     As you can see from the photo, this <Pitstop cafe> provides variety of games on the shelf which includes board games, card, etc. But some games lost its instruction papers so this confused us as we were not familiar with the games XD

     Recently, it has valuable promotion! 1 course meal + 1 drink + 1 mushroom soup + 1 free flow ice-cream with price RM 18 ~ RM30 according to the main course you choose. The food taste normal. The chicken chops basically quite nice and cheap. The <black and white chicken chop>  was chicken chop with mushroom and black pepper sauce. The <honey brown  sauce chicken chop> taste sweet and quite nice.  I like the wedges as it was crispy! But personally I found the mushroom soup was not really nice, it was too dilute. The apple soda drink also not recommended, taste like colouring drink only. 

     The portion of meal is quite big and the price is reasonable. The comfort environment and games provided attracts a lot of customers. Another attractive point is their self-serving ice-cream top up. They will give you a biscuit cone and you can go take your ice-cream as much as you can! The flavours includes chocolate, Oreo, mints, yam, strawberry, etc. But when I went to take it, almost all flavours finished and left orea and chcolate flavours only. That time was only 1830. I wondered why they don't top up the ice-cream...Haiz..

disappointing mushroom soup..

apple soda 

Honey Brown Sauce Chicken Chop RM19.90 per set

Black and White chicken chop RM19.90 per set

Pitstop cafe

No 627, Jalan 17/8, Section 17, Petaling Jaya 46400 Selangor
Contact : 03 – 79318813
Business Hour : 11AM – 11.45PM (Daily)


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Vary Pasta @ Damansara Jaya

     Today, let's us try some pasta. This Vary Pasta hides in a backstreet and I lost my way to reach this place. The road is so narrow and you need a skillful driver to fetch you here. GPS also if you are so blur as me.

     This is a small Italian restaurant with warm interior design. Although the restaurant is not too spacious, there is still a good place for couple or friends gathering there. You can see there are several artistic pictures hang on the wall. This bring you a good mood and feel to enjoy your meal. Beside the nice environment, the waiters there are friendly too. They are willing to help you to take the photo if you want to. 

  

   Once you open the menu, you can screen from appetizers till desserts and your jaw will drop on the table while you see the price. The price is just too...........cheap. There is no government tax or service charge. Suitable for students to have birthday celebration here.

     Beside the price, the food is the real attractive point. The pasta is strongly recommended. Spaghetti Olio Ronccino has good smell of olive and it is just make you can't stop your fork! Another nice spaghetti is Spaghetti Garlic and Herbs which has strong smell of garlic and it is tasty too! 

     For the meat lover, you can choose Fish Fillet Mexican style which has lot of vegetable on top of it. Most of my friends like this dish. Besides the fish, there is layer of potato at the bottom. Another valuable meal is the chicken chop which consist of chicken chop and spaghetti. Honey Rum chicken also quite nice. Lasagne is suitable for those cheese lovers. The extremely much cheese make people feel full easily and will bore with the cheese quickly. So if you are not crazy about cheese, you better choose another dish.

Spaghetti Garlic and Herbs RM 9.50

Spaghetti Olio Ronccino RM15. 

Fish Fillet Mexican style RM15. The fish is hidden beneath the vegetable.

Lasagne RM 15.50. Can you see the overflow cheese?

Chicken chop with spaghetti RM14.50

Honey Rum Chicken RM19.50

Pork Chop RM14.50

     This restaurant ever been written in local news paper The Star and roasted pork knuckle is recommended. Try it out if you like pork knuckle.

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Address: No.21G, Jalan SS22/23, 

                Damansara Jaya, 

                47400 Petaling Jaya, 

                Selangor.

Contact: 03-7710 6100