My Farewell Treat (V)

Friday night, a super jam night after heavy downpour around 4-5 pm. Finished my work and waited for Kim Nyean to come back to office. Straight away headed to Pavilion for our dinner ... already almost 8pm...

I chose to have dinner at Ying Ker Lou, where they have opened new branches in Pavilion and the Gardens. A restaurant specialing in hakka cuisine, always a place that i wanted to try but never step in...

We ordered green tea

It came with a very unique pot with 2 small chinese cups. Very refreshing cos it's not a tea bag, real green tea leaves were used here...

By the way the tea pot was very very heavy...

Me at China ^_^

I had a WonderFULLL dinner here so let's see what we ordered...

Hakka Braised Pork with Black fungus with noodles

Noodles were springy enough. I had a small piece of the pork and found it a bit dry, nevertheless it's still flavourful with the "Nam Yue" taste...And i like the black fungus :)

Ginger egg with chinese yellow wine 黄酒姜蛋

Very strong taste of wine and i like they way they fried the egg, not dry and soft enough.... best eaten with rice and very appetising..

客家算盘子

This is a rather special dish that is already seldom seen being sold in town. It requires a lot of effort to cook this, that's why the serving is pretty small given its price...

Made from yam, and this was the dish that we liked the most cos it's very Q and full of wok-hei...

Hakka Lei-Cha with Brown rice

This turned out to be my favourite dish, i liked the freshness and healthy feeling after eating this. Some people couldn't stand the "green" taste (eg Kim Nyean..hehe..) but i like it so much....

However, we ordered too much (i should say HE ordered too much :P) and i didn't manage to finish this awesome dish...

What a waste!

Another of their recommended dish

A kind of tofu with fish paste on top...

Not too bad...

A table full of goodness for only 2 of us

Thanks Kim Nyean for the treat!

I will never forget this WonderFull dining experience! Haha...

Food Republic @ Pavilion KL

Was at Pavilion last Friday for our firm's movie night. Free tickets to Transformers II ... yay!! So we went to have our dinner at Food Republic, located at ground floor of Pavilion...

I first tried out Food Republic at Singapore during my previous visit to the island last year. Although this is only a food court, we can expect a high quality of foods provided, and normally the stalls operating are well known. In Food Republic Pavilion, we can see stalls from Vietnam Kitchen, Little Taiwan, Toast Box, Ah Yip Herbal Soup, Ichiban Ramen and many other local and international foods. I always have difficult time wondering what to choose to eat here...haha...

After numerous rounds of having meals here, i always find myself buying from a particular stall named Thye Hong. A client from Singapore recommended me to Thye Hong when i visited Singapore during last trip, and the stall was always packed with people queuing up to buy a few signature foods. The same scene could be seen in Pavilion too, particularly during weekends...

Let's check out what's my favourite in Food Republic

Fried Prawn Noodles - RM7.50

I like the way they serve it using a type of leave (not sure what it calls)
Similar to soup version of prawn noodles, this was laden with ingredients that you and me used to see such as prawns and taugeh, and fried with some additional stuff such as cuttlefish and eggs. Noodles were fried until wet enough and you can expect slurrrpyy effect while having this

^_^

Fried "O Jian" - RM8.00

Crispy egg batter fried with "O"

Very fragrant and we couldn't stop muching on this...hehe...

We love this as it was not laden with tapioca flour that other stalls are selling...

Enjoy every bite of it

Porridge set comes with sinful YaoCharKwai

Sticky Porridge..yum!

Overall a satisfying dinner at a rather affordable price. Pricing may be slightly higher than normal food court but given the food quality, i think it's worth. Looking forward trying out other stalls in next visit...

WongKok CharChanTeng @ Pavillion

I blog about this chain of charchanteng before here. I went to Pavillion with ManMan on one fine evening after work, and we decided to have dinner at this eatery since both of us were craving for some Hongkie foods...

WongKok in Pavillion is considered as one of the most affordable place to get a decent meal in a proper ambience. A very good place for some chit chat and yamcha session...

We were seated beside the glass window, overlooking the traffic jam after office hour...

Honey Lemon Ice & Milk Tea Ice

We both noticed that the size of the drink is much more than usual. Perhaps they have changed the size of the glass...

We shared this borsch soup.

Hearty!

Does it look tempting??

I forgot the name of this, something like HK Style rice with honey pork rib.

The pork rib is very tender and juicy..Yummy

Baked spaghetti with fish in double sauce (white+red sauce)
Frankly, i am disappointed with this. Not as flavourful as i think it should be.
Very bland, not to my liking...somemore costs me RM14.90 for this!
Sorry no next time!

We paid around RM41 for this dinner. Worthy? You make the judge...

Dragon-i @ Pavilion KL

I still clearly remember when Dragon-i first opened its outlet at Cititel Hotel Midvalley, i was so eager to try it immediately after its opening. Being a big fan of XiaoLongBao, i will always find opportunity to savour this delicacy in any restaurant serving this authentic dish. I have personally try this dimsum in its origin place, Shanghai for N times. Nothing in Malaysia can beat those from Shanghai for sure. However, there are still some Shanghai restaurants in KL serving good XiaoLongBao and one of it is Dragon-i.

We were at Dragon-i Pavilion for farewell lunch for Jo. We made a prior reservation for 10 of us, and were seated in a section specially cater for big groups. So it was rather empty....

Dragon-i serves culinary from region of Shanghai, Szechuan, Beijing and Lanzhou. Having established in Malaysia since 2004, it has many signature dishes such as XiaoLongBao and LaMian...

Titbits - RM2

Braised peanuts

Nice!

I like their chili, taste like XO sauce and has lots of dried shrimps chunks



Chinese tea for all of us - RM2 per pax

Appetiser - Pork Roll 蒜泥白肉青瓜卷 - RM14 per portion
What you see here is 2 portions

Crunchy vege wrapped by soft pork slice, garnished by garlic sauce, served cold. Something new to all of us, and we found it good...

Fried LaMian with seafood 海鲜干炒拉面 - RM16

Pretty average LaMian



Sauted Diced Chicken 四川辣子鸡丁 - RM20
Diced chicken fried until crunchy and fried with lots of dried chillis. It is not that spicy as we think by the way. Maybe it has been adjusted to suit local taste...

Stir Fried Season Bean 干煸四季豆 - RM18

I found this something like home-cooked food so i think it's a bit pricy

Taste wise, average.

Fried Carrot Cake with XO sauce

XO酱炒虾仁萝卜糕 - RM12

The carrot cake taste very bland, and only little XO sauce was used since i didn't find much on the plate. Also, it has not enough "wok-hei" as it should be for such an authentic dish.

@_@

XiaoLongBao!

RM9 per basket of 4

Honestly, i feel this is no longer as tasty as before. Many people commented that the food quality has dropped, not sure why. Anyway, the XiaoLongBao is still nice to be eaten...

Meat Dumplings in Spicy sauce

红油抄手 - RM12

Normal meat dumplings with hot & spicy sauce, please be cautious when eating this as you wouldn't like the feeling of the spicy sauce spread into your throat when you bite it!

Deep Fried Bean Curd Rolls 腐皮虾卷 - RM9

Average

Deep Fried Glutinous Ball 炸桂花汤圆 - RM8

Jo's comment: Taste weird!

Guess they didn't use to the GuiHua taste....

Pan Fried Meat Bun 生煎包 - RM8

Meat filling was not juicy, and the bun was nothing special too.

So-so only...

Established for so many years, Dragon-i has attracted many loyal customers and the number of outlets have spread to whole Malaysia. It is currently running a promotion of RM1 per plate of Soya Sauce Chicken for dinner time only, and 10% discount for CIMB credit card. Do check it out if you are interested....

I like their interior design...

Dragon-i

Lot 1.13, Level 1

Pavilion KL

(Same level as Food Republic)

Tel: 03-2143 7688

Website: http://www.dragon-i.com.my/

Kampachi Japanese Restaurant @ Pavillion KL

It has always been a challenge whenever we gonna plan for b'day dinner, especially if it falls on a working day (not Friday). We have to consider the location, price, ambience, etc etc etc.... not easy leh. Nat asked me a few places to consider for El's and Elain's b'day so that she could get the 2 b'day girls to choose. I suggested Kampachi Pavillion..and that's what they chosen :-)

This was my 2nd time visiting Kampachi Pavillion. As the second oldest Japanese restaurant in Malaysia, Kampachi has never failed to keep up with their reputation, especially the legendary Sunday brunch buffet in Kampachi Equotarial Hotel (their 1st outlet) that strike a perfect balance between value and quality. I have always wanted to try out the sunday brunch but no kaki lo.......

~~ The twins of our office - Nat & Mel ~~

B'day girl - Elaine

B'day girl - Elvina

We had problem in selecting our dinner sets. I guess all of us felt to try out all in the menu as the pictures presented made our saliva dripping....gulp!

Shoyu served in a nice bottle. All diners ordered Macha as drinks @ RM2 each...

All the set dinner comes in a tray, which serves appetiser, chawanmushi, Miso soup, the main course, rice and fruit.

Tempura set - RM35

Chirashi Set Udon - RM45

It has sashimi platter, Ebi Tempura and Udon. I found that Li Chain always order this in any Jap restaurant that we visit ;)

Soft Kani Maki - RM42.

Maki with soft shell crab. Ed's order, which i found he likes to order this often. My favourite too.

Tempura Udon - RM28

Nat & Darren already half eaten this by the time i snap the pict.

Gyu Katsu Don - RM40. Look so tempting!

And the most popular set of the night was:

Sushi Bento - RM48

They were 6 ppl ordering this. It has sashimi, unagi, sushi and maki.



Look at the generous portion of salmon shashimi. I was hooked on the freshness of the sashimi and the thickness piece of fish.

Yummy piece of Unagi, served with mashed potato and egg kind of thing (i duno what they call it). The egg thingy was awesomely delicious!

Assorted Maki and Sushi.

The sushis were very firm, compared to other Jap Fast Food chain that easily breaks...

A happy dinner with funny bunch of people...hehe...

The price of the food in Kampachi is a bit on the high side compared to others. But given the impeccable service by the waiter/waitress and the quality of food, i will definitely come back in future for the hearty and good Jap food...

Kampachi

Lot 6.09.00, Level 6, Pavilion, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur

Tel No: 03 - 2148 9608
(Pork Free)