FryDays

I've been to this fast food restaurant few weeks ago. This restaurant has just open not so long ago, it's called FryDays. From it's name, I think you can roughly guess this restaurant is selling something fried. Yeah, it's selling fried chicken ^^

Interior of FryDays

I was made known to this restaurant by SP, who has recommended me to try their plum flavoured fried chicken. In fact, they offer 3 types of flavour, namely original, hot & spicy and plum. SP also recommended me to try their wedges, so I tried. The wedges are actually 'ubi kayu' (my brain stuck, what's ubi kayu in englishhhh arr?) instead of potatoes which usually served by other fast food restaurant, not bad.

Set B (2 pcs of chicken, 1 regular carbonated drink, french fries, bun, salad), RM8.55

However, I add-on RM0.50 to change the french fries to wedges, because I want to try the wedges

Personally, I found the plum flavoured fried chicken is quite nice. When having my meal there, I have an idea flash into my mind - grab the whole can of plum powder from the chef, then I sendiri pour as much plum powder as I want on the fried chicken. (aherm, greedy Oren, behave, behave!)

Set E (1 pc of chicken chop, 1 regular carbonated drink, wedges, salad), RM8.25

If I recall correctly, the restaurant open daily, from 10 something in the morning until 9 something at night? Oh yeah, not to forget, the restaurant is located at Ang Cheng Ho, the shoplots opposite to Mdm Tang.

Please Make The Statement Clear A Bit Lah

When I purchased my air ticket, I noticed that MAS also has web check-in service like Air Asia. They allow passenger to check-in 24 hours to 90 minutes prior to the departure time. I thought that's a very great effort of them to provide such service.

As I'm travelling to Sibu tomorrow morning =( I decided to use their web check-in so that I don't have to go to airport so early. I followed the guided instrustions to perform my check-in, but I can only select Kuala Lumpur from the Origin drop-down list instead of Kuching.

Then, I called MAS hotline to double check the problem with them. After ding dong here and there, the reason I got from them is, the web check-in service only available for Silver Enrich member and advised me to use normal check-in =S

I thought my eyes hit bird, I then refered back to their website and I found out it wasn't stated so! It's stated as,

"Who are eligible to use Web Check-in?
Passenger travelling alone or in a party of nine (9) excluding infant, holding an eTicket with a confirmed booking"

Lucky I try to check-in tonight, imagine I check-in just 90 minutes before the departure time, really will long piak! >..<'


Not only they didn't state clearly in their website, the operator addressed me as 'Encik' few times! =___= My voice sounds like Encik mer, grrrrr!!!!!!

Mc Donald Prosperity Burger

I went out to hunt for Mc Donald Prosperity Chicken Burger last night. It was a long queue and I waited long enough just for the Prosperity Chicken Burger -.-

Do you really get prosperous by eating Prosperity Burger? No, you get poorer at least RM10 for every meal ordered =\

That's not the end of the story. When I reached home and opened up the box, I found the burger was packed upside down. So, I turned it over, and this was how it looked like. Erggghhh ~~ the whole thing was wet and it doesn't look appealing to me at all, rather messy, where'r their quality control?! Luan luan lai one, ewwww ~

Kenny Roger Is Back Again

After my baptism ceremony, Kenopi suggested to have lunch at Kenny Roger, Boulevard (the only eatery open at Boulevard at the moment, untung ya ~). I'm fine with it, so there we go for our lunch.

Jacket Potato Meal with macaroni & cheese topping

As expected, that area still very jam (we were stuck in the traffic about half an hour to get to the basement parking) and we even need to queue up at Kenny Roger to get seated. For the sake of Kenny Roger, we waited (in fact the stomach started to sing orchestra and vibrate already). =.=

Four Seasons Fizzy: Winter, RM5.50++

While waiting for our turn to be seated, I noticed there's a counter at the entrance of Kenny Roger selling muffin. So if you're too hungry to wait for your turn, you can get some muffin to munch first. Meaning, another channel to earn money (suck your money also, =X).

Mango Juice, RM5.90++

The place was quite packed when we got seated. However, we didn't wait very long to get our food served. I was pleased with their fast services and I must say it's very well organised.

Coffee

In addition to this, I found the waiter/waitress are very attentive to the customers. I'm not sure whether is it because I sit too near to where waitress/waiter stand by, as I stared at the stains on my table knife for just few seconds, the waiter already approached me (heck, I have not even raise my hand yet) O.O"' Luckily I didn't do anything funny there, wondering if they are observing me or not [sweat].

Kenny's Chicken Meal, RM15.90++

Generally, I found the food is just fine. I personally like the Macaroni & Cheese, especially the golden creamy cheddar cheese sauce, gulp ~

Chocolate Raisin Muffin

However, I don't like the chocolate raisin muffin served on that day. It wasn't that nice, but this is just my personal comment, others may love it, I don't know.

A Lunch Pack - Green Bento

I'm not sure whether you've received any circular email about Green Bento, an online lunch delivery company. We gave it a try yesterday, we ordered our lunch before 10:30am as stated. I requested the lady to deliver the lunch before 12:00 noon (can't help ourself, our body alarm will ring when the clock hits 12, hungry ~~~)

Our delivery

Our lunch delivery arrived by 11:30am (quite on time, hiak!). The delivery guy told us that their food doesn't have MSG added and they are using organic ingredient (so des ~~). Besides, he also told us that their main menu changed monthly, whereas, the side dishes will change everyday.

Chicken chop set with 2 side dishes, RM5.00

The food is packed in biodegradable food container, including the spoon. However, I still prefer to eat my food with metal or plastic spoon laa, the paper spoon, very weird laa...feel like eating paper ler.

Roast Chicken Sandwich, RM6.00

Overall, I found the food taste good, the portion is acceptable and the price is reasonable. In fact it's very convenient alternative, either, you don't feel like to go out lunch, the weather not so good, you are bogged down by your work, or, worst you don't know where to lunch. The food is delivered to your door step. However, it will be better if they could keep their food warm upon delivery.

Shanghai Renjia Cafe

Today lunch very qu liang, only me and SP chang toi kiok. We went to the newly opened Shanghai Renjia Cafe to have our lunch.

Shanghai Renjia Cafe (opposite shoplots of NIIT)

If you still remember, there's a food stall called Shanghai Renjia, selling soup filling bao at King's Centre few years back. They are now at Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce.

Location

The interior of the cafe looks very oriental. If you don't look outside, perhaps you will find yourself as in China.

Interior

I'm not sure whether is because they just opened, a few items we ordered are not available, namely the soup filling bao (a bit disappointed as it is the main reason we went there). We were told that those items need to pre-order, haizzzz~~~

Ba-Pao Chrysanthemum Tea, RM3.50 for 1 - 2 pax

Generally, we were quite satisfied with the food we ordered except it's a little bit oily. What I do, I laid a few layers of tissue on my plate to absorb the food oil. =P

Shanghai Stirred Fried Bun, RM4.00 (6 pcs)

When the food was served, I took the pictures of every dish we ordered which is very normal, right? Suddenly, heard the tau keh nio talked in her China accent:

TKN: Eii....you can't take the picture ler, it's our copyright ...
Me: I took then I upload to my blog, people know will come ler
TKN: ...

Cabbage Dumpling, RM3.50 (10 pcs)

Ok lor, respect her lor, don't want to take lor ~ and that's all I can show liao lor

Shanghai Renjia Cafe

Address: Ground Floor, Lot 3249 & 3195, Block 10, Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce, 93150 Kuching, Sarawak.
Phone number: 082-412988

Food Avenue

Cracking your head, don't know where to go to feed your stomach? Here's a new food gallery in town, the Food Avenue.

Food Avenue

Food Avenue is a newly open food gallery next to 4 1/2 th miles Everise Supermarket. With that, as long as Kuchian is concerned, there's the crowd flow to.

A sliding roof that form a airwell, that's if not raining

Apart from the unique design of the building, the signboard at the individual food stall is quite special as well. The signboards not only tell the visitors about food menu, but also show the photography of the hawkers or their food presentation.

Signboards of the food stalls

In terms of food selections, I can see there is a wide variety of food, from local delicacies, western food, penang food to taiwanese food and icy drinks.

Projected screen on the wall

There are also some familiar food stalls at Food Avenue, namely the Old Rex Prawn Cracker, the Burger Delight (correct? I only remember the logo is very similar to Burger King's logo), the Foo Chow food and Cha Kueh from Xin Wan at Jalan Song.

Pork Leg Rice, Rm5.00

For you who always have your breakfast at 3rd miles area, still remember there's an aunty selling mee siam at Chong Choon Cafe last time? I have not seen her for quite a while and I saw her selling mee siam again at Food Avenue. I missed the mee siam's gravy cooked by her.

Mee siam, RM4.00 (last time RM3.50 only >..<)

I don't know how about you, but I found some of the food here are a bit pricy, say about RM0.50 - RM1.00 more. Anyway, a lot of costs are hiking, what to do, right? (but ... but ... but ... my salary ler? =\)

Praw Cracker, RM0.70 each

In fact there's another dish that I ordered from Penang food stall - Salted Vege Mix Pork Soup (a.k.a kiam chai tu chap teng), which I didn't have the picture here. However, there's nothing to shout about and nothing to show about. I'm totally disappointed with the food served. That bowl of soup costs RM4.00 with only some salted vege, mostly minced meat balls and 3 biji meat balls, damn! The pork spare parts not too sure, I guess too small for me to spot it.

BBQ Rice, RM3.50

I do not know whether is their business too good that they are running out of ingredients, I'm not lucky enough, that's the Penang style, or, should they change the menu to Salted Vege Mince Meat Soup. I would rather go to eat the cheng near Bishop Gate.

Toilet facilities

VV's Curry House and Tomyam Seafood

As I said before, I'm not a fan of Indian food but this is another entry about Indian food. Kenopi's friend in Johor said want to bring us to taste a real Indian food, not the mamak type Indian food. After fetch us from Senai Airport, he brought us to this Indian food restaurant in Skudai – VV's Curry House and Tomyam Seafood.

VV's Curry House and Tomyam Seafood

He mentioned that VV's restaurant is very famous in town and even the Bollywood stars also came here to shot movie. O.o whooo~~

Variety of Indian dishes

As I don't really enjoy the food on-flight, so I'm 100% ready to taste Indian food again. Imagine you were eating the chicken meat which you can use it as 'mu yu'. Tok! Tok! Tok! How to eat? Erggghh....

There are various type of unknown dishes to us, so we just let Kenopi's friend to order the dishes. I guess he must very fancy about Indian food and he even brought a Indian cook book to explain to us.

The rice is served on banana leaf together with some side dishes and papadum. And, of course, I use spoon and fork to eat, bleekkkk!

Besides, there's a tray containing three different type of chutneys (I hope I name it correctly =P) where you can scoop onto your own plate and mix with your food.

Apart from the food, Kenopi's friend ordered some Indian drinks for us to try. He said is a must to try and this drink help to reduce heat, so des ~~~

'morais'

This is the first in my life time to take Indian drinks. I do not know the exact name for this drink, but it sounds something like 'morais'. If not mistaken, it's a mixture of chilli, curry leave, onion and sour milk.

Yeah, I'm ready!

Another must try food is the dosay, which is an Indian pancake. According to Kenopi's friend, the batter is made from wheat flour, blended with water and left to ferment. That's also why it taste a bit sour.

Dosay

After finish eating, we're told to fold the banana leaf as shown below. Don't fold the leaf to the other way wor, as it normally means something bad happen or funeral.

To conclude, not only this is really my first first first time to enjoy so much Indian food at one stop, it is also my first first first time to eat such a great and yummy Indian food. I particularly like the fried bittergourd, it's yummy! Big thank to Kenopi's friend!

VV's Curry House and Tomyam Seafood
Address: No.73, Jalan Perwira 9, Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, 81300 Skudai, Johor.

Euro Friday Buffet Dinner, Crowne Plaza

Gift certificates from Crowne Plaza

Few months ago, I joined a lucky draw contest during the Circle of Armour event. And that has won me two complimentary Euro Friday Buffet Dinner at Crowne Plaza. =D

Lately, I went to redeem my gift certificate before it expired. Euro Friday Buffet Dinner is served at Cafe Majestic every Friday. As denoted by its name, there are a variety of specialities from across Europe and Western desserts. =)

As this meal is free, I do not want to comment much about the food, but I just want to say there's room to improve in their food. =\

One Hot Chocolate To Keep You Warm

The weather in Kuching has turned cold lately (I know is not as cold as winter), it's the raining season again.

During these rainy days, is good to have a cup of hot chocolate to keep your body warm. It is also a nice moment to lay back, relax and chit chat with your pals.

Waiting passionately for my hot chocolate

There are many places in Kuching that serve hot chocolate. However, there's only one place that serve hot chocolate in a unique way and this place is gonna be the Caffe Cino at Hilton.

Hot Chocolate RM7.00++, Marshmallow RM3.50++ per 25g

The hot chocolate at Caffe Cinno comes in a mug of hot milk, a tiny jug of milk and a glass of chocolate rolls. You will have to dip the chocolate roll into the hot milk and stir until the chocolate roll is dissolved. Or, if you want to have more special way of having your hot chocolate, allow me to suggest you to bite the chocolate rolls, take a sip of the hot milk and shake your body (I'm just kidding, but if you are doing this, let me know ^__^).

Turkey Ham Panini RM15.00++

Besides the hot chocolate, the panini at Caffe Cino taste pretty good as well. The panini is served with some corn chips, wasabi sauces and preserved tomato. There's a thick layer of shredded cheese and turkey ham in the middle. When I first bite on panini, I melt, I feel like to hug the panini tightly, ergghhhh~~~~ sinful ~~~ sinful ~~~ sinful ~~~

Caffe Cino
Business Hour: 7:00am to 2:00am everyday
Location: Lobby Level, Hilton Kuching
Phone Number: 082-248200 ext 4094

LL Banana Leaf South Indian Food

I must admit that I'm not a fan of Indian food, the most I take are roti canai and rojak india. Not only I hardly take nasi beriyani once in a year, I can't even remember when is the last time I took nasi beriyani. =P

However, someone craved for nasi beriyani, so we went to Banana Leaf to have our lunch. Banana Leaf is located at Rubber Road and is not far from the Old Rex Hey Pia.

Nasi Beriyani Ayam Goreng (Fried Chicken) RM6.00

I ordered a nasi beriyani ayam goreng for myself. It was served with some vegetables and papadum (spicy Indian cracker). The rice turns out to be a bit dry but it still taste good, especially the aroma of the spice, gulp~~~

Later, I took a sip of Oocean's mutton curry. And know what? I couldn't help but requested some kuah (gravy) from the waitress and mixed with my nasi beriyani. The gravy tastes too good not to take laa!

Nasi Beriyani Daging Kambing (Mutton) RM7.00

While we are having our lunch there, I can see some people have their food served on banana leaf instead of plate. The waiter will then come over with a tray of dishes and scoop the dishes onto the banana leaf. Afterthat, they start to feed the food into their mouth with their bare hand >..< (huhuhuh ... I believe they did wash their hands).

Roti Tisu with strawberry syrup RM3.00 (Is it a bit pricely? I'm not sure)

Afterall, I would say a visit to Banana Leaf has changed my eating, I will include it into my lunch list next time.

LL Banana Leaf
Address: 7G, Lorong Rubber 1, Jalan Rubber, 93400 Kuching, Sarawak.
Phone Number: 082-239404, 082-240227
Contact Person: Lucy Lingam