Garden Lifestyle Store & Cafe @ Mid Valley Megamall

Rating:

• Food (1-10): 7.5
  
• Price (1-10): 7.5
  
• Environment (1-10): 8

28 January 2011: Garden Lifestyle Store & Cafe is an open-style cafe with greenery and flowers as decorations. It is located right after the bridge connecting Mid Valley Megamall and The Gardens Mall at first floor.


There are a few lunch sets available, which include:

• Appetizers
• Soup of the day
• Ice lemon tea or coffee
• Main course (choose one from below)
  

The appetizers, soup of the day and ice lemon tea are shown as below. The appetizer is fruit salad. The soup is mushroom soup which is quite tasty. I personally like the ice lemon tea.


Here's the main courses that we ordered...


Spaghetti Carbonara (RM18.90++ for set lunch) -> Spaghetti cooked in cream, onion, beef bacons & mushrooms. The spaghetti is well-cooked and cream sauce is very tasty. Recommended. Worth a try.


Paprik Chicken (RM15.90++ for set lunch) -> Chicken cooked in Thai style served with steamed rice and side dishes. The sauce taste more like tomyam than paprik. Chicken is not fresh. Not recommended.

Finally, I would like to comment on the service provided by the staff here. Most of the staffs here are not well-trained, maybe because Garden Lifestyle Store & Cafe in Mid Valley is still very new. The management here is in a mess. We tried to wave very hard to catch the attention of the waiters but none of them notice us. It took them more than 15 minutes to notice us. When taking our order, the waiter was not holding any paper to note down our order. After waiting for another 20 mins, another waiter (I guess is the supervisor/manager) came to take our order again. I strongly think that better staff management and training is required here.

Despite the messy management, I will give it another chance considering it's still new and the food is worth another try.

Here's the address of Garden Lifestyle Store & Cafe in Mid Valley Megamall:
Address: Lot F-001, First Floor, Mid Valley Megamall, Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 KL.
Tel: 03-2282 0271



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Hee Lai Ton Restaurant @ Puchong

Rating:

• Food (1-10): 8
• Price (1-10): 7
  
• Environment (1-10): 8

27 January 2011: I had a Pre-Chinese New Year gathering dinner with friends at Hee Lai Ton Restaurant (喜来登鱼翅酒家), Puchong branch. First of all, it's really a pain in the ass looking for parking in that area. I spent almost half an hour trying to look for parking lot.

There are a few Chinese New Year promotion sets to choose from, price ranging from around RM520 to RM1600. There were 9 of us, so we chose the RM570 set for a table of 10 person. The set comes with 3 big bottles of beer as well.

Here comes the food...

• Lou Sang -> Typical lou sang. Nothing much to comment about.
• Appetizers Plate -> Not bad.
• Shark's Fin Soup -> Quite tasty.
• Roast Duck -> Quite good. Flesh is tasty and tender. Roasted skin not crispy enough.
• Steamed Grouper -> Fresh, tasty and fine. Recommended.
• Prawns -> Big prawns and quite fresh but I couldn't really taste what sauce is it.
• Fried Rice -> Not evenly fried. Some of us find it tasteless while some find it too salty. However, the sausages are quite tasty.
• Mini Pandan Kaya Pau -> Skin of the pau a bit too dry, not fine enough. Pandan kaya filling is a bit dry as well.

Overall, the Chinese New Year set is not bad. Worth a try.

Here's the location and contact of Hee Lai Ton Puchong:
Address: No.21-23, Jalan Kenari 1, Bandar Puchong Jaya Batu 8, Jalan Puchong, 47100 Puchong, Selangor.
Tel: 03-58823333


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Chong Yuan Seafood Restaurant @ Pandan Indah

Rating:

• Food (1-10): 8
• Price (1-10): 8
  
• Environment (1-10): 6.5

20 January 2011: Chong Yuan Seafood Restaurant (颂园海鲜饭店) is a non air-conditioned restaurant in Pandah Indah. Half of the restaurant is in a shop house, while another half is open-air with temporary roof top (I'm not sure if it's legal). Chong Yuan Seafood is known for serving relatively good food at reasonable price in the area. Hence, most of the tables are already occupied before 7pm for dinner. It's advised to go before 6pm to avoid waiting for too long.


Here's what we had...

• Steamed (Teo Chew style) Red Snapper (潮洲烝金凤) (RM21) -> I guess fish one of the popular dish there. I can see fish on almost every table there. Although Red Snapper is a river fish, there's completely no muddy taste in it. It tastes fresh while the texture is fine and tender. The sauce is slightly hot and sourish, which is very appetizing. Recommended.
  
• Fried Minced Pork with Salted Egg (咸蛋煎肉碎) (RM12) -> Not bad. Tasty and solid.
  
• Stir-fried Vege (RM7) -> Normal.

After trying out this restaurant for few times, I think I'll go more often after this.

Here's the location, contact and info of Chong Yuan Seafood Restaurant:
Address: M4A/16, Jalan Pandan Indah 4/1, Pandan Indah, 55100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-4296 2285
Business hours: 12pm-3pm (Lunch), 5.30pm-10pm (Dinner), Closed on Wednesdays.


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Delicious Vegetarian @ Pandan Indah

Rating:

• Food (1-10): 8
  
• Price (1-10): 7
  
• Environment (1-10): 7.5

18 January 2011: Delicious Vegetarian is an air-conditioned restaurant that serves vegetarian food. It's normally around 90% occupied whenever I walk in or walk pass the restaurant. It's a quite well-established vegetarian restaurant in the area.

The menu booklets are made from recycle and environmental friendly paper. Besides, we were also greeted with appetizers (RM3) which is quite tasty and crispy.

We ordered 3 vegetarian dishes, which costs RM40 in total. Here's what we ordered...

• Dong Po Yok (東坡肉) -> This dish is recommended by the waitress. It is supposed to be pan-fried pork belly cooked in red sauce. The vegetarian version is made of flour, with mushrooms and broccoli as side dishes. The vegetarian pork belly looks like real pork belly where you can see different texture for different layer of pork belly. It tastes great as well. Highly recommended.
• Black Pepper Chicken -> Not bad, but I won't recommend this.
• Stir-fried Vegetables -> Normal

Besides, this restaurant aims to serve healthy food. It gives the option of white rice or brown rice. Even the white rice served here, is the less starchy type of white rice.

Here's the location, contact and info of Delicious Vegetarian...
Address: 52G, Jalan Pandan Indah 4/6B, Pandan Indah, 55100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-4291 5152
Business hour: Lunch (11am-3pm), Dinner (6pm-10pm), Closed on Monday (except 1st and 15th day of Lunar Month)


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Good Friends Restaurant @ Highlands Hotel, Genting Highlands

Rating:

• Food (1-10): 8
  
• Price (1-10): 7.5
  
• Environment (1-10): 7.5

17 January 2011: Good Friends Restaurant serves dim sum and Hakka cuisine. It is located at Level 2 of Highlands Hotel. The home-cooked Hakka dishes are all time favorites among the young and old alike.

Here are the dishes we ordered...

• Home Style Braised Streaky Pork with Preserved Vegetable (梅菜扣肉) (RM28++) -> Among the good ones I've had. The taste of the preserved vegetable is well-absorbed into the pork. Pork is soft, tender but not too fatty. Recommended.
• Vegetables in Oyster Sauce (RM14++) -> Taste normal...
  

Since the food served here are mainly home-cooked type of dishes, the price is relatively more reasonable (Genting standard) as compared to other restaurants here that offer fine-dining. This place is recommended if you are looking for a decent place to try some Hakka home-cooked food at reasonable price.

Here's the location and details of Imperial Rama...
Address: Level 2, Highlands Hotel, 69000 Genting Highlands, Pahang.
Tel: 03-61011118 (Highlands Hotel General Line)
Daily Operating Hours:
Breakfast (Dim Sum only) -> 6.30am till 12pm
Lunch -> 11am till 2.45pm
Dinner -> 6pm till 9.45pm



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