The Roxbury@Auto-City

Hubby is a great fan of American food, I mean, not that kind of fast food like McD or Pizza Hut, but the genuine taste of American food that only available in the USA. It's kind of difficult to find a good genuine American food in this region. We eat out very often, we like trying different types of food, especially writting our experience in blog after trying them out. If we ever heard anyone saying any restaurant, or, there is any special dishes or great cook, poof.... off we go.

Recently, my friend (whom called herself as Mrs. Rain), was commenting about the food in Roxbury at Autocity. I told hubby about it and he said Roxbury is one of the only two restaurants outlets that we have not tried and we should give it a shot.

Roxbury has an outlet in Bandar Sunway, where their main biz attraction is actually alcoholic drinks. Although they serves food there, but it was never the main attraction. So, hubby was eager to try it out.

The atmosphere: The decoration is just so-so. It has about 15 tables in a big hall. It's ceiling is high that it's not normal to have such high ceiling in a restaurant. That makes it windy even if there's no air-con! haha. Their tables and chairs are no where near what we can call it elegant. However, you can have the feeling of space. This is what you can't find in other restaurant. Hubby likes the glass wall that surround the whole restaurant,which give us better viewing pleasure of outside the decorative Autocity .

The Food: It has variety choices of American food. Well, this is how hubby called it, as they served foods that uses the names that how American call them in the USA. Such as Buffalo wings (Spicy chicken wings), Pancake, 1/2 pounder beef burger, variety types of pizzas, steaks etc. Hubby spends his good 10 minutes to scan through the menu and finally decided to try his 1/2 pounder Beef burger. He simply loves it ! There is also Tortilla chips and Mexican Nachos for side biting. nmm... so tempting...

The 1/2 pounder beef burger that hubby ordered.

Buffalo wings (Spicy chicken wings)

Not cooked ??

Big bottle of Lemon Tea.


For those who does not like American food, you can always try on Asian local food which Roxbury calls it as "Hometown Delights". A bowl of curry mee costs RM 12.50. Think twice before you order. ;-p

Offers:They have free meals for kids age 5 and below for Fri, Sat and Sun. Great, isn't it ? My kids have it ;-)

The Service: We were greeted by few waiters at the entrance and were lead by a waiter to a seat. He then disappeared and only came back with their menu few mins later. Well, I can accept that if the restaurant was busy. But, there were only 2 tables occupied with their food on table. No one came to get our order afterthat. That's why hubby got his own sweet time browsing the menu. :-D

Overall: Despite the poor service and the uncooked chicken wings, hubby will still step in here again because he can't resist the American taste of the beef burger. My kids too finished all their servings. Therefore, they'll have a 2nd chance to serve us a cooked chicken wing.? haha :-D

Their slogan " The Best Food in Town".

Sushi Lovers - Another option

When it comes to Sushi, everyone will think of the dominated "Sushi King". While I like sushi a lot, I will not walk in there if not of it's promotion. :-D I find that the taste of the food just doesn't worth it's price. Thus, it made me crave for sushi sometimes.

Luckily, there is another one very nearby and tastes very very much better - the Sakae Sushi. There is one at Queensbay mall and another at Sunway Carnival Mall@Seberang Jaya.

Again, I was given another treat on Aug 31. Yes, I am a little slow in blogging about this... but know what, hubby has yet try on this restaurant. It's still queueing in his food list. :-)
It was only 11:30am and the waiting queue was already very long. We queued for 30mins before our turn to get seated.



The atmosphere:
It's not spacious but not compact. Just nice and cosy.
What I like is their seating arrangement. They have a big kaiten belt that most of their seats were just next to the kaiten belt, meaning next to sushi. Very convenient. We could just take and start eating once we're seated.

The service:
They have all their menus computerized. I know many Japanese restaurants here do have this service, but my Jap friends told me that there isn't any computerized menu in Japan itself.
Interesting, isn't it ?
Computerize is good because we can have our own sweet time to order and can order multiple times. It didn't take them long to get our orders on table.

The food:
They have the Japanese genuine taste. Not being localized. The sushi were fresh. U know, I love salmon and I can get it here for only RM 1.90 per plate for 2pcs ! Wow !
It's cheaper than Sushi King even when they're on promo. I ordered one Ikura sushi (pic below) which I like very much...



We also ordered some set meals.





Overall:
Satisfied. Will bring hubby here.

Grille Salmon

Salmon is my favorite. At last, I found a great place to dine with reasonable price yet deliciously cooked. nmm.... yummy

Many of you should have known this place.... Familiar?

Yes, it's Bayan Baru's Sunshine Square food court. The Western food corner.

The menu board. Many varieties. Many choices to be picked.


I ordered Salmon Grille. (RM 13.90)




If you are a small eater, you will not be able to finish this plate. It's serving is quite an amount. I would recommend you to this place for lunch as there are lots of varieties to be chosen from. It is also facilitated with air-con and also free sheltered parking. :-D

Pizza Hut's Sausage Pick

After the Kampachi treat, I was given another treat by different ppl. ;-)
The new sausage bite dip.li.cious - pick it! pull it! dip it! from Pizza hut.



Dunno about you, but after trying this, I would still prefer the one which was stuffed with cheese. Cas I just luv cheese !

Kampachi @ Equatorial Penang

Here I am with good food again - The famous Japanese restaurant - Kampachi. A treat from someone else again. LOL envy me ? I have been eating sumptious food for the past 2 weeks without paying a single cent! Thank God for pampering me :-)

Kampachi is Equatorial's Japanese restaurant. The taste of the food here is somewhat "Japanese", not being localised.


Cozy environment


I started with the main course. I ordered Kampachi Bento (RM 68).
This set is stronly recommended for people whom like to taste a little of everything.
It consists of sashimi (salmon, maguro and squid), Prawn Tempura, Fried chicken and fried salmon. Also some "oden" - Japanese Yong Tau Foo? (in the middle compartment between tempura and fried salmon in pic below)
The set also comes with chawan mushi(steam egg) and miso soup (traditional soya bean soup).


I also ordered a side dish for sharing, which is Japanese's famous and favorite "Natto". It is fermented soya bean. Japanese eat them together with white rice for some additional taste. Like "bovril", we eat locally here. Natto is very nutritious. At Kampachi, Natto is served together with some sashimi (maguro). (RM 18 /bowl)


My friend ordered a conservative set - all cooked food. She prefers some noodles and rice. This is recommended for those whom doesn't like sashimi.


For sashimi lovers, you just can't get away their tempting Sashimi Moriawase (RM150). This is assorted raw fish. We ordered one for sharing too! This is the 2nd most expensive sashimi in Kampachi. The most expensive one is Toro Sashimi (RM160)(belly of salmon). We did not order this as it contains only 5 slices of Toro. nmm... not really enough for us. ;-) Toro is shown at the bottom pic- left upper corner.


My favorite sashimi is salmon and ikura(Salmon fish egg). Ikura is shown at right bottom of pic above. nmm... yummy.

By this time, we all were really full. Yet again, a complete meal will come with a dessert? I ordered Red bean soup with 3 balls of glutinuous rice. (RM 10 / bowl).

The red bean soup is quick thick. Not like the local chinese red bean soup. It is not added with coconut milk too. It tastes good. You may also order this for sharing.

Overall comments:
1) The environment, service, taste of the food - satisfied.
2) The decoration, appearance of food - satisfied.
3) The utensils used - nmm... need improvement for some. Look at this. It's old and most of the paitings on the bowl has gone.


If someone were to treat me again, I will come again. ;-)