Lunch at Victoria Station

"Victoria Station" is not a new place for any steak lovers. However, it is new for me to dine in for a lunch. A very heavy lunch, I had today with my colleagues, 25 of us in total.

While waiting to be served. I order a strawberry milk shake, which is Ernest's favorite fruit juice. It's very tasty.



We were then served a bun. Till we finished up the whole bun, our soup was still not served. We kept waiting and finally.....
Crabmeat Sharkfin soup. It would be much satisfying if the soup was 100% hot.


And.... our main course is here..... :-D
Just joking.


It's this one. I ordered Lobster + beef set. It comes with one special side dish, i.e bake pumpkin. It's 90% similar to fried wedges. We did not notice it until we tasted it. Very nice. :-) The lobster was baked with cheese. I find it a bit overcooked. The beef was just ok for this set.


This was another main course ordered by my colleague. Lobster + Salmon. This set isn't in the menu, they special ordered it. The salmon, nmm... it's not nice.


The 3rd set is Lobster + Lamb. I don't like lamb, but this lamb was good. Really good. It's very tender.

A complementary deep fry prawn from my colleague. The portion was too much. She can't finished hers, but I can 'cas I have an elastic stomach. :-D


We all were actually more than full, really full and for the girls, none of us could finished up our own portion. I meant including all the side dishes in the serving.

Yet, we still have another dessert...
Chocolate mousse cake with a scoop of ice-cream. Some were served with cheese cake or coffee cake. Cheese cake was the best among them.


At the end of the course, we were served with a tea / coffee. Me and another colleague couldn't tolerate anymore. We needed something non-sweet and thus, we put a deco lime on the fruit juice into our tea ! :-D Well, that was nice for a temporary digestion. :-D

I couldn't elaborate how full we were, but I didn't had any dinner tonight. It was just too much. I think I will not take anymore seafood or beef for at least another few months.

The sets were RM 73.00 each. (1 soup, 1 main course, 1 dessert + coffee/tea). Worth it, isn't it ? Will you try it out even if it's not a treat?

Home Cook Curry

Sometimes when I'm late home from work, I'll cook something that is easy, fast and the kids like. Curry is one of them. :-)

I bought the curry paste with mix ingredients from the wet market on Sun and keep in chilling compartment in the fridge. Before I leave the house in the morning, I'll take down chicken from freezer to the normal cold compartment of the fridge. (Something like de-frozen it).

Preparation Time : 10 mins

Cooking Time : 20 mins

Ingredients:

1. 3 full chicken thigh

2. 3 medium sized potato. (easily soft type)

3. 1 small size carrot

4. some spring onion

5. Curry paste (which included onion, garlic, lemongrass, etc..)

6. 1/2 cup milk or 1 small pack of coconut milk

Method:

1) Cut potato and carrot into triangle size.

2) wash and clean chicken thigh. (I usually request the seller to chop into smaller pcs for me so that I don't have to do it at home).

3) Heat oil in wok, pour in curry paste and saute it until fragrant.

4) Add in chicken, potato and carrot. Saute until potato turns a bit brown or until fragrant.

5) Add water until cover up all the ingredients (or to the desired gravy needed).

6) Simmer for 15 mins. Open up and add in coconut milk or milk, throw in spring onion and simmer for a while. Turn off gas.

Ready to serve.

P/S: I put spring onion, just for decoration purpose. More colorful to the dish. Also, my curry paste is not reddish because I actually asked the seller not to put so much of curry as kids can't eat.

Hou Mei Yuen-Pan Mee@ Bukit Jambul Flat

Other than those sumptious and luxury dinings, I also like to venture into hawker foods. This is one of the place where I like to have lunch in.

This place is surrounded by big trees. Thus, it has a refreshing environment. No matter how hot and stuffy out there, this place is always cooling, under big shady trees.



Not only the seatings are under the shady trees, car parks are also under shades. You don't need to get into a hot and stuffy car after a good meal. :-)



So, what is famous here? The Hou Mei Yuen (好美園) Pan Mee. If you look at the chinese characters, it means "Tasty Garden". But because I read the English characters, it became "The backyard garden". ;-) Just a thought. Nothing related.

Sorry, cut the crap, this stall is famous of it's home made Pan Mee (made of flour and egg). Located nearby Bukit Jambul complex. This place is known as BJ flat Pan Mee.

Previously, it only has Pan Mee and another western food stall next to this. Now, the western food had moved and replaced by a rojak stall. Where as Pan Mee too, expanded their biz to Dim Sum varieties.



Chu Cheong Fan served in small bowls. Cute.



Pan Mee stall. It is neat and clean. Many foreign workers.

Dim Sum stall.


Pan Mee Soup. - RM 2.50 / bowl.


Dried Pan Mee - thin type. They have medium and fat type too.
Did you noticed the leaf in the soup? It's the fallen leaf from the trees.
It's very windy.


The waiter kept asking if we want Loh Mai Kai and Chu Cheong Fan, so, I ordered one Loh Mai Kai. (chicken glutinous rice) (One of my favorite dim sum).

See, another leaf on my loh mai kai.


We sat with the table clean without leaves. With the wind breezing, our table, even on my hair... were leaves. :-D


Overall: If you are health conscious and like to dine in this natural environment, drop by this place and have a try. Am really not sure if they put any MSG to the dishes, but it is definately not salty and does not taste so. It has a natural taste. Mrs. Rain doesn't like to come here because the taste is "too natural". ;-p

The View-Equatorial Hotel, Bukit Jambul

I wasn't prepared to blog about this restaurant, thus, I did not prepare my camera with me. However, when I saw the artfully presented dishes, I just couldn't help but started snapping with my camera phone. It's only 2MP. ... so, not so good quality pics.

We've often hear of French cooking - the finest cooking in the world. If you are a real food lover, and if you love steak like i do, then you should know where is "The View" in EQ Hotel, Bukit Jambul.

I was invited again to dine at this fine posh restaurant. It won't be difficult for me to describe how classy the decoration is, but it would be a challenge for me to describe it's menu. It comes with one main course and complemented by a buffet of appetizers, soup and desserts.

Salmon and Oyster lovers will love it here. They serves daily fresh salmon and oyster at the buffet corner. How fresh? Anything fresher you need to fish yourself. Ok, here i go again my dine in experience write up.

The decoration:
This is the definitely a place of special events. I mean, this is one of the best restaurant for your first date. The luxury interior setup,with nice overview of the Bayan Baru township and the Penang bridge too. Not far for the side window corner, you can see some of the fairways of Bukit Jambul Golf Club. The comfort of its lighting and live piano performance added the extra"feelings" while you dine in there.

The Food: The quality is there. except for the soup. My friend said it's too salty. Thus, I did not try it.

Appetizer Corner - raw & cooked fish

Seasoned raw salmon

Soup and Salad Corner

Dessert Corner

This is the Tiramisu, one that you MUST try on. Highly recommended.

It is very fine and it melts once you put in your mouth.

The cheese cake is rich (I mean really rich) in cheese. Soft and juicy.

Main Dishes : A varieties to be chosen from. Steak, fish, seafood and also pastas.

The main dish has yet served. But, we were all more than 1/2 full.

This is King Cod Fish - RM 78++

Known to be the best dish among the fish category.

Salmon. RM 65.00++ The green mash potato is luscious. nmm.. yummy.

Tenderloin Steak - RM 92.00 ++

I ordered this. Medium-well done. Fragrant and tasty.

Steak (Black Pepper) - RM 94.00++

Seafood

And lastly, we ordered lobster to share.

This lobster is well over-cooked. The flesh is too spongy. Very difficult to chew.

Appetizers that I took... Raw Salmon, raw oysters and some others.

Oysters again... (sorry, it's my favorite. Yes, I had 10 of them 8-) ).

Dessert..

By the time I finished all my portions, I really could not fill up anything anymore... but after a short rest, I could not resist myself in getting at least a scoop of ice-cream. nmmm.... that calls it a complete meal. ;-p

Overall: I would say that this is a lavish buffet. You could already enjoy this fine ultimate luxury dishes with only RM 65++. Afterall, a normal buffet dinner will easily costs about RM60 and above. What say dining in this posh restaurant, right ? Shouldn't we pamper ourselves once a while ?

Note: There is one thing needed improvement. That is to label their dishes. There were no labels at all, except for soup.

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".