A date with Sugar Bean

I have promised to stay away from pc.
I have promised myself not to blog for a week.
I have promised myself not even to hook on blogs just for a week.
But then again, my determination is not strong enough and I have broken my promises.


Here. me again. Blogging...


I was in stress because of the mid terms. One week 3 papers... this last for 3 weeks. Just can’t imagine when it comes to the final paper. Thanks god that the Sugar Bean dragged me out for a lunch last Saturday.


A date with Sugar Bean was a fantastic one. Honestly, I don’t mind to be their ‘light bulb’ (hope they don’t mind too! ;P) They are sweet, they are fun and they are funny couple to hang out with! Since I craved for steamboat after reading their post; they just said, okay, I will bring you to out for a nice steamboat meal.





That’s it, after my paper on last Saturday; I had a date with Sugar Bean in this Inner Mongolia Restaurant 内蒙古酒家. Little did I know that they are having buffet lunch promotion at just Rm 22.90. Where else the buffet dinner is at Rm 29.90 per pax.

Yes, another all-you-can-eat concept. I was going to eat as much as I can. That is my other way to de-stress.





There are a lot from the menu list you could choose from. Condition is that you have to finish up what you have ordered. Else, you will be charged. I guess most of the restaurant‘d implement this rule right?





The Tempting sesame sauce 芝麻酱 with fu yu 腐乳to go along with your food. Their hot and sourish chilli sauce (not in the pic) may also boost up the tanginess of your food after sopping them in the sesame sauce and the chilli sauce. But then, I can’t find the taste of sesame sauce that similar to the one I have tried out in Shen Zhen, China.

蒙古拉皮 which is listed on the cold dish in the menu. This was really an appetizing yet appealing cold dish. This is one of their signature dishes in this restaurant

The ‘yuan yang guo’ 鸳鸯锅 came with the spicy and herbal soup base. The spicy soup is actually the herbal soup but it is added in with chili oil, dried chilli and extra spices to give the really numbing and spicy taste.

We had countless plates of thinned lamb slices 羊肉片 which was really good to go on with the spicy soup.

Also the thinned deer slices 鹿肉片 (priced at Rm 18 per plate if ordered alone) was another good choice for the steamboat. But I prefer the lamb slices than this.

Frozen tofu 冻豆腐 was much better to be in spicy soup

While Fresh tofu 鲜豆腐 was great in the herbal soup

Fresh veggie 娃娃菜

And also veggie 生菜

A must not missed out item, Enoki mushroom 金针菇! We had a few plates of this too!





Mushroom 香菇

And Seaweed 紫菜 to sweeten the herbal soup.


Burppp~ Full! We almost finished up sweeten and essence-ful herbal soup. It was a pleasant steamboat experience with Sugar Bean!

Oppsss, we ate till they were having their rest time. Lights off and not a single waiter/waitress were there!

Inner Mongolia Restaurant
290 Gground Floor
Jalan Pudu
Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-21449688

BBQ at home~

This is going to be a real short post. Sorry for not updating regularly. I wish I could have extra 24 hours a day. I am lack of time, am really lack of time now… there are too many to finish up, to study and to revise. Oh god, I am in a panic now. Severe panic attack just hit right in my mind…

I can’t stay long here but let’s continue with food…


It was one breezy afternoon when my youngest brother and I hunger after barbecued food in a sudden. Happily, with the storage of sausages we stocked up earlier, we set up the hot plate and had the sausages barbecued.

We have the smoked bbq sausages from the chiller in supermarket and also the Taiwanese sausages.

Butter was spread to oil the pan and sausages were then placed on the pan.

So, who was barbecuing the sausages? Not me… my brother did that. He took off the task from me. Yeah… he loves playing/cooking the food. The sausages were cooked till they were done before serve. And, we had sausages for LUNCH.

I will have more updates after my mid term! *Promise* stay tune and don’t go away *wink*

Fork & Spoon @ Kota Damansara

Ooops… this is another dated post. I am trying hard to speed up my post and type as much as I can during the CNY holiday. Aiks… huge amount of workload decreased my rate for blogging. I had to finish a few assignments and reports during the holiday.

It was last year story; we were invited for another round of food tasting. Thanks for Sid who organized this event and invited us along. Being the first-timers to Kota Damansara, me and Christine were amazed with the fast development in this area. This is going to be another ‘new’ place for us to hunt for food. There are countless café and restaurant in Kota Damansara

You can’t not to have this during your meal.

So this time, we were heading to Fork & Spoon which was located in Kota Damansara. I still remembered, that night we were stuck in the heavy traffic after the heavy downpours. Arghhh! I was in the car and stuck in the traffic for bout 2 hours.


Not just me and Christine, KampungBoyCityGal, TummyThoz and Xiu Long Bao were there too! Not to forget, Sunny and Sid (Big Boys Oven).

Time for dinner. I had the Special Honey Lemon Juice priced at Rm 3. This was definitely good to soothe your throat but it was a little over sweeten for me.

Christine had the Tropical Blend which was blended with Apple, Orange, Pineapple and Carrot. Nice option as it was great to quench the thirst. It was neither too sweet nor sour. And most of the food bloggers ordered this drink.


Coming up next --- Food ~

This is Fork & Spoon’s all time favourite --- Fork & Spoon Nasi Lemak Special (Priced at Rm 11). It consists of Rendang Chicken, Assam Prawns, Sambal Sotong, Sambal, Anchovies and Egg. Hmmm… The fragrant rice was so aromatic and the Rendang Chicken and Sambal was just right in its spiciness. What’s more could I say, we Malaysian love Nasi Lemak!

Lamb Chop with Rosemary Sauce. It was served with Mashed Potato & Coleslaw. The Lamb was able to remain its tenderness and juiciness after grilled to perfection. The side dishes mashed potatoes and coleslaw added points to the whole dish.

“Yut Sek Har” Vietnamese Style Prawn with Rice was simply tasty. Surprise, the chef can cook Vietnamese dish too?!

Also, the Malaysian Cuisine which will be available after 11.30 am --- Roti Jala with Curry Chicken & Potato. It is priced at Rm 6 came with 3 Roti Jala and a bowl of curry Chicken with Potatoes. Ahhh… I love this! and that was my very first time having Roti Jala.

Besides local cuisine, Fork & Spoon also serves snacks as All Time Favourite. This was the Zheng Gong Spare Ribs. Deep Fried Spare Ribs covered with sweet and a little sourish lime sauce. Gimme a bowl of rice please! ;-)

Stir Fry Petai with Prawn. The additional of Sambal boosted up the petai and prawn. Another good dish to go with Rice!

Then the Penang Prawn Mee with Spare Ribs came in with extra ingredients.

Fork & Spoon Thai Laksa served with thick prawn paste.

Em… don’t ask me how it tasted, it was finished up by other food bloggers before reaching my hand.

Fork & Spoon Assam Laksa. This was kinda different with the Assam Laksa we normally had. It was sourish fish-based soup with thick rice noodles but still, very different from those in the food court or other eateries.

Ku Hiong Snack. There were extra onions and ikan bilis in it. If you like the Petai and Prawn with Sambal, definitely you will love this as well! And it went well with… …

The beer! Haha ~ the Carlsberg Beer Tower priced at Rm 80 for this gigantic huge tower of beer.

We ended our dinner, the Black Glutinous Rice with Coconut Milk which was highly recommended by Jaee, the person in charge who prepared and arranged us this dinner. Ahh… we were too full and hardly could finish the bowl of dessert.


Just these?!

NoNoNo… like what Christine said in her post, the extra sugary temptation --- a dozen of Donuts from Big Apple which was the belated birthday gift from Chris, Christine and I to Sid.

Jaee then came out with a bottle of Xango and poured each of us some for a try out. It was the Mangosteen puree with other fruits like apple, pear, grape, blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry and cherry. It did boost up my taste buds once I took a sip. It was Sourish and refreshing. According to the leaflets, this mangosteen (the queen of fruits) juice does improve your health and could work as an antioxidant.

For those who are interested in Xango product, you may contact Jaee Ong at 017-3669394 for details.

Also assorted kuih… Fork & Spoon is selling Kuih too!

Fork & Spoon
26, Jalan PJU 5/11,
Dataran Sunway Kota Damansara,
47810 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor
Tel: 03-61408832
Fax: 03-61408332
Email: forknspoon.cheah@gmail.com
Or contact Jaee Ong at 017-3669394

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O’Briens Sandwich Bar & Café @ KLCC

Wen Ching and I had a crazy shopping on the second day of CNY. Seriously, not all complexes were opened for business on CNY holiday but we tracked down and found that most shops in KLCC were on for business. Shop shop shop and shop non-stop for 4 hours until 8pm.

Stomach growled and it was time for dinner. What were we going to have for dinner? As it was already 8pm, we thought of having not-too-heavy-meal. We stood in front of the information board for 15 minutes to decide on what to eat… 15 minutes! Not a short time to make a decision. We tried eliminate those which were ‘incompatible’ to our ‘not-too-heavy-meal’ till I said, Let’s O’Briens!





This is the bright looking clean café with healthy image that caught our attention. We just knew this won’t disappoint us. O’Briens Sandwich Bar & Café is located at the Ampang Mall in KLCC on the Isetan side.






I had the Frothy Hot Chocolate which came in so frothily and foamy sprinkled with amount of cocoa powder and 2 marshmallows. I love this hot chocolate-riched drink with the melted marshmallows that comforted my empty stomach.






Wen Ching had the Iced Chocolate drink it was very chocolaty riched too but it was slightly sweeten to my liking.





We had our mains shared. As she had a cold drink, she came out with an idea of cold + hot combination, so she ordered the Chicken, Chicken Crisp and Cheddar Hot Wrappo. There were countless ingredients rolled in the piece of whole meal wrapper. It served warm and tasted really good. The chicken crisp (if you can see it, it was in Maroon) was very crispy and … special (for me and her).






As for me, I ordered the Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese on Whole meal. It came with smoked salmon, thick spread of cream cheese, mixed leaves (vege), cucumber, and zest squeeze of lemon juiced sandwiched in between whole meal bread slices. By the way, both wrappo and sandwiches were served with Chips which was baked and very original in taste!!!



I can’t believe we were really stuffed up. Each of us had half of the wrappo and a quarter of the Whole meal sandwiches. The left over?! I took away and had them as breakfast next morning. See?! Who says you can’t full up your stomach with just bread or sandwiches as dinner?! Or maybe we are ‘small-eater’ (ho-haha, I don’t think so)?! A revisit is a definite for me. Their healthy concept and serve nourishing greenish healthy meal impressed me a lot! ~





O’Briens Sandwich Bar & Café
Ampang Mall (KC2)

Tel; 03-21669288