con't: Pick n' Brew @ 1 Utama

Test and exam always make people sick. But food never let us down. Once I come across with food, my soul is lifted, and I become lively again! ~

I am glad to have joined the food bloggers eat-out session on last Friday. It tensed me down, energetic-ed and spirited me up!

Right now, let’s continue with the food in Pick n’ Brew.

The compliment Bread (soft and fluffy)

and Olive Oil with Balsamic Vineger.

Seafood Chowder (Rm 13), the fresh creamy seafood broth

The Cream of Mushroom Soup (rm 13) which is made with cream of wild mushrooms (thick and flavourful!).

Spanish Prawn Avocado Salad (Rm 19) which served with Prawns, avocado, green olives and tomatoes tossed in Tahitian dressing. The dressing was very appetizing and I bet many ppl will love this

Jackson highly recommended his house’s Braised Lamb Shank (Rm 38). It was served with mashed potatoes and asparagus and with amount of gravy. Taste superb indeed. I was being told that the difference between the Braised Lamb Shank from GlenMarie and one U outlet is that, the one from One U is cooked and prepared with red wine while the one from GlenMarie does not.

Oven baked Oats and Almond Crusted Snapper (Rm 28) with roasted vegetable and potatoes, served with chunky basil tomato

Greenobloise Salmon Fillet (Rm 32). It came with boiled potatoes, roasted vegetables and lemon capers butter.

Penne Carbonara (Rm 18) was originally served with beef bacon in cream sauce but this had substituted with chicken bacon as the one who ordered can’t take beef.

One of the Introductory sets (only at Rm 10) Promotion until end of April!!! ~

Angel Hair Marinara (Rm 22) was served with prawns, green mussels and squid in tomato sauce and came in quite a big serving. We all had a forkful on it and it was delicious and seafood-ly-fresh in the tomato sauce.

Grilled Rib Eye of Beef (Rm 38) which was served with cream of onion and red wine sauce

Lamb Tikka (Rm 17) was quite large in serving and it came with skewered pieces of marinated lamb with flavored rice.

Blueberry Cheesecake

Apple Crumble Cheesecake (Rm 9 each)

For coffee lover, never forget to try out the variety of beverages brewed from coffee bean. Citygal ordered herself the Columbia Bean in Mocha Pot. It was very aromatic and I got attracted to it. However, it was kinda late for me to have a cuppa. Else I would be ‘all-night-awake’. Anyhow, I will return for their coffee.

Pick n’ Brew
F233, First Floor Promenade,
1 Utama Shopping Centre,
No.1, Lebuh Bandar Utama,
Bandar Utama City Centre,
Bandar Utama, PJ.
Tel: 03-77260102



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Reviews from GlenMarie outlets:

Eat First Think Later

A Whiff of Lemongrass

Precious Pea

& my previous review on the interior of Pick n’ Brew

Portuguese’s egg tart

The buttery flavored pastry is rich in the-very-butter-aroma.
The middle part consists of custard in crème-brulee-like consistency caramelized fashion.
Yum-Yum,
That’s the Portuguese egg tart.
The 葡式蛋挞.

Portuguese egg tart is always best for tea or breakfast. But I would prefer it during my tea time. King’s Confectionary’s Portuguese egg tart is the only Portuguese style egg tart I have tried. Their Portuguese egg tarts always run out in a short time (err… at least this happened in King’s nearby my place).


Dear Readers,
Is there any other places selling Portuguese egg tart besides King’s Confectionary?!
Do recommend some places for me, please… I would love to try out and make comparison ~ :P

TqTQTq~

We were here, finally~

We missed out their grand opening day
But we managed to have ourselves over yesterday night







Who were ‘We’?!

‘We’ are ---

Chris & Christine
Sugar Bean
Tankiasu
Sid from Big Boys Oven
Citygal from KampungboyCitygal
Me & my Bro (who tagged along)

Yesterday’s dinner was a great one,
a memorable one.
It has been a long long time since the last Food Bloggers outing.
(I do miss them a lot! ~)
And finally I get to dine with them!






The neatly arranged and a pleasant environment under the warm & soft lighting

And Yes,
Here we were, finally,
in Pick n’ Brew!

A Big TQ to Jackson upon his recommendations. I love the food over there!



I am not able to update so often because of the final starting on Monday which consists of 8 papers and last for 3 weeks (*.* half dead).
I need some times to compile and write-on about this. So, please be patience~
A full detail on Pick n’ Brew will be coming ‘very soon’.
Wish me Luck in my Finals! ~ ^.^

Pick n’ Brew
F233, First Floor Promenade,
1 Utama Shopping Centre,
No.1, Lebuh Bandar Utama,
Bandar Utama City Centre,
Bandar Utama, PJ.
Tel: 03-77260102

Pasta Zanmai パスタ三昧 @ 1 Utama

It was when our beloved Khee once came back; we (Christine and I) soon dragged her out for a-welcome-back-meal. We have read about good reviews on the newspaper and also a review from Sugar Bean, so we decided to have dinner in this Japanese and Western fusion. Besides, Pasta Zanmai is another restaurant under the umbrella of Rakuzen. Wow, they are doing really Great business!

Pasta Zanmai is actually hidden behind the Shiojikiya 正直屋. It took me some times to figure out the entrance to Pasta Zanmai (>.<). We couldn’t get a semi-circle dining area as the place was really packed. Fortunately, there was an empty table for 3 of us.

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The open-view kitchen



Once seated, I was hooked up on this…





The dessert’s menu. Who can resist desserts?! I then suggested for a dessert for the after dinner. But both of them just kept reading over the main courses menu. No one answered my questions. Well, can’t blame them actually as they both were starving. hehe

The menu was colorful and we did not know where and which to choose from. There were a wide range of yummy-looking-dishes from appetizers to pasta to pizza.






First time trying out the fusion Japanese pasta with chopstick for pasta!





For appetizer, we had the Chuka Iidako 中華イイダコ. The baby octopuses were large and well seasoned with their very Japanese way.






Agedashi tofu 揚げ出し豆腐 was the fried beancurd with Japanese sauce. The tofu are Soft and silky with their very Japanese sauce as well.






On main course, we had this Ebi Tempura no Gomadare Shitate set to share with. It came with the main and a garden salad and a miso soup. Ebi Tempura no Gomadare Shitate エビ天ぷらの胡麻ダレ仕立て was the prawn tempura Pasta topped with Sesame Sauce and sprinkled with black sesame. Tell you what, that was the very sesame-sauce I have been looking for for a long time. That was the very sesame-sauce, the taste, the texture I had during my 20-days-ShenZhen-food-hunting vacation 2 years back! And now, I found it in KL. Hohohoho… it was very aromatic and went well with the pasta. Overall, perfect! ~ But the serving was not large, just okay for an individual’s stomach or a lady’s stomach.





The pasta got boosted up after garnishing of the black sesame into the pasta.






Salad.






Also, we had Teriyaki Chicken to Onsen Tamago no Pizza 照焼チキンと温泉たまごのピザwas the grilled chicken and hot-spring egg Pizza. The thin crunchy crust topped with grilled chicken, onions, seaweed, mayonnaise, spring onions, a ‘hot-spring’ egg ( I wonder where they get the hot-spring for the egg?! Haha) and loaded with teriyaki sauce. Special e! The pizza was so Okonomiyaki-like.





Desserts always come last to end the meal. We had the Macha Cha Parfait (priced at Rm 15). It was prettily layered with Corn flakes, green tea jelly, red bean, whipped cream and scoop of very green tea tasted green tea ice cream. Every scoop on our taste buds was cloud nine to us.

Overall, the food was great, the desserts was fabulous! I’ve listed Pasta Zanmai in my re-visit list. Do look out for Shojikiya if you want to pay a visit to Pasta Zanmai. Pasta Zanmai is actually located inside the Shojikiya~

Pasta Zanmai パスタ三昧
G210B, Ground Floor Promenade,
1 Utama Shopping Centre,
1 Lebuh Bandar Utama,
Bandar Utama Damansara,
47800 Petaling Jaya

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Farewell again @ Secret Recipe

Our (Chrsitine and I) beloved friend, Khee has gone back to India. Her holiday end so soon but I guess she really had a great time with us and her family.

She was really busy and could hardly spare some times for us in her 3 weeks holiday. Finally it was the night before she is off to India, she spent us a meal in Secret Recipe (we both actually not wanting to dine in Secret Recipe (Sg. Long) but Khee was so raring to dine in here. Just follow her wish lerrr :-)

We had some main courses and a dessert to share with.

It was Friday. Christine has a special habit. She will eat a lot on this day and surprisingly, her stomach can really accommodate what she has eaten! *it is only happened on Friday* so she had the Prawn Macaroni with Cheese. It was the macaroni pasta with prawns and mushrooms topped with loads of mozzarella cheese and grilled till melted. It was quite cheeselicious and the taste was just right. Overall, it was quite okay lar.

Khee then ordered the Pan-grilled Dory with Lobster Sauce. It was the pan-grilled dory fillets prepared with homemade lobster sauce, served with French fries, sweet pea, cauliflower and carrots. This was quite a disappointed one. The French fries were over-fried and it turned out to be dark brownish colour. The cauliflower and carrots were over boiled and ended up with really ugly looking; it was un-appetizing and really-not-good for our taste buds. The lobster sauce was a little salty too. Aiks… what was this?!?!?! Me and Christine tried out the same one in Leisure Mall before and it was quite delicious.

I had their set menu set B (priced at Rm 23.80) and it was quite a deal which came in with a seafood spring roll (3 pcs), a main course to choose (carribean fish fillet or chicken kebab or roasted chicken with turmeric sauce) and a drink (either water melon juice or mango juice).

Water Melon Juice

Here was the 3 tiny small pieces Seafood Spring Roll came out in piping hot but tasteless. Sigh…

Thinking of if the appetizer was not good, and then it would be the same for the main course. When the main course arrived, it was so greenish in colour and looking so-not-good. But to my surprise, the Caribbean Style Fish Fillet was good. All three of us put a thumb up on this though it was so ugly looking and we told each other ‘not to judge the book by its cover’! It was the fish fillet with tangy sauce served with green salad (just 4 pieces of greens). It was appetizing and tasted sourish after the additional of lime juice.
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After the dinner, the gals headed to the dessert chiller. We then had a Blueberry Cheese Cake (forgotten to take pic). And there ended out farewell dinner with Khee. When’s the next reunion?! Gosh, I can’t imagine it. It might be a year later because Christine going to Scotland coming June >_<