Caldo cafe, a popular cafe in Taipei city centre.

I always like dessert, during my short trip to Taipei I even pre-arranged an afternoon tea session at Caldo cafe, it is a place that reservation is required as it is too popular among the locals.

Caldo cafe is famous for their souffle, four of us ordered 3 souffles, 2 sandwiches and a waffle.  The sandwich was such a big portion that we ended up with a table full of food!

 Original flavour waffle.

 My rice tea.

 Souffle with mango sorbet and sauce.

All of us enjoyed the souffle very much.

Restaurant Shin Yeh, a famous Taiwanese restaurant.

Our first meal after arriving Taipei was to Shin Yeh, a Taiwanese restaurant that is popular among the locals and the tourists.

The restaurant was so packed and reservation is definitely recommended. The food was indeed really good but it was very pricey too, it costed four of us TWD3343, the most expensive meal that we had while in Taiwan.

 Stir fried prawn with green bean and casual nut.

 Stir fried pig stomach with vegetable.

 Bean curd with mushroom and vegetable.

 Pan fried liver.

 Stewed chicken.

The best stir fried rice noodle.

Ippudo at Pavillion Kuala Lumpur.

My mother is a ramen lover so I took her to this renowned Japanese ramen chain in Pavillion.

The restaurant was nicely decorated and full with well trained service staff.

We ordered 2 ramen, 1 gyoza and a barbecued pork bun. We did enjoy the food but my mother still prefers ramen from her favourite Japanese restaurant.

 Entrance to the restaurant.

Spoons are used as decoration.

I can't remember exactly which ramen we ordered, but this one should be for my mum.

 This was my ramen, I like the soup and the egg.

I preferred the bun more than the barbecue pork.

Sao Nam, Vietnamese food in Kuala Lumpur.

I was searching online for Vietnamese food in Kuala Lumpur city centre and found Sao Nam near Bukit Bintang.  The location was perfect for me as I like to shop in Bukit Bintang area.

4 of us went for lunch on a bank holiday afternoon, a few tables were occupied by foreigners and I already had a bad feeling.  After tasting the food, all of us were quite disappointed.  The lesson that I learnt from that meal was: do not fully trust the reviews on internet especially reviews written by non Asian on Asian food.

 The restaurant is in an old colonial style building.

Plant and decoration next to our table.

 This springroll was my favourite dish of the day.

 Prawn Vietnamese springroll, nothing special.

 Duck in tamarind sauce, the sauce was too sweet.

 Prawn curry, again nothing special.

 Tasteless eggplant.

Tao Heung, Cantonese food in Hong Kong

My last trip to Hong Kong was probably 5 or 6 years ago,  it was good to be back to visit some friends and to taste nice Cantonese food.

My friend Josephine took us to Tao Heung which belong to a restaurant group and we went to the Tsim Sha Tsui branch.

It was my first time to Tao Heung and I was quite satisfied.  The food was good, service was quick and price was reasonable.

 Combination of roast chicken, roast duck, barbecued pork, pig ear and Chinese black fungus.  My favourite was the roast chicken.

 Steam fish.

 Stir fried vegetable.

 Vegetarian roast duck

 Chicken feet.

Naga, authentic Thai restaurant in Puerto Banus.

After not been to Spain for nearly 2 months, I finally went back to Banus to Naga, a Thai restaurant which is very popular among my friends.

I have been to Naga for many occasions and all of us always enjoyed it.  Although this time there was some problem with the beef green curry which they did not charge us in the end, overall it was still good experience.

Miss Guan was in charged of ordering food, as usual she ordered plenty of food since we all enjoy food so much and eat like pig!

Four of us spent 240 Euros in total, the price is above average but considering the location and the quality of the food, it is definitely worth going.

My meal started with delicious tropical fruit cocktail drink.

 

Prawn and chicken spring rolls.

 

 

 

Tom Yam soup.

 

 

 

Won Ton soup, just noticed on their online menu that this is a special Thai soup, since when did Won Ton become Thai?

 

 

 

Prawn spring rolls.

 

 

Minced chicken salad, my favourite starter was this dish and the Tom Yam soup.

 

 

 

I like how they present the rice, can't do without rice when eating curry.

 

 

Expensive and the best Phad Thai.

 

 

 

Duck red curry, the sauce was so good.

 

 

 

Fried dorada with Thai herbs, not bad, but I still prefer the fish curry from La Finca.

 

 

Fried banana with honey and ice cream.

 

 

My favourite sticky rice with mango.

 

Naga Thai Restaurant

Cristamar Commercial Centre 18-21
Opposite El Corte Inglés
PUERTO BANUS

 

KonFusion, new fusion restaurant on the seafront at Sabinillas.

Yesterday 4 of us went to KonFusion restaurant at Sabinillas for Jolanta's birthday.  The restaurant is on the seafront, having lots of competitions from many other restaurants.  While most of the restaurants had many customers on this Friday night, the newly opened KonFusion only had two tables of customers. 

Other than using Asian ingredients in the cooking, the owner also made effort to decorate the place with pictures of people and scenes in Asia.  They also used some Chinese ceramics and banana leaves for food presentation.

4 of us ordered almost the same food, for starter we ordered 2 dumpling soups and 2 prawn with avocado and tortilla chips, for main course we ordered 3 grilled salmon with pak choi and a sirloin steak with teriyaki sauce.

The conclusion was the food was not bad, but not special, they need to come up with more creative dishes with good combination of west and east taste.

The pictures add some Asian feel to the restaurant.

 

 

 

There are about 4 tables insides the restaurant, there are also seating outside of the restaurant facing the sea.

 

 

 

 

Complementary starter, tempura prawn with teriyaki sauce.

 

 

 

 

 

Avocado mixed with tomatoes, coriander and parsley, served with pan fried prawn and tortilla chips.  I quite liked this dish.

 

 

 

 

Dumpling (Wanton) soup.  The dumplings were good, it would be even better if they used less pepper in the soup.

 

 

Grilled salmon with pak choi, not bad but Jian said she can cook even better than this.

 

 

 

 

My sirloin steak with teriyaki sauce.  Good quality of meat but it was too salty, I do eat quite salty, but it was way too salty for me to finish it. 

 

 

 

 

 We ordered one apple pie to share, surprisingly it was the best dish of the day.