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.

 

Le Bateau, dining by the water.

My friends and I were planning to go to Sotogrande port for lunch on Saturday, due to the insane border queue to Spain, we changed the plan and went to Le Bateau in Queensway Quay instead.  This was my second visit, I went with 3 friends in last December and we were not impressed,  but this time was a different experience, we all enjoyed it very much and I will definitely be going back.

Nice view of Queensway Quay Marina.

Entrance of the restaurant.

 

 

 

We sat outside so that we can enjoy the view while eating.

 

 

 

3 of us ordered 4 starters to share, they were all good, my favourite was frog legs, it was the first time that I get to eat frog leg in Europe.

 

 

Foie gras terrine.

 

 

Moules Marinieres.

 

 

Frog legs.

 

 

French onion soup.

 

 

 

My main course was pork belly, not bad but I could not finished after eating too much starter.

 

 

 

Jian's duck in orange sauce, her only complain was duck was pre sliced before it was cooked. 

 

 

Sarah's prawn and chicken casserole, she liked it.

 

 

 Although we were very full after having main course, but there is always space for dessert.  We ordered lemon macaroon, strawberry clafautis and chocolate cake.  They were so good, I liked them all.  I will definitely go back for their afternoon tea and cake.

 

 

 

Le Bateau

14 Ragged Staff Wharf,

Queensway,

GX11 1AA,

Gibraltar.

La Serrana for Sam's leaving do.

Sam has been with our department for nearly a year, he is leaving us to go back to UK.  We are so happy that he is leaving and celebrated it with good food and drink!  I AM ONLY JOKING!   Sam is fun and friendly, everyone likes him, most of us turned up at his leaving do.

 

Sam wanted to go to La Chimenea but the place is too small for all of us, in the end we decided La Serrana in La Linea where there are plenty of space and with large selection of tapas.

 

Service was quick and food arrived soon as it was just about 9pm and too early for the local to eat.

 

We had plenty of food, beers and soft drinks, everyone had a good time.









The restaurant is behind the church square.

 

 

 

Spanish style furniture and decoration.

 

 

 

Various type of montaditos. Not sure which one I had, the meat was a bit dry, still prefer serranito.

 

Salmon canapes for Tzhalla and Venus who do not eat pork. 

 

 

Anchovies canapes, it was ok, nothing special.

 

 

Russian salad, it was ok, nothing to complain.

 

 

Heuvos rotos con jaman iberico.  (Spanish ham with fried eggs and chips)

I always like this dish, I can probably have the whole plate by myself.

 

Jamon, we all love jamon! (except Tzhalla and Venus)

 

My favourite dish, fried aubergine with sugar cane syrup.

 

 

Fried squid ring, I think I forgot to eat this!

 

 

Yummy grill meat!

 

 

 

 

We ordered 3 types of desserts, not great but at least it was homemade. 

 

Not sure what was the name of this dessert, it was similar to flan.

 

Brownie.

 

Banoffee pie.

 

 

 

 

Meson La Serrana

Calle Padre Junco 16, La Linea,

 Cádiz, Spain