Mango Garden @ Rumah terbalik Sabah

Was googling for food in Kota Kinabalu and stumble upon this place call rumah terbalik.( upsite down  house). Very interesting place, where everything here is upsite down.

Mango garden is located next to rumah terbalik.

Nice place with good service.

Basically I ordered most of the chef recommended food. Even though I am alone. Wanted to try a few of their dishes like Manuk Tinapah, grilled chicken but sadly ran out of stocks

     Hinava Sada( RM 7.50)

Started with a dish call Hinava Sada, a very popular dish originated from the Kadazan Dusun Tribes. Hinava Sada is made of freshly raw fish fillet marinated in lime , shallots , ginger, sliced chilli and Badu( wild mango seeds). This is a must order dish. It's really appetizing, the fish were very fresh. Sourish with a tingling spiciness 

     Tahau Miampai Daging Salai( RM      10.50)

Tahau Miampai Daging Salai, grilled sliced beef marinated with Tahau( local ginger stem pickles), chili, lime lemongrass and herbs. The pickles was eaten together with the meat, I find that the meat was very tough. Flavor wise is not bad, the pickles did help alot in making the whole dish better. 

Spying Bakar Masak Sambal Tomato( RM 12.50)

Barbecue marinated squire topped with sweet and spicy tomato Sambal and onion. Another favorite dish of Bajau Ubiqn tribes. I find it so so only , the squid was over barbecue till it become very gamy. Taste wise nothing shout about.

    Kok Daeng Masak Timbul ( RM 10.50)1

Last but not least Kok Daeng Masak Timbul. Fresh fish head cooked in refreshing fish broth with tamarind, lemon grass, onion and local herbs. Another famous soup dish of the Bajau Ubian tribe). The soup was good, very light and refreshing. Fish was very fresh and generous amount

Overall I find that most of the dish was at the sour side. If you are not a fan our sour dishes probably can stay away from the dishes I ordered. An interesting experience dishing on local Sabah food.

Address

Batu 21, Jalan Telibong Tuaran, Sabah

Tel : 6088783911

Opens Everyday 

Latte Mei @ Berjaya Time Square Imbi

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Googling about good in Berjaya time square, then I found this place Latte Mei. Latte Mei originally from Taiwan came to Malaysia few years back. Since I am here I thought I give it a try. It's located at the first floor.

Tiny little shop hidden in a corner. 

Order their famous signature cream green tea. 

Comes with a little cute cutter to open the side of the cover, the boss told is for me to sip the salty caramel.

Tada.. I cut open the little corner. Take a sip and its kinda salty and creamy. Compare to gongcha, I think gongcha, fares way better. The design is way better, easier to mix both the cream and green tea.

I won't not come back for this green tea probably I will try their malt tea next round

Ben's @ Publika

After a comforting dinner in Silver Spoon we move our way to Ben's for dessert. Ben's is under the wing of Big Group who owns quite a number of famous restaurants like Plan B, Ben's General Food Store, Hit and Mrs, Beast etc.

    Pretty bride to be and I .

       Coconut Cake (RM 10.00)

  Mango lychee Cheese cake ( RM 14.00)

    Classic Chocolate Cake( RM 14.00)

Overall only the classic chocolate cake is worth mentioning. Forget about ordering the other two.

Ben's  Kitchen

Publika ( opposite fats boy)

Silver Spoon @ Publika

Celebrating my BFF bachelorette night in Silver Spoon Publika. I visited Silver Spoon numerous time. The ambient and the food was great. Perfect for a date night with love ones or even gathering with friends

        Baked   Escargot ( RM 26.00)

Fantastic backed escargot in garlic herb butter sauce. The buttery herb sauce was perfect with baquette. I like to have a few more pieces escargot with it. A must order. 

        Portabello Mushroom( RM15.00)

Another dishes I wouldn't miss out here's is the baked portabello mushroom stuffed with herbs. It's come's in a set of two portabello mushroom. Was kind of disappointed with the mushroom size this  round. Normally the mushroom was bigger than today. But it still taste awesome. There's  only two places that I like the way they serve the mushroom, here and Jarrod  and Rawlins.

       Caesar Salad ( RM 18.00)

A huge disspointment, please don't order this. The tandoori chicken in it was terrible, soggy and dry. Nothing seems right about this salad.

     Capellini Aglio Olio ( RM 28.00)

Shredded duck confit with basil and semi dry tomatoes in olio style. Most of the time you will never go wrong with Aglio style pasta. Capellini was at the right texture, taste wise, like I say you will never go wrong with any olio. The duck confit part , I can't really tell if its a duck confit or not.

      Rack of Lamb( RM 48.00)

Served with mashed sweet potato, garlic lamb juice and crips of chocolate coated garlic. We ordered this cook medium, taste wise I find it special, the texture of the lamb was ok, kinda on the tough side, price at rm 48, I think is quite ok. The mashed sweet potato was a creative idea. The crispy chocolate coated garlic was good. I never know that garlic can go so well with chocolate.

       Oriental  Duck Pizza ( RM 29.00)

After been here so many times, I find their dishes can be slightly inconsistent. The oriental duck pizza today was ok only. The based was not crispy enough. Normally they do it better than this. Ok let's talk about the taste wise.Oriental duck pizza is like a east meet west taste. Kinda exquisite, either you like it or you don't. It's a sweet based pizza due to the onions and pears and also the hoisin sauce. So if you are not an onion lover don't order ,if not  you be busy picking out the onions

Overall, I still recommend this place. Reasonable price and good ambients for hangout and also dating.

Oh ya they stopped serving free sky juice. Now if you want water they only come in bottle mineral water. 

Silver Spoon Publika 

 Address: Lot No 33, Level G2, Publika, No 1, Jalan Dutamas 1, Solaris Dutamas, 50480 Kuala Lumpur 

Tel:03-6201 6800 

Opening Hours : Daily 11am – 11pm Pork-free

 

Renoma Cafe Gallery @ Jalan Delima

Lazying on a public holiday. I decided to pay a visit to Renoma cafe gallery. Situated on the main road facing prince court hospital. 

I love their design, very artistic, and modern. I love the ambients here, quiet and not crowded.

Affordable set lunch daily from 12 pm to 4 pm at  RM 29.00  for two course, add rm 10 for an extra course 

Virgin piña colada only rm 7. Superbly good

Complimentary bread and truffle butter. Tasty,the truffle butter was lovely. 

Caesar salad with air dried beef. The salad was very good. Poach egg added the extra oomph on it.

The main course squid in spaghetti with smoked duck. It was superb. The squid ink pasta was cook perfectly. The ink enchanced the taste of the whole pasta. Smoked duck was pan fry just perfectly. I love this so much.

Overall the experience with this cafe was great. I will definitely drop by to try their other dishes. Service here was fantastic. 

Renoma Cafe Gallery

Lot 510, Jalan Bukit Bintang ( by Jalan Delima)

Kuala Lumpur

Tel; 03 21439919

Restaurant Nepal @ Plaza Damas

Directly situated opposite TGIF in Plaza Damas. Nepal restaurant is just four months old serving authentic Himalayan Cuisine.

I think the interior design should be Nepalis style too. I never really been exposé to Nepalese ID before though. But this restaurant is comfy with soft Himalayan music from the background and dim lighting. Great place to have a quiet dinner.

A very simple menu indeed. There's pictures behind for their chef recommended dishes.

              Momo( RM12.00)

Started off with a dish call Momo, basically like our chinese dumpling but made with chicken meat instead. There's three types of cooking method you can choose from deep fried, pan fried to steam dumplings. The fried one scores better than the steam one, because of the thickness of the skin I personally thinks the fried one reduce the 'jelakness' of the dumpling. Our siu long bao beats momo steam dumpling .The sauce is kinda special, the lighter orangy color sauce is made of tomato and peanut butter with lots of unknown spices. The darker sauce carry a hint of spiciness and made out of chilis, tomatoes and spices too. Forget about the soup , taste like it's made out of Maggie chicken cubes.

          Chatamari( RM 12)

Chatamari, Nepalese version of pizza, which has a thin crust rice flour base and is topped with minced chicken, spring onions, tomatoes and egg. The crust was nicely made thin and crispy with lots of eggy taste. The pizza is nice at the crut but its kind of tasteless. Not too great for me though.

     Khasiko Masu Bhat ( RM 17.00)

Traditional thali set with a choice of chicken or mutton, I chooses the later one. The rice set is affordable at only RM 17.00, comes with Nepalese curry lamb, curry vegetables, black bean dhal. The curry lamb was great, tender and tasty. Others side dishes never really caught my attention. The black bean dhal was something new to me, it doesn't taste like our normal dhal. This one has slight stronger bean taste.

Overall it's a great experience if you have not tasted Nepalese cuisine before. To me the Nepalese cuisine carry a strong influence of Indian cuisine, but at a milder taste.

Restaurant Nepal- Himalayan cuisine 

F-0-6, Ground level 

Plaza Damas Shopping Centre

60, Jalan Sri Hartamas 1

50480, Kuala Lumpur

Tel: +6016 9770 718/ +603 62063904

Open daily , lunch and dinner

La Cocina Spanish Restaurant@ Taipan Subang

Craving for Spanish out of sudden. And the nearest place from Kota kemuning was Subang. So we drop by La Cocina to fix the craving. 

A compact and homely restaurant. Came in with a big smile and welcome from the waiters. The restaurant was filled with soft Spanish music.

Cute polka dots table cloths

We order a few  tapas and a paella for sharing. All tapas come with hot baquette. Free flow of breads here.

Fried Spanish Mahon Cheese( rm 19.90)

 

Pure cows milk cheese from Spain and button mushrooms deep fried and serve with garlic mayonnaise. I love this so much, the cheese taste was strong and taste good even without the mayonnaise. Some of the bigger pieces, come with a piece of mushroom wrap inbetween the cheese. Superb, we love it.

Lamb meat balls( RM 12.50)

Spanish lamb meat ball served with herb tomato sauce. The meat ball tasted not bad, texture was good. The only disappointment is the sauce. The herb tomato sauce taste more like diluted Maggie tomato sauce just slightly more sourish.

Baked Escargot( RM 16.50)

Escargot baked with garlic herb butter cream. Sauce was tasty the escargot was not bad. It will be better if the escargot were fresher. 

Fried Cauliflower( RM 8.90)

This was really a bad choice.The batter was too pepperish and doesn't matched with the cauliflower 

Negres Paellas( RM 70.00) 

The long waited squid black ink paella. It takes around 25 minutes to cook. And beware if you wanted to order negres( squid black ink) please do call up before hand, because they don't serve it everyday, and even if they serve its on first come first serve. 

The Spanish rice was cooked in squid black ink , prawns, shrimps, fish fillet, squid, mussels, clams and vegetables. 

This paella was really good. The rice was perfectly cook. It's very tasty and the squid ink enchanced it taste.We love it . Just that the prawns was not that fresh. The mussels was pretty tasteless.but overall the paella was good value. The portion was just right for sharing of two.

Address

La Cocina 

38, USJ 9/5 subang jaya,

47620 UEP subang jaya

Tel : 0380232395

Opening hours:

Monday-Sunday 

11am-3 pm

6pm -12 am

Wine bar 

Monday - Sunday

5pm - 1am