Mr. Baoz Is In Town

Who says economy no good? Luxuries are almost everywhere, they are not just doing GOOD, they are growing like mushrooms after the rain. I bet you had tried out any of these: Big Apple Donuts, Dunkin Donuts, Desserts Bar, and those ice creams kingdoms like New Zealand Natural, Haagen-Dazs and Baskin-Robbins. Now you got what I mean. You will see them in every place when you are trying to get some leisure time, hunting you like ghost. 

These are more towards western, I said this because they are no doubt 100% western food. Since China is moving fast in the eye of the World, it is not natural not to get something luxuries from one of the oldest civilization of the world. There comes Mr. Baoz.

Bao, or simply bun with ingredients are unavoidable in Chinese history. Even today, chinese people are just crazy on this food. They wake up at 5 something in the morning during weekend and head out for some Bao and Dim Sum with their family. However, the Bao I am referring so far is cost not more than RM1.50 per piece. 

Now, during the season where everyone thinks that the economy is no good (some even says economy crisis) the Bao can sell with the price tag of RM3.50 per piece. Common' man, if the economy is so damn bad, why people are taking out RM3.50 just for one Bao? They can eat A LOT MORE if they spent if WISELY? 

Of course, presentation of the Bao are very important, especially when you want to sell it as if it is a rocket accessory. I found out some damn true facts when I eat this thing: First, if it looks nice, it WILL taste nice (this is call human imagination, if you want me to say it so damn clear);  

Second, if it is expensive, you will remember the brand forever and ever, and you WILL definitely thinking of buying it again!;

Third, no matter you like the taste or not, you will tell your friend about it and make FREE ADVERTISEMENT for them, just because THEY ARE EXPENSIVE (and you are the one who paying them). No offense, but it is damn true.

Special thanks to my Mr. Baoz sponsor: Mr. Ham Ham

Shabu-shabu (Japanese)

I went to my friend's restaurant last week, to try out her Japanese Shabu-shabu.

Frankly, I never tried any of these shabu-shabu before, all I had tried is the steamboat or luk-luk.

My friend had spent quite on renovation. The results are great.

This restaurant is clearly aims at the customers from middle class society.

Hey, I put free advertisement for you, next meal is on your bill, ok? :)

We are sit by the beautiful waitress there to this nice sit. When I look up to the window, wow, "The KL tower is out there!"

Besides the beautiful waitress, I mean KL tower, I also enjoy myself on the night scene of KL traffic, counting the cars while waiting for my food to come.

When the food came, I immediately start eating.

Wait, I almost forgot to take more picture of the food. Let start from the source given. There are ketchup, chili, and peanut butter from left to right. Wait, peanut butter? Yea, I tried it and I confirm it is peanut butter.

Three different soup can be chosen, there are Nagomi, chicken soup, and spicy soup. I ordered Nagomi and my dear ordered chicken soup. I like the Nagomi very much. And we tried the spicy soup later on, and it is taste like Korean kimchi.

There are varieties of vegetables to let you make your soup more tastier, it does also will look nice. 

The table is conveniently large, knowing the dishes is so big. Also, four edges of the table include a heating control, for easy control on the boiling temperature.

These is the main dish everyone came for the Japanese Shabu-shabu. You can choose chicken, beef and fish. You can see that the meat ball is actually made instantly in front of you by the waitress there.

Before and after the meat ball is made.

Yeah, peace.

Some demo on how to shabu-shabu at the video below (no la, it is just watching me eating shabu-shabu, that's all). Tipson shabu-shabu: do not dip the meat more than one minutes (everyone knows this).

 

BBQ Plaza At One Utama

My Dear wanted to treat me a nice meal for my birthday, although it is late (yea, I know she was busy on my birthday, and I understand it. No problem dear, it is okay).

At first we booked sits the Shogun at One Utama, but last minutes I decided to try out the BBQ Plaza (since I never tried before, and I heard my cousin say it is nice).

It comes with a nice brass grill. It is in dome shape, so you can grill and have soup around it at the same time. It is very nice to play! (Did you see two milky rectangular meat on the top of the grill, it is not meat actually. Yeah, they are PORK FAT! My grandmother used to use it for cooking last time.)


Here comes our main dishes... very fresh and nicely cut.


You can see the pattern on the meat.


For safety, we ordered another bacon roll fried rice. To make sure we are full when going out the door.


Different people comes with different styles when comes to table manner. Typical eating style of my family emphasize on speed, my mom mastered it quite well I think (you see the speed of her hand, the camera shutter is comparable slower).


Some will be shy... don't be shy la...


Wuah... what to say, get caught. Note: Do not try this at public, keep it at home.


I like cuttle fish, because they have sense of dancing.

Spring Valley Dim Sum Buffet

Spring Valley Chinese Restaurant is located at Midvalley.
I brought my mom over there having an all-you-can-eat Hong Kong Dim Sum.
Dim Sum in Chinese means "point to the heart" which also means "food which touches your heart" in other words.
All kinds of Dim Sum is there for you to take.
Besides Dim Sum, there are also some varieties of Chinese cuisine well prepared on the table for you.


Chinese famous 'lu zhu jiao' and big prawns.


Wuah, 'shao ya dui' or roasted duck drumstick sure smell good!


This is Beijing 'Tian Ya'.


These are my favorite fry Dim Sum, 'fly xia jiao', 'zian dui' and 'wu jiao'.


Yea, we are so lucky that every customer at Spring Valley that day got free shark fin from the chef.


Yup, dumplings also got, with nice soup.


You guess it right, 'Yong tofu' also got, and the sweet and sour fish fillet too.


And much more, egg tarts, porridge, fry chickens...


We find ourselves too full at this stage and we couldn't manage to take more of the desserts.
This is lobster salad, our dessert. Others like 'tofu fah', ice cream, 'guai ling gao', budding etc. are also available.
All this was charged around RM34 per pax, tax included.

Jogoya Attacks !!!

Got to know that Jogoya has its promotion running until 18 of Sept (come with pair and the male will get a 50% discount), I decided to take out my bucks and attack!

Bringing my mom and going along with my lovely little evil cousin brother and his girlfriend, we crazily hooping around the food like a rabbit, and eating the food like dinosaurs.

Put a bib around your neck and lets kicks in with their food!

This is one of my favorite, small lobster soup. Of course one bowl is not enough, second bowl, please.






































If you like soups, there are varieties of soups waiting for you. Including these luxurious soups.






















Tempura(s)!!! Yeah... every tempura diameter is bigger than my thumb. Best serve with their special tata source.



























These are called 'dai zi' in Chinese, means bring along your child. (Hard to tell why they name it like this)






























My mom is enjoying herself very much in taking food onto our table. Like my evil cousin says so, it is not always have the chance to order every single type of nice food at once. So, let her enjoy, hehe...



















Ouu... thirsty... get some refreshment before going back to food war... Extremely nice to have beverage variety from natural C.O.C.O.N.U.T to classic red wine.







































More food in in in... Super fresh Alaska codfish... Best serve with steam.




















Dessert time!!!

This is one of the special dishes which only serve to customers with VIP card. We did manage to get a chance to taste it, but we do not have VIP card. How lucky we are, right? It is actually a treat by manager there because of the restaurant lightning system is malfunctioning that day. It is like bitter first, then sweet later. By the way, we paid around RM 62 per person (tax and service charges included) for the late lunch buffet after the discount. I personally feels that it is very worth with the bucks : )