Zestful Eats

Located in Millennium Square PJ, Piccadilly’s is a great shop to hangout. The food is nice and the price is ok. They have like more than 200 foods and drinks listed on the menu ranging from Westerns, Italians, Indians, Chinese and of course Local delights. We have been going to Piccadilly’s for quite number of times already, but only recently took pictures of the food we ordered.

Tandoori Chicken (RM5.00) – quarter of chicken marinated in red colored spices. Nice but nothing special about it. Served with mint sauce and some veggies.

Spicy Fried Calamari (RM9.00) – deep fried calamari served with Thais chili sauce, my girl said not as nice as the prawn fritter. As for me it doesn’t deserves a “spicy” title if it only meant to be dipped in the chili sauce. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been craving for some Palak Paneer so I suggested to my fren that we eat in Indian Kitchen, a small place that serves northern and southern indian dishes tucked in the middle of Jalan Telawi 3 amongst the rows of bars and cafes.

We went around early afternoon and thus, the restaurant was quite empty because the lunch crowd hasn’t came yet. We decided to order a few items off the menu after asking the helpful waiter to explain the dishes.

Garlic Naan (RM4) & Cheese Naan (RM5) - The naan here is not round (like in some mamak shops) but in a big tear/pear shape. Not that it makes a difference actually. I like that it doesn’t taste ‘floury’.

Mango Lassi (RM7) – Its quite thick and yellow. Full of mango taste and slightly sour. I thought it was quite nice – tho better if it was colder. Fren didnt like it tho.

White Rice (RM3) - A bowl of white rice. A bit expensive. No free refills (its not a banana leaf shop after all)

Palak Panner (RM14) – Spinach mashed and cooked with goat’s cheese. This dish is creamy, almost like a soup and is excellent for dipping naan in.

Chicken Tikka (RM 14) - Boneless Tandoori Chicken. This one was nice. The marinade was flavored with spices and was slightly spicy. The meat was tender and juicy

Mutton Rohan Josh (RM18) - As you can see, its a really creamy sauce with chucks of mutton inside. This was not spicy (even tho we did ask for it to be spicy) and the sauce was really good. What I didn’t like was the mutton appeared to hv been cooked separately, then just tossed in the sauce. So the mutton tasted bland.

All in all, the food was pretty good. Well except that the mutton was a bit of a disappointment lah. The ambiance was also nice. I liked how there was a aircon and non-aircon area. Also, there wasn’t the overwhelming smell of food even tho they had an open kitchen (separated from the eating area by a clear partition). The waiters were also helpful to explain the items on the menu because they weren’t any descriptions.

I think we will be coming here again. Oh yes, after some googling, i found out that you can actually order items off the menu if the owner – Shiva – is around.

Indian Kitchen Restaurant
NO 15 Jalan Telawi 3, Bangsar Baru, KL.

There’s this shop next to Sushi Zanmai in One Utama that is rather like a grocery store. After some digging around, i found that the shop is called Shojikiya – The Japanese Food Specialty Store.

They were selling their ice cream at RM5.90 each for any selection. They also have family packs (bigger packs of the icecream). G and I popped in the other day to have some icecream.

G had the Blueberry Cheesecake Flavoured ‘Cake stick’ and I had the Fish shaped wafer icecream (Click for bigger pics)

The Cake Stick is ‘cheesecake’ flavoured iced confectionary with some blueberry jam inside it. Its not smooth milk based icecream but rather a frozen type of icecream, like frozen yogurt or something. Quite nice though I find it a bit weird to have artificially flavoured cheesecake icecream.

I had this fish-shaped icecream. Its a soft wafer molded in a fish shape. Inside is white vanilla icecream with a layer of red beans at the bottom of it. Its really good. Not too sweet and not too much icecream or too much red beans. I would really buy this again. This icecream is sold in Sushi King for almost rm10!

We also took the opportunity to browse through their small shop. They have so much stuff there ranging from plum drinks, little sweet cookies, cake mix (you know, like those Betty Crocker stuff), chocolate, sweets and of course ice cream. Will check out more of the other products later

Shojikiya
SK9A, 2nd Floor High Street, One Utama Shopping Centre, No 1, Lebuh Bandar Utama Damansara, 47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Phone No: (03) 77270310
Mobile No: (012) 2170130
Email: 1utama2@shojikiya.com.my
Website: http://www.shojikiya.com.my

Business Hour:
10.00am – 10.00pm
10.00am – 10.30pm (Friday & Saturday)

I was browsing through my photos when I realized that I’ve not written a post about this. It was some time ago when my friend and I were looking for places to have dinner in Jusco Bukit Tinggi when we popped into Black Canyon Coffee because I’ve never seen it before. At first I thought this was a place like Starbucks and CoffeeBean which primarily serve drinks and sandwiches/salads/pastries. Boy was I wrong.

They have special set menus for Lunch and Dinner. RM9.90++ for a main dish and one drink. RM12.95++ for a main dish and soup and dessert (1 scoop of icecream). They also have Family Set A (for 2 people) at RM24.90++ and Family Set B (for 4 people) at RM39.90++

We had the Family Set A (for 2 people) which includes Spicy Tuna Salad, Chicken Tom Yum Soup, Fried Chicken with Cashew Nuts and 2 steamed rice. My friend had a coke and I had iced milk tea.

They have really comfortable sofas scattered all over the restaurant and also proper dining tables and chairs.

The milk iced tea was soooo good. Milky without being too overpowering and not too sweet either. I forgot how much it was exactly but I do remember it being a bit pricier then usual.

The rice came served in rectangle blocks on square plates. I thought it looked so cute! This is the mix vegetables we had to replace the spicy tuna salad – because I didn’t feel like eating spicy food.

This is the Chicken Tomyam we had. It was full of chicken slices and soupy. It was not too spicy nor too thick. Even though it looks a bit watery, fear not because its not watered down at all. The chicken with cashewnuts was also very nice with generous cashewnuts. It seems like they fried the chicken pieces before stir frying it with the other ingredients.

Interestingly enough, we did not have any of their coffees. But the food was good and quite reasonably priced. They also have an outlet in Centerpoint, Damansara and the food standard is the same in that outlet as well.

Pak Li Kopitiam @ Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Klang

Pak Li Kopitiam just opened a branch in Dataran Sunway, Kota Damansara and we were talking about checking it out but never got round to actually doing it. However one day I was at Klang and we were deciding where to eat when we settled on Pak Li since I’ve not been there.

When I go to these kopitiam type of shops I always make it a point to try their Roti Bakar to make comparison. Pak Li’s roti bakar is using brown bread (similar to Old Town White Coffee but not as brown). They used Pandan Kaya instead of the normal plain Kaya.

He had the Nasi lemak which came with the usual peanuts, ikan bilis, half an egg, cucumber and sambal. They also had curry chicken and sambal sotong. The different thing about their nasi lemak is they also give Fried Taufu. Tastewise it was just okay.

I had the Lemon Chicken Rice. Not recommended. I mean look at the picture. Doesn’t it look utterly unappetizing? The chicken was dry and the sauce was yukky. I would take RCH over this anytime.

In conclusion, its just an average kopitiam. Nothing special to shout about. Can’t remember the prices sorry! They have a lot of outlets tho. Read more in their website : http://www.paklikopitiam.com.my

I love this place, especially in the evenings. Its like a kedai mamak but I like the setting there. Its very airy with loads of seats and tables. We used to play Catan (a type of board game) a lot there.

One of the cheapest places to eat in the Curve – if you don’t mind mamak food that is.

We had 2 sets of roti bakar (RM3.80), one Teh Ais (RM2.00), one Kopi O Panas (RM1.30) and one Teh O Ais (RM1.70). Total bill was RM9.68

Teh Tarik Place
Lot Gf, 36&36A The Curve,
6, Jalan PJU 7/3, Mutiara Damansara,
47800 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor