Zestful Eats

The Last Polka icecream is a homemade icecream available here in Kuala Lumpur (and some parts of Selangor) with 100% natural ingredients and made in the “creamy French-style icecream” but with Asian flavors.

I’ve had a couple of their flavours, but being the inactive food blogger that I am, I failed to take pics or write about it. So I decided that the next time I had some, I would update this post about the newest flavours I’ve tried. I got my icecream at The Bee, Jaya One. They were going for RM6.80 or RM8.80 per cup, depending on the flavour.

Their available flavours (as of May 2011) are : Salted Gula Melaka, Coconut Kaffir Lime, Mango, Strawberry Cream Cheese, Guinness, Nutella, Teh Tarik, Horlicks, Green Tea, Malt & Peanut Butter, White Coffee, Black Sesame and French Toast.

Coconut Kaffir Lime
”We source our coconut milk from local markets so that only the freshest stuff makes it into our ice cream. And just to keep things interesting, our Coconut flavour is an update; a superhero with a sidekick – kaffir lime, or limau purut. The small but zesty limau saves the day with a refreshing, light finish.”

With a name as unique as this, I think I pictured something like limau ais with some coconut flavour. It is white with dark green flecks of what I presume are bits of kaffir lime.

Unfortunately, I didn’t really like this. Firstly, it was frozen rock solid. Not too sure if its because it’s been in the freezer for a while or the texture is just odd. Also I felt that it was undersweetened and the lime taste was overpowering. In fact a friend commented that it tasted like Masak Lemak (blergh).

On a plus side, I tweeted @thelastpolka about my comments and they said they will look into it and go “back to the test kitchen”. As coconut is one of my fav flavours, I would love to see what they come up with next.

Mango
”Mango is back! Our best-selling flavour was much missed during its hiatus (due to crop problems in India). We took the chance to make it even better: it is now made with 100% Alphonso mangoes, the king of mangoes. Richer and creamier, this is the mango ice cream to beat.”

I told Chris @spinzer about how I didn’t like the earlier flavour I had and he recommended I get the Mango the next time I dropped by The Bee. Boy am I glad I took his advice!

This is no lightly flavoured mango sorbet. This is creamy mango yellow icecream. Sweet but not too sweet and truly tastes like eating a cold mango. No taste of artificial flavourings here. I must admit that I have not tasted mango icecream like this anywhere else. Highly recommended

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That’s all the flavours I’ve had for now. Will update and repost when I try more!

After having dinner at Indian Kitchen (my fav northern indian place), I was hankering for something hot and sweet. As we walked back to our car parked in Bangsar Village, I came across this new place and this sign greeted me as I was approaching it.

Desserts!! And at the bottom “ All desserts for RM7++”. Needless to say, I decided to sit. The place had a rustic kind of feel to it. Brick walls and along the walls were shelves filled with loaves of bread on one side and tons of ingredients on the other. Not too sure if you could buy those ingredients, I neglected to ask.

The owner of the place (sorry I can’t recall his name) was friendly and dropped by our table to introduce himself. He mentioned that he and his partner were formerly from Telawi Street Bistro (god I miss those long lunches at TSB with a wood fire baked pizza and a pint of Hoegaarden) who decided to set up shop here, just mere lots away. Nice guy.

We took a look at the menu and it seemed to have an interesting selection of western dishes and pizza. The main dishes range from under RM20 (sandwiches and pies) to RM30 (lamb stew, beef ribs) to RM70 (Rump Steak 300gm). Pretty reasonable if you ask me. However, as we were too full, we settled for a Chocolate Mousse to share. I ordered some hot tea as well.

The chocolate mousse was simple, with some (unsweeted) cream on top. The mousse was not overly thick like a pudding but not runny. I thought it was nice and chocolaty without being too sweet.

Am planning to come again for the main dishes, anyone game to join me?

G3 Kitchen & Bar
19, Jalan Telawi 3, Bangsar Baru, Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 2282-9019

After two attempts to eat at places which didn’t have what I wanted to eat – IKEA ran out of chicken wings and Absolute Thai didn’t have the steam siakap or beef – we finally settle at Tony Roma’s.

Actually they didn’t have the Baked Potato Soup – yea i know, it was really not my day – so we had two different appetizers and one ribs to share.

This is the Asian Bites. I think we salah order because we wanted Buffalo Bites but didn’t realize it till we were halfway through. Its boneless chicken pieces in a batter, fried then thai sweet chilli sauce poured on top. Quite nice but I think i prefer buffalo wings = RM 17.90

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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 »

This blog is mainly written by me, IcedNyior, but occasionally, I get the beau to write the posts. So this will be tagged “He Eats”. Hehe…enjoy!

- IcedNyior

So after having a problem on where to eat, we decide to go to Italiannies at The Gardens. As its name, it is an Italian theme restaurant that serve Italian food (duh >.<). They have an “open air” style seating outside the restaurant and plenty of seats inside.

The restaurant setting is (as quoted from my girl) nice, romantic and high class. Oh and quiet too, nice place to have a romantic dinner but be sure to ask table further away from their kitchen.

Anyway after we seated, complimentary bread with olive oil plus balsamic vinegar was served. The bread was nice, seems that they baked it fresh daily. Was asking my girl whether do we have pay for it or not if we decide not to eat there XD Read the rest of this entry »

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)