Zestful Eats

Finished a meeting in KL and decided to eat somewhere nearby so we went to Fahrenheit 88 (formerly KL Plaza) to eat at this ramen place that April has raved about.

This is a specialty restaurant, only serving a limited amount of dishes. In fact, there’s only four (4) types of ramen you can choose from. I took the house specialty – Marutama Ra-men (RM18) – ramen in chicken soup with a slice of Char Siu – with an additional topping of Ajitsuke Tamago (RM 2) – seasoned egg.

I wouldn’t actually call it “soup”. It’s really thick and rich that its almost like a broth than stock. The char siu was really fatty tho. But the star of the whole dish was the egg. Its like boiled egg with a runny egg yolk and was super yummy.

Here’s a picture of the menu taken from Rebecca of the Nomad Gourmand 

Would I come again? Yes, if I was in the area. If not for the ramen, definitely for the egg.

Marutama Ra-men
Fahrenheit 88
Lot F1.27.01, First Floor, Jalan Bukit Bintang,
55100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel : +03-21411573
Business Hours : 11.30am to 10.00pm
(Non-Halal)

Didn’t know what to eat over the weekend so I turned to twitter and asked around. @ImranAjmain suggested the “Ayam Presto” at Anggrek Kuring – chicken fried so well even the bones can be eaten.

After looking through the menu (click photo above for a bigger pic), we settled on our order. We were given a complimentary basket of some kinda keropok thingy, slightly bitter tasting.

Friend ordered the Nasi Ayam Panggang Set (RM 18.90) – Grilled/Roasted (?) Chicken with Rice, a stick of cumi panggang (grilled sotong), small portion of prawn petai and 1 piece each of fried taufu and pergedi (bergedil). Oh and a bowl of sup kosong with bits of taufu and tomatoes. Forgot to take a picture of it, he was too hungry.

I ordered a plate of white rice (RM2) which came with 1 piece of taufu and bergedil. Then we ordered the Sup Buntut (RM13+? Not too sure) and of course the Ayam Presto to share. And yes, the bones really can be eaten. Its like they put it in a pressure cooker before frying and serving. Interesting dish.

THE VERDICT

Sup Buntut was not worth it. Three pieces of oxtail for RM13 bucks is pricy. The Ayam Presto costs like RM30, I found it expensive but I guess its okay to try it just once. Doubt I’ll be ordering it again though.

However, the set was nice, from the chicken to even the sup kosong. I might come again to try out other dishes like the fish and Empal Gempuk (beef), recommended by Andrew who went to their Bandar Puteri branch and wrote a blogpost (and better photos) about the food.

Bandar Puteri Address is as above. I ate at the Kota Damansara branch, as below:

Restoran Anggrek Kuring (Indonesian Food)
No.60-G, Jalan PJU 5/20,
The Strand, Kota Damansara
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 47810

Not to be confused with Anggerik Kuning, Anggrek Kuring is located right next to Loud speaker Kareoke at The Strand in Kota Damansara. Same row as Gulati’s . Its also next to a kopitiam.

Cova Square is this small area behind Segi College Kota Damansara where there are offices/apartments on top and 3-4 rows of shop at the bottom. There’s also a nursing college there as well, I think, because you will see some students in ‘missy’ uniforms.

Burger Royale is located somewhere towards the end of the row of shoplots. Its a air cond shop with probably 2-3 small tables outside. U walk in and on the left you have the kitchen/ordering table. The prices are all located in the menu overhead.

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Golden Phoenix Chinese Restaurant in Hotel Equatorial KL is one of the finest Chinese Restaurants around and every year the best Chinese chefs in town cook up new and exotic delicacies to keep the menu fresh.

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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 »