Zestful Eats

Happy Chinese New Year 2011 to all my readers! May the year of the Rabbit bring an abundance of love, joy, happiness and success!

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

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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