because of The strawman….oopps, i mean the marshmallow Man~!

because of Ma regular hi-tea meal in Malaysia…. D mango delight

D DAnish

because of the Steamboat in Hartamas

They looked special….Aren’t they?

because of D Hokkaido bread in Bangkok

bcause of D ramen with Spring Egg

because of I shopped for Food / snacks more than i shop for Clothes ….LoL

I’m not sure if you are able to see what’s in the picture….

( was too crowded, not able to snap any informative pictures!)

This superb 小食挡 was located in one of the shopping malls at Mong Kok. The store was at ground floor, next to the escalator.

And the food that they are selling are variety of Cold noodles, with variety of selections for the consumer to match with the cold noodle, such as cold octopus, cold egg, cold …..in cantonese, it’s 百塔冷面。。。。百塔（you can match variety of food with the cold noodle) , 百味(more than hundreds of taste) …..

Wooohh!

Wooohhhhh!!!!  (i don’t know how to describe to you but the taste was unique and delicious!)

It was a little  costly but worth it! I had one big pack!

And michell had two! Muahahahah!

(ok, frankly speaking, i’m not in the mood to story so much…hope you will still enjoy this post with all of the lovely pictures here)

百味食品，百塔冷面.

I was in this French restaurant – Le Bouchon….

which is located at Changkat Bukit Bintang @ Kuala Lumpur to have my Fine Dining ~

A lot of my friends claimed that the French Restaurant around K.L area were superb costly and the food were not that tasty too. Most of them claimed that to dine in French restaurant  mainly is paying for the environment / good settings instead of the food.

This was my first try on French Fine Dining (not counting in La Bodega …)

and i would say that, Le Bouchon’s environment is rather normal

but the food was really really good!!!

What is the most important thing in having French Food?

Table Manner? Table Setting? knowledge on Cutlery? or the taste of the food?

erm….. to me, i would say it is everything…~ !

Let me share with you with my basic knowledge on these ~ :

When you arrived at the restaurant, the waiter will guide you to the table~

Let the waiter pull the chair for you and let him place the napkin on your lap once you are seated.

Once you are seated, you will see a complicated cutlery settings in front of you. Do not get confuse and do not feel panic. . . .

There is always a small plate with a small knife on your left. This small plate will not be removed until your dessert is served.the small plate and the knife is for you  to cut the bun and apply the tasty yummy butter into the bun.

In a more authentic French restaurant, they will always heat up the bun before they serve you. You can consume the bun before your meal or in between …….And you can always ask the waiter to change the basket of bun if the bun is already cold & hard ~ the basket of bun will be serve through out your whole dining and it is Free Of Charge ~

Cutlery:

My appetizer of the night was Asparagus (there is a name of course….But i never jot down nor try to remember the long french name of each dish ….   )

Always use the outer cutlery on your left and right for your dish.

there are hundreds of types of cutlery~ But you don’t have to memorize the shape of each cutlery to be use for the different dishes…

You just need to use the outer cutlery according to your table setting. In fact, the waiter will help to change your cutlery according to the dishes that you have ordered.

Another thing …. Did you notice there are cutlery that set right in front of you instead of your left nor right side…

Do not Move or change the position of the cutlery on your own ~ And do not use the cutlery before using the  left and right ones~ because the cutlery that was set above of your dish is for your dessert use.

Oh no…Dear all, it is not complicated nor troublesome to consume the French cuisine ~ not at all….It is a way to enjoy and to truly taste the food~

Okay, Let’s talk about the food in Le Bouchon

Other than the bun, they served this mini snack platter with crackers and some ……… ~ okay, i am not a food person that can tell out all of the names of the ingredients that i have tasted. But this is good~!

My Appetizer ~ that contains Asparagus ~

The spirit of the French Cuisine is the SAUCE! Do not look down on the small quantity of SAUCE that the chef served you. Probably the chef has spent about a few hours to prepare the sauce.

To prepare French food, you need to have a super expensive Blender, to blend the unique sauce.

Look at my appetizer, the most tasty and unforgettable thing was the SAUCE!! it goes super well with the Asparagus ~! Good job! to the chef of Le Bouchon

AT’s appetizer – Escargot

The Escargot was really FRESH!!

(I always adore the plate that they use to serve the Escargot…. )

2nd:

My 2nd dish that contain Scallops ~

I was enjoying the sauce, the dried mushrooms than the scallop…can you imagine how tasty their SAUCE was ?!

AT’s 2nd dish- – - Soup

Main Course:

Mine is something with LAMB~ for this dish, you will be surprise that you can just taste the lamb alone without any sauce because the lamb itself was so so so so tasty~!

Usually i will describe the nice lamb as – JUICY…but this is not juicy ~ i mean the taste was unique and it is RICH of the unique taste ~

AT’s main course is the fillet…it was yummy too but i prefer mine ~ !

Till here…i need to say this ….

Who was the one who tell me that FRENCH cuisine is not filling at all and she needs to go home to cook MAGGIE after having her dinner in a french restaurant gar?

Before my main course was served, i was already quite fullllll….

And when my main course was served, i spent like more than 20 minutes to finish my main course ~

AT’s dessert…. it was tasty but the outlook was a little bit normal …. LOOK AT MINE … > > >

This was my DESSERT!! other than the grapes and strawberry that look like a dessert to me, i never know that crackers and Cheese can be dessert as well ~ ! How come ar? I thought Cheese is always too filling to be dessert?

But i was really enjoying it! I finished up all the crackers by putting all different type of cheese on it.

Cheesie must have love this dessert very much because there were ‘blue cheese’ and another three more different type of cheese in this dessert!

OMG ! (and i know the blue cheese is very costly) ….

OMG!! I love it so much!!

A few more things that you should have know about the table manner.

1. When you are leaving your seat to the washroom, place your napkin on the chair instead of the table.

It indicates that you will be back to the seat again ~

2. Place the napkin on the table if you are leaving the restaurant.

It indicates that you are leaving the restaurant and you will not be back again.

3. Place your cutlery like both the fork and knife together when you have done with your meal. So that the waiter will clear the plate for you and get ready with the next dish.

Bon Appetit ~

Bon Appetit @ Le Bouchon

Taste the Royal Cuisine …

The poser – Pheobe     (My FM D.J a.k.a “jiak ba ba ” TV Host)

On that night, there were only two celebrities got invited to the dinner, who were Pheobe and I. Other than us, all of the guests are the high commissions, his excellencies…….. And also Dr. Mahathir, Agong and the Queen…

One of the highlights on Korea Gala Dinner ~ Savour & Style night, was the Royal Cuisine….

From appetizer, to Main Dish, To dessert ~

Let’s Taste the Royal Cuisine together Now ~

the First Dish : Appetizer ;

Something i like about Korean food is…..They use a lot of Ginseng as their ingredient…Even the wine that we had on that day…it looks like a normal red Wine, but it tasted like Ginseng ~

My favourite~!

The texture of the pumpkin porridge was rich and i Love the Rice Cracker to the MAX!It is like a soup more than a porridge to me

If you have been to Korea, you will get to see a lot of hawker selling this ‘RICE CAKE’.

They usually wrap one long rice cake like a sausage and most of the Koreans will just consume the rice cake while walking on the street like how you bite on the Taiwanese Sausage.

*interesting*

Oh NO! I have lost the picture of my JEON!

Just take a look at the description, imagine it and taste it …..*ssllluuurrrpppp*

Those were the Appetizer….

Main Dish :

this is BEEF!!! …and sorry mommy, i had the first slice of beef in my life on that day ~

The beef was quite tender and nice… ( i only had one and the half slice only ler…~ )

Who doesn’t know BiBimBap huh?~! This is the most common and famous dish in the Korean Cuisine ~ (i will show you the  BiBimBap that i had in Korea in the next post :”)   )

Lastly — Dessert :

the Ginger cookie, honey cookie, jujube sweet are all very unique and nice~

It goes well with the ‘punch’ ….

Wooohoooo….satisfied – nya !

就算无人约，或唔知道继续落O黎应该要去边度聚餐，而家就可以开始plan 喇～！

因为，以下绝对系令我最回味无穷既餐厅！

天香回味

Something healthy & Delicious!

A steamboat that combines more than 30 types of chinese herbs and variety of dishes all freshly imported from TAIWAN!

A steamboat that will not make you feel HEATY!

It is true! I believe that most of you might not want to consume steamboat at this moment because most of you might claim that steamboat is really heaty la, will make your ulcer and pimple pop-up unconciously, the senior adults are not suitable to consume steamboat, Malaysia’s weather is too hot to consume steamboat …..thousand of reasons of not to consume steamboat might be running in your head right now huh.

But….Tell you what…if you have not ever try this steamboat…u will never know how tasty it is (ahem..what am i talking about? of course you wont know how does it taste like before trying it la…hahaha).

Well, trust me! I have been introducing this steamboat in my programmes for the past one year and i personally visited this place for more than 2 times with my whole family included those ah ma ah gong…and all of them said that it is really good!

Look at my facial expression. It tells you that it is not a normal steamboat. It is abnormal.

The soap is so tasty where the chef need to ‘boil’ the soap up to six, enam, liu , 6 hours everyday before serving it to the customers. And because of some ‘secret recipe’ of making the soap, the soap is not only tasty, yummy, delicious, but it is very healthy too.

常喝可以保健！（来自台湾的店长说的！）

What is that so special about their food?

Well, ALL of their food are fully imported from TAIWAN and they are all guarantee FRESH, UNIQUE and nice where you cannot find it anywhere else.

What to order?

Well, you can actually throw this question to the captain. The captain is a very soft spoken, pretty lady who will briefly explain to you about the history and the recipe of their steamboat.

anyway, i can recommend you some of the specialties as well ler…

Look at this dish — 墨芋香肠。

Have you seen this? If you have not, you got to order and try it out , man…

beef or lamb or pork…they are all good! and Freshly imported from TAIWAN, so …can u imagine the difference?

Everybody takes 年糕during chinese new year right?! BUT….have you ever try to steamboat 年糕？

This is what they do ….and this is what i ate also ler….

Caviar Ball?

This is so TASTY!

They have variety of Balls and all of them are ‘extraordinary’!

MUST TRY!

No soft drinks, warm water, fresh juices …..

I believe that they do serve the drinks that i have mentioned above ler…Is just that, without you ordering, they will automatically serve you their special made TEA.

The tea is really healthy and help you to “reduce” the heatiness (this is the reason why the steamboat is not heaty…).

What is you do not like the tea?

Order some other drinks ler…! But i reckon you will like it to the max like what me and my friends do lo~

So people, you know where to go to during CHAP GOH MEI reunion dinner ler? And guess what? I have RM50 cash voucher for you! First come First Serve!

Grab it hard from me before 10th of MARCH 2010.

To get the cash voucher >> Drop me a comment or an email at    bubblyvene@yahoo.com

Tian Xiang Restaurant

no. 318, Jalan Pudu, 55100,

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia .

for RSVP : 603-2143 8168

This is special!

Do you know “gui ling gao”? Normally the “gui ling gao” in Malaysia or anywhere is served in a bowl and we have to add in some honey before we consume it.

BUT the Taiwanese made it to a very KAWAII packing…

they packed it like a sweet though~

Easier to consume hor~

It tastes like a jelly ~

Anyway, wanted to apologize for the late update yea….There was some problem occured to my site 

所谓好O既又一餐，　唔好O既又一餐，　我更系拣好O架喇。。。多谢！

平时工作O甘忙碌，我端估你每一个午餐都食得几匆忙。 星期六日， 全日休息，不如同你O既男女朋友享受足一日，食足一日喇.

breakfast :

所谓一日之计在于晨. 一早起身霸位食点心？ok O既，　但系会唔会寡O左D呢？　不如试下鸡窝包喇。鸡窝包陷料足，够独特，　味道又ok..食一粒就已经够饱啦。

A new taste to your taste bud…

All in one chicken pot dumpling? 里边有glutinous rice , cashew nuts, chicken , etc …自己睇睇张相喇~

一粒包走天涯。。。绝对可以顶到午餐。

Lunch:

平时匆匆的一餐。　今日，　不如试下D 清谈得O黎又劲饱O既　――全茶宴喇！–

全茶宴 Tea Meal ， 顾名思义所有东东都系以茶O黎煮O架喇。

例如有,

Soup in the tea pot

茶褒莲藕汤

You can drink the soap as if you are drinking a tea

Chicken with TEA

茶蒸蛋 Steam egg with TEA

茶绊凉瓜  Bitter gourd with Tea

劲满意的一餐茶宴~

咦，刚刚食完，又到三点半下午茶时间？

Hi-tea 又好似太唔划算。。。哦，经济D但又可以感受到hi-tea feel O既就有呢个English Hi-tea 喇。

O系独立O既coffee house, 已经可以叹到呢个hi-tea set 喇。

呢个就系两人份，等你慢慢谈情说爱。

嗯，竟然一日都O甘丰富，　晚餐又点可以skip 啊。。。

Dinner :

周末，　好多人都喜欢同家人一齐食Dinner. 唔驶讲，西餐都几适合O架～Dinner with Family

西餐，　最兴就系appetizer…

appetizer 为你O地拣O黎O既有 Ham with Melon…ham O既咸味加上melon O既清甜，　开胃十足！

西餐，唔一定餐餐据扒。用手la 上O黎食O既都得O架。

就有呢个超tender O既 Lamb Shank 喇。 呢个仲要包到成只腿O甘， 正啊！

食完晚餐， 系时候食D 甜品当消夜喇~

Supper:
花生糊，红豆沙，　芝麻糊．．．？

No no no … 试下呢个汤水喇。粘粘地，甜甜地，　最特别O既就系有油条伴汤水。　甜到漏～

Ahem…由于昨日食得太丰富，　继续落O黎O既一个礼拜都要挨muffin…! 不过，我都可以为你介绍D 好muffin O既