B'day Lunch @ Chili's, Gurney

Today's my birthday. I'm on annual leave, in order to escape from my hectic work, and to really relax and enjoy my birthday. :D Must pamper myself on this special day, right?

My dear brought me for lunch just now after our shopping at Gurney Plaza. He asked me to choose which restaurant I prefer, so I chose Chili's. Reason 1: It's a famous restaurant. Reason 2: I have not taste their food so far.

Noticed that Chili's is really a popular place to dine in. Lot's of foreigners enjoy their meals there. We chose to be seated at non-smoking area, as I really hate to be a passive smoker.

Chili's is located at Gurney Hotel, just opposite to Dome and the Manila's Place from Gurney Plaza.

We ordered their bottomless fruit juice. Bottomless means you can top up as much as you can.

I ordered my Fire-Grill Chicken Portobello. It's the Fire-grilled chicken breasts with a marinated Portobello mushroom served over zesty peppercorn sauce with loaded mashed potatoes and fresh veggies (cauliflower, broccoli, carrot and onion). I'm very satisfied with this meal. It's not oily and yet it's so flavorful. It's definitely a good choice for me. :)

One thing that I noticed about the peppercorn sauce. With Chinese parsley added, the sauce is very tasty, and it enhanced the grilled chicken. To my surprise, the smell of Chinese parsley is acceptable to me. This is totally a new self exploration. :)

Well for my dear, he ordered a set of Crispy Honey-Chipotle Chicken Crispers. Strips of chicken hand battered then breaded and fried to perfection for the crispy crunch. It's then topped with Chili's spicy and smoky honey-chipotle sauce and served with sweet corn and homestlye fries.

We have not taking any deep fried food for quite some time due to our stomachs already get used to my healthy home cooked meal. However, found out that we still able to accept these deep fried chicken strips. It's so delicious and not greasy as well.

Well, we spend about RM87++ for my birthday lunch. I would say it's a good choice.

California Cherry

Few weeks back, my colleague treated me one fresh cherry. Yea, just one, cuz he bought only a few to try out. Most of us have not even tried a fresh cherry. But we are hooked once tasted it. I bought 200gms from uncle, the fruit seller who would come to our factory once a week. 1kg of fresh California cherry cost RM50.

With RM9, only 21 small cherries. My hubby and I gobbled all of them while watching TV.... expensive snack, isn't it? The cherries were sweet and juicy....love it!

Restaurant Buddy2 @ Auto-city

Autocity again! This time we went to Buddy Buddy for our weekly-coming-home dinner. At first we was planning to go for other place at Autocity but that day was crowded with people as they are having live party 712 there. So we detoured to the nearest place away from the crowd.

Buddy2 is an oriental food restaurant serving steamboat, rice and noodle.

The interior decoration features buddy2 cartoon wallpaper which is nice.

Hubby ordered orange juice....but it is a bit sweet

Bento - Black pepper chicken with steam rice. It's served with fried egg, tofu, cucumber slice, cabbage + carrot salad and 2 small pieces of nyonya kuih. The chicken was deep fried before stir fry in black pepper sauce. Ingredients included capsicum, red chili, onion, and soy bean paste. It's quite flavorful, but serving is too small. :(

Bento - Oyster chicken with steam rice. Same as the bento described above with nice oyster sauce chicken. Again, the serving is too little for us....we are so hungry and finish it up in no time at all. :P

A bowl of free soup is served together with each Bento set. The soup is boiled with ginger, pepper, and it's warm to stomach, but taste a bit weird with 2 fishballs added.

Almond Cookies From Macau

My colleague just back from his Hong Kong and Macau trip. He bought us this famous almond cookies from Macau. I know, not everyone like the smell of Almond. However this cookies is acceptable to me, cuz it doesn't contain strong Almond flavour. It's almost similar to peanut cookies.

This is the cookies in the small version. It's made into chess piece. so call 棋子餅. It's made of peanut powder, Almond powder, sugar, green bean powder, and sugar.


How does it look? Put one in your mouth, and it melts. :)

Steamed Egg With Kadok Herbs

See my smooth and silky steamed egg? Aha, after failing few times to get a good result, I still not giving up, but to get a secret from my mama. Needless to say, the outcome of smooth and silky texture will definitely taste better than rough surface steam egg. ;P

The other day, my colleague passed me some kadok leaves which she plucked from the river side near her house. Instead of using it to cook perut ikan or make some otak-otak, I carried out a series of experiments to discover new recipes. Steamed egg with Kadok herbs is one of them. If you like the smell of the Kadok herbs, you'll like this version of steamed egg.

Ingredients:
1. 6 of Kadok leaves
2. 2 Omega eggs
3. Some water

Seasoning:
1. 2 tbsp of light soy sauce
2. dashed of pepper

Method:
1. Wash the Kadok leaves and get it thinly sliced.
2. Beat eggs in a porcelain bowl. Add estimated amount of water, light soy sauce, dash of pepper and the Kadok leaves. Mixed well.
3. Steam under low heat for 10 minutes.