Ben's - Pavillion, Kuala Lumpur

Christmas song is everywhere and the place is crowded with people even it is Wednesday, yes it is Christmas day! Merry Christmas everyone! I was in Pavillion to do some year-end shopping before the sales period over or before all the good stuffs was taken, as expected, there are crazy lots of people in Pavillion, Time Square, and in fact I think everywhere will be crowded compare to normal days. Now back to the title of this blog, we have manage to get ourselves (my friends and me) table in the Ben’s restaurant, we have been waiting for seats for the last 15 minutes on the couch at the waiting area.

The waiting coach... OMG so many people waiting

As long as we had our seats we took the menu and order our lunch because we are already starving due to a lot of walking and we did not really have our breakfast because one of our friend is late, do not follow this practice, please have your breakfast first guys.

Alright this is what we ordered:

Main dish

Ben’s cheeseburger on sesame seed bun (RM 26.00) – with cheddar slices & French fries

Aglio olio spaghetti (RM 14.00) – tossed in olive oil, garlic & dried chilies

Beef Bolognese spaghetti (RM 23.00) – served with parmigiano

*government tax and service charges are not included for the above prices.

After we made our order with the waiter, we took out a stack of paper cards which place in a box, you will find this box on every table in the restaurant, what is so special about this paper card is that these are the random questions and facts for friends to ask to one another and sometimes to have weird answers.

 

Text on the black paper card "STOP LOOKING AT YOUR PHONE AND GIVE YOUR FINGERS A BREAK"

The food is slightly slower to be serve due to the amount of customer here, take a look at the photo:

Good business 

But it is ok, I am enjoying the paper card questions and facts at the moment and forgotten we actually waited for around 25 minutes or more, time passes fast when you are having fun.

Alright the food is served finally

 

Yuummmyyy!

The vegetable looks fresh

Cheessseeeee

The Ben’s cheeseburger is one of their recommended food, as the photo shows, it consisted of a cheeseburger with cheddar cheese slice, a type of cheese which is smooth in taste and originally made in Cheddar, southern England. The stuffs on top the cheese is some sort of onion with pepper? I am not really sure but it taste good. The meat under the cheese is beef with medium steak doneness, the meat is easy to chew. The vegetable under the beef is fresh, and the bun has nothing much to describe but the amount of sesame is way a lot that most of the burger I had before. Besides this the French fries taste good, it is crispy yet not oily and the smell is so much tempting. There is a small portion of salad provided, it has tomato, pea, sun flower seeds, cabbage, carrot and other vegetables, like any other salad it mixed with olive oil, and the vegetable is fresh enough, just like the one with the burger.

Ok move to the other dish which my friend had ordered:

 

Aglio Olio spaghetti

The Aglio Olio spaghetti, this dish is very simple for its ingredient, so there is nothing much to describe about in terms of the outlook, I had tried a few and I thought the spaghetti is a little bit dry to swallow, other than that it is a simply and normal spaghetti dish, suitable for those who do not want a heavy main dish such as Ben’s burger, and the dried chilies, I do not think those are edible one (maybe the mint leaf is edible?)

The final dish is the beef Bolognese spaghetti

beef Bolognese spaghetti

As you can see the slices which mixed with the beef Bolognese sauce is cheese, a type of hard cheese named parmigiano, the cheese is made from raw cow’s milk, and there is also a mint leaf on the top of the beef Bolognese sauce, alright about the taste of this dish, it taste more sour because of the sauce and the cheese, it does not feel dry and hard to swallow compare to Aglio Olio spaghetti.

That all about it guys, we had a nice lunch and funny moments with the paper cards and the food was nice in overall, especially mine one because it satisfied my appetite. Even though Christmas had passed but I still wish you all Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Below are the google maps for the restaurant.

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3 wise monkeys – Setia Walk, Puchong

3 wise monkeys, you have seen or heard this phrase before origin from a famous proverb from Japan, “see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil”. This phrase suggest us in having a good mind, speech and action, but in this case the restaurant gave it a twist, “see the party, eat the party and drink the party!” the newly twisted phrase sounds better when it’s Friday night, time to have some good food!

3 wise monkeys is a restaurant, Bistro and bar located in Setia Walk, Puchong established last year, May and it is a non-halal restaurant.

 

Christmas decorations

The above photo was taken outside their shop, the logo in this photo in not very clear, I will have clearer later in the post. I would say it will be a nice hangout place during the night due to the luminance of the warm color lights. They also have a place specifically build for beer drinkers to hangout and chat.

 

Nice environment

One thing to keep in mind is that their menu design, is quite HUGE and LONG just like newspaper size, so I have a little hard time in flipping back and forth when choosing my choice of dinner there (you will be seeing a bunch of people doing kung fu flipping with the menu on their seats)

 

Newspaper size menu

The logo of 3 Wise Monkeys

Ok back to the food I ordered:

Main course

Rib Eye Steak (RM38.00)

Prime Rib Eye Cuts. Sautéed Potatoes. Grilled vegetables. And a pick of choice for the sauce topping (with in this case black pepper sauce)

Pizza

Margherita – Monkey Story (RM19.00)

Classic Cheese Pizza Garnished with Basil and Oregano

For the pizza part, I am not sure why they added the different types of “Monkey” word at the end of the pizza menu, other pizzas such as:

•  Pig Out – Hungry Monkey (Their signature pizza)
• Vegetarian – Monkey Zen
• Pepperoni – 3WMKYs Fav (3 Wise Monkeys favourite)
•  Seafood – Scuba Monkey
•  Hawaiian – Bikini Monkey

Besides this there are some funny names in the menu such as Parma ham and rocket – Rocket to the moon, Spicy BBQ Pork Special – Monkey on Fire (Wait …. What?) and much more even crazier names, an interesting menu to discover, I believe the purpose is to have you in an food-hunting adventure, because since you do not really know what it taste like by looking the name, you might as well forget about what to expect it, well-played monkeys.

Around 10 minutes, the pizza is served

Yummy cheese pizza

Well the looks of the pizza tells exactly like the menu, it’s just cheese garnished with Basil and Oregano, for you information Basil is a type of herbs largely used in South East Asia and Italian cuisine, part of a family of mints, on the other hand the Oregano is another type of herb which is also part of the mints family, it has more aromatic and it more like marjoram but less sweet due to its pungency, mostly used in making pizza, now this is the type of pizza with thin bread as its based, the cheese is nicely done without having it to be sticky that you need to make extra effort in slicing with knife several times to cut it off. The taste of this pizza, thanks to the Oregano and Basil, they give the pizza a little sharp smell which mixed with the taste of cheese, and because the thin bread, it did not quickly make your stomach full quickly, allow you to grab another slice in no time.

Not for long, the main course is served

Rib Eye Steak

Oh before I continue, the beef is cooked between medium to medium rare in terms of steak doneness, this might be their default steak doneness because I did not mention about how the steak is going to be, so they made it a medium. They offered a small amount of pepper sauce for the steak. I think the price for this meal is kind of cheap because maybe the beef is not from Australia, Australian steak cost more.

A medium rare steak

Alright actually to be honest I am pleased with the potatoes more than the steak, not that the steak is not good, but I give more credits to the potatoes, maybe because of the cooking style, the word “Sautéed” is in French, “Sauté” meaning to jump, meaning the potatoes are fried on the pan really quick, as you can see the potatoes are accompany with the fried garlic slices, made it very tasty and the smell are nice.

Nice potatoes

I think that is all about it for this dish, the grilled vegetable is just normal and has nothing else to comment about. In my opinion I think the vegetable potion is a little bit small though.

For those who wanted to try for a hangout place off KL area can come to this restaurant, below is the map.

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Legend of Xiao Long Bao – Paradise Dynasty

On a sunny Sunday morning my friend and I have a random appetite for Chinese cuisine, last time I already went to the Dragon-I, so today my friend suggested we go for a Chinese restaurant name the PARADISE DYNASTY (樂天皇朝) – LEGENG OF XIAO LONG BAO which is located inside Paradigm Mall, Kelana Jaya. So off we go!

When we arrived, the time is around 11.30am, so there are not so many customers yet and I got the chance to take some photos of the restaurant’s environment without being awkward with some of my unintentionally weird pose while attempting to shoot a photo.

The reflection and the water

I kind of like the environment of the restaurant, as far as I know this is the only restaurant which has a huge Buddha statue at the center of the restaurant and it’s beautifully placed.

Alright for the food we had ordered:

Main dish

Wok-fried Rice with Egg (蛋炒饭) – RM 12.90

Side dish

Scrambled Egg White with Fish and Dried Scallop (瑶柱芙蓉赛螃蟹) – RM 20.90

Glutinous Rice Dumplings in Fermented Rice Wine (桂花酒酿丸子) – RM 6.90

Pan-fried Shanghai Pork Bun (上海生煎包) (3pcs) – RM 9.90

Signature Dynasty Xiao Long Bao (皇朝小籠包) (8 pcs) – RM 25.80

We decided to order only one main dish is because we wanted to try the signature dumplings and their main dish has only few selection of rice and “La mian”, hand-pulled noodles; and we did not order drinks because in my opinion, when going to Chinese restaurant, always go for their soup because it is much more worth it.

So after we ordered the first dish was served:

Glutinous Rice Dumplings in Fermented Rice Wine (桂花酒酿丸子) 

This dish is made out of Osmanthus (type of flower), some small dumplings, rice wine, and yellow sugar. The taste is sour because as the menu state it is a fermented rice wine, the way of making it is kind of like making a yogurt, you put some rice in a container with some ingredient together and store it for a certain amount of time to have that “sour” taste, besides the smell of the dish is sour too so for those who are sensitive in smell and dislike the fermented taste you may not like this as it might remind you slightly about the smell of spoiled food, however to those who are not, you will enjoy the mouth-smoothing soup accompany with some of the slight sticky dumpling.

After a while the second dish came:

Scrambled Egg White with Fish and Dried Scallop (瑶柱芙蓉赛螃蟹)

Firstly I have to point out a thing is, the menu in English did not mention any word of “Crab” but in the Chinese words it shows, I think this might be a typo, so I make a quick stir to even the egg York with the rest of the ingredient, and as I was tasting it, the taste of crab and the scallop came right after the taste of the egg, it is delicious and it aroused one’s appetite but we did not finish it first because we thought we need to consume it with the fried rice with will be coming in a moment.

But nop, the fried rice did not came first it is the 8 signature Chinese dumplings

Signature Dynasty Xiao Long Bao (皇朝小籠包) 

I must say it is quite nice to see it all neatly arranged (you may order separately), I shall name it according in the menu:

• Steamed Original Xiao Long Bao (原味小籠包)
• Steamed Foie Gras Xiao Long Bao (鹅肝小籠包)
• Steamed Black Truffle Xiao Long Bao (黑松露小籠包)
• Steamed Crab Roe Xiao Long Bao (蟹粉小籠包)
• Steamed Ginseng Xiao Long Bao (人参小籠包)
• Steamed Cheesy Xiao Long Bao (芝士小籠包)
• Steamed Garlic Xiao Long Bao (蒜香小籠包)
• Steamed Szechuan Xiao Long Bao (麻辣小籠包) 

Alright before you start to eat, you may need look around the table, there is a card which specially made for this dish titled “THE RIGHT WAY OF EATING XIAO LONG BAO” it stated the steps of which dumplings should you consume first until the last to have a “succulent journey”; you may follow the steps but as for us, we only ordered one set so we did not follow the sequence given. We divided 4 by 4 (2 persons) what I had was:

• Steamed Original Xiao Long Bao
• Steamed Foie Gras Xiao Long Bao
• Steamed Crab Roe Xiao Long Bao
• Steamed Szechuan Xiao Long Bao 

Overall like the usual dumplings, the filling has hot and juicy soup inside so be careful when consuming it. These dumplings have slight thicker skin than the one in Dragon-I, but they have the 8 special flavoring instead of one. Out of 4 dumplings, the one that caught my attention is the Szechuan one, for your information most of the dish with the word “Szechuan” are usually spicy, so at first I did not expect a spicy dumpling until I taste it on my own, the spicy taste came in fast, (during that time make sure you won’t choke because if you do, you might have a bad time) but did not last long, however it leaves your tongue numb for a while, you have to try it yourself because the taste is like no other. Meanwhile a comment from my friend who have the other four dumplings said that the Steamed Cheesy flavor is the best out of 4 and the taste is quite unique for my friend.

After we finish the 8 dumplings, we waited for about 2 minutes and the fried rice came:

Wok-fried Rice with Egg (蛋炒饭)

Nothing much about this dish though but it still taste good when we mixed it with the scrambled egg, it smoothen the texture of the hot fried rice.

At last the final dish:

Pan-fried Shanghai Pork Bun 

So these buns are not halal because it used pork as filling, the filling has some pork-essence soup as well, it is not hard to bite and it will tear off easily due to a not so thick bun skin, a good sign of a bun, even the pork is easy to chew, oh and the smell is nice too, those who like meat bun especially pork must try this dish.

So this restaurant’s signature dish is dumplings, which also same with Dragon-I’s signature dish, since I had tried both, the only differences is that the portion of the dumplings in Dragon-I is larger than the Paradise Dynasty and the dumpling skin is thinner so the feeling as a whole feels better, but as for Paradise Dynasty, the nice 8 flavors of dumplings brings new experience for customers like me yet the taste is not that bad just that the portion is a little smaller. Well the similarities is that both restaurants has shown great skills in demonstrating the art of a Chinese cuisine, for me if you ask me which to choose I will answer “Why not both?”

Paradise Dynasty is located at:

Lot 1F-15

Operating hour is from 11am to 10PM daily

Below is the google map for Paradigm Mall:

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Let’s mambo – La Boca Latino Bar

Heus! Meaning “Hi!” spoken in Latin language, quis mean “delicious” and pleni means full. You must be wondering why I’m saying these Latin words, this time we are going for a Latino bar located in Pavillion, behold the La Boca latino bar. Last Saturday my brother and I happen to be in Pavillion for chillax, so we had our lunch at this nice Latin American restaurant, why we choose this place for our lunch? Maybe we got caught by the colorful wall painting and the nice interior design that standout, with the help of the lighting installed and the bricks design, the whole shop look very inviting.

Look at the colorful restaurant.

Wondering why the chairs are all in different colors separated by section.

Ok, so basically as you can see these photos are the interior of the restaurant, the reason why they decorated it such way is because the theme for the restaurant which in this case the Tango street of “Caminito”, a real street located in La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Just done a quick search on google, Caminito is a tango music composed by Juan de Dios Filiberto, because the song is famous so there is a street museum name after it, and the images found in google is quite the same as the painting in the restaurant (Even the colors are so colorful in real life).

Their kitchen guarded by the guy at the wall....

After we finished decide our food and drinks, we asked the waitress to take our order, after she did she suddenly moved the chair from another table to our table and we just sat there looking each other for a second, she was actually offering a space for my brother’s camera bag, we smile and thanked her, nice services here. Below are the food I ordered:

Main dish

Nachos Rancheros - RM 26.00 (with added beef - RM 5.00)

Side dish

Sorrentinos - RM 32.00

I only ordered 2 dishes because my brother had his late breakfast so I thought I only ordered food for myself, we ordered coffee for our drinks, a Café con Leche - RM 9.00 and an Affogato - RM 12.00. After a while our drinks are served

Café con lecho

Affogato - Scoop of vanila gelato poured over with espresso

The drinks are quite normal, the only significant taste is the Affogato, it has a sweet taste at first due to the vanilla gelato and then after a while you will feel a slight bitter for after taste.

After a few minutes the Nachos Rancheros is served

Yummmyyy

Alright Nachos Rancheros is made by corn tortilla chips, refried beans, jalapeno, melted cheese, guacamole (green color), and sour cream. It was quite a small portion compare to the image in the menu but I smelled a strong smell of cheese, so how I consume it, naturally I took a tortilla chip and dip some guacamole sauce and some sour cream, it was tasty and it made me wanted to have another one due to the sour cream that increased my appetite, the beef part comes with tomato sauce. I like the cheese part, the cheese Is basically not so liquid type kind of cheese that I expected, it is already half-harden state, but they provided a huge amount of cheese and I like cheese plus the sour cream I thought I could finish it in no time, but I was wrong, I cannot finish it even though my brother is helping me, the portion might be medium, but it is capable of making you full, it was a good food though and it’s their recommended food as well.

Next dish

Sorrentinos - handmade Argentinean style ravioli stuffed with turkey ham, mozzarella and ricotta cheese in a rich roma tomato and basil sauce

I didn’t know that an Italian pasta can shape like this until I try this dish, honestly I thought they given me a wrong order, so after a quick search and I found that the term “ravioli” might be the answer, “ravioli” is a type of Italian filled pasta, nice, gained a knowledge by literally eating it. The sorrentinos’s filling look like this

Cheeseeeee

A lot of cheese inside but only small portion of the turkey ham, it would be better if they had a larger turkey ham I think. The food was good but due to the fact that I am already half-full, this pasta is above average in terms of taste, it will taste better if you dip the pasta in the tomato and basil sauce.

Conclusion

After we done with our food, we have reached to the maximum of our stomach’s capacity, we are contented with nice environment and the food overall, the food was worth of its price and it is not disappointing, this is a restaurant for people who enjoy food and music from other culture (they play Latin songs), the main target audience here are mostly westerners.

Be sure to check it out, I’ve included the google map.

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Shanghainese specialties – DRAGON-I restaurant

It is Sunday morning, initially a friend and I planned to wake up to have Chinese Dim sum early in the morning, unfortunately our plan did not work out because we cannot wake ourselves up, the reason is simple: we did not usually slept early most of the night as part of our habits, that is a bad habit guys, so I personally advice do not follow us and we are trying to change that too. Therefore we change our breakfast plan into lunch and we decided to have our meal at a Chinese restaurant named DRAGON-I (龍的傳人) it means “Descendants of the dragon” Chinese often use this term of a sign of ethnic identity. We went to the restaurant located in Leisure Mall, Cheras.

Short introduction of the restaurant in Malaysia, this company specialized in Chinese culinary, the culinary style is from the regions of Shanghai, Szechuan, Beijing and Lanzhou, Dragon-i was established in 2004, its first outlet opened at Mid-valley. This restaurant’s signature dishes are “Xiao Long Bao” which is soup dumplings and “La Mian”, hand-pulled noodles, I made a quick guess because they written the words on their restaurant signboard, their menu, and their black sealed towel, so I guess this is their famous items to have. So there was I looking at their menu after my friend and I sat down.

While thinking what to have our lunch, I noticed the images of the food are special, I mean their food presentation is very attractive, colors, decorations, etc. very tempting; So after a while I had decided to have myself as followings:

Front entrance of the restaurant

The menu with Chinese design

Main dish

Braised Pork Belly with Preserved Vegetables in Hot Stone Pot (石锅梅菜扣肉)

– RM 20.00

Side dishes
1) Shanghainese Steamed Meat Dumplings (上海小笼包) – RM 10.30
2) Steamed Meat Dumplings with Chili Soy Sauce (红油抄手) – RM 12.00

Soup
Double-boiled Pear with White Fungus and Red Dates (红枣雪耳炖雪梨)

– RM 12.00

I ordered a soup because I think their drinks they have in their menu are normal besides I think Chinese soups are generally worth a try. After a while, the waitress bought us our utensil, there is one thing I like about this restaurant’s way branding is they have a custom made chop-stick stamped with their restaurant’s logo on it, so is their black towel.

Words written:"Descendants of the dragon"

Ok, around 15 to 20 minutes of waiting, the Shanghainese Steamed Meat Dumplings is served

Shanghainese Steamed Meat Dumplings (上海小笼包) 

Once the waitress opens up the cover, the steam literally burst out, it must be fresh cooked~! Allow me to show you the way to eat a dumpling: First you place the dumpling on a spoon, then you pinch a small hole at the top with your mouth and carefully sip the hot soup inside, then only you consume the whole dumpling with ginger and Chinese black vinegar they provided. There you go their signature dishes, containing minced pork shank, ginger and natural pork skin gelatin, all covered with a skillfully handmade dumpling skin with at least 18 delicate folds (sounds pretty epic huh?), personally I like the filling of the dumplings and the soup, I actually prefer a thinner dumpling skin though, it should be strong enough to hold the filling and yet thin enough to be translucent.

Braised Pork Belly with Preserved Vegetables in Hot Stone Pot (石锅梅菜扣肉) 

Before we finish our dumplings, my main dish has arrived, honestly I was a little bit of a disappoint to the presentation of the food, because it is far too different to the menu, maybe because of the color of the soup is dull, but I should not jump to conclusion of the taste yet despite of its first impression, I ordered a bowl of rice for this dish, I scooped some soup to the rice and have my first bite, I am pleased with the taste of the soup with rice, it is quite salty but it is fine with rice. The braised pork and the preserved vegetable is a good mix, these two combination makes the pork belly does not taste oily even though you can see the thin layer of fat from the meat, because the preserved vegetable kind of counter the oily part, overall I am satisfied with this dish, must have it before it gets cold.

Double-boiled Pear with White Fungus and Red Dates (红枣雪耳炖雪梨)

And then the soup came just in the right time because I need some liquid form to clear my throat and mouth, this soup is boiled out of pear it is good for our health basically, the pear itself helps in digestions, prevent dizziness, normalize blood pressure, good for throat (ah-ha!) and etc. the red dates helps in lowering the blood pressure, strengthen out immune systems and etc. I can go for a long list of benefits for soups even though the taste is not tasty, but it contain a slightness of natural sweet, I did not mean those artificial sugar sweet. Chinese herbal soups have one thing in common they are all specialized in strengthen our inner organ and immune systems which is why I stated in the first place, their soup is worth a try.

And finally the last side dish has made its way,

Steamed Meat Dumplings with Chili Soy Sauce (红油抄手) 

I would say this dish is normal, nothing special about this dish, just that the volume of the soup inside is a lot more than the Shanghainese Steamed Meat Dumplings because when I took my first bite, the soup burst out from the side of my mouth, I was shocked and quickly cover my embarrassment with a poker face, pretending nothing happen.

Conclusion
First of all this restaurant is non-Halal, because it served pork, the environment here is nice, it provide a smoking area outside, the interior has a very nice design of Chinese elements, dragons, red and black colors, you name it, my friend and I has a good time there, oh they have music too, just it is not oriental ones, I think they should have play Chinese oriental music, but overall it is a good place to spend with families and friends.

Below is the google map for this restaurant.

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Taste or place? - CHATEAU DE C.A.F.F.E.I.N.E.E.S.

Last Friday like most people after the exhausting work, a bunch of friend and me plan to go for a nice dinner somewhere in Cheras. After some hard time on deciding what food and which restaurant to land our feet on, (happen always…) we come up with this place, CHATEAU DE C.A.F.F.E.I.N.E.E.S.

A short introduction about this place, CHATEAU DE C.A.F.F.E.I.N.E.E.S. was first founded in 2006, it starts off as a humble coffee joint and now it became such nice looking restaurant. Their customers range are wide, from students to workers, from friends to families; the restaurant is designed to serves for events such as ROM ceremony, Wedding, Anniversary, birthday party or company dinner.

So as we parked our car within their compound, there are assistants there to help you in difficult parking slots, do not worry it is free of charge. The environment there is relaxing as most of the stuffs there are painted in white color, the lights there are quite dim, and I am sorry I did not manage to take any nice photos because my phone is not good in taking nice photos in low light condition.

Alright as I walked in I heard there are people singing “Happy Birthday” in a room somewhere, so I am guessing this place is quite happening even in the night. So after we found a place to sit and we start to browse through the menu, it serves more on western food more as I expected, there are pizza, steaks, salad, pasta, burgers and many more. After while I decided to order their

Honey sesame mustard lamb loin (RM 29.00)

The description is written: New Zealand lamb flame grilled with fresh wholegrain mustard sauce and mashed potato

Beef Pepperoni pizza (RM 22.00)

Crispy squid GOMA salad (RM 22.00)

Description as written: green vegetables salad served with authentic Japanese sesame dressing & grilled chicken

While waiting my food to serve, I noticed there are also some other people having some shishas and chill out there. I also noticed most of the customers here are all well-dressed and with a camera holding in their hand, I guess they are celebrating something too? Or they are going to take photo with all the nice interior design as background? Either way I think the environment here is pretty classy (no wonder they offer a wedding ceremony event)

Not many minutes ago the wait is over!! Here is the photos I am trying to capture, it is not that clear as the lighting there is quite dim (sorry again~)

Honey sesame mustard lamb loin

Let us start with the lamb loin, by the looks of it, I can see the tomato is not that red, I think it is an old tomato? Was it meant to be like that? Well it does not look very appetizing to me, the mashed potato is fine, just that it is a little cold, then I try the lamb loin, first bite is nice the taste is good especially added with the wholegrain mustard sauce, however the lamb loin is very chewy, I need to bite several times to break lamb into pieces, too bad it is kind of a letdown.

So I started to try the pepperoni beef pizza

Beef Pepperoni pizza

The taste is tedious, it does have the smell of cheese, I can barely taste the beef as well, and the bread is thinner than I thought it would be because it is written in the menu that the bread will be thin but for me I think it is way too thin for me to bite.

Then I went for the salad,

Crispy squid GOMA salad

When I saw the word “GOMA” I am curious about the meaning of the term, so I done a search on the web and I found that it is a Japanese way of dressing a salad here is the source from Wikipedia:

Goma-ae (胡麻和え), sometimes also spelled Gomaae or Gomae is a Japanese side dish. It is made with vegetables and sesame dressing (goma meaning sesame and ae meaning sauce in Japanese).

So after a few bites of the salad, to be honest I kind of like it, the vegetable is fresh, the squid is crispy and the portion is big enough, at least the tomato looks fresh, it is very appetizing and taste just fine.

I think CHATEAU DE C.A.F.F.E.I.N.E.E.S. restaurant consider a type of restaurant that provide super nice environment for customer, it is capable in creating a cozy mood for us to chill out with friends, have some families gathering and such, I have yet to try out most of the food there but this time I feel it is just normal, maybe what I am paying is the moment I spend there with my beloved ones? Anyway I will try other dishes next time.

Whoever interested go visit the restaurant, here is the Google map

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