Hey everyone how have you all been? It has been awhile since
I blogged last before Chinese New Year if I am not mistaken. So this time I am
back with some weight gained and some got myself a slight of sickness due to
the recent change of weather from hot and cold or vice versa, so remember to
drink tons of water during these sudden changing weather.
Although the weather is bad but it cannot stop my friends
and me to go for some nice restaurant to unwind ourselves from the hassles of
our weekday challenges from our jobs.
Here we are ended up in Mid Valley megamall Brotzeit, a
German bier bar & restaurant. Their name of the restaurant has meaning
according to them the word “Brot” and “zeit” in German both literally meaning “Bread
time” it is a Bavarian expression, referring a snack accompanied by bier,
sounds like a “alas perut dengan bir” to me in Malay, but anyway due to the
fact we have not yet dine in this restaurant before we had decided to give it a
try.
They have an area for beer drinkers only, how cool is that
but unfortunately we did not have the mood to have beer in the afternoon and
furthermore, we are not really good in appreciating beer. I do notice their
featured beer is from Paulaner Brewery, a German brewery, and ranks number 8
among Germany’s best selling breweries, maybe I will try it out next time and
for those who likes beer and happen to be there, do not miss it.
I like the beer bottle made interior wall with the light illuminates
from behind, did not thought bottles can be decorated in such elegant way.
We sat down and order our food:
Main
- Brotzeitplatte/Brotzeit platter for 4 to 5 persons (RM 175.00) – Pork knuckle, best of our sausages, pork schnitzel and 2 side dishes of your choice.
- Tagessuppe/Soup of the day (RM 18.00)
Sides
- Bratkartoffeln/Roasted potatoes
- Sauerkraut/Braised white German cabage
*government tax and service charges are not included for the
above prices.
For the main we chose, there are a lot of side dishes to
choose from, other than what we had selected, there are:
- Brezn/Typical Bavarian pretzel
- Brotkorb/Basket of selected German breads
- Spatzle/Buttered spatzle
- Schwenkgemuse/Sauteed mixed vegetable
- Kartoffelpuree/Mashed potatoes
- Kartoffelhappen/Spicy potato wedges
- Pommes/Fries
After we ordered, we just simply chit-chatting while waiting
for about 15 minutes then the dish was served
I felt excited and took the photos once the food has arrived
because it looks so inviting, after I finished shot the photos, one of my
friend asked me to reconfirm whether this is the side dishes we ordered or the
waiter had mistaken served. After I
reconfirm the dishes, the waiter apologized and took back the food to the
kitchen and then only we found out the food was actually for the table behind
us, totally awkward.
After few minutes our soup of the day is served
It served in a soup with two pieces of bread. We noticed a
black “S”, a symbol from Superman on the surface of the yellow soup. The “S” is
made of olive oil and the yellow soup is a pumpkin soup, I stirred gently to make
it evenly mix with the soup and then only we shared the taste. It has a nice
soft mellow taste of pumpkin, lip-smacking after taste.
After that brotzeit platter and the two side dishes are
served, the brotzeit is seriously BIG in size
As you already see the composition of the brotzeit platter,
the center round in shape is the pork knuckles covered by two pieces of pork schnitzel,
following three sausages for both sides a few types of vegetable such as
pickles, cherry tomato, cabbage as garnishing purposes.
We start off by trying each of the sausages, there are
cheese filling sausages, black pepper flavor sausages, and the Weisswurst sausage
which is pale beige in colored made mainly from veal.
The pork schnitzels are thin and can be slice and chew easily,
the reason behind is that it is a boneless meat and thinned by a hammer like
tool, the meat tenderizer, this pork schnitzel has less feeling of tender on
the meat might because we did not try it first while it still hot.
Lastly the pork knuckle, the crispy skin is highly hard to
chew and oily, person who wanted to burn their calories every second is not recommended.
The meat is a little dry or me, it is not juicy as I thought it would be. Not suitable
for my likings to be honest.
The two sides dishes are nice, especially the roasted potato.
The German cabbage is kind of weird for me, I think it is a preserved cabbage
due to its sour taste as appetizer.
After we finished our food and drinks, we sit there a have a
rest and then we talk about the food, the pork knuckle especially, we all
agreed that the Chinese way of doing this dish is more delicious than what we
just have here maybe because we are used to it or we prefer the pork knuckle
meat to be more juicy and tender to bite with. Anyway you guys should try it
out yourself.
Below is the google map of the place:
