Was pretty excited about the new Pyrex set and straight away starting formulating what I could cook with it. Over the weekend, I invited my parents and brother, who is back from Penang, to come over for Sunday lunch. Usually, I go over to my parents’ place, but for a change, they came over.

After planning for the menu a few days in advanced, this was finally decided to go with this menu: -

1. Mustard & Honey Oven-Baked Chicken
2. Grilled Vegetables
3. Roasted Pink Potatoes with Rosemary
4.  Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

The dishes were quite a hit especially the stuffed mushrooms but the same cannot be said for the grilled vegetables. Probably it is the way I did it. Need to find a good recipe. The chicken, I didn’t manage to snap a picture of it since it was the last dish out of the oven.

I’m loving my new casserole set!

My ex-colleagues and I decided to have a small get-together when one of them resigned. We are that evil. We celebrate resignations! Anyway, after some discussions on where we should dine, we decided to go to Tony Roma’s in Sunway Pyramid. I know, the one in here doesn’t serve the world famous pork ribs, but what the heck, we decided to go to it anyway!

The place was so-so. Sort of the Chilli’s/TGIF’s kind of feel. Very relaxed enviroment. Nothing flashy and posh. Quite comfortable for old friends to hang out and just catch up. Through out the whole evening, we were just yakking and laughing away. Had a really good time. Our dinner started at 7pm. We left the restaurant only about 10pm!  That also due to the fact that Alex was calling me. Otherwise, I think we would still be there.

We started with a shared appetizer. It is deep fried onion rings in  the shape of a cake. This was lovely. Crunchy on the outside but sweet and tender on the inside.  Next for main course,  we ordered the barbeque beef ribs. Man, this was HEAVENLY. Since I already gained significant amount of weight after working at this new place, I decided to share this with another colleague who is trying to keep lean. REGRET BIG TIME!

I thought that all food should stop at that but when the waitress came with the menu and asked us if we wanted desserts the temptation was too great to resist and we ended ordering one mudpie. I ate most of it though. One colleague doesn’t like ice cream. The other was the one who wanted to stay lean. Kekeke but I enjoyed every bit of it!

Overall, it was great food with fantastic company!

A friend of ours, Jit Lian is leaving to Singapore to start her new job soon, so we decided that we should have a final get-together before she leaves. After thinking hard for a makan place, I thought of this restaurant in Sungai Buloh. Been there ages ago with a uni-mate for dinner. It is situated deep in a kampung in Sungai Buloh and I don’t remember the route there actually. Therefore, managed to do a search in the local blogs and found a map! Yay!

We all met in Tse-Kuan’s house (Bandar Sri Damansara)  first to go together in one car since this place is really ulu-ulu land and we did not want to get lost with one fellow heading east and another heading west (direct translation from Cantonese). Armed with the map, we got to the place first try without even getting lost at all! Haha. This is what you get when you have an aeronautical engineer on board.

Upon arriving there, we were greeted by this lovely spread of desserts at the entrance. But decided that we should not start with desserts thus proceeding to order our main meal.

We were really impressed by the speed the food was served. Less than 5 minutes from our order, the food was served. Starting with the kangkung, followed by the tomyum, the steamed siakap and lastly the pandan chicken. Everything was simply mouth-watering. The only complaint was that the everything on the table was spicy. Heck, I love spicy food!

Overall, we had one very satisfying meal, although the food in Thailand certainly tops this, but we’ll have to make do with this until have a chance to visit Pete in Bangkok!

p/s: this place is halal!

Last Friday, Alex and I went to try out this place called B.B.Q. Plaza in Sunway Pyramid. We passed by the eatery several times but never entered it because Alex was rather worried that we’ll end up smelling like food once we finished out meal. However, since it was Friday and it after work and we’ll be heading home straight after dinner, Alex was game enough this time.

We reached the outlet slightly before seven o’clock. The restaurant manager quickly greeted us and asked the usual questions (i.e. how many of us dining). We have to wait roughly about 5 minutes at the entrance before we were shown to our seats because, despite the number of staff this place have, they were rather slow at clearing up the tables mainly due to the fact that there was only ONE person doing this. The rest of them just serve and take orders. Need a  little reshuffling here, if you ask me.

Clockwise from the top: Our hot plate before , The set we ordered, Cooking in Progress, The special sauce flown in from Bangkok weekly

To cook the food, they provided us some pieces of lard to grease the hot plate and some stock if we wanted the more traditional method of boiling. I feel the stock they provided is mainly to prevent the hot plate from overheating rather than to cook.  We were also quite pleasantly surprised by the fact that the whole place is not very smokey unlike normal steamboat/bbq. Clean envirpment and reasonable pricing. Overall we were quite satisfied with the place. Although the service could improve, this place offers a rather unique steamboat experience.