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INVITED EVENT - Starbucks Food Tasting

Disclaimer: This is a preview to the cafe

Starbucks = Java Chips + Tiramisu + Great Cheesecakes?

Nu-uh!

Starbucks Malaysia now offers quite a large snack menu, with more choices just for their loyal customers.

Which one's your personal favourite among all these hmm?

In the last post on Starbucks Juice, I mentioned my favourite was Java Chip Ice Blended, this is my personal favourite and I just can't leave Starbucks without having at least one of these, they rock!
Go try it out if you like something which is a lil bit coffee, a lil bit chocolate and a whole lotta love. I am 99% convinced thats why Starbucks is so addictive! Its all that love.

The non-alcoholic Tiramisu which never fails Starbucks standards. Its ever so smooth and has a well balanced flavour of mascarpone cheese and cocoa. Perfect for the halal stamp too!
If you haven't tried this yet, you are so not living a life! :p

Marble Cheese Cake with a good crispy crust base with great semisweet chocolate and cheesecake mix :D

Chocolate Tuxedo. The name of this cake tells you how "prestige" this cake is. Smooth white chocolate mousse with dark chocolate mousse and with more chocolate ganache and chocolate shavings. If you are a chocolate lover, take no time to decide!

Blueberry Cheese Cake with its Starbucks trademark of 8 blueberries on top of a slice of this cake. A lucky charm cake for Starbucks?

Jazzy Lemon Cheesecake, and how jazzy can that be?

Kapitan Chicken Pie, a special Malaysian style pie which is being offered by Starbucks.

Chicken Pasta Stack which is like a lasagna with not so much filling.

Ozzie Sausage Roll which could also be named Pigs in a Blanket? But that wouldn't sound like a good menu name in Malaysia and then people would boycott Starbucks thinking it serves pork. =.=''

Did i mention Starbucks is going to make sure every outlet has all the same menu to be offered in all the Starbucks outlets? :)

*some photos credited to Shaz

INVITED EVENT - Dome's Food Tasting

Disclaimer: This is a preview to the restaurant

DOME, the first thing that comes to my mind is coffee and a great place to mingle.
But everything changed since the day stepped into a Dome's Food Tasting event.
Never knew they served such an array of food.
Let me enlighten you readers, okay? :)
What they had to offer really suprised me!

Dome's current promotion offers a wide-ranging menu of iconic favourite's from all-day breakfast, hot kitchen specials, pies and cakes.

And one of the first iconic item i tried, Spicy Olio Pasta. This was cooked with beef bacon bits, capsicums, chili flakes and garlic! Its damn flavourful, trust me! Some people were complaining its a little oily but thats what an olio pasta should be right? Olio means olive oil in Italian. And its all good oil which gives you health benefits anyways.;)

Besides that, it wasn't that spicy even thou the name of it is called Spicy Olio Pasta which is a good thing for non chili lovers. And for you chili lovers, you can just request for some extra chili flakes. Noms away!

Fish and Chips

Gourmet Chicken and Mushroom Pie, after taking pictures of this and hearing everyone rawring about this, I just had to try it!

However it was gone after a few minutes! And probably half way getting digested by the everyones stomach ):
Guessed it must have be awesome and special but I didn't get to try it out. Maybe next time, my Gourmet Chicken and Mushroom Pie! I'm coming for you!

Catch of the day, marinated with cajun, cumin and lemon juice. Served with sautéed vegetables, buttered rice and joinville sauce.

Carrot Cake, honestly, this cake is just not my cuppa-tea and frankly I've never tried many nice tasting carrot cakes in my life. Guess I could be a lil' biased on this opinion, no offence to carrot cake lovers.

But a few highlights just to be fair. The cake was moist and served with a layer of cream cheese frosting and with that shredded coconut on the top it felt like you need to finish it all up :D

Besides the top 5 iconic items, there's also Caesar Salad, The Lot Burger, Mixed Grain, Wild Mushroom Soup, and our local Nasi Lemak.

With all that yummy food that CCC got to try, you can bet that DOME has more to share.

They have given me 10 vouchers, but not for me. Its for me to distribute to YOU guys! (:
Lucky peeps, in my next post I'll let you know just how you can win them.
Stay tuned!

Espreski Honeycomb Goldrush, my new personal favourite which I had an immense craving for the next day. Uh-huh its that good.
Basically its a very rich Mocha ice blended serve with crunchy honeycomb chocolate and whipped cream. Yum yums! Lets go and have some :D

The other sinful cakes served in Dome, from clockwise, Tiramisu, Marble Cheesecake, Chocolate Brownie with Vanilla Ice Cream and Chocolate Mousse Cake.

Dome Cafe outlets in Malaysia are located at The Gardens Mall, Suria KLCC, Bintang Circle Pavilion, Pavilion KL, Bangsar Shopping Centre, IKANO Power Centre, The Curve, Subang Parade, Geleneagles Intan Medical Centre, and KLIA; Island Plaza, Gurney Plaza and Queensbay Mall in Penang; 1Borneo Hypermall in Sabah.

And do join Dome's Facebook Page for more updates, more than 3000 people couldn't be wrong!

Stay Tuned for those Dome Food Vouchers!

MIGF 2010 Grand Finale

Last Saturday I was invited to Malaysia International Gourmet Festival '10 Grand Finale! The verdict? AWESOME! As you know, I was excited even before the event. I saw too many things of which I can't exactly share all of but I'll let you in on my experience, Dear Readers. Just some highlights mainly of the food since this is a food blog :)
More pictures will be on my Facebook page.

Migf '10, I'm finally here to attend you! :) Ten years of Malaysia's finest, and here I am (:

YAM Tunku Dato’ Seri Utama Naquiyuddin ibni Tuanku Ja’afar, YB Dato’ Sri Dr Ng Yen Yen, Dato’ Steve Day(not in the picture) and many other VIPS enjoying the show as much as the visitors.

The really great and big fireworks presentation to Celebrate 10 Magical Years

The first drink we were serve after walking the red carpet. I felt as if I was already on the beach even before I hit the beach.

The great display of our own tropical fruits which were not just for display. Anybody could just take a piece and eat :)

And I know you can't see it, but the "10" thingy in the middle is a watermelon with

"MIGF 10 Years" carved into it.

The perfectly cooked Char Kway Teow with intense flavour and wok hei(wok's breath). There wasnt pork fat or lard used and the flavour was still really great! Halal Char kway teow made to perfection! Yum yum!

The chef frying the Char Kway Teow was smiling all the way, I guess thats the special ingredient?

Satay! The que was so long for this as there were many expatriates queing for it. Peanut sauce, seasoning and marination was cooked Malaysian style except for the meat.
It was abit too tough and not fatty enough.

As any satay lover knows, all satay must have an adequate amount of fats, so the meat is still juicy and does not taste too tough even after being grilled.

I would have loved it if they were to use chicken tight and stuff some fats in it because the texture was dry and really chewy.

Is there a difference between Malay style chicken rice and Chinese style chicken rice? What do u think? Well for this, there was a blend of both! Chicken was cooked the Malay style and the rice cook the chinese style? Maybe it was a separate chef who cooked the chicken and the rice. heh. Overall it was delish even thou it was a mix and match between the style used :)

The Ipoh Hor Fun(behind) and Asam Laksa

Asam Laksa tasted really weird. It wasn't sweet and sour enough, taste more like chicken stock with some extra seasoning. More over, it wasnt spicy enough. Maybe they were afraid the expatriates would not be able to adapt to the spicyness of the dish.

Ipoh Hor Fun tasted great. Not as good as the Ipoh ones but its really an impressive replicate.

Roti-not-so-Jala. Seriously! if you get what i mean. . .

Fried Oyster.

This is one of my favourite local chinese dish which not many could cook a good portion of this dish as it involves ingredients like starch, egg and oysters. Cooking it too long or short may result in a dramatic and totally different final product. This one at MIGF was really starchy which makes the lack of egg taste and oyster which certainly could not blend in.

Had high hopes for this, but sadly it tasted like a ball of starch.

Roti John! I wonder if the inventors name is John! :D

Fried Radish Cake. I wasn't able to try this as the que was too long and when it wasn't, I was already stuffed with the rest of the food.

Kuih Muih

Local desserts for all :)

A big round of applause to the organizers, tourism ministers and participants(from every exec chef to all the dishwashers)You make the standards of our local and fine dining food a completely new journey for every Malaysian and tourists.Its now time to look forward to Fabulous Food 1Malaysia :)
Winners of this year MIGF? Details of the winner is at MIGF main website.More photos of celebration is at my Facebook page.

Malaysia - Truly Asia!

CCC is excited!

Lookie cookie where I'll be heading (:

Can't wait!

See you there! (:

INVITED EVENT - Belanga Minum Petang Sensation

Disclaimer: This is a preview to the restaurant and not a food or restaurant review.

A little while back, I got lucky and was chosen out of many bloggers to be one of the 20 bloggers to attend Belanga Cafe's Minum Petang Sensation Event from feeqsays.com at Empire Shopping Gallery. So here it is, another invited event for all my readers to get more inside details on this cafe.

Keropok Lekor (fish sausage) with tinge of black pepper, according to them its an original recipe from Kelantan. I would say its quite special but why can't you find this outside? Most stalls would rather save cost with no black pepper!? O.o *feels weird*
I say don't skimp on the black pepper stall owners!

Royal Murtabak, nothing too fancy with common authentic taste from onions, eggs and spiced minced fillings

Kueh Akok, Kuih Bunga Tanjung and Kuih Tahi Itik. (clockwise from top left)
Tahi Itik translated directly means Duck Shit, mind you, there isn't a metaphorical sense behind this. By the way, its a traditional kuih which even the Kelantan MP wanted to put a change to the name of this dish. Haha, I guess its not a name you want your state to be known for eh?

Roti Jala cooked a la minute for all of us to enjoy with thick chicken curry.

Cucur Udang, simply crispy, fresh and served with thick homemade chili sauce.

Sirap Selasih with basil seeds. Sirap or syrup is a popular Malay drink, its like a simple asian mocktail. heh!

Anak Dara Dua Sebilik (Two Virgins in a Room) Haha! This dish really caught my attention with its catchy name. I have no idea why theres a green colour filling thou. Doesn't make much sense comparing it with the name of the dish somehow. Maybe its just part of the excitement opening that green packet and devirginizing it :p

My Latte for the Minum Petang Sensation. Belanga cafe also serves extensive coffees such as Cafe Latte, Cappuccino, Ristretto, Long Black, Flat White and many more.

Brewed from the highest quality coffee beans, best coffee machines, and served at best temperature? Hmmm? To all coffee lovers out there, You Decide! Everyone has their personal preferences when it comes to coffee so drop by today to taste it and feel free to tell the Belanga staffs what you think about it because they would surely be happy to have an honest feedback :)

Take a snapshot with this poster to claim a 15% discount on your bill by just tagging the picture into their Facebook Page. That's a win win situation for consumer and the company for some marketing as well. Anyways we're definitely not losing out, so why not? :)

Belanga cafe is going to open a new outlet in SS2 Mall when the shopping mall opens

Address:

Empire Shopping Gallery,

UG-18, Jalan SS16/1,

47500 Subang Jaya,

Selangor

Telephone Number:

03-56312780

(Empire Gallery Outlet)

INVITED EVENT - Mark's Place 2nd Anniversary Celebration

Disclaimer: This is a birthday bash to the restaurant and not a restaurant review.
Last friday, Mr. Feeq and Miss Rebecca Saw from Adverlets invited me to a media invite to Mark's Place at Plaza Kelana Jaya which this pub overlooks the nice Kelana Jaya lake.

I'm still not fond of writing a review on an invited event because most of the food is prepared and cooked way ahead of time, plus I don't get to see the menu and sometimes I'm just too preoccupied with taking pictures that I don't always get to sample the food offered to the media. Thus, I never got a chance to look at the price and have a hard time comparing Marks Place with other restaurants.

This being said, I'll march on ahead with a birthday event post and not a restaurant review.

Yeah baby, this is how VIP's get treated right?

I LIKE IT

The only missing thing was a red carpet but, its really a cool first impression to me :)

A stylish, yet traditional restaurant cum bar which serves local fusion cuisine complete

with comfortable, intimate surroundings.

To top it off, Marks Place faces the Plaza Kelana Jaya waterfront.

If romance is in the air, this place is perfect!

Among a few things on the menu,these dishes caught my eye;

Orange Chicken with Tequila, Lemon Grass Prawn Satay, Bacon Cream Cheese Salmon Sushi Roll and their really colourful cocktails which I didnt get to try due to the crowd, maybe some other day?

The sushi bar and kitchen @ Marks Place

We got mostly small portions of finger food that night

so I really couldn't really tell much about the food standards,
I'm guessing this is, urm,..Aglio Olio?... with no special name?

Grilled fish

Basic fingerfood for all :)

Crabsticks

and Sushi :)

Mutton Curry Quesadilla, perfect finger food for drinkers?

The ingredient which caught my eye while peeping inside the kitchen,
Yes i love to do that! I'll call it kitchen stalking! :P

CHOPPED! just like the tv series! hehe

I would say come to Marks Place for its alcoholic drinks, music(live band and dj), entertainment(billiard table) and finger foods. 'Cause from what I've heard they serve a large variety of single malt whiskeys.

No wonder there were so many mature folk in Marks Place! :P