Family Dinner @ Siew Ming, Sri Petaling

Just a simple weekend family dinner....

We're back at Siew Ming (after years of dining at other places)

Ordered our usuals....

Minced pork tofu

Boneless marmite chicken pop

Ginger scallion fish fillet

Stir-fried amaranth greens

Tastewise ok for all dishes...

Total bill is RM157.55 nett for 5 pax....I think it is slightly expensive compared to other 'dai chow' restaurants that we usually go...

Bananabro

Good Morning Kopitiam

Chicken rice (RM7) with de-boned chicken drumstick + beansprouts (RM2)

The stall is open from morning 8am till 2:30pm. Usually sold out before 2.

This satisfies my craving for beansprouts chicken rice....

Greenlane Noodles

Now, I'm back to having prawn mee rather than crappy prawn+lam mee mix😂

Some small alley mamak stall

In between the rows of shophouses where the banks are located, there's one alley with mamak stall operating from morning 7am till 4pm. I saw some nasi lemak bungkus on the table so i tried a packet.

RM2 per pack....just ordinary one with sambal, egg, anchorvies, peanuts....without cucumber. Sambal is very spicy. They also have hardboiled eggs served on each table. RM1 per egg.

Bananabro

It has been a year plus since i last had banana leaf rice....so, it's time to have it again😀

4 types of gravy - chicken curry, fish curry, crab curry and dhal.

The fish curry tastes strongest.

Unlimited refillable rice and default non-meat dishes.

I also ordered an ala-carte chicken varuval, which is quite oily & spicy but bearable.

The default dishes are deep fried snake gourd, cucumber salad and mashed potatoes. Papadam is also unlimited.

This is basically a very $ worth meal if you're hungry and wanted lotsa carbs with unlimited refills.

Secret Recipe

The neighborhood SR has moved for the 3rd time and this time it is located right opposite the Pinnacle mall. It has lunch set, with the cheapest being fried rice for RM18.90++

Thong Kee - Fried Prawn Noodle

Hong Fu Lou

Dim sum at Hong Fu Lou restaurant. Ordered the usuals - Chicken, lap cheong and mushroom rice, Teochew siu mai and shrimp cheung fun. Never gets bored of this.

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C Plus

Had dry pan mee in C Plus cafe in Pinnacle mall.

The noodles are hard, doughy type. It has porkballs, minced pork, romaine lettuces and crispy beancurd sheets. The soup is very salty and chili dip is very spicy. I added a fried egg (ala carte).

Taste OK, just don't drink the soup.

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Thong Kee Kopitiam

Fried prawn noodles, but where is the prawn?

Got a few small ones hidden beneath the noodles. Taste mild, nothing special.

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Greenlane Noodles

If you want an authentic prawn mee, just head over to Greenlane Noodles.

I went but tried something else - Prawn broth mix with Lam Mee gravy....

Taste OK ler....the lam mee gravy is mild and overpowered by prawn broth.

I also ordered a side dish 'lorbak'....to try out of curiousity.

Also quite ordinary, I can skip both in the future.

Xiguan Wanton Noodles

First time trying Xiguan in Pinnacle mall.

Ordered the 'premium' wanton noodles with charsiew, shrimp wantons and minced pork - coz i want to try everything all at once.

Springy wanton noodles, flavorful minced pork and charsiew meat is not too fatty. The shrimp wantons are huge, almost the size of a spoon. Overall a good one. Quality ingredients, but of course it came with a price!

Can't remember the price but it is almost double the price of those sold in the kopitiam wanton stalls.

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New Japanese restaurant opened at The Store (sharing the same building, but not part of the supermarket), which I yet to try. It specializes in abura soba - which is a soupless ramen dish where noodles are mixed with a sauce, typically a soy sauce-based with toppings. 

Kiosks-based-order (like fast-food restaurant), so I browsed the menu from the kiosk. Besides abura soba, it also has light eats such as gyoza and edamame.

El Charro Mexicano, Costa del Este

Went to try out a Mexican restaurant located in Ocean Mall, which is situated right next to the hotel.

Extensive menu - i want to try everything!

The colorful interior

The ambience is very "Mexican"

Some wall art and old photos of Mexican warrior (i think). I have no idea who the guy in this picture is.

Besides the colorful walls, the tables and chairs are colorful too!

Now back to the food - I was served with tortilla chips with tomato salsa and chili dip as starter.

My mains - Fajitas de pollo (chicken fajitas) served with a dollop of frijoles refritos (bean paste) and guacamole. The tortilla is included and served in a small basket tray covered in colorful cloth. Nice and colorful presentation😍

Huge portion too. I think this can easily serves 2 pax.

Nevertheless i managed to finish them - It was my lunch+dinner.

How to eat: Scoop the chicken, bean paste and guacamole onto the tortilla, then fold it to make a wrap.

Total bill: USD15.15 (RM68.73) after service charge.

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After this heavy meal, I went to visit the nearby sundry shop located at the ground floor.

It was manned by 2 Chinese teens (i believe are the owner's kids). They were busy streaming on some Cdrama.

I went to the snack section just to browse on local snacks - yea, i found some cheaper plantain chips on the shelves.

And chicharrones (deep fried pork rind) too!

It was packed in those cheapskates see-thru packaging like our Keropok or Muruku-style plastic packaging.

This "Anthony" must be a local snack entrepreneur.

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A cafe with a Greek name "Athanasiou" - also located right next to the hotel. Athanasiou means immortal. So, after consuming their coffee/pastries can become immortal?😂

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The hotel lobby at night....very quiet....

Zielo @ Costa del Este

My colleague from the Cayman Islands (Caribbean) was scheduled to return home after a few days in Panama office, so my 'boss' decided to have a 'farewell' dinner with him and invited us along....sort of a get-together dinner too since we are from different continents and hardly meet together (a Latino, a Scottish, a South African of Dutch descent and me an Asian).

We went to this high-end restaurant located in Times Square Center, which is quite nearby our hotel too.

Despite our generation gap (gen X, Y, Z), we have a common interest - food!

The Scottish made a visit to the toilet and then came out after some time....with an amazed look.

He then showed us some photos he took in the toilet (which is the reason took him so long). It tempted me to check out the toilet's interior!

So I went in to the 'ladies' and wow-ed at the tiles, both walls and floor!

It has brightly lit floor (like a stage) with violet and pink theme, meanwhile the 'gents' has green and blue theme (based on the pics he took).

*I couldn't take too many photos coz there were people in there.

This is the most aesthetic toilet I've seen in my entire lifetime😂

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The "boss"....

What I ordered - tortelloni

closer shot....it was just ordinary....

Cheers!

I forgot what drink this is...but definitely non-alcoholic.

The bar....

But mostly people dined at the proper dining table...

by 8pm there was a performance by local singers, slow romantic songs, in English and Spanish...

Here's the view outside, taken from the balcony.

A moon crescent, not sure what's the symbolic of this with the restaurant, but definitely not related to any religion😆

Yea, there is an outdoor (balcony) dining too. We prefer the indoor for the aircond.

Indoor bar (there's another one outside)

More picture of the indoor bar....

This is how the lift lobby looks like. The lift button is hidden behind the bottles. You have to maneuver your hand across the small hole and press the button behind those bottles. By the way, those are empty bottles. 

It was a great get-together evening. The "boss" settled the bill. Yay!