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Saturday, June 30, 2012

happy dining at happy valley! (Gorging Feast Part 3)

Being the last venue for out Genting Oriental Cuisine, of course it went out with a bang!
This time, lunch was served at Happy Valley Seafood Restaurant, a nice and cozy dining place whose entrance is located right next to the hotel counter in Hotel Theme Park.

The restaurant is the only one in Genting that provides fresh seafood, as soon as one enters the place one's sight is immediately captured by the rows and rows of sea creatures swimming about in the tanks located at the end of the restaurant - prawns, lobsters, fishes, and crabs! *salivating just thinking about it*

Menu for the day
The first dish served was the Steamed Oysters with Minced Garlic. Not a fan of garlic myself, i was shocked when the oysters came totally COVERED in garlic! managed to scrape most of them away, haha! However, i find that it tastes nice with a hint of garlic as it covers the seafood taste and somehow enhances the soft flesh of the oyster. Garlic lovers will definitely be taken with this dish!

Manyak garlic!!
Tian Chad took a pic of me wolfing the whole thing down, uuurgh he took lots of funny pics of me! i somehow forget myself when i eat food, haha i get greedy =D

everyone taking pics of the food before eating
Next we were served Plain Poached Grass Prawn. Basically it's just prawns that were poached without any other garnishings or taste enhancers. So what happens is that you can bite into the fresh supple prawn meat and enjoy the original taste of prawns!

nothing other than prawns!
after deshelling the prawns you dip it into this simple soy sauce, and that's the only seasoning we get. According to Chloe (from the Wisma Genting team), they are actively trying to get more people to eat healthy so most of the food here are not heavily seasoned. Furthermore this is the only restaurant up here that provides fresh seafood, yum!

prawn cocktail, hahaha
Steamed Sea Garoupa with Soya Sauce. You may think that this one is simple and nothing much to brag about, but it is simply exquisite. the fact that most of the fish was gone in a matter of minutes helps to underline how delicious this dish is, hehehe.

Fish fresh from the, er, aquarium =)
Boston Lobster with Superior Stock! i guess i don't have to elaborate on how fresh the lobster is, you get it already Xp We were had to be cajolled and threatened to eat it all as most of us were already eagerly waiting for the next dish, hahahha!

it looks like crab but i assure you it's lobster!
This one is definitely yummy and scrumpli-cious!! Sashimi Geoduck, it is served with a bubbling pot of herbal soup so one can eat it sashimi style or dip it into the soup for a few seconds and eat it cooked. i prefer eating it cooked, hehe although Daniel managed to con most of us to have the inner parts raw. i shall not relive the experience by describing it. let's just leave it at slimy, hahahah.

from left to right there's the tail, the head and the internals

the busy chef who popped out to
teach us about geoduck!
After vanquishing the sashimi we were served Chili Crab served with Deep-fried Mantou. the mantou was awesome! fried on the outside and freshly soft on the inside, it's best to eat it hot and piping. *drools* however dipping it in the Chili Crab sauce is like Yau Char Gui and Soya Bean Soup, Peanut butter and jelly, Coke and ice, etc...it's a perfect match!

this IS crab, hahahha!

the awesome mantou <3
someone dapau it for me?

mmmmmmm~
This is the Stir-fried Siput Cangrad with Dried Shrimp & Chili Padi. i ate only a few of this, nothing much to shout about, though. Tastes normal, hehe.

see all the siput?
not to forget the vegetables! Four Season Vegetables, i guess they wanted it to be a balanced meal for all of us, with veggies included also!

i ate only two of the vegetables. Guess which two?


Mixed Fruits Platter! loved the Mangoooooo

Afterwards i went about the aquariums to look for the Geoduck before it is actually all cut up, it looks like this! no wonders where it got the name from, then!

Geoduck

Snow crab, we didn't eat this though!

rows and rows of seafood
the Boston lobster we had, haha i ate your bro!
Last but not least,

CHEERS!!

Friday, June 29, 2012

manipedi, Bonjour Cafe, and Eliza all in one June day!

an inkling of what we were up to that day <3

So to celebrate June's birthday, 3 of us MGS girls - Eliza, June and me - decided to get together and enjoy!

Before meeting up with Eliza, the first stop was for me and June to do our nails <3
we bought a manipedi coupon from Groupon i think? last month and June wanted to save it up till her bday so we went for it! 
The place was called Posh Nails, it's in Dataran Sunway, Kota Damansara. Owh well, the service was bad and the lady supposed to serve us kept chatting VERY LOUDLY to all the other people in the shop -.- i'm not sure whether they were customers or other beauticians -.-

very rough with the hands, basically ignored us while we were waiting for our nails to dry, few selections of really nice colors - uurgh never going back again. the only redeeming factor was that it had a very cute shih-tzu that apparently lives in the shop, cute! 

Next stop, Bonjour Cafe. i remember laughing at a sign next to the road a few months back when the place opened. why? because it read,

"Bonjour Cafe. U-turn and belok kiri
funny! so do you want to converse in english or BM? make up your mind!


June immediately ran in and plopped herself on the "throne" hahahah even though there were other perfectly nice seatings like the one below. so one after another me, James, and DUDE kept asking:

"why don't want to sit there?"



her "pro" cam! same as my babycam!!


the menu in the form of a newspaper!

the inside of the "newspaper"

self service counter


DUDE's coffee

my iced tea


the decorations were abit Delicious-like, all white, with cages and all, but they used fish cages instead of bird cages lah, lol. Pirated Delicious.


the pictures of the other food was forgotten when they came because we were too hungry! i ordered crossaint with Beef bacon. Awesome! the crossaint was fresh and the beef bacon tasty, just niceeeee! will probably go back for more since it's nearby and all <3

After that we zoomed off to Sunway Pyramid to meet up with Eliza <3 <3
we decided to have the birthday dinner at Sushi Zanmai since non of us were particularly hungry. we still managed to polish off several dishes of sushi and a huge bowl of crabmeat salad though! 
Some selca shots:







see? one smoking one tapping away on the phone. tsk tsk
After that we went back to Eliza's place for a (sort-of) Slumber Partayyyy! where i met Fuzzly Wuzzly and mostly June just lay in bed, Eliza walking around naked and me reading my iBooks Xp

wrapped around Fuzzly Wuzzly
We woke up at 7 the next day so June and Eliza and me can be in time for work x.x
However, our driver had some "technical" difficulties so we decided to decorate our chocolates that Eliza bought from Shojikiya the day before!

the box

inside the box - decorations, bags, and the chocolates

dip the "glue" (it's edible!) in hot water first

then use it as you would a normal glue

 
and stick awesome decos on the chocolates!
you're looking at mine <3

top (right to left): June's, Eliza's, June's
bottom (right to left): mine, mine, Eliza's


wrapped up all nice!





some doodling cuz i was bored Xp


E J E


Cheers!