T.G.I. FRIDAY’S @ The Curve

This was my first time dining in FRiDAY’S, after so many recommendations from friends. While I was waiting to be seated, saw there were some people singing birthday sound loudly and joyfully. Have a closer look on it, those who singing are the FRiDAY’S staff, they are enjoying and celebrating birthday with customers. What a  warm and pleasant staff and environment here.



There are lots of decorations everywhere in the restaurant, and you can spend your time in looking on these while waiting for your foods.

HEINZ tomato and chilli sauce

Strawberry Surprise
For soft drinks, you allowed to refill as many times as you wish.
Something good for weekdays, where you may order for 2 course meals with just RM 29.90, sound great to me. Of course there are just some limited choices for you, but still worth if the choices are your favourites.
 
Fried Mac & Cheese

Inside the Fried Mac & Cheese
Quite special to me, there were some creamy cheeses and elbow noodles inside it, and you may get full after you ate all of these.
 
Beef Bacon Cheeseburger
A beef burger covered with melted Colby cheese, crispy beef bacon with the classic fixings and served with crispy fries. This plate of burger is big and mean too big for a lady, but it quite tasty, just that the beef bacon was a bit dry.

Sizzling Chicken and Shrimp
Sautéed garlic marinated chicken breast and plump shrimp tossed with zesty roma tomato basil salsa. Served with onions and peppers and some cheddar cheese mashed potatoes on a sizzling platter of melted Colby and Jack cheese.
Shrimps are springy, and pretty good for the chicken meat, just that may a bit of greasy because there are lots of cheeses here. It was quite a large plate.

Chicken Ranchero Tacos

Inside the Tacos
Tender slow simmered chicken mixed with spicy Ranchero tomato sauce, Monterey Jack cheese stuffed in soft tortillas and topped with some corn, black bean pico de gallo and shredded cheese.

You may choose to be served with a choice of Roasted Potatoes and Peppers, Grilled New Orleans Corn Cob or Herbs Rice. Here we choose Roasted potatoes and peppers, moderate rating.

Fish & Chips
Three portions of fish filet battered and fried to golden brown, served with fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce. The fish filet really big comparing with others restaurant, taste fresh and crispy.
 
Garlic Marinated Grilled Lamb Chops
 
This was the plate that we had been waited for quite some times.
Lamb chops marinated with garlic, seared to medium, which is my bro’s favourite. Serve with demi glace, beef bits, seasonal vegetables and cheddar cheese mashed potatoes.

Medium cook was just nice, as the meat was still tender and soft. The vegetables were tasty with some sauce on it.
 
Chocolate Oreo* Mint Crunch & Tropical Delight
Lastly, some desserts, very small cup but is just nice after some large plate of meat.

Chocolate Oreo, was yummy, it was a small cup of chocolate mint custard covered with crunchy Oreo cookie.

For the Tropical Delight, scrumptious coconut custard sprinkled with toasted coconut flaske and pieces of fresh sweet pineapple. It was something special to me, it has some pineapple in it, was not sour but sweet.

Foods were served pretty fast, even there were many customers on the day we visited, but if you still haven’t get your food after some while or after seeing your friends finished theirs’, you better check your order, as one of our order was being left out. Pity my bro waiting there for nothing but just seeing us to enjoy our meal. But some points add on here: the person in charge I guess, when he get knew on this, he quickly send a bowl of soup for him as compensation, and my bro can choose what soup he like, so envy of him.

Mushroom soup
Well, some disappointment: there was a small sticker on the plate of Chicken Ranchero Tacos, which may swallow it accidently if unrealised, but we didn’t complaint on this to the manager.

Total  RM 201 for five of us. In this kind of environment, locations, foods deliciousness, services, staff warm and kindness, I will say it is worth.

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Restaurant T.G.I FRiDAY’S
F77/78/82, Ground Floor, Western Courtyard, The Curve,
6 Jalan PJU 7/3, Mutiara Damansara,
47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
03 7722 5576
http://www.fridays.com.my
 

Lai Foong Beef Noodle @ Cheras, KL

 
Lai Foong Restaurant has 54 years histories since 1956. The HQ is one of the stall in Lai Foong Restaurant situated in Jalan Tun HS Lee, Kuala Lumpur, which I have been visited many times since few years ago. Recently, Lai Foong has another branch at Taman Taynton View in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.
I like its beef noodles very much, especially it’s soup, as it is tasty with original taste and concentrated. It has mixture of more than ten kinds of medicine herbs, plus its secret recipe, and boiled with the ox bone, make it irresistible and must try, especially those who like to eat beef.


This Cheras branch is very clean, tidy and the restaurant gain grade A from the DBKL for its cleanliness.


Lean Meat with Beef Ball Meehon – RM 5.00

Lean Meat Ball and Beef Ball Lai Fun, served in soup – RM 5.00


Lean Meat and Beef Ball Lai Fun, served in dry  -- RM 5.20
The meat is a bit raw and soft, beef ball is springy and it has original beef flavour. This is my favourite, where I prefer to serve in Meehon.



Leaf Tripe and Beef Ball Lai Fun in Soup – RM 5.00

The leaf tripe was in slices, but had cut it too thin, so didn’t really know how the taste the leaf tripe was.




Fried Keow Teow – RM 4.00
Tasty, even if you just smell, is already irresistible to try it.

X.O. Teh, which also known as three layers teh, as you can see there were three different colours that form into three layers.

There are variety of choices of beef part: Beef ball, lean meat, tripe, beef lam, beef tendon, leaf tripe and mix. Additional on these, some parts from the beef that we normally never try before: Beef tongue, beef intestine, and bull penis. Even noodles, there are 4 types to be choose: Lai Fun, Keow Teow, Mee, and Meehon. You may choose to served in soup, dry, with rice, or without noodles.
Based on my experiences on the HQ and Cheras branch, there seems a bit different in the taste of soup, where the HQ restaurant’s beef soup is thicker in flavour and colours, which I prefer more. However, Lai Foong beef noodle is still one of the best beef noodle that I have ever try.

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HQ Restaurant:
Lai Foong Restaurant
138 Jalan Tun HS Lee, 50000 Kuala Lumpur
Operating Hours: 6.30 am – 4.30 pm

Branch:
Lai Foong Beef Noodle Shop Cheras
8 Jalan Nadchatiram, Taman Taynton View,
Cheras, 56000 Kuala Lumpur
Operating Hours: 8.00 am – 4.00 pm
Off Day: Every Tuesday except public holiday (business as usual)
 

Restoran Chin Hiong @ Rawang, Selangor

Restoran Chin Hiong located just besides the road, between the Petronas and Caltex petrol station, and it has some distance from the center of Rawang town. There were just few customers on that day we visited, so we didn’t need to wait long after made the orders. 
 

招牌蒸鱼（木耳金针蒸）Steam Fish --  RM 20
It is the restaurant's signature dish, steam fish with  lily and Jew’s ear fungus, plus some wolfberries and smell of wine. I kind of like this fish, as it seem can nourish our skin and good for our health.

螃蟹扒豆腐   Crab meat with tofu  -- RM 12
Tofu is smooth tender and some crab meats which is my favourite.
 
 
宫保鸡丁佛盆   Kung Pao Chicken Yam Bowl   -- RM 15

蒙古排骨 Mongolian Pork Ribs  --  RM 20
Personally do not like the taste of the sauce, moderate rating.

富贵菜 Wealthy Vegetables  --  RM 12
Firstly, when this dish is served, we smell something like urine, thought there was some bamboo shoot in the dish, but nothing like bamboo shoot found. After complain to the cook, they serve us another plate again. This was fresh and sweet, tasty without the smell of urine.
 
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Restoran Chin Hiong  清香楼冷气海鲜酒家
Lot 7, 8 & 9, Medan Bayu, Batu 21,
Jalan Batu Arang, Sungai Bakau,  48000, Rawang, Selangor
H/P: 012 2026125
Business Hours: 10.30 am – 3.00 pm
6.00 pm – 10.30 pm
 

Having Cool @ Snow Ice

 
If you feel hot and would like to have something cold, try Snow Ice in the 100¥en Shop, where it sell Japanese foods and some groceries.

There are few flavours: Lychee, Coffee, Mango, Peanut, Green Tea, Strawberry, and Milk. For this time, I had try for the Lychee and Peanut flavours.
 
Lychee Ice
It taste smooth and in every bit you can also have the taste of the Lychee.

Peanut flavour
I really like this flavour. Plenty of crunchy peanuts with some chocolate on top, you can’t stop eating it.

Closer look into the ice, you can see the ice was shaved into slices.

Every cup of snow ice for just RM 4.90, for extra RM 1.00, you can have additional fruits on it. For girls, you don’t need to worry your weighing scale, as this Snow Ice is non fattening but healthy and tasty. Now, everyone can enjoy the delicious of ice.
 
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Snow Ice at 100 Yen shop
Jalan Metro Wangsa, Seksyen 2,
Wangsa Maju, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur
Business hours: 10 am to 10 pm