Selfie Coffee @ Sutera Utama, JB

Hello from Johor Bahru!

Today is a very productive day because I managed to conduct two interviews and try out the new Selfie Coffee!!! It has been here for quite a while already I think, maybe a month or two but I haven't got the chance to try it til today. Thanks to Simren who suggested a quick coffee date before I zoom off for another interview.

I was looking forward to this coffee but I wasn't like crazy excited la. From the pictures that people posted, I wasn't sure if the your selfie picture will be printed on the coffee foam or just a normal plastic. I was thinking if it's just printed on plastic cover then for what go right? So prolly that's why I wan't that excited till I actually step foot there.

Selfie Coffee

Jalan Tanjung 8/2, Taman Sutera Utama

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I usually don't post pictures of myself on my blog because I don't think I look appetizing LOL But this is after all a Selfie cafe and since I have an awesome selfie phone so have to!

The cafe's entrance

Interior of cafe

They have this fake grass area for you outside also. I think people who puff would appreciate this setting.

Outside itself they have instructions on how your coffee will be made! 

I'll show you how mine is being made below! But before that, have a look at my cake! I seriously didn't thought of trying out their cake because I was all hyped up for my selfie coffee!!! I told you that I was didn't feel the hype earlier right? But when I arrived and found out that they will actually print your face on FOAM I was ecstatic! Simren and Reb might have to tie me down if I didn't control myself hahaha

Their cakes are reasonably priced and they look alright too except for the rainbow cake that looks like a sad rainbow LOL Anyway, we chose Green Tea Mascarpone!

Green Tea Mascarpone RM9.90

The cake was alright. Not the best green tea cake la but for the price I think it's acceptable. You can't really taste the macha taste but it was creamy, mascarpone duh. Initially I thought mascarpone is some sort of cream but Simren told me that it is cheese! 

But if it's really cheese than this cake is quite a failure because the green tea doesn't taste much like green tea and the cheese doesn't really taste like cheese.

Most importantly! The chocolate drizzle for the writings is just for nice and not meant for consumption because it tasted like super cheap chocolate:S

Photo booth

Okay, now this is how you order your selfie drink!

#1 Place your order and pay at the counter. They have ice- blended drinks and normal iced drinks if you want to have your selfie printed on top of your drink. They currently don't do it for hot drinks.

#2 Be seated with the number given to you and wait for your turn to be called into the photo booth.

#3 Take your selfie in the photo booth! You can take a selfie or a wefie! I took a wefie with my sister and simren so my face appeared twice on the drinks! HEHE

#4 Your selfie printed drinks will be served to you!!!

Now, I'm going to spam this blog post with all our selfie with our selfie drink! Selfie-ception!!!

Caramel Frappe, RM13.90

The caramel frappe was super sweet!!! I'm usually have low tolerance to sweet stuffs but I was too high and excited about this selfie printing thing that I actually finish the drink! It's just like how you con kids to drink water by giving them a new and exciting bottle.

Cold Butterscotch Coffee, RM13

This one tasted like latte without the butterscotch but Simren found out that the butterscotch was actually trapped at the top layer! Of course she found out when she was finishing her drink la because we were all very careful not to distort our faces HAHAHA

I poke through the printed layer gently and slowly. A bit scared because I didn't know what to expect! But the straw sinks in the layer very softly, like sinking in quick sand!

See it's real foam! It's a very thick consistency foam. It actually tasted very buttery like some buttercream. I'm not surprised if it's really some sort of buttercream 

Simren's face starting to get distorted already as she sips up!

Finished! Now we look like some horror movie :S

Oh yes! You can also borrow their marker pens and scribble stuff on the table. We realised it only when we finished drinking our coffee so I just simply scribble nonsense just for the sake of it.

It says "The end. But, hello wrinkly face!"

I was referring to the state of our face when we finish our drinks LOLOL

If you haven't try, go try! It's so fun!! I feel like doing it all over again!!!!

I think it would be more fun if you to come with your besties or like your partner!!! It's like a very good momento! Naomi should probably do it with Char, Tim and Tom before they leave Malaysia! I think they have an outlet in Sunway too :D

Bangi Kopitiam @ Seksyen 9, Bandar Baru Bangi

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I'm so free today I feel so happy! Hahahaha Usually I'll wake up feeling stressed because I set deadlines for myself and so I'll get this anxiety attack in the morning thinking about what I have to strike off the list for the day. Today, I just have to transcribe a 30 minutes interview, wait for Reb's goods to arrive and cook dinner then that's a wrap!

Looking forward towards the weekend because I'll be back to my hometown conducting several interviews. After the weekend is over, I would have 90% of the data needed for my study! WOOT!! The last two interviews will be conducted in Kuching somewhere in June, double WOOT!

Talking about interviews, I would usually meet my interviewees in Starbucks because (1) Caffeine keeps them alert (2) Pleasant environment- actually not the best environment for interview because I realised that they always play this music that can be a little annoying when I transcribe my interviews (3) Nobody would turn down a Starbucks treat right? 

But last Monday I had to travel to Bangi to meet this guy from Penang. Haven't been to Bangi before so I typed Bangi and "Bangi Kopitiam" came up in the Google recommended feed.

Apparently it's quite famous and it has branched out its business internationally! How come I didn't know of such kopitiam?

Bangi Kopitiam

Jalan Medan PB 1A, Pusat Bandar Bangi

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Interior of shop, quite cool layout

Ahh, sorry. I forgot to take a picture of the exterior of the shop because I was just concern about parking my car and getting out of the afternoon heat. I arrived at Bangi Kopitiam an hour before the agreed meeting time so I manage to sample their food!

Branch at Bangi Kopitiam

I was going to cook butter chicken for dinner that day so I decided not to have nasi lemak. Damn! Really wanted to try their nasi lemak though, looks so appealing! Anyway, I settled for Tom Yam Meehoon. Still was a little skeptical about how delicious the food would be when I placed my order.

Fried Tom Yam Meehoon RM6.90 | Ice Tea with Herbal Jelly RM4.80

You know how usually chain- restaurant's food are? Very commercialised tasting right? So can't blame me if I was expecting my food to taste commercialised la. Having that preconception, I had my first bite of meehoon and I went...

 

How come so yummy one!

The tom yam flavour was soooo appetising! I think it makes a great starter (starter because I still wanted my nasi lemak LOL). The dish tasted like something you buy off from those side of the road stalls!!! I mean in a good way that is! I always though that great tasting food is found on the street! I'm a street food person so no matter how yummy the food served in restaurant, I'd usually opt for authentic street food.

For the drink, I ordered milk tea with cincau but I think they forgot my cincau (grass jelly). I didn't realised it until when I was sipping my drink while listening to the interviewee. Then I thought, eh where is my cincau???

But since the milk tea was good, as good as real kopitiam one and I already drank almost all of it I decided to not make a hoo haa. So I paid extra RM1 I think for nothing:(

Oh oh, I forgot to mention! Check this out:

Upon arrival, I simply picked a spot that I thought was conducive enough for my interview. Decided to go for the sofa cushion type. 

When I was trying to get comfy in my seat, I was wondering why is this table's leg feel so weird? I looked down and I saw a sewing machine's paddle!!!!! Then I realised that they had transformed an old sewing machine to a dining table! How cool is THAT!

They only have two of these sewing machine table and I luckily got one!

The rest of the tables are the normal type BUT BUT BUT.... I spot one more unusual table! Don't know if you noticed but you see the small boy in rainbow stripes tshirt? He's siting on an old school looking bench like what they provide aeons ago in kopitiam (coffee shops)!!

Bench & Tables

So I was obviously very excited to jot this down in my food blog! They have a few outlets outside of Bangi too but I'm not sure if all of their deco is the same? Bangi surpirsingly has many cafe! I would want to try them someday when I'm motivated enough to drive 45 minutes for a new food experience. Funny that I'm easily 'ON!' when it comes to driving to Melaka for food :P

RM6.99 Fish & Chips @ Manhattan Fish Market

I was suppose to be writing about this last week but it was a busy week conducting interviews so I totally forgot about it! I'm a big fan of Manhattan Fish Market when they have their cheap fish promo!! Fish and Chips starts from RM6.99!!!! If you are reading this and you didn't know about this ongoing promo the last day for this promo is TOMORROW (26 May 2015!) so hurry!! Still sempat!

I usually jumped at this opportunity because on normal days fish is too expensive to consume:X

Manhattan Fish Market

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If you check out their menu, Dory would be the cheapest fish for fish and chips that would cost you RM6.99 (excluding GST). They have better fishes like Salmon serving at RM11.99 I think? I tried their Cherry Red Snapper the other time they had the same promo and it was terrible- fried fish was so damn soggy inside!

So this time I decided that Dory is a sure thing but I really wanted to try Salmon too. In the end, I had both Dory and Salmon and I realised that whenever MFM is having this promo, I should just stick to Dory. My Dory came pretty happy with a good portion of fries and salad:

Dory Fish & Chips, RM6.99 ONLY!!

Add on were going for RM3.99! They offer you 3 starters going for cheap which are the chowder of the day, fried tortilla with cheese and squid fries. I tried the Squid Fries and it was definately a good choice for an add on!

LOVEEEE the honey mustard sauce that came with the squid fries. Despite receiving a rather small portion of squid fries, probably 7- 8 strands of squid, I'd order it again just because it really tasted good with the dips! So easy kena con LOL

Squid Fries, RM3.99

Squid Fries + Fish & Chips

You can choose to grill your Dory as well but it wouldn't come looking as happy as the fried one.

Grilled Salmon with mash potato and steamed vege, RM11.99++

My salmon was sad. I was served such a thin cut of salmon and it was way over cooked! So the Salmon tasted so dry and sad. Even the sauce on top couldn't conceal its dryness from overcooking:S 

On the other hand, the vegetables were under cooked. Of course they just blanched the vegetables to give it a crunch but this was like almost eating raw broccoli and carrot. Something that turn me off so bad that I couldn't down another piece:(

I thought the mash potato was okay, just that they put too much garlic in it so it tasted like mashed garlic potato. I think it tasted better when they were using beef gravy, if I've not mistaken. My eating companion wasn't please at all at the mashed potato though, thought that it horrible. Yikes!

So conclusion, go only for the RM6.99 fried Dory Fish and Chips! Cheap and Good!! Everybody happy, easy peasy! 

Waffle Sandwiches @ Julicious, Kota Damansara

Hola!

I've done so much during the weekend so now my brain is goddamn saturated. I wrote my first draft of findings for publication, ran two interviews and planned my holiday itinerary. Just secured a few more interviews a few minutes ago. Once Simren gets me a nurse and two northern interviewees then I'm all set! Can buy air flight tickets already! So I'm hoping I get to settle this by this week! Enough about myself, so I'm here to show you my supper I had on Friday!

Julicious Waffle Sandwiches

Sunway Giza, Kota Damansara

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Julicious Food Truck

Note that Julicious is a food truck so I suppose you would have to check their Facebook for their location that they will be at. However, I'm assuming that they will be at Kota Damansara because that was where I found them! To be exact, they are situated next to RHB Bank at Sunway Giza.

Actually I had my dinner at 9pm so at 11 I was still full but the word "waffles" attracted me! Initially I thought they serve sweet waffles sandwiches like waffles with chocolate spread etc but when I drop by I found out that they only serve savoury kinds. I still decided to give it a shot though because it's the first waffle sandwich here!

Menu

They only have four types of waffle sandwiches on the menu but it's good in a way because it makes it easier for customers to decide which and it should be easier for them to thoroughly prep their menu. I'd rather a few great tasting choices than 100 mediocre choices.

All their waffles are prices at RM6 which is reasonable for what you will be getting. I'll show you my waffle sandwich later but first here is a picture of the young entrepreneurs cooking up a storm!

Cooks busy making waffle and cooking meat, the guy in green outside was a superb 'waiter'

The service there is really good so that makes me a happy customer! I stood there looking at the menu while being a little blur because I expected sweet waffles haha But the guy in green came almost instantly to greet me and to help me choose my waffle sandwich!

I asked which one would he recommend and he says that it would definitely be the Grilled Chicken Waffle Sandwich RM6. So that I ordered!

They also have Berrynade their signature lemonade with berries I presume? RM3 per cup. I saw lots of people ordering it so it should be good! But I didn't because I spent too much on my pizza dinner and I even bought two Polo buns for supper before I stumble upon Julicious LOL

Grilled Chicken Waffle Sandwich, RM6

I like the waffle because it tasted a little sweet! I was expecting to get a tasteless waffle because its savoury right? But no, they have rather good waffles. It would be better if its more crunchy though. So in between the waffles you will have a rather huge piece of grilled chicken, vegetables and sloppy sauces which makes it oh so good!

I love the curry powder taste on the grilled chicken!!! So addictive! They have very good sauces as well. When you eat it, it will be like eating Sloppy Joe- Messy but delicious!

Yummy waffles

See that big slab of chicken? That's what you get! For me it's worth my RM6

One serving would be make a great supper treat but if you were to eat it as a meal then you might need to get two. 

Happy eating everyone! 

Now I gotta think of what to cook for this whole week before going out for groceries. Till the next post!

Cempedak Cake @ Swich Cafe, Uptown Damansara

Hello!

Just noticed that I have not blogged for about a month. Initially it was because I was busy then my Samsung Note 4 got stolen so I was demotivated to take pictures with my Redmi 2 which has good enough camera but obviously that can't beat my Note:(

A kiamsiap (miser) IMU prof pisses me off :

Anyway, I'm selling my Redmi 2 now for RM445 because after all it's only my temporary phone till I had time to decide on which phone I really want to use for longer period of time. I think RM445 is fair considering I bought it lesser than 3 weeks ago so its pretty much new. It comes with a phone casing which I bought for like RM25 and free gifts too!

Now the story that made me damn geram. Yesterday, this buyer, a prof from IMU called me asking if I could sell my Redmi 2 for RM360. I was reluctant because price offered was a rip off! But later agreed thinking that I bought my phone for RM460 (I miscalculated, forgot the GST). 

When I came home, he text me asking for the original receipt and a phone casing as well. That's when I realised my mistake. So I replied informing him about the miscalculation and made a new offer RM400 for phone, phone casing, free gifts AND Poslaju. He said NO.

So okay la, I find other buyer no problem because my phone is considered new and looking at all the free gifts and postage I'm throwing in this is a steal deal! 

See see earlier this morning he text me telling me that I'm unethical because an agreement was reached and if I agreed to RM360 he would proceed with the payment. Woke up to a busy day and first thing I saw was someone calling me unethical really pisses me off. So I'm here ranting!

Prof, number 1. There are 4 elements to a contract (If I have not forgotten from my law major). My Mudah ad was an invitation to treat. You offered RM360, I verbally accepted but there was no consideration involved i.e. you did not pay me any deposit etc. Then I raised a counter offer. A counter offer means no deal is done yet till you agree. Since you decline my offer, no agreement is reached since I don't have the intention of selling it to you. So how is this unethical?

Number 2. Being unethical would be me taking agreeing to your RM360 and then telling you that I want RM40 more when you have transferred the money to me. I have experienced this when I was purchasing a blanket from UK.

Number 3. My ad says Whatsapp or SMS only. Considering you're a prof, I assumed you understand terms and condition stated but you called anyway. But the thing that pisses me off is that someone who is earning big bucks is being so kiamsiap ( he wanted free postage too! wtf) and when refuse to buy from me, can call me unethical somemore?!!!

Okay, end of juicy gossip. Now check out my cakes I had for my birthday! 

Swich

SS21/ 58, Uptown Damansara

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Swich Cafe located opossite the new Texas Chicken at Uptown Damansara

So Nit and I went there for our birthday cakes. I wanted to buy a birthday cake from here for my sis's birthday but I was in a hurry and it was just scorching hot that day so I just got her a cake from the mall that we were going to.

Back in March when we had our cakes at Swich, it was still a newly opened cake shop! If I've not mistaken the set up of this shop was pretty quick. The owner got it all ready to rambo within a week I think! So I was very excited to try it out. Here are some pictures of how Swich looks like on the inside:

It's half a shop so the shop is quite narrow but we easily found a seat

Menu of the day at the ordering counter

Not sure if it's a self service shop or not because I dont see them coming to customers to take orders. I had to go over to the counter to tell them which cake I want. Get seated and wait for the cake. I didn't know whether I should pay for my cakes before or after having them but I did it later. Didn't get scolded so okay la I was right. HAHA.

Check out their cakes:

You have the ones refrigerated 

And the ones outside at room temperature

Cempedak cake with toasted coconut, RM12.00

I chose their famous cempedak cake with toasted coconut! Been wanting to try this ever since I knew this shop existed!! While the cempedak cream is really good, the cake was too dry. Anyway, they are really generous with the cempedak fruit so the cream was really lovely!! Strong cempedak flavour is yums!

Toasted coconut tasted a bit burnt. Not sure if its suppose to be that way or what? I really love the cempedak cream but I don't think I'll return for this cake because it's just too dry for my liking. With cream also can taste the dryness:S

Belgian chocolate cempedak cream cake, RM12.90

Nit ordered this chocolate cempedak cake and her cake was more moist! But the sad thing was that the chocolate was just too overpowering so I was tasting more chocolate than cempedak. Compared to my cake where the cempedak cream really stood out!

Okay last picture taken by my Samsung Note that got stolen :|

The end. 

I'll be back for more updates since I bought a new phone with better camera HAHA