Milkcow Organic Soft Serve Ice- cream @ Sunway Pyramid

I don't know why I have been very restless these days. It's like I can't sit down for long to do work because I will feel bored and then grumpy. Problem is most of my work requires long hours of sitting down in a quiet room to do work =.= 

Weekday meals has also begin to seem boring and time consuming hence, somewhat burdensome. Somehow I'm losing interest in cooking cheap meals but I still do it to save money. These days I keep having cravings for outside food! Especially street food, snacks, finger food... you know all the unhealthy food? :P

I have also been craving for soft served ice- cream! The thing about ice- cream is that I love having them outside; as in buying from shop and eat but not buying them and storing them in my fridge. Even my favourite Haagen Dazs ice- cream becomes unappetizing when it's bought home in a tub for eating:S

Milkcow

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Milkcow!!!

Okay, so this is one of the things that would definately make my day right now! The only thing that is keeping me from imploding is Mozart on Youtube. Thank God for that. 

So the other day when my aunties came up, we decided to try the rather new Milkcow ice- cream!! The Sunway Pyramid branch is the newer branch, Midvalley is slightly older. Have been waiting to try this ice- cream for the longest time ever and thanks to my aunts I got them FREE! hehe

Menu for you, you're welcome

There were so many interesing ice- creams that I didn't know which to pick? So I went with the rather popular honey comb one. Since we are all sharing the ice- cream, my aunt asked me to pick another (OMGGG! YESSS!!). 

So I looked through the menu and chose something that would excited kids i.e. my little cousins. Since their mum is footing the bill I thought it would be considerate of me to pick something that would appease their daughters/ grandkids.

Honey Comb with milky soft served ice- cream

I love the milky soft served ice- cream because of it's heavy full cream milk taste! I could actually eat it without the honey comb (Milky Way, RM8) and be satisfied! The honey comb did come as a surplus though. It was nice to have but you might want to properly mix the honey with the ice- cream while eating and not eating it by itself once you finish the ice- cream. That was what I did and holy moly! It was SWEEEEEEET.

After finishing on my honey, the honey comb taste funny like some plastic residue on my tongue so what I did was suck up all the honey, get this super sweet shock, then spit out the honey comb LOL Maybe I'd opt for the honey instead of the honey comb next time (Milky honey, RM11). Saves all the hassle. 

Honey Cube RM13, Quite a generously huge chunk of honey comb

More honey combs! Somehow I was a little skeptical about honey combs because I have this perception that bees might get stuck inside so I was quite watchful as I ate it, haha.

Ha! Guess what was the ice- cream that I picked out for sharing?

Freshly made only upon order...

Snow Drop, RM11!!!

This soft served ice- cream is served with cotton candy, organic salt and jelly beans at the bottom. Needless to say the kids were ecstatic about the cotton candy! Happy kids, happy mum. The ice- cream wasn't milky though it was just the normal vanilla kind but I like that it had a pinch of salt to it! The jelly beans were rock frozen when we got to it so it was hardly edible. 

Despite Snow Drop being prettier, I still preferred the Milky Cube! 

I AM CRAVING FOR THEIR MILKY SOFT SERVED ICE- CREAM SO BAD!!!

*Licks picture of ice- cream on laptop screen. LMAO, joking!

Gotta get them soon!

BingSu Cafe @ Uptown Damansara

A quick post before I go for dinner. Been very hungry and very tired lately, thanks to the unproductive half of the month. The last few days especially really takes the toll on me so after doing my work i.e. writing out my thesis, I would have zero energy for anything else but sleep. That explains my neglect of this blog of mine:(

Oh, today Malaysia just implemented GST! So how are things working for you? 

Keep calm and pay on

LOL

Anyway, this was about a month back when Rebecca came up and we tried a new bingsu cafe! Not very long ago, this rave for bingsu started when Cafe Bene came over from Korea if I've not mistaken. Then this Korean cafe, Dal Komm Coffee at Uptown Damansara continued the bingsu hype. 

Not long after, about a month or two ago I noticed another new bingsu cafe in Uptown Damansara!

BingSu Cafe

SS21/35 Uptown Damansara

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Outside Bingsu Cafe

Self service so you will need to place your order at the counter

The place was empty when we stepped in. We went there on a Tuesday evening around 8pm and the place was empty, well except for us and a couple that came in with us. Somehow an empty shop gives me the impression that the place serves lousy food:S

Anyway, the couple went ahead placing their orders while Reb and I stood next to the ice- cream fridge, contemplating which bingsu to get. While we were standing there, there was this worker who took out a fly beater and started smacking around!

Guess what happened next? I think she managed to smack the fly and the dead fly somehow fell into the ice- cream area. OH MY GOSH. My mouth dropped wide open when I saw her laughing it off while cheekily telling her friend.

Wanted to exit right away but didn't want to disappoint Reb who came all the way from JB, so I just hoped that our bingsu wouldn't be contaminated:S

Placed order and was given a buzzer to notify when our orders are ready for pick up.

I was so hard deciding what to get because firstly I was rather turn off by what I saw prior to ordering. Secondly, the prices were rather expensive if compared to Dal Komm. Somehow the likely choices were prices too high, around RM18?

I didn't want to pay that much for a likely contaminated dessert so I went with the cheaper range bingsu. I think it was about RM15.90.

Mango Cheese Bingsu, RM15.90 if I've not mistaken.

The first thing I said to Reb was...

"OMG, is that the ice- cream from the ice- cream fridge that a dead fly just landed in???"

Reb was so chill and answered, "Ya la" HAHAHHA

Despite all that hoo-haa, I actually liked Bingsu Cafe's bingsu! The ice was shredded really finely and it was alternated with layers of cheese powder inside! The mangoes were very sweet and fresh so that deserved a thumbs up! Overall, it wasn't too sweet so it went well with my palate.

The cheesecake was a little too frozen though and it has this rather cheesy rotten smell. Not too sure if it's because its the type of cheese that they use for the cake (certain cheese does smell rotten) or because it was getting stale. 

Reb still prefered Dal Komm's bingsu but I think this place is worth the try if you have extra cash to spend and if you can't take overly sweet things like me. 

Easily missed signboard, at least for me HAHA

Al- Baik Fried Chicken @ Kota Damansara

Being fat sucks and I'd never get used to it. Ever since I was young I was a chubby baby and I never did lose the fats so I have never knew what a flat tummy looks like. So don't blame me if I caress your flat tummy because I jakun hahahha 

The lightest I've ever been was between 62- 63kg. That was when I was swimming and eating 2 spoonful of rice per day with vege till I had fainting spells, FML. Thought that the suffering was not worth it so now I'm back to 66kg with normal eating. I could probably lose it if I was exercising enough but... hehehehe.

To make things worst, I love fried chicken so since I can't be skinny, come be fat with me! JOKING!

Al- Baik Fried Chicken

Jalan PJU 5/12, Kota Damansara

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This is how their shop looks like in Kota Damansara (Picture from their Facebook page)

They have been around Malaysia for quite some time already. I have a friend who is their number one fan and mentioned that Al- Baik fried chicken beats KFC/ Texas Chicken hands down! Apparently it is very famous in Arab so due to all the rave I decided to give it a shot for lunch that weekend since they newly opened a new branch closer to me. The Bukit Bintang branch is problematic when it comes to parking.

Interior of restaurant

Interior 2

The place looks very simple and... cheap LOL I mean I was expecting more because they are a franchise like KFC, McD etc so their simplicity took me by surprise. 

My friend told me that the older Bukit Bintang branch wasn't as nice as this (Gasp! Double shocked, so I don't know what to expect of the old place) but had more comfy couch. Oh ya, but they renovated the Bukit Bintang branch anyway so I assume that it's good as this one now.

Like any other fried chicken restaurants, you would need to go over to the counter and place your order; self service system. Well, half self service because the chicken will be sent to you later.

For the entire month of March 2015, they are having a 15% discount for the Kota Damansara branch!!

The price of the chicken here is slightly more expensive than KFC or Texas Chicken and I was told that I needed to order 3 pieces of chicken to be full. And so I did. You can refer the picture above for the price of my 3- pieces of chicken set meal. 

Unlike KFC or Texas Chicken, please be warned that this is NOT a fast food restaurant solely because the food ain't fast. I waited for at least 30 minutes for my food to arrive, about the same time needed to cook beef steak LOL

Set meal comes with chicken, huge bun, fries and a drink.

Don't expect your food to come organised like other fast food restaurants, I was culturally food shocked HAHAHHA Everything was just chucked into one paper on a platter. 

Something that other chicken shops don't have: Garlic sauce and Cocktail sauce.

Now I'll tell you why these were my life saver...

You see, Al- Baik fried chicken is not your typical fried chicken. Despite KFC claiming that they use 10 over spices, you wouldn't actually taste the heat from the spices. KFC's spices are mild and are there just to add flavour to the chicken.

Al- Baik chicken is fiery!! I bought the spicy version instead of the original because apparently the original wouldn't taste as flavourful as the spicy. My gosh, one bite of the chicken and my mouth was heating up! You could taste and feel the spices come to life! After finishing my first piece of chicken, my stomach was on fire LOL

And this is why you would need their garlic sauce to tone down the heatiness coming from the chicken. The garlic sauce was served cold so it was so soothing to have with the hot chicken. The only downside was that my brain couldn't brain what was going on because it tasted like kebab if you have it with garlic sauce.

"Brain thinks, this is kebab. Eyes confirm, no no this is fried chicken. Brain can't brain it."

See the spice, probably curry powder that seeped right through the bone of the chicken!! That is one skillful marinade!

Overall, it was a good but different fried chicken experience. If you like fried chicken like I do, and if you are adventurous enough you should give it a shot! 

Oh yes, and three chicken was just nice to make me full. I love it that my chicken arrived really hot and crispy (duh, I waited 30 minutes for them to fry it) and that there weren't icky fats below the skin. So when I finished my meal I was full but not that kinda oily throat wanna vomit kinda full. Surprisingly, it lasted me the whole day! Didn't feel hungry even at night, what Arabian sorcery is this?!

Happy chickening!

Uncle Tetsu's Cheese Zuccotto Cake

If you read my last post about Just Want Coffee, then you would know I am trustworthy because I promised that I'd be writing about Uncle Tetsu and Uncle Tetsu this is! Just a quick post while I wait for my hair to dry and then have dinner.

Uncle Tetsu Cheesecake

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So for Naomi's birthday, I bought her Uncle Tetsu's Cheese Zuccotto cake as her birthday cake! I was suppose to buy her slices of cake from somewhere else but the plan changed last minute because I was in a hurry and it was freaking hot outside so I decided to just get her this, which ain't too bad either:)

Uncle Tetsu's Cheese Zuccotto Cake, RM21.90

It comes in three flavours: Devil's Hat (Chocolate), Angel's Hat (Original) and Cupid's Hat (Strawberry). I was supposed to buy this cake and surprise her later during lunch but she stuck to me like magnet so I couldn't proceed with the surprise plan LOL

Since she already knew, I asked her which flavour she wanted hoping that she will pick strawberry aka Cupid's Hat but... she picked Devil's Hat =.= HAHAHA

Happy birthday to her, my baby sis all grown up!

I'm probably missing her a lot since she went for this LIMA volunteering program that I had this weird dream about her yesterday. I dreamt that she was so heartbroken and that she wanted to get back with this guy so in the dream even if I'm damn pissed at the guy I contacted him on FB asking him if he still likes her and to get back with her, WTF.

Seriously weird dream.

Coming back to the Devil's Hat, this is best eaten chilled! I stupidly bought the cake before lunch but in the end, they wanted to wait till after lunch to cut the cake, in which by then we were already so full so we had to wait till we strolled the mall a little and then settled in Old Town to cut cake.

By then, the cheesecake was at room temperature and it tasted almost like... Tesco's RM5.99 cheesecake:S This Hat series cake is suppose to be dense and moist but when I had it (at room temperature) it tasted like I was eating condensed foam.

We had extra 2 slices which I bought back and stored in the refrigerator. When I had them chilled, mother of cakes! It was GOOD!! Dense and moist it was! So readers, please eat this cake chilled- You have been warned.

Definitely not a fancy cake but I'd buy it again soon!

I'll want to try the other baked cheese cake that they have! Oh yes, if you are buying the Hat series cakes you have the privillege to skip the queue! Just go to the counter and place your order. The queue is required for the other round cheesecake with Uncle Tetsu stamp.

Happy weekend! 

Just Want Coffee @ Sutera Utama, Johor Bahru

Hello again!

If I counted correctly it's Chap Goh Mei tomorrow! That marks the end of the Chinese New Year and so we can all throw our leftover oranges into the lake to find for suitors, joking LOL! Um.. Actually, it's still a practise to throw oranges these days:S

As I was complaining to my close ones of how productive I can be half a month and how unproductive I can be in the other half of the month. Well, now I'm in the unproductive half so I'm here wasting time churning out blog post instead of doing proper work :X

All I want to do is stash a dozen of donuts and a one whole cake to munch on in bed, in my comfy aircon room. But I'm too lazy to go get my donuts and cakes. I'm also saving up cash so I'm only left with leftover Chinese New Year snacks, bed and aircon. Doesn't sound too bad either.

In better times...

Just Want Coffee

23 Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/3, JB

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The only time when I splurge on treats like these is when I'm out with my friends. More so when I'm back in my hometown where I have some friends and we want to catch up on our hectic life. The good thing of me being in KL is that I have nobody except my sister, my bestie and Mr Sunshine so I get to save money by not going out for teatime, HAHAHA.

Coffee making machine

Just Want Cafe has been around for a while now, it's not a new place but it sure is a hot place for people to hang out! Continues stream of people checking in to that cafe always made me wonder whats so special about it? 

Since I'm not a big fan of coffee, somehow I never got the chance to visit that cafe which is obviously famous for their coffee. Till that day when the coffee addict, Simren suggested Just Want. 

PS: I love this Coffee addict and I miss her missing our CNY outing!

Waffle Machine

Good that they serve waffles because waffles are my favourite! Simren recommended the waffles (or did she?) so we decided to try some! Here, a picture of the waffles menu so you can have a look and decide on which... or whether the waffles interest you enough for you to pay Just Want a visit:

Waffles Menu

No doubt the waffles are a little pricey but it was okay because we shared it among three of us so each only forked out about RM5. We chose the Butter Caramel waffle because it was the lightest waffle flavour of them all. Uh huh, we came for teatime right after heavy lunch at Tampoi Laksa Shangrila.

Butter Caramel Waffle, RM12.90

Waffles were really good!! Freshly made so it was hot and fluffy! Only if they gave us more butter but the good thing is that they have us good Emborg butter. Caramel sauce was superb! I'm very much a caramel toffee kinda person so this was an instant hit for me! Look, they even drizzled more caramel sauce on our vanilla ice- cream, YUMS!

No idea what's the tiny blot of whip cream suppose to be doing there?

Simren doing the honours because she said I was too slow in spreading the butter and caramel for everyone's piece LOL

And that's how we ate it, Noms!

Iced chocolate if I've not mistaken. It was very very chocolately, I thought my throat would get sore after finishing it. In the end, couldn't finish it because it was too sweet and chocolately for my liking.

Simren's hazelnut latte (if I remembered correctly) and Wawa's pretty Rose Latte! 

Surprisingly the rose latte actually tasted good and it smelt like rose! I mean, I thought we wouldn't be able to taste/smell the rose because I thought the coffee scent would be overpowering but to my amazement, it blended well so you could taste both coffee and rose :O

Coffee there are priced around RM15.

One last picture of bliss <3

Okay, going back to my leftover CNY snacks. I'll probably blog about Uncle Tetsu's cheesecake that we had for my sister's birthday next if my body allows i.e. currently it feels like it's breaking down :S

Monsters Ice- cream @ Sunway Pyramid

Gong Xi, Gong Xi.

Today marks the 5th day of the Chinese New Year and I think everyone probably should be back on their work desk by now facing a lovely Monday after a long holiday HAHA It's funny how we easily brush off our working momentum but how difficult it is to stop our holiday momentum, which of course leaves us being rather unproductive and fat from all the tidbits, teehee.

Came back to KL on the 3rd day of Chinese New Year because mum and sis wanted to go mall strolling. I think it's the best time to hit the malls in KL because when everyone else is back home, the malls (and parking) here become rather empty and so nice to stroll!

So we went to Sunway Pyramid and managed to try out the new ice- cream from the newly established stall located on first floor.

Monsters Ice- cream

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Monsters Ice- cream

There weren't many people at the store when I was there. I think there was only one lady placing her order but because we placed our our order and flocked the stall for pictures, it attracted many others to check out the ice- cream making process too! That's why the store looks like they have many people flocking it in the picture above LOL

Basically you get to customise you own ice- cream. There ares Five (5) ice- cream to choose from: Thai Tea, Green Tea, Chocolate, Mocha and Vanilla. Then you pick the combination of toppings that you want. Refer picture below:

Monsters' menu

We chose Green Tea ice- cream with red bean and cornflakes topping, RM8.90! 

Oh, I forgot to mention why the hype of this ice- cream. It's a 'new' form of the chop chop ice- cream- you know the ones that you select your ice- cream and toppings then they will mash it up and nicely serve it to you after it's nicely combined?

Monsters ice- cream is practically the same where the ice- cream and the toppings will be mashed to combine BUT it will be flattened and then rolled to be served! 

Check out the process of making tiny ice- cream rolls!!

Step 1: Place toppings onto the 'ice pan'. Ours was cornflakes and red bean.

Step 2: Measure the ice- cream base out. Wasn't expecting real green tea but it was real liquid foem green tea!! I think they would have some other combinations in it rather than green tea alone.

Step 3: Pour liquid on toppings

Step 4: Mash and fold. As they continuously mash and fold the ice- cream, the liquid will soon solidify.

Step 5: When it reached ice- cream consistency, ice- cream is spread wide like this

Step 6: Roll em' up!

Tada!!! Many tiny ice- cream rolls!!!

Initially we bought this just to have fun HAHA So I wasn't having any expectation on it's taste but it turned out tasty! The green tea flavour tasted like those authentic Japanese powered green tea! It's not too sweet, red bean where mush nicely (Sis who didn't like red bean didn't mind it here) and cornflakes gave a nice crunch to it, YUMS!

You can request for additional toppings at RM1. You can add on whip cream if you like but I didn't because I was only after the ice- cream rolls so whip cream seemed redundant that time.

It was fun seeing them make the ice- cream so if you haven't it's worth a try! Oh, FYI the guy makes it better than the lady LOL

Check them out on Facebook and Instagram!

Okay, going off to make dinner. 

Happy Chinese New Year! 

Uptown Cafe, Johor Bahru

I'm back in my hometown for Chinese New Year and have been baking a lot these days, so much till I feel full by just looking at the cookies made LOL Being back home also means that I get to laze around, not work and don't feel guilty for not working. 

So I was cleaning up pictures in my phone and realised that I have not blogged about this cafe. Been procrastinating because the food was so bad, I didnt feel motivated to write a review on it. Anyway, to not waste picture here we go!

Uptown Cafe

66 Jalan Pertama 1

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Entrance of Uptown Cafe

If you haven't noticed, there are many cafe sprouting like mushroom after the rain! not just in KL but in Penang and Johor Bahru too. I think it was Christmas so my sis and I wanted to have something different for lunch and we decided on Uptown Cafe because it was relatively new then.

I think the location is very good in the sense that it's located near the highway, just turn in from the highway and you will be a able to spot it on your left, very close to Shell petrol station nearby.

Also, since the shop is situated at a new commercial area there is no problem finding parking! Ample of parking lots so no stress to that.

A few pictures of the interior of Uptown Cafe:

Two level dining area

Bamboo shoots to welcome you right at the entrance then you see modern designs on the wall

Several kinds of lamps and lightings. This cafe confuses me LOL

Oh ya, these are the modern designed walls

Not too sure if the deco was done by a professional but it didn't work for me. Made me very confused on what to expect from the cafe- it's very chinese (bamboo, lanterns, red cloths) yet very westernised (modern wall deco, chairs and tables).

Actually before even stepping into the cafe I was confused already by the food theme. Not sure what cuisine they are aiming to specialised in? There was thing huge ass banner outside the shop that listed out their menu. I see western, chinese and... Malaysian meals:S

Fish & Chips RM17

Decided to have something safe and went with Fish and Chips. Food arrived pretty late so I was expecting good wait-worthy food. Not too sure if they breaded their own fish or just fry those prepacked type but it was not too bad. The potato wedges was good but those are off from frozen packs, hence nothing to shout about. Salad was done in house for sure, vege came in chunks:S Not too sure why they wouldn't use a grater and make life easier?

I thought that the meal was rather pricey because I'm footing RM17 for a rather small portion of Fish and Chips. Then we also ordered pizza for RM20 which turned out extremely bad.

US Chicken Pizza RM20

Funny, the story of the pizza. The menu stated only the name of the pizza without the description of it so I had to ask the waitress what do they served in the US Chicken pizza. I remember her clearly saying "Chicken... tomato". I assumed that maybe she wasn't very fluent in English so she just gave short answers.

When the pizza came, OMG it looked so sad... worst than the Jusco's bakery pizza! When we had a bite guess what? The waitress was spot on, I could only taste chicken and tomato. Very bland tasting pizza and the chicken bits tasted weird. Got a chunk of chicken with smelly fats on, I was so turned off and angry.

How can you let this dish come out of your kitchen and charge your customer RM20 (excluding tax). It should at least be of Dominos/ Pizza Hut standard! I mean those are very commercialised tasting pizzas but at least it works better than this in house sloppy made pizza.

Yup, I had to spit out the chicken that tasted and smelled really awful

One slice was without chicken or tomato, just skinny cheese :O

Never ever going back there anymore! My friend been there for coffee and I don't remember her complaining so maybe if you're there for coffee it's still fine but food... a NO NO. Good thing we didn't give the desserts a chance because it looked pretty sad on display.