1 good reason to go to Urban for dinner : Everything’s nett priced so you can skip the rough calculations before ordering.

Walnut bread on the left, Puri on the right and chicken pate in the middle.
The puri was so so good, especially when hot. Yummehhh.

Appetizers (MYR45 nett)

Smoked Duck Breast with Jasmine Tea Fragrance, Cured Foie Gras and Rocket Salad

Sake Cured Salmon served with Avocado Mash, Creme Fraiche and Tomato Basil Sorbet

Foie Gras served with Exotic Fruit Chutney, Birgrade Sauce and Golden Mango Sorbet
For some reason, the fruit chutney kind of overwhelmed the foie gras.

Bay Scallops served with Creamy Tagliatelle Leek Fondue and Chervil Nage

Main Course (MYR85 nett)

Black Cod confit with Sauteed Spinach, Rice Crackers and Soy Ginger Orange Juice

Lamb Loin with Vanilla, Date Compote, Cheese Ravioli, Rosti and Fresh Thyme Sauce

Slow Cooked Duck Leg with Mashed Potato, Black Morels and Orange Cinnamon Juice

Tuna Steak with Wasabi Espuma, Bok Choy, Tomato Relish and Glazed Pineapple

Risotto with King Prawns, Calamari, Mussels, Scallops and King Mushrooms

Gourmet Special (MYR148 nett)

Oven-baked Lobster flavoured with Mustard and Brandy served with Truffle Mash
FRESH LOBSTER, TRUFFLE MASH. <3

Time for desserts! (: (MYR35)

Strawberry Millefeuille with Vanilla Custard and Strawberry Black Pepper Coulis
Pretty to look at, a mess when I attempted to eat it.

Caramelized Mango with Puff Pastry and Passion Fruit Sorbet

Tiramisu with Pistachio Biscotti and Vanilla Ice Cream

Chocolate Lava Gateaux served with Chocolate Ice Cream
Yummy, yummy. Look below. ;D

Lime Caramel Choc and Biscut Strudel and Fresh Berries served with Hot Lime Choc
Don’t pour too much yeah? Or caramel will be stuck to your teeth. Not ideal for dates. Take note !!

Souffle with Berries served with Maple Ice Cream
Thumbs up !

The Portuguese red wine we had was so gorgeous.. I don’t remember the name of the wine but dammit, it’s a darn good wine.

Istana Hotel
73, Jalan Raja Chulan, 50200 Kuala Lumpur
For Reservations : +603 2141 9988

Time to study !
Out .

I saw it before I went into Cinnamon, and ate dinner.. And I saw it again after dinner. I’d like to think it’s been there for the whole night. It seems more magical. Haha.

They played the drums and all. It was loud, but it was good. Full of energy.

The 2 Guest Chefs

The translator, Joo Bin, and Dato’ Teo Chiang Hong in the middle.

Salmon Salad

Kim Chi

Korean Desserts.

The ultra not-in-my-best me and the translator. She’s so cute.

Buffet Lunch (Mon- Fri)
12-2.30pm
RM72++ for adults
RM36++ for children (4-12 yrs old)

Buffet Dinner (Mon to Sun)
6.30-10.30om
Rm85++ for adults
RM43++ for children (4-12 yrs old)

Cinammon, One World Hotel

First Avenue
BU City Centre

LINK!

Presenting Chef Daniel who was cooking for us!

Complimentary Bread. Yum.

Sparkling Mojito (Non Alcoholic)
Sour like ice lemon tea, but it’s sparkling, with a tingling sensation!

Tranché of Buri Fish with Akame and Avruga (RM60nett)
I think this dish was made in heaven and served to us. It was so lovely! Every inch of this dish was pure quality. Smell that gorgeous truffle oil. The raw Buri fish was just right, Akame herbs was fragrant, the salt was crystallized and crunchy. The Avruga Caviar was heavenly. And a pinch of wasabi just makes the fish fly. Buri, buri!

Capellini Pasta with Shellfish, Tongarashi Spice (RM60nett)
This dish must be created for Malaysians/Asians. It’s slightly spicy and the Capellini Pasta’s texture is a little like mee suah – very smooth. Very Malaysian-inspired, I suppose. The shellfish – prawns and fish – was the best part. Fresh and juicy. YUM!

Halfway through, we ordered garlic bread just for the heck of it.

Lime and Lemon Granité
Don’t be fooled by its appearance! It’s not just shaved ice! It’s exquisite, expensive spoonfuls of shaved ice! However, this is the perfect snow white, shaved ice with a citrusy tang,  I like!

It was an open kitchen, and we sat exactly where we sat the first time we came – In front of the open kitchen, where we could eye the chefs. Hehe!

Pan-fried Hirame with Sea Scallop and Crustacean Oil (RM95nett)
My mum ordered this for the main course and I had a bite of the fish and a scallop. The fish was not bad, but I really prefer a cod fish. The scallop was nice. (:

Hirame Fish. Yummy spinach leaves.

Almond Crusted Lamb Rack with White Miso and Nasu (RM95nett)
Maybe the chef’s recommendation was better… I had it medium-rare.. He recommended medium-well done. It was too tough for me. ): But the sauteed shitake and himeji mushrooms were gorgeous! Oh, by the way, Nasu is an eggplant. It’s hiding in this picture.. It can be seen underneath the lamb rack in the picture below.

Crépe Suzette with Grand Marnier and Orange Zest (RM30nett)
The Crépe was unexplainable. You would just keep nibbling on it and when it finally finishes, you would long for more. This is a bittersweet Crépe with a dash of Grand Marnier and I kept wanting more! After finishing the crépe, I ‘cleanse’ the rich flavour with the ice cream topped with the orange zest and it made me go ‘Mmmmm…’

After dessert, coffee or tea makes the meal complete.

I tried capture the lovely crested moon. Sadly, it didn’t look so good in the picture.. /:

Sage Restaurant & Wine Bar
The Residences Level 6
The Gardens, Mid Valley City,
Lingkaran Syed Putra,
59200 KL.

Tel: 03-22681328
Email: sagekul@gardenshtlres.com

Blue lights, turquoise chairs and tables and lovely ‘lighted paintings’ on the wall.

The long ‘river’ in the middle of the restaurants is still due to constructions though.

The actual place is much darker.. I brighten it up so you could see whats there.

The outdoor dining area. So spacious!

Eastern Sunrise Mocktail
Fresh Guava, Pineapple, Lime, Banana, Mango and Grenadine Syrup
My favourite. It’s slightly sour because of the grenadine. But surprisingly, I didn’t taste any pineapple and banana..

Caesar Salad (RM28)
Crispy Romaine Lettuce, toasted croutons, beef bacon, anchovies, shaved parmesan, and soft poached egg with caesar dressing.
Lovely poached egg, oooh! The parmesan that melts in your mouth and beef bacons. Am I making you drool?

Salt and Pepper Calamari (RM21)
Red Chilli, Coriander, Onion Jam and Nahm jim

Seared Scallops (RM30)
Scallops with green olive tapenade, chive creme, and potato galette
The. Scallops. Are. So. Fresh. And. So. Juicy.. I only had half.. and I want more! It’s just so lovely!

Prawns (RM28)
Marinated in Morrocan Spices, dipping sauce
Eat it without shelling the prawns! It taste so beautiful.. If you shell them, you don’t get to taste the spices anymore. Trust me on this!

Pan-fried Cod (RM65)
With crushed new potatoes, pistachio aioli, and fennel and caper salad
I always loved cod fish.. Juicy fresh cod fish.. Yum.

Braised Oxtail Fettuccine, Parmesan, Broccoli and Basil (RM34 for individual, RM112 for family)
For me, I’d preffer my spaghetti softer.. The oxtail is full of fats. Eek! Not my kind of meal.

Beef Sirloin (RM70)
Char-grilled Australian black angus sirloin steak with hand-cut chips. cafe de paris butter and salad
Don’t order a well done steak.. Order medium or rare. It really makes a difference. Juicer and more tender. Every mouth made me want another piece. It’s that good. RM70 worth of paradise.

Fried Dried Flat Rice Noodle (RM31)
They have a few local items as well like this one! Of course, they are fine dining local food!

Fungi (RM27 for 12″)
Mushrooms, anchovies, olives, and dried oregano
Mushrooms are nice. Do you like mushrooms? I love mushrooms.. This pizza is just awesome!

Souvlaki (RM29 for 12″)
Shredded lamb, onion, sweet chilli sauce, tomato tabouleh and garlic sauce
The weird part is that they added chilli sauce to make it a little Arabian-ish. Not working for me.. It reminds me of the Ramli burgers..

The Bombe (RM23)
Mango sorbet, white chocolate parfait, Italian meringue, and pine nuts
It seemed to be a weird combination, but a good one.

Chocolate Tarte (RM25)
Like chewing gum tart! Okay, not literally, but its quite chewy, but not too much that makes you tired of eating it. To balance it off, they added a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Meet the chef himself, John Brock.

Family time! My Aunt, Uncle and mum.

Say hello to baby Neville! He’s about 8 months old now.

Saturday

Usually we would visit and pray to my grandpa in the morning before lunch.. This time we went in the afternoon.

The sun rays here are so.. SO bright!

Night falls and we had our reunion dinner. We had steamboat as usual! No pictures, I wanted to enjoy the food…. But I did take pretty pictures of the fireworks we played. We also accidentally lit up an unknown firework and we didn’t stand far away enough nor did we covered our ears.. The cylinder-shaped firework bombed with such a loud sound, our ears were still ringing 2 hours later. ):

I had 6 main courses with a selection of buffet appetizer and dessert that costs only RM128++ (minimum 3 persons) at Impiana Hotel’s coffee house, Tonka Bean Café. I’ve never seen such a huge coffee house, high ceiling with lovely decorations. Although it was quite warm, I loved the ambiance. Overall, I like this hotel very much. I went there with my mum and my brother.. There were 2 other unfriendly Star reporters with us. Gosh, I cannot stand them..

Signature Yee Sang with Smoked Tuna with BB Abalone and Avacado (RM98++ for 5 persons and RM168++ for 10 persons)
I love yee sang! But the best one is the one we have back in my grandma’s house in Penang. Extra salmon.. Extra everything. As for this one, it’s really quite nice, but I wouldn’t pay for such tiny abalones. I’d rather get big ones but lesser.. The avacado is a little hard, I almost mistaken them for young mango.  My mum liked the smoked tuna. I didn’t really get a good piece, only a tiny half piece. ): But it was quite lovely, despite how small it was. It’s slightly salty and sweet. Not their fault that I got a small piece, probably it broke into two while we were mixing the yee sang.

Oh, oh ! Remember to pay extra attention to the plate! The decoration on the plate may look like its from the plate but its real! You CAN eat them!

Shark Fin and Crab Meat Soup with BB Abalone and Fatt Choy
The soup is really nice but excess crab meat! The crab meat overpowered the shark fin.. Oh by the way.. I am officially allergic to crab meat! ): My throat feels hot and itchy..

Steamed Cod Fillet with King Soy Sauce
A simple dish which is just so gorgeous. You can really taste the freshness of the cod fish. I wouldn’t like it if it’s made into curry, or with heavy gravy. Soy sauce is just nice to give a little taste to the fish.

Stir Fried Sea Tiger Prawns with Chinese BBQ Sauce
Fresh sea tiger prawns.. Checked. Good sauce.. Checked.

Wok Fried Black Pepper Wagyu Beef with Capsicum and Onion
First piece got me thinking.. I thought its usually the thick blackpepper sauce..? This tastes weird.. *takes another piece* Hey, its sweet and sour AND blackpepper-ish.. Which is actually nice, but quite unusual, don’t you think? They’ve added vinegar, soy sauce, LP sauce, ketchup, blackpepper and worchestire sauce

Clay Pot of Dried Oyster, Fatt Choy, Mushroom and Broccoli
Not my kind of dish. This is getting SO boring. Not only Impiana Hotel, mind me, I’m not offending. I’m just quite sick of this dish.. It’s not exciting.

Cantonese Noodle with Grass Prawns, Ginger and Spring Onion
I love the noodle but I was already to full to consume anything else.

Pretty marshmallows..

They have a chocolate fountain.. Which different things to dip with.

Tiramisu. It’s actually not bad! If you scrap the cream off..

After lunch, we went to One Utama and walked around.. There were so many cheong sams and decorations on sale. The whole place is so red! At about 4.30pm, we picked up our Chinese New Year Treasure Pot from Dragon-I. RM388++!! For at least.. 5-6 persons, it’s actually quite worth it.. They have prawns, abalones, scallops, money bag, roast duck, chicken and vegetables..

I love you, Victor Lee.

Assorted Tempura Mushroom Yee Sang (RM60 for half portion and RM120 for full portion)
This is one different kind of yee sang. To be honest, although I miss the salmon and the jelly fish, this is actually great!! This is also a dish for Vegetarians. I know, you guys think omg, vegetarian food, I bet it sucks. Try this before you judge.

Deep-fried Spring Roll with Prawn Paste (RM10 per portion)
Hard to eat it cause its quite huge.. But really crispy and yummy. (:

Deep-fried Homemade Nian Gao with Sweet Potato (Comes with promotion and all..)
Really nice nian gao. I had like, 3. I didn’t know it was sweet potato either! It’s much sweeter than the normal ones I had.

Sauteed Celery with Scallops and Caramelised Walnuts
Fresh scallops.. Checked. Crunchy Walnuts.. Checked. Beautiful taste.. Checked.

Wok fried butter prawns with pumpkin cubes, shredded curry leaves, chili padi and salad
This is a dish to admire and accidentally eating too many prawns! The yam carving (Pagoda) looked so pretty meanwhile the butter prawns taste fabulous. I’m going to put on another 500 grams because of this ! ):

Steam dried oyster and fatt choi in tofu money bag with broccoli
Not my kind of dish.. My mother didn’t really fancy it either. Hopefully they improved the dish when Chinese New Year arrives.

Lap mei fun with smoked duck, salted duck with bone and turkey liver sausage. dried prawns, mushrooms and yam cubes
Another dish I dislike. Every Chinese New Year they have this. Either this or the noodles. I’d prefer the noodles. For this particular one is a little bit dry, almost like steamed rice. As for the salted duck.. It’s really salty..

Homemade Kwei Ling Gao herbal jelly pudding with ginseng and red dates
Eat it because it helps to clear blemishes!

Saturday was such a tiring day for me. I woke up and did add maths today. WOW. What spirit I had that day.. Anyway, at about 11am, me and my mum went to her office to have a little snack at the Raya celebration party. Much later, we went to Nikko Hotel for lunch today and I met Sue-Ann. By the way, for those who wants to watch Pn Chan’s Farewell Party performances, they’re at the end of this post. (:

Making candy floss!

Mum bought roses for Aunty Katey..

Bittergourd. (Eck!)

Beans
Its actually quite nice and crunchy.

Siu Mai!

Chicken with curry leaves and lotus seeds

Soup with quail and lychee

Roasted duck with pomelo

After lunch, the 6 of us went to take a look at the Bridal Fair. Waited so long just for the fashion show to start…

My mum told me that only the bottom layer of the cake is real.. I got cheated all these years!!

They had about 3 wedding cakes around.. Some had beautiful roses on them, with a few fake butterflies.
And I thought yellow roses are for sick grandmothers at hospitals??

Well, after the bridal fair fashion show, me and mum were off to Great Eastern Mall to take a look at the 3rd chocolate cake competition.

Rawrr.. I eat you!

Elegant Peacock..

Sadly it didn’t win anything.

With Sharifah Amani

The best chocolate cake and Most creative cake from Renaissance Hotel.

Su Ting ; Hong Ling ; Hsu Zen

Hsu Zen

Steffi drew this. Cute right?

Another beautiful piece of her drawing.

Euodia emo. ): Kiddn’.

Ryan was watching guys dancing Gee
Watch here

Ryan and Guo Rong fighting.. Got a video. But will upload it one day.. xD

James berposing again

Typical James Lee.. The epic movie star. Haha. Kiddin’.

BIO CLASS IS OVER!!!

Adam was in school uni! OMG. World history

After school, went to my mum’s office. I had an interview with the Indian Ambassador’s wife!

Right after the interview, mum and me went to Equatorial Hotel for a Shao Xing Wine dinner

The guest book

1 wine glass for each course and it’s a 6 course meal!

Crab claws & smoked bacon with premium Shaoxing Hua Tiao wine (5 year old wine)
This is simply gorgeous. The crab claws are crispy and the meat is sweet!

Seafood dumplings with green porcelain Shaoxing Hua Tiao (10 year old wine)
Looks like a brain…. Honest. But it taste wonderful. Add a little wine into it and it taste remarkable.

Prawns with kit mei sauce with smooth sailing Shaoxing Hua Tiao (15 year old wine)
Oh my goodness. Heaven! AHHHHHHH! It’s a sweet-ish sauce. The prawns are fresh and I love the mushrooms!

Shanghai pork ribs with National Banquet Shaoxing Hua Tiao (8 year old wine)
As good as how your steak taste.

Steamed cod fish with fresh lily bulbs and kei chee with National Banquet Shaoxing Hua Tiao (15 year old wine)
Fresh fresh fresh! Have you eaten a fresh steamed cod fish with only soy sauce? It’s way better than covering it with a million sauces.

Deep Fried Onion Dumplings (with Dijutang Shaoxing Hua Tiao (8 year old wine)
Dessert. I didn’t really like it. It’s fried.. /:

I’ll blog about today’s lunch I had at Lecka Lecka with mummy and Victor. Good night friends. (:

Last Saturday night, we had a little gathering at One World Hotel. Buffet dinner hosted by Christopher Goh. (: Happy Belated Birthday.
Food wasn’t exactly great there.. But not bad. We had a great time though. Why? Because we took lots of photos and shared so much laughter.

Christopher ber-rambo with his birthday cake.

Happy Belated Birthday!!

Su Ting ; Christina ; Euodia

Su Ting ; Serene Ho

Su Ting ; Pei Shi ; Serene

Group Photo. The 20 of us.

Nagen ; Su Ting ; Christina
(Whose hand is that??)

Nagen thought he was sexy…

Nabil ; Pei Shi
So sweet together right?

Su Ting ; Nabil
I actually kicked the stupid light at the side.. Dumb light..

Serene ; Su Ting ; Jane (??!?!?!) ; Euodia

Su Ting ; Pei Shi

Su Ting ; Serene

Su Ting ; Christina

*Ahem.. Girlfriend protecting scared boyfriend from monster.

So sweet right this photo?
I have the right to say this.. I TOOK THIS PHOTO!!! Woooooo!!

Top : Raehan ; Darren
Bottom : Rakesh ; Asyraf
Took this one as well. Darren looked like a clown.

Jane.
I like this photo lah Jane.. This one looks better.

Asyraf ; Darren ; Raehan ; Azrai
Drama Kings..

Nabil
Look damn horny yet hot right?? Anybody wants his number?