Garden Cafe

22 February 2009 @ Garden Cafe, 1 Utama

I was sincerely invited to dine in this newly opened restaurant in One Utama by Teresa Chin, my ex-coursemate in MMU. It was like a little gathering for us (ISE coursemates) also lah.

So there were XinWei, Denise, Jessica, Steven, WilliamLeong, Satkuru and of course Teresa.


This shop is owned by her sister, Tracy. I quite like the ambiance there as there's a lady playing the grand piano for their customers and greenery are all over the place.


There are cute little decos and flowers on every table.


We ordered food to eat immediately without much hesistation. Strangely, everyone ordered Western dish for there are a wide range of Asian dish too.

Denise & Steven's Chicken Cutlets

Satkuru's Lamb Shank

XinWei's Salmon

William & Jess's Seafood Olio

After dinner, we took photos endlessly just like any other bloggers' outings. With 5 DSLR cameras (I'm the only one with tiny weetsy digicam), everyone must be wondering what we are doing in the restaurant.

Assorted cakes

Desserts came after main course. Teresa promised to treat all of us dessert! wootz~!

Assorted flavours of Sorbets

I never thought she will order every single cake and sorbet on the menu. We ended up having 8 types of cakes and 6 different flavours of sorbets. All of them are very yummy though I think a little overpriced for the size of the cakes.

Desserts!

Me and Fish & Chips

Teresa

Lastly, Teresa showed us her baby niece. I forgot her name (sorry) but she's really cute and not really camera shy. Perhaps she has potential being a model one day. =P

The food was not that bad but I think the portion should be bigger for the price the consumers are paying. But they did pay a lot of attention to the dressings on their servings and decorations in the restaurant. Good job for that!

Thanks Teresa for the desserts. Thanks Tracy for the dinner. Billy, out.

For more information:

Garden Cafe
Lower Ground Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Centre
Tel: 03-7728 6441
Email: tracy@garden-cafe.com.my
Website: www.garden-cafe.com.my

Note: Credits to WilliamLeong and XinWei for the beautiful photos

2009 Valentine's

14 February 2009 @ WoonLee's House

This year's Valentine's Day, I celebrated with a bunch of buddies I knew from my company. We decided to eat home-cooked food as the prices outside will sure be hiked up like madness.


WoonLee was the hostess and she invited 4 other handsome males to accompany her for the night.

Eugene and HanChin scrubbing the potatoes

All of us reached rather early to help out on the preparation. Cooking isn't hard, the preparation is!

Eugene is concentrating hard not to cut his own fingers

I still remember being the spot light of my friends in last year's Valentine's. But hey, they invited me to join them for dinner and movie! =)

WoonLee teaching senior how mushrooms should be cut

This year, I didn't turn into a spot light but I became a little side kick of the big chef. I was given a bag of raw potatoes and told to make something out of them.

Me slicing the mushy-rooms

I've always wanted to make potato salad. And I did it!! So glad that it turned out fine and edible. Haha!

WoonLee focusing on frying the chickens...

...while Mike focusing not to die in the game!

After a couple of hours, the dinner is ready! Everybody helped to arrange the plates, food and drinks.


Let the feast begin!


We had mushroom soup, chicken chop, boiled broccoli, potato salad (by me), garlic bread and chilled Coke.


Later on, a bottle of Chivas popped out in front of us mysteriously and Eugene seems to be enjoying the alcohol while the rest had a few sips.

HanChin, Mike, WoonLee, Eugene and Me

Thanks WoonLee for the wonderful dinner. Really hope we can have more of this cook-and-eat sessions in the future. Cheers! Billy, out.

Pit Stop 3: Chiang Mai, Spectacular Cultural Experience

10 June 2008 @ Chiang Mai, Thailand

We reached Chiang Mai at 9.50am after about 14 hours of journey in the train.


Before we got out of the station, someone approached us on the package for trekking in the jungle. Well, our main objective in Chiang Mai is to go trekking anyway. We took the 3 days 2 nights package after comparing the prices and routes.


After deciding on the routes, we asked about accomodation. The tour agent's sister own a guesthouse! So, we stayed at Ben Guesthouse - a really nice place to stay.

The staffs are friendly, the environment is clean and the food is nice!


After checking in and cleaning up, we borrowed the bicycles from the guesthouse (for free) to go to town for lunch and stocked up for the trekking.


The bikes were rather difficult to ride but we managed to ride around town and hunt for food.



We stopped at a small local shop and ordered some noodles. The food is cheap and nice but the down side (as always) is the communication problem as we can't speak Thai.

Kao Soi [Chiang Mai Curry Noodles]

Kuey Tiao Soup

Then, we walked around the market. Nothing much interests us. Bought a few pairs of socks for trekking and rode off to the nearest Tesco, situated inside a petrol station. We bought a dozen of water and some snacks to bring for the trekking the next day.

We head back to our rooms, played cards while wait for the tour guide to come to give us briefing. Then we had our first dinner in Chiang Mai right at the guesthouse.

Masaman Gai

Tom Yam Kai

Fried Mixed Vegetables

Sweet and Sour Pork

Refreshing Fruit Shakes

As usual, we'll order rice and each of us will order a dish. The dinner was really satisfying, especially the fruit shakes - cool us off in the hot weather.

Our 3D2N trekking begin the next day. Billy, out.

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