Sunday, October 30, 2011

Food Trip!


So I've been to what some may call a "food trip" with a friend, although I cannot call it an authentic food trip because we just went to one restaurant at a time. I guess, you could count two if you count the establishments we've tried for snacks/desserts/afternoon refreshment. Last August, my friend and I finally visited Crystal Jade at Greenhills. We've been planning this since last year, we were able to dine at Crystal Jade in Kuala Lumpur. Upon getting the menu (sorry no picture), we started looking for the dishes we ordered in Kuala Lumpur. Most of them are not available here though and that made us a bit disappointed. We really enjoyed the food in KL. Here is a list of what we ordered:


Appetizers:
Drunken Chicken Marinated with Chinese Wine and WolfBerry
Fried Pork Dumpling
Main Dish:
Yang Chow Fried Rice
Sauteed Sliced Beef with Broccoli
Steamy Soupy Pork Dumpling "Xiao Long Pao"
Dessert:
Red Ben Paste Pancake
Can you imagine just two people eating all of these? Haha, we didn't actually ate all of it, we were able to take home some leftover. We thought that the food is good, but not great though, especially after we've been to their restaurant in KL. Even the Xiao Long Pao wasn't even that tasty and soupy. 

I found the picture from out Singapore-KL trip and the picture below shows what we ordered from their KL branch last year. 
After having lunch at Crystal Jade, we watched a movie: Cars 2. Well, that was fun.. I really enjoyed it. I really think that Owen Wilson's voice fits the character. 

After the movie, we bought some refreshments/drinks at Happy Lemon. I saw an article about this place a couple of weeks before so I asked my friend that I wanted to try this out since I really like milk teas. Due to my memory lapse, I forgot what I ordered. I just remember it's some kind of milk tea with black sago and crystals. I remember arriving in front of their store and seeing all that people in line ordering their drinks. I guess we just have to brave the storm (yes, it was raining that time also although there was a roof above our heads, but still, the expression fits since the rain is sort of stormy), line up and decide which we would order. I think my friend ordered something with Yakult on it. I never ever liked Yakult, even when I was a kid and all my brothers were drinking it like water, so I never even considered getting a drink with Yakult on it. 


A couple of weeks after that, we had some free weekend again and since I was craving for some Japanese food (I can't get enough of shrimp tempura), my friend suggested this Japanese restaurant that has been around for ages, New Kamameshi House. This is my first time to dine in this restaurant and these are what we ordered:
 
Kamameshi House Menu 


Ebi Tempura (Php365)

Gomoku Kamameshi (Mixed rice) 173.60
Tori Momo Teriyaki (Boneless chicken legs teriyaki) 224.00

I really loved the rice because it's so moist and sticky. There were also a lot of toppings which made the rice very tasty. I guess I couldn't comment on anything more about the tempura and Chicken Teriyaki, these are always the specialty dishes in Japanese restaurants. 

We went to the mall after lunch and had dessert and coffee. This time we tried Parvati at Trinoma. I had Dark Chocolate Cake and my friend had an Apple Pie. There were so much to choose from that I had a hard time figuring out what to order. I was pretty happy about the coffee being free when you dine in their establishment. I opted for the dark chocolate cake because I saw in the menu that it's one of the bestsellers, besides I love dark chocolate!