Hi Sushi!

If you’re craving for Sushi whilst in London and you haven’t have the heart to spend a lot on sushi itself, here’s an alternative.

 

A friend recommended to us of this cheap sushi buffet in Hi Sushi.

Well, Hi Sushi is located somewhere near Leicester Square (Chinatown) in London. Hi Sushi is in Frith Street, Soho region, about 5-7 minutes walk from Leicester Square tube station.

For GBP15… we had :

1st round ;

Come to momma sushis!!!

 

Thick, thick slices of salmon…

Fried, grilled, stuffs. Tempura prawns, tofu, squid, chicken, pork…

The rule is, we are only allowed to order 8 choices of fried & grilled stuffs and this is only one off order.

And for sushi, it’s unlimited order. So you can order for as many rounds you want.

 

Round 2 :

Round 3 :

 

And we had Round 4, and Round 5 of the same stuffs as Round 3. The focus is on Salmon yo!!!

 

For affordable sushi that can make you go *BURP* and make you salmon phobia for at least 1 week, this is definitely one place that’s worth trying, penny wise!

Four Seasons Restaurant

Hello people!

Have you heard of Four Seasons Restaurant in London?

Haha. I bet most people who are a fan of chinese food would definitely pay this restaurant a visit.

Four Seasons Restaurant is located in Bayswater, London. Well, you can take the tube to Queensway station and it’s about 5 minutes walk from there. 

 

What one must try is the famous roasted duck.

We ordered a whole roasted duck.

AND YES!!! The duck is omg… LOVE IT! YUMMY!!! For a moment I thought I was on cloud 9 when the piece of roasted duck meat was in my mouth.

 

Next is the roasted crispy pork and char siew.

 

We had this vege too.

 

And not in pictures are 2 dishes. One minced pork thingy and another one is duck wrap.

The total ?

It’s about GBP80+ for the 6 of us.

So it’s about GBP15 per person, and we all went out with a very full stomach. This is one restaurant that I would recommend and bring my friends and family when they go to London. It’s worth trying!

New Year’s Eve meal

Sorry for the very late update people! As you all might have known (or not), we had a whale of a time studying for the exams and all that. Finally! It’s about time to clean the dust in OnlyFoodie!

What I’m going to talk about is… my new years eve meal. No, not chinese new year eve, but the 31st of December 2008 meal. I had my last meal of the year – homecooked.

 

There. Can you see the monkey drawn on the newspaper? Hee hee. I drew it.

BTW, let’s not focus on the newspaper, as it’s just been used as a table-cloth.

What we cooked was

1) Basmati rice

2) Watercress with chicken drumsticks

3) Cabbage with egg and oyster sauce

 

Yes. This is my last meal of the year 2008. Though the picture  may look unappetizing, but it’s pretty darn sure it’s edible! Never judge a book by its cover and this applies for food too! Haha.

Surprise surprise… that I’m able to find watercress vege here.

 

Cooking the soup was easy, as it’s the same method as other soup.

1) Boil water in pot
2) When the water boils, throw in chicken drumsticks
3) When the water boils again, throw in the vege (watercress)
4) Close the lid of the pot and leave it to boil.
5) Add in pepper/salt/sugar, whichever it is to suit your taste

… and it all takes about 20 minutes.

 

The vege too, was like any other vege fried.

1) Heat up pan
2) Pour a reasonable amount of cooking oil
3) Fry garlic
4) Throw in cabbage
5) Add a bit of water
6) Add a bit of oyster sauce
7) Add a bit of salt
8) Crack an egg and stir fry with the vegetable

… and it takes about 5 minutes.

 

Hah. I assure you, I’m returning home with improved cooking skill. =P

Fishy!

Here's one recommended chinese restaurant if you fancy some simple yet delicious chinese delicacies.


It is located at balakong, somewhere near Milwaukee Steak Corner shop.

As what the shop name suggests, the core attraction of this restaurant is none other than its fish (Fei Zhou Yu).

For a family of 6, the most common thing people do is do order perhaps one or two dishes of fish at max. however, it's a completely different phenomenon altogether ordering fish dishes in this restaurant. one fish for one family?? no way! one fish per person is correct!

dont worry, you wont over feed urself with one fish per person. in fact, before u know it, u're done eating the fish and find urself still peeling at the remaining flesh stuck at every part of the fish bone. providing you are a fish lover like me of course.

the type of cooking for the fish varies depending on customers' preferences. for me, i'd recommend the spicy one with chilies and gingers all over. HOT and delicious! sorta reminds me of Chan Sow Lin fish head restaurant. oh, and also the one shop i patronised in Gombak some time ago.


and of course, the other dishes are worth mentioning too!

depending on what type of delicacies you prefer. they have various of choices to choose from. if you're feeling a little bit healthy, can go for dishes like vege, taufu and all.






u can always ask the waitress to recommend you more dishes if you're clueless about what to order.


we ordered 10 dishes altogether! 5 fishes! and guess what, all left was just fish bone by the time we left! and the price, slightly over RM100 if i'm not mistaken.

anyway, at least it's more worthwhile than having to eat at some expensive steak house! =P

do give it a try.

rating: 7/10

My third time in Japanese Food Restaurant

Last Thursday (14/1/09) was my very last day in semester 1 of my Year 1 BEF degree in University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. I went through foundation from July 2007 and now, January 2009 Year 1 Semester 1 over.  *time flies* (omg.. why i sound a little bit moody?) haha…

I very used to myself already, after a hectic period of doing work, i will feel LOST when such works (assignments, exam) came to the end, normally i  will unconsciously  de-tour around the campus alone…  Is this regarded as a person who doesn’t have proper time managing skill? what say you?

 

On the Business Economic Final’s eve, lingyok sent me an sms, asking me whether to join them to mv tomorrow’s afternoon to get some pressies for our January birthday friends. It was a total of 7 of them! Actually, things happen this way. I wasn’t intended to go for Zanmai, but only escaping from this oil palm jungle to a concrete jungle where i belong to, inhale some kl fresh air and watch a nice movie. haha
We had our lunch in Mcd after buying Bed Time Stories movie ticket. We wanted to watch a HK comedy, but it wasn’t out yet. Premier screening on the first day of Cny.

Oh ya, i got only 3 previous dealing with Japanese food. The first time was in Jogoya, which was not really serving PURE Japanese food, but a combination of Chinese, Japanese and western food.  My second time was in Sushi King and my willingness to pay for the bill is nearly zero, i can’t explain the reason to you, i just don’t like! Thirdly,  here i come, Sushi Zanmai. Haha..  I not really so deep into japanese food. It is all because i couldn’t stand raw meat.. even Salmon, i would prefer grilled salmon with some mayonnaise topping. Yes, i am kinda weird.

After lingyok has completed all her tasks, we decided going back to campus by catching 630pm bus. We couldn’t get on the train at 5.50pm from mv to kajang due to the selfishness of some malaysian who didn’t want to move further in the train and the stupidity of the KTM arranging the train shift, i wonder why don’t they spend some money to upgrade the pathatic quality of public transport instead of building a new low cost terminal only benefiting airasia in labu, negeri sembilan while the KLIA was designed for 125 million passengers a year but we are handling only 25 million passengers with a excess capacity for another 100 million passengers more?  We end up  decided to take the next bus, which is 8.30pm and get our dinner in mv. That was the reason! haha

Well, i m still a newbie in eating Japanese food , so i do not really know how to order as in which dish is nice for me, so I randomly ordered their Unagi set. I tasted a little saltiness in it. Saltiness would go well with white rice compared to sweetness and Sunshi Zanmai’s Unagi just hit the right spot.

 Small Unagi set, Rm15.90++

  Tempura Udon set by chernta, Rm10.80++

Tsukimi Ramen by chenxing, Rm6.80++

Sunway Pyramid Outlet
First Floor, Japanese Street,
TEL 03 - 7492 3080
FAX 03 - 7492 3090
MOBILE 012 - 989 3080
DAILY BUSINESS HOURS
12.00 noon - 11.00 pm

The Garden Outlet
T-217, Third Floor, The Gardens,
Mid Valley City,
TEL 03 - 2282 1160
FAX 03 - 2282 3160
MOBILE 012 - 702 1160
DAILY BUSINESS HOURS
10.00 am - 10.00 pm

Little Taiwan and Mdm Kuan’s

Again, i delayed this entry due to reasonably foreseeable circumstances. =)
*remind you of anything?” haha

This outing was 1 day after our frenzied assignment period, which was happened 3 weeks ago. During the frenetic period, my daily routine was so pathetic systematic. Despite attending classes,  i had imprisoned myself inside F1A23 in the rest of the time, a study room which was sometimes freezing like the North Pole, provided the  air conditioners is on.  Till then, i realized what is meant by ‘global warming’ –>  when someone went and turned off the air conditioner!! The room becoming muggy and made me feel stifling!! *Argh*  I eventually thought that penguin would have hated us so much because we switched off their ‘air-conditioner’ .. hmm… Don’t you think so? *being environmental conscious* ahha

I have just finished my semester 1 final exam. Done my unbalanced accounting paper, step out from the 1000KPa business law examination hall with uncertain mood, and ending my economic paper in bewildered condition. *argh* I don’t care anymore!! (actually..it couldn’t be bothered by me in anyway~) haha

Our native plan was to go on Friday 2pm, right after the submission of our economic assignment. But it was forced to postponed because some of them already in hibernate mode. OKLOH! Saturday!! On sunny saturday, we took 10am bus to kajang ktm. Reaching there in about 37minutes. KTM, it is still remained undefined why it took so long on every shift? and why we will have to squeeze inside a ktm? Again, we were told to be careful of pick-pocketers. 

We separated into 2 groups for movie, favian, hakim, lydia and me decided to watch IP Man which was superbly awesome!! The rest of them watching Yes Man which was funny, i supposed. There was 90minutes left to our movie time, we went there with a empty stomach, which prepared our self to have non-sa food that day! SA rocks!!

Hakim and friends went into Carl’s Junior. I personally think that the burger is jus TOO colossal for me. My stomach felt like bursting after i ate it; by now.. the feeling of stomach-bursting still haunting me, although it was 6 months ago.. Ok, some of you must be thinking, “wah, desmond, i tot you will never ever feel full one??” What i ate was the ‘mushroom chicken’ thingy in double supreme size, some France made fries and soft drink. I don’t remember the name of the giant burger already, it was recommended by the staff itself.. *urgh*

Me and favian went into Little Taiwan which just few steps distance from Carls’ Junior. The restaurant is quite eye-catching from their orange colour exterior. When i have placed the order, some memory flash into my mind, telling me that i have actually visited them once and i regarded the restaurant SO~SO only. ><

i ordered a Fried Pork Ma-La noodles ($8.9) , a yam milk shake ($4.9), and share a side dish with favian. Noodles, no-big-deal, as what i can get from our SA cafe. Basically, they jus added some curry paste into the soup. really…. NO BIG DEAL! No choice, i wasn’t meant to smile when i taking photo, but it would be too awkward if i take photo with a noodles, somemore with a angry face? like this—>   haha… Apparently at the time we busy taking photo, the table next beside us were “implicitly criticizing” about us. haha… although i feel darn bashful, and my face is almost blushed.. I just pretend i didn't hear anything! lalala~

 

Favian ordered same noodles with me, but his came with a fried chicken. Although they promoting that they are some what beef specialist, i didn’t manage to prove it, because i do not eat beef. lols…

Close up of our no-big-deal lunch:

After the non-that-satisfying lunch and movie, we went shopping!! And that was the starting of the cam whoring session at every corner of midvalley. Thanks for Nawal’s Sony Digital SLR ! haha…

After cam-whoring for nearly 3 hours, we hunger for food again… An embarrassing and irritating incident happened before we went to Madam Kuan’s. We usually went inside a malay food chain restaurant, “Laksa Shack”. 8 of us walked in into their restaurant had brought happiness to the workers. They served us well, with the out burst amount of enthusiasm by arranging table and chairs, handing over the menus and waiting for our orders.

(flipping through the menus)
desmond: nasi lemak rm16.90?! might as well go madam kuan’s??

friends: owh?

desmond: yeah, kuan’s price even lower lo. rm14.90 only leh. what so special about this o?
(but then i regretted on my suggestion.. =.=)

friends: erm… ok a!

(when we almost reached an agreement to change place..)
favian: let me go out first!!!!!!

*here the embarrasing moment took place*

one of their staff: TERIMA KASIH YA!!!! *with loud*

*everyone’s attention diverted to us.. staring at us with evil smiling!*

@$#%^&*&$@#

*feel like digging a hole and get my head buried* i am SO FISH AR!!!

In Madam Kuan’s, there was another incident happened which really really ruined our mood!!
i know Madam Kuan’s is doing quite well in their business, and it is a restaurant that famous of their nasi lemak and nasi bojari. BUT, your employee had jus kick your ass! First, your food is jus delicious, not regarded as first class nasi lemak anyway, and your demand is kinda elastic because there is another substitute of your restaurant which located in Jalan Imbi, Sakura Restaurant, your customer may jus shift there if they really wanna penalize you.   OMG!!  why the Mr.TakingOrder showing me a shity face? His face was like telling me that i owe him rm10.34 !! I DOUBT SO! Even though you might having PMS, but you shouldn't show us in any sense. In a service sector, “always wear a smile on your face” when dealing with is the MOST important thing. No other reason, but just we are your CUSTOMER!!

Nasi Bojari ($20.90) and a Ais Kacang ($6.90) for me.

Nasi Lemak (14.90) and a Ice Kacang (6.90) for Nawal.

Nasi Lemak ($14.90) for favian

Noodles ($8.90) for Mamah

Braised Chicken Noodles ($8.90) for Hakim

Nasi Lemak ($14.90) for Lydia

 

p/s: i really have fun with you all! Looking forward to another outing!!

*oh ya, our genting trip is coming!! ahha…*

[non-food-post #7] status update

hahaha… jus finished my BUSINESS LAW PAPER!!!

One more to go!!!!

by 11 am, 14th January 2009, i will start preparing for CNY!!!

wohoho!!!

desmond,
onlyfoodie.blogspot.com

[non-food-post #6] Status Update

Dear readers,

All foodies are currently having their semester final exam now.

We will update as soon as we finished our exam!!

Sorry for any inconvenience occurred! ^^

 

Best regards,
onlyfoodie.blogspot.com

A late spring…

Well, i was suppose to upload this topic quite a while ago. Due to some blogging obstacle that stopping me from updating my blog.. ( ahem.. something like.. assignment harassment??) Well, our beloved SA cafe, finally imported some edible food for us. Or can say this way, finally the top top management of Unimc found out that we were not treated as a human since then..

Well, i admitted “Great leaps forward” food varieties and qualities have been made, and that there are nothing much to grumble about as compared with the previous caterer. Nothing much doesn’t mean NO, do u know that SA cafe have a astounding perfume that defeated all any other branded perfume like Burberry, AX and etc..we shall invite our CEO with his favourite shirt and dine in SA cafe, he will  get the FREE unLimited SA-brand Perfume that lasting for the whole day! (in another way.. the ventilation sucks problem??)

Lets give a summary to my non-nottingham students, UoN students, NingBo campus student (as if i have readers all over those places) and unimc-but-hate-saFood-student. haha! The business condition is different now, current market structure of our cafe is monopolistic competition, meaning that there are many firms in a market which producing various product. 8 stalls… more than 60 varieties!!! THIS IS THE PROBLEM!! It makes me hard to make dicision!! grrr… ( eh, i pretty sure you encountered this problem before too right?!!! )

Chinese Mix Rice Station

  

1: Chicken Curry

2: Some fried snacks
3&4 : my mix rice
5,6,7,8: Collection of dishes

Allow the to pass some comment to this Chinese Mix Rice Station. It can not be denied that i do smell the “chinese-cooking-style” from their dishes. But, can they swap their menu abit??  imagine you yourself were asked to eat Tony Romas every meal, i bet you will hate it very much not more than 1 month! (i think shorter that that period right?! ) Well, another thing is, SALT isn’t that expensive right? Do not blame on petrol price Rm 2.70 per litter thats why salt expensive. It doesn’t means that petrol price is a flavoring right? We don’t smell petrol while eating anyway~
kinda pricy, since we all in the middle of the oil palm jungle, this is our fate~ of paying higher price. WE ARE PRICE TAKER! T.T

Compliment: Friendly service from the uncle and aunty!! Thanks!

Chinese Noodles Soup

1: Prawn Mee
2: Soup MEe

A typical every-chinese-kopitiam-will-have stall. Their food portion is the biggest amongst! And they are charging for rm 3.5 for small. Those who had tried it, i think u ll suggest anyone of your fren to order a small one, instead of a big one. lol… Yaya, some people defend that they are giving so less condiment which come together. Since people charging you cheaper price, why don’t us jus bare with that? haha…

Taiwan Corner

1 : Chicken Dumpling Soup Mee  @ 4.5
3 : Taiwan Mala Mee @ 5.5

I was surprised by this in the beginning !!
Honestly, as mentioned as above, we are in a middle of oil palm jungle; TAIWAN FOOD?? DREAMING LAHH!! ahaha… It seems that our dream came true. HOWEVER, under the halo of “Taiwan” , they charging us the higher price in contrast with the other noodle stall jus beside them. I still yet to try out the mala-noodle, heard that it was spicy! ^^ Jon proven it, he “temporarily” own Angelina Jolie’s lips after eating that mala-noodle. WUAHAHA

okay, here comes my comments. I tried their Chicken-Dumpling Noodles, so the priority will be chicken-dumpling then noodles. Their chicken dumpling was ordinary, i dun feel the “bomb teeth feel”  or in Cantonese speaking, “dan nga” . You know, i wan my teeth to
get bomb!! whatever la! dun be so chicky..

Chicken Chop Corner

Well, before i started my comment on this stall. Please grant me permission to own some machinery guns!!
This Chicken-Chop rice is running by 2 Chinese aunties (i think they look alike, twin?), and 2 maid. Well, their initial description on their menu was, Chicken chop with 3 types of sauce to choose. *wow.. sounds so kenny-roger style* Please dun be happy too early!!

Their chicken shop rice consists of a few pieces of chicken(either fried or grilled), some poor vege, and some rice. Let me say something, i am a BIG TIME “Taiwan Uncle-Bob” fried chicken fanz!! Just that, i was reli impressed by their first look, the taste is jus so… weird. No, it is TASTELESS! but why they are still sustainable?? I think our friends are jus too kind-hearted to them!!
How dare they can be not consistent with their pricing??  In their second day business, every stall had a 10-15 percent mark up in their selling price. Ok, that was fine, we expected they set lower price to in order to “test market” demand. But then, WHO ALLOWED YOU TO MARK UP UR CHICKEN CHOP FOR 2ND TIME?? from rm5-5.50 to rm6-6.50. Well, jus to inform this 2 aunties that this issue has brought up to SA food committee. We shall wait and see any action  taken by SA welfare officer.

Stir Fried Corner

1: Nestum Fish @ 6
2: Fish with Taufu @ 5
3: Wat Tan Horr @ 4.5
4: Dried chilies n onion chicken @ 5

I am satisfied with this stall. They have one of my favourite, Nestum Fish!  and Chen Xin’s Nestum chicken. Sorry liching, i know it makes you feel greasy.. haha..
Their food quality are comparable with semenyih chinese stir friend restaurant! It makes no different we go all the way out to semenyih central for dinner. But then, for a typical chinese like me, i still need some pork in my life! =D They are currently the hottest stall during dinner time!! i m currently habituate to NESTUM FISH !!

Some others

Ramly Burger and Kebab  from rm2.5
Malaysian Highlight!! I saw a lot people a hand a burger!! so unhealthy! especially rainbow, lingyok right? ^^v

Bread from Chicken Chop Stall @ 1.5
Some double priced bread

Chicken Rice Corner from 3.8
Their chicken actually not bad, one thing i felt was small portion of rice wasn’t filled up my stomach lo…

Rojak  @ 4
Same thing, over $

Indian Corner
I tried their fried chicken, not bad; mutton curry, not bad; roti canai, nice! ; their plain rice, sucks!!; pricing, on the top of the world.

Drinks from 1.2
soya bean- my every dinner drinks; sugar cane, ish!! ; fruit juice, over-diluted!!-  a combination of 15% fruit juice and 85% h2o

 

P/s: Vegetarian corner will be added soon.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!!

 

[non-food-post #5] WooHoo!!!!

I just done all my freaking assignments :

1. :: Lego Lover :: Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation Report
2. :: Omnicron ::   Entrepreneurship and Business Presentation
3. :: i love Hawthorne Studies :: Studying Organization
4. :: Reduce IT! :: Computer in Business Presentation
5. :: Reduce IT! :: Computer in Business Report
6. :: Xtra rice please!! :: Business Economics A Report

Argh!! i hate love doing assignments!!!

watching movie + shopping in Mid Valley tomorrow!! anyone? ^^