About breakfast, lunch and open house.

Last weekend was the last Hari Raya weekend. It was a long weekend for me cause we get a replacement holiday whenever a Public Holidays falls on a weekend. Since Deepavali fell on Saturday, Friday was the day off for me. I had a big breakfast with Jack at D'lish again that morning followed by a facial. This was the second time, Jack had the Big Brekkie at D'lish, the first time was on the 3rd day of Hari Raya with the kids. Hmmm since I didn't take any pictures last Friday let me update some pictures from our last visit. Oh by the way, my first time was with Pat, our usual morning breakfast before my facials. Ha!ha! love this routine.

Anyway, below are what we had the first time I was there.

Eggs Benedict - Pat's order

The Big Brekkie -Mine - you get to choose your choice preparation of 2 eggs plus all the other stuff you see on the plate plus any choice of Hot Beverage plus a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice.

Another picture taken with Jack's phone, I remembered that he did take this picture to entice his mates. See, the orange juice, for the hot beverage he ordered the Flat White, and I ordered the Cafe Latte. I did hesitate before settling on the Big Brekkie, I thought of trying the Waffles, but I was afraid that I would get envious with his bigger spread... plus he did warn, "Don't even think of pinching from my plate!!!". In the end I got the Big Brekkie anyway, not so much because of the warning, more about being greedy!!! He!he!he! Hmmm must try the waffles next time, though!!!

When we were there with the kids, we ordered 3 of the Big Brekkie set, the kids share one. The portion was just perfect. For the hot beverage, they chose a cup of Hot Chocolate, which I thought was quite good. Sometime, restaurants make these Hot Chocolate really sweet, but I thought the ones they serve here is just nice.

Zaim loved it too. Though, we had to let him nibble on some biscuits that I brought along, while waiting for our order. You see, I have 3 children and 3 different eaters, the eldest, Nayli is a slow eater, she is adventurous enough to try spicy food and whatever new food that is in front of her, but she is such a Slow Eater. OMG! Is she one slow eater, plus she nibbles her food like a little mouse. She will bite into any food bit by bit just like a mouse, nibble nibble nibble and she just goes on forever if you let her. Zarif, he is such a Picky Eater. Other then Thosai, Roti Canai, Half Boiled Eggs, Scrambled Egg, Omelette, Pizza and McDs, we really have to be patient with him to coax him to eat something. My number 3, Zaim well he is a Happy Eater, willing to try and eat anything and everything even the menu if you let him!! Ha!ha!ha! Right, back to our D'lish breakfast.

Zarif and I with an almost empty plate.

They cleaned up theirs pretty well too.

Sitting outside, while the father takes a ciggy break at the other end. So that concludes my D'lish update. Well, after my facial, I went straight home and hung around with Zaim and Zarif since Nayli had Sekolah Agama in the afternoon.

On Saturday, the only planned itinerary for the day was to attend Azleen's Open House cum Yana's birthday party in Cheras. However, in the morning I got a surprise invite to eat roasted lamb at Fida's in-law's in Keramat. Since we are a big fan of her lamb, we just couldn't say no to the invite.

We were feasted with roasted lamb, complete with a choice of Brown, Black Pepper or Mint Sauce, Mash Potato, Salad and Garlic Bread. Yumm!!! Let me emphasis again, in other circumstances I don't eat lamb. It usually has this taste which I don't like. Somehow, not Fida's honestly!!!

A picture with the generous hostess, make that very generous hostess especially because we were even given take-aways. Loads of them!!!

Incidentally, for dessert we were served Tisha's Cheezy Choc's Birthday Cake. With a cake cutting, candle blowing ceremony that we were lucky enough to witness. It was Tisha's 3rd Birthday, Fida's youngest.

PPG!


Happy Birthday to you!


Overwhelmed by the commotion at the other end of the table.

Still overwhelmed.

Fida distributing the cake before Tisha takes matters into her own hands, literally!!!

Zaim getting along well with some new found friends.

He was totally cool to join the kids.

More roasting goodness for catering engagements that day. I was made to understand that just before we arrived, they we 24 lambs that was just taken to another Hari Raya event. Missed that lot.

Another one almost done.

A few more waiting for their turn, marinated and all.

After the yummy feast at Fida's we rushed over to Azleen's. Over here I did not take a lot pictures because I was too full, and I had Zaim on my lap the whole time. Now that I want to update here, I realised that I don't have much and not even a photo of Yana the birthday girl. If you wish to view more pictures especially the cute birthday girl and her Yummy Mummy plus the lovely balloon deco check out the birthday girl's aunt's blog.

Inspite of already stuffed with lamb and all, we managed to try out most of the dishes there. We started off with the birthday cake and the lovely cuppy cakes made by Mira herself, check out her cup cakes blog. There was also some self grown Ubi Kayu served with Sambal Ikan Bilis, how authentic is that? Had I not remembered that I have stuffed myself earlier I could have gone on.

Azleen taking a break from playing hostess and joining us for lunch.

Zaim happy that he managed to blow this party favour finally.

Wohooo!!!

House of Sundanese Food, Suria KLCC

Happy Birthday Izam!!!! Yesterday was Izam's Birthday. She chose the House of Sundanese Food at KLCC for her birthday treat. We all trooped over to that place for a big big meal as follows. It was lovely as expected. For those not familiar with this place, I have some pictures for future reference, he!he!he!

Once you sit down, they will serve this Malinja Crackers and a tiny mortar of belacan. This combination is just simply superb, especially at lunch time, way past your lunch time.

We ordered this soup, thinking that we wanted something gravyish to have with our rice, knowing that we will be ordering dry dishes. So this soup here is called Sayur Asam (RM5.50 per bowl). It has quite a tangy taste. It is supposed to be an appetizer. I found that it goes well if you just sip it like a soup, doesn't work too well especially like me, I chose the Nasi Kuning (sorry forgot to take a picture of this Yellow Rice) instead of Plain White Rice.

This is Cumi Cumi Bakar (RM7.50 per pc), Yes, so it's basically one piece of this Squid basted with sweet sauce and slowly grilled over charcoal per person. Really nice, one piece person may sound insufficient however, if you order more than one dish, it's quite sufficient. That coming from me, you gotta believe.

We had 2 dishes that were the Piece de resistance, because they are really good. Trust me. The first one is this Sedap Ikan Seabass Bakar - Cooked Sundanese Style, apparently the basting process itself is an art. It prevents drying out leaving a juicy succulent fish a special sweet sauce. Really it does. Oh, and it costs RM59.90 per dish. A ha! my friend. No joke.

This is the other Piece de Resistance that we seldom take cause you don't really get that much flesh, nevertheless, it's worth trying. It's aptly called Ikan Nila Goreng, The Sundanese "Dancing Fish" that tastes every bit as wonderful as it looks. The fish is deep fried to make the skin crispy and the flesh succulently juicy. The price is a juicy RM43.90 per plate.

Me and Izam, the Birthday Girl.

This one here is the Sambal Terong RM13.00. A simple fried eggplant dish that is topped with a thick mildly spice sauce.

Izam, Zailan (who has under the table, a newly purchase Blackberry, hate him!) and Norlina (our boss).

Azleen and Zakiah.

From Left to Right: Norlina, Zila, Hafiz, Linda and Maisura.

For dessert, I had this Es Cendol. Yum! This is RM4.50 each.

Maisura had this Es Campur costing RM6.00 per bowl.

And the majority who were Mango lovers, had this Mango Lolo. Yes, it is a good as it looks and only RM4.50 each.

Cannot resist another angle.

There were other dishes ordered that are featured here. We also order Kerodok which is actually our version of Gado-Gado, Gado-Gado Ayam, which is as the name explains, Gado-Gado with chicken and not with peanut sauce, but with a much lighter dressing. Hafiz also ordered Ayam Bumbu Rujak because he doesn't eat fish. This is chicken in a smooth rich sauce of blended spices and chillies, quite good. Oh, finally the Kangkung Cha, which is Kangkung Vege cooked in Tau Cheo(Soya Bean paste). Here's the very long bill. Srutinising it, I found that the 1st line, was Emping, this was the Malinja crackers that was served once you are seated, well didn't know they charge them!!! I have always thought they were free.

Delicious Lunch

I will hardly say no to an invite to have a meal at delicious. Never! Last week, we were supposed to choose a place to eat, because our boss wanted to treat us. So there were a few suggestions and we were supposed to vote. Delicious at the new Dua Residence Annexe was one of the choices, however, it lost to another place, which will be another blog update. Anyhow, just the day before that particular meal with boss and the whole department, Zak and I decided to go to delicious anyway, for a meal. Hafiz joined us too, cause Zak owe him a Pavlova. Whatever!!!

That was our first time at the Dua Residence Annexe Delicious outlet. The entrance... nice, you have to take the elevator from the Basement Car Park. It's at Level 1.

As you can see, it retains the same deco as in their other outlets, the white-washed branches springing out of the pillars and walls, and also the white-washed birdcages. Loads of tables and sitting arrangements, the long couches with scatter cushions are there too, and I noticed, there is even an area for a band with some sofas and low coffee tables, perhaps for evening guests.

Diving straight to our meal, for appetiser, we had the Calamari. Which came surprisingly in a shrunken bowl!! Am I imagining things? I'm not sure, I remember that it used to be a bigger serving!!!

My compulsory choice of beverage each time I come here, is the Frosty Lemon Tea. I love it!

The Garden Salad - the dressing is out of this world.


Seriously Delicious Cheeseburger

Spicy Seafood Spaghetti

Yes, we finished every little bit, not even a tiny morsel is spared or rather wasted!!

Even packed to go!

For me personally, the piece de resistance comes at the end of the meal,

in the form of the Berrilicious Chocolate Pavlova.

and this Chocolicious Sundae.

Our sated and satisfied (a.k.a stuffed) faces!

I'm quite sure I have raved about probably the same dishes during other times that I was at Delicious. However, what warrants this other entry and particularly this Dua Residence Outlet is the other thing that they have here which is - Delicious Ingredients, situated at Ground Floor. This place is a deli cum mini mart selling assorted gourmet stuffs including your normal daily necessities that you can find in your local mini mart. They even have kitchen utensils and equipments from various brands including my fav. Kitchen Aid mixer... sigh! Managed some shots of some of the items sold. This place is fantastic. Would definitely come back here.

A vast selection of marshmallows, nougats and such.

Lovely Chocies.

Equipments for you kitchen.


Roasting dish.

My dream mixer... still!

Beautifully laid out , on the left are more chocolates, I spotted bars of Belgian Chocolates, I had to refrain myself from buying them. That was a tough moment for me. Ha!ha! The steel rack in the centre holds an array of multi-shaped and sized pastas. Some unusual ones that you will not find at your local Hyper Market! Cannot remember what's on the left perhaps tea or herbs and spices. Some close up pictures below.

The chocolate bars that I mentioned earlier.

The pasta.

These are marinated/pickled artichokes, sun-dried tomatoes and olives.

Ready to eat or to add to your pasta and salads.

Jars and bottles of sauces & spices.

Vanilla Bean pods!!!

Are they all lovely?? Well, I think they are. I must go back next time and actually buy something. When that happens, you can be sure that I will blog about it here!