Seed Café @ Midvalley

I made plans to hang out at Midvalley with my friend. Knowing our hang out location for the night, I thought we should try something different to eat. So I had some free time and decided to browse the internet and decide on which eatery I’m yet to try.

I was craving for some Malaysia delicacy soupy meal, with reasonable pricing of course. After going through the Midvalley website (hahahah), I decided on Seed Café.

The first thing I notice about this place is that it’s WHITE and PLAIN. I mean, it look pretty standard, not very impressive on the mood or theme (or lack) of the restaurant.  One thing that bothered me about the tables setting was that, they put this ‘mahjong’ paper on top of the white cloth. Perhaps it is to avoid staining the white cloth, but really, it feels like rather “cheap” looking.

We were immediately seated and given menus. Pretty much mixture of western and Malaysian dishes. I decided on Seed Prawn Noodles while my friend ordered Hainanese Chicken.

Seed Prawn Noodles

Visual Observation: 6/10

Served in a big white bowl, looks yummy and served warm. Looks plentiful and soup does not look too thick or oily.

Taste Evaluation: 4/10

While it looked good, I’m going to have to disagree with the taste. I’ve had prawn noodles before in local stalls and other restaurants. It taste pretty much the same but rather than being spicy it was pretty sweet. Now, I don’t like to have sweet dishes unless I crave for it. This was not was the sweet craving moment. Plenty of small and big prawns, the soup was not spicy, so for those who wants more spiciness need to mix some chili given (separately). Kinda defeat the purpose of writing SPICY SOUP on the menu!!

I think a Chinese street stall is way better and richer in taste. Personally, I don’t think it has a notable taste that you can definitely say it belongs uniquely to Seed Café.

Hainanese Chicken

Visual Observation: 3/10

I honestly think the presentation can be improved, it does not have the “put together” feel, honestly to me it looked rather lame.  I’m itching to say the Chicken Rice Shop have better food display LOL

Taste Evaluation: 4/10

I’m writing this base on what my friend commented.

She said the rice was ok nothing special about it, but the chicken (which is the main thing) did not have much taste, pretty blunt. The food was warm. But she was not happy nor did she feel like it has any exceptional qualities.

Overall conclusion: Meh-should improve more!

Again I would like to emphasis, that I only review what my friend(s) and I ate. Since we only tried two dishes from this eatery that does not mean we claim the other food offered here are bad as well.

I honestly think it can be improved. I mean price is about RM12++ and above, but the food quality does not justify the pricing. 

Pronto Grab and Go (Coffee) @ Bangsar South

I’m not entirely very sure when they opened a small cosy corner in Bangsar South. This place is located at Horizon Phase 2, Tower 8, Avenue 5. I liked this place, a very good place to have your morning coffee with your friends before heading for work. I think this place live up to its name: Grab and Go. It’s not a big place but big enough to for 8 people.  They draw their menu on a big chalkboard. Looks neat and for someone who are not sure what latte or cappuccino mix is about, it is shown in their menu diagram.

They don’t really have much choices when it comes to their coffees. The friendly girl at the counter told us they will eventually add more in time. So far they have the usual coffee mix both hot and cold. They even serve chocolate drinks and some pastries. What disappointed me about this place is that they serve standard size go cups (slightly smaller than medium). So for an addict like me, that is rather disappointing. Also their serving for macchiato was small cup (smaller than their standard cup). I was disappointed because I always enjoy a good macchiato anytime.

Latte

Visual Observation: 3/5

Coffee and milk looks creamy and smooth. I just wish their coffee art was better.

Taste Evaluation: 5/5

I love their smooth coffee, its not too strong, that you had to add sugar but not too light that it taste like flavored coffee. I think their latte was quite good, not amazing but quite good. I enjoyed every sip (which was not enough T-T).  

Overall conclusion: Good

I liked their friendly and quick service. It’s always nice to have a good coffee and a friendly barista. I will try their drink again.  

No government or service tax. 

P/S: I am a regular at this place despite the small portion. I've tasted the Milk Chocolate and The Boss. Both were good. Yum!

Updated: I always thought the word 'Pronto" means fast. But i stand corrected by my Italian friend Fabio, He said Pronto means "Ready". He also said Italians answer their phone by saying "Pronto" rather than the standard "Hello".
Thank u !! :)

Fatboy’s The burger Bar and Mad About Coco @ Publika

Fatboy’s The burger Bar (not Halal)

My sister and our friend Suga, decided to hit something big in portion and heavy for lunch. And we did just that.

We decided to go for the burger bar around 2.30pm. I know, it’s a little pass our lunch time. But can you blame the KL traffic. So what are the rumours I heard about this burger bar? Burgers are different and unique. Its big portion and last you for a whole week (people tend to exaggerate).

So when we walked in, the first thing I saw was the gangster looking, fat boy with beefy arms, logo. Funny that is how I pictured him when I first heard of this place. I like the theme and the graffiti used in this place. Not many people around, maybe just a handful of late lunch goers such as ourselves.

There is about a list of about 10 types of burgers. All with unique name and combination. I went for something I know I never tasted before. We got two set of burger dish and one side dish.

Visual Observation: 8/10

Now the thing about burgers, it’s basically stacking. So if you mess that up. Your burger looks unappealing. So if the stacking is neat, you get good points.

Mahalo

Clean stack of burger with tiny Fatboy’s The burger bar flag. The sesame buns looks soft, and delicious. A nice helping of homemade fries.

The Elvis

Clean and neatly stacked burger with their signature flag. Dark oat buns. Also big slices of crispy fried potato. Yummy.

Honestly, I don’t know why I was expecting fat Elvis face on the bun for some reason. Sorry Elvis lovers LOL

Taste Evaluation: 8/10

Mahalo

This is basically pork all the way. Pork patty and caramelized onions, grilled pineapple. The buns are soft and the pork is juicy. I liked it, not too dry or too much meat that you feel like you gonna dislocate your jaw when you start chewing.

My sister got this one, I know she is not a big fan of onions and very picky if it is not caramelized properly. So my sis, she didn't take a liking to the onions perhaps it’s a bit too much for her. She liked the pork patty very much though.

The Elvis

Need I saw more, Fat Elvis = Peanut butter + banana. Thanks to my friend Suga, who recommend I try this baby.

Basically pork patty, peanut butter and banana. First bite, I loved it. I like how the pork patty goes well with smooth creamy peanut butter. You know how, sometimes peanut butter, tend to have slight salty taste. This one didn't have that. Instead when u bit further in you get this sweet grilled banana coated with peanut butter and when you chew them all up. It taste AWESOME.

I love how they cut the bananas into medium thin slices. But my only comment is that, Try not to put too much banana in it. For me when you are eating it at one point the sweet banana tend to overpower the meat. Now, I know that peanut butter and banana are like cute gay couple but sometimes it gets a little too much to handle. (no offense to gays out there).

I have to admit maybe it’s because of the untimely lunch we had. Both my sis and i did not finishing the fries. It was good but it was too much for me to finish. I may have sweep the plate clean if I was super hungry. But I guess I really wasn't at that time.

Deep fried calamari (side dish)

This one is not very remarkable that I want to jump up and dance about. Basically taste just like any other deep fried calamari dish and it comes with a normal dipping sauce. Just a reminder don’t eat this when its gets cold. Because that last piece was cold and when I took a bite it slapped me in the lips. OUCH!!! (Means it got rubbery)

Overall conclusion: Impressed and filling

I wanted to try a good unique burger and that is what I got. We enjoyed it very much and had fun teasing our quivering taste buds? Yes? No …..Wrong choice of word? LOL. Just make sure u make some “room” before you eat here. The portion are big and it can be a bit too much if you have something earlier. Very filling indeed.

All the burgers (comes with fries) is RM16++ and above. Tax and service charges is applied.

Mad About Coco

Yes, we did it on the same day. LOL We are goblins when it comes to food.

So I was looking at some food blogs and came across this place. First thing I saw was chocolate next thing I did was call my sis and made plans to go there.

This place is located at the second floor, above the Kari Mee Jawa. Just look up and if you spot a big afro with big glasses, then you are in the right place. The moment you walk up the stairs you can smell the chocolate. Yes just like in the cartoon, we got pulled in by the chocolate aroma. The whole place had this vintage 60’s café you see at old movies. I like their colour selection for the place. Very nice!.

It was almost 5pm when we got there, loads of youngsters like ourselves going HAHA and HEHEH over everything (quite noisy). So we found a nice little spot right behind the white curtain, I notice there was no menu. So I went to the counter and asked for some. The young lady at the counter said we should place our order and payment first at the counter. Not pay after.

So we decided on Innocent Devil Tiramisu Ball, Chocolate goodies in a pot, Traditional Chocolate Frappe and Chocolate Mojito.

Visual Observation

Innocent Devil Tiramisu Ball (RM20): 6+/10

The ball looks neat, cute and almost cuddly. White on the top dark on the bottom. But in my opinion, for RM20, I wish the ball was bigger and seriously those tiny biny slices of strawberry was really unacceptable. I’m sorry if I sound harsh, but really I was hoping for a nice portion for RM20. Say what you want “good things taste better in small portion” but I am a hardcore Malaysian gurl who likes my food to match the price they slap on it!

Chocolate goodies in a pot (RM18.50): 4/10

It was just a cute little pot with ice cream on the top. Not really notable. I mean at least I wasn't impressed.

Traditional Chocolate Frappe and Chocolate Mojito (RM15 each): 4/10

I mean besides the glass shape, I don’t know what else is impressive, I mean looking at it visually that is.

Taste Evaluation

Innocent Devil Tiramisu Ball: 8/10

Ok by far this was my favourite. I think this made a grand impression for me. I think the chocolatier did a good job. The waitress kindly asked us if we would like to take a picture of the ball before she poured the semi-hot chocolate over it. It got me thinking just how far we have come, that taking pictures of our food has become such a normal thing LOL.

Anyway, when she poured the chocolate over the ball it’s almost nostalgic to watch the top white part break and fall in under the chocolate syrup.

I think the dark chocolate syrup goes absolutely well with the devilish chocolate moist cake hiding underneath. LOL. We were already digging into it. I also wanted to call the waitress back so that I could lick the remaining chocolate off the small cup she poured the chocolate syrup from. HAHAH is that normal?

We all agreed it was the best and we all also wished it was bigger. LOL Almost screamed MOAR!!!!

Chocolate goodies in a pot: 4+/10

This one was a disappointment for me. I was expecting something different. Well it was not very goodie-ish for me. I mean I personally thought the cake under the vanilla flavoured ice cream, was rather dry and it was also stuck to the baking paper and pot. Making it difficult to scrape the cake and ice cream out together. Also I wish we had taken orange ice cream instead since it might have helped us enhance the taste. Otherwise it was just ok. Not so delicious like I imagined it to be.

I wished they used dark chocolate (slightly bitter) over the cake and orange ice cream instead.The chocolate used here was sweet and it did not mix well with the ice cream.

Traditional Chocolate Frappe: 3/10

This was rather disappointing for me. I was expecting more chocolate in it. But it felt more like powdered coco and was kind of tasteless. Also probably because of eating way too much chocolate earlier. But really I was expecting dark almost bitter sweet taste. Very icy was the first thing that came to my mind when I took a sip.    

I wished I had ordered chocolate martini instead.

Chocolate Mojito: 3+/10

I tasted this from my sister. I don’t think I taste anything different from mine. But the first thing I did notice is that it did not taste as icy as the above drink. I going to go with my sister’s comment. It was not something so impressive or rather stimulating to taste. Rather bland and don’t have enough chocolate taste to it.

Overall conclusion: Ok la

Ok I know this is not fair, because I order very little. But this review is based on what I ordered and tasted. So I would say, they might need to improve their drinks section. And of course looking around at other people’s table I did notice the portions are quite small. No service or tax charges. I might go again but will try something else.

Oyster King and Espresso Lab @ One Utama review

Oyster King

My friend Wanie and I was walking around thinking about what we wanted to eat, since I’ve already had a heavy lunch, I thought we could do something light. I remember seeing this Oyster King in groupon promotion but as usual it’s always packed and I’m not very sure how I feel about oysters since I don’t think I’ve ever ate it before. I think la.

I have to apologise about the lack of pictures because I didn’t know I was going to do this blog.

So we ordered Oyster noodle soup, deep fried oysters and oyster wantons. And No drinks LOL

So guess what, the first thing I did notice was that the workers were foreigner, not saying I have a problem with that but please make sure the one at the counter taking your order knows English at least. We had to repeat our orders a few time.

It took less than 10 minutes before all the food came to our tiny little corner table.

Visual Observation: 5/10

Looks good, not sloppy. Not a impressive display. The plate was oyster shaped and comes with a small area that contains the sauce. Portions are small for both fried dishes, so if you are ordering for large group than better to ask if they serve a larger portion.

Taste Evaluation: 3/10

Wantan

Ok like I mention before, I don’t know if I ever tasted oysters before this, so I was shocked that it tasted so salty. Like really salty. So I dipped my wanton in the sauce that came with it and nearly choked because the sauce was also salty. I really wish the sauce was sweet so that it could balance it out the saltiness from the oyster. But other than that it tasted good. Not rubbery or anything. Just salty.

Wantan Noodle Soup

I like this one better. I think it really goes well. The gravy was thick, thin noodles and had half boiled egg. The gravy balanced out the salty taste. Personally I recommend dipping and soaking your wanton and deep fried oysters in the noddle soap gravy before eating it.

Deep fried oysters

This is pretty much the same with wanton, also salty. It has crunchy exterior and chewy interior. This dish also came with dipping sauce and it was ……..u guessed it salty :P. Taste good no complains.

Overall conclusion: Can be improved

I would say, if they change the sauce to something thicker and sweeter, it would be awesome.

The service was fast (maybe because there was only two customers)

The dish was served hot and clean. Not sloppy.

Best of all not government or service tax. So basically it’s a cheap and affordable, Recommend for those who want to taste something light and different.

Espresso Lab

We took a while to find this place because, mainly because I had this impression it was a store instead of an outside booth\stall. You know what I mean, like an actual store/cafe?. …..errk no …just me …ok never mind then.

So we finally found the booth\stall, and there was single guy at the counter. He smiled and ask us to take our time in selecting our drinks. Ok this guy was also a foreigner and I think he is Filipino, but he can speak English well. This is who you need at the counter.

Wanie and I decided to go with the usual. Iced Latte for her and Cappuccino for me.  Yums !!

Visual Observation: 6/10

Iced Latte

The normal glass used for iced coffee. Nothing impressive. (not sure what I was expecting actually). Clean and not messy.

Cappuccino

Oh dear god, I made a mistake by asking for on-the-go cup, because I had the impression we were going for a walk right after we got our drinks. So instead of the big mug, I got a black take away paper cup. The plus point is that the barista (is what you call a person who makes coffee) made this cute leafy coffee design for me. I loved it.

Taste Evaluation: 3/10

Iced Latte

It taste good, rich coffee taste. Strong, but not too strong. Since this is my friend’s drink. I’m going with her comments. Like all coffee drinks (well mostly of course) they don’t come with sugar in it. So I recommend to take a sip, determine how bitter or strong your coffee is before you make a run for sugar syrups or packets.

Cappuccino

Strong coffee, but not too bitter. I usually like my cappuccino without any sugar, unless the coffee itself is too strong/bitter own its own. I think the milk balance it nicely and it’s smooth and taste nice with my sugar cinnamon bun (bought from lavender bakery).

Overall conclusion: It’s not bad

We would say that we are impressed with the taste rather than its visual observation. I mean, visual is nothing if it don’t taste good. (Works only on food not on ladies).

I wish the barista would have recommended more drinks for us to try. Like if he could have told us to try out any signature drinks that is Espresso lab’s speciality would have been great. Best of all not government or service tax.

We will be back next time to try other drinks. 

Hi world ....(hi nobody)

Since this is January 2014 still, I’m going to start a new blog on something that I enjoy talking about. As if before this was not about that in my previous blog LOL. But new year new blog right. This time it will be about review on things I’ve done.

I think I will go with being strict on reviews because I think, blog reviews really helps me understand people POV on things such as places and food. Most of the time when I look up at things I like or want to find out I did look for blogs because believe it or not, people are very honest when it comes to their thoughts and sentiments where their money and passion is concerned.

Let’s just introduce about myself not a whole lot but enough to get you to understand just what this person who writes this blog is all about.

First off, based on the blog title you should know that I am very passionate about coffee. I think I always liked coffee back when I was in primary school. I remember during the weekends when I’m at home I did try to take a very deep breath of fresh coffee (even though it’s instant) made by my mom before she takes a sip. Sometimes, I dare say most of the time I do take a sip of the coffee before my mom sees me. Yes I was a coffee sippy sippy thief even back then.

I can’t really tell for sure if I ever had that caffeine rush or anything like that back when I drank coffee (like the whole cup) when I was 12. I just remember liking the bitter sweet taste of coffee and the yummy smell.

I admit I am an addict. The word coffee and books and dogs brings such joy to me. LOL

Anyway, my regret now is not starting a blog back when I was drinking coffee (to no end) and was actively trying out different places that offer good coffee in Malaysia, mostly in Kuala Lumpur. Last year 2013, I had loads of fun, trying out different brand of coffees and cafes.

So here is my tiny bit of sentiments on coffee reviews and any other reviews I would like to share with you all. Enjoy