belanga @ empire

i never really wanted to try belanga. i think i walked pass it more than a couple of times in midvalley, but maybe the name never striked me as intersting, or i've never really heard people rave about the food? so it never crossed my mind to try this place. one of my friends wanted to try it for lunch, so went along to check out the food there.

i wasn't impressed with the cake selection displayed. the 7 layer-ed colored cake looked dry and dense. you could tell just by looking at it that it was not good cake. so my advice would be to not order the cakes there. but i wasn't there for the cakes.

so tried this thing called nasi tumpang which sounded rather interesting. you get to choose either the fish or the prawn ones, and naturally being a fish lover, i tried the fish. its supposedly a kelantanse cuisine. and its something like rice cakes/ketupat/the satay rice thingies with fish floss. that is the most apt description i can come up with. its something different and i really liked it, especially the spicy fish floss. i would definitely come back for this. 6.90 for this, totally worth it. perhaps i will try the prawn one next time.

portions a little small though for lunch so need to order something in addition to this. or maybe i just have a big appetite who knows. had the curry noodles as well, but i thought it was just ordinary and nothing to brag about. nothing special and i probs won't order this again. maybe next time i will go fro the moer traditional kind of kelantanese food they serve, since they pride themselves on that. maybe the nasi dagang next time.

belanga
upper ground,
empire shopping gallery
ss16/1
(they also have a branch in midvalley)
opening times: 10am-10pm daily

el fresco @jaya grocer empire subang

i'm a huge fan of salmon. i can eat salmon for breakfast lunch and dinner and not be sick of it i kid you not. i'm very particular about salmon though. because i eat salmon that much, i can so easily tell good salmon from bad salmon. perfect salmon need to be slightly pink in the middle. even a tad bit overcooking the salmon makes it very dry and difficult to eat which is pity because salmon is a very beautiful piece of fish.

i have had so much good salmon in the uk and have been on the hunt to find well-cooked salmon in malaysia. so far, i've been disappointed time after time. delicious, tgi, chillis, so far they tend to overcook their salmon, drying out the salmon, making it taste like dried out chicken breast. then i discovered fresco.

the great thing about fresco, is that you pick your fish from jaya grocer, then you take it to them and they grill it for you, perfectly. grilled to perfection. previously, cooking fees was free, but now, you have to pay a fees if you purchase under 20 ringgit. so it makes more sense to buy a 20 ringgit piece of salmon. u get to add sides for 6 bucks, a choice of potatoes, salmon or grilled vegetable and potatoes. i normally just have the salmon there though my friends always have the roast chicken and they too rave about the yummyness of the roast chicken and the mash.

 

so fish fans/salmon fans out there, you must not miss this place=]

 

 

el fresco

jaya grocer

lg floor

empire subang gallery ss16/1 subang jaya

opening times: 10am-10pm

 

 

till next time foodies,

 

the unfit from,

big fat unfit foodies

 

chillis @ empire

chillis.decided to come here for lunch for some comfort food. we ordered the trio appetizer which had chicken fingers, buffalo wings and these mexican kind of rolls. it was really bad on all kinds of levels. the wings hardly had any meat on them. there was too much batter on the chicken fingers. the only decent thing were probably the rolls. the standard has dropped so so much since i was in my teens. not something i'd oreder again unless i have one of my muffin days.

let me tell you my muffin story. i don't like muffins. i know i don't like muffins. but sometimes when i pass by say starbucks or any kind of shop that sells muffins, i'm just so tempted to buy muffins, just cuz they are so pretty-looking. and when i take a bite, it reminds me all over again why i don't like muffins. i know right, i'm a tad bit weird.

pure nachos were so-so. they weren't wow like last time, they were just okay. this, u had to eat them hot. when i was younger they used to come with guacamole, but now, you had to order the guacamole separately. i was abit disappointed by that. the nachos, you had to eat them hot. once cooled down, yep, not good at all.

came with my cousin and we decided that chillis food-super cannot make it. however, their dessert on the other hand was amaze-balls. choco lava cake with vanilla ice-cream, caramel sauce and a chocotop. this was amazing. i had like 2, 2 days consecutively. i didn't like the choco top much and the vanilla ice-cream was not of the greatest quality, but, you just needed that vanilla ice-cream there to cut through the sweetness of the caramel sauce and the molten cake. the choco molten cake was so good. like it was just the whole thing that was super good. the combination of hot and cold. the best chocolate lava cake i have had so far, and trust me i was once on a choco-lava cake eating spree and i've tried really bad ones and also mediocore ones. this is by far the best.

Lot G-17 Ground Floor

Empire Shopping Gallery
Jalan SS 16/1,
47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor

opening hours: 11am-11pm (mon-thurs), 11am-12am (fri-sun)

trust me on this one, if you have not had choco-molten-lava cake before, you have not lived. you have wasted the past (insert how old you are) years of ur life.

till next time,

the unfit from,

big fat unfit foodies. 

tong pak fu

tong pak fu, well the ones i normally visit is the one in empire, midvalley, ss15 and sunway pyramid. they do have plentiful of outlets though. they take pride in their tracka durian-snow-ice and d24 durian snow-ice, many durian lovers flock over to tongpakfu for their durian desserts. i've tried their tracka durian ice before, but its not my fav. i still prefer chilled real genuine durains, anytime. it tasted slightly to mild down and hence slightly artificial for me.

so i normally order the black sesame ice instead. if you don't know i'm an avid goma-adzuki beans fan. like avid. the topping are normally jelly but i always chnge them to all red-beans. i just feel like it goes better. the black sesame flavour is really there. this is my usual whenever i visit tongpakfu. and it is a musttry for all black sesame fans out there. this tops the durian series, any day. 8.90 for a regular serving.

decided to be adventurous one of the times and tried the soya ice and the mango in milk with sago. i'm not a fan of sago so the mango thing was not my thing. i love the soya ice series in snowflake so i was looking forward to this as well. but boy was i disappointed. it was really extremely bad. i literally took only a few spoonfuls and left it to melt away-yes it was that bad. it was quite tasteless.

being a black sesame fan, i ordered the black sesame tangyuens, coated in black sesame. to my disappointment, there was too little black sesame filling inside. priced at 4.90, super not worth it. the first batch that came was super undercook and i had to request for another one. was not impressed at all. and the servers there could not understand my english, nor mandarin either. i'm always not a fan of service industries employing people who can't even communicate in the same language. i mean waht kind of service industry would that be then, right. they have the peanut filling one as well, same price. initially, well according to the very misleading brochure, i thought i'd be getting 3 black sesame tangyuens and 3 peanut tangyuens for 5 bucks. but i was wrong. super misleading menu.

choco lava cake (which took forever). i am in love with choco lava cakes. the hot-cold-combo, to me is just perfect. okay what i liked about this was the black sesame tuille that came with the dessert. what i didn't like about it was the cake. i felt it was slightly burnt because the cake was very bitter. it was baked to perfection, yes with a very gooey consistency in the centre but the taste was off. i've had better.

well. i'm still a tongpakfu lover, but, just for the black sesame ice and nothing else.

till next time,

the unfit from,
big fat unfit foodies

Serai @ Empire

Having heard people rave about the amazing desserts in Serai, I had to try it for myself.

they had a pretty neat and interesting selection of desserts it was like i wanted to try almost everything because almost everything sounded so interesting and so good. pistachio creme brulee (i'm a sucker for creme brulees. it was love at first bite when i had my very first creme brulee in paris), nutella ravioli (i mean how does this not sound interesting right seeing how raviolis are normally savory-orientedm and i mean nutella, hello?), berry pavlova (you have no idea how many people i've heard talking about the amazing sugar explosion in your mouth of this berry pavlova), Banoffee pie(I'm and avid fan of banoffee pie. back in london, i used to eat like the whole pie, just me, my spoon and dear old banoffee), swiss roll meringue, cempedak cheese cake, i could go on and on. 

see what i mean, they aren't classic desserts. they don't do classic new york cheesecake bake, they do cempedak cheesecakes, they don't do nutella cakes, they do nutella raviolis, they have this spin to their menu, making their desserts seem out-of-the-ordinary.

so yes, i had my expectations set pretty high. 

the tough part was choosing. we settled for the berry pavlova and the banoffee pie. i mean pavlova came recommended, and banoffee is our all time fav dessert, like i said, me and my tray of banoffee and my spoon.

 the berry pavlova-basically meringues layers sandwiching cream and fresh berries in between. maybe because i set my expectations too high, this was a huge disappointment. textural wise, the meringue was a disappointment. it should be a melt in the mouth kind of texture, kind of like a marshmellow-ish texture, but that's not what i got. the meringue was a huge fail. also, the cream was meant to cut through the sweetness of the meringue but i felt like there was a tad bit too much cream. plus i've had the best pavlova elsewhere  but i'll save that for another post. so yea, not something i would order ever again. plus for 14.80++ you'd expect more berries, like at least sufficient berries to go with every bite, but nope.

chocolate banoffee pie-banana and toffee, go figure. the classic ones i used to have in uk is a digestive base, topped with banana coated with loads of toffee, and topped with whipped cream. i'm not a fan of whipped cream so i normally scrap the cream aside, so i can't comment on how this chocolate-whipped cream differed from a classic banoffee. there were lots of bananas, but if you notice, there are hollow areas between the bananas, so i kind of felt like they could have done better. there was insufficient toffee either. i guess with so many banoffees i've had, my benchmarks for this is quite high, and this did not make the bar. pricing similar to the pavlova, i guess i just expected more.

but the drink-wise, the honeydew blast was amazing-its basically ice blended fresh honeydews, with lychee and a hint of lime. it was so good, i whacked the whole drink before i could even take a picture of it. trust me. priced at 10.50, i order it everytime i Serai. and if u were thinking of ordering the seraiiced tea which does look pretty captivating, lemon sorbet, lemongrass extract and a hint of fresh mint, i'd suggest otherwise. the previous tops the latter hands down, even price-wise. the serai iced tea is priced at 12.50 and tastes a tad bit weird. 

overall, a disappointment. the food-great i mean (for another day), but these 2 desserts, not something i'd recommend. not worth your ka-ching. but that's not to say i won't go back for the really good sounding choco-lava-cake, or nutella ravioli. 

serai restaurant, 

empire shopping gallery

LG Floor

ss16/1

opening times: 10am-10pm.

till next time,

the unfit from

the big fat unfit foodies.