VinegPlus Bar @ Midvalley Megamall (LG Floor)

For quite sometimes, BOOST JuiceBar was always my favorite fruit juice option. Unfortunately, Mid Valley branch which always under filing, not even reach the line on the cup! After few times, I decided to clarify this matter with their staff but the answer i got was her black face and not even looking at me and impatiently answered 'It's reached the line" =.= Speechless.


By chance, we passing by Vinegplus, located outside Manhattan Fish Market/ Nando's, the staff walked to us to give us a try and some briefing on their beverages. 


VinegPlus - The Vinegar Bar is the dawn of a new concept. It combines a vinegar and a modern concept, that is presented in a wide range of blended (with fresh fruits) and non-blended vinegar drinks, which is tasty and refreshing, but also reflects the wellness of natural fruit vinegar. 

      


VinegPlus also market and retail a range of bottled vinegar, specifically to those who would like to share the products with their family and friends.

Fresh fruits

Menu. Blended Fruit Vinegar Smoothies & Fruit Vinegar Drinks with No sugar or Fruit Juice added.

  
You can choose choose your preference fruit vinegar with single/double fruit with only RM 1.00 different.

I choose Red Dragon Mango Joy in Jumbo Size! (RM10.90)

Simple and absolute healthy ingredient. Red dragon fruit, Mango, Vinegar, Water and Ice. And blend!

VinegPlus is aimed at promoting the culture of drinking healthy natural vinegar as a basis to enhance personal health and wellness to members of the public.

DALANG!

The friendly staff ( standing on cashier)!

Personally, I will choose VinegPlus from now on whenever i need a drink on Mid Valley. I would say VinegPlus was a much more healthier choice if compare to other juice bar which stated with 'No sugar added and 100% fruit juice'. 


Some so called fruit juice was usually being processed and contain no nutritional value other than massive amount of sugar added. Unless u order FRESHLY SQUEEZED one. =(











Location:

1) Mid Valley Megamall, KL (Level LG)
2) Tropicana City Mall, KL (Level LG)
3) Jaya Shopping Centre (Level 1)
4) Publika, Solaris Dutamas KL (Level UG)
5) Gurney Paragon Mall, Penang (Level LG)
6) Gurney Plaza, Penang (Level B1)

Restaurant Yen Yen A One @ Old Klang Road

During Sunday, woke up late for brunch and Dim Sum was crossed my mind. We always go to Restaurant Jin Xuan @ Kuchai Lama but their food quality was not consistent, prefer Puchong branch. 



We were lazy to drive far away to Puchong... We heard that recently Restaurant Yen Yen A One @ Old Klang Road was quite famous and highly recommended by some Facebook food lovers group, why not we give a try?

Yen Yen A One Restaurant was a typical Chinese Restaurant located at Old Klang Road, selling Chinese dishes and Dim Sum. What make them special they were selling Dim Sum 24/7 with a single price tag at RM 3 only!

Wide variety of Dim Sum from steamed, stewed, deep fried, porridge & Cheong Fun. Once we seated, we ordered Hot Chinese Tea and after we flagged our hand for awhile, finally a staff brought us their order slip.

Siew Mai with Salted Egg Yolk. A little piece of salted egg yolk inside siew mai. Taste normal.

Fish & Pork Roll. The sauce taste alike Thai Chili Sauce. This was yummy.

Prawn Cheong Fun. A layer of Cheong Fun with some prawn cube inside. Soy sauce was a bit salty. Sambal paste was ok. However, the single layer of Cheong Fun was not satisfying.

Stuffed Egg Plant. This dish was my all time favorite. It's quite delicious to be eaten together with Chili and sweet sauce.

  

Fried Yam Dumpling.

The yam filling was very thin and the BBQ Pork was a bit too sweet. Crispy and overall it's ok.

Shrimp Dumpling in Angelica (Dong Guai) Soup. 

The dumpling was not up to standard but still acceptable. Angelica soup was very strong Dong Guai flavor.

Creamy Custard Bun.

Thumb up for the salted egg yolk custard. But too disappointing with the bun. The bun was very hard and dry. 

Char Siew Pau.

Char Siew fillings was quite generous but slightly too sweet for our preference. The bun was having same problem as Custard bun which was very dry and hard.

Deep Fried Carrot Cake. Generous portion but we barely can taste carrot cake flavor and it's too sticky. Perhaps too much rice flour added.








Conclusion, the food here was very affordable and value for money, probably 1 of the cheapest Dim Sum around KL & PJ area. Eat whatever you want and no need to worry about the bill that would burn a hole in pocket. Meanwhile, the food was just average and advise that do not come here with high expectation. You get what you pay for.

Rating:

Food - 2/5

Price - 4/5 

Service - 2.5/5

Ambiance - 2.5/5

Location: 

 No. 233 & 235, 4th Mile Old Klang Road, 58100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel : 03-7984 5972






Hours:
Daily. 24 hours.

Have Laollao before Monday Blue to cheer up abit! =D

 

ROCKU Yakiniku @ Pavilion KL

This weekend we were craving for BBQ! That's been a long time since our last visited to ROCKU Yakiniku.

ROCKU, a casual and edgy BBQ restaurant with the mixture of modern yet traditional concept. BBQ Buffet with 20 delectable dishes from delectable buffet spread with 100mins time limitation, price at Buffet Lunch WEEKDAY (RM39.90++) while Buffet Dinner & Buffet Lunch WEEKEND (RM49.90). Child 50% OFF.



There's only half occupancy inside restaurant, thus no line up needed as last time.

ROCKU also entertain their guest with live band performances that play modern and classic music with various genres such as Pop-Rock, Acoustic and Jazz.

Write your order on the order menu, ranging from beef to lamb, pork and chicken, flown in from Australia and New Zealand. Not to forget Shishamo, Salmon cube, Mussels and Enoki Mushroom in fossil cup! My favourite.

Pork collar

Bacon

Fresh Scallops, Mussels & Salmon Cube. A drizzle of saice over them!

In addition to BBQ option, generous range of cooked food. Salad, Kimchi and other marinated side dishes.

Fried spaghetti, rice, vege and dumplings.

Edamame Beans was provided too =)

Raw vege

Chawanmushi!

 

3 type of sauces. Enhance your food flavor with some dips! Spicy Miso, Ponzu, ROCKU Chilli Sauce.

Time to start BBQ!

Miso soup. Taste wise.

Cold Platter!

Refilled another plate of seafood!

My all time favorite. We cook scallops, broccoli, salmon in enoki fossils cup with some miso soup added! Yum!

Fresh and big scallops

 Compared to our last visit, the pork selection wasn't taste as good as previously. Meat was too thin and dry. Thus, besides seafood and some cooked food, i ate oranges... Juicy... LOL





Nice ambiance and live band to dine in here. But 100mins limit is very limited time to wait for order, BBQ & eat.  Ice cream is not included and green tea is not refillable.=(


This can considered as satisfying and quite good value meal but only for seafood range rather than meat. Quality was dropped compared to our last visit. Quality control needed to bring back the crowd.

Rating:

Food - 3/5

Price - 3.5/5 

Service - 3.5/5

Ambiance - 3.5/5

Location: 

Level 7.01.03, Pavilion KL, 168, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Tel : 03-2148 8884






Hours:
Daily. (11am till 10pm)

COCO.TEI Tokyo Japanese Cuisine (Last day operation on 15/2/2016) (Relocation to Hotel Holiday Inn Express)

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR & HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!

We celebrated our Valentine's Day and had dinner at Coco.Tei Japanese Cuisine Restaurant. Coco.Tei which is always my No.1 choice for Japanese Cuisine, credit to it's fresh and quality ingredient.

Coco Tei Japanese Cuisine Restaurant, which formally known as Hajime Restaurant, reopened in year 2011 located in the heart of KL continues to serve fresh and authentic Japanese fine dining with a fusion of traditional and modern.

Coco Tei Restaurant was open space and well decorated with wooden logs and stone interior.  At Coco.Tei, you can dine either at the bar or tatami seating.

We reached around 7.30pm and didn't make reservation that day. It's fully booked! Luckily we get our seats at the bar. 

Sitting in front of chefs and enjoy by looking at the preparation of sashimi and sushi in professional way.

5 bottles of marinates plums!

We immediately served by Green Tea & menu. Time to make order!

Green Tea. Complimentary. FOC. More to plain yet aromatic flavor which required in Japanese Cuisine ( so you can taste every bite of sushi / cuisine ingredients).

Dinnerware.

Sweet sauce & soy sauce.

Garlic Fried Rice (RM 8). Thumb up to it's flavorful and garlic fragrance. Perfectly done.

Salmon Maki (RM 10).  Fresh salmon bites melted in my mouth! 


I have to highlight that their WASABI is added with some sugar if i am not mistaken ( to decrease hot level and bring out the food freshness taste).

Onigiri Ume (Plum) (RM 6). Plum Onigiri. Salty sweet homemade plum sauce on top of Onigiri. We expect there's a plum inside this Onigiri but it's only plum sauce. Too much plum sauce for our liking.

Coco Maki (RM 38). My favorite. Deep fried tuna fish with bread crumb, topping with eel and flying fish roe with special garlic and spicy sauce.


Crispy fried tuna fish wrapped in seaweed and rice roll, topping with a slice of grilled eel and popping fish roe. Perfect combination.

California Cheese Maki (RM 28). Eel and cheese topping California roll with special sauce. A MUST AND MOST WORTHY ORDER!


LOOK AT THOSE THICK SLICES GRILLED EEL! It's so fresh, perfect proportion of fats and meat melting in my mouth! 


Classic California Roll ( Yummy!!) covered with fresh popping flying fish roe. Feel so good when fish roe popping in my mouth while chewing refreshing California roll. I am happy gal!

Hand me the California Cheese Maki and no one get hurt! =D

CocoTei Lady's Set (RM 55). Sashimi, Deep Fried Dish, Steamed Dish, Grilled Dish, Sushi Roll, Soba, Relish, Salad & Chawanmushi.

Beautiful and unsophisticated decoration. Sashimi betwixt 7 small proportion dishes in rattan basket. Coming with chawanmushi and salad. Proportion was just perfect for a lady appetite. 

Chawanmushi. Super duper smooth and fragrant. Love the mushroom on top!

Salad. Appetizer! Taste wise.

Sashimi!!! Salmon, tuna, hamachi & butterfish. Absolute fresh and melting in mouth!

Grilled dish of the day. Grilled Saba Fish. Fresh and covered by delicious teriyaki sauce! Note that Saba fish has many tiny bone, be careful when you eat it!

Maki and Natto. I don't like this maki because of rice was too soft. Natto was ok, forget about it if you can't take strong flavor of fermented soybean.

Fried dish of the day - Fried little chicken drumstick. Taste normal.

Soba - Thumb up. Yummy!

Relish - Some kind of chicken salad. 

 Last but not least. Steamed dish - steamed chicken. Broth was super nice, concentrate and sweet!

The master chef.

The ambiance, decoration and food here were real, unsophisticate and nothing pretentious.  Scrumptious food at high quality and fresh with reasonable prices charge. 


Coco Tei also provides extensive collection of sake and alcohol drinks imported from Japan!

When the bill came, the staff told us that the day we paid visit (Valentine's Day, 14th Feb 2016) was last 2nd day they operating their business here!!! 15th Feb 2016 will be the last day they operate at Jalan Delima, KL. Such a waste for this beautiful place!

HEY... But don't worry... They will continue to serve authentic yummy Japanese Cuisine around mid-March 2016, relocate to HOTEL HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS.

The decoration at entrance

Last memory of Coco.Tei which I had been paid my visit for 5 years (From studied in Uni till working now). So many memories here =(




Can't wait for the re-open of Coco.Tei on March 2016! 

Rating:

Food - 4.5/5

Price - 3.5/5 

Service - 4/5

Ambiance - 5/5

Location: 

No.5, GF-B, Jalan Delima, 55100, Kuala Lumpur.

Tel : 03-2141313 / 1800-88-6655



RELOCATION ADDRESS ON MARCH 2016

HOTEL HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS
No.84, GF, Annex, Jalan Raja Chulan, 50200, KL. (Opposite Istana Hotel)






Hours:
Daily. 

LUNCH
10.30am - 2.30pm (Last Order 2.00pm)

DINNER
6.00pm - 10.30pm (Last Order 10.00pm)