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Showing posts with label Vegetarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vegetarian. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Food from Various Places

Here is fish fillet braised with almond flakes and poured with lemon sauce from Mizi at Tesco outlet in Straits Quay. Veges such as sliced carrots, a floret of cauliflower, some green peas and steamed potato wedge are garnished to complement this delicious meal. I love patronizing Mizi Bistro for its very affordable and reasonably charged western food. They also offer a fusion of both western and eastern food and there are 3 branches in Penang - one in Prangin Mall, one in New World Park and the latest in Tesco, Straits Quay. The chain of food is owned by a former executive chef with working experience in a 5-star hotel.

This is my favorite dish of fish florentine which consists of dory fish fillets on top of braised spinach and topped with cheese powder. The white sauce was just pure ambrosia and heavenly!  I will always order my favorite fish and the waiter can already anticipate what I am going to order each time I come here.

As you have already guessed, the dish above comes from a Chinese restaurant - slices of fish stir-fried with chopped spring onions and garlic. It was ordered from Xuan Xin Restaurant in Gurney Plaza, an upmarket shopping mall in Penang which is currently undergoing renovation and expansion. You will be lucky if you can find a car parking bay during school holidays!

Also from Xuan Xin Restaurant, this is large prawn omelette and garnished with parsley. Though this meal looks appetizing, the doctor just advised me to cut down on seafood like prawns which has high cholesterol. I just went for a blood test last week and the results were not too good, I failed in 6 categories of the overall test which means that certain abbreviations like HDL, LDL, etc were above the normal range. So now I am taking 1,000mg of Omega-3 fatty acids 3 times a day to lower my blood cholesterol level and to prevent future heart attack or heart disease. My dad already has 3 clogged arteries and it seems this could be hereditary.

Here is stir-fried spinach with oyster sauce, from Xuan Xin Restaurant. You can choose a set meal for 2 persons with several choices of 2 main meals and a vegetable meal from a list of 6 to 7 vegetables and different sauces like garlic, oyster sauce, etc. There are 2 bowls of rice with 2 bowls of soup, a drink each for about RM 50 after tax (USD 16.70).

As my friend is a member of Chinese Recreation Club, we went to the Chinese restaurant with 10% discount using the member card. Above is steamed fish cooked in Teochew style which is sourish where slices of assam are added to add the zing. Black shitake mushrooms, straw mushrooms, preserved vegetables are added with slices of ginger and carrots and garnished with spring onions. The fish is garoupa and it is quite delicious in this cooking style. Don't throw away the soup as all the flavors are infused during the cooking and this makes it very delicious.

This is fried chicken coated with some batter for crunchyness and added with Thai chilly sauce. I have forgotten where I ordered this meal as I normally snap a lot of photos from the various places for posterity.

The set meal above was ordered from a Taiwanese Tea Restaurant in Queensbay Mall near Bayan Lepas. If I don't go to Gurney Plaza every night, then I will be at Queensbay Mall once in a while for a change of location. I love the blue champaign milk tea with brown sago pearls or also known as boba. 

 The meal above was part of the buffet breakfast in City Bayview Hotel in Kuah, Langkawi. I was in Langkawi last month for business. See the granite table top which makes the ambiance classy and elegant.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Dinner at Simple Life Vegetarian Restaurant

I was in Kuala Lumpur last week and dined at a vegetarian outlet in Sunway Pyramid known as Simple Life Restaurant. Above is my order of Sweet and Sour Crispy Abalone Mushroom set which consists of a bowl of organic brown unpolished rice, fried spring roll, a small portion of different vegetables and a bowl of old cucumber soup. There is a slice of water melon and the main dish - sweet and sour crispy abalone mushroom.

Here is a close up shot of the sweet and sour crispy abalone mushroom with cashew nuts, tomatoes, cucumber, yellow bell peppers and of course the abalone mushrooms served in a wok-like bowl.

My friend's order of organic multi-grain porridge paired with various vegetables and hard-boiled egg sliced into two which is topped with a star aniseed for visual appeal.

Beautiful lights hang precariously over the tables and exude a soothing mood to the ambience.

I took the liberty to ask a waiter to pose for this shot and notice the wordings on his t-shirt - "I love my papa & mama" - which I thought was appropriate for father's day and mother's day celebration here. Simple Life Restaurant was patronized by many diners because of the quality of food, service, ambience and affordable pricing. If you like to try this spanky new restaurant, the details are below:

Simple Life Restaurant
LG2-126A, Blue Atrium, Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall
No. 3, Jalan PJS 11/15, Bandar Sunway, 46150 PJ, Selangor