Thursday, March 08, 2012

Chu13 - Part III - Bibi Wok BBQ & Steamboat

Daddy was craving for Malaysia food after back long CNY holiday to Malaysia. He told family he miss Malaysia food a lot. Wondering is nice in Malaysia, and he's been craving for steamboat lately. I ever thought of having 2 in 1 at both time, which mean BBQ and steamboat together. Klang Valley famous for this type of food and I found out this Thailand restaurant which actually serving both, BBQ and steamboat.

BBQ & Steamboat Buffet

Bibi Wok BBQ & Steamboat located at the first floor of Bandar Puteri Puchong. I been confused for the first time where by I mistakenly been into the ground floor that serve Bibiwok Nyonya Thai Restaurant. Waitress guided me to first floor. I can feel of comfort, warmth, and relaxation as I step inside, a place where I can move easily to while grilling process taken place..

Restaurant  ambiance

Sitting on the floor

There are two sections for seating place. You can select either to sit on the floor for dining or even sitting on the table and chairs for dining. So called, crowded with people, reservation is needed if you're coming late otherwise, you have to wait for long queue to be seated, not surprising the place will be full with people especially weekends and public holidays.

Family gathering

The environment of the restaurant was very good with an extremely good advantage of having an exhaust hood to every grilling tray/table to draw off the smoky smell from grilling meats. You don't have to worry bout going home with smelly clothings anymore. =)

Aloe Vera Juice

Bibi Wok, buffet concept, an adult per head is RM28.00 excluded drinks. What can aspect with RM28 free flow of food until you get bloated without extra charges. Again, Eat till your drop!! I dare you to eat here. While for drinks you need to order separately, bear in mind you cannot refill your drinks..

Banana Leaves

 Banana leaves [spreaded with margarine]

It's a simple process while ordering food. Everything it's ready over here, no need to wait for long hours. Waiter or waitress will take down the orders, decorated all the food nicely in a basket and serve it to you in polite way in Thai Language. Family craving for spicy soup, we asked for Tong Yam soup. For those who cannot take spicy soup, no worries, Chicken soup available here as well.

I'm attracted to the soup as it's transparent color which different from the ordinarily orange-red Tong Yam soup that we used to have it. This transparent Tong Yam, which I rarely seen in my eyes. Perhaps I should pay a visit to Thailand one day, to try out they traditional Tong Yam soup. When I tasted on the Tong Yam soup, spicier than orange-red Tong Yam soup, kicky taste bud, I just love it!! =D

Of so many BBQ steamboat I been too, this restaurant have a specialty in the grilling process. They're using banana leaves [speared with margarine, avoid food stick on the banana leaves] for grilling, so that the food won't over burn it, it's more healthier where by the oil drip down on the banana leaves. You can eat and cook at the same time, it's awesome. Yummy, yummy drooling!!! xD 

Ready for grilling

Mixed varieties of  BBQ & steamboats

Here you are, the lovely basket of BBQ ingredients. Here's my favorite lamb meats, marinated well with Thai secret ingredients, all you have to do is just grill it for approximately 10-12 min, it's ready to put in your mouth. Hard to describe the feelings, I only can said "DELICIOUS". White fillet and chicken slices meat not bad either, fresh flesh just grill it in between 5-10min, it will cook perfectly. Mouth watering, thumbs up!!

Turkey Ham with vegetables

Grilling part 

Turkey hams and duck meat was here available here too, just grilled in between 2-3min flip both side, there you go can eat asap. Both meats are shredded in fine tiny slice, definitely easy to cook. You can even eat raw if you like it or if like it in the soup, you can cook it into the soup. 

SPICY Kerabu Mango

This is my favorites dish. Without this, the whole set of meal it's uncompleted. Sweet sourish SPICY Kerabu Mango to be eaten just like that or you even  wrapped in cabbage leaves. CAUTION!! beware of chili padi, make sure don't bite otherwise will burn your tongue.

Dad & Mom Loving <3

Family photo

We have family photo sessions for our memories. We enjoy our food here, more like become own chefs, cook and eat own-self. Iit was a very good experience, especially when you're going with large group of people, you have bigger change to taste more varieties of food. Recommended  to eat here. =)

Bibiwok Nyonya & Thai Cuisine
No.16 & 16-1, Jalan Persiaran Puteri 1,
Bandar Puteri Puchong, Selangor.

Contact: Annie Yap
Tel: 016-322 3319
Business Hours: 11am-4pm, 5.30pm-11pm

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Chu13 - Part II - Starbucks Taipan Subang Jaya

Second round was tea break at Starbucks Taipan Subang Jaya to celebrate Alice's birthday. It was quite some time after we had our first gathering last year on 2011. Planning to get gift for Alice's birthday, coincidence Starbucks have better promotions on the gift selection. Decided to carry on with my plan =)

Store Front Starbucks Card

She did not know about the birthday surprised not until I gave her this Store Front Starbucks Card for her birthday. She's touched by the the gift and complimented the benefits on the Starbucks card. What is so good about this card? Let me share with you little bit abot the Starbucks card. It's just like Touch N'Go card,  all you need to do is, just reload with minimum RM20 amount into card, now you can just swipe it to purchase anything from your own favorite beverage coffee at Starbucks. Curious about Starbucks benefits? Do find out more about the benefits of Starbucks Card, and the many rewards here

The Birthday Gal

Hot Chocolate for Emmie 

Caramel Macchiato Blended

Our Starbucks beverages xD

Every time sure headache what to drink in Starbucks, but this time recommended by my friend to try out Caramel Macchiato. I'm so blur about this drink., so I requested for a blended drink. Seriously I have no idea what is about Macchiato not until I told Barista wanted with whipped cream. He looked at me one kind, I was blur with his reaction, I said ok just proceed with whipped cream & orange topping fizzy.

When Caramel Macchiato completed, I took it on my hand.. I realized how come watery not blended? Big question mark on my head. Try to get explanation from barista then only realized Caramel Macchiato suppose to drink on hot beverage not on cold form.Caramel Macchiato is actually foamed milk marked with espresso and vanilla, then topped with a distinctive caramel pattern. Indulgent, buttery and intense.

What to do? Blurry ordered a wrong thing, just wallop it. First try, slot int straw drink bottom foamed milk taste good, slightly remove straw till half layer to taste on coffee on top. Rich with espresso and vanilla not bad. Lastly tasted whipped cream with orange dizzy, love the orange dizzy smooth. After that mixed everything up, give a try on it.. it's just taste like milk tea [teh tarik]. Erm, higher class of milk tea with espresso, Lolz.. nice to drink but I would said it's not my type, perhaps hot will be better than cold drink. In the future I should try hot Caramel Macchiato.

Happy day for birthday gal

Chilling time =)

Enjoying the moment at Starbucks

Our moments at Starbucks

Overall we enjoyed our yum cha session here, chit chatting, exchange stories and updating each other. Starbucks is a good place for hanging session. Lastly I would like to wish Alice a very "Happy Birthday". Hope God bless you in everything you do. Take care my friend, aside thank you for those who joining this birthday session. Cheers xD

Starbucks Taipan UEP Subang Jaya
Ground Floor, No.41,
Jalan USJ 10/1D, Subang Jaya,
Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Chu13 - Part I - Sushi King Lou Yee Sang

Some how I left out another CNY blogspot which I would like back dated this post. It's about after back from hometown, celebrated CNY with family, relatives and hometown friends. Aside did not forget about another group of my KL friends here. Friends been bugging me for a CNY outing to have CNY Lou Hei for good wisdom through out the year of 2012.

Gabriel, MJ & Me xD

Me, Alice & Emmie

I organized simple Lou Sang activities at Sushi King in First Subang Mall, Subang Jaya. Hear of Sushi King had good promotion on Yee Sang, I decided to give a try on it. Only Yee Sang definition not enough, we ordered food for our lunch as well. Group photos while waiting for our food.

Tempura Zaru Soba for MJ, served with cold buckwheat noodles & seaweed 

Ebi Ten Don for Alice, served with deep fried prawns, eggplants, long bean, 
sweet potato, seasoned Japanese radish and Miso Soup.


 Tempura Soba for Emmie, a Japanese noodles served with
prawn and vegetable tempura and spring onion.

I ordered Tempura Soba, a Japanese noodles served with
prawn and vegetable tempura and spring onion.

Chicken Katsu Rice Burger attracted Gabriel that much.
 It is basically a rice patty served with iceberg lettuce, deep fried chicken and mayonnaise.

Large Yee Sang RM38.88

Seriously I never got the chance to try Sushi King Yee Sang before, having this Yee Sang in Sushi King is my first time. I think that its totally different from the original's due to the ingredients and sauce offered. But then, Not bad though~ Sushi King's Yee Sang tasted great...!! I had first time it, and i knew the promo launched many times since many years back.

Yee Sang from Sushi King

Squeezing lime juice onto Yee Sang #1

Squeezing lime juice onto Yee Sang #2

Huat Ah~ Lou Sang xD

Raw Salmon Fish in rose buds

Yee Sang with Salmon Fish

Big portion, crunchy with crackers

I love the sauce and lime as a combination and the crunchiness of the vegetables, yellow tiny pieces should be the deep fried tempura skin and some of the other stuff like fresh salmon, scallop, peanuts, etc...Yummy!! I enjoyed it  It's reasonable ordered the large portion cause  just enough among 5 of us with only RM38.88. So worth to try it out the Yee Sang in Sushi King!! Gong Xi Fa Cai!! xD

Chu15 - Part V - Umami Steamboat

The last part of ending CNY for the year 2012, we had steamboat for dinner. Nigel been craving for steamboat, so I brought him to this famous Umami Steamboat at Sunway Mentari. Recommended mostly by food bloggers, which i think is good place to eat.. Hear of this steamboat packed with people especially during weekend, so if you want good sitting place, be sure you're early in between 6.30pm -7.00pm.

Main entrance

We reached there almost 7.30pm, place was full with people. Got to wait for almost 30 min to be seated. Nigel was busy looking around, and he told me the smell of BBQ made him hungry lolz. Umami Steamboat is a steamboat buffer that served "all you can eat" with the price of  RM26.80+ per head [adult] that is worth for what you're paying for it. The environment was comfortable, which you can aspect it's a higher class than the normal ordinary steamboat restaurants around this area.

Free flow drinks

First time visited this place, it was about 2 year ago. That time the price was RM23.90++ excluded drinks, more details read here. But after I re-visited here again they changed price to RM26.80++ INCLUDED with free flow drinks. Now they set up machine for few choices of drinks.

Seafood #1

Seafood #2

Seafood #3

Vegetables #1

Vegetables #2

Fishball #1

Fishball #2
For seafood lovers, varieties range of choices available here. Crabs, sea shells, squids, fish,etc etcm fresh here. Most important they're hygiene and clean. Freshness were the main top priority of this restaurants. For those who love fishballs, varieties type of cute kawaii design available here too.

Noodles

Cold Platters

Mushrooms

Varieties types of noodles and mushrooms were available here for your choice, eat till you drop. Cold platters available too, major dishes were mixed vegetables salads and fruits salads.

 BBQ section

An advantage of this restaurant is that they do offered BBQ sections, not just only steamboat. Everyone will get a chance to taste on the grilling part. BBQ chicken wing were famous here, must try it out here. Aside also they offered BBQ Seafood like crabs, sting rays, satay, prawns and squids. BBQ section was done outside by staffs, all you need to do is queue-up for any selected food which you prefer to grill. Grilled food always finished up fast, because it's juicy and tasty.

 Nigel posting =)

 Tong Yam Soup & Umami Chicken Soup

 Our steamboat

Hot Hot steam

Next up, was the soup for our steamboat base. We had Thai Tong Yam Soup and Umami Chicken Soup for the day. Beside that, they also offered Hong Kong Herbal soup, Fish Head Soup & Umami Pepper Soup. So now you can choose two soups of your favorite choice. Free flow refillable soup as well..

Nigel is enjoying =D

Our BBQ food

Finished without wasting any food

We had some grilled BBQ seafood and satay. We ate moderately, and tried varieties of food there. Reminder: Don't be greedy, otherwise wasted food will be charge accordingly. After 3/4 full, we had fruits such as apple, watermelons and pears. Lastly not forgetting our desserts that is yummy ice-creams. 2 scoops of ice-cream each, that make our meal completed for the night. Ice-creams by WALLS such as chocolate, mints, corns, yam, strawberries, etc.

Desserts

 Yam & Mint Ice-cream

Yam & Vanilla Ice-cream

Overall, I find it quite okay on pricing and quality. If you plan to have a great steamboat range, Umami can be one of the choice in my list as I have tried others, which is much worst that I don't bother even to blog about it. Aside also, this steamboat house is pork free too. Recommended this place for steamboat. Cheers~ =)

Umami Steamboat
12a (Ground Floor),
Jalan PJS8/17,
Dataran Mentari,
46150 Petaling Jaya.
Operation Hours: 11am - 12midnight
Tel: 03-56222663