Jom Berbuka Puasa di Pearl International Hotel

Selamat Bulan Ramadhan kepada semua rakan-rakan Muslim dan juga rakan-rakan yang ingin berpuasa bersama-sama di Bulan Ramadhan ini. Setiap tahun Ramadhan, soalan yang di tanya-tanya ialah pergi mana untuk buka puasa? Bagi aku, di rumah, masakan ibu atau isteri ialah cadangan yang paling bagus tapi letih juga mereka yang memasak.

Jadi, banyak restoran-restoran dan hotel-hotel memperkenalkan pakej atau bufet buka puasa yang cukup menarik pilihan masakan dan juga harga yang berpatutan. Sekali-sekala buka puasa dekat hotel bolehlah juga, kan?

Tiga minggu sebelum Bulan Ramadhan, aku telah dijemput untuk merasa masakan yang akan dapat di nikmati dalam Promosi Jom Berbuka Puasa Ramadhan di Pearl yang bermula dari 21 Julai hingga 17 Julai 2012.

 Aku mula dengan ulam dan salad.

Aku suka minum sup. Jadi, Sup Ekor Lada Hitam menjadi pilihan aku. Aku suka rasa sup ini yang tidak begitu masin berbanding dengan yang aku minum to restoran yang lain.

Masakan-masakan dalam promosi ini akan disediakan oleh Exekufi Sous Chef Noor Hisham dengan krew dia.

Ini ialah kali pertama aku mencuba Nasi Beriani Gam. Biasanya, aku makan nasi beriani saja yang tak ada gam. =P

Kalaulah makan Nasi Beriani Gam, mesti makan dengan Daging Beriani Batu Pahat. Aku juga suka Gulai Kambing Kawah yang rasa kambing yang tidak di sukai ramai orang telah di ganti dengan rasa rempah-rempah yang sangat bersesuai di masak dengan daging kambing.

Untuk yang suka makan ikan, adanya Ikan Bakar Tepian Tebrau. Aku ingat Chef Noor Hisham mesti orang Johor. Banyak masakan berasal dari tempat-tempat di Johor.

Ayam panggang yang mesti dapat di cari di bazaar-bazaar Ramadhan.

Di sini, aku juga dapat buat buat sotong dan kangkung sendiri.

Buka puasa tak ada ketupat dan lemang memang rasa tak sedap. Makan dengan salai ayam.d

Buat Laksa Johor sendiri, suka letak banyak sikit bawang dan taugeh? Oh, bisa.

Bukan main banyak jenis pilihan pencuci mulut yang di sediakan. Tapi perut aku boleh muat beberapa jenis saja. Yang paling aku suka ialah Sago Melaka. Sago itu bila to gigit akan menjadi sebiji-sebiji dan bukan berkelompak macam makan kuih.

Jadi, berapa harga untuk bufet berbuka puasa ini? RM68.00++/dewasa dan RM38.00++/kanak-kanak. Untuk tempahan boleh hubungi talian 603-7983 1111 ext 3205. Semoga anda selamat berbuka puasa.

Alamat:
Cafe 5
5th Floor, Pearl International Hotel
Batu 5, Jalan Klang Lama 58000 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 603-7983 1111
Fax: 603-7983 2211
Website: http://www.pearl.com.my

Utter Dissapointments in Sepang Golden Palm Tree Iconic Resort & Spa During Company Team Building

This is the final straw. My department did a cross-department team building trip and we the committe chose to held it in Sepang Golden Palm Tree at Sepang Gold Coast. It was all nice, the facilities are good and room is very nice. I especially like their very comfortable bed. The tea break pastries were excellent.

Things started to go downhill when evening come.

1. Luggages were sent to our rooms quite late. We reached here at around 2pm but our rooms were not ready yet. So, we decided to start our team building session because we've hired two coaches to facilitate our team building activites. The hotel promised to send our luggages to our room but after our team building session, which is about 6 pm, we found that our luggages were not in our room as promised.

2. The buffet dinner is meh. Not only that the food tasted mediorce, the seafood is not very fresh at all. Services is quite poor too. Plates were not clear, the waiters will not attend to you and only after a few calls only then they will attend to you. The choice of dishes is repeated night over night for the cold dishes and salad.

3. In the evening, we were told to turn down our speaker volume because there's some Kementarian heads doing budget in the ballroom next door. Come on, if they want to do budget do in their meeting room, why book a resort's ballroom? Who's paying for that? Not our money? We didn't entertain their request of course but the next day, we found that our speaker volume was tune down to utterly low volume.

4. Some of my colleagues' rooms have no water supply. This drag on for whole day only someone was sent to look into it, and it turned out that the water supply switch was turn off. WTF.

5. Tonight, I thought the BBQ dinner that we've paid extra for will be the saving grace. At first, we were promised BBQ dinner near the beach. Then we were told that the beach was booked for private function and moved us back to the buffet restaurant. So, when we got there, we found out that we will be eating the same kind of buffet that we had yesterday that cost way less than what we'd paid for. Call to complain didn't help. It's too late for them to serve us BBQ because we still have team building session to attend.

In short, Sepang Golden Palm Tree Iconic Resort & Spa, Sepang Goldcoast has over promised and under delivered. I don't think we will ever come here again for any or our teambuilding trip. Also, the beach here is not very suitable to conduct seaside activities.