onde onde, Waterfront Desa Park City

Back in July this year I went to onde onde in Waterfront Desa Park City to have their popular assam laksa. I bought a deal from I forgot which group buying site that give a special price for their assam laksa. Since DPC is just 5 minutes drive away from my place, it's quite obvious that I don't have to think twice about buying the deal.

onde onde is a little cozy self service restaurant. At the counter, I could see there are a few varieties of Nyoya kuih, which looks very appetizing. The recipe used here is based on the recipe from the owner, Paul Khong's mother Sally Teh whom hails from Mallacca. You can read more about their story here.

I also ordered their Nyoya otak-otak as a side, honestly a bowl of assam laksa is not enough for me. I liked the fact that their otak-otak is steamed instead of grilled because I think steaming retains the fish taste inside the otak-otak. Soft, creamy and full of fish and santan (coconut milk) flavour. A side that is worth a try if you come here.

The true gem came when I saw their assam laksa. It's so rich with flavour and ingredients. Their soup is thick that each scoop is filled with fish flakes, unlike some of the diluted soup found elsewhere. The balance of sourness and savouriness is just nice. A dash of prawn paste sauce in the laksa just made my day. I can say that this might be the one of best laksa found outside Penang or even wins some of the laksa in Penang. Highly recommended by me to try their assam laksa if every you drop by.

What I like about Waterfront Desa Park City is that after a nice warm meal in onde onde, I can go to have icy cold New Zealand Natural premium ice-cream a few shops away. ;)





Address:

onde onde
GF-03A, Ground Floor,
Waterfront @ Parkcity 5, Persiaran Residen,
Desa Park City, 52200 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-6280 7419

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Shabu-Shabu Buffet at Nagomi Japanese Restaurant, Menara Hap Seng

Last week I went to have shabu-shabu buffet at non other than Nagomi Japanese Restaurant that started as a shabu-shabu specialist restaurant, which is now a full fledged Japanese restaurant that also offers other Japanese food. Shabu-shabu buffet only available at Nagomi Menara Hap Seng.

There are over 80 choices of raw ingredients to choose from for your shabu-shabu goodness. Also, you can choose your soup base from the available ginger, taban miso, kimuchi or the default Nagomi soup base. There are also no shortages of sauce to choose. There are goma sauce (sesame sauce), ponzu (citrus vinegar), Thai chili sauce. There are also a few dressing for your salad such as wafu dressing, shoyu dressing and Nyoya dressing. I was spoiled for choice.

The first thing that attracted me on the buffet spread is the live lobsters. It's the lobsters are still alive ready to be cooked in the hot soup. Careful when you pick a few and put on the plate because they will crawl out of the plate.

There are many choices of greens available. I especially love the shitake mushroom.

It's not shabu-shabu without thinly sliced meat that is cooked with just a few swipe in the boiling hot soup. You can choose beef, lamb shoulder, chicken or duck meat. Duck is an acquired taste though, even though the gamey taste is not that strong but still some people can't stand it at all. All the meat there are very fresh.

While waiting for your raw stuff to be cooked, you can attack the sushi first, there are a few choices of sushi available.

Also available are deep fried fish and calamari.

A seafood lover? No problem because there are fresh seafood like scallop, mussels, clams, prawns and crabs available. The size is quite presentable too and not those small small one.

My cooked live lobster. It's very fresh I can guarantee that lol.

It's not wagyu beef but the cut is very nice for shabu-shabu.

Lamb shoulder goes very well with goma sauce.

What's the price of this shabu-shabu buffet? It's only RM 32.80++!! It's freaking value for money. What's more during bonus hour the chef will cut up a fresh salmon to make sashimi and it's only available for that 1 hour, so when you heard the bell rang, quickly go and grab your salmon sashimi.

For those that likes to drink beer, then it's your lucky day because 5 bottles of Carlsberg are only selling for RM30++.

The buffet line is available on
Weekdays Dinner: 6pm - 10pm
Sat, Sun & Public Holidays: Lunch: 12pm - 2.30pm ; Dinner: 6pm - 10pm

Another thing to be happy about is that parking is only RM3 per entry after 6pm on weekdays and Sat, Sun & Public Holidays. We can enjoy our food slowly without having to worry about parking per hour rate.


Address:

Nagomi Japanese Restaurant
Suite 1-19, 1st Floor
The Podium
Menara Hap Seng
Jalan P.Ramlee
50250 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel: +603 2141 6332
Website: http://www.nagomishabushabu.com/


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Oktoberfest Party at The Tavern

Alright, it's my second time to The Tavern. For you noobs out there that don't know what's The Tavern, read this post. This time it's for Oktoberfest Party and I'll be celebrating with bloggers and winners for the Oktoberfest Malaysia contest run by GAB (Guinness Anchor Berhad). We got a few free flow of draught beers to choose from. Kilkenny, Tiger, Strongbow, Paulaner, Guinness and Heineken.

I have to say it once again that the beer here is as fresh as can be and taste better than the beer serve in the pubs outside. It's fresh because The Tavern is just next to the brewery itself. The only thing is The Tavern is not open to walk-in visitors, sorry.

With the barmaids.

It's a fun filling night with friends, drinks, food, game and music.

Met the happy couple from BroughtUp2Share.

Now only I noticed Jackie's different is that his hair is not colour-ed anymore.

Friends.

And friends.

I like event like this because I can meet new friend like Pennie here.

Of course, there's Old Hawk too :p

Food.

We have German band playing for us that night.

A game of pretzel eating.

We get a taste of pouring our own beer too.

Thank you GAB for this Oktoberfest Malaysia Party, it's a great way to catch up with old and new friends and have one or two pints of beer together.