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I have been receiving smses from Nagomi Shabu-Shabu Japanese Restaurant recently regarding their buffet promotion. For only RM32.80++ an adult and RM18.80 for children age between 5 – 12 years old), each customers are given a pot of their very own soup (no sharing) and over 80 choices of shabu-shabu ingredients, sushis, sashimis and desserts.

The main highlight for Nagomi’s buffet is their unlimited salmon sashimis which are only available from 8.00pm to 9.00pm everyday. Since we are a big fan of salmon sashimis and trusting that Nagomi serves good salmon sashimi, we are overjoyed with the offer. Even though the salmon wasn’t as good as we though it would be, but we didn’t mind it as the the shabu-shabu itself was very good.

In order to make your soup tasty, just place all the seafood ingredients you can find along with some chinese cabbage, carrots and leeks just like I did. After a few minutes, your soup will turn from bland and tasteless soup to one of the most delicious soup you ever tasted. Nagomi does give really good base soup.

Nagomi serves really fresh seafood ingredients and this is evident just by looking at the pictures of these fresh prawns. Some of the other seafood they have here are red snappers, bamboo clams, clams and slipper lobsters.

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Verona Trattoria has just open recently in Section 17, Petaling Jaya. And I am so thrilled to have been invited by Silvia to do a food review for them. As both the owners are not locals, currently, Verona Trattoria is having a different “special of the day” menus every week to imrprove and better themselves to suit the Malaysian taste buds. If you have been to Italy, you should know that Italian food are bland. After testing out their menus before opening their doors to the public, I find that their food had been cooked to suit our local taste buds. I think it would be safe to say that they serves localised Italian food.

I had this Medium Rare Grilled Salmon with Lemon Butter priced at RM32. If you do not like salmon, you can also order seabass priced at RM30. I must say, that the salmon was cooked very well. Before this, I didn’t know that salmon can be cooked partially and rare at the same time. So I was quite surprised when Silvia asked me whether I wanted my salmon medium-cooked or well-done. According to her, in order to better enjoy salmon, we can also order it medium-rare. Now this is one thing that I am interested to try one day.

We also ordered the Bascaiola Pizza @ RM24. Beef sausages, mushrooms and mozzarella cheese are the main ingredients in this crispy pizza. If you are adventurous enough, you can try their specialty here, the Napoletana Pizza where tomatoes, anchovies, olives and mozzarella cheese are the main ingredients in this pizza.

Another special that week was the Risotto with Safron and Three Types of Mushrooms @ RM34. This dish may look very ordinary to you but it was very tasty. Arborio rice was used here. It was creamy and at the same time slightly firm to bite. Delicious!

As for dessert, we had Vanilla Panna Cotta @ RM10, a traditional Italian Vanilla Pudding served with chocolate cream anglaise.

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It was the day of my last birthday. VK brought me to Changkat Bukit Bintang for breakfast to start off our day. We wanted to go for Engka Portobello, a nice restaurant which serves really good breakfast with an affordable price, but was surprise to find out that they are no longer there. As Magnificient Fish & Chips Bar is the only one restaurant that serves breakfast there, we decided to try them.

For some reason, Magnificient Fish & Chips Bar does not have a “proper” menu. We had to walked into the restaurant in order to read the menu which was written on the chalkboard. THis is so inconvenient and to some extent even caused discomfort to other customers dining here as we had to look “through” them just to read the menu.

Their breakfast menu is quite extensive. I ordered the Chirpy Big Breakfast (for RM28) and just like it’s name, the portion of the big breakfast is huge. I have 4 large pieces of sliced-into-half bread, 2 sunny side up eggs, sausage, ham, kidney beans and mushrooms. It tastes quite alright, no complains. If you and your partner do not have big appetite, this portion is good enough for two person. The only down-side is that this big breakfast do not come with coffee or tea.

Based on it’s name, VK ordered their Magnificient Fish and Chips (for RM36) hoping that his meal would be magnificient. However, his fish and chips did not turn out to be magnificient at all. Taste wise, the fish was fresh but had some muddy smell. Presentation wise, I think that it is quite annoying to know that they used a piece of newspaper to hold up the fish and chips. Only a thin piece of paper was used to separate the fish and chips with the newspaper. Isn’t it improper to place a non-edible thing on your customer’s plate?

There should be more places which serves good and affordable breakfast here as there are many tourists around this area. If I were to put myself into their position, I would be happy to know that there are many other choices to choose from for breakfast.

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Happy New Year everybody! In 3 weeks time, we are going to have another big celebration, the Chinese New Year. So have you planned where to go for your Chinese New Year dinner? If you are looking for affordable restaurant to go and don’t mind travelling, do try Yin Her (Silver River) at Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh.

Crabs are one of my favourite seafood. After trying so many different cooking styles for crabs, we were quite comfortable with baked crabs. So we ordered Yin Her’s Salted Egg Baked Crabs. Although the crabs looks tiny here, they are in fact very meaty. It was the star dish for that night.

Butter Flakes Fried Prawns was absolutely amazing. It was buttery and sweet. The prawns were very fresh. It’s shells came off easily without much effort in peeling it.

Marmite Marinated Pork Ribs is one dish I would like to learn how to cook. This dish looks simple enough to cook but I’m sure it takes more practices to make this dish perfect. Yin Her does it just right. The sauce was thick and sweet.

One of the more popular dish here, is Yin Her’s Red Tilapia steamed in Nyonya style. As we had tried the Nyonya style before, this time, we ordered their Red Tilapia steamed in Bean Sauce. If I were to compare both styles, I prefer the Nyonya style – spicy and sour. The bean sauce style is just average, probably because I’ve tried this style far too many times in different restaurants.

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