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.

Sushi on the other hand, wasn’t very good. My advice is not to take any of it, as it will just spoil your pleasantly nice shabu-shabu. In short, I regreted taking any of it.

Nagomi also offers Executive Buffet Set Lunch promotion during lunch hours (working days only) and it is available for only RM19.00 in Nagomi at Menara Hap Seng. Remember to make reservations in order to avoid any disappointment.

Details of this restaurant:

Nagomi Japanese Restaurant

Suite 1-19, 1st Floor, The Podium,
Menara Hap Seng, Jalan P. Ramlee, 50250 KL
GPS Coordinates: N3 09.165 E101 42.442
Tel: 603-2141 6332

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.

One of the most memorable dessert we had in Italy was gelato. So the moment we spotted gelato on the menu, we ordered it without any hesitation. We ordered the Pistachio and Chocolate Hazelnut flavour for RM5 per scoop. Some other flavours available here are Mango, Smurf Berry and COokies & Cream. If you have not tried Pistachio gelato before, this is the place you should be to try it out.

Verona Trattoria is beautifully decorated with these huge amazing canvas paintings. So you do get a glimpse of what is like in Italy.

Verona Trattoria is also open for lunch. So if you are working close to Section 17, this is a good alternative place to go to, well, at least you won’t have trouble getting a parking place here.

Details of this restaurant

Verona Trattoria Restaurant
Address: No. 8, Jalan 17/54, Section 17, Petaling Jaya, 46400 Selangor.
Tel No.: 03-7960 2890
Opening hours: Wed – Mon 12.00pm to 2.30pm and 6.00pm to 10.00pm (Closed on Tuesday)
GPS Coordinates: N 3.126, E 101.637

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.

Sad to say, our breakfast didn’t turn out magnificient like we expected it to be. I don’t think we would be revisiting here anytime soon as the price is too high and with very limited choices of restaurant to choose from.

Details of this restaurant:

The Magnificient Fish & Chips Bar
Address: 28 Changkat Bukit Bintang, 50200 Kuala Lumpur
GPS Coordinates: N 3 08.860 E 101 42.484
Business hours: Tue – Sun (11am to 12 midnight)

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.

Even though, Yin Her is located next to a commercial fishing pond, we were not disturbed by any unpleasing stench unlike some places. The tricky part is the way to get here. If you are not familiar with Sungai Buloh, better equip yourself with a GPS, otherwise you could find yourself going in circles trying to look for this restaurant.

To help you out, below are the details of this restaurant:

Restaurant Yin Her (Restaurant Yuen Hoor)
Address: AL114, Jalan Welfare, Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh, 47000, Kuala Selangor.
GPS Coordinates: N3 11.740 E101 34.489
Tel: 03-6156 5876, 012-298 1889

We had Fat Spoon’s Ulam Fried Rice priced at RM11.90. It was nicely seasoned and fried to perfection. The fried chicken was juicy and finger-licking good. I enjoyed it very much. A plate of Ulam Fried Rice coupled with a nice, freshly squeezed orange juice is the perfect everyday lunch for me.

The Claypot Sampan Beef Noodles was a bit too salty in my opinion. But I am sure many of you would enjoy this beef noodles as it was really tasty.

Wanting to try more of Fat Spoon, we ordered their Popiah. The portion was just nice. A nice side dish to complete our lunch.

The restaurant was quite packed that day. Come earlier if you want to get a table inside the restaurant. One thing I really like and find it very unique is the design of their menu. Fat Spoon’s menu is actually made by pasting their menu on children’s story books.

Details of this restaurant:
Fat Spoon (next to Hon Kee Porridge)
Address: 73, Jalan SS21/1A , Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Tel No.: 03-7728 3323
Fat Spoon Website: https://www.facebook.com/fatspooncafe
GPS Coordinate: N 3.136, E 101.620

If you have never tried Kobe before, you should at least try it once. I know, the price for Kobe doesn’t quite fit most of our budgets. But if you are feeling posh or just simply need to satisfy your desire to try the best steak in the world (Kobe), do try Maria’s Cafe. Alternatively, there are many other cheaper options. We tried Maria’s Cafe Australian Black Angus recently.

We ordered our Australian Black Angus medium rare with a tag price of Rm42/100gm. The difference between a Kobe with Black Angus is the marbling. Kobe has more ‘fats’ as compared to Black Angus. Therefore, Black Augus is slightly more chewy.

If you do not like beef, pastas are available here too. To be very honest, we prefer not to order pastas at all as we had had bad experiences with pastas. Most restaurants tend to give more noodles and skimp on the ingredients. However after persuaded by the lady boss herself, we ordered the Seafood Pasta. Maria’s Cafe Seafood Pastas are fully loaded with fresh seafood ingredients. That was my first impression. Fresh prawns, mussels and pieces of salmon. What a surprise. Priced at Rm24, Maria’s Seafood Pasta is just perfect. Very yummy.

Spicy New Zealand Mussels was our appetizer for the night. It was sweet and spicy at the same time. A plate of Spicy New Zealand Mussels is priced at RM16, comes with 6 fresh mussels paired up with some garlic bread.

Chicken Parmiagiani @ RM22.00 looks quite similar to pizza. But oh boy, it tastes just so different. Minus off the bread, add it with chicken and top it up with homemade salsa sauce and melted cheese. And there you have it, you’ve got yourself a Chicken Parmiagiani. It was tender on the inside and crispy on the outside. I enjoyed it very much.

As closing to our near perfect dinner, we ordered Maria’s Tiramisu. Topped with crushed top-graded walnut, this tiramisu one of the popular item here. We were lucky to have reserved it earlier, as their tiramisu runs out real quick.

Details of this restaurant:

Maria’s Restaurant and Cafe
Address: C313A (Level 3), Center Wing, Metropolitan Square, No 2, Jalan PJU 8/1, Bandar Damansara Perdana, Petaling Jaya.
GPS Coordinates: N3 09.914 E101 36.573
Tel: 03-7725 2313.
Opening hours: Mon – Sat : 12pm – 11pm, Sun : 5pm – 11pm
Set lunch starts from RM15 (main course + dessert + drink)

If you have never tried the crab with roe before, I strongly suggest you to get it. Thanks to the crab, it made our soup tastes absolutely fantastic. Our soup was so good that we actually finished our soup. This is something that we rarely do considering the fact that most of the time our soup turn salty at the very end of our steamboat meal.

I am glad to know that there are two great steamboat restaurants just around the corner of my place, Happy City Steamboat Restaurant and HoHO Steamboat Restaurant. If I were to compare between the both of them, I will still go for Happy City Steamboat, mainly because of it’s fresh steamboat ingredients.

For your information, HoHo Steamboat Restaurant Segambut is housed together with Ipoh Road Yong Tau Foo. Although both restaurants are in the same premise, both restaurant operation hours are different. In the afternoon, Ipoh Road Yong Tau Foo is open, while at night, HoHo Steamboat Restaurant will take over. So don’t get confused.

Below are the details of this restaurant:

HoHo Steamboat Restaurant
Segambut Branch

Address : No. 67, Jalan Segambut, 51200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Telephone : +6 012-289 3119 (Peter Lee) / +6 018-355 9999 (Ah Fui)
Website: http://www.steamboat.com.my

I have recently purchased a Groupon coupon on ,Groupon website. The thing that caught my attention was that S’Mores was offering this RM39.90 Wagyu set meals. I thought this could be a good deal, considering the quality of the meat served.

S’Mores is located in Bangsar South, and no it is not even close to Bangsar at all. Lucky us, we had our Garmin GPS device which directed us directly to S’Mores. When we arrive at S’Mores, there is a crowd of customers sitting outside, enjoying S’mores barbecue night. The restaurant looks fine considering that it was just opened recently. I showed them my coupon and we took our seats.

Then, our mushroom soup came. It was a little disappointing as the mushroom soup was cold. Taste wise, it was okay – it was too diluted.

Our wagyu beef came next. It came on this horrendous-looking plate. It just looks cheap. Just like the earlier mushroom soup, it was served cold. I know I am paying a low price for this expensive piece of meat. But, isn’t the whole purpose of advertising and giving discounted meals to customers from coupon website is to introduce the restaurant to them rather than chasing them away?

I think S’Mores should stick to their normal menus, barbecue and bar-type menus. Not fancy, expensive dishes like wagyu, which could potentially jeorpadise their nice little restaurant. With that said, this is just my humble opinion. My advice, try everything else, except their wagyu.

Details of this restaurant:

S’Mores Restaurant
Address: The Sphere – Bangsar South, Unit G2, Jalan Kerinchi, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Reservation Contact no. : 03- 2240 0069
E-mail : reservation@smores.com.my
Website: http://www.smores.com.my
GPS Coordinate: N 3.110 E 101.665

When I was younger, I used to have my wanton mee fix at this particular stall in Rawang which I fancy really much. My only regret is that there are no longer there as that area is now replaced with some new housing projects and I don’t know Where the stall had shifted to . Anyway, we wanted to try Hooi Kee’s Wanton Mee at Yuen Kee kopitiam, but unfortunately, the had already sold out. We reached Bentong around 10.30am and even by then, they had nothing left. Not knowing where else to go, we went to a nearby shop selling wanton mee.

The wanton noodle here comes in either the dry version or the soup version.

Both the dry and the soup version tastes alright. No alkalline taste detected unlike the ones we had in Hong Kong. The noodles are springy.

If you are planning to go to Bentong for the famous wanton mee, go earlier. Otherwise, you’ll end up like us, going all the way there but didn’t get to try it. Anyhow, we didn’t feel upset or anything as how much better can one wanton mee be? We had an enjoyable trip.

Seremban has the best Siu Bao without doubt. Not only that, Seremban is also famous for their seafood. Before heading to Seremban, we made some research and through that research, we landed up at Seremban Seafood Village.

Seremban Seafood Village is very well-knowned for their crabs. Just look at the crab pinches, don’t they look huge and appetizing?

As there are the two of us only, we ordered the Grilled Crabs. Unlike the ones we had in Jinjang which has a strong buttery taste, Seremban Seafood Village ones are more oily and salty. The crabs were very fresh and meaty. A bowl of “orange” coloured sauce was provided to compliment the Grilled Crabs. In my honest opinion, this sauce doesn’t go very well with the crabs, as the crabs were good enough on its own. Other common favourites here are their Salted Egg Crabs and Chili Crabs.

Next, I strongly recommend you their Dried Chili Mantis Prawn (Kung Pou) as it is not only delicious, it is very affordable. This portion is only RM10.00. So much difference in pricing compared to the Grilled Crab earlier which costs us RM70.00.

The Clams fried with dried chili and shrimp rice or we normally called Kam Heong Lala is also RM10.00. The lalas were very fragrant, a trully nice dish. It has enough kick of spicyness and “wok hei”.

Overall, we enjoyed our meal very much. Although everything here looks spicy, but they are not. In total, we paid about RM92.00 for a meal for two.

The details of this restaurant are as shown below:

Seremban Seafood Village

Address : 3720-3724, Jalan Tuanku Munawir, 70200 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.
Tel No. : 06-7641260