Marche Movenpick Restaurant @ The Curve

When we were discussing where to eat for CC's farewell dinner, Marche @ The Curve got the highest vote among all other restaurants(Chilis, Italian Pizza Place, Sakae Sushi...). As for me, the reason I voted is because I've always wanted to try Marche. I heard the food there are quite nice, but it's very expensive. Besides that, I'm also not sure how to order, we got to go pick the food ourselves, and then they will cooked for us? How to pick? Cook with what? So this is the best chance to go try out Marche, I never believed in what I heard unless I go try it out myself! hehe..

Marche (pronounced as Mar-shay),
which means 'market' in French

and the cow, wonder why they have the cows
in front. We asked CC to ride on the cow
to take photo but he refused. hehe..

There were suppose 8 of us, but one ffk, so 7 of us, headed to Marche @ The Curve after work. We were already in the shop at 7+. Our table was at this red color partition, but actually i preferred the yellow one. haha.. but red also quite ok la..

on the left..

on the right..

this is beside me. hehe..

I walked around the restaurant. Wow, there's really a lot of nice food! I'm not sure whether they allowed us to take photos or not, erm, nobody took pictures, so while pretending reading sms, i took a few.. shhhhh...

the salad corner, vege looks very fresh!

drinks.

fruits juices.

pasta corner!

forgot what's this. hehe..

After walked walked walked, I still don't know how to order. Then here comes my colleagues who had been to this place before. So we all decided the guys will go hunt for food, and we will share everything that they ordered. When everyone out hunting food, me and ms.Q busy taking pictures on the food they brought back! haha!

the seafood pizza, RM 22.50
the pizza is very nice but if i were to order,
i will not take this seafood pizza cos
i don't eat mussel. hehe..

Plain Rosti, RM 6.50.
we ordered 2 plates. According to S, this is
the chef's recommended food in Marche.
After trying this, it had become Jy's highly
recommended dish! If you go Marche, remember
to try this out! It's a MUST!!
What's this? It's actually potato with cheese..
i think.. :p

Lamb Shank, RM 28.
I don't really like lamb, but this looks
very nice. How it taste? It doesn't taste
very nice, most probably is because we ate it
when it's not hot. it's very 'sou'!
but of cos, you can't listen to
a person that doesn't like lamb. hehe...

the beef spicy sausage, RM 5.80.
hmm, this is nice!!

the Chicken Jalapeno Sausage &
the Chicken Mexican Sausage, RM 5.80 each.
Not bad not bad, but i still think
the beef sausage taste better.

Glazed Turkey, RM 16.50.
this one taste ok too, but i probably won't
order this again if i visit Marche.
Hmm it taste quite normal la..

Salad, RM 12.50.
We ordered the large one, they gave us this
plate and you can take as many as you can.
We sent Ms.Q for this mission as she's
very good in this. haha.. and she really did a
good job on this! Oh ya, the brinjal & the
button mushrooms super nice! remember to
take more!

Paella Rice, RM 20.50.
hmm the rice taste ok only, probably is becos
of the seafood, that is why it's expensive.
There are mussels, lala, 2 prawns and chicken.
not recommending this though..

the grapefruit + water melon juice, RM 8.50 each.
T highly recommended this, but the one he drank
was grapefruit + honey dew. We wanted to order
that but honey dew out of stock. I can only taste
water melon la.. If next time got honeydew, then can
try, else dun order lar.. with watermelon not that
nice!!

the strawberry + orange juice, Rm 8.50.
according to them, this one taste
quite nice wor..

If you pay with HSBC or UOB credit card, you can get a 10% discount. You can also get 10% if you have Jusco card. Oh ya, bring your Genting card with you as you can collect points. The total of our bill = RM 172.90(tax not included). We got a RM 15.55 discount (10%). Strange!! Now only i noticed, our bill without tax is RM 172.90, by right 10% discount should be RM17+, why we only got RM 15+ deducted? hmmm.....

So finally we paid RM 172.90 - RM 15.55 + RM 15.74(10% service charge) + RM 7.87 (5% gov tax) = RM 180.96. Despite some of the dishes not that nice, it was still a happy and satisfying meal. Definitely will visit Marche again!!

Brown Rice + Red Rice + White Rice

As we all know, white rice is very nice to eat, but it is not very nutritious especially the 'Hiong Mai'(香米). As for red rice, it is also very nice to eat and it's very nutritious and contains high fibre. Brown rice is the most un-tasty among all but it has all the unaltered nutrient goodness. If you want to eat healthy but you are afraid you are not going to get use to the red and brown rice, here's what you can do.

Depend on how many ppl in your family, if you have a small family or your family members does not eat a lot of rice, you can buy smaller packet. Buy 1 or 2 kg of white rice, 1 or 2 kg or brown rice and 1 or 2 kg of red rice, and mix them up. I bought these at Giant.

2kg ecoBrown's Unpolished Brown Rice
(绿康宝糙米), RM 8.49
Sunflower Red Rice (太阳花纯正特选红米),
RM 5.79

Pour in the red rice.

then the brown rice and
followed by the white rice.

mix them up.

Brown + Red + White rice.

So now you will be eating red+brown+white rice. With red and brown rice, you need to add more water when you cook as the red and brown rice are much more harder. Who said brown and red rice are not delicious? It's tasty! Try it out yourself if you don't believe me!

Restoran Yong Tou Foo Chan Chan @ Bandar Manjalara, Kepong

FL and me were driving around looking for a place to have our lunch, late lunch at 4pm. It's really not easy to find food at that time. Besides mamak, we really can't find any chinese stalls selling food. We gave up finding at our place and headed towards Bandar Manjalara. After rounding for about 15 minutes, we found this shop selling yong tau fu. The shop considerws quite full house at this hour. Almost all the tables were occupied. So many ppl having late lunch on Sunday ya. hehe..

Restoran Yong Tau Foo Chan Chan @
Bandar Manjalara Kepong.

We walked in and the first thing I saw was the price stated on the white board. RM 1 per piece. Wow, Rm 1 per piece is considered quite expensive wor.. So far the most expensive Yong Tau Fu I've ever eaten was RM 0.80 per piece at this Ipoh Road Yong Tau Fu @ Wangsa Permai, Kepong. We ordered 2 herbal tea, 7 pieces of Yong Tau Fu and a paper wrap chicken.

their chili sauce is a bit different than
the others Yong Tau Fu shop. It looks a bit like
those bottle maggie chili sauce but in fact, it's
very spicy and nice. I ate a lot. haha...

the paper wrap chicken, looks ugly,
luckily only ordered one.

Rm 3.30 per piece.
totally not worth it, not nice not nice..

We ordered 2 pieces of fried fu zuk (炸腐竹),
they cut it into 4 pieces and 1 fried 'ai gua'.
hmm although their Yong Tao Fu
RM 1 per piece, but it's really
very much bigger!!

can see that two pieces of 'yu wat'(鱼滑) or not?
So big piece, RM 1 worth it lar, hehe.
and one red chili and one 'shui gao'!

7 pieces of Yong Tau Fu = RM 7.00, 2 herbal tea = Rm 3.00, 2 rice = RM 2.00 and 1 paper wrap chicken, Rm 3.30, altogether = RM 15.30. A satisfying and delicious meal!!

Niji Sushi @ Bandar Manjalara, Kepong

We accidentally found this restaurant

when we were rounding Bandar Manjalara
finding food for dinner just now.
We peeped inside and saw there's quite
a lot of ppl, so we decided to try it out.

not much of renovation in the shop,
simple and nice.

soy sauce

green tea, RM 1.30
free refill.

my favourite sushi,
chuka hotate, RM 4
this is soo nice, so far this is
the nicest among all the sushi shop
(sushi king, gengki sushi, sakae sushi, sushi boy)

Spider Temaki (soft shell crab), RM 4
this is also the BEST among all
other sushi shop.
The soft shell crab is still hot and crunchy.
most of the shop when they served us,
the soft shell crab already soft. Yummy!

FL ordered the Wafu Beef Set, RM 19.90.
The beef looks nice and taste nice too!

I ordered the Unagi Set, RM 18.90.
I think they are not very good at
cooking Unagi, it looks nice,
but taste quite 'seng'.
All set comes with chawanmushi, salad,
miso soup and rice.

chawanmushi (steamed egg)
wow, this is very very nice. It's hot
when it's served and till we finished
it's still hot!
This is also the best i've ever ate!!

salad, ya i'm going to say this again..
This is soooo yummy!!
It looks like normal salad rite?
but it doesn't taste normal, it taste superb.
Asked FL, normally i won't finish the salad one..
but this one? haha, i finished it!!

Miso Soup.
This is nice too, cos it's served hot.

rice.

We really enjoyed our dinner here, everything is so tasty (except the unagi.. hehe..). It's better than sushi king, gengki sushi, and it's also better than my EX favourite sushi place, the Sakae Sushi. Ya, sakae sushi is my ex, my current favorite sushi restaurant will be this, Niji Sushi!! Trust me, it's really very nice, the food is fresh, service is good and the price is reasonable too. The total of this meal is RM 51.87 (includes 5% tax)! I definitely will visit this sushi place again, for those sushi lover out there, you definitely must visit this shop. MUST!!!!

Ipoh White Coffee @ Kedai Kopi Sun Yoon Loong

Ipoh is well known of it's delicious food. When we talked about Ipoh, the first thing that you can think of is probably the famous 'nga choy gai' (chicken with bean sprout) and dim sum. Actually besides these, there are some other things that are very nice too. Like wat? White coffee!!

the old town ('gao gai cheong')
旧街场
there are a lot of coffee shop here,
which is the best?

this is the best, the corner shop,
Kedai Kopi Sun Yoon Loong
新源隆茶室
(see the copy cat shop beside or not?
the name almost the same wor..)

see, full house!! no matter what time
you go, it's always full house.

the white coffee, RM 1.30
hmm, it smells really good,
i do not know how to describe how good,
it's totally different from those 3 in 1 white coffee,
and it's also different from the one u had in oldtown white coffee,
you just have to go drink it yourself!

I love the fry 'lo bak gou' or in ipoh they called it 'chao kuih' by an uncle with a bike in front of the coffee shop. Too bad the uncle was not there the other day...Don't miss the white coffee ya if you go to Ipoh, remember, this is the best shop, don't go to the wrong shop!!

Easy to prepare Chicken Rice with Lap Cheong

Well, the subject might be a bit misleading, this is not the "real" chicken rice! It is actually chicken cooked together with rice. So in short Chicken rice. haha... Let's see what we need..

chicken, seasoned a day before.
seasoned with sesame oil, ginger,
oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, little bit of sugar
and light soy sauce.

long beans (长豆)

2 lap cheong (腊肠)

cook rice as usual...

when the water boils,
pour in the chicken and long beans.

stir evenly and cover up the rice cooker.
let it cooked together with the rice.

when the rice is ready,
pour in the lap cheong. cover the rice cooker
and wait for another 10-15 minutes.

ready to be served.
oh ya, the egg is from my colleague,
the full moon's red egg. hehe.

Yee Hup Chicken Flavour Biscuit (余合鸡仔饼)

I used to like 'gai zai beng'(鸡仔饼) a lot.

I remembered wherever ppl travel to ipoh or perak,
they will sure buy back these pink color packet 'gai zai beng'.
I wanted to buy the original pink color 'gai zai beng' but the
sales person kept asking me to try their own brand,
Yee Hup Chicken Flavour Biscuit (余合鸡仔饼),
so i bought a packet to try, RM 2.80 per packet,
RM 10 for 4 packets.

hmm, 'gai zai beng' like this one meh?
i remembered last time one bigger piece wor..
but of cos, the last time i ate 'gai zai beng' was..
dono how many years ago, so maybe with
the price of the flour and sugar and oil increasing,
the biscuit becomes so small lor...
there's only about 10 pieces in one packet.
quite expensive hor..

it taste, okie.. ya, okie only..
hmm, should have bought the original
pink color packet one..
not all new stuff are nice though..