A Nice to Chat @ Passion Corner, Miri

Passion Corner with its Chinese name “Bamboo Forest”, you will see some bamboo wallpaper and decoration inside the restaurant, making you feel like you are having meal in the forest, but not too impress me, haha. There is second floor where those with some numbers of friends or family can have wider space for gathering and dining.

Three Layer Pork Meat Set

This set come with rice, salad, appetizer, soup of the day and dessert.

Beef Steamboat Set

The steamboat is personal set with some vegetables and others like fish ball, tofu, etc which already been putting inside the pot when serving. The set also come with a bowl of rice, appetizer, salad, desert, green vegetables and grass noodles.

Special sauce, but I personally only prefer soya sauce for steamboat.

Tea

Overall, I do like the small personal steamboat set which look “cute” and fun to me. The price seem a bit high, I mean not affordable to dining here too frequently, but every set do come with lots of things so make it seems worth as well. One more point, the boss (I believe he is) is very friendly and nice service too.

 

Passion Corner 梦竹林

56, Jalan Permaisuri,

98000 Miri, Sarawak

Tel: 085 423213

Business Hour: 11.00am – 10.00pm

T.G.I. FRIDAY’S @ The Curve

This was my first time dining in FRiDAY’S, after so many recommendations from friends. While I was waiting to be seated, saw there were some people singing birthday sound loudly and joyfully. Have a closer look on it, those who singing are the FRiDAY’S staff, they are enjoying and celebrating birthday with customers. What a  warm and pleasant staff and environment here.

There are lots of decorations everywhere in the restaurant, and you can spend your time in looking on these while waiting for your foods.

HEINZ tomato and chilli sauce

Strawberry Surprise

For soft drinks, you allowed to refill as many times as you wish.

Something good for weekdays, where you may order for 2 course meals with just RM 29.90, sound great to me. Of course there are just some limited choices for you, but still worth if the choices are your favourites.

 

Fried Mac & Cheese

Inside the Fried Mac & Cheese

Quite special to me, there were some creamy cheeses and elbow noodles inside it, and you may get full after you ate all of these.

 

Beef Bacon Cheeseburger

A beef burger covered with melted Colby cheese, crispy beef bacon with the classic fixings and served with crispy fries. This plate of burger is big and mean too big for a lady, but it quite tasty, just that the beef bacon was a bit dry.

Sizzling Chicken and Shrimp

Sautéed garlic marinated chicken breast and plump shrimp tossed with zesty roma tomato basil salsa. Served with onions and peppers and some cheddar cheese mashed potatoes on a sizzling platter of melted Colby and Jack cheese.

Shrimps are springy, and pretty good for the chicken meat, just that may a bit of greasy because there are lots of cheeses here. It was quite a large plate.

Chicken Ranchero Tacos

Inside the Tacos

Tender slow simmered chicken mixed with spicy Ranchero tomato sauce, Monterey Jack cheese stuffed in soft tortillas and topped with some corn, black bean pico de gallo and shredded cheese.

You may choose to be served with a choice of Roasted Potatoes and Peppers, Grilled New Orleans Corn Cob or Herbs Rice. Here we choose Roasted potatoes and peppers, moderate rating.

Fish & Chips

Three portions of fish filet battered and fried to golden brown, served with fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce. The fish filet really big comparing with others restaurant, taste fresh and crispy.

 

Garlic Marinated Grilled Lamb Chops

This was the plate that we had been waited for quite some times.

Lamb chops marinated with garlic, seared to medium, which is my bro’s favourite. Serve with demi glace, beef bits, seasonal vegetables and cheddar cheese mashed potatoes.

Medium cook was just nice, as the meat was still tender and soft. The vegetables were tasty with some sauce on it.

 

Chocolate Oreo* Mint Crunch & Tropical Delight

Lastly, some desserts, very small cup but is just nice after some large plate of meat.

Chocolate Oreo, was yummy, it was a small cup of chocolate mint custard covered with crunchy Oreo cookie.

For the Tropical Delight, scrumptious coconut custard sprinkled with toasted coconut flaske and pieces of fresh sweet pineapple. It was something special to me, it has some pineapple in it, was not sour but sweet.

Foods were served pretty fast, even there were many customers on the day we visited, but if you still haven’t get your food after some while or after seeing your friends finished theirs’, you better check your order, as one of our order was being left out. Pity my bro waiting there for nothing but just seeing us to enjoy our meal. But some points add on here: the person in charge I guess, when he get knew on this, he quickly send a bowl of soup for him as compensation, and my bro can choose what soup he like, so envy of him.

Mushroom soup

Well, some disappointment: there was a small sticker on the plate of Chicken Ranchero Tacos, which may swallow it accidently if unrealised, but we didn’t complaint on this to the manager.

Total  RM 201 for five of us. In this kind of environment, locations, foods deliciousness, services, staff warm and kindness, I will say it is worth.

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Restaurant T.G.I FRiDAY’S

F77/78/82, Ground Floor, Western Courtyard, The Curve,

6 Jalan PJU 7/3, Mutiara Damansara,

47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

03 7722 5576

http://www.fridays.com.my

 

Lai Foong Beef Noodle @ Cheras, KL

 

Lai Foong Restaurant has 54 years histories since 1956. The HQ is one of the stall in Lai Foong Restaurant situated in Jalan Tun HS Lee, Kuala Lumpur, which I have been visited many times since few years ago. Recently, Lai Foong has another branch at Taman Taynton View in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.

I like its beef noodles very much, especially it’s soup, as it is tasty with original taste and concentrated. It has mixture of more than ten kinds of medicine herbs, plus its secret recipe, and boiled with the ox bone, make it irresistible and must try, especially those who like to eat beef.

This Cheras branch is very clean, tidy and the restaurant gain grade A from the DBKL for its cleanliness.

Lean Meat with Beef Ball Meehon – RM 5.00

Lean Meat Ball and Beef Ball Lai Fun, served in soup – RM 5.00

Lean Meat and Beef Ball Lai Fun, served in dry  -- RM 5.20

The meat is a bit raw and soft, beef ball is springy and it has original beef flavour. This is my favourite, where I prefer to serve in Meehon.

Leaf Tripe and Beef Ball Lai Fun in Soup – RM 5.00

The leaf tripe was in slices, but had cut it too thin, so didn’t really know how the taste the leaf tripe was.

Fried Keow Teow – RM 4.00

Tasty, even if you just smell, is already irresistible to try it.

X.O. Teh, which also known as three layers teh, as you can see there were three different colours that form into three layers.

There are variety of choices of beef part: Beef ball, lean meat, tripe, beef lam, beef tendon, leaf tripe and mix. Additional on these, some parts from the beef that we normally never try before: Beef tongue, beef intestine, and bull penis. Even noodles, there are 4 types to be choose: Lai Fun, Keow Teow, Mee, and Meehon. You may choose to served in soup, dry, with rice, or without noodles.

Based on my experiences on the HQ and Cheras branch, there seems a bit different in the taste of soup, where the HQ restaurant’s beef soup is thicker in flavour and colours, which I prefer more. However, Lai Foong beef noodle is still one of the best beef noodle that I have ever try.

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HQ Restaurant:

Lai Foong Restaurant

138 Jalan Tun HS Lee, 50000 Kuala Lumpur

Operating Hours: 6.30 am – 4.30 pm

Branch:

Lai Foong Beef Noodle Shop Cheras

8 Jalan Nadchatiram, Taman Taynton View,

Cheras, 56000 Kuala Lumpur

Operating Hours: 8.00 am – 4.00 pm

Off Day: Every Tuesday except public holiday (business as usual)

 

FRATINI’S RESTAURANT @ Miri, Sarawak

Fratini’s Restaurant is located in Boulevard commercial centre, is an Italian Restaurant in Miri.



A nice and romantic atmosphere in the restaurant, just that the seat that we were sitting is a bit dirty on the day we visited.

They provide cheese powder on the table, which is my favourite. Too bad, I was not ordering pizza or spaghetti on that day.


Large cup of drinks, of course, with the higher price paid.

CREMA DI FUNGHI   RM 15
Cream of mushroom topped with cream and croutons. A good starter, tasty soup served with a slice of bread. I like this soup but is a bit too much for me, but is perfect for two to share.

FILETTO DI MANZO   RM 55
Grilled beef tenderloin served with anchovies and garlic jus, mashed potato and grilled vegetables.

RISOTTO AL NERO DI SEPPIA    RM 37
This is Italian rice braised in a black ink squid stew, topped with crispy tiger prawn. As there is no squid on that day, so they have changed it to mushrooms. Moderate rating, as I feel the taste is weird, I guess is because of the mushroom not suite with the tiger prawn and rice.
Overall, the foods are acceptable, and there is only few Italian restaurant in Miri, so Fratini’s Restaurant will be one of the good choice for those who like to have Italian foods.
 
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Fratini’s Restaurant
2512 & 2513, Ground Floor, Block 5,
MCLD Boulevard Commercial Center, Miri, Sarawak
Tel: +6085 431155 / +6085 431115