First Try on Lalapan @ Muara Restaurant, Miri

Recommended by a friend, saying lalapan at Muara Restaurant is super nice. Lalapan is originated from Indonesia and having eight (Lapan) dishes: Main dish(depend what you order), cooked green leave vegetable, cabbaged, long bean, cucumber, fried tofu and tempeh, and with some spicy sambal sauce at the middle, served with rice. The restaurant is located at Waterfront Commercial Center, behind UOB and CIMB area.

Lalapan Ikan (fish)

Lalapan ayam (chicken)

After trying it, what I can say is NICE ~~… I personally like the fried tofu and tempeh, and of course the main dish as well (chicken and fish), but really unable to accept the sauce because I don’t really eat sambal. Strongly recommend especially for those who never try lalapan before.

 

Muara Restaurant

Lot 1306, Miri WaterFront Commercial Centre,

98000, Miri,Sarawak.

Tel: 0168827370, 0146834050, 0198068876

RAMEN TEN @ Harbour Front Centre, Singapore

There are many restaurants inside the Harbour Front Centre, and Remen Ten Restaurant attracted me was its promotion signboard: “Buy 1 Get Another 1 for FREE” — Order any set of Japanese/ Western set meal, free one bowl of Ramen.

Tidy and nice decorations inside the restaurant, mainly in red colours.

 

Norwegian Salmon  SD 15.90

Norwegian Salmon set meal, one piece of salmon with some crispy fries, plus a bowl of Japanese rice and milky miso soup that had taste of milk.  Grilled salmon with some laver on top of it, taste yummy and smell good, especially with its sauce.

Scallop Miso Ramen

There are two big scallop in this bowl of ramen, make it irresistible. Besides scallops, there are boiled egg and bean sprouts.

Hot Japanese Green Tea  SD 1.80

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Ramen Ten Restaurant

1, Maritime Square, #02-03/07,

Harbour Front Centre, Singapore

Tel: 02 63764151

Forum Seafood @ Boat Quay, Singapore

 

We walked quite a while, searching for something simple for our dinner in the city of Singapore. Along the Boat Quay road, you will see there are lots of seafood restaurants and their staff standing roadside approaching customers. There were many tourist like us looking for foods while enjoying the view and lots of local people who had finished their works and enjoying their happy hours at pubs.

Most of the restaurants hard selling their foods and prices, even offering discounts up to 30% and free drinks, can you imagine how competitive along them. The crabs they were selling varies in type, but most of them sell Sri Lanka crabs, looks good but we didn’t try for this time.

We had decided to have our dinner at the Forum Seafood Restaurant which is located nearly at the end of the Boat Quay road.  I guess they were still having some renovation outside their restaurant. 

Is kind of good view and comfortable here. We seated at the river side, is Singapore River side. In front are few well-known banks buildings, especially UOB bank, a Singapore bank which its buildings are huge.

Seafood Fried Rice

As that time was quite a late night, so we just had some simple foods as dinner. Quite fast in serving, but is quite small in plate. This fried rice was yummy, just a bit salty. Obviously, it had prawns, some meats, scallops, and others.

Fried Seafood Noodles

Fried noodles with seafood, quite a small plate as well. Inside this dish, had prawn, mushroom, scallop, fish meat, vegetable and squid. A lots of ingredients inside, but the sauce was too sticky and taste moderate.

We had been offer 30% discounts and free soft drinks for the first round, plus 10% service charge and 7% government tax, total cost us SD27.07. If not converting into Ringgit Malaysia, I think this is acceptable, but if you did convert to RM, then I will say is very expensive for just two small plate of “simple dinner”. It is better get more comments and suggestions online or from friends before visiting there again.

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FORUM SEAFOOD

73, 74, 75 Boat Quay, Singapore 049831

 

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

 

Restoran Chin Hiong @ Rawang, Selangor

Restoran Chin Hiong located just besides the road, between the Petronas and Caltex petrol station, and it has some distance from the center of Rawang town. There were just few customers on that day we visited, so we didn’t need to wait long after made the orders. 

 

招牌蒸鱼（木耳金针蒸）Steam Fish --  RM 20

It is the restaurant's signature dish, steam fish with  lily and Jew’s ear fungus, plus some wolfberries and smell of wine. I kind of like this fish, as it seem can nourish our skin and good for our health.

螃蟹扒豆腐   Crab meat with tofu  -- RM 12

Tofu is smooth tender and some crab meats which is my favourite.

 

 

宫保鸡丁佛盆   Kung Pao Chicken Yam Bowl   -- RM 15

蒙古排骨 Mongolian Pork Ribs  --  RM 20

Personally do not like the taste of the sauce, moderate rating.

富贵菜 Wealthy Vegetables  --  RM 12

Firstly, when this dish is served, we smell something like urine, thought there was some bamboo shoot in the dish, but nothing like bamboo shoot found. After complain to the cook, they serve us another plate again. This was fresh and sweet, tasty without the smell of urine.

 

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Restoran Chin Hiong  清香楼冷气海鲜酒家

Lot 7, 8 & 9, Medan Bayu, Batu 21,

Jalan Batu Arang, Sungai Bakau,  48000, Rawang, Selangor

H/P: 012 2026125

Business Hours: 10.30 am – 3.00 pm

6.00 pm – 10.30 pm