Closer Kitchen & Espresso Bar @ Mutiara Damansara

Often see this cafe in FB even its open. Finally today I can try it out. It situated near Tesco, The Curve, just right in front of the guard house of Menara TSR. The cafe is so fresh and bright with full glass drop at the side and front. Many little plants in the cafe. 

Inside is very spacious and there is a corner for a long wooden table, good for group of friends for gathering.

Order is at the coffee bar, you may take the menu to your table and walk to the counter to order & pay.

 Flat White @ RM11.00

I feel the coffee here is quite strong, is like double shot in my flat white. I like the strong aroma taste, a little bitter but still acceptable without adding any sugar.

 Mushroom Cappuccino @ 10.00

The mushroom cappuccino soup came with two little but thick pieces of garlic toast bread. I was expecting some cappu in the soup but hmmm just some ''bubble foam'' on top. This is a soup base instead of those thick flour soup. Inside comes with generous shiitake mushroom tiny pieces.

The Perfect Salmon Parcel @ RM18.00

Got this with a surprise. Salmon in a pastry puff ! Inside stuff with a thick piece of seared salmon fillet and top with melted cheese on a bed of spinach. Not much seasoning in it but it goes well with their moroccan spicy sauce. I like the arugula salad.

 Aloha Grilled Chicken with Pineapple @ RM18.00

This sandwich is quite big portion. I definitely unable to finish it all. It comes with oregano bread serve with mixed lettuce, thick & succulent chargrilled chicken. Topped with caramelised pineapple ring and freshly sliced onion. The chicken is tender and meaty, good for those on diet as there is no fats at all.

Really love this place, sun shines inside but don't feel any heat. 

Closer Kitchen & Espresso Bar

G-02, Menara TSR,
No.12, Jalan PJU 7/3, Mutiara Damansara,
47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 03-7732 4896
Hours: 8.00am - 8.00pm

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Lam Mee Ya @ Empire Shopping Gallery, Subang

LamMeeYa has been opening several outlets is major shopping centre nowadays. It was like ages since my previous visit at the 1Utama branch. Their food is getting more variety and recently serving the double boiled soup and all kinds of healthy fruits juice too in Empire Shopping outlet.

Lam YeeMee

Order the Lam Yee Mee for myself instead of the normal thick yellow noodle. Sick of the thick noodle on my last visit in 1U. This time the yee mee taste really better as i like the aroma of yee mee noodle. It's served with prawns, meatball, sliced chicken and some vege. I'm glad that they removed the prawn shell for me. Everything is delicious.

Special Chilli Sauce

The gravy mix well with their special chili sauce. Feel its not so spicy this time. Great !

Steam bread with kaya and butter

Find it funny that day served bread here too! The bread is steamed soft but its not heat enough to melt the butter. Somehow i just feel it taste normal. Nothing special about this.

Royal Milk Tea

The milk tea here really not bad. Nothing to complain from a Noodle Shop. Smooth and fragrance of tea is strong too. I'm not sure what is the difference between this royal milk tea and their normal milk tea. Visually is the mug that makes the different and both has so much bubbles on top too. There is a difference of 20 cents on price oh.

Lam Mee Ya

LG31, Empire Shopping Gallery, Jalan SS16/1,
47500 Subang Jaya, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 03-5022 2055

Website: http://lammeeya.blogspot.com

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Winter Lover Bakery House @ The Strand, Kota Damansara

Winter Lover Bakery House is located at the Strand, Kota Damansara, a row behind Alliance and OCBC Bank. It's at the first floor above the KungFu cafe. A bakery house that features in Mille Crepes, Macarons and Flower Tea. 

A very clean and cozy environment for relaxing especially during the weekends or holiday. The first cafe I experienced to leave our shoes/ slippers outside. I can feel like walking bare-foot at home. Plus, the wooden flooring are quite clean and non-dusty.

Winter Lover Bakery

Winter Lover Bakery

Chocolate Mille Crepe @ RM9.90

Grand Marnier Chocolate Mille Crepe

Tiramisu Mille Crepe

Mango Mille Crepe

Strawberry Mille Crepe

Choco Banana Mille Crepe

Rum & Raisin Mille Crepe

3 in 1 Mille Crepe (Vanilla, Chocolate & Strawberry)

Raya Limited Edition: Dark Chocolate & Black Forest Macaron @ RM5.90
Macarons @ RM3.90

Flower Tea Series: Detox and Beauty @ RM9.90
Additional cup @ RM1.00

Ice Lemon Tea @ RM4.90
Classic Chocolate @ RM6.90

All sorts of Flower Tea

Flower Tea

All sorts of Macarons

Winter Lover Bakery House

Out of the above, I love the 3 in 1 mille crepe the most as it tasted just like soft ice cream cake. The mango mille crepe is very flavourful too. Strawberry and Rum & Raisin mille crepe is the most popular among my friends. Their mille crepe is not very thick creamy type that I don't feel much jelat after eating much. I don't really fond of the macarons, too sweet for me. 

All mille crepe are @ RM9.90 each. Currently they are having the promotion of buy 10 at the price of 9. There are more than 18 choices of Mille Crepe available here and some are seasonable or limited edition i.e., Musang King Durian Mille Crepe that is only serve in Weekends on first come first serve basis. 

Winter Lover Bakery House

No.22A-1, Jalan PJU5/21,
The Strand Kota Damansara,
47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Business Hours:
Mon - Thurs: 12pm - 9pm
Fri - Sun: 12pm -10pm

Tel: 017-599 6962

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Dontaku Ramen Japanese Restaurant @ 1 Utama

Dontaku is a Japanese Restaurant located at the lower Ground of 1U shopping centre. They are specialised in Ramen, bento sets and hot pot sets. Nice japanese decoration and photos all over the wall and also the ceiling.

Salmon Sashimi @ RM12.80

It comes with 5 pieces of salmon, fresh lettuce, threaded white radish, some preserved ginger and wasabi. With the price given, i would request for a better and thicker chunk of salmon sashimi. Their salmon is abit darker in colour but luckily tasted fresh. Besides, the white radish are juicy with strong aroma of radish.

Weekend Special Bento Set @ RM19.80

This is a pork meat set inclusive of a hot pot, tempura, sushi, salad, gohan, pork chop, pork char siew and 3 type of pork pickles. The hot pot comes with many sliced of pork meat, cabbage, and bean sprout.

Shabu Hot Pot

The pork meat texture is like shabu shabu because the meat is so thin and attached half portion of fats. It not very flavourful but got the natural sweet taste and dipping in the sesame shoyu sauce makes it delicious. 

Side dishes

Tempura is prepared fresh that comes with a prawn, eggplant, ladies finger, and sweet potato. The crumbs are very crispy and flavourful with the tempura shoyu sauce inclusive of garnish radish. The sushi roll with tiny crabmeat stick tasted normal. 

Side dishes

Two sliced of pork meat and pork chop at the side tasted tender and crispy. A bit oily from the pork chop though. The 3 pork pickles are quite similar ingredients. The only thing can differentiate is the color of the sauce. They tasted, salty, sweet and miso respectively.

Hot Green Tea @ RM2.00 (refillable)

Dontaku Ramen Japanese Restaurant

LG352, Lower Ground Floor, One Utama Shopping Centre,

1, Lebuh Bandar Utama, 47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 03-7727 8389/ 03-7728 3389

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Village Park Restaurant @ Damansara Utama

Village Park Restaurant is well-known of the famous Nasi Lemak in Klang Valley. The restaurant located at Damansara Uptown which is always crowded. I always reluctant to wait for a seat when I was young. That time there is one unit of shoplot. Currently they had extended into two units shoplot, it is much more spacious and tables to cater the crowd.

Nasi Lemak Ayam Goreng @ RM7.50

This is the most wanted Nasi Lemak in Village Park. Comes with some cucumbers, ikan bilis, fried ground nuts, hard boiled egg and the chili sambal. The rice was nicely cooked with coconut milk fragrance. Best mix with the sambal and ikan bilis itself. Glad the sambal is not very spicy, it is slightly sweet with lots of onions in it. 

The ayam goreng generously a big whole thigh. It was fried till golden brown in color and very aromatic. Marinated with their secret recipe, the skin is so crispy with spices taste so delicious. 

Fish Ball Noodle Soup @ RM5.50

The fish ball noodle comes with lots of fish balls, fish cake, fu chok and lettuce. The fish ball is very bouncy but taste is just mild. I just like the fish cake and fu chuk in this bowl of noodle soup because they taste better. The fish ball soup is not standardise. I think it depends who is the chef. Sometimes it's quite tasteless like water.

Cham Tarik

The cham tarik which mix of coffee and teh is very thick in taste and tarik till very smooth texture. The sweetness is just alright to take care of our health, its not very sweet afterall. 

Tropical Blend @ RM3.70

I like this tropical blend with the mix of pineapple, orange, and carrot. Very refreshing and cooling. 

Village Park Restaurant 

No.5, Jalan SS21/37, Damansara Utama,
47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 03-7710 7860

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Pontian Wanton Noodles @ SS15, Subang Jaya

Pontian Wanton Noodles shop has been opening several outlets in the Klang Valley. I always feel the chinese name 笨珍 funny. I totally din't aware that they are a restaurant selling wanton noodles and laksa until one day my friend took me there for makan.

Pontian Wanton Noodle (w char siew) @ RM4.50

The noodle is top with 2 deep fried wanton, few pieces char siew and some veges. I love the deep fried wanton because it's very crispy and taste pretty well. Noodle is springy too. There are 3 types of sauces to be picked on for the noodles: original soy sauce, chili sauce and tomato sauce.

Besides, they have this pickled green chili is so sourish delicious. Recently is hard to find in normal restaurants because most of the restaurant are lazy to prepare it.

Pontian Wanton Soup

Dry noodle comes with a bowl of soup and 2 wanton in it. The soup broth is quite good and taste strong. Although the soup wanton is quite tiny but can really feel some meat in it.

Pontian Char Siew Noodle @ RM10.90

Pontian Wanton Noodle (only wanton) @ RM10.90

The wanton only noodles without char siew comes with 4 deep fried wan tan (2 extra for replacing the char siew). The wan tan meat is actually little too small piece, can't even feel it if i'm not concentrating.

Pontian Noodle (w Chicken Feet)

The chicken feet are braised perfectly with the black sauce taste. The skin is so soft and easily tear. This time i order the noodle with tomato sauce. It taste funny like just mixing with kimball tomato sauce but its quite unique and the more I eat the more I accepted the taste.

Pontian Curry Laksa @ RM10.90

Their curry laksa is rich with coconut milk and very thick broth. The taste is bit mild therefore mixing with the chili paste enhance the taste better. Inside comes with fu chuk, hard boil egg, cockles, bean sprout, and some mint sauce on top.

Red Bean @ RM10.90

Red bean is quite diluted and it comes with sago in it too. Very sweet piece of dessert.

Lime Jelly Ice @ RM10.90

This is really very refreshing. Comes with jelly and sourish lime, flavourful and cooling.

Not too bad overall. Price is cheap and reasonable. Instead of having it at those hawker stall which is so hot, may as well enjoy my meal in an air conditional shop.

Pontian Wanton Noodles

No. 15, Jalan SS2/64,

47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 03-7873 1024

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Kalamazoo Cafe @ Aman Suria

Introduce by a friend to this unique Cafe. Kalamazoo Cafe is located at the end of Aman Suria just a few shops away from Betty’s Midwest Kitchen. Not everywhere you get to have non-halal food but here do. Kalamazoo cafe serves pork in western style !

KALAMAZOO

Pork Loins @ RM15.90

What a special dish that i hardly find in most restaurants. The loins' part of a pig. The meat are oven baked topped with pineapple chutney. Sides are mashed potato and long beans. The loins meat looks whitish in colour, quite chewy and it's not tender enough. For those who like lean meat, will like this because no fats at all. The combination of the sauce is weird that brings a sweet taste on the pork. 

Callahan’s Roast Chicken @ RM14.90

It was served with a big piece of drumstick, beded with mashed potato with some lettuce, tomato and cucumber at the side. The chicken is well roasted with the skin roasted dark brownish. The meat is quite tender and juicy serving with the sauce. I like the mashed potato soft and sandy.

Pork Burger @ RM13.50

The pork burger is stacked up with soft bun, lettuce with mayonnaise, pork patty, melted cheese, and tomato. Don't worry with dirtying your hands. It is nice to hold it tight with both hands, biting it will splash out some of their homemade sauce. 

Sauces

They even added effort on the sauce served. This is really something special and unique.

Kalamazoo Cafe

A-G-36, Jalan PJU 1/43,
Aman Suria Damansara,
47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Tel: 03-7805 1436

Website: http://kalamazoocafe.com.my

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