Lunch-Date @Noodle House MidValley 22032012

Went lunch-dating the other day.. (er.... bulan March lepas). Had lunch @Noodle House MidValley. Need to find time for ourselves between office and children.

Kuetiaw goreng tu ai punya. Tak mengecewakan. Yang cam mi megi tu suami ai punya. Juga tak mengecewakan. Afterall, sapa tak suka makan megi kan? Hi.. hi..

Ai like. Wiken tu siap bawak anak-anak pulak makan kat situ :D

Buka Puasa @Sekinchan Ikan Bakar, Taman Duta Mas Cheras

Ramadhan is very near. InsyaAllah Khamis ni tengok anak bulan. Puasanya Jumaat atau Sabtu. Sekolah agama Kakak dah keluarkan notis cuti hari Jumaat tu sempena menyambut 1 Ramadhan. Masa ai sekolah menengah dulu pun macam tu. 1st Ramadhan cuti. I was in Johor btw.

Walau bagaimanapun, ai masih ada 1 hari hutang puasa tahun lepas and today I am fasting, InsyaAllah. Last 2-3 weeks pulun mengganti.Then off sebab bulan dah mengambang. Lepas tu ada jamuan ofis pulak. Godaannnn!! Then Iman masuk hospital. Cubaannn!! Apapun tinggal satu hari lagi. Harap-harap tamat dengan jayanya today.

During my puasa marathon 2-3 minggu lepas, dapat peluang buka puasa @Sekinchan Ikan Bakar, Taman Duta Mas Cheras. Dalam daerah Balakong jugak tapi guna address Taman Duta Mas. Hospital Columbia Asia kat sebelah tu guna address Bandar Tun Hussein Onn. Econsave belakang hospital guna address Balakong :D Tapi semuanya dekat-dekat je. Bangunan sebelah menyebelah gitu..

I couldn't help but to notice. Tak payah beli collagen mahal2 yer.. singgah je minum Lai Chee Kang kat sini everyday :D Kolagen semulajadi tu.. I didn't try it tho.

Ikan kerapu berselimut sambal. Thing is my husband prefers kerapu dari ikan lain. Ai suka ikan tilapia as well but he doesn't. Ai suka kerapu jugak.. so layan bersama-sama k. Kalau ikutkan, I am more receptive to new kind of food and my pick of food is more universal. So kalau nak makan, let him choose. Whatever he eats, I can eat. But not all that I eat, he can eat.

Lala. Juicy and plump. With balanced taste of garlic, ginger and lemongrass. Cukup masin, manis dan pedas.

My menu wajib. Vegetable. I love green ones except broccoli. Broccoli gives me flatulence. Kembung perut dan dan tu jugak.. my pick that day, kailan with some mushroom. Yummy as well. Sayur pun fresh.

Seafood Tomyam. Lengkuas agak terover kuat rasanya. Isi banyak so dimaafkan :D 

I remember when this outlet first opened, kalau lambat sampai, kena beratur tunggu meja. Now the excitement dah sangat berkurangan, meja pulak beratur tunggu customer hihi. Kalau tak silap pemandangan mata, cuma dua orang pekerja manned the restaurant masa we all makan hari tu.

While eating, mata ai dok terpandang-pandang tembikai dalam fridge diorang. Sangat menggiurkan okay. Tup-tup after we all habis makan, berdesup waiter letak slices of cooled watermelon atas meja. Wahhh... syukur alhamdulillah!

So macamana persediaan Ramadhan u ols? Ibadat-wise, of course we all want to do better than what we did last Ramadhan. Same goes with me. I have plan to bring the kids for weekend terawikh kat surau or masjid this time around. Kalau Adam tak menganggu jemaah lain lah kan. Iman is pretty excited to fast a full moon. InsyaAllah. Untuk berbuka belum ada menu. I should start drafting as to not merenung dalam fridge tapi taktau nak masak apa later on. I'll have my hands full kupas mengupas, potong memotong and whatnots during this coming weekends.

Celebratory Lunch @ Chili's 23062012

23rd June 2012

I have always believed in rewards as a gesture of appreciation. My school-going children may not be the best-est students in their class judging from their exam results. They made huge leap nonetheless. Kakak made it to 5th place in her class.Iman is in Band 3. Not taking this band-thingy into perspective pun, Iman has made a whole lot of improvement, education-wise. So far so good. 

Tebby, otw back to taska after meeting the kids' teachers, announced that he was treating us all for lunch that coming Saturday (which was last week's Saturday actually. Pardon the delay). At Chili's and suggested that we should have Molten Chocolate Cake for dessert. Say what? Chocolate? Cake? Nak! Nak! Nak!

Grape Juice and Orange Juice. My tastebud says that Grape juice tasted like anggur benyek but Tebby likes it very much. Since I don't do chilled or icy drink so much, we just shared a mug between us. Not exactly a mug la because Tebby had a refill. The kids had Orange Juice that came with Kid's Menu (one free Kid Meal for one main). Since we ordered just one main, we only got one free Kid Meal and paid for the other two.

Plain water for Iman. He has limited choices of preferred food. Including drinks. He takes hot teh-o, hot milo, yoghurt drinks and plain water. No soda. No caffeine.

Pepper Pal Country Fried Chicken Crispers for Adam. He was pretty occupied with a newly purchased Bumblee Bee, he barely ate these. Orang sebelah dia yang makan. Siapa duduk sebelah dia? Me laa.. :D The batter coating those chicken strips adalah sangat sedap!

Pepper Pal Cheese Pizza. Iman punya. Ni lah menu wajib dia kalau pegi Chili's. He loves pizza. Especially plain ones like this and most importantly, sans vege. Yeah, I know it's not good. But rather than not eating anything at all kan.

We the adults decided to order a stater and a main only. Share. For starter it was Triple Play. It's a combo of three types of starters. Chicken Crispers (as in Adam's Kid Meal), Wings Over Buffalo and Southwestern Eggrolls. It came with three types of sauces too. Three short sticks of celery to lessen the guilt! LOL!

A tower of Big Mouth Burger. Seen above tower dah roboh :D :D As the name goes, you really have open up wide to eat this! Kena potong dulu baru boleh makan. Too bad it came with a strand of hair...After complaining and had 3 staff came and talked to us, we had the replacement. Cut nicely in quarters. Okaylah senang nak makan. And most importantly, no hair!

Tadaaa!!! Molten Chocolate Cake. Topped with vanilla ice-cream. Atas tu ada chocolate shell somemore. *gemok* *gemok* The cake was warm and it had warm chocolate fudge inside. Imagine fudge meleleh-leleh the moment you dip your sudu in it. Being a sweet-tooth, I immediately fell in love with this. Love at first taste. If only they gave us two scoops of ice-cream. That would be better.

Look at Kakak attacking the shell :P

See. All licin already. Kalau kat rumah boleh jilat tanpa segan silu.... Kat kedai kena berbudi bahasa menjaga air muka suami...

Kids - Keep it up. The better you all score in exams, the more of this cake your mother will eat hi hi
Tebby - Thanks Yang for the wonderful treat

Oh ya, we got a RM20 discount. I guess that's for that 'hairy incident'. That's basically one free Molten Chocolate Cake..

Dinner @Orchid Bistro, Jusco Balakong

Jumaat lepas, after work singgah kat JJ Balakong. Nak cari pizza Mr Oetker kegemaran anak-anak. Tup-tup takde. Resorted to ordering Beef Pepperoni @Pizza Hut. It took around 15 minutes so we all pegi makan dulu while waiting.

Lepas pusing-pusing, last-last makan kat Orchid Bistro.

Order 2 gelas air suam. Waitress repeat order, air suam segelas. Okay takpe. Yang sampai 2 gelas.

Mee Goreng Mamak untuk en.Tebby. Sila makan dengan pisau dan garfu yer. Adoilah. Tak pernah lagi makan mee dengan pisau :P

Nevertheless rasanya sedap. Rupa pun buleh tahan.Pisau pun dah ganti dengan sudu..

Fried Wings. Sedap. Konon nak makan dengan Mee Goreng Mamak. Mee ilek oredi baru wings sampai. Mee Goreng Mamak sama 2 wings ni semua dimakan oleh Tebby yang berdiet *ahem*

Waitress - Mau sos apa?
Me - Sos apa ada?
Waitress - Sos mushroom sama sos blackpepper. Tapi mushroom dah habis.

Adoilah.. dah tentu-tentu kena ambik sos black pepper kan. Lagi mau tanya. Anyway, beef steak ni sangat not recommended. Very dry, keras dan liat. Nak makan pun susah. Lenguh rahang nak kunyah. Tapi malas nak komplen.

Lunch @BARADA Lake Valley BTHO

Kemalasan nak memasak melanda! Booked cleaners tapi tak dapat slot yang diinginkan. I was free the whole weekends except Sunday noon. The only free slot the cleaning company had was Sunday noon! Sangat takde jodoh.

Lepas menyapu, menyental, mengemop dan sebagainya - makan laaa.. apa lagi. Kena pulak dah penat-penat gitu, 120% sedap dari biasa. Mula-mula ingatkan nak pegi JM BARIANI tapi tak bukak lagi. Pelik jugak, masa tu dah pukul 12.00 tengahari. Terus melencong ke BARADA. BARADA ni serves makanan Arab.

Iman punya. Dia tak nak nasi kaler striking-striking sangat. Nama tak ingat. Makan dengan ayam bakar. Iman tak suka makan daging.

Iman with his food.

Ni Kakak punya. Kaler nasi meriah sikit. Makan dengan kambing bakar. Dia ni pulak tak suka makan ayam. Kalau bawak pegi makan kat Chicken Rice Shop, berkerut-kerut muka dia. Tapi kalau Nasi Ayam abahnya masak, laju pulak dia makan.

Kakak.

Ni pulak ai punya. Nasi sama cam nasi Iman. Lauk kambing + lady finger. Sedap. Maknya takde tak suka apa-apa. Daging makan, ayam pun makan. Ikan pun okay. Adam pulak kongsi makan nasi Iman sikit, nasi Kakak sikit. Abahnya memula takmo order sebab kononnya nak share dengan anak-anak. Menengokkan anak-anak makan penuh semangat, dia order gak satu set nasi. Tapi takde gambar sebab jurufoto bizi makan :D

Lunch @Red Wok, Bangi

Awaken your tastebuds katanya ............ :D

RedWok is one of my family's favorite eating outlet. Famous for its steamboat and grill though they also do a-la-carte cooking. Good to hang out and laze through steamboat session. The children get to pick and choose whatever they want and had fun digging in ice cream later on. That's one way how me and en.Tebby often end our weekdays. Never been there or weekdays tho. Steamboat, consumes time. Like I said, hang out and laze throughout :D Weekends then. When we need not to worry about having to rush through the morning traffic to get to the office the next day.

Had lunch once there. Above is among the choices you can pick from. Atas nombor 2 dari kiri adalah sangat tempting but en.Tebby tak suka petai and tak suka me berbau petai. So petai session can only be done when he goes outstation :D

Smile! Who wouldn't?

You can choose size of meal. Small, Medium and Large. No XL or XXL here.

Food was good except for Nasi Goreng Cina. We specifically told the waiter no vege, no garnishing what-so-ever. Nampak dah budak waiter tu acuh tak acuh.Macam ngantuk je. Came Nasi Goreng Cina, meriah dengan sayur-sayuran and loads of garnishing. Waved to that very waiter, once again, buat acuh tak acuh. Called up waiter lain and complaint. We later got our Nasi Goreng Cina sans vege and garnishing. But the taste sangat so-so. Very bland, I'd say. We ended up meratah lauk pauk je. 

I'll definately come again and again for its steamboat. In fact, memang selalu datang pun. The irony is that, takde sekalipun ambik gambar when we do steamboat there. Gambar lunch yang just once we had there pulak yang ada :P Anyway, for lunch, I'd rather be eating at other places dari tengok muka ketat waiter kat sinun tu.

You can have a peek at RedWok website www.redwok.wordpress.com

Address: -
Lot PT 70550, Jalan Kajang Impian 1/2
Taman Kajang Impian
43650 Bandar Baru Bangi
Selangor
Tel: +603-8927-4100
Fax: +603-8927-4500
HP: +6019-339-4655 - Awang Hasyim
Email: redwok2u@gmail.com

Opening Hours: -

Monday to Thursdays
Lunch : 12pm to 3pm
Mondays to Fridays
Dinner : 6pm to 12am
Saturday & Sunday
"Almost" all day dining : 12pm to 12am
Please note we are closed for lunch on Fridays

If you're going for steamboat especially on weekdays, it is good to call them up first and book your table.

Hurry Mc Flurry

Kata orang, dah jadi ibu, jangan lupa jadi isteri. I once thought I'd be a lesser mother if I go out once in a while to have my own space and time. After sometimes, I realized that is just what I need to keep me going. To have a break once in a while. Remember that I went to Tanamera last Thursday? It was school holidays and of course the kids were curios when I took them out much later than I normally do. What more when I was casually dressed. Took them out for breakfast then they pow-ed me kat 7-eleven. They made me promised to bring them to McD once I fetch them later in the afternoon. Having done mentally calculating, I said.. Ummi datang jemput pukul 4.00 petang nanti. Lepas tu kita pegi Mc Donald's. Kakak nak Oreo Mc Flurry je ke? Nak burger jugak? Abang nak Horlicks Mc Flurry kan. Fries want or don't want? Adik? Nak sama Kakak Oreo Mc Flurry, ke nak sama Abang Horlicks Mc Flurry? We decided to have Mc Flurry each with burger, fries and whatnots. That would be our pre-dinner, so to speak.

After my Tanamera session was done, did my Zuhr prayer then rushed back to Cheras with empty, growling stomach. Breaking promises that I did with the kids is one thing I am always trying to avoid. Arrived at their taska at exactly 4.00pm.............. only to find they were eating nasi! A full plate each! Adoilah.

Anyway, a promise is a promise. Pegi jugaklah Mc Donald's. Tup tup mesin aiskrim rosak! Maka kecewalah anak-anak ku (walaupun perut dah kenyang makan nasi) tak dapat Mc Flurry bagai. Merawat hati-hati yang kecewa, I brought them up nearby Tutti Fruitti. Thing is, depa ni syok macam main masak-masak je kat Tutti Fruitti tu, sudahnya kang tak habis, makkknyaaaaa jugak yang habiskan.

Their pick. Iman punya raspberry (kalau tak silap) with very very very sour strawberry. Kakak punya sam flavour dengan Iman, cuma dia letak nata de coco. Adam ambik chocolate pastu letak 3 biji marshmallow. I had only RM50 dalam purse so the kids were strictly warned not too put too much of anything hihi.

Happy faces. Anyway, as expected, the boys did not finish theirs. Saya share dengan Ummi kan. Ni Ummi makan - Adam. Iman pun tak habis suruh maknya makan. Haihhh..

En.Tebby called up before driving back home asking how things were going. Otw back tu the abah made some effort to singgah at other McD and bought them the Mc Flurry yang diidam-idamkan itu. Maklumlah.. LIMITED TIME ONLY. Kang tak merasa pulak. The kids - double the joy :D Oh ya. Horlicks Mc Flurry it adalah sangat sedappp!! Lemak berkrim (I have soft spot for makanan yang lemak berkrim - be warned okay). Cubalah. Limited time only tu - cepat! Cepat! Yang ni tak payah jemput-jemput Ummi suruh share, Ummi jemput diri sendiri share Mc Flurry you ols hi.. hi..