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Nandos @ 1Utama Shopping Complex

Monday, September 14th, 2009

This fast food restaurant needs no introduction. Its famous and found in many shopping complexes around Malaysia. Nandos which are famous for their chilies sauce or Peri-Peri Sauces. I’m not going details on it as you can check out their interesting cartoon flash website at www.nandos.com.my.

I’m heading straight to their food. A recommendation for those that can’t eat too spicy but still like a tingle of spice, go for the Mild peri-peri sauce chicken dish. If you have a liking for hot stuff, then go ahead for the Hot and Extra Hot Peri-peri. But the taste includes a little sourish tingle to it.

The fries are alright, thick and not too hard. But I don’t fancy much on the salad side.


Little Taiwan @ 1Utama Shopping Complex

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Just over the opposite of Penang Flavours and Otak-Otak Place, there’s this restaurant called Little Taiwan: Papa Beef and Mama Chop. It was almost dinner time, and we’re hungry. So, just nice to try out some Taiwanese cuisine. Besides, they got big beef specialist wall posters that its pretty hard to take my eyes of them. So, if you like to eat beef; This is a good place to try.

They have lots of variety of beef dishes. Since I was hungry, I went for one of the recommended dishes called the Three Treasures Beef. Which they serve 3 different beef parts, plus rice with beef sauce and small sides of cucumber & tomato and acar. Amazingly, the service is pretty fast. But then, its possible that the tables aren’t filled up yet since we ate a little early. At 5pm.

The other dish ordered was the Salted Chicken Chop. The small sides are of the same. Comes with white rice and the chicken chop isn’t that salty but its crispy. just have to watch out for some bones. It uses the drumstick side – flattened and fried.

We ordered a wanton soup. Comes in 6 pieces. Has a few vegetables in it. The soup is ok. The wanton is a little bit small. Err.. I didn’t manage to photo shoot the soup. I was dipping on my beef rice already at that time… urr.. hungry mah!

For the drinks, one was bubble red tea. Nothing special. The other is a strawberry shake. Its nice, not too sourish and not too sweet. Just nice. Recommended to try if you’re a strawberry lover.

all this with 2 main dish and 1 small soup plus the 2 drinks. Total is just slightly below RM50.00 for 2 people’s consumption.

I would come back again to try the other dishes as they have spicy and ramen dishes. Looks kinda spicy hot too.. hmmm… well, I’ll put that review in when the time comes.

Penang Flavours @ 1Utama Shopping Complex

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Found a nice place to have some snacks between breakfast and lunch. Just before our movie show “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”. Found this restaurant just next to Otak-Otak Place. Thought we should try it out.

Since its a light snack, we didn’t really order stuff like asam laksa or mee goreng which was listed in the menu as recommended dishes. Instead, we order recommended light dishes like Chee Cheong Funn, Tofu Bakar and Popiah wrap.

For drinks, I ordered cold limau kasturi. Its refreshing. But also a little bit too sour. But it won’t be called a limau kasturi if its not sour, right?

Two (2) of the dishes we ordered are in the recommendation listed in the menu, denoted by pink stars. I really recommend you to try the Tofu Bakar and Popiah wrap. Among these 2 yummies; I recommend you to try the popiah. But of course its also rare to find places that serves Tofu Bakar. So, its worth a try as well.

The Chee Cheong Funn is a no go for me. Well, I don’t fancy sweet sauce over the Funn. There is actually another similar dish of Chee Cheong Funn. But its with curry chicken. I think having a curry chicken at a little wee morning is not a good idea for my stomach.

Definitely worth to come back to try the main dishes the next time round as I heard one of the waiter making arrangement for a reserved table for a family of 10 people. Must a some of the other main dishes that attracts the crowd. Probably the asam laksa.