Sarang, Heartbeat of Seoul

Heard how one's feeling is shown through their cooking?


Sarang is the Korean word for love. And if the chefs were showing their love for food, they were still working towards that target with gradual improvement.

I'm feeling the love in this. Fishballs as an appetiser. Remember those days when we were young can clamouring for fishballs? The plain kinds not the fancy ones with curry or cheese or whatever filling is out there these days.

Drunken pork

No, the pork was not fed with wine or any alcholic drinks prior to the slaughter-house. Although I wish they had. I was expecting flavouful mouthfuls of alcholic marinade but it didn't quite meet the mark.

Tteokboki

Side dishes had limited refills up to 5 times

Army Stew

This is an item with definate L-O-V-E in it. It's a fine stew for those rainy days and had ingredients you can find around the house. No-brainer but don't you find no-brainer foods are the best ones... when you just want to curl up with a blanket on a couch and slurp?

This restaurant has a inner and outer portion where diners may choose to sit. It gets really windy outside, so girls, try to weigh your skirt down. We don't want a Marilyn Monroe now do we. Staff are attentive and sometimes, you may actually catch sight of a cute chef or two ;)

Sarang, Heartbeat of Soul

#07-01 Orchard Central

181 Orchard Road

Singapore 238896

Website: http://www.sarang.com.sg/

Tel:+65 6773 1322

The Apartment @ The Curve

The year end is a great time to go shopping. Plus it was a weekend! So taking the sales and the weekend crowd into account... Why not? So Leng Chai and I bundled into the car and headed off to a day of shopping... and food.

This time around we decided to try a relatively new place called The Apartment. The management wanted to convey the feeling of being in your very own, well, apartment, I guess. There were cushions, flower beds, and long wooden dining table, bookshelf. It would seem to be a very up-scale apartment to me.

They have a wide variety of cocktails and house pours. However the menu was a little sparse.

Raspberry cooler with water.

Local mussels cooked in The Apartment style. Comes with fresh bread. It can easily feed 3. The Apartment dressing is made from lime juice, chillies and ginger. It's very good.

Lemon Sole with mashed potatoes and watercress (I think) salad. Leng Chai ordered this out of curiosity. I loved the mash but not so fond of the salad. There was no dressing on it. Some balsamic vinegar would have been nice.

My dish of Andrew's Pasta. My personal recommendation is to find a friend to eat this with you. The portions are quite big! The pasta comes with baby potatoes.

The dishes were quite filling. Or perhaps we stuffed ourselves silly on the bread dipped in the mussel sauce. Prices range from RM10-RM50. I didn't really like the pasta as the sauce clung to the fettuccine and made it very 'heavy'.

The Apartment
Lot 72, 73 & 74, 152 Ground Floor,
Western Courtyard, The Curve,
Mutiara Damansara.

Tel: 03-7727 8330

Johnny's Restaurant @ Berjaya Times Square

Thai Tea

Comic Fiesta 2007 was a blast and after 2 days to costuming, dealing and being quished like mashed potatoes, CK and I sat down to a nice quiet meal at Johnny's. Not wanting to overburden our ravenous selves, we decided on the dinner set instead of the usual steamboat. The main course comes with Thai Tea which tasted pandan-ish, the soup of the day and ice-cream for dessert. All for the toal of RM5.80.

Green Tea Noodles with Chicken

CK found the noodles to his liking and he said that the taste of the green tea went well with the chicken.

Tom Yam Mee Hoon

The tom yam came with king prawns. It wasn't very fresh though. The soup was good. With all the spices in place and good for those who has an average Malaysian's tastebuds. Nevertheless, I would have liked mine to be a tad spicier. The portion for the tomyam was quite big and I think that 2 people could have easily shared the meal.

Johnny's Restaurant

Lot 03-91, 3rd Floor,

Berjaya Times Square,

Tel: 03-21441292

Delicious Cafe @ I Utama

After a day of work-clothes shopping, Nemo, Leng chai and I decided to head on to Delicious for a late night bite. Mind you, this was a 9pm dinner.

Death by Chocolate

Yes, we needed a chocolate fix. However the chocolate syrup was all frozen to the spoon. It would have been nicer if the chocolate could have been mixed first before adding in the ice-cream.

Ceaser Salad

A personal fave or mine. In all it's simplicity of turkey bacon and poached egg with their own 'croutons', it's a salad that will make you forget all other Ceaser salads that you ever had! You may choose to add chicken or salmon to it but I prefer mine plain and simple. The cafe also serves other salads such as Thai Beef Salad and Gado-Gado.

French Onion Soup

Four Cheese Macaroni

Beware of the cheesiness of this dish. It is after all, called Four Cheese Macaroni. The dish is great to share between people as no one can take in that much of cheese at one go. A great side dish to a main course if you wish to dabble your palatte in something else. The salad that comes with it made me wish that it had some dressing on it. A dash of lemon juice or olive oil would have been a nice touch.

Blackberry Apple Crumble


Tiramisu in a glass

DELIcious cafe made a name for itself through its' desserts and through word of mouth lead me there. So the desserts are a must try. Although names such as Lemongrass Mango Cheesecake may sound a bit daunting, the taste is one to remember.

DELIcious Cafe
1 Utama Phase 2
G316, Ground Floor
Tel:03-7724 1086

Bao Bao Restaurant @ Pandan Indah

One of my favourite places for pan meen! It's the Bao Bao Pan Meen! They have branches at Aman Suria and Bandar Puchong Jaya.

I never knew about the place until CK brought me to this place when I first visited him at his house. And that was 3 years ago. Until now no Pan Meen has ever measured up to that...in my books.

Avoid going there at lunch time or you may be faced waiting for quite awhile. The place is always packed irregardless of the heat of the day. But waiting for your pan meen is worth it.

This is my slurpy bowl of pan meen. With extremely nice fried tau foo pok, meat balls and flavourful soup. If you prefer, a side dish of fried ikan bilis will be given at extra cost.

The herbal tea and 4 different kinds of chillies. There used to be 6 kinds but I think 4 is still more than enough.

8G, Jalan Perubatan 2,

Pandan Indah,

55200 Kuala Lumpur.

*Non-halal

Seo Gung @ SS2

Roasting beef on the grill

Ahhh... this rainy day brings CK and I to Seo Gung for some nice piping off straight off the fire. And in this case, literally. Seo Gung was recommended to us by Yean Peng who loved their citron tea. This place can be bit pricey though if you don't go with the sets offered. Serving mostly pork and beef, it's a piggy heaven for me and not for CK.

Hot coals are placed under the grill to cook your meat to perfection. However I felt that it would have been nicer if we were left to grill the meat by ourselves instead of the waiter coming to it for us. For those not used to such hands-on experience, a waiter can then be called.

I really wanted to grill the meat myself.

Some of the numerous side dishes.

Bibimpap

This dish is the staple dish in every Korean restaurant. I am hooked onto this dish and seek it out wherever I go. The portions were slightly larger than normal but the sauce was a bit weak. The waiter wanted to take away my fun of mixing up my own meal. Luckily I managed to stop him in time.

Kimchi soup with pork

Homemade kimchi is the best as no kimchi is alike for any Korean family. In the soup, it tastes even better. It warmed the cockles of my heart.

Seo Gung
21M-23M,
Jln SS2-67,
Petaling Jaya
Tel:03-78758868
*Non-halal

Lemang @ Tmn Seri Sentosa, Off Old Klang Road

It only happens during Raya. When you see great bonfires being lit and strange bamboo rods being smoked... It is the season of LEMANG!!!

And me being a lemang fan, couldn't help the temptation of the sticky glutinous rice! After trying various 'lemang's, I would have to say that the best one ( in terms of size and money value) would be in Taman Seri Sentosa, opposite Checker hypermart.

This is the medium sized lemang that I bought for RM8. The larger ones are going for RM9. A portion enough to feed 4!


And lemang can never go wrong with curry. Please note that this lemang stall does not sell curry. The curry is my own.

Lemang is only available for a limited time only!

Lemang Stall,
Jalan Taman Seri Sentosa,
Bt 6 1/2, Jalan Klang Lama,
58000 Kuala Lumpur
Open: 12pm until lemang finishes. :)

(To get here, drive to Old Klang Road from KL. After passing by the Puchong Police Station towards PJ, keep an eye out for the Taman Seri Sentosa signboard just before a traffic light on your left. Turn in and keep driving past the shophouses, condos and the petrol station. Slow down after 500 m and you will see Checkers on your left. The lemang stall is directly opposite it on the right)