Royce' PotatoChip Chocolate

Chocolate makes you happy, I tested that theory during the final exams period. During the exam period, I was so stressed up with few of the subject, fearing the worst outcome with so many level 5 subjects. When I was half way through the exams, I got this "gift" all the way Japan.A thoughtful box of chocolate potato chips flown in from Japan...This was something different, usually when we travel around internationally, we will surely buy boxes and boxes of the chocolates at the airport or at the shopping malls of the country we visit (free of tax i think).Hmmm...after testing that theory where they say "Chocolate makes yo happy"...I don't think it really makes you happy, but somehow it can lift your mood. The chocolate is quite nice, not sugary sweet, and the chips tasted like...chips...it taste different...sweet and salty.

There's one Royce' Chocolate outlet in Malaysia, at KLCC's Isetan 3rd floor. I went there once and saw those chocolates are wrap in very nice wrappers. RM50 for a box of chocolate with a cartoon theme, the price seems very reasonable to me since its flown in from Japan. I wanted to buy it but decided not to...since I'm not a big fan of chocolates, my fridge is full of those chocolates that my family bought from overseas, but no one eats them. I only eat them once in a while when I'm hungry. I only like the choc from Holland that they bought, forgot the name...

Fong Lye Restaurant

After doing some shopping at KLCC yesterday, and meeting few of the High School Musical Summer Celebration cast, I went to the Fong Lye Taiwanese restaurant in Jalan Imbi. It has been ages since I last went there with my family. The last time I went there was ages ago.

The restaurant started its business around 12-14 years ago...and my family was a regular customer, I still remember my parents bringing me there for lunch every weekend after buying me toys at Sungai Wang Mall...

I didn't visit the restaurant ever since it renovated, so yesterday when we went there for dinner, one of the employee (captain i guess) recognized us...and my mum recognized her too...my mum was shocked that she was still working at the restaurant, she said she worked there since 1990. And she said that I used to go to the restaurant when I was a little kid...she asked if I still remember her...I smiled back, of course I remembered!! My mum was impressed that she worked for the restaurant for so many years.

When they served us the appetizers/ tidbits, anchovies with tofu marinated in sweet sour sauce, the moment I took the first back, those nostalgic feeling came back to me, the food still taste the same, that plate of of appetizers is filled with nostalgic memories...

And we ordered the main dish that we used to order back then, "Three Cup Chicken" which is my favourite, pork served with fungus and ginger, four angle beans served with ginger and chili, mapo tofu, and a new dish cabbage baked with cheese...My favourite is the "Three Cup Chicken"

The "Three Cup Chicken" is served in a claypot with ginger and basil...When I took the first bite, I felt sooooo hyper...I missed the 3 Cup Chicken SO MUCH, it was so nice!!! The others tasted nice as well!!! I didn't bring my camera so there's no pictures...

After the dinner, we were served a shot of sour plum juice...it was really nice and refreshing compared to the thick apple tea I had in another Taiwan Restaurant...and a huge plate of fruits for desserts...When we're about to leave the restaurant, the "captain" purposely came to say goodbye when she taking someone else order...how sweet of her.

We passed by the Chef Rasa Sayang Restaurant when we're going to get our car and coincidentally the captain of the restaurant was standing outside of the restaurant, my mum chatted a while with her and asked why we didn't go to the restaurant for dinner...LOL, my mum suggested lobster when we go Chef Rasa Sayang for dinner next time...

The Fong Lye Restaurant at The Gardens shares the same name with the one in Jalan Imbi and Desa Sri Hartamas but the one at The Gardens serves "fast food" and its cheaper.

Shabu One Steamboat Buffet - Lot 10

Last Friday I went to Shabu One with my cousins for dinner. I didn't know there was a steamboat buffet restaurant inside Lot 10. We went there around 9.30pm...I was starving and the shops inside the mall were already closing.There's many choices of soups for your steamboat (I think there's around 7 or 8), but we chose the normal herbal soup and Japanese anchovies soup, no one wanted the spicy soup...

There's many kind of dishes served at the restaurant, I don't find it interesting, the meatballs looks like those you can find at the supermarket (but I had to try some of them there's many variety of meatballs served), I only liked the variety of vegetables and noodles they offer for your steamboat.

There's also beef and poultry slices served at another section, I tried the beef but it was really really bad, but the Taiwanese beef slices was really good, the chicken slices was OK too...There's another section that's serve readily cooked food...I tried some of those and some of it was really bad...

My favourite part of the meal are the desserts...i love the frozen milk yogurt, the coconut pudding and the pumpkin pudding...i ate tons of them, and the Tiramisu too...i had 5 of those...and there's also the Japanese mochi...and there's many ice-cream flavours to choose from, I like the honeydew flavoured ice-cream...it's quite nice...We chatted for a while and left the restaurant around 12am...the restaurant closes at 0100...the mall was so quiet and empty...

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Not So Krispy After All

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts opened its first outlet in Malaysia at Berjaya Times Square, everyone was talking about it way before it started business, i was a little excited when everyone said it was good...since my cousins Gin, J&J, the twins, and me was in town together, 5 of us went there to find out what the fuss was about...another cousin (MZ) said it was really good.When we arrived, omg, i expected a queue, but not a long one, the queue was so long that people had to queue until outside of the shop, so the others went upstairs to find a seat while Gin and I queue up.We bought four dozens of doughnuts and a few fruit drinks and coffees...while lining up, we can see inside the kitchen, the process of how the doughnuts are made, it's the same as Big Apple doughnuts in Mid Valley, just the extra sugar coating process. Everyone who was lining got one whole free glazed doughtnut for free...fresh from the kitchen.

We sat down, and everyone shared different flavours of doughnuts, and each had another glazed doughnuts...we had one bite of each different flavours, and none of us wanted to finish the rest of the doughnut...it was horrible, none of us finished our doughnuts.

It was so sweet, so so sweet...too sweet, it doesn't taste nice at all for being so sweet...sweetness overload, we tried the other flavours and it was yucky/yaki/euwDo not try the above two...the right side is cheese flavour...3/10, the left one is chocolate something something, the texture is so rough 2/10! The others are as bad as this two...ugh

Try the normal glazed doughnut, it's ok and also very sweet...sugar overload. Apparently when MZ said Krispy Kreme Doughnuts was very nice...she was referring to the one she had in Europe!!! We brought the remaining doughtnuts and gave it to the other cousins who didn't went to BTS with us...MZ said it was a "little" sweet, and taste different to the Europe one...everyone went LOL

Imagine this, we gave the servant the remaining Krispy Kreme doughnuts. If it was J.Co or Big Apple, we can finish a whole dozen in a day! Krispy Kreme, kept it for 6 days and it's still in the fridge, no one even wants to touch it...i still prefer Big Apple and J.Co Doughnuts.

There will be a new outlet of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts in Mid Valley Megamall...