WG Semi-Buffet Brunch

We were looking for a place to have lunch at The Starling Mall when we saw this "All you can eat" salad bar, bottomless soup and dessert with one's chosen fixed main meal at MYR 19 nett - good value for money - so we decided to eat at this eatery.

There are 10 choices for the main dish. Which one will you order? I could not decide.

The salad bar and soup counter. The black pot contains potato soup. The middle silver container holds all the salad leaves and the last container has bread pudding as the dessert.

I start of with raw purple lettuce leaves and half a piece of bread pudding with a bit of potato soup and iced coffee which I thought is not sweetened but it was sweet so I just took a few sips and did not finish drinking it.

This is my main dish - can you guess what it is? It does not look good but tastes ok though very soft. I took another full portion of bread pudding because surprisingly I like the taste of it because it was not very sweet and it was not soggy like most bread pudding I encountered previously. Can taste the egg in this bread pudding.

Total bill for 2 pax is MYR 38 nett.

Nicsmann at The Starling Mall.

The signboard that drawn us into this eatery.

Deep fried fish MYR 1

Deep fried red fish (small for 3 to 5 pax) at MYR 0.94++ (MYR 1.09 nett after 10% service charge and 6% SST). Crispy.

Source: Dragon-i website. This fish promotion is due to the reopening of Dragon-i branch at the Curve for the whole month of May 2019 for 3 diners and above. 3 to 5 diners will be served a small fish. 6 and above diners will get a big fish. 

An appetiser dish at MYR 9.43++ (MYR 10.94 nett) but it was served last. The brown pieces are gluten pieces. It tastes more sweet than savoury.

The default titbits dish (MYR 2.19 nett) that was served immediately after we were seated. We could have rejected this dish but I was hungry so I ate these soft braised peanuts while waiting for the dishes we ordered to be served.

My favourite dish - deep fried salted egg yolk prawns at MYR 35.85++ (MYR 41.60 nett with 9 prawns). The prawns are sweeter this time compared to the ones served at the branch at Midvalley Mall.

Fish slices and preserved vegetables la mian at MYR 18.87++ (MYR 21.88 nett). Every item in this bowl of noodle is not salty at all so I like it. I believe some other customers may find it too bland until they will have difficulty swallowing the noodles.

Lao Sar Bao (salted egg yolk custard buns) at MYR 9.43++ (MYR 10.94 nett). Taste just as good as before.

Hot water chestnuts, sea coconut and egg whites tong sui (sweet soup) at MYR 11.32++ (MYR 13.13 nett). I believe this dessert is good for heatlh. 

Another one of my favourite food here - Cold mango puree, mango pieces and pomelo dessert at MYR 10.38++ (MYR 12.04 nett). No added sugar at all so it may not be sweet enough for those with a sweet tooth.

Total bill is MYR 123.65 nett for 4 pax, not high due to the MYR 1 fish promotion.

Dragon-i at The Curve. They even have a terra cotta warrior (statue) standing outside the restaurant. Can you spot the statue?

Happy Wishes to Mothers

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers!

A meal to celebrate mother's day for 6 pax with 4 dishes at Teak Kee. The half kampung (village) chicken dish costs MYR 55 nett, pork ribs in lotus leaf is MYR 32 nett and a plate of kai lan vegetable is MYR 18 nett.

When the 4th dish (tofu, toukan, broccoli) was served (MYR 18 nett), we have started digging into the chicken.

Total price is MYR 149.50 nett because only 3 of us had rice. An average of about MYR 25 per  pax.

Not soft

 Our favourite mee hoon (mee siam) is no longer as soft as I like it to be so maybe there won't be a next time as we will order nasi lemak instead.

The price is still the same at MYR 10.85++ (MYR 12.60 nett) as in Sept 2018 at Hailam Kopitiam, Jalil Link.

WG Purple Cane Set Meal

I have been to Purple Cane, Midvalley Mall 3 times for lunch. Before this they do not have any lunch set menu but recently they started one and my friend wanted to try it.

This looks nice doesn't it? It even has two large pieces of Huai Shan (淮山 - wild yam) which I thought was daikon until I bite into them.

My mini vegetable hot pot lunch set at MYR 26.90++ (MYR 31.20 nett after 10% service charge and 6% SST). I gave the bowl of rice to my friend. All items taste good except for the beancurd sheets roll which is too hard.

My friend's lunch set of noodles with minced mushroom at MYR 18.90++ (MYR 21.90 nett). There were so much noodles until she could not finish them.

The lunch set menu with 6 choices.

I ordered 2 tea eggs at MYR 3.90++ (MYR 4.52 nett) before I decided to also order a lunch set.

After renovation. Before renovation here.

The 6 lunch sets: which one attracts you?

I ordered this set.

Basil sounds good.

Could go for the petai.

For those who like to eat mushrooms.

My friend ordered this set.

WG Member Discount

Daily Set Lunch at Medifoods, PJ again. This time they allow me to chose 4 instead of 3 dishes because the tomato tofu dish I selected was not enough for a portion so they top up with another choice of mine which is vegetables curry. My friends (3) and I share the cost of getting the Medifoods Privilege Card at MYR 23 nett so that we could get 10% discount off our food. This meal that costs MYR 13.80 nett is now MYR 12.42 nett with this card. As each of us paid MYR 5.75 nett for our share of the card, we need to eat this daily set lunch for 4 times to break even which we will easily achieve as we eat at Medifoods frequently for lunch now.

The foc tofufa that my friend collected for the previous visit. I tried one tablespoonful without any brown sugar syrup and it is indeed very smooth. My friend told me that it tastes better with the syrup.

Set Lunch is now MYR 12.42 nett each with the discount card (10% discount). The price shown on the receipt is the discounted price. This discount does not apply to certain items such as dumplings.

Medifoods is selling these 4 types of vegetarian dumplings and I have tried 3 types.

I tried this savoury vegetarian dumpling last week and quite like it as it does not have any fatty bits but yet is very flavourful.

Medifoods sourced this dumpling from Mary Ann's Kitchen. This type is the one I did not buy to try. I believe the price should be MYR 6.30 nett.

This Nyonya Millet Dumpling is the one that I detected the fragrant floral taste from the cekur ginger. The price is MYR 6.30 nett,  not MYR 6.40 nett as stated in the poster.

For this Nyonya vegetarian dumpling, the ground roasted peanuts taste can be detected easily but the blue orchid colour in the glutinous rice is not so apparent from the photo here. Price is MYR 5.30 nett for one. This type of dumpling is also sourced from Mary Ann's Kitchen by Medifoods.

So you know where to go if any of these 4 types of vegetarian dumpling interest you. :)

WG Vegetarian Millet Dumpling

When my friend went back to Medifoods, PJ to get her foc tofufa, I bought more vegetarian chang (dumplings). There are 3 types in this photo as identifiable by the strings with different colours.

Glutinous rice nyonya dumpling (MYR 5.30 nett) and millet nyonya dumpling (MYR 6.30 nett).

I have no idea how they make millets stick together like glutinous rice. It has a faint floral fragrant (from the cekur ginger I guess) and the fillings are a bit sweet and a bit spicy.

I am not sure why they list the price as MYR 6.40 nett when on the bill, they only charge MYR 6.30 nett.

Glutinous Rice Nyonya Dumpling. The white glutinous rice is soft so I like it and I believe I tasted some ground roasted peanuts in the slightly spicy and sweet fillings. I have never eaten an authentic nyonya dumpling before so I cannot comment on this point.

Oh, so it does have peanuts in it. These nyonya dumplings are sourced from Mary Ann's Kitchen.

I wonder whether this is a regular item that they sell or is it a seasonal item. Will ask them next time.