Daorae Korean BBQ, USJ Taipan

Korean food is one my best favourite food. I like every time when i order, they will serve 7 different small dishes and it's free. So last few days, i drag my friend to have Korean Food with me. I like Korean Food so much but less think about it because the price is not cheap though. The first in my thought is Daorae as i saw a lot of post about this restaurant. Some of my friend told me not to go Daorae as the service is not good but here one of my friends ask me to visit at USJ, Taipan. She told me the food and the service quite good so i decide to go for this branch.

This shop is just same row with Citibank and opposite is UOB bank. Is located 1st floor and is very easy to find. When i enter to this restaurant, i saw the environment is very nice, clean and place is spacious. I'll bet weekend should be lot of people. We choose to sit on the floor more flexible. Staff bringing the menu for us with smile. Not local people but they know quite a lot of korean words and teach us some.

Once you get sited, they will served you a jug of korean tea and you can slowly choose your meal. Daorae have few branches, you can view at their facebook page.

Since it just 2 of us only, we can't order much as we can't finish. We just 2 type of food that we want to try the most. First they served us this Seaweed soup (Miyeok guk).

Korean cuisine uses a wide variety of vegetables, which are often served uncooked, either in salads or pickles.

Korean food stands out from other cuisines with the many side dishes (banchan) that are served during meals. The number of side dishes can range anywhere from 2 to 12, but everyday meals feature at least a few. So when you eat at a Korean restaurant, your various side dishes will come to you before your meal in small bowls, and can be anything from vegetables to meat to seafood prepared in any number of ways.

Those small dishes, you can ask for refill. Some different korean restaurant has it's own way. Some of the restaurant did not served banchan if you not ordering bbq meat. Some will served even you did not order bbq meat. So, if you would like to try just ask the boss.

Pork Modum - RM75

Price range for BBQ meat, menu is from RM 28 to RM120++. Is depend what type of meat that you choose.  We choose Pork Modum which include 4 types of different pork meat (pork special, mok-sat, sam-kub-syal, gal-bi). There's a staff to help us to grill but of course you can choose to grill yourself. We choose to let the staff to help us to grill as they are experienced and they grill the meat till tender & juicy.

Meat is cut into bite-sized pieces so there is no need for a knife and easy to eat too. It served with the ssamjang sauce (fermented bean paste & pepper) and wrapped in fresh lettuce and garlic.

Kimchi-Jeongol - RM55 (S)

This is 2nd main thing that i want to taste. Is Kimchi hot pot with noodle. It have rice cake, kimchi, slices of pork, onion and taufu. The soup not really spicy and a bit tasteless (my opinion). This hot pot can fill for 4 person for small eaters. We can't finish at all. Eat Korean Cuisine with more people as you can try more different dishes. They still have more dishes that i would like to try but too bad i'm too full.

If you guys can recommend me any korean food which is nice, please share with me by comment here. I'm a food lover would try any food which is nice.

Daorae Korean BBQ, USJ Taipan

7B & 8B, Top Speed Business Center,
Jalan USJ 10/1J,
47610 UEP Subang Jaya,
Selangor


03-8024 2616



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Bougainvillea City Cafe, Ipoh

I never thought that someone will use "Bougainvillea" as a cafe name. This name reminds me of during secondary school, is our class name. The chef told me that he named it after Ipoh. I think that certain things is represent something. I guess Bougainvillea is just represent Ipoh. I will ask in details when i back again.

This cafe is just located at Ipoh town and just opposite of Bricks & Barrels. If you are not from Ipoh, refer the address below. 

This cafe is set-up by a chef named Mac and few partners in Ipoh. Mac went to U.S for almost 13 years and he learn his cooking skills at there. Now, he back to his mother lands and open up his favourite cafe. Is so amazing that all decorations, painting, food and furniture are done by the chefs and partners themselves. Simple decorations just turned out to be a nostalgic charm. 

Caffe Latte (RM6.90)

Cappucino (RM7.90)

The old traditional coffee cup that no where to be found, you can found  it in this cafe. The speciality of the coffee is that using Ipoh Famous White Coffee to brew out. Sugar for coffee is using cane brown sugar. Is healthy and not too sweet. 

Old Style Sarsaparilla (RM 9.90)

This is highly recommend soda by me. This soda taste exactly like "SARSI" by F&N. The different between Old Style and F&N, Old Style taste not too sweet and less gas but still can taste my favourite Sarsi. 

Bacon & Scramble Eggs Wrap (RM15.90)

Fill with lettuce, bacon, scramble eggs, cheddar cheese, cube potato and little sauce is totally fill your stomach. 

Ravioli Pasta

This is not mushroom soup but Ravioli Pasta with cream sauce. Last week i went and they recommend this pasta as this is handmade by the chef's. So far I've never try any cafe served this kind of pasta. Ravioli are a traditional type of Italian filled pasta. They are composed of a filling (meat) sealed between two layers of thin egg pasta dough and are served either in cream or with a red sauce. All pasta or spaghetti (noodles) handmade by the chef's. 

Strawberry Chocolate Chip Crepe.

Strawberry Chocolate Chip Crepe is fresh made that day and is recommended by the chef's. So, we order decide to order and try it. I like the cake so much as not too sweet. We've been told that all the food & cakes are based with neutral taste. Not too sweet, not too salty and most important is no MSG!!!. 

Is definitely healthy food and i like this cafe. I like the effort & passion of the chef's trying to recommend us every of the food in details and every of his waiter are well trained in serving foods. As i told before, the main reason i will visits again is service. Service is very important in every industry (not only food) in order to come back again. 

Bougainvillea City Cafe Address :

21 Jalan Lau Ek Ching, 31300 Ipoh, Perak (Opposite Bricks & Barrels)

Tel:  05 241 3782

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Kampai BBQ Restaurant & Bar, Sri Petaling

Recently my friend told me about this restaurant and i find it interesting and would like to try it. It's barbecue restaurant.

Kanpai Japanese Restaurant & Bar is situated at Sri Petaling and recently just open their newly branch at Taman Connaught. This restaurant called "Japanese BBQ but not Japanese Restaurant". The concept is you can order the raw meat and barbeque yourself. Their menu is about ramen, bento set and bbq. There is no sushi that is why i said is not japanese restaurant.

Yesterday was my 2nd time visit this restaurant. Bringing my friend to try the food. Overall the food was good but the service is bad (for me). First time visiting is acceptable but yesterday was not good at all. They have in buffet package or set package. Buffet package got 2 choices which is RM 35++ and RM 45++ . The difference between both is RM45++ have shisamo, crab, smoked duck breast and expensive part of beef meat (if not mistaken). Yes !!!! eat all you can. If 1 person order for buffet, then the whole table must order the same thing.

I choose to eat for set since i can't eat too much but if think clearly, buffet is better than set. I order set for 2 people is include 5 selection of raw meat, vegetables and white rice. Add on for RM1 to get a green tea or soup or dessert. You can choose either one. At last we still order some ala carte, that is why i said buffet is more better. Besides BBQ, you can order their ramen and bento but i'll never try so can't explain is nice or not.

The 5 selections in their set is not enough for us, so we additional order pork and beef meet. Average ala carte for the meat is about RM12 - RM15. Is depend what part of the meat you ordering. RM13 for the portion of pork is quite lot (in kl). Estimate about 8 - 9 pcs. They have something like skewer too (satay stick).

As you refer to above picture, this is mini burger. You can select different meat that you would like to try. You can choose chicken, pork, smoked duck breast, beef and others. I choose pork, min order must be 2 and RM3.90 each. My friends like their chilies so much because is spicy.

Disappointed: 
Overall food presentation and quality is average but i really don't like the service. I felt service is very important in order people to go back again not only food (to me). Yesterday is the 2nd time i visit this restaurants. We order the set together with the Green Tea, they suppose volunteer to refill the green tea for us but they do it only when we ask. For the first time customer, we do not know whether the green tea can be refill or not. They have open kitchen so customers can see them cooking but i think that is the platform for their own staff chatting. I have to call them twice or triple times only i can they take order.

We order the mini burger for 2nd time. The 1st they put along the chilies (refer photo above) but the 2nd time it just the burger without the chilies. I always felt the staff, no matter the chef or the waiter are work in simply way and not using the heart. What i mean hearts is they never look into every customer needs. I order ala-carte a plate of onion (cost RM2.00) and they didn't give us and charge us on the bill. They suppose to check every order all the time but they didn't do it. We found out the bill after we went home so we can't argue about the onion. Is really quite disappointed. I hope they can do better with their service.

HQ - Sri Petaling

Jalan Radin Bagus, 
Bandar Baru Sri Petaling, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur ‎

03-9054 3907 ‎

Branch - Taman Connaught
223 Jalan Sarjana
Taman Connaught, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur ‎
03-2857 9996

Fat One Steamboat, Sunway Mentari

Spending all your time with bunch of friend chatting, joking and gossiping around is the most happiest time. Steamboat is one of my favourite food if I hangout with them. Fat One Steamboat is one of our choices place because is buffet styled and nearby our working places. One of the major is this shop is non-halal because they got served pork.
 Fat One Steamboat has vans serving mobile steamboat to patrons at several pasar malam within Klang Valley. Each of vans has wide arrays of "bit-size food on wooden skewers" or better known as lok-lok locally. They also provide catering services in house parties and company's annual dinner or parties. For steamboat, you can choose to visits their shop at Sunway Mentari.

They stated the price for how much per person. As i mentioned before, they are in buffet style. By the way, if you are not a good eater better don't try steamboat style. Is not worth......

They served variety of seafood, meatball,sausages, pork slices and vegetables and all these you can take as many as you like but make sure don't waste your food. 

While waiting for your soup to boil and you are super hungry, they have ready food such as chicken wing, fried rice, fried meehoon, curry chicken and many other more. Normally, i would not take this type ready food because i don't want to eat too full. hehehe.......... (chuckle) 

Refer back to the second picture, they have some tag (total 3). These tag you can put at their cup to choose what bbq item that you want them to grill but just 3 or 4 items only if not mistaken. 

Even though they have few selections of soup that you can choose, but maximum you can choose 2 type of soup for a table. 

The main thing i choose this shop is because they serve pork slices but as you can see the fats is more than the meat. It's kind of weird when they charges people's by heights. Food wasn't superb as you thought and there is more choices of nice steamboat outside. If you have any recommendation nice steamboat, welcome to drop me a message. I'm a food lover. :D