Swez Brasserie Restaurant @Eastin Hotel Petaling Jaya - A European Style Christmas 2015 and New Year Buffet

Christmas 2015 is round the corner. If you are planning to take your family out for a nice European Inspired dish for this Christmas, then head over to Swez Brasserie Restaurant at Eastin Hotel at Jalan 16/11 Petaling Jaya Selangor.

Swez Brasserie offers a spacious dining area serving a wide variety of international buffet spread throughout the year.

To celebrate this Christmas and New Year, Swez Brasserie is serving an European theme cuisines to pamper you and your loved ones with the delightful popular dishes from this continent. You will be spoilt for choices to select from all the these mouth watering dishes that will be available for Christmas.

Among the special dishes which we had tasted was the Baked Frikdellen With PortoBello Cheese Crust. This is a German special dish.

followed by the Chicken Drummets with Passion Fruit and Palm Sugar

From Sweden, they have the Wild Berry Pilaf With Beef Balls 

While from Spain they have the Paella Valencia - Just love the prawns and mussels that are cooked with the rice.

Double Cook Spare Ribs With Roasted Garlic And Chillies

Herbed Salmon With Cajun Hollandaise Sauce

Honey Roasted Chicken With Giblet Sauce

Miso Marinated Beef Sate With Cashew Jalapeno Chilli Sauce

Pot Roasted Lamb Shoulder With Roasted Butternut Squash And Sweet Red Onions

Streusel Topped Dual Potatoes. To prepare this dish the sweet potatoes and potatoes are boiled and mashed and cook to a paste like; filled in an orange peel and sent for roasting and finally topped with grated cheese.

Vanilla Scented Scallop Escabeche With Yuzu Chilli Lime Aoili

Whole Black Pomfret Masala and so much more dishes.

For the desserts spread, Swez Brasserie offers a wide selection of cakes and desserts.

as with any tradition for Christmas, there is the Christmas Pudding With Vanilla Sauce 

But, there is one special cake which you have to try and only available here; which is the Cempedak Cheese Cake.

And, if you still have more stomach for more dessert, you can try out the other offering of dessert like Christmas Spiced loaf, Special Christmas cookies, Yule Log, Creme Caramel, Normandy Apple Tart with Fresh Whipped Cinnamon Cream and so forth.

Be prepared for a gastronomic journey this Christmas at Swez Brasserie Eastin Hotel Petaling Jaya. This buffet spread is priced at RM138.00 Nett per person inclusive of a glass of wine, beer or chilled juices. So make a booking early for this Christmas and New Year Eve celebration. For more information or to make reservations, please contact Swez Brasserie at 03-7665 1111.

Best Restaurant To Eat wishes you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

New Peng Wah Restaurant @Damansara Jaya Petaling Jaya - Authentic Village Style Home Cook Dishes

For those of you that stay in or near Damansara Jaya, you would probably notice the New Peng Wah Chinese Restaurant located at Lot 15 & 17 , Jalan SS 22/19 Damansara Jaya 47400 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, just behind the Atria Shopping Gallery.

New Peng Wah Restaurant has been around this neighbourhood for the past 3 years and one of the very few Chinese Restaurant that serves authentic village style home cook dishes. +BestRestaurant ToEat got the invitation to taste these special signature dishes which are only available at this restaurant.

The setup is very simple and minimal, no fancy decor and furniture to line up the restaurant to impress you but what is more important is the food that is served at this restaurant.

Our review started off with Signature Lala Soup (Small Serving RM16.00). This is a very different dish from the one that we normally eaten at other restaurant. The main difference is in the soup broth which is flavoured with Tong Kui and wolfberries. Love the herbal taste and the aroma of the wine. Here the Lala is of a special species which is from the Philippines; has a bouncy and chewy texture. Best eaten with white rice especially with the flavourful soup.

For those familiar or regular customers, one of their favourite dishes that is ordered is the Signature Deep Fried Ma Yau Fish Senangin (RM6.00 per 100gm). This fish is deep fried to a nice crisp and with the accompanied soya sauce was a nice match to a simple dish.

Next on, is a another village style dish; which is the Signature Potato Fried Pork (Large - RM 25.00). The potatoes are thinly sliced and fried together with the strips of pork. We like the texture of the slice potatoes and with the sauce that was used to stir fried this dish. Another one of the dish that are good to be eaten with white rice

The second fish dish that we had is the Stew Grouper Fish Head (Large - RM48.00). The fish head are cut to biteable sizes. Using garlic, old ginger, red chillies, green chillies, capsicum and soya sauce; the flavours of this mixture was delicious. We can't help ourselves to more orders of white rice to goes with this tasty dish although it was a little tad of saltiness - you can pre-empt the captain when you order this dish to cut down on the level of saltiness of this dish.

This is another dish which is difficult if not impossible to get from other restaurant; as this is very Temerloh village style. It is called the Homestyle Claypot Brinjal (Large - RM28.00). The brinjal are pre boiled and mashed to a paste. It is then cooked with minced pork and prawns in a belacan paste. This is a dish when you start eating; will be difficult to stop. Love the taste of this dish.

The next dish is a chicken based dish which is named as the Claypot Hua Teow Wine Chicken. The strong aroma of the Hua Teow wine was very nice and make this dish very tasty. Served on a claypot the gravy was slurped up to the last drop. 

The last dish for the night is the Fried Pork With Nyonya Sauce. A very interesting dish. According to the manager, you can ordered this nyonya sauce with steamed fish or chicken. Well, you guessed it; we really need to order another white rice to go with this addicted sauce.

If you love village style home cooked meal as much as we do, New Peng Wah at Damansara Jaya Petaling Jaya will definitely not disappoint you.

Utara Coffee House Restaurant @Armada Hotel Petaling Jaya - A Christmas 2015 And New Year Celebration Buffet

Experience the magic of Christmas at Utara Coffee House @ Hotel Armada Petaling Jaya with your friends, family and colleagues this 2015 Christmas and New Year celebration.

Utara Coffee House is offering a special festive European, French dishes that will whet your appetite and satisfy your festive cravings. You and your families can get together to feast on the Christmas delights during the Christmas and New Year lavish traditional buffet and some special innovative dishes.

With an extensive range of delicious salads, fresh seafood, traditional Christmas meats and desserts to choose from; you will definitely lost for choices with the limited stomach to fill it.

+BestRestaurant ToEat was invited to savour some of the special highlight of the Christmas New Year menu; the first of which is the Salmon Coulibiac - which is a poached salmon marinated in olive oil and wrapped up with a Danish pastry skin - which gives you a puffy feel when you bite into it.

Next on is the Tiger Prawn Ceviche With Avocado - served on a bed of ceviche onion and avocado ; with a succulent and bouncy Tiger Prawn of which was lightly poached and added a tinge of lemon juice. Finally it was topped with bursting ebiko.

This is then followed by Dubarry Soup With Cheese Batonette - Sounds like a very glamorous name for this soup which is actually a cauliflower soup with essence of broccoli, potato, leek and parmesan cheese. A simple soup that taste very delicious.

This is then followed by the main dishes which is the Baked Capon With Bread Almond Roulade. For 2 years in a row, Turkey has been a premium item not to be found in many hotel Christmas menu apparently it is difficult to get halal Turkey into Malaysia these days, so in replacement is the Capon Chicken; which is the best alternative to Turkey as its meat texture is slightly tougher than the normal Chicken.

The stuffing for the chicken is carrot, celery, leek and onions (mirepoix ingredient) which are then taken out to be used to cook the flavourful giblet sauce which I personally like it very much but it was a rather challenge for those that does not like to eat the taste of chicken innards.

Next dish for us to savour is the Roast Duck Ripeni With Calavados. The duck meat are firstly deboned and then coarsely chopped and roll it together with cut apple and apple cider. The accompanied sweet sauce for this dish is the diced cut apples cooked with herbs.

For another European offering, we then had the Swedish Crab Pudding; this dish resemble the mac in cheese dish although there is no pasta in this; which is replaced by crab meats with a tinge of celery in a bechamel sauce, with the parmesan and mozzarella cheese to add to the top layer to form the pudding crust. A perfect dish for those that loves cheese and crab meat.

For beef fans, you can try out the Roast Beef Tapenade with Champignon. Cooked with black olive oil and mushroom and sent to the griller. A little toughness on the meat as it was roast well done, so for people that loves their beef well done; this would have been perfect. My preference for beef is usually medium done.

Rounding up the Christmas special is the Whole Lamb Leg with Garlic Sauce. The roast lamb did not leave any gamey flavour probably through the combination with the Garlic herb sauce which was very tasty. To complement this lamb meat were mash potatoes, mash carrot, mash pumpkin and mash sweet potatoes.

For desserts, we had the Lemon Meringue Pie, Yule Log Cake, Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Icing Christmas Pudding and Glass Dessert Tiramisu.

Make a date with Utara Coffee House  @Armada Hotel Special Christmas and New Year Buffet on 24th December & 31st December 2015. Prices are from 

RM 80.00 + per adult, 

RM 60.00 + senior citizen

RM 40.00 + per child. 

For reservation, please call +603 79546888 ext 4557 - Utara Coffee House.

On behalf of +BestRestaurant ToEat we would like to take this opportunity to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Gossip Time Restaurant @ Paramount Garden Petaling Jaya - Malaysian Street Food and Steamboat Review

If you have been to Cameron Highlands, you would probably come across Gossip Corner which serves its' popular wantan noodles and Big Burger Challenge. After more than 3 years operating in Cameron Highlands, they decided to spread its wings to Petaling Jaya and with that, they started Gossip Time 3 months ago which is located at 5, Jalan 20/14 Paramount Garden 46300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

For those that are not familiar with what Gossip Corner serves, then this blog post will highlight some of these special offering to the PJ folks. The only difference is that at the Cameron outlet; no pork are served there whereas here at Gossip Time - pork are served.

Gossip Time @ Petaling Jaya is a very simple no frill cafe style setup; its' key mission is to deliver quality food at very reasonable prices as attested by our food review session.

We started off, with the Special Curry Chicken Set (RM8.90) which is served with a bowl of rice, papadum, fried eggs and soup of the day; touted by some of its customers as the No 1 curry in Petaling Jaya; we definitely have to give this a try. According to the chef, the curries serves at Gossip Time does not contain any santan (coconut milk); so for those who are particular about cholesterol and the bad effect of santan, you will now be able to enjoy a nice curry. The curry is cooked with a spices, lemongrass and fresh milk which is very fragrant and was a perfect match to the white rice which is served with the curry. Loves the potatoes which was cooked to a soft texture.

Next on is another house specialty, which is the Gossip Prawn Wantan Mee - Dry  (RM8.90 Small, RM9.90 Big). We find the texture of the noodles to be firm and have a bouncy texture. A check with the Chef reveals that the wantan noodles is specially made by its master (more than 40 years noodles making experience) and does not contain any boric acid. The wantan noodles are mixed with soya sauce and topped with minced meat.

For those that prefer the soupy version you can order the Gossip Prawn Wantan Mee - Soup  (RM8.90 Small, RM9.90 Big). We like the soup based as the chef uses pork bones which is boiled for a few hours. The creamy based look of the soup attest to this claims and it was very delicious. We love the big size wantan which has a prawn in it and was perfectly matched with the meat filling. For RM8.90 a bowl, it is very reasonable price considering the 3 chunky wantan that comes with the mee.

For those that love a little spicy taste on their wantan mee, you can try out the Curry Chicken Wantan Mee  (RM8.90 Small, RM9.90 Big). Unlike the earlier curry chicken, the soup based has a lighter broth and less spicy. Gossip Time also serves a Dry Curry version too.

Another specialty noodles that are served here is the Spicy Noodle King - Dry (RM9.90 Small, RM10.90 Big). This is not for the faint hearted but really for those seeking a real thrill of spiciness in their noodles. It has a very strong after taste of spiciness that lingers around your mouth and throat long after you finish your meal. According to the chef, he uses 7 special ingredients with chillies of different type to concoct this special spicy sauce.

Next on is the Special Satay Sauce Chicken Chop Rice (RM14.50). The chicken chop is fried to a crisp and then topped with an in-house made special peanut satay sauce. If you are a real fan of satay, this dish is just for you.

For the less adventurous, you can have the Mushroom Chicken Rice (RM8.90). This dish is similar to Braised Chicken with potatoes but here the chicken meat is braised with an add on of mushroom and fried potatoes.

The next specialty is the Gossip Pork/Chicken Burger King (RM24.90). This burger has many layers; Sandwiched in between the big bun are slices of tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, onions, pineapple, omelette and a piece of chicken chop with mayo dressing.

Started from Gossip Corner in Cameron Highland, Gossip Time continued; a new legend to find the quickest Gossip Time Burger King Champion. Herewith are some of the past challengers.

The current Champion in Gossip Time is 5 minutes and 21 seconds. If you are ready to take this challenge, then you can head over to Gossip Time. Tell the manager that you want to take up the Burger King Challenge. The record breaker will be given to order anything on the menu for that day absolutely free of charge.

For some light snack, you can also order the Chicken Wings (RM8.90/serving of 4 pieces)

The chicken wings are pre marinated with special ingredients and fried to a crispy golden brown while the meat was still juicy on the inside.

For dinner, Gossip Time also offers a special steamboat offering of 2 soup base which is the Pork Bone and Special Spicy Broth.

The price for a per pax steamboat set is RM24.90 - minimum order is 2 pax. The Pork Bone soup is of a clear type and was flavourful to slurp at it is. Once, the delicacies are simmered into the broth, you can start to taste the flavourful broth.

The set cor 2 pax comes with prawns, slices of chicken, slices of pork meat, fish, meatball, enoki mushroom and etc. For the steamboat set, you can order unlimited vegetables of the day. So, for those that loves vegetables in their steamboat, you can eat your heart out with the accompany broth.

The other broth is the Special Spicy Broth - this is quite spicy for me but is a welcome change from many steamboat restaurant that offers Tom Yum broth. Nevertheless for those that loves the spicy level can opt for this broth which goes well with the beehoon; as it will absorb the spicy flavour into the beehoon.

Gossip Time also offers a special set lunch from Monday to Friday during this period. Each set comes with Free Soup, Drinks and Fruits; a real value deal; from as low at RM9.90 onwards. Now, you don't need to cramp at coffee shop at Paramount Garden during lunch as Gossip Time is fully air conditioned to offers you a comfortable dining environment without burning a hole in your pocket.