As we continue our Food Adventure at Avenue K, we took a short break to enjoy the Christmas festive celebration at the "Santa Party" performance at the Lobby of Avenue K. The area was decorated with the Christmas setting to set you on this wonderful holiday mood.
Auntie Lilly (FollowMeToEat) Photo session with Santa Claus.
The Pretty Elves and Sexy Santarinas made a grand entry.
To add to this festivity there were performances from the singing sensation, Ms Joy Victor with her strong vocal rendition of the Christmas numbers.
Pretty Elves
and the Sexy Santarinas.
The shoppers were happy to see the performance of the singer and dancers.
and after which there were a photo shooting with the shopper too.
After this super exciting stop, we continued with our Food Adventure @ Avenue K challenge.
For our other parts of this exciting Food Adventure @ Avenue K, please click the link below.
Christmas is around the corner and restaurants in the Klang Valley are busy preparing their best signature dishes for this joyful festive occasion. Best Restaurant To Eat was invited to review Delifrance Malaysia Christmas Celebration Menu 2014 at Avenue K outlet.
Delifrance Malaysia has been around for more than 24 years in Malaysia and specializes in offering a family type of dining experience and serving authentic French bakery products with more than 15 branches throughout Malaysia.
Besides cakes, chocolates and bread, Delifrance Malaysia brings you the Christmas Set Menu which is the Provencal Lamb Stew – which uses lamb shoulder which is firstly grilled and cooked in the brown mushroom sauce and topped with a side salad.
The mushroom sauce was indeed perfectly done for the grilled lamb as it covers up any gamey taste and the lamb meat was still tender and juicy.
Next was the Poached Salmon With Creamy Dill Sauce, the poached salmon fillet was drenched with the dill sauce over a bed of smash potatoes and served with a garnishing of fresh salad.
The poached Salmon has that firm, flaky texture and served in a sweet Dill
sauce, one can taste the sweet fine tasting flesh of the fish.
For the last main we tried, it was the Lasagne. I am normally not a huge fan of Lasagne, but I find that the Lasagne served here is delicious as the layers of lasagne was thin unlike some which uses a much thicker layer of lasagne and mix with the light tangy sauce which has carrots infused was superb without being too overwhelmingly cheesy. Filled in between was tender minced beef meat which was perfectly blended with the entire offering.
Also, on offer for the Christmas set was the Cheese Turkey Pasta: This is a spaghetti pasta which are tossed in a cheese sauce and topped with strips of roasted turkey ham.
For the cake offering, we tried the Salted Caramel Tea Cake With Walnut
and the Doubled Chocolate Tea Cake
For Macaroon fans, Delifrance Malaysia offers Macaroon which comes with Strawberries, Lemon, Vanilla, and Chocolate flavours.
Other newly introduced cakes from Delifrance Malaysia for Christmas are the Santa Play Land Gift Cake.
Rocky Land Gift Cake.
So, if you are planning for a nice Christmas meal and delicacies for this holiday, Delifrance Malaysia has the offering to whet your appetite for some Christmas meals and for some of you, will be able to indulge in the sweet tooth offering.
There are not many restaurant that serve Scandinavian food in Kuala Lumpur, I had the honoured to review the newly opened COEN Cafe @Pavilion which is located a Lot 2.65.00, 2.67.00 & 2.74.00, Level 2, Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, No. 168, Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur.
COEN CAFE@Pavilion offers a modern contemporary interior featuring clean aesthetics design combined with natural and raw materials such as wood and steel.
One will notice while dining at COEN CAFE@Pavilion, are their custom-made chairs which are functional in design yet comfortable.
After our sumptuous dinner at the Taste Enclave Classic@Pavilion, we had the Swedish Seafood Cake, which is a very unique dish in that it is made out of six layers of alternating bread and a seafood mix of salmon, shrimp, eggs and mayonnaise.
It is then top with a generous amount of Deshell Prawns and Smoked Salmon. The sides are lined with slices of cucumber and lemon to add to a refreshing taste. Gently squeeze out the lemon juice as you cut out the section, and the blended zesty lemon juice will enhance the overall flavours of the mixed mayonnaise sauce.
This Swedish Seafood Cake is served chilled.
Next, we had the Affogato, the blend of double shot Espresso (Brazilian, Ethiopian and Sumatran beans) was an in-house developed blend.
It was of a bitter taste on your first sip, while the flavours lingers around your mouth and stay smooth in your throat with the fresh coffee aroma, was indeed delicious. Coupled with the silky smooth vanilla ice cream, every spoonful was a mixture of the all the natural sweetness and flavours of the coffee.
For those who loves to listen to some light numbers after a nice meal, COEN CAFE@Pavilion has a resident artist that performs 'Live' and belts out some of the favourite tune to wind you down after a long day.
What
makes a delicious Durian Moon Cake? That is the question that begets my mind
when we were invited to do a review of the Durian Moon Cake by Royal Gourmet located at Hotel Premiere, Bandar Bukit Tinggi, 1/KS6, Jalan Langat, Klang
During
the past one month, we had sampled a few durian infused food i.e. from Bijan Durian Cheese Cake to Heritage Village – Durian Cendol which were superbly done
and tasted very delicious and now we had the opportunity to review the Durian Moon
Cake from Royal Gourmet. After all, we are now in the Durian season, what better way to savour the King of Fruits.
I
have been eating Durian Moon Cake over the years and frankly speaking, I
didn’t really get the kick out of it, due to the fact that the durian taste and
flavours are not really there.
Usually
the Durian paste are added into lotus paste and then cooked, moulded and baked just
like any other Lotus Paste Moon Cake. The taste to me, is quite awkward as
somehow it compromises the flavours of the Durian and Lotus Paste i.e. somewhere
in between (you know what I mean). So, I never got around yearning to eat it.
So, as I take my first bite of this Snow Skin Durian Moon Cake from Royal Gourmet with
a hesitant feeling as I personally is also not a real fan of Snow Skin Moon Cake. That first little bite change the perspective of Durian Moon Cake.
As
per all snow skin moon cake, it was best served chilled and the Durian filling in this moon
cake was intense. Before you bite, you could smell the strong aroma of the
D24 Durian filling, then while chewing, you could taste the rich Durian taste and lastly
the snow skin was so thin layered, that it virtually blended well with the
filling all in one. To me this must be one of the best Durian Moon Cake that I
have eaten.
Later, Royal Gourmet Chef had offered to demonstrate to us how this wonderful Snow Skin Durian
Moon Cake was made. We were told that there are no preservatives used in the
moon cake, as it is made as fresh as it can be, i.e. on demand basis and that it should be consume within 3
to 4 days to ensure that you really get to enjoy this moon cake.
After
having this Moon Cake little making process tour, it was a very enlightening experience.
To extend to readers of our blog, Royal Gourmet @Hotel
Premiere is offering a 15% on all moon cakes, please read the instruction as below. If you can only eat one piece of
moon cake you have to try this one.
Let us know what you feel after trying it in the comment
section.
Our Video Review
Our other review of Royal Gourmet @ Hotel Premiere Klang
Like the
saying goes “Breakfast like a King,
Lunch like a Prince, Dinner like a Pauper”. With that in mind, we head over
to try out the BIG breakfast at Crave Cafe located at BG-03, Oasis Square, Jalan PJU 1A/7, Ara Damansara, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Crave café
is inspired by its owner Australian love affair. So the décor and outlook
pretty much size it up like the outback with comfortable dining area and sofa
seats where you can hang out with your buddies for a nice get together.
Here at
Crave Café, the line of coffee and tea are from the famous Toby's Estate
Arabica Coffee in Sydney and are of the Woolloomooloo Blend from Sydney
Australia. Toby coffees are of the mild roasted type and are not the type where
you can get the coffee kick, which are suitable for those that prefer a not so
strong coffee.
One of the
advantages of a mild roasted coffee is, it leaves a little sweetness in the
beans, so technically you don’t really need to add any sugar into the drink.
We had the
opportunity to try out a few interesting coffee flavors one of which is the
Dirty Chai Latte which I have not tried before. It is a one shot expresso mixed
with Chai syrup and topped with cinnamon powder. I should have ordered a double
shot as I like my coffee stronger.
For non
coffee drinkers, you could opt for the Toby Breakfast Blend Tea, it has a smooth
taste and a strong floral aroma.
The first
breakfast set we sample was none other than the Crave BIG Breakfast which has 2
sunny side up eggs, sausages, beef bacon, baked beans, roasted tomatoes and
mushrooms served with ciabatta.
The
mushroom which was lightly sauteed was very tasty
especially eaten with the toast, topped with some slices of sausages, bacon and
eggs.
Next we had
the Pancakes with Caramelised Banana & Maple Syrup – The pancakes was very
fluffy and of the right texture. Eaten with the combination of the maple syrup
and caramelized banana, the taste was just right. There were also sprinkles of cashew nuts too.
The third
set of breakfast that we had was the Salmon Scramble – It is smoked salmon
nestled on a bed of scrambled eggs served with focaccia. The scrambled eggs
were very light and fluffy.
The
saltiness of the smoke salmon and the sprinkle of parsley topping was a perfect
combination with the focaccia. This dish is for those that prefer a lighter wholesome breakfast to start the day.
Crave Cafe will
be introducing a new item to their breakfast menu – as of now, this dish has not been named but it is served with fried eggs, beef bacon and avocado paste
with ciabatta.
The white
paste is actually cheese spread which you can spread on the bread or eaten as it is. The strong
avocado (green) paste was a perfect blend to the bacon and fried eggs.
For Lunch
menu, you try out the Chicken Parmigiana, which is breaded chicken cutlets baked with Parmesan cheese and served with tomato sauce base. The Chicken cutlet
is coated with parmessan cheese and oven baked.
You can
taste the crispy chicken with the flavored cheese wrap around it. Slurp it up
with the accompanied tomato sauce, it makes a tantalizing sweet sourish meal. The thinly slice baked
potatoes was a perfect side dish to compliment this dish.
The Next Lunch menu dish was the Seabass With Spicy Sauce. This dish will be for those that prefer a
little spicier food, the fish is first coated and deep fried and served in a
bed of spicy sauce with a bowl of Buttered Herb rice, green beans and carrots.
For desserts,
we started off with the
Gula Melaka
Cake – I find this cake a little unique and it is an acquired taste to like
this especially so, if you are those that loves anything Gula Melaka or sweet stuff. I don’t think
you can find this cake in any places. You can taste the tiny pieces of Gula
Melaka crystal in every little bite of the cakes, it has that slight crust bite feeling when
eating this cake.
Nutella
Mille Crepe Cake – It is a nutella infused crepe cake. Look at the multiple layers of nutella crepe.
Salted
Chocolate Cake – this is another specialty cake serves at the Crave Café. The
whole cakes is chocolate based and in the middle, there is a thin layer of
melted salt which you can taste. It is a very interesting combination of the
rich chocolate taste with a tinge of saltiness in every bite.
In
conjunction with the Ramadan, Crave Café is having a Ramadan promotion.
Ramadan
Buka Puasa Promotion
Crave is
having a promotion which comes with a homemade Soup, a choice of Main Course, a
slice of homemade Cake and a Dragon Fruit Juice.
Main Course Selection:
Honey Glazed Roasted Chicken with mashed potato and grilled vegetables
OR
Seabass in Spicy Cream Sauce served with Butter Herb rice