ISME BEAUTY & CAFÉ @ NU SENTRAL BRICKFIELDS – Healthy Wholesome Food Review

Finding a restaurant that serves healthy food in Klang Valley to eat can be a great challenge. Best Restaurant To Eat was invited for a new menu review where calories count at the 2nd outlet of ISME BEAUTY & CAFÉ @ NU SENTRAL BRICKFIELDS located at 201, Jalan Tun Sambanthan Level Concourse, Unit No 18 & 19 NU SENTRAL MALL 50470 Kuala Lumpur.

While you are enjoying some of these healthy foods, you can also shop for some beauty and skin care product from Korea; CUSCOS which is collaborating with Swarovski Zirconia. The skin care product is formulated with 2 carats of diamond delight; CUSCOS is a completely new and revolutionary line of beauty with the concept of “rubbing jewel into the skin”. 

The décor exudes a lovely and cuddling environment in the posh new mall, where you can leisurely enjoy the food, coffee while taking some time to find out more about their range of skin care and healthy living. 

There are not many restaurant and café that are especially tailored to the ladies. ISME BEAUTY & CAFÉ @ NU SENTRAL BRICKFIELDS is one such place to pamper them.

Among the new food item offered by ISME BEAUTY & CAFÉ is the Classic Chicken Sandwich which comes with a sandwich toast, smoked chicken, wasabi mayo, Cheddar Cheese, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, red onion and eggs.

This is followed by the Nutri Turkey Wholemeal Loaf which is a wholemeal Loaf, with smoked turkey roll, wasabi mayo, Cheddar Cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, capsicum, Gherkin and red onion. All the breads are baked in-house to ensure that the best quality and right balance of ingredient that are to be used.

Next to follow thru is the Cheesy Beef - a sandwich of toast, premium beef salami ham, mayo, sesame dressing, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, capsicums and mozzarella cheese. ISME Café has a very stringent quality control in that all the ingredients must be of the top grade quality and unprocessed food. 

and followed by the Chicken Lover Burger. The bun is the Bamboo Charcoal Sesame Bun which was made from yeast and charcoal powder, is truly a healthy option. Sandwiched in between the buns are chicken meat loaf, wasabi mayo, Cheddar Cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, and red onion.

and the ISME Superfruits Croissant, a super healthy croissant sandwich with fruits like avocado, strawberries, mangoes and kiwi with a dash of blended yoghurt (from New Zealand) cream and mascarpone. It has a very tangy and refreshing taste and suitable for those who want a light meal.

Finally the German Kransky Cheese Sausage – a wholemeal loaf, with Jumbo Kransky Cheese Sausage, Mayo, German mustard, lettuce, red onion, capsicum, gherkin and olives. The accompanied criss-cross potatoes are not deep fried but air fried and sprinkled with minimum sea salt to let you enjoy this fries without a guilt feeling.

A platter of 3 dessert in one which is the Lime Margarita Tart, Strawberry Muesli Yogurt and Carrot Cake.

ISME Red Velvet, made from red rice yeast to give you the natural red colouring, it is gluten free and low in sugar.

Mocha Cheese Cake 

Chocolate Guinness Pudding – the Guinness are steamed and blended with 3 type of chocolate i.e. milk, white and dark. We were told that no sugar was added into the pudding.

and lastly my personal favourite which is the Mango Mille Crepe Cake – a low sugar recipe.

For drinks there are the Café Mocha

ISME Signature

and the specially imported TAU (to be silent) water. There aren’t many places in Malaysia that sell this spring water as it is specially imported from Wales. 

The menu are crafted out by the in house Nutritionist to ensure the total calories of each of the dishes are kept at minimum level which are more suited for the ladies which are particular on their diet. Well, ladies especially, now you know of this place for you to be pampered yourself in while enjoying healthy food and taking care of your skin at ISME Beauty and Cafe @ NU Sentral Brickfields.

We did a previous review at the 1st ISME Beauty And Cafe @Bukit Bintang. Click Here to read our review

KAFE VIETNAM - Bandar Puteri Puchong - A Touch Of Authentic Delicious Vietnamese Cuisine Review

There are not many restaurants in the Klang Valley that serve authentic Vietnamese food. Best Restaurant To Eat was invited for a taste of Vietnam at Kafe Vietnam @ Bandar Puteri Puchong, located at 1, Jalan Puteri 4/1, Bandar Puteri Puchong 47100 Puchong.

This little neighbourhood restaurant offers a simple décor that caters to a family dining experience.

One of only a few restaurants that serve Kopi Luwak (civet cat), the beans are collected from the wild as opposed to some which are held in captivity which force feed the cat to produce the beans. There are a number of blend that are served in the restaurant thru the ala dipping Vietnamese style.

The coffee blend is of a mixture of Northern and Southern Vietnam coffee beans with a 10% Luwak beans blend. It has a fragrant aroma with a strong coffee taste coupled with a slight chocolaty body. The taste lingers well in your mouth as you take each sip of this cuppa.

The dinner review started with some Vietnamese Salad, the first of which is GOI GA which is shredded Chicken, Onion & Herbs Salad. It has a very tangy and zesty taste with a tinge flavour of the herbs and the crunch of the peanuts.

The other Salad was the GOI BO BOP THAU i.e Beef Salad, the thinly slice meat was very tender and juicy. Serve with crispy crackers as the sides, which you eat with the salad, exact out a different texture to this dish.

The last salad that was served is the GOI RAU CAU TOM THIT – It is a Jelly, Prawn and Pork Salad. What they used is the agar –agar strip which was soften and mix with poached de-shelled shrimp with Pork meat mix in it to give you a special taste with fish sauce dressing.

You can’t say that you have Vietnamese food until you tasted the Vietnamese wrap and roll, which was served in a piece of dulang as a platter. This dish is called THAP CAM CUON.

To wrap your pieces, you first spray the wrap with some water then you place a piece of green lettuce, a leaf or 2 basil, followed by a small portion of each of the skewered BBQ minced meat, Chunky pork, prawns cake, spring roll, a little of the bee hoon, star fruit pieces and wrap it up. Eat it as it is or dip into the accompanied home made sauce. A truly Vietnamese tradition of eating wraps.

Next, we had a special Vietnamese Pancake called BANH XEO, I notice that quite a number of dishes are served with fresh lettuce and basil including this dish which is the Vietnamese preference method of eating their vegetables - FRESH. The pancake have pieces of pork belly slices which gives the pairing a unique taste.

We then moved on to try the specialty Vietnamese noodles dish of which the first is PHO BO which is Beef Clear Soup Koay Teow. The warm soup broth was very beefy in taste and aroma. With a special Koay Teow, a thinner type which was used, and the thinly slice beef, it was a hearty meal altogether.

The next noodle dish is the BO KHO – a mild spicy beef and carrot stew with Egg Noodles- The broth was very flavourful with an aromatic herbal and spicy taste. Add in the basil leaves and the raw bean sprout, you bring this noodle dish to another level.

After the noodles dish, we tried the COM CA XOI MO which is a special Fried Rice with Seared Oil Chicken. What is special about this dish is the way they cook the Chicken.

As the name suggest, the Chicken is cooked using hot oil that is seared over the chicken. Compared to deep frying, this method is much better to retain the juiciness and tenderness of the chicken meat while having a super crispy skin on the outside.

Another Rice Set dish that we sampled was the COM THIT KHO TRUNG ie Rice with Stewed Pork Belly and Egg. This pork belly stewed is cooked using Old Coconut juice.

The result is the superbly unique sweetness of the broth that lingers on our mouth long after our taste of this dish. It has the resemblance of the Teochew Style stew, but this is a much lighter and sweeter version which was the effect of the coconut juice that was used to stew this dish.

The next dish is a very special dish as the fish is from the native land of Vietnam, which is the COM CA BASA KHO TIEU – Rice with Black Pepper Basa Fish, by the way, the Basa Fish belongs to the catfish family. Although this fish is a fresh water fish, it does not have any smelly taste of mud in it. 

The smooth fish meat was cooked in a black pepper infused with premium fish sauce which was best eaten with the white rice until the last drop. Nevertheless, we needed a second order to fulfill our desire for more of this dish.

We had some side dishes which we had i.e. HEN XUC BANH DA – a special fried Safron Lala meat served with sesame crackers. The Lala are eaten with the special crackers.

Another side dish we had was the Fried Baby Oyster. I had never eaten oyster in this cooking style and it is a real experience to my taste-bud to taste the crisp batter while relishing the soft texture of the oyster from the inside.

Our dinner ends with the final dish LAU VIT NAU CHAO which is Fermented Bean Curd Duck With Yam, Kangkung & Mustard Green Hot Pot. The fermented bean curd paste was very well blended with broth and the darling of this dish it the duck to create a very delicious tasting broth. It was a very enticing and perfect end to our dinner review.

So, my search is over for a great and original Vietnam taste, as Kafe Vietnam @ Bandar Puteri Puchong will be my choice for a truly Vietnam experience. After your meal, you can also shop for some of the Vietnamese produce here too.

Bmon Café @ Strand Kota Damansara – Japanese Cartoon Inspired Café Review

There are many famous and popular Japanese cartoon like Doraemon,Pikachu and so on but there is a local café which have created its’ own character which is called Bmon and started the Bmon café which is located at 8-1, Jalan PJU 5/20B  Kota Damansara 47810 Petaling Jaya near the Strand Shopping Mall. Best Restaurant To Eat was invited to do a food review at Bmon Café.

The café concept exudes the modern and cartoonish theme of the place. Your first feel is a simple setting that exudes a carefree and playful place, where you can sit, relax, have a meal or a sip your favourite drink while chatting or just hanging out with your friends.

Even the menu has a very simple list of food offering ranging from sandwiches, pizza to waffles and so on.

There are many hand drawn cartoon drawn by the owner of the cafe, lining up its’ wall with verses of living in a fun and care free world. 

So who is Bmon - the character that means everyone must have a dream(s) to chase with, and achieve it.

We started the review with the Fruit Salad. Sprinkle with freshly cut strawberries, pineapples, raisins, fresh garden salad and toasted croutons, it was a refreshing start for the day

Next, we had the Caesar Salad with Tuna Mayo, similar to the Fruit Salad but replaced the Fruits with a spoonful of Tuna Mayo.

After which, we had the Wrap, the first of which is the Mushroom Wrap – which is a thinly wrap with a mixture of flavourful mushroom and mayo infused blend. 

this is then followed by the Chicken Mayo Wrap

Next on line, was the All Day Breakfast set which comprise of Beef Bacon, Jumbo Sausage, Mushrooms, Eggs, Baked Beans, a piece of Hash Browns, Salads and two pieces of Toast Bread. This breakfast set is an ideal way to start the most important meal of the day.

For the Pasta offering, Bmon Café serves the Chicken Mushroom Carbonara

and the Chicken Bolognese. 

For Sandwich offering, we tried the Bmon Sandwich (Turkey Ham). Sandwiched between the croissant was a 2 piece of Turkey Ham with some crisp fries and salad on the side.

Next, was the Mushroom-Vege Pizza, it is a thinly oven baked crusted pizza. The crust was very crunchy and is good as a snack too rather than a filling pizza.

The next pizza was the Hawaiian Pizza which was generously topped with pineapples and sprinkles of chicken pieces.

For desserts we started with Chocolate Mud with Ice-cream and decorated with Bmon figurine.

and Waffles with Ice-Cream and Fruits. The batter waffles mix was nice, with the waffles having a crisp and meaty texture which blended well with the ice-cream and the fruits that adds a refreshing mix to the waffles.

Lastly, I had the Affogato which is of a single dose of espresso with the Vanilla Ice Cream.

For drinks, I had a zesty Ice Soda with Apple.

Overall, we find Bmon Café @ Strand Kota Damansara a very nice and cozy place to chill and hangout with some buddies over some simple delectable food.