Village Grocer Delicious Baked Cheese Tarts Secret Formula Revealed

We had the opportunity to find out first-hand, Village Grocer baked cheese tarts secret at a recent event held recently at Village Grocer SS15, Courtyard Subang Jaya, Selangor.

At hand to reveal this secret formula is non-other than Chef May Foo. If you are one of those that loves baked cheese tarts, the following secret formula will make you droll and you can use it to make these delicious cheese tarts; which is unveiled here for the first time.

"When we were putting together the recipe for the tarts, we looked at ingredients from all around the world and finally settled on a dairy-rich, cheese-based cake using New Zealand dairy," says Chef Foo. The secret is very simple; it is by always using the finest quality ingredients from New Zealand such as the dairy products like Anchor butter, cream and cream cheese from Anchor which are known for its richness, creaminess and high protein added Chef Foo.

What makes Village Grocer Cheese Tart special; is the used of 2 types of Anchor cheese to create the soft and fluffy filling which is Cream Cheese and Parmesan Cheese. 

Chef May Foo started her revelation with the preparation and baking of the tart pastry as per the enclosed recipe. She explains that if you always used the right quality product, in this case, she has formulated the recipe around the high-quality New Zealand product you will always be able to get the same top quality result. 

But for those that just wanna enjoys this tasty tart without all the baking hassle; can easily purchase this daily freshly made tarts at all Village Grocers outlet. And for those that would love to bake this Cheese tart, here are the 4 recipes that are shared by her.

 which the first is the Original Lava Cheese Tarts - A rich, tangy and smooth cream cheese filling on a buttery, crunchy crust. 

Second Recipe - Matcha Lava Cheese Tarts - A must try for all the green tea's lovers, the filling is made with premium imported Matcha powder and azuki beans.

Third Recipe - PIC's Nutty Whittakers Tart

and the Final Recipe - Jazz Apple Frangipane Tart

Keeping to the New Zealand theme, customers can also buy the Anchor dairy products in store and bake their own favourite tarts;  Other ingredient used in the recipe for the apple tarts and nutty chocolate tart which is New Zealand apples, the Pic's peanut butter and Whittaker's Dark Ghana chocolates are also available at Village Grocer.

For those heading to Village Grocer to buy these tarts, there is an ongoing promotion for the delicious Baked Cheese Tarts where for every 5 tarts purchased you will get 1 free tarts.

Aporo Classi Apple Juice

Fei Fei Crab Restaurant @ Damansara Jaya Petaling Jaya

Mention of delicious and innovative cooking style for Crabs, you will not miss out at Fei Fei Crab Restaurant Kepong. For crabs aficionados in Petaling Jaya, you can enjoy these mouth-watering and other specialty crabs dishes at Fei Fei Crab Restaurant @Damansara Jaya, Petaling Jaya which was opened for more than 1 months.

Fei Fei Crab Restaurant Address

19, Jalan SS 22/11, 

Damansara Jaya, 

Petaling Jaya, 47400 Selangor

Starting our review with the new lineup is the Seafood Platter - Special Sweet Thai Steam. The sauce has a spicy sourish taste which went fantastically well with a bowl of steaming white rice. For seafood lovers, this platter consists of the Mussels, Squids, Japanese Clams, Scallop, Sea Prawn and Mud Crab.



Each ingredient is nicely presented on the dish and offer the diners the opportunity to feast our eyes with such beautiful parade of seafood. One of the key things about this platter is the freshness of each of the ingredients that were used for the dishes.

The next dish which is the Oreo Cheese Crabs is another example of the specially crafted crab dishes at Fei Fei Crab Restaurant that will challenge your taste buds. This creamy cheesy affair is both savory and sweet with the enclosed crumbs of the Oreo biscuits. With a firm plump texture of the crab meat (size XXXL), it was finger licking goodness.

The sauce can be dipped with the Fried Man Tou.

Another one of the specialties at Fei Fei Crab Restaurant is the French Crab. One of the peculiar things about French Crab is that it must be eaten fresh i.e not the frozen type as the meat texture will be very different.

For today, the Chef has cooked up the White Wine Steamed French Crab. I love this cooking style for crabs, as you can really taste the natural salty sweet taste and the firm texture of the fresh crab. Steamed with a bed of eggs and sprinkles of "Hua Tiew" white wine, it was the best way to enhance the all-natural flavors of the crab.



The prized French Crab Roe.

The next dish is the Japanese Snails. Cooked in 2 version which is Butter and Kam Heong. The Butter version has a strong buttery taste while the Kam Heong was cooked with a generous amount of shallots making a strong fragrant that comb with the nice bouncy texture of the snail's meat.

This is followed by the Italiano Mantis Prawns With Potatoes. Normally for Mantis Prawns, the best way to cooked it will be Kam Heong, but the Chef have decided to marry an Italian fusion into the dish giving it a subtle creamy carbonara taste and texture.

For anti-shark protester, you may want to protest this dish which is Shark Fin Tau Foo. But don't fret out yet; as there is NO shark fin used in this dish. The Shark Fin is actually "Tung Fun". We particularly like the soft and silky housemade Tau Foo. It has a rich smooth taste that was perfectly matched with the sauce which was cooked with Crab Meat.

For some non-seafood dishes, you can try out the BBQ Pork Ribs which taste like Char Siew sauce. The pork ribs are first steamed to a soft texture. It is then fried before being caramelized with the sauce.

Lastly for our greens, we had the French Beans With Salted Eggs. We just love salted eggs and the fine coating of the salted eggs into the crunchy french beans was superb with the right Wok Hei.

For Petaling Jaya folks, you don;t need to travel far to Kepong to try out this fresh seafood especially the crabs offering at Fei Fei Crab Restaurant @ Damansara Jaya Petaling Jaya.

You can check out our review of  Crab B  Restaurant Puchong Jaya

Fei Fei Crab Restaurant @ Damansara Jaya Petaling Jaya Address and Location Map

Bar-B-Q Plaza Berjaya Times Square Bukit Bintang

Mouth watering BBQ Meal @ Bar-B-Q Plaza

Bar-B-Q Plaza Berjaya Times Square Bukit Bintang Address

Lot 03-115, 3rd Floor

Berjaya Times Square

Jalan Imbi, Kuala Lumpur

Fans of BBQ would probably be very familiar with Bar B Q Plaza (started more than 11 years ago). We had the opportunity to taste out the BBQ family set at Bar-B-Q Plaza Berjaya Times Square Bukit Bintang recently and also some of their speciality side dishes.

Bar B Gon is the mascot and the symbol of the delicious taste of Bar-B-Q Plaza, he likes delicious food and can eat a lot of food at a time.

In Thailand, there are 96 branches of Bar-B-Q Plaza making it the biggest restaurant in barbeque category and is the 2nd biggest casual dining restaurant in Thailand. While in Malaysia, there are more than 16 branches to cater to the BBQ fans here.



To start off, you can have a choice of either ordering as a set package (family, supreme, economy), or the All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet or Ala-Carte where you can decide what you like to order individually.



We decided to go with the Deluxe Family Set (RM67.90) which has a little of everything like for example in this set, there are the meat slices, it comes with Pork and Lamb slices.



There is also the Beef slices which comes from Australia.



followed by the vegetables and seafood tray.



At Bar-B-Q Plaza, there is only 1 type of sauce; which is their signature sauce, you will add in the garlic, chopped chillies padi and lime juice as per your preferences. Mix them well and you are ready to go. You can tune up your spicy or sourish level based on the quantity that suits you. For some that loves the taste of this sauce, they will use this sauce to coat it on their ingredient before putting onto the grilling pan.



To start off the BBQ meal, first you have to pour in the chicken soup, you then use the pork lard which is given for each customer to oil the grilling pan, this will make the meat less sticky to the pan and also gives out that extra special porky flavour to your ingredient.



After that, you fill the grilling pan with the Cabbage which you can have an unlimited refill of it. The cabbage is also to enhance the flavour of the soup.



This is then followed by laying out all your ingredient on the special copper grilling pan accordingly; whether you want them as a BBQ or just to be simmered in the chicken soup. The juices from the ingredient will flow down the aisle of the pan to enhance the flavour of the soup. Simply delicious.



We also ordered the Marinated Chicken Set (RM29.90). The chicken is julienne cut and is marinated with a special in-house made miso sauce.



Besides BBQ food item, at Bar-B-Q Plaza, they do serve a number of side dishes from the Special Item Menu which you can be ordered to kick start your meals. We were told one of the signatures must order is the Bacon Garlic Rice (RM3.80). It was indeed flavourful and tasty to be eaten just by itself. You can also eat it with the other BBQ food as an add-on.



The next side dish that you can order is the Fried Bacon Roll (RM11.90). Crispy on the outside, while the soft texture of the enoki and the asparagus makes it a delight to be eaten with the enclosed sauce.



The next side dish, that we ordered is the Moo Ping (RM11.90). This is a very popular street food in Thailand. It is a meat paste much like our Malaysian Satay which is marinated with special condiments and grill to a nice charred.



and the last side dish that we had is the Deep Fried Soft Shell Crab with Oats (RM13.90). The soft Shell crab together with the oats and curry leaf are fried to a crunchy texture. As the chef uses the curry leaf it exudes out a nice fragrant aroma of the curry taste into the soft shell crabs. Just nice as a starter for our BBQ meal. Best if eaten with a cold beer.



For those that are heavy eaters, you might want to go for the All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet as per the menu above.

For more details of Bar-B-Q Plaza branch location in Malaysia, you can visit Bar-B-Q Plaza facebook page or Bar-B-Q Website.

Bar-B-Q Plaza Berjaya Times Square Bukit Bintang Address Location Map

Cafe Petaling Jaya : Crema Crema Cafe @ Petaling Jaya New Town

There aren't many cafes in the Petaling Jaya New Town area, as most are concentrated on areas where younger generations hang out like Kota Damansara or Uptown. We found this newly opened cafe which is Crema Crema Cafe @ Petaling Jaya New Town which serves an array of delicious Western fares.

Crema Crema Cafe Address

44, Jalan 52/4, PJ NewTown

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Started by 3 young food enthusiast with a strong penchant for good food and coffee, the setup at the Crema Crema Cafe @ Petaling Jaya New Town is one of a pretty chic with the walls around the cafe adorned with cheeky murals.

We started off our tasting with a breakfast offering of the Crema Crema version Egg Benedict (RM24.00). You can have it anytime of the day at this cafe. The runny poached eggs are served with a fresh portobello mushroom together with fresh lettuce; topped with an in-house made hollandaise sauce bedded with waffles. We especially like the mushroom and the waffles which make a great compliment pretty well to each other.

Next, we had the fusion pasta which is the Seafood Laksa Pesto (RM23.00). The in-house special laksa pesto sauce which has a blend of Daun Kesum Herbs and Bunga Kantan gives out a hint taste of the Assam Laksa taste. We find it just right as it was very fragrant and mix well cooking together with the squids, prawns, and mussels. For those that loves it a little more sourish, you can add some lime juice over it too.

After that, we had the Carbonara Spaghetti (RM23.00). This pasta looks simple but tasted good; as the cream sauce are blended well to the pasta unlike some which are either overly wet or sticky.  It is served with julienned Turkey Ham with slices of Beef Bacon and mushrooms.

Then we proceeded to the mains dish which is the Grilled Chicken Chop (RM17.00). The chicken was fried to a crisp on the outside while maintaining the succulent texture of the meat. It comes with a separate sauce. It is served with mashed potatoes, salads, baked tomatoes with a choice of either the mushroom, black pepper, creamy tomatoes or the signature coffee sauce which we had. We like the coffee sauce as it was not too strong of coffee and it did goes well with all the other ingredients that came with the dish.

and the last mains is the Lamb Shanks (RM32.00). The lamb shanks are braised with a tomato based sauce and served with mashed potatoes, salad, and baked tomatoes. We find the texture of the meat to be a little tougher (as we prefer the fork tender texture for our lamb shanks) and have feedback to the owner accordingly.

while for Desserts, we had the in-house made Tiramisu (RM15.00) which has a nice smooth coffee flavor with the right balance of mascarpone cheese coupled with layers of Italian ladyfinger and chocolate chips for some additional bite to this lovely dessert.

For a limited time during the afternoon tea break you get a FREE in-house made Salted Egg Croissant or Lava Cheese Tart for every cup of coffee you order! This is a limited time offer.

Overall we did enjoy some of the nicely prepared dishes at Crema Crema @ Petaling Jaya New Town.

Crema  Crema Cafe @ Petaling Jaya New Town  Address Location Map