He's 50 in Yun Man Steamboat Chinese Dishes

1st February 2011

He is finally 50. Hahaha... So funny when everytime my friend asked me, "How old is your dad?" and when I start to do the maths, I realised my dad not yet reached the middle age. =p

OK, another post dated blog again. Initially, my dad's plan was brought us to have dinner at his favourite restaurant nearby Hilltop but unfortunately, it closed. I keep requesting, "Dad, brought us to Hana leh" but he refused. Then, suddenly in the middle of nowhere, it popped into my mind and said, "How's about having steamboat?". All of them said, "What a great idea!". Gosh, there goes my diet plan failed! But since my sister had never went to these cheap and worth steamboat, so I just go on with their plan. This is my fifth visit.

Located at Taman Dixon, you will see it is totally crowded every night.

See, so many people and sometimes you even need to wait for a seat

You can choose 2 type of soup at a time as there has 2 compartments and my all time favourite would be chicken soup and tom yam soup


It's boiling and now it's time to put into the mouth.


Variety of raw foods. There is prawn, crab, meat, variety of fish products and lots more.


And if you are hungry while waiting for the soup to boil, there is ready cooked dishes like fried rice, chicken wings, roasted pork, fried wantan and lots more.

They even provide dessert such as ice-cream and variety of fruits.

The price list. But beware, for those unfinished foods will be charged RM5.00 per 100gram.
This is to avoid of wasting uneaten foods.

Steamboat buffer is always fulfilled your stomach with satisfaction. We are definitely full that night. A birthday celebration wouldn't complete without birthday cake.

Chocolate Fudge Cake - homemade cake by my sister.

"Happy Birthday to our beloved daddy"

With love,

Mom, Diana, Linda, William & Charles

Share:

Miso Japanese Restaurant @ Karamunsing Capital

As today I plan to search for screen protector for my iPad at Karamunsing, we decided to have our dinner somewhere nearby. Without any doubt, my first choice will be definitely Miso Japanese Restaurant. This elegant Japanese Restaurant caught my attention when me, TTM and his friend were having lunch at Mint Peppermint, Karamunsing Capital last Wednesday. Damn likey likey Japanese foods recently. By the way, so far I'm having Japanese foods for the 4th time.

The first three round that I had were also in this month of February. First round was at the newly opened Sushi Tei, Suria Sabah with my deariest. Second round with my family at Sushi King, City Mall. Still remember on the day of this year Valentine's Day - which I'd had dinner at Recipe House, Damai. Maybe there will be fifth round before end of this month. [=.=]

Back to Miso. Let's the picture do the talking.

This reminds me of the current drama which I watch lately in Astro on Demand.

The creative and unique ambiance of the restaurant

Their black book menu





Starting with appetizer





California Maki (Vinegared rice with cucumber, crabmeat stick, omelette, mayonnaise and fish roe). This is my favourite.



TTM's meal; Oyaku Jyu (Simmered chicken and egg with sweet and sour sauce). He asked me to made decision for his meal, so I ordered this.



My meal; Chicken Soup Ramen



Another maki again, Tori Teriyaki Maki (Vinegared rice with cucumber, Teriyaki chicken and mayonnaise fish roe). It's so huge that I can't put it into my mouth for the first bite.

Our dinner ends with dessert.

Cold barley dessert with peanuts and beancurd. It's so refreshing and sweet.

Overall, the foods are excellent and tasty. Especially the Maki. There are variety of Maki and I almost can't made up my mind which to choose from for our dinner. Besides Inari, Maki is also my all-time-favourite when comes to sushi. So, how much we pay for tonight dinner? It cost us RM72.60 for 2 people. With the attentive services and also not forgeting to mention that the appetizer and dessert are complimentary, it is worth every ringgit you pay. But I'm still consider whether to come back for second visit, unless I hit jackpot.

Miso Japanese Restaurant
Location: F-0-5 & F-0-6, Karamunsing Capital, 88300 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Opening hours: Monday - Fri : 10.00 am - 2.30 pm, 6.00 pm - 11.00 pm
Saturday - Sunday : 10.00 am - 11.00 pm

Before I end my post, there is something I would like to post my shoutout for today.

"Karamunsing Capital is the current place for food hunter. Lots of new restaurant opened and lots of foods to try. Can't wait to try all of them! =D"

Share:

Everyday Is Valentine's Day

14 February - It's Valentine's Day which lovely couple will celebrate it tomorrow. Most of the couples are busy doing preparation such as the guy side will busy selecting flowers for their love one and the gals side will busy browsing present for the guy. I guess that most of the elegant and classy restaurant is crowded with all the lovely couple and not forgetting the cinema too, it will be totally full house.

As for me, I'm really dilemma now. You know for a gal like me, a special day like this would mean a lot to me to celebrate with the love one. In fact, I also wish to receive a bouquet of flowers, being asked to a dinner and movie. But when think back, is it necessary to celebrate this special days when everyone had the same thought as mine and in the end, this makes all the restaurant and cinema full house?

Honestly to say, I wish to receive a bonquet flowers from him but in the mean time, buying flowers during Valentine's Day could be consider the most silly things to do because it is extremely expensive. I would rather he buy flowers during my birthday as my birthday will be coming soon. =P

Would like to receive this bonquet of lilies from him *wink*wink*

Most of my friends are asking me "Diana, how are you going to celebrate V Day tomorrow with your dear?". Erm...Honestly, I don't know. Like I said, I just love to have it simple like going out for dinner (Japanese Restaurant will be my main choice) and watching movie. But I'm guarantee everywhere is crowded with lovely couple. Thanks to one of my college friend for telling me;

"EVERYDAY IS VALENTINE'S DAY!"

It's true by the way. Why should I need to bother too much of what will he do for me and what will both of us heading to tomorrow? If I only wait for V'day for him to do all those for me, however the other day? Then, what's the difference on the rest of the day?

Love is all about passion and care of 2 person. So, love is not only to celebrate on 14 February but every single day is LOVEDAY. There shouldn’t be a specific month to express our love, care and passion for our loved ones. As long as it should be sincerely through our heart all the time.

Lastly, I would like to stress here that I am not encourage couple not to celebrate V'day. Yeah, you still can enjoy ur lovely and wonderful moments with your beloved one tomorrow. This is just some sort of sharing and thoughts from my truly heart.

And finally, wishing everyone HAPPY LOVING DAY!

Share:

Sushi Tei @ Suria Sabah

Sushi Tei - an international Japanese sushi restaurant chain, originated from Singapore are now located in Suria Sabah. Yeahoooo, this means that there are more selection of Japanese restaurant to choose from are now available in Kota Kinabalu. Honestly to say that I love Japanese foods more than Italian foods, even though I don't eat those raw one like sashimi, salmon =p. But, I'm damn love sushi especially Inari.

Located at Ground Floor, nearby Voir





Their signature open-kitchen allow to us to see their chefs culinary skills


The big menu

At first, I thought this is one fine and wealthy Japanese restaurant as this is the first international Japanese restaurant chain in Kota Kinabalu. But from the menu, I realised that the price range for sushi can range from RM2 for Tamago sushi to RM10. However, I saw sea urchin sushi for RM42. OMG =="... 2 sushi for RM42!!! But when I think back, this is one rare Japanese foods you can find in KK. For ala carte, you can choose from RM10.90 and more on some of the premium dishes.

Ocha which cost RM2 per cup. Good thing is it's refillable

Now it's time for "ITADAKIMASU":


My all time favourite; Chicken Katsu Don


Ten Don;


Yakitori Don; grilled chicken with rice

Their foods are taste nice and smell nice too especially Yakitori Don. Too bad we didn't order sushi as most of us had eaten a bit before this. Their services are excellent and attentive too. At first, we thought that we might need to wait for so long as there is a long queue. I was a bit worry cause our movie will be show in 1 hour plus. However, we were being given a seat within 5 minutes.

Drawback of this restaurant was there is a long Japanese Kaiten (conveyor belt) but just a few sushi was display on top of it. So all you need to do is by ordering yourself.

Anyway, I would like to have a try on their sushi especially their Futomaki and California Maki.

Share:

Heng Long Restaurant @ Warisan Square

As usual, every Sunday morning is the moment where my family and I will having brunch together. Since my first younger bro and my younger sister never try Heng Long before, so we decided to bring them to have a try on this Chinese delicacies restaurant.

Heng Long Restaurant is specialised in La Mian (Ramen), Xiao Long Bao and dim sum. By the way, this is not a new restaurant so not much I like to talk about except for sharing my thoughts and opinion on the foods I had.

We reached there around 11 something and the place not yet that crowded


Let's us look inside what's inside the menu


La Mien section


Different type of Chinese dishes


Mouth watering when seeing Dim Sum section

Milk Grass Jelly ordered by my youngest bro. Too much ice...

Vietnamese Chicken. This is one my favourite dish. It tastes sweet and crispy. I almost can eat the whole plate


Fried Rice with Salted Fish. Too bad we can't taste the origin taste as my bro had added soya sauce... Lol...


Here comes the first La Mien we ordered; La Mien with Fried Chicken Cutlet. The chicken is so crispy on the outside and taste good on the inside

La Mien with Minced Pork and Vegetable Wanton

See how big is their wanton? It is so juicy


Shanghai Steamed Meat Dumpling


Shanghai Pan Fried Dumpling


Although it cost RM6 for 3, but the filling is a lot

Finally, the Shanghai Pan Fried Meat Bun

It is so crowded when reached the lunch hour and it is almost fully occupied


Located at Warisan Square. By the way, there is another branch located in 1Borneo

Overall, the foods are taste nice and their service are friendly. Besides that, the price of the foods are average and not really costly. It is worth every penny you pay. Just the selection of dim sum is not much but we went there for their La Mien.

Location:
Warisan Square, Ground Floor, Block B
(Beside Hong Kong Recipe)

At night, it's time for my deariest. Having our dinner at the Japanese new outlet located at Suria Sabah, Sushi Tei and yam cha at newly opened cafe at Lintas. More to come on the next post.

By the way, it seems like my blog is more toward foods recently. Struggle a bit with my travel post. Anyway, enjoy your day~

Share: