Tea Room Set Brunch Promo

My dear baker The TeaRoom is having a Promo now. 51% OFF for their Set Brunch for one. You can choose from their Fresh Bake Pie or Pasta and a sliced of their Cheese Cake. The set also include a glass of refreshment. This promo is valid for both dine in and also take away. usual price for the Brunch Set is RM22.20 but now you only need to pay RM10.90. 

That's not all, you can choose from a variety of Pie and Baked Pasta:

• Shepherd's Pie (Chicken or Beef) or;-
• Moussaka - Greek Delicacy or; 
• Creamy Tuna Baked Pasta and 
• Chicken Mushroom Baked Pasta

Here are some of their Freshly Made Cheese Cake to choose from:-

• White Chocolate Lychee Cheesecake or;
• Mars Bar Cheesecake and 
• Dark Chocolate Cheesecake

Choices of Drinks:-

• Iced Lemon Tea
• Iced Peach Tea
• Hot Brewed Tea and 
• Hot Freshly Brewed Segafredo Coffee

Some info about the place. It's located over at Bangsar inside Wisma Volkswagen. The TeaRoom is a small cozy place where you can grab a quick lunch with your colleagues or friends. TeaRoom also specialized in catering baked goods for weddings, company dinners and event launches. You can find out more about TeaRoom through their website [HERE] or Facebook [HERE]. You can buy this promo from ilovediscount website [HERE]. Enjoy~! 

Kimchi Korean Restaurant @ Tropicana Mall

I had visited this restaurant on it's first day of operation. But since I am into affordable set lunches these days, I had decided to give this place a post. It's called Kimchi Korean which is located inside Tropicana Shopping Mall. It's located next to Otak-Otak Place. Customers started to poured in several months back after they had introduced their value meals or set lunch. I guess you need to have set lunches available for working class people working nearby. I don't think that we will have BBQ for lunch that often if compared to normal set lunch. So I guess it's a wise move by the owner. 

Basically they have two type of value meal to choose from. You can either choose their noodle or rice value meal. Here as you can see, there are 4 types of Korean noodle to choose from. The Korean noodles ranges from seafood, beef, egg & sausages and vegetarian. The price varies of course being the vegetarian the cheapest one. Babe decided to try their Korean noodle since she's really like noodles a lot. 

The second value meal would be their hot bowl rice or dolsot bee beem bab. Similar to the Korean noodle they also have four types of rice ranging from seafood, beef, chicken and vegetarian. I had choose the beef rice since I never tried it before over here. As the picture shows the value meal comes with a glass of either green tea or ice lemon tea and dessert. 

The dessert came first which is a bit weird.  There's 4 slices of cold watermelon. 

I'd ordered the ice lemon tea while babe ordered their hot green tea. No, I don't think it's refillable. Maybe for the green tea but, ice lemon tea? I doubt it.  

Babe's Korean seafood noodle came first. I had actually tried this a couple of time and decided to recommend to babe. Portion was generous for a set meal. Yes, it does looked like those instant Korean noodle we cooked at home a lot. Hence, I asked babe to ordered their seafood noodle since there's prawns, squids and clams in it. 

As usual, the noodle has quite a strong scent of kimchi in it. The seafood was just enough for babe. Nothing too much but just right. I don't really take seafood, so I ordered their beef noodle previously which tasted equally good. Plenty of cabbages and also crab meat stick in the soup. Nice to eat during a cold rainy day. 

As for me, I had ordered their dolsot bee beem bab. Bee beem bab actually means mixed steamed rice. Dolsot bee beem bab practically means the steamed rice served in hot stone pot. Bee beem bab actually is a common meal served over at Korean when they have left over dishes. So they poured everything on top of the steamed rice and eat it. The hot stone pot is preheated first and rice are poured on it so that the rice underneath will be a bit crunchy when you eat it. Bee beem bab consists majority of vegetables like spinach, lettuce, carrots, bean sprouts, mushrooms and topped with an egg. It's covered with shredded Japanese seaweed.  

This is how the rice looks like after mixing it all around. You have bit of everything everywhere. The most important ingredient would be the sauce. It's called Gochuchang paste. It is spicy red pepper paste actually. It's red in color and I forgot to snap a picture of it before I start mixing it around. Like I said before, the dish actually created from left over dishes, so it does looked like left over on the above picture. But the taste is really nice after mixing all of those around with the paste. Again, a very nice dish to have on a rainy day. Something to heat up your tummy and excite your taste bud. 

Overall, the lunch was really nice and the service was acceptable. Although they hired a lot of foreigners but at least they are very efficient and they know what the customers requires. We waited a while for the food but at least it's good. Although I felt a bit weird when they served the watermelon (dessert) first even before the drinks and main dish. Other than that, I have not much comment of the place. Nice hang out place since their tables are really large. Cause they have a lot of side dishes to be served if you are having ala carte. 

Rating: 

Food: 3.8 out of 5.0

Ambiance: 3.8 out of 5.0

Service: 3.8 out of 5.0

Location: 

Kimchi Korean Restaurant, 

L1-57, First Floor, 

Tropicana City Mall,

Petaling Jaya, Selangor

PS: Picture courtesy of tropicana website

Athena Restaurant @ Pavilion

First and foremost, sorry for the blurry pic. Was walking away while taking this pic. Over-estimated the capability of my phone again. LOLX! Let's get back to the food now. My ex-colleague had been telling me of this place over at Pavilion that serve nice pasta with a reasonable price. So finally after some pestering, I'd finally decided to give it a try with them. The place is located opposite Starbucks and next to La Bodega. So you can't really miss it. The restaurant had been there for very long and I think most of you had already tried their set lunches. 

For RM19.90++ you have a bowl of soup, main course, dessert and a drink. Sounds reasonable for a place over at Pavilion. But I need to check the food out if it worth the money or not. Cause you can't be charging me a low price for bad food too. You have a few choices of main course to choose from roasted chicken, fish & chips, pasta and even Mediterranean Beef.

 If you are on a rush, you can even have their sandwiches for RM14.90++. 

I forgot if you can order anything else other than Ice Lemon Tea. But the glass was quite large and sufficient actually. 

 Their soup of the day sort of like clam chowder or seafood based to me. Not the best I had but for a set lunch this is a good bowl of soup. It comes with a sad bread by the side. 

Ex-colleague ordered their roasted chicken since he had pasta previously. Portion isn't that large but just moderate. Definitely not enough for any men I guess. But since it's a set, I guess you be full after the dessert. Black pepper sauce was nice and the salad on the side again seemed a bit sad. Not very cheerful that gave me the idea of eating them up. 

 Since I came for pasta, pasta it is for me.  Carbonara too. Since they know I love Carbonara really much, they highly recommended this to me. Portion was quite generous. Not too creamy but just enough not to look too watery. Plenty of cheese and whip cream used I suspect from the taste of the cream. For a set lunch this is above average I guess. Clean the plate up without leaving a single drop of cream. Well that explains a lot. 

 Finally the dessert came and it's chocolate flavored ice cream. My friend was actually looking forward to their strawberry flavored which he tasted previously. The ice cream even topped with syrup which makes it so nice and fattening at the same time. At this point I am really full and satisfied. 

Surprisingly the place isn't that packed during lunch hour so it's a good place to catch up with some friends and have a good affordable lunch. At least it worth my time to drove all the way down from my office to meet up with them for lunch. They served beers too if you are in the mood for some. The place turn into a bar cum bistro at night with food and drinks served. Not a bad place for lunch if you are willing to pay their expensive parking. 

Rating: 

Ambiance: 3.8 out of 5.0

Food: 3.8 out of 5.0

Service: 3.8 out of 5.0