Imagine my surprised when my friend and I arrived at this quiet, hidden Japanese restaurant on a Sunday at lunch time. WHY!The whole place was empty, as if I booked the whole place.

The restaurant is located at Central Plaza, KL, just right behind Pavillion and next to Menara Standard Chartered. As far as I know parking charges is RM 6 per entry (weekends).

After further investigation, the restaurant just open about 3 months back and is mostly pack on weekdays (lunch and dinner). I reckon its mostly visited by office crowds, and since its so new, this hidden gem is not yet known to the general public.

First off, the place ambiance was simple and normal, but there is a quiet corner with sofa chair and open glass view. In addition, I realized there are a few rooms, probably the sitting tatami kind of rooms. (Was so hungry until forget take picture >.<).

I bought 3 Living social vouchers for the "salmon platter" deal, in which each voucher comes with a free flow of green tea, miso soup and a salmon platter. The original price was Rm 35 (a voucher), but with the deal is only Rm 10!~ The SALMON Platter.

1)First off, the deal didn't state what the salmon platter compose off besides they only use fresh salmon. But I have to say the sashimi was thick, fresh and delicious. You can see some fat marbling which further add on to the yummy experience!; unlike many other place where the salmon seems wash-off (After defrost taste; minimal salmon flavour) and not fresh.

2)Next to the sashimi, is a salmon sushi top with some cod roe?mentaiko? sauce. This I have to say was the most delicious out of the whole platter. A balanced of creaminess and slight smokey flavour, it was such a delight, and I chowed this down fast!

3)This was followed by a salmon maki and I believe roll with dried seaweed. Now the taste of this is grassy herby (dried seawood) and some might find it tad dry since some actually stuck on the throat. The taste of this I'm afraid might not be likable by some, and I for once finds it just so-so but still above average compared to many other franchised Japanese food chains.

4)Miso Soup and Green tea. The green tea is standard and so is the miso soup.

5) I have to add in that the salmon platter was an exact replica as the deal page picture. Super shock and Super satisfied!
Link of dealpage (just for reference): http://www.livingsocial.com/deals/400582-salmon-platter-soup-drink?show_missed=true

We didn't order anything else from the menu, but a quick glance of it shows an array of usual, authentic Japanese cuisine with some unique hardly seen and fusion dishes as well. The price can be excepted as somewhat affordable and in within range with other usual franchised Japanese food chains (Sushi Tei; Pasta zanmai). Example below of one page of the menu for your own reference.

I bet the food comes out an exact replica!

We do regret not trying out the other food in the menu, but this has become an instant favorite place to us. Despite just sampling a few, but the huge array of dishes, affordable price, fresh and super yummy unlike many Japanese restaurant chain has make us vow to come back here soon!

The picture said enough and you JUST have to try it!

* Be aware that there is operation hours for lunch and dinner
* Be aware that weekdays lunch and dinner might be pack. *Make reservation*

Paddington House of Pancake at One Utama Shopping mall is a well-known place for those searching for pancakes and waffles on both sweet and savoury note. The place is really cosy and comfortable overlooking some greenery.

I was their last customer for the day and it was so sweet for the staff to reopen the kitchen for me!
I bought a voucher for their mini treasure box and a cup of coffee/tea/ice lemon tea (Rm 13.90). Yummy Yummy! Cute little mini pancakes that are both fluffy and chewy. It is indeed a cute little treasure box filled with jewels of assorted fruits and ice cream. Ice lemon tea is normal.

Verdict: It is indeed a steal to have it at just only Rm 13.90!! The staff is really super friendly.

The restaurant: Ristorante Porto Romano is a hidden gem of Italian cuisine located within Intermark Mall.

Environment/interior-decor: Elegant and comfortable.

Menu: A variety of Italian dishes. Many of which are crowd favorites ~! An extensive list of wines, beers, cocktails and drinks.

Food:
Pizza Al Toro:
God knows why I never took pictures of it (perhaps to hungry). The pizza I ordered was decent, but not something exciting. You will get bored after a few bites. It was however not dry and given a generous amount of toping. Pasta Nera Con Calamari

Also known as Squid Ink Pasta. The pasta here is the bomb! Freshly made, the fettuccine was al dente, subtle yet bursting with seafood essence. They are generous with their seafood as well. Spaghetti alla Carbonara

Also known as spaghetti carbonara was lovely. Rich, creamy, so flavourful and al dente makes it a wonderful experience.

Tiramisu
We were greedy! Haha. By this time we were stuff full but yet we just have to try their desert. Tiramisu was acceptable, the sponge finger layers weren’t that dry, but more mascarpone cream would be better.

Service: Good and their staff were polite. They were knowledgeable with their menu.

Verdict: The chef here has the golden touch towards pastas! I have not venture into their other offerings but I reckon it should be good as well. Since I used voucher, I paid roughly about Rm60-ish for all of the above. I will go again, lovely ambience, friendly staff and delicious food!

Environment: What is there to talk about Delicious’s environment. Everyone knows its comfortable, casual yet upscale. I shall proceed on commenting about the food.

Food: Delicious afternoon tea set is an impressive 3-tier array of eye pleasing mulessus. Each tea set comes with two cups of either tea or coffee with a biscuit at the side. Besides that it comes with 3 kinds of sandwiches two each, 2 duck confit pastry, 3 scones, 2 chocolate truffles, 4 tomato biscuits, 2 chocolate strawberries stick and a desert of choice from the counter.

Sandwhiches:
3 flavours; each composing of only bread and filling. The sandwhiched bread seems to be of gardenia brand, based on its texture and taste. The fillings are scrambled egg, smoked salmon and Japanese cucumber. Decent sandwhiches, nothing out of the ordinary.

Scones:
The scones did not reach the standard of good scones. I have tasted better ones from smokehouse; Cameron Highland. I won’t lie, it is still decent enough but there are better ones out there. The scones had crumbily biscuit texture, not dense enough and are missing that lovely butter aroma and flavour. The accompanying jam and whipped cream is well accompanying.

Duck confit pastry and tomato biscuit:
I actually do not remember the name of these biscuit and pastry. The biscuits have reddish hue with a light tomato flavour. While the duck confit pastry is quite oily, little bit spicy and savoury. One would not realised it is duck meat.

Chocolate truffle and strawberry stick:
What is there to say about strawberry on the stick and chocolate. Chocolate truffle on the other hand smooth in texture, rich and dense like all chocolate truffles are.

Desert of choice;
We chosen chocolate brownies, and it’s a good chocolate brownie it is. The brownie was chewy, chocolatey with an adequate amount of walnut and topped with generous scoop of vanilla icce cream, drizled with velvety melted chocolate.

Service: Service could have been better, but there were so many customers and they were short hand of staff. Take note to make reservation.

Verdict:
Generous serving for an afternoon tea. If you up to pay for Rm 60ish and no idea where to go, Delicious is the place. There are better afternoon tea experience in terms of ambience elsewhere but at a higher cost like Twinings ,Harrods,Mandarin hotel etc. I paid Rm 35 instead of the usual price with the use of vouchers. I might reconsider having it again.

Boost juice bar in Subang parade is a small stand alone stall, and you can easily spot it out. All Berry Bang (Left) & Mango Tango Crush (Right)

Both are refreshing! Boost juice measures their drinks ingredients out properly so you wont even think of complaining you got more than me etc etc.

All Berry Bang consists of mixture of berries with apple juice, low fat strawberry yogurt ice crem and ice. Felt super healthy drinking so many antioxidants at once ahah sweet enough but not as creamy as milkshakes etc.

Mango Tango crush consists of mango, passion fruit, sorbet and ice was yummy! Sweet, lil sour,definitely refreshing with a topical feeling.

Verdict: Healthy and Yummy !