It was my birthday weekend and Becks brought me to celebrate my birthday at Rama V. I've never been here and its my 1st time i realize there is fine Thai cuisine in KL. We were running late already, you know girls, i just dono wat to wear on my birthday=) I i only knew very last min, it's a lunch, n not celebrating during dinner.

So when we reach there, Becks told the table was reserved under Jane, my name=) You know the weird thing, the waitress reply, " yes, they are already here." I'm like, "who is already here?" Without getting much time to digest the thought in my mind, i was surprised by 2 of y best friends, xiao mei and ade!

i was shock at the same time happy for them to keep it a secret from me=) Since today it was a treat from them, i let them order. I was happily chatting with my babe Xiao Mei.

The atmosphere of the restaurant is very elegant but simple. With a modern taste with a little touch of Thai decorations. There is a pond just outside of the restaurant and a few private rooms for more private dinners. It is packed on a sunday afternoon, and i heard its already fully bonked for sat and sun's dinner. The 1st dish is the appetizer Chor Ladda. It is Flower Shaped Dumplings Stuffed with Minced Chicken and Peanut. This is a chef recommended dish. The flower shape dumpling is so pretty i barely wana eat it=) The skin of the dumpling is just nice, not too thick nor too thin. It tasted sweet and you can feel the crunchy peanuts and also the taste of fried shallots in it. I dun quite like this dish because i don't eat fried shallots, but my friends love it. We ordered this fish dish named Pla Dang Sam Rod, Fried fillet Red snapper fish served with 3 taste Chilli sauce. The fish is fried till crispy perfection add on with the sweet and spicy sauce. Yums! Great for fish lovers. We ordered 2 Tom Yam Kai Reu Kung Reu Talay, Its basically clear tomyam soup, with choice of seafood, chicken or just prawns. We ordered the seafood one. This soup is clear but it has an unsuspected taste to it. Very spicy, sour and flavorful. Totally mouth watering. We also ordered Gaeng Kaew Wan Nuer reu Kai Reu Kung, basically means Green curry. There is a choice of chicken, beef, prawns and venison. We ordered the chicken one. The curry is thick with the coconut milk aroma. Spicy and milky at the same time. Quite a big portion with a lot of lean chicken meat. We also ordered this, the only dish that is not spicy, Pad Pak Benjarong. It is simply fried mixed vegetable with shrimp, chicken and squid. Simple and nice, great to eat with white rice. Last it would be dessert time. Tab tim krob, Red Rubies with Jackfruit in Coconut Milk this is a famous Thai dessert that my mum would used to make. For this dessert it is a bit disappointment as it is quite tasteless. We only can taste the coconut milk, but it is not sweet for a dessert.

Last Friday, I met up with my good friend LULU, she just moved down to KL and i wanted to bring her out for some nice food. Since she is staying in Kuchai Lama, i decided to bring her to eat Chicken Hot pot located in Kuchai Entrepreneur Park. When we reach around 8pm, its already quite packed. This picture is the indoor seating and the below is the outdoor seating. The restaurant is not very big and has not much tables and chairs. we prefer to sit outside as it is more cooling, inside is a bit stuffy and normally you will need to share tables with other customers. As you can see from the picture, the table and chairs are quite simple, they use the steal ones where normally the mamak uses for out door seating.

One bad thing about this restaurant is, the menu is fully in mandarin. If you do not know chinese, may be you can just ask help from the waitress. There are a few types of hot pot you can choose from. There is chicken, pork, beef, fish and prawns. most of the choices comes in 3 sizes that is small, medium and large.

From the name chicken Hot Pot, we know that its surely spicy! you can even choose the level of spiciness for your hot pot. We ordered the large beef hot pot, since Becks dun really can take spicy, so we ordered the minimal hot one=) This is the stand to place the clay pot. Later on they will place a small fire under the pot to make sure the food is always pippin hot. Our hot pot is finally serve! As you can see from the photo, the portion is quite big. The beef is serve with other ingredients such as carrots, celery, parsley, white radish and onions. normally when they serve the gravy is thicker and spicy. Later on you can add soup to make it less thick. The soup too comes in spicy and non spicy versions. The soup is very flavorful with very thick beef aroma. Do remember to bring extra tissue box as you will be needing it after drinking the spicy soup!This is another picture of the clay pot on top of the fire stand. See the gravy is so pippin hot where it is still boiling. The beef is very tender. the other vegetables are also cooked till tender. Its like a all in one pot, with meat and vegetables. For some people who wan to eat more, the restaurant actually sells uncooked meatball, mushrooms, vegetables ranges from rm1-4 for you to add in your hot pot. Its like eating steamboat where you can also add in other ingredients. I would recommend to try the beef, very tender and juicy!

This blog post is about my cake eating experience in Serai. My brother brought me to dine in Serai few years back and he treated me the Pavlova. That was my 1st experience of eating Pavlova. I felt its really very nice. But lately I've been dining in Serai and Alexis quite frequently and i really made comparison between both cakes from different places. This is the cake from Serai. As you can see there are fruits on the cakes with a mixture of sweet blueberries, grapes and strawberries. The pavlova is soft and airy, but this piece of cake has sink a bit in the middle. The cream is sweet and the pavlova is sweet too. Makes the whole piece of cake way too sweet. You when you mixed with the sour strawberry its still okay. I would prefer the one in Alexis as it is not that sweet, and in Alexis they dun use grapes, but they use more blueberries and strawberries compared to the one in Serai. Disappointing thing, when the cake it serve, i thought all the dark colored fruits are blueberries. at the end i only have 1 blueberry on my cake, others are grapes cut into halfs, that seems to act like a blueberry. Overall the cake is still nice if you are a sweet SWEET tooth

Beat ordered this Spaghetti Carbonara. Carbonara is actually a pasta sauce made from cream, milk and Parmesan. You can use any kind of pasta, from spaghetti, penne, linguine. For this one it is the adult portion they also have for the kids also. The difference i would say its the portion. This spaghetti is very creamy and milky with a lot of mushrooms and chicken cubes. For me its a bit too creamy, for me may be 5 mouths full, i'll stop eating d, cant really take the creamy smell. but for Beat, she loved it, finish the whole portion, she said the chicken was soft and tender.

Becks ordered the Pumpkin Salad during her last visit at Serai. This salad is quite special, they first roast the pumpkin till it's soft and tender, then they add in chickpeas, cube tomatoes, wild rocket, cube portobello mushrooms and chopped walnuts. The pumpkin is really warm and soft, it had a great smooth feeling and aroma. love the crunchy walnuts and the honey lemon dressing just blends everything so well.
The one thing about this, i could suggest, its a bit too oily when u are finishing the salad. seems like all the ingredients are soaking in the oil. But for taste wise, it is great!