Restaurant Review: Four Seasons London

I haven't done a restaurant review in a very long time. But what better way than to revive it with a review of the famous Four Season restaurant.

Four Seasons London is a restaurant located in Bayswater, London. it is famous for its roast duck. Reviews online has been good and I have heard that this restaurant is a must go place if i ever do stop by in London. So famous is this place that I've heard about it from several friends.

My friend introduced me to the this branch in Empire SHopping Gallery in Subang.
I was very excited at this discovery, as it's about time I sank my teeth into its famous roast duck!


The fried rice was good! Very flavourful and had good 'wok hei'


Next, we had the mixed roasted meat combo, and in this picture, you see the siew yuk and char siew.

Both are decent, but wont blow your mind away.



And finally, it was the roast duck.
Four Seasons Bayswater roast duck!!!! OMG!!!
O.O

Well it was good lah, but not as awesome as I expected. Maybe because i've heard so much stories from my friends about how good it is and etc, and I may have placed it in a pedestal way too to achieve.

But its good lah...

Anyways, food here wasnt too expensive. Me and a friend spent about a total of RM50 for the food above plus wantan noodles.

I should be back here again soon to give this place another try.


Boodyboy, out!!!

Jaya One Eateries Review : Sun Wong

Another week, another eatery. This time around, we have decided to try Sun Wong, a Hong Kong style restaurant. What they serve is usually what you see in Kim Gary or Wong Kok.

The restaurant is located atg the back of Jaya One, near the parking entrance facing UTAR. If you are entering from the main road you would miss the restaurant. After passing by the place countless time going to the carpark, we decided to give this place a shot. When we entered the restaurant, there were only like 3 other tables being served. Didn't bode too well...

The staff are friendly and eager to help. The ambience? Typical Hong Kong style eatery lor... Nothing fantastic, and quite simple.

When we looked at the menu, we were surprised at the prices they charged. Its cheaper and Kim Gary, Wong Kok, et al. We ordered the fried rice, honey pork rib rice, thick toast with peanut butter, boxing chicken. For drinks, we ordered, the sea coconut with longan and shaved ice and the iced milk tea.

The food arrived pretty fast (since there weren't many customers anyway). The head waitress/manager was pretty friendly, checking on us to see if the food and service was good.

The food is good. Fried rice is better than a lot of places i've tried (but if you hate mixed vegetables, you should avoid this). The pork rib rice was also nice, not too sweet and the portions just nice. The boxing chicken is good, but not great, missing some seasoning for that extra little flavour or shall i say "kick". The toast was huge, but unfortunately, i ate it a bit too late (stupid me for eating it last), and as such, the taost had already cooled down and it became very stiff and hard to chew. And with the generous amounts of peanut butter, my jaws had to work overtime to chew it.

The tea was "kau" enough for me. as for the seacoconut drink, if you dont like it with lemon, you might not enjoy it as much as some ppl will argue that the lemon will overpower the sea coconut taste in the drink.

Overall, i think this is the place with the best food so far. Shame on the rest for having such nice decor but poor food.

Ambience: 6/10
Taste: 7.5/10
Service 7/ 10.


Boodyboy, Out!!!

Jaya One Eateries Review: Tappers Cafe

I refused to believe that 2 out of 2 bad eateries means that Jaya One is full of bad places to eat. So i was there again yesterday and this time, we tried the place of my choice (the first 2 weren't my choices but i didn't disagree either).

Tappers is situated in between Santinis and Kluang Station Kopitiam (i think its kluang station lah).
Tappers is also modelled after some of those kopitiams like kluang station, Old Town and etc. They serve mainly local dishes and some hainanese fare like the hainanese chicken chop. We ordered the hainanese chicken chop, nasi dagang ayam, french toast with honey, bandung sirap (known as goo lee ping here) and iced "cham" (coffee and tea).

The drinks here are nice and damned kao. but if you dont like drinks that are a tad on the sweet side, then its not recommended. We ordered 2 glasses of bandung sirap, hehehe... The cham was good also.

Now for the food, if you like french toast, i'm sure wou will like the french toast here. It is evenly fried and the colour is perfect. Then when eaten with honey, it tastes so good...(already drooling thinking aout it now...). The hainanese chicken chop was passable, though the batter on the fried chiken not as crispy as i had hoped. The sauce was decent, but different from the ones i've tasted. This one is a bit sweet sourish, liked cooked with tomato sauce. Servings is small for a guy like me who can eat lah... It wont stuff you, and it wont make you hungry either. As for the nasi dagang, the rice was nice, but some pars of it tasted like it wasn't cooked with enough water (could be due to it being the top layer when being scooped from the rice cooker). The chicken was also decent only lah, not good enough for my standards.

However, if we talk about value for money, this is the cheapest meal we had in Jaya One so far... all the above for RM 25 only. Not too expensive. And yes we finally didn't have to go Nando's for a 2nd round of dinner, unlike the previous 2 times...

Ambience: 6/10
Taste: 5.5/10
Service: 6/10

Jaya One Eateries Review: Kinnaree

Oh, one thing i forgot to mention about Jaya One, the whole place had Wifi!!! cool!!! so rest assured you can eat any outlet and still be connected.

Ok i went to this place called Kinnaree on Tuesday. Kinnaree is a thai restaurant which serves, duh, thai food lah. This is their first branch here in Malaysia. The are actually quite famous in Thailand, so famous that they were in Thailand's "Tatler's Guide to Restaurants in Thailand". Yup, you you are listed in tatler's food guide, then the restaurant has to be high class and of course the taste has to be there as well.

So how does the Malaysian branch fare?

When we walked in the place, the place was well decorated. however, a little gripe here. They used many(when i mean many, i mean a lot) candles in the restaurant, but yet they still turned on all the lights in side the restaurant, which negated the nice soft glows of the candles. I like their lotus leaf motif-ed plate.

We order tomyam of course, and then kangkung belacan, soft-shell crab cooked in spicy balck sauce and green curry chicken. The tom yam, i rate 5/10. Just passable. The 1 person "seafood" tomyam had only 1 prawn, some mushrooms and thats it. Tomyam not really that delicious although got some "kick" lah. I've had better tomyam before, definitely. The softshell crab, i rate about 6/10 cause it was too salty. Kangkung belacan, i rate 5/10 because they really overcooked the kangkung. It was all soft and limp. Plus the taste wasn't that fragrant anyway. The green curry, 4/10. Yes, its bad, so bad, i give it a "fail" since it was not even green in colour. Hahaha... But seriously, the green curry had no kick to it. Generous which the chicken but it didnt save the dish. Was very watery and the gravy not tasty. As for the dessert, we ordered the "Tub Tim krob" which is the red rubies with coconut milk. That wan i also give 5/10 although i'm tempted to fail this dish as well. The only saving grace was that they gave lots of rubies and it was full of chestnut inside rather that flour. Ok the best thing i had there was the lemongrass drink. Serve chilled, it is poured into a wine glass and has the colour of white wine. The lemongrass is not too overpowering and not too sweet either. And its refillable as well.

Service was prompt, efficient and friendly.

OVerall i give it the Death Sentence (DS) again. Looks like it was the interior designer who cooked here as well. If you want a classy high end thai restaurant, go to "To Dine For" in Chulan square instead. Better and abouit same price. This place is definitely not cheap. The total bill came to about RM120.

Ambience: 7/10
Taste: 4/10
Service: 7/10

Jaya One Eateries Review: Brisik

YEs, this is the first installment of my food review. I'll be reviewing a quaint little place called Brisik, which is located at the spanking new Jaya One. For those who don't know where Jaya One is, its located near UTAR PJ in section 13, near the Rothmans roundabout. There are many eateries there and the 1st time i went there, i was spoilt for choice.

So after walking a round a couple of times, we decided to eat at this place called Brisik. Its entrance is at the ground floor but the restaurant space is located upstairs. The place looks really nice and cosy, well decorated.

Food wise, we ordered like 4 dishes and all 4 also turned out not nice. Sorry if i cant remember what the dishes were because ia ctually went there last month. But i ordered whatever that was recommended by the staff there.

The price itself is not expensive for a classy looking spot, but the portions are not big either.

I like the ambience but after trying the food there, i've given it a Death Sentence (DS). What this means is that it is highly unlikely i'll be going back to that place restaurant ever again.

The place looks like it was verhy well designed by the interior desinger, but unfortunately, the food seems to have been cooked by the interior designer.

Ambience: 7/10
Taste: 4/10
Service: 6/10