Caffe Strada@Krystal Point@Penang

It's already in my plan to try out Caffe Strada after Alan send out the email on the short review on the Grand Opening of Caffe Strada on 11 June 2010.

And timing was good, Thanks to Alan & wife for the invitation for the review last weekend.

We were welcome by all the warm bloggers when we reached there. And i do felt comfy as the owner & the employees are friendly too.

This is important for customer to feel comfortable while dining. These days, most of the people would prefer to go for good service; besides of course to have delicious meals.

As explained from the owner, when they want to start this Caffe, the idea was to name it as 'Strada', which they would want Italian style kind of restaurant. Originally, Strada has a chain of Italian restaurants in the UK. The origin Strada restaurant do serves freshly prepared dishes using seasonal produce. The menu offers hand stretched pizzas, fresh pastas, risotto and grilled meat and fish dishes. That's how & why they name it 'Caffe Strada'.

This is the menu for the review:

First of all, the owner gave some welcoming speech & introduction.

There goes some snapshots of the dishes.

Start with the Appetizer:-Green Garden Salad. As explained by the owner, the salad sauce are special mixed by them.

This is nice.

Seafood Chowder in Bread Bowl..

The chowder does have the seafood taste; however the bread is super-hard for me..

Those like to try Asian meal, this Salted Fish & Chicken Fried Rice is recommended.
Yummy yummy, you could even taste the nice aroma of the salted fish even on the first scoop of the rice...and the combination with their signature BBQ Chicken Wing is nice...

moreover, we could dip the BBQ Chicken wing with the house special hot sauce.

It goes well with the chili sauce & it's quite spicy..and actually 1 piece of the chicken wing is not enough. You could actually order more, Caffe Strada's Fried Chicken Wing.2 pieces for RM5.90 & 4 pieces for RM9.90.

For Western dishes, I would recommend Mongolian Chicken & Grilled Butter Fish(refer to below photo).


Those who like a bit salty taste, you could try this Cheezy Grilled Chicken...

Club Sandwish..Those who just want some light snacks, you could try this.


The interior design of Caffe Strada is nice....Thanks to Allen for the nice photo..


Fluffy Hot Chocolate...

I would say that the chocolate is not so strong, not the usual hot choc we expect it to be..

However, we do asked the owner about their hot choc drink. He explained that the hot choc doesn't use powder form to mix the drink. They uses caramel syrup from DaVinci Gourmet; that's what make the difference. That is the origin taste.

Strawberry Kiss Frappes & Choc Banana Frappe...


For Frappes, i loves most is the Mango Frappes...


Cappucino...

Quite nice..

I prefer the Cafe Latte..and not forgetting, a must order dessert 'Caffe Strada's Ice Coffee Slush' ;p

Thanks to the Alan again for the arrangement.I do enjoyed myself there.
Another half of the bloggers went off already. Left a few of us..

Caffe Strada is a nice cozy place for gathering for family & friends. I would recommend you all to go.

Hyotan Japanese Restaurant@Subang Jaya

Recommendation by my friend to have a try on the Japanese Food at USJ area. There we go, we started to order our food once reached there.

My friend ordered the Saba Shio Set, i had the Katsudon. We ordered side dishes of Negima(shio), Mentai Potato & Monaka Green Tea Ice-cream.

Katsudon..too bad, the chicken is a bit too hard for me...

Mentai Potato...This is yummy yummy...the mayo sauce is special, and the potato is smooth & soft...;p

The restaurant is at:

No.63, Jalan SS15/5A,

47500 Subang Jaya.

Tel: 03-56360326

KL weekend trip

It was a nice weekend in KL last weekend. I met up with my friends at Sunway Pyramid. We started with a nice shopping first, then around 3pm, i had my tea break & my friend were having her lunch. We decided to give it a try at PappaRich. The menu was quite attractive.

My friend ordered one of the popular meal here which is the Nasi lemak.
The curry was nice though, and the rice is rich with the coconut milk.
We ordered the Toast with Pandan Kaya since this is also recommended dish. The toast was burnt at one corner, this i would say it was not as expected.




Pappa Rich really had lots of Drinks & Dessert choices. We took quite sometime as a lot of them looks yummy...

In the end, i ordered the Pappa Mocha & my friend ordered the Soy Milk Chendol with Redbean.

My friend like the Chendol a lot..or i should say she likes the redbean actually..

Mama's Nyonya@Lorong Abu Siti

This year Mother’s Day, my sister recommend to go to Mama’s Nyonya for dinner. The deco around the walls are those nyonya blouse, photos with popular designer like Jimmy Choo & S’porean star, Phua Chu Kang & others. The ambient was good, however there’s some small mistakes they made. My sister called in to book the day before Mother’s Day & all details were given to the person-in-charge; but it was not taken actually. Anyhow, the lady boss did asked for details while we did booking for her to investigate as they will improve on it. She even apologize & manage to get us a table. Overall, service was good & may need some improvement on taking more attention to customers when they need to be attended.
First, we were given an appetizer. It was Anchovies with Big Onion, ‘chili padi’ & mixed with sweet sour sauce. It was really appetizing. We finished it within seconds..:)

We ordered their famous Ayam Ros which the gravy has santan milk in it. The chicken are tender & gravy are delicious. The taste was just good enough, I would highly recommend you to try.
Next we have the Mango Kerabu Bok Nee. This dish look simple,colorful and taste as good as it is.

We ordered Sambal Sayur Rami, Otak-Otak as well. These 2 dishes were good as well. The sambal sayur rami dish was cooked with belacan and some prawns.

Next is the dish I like most, Chun Piah. It comes together with some special nyonya style sauce for us to dip in.
We really had a satisfying meal. Nice environment for chit chatting as well.
The boss were also friendly. He saw me taking photos & offered to take photos for us..
I would say those who like Nyonya food can give it try here.

Food in Germany

My usual lunch meal at 1 of the nearest Cafe from my workplace...

this is the Pork Chop i had...and almost everymeal will come with potatoes...

This is our dinner at Stephen's Restaurant in Holiday Inn...
This is Salmon steak..with the smashed potato & it has the ghee in it..

Spaghetti with roasted chicken strips..The spaghetti is a bit too salty for me...and i don't prefer chicken breast part...

This flower deco on all tables looks nice, it turns from pink to white by days..not sure what type of flower is this..but one thing, it has a very strong scents, which i don't really prefer...

Just yesterday i had dinner at Nordsee in Centrum shopping mall...

This is Asia style with spring rolls & chicken nugget...

It was delicious though..The rice is similar like nasi beriyani, and the combination with spring rolls & nugget is nice..and with the thai style chili sauce..yum yum..

My friend took this, Kostriker. It's quite smooth though...not bad...

And he took this Grilled Fish with Mushroom Cheezy sauce on it..It was also delicious..

Weekend Time in Dresden, Germany - 2

I started my Sunday morning at the Sachs.Dampfschif. You may also reached this place by tram & stop at Carolaplatz which will be the other end of this spot.

The below pic is taken with the Finance Bureacy building behind.
This is a monument for Ernst Riethschels at Synagoge area.

Then, i walked to Zwinger again now..it's a different view compared to previous 1 month plus ago....

The below pic was taken last mid of Oct 2009...

wow...so cold...freezing..

Saw this plastic coverage, but not sure why is covered only these particular area..hmmm

Nice sculpture..

Overall view..

Then, i go around Zwinger, there's a lake, suppose it's a lake, now become a skating area..

see this... I also went down to skate with my sport shoe...yipee..!!

In Oct 2009, it was like this...

So so nice..:)

My weekend in Dresden,Germany

My weekend starts with a heavy breakfast...

This is what i have daily for breakfast. It's only during weekend i get to enjoy the breakfast, more time spent....

Before headed to window shop, i had a short rest & relax at hotel lobby...

Then, there i go, to town area to all the shopping malls. Went to Centrum, Karstad & Altmarkt...3 of this shopping mall are just walking distance...And huge crowd as we get warmer in shopping malls & most importantly for ladies, it's big sales now for winter clothing..till 70% discount...for myself, i bought a nice vest from Zara..

Centrum Shopping mall considering quite new, when i was there, there were live band with profesional musicians walking from floors to floors...A huge crowd were looking & enjoying it...

See the big crowd...

Some old model car,

Creative mugs

Cutie kangaroo dolls...

According to my friend here, he said the banana imported here have certain requirement where the length has certain standard to follow..all are huge..

It's different from Msia that you'll find different sizes of banana...

It's juz something to share with you all...I questioned this as normally during bfast at hotel, they do provide fruits & normally i'll see huge size banana...

I bought a Movenpick Latte Machiato drink, it was quite nice..

After a long window shop around the shopping malls, I went to try a Vietnamese style dish for dinner..
It was quite nice..nice food with reasonable price..There i go, i tried the Crispy Duck dish..

My friend tried this Pork dish..quite good too...

This cafe is near Altmarkt Galerie..it's on the way towards tram station-Postplatz..