Nandos @ 1Utama Shopping Complex

This fast food restaurant needs no introduction. Its famous and found in many shopping complexes around Malaysia. Nandos which are famous for their chilies sauce or Peri-Peri Sauces. I'm not going details on it as you can check out their interesting cartoon flash website at www.nandos.com.my.



I'm heading straight to their food. A recommendation for those that can't eat too spicy but still like a tingle of spice, go for the Mild peri-peri sauce chicken dish. If you have a liking for hot stuff, then go ahead for the Hot and Extra Hot Peri-peri. But the taste includes a little sourish tingle to it.



The fries are alright, thick and not too hard. But I don't fancy much on the salad side.

Little Taiwan @ 1Utama Shopping Complex

Just over the opposite of Penang Flavours and Otak-Otak Place, there's this restaurant called Little Taiwan: Papa Beef and Mama Chop. It was almost dinner time, and we're hungry. So, just nice to try out some Taiwanese cuisine. Besides, they got big beef specialist wall posters that its pretty hard to take my eyes of them. So, if you like to eat beef; This is a good place to try.



They have lots of variety of beef dishes. Since I was hungry, I went for one of the recommended dishes called the Three Treasures Beef. Which they serve 3 different beef parts, plus rice with beef sauce and small sides of cucumber & tomato and acar. Amazingly, the service is pretty fast. But then, its possible that the tables aren't filled up yet since we ate a little early. At 5pm.



The other dish ordered was the Salted Chicken Chop. The small sides are of the same. Comes with white rice and the chicken chop isn't that salty but its crispy. just have to watch out for some bones. It uses the drumstick side - flattened and fried.

We ordered a wanton soup. Comes in 6 pieces. Has a few vegetables in it. The soup is ok. The wanton is a little bit small. Err.. I didn't manage to photo shoot the soup. I was dipping on my beef rice already at that time... urr.. hungry mah!

For the drinks, one was bubble red tea. Nothing special. The other is a strawberry shake. Its nice, not too sourish and not too sweet. Just nice. Recommended to try if you're a strawberry lover.



all this with 2 main dish and 1 small soup plus the 2 drinks. Total is just slightly below RM50.00 for 2 people's consumption.

I would come back again to try the other dishes as they have spicy and ramen dishes. Looks kinda spicy hot too.. hmmm... well, I'll put that review in when the time comes.

Penang Flavours @ 1Utama Shopping Complex

Found a nice place to have some snacks between breakfast and lunch. Just before our movie show "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". Found this restaurant just next to Otak-Otak Place. Thought we should try it out.

Since its a light snack, we didn't really order stuff like asam laksa or mee goreng which was listed in the menu as recommended dishes. Instead, we order recommended light dishes like Chee Cheong Funn, Tofu Bakar and Popiah wrap.



For drinks, I ordered cold limau kasturi. Its refreshing. But also a little bit too sour. But it won't be called a limau kasturi if its not sour, right?



Two (2) of the dishes we ordered are in the recommendation listed in the menu, denoted by pink stars. I really recommend you to try the Tofu Bakar and Popiah wrap. Among these 2 yummies; I recommend you to try the popiah. But of course its also rare to find places that serves Tofu Bakar. So, its worth a try as well.



The Chee Cheong Funn is a no go for me. Well, I don't fancy sweet sauce over the Funn. There is actually another similar dish of Chee Cheong Funn. But its with curry chicken. I think having a curry chicken at a little wee morning is not a good idea for my stomach.



Definitely worth to come back to try the main dishes the next time round as I heard one of the waiter making arrangement for a reserved table for a family of 10 people. Must a some of the other main dishes that attracts the crowd. Probably the asam laksa.

Otak-Otak Place @ 1Utama Shopping Complex

Feeling hungry after a morning movie of Monster vs. Aliens at 1Utama Shopping complex. Head out to the new wing that lines up with lots of new restaurants. Its nearby the Cold Storage Supermarket. You can't miss it as there is a old bicycle placed outside the restaurant. After viewing a lot of the new restaurants around the area, we decided to pack our tummies with Otak-Otak Place.

They were offering a lunch package meal for 2 person. 4 dishes plus 1 soup, 2 rice and 2 choices of drinks. All for only RM18. Not to waste time scouting for other seemingly nice looking food restaurants as we got another movie to attend at 2pm, we decided to try out the Otak-otak Place. Besides, we can try out the other restaurants other time. Just making this our 1st stop.



We ordered the lunch meal set. The seatings is cozy and comfortable. My only concern is that the waiters and waitress should have more attention to look out for customer's calling and not talking to among each other.



The 1st 3 dishes are spicy tofu with peanuts, acar-acar and spicy gravy chicken (countable. 4 small piece only. About the size of a quarter chicken). Soto ayam soup. The soup was not hot enough. But it wasn't cold either. Just not hot enough to be a hot soup.. that's what I was just implying.



The 2 drinks were hot barli and an Ice-lemon tea. I didn't snap the photo of the ice-lemon tea drink because it wasn't a nice drink to begin with. So, I didn't bother to snap a photo of it. The barli however was very nice. That's why the photo is here.



The last dish was the otak-otak. I'd give it one thumbs up. Almost similar taste to the famous Muar Otak-otak. I think that's why the restaurant's name is also based on its signature dish as well. It was almost like saving the best dish for the last but unfortunately, either we're very hungry or they took a longer time to cook it. The otak-otak dish only came when we're almost finishing the rest of the dishes and the white rice we had.

Overall, a nice place to eat as the food is ok. But preferred if they buck up their customer service.

Lam Mee Ya @ 1Utama

With my parents' recommendation, on Mother's day it is we head on to 1Utama to eat the recommended Lam Mee Ya noodles. There were a lot of choices of noodles but the original Lam Mee is still the best and suggested. Good thing is that the restaurant is just newly open and have lots of promotion on it. After 12 visits, customers are entitled to a free lam mee plate. And also, what we were having is also the set meals which they include the lam mee plate + green tea drink (non-refillable) + a side dish.




The noodles are cooked to perfection and the gravy is simply delicious. Sliced chicken meat and the prawns are fresh.

The side dishes took a little longer to prepare but it was worth the wait. The meat ball is still the best. But so are the other dishes. Sorry, I forgotten to take the names down. I was already filled my mouth with the food but luckily still got time to photo shoot them before the plates and bowls were empty.





Location: 1Utama Shopping Complex, New Wing - Ground Floor. Just beside BreadStory and opposite Kluang Station.

Bon Appetite!

B.B.Q Plaza @ 1Utama: New Wing (Forest)

BBQ Plaza recently have a promotion for Jusco members. "Present your Jusco card for a free Croquet (Whatever that is?!). Well, we're just as curious as you are. So, we went in to try out the food as well as the "free croquet".



Service was good. Very prompt service. The golden pan is used to barbecue the food. Instead of using oil, 2 pieces of pork lard is used to oil the pan.



Drank fresh watermelon frosta juice and logan drink. The frosta is refreshing and not too sweet at all for a nice hot sunny day to quench my thirst.



Ordered family set together with steamed white rice. And the free croquet is actually minced meat on the inside and outside is coated with crispy layer laid with mayonnaise. The Croquet would be more tasty if served hot rather than not hot nor cold.




The meat should be a little bit thicker. But I guess they sliced it thin so that the meat are easier to get cooked faster. The chicken stock soup is nice but the pan doesn't allow much space to fill the soup in our bowls.

New York, New York Deli @ 1Utama Shopping Complex

1Utama Shopping Complex Giant Supermarket is now taken over by Cold Storage Supermarket. And its area has widen to accommodate more shops and restaurants. One restaurant that caught my eye is right in front of Cold Storage Supermarket. Its a Singaporean Company franchise.



The food is delicious with western cuisine and drinks are unique. I tried the root beer float. Its refreshing only with a taste difference. I've discovered (now only discovered) that the unique special taste that A&W root beer float has with this here root beer float is actually the vanilla ice-cream! So, which is better? Definitely A&W's.



But I must compliment that when you are led to be seated, you don't have to wait for the waiter/waitress to bring you the menu. Its laid on the table and most of the recommended food/dishes are clearly highlighted.



I had this pizza which is for diet control. Being a cheese lover, its surprising that the cheese on this chicken Hawaii pizza is not cheesy at all!




The penne pasta.. well, what can I say.. I forgot to take the "before eaten" shot and only after "almost finish eaten" shot instead. Delicious! If only the prawns are fully peeled off.. that's a mouthful.. Yummy!

I'd recommend this to anyone that loves pizza and pasta. And its affordable as well.

Sushi Groove at 1Utama

After much tasting of sushi from Shogun, to sushi king, genki sushi, sakae sushi and hotel's sushi, comes my taste bud for sushi groove. Very cozy environment. Makes you just want to sleep on the comfy couch and doze off after a marathon walk around 1Utama shopping complex. However, the comfy couch is just a waiting area. The actual seating area, hmmm.. can't lean back. its a cushion stool with squary tables and green triangular plates and green chopsticks.



If you are a train belt fan, then sushi groove is NOT the place for you. Its more of a A-la-carte dishes selection menu. Pictures are nice to look at but navigating the menu needs some strategy.

What did we eat: Unagi sushi, tempura udon, extravaganza roll (8 x salmon and tuna sushi), hot and cold orcha tea.