Rendezvous Steak Garden, Kampung Pandan

Morning world~~

OMG I'm in a total Monday blue mood now.... =S

Well, since the bf and I moved to Setapak, we hardly go for date as I was so busy with my internship. Totally worn out and all I wanna do during the weekend is nothing but.............

Seriously, my best activity for weekend is just to be at home, having some great time surfing the internet, watching my favorite Running Men, and most of all, to hop on my bed whenever I want to! Isn't that the best weekend ever? Well, at least to me, LOL!

So last Friday, the bf and I went for a date after work. Headed to Rendezvous Steak Garden in Kampung Pandan for a proper date and I really have to say I'm so in love with the environment there!

This is how their entrance looks like, full with greeny decos.

Little fountain next to the entrance, further lighten up the cozy environment there.

The ambience there is indeed a perfect place for a date. You could either choose to sit at the opened air area where you could enjoy the night breeze, or roof top covered area.

Roof top covered area could be quite stuffy when the weather is hot. You wouldn't want to have your meal being all sweaty and grumpy right? So if it's not raining, go for the opened air.

The interior of the restaurant is nicely decorated with details such as classic lamp post, lots of greeny swirling around the post and ceiling, and bird cages that turned into lights, cute right?

Look at the crowd, it was almost full house when we got there.

Why am I so in love with the environment there then?

Well, because the actual lighting in the restaurant is dimmer like this.

Yup the real lighting is something like this, very very dim, and it's so romantic for a date with your love one!

Another top up is the background music! They plays classical music or English oldies OMG definitely my preference! I'm actually hating restaurant that plays unmatch background music, best example is Sushi Zanmai, Japanese restaurant playing English hits songs, like seriously?! I totally don't get the sense.

The only problem with the dim light is reading the menu. It's not totally dark and unreadable lah, but it's a challenge to read the menu clearly, especially the pictures of the food.

And oh, a real challenge in photo shooting the food.

Forget about flash, the whole lighting in the restaurant is so dim, imagine what a flash from camera would do. Yeah, all eyes on you.

So what did we ordered? =D

Fried Cheesy Chicken @ RM14.90

I ordered this fried chicken with stuffed cheese. Asked the bf to order this at first, I could order Fish & Chips, then we can share. But at last he insisted on Fried Chicken without cheese. *rolleyes

And it turned out that my Cheesy Fried Chicken taste a lot nicer! Hiak hiak hiak~~! I was planning to order Lamb Shank before going there, then the bf forgot to draw money, and my wallet left only RM30 after topping up my Touch'n'Go. I was like, my god, why so potong steam one!

So in the end we got to plan our order for not being lack of cash to pay later on, duh!

But escargot is a must!

Cheesy Escargot @ RM12.80 (Half Dozen)

Love this to the max!!! My first and only try on escargot is at Rendezvous, so I didn't know how the other escargot might taste, maybe better, but trust me, this one is real good!

Mushroom Soup @ RM5.80

Order a mushroom soup, which comes with a bun, dip the bun into the escargot cheesy gravy. My god, HEAVEN!!! And their mushroom soup is rich and thick, love it!

Coleslaw @ RM6.80

Coleslaw was rather expensive for the tiny portion. Ordered it because I'm afraid the Cheesy Fried Chicken would be too jelak, hahaha. The taste was okay overall, funny is that the coleslaw made me feel jelak instead of the cheese. Duh!

Fried Chicken Chop @ RM13.80

The taste is somewhat the same as the Cheesy Fried Chicken, just that it's without cheese. But the portion is slightly little. Better to order the Cheesy Fried Chicken.

The bf ordered sweet drinks as usual. Me, iced water, bahaha!

I keep introducing this place to my friends, haha, for someone picky like me, it's rare for me to comment a restaurant or food being nice, what's more delicious! So try it yourself! 

Heard that the cheesy fondue is worth trying as well. No worries, I would definitely return to try on their other menus. Hee~~

Rendezvous Steak Garden

14, Jln. Kampung Pandan, 55100 Kuala Lumpur

Rating:
Ambience - 4/5
Service - 4/5
Pricing - 4/5
Food - 5/5

p.s. Be prepared before you use their washroom, the floor is super wet, and the upkeep is totally worst. Other than that, it's a real nice restaurant you wouldn't want to miss!


Keywords: rendezvous steak garden, kampung pandan, cheesy fried chicken

Am I That Stress?

Writing this in the office again, currently not assigned, the seniors are all busy doing their stuff, even asking for jobs from them could burden them, no joke. Guess they had assigned whatever the interns could do and left those head cracking work done either we interns are not capable or experienced enough to do. Too guilty to watch movie or publicly surf websites so I'd decided to blog. At least I could look half busy typing on the keyboards, than to lay back and scroll my mouse, right right right? Shhhh~~~

I'm feeling so unhealthy lately. No I'm not diagnosed with any severe disease yet touch wood. Like one or one year plus ago, I've been having heartburn so often that I thought I could have suffering severe heart problems and collapse anytime wtf. Told my mum bout this and like always, she never failed to scare me.

She was like, "Did your hand feels numb frequently?" and so on, I was like, NO..... Then I decided to seek for the expert than to be frighten by my mum, LOL!

Consulted the panel clinic in my Uni, after some simple check up, doctor said it was not my heart that cause the pain, it was known as acid reflux where it burns the end of my esophagus that connect to the stomach and lead to the pain at the chest. So I asked him why every time I burped it got better, he said it's because of acidic gas in my stomach. I was like, sure or not? LOL....

Then he mentioned something that put me into silent for a while. Acidic gas in the stomach are often caused by stress and anger as well. Time where you feel tension, stressed out, nervous or mad about something, it could lead to excessive acid in the stomach. So I was advised to handle my emotion and not to over stress myself.

That was the first time, someone claimed that I was stressed out. 

Mummy asked for the result when I came home, I answer, "Stressed", and she was speechless. I was speechless as well.

Then reconsider again and again, I think what the doctor said actually make sense. Throughout the period of having frequent chest pain, I was preparing for my final exam and stress out like shit mainly because I couldn't focus on my studies. Feel so sick of studying my brain rejects whatever that I tried to put in. 

I wasn't really aware I'm stressed out until I visited the doctor seriously. 

Not long after, the skin problem started.

It started with my fingers, where the skin in that particular area got so dry that it harden and cracked. Cracked like a fresh cut on my finger and it bleed. My friends who noticed once asked how I cut my finger and I was like, it cracks, not a cut.

It was a minor one at first, just the same finger. But now, it got serious and I have it on my fingers (3 fingers), elbows, knees, and ankle, and scalp.

Honestly speaking, I was totally freaked out.

Had been visiting few clinics and all I got was just cream after cream to put on. It's been more than a year now and those cream given by the different doctor didn't help.

It cracks, 2 or 3 days later it heals. The next day, it got dry and harden. Few days later, it cracks again. It's totally driving me crazy. Imagine a fresh cut that could heal in just 2 to 3 days. I seriously got no idea wthell is wrong with my skin.

The bf had always scare me that I got skin disease.

So at last I went to see the specialist. Glad that uncle helped me to get an appointment at Selayang Hospital, save a lot of time and the hassle to pre-book. So I finally know what is wrong with my skin, it's known as Psoriasis. 

(Don't be freaked out by the picture in the link, mine is not that serious but just dry and cracked skins at the fingers and elbow.)

And guess what lead to this?

STRESS!!!!!!!!!

I was like, ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME????!!!!!

I don't feel myself being that stress seriously, totally clueless! 

Guess the doctor was trying to be as clear and simple as he could, he said my antibody is fighting against the good bacteria and hence lead to the skin disorder. Of course I asked why, he said he would be more that glad to know why as well, duh!!!

But it's confirmed that it's neither infection nor allergy. So it won't spread to people around me, thank god...

Then mummy asked what's the result again, and again, I answered "Stressed!". This time she remained silent again, bahaha!

Then I tried to Google, and what the doctor said is somehow true, about the antibody fighting the bacteria stuff. And it's true that the reason leading to this is not known.

Causes of Psoriasis (sources from Wikipedia)

The cause of psoriasis is not fully understood. There are two main hypotheses about the process that occurs in the development of the disease. The first considers psoriasis as primarily a disorder of excessive growth and reproduction of skin cells. The problem is simply seen as a fault of the epidermis and its keratinocytes. The second hypothesis sees the disease as being an immune-mediated disorder in which the excessive reproduction of skin cells is secondary to factors produced by the immune system. T cells (which normally help protect the body against infection) become active, migrate to the dermis and trigger the release of cytokines (tumor necrosis factor-alpha TNFα, in particular) which cause inflammation and the rapid production of skin cells. It is not known what initiates the activation of the T cells.

Nevertheless, the first outbreak is sometimes reported following stress (physical and mental), skin injury, and streptococcal infection. Conditions that have been reported as accompanying a worsening of the disease include infections, stress, and changes in season and climate. Certain medicines, including lithium salt, beta blockers and the antimalarial drug chloroquine have been reported to trigger or aggravate the disease. Excessive alcohol consumption, smoking and obesity may exacerbate psoriasis or make the management of the condition difficult or perhaps these comorbidities are effects rather than causes.[30][31] Hairspray, some face creams and hand lotions, can also cause an outbreak of psoriasis.[citation needed] In 1975, Stefania Jablonska and collaborators advanced a new theory that special antibodies tend to break through into the lower layers of the skin and set up a complex series of chemical reactions.[32]

Daddy made a joke on me that day, sis was saying something I couldn't recall, and daddy went, "Careful talking to her, later her chest got tight and stressed out." HAHA WTF!!!

Then one more thing, I found out I changed my sleeping position lately. I'm a freefaller now, like this....

The bf even asked why am I sleeping like this lately, there are a numbers of time he woke me up at night thought that I could have suffocate myself as I slept facing the pillow totally. Haha! I remember I once woke up looking at him and answered, "I can breath". Hahahahaha!

Then most of the night, I will sleep facing down like this, I don't why either, it was said to be the most uncomfortable among all the common positions.

Normally there are 6 common sleeping position like these:

I Googled and here's what your sleeping position says about you.

Freefaller

With the whole body outstretched flat on their stomach, arms at right angles, hands gripping the pillow as though holding on for dear life, physically the least comfortable position to sleep for most adults. 

Freefallers tend to feel like life happens around them and they are just hanging on for the ride, which can make them feel like they're not in control of what happens. Freefallers can wake up feeling like they still have things leftover from the previous day, which can make them feel over anxious about getting things done today.

They can be thin-skinned underneath their outgoing exteriors and dislike criticism or extreme situations. Sleeping on your stomach is good for digestion according to Idzikowski. People who regularly sleep prone are stubborn, persistent and goal-oriented. According to Patti Wood, M.A., a body language expert, if you've suddenly begun to sleep in this position, there might be something you're afraid of.

If you sleep face down all night, you are likely to be narrow-minded. You are probably self-centered and always force people to comply with your own needs. You are also likely to be reckless and desultory. 

Freefallers need to take control of each new day and deal with things one step at a time until you are happy to move to the next step. You will then be more motivated and inspired, creating opportunities for you be the boss of your own destiny.

I'm not quite sure what I'm afraid of yet.. Hmmm......

Guess I should go wild to de-stressed. Actually I'm not quite sure am I that stress, especially now I'm doing my interns, leaving the textbook for months should have lessen the stress.

I don't know.....

Keywords:

stress, psoriasis, cracked skin, dry skin, sleeping position, freefall, chest pain, acid reflux

Bee Won Korean B.B.Q Restaurant, KL Festival City

Woots~ another Korean food review!

This is my second Korean restaurant after Ko Hyang @ One Utama.

Bee Won Korean B.B.Q Restaurant

It's located in KL Festival City Mall, Setapak. Setapak had changed a lot in recent years, especially in Danau Kota. During my A Level 5 yeas back, the condo I used to stay was the most new condo in that area. The surrounding area are either bushes or covered up area for construction that have yet started. No malls, no shop lots, basically nothing except for an Indian temple and a Malay school nearby.

The bf and I used to ride motocycle to settle our meal, LOL, mostly Genting Klang area or Wangsa Maju. Then after my graduation from Tarc, my younger sis went there for her Diploma. After only one year apart, row by row of new shop lots were built, 3 new condos right behind my previous condo, and a freaking mall next to it!!! 

I was like...................

Why so unfair one??!!

Now this area is like damn convenient, every necessity you need are basically all here. Food for sure no problem, Chinese, Indian, Malay, even Middle East, semua ada (all available)... With a mall nearly all you need from groceries to everyday's shopping are all there. There's even a hospital next to the condo, yes, no joke! Freaking convenient.

Off topic already sorry, bahaha...

Yah back to the Korean restaurant, Bee Won. The decoration of the restaurant is just normal I would say, and the restaurant itself is quite small after all, hence the seats are mostly fully occupied, which mean during peak hours you either choose to queue, or leave. LOL...

Their tables are all equipped with this BBQ stove (I don't know the exact name sorry) should you order Korean BBQ. They have beef and chicken, pork not sure. I didn't order any meats cause I went there for breakfast. Korean BBQ for breakfast is like a bit too heavy, no?

Chicken Jung Sik @ RM15.00 

(Set with rice & side dishes)

The taste are quite good actually, like our curry chicken, but the taste are more light as compared to ours. The portion is huge, wouldn't say it's huge enough for 2, unless both of you have real small appetite, but it's huge enough to full you up, very very full that kind, yah. I was starving when I entered the restaurant, then I left with bloated tummy, LOL.

Side dishes, a must have for all Korean restaurant! They served only 4 side dishes including kimchi. Glad that all of them are nice. The middle one was actually potato and fruits salad, look a bit disgusting and I was hesitating whether to try or not at first, duh! But it turned out to be quite good, I didn't refill any of the side dishes, the chicken and rice had really bloated me up.

Ordinary kimchi, nothing special.

Pork Rice Set @ RM20.00

(not exact name as in menu) 

Sorry I couldn't recall the name of this dishes. The set is more or less the same as mine, just that it has another dish in it which is the fried fish. So in other meaning, the fish cost RM5.00, LOL...

The pork are stir fried and taste somewhat like curry to me as well... @____@

But then I think my Chicken Jung Sik had stronger taste and thicker gravy, and I personally like food with heavier taste. So I would go for the Chicken Jung Sik over this.

The RM5.00 fish, duh!! Other than that, the side dishes and the soup are just the same as mine.

Hmmm I actually went there for the second time after that, with my family. Treated them for a dinner, mummy love it a lot, and daddy took a few bite and gave up the whole plate. zZzZ

He ordered Octopus Fried Rice, and he said he was disgusted to finish it. I did't try so I can't judge. But I guess it wouldn't be that bad, it's just him disliking sticky rice and the kimchi stuff. =____=

Ah another thing, the service there is real suck. I think I would not go back there in short period. The workers there never greet you, ok la fine, I never expect the workers to welcome me like those expensive dine in place. There's this stupid male worker that would give you the 24 hours dark face, especially when you enter the restaurant after 9pm. Why? Because you gonna delay his off time that's why.

My first time there, it was only 9 something at night, surely before 9.30pm, and since their operating hour is till 10pm, I suppose there shouldn't be a problem to serve another customer right. And he looked at me with his super dark face and din't even bother to talk to me but just wave his hand meaning they are no more serving.

I was like, WTF, what shit attitude is that.

The time I brought my family there, the seats are all taken, and they never bother to approach you to serve you. I wouldn't mind if they ask me to wait, at least I know they are noticed of my presence right. But none of them approach us, they just ignore you, literally ignore you, not even eye contact!!!

Dad nearly left, luckily the owner came to me and said there was a seat inside. Wait, not that lucky after all. I should have left and find another option that suit dad's appetite. =___=

Ok before I end my post, a pic to remind you of my face, LOL!!!!!

Bye~!

Bee Won Korean B.B.Q Restaurant
KL Festival Mall, Setapak

Rating:
Ambience - 3/5
Service - 1/5
Pricing - 3/5
Food - 3/5


Extra tips: Their Bibimbap sucks as well, order at your own risk, LOL.

TTC Liquor Gathering @ The Beer Factory

*BIG YAWN*

I'm actually working in my office while writing this. Don't get me wrong, I'm just taking a short break after finishing all the tasks given to me okay.

Interns life are too "happening", haha, lots of works to do OMG, I would spent my weekend "nuah-ing" (lazying) at home and gosh my bed and my room feel like 10 times more comfy than normal, LOL...

Another side of having a good rest at home during the weekend literally means I'm actually losing my social life wtf. Since I first started my internship, I have not met any of my friends, not even a simple outing for a meal or what.

Mana boleh tahan (how to tolerate) right?

So I planned a liquor outing with my bunch of Table Tennis Club friends, LOL... Don't feel weird, I CANNOT play table tennis, duh, beginner level okay la. I joined because the bf joined and there's this senior which happen to be my secondary school classmate, so to cut short, I joined to get a position as a committee. BAHAHAHA... and I got a position as Assistant Treasurer. I did put efforts and did my part well lah of course, not for the sake of getting the position only.

 

There we go, our first liquor outing at The Beer Factory @ Sunway Giza. Not that kind of expensive liquor party like clubbing don't get me wrong. The thought of clubbing have not come to me, not until I earn my own income. So normal beer will do.

 

 



It's like bringing kids for alcohol, bahaha... 10 of us went that night and only half drink. Tiger was having a road show that night, so it was quite happening with the huge screen playing BPL live and emcee rocking the scene.

Planned to have a sit inside with rocking music but had to give up or else the 10 of us gonna shout like mad talking to each other. Would be great if there's only 3 or 4 of us, I mean for a sit inside.



Mad love this pic, though the bf looks like half drunken wtf. I mean he's not but I wonder why all his pic that night turned out like he was freaking drunk FHL.

Two kiddos that hardly take a sip. Add water somemore to dilute the alcohol I nearly faint OMG, just beer lah where got so easy to get drunk, duh....

The gays. Guess who's playing the gals role? BAHAHA!

The bf acting really weird that night, at some point I really wonder if he really get drunk or what. All these while he had never suggest or act to approach random girls for picture, and that night he was like hyper active keep asking the rest of the guy to join him for photo session with the pretty girls there.

I was like............ for real?

Not because I'm jealous lah please, just that I never seem him acting like this, seriously, never. And the pretty girl happen to be my A Level's classmate Chew Win aka Vivian, bahaha, I can't stop laughing OMG...

When I told the bf his response was like "OMG it's her? I cannot recognize, help me invite her for a pic lah!". Honestly speaking, I was kinda embarrassed wtf. =___=

And then still not satisfide and looked for another one.... =____=

Group photo before left, or should I say before changing venue for another chit chat, haha!

Cannot rememeber who requested for this, definitely not me, it's like secondary school pic hahaha OMG so paiseh we did it in the centre of the Giza mall wtf!

And girly pic with the kiddos, haha, I'm just 2 years older lahhhhh don't get me wrong.

 

Last pic, the gays both in checker top wthell.

 

Ok got to back to work. More updates soon, see ya!

 

 

Keywords: sunway giza, the beer factory, tiger, premier league



Ko Hyang Korean Country Delights, One Utama

Pfftt my blog is dying..... again.

 

Was too busy with my work, internship to be precised, sigh~ I'm currently an intern in an audit firm, for a period of 6 months. Well, I wouldn't say the experience is bad, I'm actually quite enjoy it at certain point, especially some of the nice colleagues that could really made my every day, LOL...

 

But the workload, gosh...... I cannot imagine how insane would it be if I were to be a permanent audit staff. That kind of workload with that kind of pressure, well, only auditor knows. LOL!

 

Ok cut the craps. Here's some food review for Korean delights at Ko Hyang, One Utama Shopping Mall.

 

Spotted this Korean restaurant for quite some time already, but never bother to try cause all these while I'd been a loyal fans of Japanese food though I'm all crazy over Kpop, LOL.... Then I decided to give a try.



 

 

Their menu was kinda disappointing. I flipped through like 2 or 3 pages and then...... no more. Food choices are very limited I would say, and definitely leaving a bad impression for first timer like me.

Something good bout Korean food is their unlimited side dishes. So these are the side dishes I got, I don't really like it honestly speaking, din't even bother to refill, duh. Sorry for the blur pic, was not in mood to capture nice pic cause I was starving, LOL....

Dol Sot Bibimbap @ RM17.90

This is not my first time trying Bibimbap though this is my first Korean restaurant, my first try on Bibimbap was in a Japanese restaurant, weird right? I would rate Bibimbap in Ko Hyang 6/10 because I think the sauce taste didn't up to my expectation. I like the one in Japanese restaurant more, how ironic? =___=

The Bibimbap sauce, looks like chili sauce to me. zZz

And this is how it looks like after mixing all the ingredients including the sauce. Wouldn't say it is totally awful lah, normal I would say, nothing special.

BBQ Chicken (with rice) @ RM17.90

The bf ordered their BBQ chicken after struggling so hard to decide. Not because of too many choices, but too little choices and he felt like nothing suit his appetite, duh! The taste, normal also, my mum could cook that, I think I could too seriously. In fact I did cook something similar all these while.

So after all those were what I tried that day, I don't think I will go back to try the other dishes lah, since there are not much choices after all. Well, visit once and try it yourself, or if you did tried it before, let me know if I missed anything worth trying.

Rating:
Ambience - 2/5
Service - 3/5
Pricing - 3/5
Food - 3/5


Will I revisit? Hmmmm..... NO.



Keywords: korean food, ko hyang, bibimbap, one u, one utama