Wonderful dinner with my parents inlaw :)

Last saturday, took my parents inlaw for a bit of an outing to the only restaurant that i know of which is at the district called Bouin, not too far away from Beauvoir indeed. The name of the restaurant is L'Ecume Gourmande its at 15, rue du Pays de Monts. its a very traditional restaurant and its speciality is of course..poisson (fish). The deco in the restaurant is a simple one too just yellow and white nothing special, but the food was special and so are my wonderful company that night. This is my second tim eating at this resturant as the first time was last year during papa's 80th birthday celebration at this restaurant. Contrary This is my first time going out on dinner with my parents inlaw, not just because knowing i speak very bad in french and also the fact that hubby is not around to help me translate or things like that. But somehow we did fine and we enjoyed our dinner very much and with plenty much curious eyes on our table coz in this part of france you dont see much of asians at all so its like an adjustment to their eyes or something...hehehe

maman was wearing her fvourite colour red that evening and papa as usual wearing his smile all the time :) btw, papa help take the picture of me and maman, not too bad at all :0)

And....here is our food selection a set dinner :)
All in all it was agreat dinner and we enjoyed the night immensely.


à bientôt!
Clarity!

Food for thought :)

I have been writing much about my travellings that i hardly write anything about cooking or food. So this time am going to do one post one what i ate for the past few days and how i made this simple easy to do dishes in less then 30 mins ;)



I think everyone knows Maggie mee and i know rich or poor just about anywhere people still prefer maggie mee to any brands. As for me i like the Maggie Kari version and for normal original recipe i go for Maggie Cintan and as for Mee Goreng i would go for Indomee. I dont know about you guys but my hey-day during college years in U-ITM was built on maggie mee sessions at night where we cant have anything more then maggie mee for some extra food besides what was given at the canteen. At that time its just as simple as Maggie mee and telur and pour hot water into a container and wait 7 minutes and you ahve urself a intant noodle treat. It was teh greatest pleasure then hehehe...Anyhow, those days are gone but doesnt mean i dont have my maggie mee thingy anymore...in fact i do have them but improvised to be more healtier and added with some other wholsesome goodness for an extra flavour.

I usually add some cabbages and chicken sausages thrown in then some prawns/chicken and an egg and voilà you have yourself a healthy simple food, good to go :)

My 2nd food is something that i picked up during when i was in Vietnam recently, i had this Conggee Rice porridge one morning and then i was hooked on it and ate it everyday for breakfast during my stay there. The conggee rice poridge actually comes with some salted fried peanuts and Century eggs which means preserved eggs probably a century old hahah kidding! but heck the eggs were black in colour looked kinda scarry BUT taste really good just like salted egg. But this one no smell at all. Anyhow, with what i have i improvised a little and used normal hard boiled eggs and add in anchovies and mushrooms in it just to get more flavours. The onions, mushrooms and anchovies are sauteed for a couple of minutes and then arranged on the top of the porridge and springkled with some onions springs to go with it. I find it a very filling but light food for dinner or breakfast whichever suits you best. for me i had it for dinner as i wanted to have a light dinner for my diet and so this is the just the right choice for it :)



Finally, my third and final food to talk about is this nasi lemak ala clarity! hehehe i was chating with my aunt before i decided to attempt this dish because she said have you ever tried making a nasi lemak before i said hmnnn..maybe but cant remember and i told her was going to try and do one differently coz i wanted to cut down on the calories as much as possible so i decided to just use normal white steamed rice, then as for the sambal, i used tomato paste and some diced tomatoes and + tomato sauce to make it look like its spicy which is not hehehe :) then thrown in the sauteed anchovies + unsalted tuna and you have yourself a sambal. well sambal look a like anyways as i dont like my sambal to be hot or too spicy so this is how i did it and then arranged my halved hard boilled eggs on top of my salad and pour in the sambal on top of the eggs and get ur steamy white rice on the dish and a Voilà you have urself a nasi lemak ala Clarity style :)

hope you guys enjoyed my simple food treat!
la di da di da..
Clarity!

Last Weekend wind up!

Basically we had a DIY weekend starting from the friday we already set our target to get our two bathroom some tidy up with some IKEA bathroom cabinets. and so we got one tall one for the guest bathroom and 2 tiny cabinets for our own bathroom.

The saturday started of with me making the tall cabinet on my own and finally it was finished off by mon coeur heheh :))

hard at work with the new IKEA cabinets

This my part, where i use magic hems to put this cabinet curtains together total time spent on this project ermn...maybe 30mins for three cabinet curtains. The magic hem is a must need tool for anyone who doesnt like to sew or just dont know how to do it; so the solution is magic hem all you need is an iron board and iron away :)
I used hooked screws for my curtain wires and it works perfectly.

voila! finished project!

I made some vege & tuna lasagne for lunch as i didnt have much time to prepare anything fancy so made this easy dish from eggplats and some cheese and lots of vegetables. it was delish!

Then we went to TESCO since we never tried groceries shopping there so today we tried two things new groceries place which is TESCO and new pasar malam which was at TTDI aka Pasar Malam Taman Tun since its close by to one another so we went to try it out and the verdict is......

i still prefer BV = Bangsar Village and also the Bangsar Pasar Malam, So mon coeur , no go....as i still prefer to go to bangsar to do all our groceries shopping heheh :)

To end our tiring day we had a wonderful dinner at Dave,s Kafe at 1Utama althought the food was good the wine was oklah and the apple crumble made mon coeur grumble and told the waitress next time use fresh raisins as the raisins felt like they have been kept in a cave and only now been used he said ha!ha!ha! i laughed at his remarks! anyhow the food was ok so that was fine by me ;)anyhow thats our weekend summary for the week see you guys next time ;)


over and ou!
C & R

A Meeting with the Chief!

The chief have landed and we have arrange for a short dinner meet @ The ship!

The Shio Signature Plate :)

The Chief's food = Mini Steak

little chief's food = Bked fish in creamy white mushroom sauce :)

Here is the judge's food :) Ginger Beef hainanese style :p

Here is the judge :)

here are the two bandits known as big chief and little chief! Hahahaha

Our pleasure and entertainment for the night :)


all in all it was a good visit from the big chief at my nook of the world and made me miss home even more but its ok, i will be going back to KK very soon and that very soon is actually today hehehehe! oh by the way, this is actually a later post as chief came for a visit on the 20th June so this post is actually 6 days old :o)

oklah catch you guys later!
Clarity!

Dinning out @ Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., The curve

I was browsing thru the Malaysian Blogger list the other day and suddenly came acros to one Jackson Kah. He was making a review of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. @ The Curve. So i decided that i will rate the place ourselves so off we go to The Curve and had our Dinner date @ Bubba's.

The Entrance to "The Curve"

Here's Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. :)

Random pictures of us both taken by the ever so friendly waiter and he is from the philipines and it was good fun as they will entertain you with some trivia questions about the the movie "Forest Gump" and he will also sing for you upon request and so it was a jolly good time waiting. We are also served with some cookies which is also nice :)

a few other random shots of us also taken by the waiter;

here are some of the shots taken at the restaurants with the pictures or memorabilia of the movie " Forest Gump" and i especially like the one that says...

IF
MOM
AIN'T HAPPY,
AIN'T NOBODY
HAPPY!

Our food, homemade fries, fish in shrimp sauce and baked salmon in the skillet with asparagus :)

It was a wonderful experience to dine here with good entertaining waiters and food was not too bad either :) It'll be good fun to bring kids to dine in this restaurant as they have plenty of things to feast their eyes on.

chill out guys!
C & R

L' Opera

We had our weekly dinning out at L'Opera, @ Bukit Bintang Walk and it was a good place to eat the wine was alright and the food was yummiest although my pasta the portion was huge and mon coeur had to help me finish them hehehe as usual :) and our waiter was really nice he was quite attentive and very much polite so a plus to the Waiter @ L' Opera!

The Restaurant, i took this pic from the outside where we had our dinner over at the open air area where you can see lots of people passing by at the famous Bintang Walk

L'Opera Napkins :)

Here is their signature plate :)

satisfied patrons :)

Our wine for the evening, Italian Red wine

closer look @ the wine :)

This what mon coeur had i think its Baked fish in white sauce and white wine

And...this is my huge plate of Pasta and ravioli :)

The happy and satisfied patrons again @ L' Opera :)

We would definately dine again @ L' Opera and would definately recommend others to go and check the place out :)


:)
C & R

A taste of spicy Vietnam :)

Last friday Mon Coeur wanted to treat me to a French Restaurant but unfortunately its closed and yet again. I'm thinking that they may have "gulung-tikar" But anyways, it was a bit late around 9.30pm already and most restaurants in Bangsar is starting to close. So we went by the Moroccan Restaurant that we had dinner at about 2 months back and was a fantastic spread of moroccan food indeed. Then Mon Couer said lets have some asian food so we did and went to the vietnam food restaurant called "CHUNGDIHN VIETNAM RESTAURANT" at One Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur.

Was a cozy restaurant but something about the waiter that i really really dont like :( its bad enough that we cant hardly understand what he was trying to say for his english is gosh just simply really hard to understand. Then came the food....well told him i want all my food to not have chillie and the moment i put one in my mouth it was really super dupper hot! enough said i didnt enjoy my food much afterwards coz my tongue was massacred by the hot chillie present in my food saddddd :(


If i could taste better im sure the food would have tasted lovely and i mush say the chillian red wine was alright too. One plus for that restURnt at least.

so here are the pics of the food.....mind you the quality of these pictures are just as bad becaus i only brought my cellphone camera so WARNING! bad quality pictures are next................. :)

The setting and the cozy place

Seafood and Chicken Spring Roll = very spicy the dipping sauce was :(

Not too bad this chillian wine cost a bomb though = RM130.00

Grilled Lemon Grass Beef = RM21.90

SauteedDiced Beef = RM33.90

So all in all in a not so ok kinda meal the only good thing is the wine was nice thats all i can say!

lost in spices!
Clarity!