Chao Yen @ One Utama

Chao Yen is a restaurant which serves authentic "潮州菜"...

"潮州菜" = Teo Chew Cuisine = Chiu Chow Cuisine = Chao Zhou Cuisine

There are many famous dishes for Teo Chew Cuisine, like

~Teo Chew style steamed fish
~ Braised duck or goose
~ Cold Crab
~ Teo Chew style congee (Teo Chew Mue)
~Yam dessert with Gingko Nuts (Ou Ni)

Picture of PenChai (TeoChew Potluck) from their menu
Price: rm188 for small
rm348 for large

Since we'd never tried out TeoChew Potluck before, we gave it a try!!!
The captain suggested us to order the small ones, as it's more than enough for five ladies...

At the back of each chairs, there's a word, "潮"

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They took quite some time to cook ours

*****Taa ~ Daa*****

Finally...

It looked totally different from the menu, isn't it???
Nothing to shout about this potluck...

As you can see from the picture, there are 6 prawns with lots PakChoi (a variety of Chinese Cabbage)
That's the top layer obviously...
The bottom layer is rice noodle, in between these two layers, they serves mushroom, duck meat, meatball, pig's internal parts etc

Five different sauces provided for dipping

For dessert, it is Mashed Yam with Gingko Nuts (Ou Ni)
Rm6 per bowl
No doubt it's great!!!


Restaurant Chao Yen is located at
Lot LG 311A, Lower Ground Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Center.

Takoyaki @ One Utama (New Wing)

This Takoyaki shop is located at One Utama , New Wing (Lower Ground) , opposite Cold Storage.

This is the first time we tried this shop , overall it's good and didn't let us down :)

For Takoyaki itself , they have different flavours such as : Baby Octopus (RM4.00), Prawn (4.00) , Sausage and Cheese (RM4.00) , Tako (RM4.50) and Unagi(RM4.50).I'd ask the staff there what's the difference between Baby Octopus and Tako, she said that Tako is the original flavour and Baby Octopus is with some seasoning.

And there's also Okonomiyaki, something similar to Takoyaki but it's in the Pizza shape( RM8.00). There are different flavours too, that are Baby Octopus , Prawn , Sausage and Cheese , Unagi and Seafood. All of them are RM8.00. Seafood Okonomiyaki is the combination of Baby Octopus , Prawn , Sausage and Cheese and Unagi! So it's quite value for money.

If you want to have some drink , there's a variety of taiwan bubble tea also (as shown above). We didn't try out anyone of that but if you guys had try it , do tell me how's it :)



Takoyaki

Above is our Seafood Okonomiyaki
Price : 4/5 Value for money!
Environment : 3/5
Service : 3/5
Food quality : 4.5/5

by : -xy-
Eat to live * Live to eat

Dave's Pasta Pizza Vino @ One Utama

We always wanted to try some italian cuisine , so we try this bistro since the reviews on the internet is not too bad.

Service

The service is absolutely great! I'm just wandering where to get the spoons and i am just throwing my view around , the staff react prompt and ask me what i need. They just can't do enough for us. After our meal we plan to chit chat a bit before we continue our shopping tour, and they had actually gave us sky juice per person and with the request whether we want hot or cold. They also gave us small plates so that we can share the dishes among ourselves. How clever the waiter is =)

Hygiene

What i saw is not too bad, waiters dress presentably and with an apron kind of thing if i'm not mistaken. Plates and cutleries are all clean and tidily placed.

Environment

Overall it is not too bad, with nice lamp, table , chairs and all that which matched the restaurant very well. The light is a bit dull but it actually doesn't bother us too much.

Food Quality

It's like "WOW" when we ate the stuffed mushroom kind of thing ( haha will revise it if i go there again, sorry for this so-not-professional-food-blogger.aha ). It is just delicious and generous. And ya , generous in terms of the ingredients they put in =) I just love that! Also, we are having half price for the pasta if i'm not mistaken. Afraid that it will be a BIG portion , we actually ordered only two plates of pasta, that is the seafood and the cabonara thingy (oops sorry i admit that i really had a BAD memory, getting older huh) And for small-eater, yes please DO NOT order 1 whole plate for yourself, because i don't think u can finish it. In order to taste more dishes, the little tip is, do share with your friends =)

Price

A bit pricey for budget diner, but i think it's worth the price! Hip Hip Hooray! And don't forget there is a half price for the Pasta!

Overall I'm quite satisfied with this outlet, and the only complaint is : "If only I have bigger stomach!" And i will definitely returning there again, if you ask me. Last but not least, I want to recommend this to you guys ^^

-eat to live*live to eat-

-by xy

Below are some pictures of the surroundings and food :

Apple crumble as our dessert
Their crust was going perfectly with their crumbles
It would be much better if this comes in a smaller portion

Plus one shabu shabu @ One Utama

I've not craved for steamboat all these while but this restaurant drew my attention.Plus one Shabu-shabu serves variety of soup based, now you not only can choose from plain or tomyan based. Pork, Chinese Herb, Tew Chew, Miso, Pepper pork, Scezhuen, White fungus with papaya, Fish broth and etc. It's complimentary with sets, otherwise they charged rm6/8 each. We can choose our own preferred broth, which means everyone of us can have different choices of soup based as personal pots are provided!!!

Adjust the power yourself

Mixed set

Mixed mushroom

Their mutton was awesome... Nicely cut

Get your sauces here...
Self-service

It's slightly priced for ala-carte, but for sets lunch it's quite worth it! You should have a try if you haven't. The best broth i've tried for shabu-shabu as yet!

This non-halal restaurant is located at Lot F337-338, 1st floor, One Utama Shopping Centre.