Review: Tseng's Kitchen @ The Weld

**Can't remember if The Weld outlet is pork free or not but the one in Solaris is definitely not halal**


Our intention was to have McD at The Weld but there isn't any tables available so we hop to this newly opened Tseng's Kitchen 2 doors away, next to Mark's Assam Laksa. We checked and it seems they sells mainly chicken rice and what more when a big signage at the entrance declaring that they're MSG-free.

The restaurant has a huge space but it's sparsely furnished. Could have more tables in there actually. Since the ceiling is particularly low, it's really noisy in there, not very pleasant when the restaurant is packed.

There are roasted and poached chickens available and convenient sets were available too for one pax and multi-paxs. Set A which costed RM9.80 came with a bowl of soup that contained 2 fish balls, a HUGE bowl of "oil" rice, a plate of chicken (your choice of roasted or poach) and a glass of drink (Chinese tea, soya bean drink and errr I can't remember what else :p sorry). You may ask "chicken rice for RM9.80???" Yes, kinda pricey huh but this is Kuala Lumpur town centre :(



The portion of rice is really HUGE. It's a large bowl of fragrant rice and I have to say the rice is very nice and contained pieces of garlic, shallots and ginger. I would love to finish up the rice but it's just too much and detrimental to my stomach if I do so!

The chicken and fish balls are just mediocre. Nothing to shout about and it's not helping when the chilli sauce and ginger condiments are pretty watered down. What is worse, we felt thirsty the entire afternoon... MSG-free??? Am afraid not!


Tseng's Kitchen
LG-09 Lower Ground Floor
The Weld
76, Jalan Raja Chulan,
50200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603 2171 1328


Tseng's Chicken Rice
3A, Jln Solaris 4
Solaris Mont'Kiara
Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603 - 6204 0328

Review: Hidden Porky Goodness at Kamimura Japanese Restaurant

**Non-Halal**




Drooling already???

These porky goodness of Pork Cutlet and Pork Belly Cutlet can be found at Kamimura Japanese Restaurant at The Weld. Well, we have been patronising this place for the longest ever but somehow never got round to blog about it. Perhaps in their earlier days, we thought they were a tad expensive hence the tag Kami"Tak"Murah LOL but of course there was a story behind it :p There are the usual Japanese dishes and prices here are not really that murah (cheap) but bearable once in a while.

Over the years my colleagues and I discovered these breadcrumb bejeweled cutlets that are crispy on the outside but tender and juicy on the inside - are utmost porkelicious! Definitely a must for babitarians!!! Miss Sweet 16, a member of Porketeers, discovered it only recently and she's totally hooked by it.



You can either picked pork or pork belly cutlet but I would advice to pay a few ringgit more and pick the Mix Katsu set lunch at RM26.00 to enjoy both at the same time.

Charge on, Babitarians!!!

Kamimura Japanese Restaurant

Lot 12-14, 2nd Floor

Menara The Weld

76 Jalan Raja Chulan

Kuala Lumpur

Tel: (603) 2166 8928

p/s: If you're going for lunch on a weekday, please remember to place a reservation or else you'll be deeply disappointed like we did once! Be warned!!!

Hot Date with Paprika

UPDATED 8 June 2007
Amendments in red below! Thanks to Paprika's update!!!

As mentioned yesterday, I had a lunch date with the hot hot Paprika after learning that she practically breathing in the same air as I do everyday. After seeing her face now, it does ring a bell that I did said hi to her at Sandias albeit it was a short hi and bye thingy. Come to think about it, I've even noticed her face in a few of the yoga classes that I've attended, strangely somehow... we never seems to be able to recognise each other.

Setting aside all these, I got excited when she told me she had gotten a Kitchen Aid mixer. I had one too and guess what??? We both are having the same colour - yellow!!!! Well, except mine is an older and no longer in production model. Talk about coincidence...

Basically Paprika had summed up about the food we had at Aryan. The Palak Paneer (RM14.90) was good but I had tasted better ones elsewhere. The Mushroom Chilly is way way too salty but thank goodness the manager offered to recook. Somehow it took them super long to recook the dish, they ended up packing up for us. To add on to this good customer service (in my book lah), he did not charge us for the mushroom. Just saw Paprika's comment, wahliau, this is totally unethical and unacceptable! We were given the impression that they will recook the mushroom dish and pack them for us BUT they did not do so! And I was wondering why they needed so long to recook them. BOYCOTT!!!!

Paprika indicated it was pretty pricey for this vege meal without the mushroom dish in the bill, so I had a look at the receipt which was with me. Arrrghhhhh... they actually charged RM11.90 for the dhal!!!! All these while I thot it was complimentary, no? Strangely I remember it was complimentary when we ordered the set meal... sighhh whatever happened? Maybe to compensate for the mushrooms??? Next time I wanna go with bigshot Lanatir to get some more freebies ie. garlic chutney and masala tea! Bila Boss???



Here's her account of our date.

I've written earlier about the hot off the oven cupcake that she gave me... but did I mentioned about the Heavenly smell??? I did that a few times as in opening the zip and rezip just to have a sniff of the chocolatey smell *blushing and stick out tongue*

The first bite was was uttery delicious... it's so fudgey, sticky with choc bits inside!!! The chocolate taste is absolutely fabulous. I can't believe it's eggless too! Paprika, did you use Valrhona??? I must go get the 500 cupcakes cookbook ASAP!!!



Very happy now that I've found another lunch partner and someone I knew in the yoga centre. I'm actually a really terrible person, never mingle around in gym/yoga class. Forever just go workout all by myself and then off I went *shame shame*...

Jackson, wanna do lunch one day??? So don't complain nobody to have lunch with in this area hehehe...

(opps did a booboo at the photo labelling, should have been taken with my W800i instead)

Review: Aryan - Fine Indian Cuisine

Mr Chairman called me out for lunch last week and I told him to meet me at The Weld. After pondering over the makan places, I told Mr Chairman that our makan connoisseur, Lanatir, highly recommended the fine Indian cuisine place called Aryan. Opened since last August or was it September, my Indian colleagues have been raving to me about how delicious the Indian food were at Aryan but somehow, I never got round trying it out. Since Mr Chairman is a fellow foodie, we gamely checked Aryan out. Upon entering, we could see a buffet spread lined out for those who wished to have a scrumptious lunch at only RM25++ (5% Government Tax and 10% Service Charge) per person. The decor is very clean cut and pleasant. You can opt to sit out at the balcony, alfresco style.

We checked out the Lunch Menu which consist of the buffet and a few set meal options ranging from biryani to tandoori with naan. After placing our order, a basket of papadoms and 3 different types of chutneys were served. Service was extremely attentive I would say. Back to the chutneys, the white one is yoghurt based and the green is basically a mint chutney that we both liked. Coming to the red one, Lanatir have yet to stop raving about it. He lectured explained to me that it's a garlic and ginger chutney but all I tasted was kinda sourish like mango chutney but I could be wrong. Need another trip to verify.



Mr Chairman and I decided to share the Mutton Briyani (RM16.00++) and Tandoori Chicken with Butter Naan (RM16++) sets. The briyani came first and the server scooped some rice on our plates. On closer observation, the mutton pieces were actually hidden underneath the colourful and fragrant basmathi rice. The rice is simple delicious on its own, very fluffy and tasty with wonderful fragrant of ghee and spices. Lovely! It was a wise choice of Mr Chairman picking the mutton rather than chicken. The meat was extremely tender under the long cooking hours. The spices mended well into the meat. Two thumbs or rather 4 thumbs up from both of us.





Next came the tandoori chicken with butter naan and dhal. I was delighted to see Aryan's tandoori chicken is not super red in colour could be a real turn off for me. I have to say this chicken is one of the better tandoori meat I've eaten for quite some time. The chicken meat portion is huge. Best of all its tender and juicy unlike most places where they baked the chicken till its like tree bark! Too bad we waited too long before we attacked the naan which have turned cold. It's no longer fluffy. I'm a big fan of dhal and Aryan's dhal passed with flying colours haha... I liked mine thick and with loads of lentils and vegetables like carrots and radish.

Overall, this is an excellent place for Indian fine dining without paying thru your nose. Do try the buffet, it's really value for money. Mr Chairman and I are very satisfied with the food quality and the service rendered. The restaurant is not overly crowded but sometimes during dinner time, you'll get bus loads of Indian tourists dining at Aryan. We will definitely return for more especially those ala carte dishes and the masala tea that Lanatir claimed was superb. And oh yes, thank you very much to Mr Chairman for spending me such a lovely and scrumptious lunch.

By the way, if you happened to catch last Sunday's 8TV Ho Chak, the delicious nyonya laksa and mee siam shown were prepared by Lanatir's mummy. The eatery is known as Donald and Lily's (behind 31, Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock formerly known as Heeren Street . Tel: 606-284 8907. Coordinates: 2°11'39"N 102°14'48"E). It was even mentioned by Matt Gross in The New York Times. I hope one day, I'll get to try all the yummilicious dishes here!


Aryan Restaurant
Lot L1-10-11, Level 1
The Weld Shopping Complex
No 76 Jalan Raja Chulan
50200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 603-2031 4211

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Review: Uncle Duck @ Chow Food Gallery, The Weld

Updated 3 November 2011

This place has since closed.

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I'm doing this upon the request by my friend, Keriso. He asked me if I've tried this roast duck stall in The Weld's new foodcourt. He and I came across the newspaper review sometime back on this chef known as Uncle Duck from Hong Kong who specialises in roasting delicious duck. I think I've only been to this place twice at the time of asking but by now, I've gone for my fourth visit. Haha actually this place is pretty near to my work place but seriously the food stalls in this pomp food court are nothing to shout about and worst of all, they charges quite high for food court kinda food and certain stall dishes out very small portion. I guess we have to pay for the specially made dinnerware (see last picture) and the renovation cost, no?

Anyway, we have wanted to go to some other place to eat but that place was closed, hence we head to Chow food court instead. So here we are... my review, specially for Keriso. Keriso, this will cost you RM7.50 okay!!!

Yeah that was how much this set of Roasted Duck Rice costed me, the breast meat set costed RM7.50 and other parts of the duck will set you aback at RM6.50. It came with a small bowl of white rice, thinly sliced roasted duck meat, a bowl of clear broth and a plate of greens which was yien choy (spinach) this round.



The duck meat is tender but the skin is not at all crispy. Tastewise, not really great. Very far cry from Soon Fatt Beijing Roasted Duck. I had to doused the meat and rice with the sauce for some flavour. The chili sauce also no kick at all, tasted artificial. The rice portion was just nice for me but I think for the guys, they will definitely need to tambah nasi (add extra bowl of rice). However, I got hungry at 5pm which is a very rare case! Look at the empty spaces on the plate hahaha... The vegetable given is fibrous and tasted bland. Some oyster sauce with onion oil would be great on it. The only praise I could sing is their broth hahahaha very flavourful, I supposed came from boiling the duck bones.



My verdict: Keriso, I want my money back!!!!

Uncle Duck stall have rice porridge, fried rice and noodles as well. I saw some people queued for their fried rice, hmmm maybe that might be nicer. Other than Uncle Duck this food court have stalls selling Thai food which is one of the better one around, Portuguese Grill seafood, chicken rice and so forth. Pity the dim sum stall had closed down by now and they only started operation on 22nd August 2006. How sad... Hopefully the management can do something about it, if the price is high, just have to make sure the taste is good and the portion given is well worth the price. Are you hearing, The Management?


CHOW FOOD GALLERY,
Lot L4-B, Level 4, The Weld,
76 Jalan Raja Chulan, KL
Tel: 03-2031 5505/06.
A chic gallery housing Chawan (serves local coffees), Uncle Duck, Thai Corner, Kokopelli Deli, Portuguese Grill, Sizzles, Shasha Station, Chicken Rice, Kokopelli Rock and Honey Noodle House. Wi-fi enabled.

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