January Babies

Happy Birthday to all January babies out there. Lee Ann - Jan 21, Julie - Jan 23 and Kelvin - Jan 24. It was Kel's birthday today, the office had a double celebration; his birthday and our annual Chinese New Year lunch. We ate at Bonny Kitchen (no typo, its just bad english), proprietor is Bonny, apparently she's from Hong Kong. The restaurant is located at the Lanai Kiara condo in Mont' Kiara. The food served is excellent, very authentic chinese cuisine and pricing is very reasonable.

Today we had the yin-yong chicken, one version with crispy skin and the other steamed. It is gorgeous, extremely tasty. The abalone mushroom dish was also fabulous, looked like the real thing without the actual taste unfortunately. Fish was very fresh but a little pricey. We had the customary yee sang to kick off the lunch, the one here is quite good, comes with salmon fish, it was fresh. Sen was telling me how much Dom loves yee sang, would eat it everyday if he could.

Last night for Julie's we went to Nine at OneBangsar. I was at Nine last Sept for my birthday dinner, food seemed much better then. 2-course costs RM79 and 3-course is RM99, they didn't actually have a wine list, can you believe that? The ribeye I had was so so, the mushroom sauce was disappointing, it was blended mushroom soup poured over! Lamb is recommended, so is the Butterfish. Mel ordered cod, got charged an additional RM40 and it was over-baked! Hard and stubborn as rubber, the manager immediately took it back and insisted on replacing it, I would rather just not eat another round. Appaling, the level of customer service in Malaysia.

If you ever go to One Bangsar, forget eating at the Japanese restaurant, Miyako (if I'm not mistaken). Chef is a chinese guy whose version of Japanese food is very wannabe and doesn't even come close to being authentic. He used to work in KLGCC and his signature dishes are the hosue ramen and california rolls. If those were the signature dishes, I wouldn't even bother with the rest. Don't bother with the Italian at the end either. I think a local crew runs the kitchen, the tiramisu doesn't even have a drop of alcohol - geez, what a waste of time. Our Irish landlord and wife went to the French restaurant and also said it was disappointing. Guess its time to give One Bangsar a skip.