The day when cousin came @ Day 3 - Tokyo Street @ Pavillion & XO Shabu Shabu @ IOI Boulevard Puchong

Oh yes, today marked the 3rd day my cousin is here in kl and we really enjoy it to bits! So fast....well, as they said, time flies when you are having fun.

We decided to go to Pavilion and have brunch at Tokyo Street situated on Level 6. Ahhh...I always wanted to go but I dont have this kind of privilege when I'm with jk. Why? because Japanese food equals to FISH la.... In his mind, Japanese restaurant only serve FISH, nothing else but FISH. Sigh.....

So when I have company with me, haha...I grabbed the chance at once :)

We walked around, looked around .....

......with this guy,

......doing this stunt.

Dont ask me why.....hahaha.....

We went into Hokkaido Santouka Ramen for brunch. Santouka = Mountain Head Fire

What a name.... :)

We both ordered ramen set which comes with a bowl of rice, chawamushi, salad with sesame seed dressing, pickles and a cup of green tea, not refillable thou....

There are a few soup base to choose from. Shio broth (salt), Shoyu broth (soy sauce), Miso (fermented soybean) and the spicy type, Kara-Miso broth (spicy soybean paste).

Since I need to share half of my food with Caleb, I ordered the Shoyu set ramen with rice (pic on the left) and my cousin ordered the Kara-Miso, the spicy one. I didnt get a sip of the soup (oh regret that..) because I need to keep on entertaining my 'boss'. Haaaiii....wasted.

My Shoyu soup is really really good and flavorful but a bit salty. The mild, pearl-coloured Tonkotsu soup is made from pork bones, vegetables, dried fish, kelp and other ingredients. Noodles are so damn good too. Springy and bouncy texture. The rice with charsiu and caramelized onions is another great combination. Too bad, my baby is a hungry alligator. He walloped half of my ramen and almost all of my rice...ish ish ish.

In the end, my tummy was hardly filled. Sigh.....should order a bigger size.

Omm omm omm....like energizer bunny, he keep on eating and eating and eating :)

We ordered a plate of pork gyoza (or is it chicken? couldn't remember) to share. Taste good too...!

Ok, time for desserts.

I bought a cup of Kindori Ice Cream - Banana Flavour just to calm my superbaby down. As usual, he is going haywire again. Really cannot catch this guy if you didnt have something in your hand,.... like ICE CREAM. :)

Hiding somewhere in the corner feeding him.....

One after another...

My cousin was craving for something sweet and she's been longing to try these Japanese Mochi. So, she bought 2 pieces; red bean paste and green tea.

It doesn't come cheap. Over-price at RM3.50 per piece. Hell ya, you hear me right....RM3.50 PER PIECE! I can eat a bowl of noodle or a plate of chap fan (economy rice) with that price.

With this kind of price, it has to be good right? And oh jolly yes, it was very good indeed. Sweet, soft, tender and chewy. The paste is nicely made and there's a dollop of whipped cream inside too. Eaten together and it taste heavenly..... Will I ever return again? Mmmmm........hehe. YES~!

He's asking "what's that?" , "what's that?" question again. Aiya, baby....mami don't know what is that. Sorry ... haha

Tis the season to be jolly .... Fa la la la la la la la la 

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, Thy leaves are so unchanging.....

Another thing that caught our attention is BEAR BEAR. Why there are so many BEAR BEAR? Even Caleb is so excited and keep on mumbling "Bear bear kei chu, bear bear kei chu" means bears is standing.

A total of 147 life-size buddy bear measuring at 2m tall from 143 different country. Each of them reflects their nation's own culture, history, traditions and characteristics painted by an artist from that country.

They are called UNITED BUDDY BEARS.

 

"Kuala Lumpur is the 23rd stop of the world tour for the 147 life-size painted bears drawn from 143 countries during the tour that originated from Berlin in 2002. Since then, more than 25 million visitors worldwide have seen them and over 1.8 million Euros collected in donations to children’s charities. "

Which one is our own country bear-bear? Hahaha...I dont know because we didnt go scout one by one. Our eyes were glued at this superbaby.....

He is having so much fun jumping from one platfrom to another platform and then post for a picture before he vanished again.

After a short trip to Uniqlo, we went to back home. Caleb, as usually need his afternoon battery charging session.
 
I dont feel like bring Caleb out for our dinner and so I SMSed the father. "Eh, can you take care of Caleb tonight?" and.....hehe, the father said "YES". *big wide grin*
 

And so we went to our favourite steamboat place. XOXO Shabu Shabu @ IOI Boulevard Puchong.

 

Such a bliss eating without superbaby. I can wait for the soup base to boil without Caleb yelling 'fai di','fai di' (faster, faster). Hahaha....

I always go for herbal soup base and my cousin always go for tom yam. They have 4 types of soups; herbal, tomyam, chicken and pork soup. And yes, it's a non halal restaurant. But who would go for halal restaurant for steamboat? Hehehe....I know I won't because if I do, then I can't eat my favourite pork meatball :)

They have a wide variety of raw material to choose from and all of them are freshly prepared on a daily basis. All meatballs are handmade, the pork meatball, prawn meatball, fish meatball, squid meatball...... yum yum yum....

Vege, the seafood, meat sliced.....everything!!! It's just so fresh and clean!

If you want to try it out, here's the address:

No.A-GR-33A, IOI Boulevard, Jalan Kenari 5,

Bandar Puchong Jaya, 47170 Puchong, Selangor
Tel: 03-8076 5348

A very satisfying dinner indeed...!

The day when cousin came @ Day 2 - Bubba Gump @ The Curve, Moo Cow @ eCurve, Uncle Jang @ Bandar Puteri

The next day, we went to The Curve simply because my cousin wanted to walk walk and see see those stalls in the whole stretch of flea market. Actually I love to walk around and see those stalls too, especially now in Christmas season.

The way they decorated the stalls with all the Christmas ornaments are so so so pretty.

We had late breakfast at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

Located just above The Gourmet House at the curve, the restaurant occupied two floors. The area is HUGE, with a lot of chairs and tables arranged outside the deck.

As it was still consider early when we reached, we got ourself a pretty good seat inside.

See what I mean? We are free to choose where we want to sit :)

Pictures hanging on the wall.

Oh...Happy Shrimp.

Oh...Happy Baby...

Oh...the happy baby and the happy mami

Since both of us were on diet (ahemm...),we just ordered 2 drinks and a main course to share.

Our drinks:

Blueberry Smoothie with Blueberries, Strawberries and non-fat Vanilla Frozen Yogurts; RM11.90

Run Forrest Run with Fresh Oranges, Strawberries, Bananas and non-fat Rasberry Frozen Yogurts; RM11.90

For the main course, we ordered Bubba's After the Storm "Bucket of Boat Trash"; RM43.90 consists of deep fried shrimp, lobster tail, fish fillet served with Bubba's Cocktail sauce and butter oil and of course with a bunch of fries.

Foods and drinks here are not cheap at all so be prepared to make your wallet 'bleed'. See, a bucket of trash already cost RM40 over...ish ish ish...

But it was all worth it. The shrimps were fried to perfection and remained juicy and succulent inside. Omm, omm, omm....

Same goes to the fish fillets too.....FRESH!

And the lobster tail. It was a bit hard and many times the shell kinda like poked inside my mouth. But it was not so bad la. Still edible :)

After meal, time to go outdoor and sweat it out! Haha....why la the wheather here is so warm and stuffy? Christmas time is suppose to be cold, chilly, winter wonderland time right? But too cold I also cannot tahan ler....so how ar? Yala, yala, I know I'm hard to please la, so shuddap. Kakaka....

Taking pictures in front of water fountain. Since I have already give up asking Caleb to look at the camera, I just asked my cousin to just snap la. Dont care....just like 2 strangers taking pictures right? We mind our own business... lolz...

We passed by this stall selling frozen yogurt by the name Moo Cow. A cow with  tiger stripes? Mmm...interesting, so let's go and check it out. By the way, Caleb started to go haywire again. So the best thing to calm him down is with food and nothing's better than cold yummy frozen yogurt.

I bought one to share, a root beer flavour; RM10.90 without any topping. Any extra topping will be charge at RM1. Original flavour @ RM9.90

It taste good. What I liked about it was that it had a very distinct taste of yogurt which is a bit sourish and not overly sweet. A quick check on google reveals that "Moo Cow’s yogurt USP (unique selling point) lies in the fact that they use live ABT culture & absolutely no powder mix, unlike its competitors. The final product is a mix of yogurt, milk & certain ‘stabilisers”. The culture used is actually a product from his own fermentation. Sugar is used very conservatively in Moo Cow’s yogurt"

This is cute...Da family of Moo Cow

 It only got me realized that Caleb loves cow very much. He have no problem walking up to the cow picture and pose for the camera. Hahaha....no wonder, Caleb was born under the year of ox.

"Caleb wanna scoop, Caleb wanna scoop big-big"

Sigh...... as long as he can stay still and eat, it's ok with me. Frozen yogurt is still better than ice-cream, right?

This is chicken. Ohh..I love you too chicken....

Mami, made from fresh milk leh. So I can eat MORE....

We spent another hour or 2 and we went back home. It was tiring when you have an active toddler with you. There was no chance for me to shop around. My two eyes were glued at Caleb  like a hawk. Luckily my cousin add another two more eyes for me.

Caleb had a good 2 hours nap by the time we reached home. Battery charging......

For dinner, we went to Uncle Jang for their famous Chuncheon Dak Galbi, which is nearby my place.

"Dakgalbi is a South Korean dish featuring delicious chicken cubes with vegetables and topped off with a spicy Gochujang sauce."

I've been here a few times with jk and we love their spicy sauce. Well, there are 2 type of sauces actually. The spicy and the non-spicy. We always go for the non-spicy one but although it stated non-spicy, it still burnt our tongue.

A very simple interior. Nothing fancy about it.

There is a giant hot plate on every table.

Marinated chicken cubes in chili pepper paste with cabbage, scallions, sweet potatoes, onions and rice cakes. Everything goes into the hot plate.

With added ramen at the end when all the chicken cubes and vegetables had already cooked. It taste GOOD and ADDICTIVE!! You really cannot stop spoon-feeding yourself one after another....

Who can resist this?

See you tomorrow..... ;)