Wondermama - Revisit

Revisit Wondermama situated at Bangsar Village 1 a few weeks ago. This time the new addition to the group are my mother in law and my little Caven! Haha...the last time we were there, Caven was still in my tummy, savouring every drop of the foods that I ate.

First up, assorted nyoya kuih @ RM1.50 per piece. If you ask me, it worth your money. Very very good. Even Caleb had almost half of this portion. He wanted to taste every one of them, so we cut up half of every piece and he whacked everything up. My tiny dinosaur really can eat despite of his size :) Kecik kecik cili padi ma.....

My tiny dinosaur...

Since we were so hungry, we ordered some egg toast with ham and cheese (forgot what this called) for sharing from the breakfast menu while passing time, waiting for their ala carte menu. They offer more choice of food during lunch. So, if you want to eat kiss-ass noodles, variety of fried rice, expensive nasi lemak, be sure to be there after noon.

I tried their Special Seafood Maggi Mee Goreng from the menu. For a plate of Maggi Mee Goreng priced at RM14.90 doesn't really kick any sense in my mind. So, just to prove they really serve (better be hell-out-of-this-world, aitelyu) kiss-ass/special Maggi Mee, I ordered one.

It came with generous amount of seafood such as squid, prawns, scallop, salmon, fried egg, onion, few slices of cucumber and  baby bok-choy, fried with their homemade sauce. It was good. Spicy and full of 'wok-hei', fresh seafood, nice sauce. Worth it? Mmm...okla

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Mom in law settled for the Nyoya Laksa (RM13.90) comes with prawn, slices of fish cake, cockles and bean curd drowned in creamy broth. She said it was nice. Spicy and fragrant.

Caleb's kid set meal. Spagetti in tomato sauce, lousy fried egg, a piece of fried chicken and a bottle of yakult. In the end, he had few spoonful of spagetti and half of the fried egg and claimed he's full. All the while he was eyeing at the bottle of yakult. Hah! In the end, I ate his spagetti and egg and the father ate the fried chicken. Gau tim!

Finally a picture of me and my prince.

Where is the little guy all these while? He slept in the stroller for a less than 15 minutes and woke up demanding to be carried. So, we passed him around like a football while the other eat.

Now, everybody can EAT!

Lunch with my date

My mom-in-law didn't cook today so Caleb and I go jalan jalan cari makan :)

As usual, if I need to feed Caleb with outside food, I'll try to find those foods that less salty, less oily and less ajinomoto. Basically food as plain as possible and tasteless.

So, we went to Be Lohas Healthy Cuisine Cafe in Setiawalk. Healthy, organic, green and saving the planet, need I say more. And for the one in Setiawalk, you can choose to adopt a tree.

For a start, they served 2 tablet of Spirulina and a cup of ginger tea for FREE. Caleb popped in one in his mouth thinking it was M&M or something. The last time he ate this and his whole mouth turned green and he was desperately asking for water. Hahaha..... this time, after he popped one in his mouth I asked him to eat one spoonful of fried rice. In the end, he didn't complain.

I ordered one kiddy set for him. Pumpkin fried rice with a few pieces of seaweed and sweet corn. Tried a few spoonfuls, no taste. Good...my objective was fulfilled.

Ahhhh......

Ommmm......

So nice....

Yupe, he finished up the whole plate of fried rice. Good boy.

Padi House @ Setia Walk

Let me do a quick review on this place, Padi House @ Setia Walk Puchong. Good foods, nice ambiance, friendly staffs....(We did tried this place before at Sri Petaling and I blogged about it here.)

Now that we have another additional small baby in the family, going out for a meal has become a rare commodity. You know, how bringing out tonnes of bag, baby carrier, a crying baby and one super-duper active toddler can really worn you off before you could start your meal.

But well, we do need to go out and get some fresh air once in a while, right?

So, last Sunday we went to this newly opened Padi House at Setia Walk for brunch.

A very cosy place for lazy Sunday brunch.

A wide selection of cakes and pastries.

Love how they partition the dining part and equipped with ceiling fans and air-cons. It makes the environment more cooling and airy. White and Bronze color metal chairs with wooden table is a real nice combination. Very cosy indeed.

Just a comparison on how Caleb has grown. The picture on the right is taken when we ate at Padi House in Sri Petaling 1.5 years ago :)

Caven on baby car seat and watched us for ummm.....10 minutes?

Then he crying for attention already.

So my mil carried him and walked around. He fall asleep shortly after been carried.

We passed him around so that everybody could eat. You carry, I eat, I finish eating then I carry and you eat. That how's it goes around when eating with a small baby, we won't be eating at the same time.

We ordered this for Caleb, Spaghetti Aglio Olio with Grilled Herbs Chicken. Taste very good. Caleb whacked up most of this. The grilled chicken was really tender and full of flavour. Nice, very nice. Should order this again.

I ordered this. My all time favourite, Padi House Chicken Shop Rice. There's rice, egg, chicken chop in brown sauce (I think) topped with a dollop of cream cheese ( I think la :D) Habis la like that, how to do food review? Haha....

Jk's Tom yum fried rice. I think it should be nice because I didn't hear any complaint from him.

Mil's Cantonese noodles in egg gravy. No comment. Didn't get the chance to taste it because my mil eat like a speed of lightning. Now you see, now you don't.

Overall the food is good and I don't mind going back again, probably this weekend?

Yamagoya Ramen @ Setia Walk

10 days to go...

Last few days ago, we went to Yamagoya Ramen at Setiawalk Puchong for my ramen's craving (although jk was very very reluctant to go, haha, and he don't have a choice)

I don't know what is so special about them but the outlook of their shop seems to have a very Japanese authentic thingy. So, I guess they wouldn't fail me with their ramen in hot soup, right? No harm in giving them a try thou....

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And it turned out to be really good. We both ordered one of their signature ramen called Mukashi Special Ramen @ freaking!!! RM24 comprising of 2 thin slices of char siu, seasoned egg (this one is REALLY good!!), 1 piece of seaweed, bean sprout, wood ear fungus, spring onions and bamboo shoots in tonkotsu broth.

Just found out that the tonkotsu broth is made from pork bones as the main ingredients, cooked and boiled for a long time over an extremely high heat and such method of cooking will releases the bone marrow into the broth.

Yes, it was really really good. I can't help but sipping the soup almost to the end. But the ramen was toooo little for me. Hardly filled me up... :( Maybe next time I'll ask for more ramen. Mmmm......if only the have such thing. Haha....

Looking at the price, I would say I'll have a second thought when I'm thinking of having ramen here. But having it during a cold rainy night is just really really awesome.

jk: you are really a high maintence wife ler, I need to think of ways to find more 'coins' - qoute from Caleb.

me: so, just be a duck la, ok? me and Caleb go back first. Call me after you've done. :))

Caleb: Yeah! High-five!.... Opps, I high-five my face.

Wondermama @ Bangsar

25 days to go...

Once in awhile, we would try out some eatery place that is not in Puchong. Some places I found out at blogger's blog and some were recommended by friends.

So, this place that we are going to find out is Wondermama situated at Bangsar Village 1, beside Plan B restaurant.

One thing about this Wondermama is they have the most old school and retro decor you could possibly imagine. Kinda reminded me back when I was in my childhood.
Have you ever played this before? I'm sure you have if you were born in the '70s or the '80s in those small town or kampung :)

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Anyway, we both (plus Caleb) reached there at around 11am. By that time, it they were serving breakfast and the option are quite minimal. We asked for normal ala carte menu but the waitress said it have to be after 11:30am. So, since we are barbarian and very stubborn, we just sat there doing nothing and wait until 11:30am. (I wished too) So, we just ordered from the breakfast menu.

While waiting, we had a few pieces of Nyoya kuihs - @RM1.50 per piece. Wahh....

Surprisingly, they were good! Just like how my Ah Ma used to do. Btw, my grandmother is a Nyoya descendant, that's why she made the most authentic Nyoya kuihs. Oh, how I missed her now :(

For tea time, they are having some sort of promotion now. 20% off on drinks, roti bakar, cakes and buy 1 free 1 kuih. Good eh?

I had nasi lemak, weird nasi lemak. I have not had my nasi lemak with fried mackerel fish and pok choy vege before. Have you?

At least I liked their sambal and anchovies.

Jk had mee goreng mamak with fried chicken. That piece of fried chicken looks good but jk said it was just so-so.

We were not satisfied with the selection on their breakfast menu and we went back again 2 weeks later. This time we purposely delay until 12pm. haahaa.... and yes, we got on hold of their lunch menu. Yay!

And I ordered WonderMama Breakfast Set. Lol!!! Never imagined that they had breakfast set in their lunch menu eh?

Jk ordered their salted fried rice. I had a spoonful and guess what? The fried rice using salt as the main ingredient instead of rice. It was so so so salty..... haiyo!

We ordered fried squid as side dish to share and it was ok. Nothing to shout about.....

Our drinks.... A cup of cham and ice coffee with jelly. Just normal....

While many bloggers praise highly on their foods, we just found it to be just ok. Over-rated? Mmm....I don't know. Maybe we ordered all the wrong food selections. At least they have the most awesome Nyoya kuih in town.

Poisoning the baby

*Backdated-post*

Hahaha...no need kan cheong... I'm not drinking dettol for god-sake.

We were having McD breakfast the other day and it was uh la la soooo nice. I like their Chicken Muffin the most and ordered it each time when I'm there. I know, it might not be the most nutritious thing to shove down your throat at this preggy period but I just can't help it la.

We ordered a family set with one big breakfast, 2 pieces of hotcakes, 2 hash browns, 1 Chicken Muffin and 2 cups of coffee.

My fair share of Chicken Muffin and a cup of coffee.

Caleb having his hot cakes with a lil bit of maple syrup.....

I'm so gonna have this breakfast again.... :)

Tappers @ Jaya One and Setia Walk Puchong

We were in Jaya One the other day when Jk went to meet up his client. And since Jaya One is an 'alien' place to me (and to jk too), we looked around where to have our lunch, since it already lunch time and his client was late. We were riding up and down on the escalators, searching for a prominent eatery shop, and this advertisement caught my sight. It was stucked on both side of the escalator.

The Tappers Cafe....featuring a mouth-watering hainanese chicken chop and chicken rendang and fried mee...oh heaven...( I hope)

So we looked everywhere, searching for this Tappers Cafe and we found it somehow to be kopitiam alike with contemporary decor, inspired by colonial designs with white rattan chairs, white marble tables and old photographs. 

We stepped in and took a seat. We were presented their set lunch menu and one peek at their menu, we were surprised. The price is CHEAP. But normally cheap food equals to errrmmm.... bad food. 

It's ok, they ought to be given a chance. If the foods are good, then we'll have another choice of eatery place and if they are bad, means we were 'fcuked' up just once. :)

And so, I've ordered a set of Hainanese Chicken Chop plus drinks for RM12.90 and Jk ordered a set of Chicken Schnitzel plus drinks for RM12.90 too.

My Hainanese Chicken Chop came with 2 HUGE pieces of chicken, coated with eggy mixture, deep-fried until golden brown topped with steamed (or braised) potatoes, carrots and green peas, and a tomato based sauce. The sauce was kinda sweet but the chickens were soft and juicy. Well, not the best hainanese chicken chop I had but definitely worth the price.

Hainanese Chicken Chop

Jk's Chicken Schnitzel came with 2 HUGE pieces of chicken too, coated with breadcrumbs, deep-fried until golden brown with fries and coleslaw as side dishes. Overall, the taste was ok. I like this better but jk said he prefer it to be abit drier and without the sauce. Oh well, everyone have their own preferences.

Chicken Schnitzel.

A few weeks ago, we found Tappers Cafe was open in our neighbourhood. Oh yea, the new hang out place: Setia Walk in Puchong. On normal bright weekday, the place is quiet, peaceful and serene. But it totally different when night falls. Beer Factory, Sector 7, Muzeum and god-knows-what's-more pub and bistro blaring their music deafening the ears. (ok, I'm purposely saying that because I'm old people who sleep at 10pm, everyday :))

Caleb loves the fountain...

Angry pose

Force-to-smile pose

We actually went for their breakfast and it was really GOOD....! Especially the pancakes. Soft, fragrant and fluffy like mini cakes drizzled with maple syrup.

Tappers Cafe

Old photographs hanging on the wall

"This happen if you don't listen, ok?"

When the food arrived, I was thrilled for the presentation and at the sheer value for money. With every value breakfast set priced under RM10 and plus a drink (you can choose between coffee and tea, btw, the coffee is really nice). Tell me, where to find such a bargain?

Hot coffee

Tappers breakfast set; a sausage, a slice of chicken ham, 2 pieces of toasted bread, salad, baked bean and 2 sunny side up - which I told them to make it cooked (pregnant lady cannot eat raw eggs,ok?)

American breakfast set; 2 out-of-this-world fluffy pancakes, a sausage, a slice of chicken ham and 2 sunny side up.

Drooling yet?

Yes, I am now.... :(