Baby Pork Ribs @ New Orleans Barbeque.

Genting Highlands Resort is just a 45 minutes drive from where I stay.

To many it may sounds crazy just to drive up there for this lunch time meal and then just to eat this 1/2 slab of BBQ baby pork ribs at New Orleans Barbeque @ Genting Highlands

The restaurant is adorned with many framed photographs of all the major Jazz/Blues musicians of New Orleans.

This main meal came with free flow coffee/tea/water, unlimited garden salads and soup of the day

The window seating view was great and cooling with a full view of the Theme Park.

Theme Park.

Garden Salad-my choice were green and red capsicum, fresh lettuce, julienne carrot and sliced tomatoes topped with a Thousand Island sauce.

Minestrone soup-filled with pasta, diced celery, onion, carrot, tomatoes.......etc -very thick, brothy and tomatoish .

1/2 slab of well marinated and grilled BBQ baby pork ribs served with potatoes wedges-a bit dry and woody towards the ribs edges otherwise it was worth the money-Rm40/

Location: New Orleans Barbeque,
Inside Genting's Monte Carlo casino.

Imperial Rama @ Highlands Hotel.

Our day's trip to the cool 6000m Genting Highlands resort was to escape the city's heat and haze.

We had lunch at Imperial Rama @ Highlands Hotel- a Top 10 restaurant with a HAPA Award 2010-2012 for Best Chinese Cuisine Restaurant.

The resort really knows how to pamper those high roller's appetite for good food from many of it's restaurants.

Ordinary people like you and me can patronize this restaurant for a quiet and sumptuous meal, too.

The restaurant is elegant, comfortable and is not too big - served a mixture of authentic Chinese  and Thai cuisine.

The prices are pretty affordable with attentive service.

 

Simple table setting with a glass vase of  fresh Orchid-thick napkins, two pairs of chopsticks for each diner (individual and open) and glistening white porcelain ware  .

Butter milk sea prawns with salted egg yolk-seated a bed of subtle flavor julienned leeks/fresh lettuce-lightly batter-fragrant, sweet/salty and succulent-Rm65/

Green curry with chunky chicken meat/mint leaves/ lime leaves/red chillies/local brinjal/ mini green Thai aubergines/ coconut milk-thick, creamy and spicy hot-Rm30/

Home made Bean curd (six pieces) - deep fried, eggy and silky smooth inside-seated on a combination of Enokitaki mushroom/ sugar pea-topped with well marinated minced pork with a smooth and tasty dark broth-Rm28/

Poh Choy (Spinach)- a local vegetable-stir fried with garlic-tender with some crunch-highly nutritional-Rm18/

Almond Pudding with colorful, chewy and succulent nato de coco-mum's fave- I never like the taste of almond-Rm6/

Total bill:Rm167/
Location: beside the VIP lobby of Highlands Hotel, Genting.

GOOD FRIEND-GENTING-2 visit..

Good Friend is one of the many F&B outlets in Genting Highland, Pahang which we like to patronized.
Their menu are quite extensive and varied from Dim Sum, Western food to typical Chinese cuisine.

We had a light lunch as tonight there will be an eight course dinner at The Genting International Convention Center Ballroom.

After the meal we had a short fling at the numerous money gobbling Slot machines in the casino.

We were lucky to have won some money, as Lady Luck was on our side.

A plate of crispy 3 layer roast Pork belly and well marinated meaty Char Siew served with some pickled vegetable-Rm30/.

Clay pot white Bean curd with Fish maw-the tasty thick gravy was perfect with rice-Rm13.30/.

Stir fried Kai Lan with salted fish, some red Chillies and diced big onion-was a bit salty but very appetizing-Rm13.30.

Total bill:RM66/

RESTAURANT 126-KAMPUNG BUKIT TINGGI

We had our lunch here after descending from Genting Highlands at about 1.30 p.m. This restaurant is a covered open air eatery, cool and airy with fruit trees planted around the shop. I spotted a durian tree by the side of the Taliapia fish pond, with lots of fruits-very tempting! A friend of ours recommended this place. Their signature's dishes are wild frogs, fresh river fish, river prawns, poultry and venison. I wanted to taste their steam frog, too bad it was not available. Anyway for the 2 of us, we opted for 3 simple dishes after the heavy breakfast just 5 hours ago. The dishes were home cooked style, light, refreshing and tasty plus affordable.

Full of durians-looks to be of good quality.

Menu all written in Chinese displayed on a white board.

Simple furnishings.

Stir fry fresh mushroom with fish paste-mushroom-distinctive flavor, smooth and moist-fish paste firm and springy- rm8/

Stir fry water cress with garlic-fresh, leafy and healthy-full of vitamins-rm5/

Stuffed minced pork tau pok in robust clear soup-was filled with thick minced pork and spring onion-soup was MSG-free-rm5/

Location:About 5km from Genting Sempah heading to Kuantan-turn left on seeing Bukit Tinggi, then turn right and go through the underpass -turn right again-go straight -Restaurant 126 is on your left.
tel:012-225-1894/016-951-6818.

RESTAURANT GOOD FRIENDS-GENTING HIGHLANDS

Last Saturday,we were invited to attend a 8 course dinner plus free hotel accommodation in Genting Highland, Pahang. the event was organized by the Rice Wholesaler's Association of Malaysia, and was held at the Genting International Convention Centre. The last time we went to Genting was a year ago, so this was a good trip to rest and rejuvenate. We left our house at 8 a.m. and have a light dim sum breakfast at Restoran Tuck Kee at Kepong Maluri before cruising on the MRR2 to the resort. The drive up was a breeze except for the last lap from the Chinese temple towards the resort which was full of steep road gradient. Upon arriving and parking the car in the hotel basement's car park, our top agenda was to have a fling at the casino.

Heading to the Highland Resort's casino through a myriads of interconnecting stair escalators from the the indoor theme park.

We stayed in this hotel-The First World Hotel and Plaza-the room was a bit crammed-no complaint since it's on the house.

We went out for some fresh mountain air after all the stuffy and smoke filled and unhealthy air in the casino- a view of the outdoor theme park.

A replica of the city's twin towers in the indoor theme park.

A preview of DreamZ magic show dancers-for viewing go to youtube.com-Dreamz preview 1.

After all the walking and sightseeing, we had lunch at Restaurant Good Friends-a typical oriental restaurant serving dim sum and Chineses cuisine and snacks.

Chinese tea-rm1.50/pax-to go with our noodles-saved the best for tonight's dinner!

The array of roast chicken, pork and BBQ pork belly available-so tempting!

We ordered and shared a plate of dry noodle with 6 pieces of wan ton-was a big letdown the BBQ pork was cold with odd and bits pieces-rm16.10

A claypot of yee mee-came sizzling hot-filled with vegetables, crab sticks, deep fried flour crackers and a raw egg-was tasty-rm18.40.

After lunch, took a brisk walk around the indoor theme park, watching happy children having fun with their various rides, before checking into the room for some rest.