Olive Garden @ Mid Valley.

Olive Garden is an American - Italian casual dining restaurant
specializing in Italian cuisine.

The decor is typical American but with pictures of typical scene in 
Italy on the wall.

This was a birthday gathering for the seven of us and second time for
some.

The unlimited servings of bread sticks, soup and salad was a plus point 
for us big eaters.

We went for quite a number of dishes as we intended to share and 
taste some the different flavors.

Some of our orders :

Shrimp pasta aglio olio - sauteed in extra virgin olive oil with red 
chilli flakes, fresh basil and Italian seasoning.
Garlic rosemary chicken - caramelized garlic, marinated chicken with
 mashed potato and spinach.
Triple cheese carbonara piadina - three types of cheese on flat bread 
pizza with tomato and bacon bits. .
Sicilian pineapple - chicken ham, roasted red pepper, pineapple on home
made marinara cheese.
Eggplant parmigiana -lightly breaded eggplant fried and topped with cheese.
Smoke mozarella fonduta- oven baked served with Tuscan bread.
Calamari-lightly breaded and fried until golden brown.  
 
Overall a fulfilling and wholesome meal with fresh ingredients and 
especially for cheese lovers and a good eat out for family bonding.

These are all unlimited serving with our orders.

 Location:  F-051, 1st floor,
Mid Valley Mega Mall,
Jalan Lingkaran Syed Putra,
 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel:-03-2201-0221.

 

FONG LYE RESTAURANT

Everyone seems to wax lyrical about Fong Lye a Taiwanese restaurant located at The Garden in The Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur. Last Sunday was our wedding anniversary and the children insisted on taking us to dinner at Fong Lye. When we arrived there, the place was packed to the brim, we took a Queue Number 8 (lucky number) and waited outside. We were then given the Menu to scour through the food lists. A moment later, we were surprised to be served a peg of Lemon juice, maybe out of courtesy or a ploy, to whet up our appetite before the meal proper!. After a 15 minutes long wait, we were ushered to Table 22, situated just beside the counter. The restaurant looks spanking new, clean, bright and cheery with White color as their main theme. The food served was more like the street food in Taiwan albeit more refined with nice looking porcelain crockery and rectangular wooden tray with a mini stove fuel by a wax flame. We ordered the highlighted Chef's recommendations with the pencil and order form provided.

Customers browsing through the menu while enjoying a peg of Lemon juice.

This is what you get for a normal set meal.

Close up of the platter of appetizers-Sea Urchin, Strips of Squid, Seaweed Egg Roll, Julienned Celery, Carrot and deep fried mini Fish paste.

A bowl of clear Double boiled Watercress Soup with Wolfberries.

A Set of fried sliced Beef with julienned Red, Green and Yellow Capsicum-Sam's comment: Beef was fresh and tender, gravy was perfect with the rice-Rm26.80/.

A Set of Fried Fish with Tomato Fried Eggs-My comment: Fish meat was lightly battered, crispy outside- White and moist inside- bathed in a sweet and tasty Tomato broth-Rm19.80/.

A Set of Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs-tangy flavored with Tomato, Capsicum and big Onion-May's comment: the lightly battered Pork Ribs was meaty and boneless-easy to eat!-Rm19.80/

A Set of Stir fried Sliced Beef with Spring Onion and, slices of young Ginger and fresh Red Chillies- Mindy's comment: Beef was fresh and tender-Rm19.80/.

A Set of Pig Big Intestines-filled with coagulated cubed Pig's blood, preserved Chinese Mustard and Chinese Leeks-Mike's comment: the broth was "Ma lat" spicy, a little salty with a slight Mint flavor-Rm17.80/.

Iced Cool Drinks to refresh the palate-Watermelon with Milk and Ooloong Tea with Milk-rm7.30/each.

Snow Mountain-very finely shaved Ice topped with Mung beans, Red beans and Ice Cream-sinfully sweet-Rm9.30/.

A dainty pot of refillable Rose Oolong Tea to wash away all the fats!-Rm6/pax

Overall the food was good and caters to people of all ages!

Total bill:Rm160/
Location: Lot 208, 3 rd Floor, The Garden,
Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur.
Tel:03-2282-8699.

MADAM KWAN'S

I never like going to Mid Valley shopping mall on a Sunday. It was choked with people from all walks of life, some of them were doing last minute shopping for moon cakes while others shopping for Hari Raya clothes. My son Mike wants to collect his pre-order things from one of the shops in The Garden. There we met up with my niece, Sandy to have lunch in Madam Kwan's, a restaurant with modern setting, soft mellow yellow lights and a stalk of yellow rose on each table. It is situated right next to Toys r Us on the 1st Floor.

Nice decor with soft lighting

A stalk of yellow rose

Nasi Bojari-tri-colored rice-very special, with a piece of deep fried chicken drumstick-tender and crispy, sambal prawns-fresh and succulent, 1/2 hard boiled egg, sliced cucumber and chicken curry-full of coconut flavor.-rm20.50/

Nasi lemak -their signature dish-rm14.20

Curry yellow noodle and rice vermicelli-was very lemak and spicy-comes with prawns, shredded chicken breast meat, lots of beansprouts and mint leaves.-rm12.30/

Total bill:rm86/