ROOM EIGHTEEN.

We had our Sunday lunch at the newly opened Room Eighteen at Tropicana City Mall, Petaling Jaya.
The setting was contemporary, high ceiling, bright and spacious with the main kitchen at the front (left hand side) of the restaurant.
The servers were mostly young punks barely knowledgeable about the food on the menu.
Service were acceptable, quickly attended to, on beckoning them.
The food served are more Chinese fusion, leaning towards Hong Kong style.

The kitchen at the far end.

Nice Utensils.

Braised Beef noodles- generous amount of tender sliced beef and the noodle was springy too-Rm14.80/.

Seafood Congee-Porridge was ultra smooth and translucent with no rice residue, served with scissor cut Cruller, finely sliced Ginger, Spring Onion, strips of Chicken, Lettuce and roasted Peanuts-a real comfort dish!-Rm11.80/

Braised Seafood Mixed Noodle-served with blanched Choy Sam surrounding the plate, 2 small Prawns (cut into 1/2), flower cut Squid and tiny pieces of sliced Fish-luckily the noodle was springy with tastefully tossed sauce or else!!-Rm16.80

Crispy Roasted Pork Belly-was the best-with crispy, crackling skin and lovely 3 layered fats and meat-Rm14.80/.

Prickled Green Chillies, Light Soy Sauce and Sambal Chillies.

Smooth Iced Milk Tea-Rm3.50.

Total bill:RM65/
Location: Ground floor,
Tropicana City Mall,
Tel:03-7728-8128.

PENANG VILLAGE

My wife is a end of the year child, that's why she is always teased by her friends who were born earlier in the same year. Anyway, today is her birthday and she was treated to lunch by my sister in law Hannah at Penang Village. a modern contemporary restaurant located at the newly opened Tropicana City Mall in Petaling Jaya.A place with friends and family in a hospitable atmosphere. The restaurant tag line "The Malaysians Best Choice" is just the right word to describe them. For their soft opening, there is a 20% discount for food bill of rm80/ and above. The food served were pleasing to our eyes and tasty to our palates but their waiters was incommunicable!(language problems). Parking is free for the time being.

This section is cosy with soft pink lighting and red long leather chairs while the adjacent side is brightly lit.

20% discount for limited period only.

Kerabu mango-mango salad served on a glass plate -tossed with red onion(would be better with shallot), toasted cuttle fish, palm sugar, lime juice,bird eye's chilies and Thai fish sauce-sweet and tangy-rm7.90/.

Pie tee-filled with sweet turnips, bits of fried bean curd, carrot, crab stick and cashew nut-add the chilies sauce to savor it in one mouthful-rm 7.90/

Fried rice-with chilies fried dried shrimp, bull eye's fried egg, a crispy tempura like prawn, three small pieces of turmeric fried chicken and some acar-mediocre-rm13.90/

Curry mee-with fresh prawns,cockles, tau pok, bean sprout and rice vermicelli-was not well scented with coconut milk- overpowered with turmeric flavor-rm9.90/

Rainbow Ice Kacang-filled with finely shaved ice, a few kinds of jelly, red bean paste and topped ice cream-cold and sweet-rm7.50/

Cendol-filled with finely shaved ice, green cendol. red bean paste, grass jelly, toasted peanut and canned coconut milk- not up to my expectations!-rm6.90/

Total bill:rm86/ after discount.
Location:L1-49, First Floor.
Tel:03-7729-3358.

PHO HOA MALAYSIA SDN BHD

Pho hoa is located in the newly opened Tropicana City Mall in Petaling Jaya. The restaurant setting is simple with lots of artificial bamboo clumps plus leaves and is painted in black and green colors. Their tag line: "Pho Hoa is the place for noodle soup lovers"-sure suit them, well. It is a family style restaurant which specializes in Vietnamese food . A great place to go for a hot and tasty bowl of noodle and a glass of thick and creamy avocado juice. For this meal we were presented with a rm15/ voucher-redeemable on our next visit.

Bun Tom Ga Nuong-veggie, prawn and grilled chicken with vermicelli (dry and springy) topped with fish sauce-a very good mix-rm12.99/

To eat with the soup noodle-raw beansprout, mint leaves and bird's eye chilies.

Pho Ga-chicken rice vermicelli-was filled with generous portions of chicken strips and garnished with lots of coriander leaves-rm10.99/

Pho Tai Chin Nam-steak, brisket and flank rice vermicelli-meat was a bit tough-rm12.99/

Pho Tai Nam Gan Sach-tripe, tendon, flank and steak with rice vermicelli-tender and succulent-rm15.99/.

Coconut flam caramel-silky smooth, sweet and melt in the mouth sensation-rm3.99/

Total bill:rm78/
Location:Lot L1-52.First Floor.
Tropicana City Mall,
Petaling Jaya.