Secret Recipe: New On the Menu

No secret that I just adore Secret Recipe. Only 2 postings ago, and I am already on it again. But this time it's good because they have just introduced a new recipe! It is called the "Stewed Aussie's Beef Steak".. darn it, the name made my mouth waters.. hehee..
i didn't bring my camera. only had my camera phone. i didn't even intend to eat here. i had a sweet tooth and longed for some cheese cake. mm.. then i saw the new menu. and the rest is history.

went to the one in Putrajaya Precint 14.

The stewed steak was tender, and the gravy was just great. it didn't have as much black pepper which other steak joints usually have, just the way i like it. i can't stand black pepper. it's a perfect dinner. i just wish i didn't get the pepsi light. should have gone for my usual apple green drink instead. i had dinner alone, but then it's a small restaurant. and i didn't really feel alone. plus i had facebook mobile with me the whole time (read: LOSER! kekeke) all in all it was a joyful experience.. hmm :P the only other complain i had would probably be the veges that came with the stewed steak.. they had the snap peas on the photo in the menu.. and they only gave carrots and cauliflowers in my plate. :( pentipusss..



i was too shy to eat the cheesecake there so i took it home with me. raspberry cheesecake. perfect way to end my dinner :D

Ani Sup Utara, Putrajaya

it's been 3 months! well i've been taking photos but not of food :( haven't been eating out lately because i haven't been eating at nice places.. and when I finally do, mm.. i forgot to take them photos huhuhu..

anyway, sesuai with ramadan, it's food time.

went to this restaurant called Ani Sup Utara. I know there's a branch at Shah Alam.. not sure if there are other branches. The place looked really nice. first went there to have some soup because I've been coughing like mad.. the second time I was there I went to my family for my mum's birthday. ye la i know.. cheap.. but mum is not much of an eater.. and it's really late afternoon. She likes nice ambient and doesn't appreciate heavy traffic. I immediately thought of Ani Sup Utara.. It's a bit hot, but soup was nice and simple and I'm sure mama doesn't mind, however much she complained.

the soup was decent though a bit pricey.. i guess the aircond yang menghala ke staff tu mahal kot.. service was fast. but the third time i was there, with kak ina and kak ida, they overcharged our drinks. hampeh. but kak ina dah mintak duit balik.. there was a bar inside the restaurant, dunno what was the purpose. coz the kitchen was at the back. there were too little seats.. so we had to wait twice i was there. i prefer to go at night coz we get to sit outside the restaurant and enjoy the breeze.. much more romantic eating out. :)

they serve, mostly soup.. some combos with rice, and telur masin. mama thought they should have given the customers a choice of ikan asin with telur asin. i don't care coz i love both, but mama was right. not everyone eats telur asin. soto and nasi ayam are also in the menu. food wise.. memang sedap.. cuma tak cukup la.. hahaha

anyway, here are some photos..

Secret Recipe..

i love eating at secret recipe, period. it has a nice ambient, a long menu of delicious food and i love the apple kasturi. yummy. the green concoction of apple juice and lime juice plus the asam boi.. oh la la.. i'm in heaven. i just had some on saturday with dr. mojo jojo. thank you, dear :) muahhsss... but i didn't take any photos then. i took some photos when jon, nana and i went out on a sunny sunday to get my SB600 and we had a late lunch at secret recipe amcorp mall.

nana ordered the fish and chips, jon ordered the tiny burgers while i ordered the chicken lasagna(it was on sale and i've used up my April's pay for the stupid flash). nana also ordered the carrot cake.. and it was delicious. i love the creamy cream cheese topping, and the cake is moist, unlike the one at starbucks. seriously, the one i had at starbucks KK was terrible and really dry :(

that green stuff behind the carrot cake is the apple kasturi. mm.. yummy.. could wake you up in a second, can ask dr. mojo jojo about it. unfortunately i didn't have a camera with me when i had lunch with him, his expression was priceless.. hahahaha..
sorry dear ;)

jon ordered the kid's burger. ok first, there are 4 tiny burgers.. cute little burgers. i actually had this for lunch with dr. mojo jojo and i thought that this is too much for a kid. perhaps this meal was meant to be shared. at first i thought that the burgers would be dry. but they were not. i love the meat patties. 4 tiny burgers are more than enough. especially when coupled with the fries. the fries, i did not fancy. i personally thought, and dr. mojo jojo agreed, that the fries had too much butter, and it felt like eating the mashed potato with too much butter. i wish it were more potatoey. :P the ketchup i love.. it tastes better than burger king's ketchup. kekeke.. oh, and what's with the thick cut of cucumber with the burgers? kids could choke to death tau with cucumber that size!

i had chosen this when i was out with the girls. and the lasagna was really good. at first glance i thought the mozza cheese was a bit much but the sauce was a lot too so that balanced it out. caution though, i burned my tongue coz the dish was really hot! but i loved every bite and serving it with a bread was a good idea because the tomato sauce was to die for. i love the sauce, which kinda explains why i simply love secret recipe's meatball spaghetti.. hehehe...

i didn't take nana's fish and chips photos. i was too hungry to take more photos.. and nana was hungry too as she had started eating as soon as they came.

JM Briyani Subang Jaya

whoa how long has it been since i last did a review eh? hahaha.. hi!!! i'm back! i missed writing about food :)

anyway, one day i was craving for mi bandung. so as soon as i reached home, i called nana, my partner-in-crime, to book her for the nite and asked her where to have the best or at least tastes like mi bandung :D she didn't know. but she remembered JM Briyani had mi rebus or something. and i said ... ok la. it's close enough. so she called jon and jon's joining us later for some dinner as well ;)

i left home at about 8. i live in putrajaya now so it took me about 1/2 hour to reach nana's. picked her up and reached JM Briyani at about 8:50pm.

as i reached for the menu, nana already spotted the mi bandung! yeay! they've got mi bandung everyone. so i ordered mi bandung (bandung noodles?) and tauhu sumbat (fried tofu filled with some vegetables julienned (some people put carrots, cucumber, jicama and even bean sprouts - all the veggies that i love) eaten with yummy peanut sauce. nana ordered some rojak petis (fruit salad eaten with peanut sauce) and briyani with fried chicken and some curry. jon ordered murtabak.. it's prata with meat and egg fillings.. oh la la.. :D

Briyani


Ayam Goreng Berempah / Fried Chicken


Tauhu Sumbat/ Fried tofu filled with veggies served with peanut sauce


Mi Bandung/ Bandung Noodles

the noodles is not bad.. they used too much dried shrimps instead of real shrimps in making the gravy. but the taste is there. enough to satisfy my cravings for mi bandung. if you'd like the real one then you'd have to drive all the way to Muar, Johor.. hehehe ... now that's where you can get the real deal ;) the tauhu sumbat... omg! it's so heavenly! i love it! only thing is that they use too much onions in their sauces and gravies that i can taste the onion in my mouth when eating the dishes. i love the tofus cause they took out the insides of the tofu, leaving the skins and deep fried them and then put in the veggies so the juices from the veggies don't affect the tofu.. and so it's not soggy and it's not messy.. the rice is ok la.. i've tasted better briyanis.. the chicken is quite hard cause they fried it ... nana can't finish her chicken even though jon helped her. jon's murtabak is really nice. however they didn't heat the murtabak evenly, i guess they used the microwave to heat it, so it feels like eating yesterday's murtabak.. kekekee... ala2 makan getah gitu. but the taste is ok :) we finished it! rojak petis was ok.. but again it's the peanut sauce .. i dunno.. dun fancy it much :(

i love the ambience. the restaurant took 2 shop lots at subang. one is the open air type.. the other is a new airconditioned room. we chose to sit in the air-cond restaurant. the lighting was perfect for my photos, the presentation of the food was excellent. the staff are very nice and friendly. perhaps cause we were teasing them since we sat. :P service was quite fast. i mean with all the food that we've ordered... heeheheeh it'll take hours to serve us in a normal restaurant. i guess JM Briyyani is trying to go into the fast food market? heheh cool :) the toilet is clean. the restaurant is clean.

out of 10 i'd give it an 8. i don't mind going back. :)