delicious, Bangsar, KL

delicious is a fusion restaurant popular with young trendy upper middle class people in Bangsar, KL. The restaurant is located in the Bangsar Village II, right in the smack in the Telawi area of Bangsar amids pubs and disco full with young party-goers in the evening. It opens daily until 1 am. The restaurant has a website at :- http://www.delicious.com.my/main.htm

The restaurant has that "chic" and "cool" feel, where mostly young and trendy people eat and socialize. At one side of the restaurant, there a lots of bird cages that has been made into lamp shades hung on tree branches at ceiling level.

At the other side, there is a huge dining area. The restaurant is usually crowded with people during lunch time. It is a popular place for young professionals working in Bangsar area.

I have been to delicious a couple of time. Last sunday evening, I happened to be in Bangsar at around 11pm after dinner. With nothing much to do, me and my friend dropped by for some snack and desserts.

Delicious has a good array of cakes and pies. Nice to look at and nice to eat too.



Cheesecakes too! Mango cheesecake and strawberry cheesecake!

Flourless orange cake with pure cream! Flourless? Aren't all cakes made of flour?

Peach frangipane with vanilla ice cream and marmalade bread & butter pudding.

I ordered flourless orange cake with pure cream and a mug of black coffee.

The orange cake tasted like an ordinary orange cake but I felt cheated though. The orange cake is made of flour.

My friend ordered a peach frangipane with vanilla icecream and honey mint tea. The tea came with a small pot of honey. Good for the throat I guess.

Besides desserts and western dishes, the restaurant offers interesting oriental dishes too. One of the dish I have eaten here before was and interesting dish called Braised Duck with Laichee. In addition, their Thai green curry and sambal udang are not too bad too.

The pomelo and cherry tomato salad wrapped in banana leave was interesting. The Thai green chicken curry looked good but tasted only average. Why is there a need to use banana leave if the food is served on a plate?

Sambal udang served on a banana flower petal was interesting. Good presentation! Nowadays, you eat with your eye too! Serunding on top of white rice was also interesting idea too.

To be fair, the dishes in this restaurant looks great but the taste I would said is just slightly above average.

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Taiwan House, Ampang Point, KL

I must have missed Taiwanese food so much that I went into this Taiwan House restaurant in Ampang Point barely one week after returning from Taiwan. Actually, to be frank, it was just coincidental. I just happened to be in Ampang Point and I got hungry after shopping for some new pants and shirts. This shop in Ampang Point is always full with people. Business is good compared with the Korean noodle shop next door.

I ordered the beef noodle that Taiwan is well-known as a yard stick of comparison. Well! The noodle was quite OK, but not so much meat as in Taiwan. The noodle in Taiwan were handmade and white in colour without alkaline treatment. The noodle here is yellow with alkaline treatment.

My friend ordered a bowl of fish ball tang hoon soup. Tang hoon is extremely low in calories. Ideal for people who are conscious of their figure.

We ordered some stuffed fish ball as well. Stuffed fish ball is actually a Hock Chew (Fuzhou) delicacy. The fish balls are stuffed with either minced meat or prawn. Taiwan is well-known for its stuffed fish balls as well, also a Hock Chew tradition. I do not really like stuffed fish ball. The meat in the centre spoils the crunchiness of the fish balls. Neither does the minced meat or prawn taste exceptionally good. In this case, the fish balls were garnished with fried garlic and spring onion! The garlic smell was too strong for such a mild tasting food.

The spring onion pancake was something interesting. No egg inside, just plain flour pancake with spring onion and oil. 2 pieces was good enough for me.

Drink is just simple cola. Overall, the food in the Taiwan House joint is just average. It really make me ponder why their business is so good. As Kok Mun often like to put it, "It must be their fortune!"

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