Menjalara Lake Park, Bandar Sri Menjalara

June 2025. I recently get to explore few places in Kepong including this Menjalara Lake Park that I never knew it exists despite have been there (Menjalara) many times lol. It's a small scale but beautiful public park with a lake and hillside, meant for the community nearby, similar like Taman Aman. The park is currently undergoing some installation of LED lights installation for the Luna lights Wonderland event which deemed as Southeast Asia's largest light festival (no free entry, ticket cost is RM20 per pax). The little surprise that I found while strolling through the park is the T-Rex replicas along the route at the lakeside. There's two of it and both standing not far from each other. Not sure if it is there fore permanent or just for the luna lightshow. Total time spent for going one round of the entire park (we covered most of the routes) is about half an hour, approx 2.2km. 

Slow Cooked Steak Pie + Fish & Chip~ GravyBaby, Jalan P. Ramlee

April 2025~ it's been a while since last post update. Again I am busy with work and life (going here and there exploring around whenever I am off work). thus no time to blog. Before April end, I was here at Gravy Baby for the pie with friend during lunch break. Did a quick check on my last visit to Gravy baby, omg! it's March 2021 before Christal leaving Malaysia~ that long ago! Order a pie and their lunch set to share~ their pie still good as usual. It's slow cooked steak to tender steak + wild button mushrooms in rich British gravy. Lunch set is a 3 courses meal that comes with a drink. We chose onion rings and house salad as appetizer, fish & chip as main and ice lemon tea. Fish and chip is good except the serving portion is small (according to my standard lol). Besides food, we also enjoy watching the compilation of famous old Hollywood movies including Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, Demi Moore's Striptease etc playing on the tv screen. 

100% Wagyu Beef Hamburg Steak & Rice~ Wagyu and Rice - Avenue K

March 2025. So we discover that Avenue K recently launched Yatai Roji street with four new restaurants~ Tsukiji Sushi, Kumo (cafe), Wagyu and Rice and Rebel in February and we have tried Tsukiji Sushi and Kumo in January before CNY. Today we are here for Wagyu and Rice for the champion Shimomuragyu A5 Wagyu beef hamburg. It's 100% halal certified wagyu and we just learned that it earned first place in Japan's top wagyu championship for 10 consecutive years! I still haven't been to TRX for that viral hamburg rice that always with queue but I think I don't have to rush to try there anymore because I am (we are) super satisfied with our wagyu hamburg and rice with Kenkori egg today. The hamburg is handmade freshly daily in the morning, and the cooks teppan-grilled it in front of us as the bar seating itself is an open kitchen. Rice and miso soup can be refill once. My lunch partner and I loves the A5 Shimomuragyu Wagyu Gyu Suji Daikon with nice proportion of fat which is so soft and melting in our mouth. I don't mind repeat order on this again when I come back. Wagyu and rice was first open in Lalaport BBCC, follow with their first branch in City Junction Penang and Avenue K is their second branch in KL. 

本魚河岸 官兵衛~ Kanbe Sushi, Shoplex Mont Kiara

March 2025. Meet up with friend who also keen to try out Kanbe Sushi at night for dinner and 小酌一杯 (have a drink over dinner). Kanbe sushi is the only Kanbe family of restaurants in Mont Kiara that I've not try so far since their opening last year. When we are here around dinner time 7pm (its weekday), the restaurant is already half full but after 830pm it started to clear and less crowded. As we decided to come here last minute, I make an online rsvp just an hour before and the 7-8pm time slot all fully book so I was in waiting list. But no worries, walk in is possible with risk of waits for table that's all. We gotten our seats at the bar seating since it is just 2 of us. We order some assorted sushi (Engawa, Kanbe's blue three and others that I can't recall names), as well as a combo set of Ebi Tempura to goes with the sake. We also wanted to try the Wagyu tripe stew but it is not available. Friend chose 獺祭 Dassai sake as our drinks tonight and it's nice~ lighter, smooth and sweet. We have a great time with talks, food & drinks, watch the Japanese chef preparing sushi and enjoy the vibes that makes you feel like you are in Japan now.  

Sushiro Malaysia, Suria KLCC

March 2025. Since Puasa month there will be less people queueing especially Muslim friends are fasting~ it's good timing to try out newly open last month's Sushiro during lunch hour. Surprisingly no queue at all when we walk in around 12.50pm~ immediately seated at table no.28 which is my lucky numbers. Green tea is FOC and unlimited refill where you need to make your own with the green tea powder provided. We ate total 12 plates of nigiri sushi (5 red, 5 silver, 1 gold & 1 side dish). Total cost RM106.26 after tax for 2 pax. Not overly expensive but not cheap either. However, their sushi variety are more extensive than other kaiten sushi chain in Malaysia. You may check out their official site for the menu. 

Here's what we eat for today: Red Plate @ RM5.80 each~ maguro with soy sauce, horse mackerel (aji), vinegared sardine (Iwashi), sweet shrimp gunkan and thick cut grilled mackerel. Silver Plate @ RM7.80 each~ whelk shellfish, bincho maguro, red snow crabstick, sardine tempura and engawa. Gold Plate @ RM10.80~ Assorted shrimp and 1 side dish @ RM12.80~ baby scallop tempura. Upon checkout, the staff use a scanner scan thru the stacked empty plates and it can accurately tell how many plates by color that we have consume. Interesting! Turns out there's chip under the plate. We both thought that Japan technology has been so advanced that scanner able to sort the colors just by scanning thru the plates lol~