Evelyn Gan of SilverGlobe Bird Nest sent me a bird nest to be reviewed. Above is bird nest package sent by PosLaju, it takes only 1 day to reach KL from Kuching, Sarawak. There is a recipe on how to cook bird nest attached to the container.

Bird nest drink is a chinese delicacy known for its health and beauty benefits, it is essentially saliva of certain birds which lives in caves, its nests are made of their own saliva.

Raw bird’s nest, above is 2 pcs worth RM130 which weight only about 10g, talk about expensive, but it would still be cheaper than saffron

Put the bird nest into a small bowl

pour in luke warm water and let it soak for 1 hour

expanded. Apparently, real bird nest will expand whereas fake ones won’t expand after soaking

Put into a heatproof bowl, i used Pyrex, but chinese ceramic clay bowl are usually used. Above are bird nest, a piece of rock sugar weighing 40g and 400g of water

double boil the bird nest. I put the pyrex bowl into a big stock pot, base it with a metal steaming rack, and fill water halfway up the pyrex

Cooked, after 2 hours. The bird nest is automatically broken up into jelly lookalike. I can’t really get used to the smell though, it smell of albumin or egg white. Upon googling, having a eggy smell means the bird nest have not been chemically bleached, and they called it egg-like FRAGANCE.

Website: Silverglobe Bird Nest

Facebook: Silverglobe Bird Nest Facebook

Cheese and grape

Salmon Gravalax

Sushi and sashimi, no salmon! only tuna, butter fish etc. Their butter fish is good though

Make your own salad in a parmesan cheese “barrel”

pizza, some with creamed corn topping, at least use some frozen corn/fresh corn… Creamed corn just sounds so desserty…

Jacket potato, the pototo is a bit dried out

BBQ, choose your seafood/meat and they will cook it. Their squid and fish BBQ are pretty good.

chicken kebab, beef roast and BBQ ribs, the ribs are huge and juicy

My plates, portion control… don’t want to have a bloated feeling at the end of the meal :p The guacomole is kinda odd, first time having it…

Pizza with squash, not bad although oily.

juicy beef ribs

Chocolate Fondue

Cakes

Other pastries and dessert

Baskin Robbins

Topping: Coconut flake, almond nibs, chocolate sprinkles etc

Their cherry ice cream is actually not bad, the green tea is good as well, strawberry ones comes with big chunk of real fruit

Overall, i find they skimp on their food choices knowing a lot of Alliance credit card member are coming. It is a 2-days-offer whereby Alliance credit card member can get 50% off. Not mistaken, original price is RM78++ per pax. There is no coconut and crab in sight as seen in other’s blog :\

Address: Tonka Bean Cafe (Impiana KLCC Hotel)

13 Jalan Pinang

50450 Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia.

Tel: (+603) 2147 1111

Website: Impiana KLCC Hotel

Business hours: 6:30am to 10:30pm, daily

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Edo Ichi, a new Japanese restaurant in Solaris Dutamas, located same floor as Pappa Rich

Mini Shake Oyako Don to Nabeyaki Udon set, RM35, very big portion and nice

chawanmushi, comes with the set, very smooth

Nabeyaki Udon(comes with the set too), yummy, soup base is good

Mini Salmon belly don(comes with the set), fish is fatty and delicious

Salmon Platter, RM30, their august specials, portion is really small, it is better to take the Udon+Don set which is just RM5 more.

Quality japanese food at reasonable price

Address: Edo Ichi

A4-G1-1, Solaris Dutamas,
No. 1, Jalan Dutamas 1,
50480 Kuala Lumpur.

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Business hour: 11:30am – 3pm and 6pm-10:30pm

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digital kitchen scale, yet to have one…

measuring cups, wish to have a set of these too, just found out they are digital measuring cups too

maybe a Le Creuset too, a french manufactured cookware, it can be put inside oven, sorta like pyrex. Other than the normal orangey color Le Creuset pot, they actually now selling baking cups and ramekins too. Good for making cheese/chocolate souffle, one of my to-make dish in a quite distant future… hahaha

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MAIU Japanese Restaurant, previously called Umaiya. I think this branch of Umaiya is sold off, and taken over by new management who renamed it MAIU, but the chef, menu etc remain the same.

Shop Front

Appetiser: Edamame is plump and good

Shishamo is perfectly grilled with no burnt bits

Saba

Takoyaki is not bad

Interesting and yummy: Unagi deep fried tempura style. Piping hot when served.

Agedashi Tofu and Tofu Steak, the tofu used are japanese type which are soft and smooth

Sashimi: butterfish, red tuna, salmon, octopus and squid

another type of tofu which i think has small unagi bits inside

Beef cube tepanyaki

Looks nice, but taste just so so, avocado+unagi+tempura prawn

Soft shell crab temaki

Unagi and cheese roll, again looks nice, taste just so so, perhaps by then we were overwhelmed by amount of rice in these rolls.

California rolls, with crispy egg

Red tuna roll and unagi roll

Chawanmushi steamed egg

Garlic rice

tempura, a bit too oily

Chocolate, and match ice cream

Overall, they are hit and misses.

Address: Maiu (previously known as Umai-ya)

G-3A, The Place,

Jalan PJU 8/5D,

Bandar Damansara Perdana,

47820, Petaling Jaya,

Selangor

they also have a branch in Bandar Baru Seri Petaling

No 39-1, Ground floor,

Jalan Radin Anum 2,

Bandar Baru Seri Petaling,

57000, Kuala Lumpur

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