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.

Tax: 10% Service Charge

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

I love browsing in supermarket and also departmental store selling kitchen ware. One of the kitchen ware i wish to have is microplane, zesting orange and lemon going to be much easier. I read somewhere that microplane originally are metal equipment used to smoothen surfaces, but later it found its way into kitchen being a sturdy zester for parmesan cheese, citrus fruit etc.

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

~random blabber~

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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Mimi’s Dining Room

Movenpeak Steamboat in Ipoh Parade

Set for single person

Seafood Set, RM19.80, too big for a person portion, can be shared, comes with crab, balitong, mussels, squid, crabstick etc

Overall, i never like steamboat where each person having own soup pot, i find the soup of such places are usually just full of seasoning/MSG…

Address: MovenPeak (also a branch in Ipoh Parade)

12A, Jalan Chin Choon Sam,

Greentown,

30450, Ipoh, Perak.

Telephone: 05-2532 218/2533 218

Website: www.movenpeak.com.my

Macaron Class taught by french chef Nathalie who heads Nathalie Gourmet Studio in Solaris Dutamas(near Solaris Dutamas Pappa Rich) We were taught to make 3 kinds of macarons: Chocolate Macaron with chocolate ganache, macarons with raspberry fillings and those with salted caramel fillings. Love the selection, had been wanting to know how salted caramel taste like.

Macaron base has 4 main ingredients: ground almond, icing sugar, egg white and caster sugar. Almond meal + icing sugar which has been broken up in a blender and sieved again to make sure it is airy and lump free.

We start off making a paste using ground almond+icing sugar+cocoa powder+egg white + valrhona chocolate! valrhona is like the Creme de la Mer in the choco-world, with 70% cocoa butter, cost RM100 plus per kg), unlike previous macaron baking with rohani jelani, Nathalie uses a Italian method of making macaron, it is slightly more complicated as it uses a sugar thermometer in certain stage of mixing to ensure the mixture is in certain temperature or range of temperature…

Nathalie showing up how to pipe macaron

pipped chocolate macaron shells, ikea placemat come in handy

piped macaron shells

meringue for salted caramel macaron. Piping caramel coloured macaron shells

Yeah~ we were given some lovely dessert: some profiterole/cream puff lookalike, but with hard sugar glazing; and chocolate mousse with chestnut puree

making chocolate ganache using valrhona chocolate buttons and whipped cream, nathalie shared with us that she uses President brand whipped cream as some other whipped cream contains stabilizers. melting the chocolate button with warmed whipped cream. We also made raspberry jam and salted caramel, this is interesting, didn’t know that you can actually heat sugar, just sugar, no water in a pan, and it will melt and turn into caramel color, bubbling violently.

filling in the chocolate ganache

pretty chocolate macarons

pipping in raspeberry jam

pretty as well

assembling caramel macarons

salted caramel macarons

une, duex, trois flavors

Nathalie Arbefeuille

packing up, each of us got 12 to bring home.

I love Nathalie’s pick of macaron flavor for the class, they are unique(salted caramel ones, with sea salt added)… She have tested that if she further reduced sugar amount by 10g for the macaron shells, the macaron shells won’t hold its shape well, and the texture will be different. There is good balance of sweetness in the macarons, all the filling are not sweet, to balance up with the sweet macaron shells. However, i will probably use French method of making macaron shells which is easier (don’t have to buy sugar thermometer), but will use Nathalie’s recipes for the fillings(salted caramel and chocolate are the ones i’ll probably try to make)

Nathalie Gourmet Studio is an interesting restaurant, only open from 9am – 6pm, closed on Sundays and their menu changes every month!

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My previous macaron baking with Rohani Jelani

Website: Nathalie Gourmet Studio

Address: Nathalie Gourmet Studio

Nathalie’s Gourmet Studio

A-4-1-5 Dutamas Solaris,

Jalan Dutamas, 50490 Kuala Lumpur.

Telephone: 03-6207 9572