Garden Lifestyle Cafe

Want to feel like dining in the cozy garden? So go to Garden Cafe, beautiful gardening concept restaurant – green and calm environment (even though all the plants is plastic but still it feel green and calming). Last time we dine at their newly open outlet at Viva Home Jln Loke Yew.

Visitor will be entertain with live performance

 

They got swing on table, how cute is that

Collections at the restaurant wall

I have bad experience dine-in at Viva outlet, the food sucks, service sucks and waiting period is too long. We order Calamari i.e supposed to be entrée but in the end serve last as dessert and its burn! Also it’s takes 35mins for our main course to be served, luckily I bring the camera and we killing the time by photo taking. 

Usually my favorite pick would be Seafood noddle but unfortunately after the revised menu starting from 2011, they get rid my favored Seafood noodle (+__+) so frustrating. Recommended at Garden is their signature drink Soda, either lavender soda or soda mint and i found it compatible to eat with their fresh oyster. 

Soda mint and Oyster

Left: Gong Bao Chicken with Shanghai Noodle definitely not recommended even they stated as chef recommendation in menu, i found it too dry and too plain to eat. 

Right: Grilled Prime Aged Rib Eye Steak (200gm) which i order for medium rare but they give me rare steak and plus the salad is unsatisfying.

Burn Calamari

The concept of this restaurant is really suitable for family gathering, dating or simply friends chit-chatting. Mostly Garden Cafe branches at the main shopping complex like One Utama, The Curve etcs. It's really calming having their flower teas after tired of shopping. The flower tea has a great aroma and beneficial for good skin.

What's Cookin in Medan?

While on the way to Toba, I can’t remember the place but along the road there are many stalls that sell Lemang and Rambutan. Even though Lemang is so familiar in Malaysia but what make it difference from here because they dip with Kaya(coconut jam) instead of Rendang - it’s edible and delicious. Drinks we had Passion fruits juice blended fresh – pink and sweet iced cool. 

For 1 serve Lemang and 3 passion fruits juice it's cost Rp48,000.

Lemang and homemade kaya.

This is my favorite food while i'm in Medan: Sate Padang!

Final night in Medan, we have dinner at Kg. baru that is famously known for its Sate Padang. Served in banana leaf bowl – sate is mixed together with sauce and lontong (ketupat). The sauce is look like curry but it’s not a curry, creamy and definitely prelibato deliziosa! 

Price: Rp14,000

How to get here, we simply take Angkutan Rp2,000. I don't know if Beca will be appropriate transport because it's quit far if you're from town.

Sate Padang

Singapore ~ Final Day

From Day 2

Final Day.

Actually I have been to Singapore like hundred times but this trip should be my debut as tourist. After very exhausting playtime from the day before and because we're so lazy to be crowded in MRT we just get tour guide for today sightseeing, but it ended up the guide is a jerk – better for ourselves alone rather than with him. He is Malaysian but working with travel agent at Singapore, that’s make him the plastic hypocrite, while he keep bragging how good Singapore is and always condemning Malaysia, he started to look so pathetic and I feel sorry for him – I’m proud Malaysian OK, no matter how outstanding the others, I just love my country and I’m proud of my nationality, period. So if someone is trash talking about my proud (worse case he is Malaysian!) he is a douche bag! 

Continue to my last @Singapore

First we stopped at The Civic District walk by Esplanade Park later to Merlion Park and then to Orchard Road.

We had lunch at the famous Indian Muslim restaurant Singapore Zam Zam located at purple shophouse at the corner of Arab Street. They served very nice food with huge portion, 1 plate is equivalent of 2person with cheap price. For a plate Briayani Rice and Chicken Murtabak it only cost $12. 

After lunch we stop at Mustaffa (famous retailer like Mydin) to shop souvenirs. Later we continue to Sentosa Island by Cable Car. Sentosa is one of my favorite top spot, last year we spent 3 whole days but still I missed Underwaterworld and Song of Sea, so this time I just gonna through this both.

Cable Car 1 way ticket $24.

From cable car to Underwaterworld

-By bus: Free shuttle Blue & Red line

-By Monorail: from Vivo station - Beach station, from beach station take tram-Blue line 

huge king crab, it can grow to 7-8 square feet!

Underwaterworld entrance fees $25.90

Open daily 9am to 9pm – last admission 8.30pm

Dolphin show: 2.30pm & 5.00pm

Going back to Beach station to catch up song of sea show at 8.00pm. It's a mesmerizing show with live cast and effects like water jets, lasers, special computer imaging, flaming burst and captivating music. Ticket price only $10. You can get $3 off for Segway drive if showing song of the sea ticket after 6.30pm.

Recommend in Sentosa - Siloso Beach is the best. You can rent a bike to island explorer, skyline luge, the flying trapeze and try to surf at wave house or leisure riding a segway.  If you plan to play at Sentosa better buy their pass Day pass ($63.90) or Noon pass ($37.90) but for the whole day better buy the Premium pass ($65.90) it’s more savings. Others attraction is 4D Magix, tiger sky tower, cineblast and don’t forget to try desperados games. 

Finally i can finish this post *proud self*

Horas Medan - Day 1 (Part 2)

From here Part 1

We stopped at Porsea and have a lunch there. For muslim it's kinda hard to find halal food here but you have to be guided because here only got one or two restaurant that only serve halal food.

Definitely NO menus for muslim:
B1 - Roasted Dog
B2 - Roasted Pig
B3 - Roasted Sow Pig
If you see this B1, B2 & B3 in menu it's definitely non-halal.

Rumah Makan Lamhot, landmark - near the lake and steel bridge.

The cooking almost the same with Malay cuisine not much differ, only they serve more fishes, but warning all cookery is very damn hot! the chili or in local it's called Cabai really sting and will make you tears.

On the bottom right-side-yellow square is Kikil, which is actually a buffalo skin cooked with curry sauce. Dunno what it's taste like, i don't eat it.

After lunch, again for hours journey we took off to Bukit Dolok Tolong, Balige. We hiking (by car lol) and reach the top. Dolok Tolong is like private place which not anyone can enter the top, so it's lucky for us but too bad it's almost raining and the sky getting dark.

Any idea the sign mean?

After that we drop by at near local village.

 
And lastly we hang-out at this very beautiful and magnificent place until sunset.Very relaxing and cool spot, i can seat for hours even a day here, why Malaysia did not have a beautiful place like this?

Then we continue to Balige town and check-in Hotel Mezra for a night stay.
Day 2