Vietnamese Food Promotion @ Latest Recipe, Le Meridien KL

Just PHO You this April, Guest Chef Bui Qui Kim from Sheraton Hanoi Hotel will be showcasing Vietnamese cuisine at Latest Recipe, Le Meridien KL. This Vietnamese Food Promotion will run from April 11-20 (for dinner only), and will feature iconic dishes such as Hanoi crispy fried shrimp spring rolls, traditional pho noodle with beef, Vietnamese pancake and many more.

There will be three menus on rotation throughout the promotion. For appetizers, there are a variety of delicious, healthy salads such as chicken and onion salad (gao xeu phay), lotus stem and prawn salad (goui ngou sen), and seafood and glass noodle salad (goui miean hai san), which was my favorite salad of the evening. You can also find the popular fresh spring roll with shrimps and herbs here too (goi cuon tom).

Fresh spring roll with shrimps and herbs 

Seafood and glass noodle salad - wonderful balanced flavours

Chicken and onion salad

Lotus Stem and Prawn Salad

Other appetizers include tender braised beef knuckle with marinated pickle onion (boo kho an kem kieu chua), which reminded me of salted beef. There will also different soups offered - during our visit, it was a light sweet corn and chicken meat soup with mushroom (sup ngo voi thit ga nam huong).

For hot appetizers, there will be prawn mousse on sugar cane (chaio toam) or watch the Vietnamese chef at the live cooking station make Vietnamese pancake (banh xeo), a thin savory pancake with prawn and beansprouts filling.

Crispy pancake eaten with nuoc cham

Vietnamese seafood spring roll (chau gio hai san)

Moving on the mains, some of the dishes which we tried and enjoyed were the stir fried soft shell crab with chilli sauce (cua soat toong out), chicken curry (ca ri ga), Vietnamese braised beef with cinnamon (boo sot vang) and deep fried chicken wing (caunh gao chiean).

This reminded me slightly of Singapore chilli crabs 

Curry chicken 

Deep fried chicken wings, finger licking good for sure.

BBQ Duck with Honey Glaze (Vot noung mat ong)

Delicious beef stew

And of course, you can't leave without having a bowl of pho. Diners can choose between beef or chicken broth. Here's Chef Bui cooking our bowl of pho bo (beef noodle soup)-  the noodles are topped with a rich, clear broth made by boiling beef and spices for at least four hours. Delicious!

For desserts, we tried an assortment of Vietnamese fruit candy, sticky rice dumpling with green bean syrup (cheo troai noouc), black bean sweet soup (cheo naau nen), jelly (rau caau), and coconut flavoured Vietnamese caramel custard (baunh ca ra men vi dua).

Vietnamese fruit candy

Sticky rice dumpling with green bean syrup - reminded me of our Chinese tang yuan

Coconut flavoured Vietnamese caramel custard - my favorite dessert of the lot, love the fragrant shredded coconut on top.

On top of all the Vietnamese dishes on offer, diners can also enjoy the rest of the international spread, including salmon sashimi, Indian cuisine, teppanyaki, Malay food, cheese as well as desserts.

Vietnamese food enthusiasts, this is one buffet worth checking out! The "Just Pho You" Vietnamese promotion is available daily from 6.30pm to 10.30pm, until 20 April 2016. It is priced at RM138 nett per adult from Mon-Thu, and RM150 nett per adult from Fri-Sun. SPG and Credit Card discounts apply.


For reservations, please call Dining reservations at 03-2263 7434 or email dining.lmkl@lemeridien.com


Opening times: Monday to Sunday: 6.30pm to 10.30pm (Dinner)

Location: Latest Recipe, 5th Floor, Le M�ridien Kuala Lumpur, 2 Jalan Stesen Sentral, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Tel: 03- 2263 7434

GPS Coordinates: 3.135685, 101.686524

Website: http://www.dining.lemeridienkualalumpur.com/



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New Menu @ The Barn, 1 Mont Kiara , KL

The Barn has recently revamped their menu so we went back this week to check it out. On the current menu, you will find tapas + small plates, appetizers, cold cuts, sausages, burgers, meats, from the sea, pizza, pasta and even Asian favorites such bak kut teh and braised pork trotters. 

To start, we ordered the Tapas Combo Platter (RM68), which features their best-selling tapas items such as the crispy pork belly and pork satay with peanut sauce, as well as fried chicken wings, luncheon fries, deep fried button mushrooms and potato wedges. My favorite was the crispy pork belly, which was tender and flavorful with crunchy pork crackling. Other components of this platter was also nicely done - super sinful!

We were quite surprised to see Hokkien Mee (RM27) on the menu, to be honest. However, we certainly did not regret ordering this - they did a good job and it tasted pretty authentic. We could clearly see that the customers loved it too, as we saw plates after plates of Hokkien mee being served during lunch hour while we were there. The Hokkien mee here is cooked with "famous Petaling Street black sauce", with generous amount of pork lard, king prawns and squid.

One of the appetizers we tried here is the oven-baked Portobello mushroom (RM29) which was topped with bacon, tomato and oozy mozzarella cheese. Hubby liked this a lot. I saw another interesting appetizer on the menu which we didn't try this time - Kentucky Fried Frog.

We had the signature pork ribs the last time we were here, and enjoyed it. We were told that this oven-roasted baby back pork ribs (RM59) is an improved recipe. Our waiter arrives with our ribs and flambes it with some brandy before placing it on a wooden board before us. The ribs were tender and falling off the bone, however we felt that it could use a little bit more sauce. So, we requested for some extra bbq sauce and they happily obliged. The ribs are now served with roasted potatoes and vegetables as well as coleslaw.

For dessert, we had the creme brulee (RM25) served with a scoop of ice cream.The custard base was rich and creamy, however it was lacking the layer of hard caramel. Still good, though.

Latte (RM11)

You can check out my previous post here. You can also find The Barn in Gurney Plaza, Penang now .

Opening times: 12.00 noon to 12.00 midnight.


Location: The Barn, G-2, G-3 & G-26, Ground Floor, 1 Mont Kiara, No.1, Jalan Kiara, Mont Kiara 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (opposite H&M) Parking rate at 1 Mont Kiara RM2 per hour on weekdays.

Tel: +603 6211 5620

Website: http://www.thebarn.com.my/

GPS Coordinates: 3.165476, 101.652477

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Menya Musashi, Raffles City, Singapore

In Singapore, it is likely that you will need to queue to get into a restaurant especially during lunch and dinner hours. Most of the time, we would just eat earlier to avoid having to queue. We went to Menya Musashi to have our dinner at 5pm and there were only 2 more tables there at that time ;)

They have laminated menus here, as well as iPad menus. Ordering is done via the iPad, once you have selected and added the items you want to the basket, click send order. 

I ordered the black soup tsukemen ($14.90), which was really good. Although we can get Menya Musashi in KL, the tsukemen are different from one another, and I do prefer the SG version more. You get four pieces of char siu with your tsukemen, as well as thick noodles, bamboo shoots and half an egg. Love the thick noodles dipped into the black garlic sauce. However, they definitely have nicer eggs in KL - soft and runny, just the way I like them. And by the way, in SG outlet, you can order up to 5 x the normal noodle portion (for the same price) so it's great for big eaters.

Hubby went for the white soup char siu ramen ($11.90), which is Menya's signature white tonkotsu broth made by boiling a substantial amount of pork bones. The broth is rich and creamy, very tasty! Pricewise, KL's one cost RM19.80 so it's more reasonably priced and cheaper to eat it in KL. 

 

Service: Good.

Price: Total bill S$31.55. Green tea is complimentary.

Location: Menya Musashi, Raffles City Shopping Centre, 252 North Bridge Rd, #01-16, S 179103, Singapore.

Tel: +65 6336 6500

Nearest MRT: City Hall.



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