The first time we went there I ordered Hummus as side dish. This time Hubby ordered chicken Kabsah. I don’t really like the chicken dishes they have (except for roasted chicken) because it is not dry, I kind of dislike the slimy fatty taste of the chicken’s skin. You can opt for quarter or half of the chicken serving.

The rice set comes with a bowl of blended green chili and tomato and a serving of cucumber salad.

As usual I ordered chicken kebab with rice. The normal chicken kebab set comes with Lebanese bread and fries. I love their rice because the portion is big and for those who are really starving, you will feel really full after eating the whole plate.

This is the side dish of grape leaves. I have seen a Greek cooking TV series that shows how they stuffed rice and whatnot into grape leaves and was interested to try this at Saba. But it did taste weird..huhu!

If you want to check their menu and price, please click these 2 pictures that I got from somebody’s blog post about Saba restaurant.

Another good detailed review was done by FriedChillies.com - Saba Restaurant. If you are interested to try Middle Eastern cuisine, check out Saba restaurant. It is on the ground floor, the same shop lot as the Cyberjaya International College, with HSBC building on the right, opposite to Streetmall and Terminal.

Restaurant Saba, Cyberjaya originally appeared on CintaRasa on March 10, 2010.

So once we reached there, we ordered 2 types of nasi goreng - their Naili’s Special Fried Rice and Temasik Rice Special.

The one with the fried egg is their Naili’s Special Fried Rice - spicy fried rice with chicken wing, fried egg and keropok. I like their sambal udang, it was good!

Hubby ate Temasik Rice - butter rice with fried chicken, beef rendang and sambal prawn. I had a spoonful or two and the rendang was good as well.

We also ordered ubi rebus -steamed tapioca served with sambal and sweet coconut. The sambal bilis that came with the ubi was good, almost as good as my sambal bilis said Hubby..haha! I even asked them to tapau the leftover as the portion was quite big to be finished after a plate of fried rice.

For drinks, I ordered watermelon and I was not sure what sour drink that Hubby ordered..heh!

Overall it was a good place to eat.

Naili’s
No. 48, Jalan USJ 10/1B,
USJ Taipan,
47620 Subang Jaya, Selangor
Opening Hours: 5pm - 2am (7 days a week)
For reservations : 013 246 3228, 019 2020 755, 019 393 0878, 019 9192165

Naili’s Taipan USJ originally appeared on CintaRasa on March 8, 2010.

All these pictures were taken during our makan trip with SIL’s family.

Since we went there quite early, there was dessert available. The usual pulut (sticky rice) with mangga, nyum nyum! It tasted so good that the dessert is usually gone by the time we reach the restaurant for late dinner. You can also tapau (take away) this pulut and mango, they will pack the santan (thick coconut milk) separately.

Another dessert I like, which till now I still don’t know its Thai name..heh! It has slices of jackfruit, nata de coco, cendol and weird looking gummy chewy i-dont-know what inside which I am sure is made from tepung beras or tepung pulut.

This was another version of udang celup tepung. But I preferred the normal celup tepung. This one costs more, I think about RM15 and deep fried with breadcrumbs.

BIL ordered bawal masak kerabu. The best part about fish dish there, the fish will be fried crispy. We have tried bawal masak halia before and it was good! I am yet to try any of their famous siakap steam. Will have to try that one of these days.

Lastly, this was kerabu perut. We never ordered perut (babat lembu) dish before since Hubby doesn’t eat them. BIL said it was good. Perhaps next time I should order other type of kerabu they have.

Restoran Alissara Thai Cuisine (Part 2) originally appeared on CintaRasa on February 26, 2010.

I couldn’t find the exact address of this Thai restaurant. But after reading a few other blogs entries, some says it is located in Taman Puchong Indah.

This is the picture of nasi goreng I ordered during my second visit. The problem with their food name, there are in Thai language. I found them very difficult to remember, perhaps next time I should bring a notepad to jot down the food name from the menu..haha!

We ordered udang celup tepung as well. We are yet to find food that we really love at the restaurant apart from their Som Tam which comes with fried chicken which is really delicious. Sorry, I didn’t have the picture of their somtam, maybe some other times.

A must every time I dine there - sayur campur oyster. No, they don’t have oyster inside, it’s more like sayur goreng with sos tiram..haha! You can find kailan, asparagus inside the sayur campur.

Oh, their food price is quite pricey compared to normal Thai restaurant, starts from RM8 per portion but certainly cheaper than Sri Ayutthaya.

I will update the second part of this entry later with more food pictures during our visit with SIL’s family.

Restoran Alissara Thai Cuisine, Puchong originally appeared on CintaRasa on February 25, 2010.

It’s been quite a while since my last visit to Tony Roma’s. We usually go to the outlet in Sunway Pyramid. It is located in the old wing, facing the ice skating rink. The same row as Sushi King.

After trying their burger and pasta during previous visits, I decided to stick with their bountiful beef ribs. This is full rack - 5 pieces of ribs that could be shared with Hubby as both of us only manage to eat 2 ribs at most..heh!

For the little one, they gave crayons and paper to color. But my son was too young to appreciate the gesture, he ended up eating the crayons…huhu!

What I love the most is their appetizer of fried mushroom. I love the dipping honey sauce. Since our son couldn’t stay still for his parents to eat in peace, we decided to pack the leftover of the fried mushroom.

Son, I hope once you are bigger you will come to like Tony Roma’s as much as your mom does..heh!

Tony Roma’s Sunway Pyramid originally appeared on CintaRasa on February 24, 2010.

OK, at last I finally got the chance to continue my entry about asam pedas Melaka. If you are interested to look up for this place, it is located at the roadside so it is quite hard to find proper parking spots.

It doesn’t even have a proper signboard. But there is one signboard for the photocopy shop beside the asam pedas shoplot.

And if you imagine the place as a proper restaurant, with decent tables and chairs arrangement, you are in for a surprise. These are one of the tables that we have to fight for that night..huhu!

And the service was so slow. I’ve been to many other makan place with a lot more customers but this warung is the slowest I vouch for.

Nevertheless since we have been this far, we waited and waited. Luckily the kerang rebus and kupang rebus were good (at least the kicap pencicah was hot enough) or maybe because I was already starving when those two arrived at the table.

The asam pedas was really not what I expected. It was spicy, but that was all into it..I couldn’t taste any of the usual spice and flavors normally found in asam pedas - like belacan, bunga kantan, daun kesum and whatnot.

After we were done with the spicy asam pedas, then only our sayur campur came. It tasted blerrgghh..like raw Chinese cabbage fried with garlic..isk isk! What a waste of money!

So, for those who say that this is the famous place to eat asam pedas Melaka, I’m sorry to say that I have to disagree. Maybe the cook for that night was a different person than the usual cook but honestly it was the worst asam pedas I’ve ever tasted..huhu!

Asam Pedas Melaka (Part 2) originally appeared on CintaRasa on February 22, 2010.

We went to Melaka last year to buy dodol for Niece’s wedding favors. So since BIL has been telling about this so called very nice asam pedas, we thought we might as well give it a try.

So off we go to Bukit Cina area, somewhere nearby the old cemetery or was it near Perigi Hang Li Po?

They have the usual choice of fish like tenggiri, ikan terubuk, keli, sembilang, pari, cencaru, kembong and whatnot for asam pedas.

They also have side dish like kupang and kerang rebus.

The business starts at 8pm but when we arrived at 6:45pm, the tables were almost fully booked by people coming all the way from Penang on excursion trips..isk isk!

The signboard of the stall - Asam Pedas Power, Warung Abg Piee.

I will continue with the second part of this asam pedas entry later. There are about 5-6 more pictures to share later.

Asam Pedas Melaka (Part 1) originally appeared on CintaRasa on February 12, 2010.

We were in Subang Parade the other day when I decided to try food in Dome.

Initially I ordered linguini but I got spaghetti instead. Luckily they gave beef bacon as per my order otherwise I would be really pissed off with the waiter.

For me, the spicy Olio Pasta was kind of good since it was..errr.. spicy. But somehow with the portion size, I just think it is overpriced for a plate of pasta.

Hubby ordered their Lot Burger. Not much to be shouted about. Our little one had biscotti.

The verdict? Not a place that I want to go and eat again..huhu!

Dome - Subang Parade originally appeared on CintaRasa on January 27, 2010.

This was our second visit to H.M Bagan Lalang restaurant this year. Since so many people came to my food blog looking for ikan bakar bagan lalang, here is another entry of such jalan-jalan cari makan trip.

We ordered ikan pari (stingray) bakar but I forgot to snap the picture. Here is the picture of sotong bakar. I purposely asked them to clean the inside of the squid and cut them this way so that the inner side will be garing..hehe!

I can’t recall what kind of fish we chose that night. But it was cooked 3 rasa which turned out to be more to sweet sour taste (maybe because of the pineapple!)

Their butter prawns..I love them! We even packed the leftover home because we can’t finish everything there and then.

Keep on reminding myself - Mussels is kupang, and here is kepah or clams. It was cooked sup serai. Just to have something to hirup while having all kind of seafood with plain rice.

My all time favorite when I go there, pepahat masak cili. But alas, this time the pepahat were smaller and their shells are very fragile and brittle. It was such a hassle to eat them because the shells broke into pieces..isk!

See you again next year in 2010, Bagan Lalang!

Ikan Bakar Bagan Lalang originally appeared on CintaRasa on December 29, 2009.

I’m sure many of us have eaten breads, all kind of pasta and all the different types of wheat food. But I’m sure not many of us are aware of wheat goes through - from the time its seed is planted until it appears on your plate as bread, pasta, tortilla and more. The interactive game will let you learn all there is to know about the most-consumed grain in America.

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So let’s we all be generous this Holiday season, donate your time and let it be exchanged into wheat that could feed people who really need them.

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Wheat Food Council. All opinions are 100% mine.

Wheat, wheat, wheat! originally appeared on CintaRasa on December 18, 2009.