I was in Sunway Pyramid (SP) last night and wanted to dine in a new pasta restaurant near the entrance of SP in the new wing. It is set up by Pasta de Waruku Singapore for this Japanese Casual Pasta & Restaurant. When I enter, I was told by the waitress that at the moment, it is by invitation only but nevertheless allowed us to enter as we happen to be there. She further told us that all dining is on the house.

I had crabmeat with fetucine and cocoa shake. Then we shared a green tea ice cream. There are no photos here as the batteries of my digital camera happen to be flat. What we ate was worth more than RM70 with taxes but thanks to their promotion, we dined for free. We happen to be in the right place at the right time. For those who miss out on the free dining, do not fret. You can say pay RM100 and get back RM100 dining voucher which means that you only pay half on 9th May 2008.

Last night, I had dinner in The Food Loft in Gurney Plaza. And yes, there is a statue of a brown naked woman with a violin. It was part of the decoration and the ambience looks like those of a hotel. The chairs were linen covered soft cushion. You need to get a card each person to order. Simply find your table and take note of your table reservation number. Then order your food and you need to bring your card along to be scanned by the computer for the order. Tell the cook your table number and he will bring the food to your place. After the meal, you card will be scanned again for the payment.

I did not go to Gurney Plaza for quite some time and when I dined in Food Loft last night, I noticed that there were a lot of changes to the refurbishment in the process. On the ground floor outside, there is a new restaurant called Chilis serving something like Mexican food with burgers and tortillas. It was very crowded and poor Breeks shifted further away from near the entrance did not even have a customer. Maybe it was poor planning to shift so far away and being overshadowed by the newly opened Chilis. Tonight, I am going to treat my family to Food Loft as my parents have never been there before.

On the 6th of July, my family treated me dinner in Jade Seafood Restaurant beside Sunway Pyramid in Subang for my birthday. Above is one of the orders of yam basket. The yam is deep fried and added with stir-fried pieces of chicken, green pepper, button mushroom, cashew nuts and other ingredients. This was super-licious.

We also had a bowl of sharks’ fins soup for RM20 each with genuine crab meat and sharks’ fins strips. The soup was more of a thick gravy and double-boiled.

This is the view from our table. Notice the ambience with red cushioned chairs and chinese decorated settings.

This are the baked crabs with crab shells. The crab shells look like they have 2 eyes looking at you but they do certainly decorate the plate.

We also ordered a dish of vegetables with big prawns and ginger. The vegetables were well cooked.

These are the combined dishes that we had. There were about 4 orders just for us.

Last night, we celebrated my dad’s 70th birthday in a seafood restaurant. As my camera batteries run out, I did not take any pictures. He ordered steamed fish with spicy sauce, bake crabs, butter prawns, vegetables soup, clams, delectable fried chicken and rice for 5 persons. The meal was delicious and tantalizing with reasonable pricings. It cost about RM120 in all which was very reasonable for seafood. Except for mom, it was dad’s treat and we each gave him RM100 in angpows totalling RM300 for his birthday.

I went to Sakae Sushi for a change from Sushi King as we saw a long queue outside the restaurant. So we decided to queue up and not long later, we were shown to our table. It was full house almost everyday as we by pass the restaurant. Most of the items are cheaper than Sushi King with new innovations like you can refill the cup of green tea via the hot water tap on every table. You can also make orders through an LCD flat monitor stationed on each table with navigations to see the type of food served. It is a pity they don’t have internet, otherwise we could serve and eat simultaneously. They have installed a mouse for diners to click on each option of the screen. Here are some of the servings that’s rather different with avocado and cheese toppings.

Flower crabs and more flower crabs. This photo was taken in The Cafe buffet spread laid on the table with crushed ice on a platter with satin covered table. The shells of the flower crabs are softer than black river crabs and easier to de-shell. And they taste just as good.

Don’t the photo above look tantalizing? Here’s my selection of the buffet of chrome yellow mango pudding, sky blue local dessert (“kuih”), chocolate fondue and cakes. Since I took a bit of almost everything, I share this platter with my sister to cut down on the calories.