Happy New Year 2009

Since it is the last day of 2008, we would like to take this opportunity to thanks our readers, friends and families for their supports for the past year.

And also wish every one............

"Happy New Year 2009"

So what's your plan for tonight? any party? any celebration? any count down? lol

For us...... we decided to stay @ home and do the countdown. lol But we would like to wish everyone enjoy the last day of the year 2008. :D

Since it's the last day of the year....... I decided to blog some home cook foods rather than doing any review. lol Some rest for me. ^o^

Following are the dishes prepared by hubby for our Christmas dinner @ home:

Salads

Grilled Ribs

Grilled Pork with hubby special sauce

Mint Paste

Fruit Dessert with Ice-Cream

Tar Chang Jin Korean Restaurant

Location: Autocity, Juru.

Tel: 012584 7538/04-501 8997

Tar Chang Jin Korean Restaurant

After following my MIL to Bagan Serai, on our way back, we drop by Autocity to have our dinner. We are not sure what to have for our dinner, then we drove passed this restaurant, we decided to give it a try. This restaurant is located at the 1st floor of the building. We find our way by taking a lift up and managed to get to this restaurant. There are no customers except us when we arrived at the restaurant.

The restaurant is very big and cosy. And the waitress are all dress up in Korean style but I did not take any photos of them. My gal loves their dresses very much. Very colourful. lol

They are all very friendly and attentive to their customers.

Interior of Tar Chang Jin Korean

After we browse through the menu, we decided to order COUPLE SET.

Which consist of:

2 BBQ + 2 main + 8 side dishes + 2 teas

Sauce

Fresh Lettuce


8 side dishes

My gal finished all the not spicy side dishes and told me that it tastes very nice and I like their Kim Chi. lol

Turkpokkee(Spicy Korean Rice Cake)

The rice cake is same with the Chinese style rice cake. It just cooked with Korean style. lol

Small Chamchi Kimchi Chighe

It is basically tuna kimchi stew. Hubby loves it very much. Inside the stew you can taste the tuna chunk and many varieties of foods in the soup such as mushroom, kim chi, white cabbage...........

And for the BBQ........

Garlic and Onion

Marinated Pork Rib and Chicken Drumstick

Both of the BBQ equally tasty. lol

And we order extra two rice.......

Rice bowl

Rice

My gal told us that she wants rice so we ordered one for hubby and one for my gal. End up my gal doesn't like the rice as she prefers white rice.

However, hubby and I love it very much. It consist of many kidney beans inside the rice. lol

We also order.........

Kim Chi Ramyeon

The ramyeon is not very QQ. It is some how like the Korean instant noodles that we get from supermarket. lol The soup base tastes not bad.

Recently my gal loves to try spicy foods. So she gets to try some and she loves it. But always drink water after that. lol A bit too spicy for her.

We order extra .........

Marinated Baby Nakji BBQ

My gal loves baby octopus..... so we ordered this for her and she enjoys it very much after the waitress BBQ it for us. lol

As for desserts.......

Mango Pudding

We were told that they only got mango pudding for desserts. Luckily we only ordered one mango pudding. As it is very big. lol Three of us share it together. And my gal loves it very much.

Overall.... their foods taste nice and their services are very attentive and very friendly.

Kampachi Japanese Restaurant

Location: Hotel Equatorial Penang

1, Jalan Bukit Jambul,

Bayan Lepas, 11900 Penang.

Tel: 04-643 8111

Hubby went to Kampachi lots of time and he recommend us to dine in there and since it is raining heavily few weeks ago during dinner time, we decide to give it a try! lol

KAMPACHI Japanese Restaurant

Exterior of Kampachi

Interior of Kampachi

Table Arrangement

Menu

Apple Juice

Nabe Udon

This is hubby order. He loves nice texture of udon very much. And the udon served in Kampachi is what he loves. Very QQ. And the soup tastes nice too. Apart from that, it also served tempura prawn as a side dish. And hubby let me have the prawn. lol And the tempura texture is very crispy and the prawn is very fresh.

Yaki Zakana Zen (Grilled Salmon)

Photos of Yaki Zakana Zen set

My gal decides to have some grilled salmon, so we order this to share. The grilled salmon is ok. And lots of side dish to go with the meal. The miso soup tastes very nice. lol And this is quite a big served.

Shake Oyako Chirashi

Hubby orders this and the waiter there already informed that it has rice underneath the sashimi. And still he wants to go for it. lol

The sashimi tastes very nice and fresh. The rice underneath the sashimi is just like the sushi rice. And it tastes very nice too. lol

Rainbow Roll

The rainbow rolls taste very nice. It is a good combination of fresh salmon and tuna with avocado, seaweed and crab stick.

Shimeji

My gal loves fresh mushrooms very much. So we order this for her. And she loves it very much. lol

As for desserts......... da da da da.......... we ordered:

Matcha Ice-cream

Which is basically green tea ice-cream serves with red bean. lol The taste vice........ lol it is very very delicious. My gal and hubby love it very much. It has a very strong green tea aroma. I also recommend you try this. This is the best green tea ice-cream I taste so far. lol

Tempura Ice-cream

This is the first time I try tempura ice-cream in Japanese restaurant. Hubby loves it very much but I still prefer green tea ice-cream. lol This tempura ice-cream tastes not bad. lol

Overall..... we are satisfied with our foods. And the environment is very nice and the service is excellent. They always came around us and asked if we want anything. The waiter/waitress are very polite and helpful. We will sure come back for their foods and good services. lol