Tony Roma's @ The Pavilion

AAAhhh... am finally done with all my reports! No more deadlines for the next two weeks, hopefully! Made a trip back to KL last weekend, and here goes my long overdue post:

Has anyone been to The Pavilion yet?

Built to match the shopping experiences of New Yorks's 5th Avenue, Tokyo's Ginza, Milan, and Paris, Pavilion KL is built across 1.3 million square feet, comprising a 7-level shopping complex, 2 luxury residential towers, a corporate office block, and a 6-star boutique hotel.

It is located directly opposite the current KL Plaza and Starhill. As of last week, it is roughly 70% operational with the top floor being relatively empty. Golden Screen Cinema and True Fitness gym are yet to open. Pavilion is set to be a shopping heaven for rich aunties and spoilt brats! The whole shopping complex is filled up with retail boutiques of various brands! Rachel's first impression was: "Wuuuuaaaahhhhh... got Forever21 here!!!"

The main anchor is Parkson, while Tangs serves as the specialty anchor. Supermarket is catered by Mercato at Level 1, where all the good food are located. We found Tony Roma's!

Tony Roma's is an American chain restaurant famous for its ribs. The restaurant's slogan is "Famous for Ribs". Being a rib-fanatic, I've been longing to wallop Tony Roma's ribs again for a long long time. Exam commitments and moving further south to Batu Pahat didn't help! Was I elated when I found Tony Roma's in Pavilion amidst a famished tummy last Saturday!

We were introduced to their signature barbeque sauces: Original, Blue Ridge Smokies, Carolina Honey, and Red Hots. Loved the Blue Ridge Smokies the best, it's rather similar to TGIF's Jack Daniel's. Original came in second. The remaining two are yucky!

Appetiser - bread with garlic butter

Malaysian Tony Roma's outlets are pork-free (halal), so unlike our southern Singaporean neighbours who gets to enjoy porky baby back ribs, we get only beef ribs. Life's so un-fun without pork... sighhh... LOL! Will definitely chomp down on some TR's pork ribs when I get to Singkapula in December! Here goes the main dishes...

TR Onion Loaf

The Onion Loaf is TR's signature starter dish, which is essentially giant onions, breaded, deep fried and served with BBQ dipping sauce. This is gooood! Comes in sizes of half or full. We ordered half - RM12.90.

The gigantic onions (Onion Loaf)

Grilled Butter Codfish

My sis ordered this Grilled Butter Codfish. You can choose from the many preparations listed, but the "blackened" style with the slightly spicy "kickin' sauce" is highly recommended! Fantastico! RM29.90.

Rib Combo: Ribs with ¼ BBQ Chicken

I shared the Rib Combo set with Rachel. Nandos beat the BBQ chicken hands down. And frankly, the ribs are a bit of a let down. I find myself yearning for TGIF's Jack Daniel's Glazed Ribs while munching TR's slightly burnt beef ribs. Will try the stand-alone rib set next time before giving TGIF the upper hand. RM46.90.

And being a mummy's boy, we were treated to dinner by mom at some small time restaurant which serves great food in Taman Putra, Ampang. Here are the pics. No need to elaborate lah, drool on!

Soup of the day, called "MSG Royale" (FOC)

Steamed catfish in ginger sauce.

Some stirfried veggies with garlic.

Stewed mutton in claypot. Cholesterolitica!

Breaded prawns fried with chili and curry leaves.

Buttermilk crabs!

I miss home!

Moving Out!

Have been busy moving house the past weekend. IMU has a weird system that requires final semester students to travel down south to Batu Pahat for our final 6 months of clinical training. Damn headache... anyway this is the house I've been staying in for the past 2 years in Seremban:

It's a seven-room bungalow with four bathrooms. Rental for the past 2 years was RM2200 per month; the reason for this is that the owner claimed we were staying in the most prestigious housing development in Seremban, which I think is a total bull.

Panoramic view of my Seremban rented house

My room here is huge, and it's not even the masturbate-room masterbed-room.

Fully furnished with a king-sized bed, cabinets, ward drobe, a dressing table, and a sturdy studying table with a personal bathroom! Life was good! If given a choice, I'd rather stay put for another 6 months.

We had to move... and this is how my empty room looked like yesterday. Empty... lifeless...

The only disadvantage of staying in such a big-ass room is the propensity to stuff the room with loads and loads of rubbish... and you don't realise it till the day you need to move out. Here's the evidence:


I needed to make one trip with my car fully loaded back to KL...

... and another trip (also with car filled up to the brim) to Batu Pahat, along with our rented lorry.

During the 2.5-hour heavy drive from Seremban to Batu Pahat, I was constantly wondering how the new house's gonna look like. It's definitely not gonna be as big-ass as the one we just moved out from, as it's a 3+1-roomed terrace house. I'm taking the masturbate masterbed-room (typo was unintentional!). Have a look...

The living room:

Panoramic view of the living room

The kitchen:


And last but not least, my lovely masturbateroom...

Panoramic view... and the built-in bathroom cum toilet:

Sigh... we took over this house from our immediate seniors. Who are full-fledged medical doctors by now. And the one that used the toilet above was a female! Bloody hell, the toilet wasn't even functional! Cannot flush! How did she survived???

More headache this coming weekend - lots of cleaning and wiping and arranging to do, before uni starts next week. Not gonna think bout this weekend! On a brighter note, I'll be here for the next few days:
So babai for now! Cheers!

Of Transformers, Donuts, Dim Sum, and Mango Loh

The chronicles of my immediate past weekend - trying to forget exams and sick children (I'm currently posted to paediatrics), and armageddon (the final exam)! Sigh, who am I to fool... anyways...

Transformers rocks big time! Went into the cinema with high expectations, came out in awe! Totally awesome! Optimus Prime's voice can kick Darth Vader's arse anytime! "Autobots, roll out!"

Living room

Had been hibernating in our cosy little hiding hole me and Rachel acquired not long ago. It's a 3-room condominium strategically located in Damansara Perdana. It is located within walking distance from Ikano Power Centre, The Curve, CineLeisure and Ikea. 1Utama is within a stone's throw!

Living room

"Action" room - where most of the sleeping action takes place

My hacking basement. John McClane: "You call this basement? Ha Ha Ha!"

The Kitchen

The way out

Swimming pool viewed from our balcony

The guys have been wanting to go to the Laundry Bar at Curve. So here's a view of the bar, taken from the third floor of CineLeisure.

Laundry Bar is at the left corner - there are tables and chairs in open space for al-fresco dining.

The fountain that separates Curve and CineLeisure. The colourful pointed roofs in the middle are that of the flea market stalls.

We were surprised to see The Big Apple Donuts being flocked by so many customers - the one in Jusco Seremban 2 chase flies most of the time. We decided to give Big Apple Donut a second chance, and guess what...

The donuts are definitely better than those found in Jusco Seremban. I wonder why the double standard? I mean why sell inedible donuts to Seremban people and tasty donuts to Damansara people? :P

The Little Dim Sum Place @ SS2

Iced longan drink and chinese tea.

Angmoh enjoying dim sum! Slurps...

Siew mai and salad prawn

Fried yam

Banango Fritters - with banana, mango, shrimps, and meat as fillings

Fried fun cheong (rice noodles)

The killers

We then adjourned to the dessert place next to Little Dim Sum Place, called KTZ (Kai Tak Zek), for their famous "mango loh".

Foreground: Mango Loh - damn sedap loh!

Red Bean Loh