What is good in Al Rawsha? For meat lovers, I was told that the Lamb Mandy is a must try. The Lamb Mandy is served with rice and the portion is BIG. For ladies who do not eat much, it is recommended for sharing between 2 persons.

For those who is not a fan of red meat but prefers chicken instead (like me), the Chicken Mandy is recommended. I tried it and it’s awesome!

Both the Lamb Mandy and Chicken Mandy come with separate gravy in 2 separate bowls. Basically, those are the tomato chutney and yogurt, and trust me, to experience the real delicious taste of those dishes, you must have them with both gravy!

Al Rawsha is really famous for its lamb dishes actually. If you would like to try other preparation of lamb dishes, their Grilled Lamb and Lamb Chop are good as well.

The Grilled Lamb and Lamb Chop do not come with rice though. Instead, they are served with Pita Bread or the Kebab Bread. But be warned, they are both served in BIG portions.

What I love most about the food here is the preparation of rice served with their dishes. The rice tastes nice. Something like bryani rice minus the oily taste. Hehe. Yeah the rice here somehow tastes healthy. It is dry (not oily at all) and it is yummy!
Oh and let’s not forget the choice of drinks there. I love the Al Rawsha Cocktail. It is a mixture of fruits (including banana & probably mango and more fruits) with yogurt. The drink looks so colourful and pretty too. So yes, this is a must try.

Besides fruit juices and yogurt drinks, there is also ’sparkling juice’ as I like to call it. The Barbican, that’s it, a carbonated malt drinks that comes in different flavours such as strawberry, lemon, mango, etc. If you have never tried one before, make sure you try it here.

If you need direction to go there, I can give the direction here ;)… Provided that you know where KLCC is. Hehe. Yup, from KLCC (Make sure KLCC is on your right hand side and Bangunan Getah Asli is on your left hand side), just drive straight. You will pass Avenue K and Corus Hotel on your left. Go further straight until you reach the traffic lights near Ampang Park. Ampang Park will be on your left (you can see McDonalds there) while Nikko Hotel and Menara Citibank will be on your right. After the traffic light, take the 2nd turning on your left. Just go straight until the end of the road and turn right. Go further straight for about 3 - 5 minutes. Al Rawsha will be on your left. Just park at the nearest possible ‘parking’ space that you can find.
The restaurant is usually quite crowded during lunch time and VERY crowded during dinner time. Well, when a place is crowded you know that that place is good
You can choose to dine outside at the open air dining concept or indoor with air condition. There are limited space in the air conditioned room though, so preference is given to families in that room. But anyway the open air concept is indeed better and more lively if you come with groups of friends.
Enjoy your dining experience!!!

Yup, all pork meat lovers should definitely pay a visit to Ribs @ Oasis.

Just as the name suggest, the signature dish which is a must try, is the RIBS!!! The BBQ Baby Pork Ribs are so tender and juicy, definitely a must try.

The pork meat is lightly marinated with BBQ sauce and is served with baked potatoes and vege. For those who prefer a stronger BBQ taste, a separate BBQ sauce (one with more spices) accompanies your meal as well. I, however, prefer the lightly marinated BBQ sauce.

To be honest, I think so far this is the best BBQ Baby Pork Ribs that I have ever tried. I definitely love the tenderness of the meat.

For those who prefer burgers instead, the choice of burgers there are also mouth watering. If you prefer the classic burger with cheese, I can assure you that the Pork Burger with Cheese is super delicious too! The burger with mushroom seems alright as well.

The pork patte is cooked to perfection. It is difficult to describe it though. You just got to try it to experience the taste

Like any other pork-serving restaurants, beer is a must. There are several choices of beer here. I think they have Hoegarden and Heineken. Can’t remember what else though.

I prefer to have meat with red wine. However, they do not serve red wine by the glass here, only by bottle. I was informed by the waiter at that time that they only serve Merlot. Not something that I would fancy anyway. But for those who likes Merlot, rest assured because you can enjoy them here.

The selections of non-alcoholic drinks here are also good. I tried the Lime Soda. It is awesome! LOL. The taste, it’s super sour with a zesty fizzy kick!

The Ribstropic is good as well - especially for those who love sweet drinks. It’s a mixture of mango + orange juice. Very pretty looking too - definitely a chick’s drink

For those who prefer something healthy and natural, there is a selection of fresh fruits juice here as well. I tried the carrots juice. It tastes… well, healthy!
Last but not least, let’s check out the Desserts!!! A must try - Molten Chocolate Cake with Hagendaz!!! It is RM16.00. Without the Hagendaz ice cream, it is about RM10.00. It is super yummy and is really a perfect closure for any meal
For those who does not fancy chocolates, there are other choice of desserts as well. However, whatever it is, please avoid the Tiramisu. I am not sure, probably something was wrong in their mixture on that night or something, but the Tiramisu tasted weird.

Anyway, I would highly recommend Ribs @ Oasis for a super fantastic evening out with friends or your special ones. - Especially so for all pork meat lovers.
For those who does not eat meat, don’t worry. There are ample choice of seafood dishes as well. My friend said the Seafood Marinara Spaghetti is good. There are other choices of pasta as well, and you can choose the level of spiciness that you want with your pasta (for olio especially).

The services are good. The crowd is alright too. Since the restaurant is not very big, it will get very crowded around dinner time; i.e. between 7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.

You can park your car right outside the restaurant. However, parking may be a bit limited when the restaurant is crowded. So it is recommended to come as early as 7.00 p.m. When the restaurant is still very empty :p

If you want to know more about Ribs @ Oasis, you can check out their website here: http://ribs-oasis.webs.com/

Map is provided in the website too!

Then you should all head to Ikano, Damansara (between the Curve and Ikea). The Japanese Crepe is to die for. Hehe.

I tried the Strawberry Cream with Vanilla ice cream. It was so fabulous I was thinking whether I should have another. ?

The name of the stall selling the Japanese Crepe is Shimino. It is an orange coloured stall near the escalator going up to the Kluang Station.

There was quite a crowd near the stall. So while waiting for my Crepe, I got the chance to watch the worker preparing it.

First, the outer cone layer will have to be prepared in advance. In a very very light amount, the flour will be poured into the pan. It only takes a few second to set it and to wait for it to cool.

Then, their special yummy looking cream will be spread on the pancake-like flour thingy. All the fillings will go in next, depending on which flavour you have ordered. I noticed that the Strawberry Cream with ice cream and the Chocolate Banana seem to be the favourite of most customers.

The pancake-flour thingy will then be folded half and rolled like a cone. The Shinomi orange coloured paper will be placed outside as a support to the Crepe. There you got it - the yummy Japanese Crepe all ready for you to savour!

I will try the mango flavour next week! ?

Anyway, I like the concept and I like how we can see all those raw ingredients there before they’re cooked. The desserts place shows an awesome selection of yummy looking, mouth watering desserts. One day I’ll go there just to try the cakes! LOL… Yup, although the banana cake just now was quite a dissappointment, I am willing to give Masche another chance. :p

No photos were taken at Masche though. Will post some when I go there again one day.

Anyway, back to the topic. Yup, yup relaxing Sunday indeed. After lunch, Conrad and I went jalan-jalan in the Curve, looking at cute and interesting stuffs. Metrojaya was having a sale of some kids’ toys at the center court. Saw lots of toy trains and the railways, lots of gundam robots on display too.

Then, we bought ice cream!!! Hee… Another dessert to ‘compensate’ for the lack of taste of the previous one ;p

I actually wanted a Choco Top, but I was told that they ran out of stock for Choco Top. Huhu. So I had to settle for Chocolate Twirl instead. Thankfully it is nice anyway!!! :p

Then, I saw a signboard near McDonald that was pointing outside, which says “Cupcakes Chic”… Well, being a sweet tooth that I am, I was surprised to know that there’s a cupcake shop somewhere at the Curve. So, we decide to check the shop out. Located facing the road, next to McDonald, Cupcakes Chic has quite a small cute looking outlet there. The staffs there seem friendly. As soon as we entered, we were greeted with smiles and warm greetings.
I went to check out the cupcakes on display. Err… I think the cupcakes there look more like muffins though. But then again, I might be biased as I prefer the look of the +Wondermilk Cupcake and yeah, I kinda wish I would find something like that there in Cupcakes Chic.

Well, since I didn’t find the cupcakes as cute, I didn’t try any. Also for the reason that they look more like muffins, and I am not a fan of muffins actually. So yeah, that’s my short encounter with Cupcakes Chic. Hehe.

There is a cute candy shop somewhere nearby there too. You can find all aorta of ‘weird’ @ ‘different’ looking candy there. The cutest one that I saw was a Candy Lipstick - It is actually candy in the form of lipstick and it’s so cute, because the ‘lipstick’ is Hello Kitty’s. LOL :p

Well, after all those ‘window shopping’ and ‘lurking around’, I finally bought some magazines at Cineleisure and a Korean drama DVD, ‘Spy Mate aka My Girlfriend is an Agent’… Plan to watch it tonight. Hopefully it’s nice!
O ya and I bought some present wrappers as well (one of my hobbies: collecting present papers. Hee). This time, it’s a collection of present wrappers from the 19th Century French Flowers. Love them!

Stadium Negara Seafood Restaurant has an open air concept, where most people would be sitting outside on the open air. I noticed that they do have an air-conditioned premise if one ever choose to not sit outside at the open though. It is a halal seafood restaurant, where no pork is served.

I noticed that most of the customers there had steamboat foe dinner. My friends and I did not choose that though. We opted to order few dishes from the menu. There are a lot of varieties of food to choose from the menu. We had the assistance of the friendly uncle to choose what was recommended as ‘the best’ there. So yeah, I ordered quite a bit for just the 3 of us eating. Hehe.

I ordered chili crabs with deep fried & steamed buns, BBQ chicken, butter prawns, chili lala and kangkung fried with belacan. The food was GOOD!!! I love the kangkung fried with belacan the most and the deep fried bun! Hee… The butter prawn was good too!

I was so hungry when the food arrived that I almost forgot to take photos. Haha. So yeah, some of the photos taken were not when the food was ‘just’ served la, k. Will share some of the photos here.
The service was good too. The uncle who took our order was very helpful and friendly. The waitresses were nice, polite and very tentative too. The crowd there ranges from all sorts of races in Malaysia - Chinese, Indians and Malays, with some expats too.

Pricing wise, it was not so expensive either. It was affordable, especially taking into account the location (right at the heart of the city) and the good tasting food!
Overall, Stadium Negara Seafood Restaurant is definitely a good place to spend time for a Friday night dinner right after work when you do not want to travel some where far just to be stuck in the massive Friday night traffic. :p

Ok, here are some photos of the food that we ordered to be shared with all of you. Our bills came up to about RM176. Not bad for a good seafood dinner for 3 people :)…

I would definitely go for another visit to that restaurant again!

Although the bakery + cafe is quite small, but it’s actually perfect. That’s how the home-made touch is retained I guess. The owner, whom I only refer to as ‘Aunty’ is there every day without fail. She’s friendly, sweet and helpful. A nice lady indeed.

The pricing of the cakes and other food here is reasonable too. Today I decided to try Aunty’s new ‘creation’ - the Jelly Fish - that’s what she called it. Here is a photo of the Jelly Fish. It looks very much like a pretty little gold fish though! :p The taste? - Sweet! O, and it’s only RM2.00.

Edit: Well, it works! Now I am testing the editing function from the Wordpress app too. I tried to edit it from Safari but it seems that I could not do that… Unless I can figure out how to turn on the on-screen keyboard while I’m editing through Safari. Well, let’s see whether editing works from this app instead.

Edit Version 2: I confirmed that editing works with the Wordpress app for iPhone 3GS! Yeah, although instead of a record of the photo(s) posted in the blog through the Wordpress app, some weird random URL shows up, apparently there is no problem with editing the post and retaining the photo already posted in the blog!

This is a fabulous app for the iPhone indeed. More reason to love the iPhone, eh. Now I have no reason for not being able to update my blog regularly. Haha. Another reason this app is cool - I can write in landscape mode! So it’s like typing on a mini pc instead… Great app! Thanks, Wordpress and thanks, Apple!
And another best thing is - the Wordpress application is FREE for download for your iPhone through iTunes!

I stumbled upon artPad again. Few years back I like to spend some this in artPad to randomly practice my drawing and colouring (also, to just waste time).

I enjoy drawing. However, lately I have not been ‘fair’ to this particular interest of mine. Hee… Yeah, as usual, I blame it on shortage of time. There is just so little time in this world to do everything that we want to (be it something that we like to do, or something that we have to do; i.e. work).

Since I am on artPad, I decided to draw one of my favourite things - Rose. You can view my Rose by clicking HERE. You can even see the steps that I took to draw that Rose! And if you decide to view the whole of my drawing process until the end, you will realize that I became lazy towards the end (when it came to the colouring part). Haha! Well, enjoy!

dyvallion\’s Rose