Coffee Club Xpress ~ KLCC

I only know the existance of Coffee Club Xpress recently. Unlike other restaurants or cafes in any shopping centres, this cafe is well hidden at the 2nd floor of Kinokuniya. This cafe is meant to be a combination of a bookstore and a cafe which is popular in MPH Bookstore.


I decided to try muddy mud pie (RM 8.50). It had an interesting combination of concentrated chocolate crepe as the base, sinful chocolate and tiramisu flavored ice cream as the filling. The pie was topped with hershey's chocolate sauce and sprinkled with chocolate cookie. The the outer crust of tiramisu ice cream was crispy, which made it very unique. The proportion of the dessert was huge and it is recommended to share it. 3.5/5

Location:

Coffee Club Xpress,

406-408 & 409-439,

Level 4, Suria KLCC.

When The East Meets The West

Pasta Zanmai is a restaurant that serves japanese and western fusion food. When I first heard of this, I wasn't interested because I didn't really think that salmon or unagi could go well with pasta. As I had good experience at Sushi Zanmai (Pasta Zanmai and Sushi Zanmai are a chain of restaurants owned by SuperSushi Group), I wanted to give it a try.

The ambience was quite comfortable, as expected from a japanese restaurant. Just like Sushi Zanmai, you could enjoy the scenery of the chefs preparing dishes behind the glass wall.

My friend opted for Goma Soft Shell Crab (RM 23.00). You could choose set meal (RM 26.00) which includes a bowl of miso soup and salad. The crab was a bit overdid and the thick creamy sauce was a bit too salty. Overrall, the dish was acceptable. 3.25/5


I had Unagi Onsen Pizza (RM 26.00). It had crispy thin crust with unagi, seaweed and teriyaki sauce as toppings. You are suppose to break the partially cooked egg in the middle of the pizza so that the yellowish-orange yolk would spread around the pizza. I prefer to dip the pizza into the yolk before eating it. I gave this dish a thumb up!!! 4.5/5


I found Milky Green Tea (RM 8.00) was unexpectedly good as I'm not really fond of iced-blended green tea. The blended milk green tea was topped with sweet red bean paste and 'sinful' whipped cream. The milk flavor overpowered green tea flavor. This drink was excellent overrall. 3.75/5


If you would like to try unique and delectable food, I highly recommend Pasta Zanmai.


Location:
Pasta Zanmai,
F1.73, Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall

Sakae Sushi ~ KLCC

Sakae Sushi is a chain restaurant started in Singapore. It has this cute little green frog as its logo. This restaurant serves good japanese food at affordable price. I prefer the ambience here than in Sushi King.

Spider roll has already become my must-order dish whenever I visit a japanese restaurant. We wanted to order spider roll but the waiter told us that they ran out of crabs. We then saw a few soft shell crab maki (red plate - RM5.90) on the rotation conveyor belt. We greedily took 4. Fresh deep fried crab was wrapped with sticky rice, seaweed and ebikko. The portion of the meat was rather generous. No wonder they ran out of crabs. I enjoyed this dish a lot. 3.5/5


Ajitsuke idako (pink plate - RM 3.90) was quite ok. The sticky rice was wrapped with seaweed and topped with glistened, well-seasoned baby octopus. Nothing to be impressed about. 2.75/5

My friend kept telling me that prawn tempura with mango sushi roll is great and thus we ordered sunshine maki (RM 12.90). I'm not fond of mango so I didn't really enjoy this dish. 2.5/5


I found ika lobster fried maki (red plate - RM 5.90) to be surprisingly delicious!!! The sticky rice was wrapped with seasoned squid, lobster salad and fried maki. A perfect combination. Yum yum~~ 4/5

Location:
Sakae Sushi,
Shop 428, Level 4,
Suria KLCC.

Nando's ~ Jusco

Apart from KFC and Kenny Rogers, Nando's has been the destination for chicken lovers. Nando's is famous for it's spicy and hot peri peri sauce. I don't really like sour food and thus I don't really like it. The restaurant was full of people when we arrived.

I ordered 1/4 chicken with 2 side dishes (RM 14.95). Like Kenny Rogers, we can select the side dishes but there isn't many varieties here. I picked chips and mediterranean rice. The chicken was roasted to perfection, firm and juicy. The rice was just right, the taste was not too strong that overpower the chicken and the chips were gigantic. 3/5

Location:

Nando's Alpha Angle,

Lot G12A, Jusco Shopping Complex,

Wangsa Maju.