Ploy @ Works

a selection of sushis for starters

Ploy is one new restaurant in the neighbourhood of Damansara Heights - located along the road leading to the new Istana Negara. It serves a 'fusion' cuisine - a mix of east and west. The atmosphere is casual, service prompt, portions of dishes just right and not too expensive.

below, fried rice with kimchi

on previous visits, pakdokter had tried out their steaks

and pastas which were good.

RSGC's Modesto

the pear salad

Modestos opened @ the RSGC the past one year or so. It has become one of pakdokter's regular dining outlet because of its wide selection of Italian dishes as well as for its convenience. No hassle to find a parking space and no problem in getting a table. However it did not appear like the RSGC members were patronising the outlet very much for on some nights only 2 or 3 tables were taken up.

grilled prawns

apple strudel with ice cream

baked cod (above)

and (below) the tenderloin steak

A Mother's Day Dinner @ Nero Fico

Mother's Day - Sunday 13th May 2012. Pakdokter returned from Jakarta late Saturday evening after 3 days of golf there with the RSGC Sunday Buayas Boys. Sunday morning saw a few of us back at RSGC playing in the Tun Hussein Onn Cup Bogey-Play Competition. Pakdokter must have had too much golf - played a miserable 52/56 to return a score of -7. Amongst the RSGC Sunday Buayas group, Tg Muzafar @ Ja came out second with a score of +2.

That evening pakdokter and family went out for dinner at Nero Fico - an Italian Restaurant in the Damansara Heights neighbourhood. The Mother's Day menu was too big and too much - so we settled for the choices from the ala carte. Pakdokter took the starter of sliced brinjals panfried with parmigiano cheese toppings to be followed by a pasta olio aglio with scallops. Pakdokter was too full for any dessert.

Recent Culinary Adventure : Chez Rose in Damansara Heights

the tenderloin steak

char-grilled salmon steak

Chez Rose in Damansara Heights used to be an Austrian Restaurant - owned and run by a Malay lady, Chef Rose, and her Austrian husband. Recently the restaurant has been bought over by the 'Jake's Charbroil' - and we decided to check the place out. Apart from the original Austrian menu, the new owner has added a new list of steaks and pastas which turned out to be good. Pakdokter found the original Austrian dishes to be to 'creamy' for pakdokter's liking. 

Recent Culinary Adventure : Grappa @ K Avenue

beef carpaccio and avocado slices

Grappa used to be in Bangsar but has now moved to K Avenue in front of the KLCC. After an evening of shopping at KLCC we decided to check out Grappa at its new venue. Pakdokter would rate the food there just so so.

linguini aglio olio with prawns

tenderloin steak

grilled cod

Recent Culinary Adventure : Prego @ KL Westin

the older wines were allowed to 'breath' in these

fancy-looking decanters with long necks

Prego is the Italian Restaurant at the Westin KL in Bukit Bintang. Martin Chan, an RSGC golfer who went with pakdokter to Japan last month is a wine connoussier - he regularly attends 'Wine Dinner' at various places in the city. He invited pakdokter to join him and his friends to a special seesion of a 6-course Italian Dinner paired with a series of 10 Italian wines of different vintages. The wines came from Castello Banfi - and the Brunello Montalcino wines ranged from 1997 to 2009 vintages.As we tried out the different vintages paired to the different dishes - we were also given an introduction to the Brunellos by the sommelier. Chef Huza from Westin did a splendid job creating the six dishes for the night. 

Recent Culinary Adventure : Kebab House Iranian Fine Dining

The Kebab House - Iranian Fine Dining Restaurant is situated one level above the 'Ten' Japanese Restaurant at Solaris Dutamas. Pakdokter and family checked this outlet out a week or so after having dined at the 'Ten".

 we sat alfresco on the patio under the moonlit and starry sky

 the dishes were of generous portion

and the prices were reasonable

but pakdokter thinks the Iranian Food at the Ali Baba

Restaurant at Ampang Road in front of the

Great Eastern Mall is more tasty

 pakdokter's beef kebab came with pilav rice and salad

Raena's lamb kofta is a big ball of minced lamb

in a tomatoey sauce and served with a large round bread

the lamb kebab of pakdokter's partner