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Tasty Organic Food at earthFood

25 Sat Jun 2011

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Most of the time when I mention organic food, the response that I will get is either the food is not tasty or it is too costly. Well, I for one, love organic food as much as I love vegetarian food and as much as I love any good food. Nevertheless, people keep saying that I am a picky eater! I blame it on being Penangite and that I grew up eating good tasty food!

Where I work, there is not much to choose from, the eateries I mean, so, on Fridays, where we have longer lunch hour, we will drive out for good food. This time around, we chose earthFood. A rather new place, have only been around roughly six months.

We ordered the following –

(1) Ceasar Salad – OMG! I loved it loads! It may even be the best Ceasar Salad I ever had! Oh the Chicken slices in the salad was brilliant too!

(2) Seafood Pizza – Tasty, just tasty but I needed to add some spicy-ness to it so I asked for chilli sauce. The chilli sauce was good! It was not spicy but it was hot and it had this nice hot after taste

(3) Grilled Chicken Sandwich with Focacia Bread – The bread was very soft. We had it a while after it was served as we were still indulging our salad! I would say if we had it while it was still warm, it will be brilliant! The sandwich is generally good.

And try not to be so shocked, all that cost us only RM60 and the servings were rather generous! Who said organic food is expensive?! And yes, the dining area is very comfortable. Oh, I almost forgot, earthFood is located at Jalan Ampang Hilir. They are moving two blocks away from the current place by end of the month, I was told.

Socializing at Social@KL

25 Sat Jun 2011

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On Saturday, June 18th, I did some socializing. Well, not quite. It was just me with two others. We booked for four, as usual, girls need an extra chair to seat our handbags! They put us in the so claimed “VIP room”. I find it rather odd to have the VIP room just outside the kitchen. My only logic is so that the dishes are served hot and fresh from the kitchen!

Before going there, I searched the net for reviews and wow! the place had good reviews. So I thought, OK, good food, good company. Great Saturday! Oh and I thought it was the Social., the same one we have in Bangsar. I was wrong and obviously I find that out from the comments in the reviews!

My review this time around is going to be very brief as I do not have much to say about the food…. seriously. So here goes. We ordered the following –

(1) Ceasar Salad – a bit too much cheesy taste

(2) Peking Duck with Deep Fried Mantou Bun – oh this one is good! add a bit of the sauce that comes with it and yummeh!

(3) Aglio Olio Seafood Arabiatta – all of us agreed that there was something not quite right about the pasta. I found that there was too much of the chilli pepper… mixed with the olive oil… did not taste great

(4) Dark Chocolate Mousse – brilliant! loved it… loved it even more after having it together with the Crunchy Hazelnut Feulitin

(5) Crunchy Hazelnut Feulitin – yummeh! the taste was just right!

On the side, I have to say, the waitress could not speak good English and was unable to explain or describe the food there. For example, we asked what is this Opera Cake that they have in the menu, she said chocolate cake and just stopped there! We had to ask further, what do they have in the Opera Cake other than chocolate and to describe further. She just said something along this line “Like chocolate cake with layers…” and we decided to just order (4) and (5) as those two did not appear to require description and somehow we had that feeling that (4) and (5) were tasty and we were right!

One more thing, they have this great promotion where they give 20% off on their A La Carte Menu, every Saturday (ending 30th June 2011) and taking note of the evolving world of smartphones and tablet and gadgets, they allow the voucher to just be flashed from your gadgets on top of accepting a printed out version (not very green ya). I had that voucher in my BlackBerry. Showed it to the staff and was told at least twice, that they only accept printed copies. We insisted that we are entitled for the 20% off nonetheless as the voucher says exactly that, that we can just flash the voucher on our smart phone. The staff came back, agreed to give the 20% off but with a condition that we fill in the survey form. We got the 20% off but I am just not happy with how it went… not that we can’t afford the food if we did not get the 20% off…

Also, no photos for this review as I did not feel like taking any photos… but hey, you can see nice photos of the place, the menu, etc here –
http://www.socialkl.com/index.html