August 2006 Archives

Lunch Box Café is located at Travillion Mall and I went there for lunch with Joanne to check out the place. Lunch Box Café is small compared to other eating establishments there and it seems to cater to people who actually work there.

There is a chalkboard lunch special that has a set lunch for RM 4.50 and Heineken beer at RM 19.50 per jug which we both went for. The décor is reasonably presentable with the water feature...

...and miscellaneous pieces of art inside the cramped space.

Lunch Box Café, as previously mentioned, is not a big place and you can practically see through the eating establishment from the exterior.

This is the food counter where you get to choose the stuff you want with your rice for the lunch special.

There are various meats and vegetables on offer and its cooked Malay style. You have the option of one (1) meat and one (1) vegetable.

This is Joanne's dish - she ordered ayam masak merah (literally "red cooked meat") and a vegetable which I don't know the name of.

This is mine - I had the same meat but went for brinjals for my vegetable option. There is cincalok (fermented shrimp) served with the lunch special.

There are also a la carte options at Lunch Box Café - we ordered the Hula Hoop Salad (RM 7.20) which is described as "Deep fried popcorn chicken, pineapple and mixed greens tossed in home made salad dressing".

We had to do the tossing ourselves and I highly doubt that the Thousand Island Sauce is home made but it tasted great. It's inspired by KFC's Garden Salad with Popcorn Chicken [sixthseal.com] but better coz the chicken was piping hot.

Cheers to drinking at 2 pm in the afternoon! ;)

It's always 5 o' clock somewhere, right?

This is a pen that looks like a bloody used syringe that I got from God's Absent for 70 Baht (about RM 7). I really like it coz it looks so much like a used syringe that it gets double takes from people when I pull it out.

It's the pen for me. :)

This is thumb people courtesy of:

Joanne (right thumbs)

Cherie (left thumbs)

Before you ask, no, we were not sober. ;)

BDC Taiwan Beef Noodle is located in BDC and the stall is manned by a proprietor who makes the best beef noodles I've ever had to date.

The large beef noodles (RM 5) come with a generous helping of beef and noodles. The liberal portions can be seen in the chunks of beef on top of the noodles.

This is what it looks like after being mixed up a little. The beef noodles taste great and the broth is hearty too, so you can drink it together with the noodles. I'm not a big fan of soupy noodles but this won me over.

The stall is located at the curiously named How-You Café.

Siam Paragon is the newest shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand and it would be heresy not to check out the latest and greatest after all the comments about Siam Paragon. Dubbed "The Pride of Bangkok", I went with my gf one night to walk around the mall (it's a lot like KLCC) and eat at the Gourmet Market.

Siam Paragon is an imposing building catering to upscale shoppers and has an Ocean World (aquarium) and a cinema attached to the building. The décor is absolutely amazing both indoors and outdoors and the sheer newness of the building is overwhelming.

The main entrance to Siam "The Pride of Bangkok" Paragon is via a glittering glass façade. There are No Photography signs but I took photos anyway and no one stopped me (my gf reckons it's coz I look like a tourist).

Siam Paragon is practically a maze to navigate, much like the first time you step into MidValley Megamall. There are escalators everywhere and it's hard to get out of the place (we had to ask for directions).

Siam Paragon, as previously mentioned, is home to up market labels like Emporio Armani (check out the creepers on the levels)...

...but we were there to eat so we went to the Gourmet Market.

The first thing we ate was the hilariously named "Wrapped A Noodle With A Pork" for 50 Baht (RM 5).

It tasted great, despite the Engrish name. Very Thai, with the pork.

Next, we went to iBerry for some sorbet.

This is us, my apologies for the mosaic, it is necessary.

Next up was a trip to get some Minced Crab Meat + Crab Meat Sausage + Shrimp Meat Sausage (120 Baht).

It comes in a set and we ate it right there at the counter...definitely tourists. ;)

This is easily the best meal of our gourmet market adventure. I love the minced crab meat stuffed back into the shell of the crab.

The next thing we ate (highly recommended by my gf) was fermented pork sausage (110 Baht).

The lady at the counter mixed the fermented pork with a rice ball (pictured above) and asked us if we wanted chillis (probably coz we look like tourists). I told her to make it as she would serve a Thai customer coz I'm a big fan of spicy food.

It's a Thai delicacy and it tasted great! It has an interesting texture and it's spicy as hell. One funny incident happened during this gourmet food tour - we actually recommended the fermented pork to strangers (a couple from Singapore) and they thanked us for it. Heh!

Having satiated our appetites, we walked into Paragon Department Store and I got my gf some cosmetics. The litmus test of love is to see if your bf actually tags around when you go shopping for "boring" stuff like cosmetics. ;)

There was a Porsche on display at Siam Paragon too.

Siam Paragon is a great shopping mall...it truly earns the tagline "The Pride of Bangkok".