Daorae Korean BBQ at USJ Taipan

One day after BB's outstation trip, he called me to have dinner at this Korean BBQ restaurant call Daorae in USJ Taipan, Its not hard at all to spot this Restaurant as its easily seen at the T Junction with blinking neon lights.
Daorae have a lot of branches in Malaysia including Hartamas and i found out from blog it even has one in Penang. The USJ taipan one is located on 1st Floor.
BB is already there waiting for me. The have 2 kind of seating option, the normal table or the korean tatami seating table each well equip with the grill tray & hob.
BB is a meat lover, he ordered a BBQ Beef & Squid while i requested to order a bowl of Ginseng Chicken Soup. Korean food usually are served together with a course of refillable appetizer.
Woooosshhh.. the appetizer are mostly braised vege with chilli & vinegar, various kind of vege in Kim chi Style, bean sproud, stir fried vege, braised seaweed, anchovies and 1 i especially like is the sweet & sour potato cubes..
Its a raining evening, so the steaming pot of ginseng chicken soup really helps to warm us up. The soup are served in a stone bowl with 1/2 chicken and there's some grain rice cook together in the soup too..The ginseng taste is so thick it even penetrated into the tender chicken meat~! yummy yummy!

Our main dishes are of course the BBQ Beef and squid. Both are marinated and there's a cook to station at your table to cook just for you. Oooohhh.... feel like a queen.. They'll first heat a bowl of garlic to let the oil absorb the garlic flavor and put in the meat to BBQ. Its cook pretty fast as the meat are cut into small & thin pieces.

There are 2 ways to eat the bbq, you can either eat it just like that, dip in the sauce or wrap it with lettuce and eat like a meat roll... The squid are well cook also, the squid are ealier  marinated with chilli & curry powder (it taste like)..  Ta dah!!! here are the juicy BBQ squid!

Daorae is consider a pricey option for meal, our bill comes to about RM120 for 2 person. But its really worth to give it a try~! Hospitalitly is super good also~

My Birthday celebrations

 This post is so outdated… Now only I wanna blog about my birthday celebrations everyone did for me.

The first one who celebrated for my of course is my lovely BB.

This is the present that BB bought for me, so nice, I like the casing color so much. I’m not a camera person, it took me so long to figure out all the function and till now I still don’t know which mode to select. I bought this from Shiong Lee Photography shop in One Utama. Some of my friend commented that why do I only ask for a cheap present from boyfriend? 1^st of all, I did not ask him to buy me, he volunteer to buy something I need for me and 2^nd is, who said that a boyfriend must buy expensive stuff? What is considered as a really WOW birthday present? Those who commented it? Did your BF give you a bungalow or sport car as present?  For me, his heart counts most…

We went to Sunway Pyramid for dinner and celebration. BB ask me to choose a place to have our dinner, at first I wanted to go to Magical Theatre but only found out it has closed. For those who don’t know, Magical Theatre Restaurant besides serving Western cuisine, what’s so special about it is, they have magicians who work there and performing some magic tricks for you. How nice would it be if I could celebrate my birthday in a magical environment???  But end up all Restaurants that I chosen on the directory list are moved or closed. So, end up we have to makan at TGI Fridays.

I ordered a cocktail call November Sea breeze but I jokingly wanted to change it to April Sea Breeze.. hahahahaha, And bb as usual, order his favorite, Heineken Beer. For Food, I order the Jack Daniel’s chicken and shrimp and BB is a red meat eater, he of course ordered Jack Daniel’s steak medium rare… yeeeeeee… We were chatting happily and waiting for our food. Cam whoring a bit to try out my new TOY, My new Olympus camera…

 

BB's Heineken & My November Sea Breeze

My Jack Daniel's Chicken & Shrimp

Red Meat eater - Jack Daniel's Steak

BB pre arranged with the staff there to give me a surprise cake. There are a group of their friendly and sporting staff who brought me this Chocolate Ice cream cake. They make me stand on the chair because according to the TGIF culture, everyone dining at the same atmosphere must bless a birthday boy/ girl~!!! 

 

Ist candle of the Year

I was given tomato ketchup as a microphone to give my Birthday speech. When asked what is my wish, I jokingly answered that I want to become boss of TGIF… hahahaha… BB was right; I’m really a naughty girl. They lit up the candle on my cake and want me to blow it using a straw from far distance… OMG~!!!! That’s really tough… after a few tries luckily I’m able to do it. Phewwww!!! And after the birthday song from the TGIF gang, BB give me a birthday kiss infront of everyone… hahahah, so sweet!!!

 

The next celebration was arranged by my colleagues. We ordered pizza as lunch and they prepare a small slice of coffee cheesecake for me… Thanks guys!!!! This celebration has nothing really special to shout about, its just a more relaxing lunch together with everyone and the birthday girl get a cake…

 

Mocha cheese cake my colleagues bought for me

 Weeeeee~!!! 2nd candle of the year

More exciting activities were plan on tonight. As me and Cat’s birthday are quite close, we plan to have a drinking session at Luna Bar. Luna Bar is located on the rooftop of Pacific Regency Hotel next to Menara Pan Global in KL. I’ve wanted to go there since so long…  After work, I head straight to meet up with Cat at Hartamas, just dunno why, no matter how many times I’ve been to her place, I still can’t remember the correct direction. Yen was waiting for us at her place, we just quickly take a shower and dress up for our night out!!! 3 of us reached there about 8.30pm and I was intro to CM for the first time. We ordered some snack food and cocktail. Me, as usual, ordered my Shangria… Sharon and her boyfriend reach not long after that. It has been so long I never see Sharon, I guess for about a year plus.. Cat’s college mate join in last to our group.. Later when everyone reached, they start to order bottle liquor. The whole night out was abit boring to me, as people all thought it was Cat’s birthday. Yen was busy chatting with CM whole night long, Cat pulak busy with her college mate David & Gang, Sharon also lovingly chatting with her bf…. Awwwwww… I’m so left out there!!! So, I just sms my BB lor…  Of course that night we had a lot of cam whoring session.. hahahaha.. BB said its dangerous for me to drive back so late and I have to over night at Cat’s place.

KL Tower View From Luna Bar

The Luna Bar

Sharon, Cat, Me and Yen

The KLCC View from Luna

Yeeeeee... i look so rude sitting like this

Where am I and Sharon looking at????

Yen in her Boring pose

Maybe i should wear yellow clothes to be in this striking colour theme

Me and Yen with our drinks

 

Our gang of the night.

The next day I leave Cat’s house quite early, and go for a simple breakfast with BB near my house and show him the photo we taken… and continue my day sleeping like a piggie! Wake up in the evening and go over to Sister’s place. She just got back from States and bought me a coach bag and Polo Ralph Lauren T-shirt for present. Thank you sis!

Sunday 19/4 is my actual birth date, Mummy give me an Ang pow as usual every year. Today I’ve made reservation for buffet lunch with Zee Yin and Ah Boon at this Authentic Japanese Restaurant called Umai-ya at Damasara Perdana. Actually I’ve been to Umaiya while I was working with Toona, but I only got to know about their free flow beer Japanese lunch buffet from a friend recently and thought of going there for a try.

 

The buffet only cost RM48++ per person for a 3 hours buffet and free flow of beer!! Wow! That’s really worth it for beer drinker like us. I drive down to Klang to pick Zee Yin cause she’s 8 months pregnant and its not convenient for her to drive up all the way for lunch. Luckily I’ve made reservation, the restaurant are crowded, a group of aunties without reservation just have to walk away with disappointment!!!

The buffet is not serving all on the buffet table; you will be given a list of food, and what you could do is tick on the food you wanted to order and pass it to the crew, like this it’ll be no wastage of the food!!

We tried most of the everything… Hand rolls, my favorite baby octopus!!, another nice appetizer to try is the braised tofu soak in their clear sauce. Only me and Boon take the sashimi, Zee Yin dare not eat raw meat! I order this Dragon roll and then found out that its Unagi filled roll. My first time eating Unagi and I can tell you I DUN LIKE IT!!! It taste weird, the meat doesn’t taste like normal fish, it feels like Jelly with fishy smell… so, I leave it to them to finish it.

Before Ah Boon reach i pose and take photo with my food

So, this is it.. Soft shell crab handroll, potato salad, sesame roll, and braised baby octopus~!!

The yucky dragon roll with Unagi inside~

I'm a beer girl

Ah boon & Me.

We ordered Teriyaki squid and chicken, sukiyaki and also cold soba. There’s a story for my first soba experience which BB always laugh at me. The first time I had my cold Japanese noodle was when I am in Phuket few years back. Me and mum went to this Japanese fast food chain called Oishi in Central mall. I ordered a cold soba. It was served on a Japanese square bowl layer with a bamboo drainer; the sauce was served separately in another small bowl. It was my first time eating Cold noodle, I have no idea how to eat it, I just try to be smart and pour the sauce into the bowl with drainer. Of course the soups flows out from the drainer, and I still didn’t realize that the way to eat it was wrong, and just eat the drain tasteless soba!!!

Yaki tori fight~!

 

Soba cold noodle and its story

Fav~! Sukiyaki pot

The full course Japanese lunch of course have to end with their super duper nice Green Tea Ice crème. The interior of Umaiya is also well decorated.  Overall, I should rate this buffet are definitely worth for money. It has been so long I didn’t go for buffet; I miss my buffet kaki Aw yong, Zee Yin and Pei Yee. While we were still working for Toona, we used to go for buffet very often to release our stress and of course, we really enjoy eating a lot!

 

Some creative photgraphy shot of Boon

My best ever colleagues (ex colleagues now) cum buffet kaki, the other one lost in China

After the dinner, I have to sent Zee Yin back to Klang. I drop by at “God of Gamble” shop for a short chit chat with Heen Yee and got a free birthday Chinese tea ice from God of Gamble~! Thank you, very generous of you.

The last birthday celebration was with my family. We went to 天天来 Restaurant in Mentari Sunway for Dinner. My Bro and Sis didn’t join us as Bro wants to go out with his friend and my sis wants to sleep. So bad of them! I drove mum and dad and Howard to Sunway. I like this Restaurant a lot as the food is consider delicious and the price is really reasonable.

 

Mummy & Game boy Howard waiting for food

We ordered a pot of Shark fin soup for each of us, a herbal chicken, Fu Yong Omelet, Sambal fried kang kong, and Kam Heong fried crab. Howard insisted to eat Cantonese Fried Kuey Teow, so we just order one for him. These dishes are too much for 3 person consumption and we tapao back for sis and Bro. 

Cantonese fried kuey teow just for Howard

Daddy's Fav - Belacan Kang Kong

Herbal Chicken

Shark Fin soup

Fu Yong Omelet

 

Kam Jeong Crab

I stop by at SS15, Subang Jaya, me, mum and Howard went to choose a cake for me. Howard somehow just thought that the celebration is for him and he chose a blueberry mousse cake and insisted he wants 3 candles. Kids are really cute! Every birthday cake in my family gotta share with Howard, cause he’s everybody little prince in my family! He’s so sweet, he bought me a candy for my birthday present! Love you Howard!

 

Howard Boy give me this sweet sweet for present

My Blueberry cheese cake chose by Howard :(

3rd candle of the year

Everyone in my family must share their birthday with this cute little boy~ 

So, there ends my 27^th Birthday with celebrations with everyone~! And here’s my pressie!

 

 

Olympus Camera from BB, Pink Coach Bag from Sister, Hello Kitty Ang Pow from Mummy, Blue Polo T-shirt from Sis also, The Black hair clip from Cat, Candy from Howard and Lancome Miracle body creme from Zee Yin.