heh... it looked fine enough... tasted quite fine... but definitely NOT fine dining.
well yesterday, we went to Great Eastern Mall to check out this place we saw... It's a new home-deco shop on the first floor. It has impressive looking expensive fake plants, branded cutlery, china ware, cool photo frames... & also a bistro area.
we noticed the place here few weeks ago... so yesterday we sampled their seafood fried rice and beef tenderloin. prices were on the high side... and we didn't expect the "fine"-ish kind of style... so i have to say... i was still hungry after the scant pieces of meat (it was nicely done though - "medium" done). Julie's meal also didn't fare too well also ... fried-rice with 2 mussels, a prawn on a mix of onions mushroom stock.
we would have sampled their pastas if we hadn't already eaten spaghetti for lunch in the cafeteria... their "ogio" sounded nice...
a bit overpriced i must say... rm28 for meat, rm15 for rice... my 2 cents will say, they won't be here for long... 
yesterday... we went to 1-utama... yep! we know... it's the other end of town... a-kin to the distance of travelling to Taiping from Ipoh... but we wanted to head to a toys-R-us to check out a sitting contraption for phoebe... bad decision... for some reason or other the management decided to still open for public whilst doing renovation to the premises... either the malaysian manager is duh... or worse still orders from above... anyways... we didnt find what we wanted and we will head to the Avenue-K branch later next week...
BUT... we had decided to try out the Ms Read's Deli-cious for dinner! We have passed them before but never went in... after numerous raves by a couple of friends... dang! had to try lah...
upon arrival we headed straight to the restaurant located on the first floor (new wing)... WHOA!... FULL HOUSE! put name in waiting list (1/2 hour wait!)... & off we went to toys-R-us. On our return... the restaurant was now more manageble and we immediately got a seat.
i couldn't figure out what to eat... as everything was, well.... tempting...
after serious contemplation, my end we ordered...(Julie was getting impatient)
for starters we took a side dish, fried potatoes in rosemary and garlic... out of this world!
i took the kerabu set with ayam percik and ulam! the chicken was good... and notice the greedy fingers flicking the keropok away...
Julie took the beef mushroom pie... it was good!
we shared a tall latte with our dessert...
our desert choice this time... heh... chocolate cake with vanila ice-cream... look at that ooziinnnngggg chocolate... yum!what can we say... we are sold! we are definately coming back to try out the rest of the menu (when we are in this side of town) the choice of mains were good... and the desserts... woo hoo... mouth watering!
we're back in ipoh this weekend for my mom's birthday... darn short trip... one night only...so after work... we rushed back to ipoh... without lunch... not exactly... julie bought some sausage & sardine buns from Giant for us to eat on the way...
It was suppose to be a dinner treat for my mom, so we had initially planned to try find a nice place to eat in Greentown area... many places that have sprung out in the new shops there... but after several circles around the block we still had not decided on one... or none of the shops looked interesting enough for us to stop...
then my father suggested we head back to ipoh garden area... near J.Jusco... so off we went...
the heading - BeaconPoint
u would never expect such a restaurant in such an obscure place... it was like in the middle of nowhere... or you can say, in the middle of a housing estate.
let the pictures do the talking...
the choice of set dinners available
carrot cream soup with crackers (part of the set meal), nice and creamy... was piping hot too... a rarity these days...
complimentary garlic bread to go with your soup i suppose... normal but hey! it was free...
hannah's kids portion spagetti... looked really good...
the fish (gratinated fish fillet topped with tomato and cheese melted over) my father ordered...
Beef stew set@rm24 Julie ordered (they didnt have sirlion steak that day)
the lamb shoulder my mum and i ordered... mine was with red wine sauce... the burnt look is from the paprika... awesomely done...
the dessert : carrot cake.it was a dinner well... worth it! price wise and taste wise... i mean u get soup,mains and a cake as dessert!... total bill for a family of 4 + 1 only came to rm110!. You will be hard pressed to get this in KL!
p/s: they have been around since 1995! and only open nights on fri&sat, closed on sundays! so plan ahead...
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