Straits of Malacca @ Glen

Weekly lunch.  This week, it's Straits of Malacca at The Glen.  A Malay place.  Nice and cheap place.  But you do need to come early on weekends because it is always pack full around lunch time.

This is the Seafood Laksa.  I always wanted to find a good laksa.  I wouldn't say this one is the best, but it's not too bad.  One that I can go back to.  It did came with quite a bit of seafood - mussels, prawns, fried fish, etc.  And the noodle was also a mix of Hokkien thick noodles and the thin rice noodles, which is how I always like my Laksa to be like.  I must say though, the bowl that they used for the Laksa was probably not a very good choice.  It was a bowl that is kind of flat, so the soup did get cold very fast.  Not good for soup type noodle, especially when I wanted to drink all the soup...

This is the Satay skewers, three beef, three chicken.  The beef was a bit dry and tough, but the chicken was quite nice.  The satay sauce, though, was a bit too much to the sweet side, and not enough peanut taste in it.

This is the Malacca Lobak.  Don't ask me what that's suppose to mean.  Anyway, it's three fish balls, a few pieces of deep fried tofu, and some tofu skin roll (腐皮巻).  The fish balls were good, the tofu was okay, but the tofu skin roll (腐皮巻) tasted a bit weird.  Not something I'd have again.  Guess I'll go for either just the fish balls, or just fried tofu.

This is, obviously, spring rolls.  Not much ingredients it seems, but it was fried very good, very crisp.

Overall, not a bad place.  Cheap.  Guess I will go there again when I go to The Glen.

Kimchi Hut

Wednesday I went with friends to see Brave, and before the movie, we went to our usual place in Glen Waverley for dinner - Kimchi Hut.

Since we didn't have much time, all five of us ordered rice stone pot.  I went on the safe side, ordered the Beef rice stone pot.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take a photo before I mix up the rice, so it looks a bit messy.....

P.S. This was what I had last time when we went to see Dark Shadows - Spicy prawn rice stone pot.

Lunch @ Fedeles

Today I took mum to an Italian restaurant, Fedeles, for lunch.

Like any other fine dinning restaurant, the meal started with complimentary bread and butter.  

Well, we were too hungry that I totally forgotten about taking photos, so I can only take a photo of the empty basket...

This is entree, Oysters Florentine.  This is absolutely the star of the meal.  Absolutely delicious!!

This is the other entree we had, the Pumpkin and Feta Soufflé.  It tastes very good, and full of cheese flavour, but God, was that rich!  There was no way I can finish that and also have the main.  Luckily we were sharing today.  

This is one of the main, Lamb cooked two ways, which was a slow cooked braised lamb and a lamb rack.  The lamb rack was very nicely cooked, moist and just right.  

This is the second main, crispy boned duckling.  The duck, especially the leg part, is quite dry.  Not as good as I would hope it to be.  However, to my surprise, I did find that I quite like the poached pear.  

Lastly, I had a cappuccino, which came with Almond biscotti.  

Nice place, but quite expensive.  Not some place that I would go often.  Maybe once a year?