Secret of Louisiana

Last month was the month of my birthday! Mine and LP's too :) When S said she wanted to give us a surprise dinner, we thought that she was joking but it turned out she was super serious about it! She made me excited and really looked forward for the dinner because based on the online review that she shared with us, the restaurant got a super super high rating from the author!

It is located at Plaza Kelana Jaya, which is super near to the LRT station that I go to everyday, for work. I could reach the place within 10 minutes from Kelana Jaya LRT Station if there were to be no jam! However, I took around half an hour to reach the place after I got back from work! So yeah, please plan your journey ahead if you were to visit during peak hour! *Congestion on LDP is of  no joke*

We need to pay RM2/entry upon entering Plaza Kelana Jaya. Lucky me, found parking in the indoor carpark which was located quite near to the Secret of Louisiana!

Address of Secret of Louisiana:

Block D-1-01 Jalan SS7/13A, Plaza Kelana Jaya, 47301 Petaling Jaya Selangor.

Click here to view their elaborate menu! 

They publish their menu outside too.

The entrance to the restaurant :)

It was almost 8pm when I arrived.
Else, sure able to catch the sunset like LP did!

You see the atmosphere!
No wonder a lot of people have their proposal and wedding dinner here!

Taken from our place :)

New England Clam Chowder, RM26.
Rich and creamy chowder, loaded with fresh clams, diced potatoes and celery.

Carribbean Sea Munchers, RM50.

A combo platter contains baked mussels, Cajun fried prawns,
calamari fritters, and fish fingers.

Fiery soft shell crab pasta, RM36

This spaghetti is cooked Al Dante wth yellow zucchini, 
and the soft shell crabs is fried to perfection with Cajun seasoning.

Nut and seed layered chicken, RM35.

Grilled chicken breast with Cajun spice, sliced and layered with organic nut and seed,
served on lightly mashed potato and carrot. Dizzled with Fig chutney sauce :D

The dinner was super satisfying. We really took our time to slowly savour the mouth-watering food. It's not everyday that I got to have such sumptuous dinner so I was super happy! It was super filing though I didn't have rice for dinner (first time wey lol). The restaurant is really a favourite place of everyone for just any occasions because we heard a lot of birthday songs every now and then. The lights were switched off each time and people started singing birthday song. We were the 5th birthday table of the night! LOL.. Felt a bit shy already haha..

S was very thoughtful as well that she prepared birthday desserts for us! Nowadays, having cake for birthday is like so mainstream already haha.. So yeah, here it comes, our birthday photo :D

Love how the camera is able to capture so well in low-light condition!

Should have arranged our things more nicely aiks~~
Nevertheless, nice photo indeed! ❤

Such a simple and sweet and memorable birthday dinner. 

Thanks dear ❤❤

X'mas 2015

I've been a big fan of Gossip Girl, especially Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass! I've always wanted to have a sleep over with close friends of mine just like what Blair likes to do. This time round, we made it. CT came over after her work on X'mas Eve. Oh well, I know how exhausting it is to work in retail on shift hours and especially on festive season! 

She came over with her laptop and some titbits to fulfil one of our agendas, watch movie on bed with popcorns! While she was trying to fully "utilize" my house's wifi, I attempted to try using the hair curler I bought from Korea as I had nothing to do. Little did I know that I needed an adaptor for it in order to fit into our socket! Ishh.. Jinjia.. Then, I think we spent like, one hour like that, trying to figure how the hell to use a curler because it's too mini!! We ended up kinda ruin our hair as CT said she saw her hair macam turned a bit choco color d.. LOL.. So yeah, we gave up~

XD

The movie was "Our Times", I would say it was rather over-rated lar, wasn't really up to expectation. So yeah, after movie, we turned of the light, lay on bed and talked about life. IKR, we are like old people like that, of all topics and gossips, we chose to talk about life, LOL.. Wanted to put on masks I brought back from Korea but she said it's not good to put it all the way till morning if it's not sleeping mask. Oh well, perhaps next time then. 

I think we fell asleep around 3 something in the morning and woke up at 9, getting ready and left to LRT station to meet YT. First time we got dressed up and put make up together neh :D

Aww

After we each had a burger at the station (ya, no time to eat before leaving lol), we went NU Central to shop for X'mas gift. First went to Typo but couldn't find any. Then, CT went to MPH while I went to Bath and Body Works. Gosh, super nice smell lar the shop! I was so tempted to buy some for myself leh TBH.. After spending like one hour in NU Central, we had finally settled down with our gifts and met up with YT in her orange hybrid car.

We wanted to try our luck at ACME Bar and Cafe but it was full house. So we proceed to a last minute Plan B, which was Black Market. The place was recommended by YT. I would say the environment and surrounding is ok lar, just that the entrance to the restaurant was a bit hard to tolerate lar, it smells like fish market lol. Anyway, we all ordered set lunch which comes with soup and tea of your choice.

YT with her pork burger.

CT with her Blank Market grilled chicken chop.

My Red Hot grilled chicken chop.

So yeah, we thought wanted to exchange gift after having lunch. Who knows the waiter came and said they were closing already and they were kinda rushing us to pay bill though we had hardly begin on our meal. Not syok lar ok.. So after we finished, we left without exchanging gift lol..

Then we headed to Pavilion because I insisted want to take photo with the X'mas tree haha.. It was super jam lar omg.. We spent one hour to travel 4.4km walao.. No wonder people rather stay at home during festive seasons than going out.. But it had been like, almost a year since our last hangout with YT. Though she "showed face" during our celebration for our friends' birthday but that doesn't really count because we hardly catch up anything.. So yeah, after a "horrendous" jam, we finally got a parking!

Aww, same color :D

Me with my out-of-shape hair LOL

Then, we passed by MilkCow and CT said she wanna try because it was quite popular. So yeah, as it is, just popular, the "natural ice-cream" tastes just like ordinary ice-cream. Too over-rated again. Then we visited the Samsung store as we both planning to change our phone. Then we teman YT to look for her Tumbler, went to G2000 because there was sales but couldn't get anything cause couldn't find the design that I like. Then went to Fossil to survey present. Then finally, we decided to find a place to sit and rest as I was alarming them on how pain my legs and toes were for wearing heals LOL..

Settled down in a typical place, Starbucks! Haha.. There was where we really had our time to chat lar TBH! Chat about what? We talked about life again!! LOL, but also abit about our travel plan lar.. I never really travel with CT and YT before neh omg.. So yeah, need to wait CT to get her postings news then only we can really plan and decide on the details. But just the fact that we are to have a trip together next year is so exciting seriously. Oh wait, which mean, its time to save money again ~~

Starbucks was also the place where we finally got the time and chance to exchange gift LOL..

:D

Then we headed to the entrance of Pavilion again as YT said there would be some "fake snow" starting from 8pm. Manatau when we reached there, it was so disappointing lar.. Idk how to describe it but it was very super overcrowded! And the snow was very "stingy" omg, langsung couldn't feel anything.. zzzz

So yeah, we left. YT sent us back to LRT station and there it goes, our X'mas hangout~~

This basically sums up the day.

Thanks for spending quality time together ok, thanks for the gifts, the talks and the laughters!! Hope you all love the gifts from me lar, it smells super nice ok!! 

Then, on the X'mas day itself, I had a sleepover with my cousie.. 

Awww~~~ ❤❤❤ over-loaded on this meaningful season :D
Hope whoever reading this, had a wonderful and unforgettable X'mas too :)

Madam Kwan's

So, I was on my way meeting up with my dear ZY, and something had caught my attention.

The grand opening of new Madam Kwan's outlet in Sunway Pyramid
(just a floor below Asian Avenue)

After we bought our movie tickets, we then headed to Madam Kwan's for lunch :)

Please be informed that, along with the 6% GST imposed, is the 10% service charge.

If you are going with a big gang, you may opt for private tables.

Mural art on your left when you entering the restaurant.

We were then directed to the inner part of the outlet where we were rewarded with the grand view of Sunway Lagoon.

Our lunch:

Madam's Specialities: Nasi Bojari (RM24.90),
Madam's tri-coloured rice with assam prawns, beef rendang and deep fried chicken drumstick.
We noticed that it was a popular choice as it was being ordered by many tables.

Banana Fritters With Ice Cream (RM12.90),
Deep fried banana with vanilla ice-cream and golden syrup (which tasted  like honey to me XD).
*You may opt between banana and pineapple*

Since we both had had something in the morning, these were all that our stomachs could afford. Wish to try some other dishes next time round :)

The cashier.

Thanks for reading. Here I end the post with:

The familiar logo symbolizes quality, authentic Malaysian food.

Birthday Hangout :)

It had been a year since our last meet-up during YT's b'day. This year round, YT was the one offered to treat us lunch on her b'day pulak.. So paiseh.. LOL.. Anyway, we have decided to meet up in KL thus, CT and me took LRT to KL Central and done the present shopping at NU Central. Then, YT came and picked us up, headed to Fahrenheit 88. Btw, since the movie that we watched during her b'day last year didn't really impress YT, this year round, we decided to give Night at The Museum 2 a try :)

After bought our tickets at GSC Pavilion, we headed to Ben's for lunch. Well, though I've heard quite a lot of recommendations from friends and blogs, CT didn't really find it somewhat outstanding. The food served are of normal standard, which drove her into deep ponder, "are the chefs foreigners from third world country or what?" Wait, it's not that the food are bad, okay? It's just that, the food tastes kind of common. 

Photo taken while waiting for food.

YT's Spaghettini Carbonara, RM26
With beef bacon, mushrooms & cream.

CT's Aglio Olio Spaghettini, RM16
Tosses with olive oil, garlic & dried chillies.

My Golden Soft-shell Crab Spaghettini, RM28
With curry leaves & cili padi.

Panorama view, auto-generated by G+.

Then, it's movie time. Luckily, the movie that we chose this time round, didn't bore YT to slumber like it did last year.. haha.. All of us find it quite entertaining. On our way to Fahrenheit, we stopped by the concourse to take some photos :)

YT and the X'mas tree
I know, X'mas had long passed, I know.. Ishh.. But its still nice!

We then headed to Fahrenheit for tea time, but I have forgotten what's the name of the cafe called. According to YT, her aunt recommended that place to her, and, 3D coffee art is available upon request. However, we didn't order 3D coffee lar, we just ordered an ice-cream waffle :)

My Cappuccino, RM9

Ice-cream waffle, RM15.90

While having lunch, we chatted; while having tea time, we chatted; when it's time for dinner, we continued our chat! Haha.. Of course lar kan, so long time didnt catch up already. Thus, we headed to Tom, Dick & Harry's. As we had had a lot for the day, we just ordered some snacks as our dinner.

Menu hanging from the ceiling.
I wouldn't have noticed it had YT not point it out.

Wish to try their pork knuckle next time :)

The stage. No band performing though as we were there quite early, around 7pm.. lol..

I like their MENU very much, it's like story book!!

Six Pigs in a Blanket, RM22
I don't like the mustard though......

Deep Fried Chicken Wings, RM28

Oh, BTW, YT introduced us to Hoegaarden, and thanks to her, I've fallen in love with it. I find it tastier than Carlsberg and I think I wont have Carlsberg this CNY if we could find Hoegaarden in can-form. Hehe.. CT on the other hand, wasn't really fond of any liquor and thus, only had one sip of it, the rest shared between YT and me. Well, if not because of the fact that I need to drive back home, I think I would have one pint for myself alone.. Ooops......

All in all, it was a day well spent, especially on special occasion, eg birthday! So paiseh that you treated us lunch, YT. Hope that the rest of the day had been laid out in a way that pleased you, planned by CT and me. Oh, and your birthday present too, chosen by both of us.. Hehe.. All the best in your final year aite! Take care :)

Very hard to have high school friends who are still in touch 'till now k?

Photo credit to CT :D

A memorable way to start a new year indeed.
"Till next post, cheers :)

X'mas 2014

Well, though we didn't manage to spend our X'mas with a trip like the way we did last X'mas, we still manage to spend time together. For this, I'm grateful. We are still able to maintain the jimui-ship despite the fact that we have both started working. Not easy know? Anyway, let's cut to the chase.

We were supposed to meet up at 12pm but ended up at one something because of awful jam. Actually we planned to visit the new IOI mall but luckily we didn't, because it could be worse, sure hard to find parking. We had to park until Sunway Pinnacle from Pyramid thru' Sunway Resort, can you imagine? However, I'm impressed by Sunway management because the parking are all linked. Note: Just the parkings are linked, you have to walk outdoor then only can enter Sunway Pyramid from Redbox there. zzzz

We had simple lunch at McD again because we wanted to save money for shopping and nice dinner. So yeah, we were basically on 3 missions: (i) hunt for purse; (ii) hunt for facial care; (iii) makan!

Circus theme.

From another angle.

Auto-generated gif by Google :)

I think I'm under my jimui's influence that I bought the most expensive purse to date. When I was with her, it would always make me feel like the things I buy are of reasonable price, damn!

My first GUESS purse ❤ ❤

Then, my jimui suddenly transformed into a "Brand Ambassador" and started introducing me to Innisfree, which had a formal and more well known Brand Ambassador, Lee Min-ho! She has been obsessed with this brand because of him and was in an attempt to infect me too! Eh, I love Kim Soo-hyun de k? Ishh... Err.. But I also bought from Innisfree lar, "bongcan" a bit.. lol

Then, we had our high tea at Cosans Coffee and started chatting. Guess what? We had laid out our trip destinations for the next 4 years! XD

Gifts exchanged.. Hehe..

Well, beside shopping, of course must take photo also lar right, it was X'mas!!!

Looong queue wey, to take photo with this huge bear...

We had our dinner at TGIF because it was nearest to where we were that time (lazy to walk around to find makan anymore). Besides, we were lucky enough that we didn't have to queue because there was only the two of us, they had empty seats for us :)

Mushroom Farfalle, RM 33.90.

Chicken Fajitas, RM 42.90.

When we were on our way back to car parks, we dropped by Sunway Resort for their X'mas tree.. Haha..

Bluuuuur!! Should have brought my camera along...

We had an unforgettable experience when collecting cars at Pinnacle carpark.. The entire floor was so dark, had only less than 10 cars when it has around 50 parking lots. We were so scared as newspaper always publish news about girls being kidnapped in parking lots. I will never forget the entire situation for life wey..

Good thing about working, is that I'm free to decide how to spend my money, save for shopping, save for trip? Save for new phone? Though it's hard to hangout at times, we will always have each other. Thanks for spending the lovely X'mas with me, my dear jimui. Looking forward to our trip next year! ❤ ❤