Pepper Lunch

Pepper Lunch
Central World 6/F, Atrium Zone
Chamchuri Square 2/F
SF Cinema City 7/F MBK Center
Central Plaza Bangna G/F

http://www.pepperlunch.com.sg

Before my brother took me to this place, I have no idea what Pepper Lunch is. But he kept mention about this place on and on, so one day, we went there together.

On what they said on their website, "Pepper Lunch is an affordable DIY fast food steakhouse with more than 200 outlets in Japan. Pepper Lunch promises a dynamic and fresh culinary experience for everyone by presenting the novel concept of a sizzling steak. You can enjoy juicy steak with a sizzle at affordable prices." They also have many branches in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, and of course, Thailand.

This is how to order. Similar to every fast food shop, you have to order and pay first at the counter. They have a screen to show you what you order while another part of the screen showing how to cook your meal. After ordering, they will give you a number and you have to find the table which have matching number so that they can serve you the right order.

The kitchen, looking from the order counter.

At the table, they have a seasoning set.

As you may guess, of course one of the seasoning here is pepper. (as they are Pepper Lunch)

Salt

Karakuchi (Garlic Soy Sauce)

Amakuchi (Honey Brown Sauce)

According to their guide, they recommend to use these sauce with the steak menu. However, I find out that Karakuchi also goes along well with the rice.

My brother's Cut Steak&Hamburger served with bean sprouts, chives, and corns (Baht 190 or Baht 229 if you order it together with rice and soft drink).

To enjoy your steak&hamburger, this is what they told you to do:
- Cook your steak both sides on the hot plate.
- Add 'Amakuchi' or 'Karakuchi' for great taste when it is ready.

My Beef Pepper Rice (Baht 120 or Baht 139 if you order it together with soft drink).

To enjoy pepper rice, follow this instruction:
- The secret of great taste comes from butter and sauce in the middle of the plate.
- The more you mix them up, the better taste you get.

After mixing.

Another tip from me, but I am not sure if you will find it good or not. Adding Karakuchi (Garlic Soy Sauce) in this plate make it more tasty, similar to garlic fried rice.

Overall, I find it surprisingly good. Will come back to try other menu :)

Starbucks-Toffee Nut Latte (Christmas Drink 2009)

Toffee Nut Latte
Available at Starbucks as Christmas Seasonal Drink

Before going to work on one morning (4 November 2009), I found this in front of Starbucks.

It said '2 Days until Christmas Arrives in Stores' and the below details is 'welcome back the drink of the celebrated season' with the picture of Toffee Nut Latte and Dark Cherry Mocha.

Then, I went in the shop and found out that even they announced at the door that we had to wait for 2 more days, they already pre-sold the Christmas drink! Lucky me!

Here it is! My first Tall Toffee Nut Latte of 2009!

Front of the cup.

Back of the cup.

I did not love it as coffee, but it is kind of seasonal drink for me, warm..sweet..creamy, and it also brings back good memories and reminds me that winter is coming (although winter in Bangkok is not cold, lol).The first official day of Christmas in the store!

and I got this! Snowflake Tumbler!

Who is hiding here? Mumble? There is a little penguin at the bottom of tumbler! wish they made the snow globe tumbler, but this is already oh-so-cute! (There is another similar tumbler but with white rabbit.)

Show you the cover. It is the twist-to-open style. To get the drink, you have to twist to open it.

Already twist.

Guess what i ordered today? Of course it was Toffee Nut Latte! This tumbler can use for only the short size of hot drink, as it is the 10 oz size tumbler.

In addition, I found this poster. The Live Jazz at Starbucks during December 2009 plus the Christmas Carol Singing.

Live Jazz at Starbucks will be on every Saturday starting from 5 December 2009 at only 5 branches; Baan Silom, Camp Davis, Charmchuree Square, SF Nawamin, and SF Phaholyothin.

For Christmas Carol (with the seasonal drink testing), it will be on 24 and 25 December 2009 at 2.00 p.m.-6.00 p.m. For Christmas Eve, it will be at 1st Floor of Siam Center, Street Level of Siam Paragon, and Siam Pomodoro. For Christmas, it will be at SF Esplanade, Emporium Tower, and 3rd Floor of Central World.

Enjoy!

Tawaraya

Tawaraya

74 Sukumvit Soi 26 (near 4Wings Hotel),
Bangkok

Tel : 02-261-0561
Open daily : 11.30 - 14.00 / 17.30 - 23.00

It's quite hard to find the first photo for this blog, as i did not take one that completely express the atmosphere of this place. It is kind of feel-like-being-at-home place. The first floor is the sofa seats while the second floor is the private section. We choose second floor. (You can notice if you choose the second floor that most of other customers are Japanese, and they use this place as the drinking place.

Sneak peak!

Tawaraya is the Nagoya shop. According to wikipedia, some famous Nagoya food are misokatsu (pork cutlet with miso sauce), tebasaki (chicken wings marinated in a sweet sauce with sesame seeds - a type of yakitori), kishimen (flat udon noodles), and misonikomi udon (noodles in thick miso soup).You will find stack of bowls and a box of chopsticks on your table, so you are able to use as many bowl as you want for your meal! (i do around 2 as you will find below.)

Give you the appetizer first, Kusikatsu miso - deep fried pork with miso sauce (Baht 90).

Let you see after the first few bites.

Miso was soooo great and that's the important part of this dish (as you can see above, Nagoya is the specialist for miso). the pork part is just normal.

Another interesting dish to order (as recommend by the staff that it's their famous dish) is tebasaki - chicken wings marinated in a sweet sauce with sesame seeds (Baht 90). From the menu, it also looked interesting. gonna order at the next visit for sure!

A stove coming!

We ordered Shioton - slices of pork marinated with salt mixed with vegetable - cabbage & beansproute (Baht 190)

We also ordered another addition Udon (Baht 50) to add to this dish. Show you how to make it: first, fry the pork and vegetable. Then, put udon and continue stir-frying until everything is cooked.

We can eat now!

Even it looked tasteless, from its pale color, the real taste is much different.

After finishing the dish. think it can show you how good it is, lol.

More thing to order from Yakiniku part (as i went there once before this blog but did not take photos as i was too excite!) are misoton - pork with miso sauce and chicken with garlic (sorry that i can't give you the japanese name for this one). Highly recommend the chicken with garlic one, really..really good! (but you will smell like chicken and garlic after that, said from my own experience, lol)

Another stove coming! can you guess what it is.

Show you the ingredient. Tako - octopus, ginger, spring onion, and fried tempura batter, with seaweed and Katsuo bushi - dry fish, to.

Give you another hint, the batter.

Yes, it is do-it-yourself Takoyaki (Baht 150). you can ask the back kitchen to do it for you (so you can sure that you will get perfect takoyaki) or make it yourself (or ask their staff to do for you) at the table.

Show you how to make takoyaki, start from the bottom left photo: pour in batter first. Then, add tako. After that, mix other ingredients

The complete takoyaki!

While waiting for the next dish, i did this :)

And also this!

With seaweed and dryfish, can't see the hearts right now, lol

Another dish coming! Unagino Isiyakihitumabusi - Grilled Eel on Rice (Baht 330).

They served this with spring onion, seaweed, wasabi, and o-chazuke soup.

You can choose to have it dry or with soup. To have it in the dry version, you can choose to top it with spring onion, seaweed, and wasabi. but to my choice (you can notice that this is not my plate for sure), i choose to have it with no topping.

Or, you can have it with the soup. Start pouring!

More..more..

Stir it a bit

Done.

For me, I preferred the soup one, the crispy with a bit burned rice (as they served this rice in the hot stone bowl) meets with the soup made the good combination and the soup supported the flavor, taste, and smell of the rice. Quite a comfort food for me.

For dessert, I tried Kurogoma Purin - Black Sesame Pudding (Baht 100) (sorry for no picture). Creamy and tender pudding with black sesame paste at the bottom. I rarely felt black sesame on my first few bite. But the taste increased more and more...and complete the meal!

La Truffe, Ma Du Zi Hotel Bangkok-Afternoon Tea

Ma Du Zi Hotel Bangkok

9/1 Ratchadaphisek, Klongtoey Sub-district,

Klongtoey District, Bangkok 10110
Tel : 02-615-6400

http://www.maduzihotel.com

Afternoon Tea period: 2.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.

If you drive pass this building, you will not notice that there is a great place escaping in the middle of Bangkok (MaDuZi locates on Asoke Junction, Sukhumvit and Ratchadapisek, on the corner of Sukhumvit 16). and i'm so lucky that someone introduce this place to me!

Before coming to this place, first of all, highly recommend that you should call to make a reservation! not because of this place is so packed, but because it's so private so that if you don't call first, you might end up being at the gate and can't come in, for the gate is always closed and no one's there to open the gate for you.

After coming in, it's quite another world to me. peaceful and serene. great place for escaping.

They have 2 choice of afternoon tea set: one is the normal tea set which includes tea, savory, and sweet, plus macarons (Baht 650). the other is the same but with the additional wine (Baht 850). Some might know that i don't good at drinking, so i go for the former one. Please note that the savory and sweet changes everyday, depends on the ingredient the chef get on that day.

Time to order tea! They have choice of white tea, red tea, green tea, and black tea. with the choice of flowers: Lavender, Chamomile, Mary Gold (but in my opinion, i think it's Chrysanthemum), and Carnation. and the choice of sweet addition: white sugar, brown sugar, rock sugar, and honey.My choice! White tea with rose. Quite ok, but not that much rose scent.

Savoury. From right to left, Omelette on Baguette, Toast Ham and Cheese Sandwich, and Mushroom Tart.

Give you another picture!

Awesome! i have to think carefully of what to eat first. end up with omelette, then sandwich, then mushroom tart. all is fantastic, but my most favorite is the sandwich. perfectly toasted with not too much, not too little ham&cheese. if it's a bit more or less than this, it won't be this perfect!

Another thing, don't think that they gave you too little. for me, i think it's quite perfect portion. if they give you more than this, it will be too much.
Strawberry tart!

Top view.After a bite.

Even it's a bit too early for strawberries, the chef can manage to make this tart great. i think the base is super creamy almond paste, but not so sure.

Honestly, i can't remember what this one call, but there is cherry inside, so i gonna call it the Cherry Dome!
Top view. can you notice it's so shine and you can even use it as a mirror! (already tried, lol)

After a cut, to show you the inside. (see the light bulb on the cutting part? quite shine!)

i don't know how to explain this one. bitter chocolate and cherry...creamy smooth chocolate moose with cherry in the middle. I quite melt using a knife to cut through it and the taste is like a daydream.

Macarons!!! i got strawberry cream cheese (i think, lol), chocolate, and blueberry. my favorite is chocolate, feel like eating brownie!

Just a sentence for conclusion, i gonna come back for sure!