Food food food

The pigster and I have been having (?) some really yummy lunches during weekends lately. The original plan was to have them on weekday nights, but 90% of the time we both work late and just.want.to.go.home.

Oh well.

Thankfully there's two glorious days in a week called the weekend and tadah!! That's when we go for good food for lunches and dinners mmm. Let me show you some of the feats eh feasts we've had in the last couple of weeks.

Our favourites are usually Japanese, Western and the occasional call for Chinese hawker noodles. But one of the yummy ones are...


La Casa @ Desa Park City

I bought a voucher (RM30 for RM60 worth, darn worth it) from LivingSocial at the beginning of the year. I came here once for my mum's birthday and found the food decent. Presentation could be better though.

When we visited during the last week of March, I found the interior welcoming with dim lighting and a dash of coziness. Couples and small families of the barking township flitted in and out of the restaurant.

It was a good start to dinner.

Being soup aficionados, we had to have the Wild Mushroom Soup. It didn't disappoint; it was aromatic and  chunky with more than enough mushrooms we both could grow in a lifetime. Topped with a handful of croutons and a swirl of cream, we both wanted MORE.

So GOOD. 

 As I keep telling him, he might one day just transform into a merman and slip into the nearest Indah Water opening with the amount of fish he eats every day.

If I remember correctly, that is Butterfish in top of mashed potatoes and creamed spinach :D

 Mineeeee. Ohh ohh mineeeeee. 

Lamb...with...spices...hahaha. Or something to that effect. You can SEE the amount of spices rubbed on to those pieces of lamb. Meat could be less raw, but pretty good overall.

Yup, it hides a scoop of mash too!

As it was (some sort) of a special occasion - heck, going out to eat good food is celebration - we ordered a pint of beer to share. Long story short, the beer was not covered under the food voucher which I understand, but it took repeated trips to get the bill signed. The waiter seemed quite blur too. I wonder if it was the rain. It rained pretty heavily before and during dinnertime. Oh well.

That was the only blip in my visit to La Casa.

Service = Hmmmm.
Food = Good.



Plan B @ Isetan

Do you know there exists a Japanese version of Plan B in Isetan, One Utama? Pigster and I discovered it by accident when we were waltzing through during our late night forays after work (Um...shower, eat, rush to malls. Yes).

It happened that that Sunday we both did not have lunch and I desperately wanted some garlic bread dipped in creamy soups. Both agreed on Dave's Deli but somehow we ended up in Plan B.

Dave's Deli is awesome if you want a snack or warm soup to soothe your soul, but we were hungry. Hmm. I highly recommend the Mushroom Soup too, if you like creamy creamy :3

Obligatory menu picture. 70% same as Plan B menus, except for some Japanese dishes. 

We ordered soup, salad, pie. I think the hunger made us both forget that Plan B portions are good for sharing, and we both ended up very full and happy and very chatty hahaha. 

 Laaaaaamb pie.

Don't be fooled by the picture. That lid of pastry revealed a gold mine of lamb pieces. So.much.win. I think we were so awestruck that we forgot to take a picture :P Seriously, it is delicious and is a meal on it's own.

It comes with a side of salad and no body can argue with salad.  

Caesar Salad mmm. 

Greens tossed with crispy turkey bacon, croutons, silvers of anchovies which were super salty and slices of Parmesan. 

Salad? Salad! My only dislike was the anchovies. Salty, huge and begged not be eaten. Lucky the cheese wasn't cheddar....

My POV. Pie pie pie pie. 

See that piece of lamb at the middle bottom? It was trying to escape the lamb cave-in inside the pie. Booyah!

Til next time :D

I lied.

Well okay, a teeny bit.

I fell off the face of the earth in the last...6 months :D

No, really. After my internship I went back to my part-time job for awhile and had a glorious break in Australia and then started work on a contract basis in Advertising. The company I interned at offered me a 6-month position and I told myself why not, just grab it and go. You never know until you try and see where it leads you too, right?

I was deeply immersed and struggled to breathe during the first 3 months. But! After each month I would look back on my campaign reports and say "Hey! I improved!"

That is an achievement :D

As tomorrow is the 1st of April, comes to the end of my contract and I have started looking for options. As good as Advertising is, it is hectic and can be rather routine. I was ad ops for a telco brand and most days I'll go home like this:

Rush rush rush

I want to work on something that has me excited for what each day has to offer. I know that to be good at something it takes at least 10,000 hours of practice.

But..

I found that after awhile I felt like I was slowly grinding my soul to dust. I found it dull to be working routinely on just one, conservative brand. I realized I started calling it "work". I realised I don't like being pigeon-holed. I like to do several things at once and watch them somehow, someway link together. I like learning things. Lots and lots of things. Perhaps I may not want to specialize. I want to be doing a whole variety of stuff and watch.them.link.together!

I was looking around Jobstreet and glanced at Social Media Executives.

I started to feel the pull back to Social Media. You were my love throughout my uni years, a love started by my first internship at Integricity. Now I remember how my uni assignments would kowtow to the power of social media, especially Facebook. Digital, digital, digital.

I sort of got my wish to work in Digital for my first job. But I want more. Something much much more.

To power to create.
The power to make viral content.
The power to connect with users, customers, and all alike. The digital space has no boundaries! Except when your Internet connection fails hahaha.
The power of speed.

If I had to pick 3 things that I love most it would be:

• Content creation (I love writing. I love putting my thoughts and conversations down in words)
• Connecting with people in written form (I'm a person that believes in the power of words, not so much of presentation)
• Making customers happy (I think this comes from being the middle child and having to compromise to make all parties happy. Further encouraged by my part-time jobs in sales/retail. I love making people happy; it makes me happy too) 

So here's to a good last month and more to self-discovery!

They say when a door closes, another one opens. I don't know when the other one may open, but I'm excited to find out what it holds for me!