Carvery Restaurant, Aigburth

Like i mentioned in the previous post, Brits like to have traditional roast dinner on Sunday. Well, at Carvery, they offer the so called ‘Sunday-feeling’ everyday with generous roast meal with good value (for less than 4 pounds).

Its a half buffet style roast meal, in which the customer can help themself with countless serving of vegetables and potatoes, but exclude the meat (why i didnt feel suprise at all ;p). There are 3 succulent roast to choose: The TENDER prime roast beef, Gammon and turkey Breast. For me, i always choose all of them, dont have to waste my grey matter pondering on such insignificant things. anyway, did i mention that i am a carnivore before?

The meat is alright, cooked throughly, the roast beaf is not so tender though. Thumbs up for the gravies, they put whole onion inside without slicing them at all into the gravies, it looks like a brown sauce, but has a thick onion and salty taste. It taste good with the roast meat.

Next on the list is the side dish, where you can help yourself to as much or as little as you like from range of freshly steamed and roasted vegetables (caulis, carrots, green peas, roast potatoes, steam potatoes) home-cooked Yorkshire puddings and delicious stuffing. There is a wide range of sauce to choose as well, they have brown sauce, mustard sauce and horseradish sauce (yucks). oh, Brits like GREEN PEAS!!! *emphasize* PLAIN steam green peas, with no added artificial taste or sauce, but they just love it, its really a mystery to me.

In case you are trying to find the meat, well, its underneath the mountain high of vegetable and potatoes. Yorkshire pudding is like malaysia-yao char guai. Fried flour stuff which look like a mushroom cup. The stuffing (ball look alike stuff) supossed to be inside the yorkshire pudding though, thats the proper way of eating it.

Me and CS before taking the meal.

This is what i called before and after.

3A Hand Made Yong Taufu @ Section 19 Petaling Jaya

Funny name for a place.The place was jam packed during lunch hour. My colleagues and I were there to celebrate the last day of an industrial trainee that was with us for the past 3 months on Friday. We ate a variety of foods there but I could only take pictures of a few as I did not want to appear rude to my colleagues. First we started with:

Chee cheong fun with black sauce

 

Curry chee cheong fun

The chee cheong fun is really good compared to the others I have tasted. Soft and smooth texture. Both of them came with sprinkles of fried onions on them. I prefer the curry to the black sauce version. The next thing that came was:

This is an assortment of fried stuff consisting of wantan balls, foo chook and sui kow. All of these are fish stuffed goodies that are coated/wrapped with flour and deep fried to crispyness. For this dish, there was nothing stunning about it. It tasted pretty much the same as any other yong tau fu place I have been to. This dish actually came (no pictures of it) with a bowl of soup that had stuffed taufu, stuffed red chilli, stuffed lady’s fingers and some odd looking thing that is actually a long bean curled up into a ball coated with fish meat that looked like a yoyo in it. Nothing stunning either.

For desert we all drank bowls of cooling drinks made out of either, pumpkin or barley with gingko fruit. I took the latter because the pumpkin one looked lumpy and not appetizing.

The gingko kind of made this desert taste too thick for my liking. It did not have any barley taste to me at all.It just tasted like tasteless thick mushroom soup. Its an acquired taste because my colleagues were drinking theirs down like they were dehydrated.

We split the bill which came to RM 8 per person. Average price. If you want to try this place, just aim for the chee cheong fun. I give the lunch a 2 toes up.