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michaels… there was about 20 of us so we booked out the cellar room - which was handy as there was a lot of wine going around the tables.

entree was a smoked salmon thing…. it wasn’t bad but it didn’t really set my world on fire.

main was an eye fillet which was disappointingly small… tasted good and came with a little piece of quiche which was nice.

dessert i had the cheese plate…. they have this fig and quince pate thing that’s always awesome. 

wines were great - the wine list @ michaels should be delivered on a tablet pc with a google search function…. it’s that big!

i’ve ranted about it before - it still shits me that they don’t take your jacket at michaels… it wouldnt be so bad but the chairs they have are kinda rounded and don’t hold a jacket on properly - so inevitably your jacket ends up on the floor. this ALWAYS happens to EVERYONE….. michael platsis - BUY A FSCKIN COATRACK!

it’s good service (apart from the jacket thing), great views, good atmosphere, etc but there isnt really anything on the menu that kinda makes you go wow! considering a 3 course meal is gunna run $100+ per head (and that’s without booze!) it should be better than it is.

7/10. ok but not particularly exciting.

hilton….

entree was an asparagrus thing with a poached egg and some cheese. it was served cold!!!! as in…. out of the fridge cold - i HATE cold entrees. the asparagrus was woody, the cheese was tasteless. bleh, it was crap.

main was a rib fillet - was a pretty crappy cut of meat, it was over-cooked, they didn’t give a steak knife, it was crap crap crap.

desert was a little caramel tart thing… it was ok but looked a lot like a mc’cains freezer desert.

3/10. everything was CRAP, badly prepared poor quality ingredients. someone should be sacked - this is supposed to be the hilton!

jojo’s on the mall - yeah the stefan place.

i hadn’t been here for years and it was just like i remembered it….. overcrowded with yuppie wankers.

we had a table for 30 booked - the table wasn’t ready so we all had to stand around like assholes for about 20 minutes…… they wouldn’t charge drinks to the table so we all ended up having to start our own tabs…. there was no seats cos the place is so crammed with yuppie wankers. off to a great start.

then we sit down and guess what - there’s no table service….. go and line up for 20 minutes!!!!!!!!! just to place your order. and of course there’s 3 different places to order, one for asian, one for pizza, and one for steak - the steak place had the longest line up (of course!)

so here we are at a corporate do, buying drinks out of our own pocket, and now we all go to different lines and stand around for 20 bloody minutes to place an order.

but wait…. it gets so much worse. no co-ordination of the meal timings…. asian stuff was out within about 15 minutes, pizza was out after about 35mins, and then 1hour 20 minutes AFTER we ordered (and don’t forget that’s after spending 20 minutes in line!!!) our steaks started to come out….. inevitably they cocked up 3 out of about 15 steak orders, so some guys waited about 1hour 45 for their steaks.

the steak was ok, it wasn’t anything to write home about, but it could have been the best bloody steak in the world and i’d still never go back to this stinkhole.

a new low in ratemysteak scoring - 1/10. jojo’s you suck!!!

so there’s a restaurant called alchemy directly over the road from my apartment… underneath the hoppo building - everyone knows the hoppo building….. the one with the giant silver finger statue thing out the front

there’s a pic of this giant finger on some flickr site which i can’t upload cos dreamhost is being ghey… and i can’t hotlink to it cos flickr is ghey…. overwhelming gheyness really

try going to http://www-us.flickr.com/photos/cyron/1421179/ if you really wanna see the finger - if it doesnt work email flickr and tell them they’re tards…. email dreamhost too. 

anyway - alchemy is very definitely not ghey…. on advice from my host i threw the menu away as soon as i sat down. there is only one dish you wanna order here - it’s called “beef cheeks”….. i have no idea what part of the cow a “beef cheek” comes from and i prolly never wanna know - it’d ruin it for me. had an entree of scallops with a bit of salmon and little pasta parcel things…. it was nice, but i dont think it was worth the 30+ price tag.

anyway - back to the beef cheeks….. these things come out on a BIG plate with a BIG serve of mash and some other vegie stuff….. they marinate the beef cheeks for 24hours, then they slow cook them for 8 hours or some other stupidly long period of time that would bring a tear to dibbzeh’s eye….. you stick a fork into them and they just crumble apart. unbelievable stuff.

good venue on riverwalk level - views over the river, decent crowd but still quiet. i wasn’t wearing a jacket on the day but a coupla the other guys were… it always shits me when a restaurant doesn’t offer to take your jacket…. michael’s is a classic for this - $100+ per head for a feed and they can’t even take yer damn jacket. alchemy is a “can i take your jacket sir?” place.

overall a 8.5/10 experience…. woulda been a 9.5 but the entree was average, wasn’t bad, just wasn’t great. i’ll definitely go back tho!

did another run to kingsleys as well - this is the new cha cha char….. see my previous report, it was exactly the same. GOLD!

had lunch at the pig n whistle…. i don’t mind drinking here but i’ve always found their food a bit ordinary - they didn’t disappoint. they RAN OUT of rump steak…. WTF?!??! so i had to order some sausages n mash cos everything else looked crap. then it took them just over an hour to get the meals to us…. i had breakfast here the other morning as well…. overpriced, ordinary quality, and so bloody slow to get the meals out to the table.

needless to say the sausages n mash was bland, boring, and pretty ordinary. if you pay 8 bucks for a pub meal then you can probably put up with it - but the pig charges like 22 bucks for this concoction. and it’s inexcusable to run out of any kind of steak, let alone rump steak. tards.

pig n whistle - 2/10.

so the games continue - they wanna come in every bloody day, they throw their weight around, i tell them to get stuffed, we meet somewhere in the middle.

auction is in a coupla weeks - can’t wait for it to be over.

hope it’s an investor and not a would be owner occupier that buys it. i’m gunna go along to the auction just to see the outcome.

michaels…

haven’t been here for ages cos it’s one of those big plate, small meal kinda places.

asked them for some garlic / herb bread as a starter - chick looked at us like we’d ask for a can of baked beans or something… “we don’t do that here” she says. blah

got some panini with olive oil… blah blah - bread with wanky stuff. it wasn’t bad - would have preferred garlic bread tho.

i had the venison as a main - it was pretty damn good… but it was a tiny little bloody serving - when you’re paying 40+ bucks a plate you should walk out full.

nice food, nice view, but i wouldn’t go there if i’m paying.

kingsleys steak and crab

this place is GOLD… the alaskan king crab and all those weird crabs you see on that deadliest catch show on cable - they serve them… yours for only 70 bucks for half a crab. as it was only a lunch i just stuck to the 500g rump.

bloody beautiful cut of meat, great mash, mushrooms, and beans with onions as sides. can’t rave about this place enough - i’ll definitely be going back for a bit of seafood as well.

i’d probably even put this place ahead of cha cha char, purely because it’s not so bloody noisy - cha cha char really need to do something with their layout… you end up screaming at each other over the table cos the acoustics just bounce all the noise around inside the restaurant.

exchange hotel

$12 wednesday rib fillet deal… as always - awesome feed. if you want a good feed and you’re paying outta yer own pocket, this is the place to go.

back from 4 days in kuala lumpur…

some plastic furniture dodgy looking place on level 4 of a mall next to the legend hotel - no idea of the name (dunno if it even had one)

nasi goreng maya (or something like that)

given my issues with spicy hot food i was a bit nervous but when in rome, burn yer lips like the romans do

aside from the bits of chicken bone scattered thru the meal it tasted pretty damn good and wasn’t really too harsh on the lips

mango juice that was like they stuffed 4 whole mangoes into a blender and poured the mush into a glass - awesome

5 of us went there with a local bloke (who goes there so often he doesn’t even need to order anymore)

apparently the total cost for all 5 of us was about 30ringot (approx 10 bucks AU)

some chinese joint near the IT mall (5 levels of geekness) in kl - another plastic furniture joint you prolly wouldnt go near normally…. all sorts of chinese stuff, no idea on most of it but there was only one dish that was a lip burner - awesome feed, heaps of tiger beer…. no idea of the cost

some other plastic furniture joint near the legend hotel…. forget the name of it but it was kinda like fried rice with a coupla runny poached eggs on top. tasted awesome, bloke next to me ordered some insane looking hot curry thing - it looked like liquid chilli… his glasses fogged up, he was sweating like a pig, his tongue swelled up so he talked like a freak, don’t think he’d order it again

the best feed of the whole trip was in some little restaurant up the road from the hotel…. dunno the local name but i think it translates to “bean curd”…. i’ve never eaten bean curd, and i’ve definitely never been to a vegetarian restaurant. our local guide ordered a whole bunch of stuff - all of it tasted awesome…. i *thought* i was eating duck in plum sauce, some kinda baked fish in ginger sauce (a little harsh on the lips), deep fried prawns, and a few other meatty kinda things…. weird thing was everytime i asked the local girl what something was she said “bean curd”…. i put it down to a translation issue. wasn’t until the end of the meal that we all found out that every single dish we ate had no meat in it. even the vegetarian that was with us was passing up heaps of it cos he thought it was meat. every single bloody dish was bean curd!!!! if i’d known it was a vego restaurant i prolly wouldn’t have gone - but bugger me it all tasted awesome… i’d even go there again.

the only real lip burning killer meal was at some local up market (aimed at tourists) buffet restaurant that has a floor show of malaysian dancing…. i walked past the roast chicken and chips and “normal” food and hit a few of the entrees - deep fried prawns, various satay skewer things… everything was going great - no lip burners… then i thought i’d have some of the chicken masala - i always thought chicken masala was pretty mild. omfg - this thing was a killer…. i was sweating, my nose was running, thought i was gunna die. musta drank about 3 jugs of tiger beer to quench the fire…. those 3 jugs came back to bite me a bit later when i got dragged up on stage to do some malaysian dancing (yeah this is a story in itself, more on this later - there’s even video) needless to say with my burning lips and 3+ jugs of beer in me i had all the co-ordination of a stupid whitey tourist.

proudest achievement of the trip - there was a maccas in the same building as the hotel… i didn’t eat there once!!

worst moment of the trip - getting past the point of no return in a toilet (the day after the chicken masala) and then realising there was no dunny paper in there…. just some weird squirty thing.

so yeah - KL was awesome…. i’d even go back on a holiday - wouldn’t have enjoyed it anywhere near as much without the locals to show us around. chicks would love it - it’s shopping central. nice to have a bit of time to do some touristy stuff on a work trip.