Thursday, 1 January 2009

Japanese Buffet Dinner At The Legend Hotel, KL

This year, we took our family out for a Christmas dinner in Legend Hotel, KL. It was a Japanese buffet-style dinner. As there were six of us, we were given a tatami room.
All the guests were given a party pack in conjunction with the christmas celebration.







Like most of the buffet, there was a huge spread of selections! As I had gone thru a recent episode of food poisoning, no choice but to avoid the raw food sashimi (juz too bad...).
Anyway, I have topped my plate with all the make-to-order dishes from the action stalls. My favourite veggie and salmon cutlet in teppanyaki style. The grilled dishes were called yokitori (grilled chicken in skewers , a bit like sate except that it has more terriyaki sauce taste) . Also not forgetting, the famous Japanese delicacies such as baked unagi (eel) and tiny fish of 'Japanese species' in BBQ style.

Some of rather "Malaysianized" varieties such as honey chicken wings, fried rice, baked oyster with cheese topping, butter prawns, tempura and etc..









Custards pudding and a variety of dessets for drooling!
As it was a Christmas dinner, there were rich fruit cake, stollen (fruity loaf), yule-log and etc served to mark the occasion. Anyway, I found the cakes and desserts are rather too sweet.




Green tea always blend well with red beans. So I have not forgotten to top-up one scoop of red beans to my green tea ice cream!







Relish this icy dessert with a combo of shaved ice, black jelly (cincao) and longan. Umphh...it was a very cooling sensation indeed!

















Ho! Ho! Ho! Father Christmas clad in red and white suit had paid us a surprise visit! Elgin took the opportunity to capture the moment with Santa Claus!

Elgin was "conned" into tying the balloons filled with hallogen gas to his pants.










Posing with style!
























Oh oh! Difficult to sit? Sorry.. too late to release! This was how we tamed the naughty Elgin.





There were wide varieties of fresh seafood dishes, typical Japanese cuisines such as sushi, sukiyaki, udon noodle stirred fried with black pepper, miso soup, omochi & etc. Also not forgetting the delicacies for the occassion - roast lamb and turkey in cranberry sauce. Anyway I couldn't afford to stomach in so many things at one go. The buffet on normal days was priced at 69++ but it has gone up to 88++ during Christmas. Anyway, it was a jolly-good dining experience with loved ones in this special day!

Christmas Eve Dinner

Like most of other years, my bro-in-law Terence had prepared a sumptious dinner and invited us to his house for Christimas celebration.

Christmas was like another annual reunion dinner for the family but in Western style coz Terence cooks excellent Western cuisines.



Seafood Pilaf & Caesar Salad







Roast Chicken as a turkey substitute (personnally I feel that chicken taste better than turkey)



Sphagetti Aglio Olio ( Sphagetti fried with garlic & olive oil)







French loaf with balsamic vinegar and olive oil dip

















The Christmas tree full of ornaments
and the personalised gifts with photo identification.
Which one is more attractive? I believe the kids
will choose the latter!


Baby Santa?










These are Christmat gifts from Jason &
my god-daughter Alicia. Thank you dear!





Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Fried Dory Fish Fingers

Christmas is coming! If you are cracking your head over what to prepare for the kids and adult party, this is a simple party dish to try out..

Ingredients:

3 pieces of dory fish fillet (Available from frozen food store)
Sprigs of coriander leaves - chopped
1 piece of 2-inches size young ginger
6 shallots
2 cloves of garlic
Shredded lemon rinds from one lemon
1 egg-beaten lightly
1 packet of bread crumbs
Some flour for coating
Salt and pepper according to taste
Oil for frying

Methods:
1. Wash the dory fish and cut into finger size.
2. Pat dry the fish with kitchen paper.
3. Blend ginger, garlic and shallots into paste.
4. Season the fish with salt and pepper. Add in the blended ingredients as in (3), chopped coriander leaves and lemon rinds and marinade for at least 1 hour before frying.
5. Beat the egg and season with some salt and pepper. Contain it with a plate instead of a bowl for easy coating.
6. Dab the fish finger with some flour before dipping it into the egg.
7. Next, coat the fish finger with bread crumbs.
8. Heat some oil in the pan and fry the fish finger until golden in colour and very crispy.
9. Serve with salad and tartar sauce/lime sauce.

Season the the fish with salt, pepper (black or white), chopped coriander, shredded lemon rinds, ginger, garlic and shallot paste. Do not discard the marinated ingredients as these are added fiber to a meat dish.





Dab in flour, follow by egg and then coat it again with bread crumbs before frying.







Serve with salad greens.