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Unkaizan Japanese Restaurant is a famous  Japanese Restaurant in Langkawi, probably among the tourists. The restaurant is located at the hillside with stunning sunset views over the Andaman Sea. Guests will be able to enjoy the beautiful sunset while enjoying their dinner.

You may choose to be seated at the Seaview Terrance with western seating, or in the air conditioned main room or the air conditioned upstairs area where the seating is styled in traditional Japanese style. We opt for the traditional Japanese style seating area. We are suppose to take off our shoes, and the waitress bring over the menu while explaining to us the promotions of the day. Unkaizan serves fresh or even live seafood (no, we didn’t try that), steaks, and other Japanese dishes. Tea is served in the Japanese teapot and rice is cooked in traditional hotpot.

Tempura Soba

Sushi

The environment was really good, with good service as well. However everything in the menu seems to be a bit pricey. We had the sushi set, tempura soba, and teppanyaki but I felt we could get the similar taste from places like Sushi Zanmai or Ichiban Boshi. Perhaps they are famous for their live or fresh seafood that we did not try.

Business Hour : 6pm to 11pm

Closed on : 2nd Wednesday of every month

Telephone : 604-9554118

I lost the football bet with Mr D, and have to treat him Japanese food. ARghhhhh~

We went to Sushi Zanmai at The Gardens, next to Mid Valley in KL. They have varieties of sushi there, and everything looks yummy! We ate quite a lot but I’m too busy eating instead of taking photos. hahah. The spider roll (photo below) is really good. It has soft shell crab in it and with mayonnaise.. hmm~ yummy. The cawanmushi is good as well! *drools*

According to Mr D, he said other outlets of zanmai doesn’t taste as good as the one in The Gardens.  Another friend of mine told me the same thing as well. So maybe you guys would like to try out the different outlets and let me know :p

I have to say the sushi are quite good, better than Sushi King or Sakae Sushi. Nice ambience, good service. Thumbs up! Highly recommended for sushi lovers.

You can get the address of the other outlets at their website, but here’s the address of the one we went to.

SUSHI ZANMAI, The Gardens
T-217, Third Floor, The Gardens,
Mid Valley City,
Lingkaran Syed Putra,
59200 KL.

Without an oven, there’s not many cakes you can make. I love this no-bake cheesecake or so called chilled cheesecake. No Oven required!!! Yeah, chilled cheesecake. Toppings, up to you. Flavors, up to you ^^ . For the chocolate toppings, I used the combination of chocolate morsels and cadbury chocolate. 60% morsels, 40% cadbury milk chocolate. As for the konyaku, I put in kiwi, peach and strawberry for the decoration.

I made (not bake, lol) this lemon cheesecake, one with chocolate toppings and another with fruits toppings + konyaku jelly. The thing is, I didn’t use philadelphia cream cheese as I can’t find it at the nearest supermarket. So I used some other cream cheese and end up the cheese melts easily when came out from the freezer. So.. don’t use cheepo cream cheese. haha… After noticing that the cheesecake cheese melts like 5 minutes after it’s out from the fridge, David helps me to rename it to “Ice Cream Cheesecake”. Wah sei… sounds so good. Anyway, you can see that I made the cakes in camping mess tin >”<

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Here’s the recipe for the no-bake cheesecake :-

• 1 package (8 ounces) of cream cheese, softenened
• 1 can (14 ounces) of sweetened condensed milk
• 1 can of evaporated milk
• 1/2 cup of lemon/orange/lime juice (optional)
• 1 package of digestive biscuit
• 1 block of butter

Steps

1. Crush the digestive biscuits with a spoon few pieces at a time, and mix with butter gradually. This will be the base of the cheesecake.
2. Compact the digestive biscuits which has been mixed with butter to a deep tray or container. Make sure the base is not too thick, and have enough butter to make the base stay.
3. Put into freezer, let it freeze for a while to harden. Probably around 30 minutes.
4. Beat the cream cheese until smooth, gradually add in sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk. Beat until the mixture is smooth.
5. Add in the lemon/lime/orange juice if you want to.
6. Pour the mixture onto the base or crust which you have refrigerated.
7. Freeze for another 2-3 hours or more, until the cheese is firm.

Toppings :

1. Melt chocolate morsels, or cadbury chocolate, or baking chocolate, or any chocolate based on personal preferences.
2. Pour the chocolate onto the cheesecake after the cheese has been frozen until firm.

I went to this Laurent Bernard Cafe with my girlfriend on one Saturday afternoon as we were looking out for a place to have good dessert.  Laurent’s Cafe was formerly known as The Chocolate Factory, and they have 2 branches in Singapore, one is at Portsdown Road and another at The Pier.

We went to the one at The Pier. The ambience is nice, calm and serene in the afternoon. Just a nice place to relax, hang out and chit chat. Most importantly, the dessert…. the mouth watering desserts ~

We ordered the chocolate souffle. We could smell the freshly baked smell from the oven when the souffle is served!!!! Look at the photo below. It is YUMMY. The smell of it, the heavenly, rich, chocolate taste as you bite into it….. HHhhmmmmmm~ heaven.

Chocolate Souffle

We didn’t order any drinks on that day, just had plain water. The Chocolate Souffle comes with a scope of sherbet as well. I LOVE THE sherbet.

sherbet

Lovely, isn’t it.. It costs us around $20 after tax.. It’s definitely worth the try.  I am keen to try some other desserts that they have. It really looks good! Too bad we could not eat much as only two of us went.

On the first day, everyone is excited about the trip to Kota Kinabalu. We woke up early in the morning and head to the airport to catch our plane. We are flying off with JetStar, departure time is 7.20am. We reached Kota Kinabalu at 9.20am, and we head directly to our backpackers’ lodge, North Borneo Cabin.

We start unpacking some of our stuff, took our bath, and a friend of ML is coming over to join us for lunch. We went to have lunch at a place nearby, and we ordered this 3 colored drink.

The drink is actually Teh Peng (Ice Tea) and it tastes good. The top layer is the tea, second layer (white layer) is the milk, and the last layer tastes like wheat grass with gula Melaka.