6 to 10 Grill @ PJ Section 17

17 March 2011

I guess talking about last Thursday makes me the most updated that I've ever been in months.. *sheepish grin*

Had a date with the roommate to try out this place called 6 to 10 Grill located at the Happy Mansion flats in PJ's Section 17.. We actually first noticed this place when we passed it on our way to Food Foundry, but apparently its already quite well known for its western food and nasi lemak (with pork!!!)~

Notice the pair of lips on the signboard?? Means Ho Chiak had been there before to film the place... i know, i know, means im very suaku.. -.-

At table no. 88... Huat ar~! :P According to a notice on each table, the shop's going to be moving to a new place in aman suria damansara middle of this year, luckily we got to it before they moved!

First up, very boring apple and orange juice at rm3.50 for the small version.. wonder how large is the large version... @.@~

I added in a model to make the juice look more interesting, muahahaha...

And here come the mains:-

Pineapple Pork Chop.. one of their famous dishes.. rm16.50

Looks nice doesnt it?? but i thought that the sauce didnt taste of pineapples at all.. :( a bit disappointing.. maybe my expectations were too high.. the crouton-like thingies are actually pieces of fried pork lard.. @.@~

My lamb chops~ served with a jar of mint sauce that you can slather all over the lamb.. rm18.00.. i only found out that we can change the sides after we'd ordered, otherwise i would have skipped the mixed vege with the yucky peas and asked for corn on the cob instead.. :*

Lamb bathing in mint sauce, without the sauce, the taste of the lamb was a little strong, so make sure you fully utilise the mint sauce if you ever have this, muahaha.. a fairly huge portion with 3 pieces of lamb.. 1 big 2 small (like buying 4D, lol)

After annihilating our meal, we sat there and refused to budge for more than half an hour, maybe you can call that digesting.. hmm.. and after several debates + a coin toss, we decided to order dessert from a very limited dessert menu with only 2 items, bread pudding and banana fritters with ice-cream.. After deciding that it would be better value for money (both were priced the same at rm6.00), we ordered the latter~~

only 3 mutant banana fritters.. they look more like fried durians.. and we chose vanilla ice-cream~ very crunchy and very piping hot so you have to make sure the banana and the ice-cream enters your mouth at the same time :D

Super giant banana fritter!!

After dessert we were forced to make a move, not cos we were chased away or anything, but cos there were just too many flying ants showing up to join us for dinner.. our fault for choosing the table under the lit up sign =.= if i ever get to visit again, hopefully i'll have a bigger budget and get to try their famous red wine pork ribs which cost rm32.90 or the mixed grill which has steak and large prawns *salivating*~ but wont be rushing to re-order the same things tho...

hope my chance comes after i win the lucky draw for this month.. teehee~ i wish i wish i wish~~~ rm100 food voucher come to meeee.....! :P

Day 2: Birthday in Malacca, whee~

Going to start the post with a pic of our hotel room in CK Hotel. We 3 girls got to share the huge deluxe triple room, it was actually quite huge, we shld have just 5 of us shared one room and put extra mattresses for the guys.. hahaha.. they got a standard single room with 2 single beds and faulty air conditioning instead :P Our room was so huge that i had to put on my glasses to see the tv screen properly cos it was right at the other side of the room.. @.@~ I liked the room pretty much cos it was clean and spacious with very minimal furniture :)

After we got back from Melaka Sentral, it was bath time and we were all set to watch the Miss Astro Chinese International 2010 edition on tv, had lots of fun commenting on the contestants and cheering my ex-classmate on (she won third place :D) and i was all ready to turn in when someone said they wanted supper O.o.. personally i was quite full already but still ended up devouring a few sticks of:-

Satay Celup!!I think its the 4th time i've had it and its still just as yummy~ :) we didnt manage to eat a lot tho since it was already almost midnight and dinner was only half digested then.. haha..

night scene behind the hotel, that's a very pretty bridge..
(pic courtesy of Lil)

Played a few rounds of BigD, we had the foresight to bring playing cards, heh! then it was time for bed... Day 2 began with us searching for brunch in town.. decided to pay a visit to the dataran pahlawan/ mahkota parade area for some air conditioned window shopping.. As usual, it took us quite some time to find parking spots but in the end we managed to get 2 spots right beside each other~

Chicken rice balls at a shop called Classic Chicken Rice, cute eh! I'd had them before someplace else and didnt really like them then, i felt that the normal hainanese chicken rice tasted better but this version seemed much tastier~

whats chicken rice without the chicken :P

the sets also came with soup and vege.. perfect~!

After brunch, we explored round the malls, there are quite a few malls all linked to each other and it took us quite some time to go one full circle.. Jo's bf oso wanted to look for an iphone 4 at the maxis stores there cos it was all sold out in kl and pj at that time.. turned out malacca was out of stock as well, hehehe...

saw a cute x'mas performance.. very catchy kiddy x'mas songs~~

Think that's the end of our makan-makan trip?? Noooo... of course not! It was my idea to bring the everyone to Dataran Pahlawan for cake and ice :D:D:D Thanks to my Mayyi, a.k.a Lady Boss, i'd found out abt this place on my last trip down :)

First up, the famous original mille crepe cakes that i've fallen in love with since my first try at Food Foundry, but nothing beats having the original!! In fact, after trying Humble Beginnings and Food Foundry, Nadeje Patisserie still wins hands down cos of the larger slices, yummy toppings and super reasonable prices~! :) They also have air-con and wifi and games and comfy sofas, whats not to like?!

Disclaimer!!!! The last time i came, each and every cake was sold out :S:S:S

Orange Chocolate~

Mango~ I think this was the special of the day cos cant see it on the menu..

Banana Chocolate~

Tiramisu~

Looking so pretty in a row.. dunno which one i prefer more.. next time i wanna try the milk tea and green tea flavours, if there is a next time, hehe..

After 4 slices for 5 of us, we became greedy and ordered another, strawberry chocolate~

RM60 away from a free slice of cake.. :*

We conquered Nadeje! Yippee~!

the design on the floor is sooo pretty... :)

Still at Dataran Pahlawan, another place i wanted to revisit - Pinkberry! Lots of lots of icy desserts to choose from, and it was very apt cos of the hot hot weather~

Cendol that tasted much better the Jonker88 ones and only RM1 pricier for such a huge bowl.. the one on the left had extra durian topping.. yums~

Mango ice..!

and the balls are actually honeydew balls, kind of looks like the chicken rice balls from earlier. lol..

The perfect end to our foodie trip, i think we managed to cover most of if not all of the famous must try food in Malacca that weekend :D started our journey back to KL in the late afternoon and it was late evening by the time we got back.. Had dinner somewhere in PJ and went back to collapse into bed~! my poor guy still had to drive back to Klang alone, the poor thing... :P

What an amazing birthday weekend~! *satisfied smile*

Day 1: Birthday in Malacca, whee~

My goodness, I cant remember the last time I've had the time to sit down leisurely and think of what to blog about... Life recently has been a hectic cycle of work work work, then shut down and rest... XD Finally can get down to reminiscing abt my food hunting trip to Malacca during my birthday way back in December last year... *.*

Began the trip by picking LiL from her place in the morning then zooming to Malacca where we were to meet my mum and my ex-neighbour~

Our first stop: Atlantic 1 Cafe for nyonya food :D

I keep wanting to call it Atlantic Point, the place i stayed in while in Liverpool @.@~ arriving there at 11am, we were the first customers and had to wait a little while before they opened completely.. Amazingly, by 11.30am the place was crowded already, i guess its a stop for many tour operators...

Less talk and more food? Here goes:-

Appetizer, fish fritters and sambal sauce, simply yummy~!

The restaurant's famous pineapple rice~

the rice that emits the nicest smell ever--pandan rice!! :P

Braised Tofu

cant remember the exact name, but its kind of like dry curry chicken~

sambal sotong :):) with petai!

nyonya style fish~

lady's fingers with mashed chilies, yums~

it would be an understatement to say the food tasted good.. the 7 of us actually finished rice for 8 ppl and polished all the plates :):):) i highly recommend this place~!

with my good friend's boyfriend ^^

and we caught a waitress to help us take a group photo.. heeheehee~ the funny thing was tat she tot we wanted to take a pic of her and started to pose when we handed her the camera.. @.@~

After checking into CK Hotel, the budget hotel we were to spend the night in, we continued our trip to Jonker Walk. Malacca has gotten more and more jammed up.. it was soooo difficult for us to find a parking spot :S Since it was high noon, it was also super duper hot walking around the place.. Couldnt wait to have anything that was icy cold~

joining the long queue outside Jonker88, seems that everyone who visits Malacca has to come here.. to the point that it has become too touristy and over hyped.. :( i remember it used to be quite quaint the first time i came cos of the antique decor..

Cendol and ice kacang.. it was a welcome treat after the heat outside.. we managed to grab a tiny table after hovering ard the ppl still eating for quite awhile... i dunno whether its a usual occurrence, but i felt the gula melaka tasted bitter that day :( i've had better cendol elsewhere lor, minus the long wait and the ppl staring at you eating so tat they could grab yr table as soon as you leave...

failed picture O.o...

Better :)

must buy thing in Malacca--pineapple tarts!! :)

spotted these two ppl shooting a foodie show in Jonker Street, any idea who they are?? i vaguely remember seeing the girl in 美食大三通 once i think.. hmm..

apparently these are brushes for scouring stuff.. cant imagine myself using one lor. they dont look tat clean themselves, how to clean things?

while we were walking along one of the streets minding our own business, a girl appeared offering ppl free drinks, we looked ard and saw a whole truck full of Seasons drinks being given away for free.. turns out they were new flavours of iced tea from seasons, free new products who doesnt want?! :P very yummy apple tea and peach tea!

with mummy and her bandaged finger, a week after it got squashed by the main door at the place where i stay :S:S

It was late afternoon when we left Jonker Street, without even pausing to rest, we were off to our next makan destination, the Malacca Portuguese Settlement~ and once again we arrived too early for dinner.. luckily there was a very nice pier there which kept us occupied for quite awhile :)

damn cute!

the guys/ drivers~

us girls/ backseat drivers/ bosses :):)

my 38 guy :* I passed my camera to him for awhile and here's what he ended up doing-

*eye roll*

US :):)

trying to reenact a scene we saw on the other end of the pier... epic fail cos of my sheepish expression @.@~

Group pic :D

got 2 sun wu kongs?? lol...

with the 2 aunties who were lazy to move away from their bench :P

free advertising for the portuguese settlement museum, hehe..

All too soon, it was time for dinner.. we chose stall no. 8 called Big Ben i think.. many of the stall owners came and tried to persuade us to patronise their stalls, but personally i prefer less attention.. :)

our portuguese grilled fish with a bite taken out of it cos auntie was too hungry to wait for us to take pics.. lol...

sweet and spicy crabby crab, loved this dish!

omelette~

butter chicken for the guy who refuses to eat seafood.. XD

Spiced brinjal :)

yummy vege with lots of juicy onions.. i likey~

and of course, bottomless rice!! whee~

had to send the 2 aunties to the bus station for them to catch the bus back at 7 something that evening..

We actually had 4 meals that day, but since the last one was supper, i think i'll put it under day 2, hehehhe :P:P a very very satisfying day one full of fun and food and friends ^^V