Tarindak D' Seni, Kota Batu

During Chee Hwa's 23rd birthday, we celebrated with him at Tarindak d' Seni which is a restaurant located inside the Traditional Handicraft Center at Kota Batu.

Tarindak d' Seni has been established for a year already, I suppose and it's a restaurant which serves buffet breakfast, lunch, dinner and even hi-tea. The theme of the buffet is local delicacy such as Malay cuisine and it includes dishes such as ambuyat, sup tulang, beef rendang and etc. The menu in Tarindak d' Seni is all day menu which means it's the same daily. You can refer to the first picture below for the prices. There is a big car park which provides ample space for patrons to park their cars. Being located on the first floor, patrons are allowed to enjoy a great view of Kg. Ayer through the windows.

The ambience in the restaurant is great and it's quite big and spacious. There were different stations where the food were displayed such as rojak station, noodles, desserts and etc. They also have open kitchen where patrons are able to see the chefs doing some 'grilling actions'. The grilled beef was one of my favourites during the buffet.

Overall, the dinning experience was good and it is definitely a good choice if you're looking for a place which caters wide varieties of local delicacies as well as local kuih-muihs.

For more reviews, check out:-
Review by Brunei Restaurant
Review by AnakBrunei

The interior


Ingredients for Wet Fried Mee


Rojak Station




Buns


A fish dish


Lady fingers


Grilled Chicken


Grilled Beef


A prawn dish


Fried fish







This rice dish is sorta like Nasi Briyani Kambing




Chefs in action


Chocolate fondue





Cakes


Local kuih


Ambuyat Station


Another local kuih


SKY busy taking pictures


My first round


Rojak


Fried Mee Wet


Sup Tulang


Hwa and SKY having light moment


Wee, Shirley and George


Chocolate Mud Cake from Apricot Bakery ;)


Hwa with his lovely birthday cake~


After the dinner, we headed to Coffee Bean Bandar branch for some kopi session and SKY was really having a good time playing with Hwa's camera function; color swap haha!


SKY and Alan having fun with the color swapping function on Hwa's camera

Hunnie Signing Off~

Kianggeh Food Stall

During the revision week, we had a group study at Ein's place and after the group study session, Ein's mom treated us for dinner at Kianggeh Food Stall. Thanks a lot, Aunt!
All of the food that we ordered were from Stall No.3 (if not mistaken).
I had Soto Putih Ayam and the soto soup base was not as "pepperish" as other eateries' versions of which I've tried before and it is also less salty. Thus, this would be your choice if you prefer less flavoured soto.
As usual, Carmen ordered her favourite Corn Beef Fried Rice but she didn't seem to like it a lot. In fact, she only had few spoons of the rice.
Satay is a must order when dining in Kianggeh Food Stall and actually it was the highlight of the meal!
The satay meat was really tender and juicy (not dry at all!) and it was well grilled; not too much burnt parts on the satay meat.
And I've also noticed that many people stopped by their cars along side of the food stall just to have the satay take-away.
We didn't only get to enjoy local delicacy but also enjoyed the beautiful sunset view at the waterfront as well as watching passengers who live at water village waiting for the boats to stop by and give them a ride back home.
I really can't wait till the day when the waterfront (opposite Jalan Sultan) has finished its renovation processes and is open to public.
I'm pretty sure it would be a good place to hang out in future :)

Menu


Iced Longan drink


Ketupat


Satay


Soto Kuning with Beff toppings




Corned Beef Fried Rice


Soto Putih with Chicken toppings






Ai Wen and Andrew


Lun enjoying his Hot Horlicks


The sunset view <3 href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/91034988@N00/4601106485/" title="kianggehsatay-14 by Blu3qu3en, on Flickr">

Hunnie Signing Off~

Babu Restaurant, Bandar

Last month, I had a chance to visit one of the most popular local travel agents for the sake of my course assignment. It was indeed a good experience for me; having chance to discuss about the current situation of local as well as world tourism; how the pandemic outbreak and economic crisis have hit the travel industry so badly and also ways that could overcome it and bla bla bla~

After the interview, my team mates and I decided to have our late lunch in the restaurant nearby called Babu Restaurant. Babu Restaurant is a Halal Chinese restaurant that has been operated for many years. They used to locate at Wisma Jaya foodcourt but have changed their location and currently located at a building behind Teck Guan Plaza.

Years ago when I was still working in one of the companies located in bandar area, I used to visit their stall in Wisma quite frequently and I must say that their economic rice was a must order. They changed their menu daily to offer more choices to their customers and service was really quick. It's been years since I last had it and I really miss it lots. But sadly, during my recent visit it was quite late already so it wasn't available anymore.

So I ordered Mongolian Chicken Rice for myself while Ein ordered Salad Chicken Chop Rice and Andrew had Fried Rice. Probably because there weren't many customers during our visit, the food was served really fast. It took only awhile for all three dishes to be served. Andrew's fried rice may seems normal but actually it tasted a lot better than other places. Some eateries' fried rice was toooooo oily. For Babu's version, their fried rice has "wok hei" which adds flavour to the fried rice giving it much aroma and better taste. I enjoyed my Mongolian Chicken Rice a lot and Ein also agreed that it tasted much better than the Salad Chicken Chop she ordered.

Other than rice dishes and economic rice, Babu is also popular for its laksa and rojak as well as ABC which you might wanna try it out if you're visiting Babu ;)

The interior of the restaurant


These two very very hardworking, wanted to finish their works before their having meals


Fried Rice; simple yet delicious


Mongolian Chicken Rice


Salad Chicken Chop Rice

Hunnie Signing Off~