Yo! Sushi Buffet Lunch Promotion

Ok I really have to blog about this place right now because after tomorrow, this offer wouldn’t be valid. Yo! Sushi is having a buffet lunch promotion in which for RM32++ (RM36.80 after tax), you can eat all you want off their variety of dishes off the belt! The bad thing is, tomorrow’s the last day and thank goodness I found out about this yesterday over some random blog, because it really is GOOD. When I saw the ad, I knew I had to go.

Many places which do buffets do it like some kind of “clear the food before it expires” thing or put leftovers OR skimp on quality and variety (hate!). But not here. You get good stuff on the belt, actually it’s more variety and quantity than I’ve ever seen on the belt there on a normal day.

They have a big banner version of this in front of the shop at The Gardens, but it actually is better than they describe, which we found out when got there.

Time: 11am-6pm

Price: RM36.80 after tax

Good point: Eat all you want off the belt! Free flow of green tea and miso soup.

Great and best point: Every hour the staff comes around and you get to order anything you want from the menu except the gray coloured dishes and the non-salmon sashimi!

My friend ate more than the amount she paid for, she had two plates of this gorgeous salmon sashimi. I’m describing by its looks because I don’t eat sashimi. Pink plate costs RM14 normally.

I liked this Salmon, Avocado, Crabstick ISO (Inside-Out) Roll, minus the salmon, which I removed and gave to my salmon loving friend. Orange plate costs RM10 normally.

Eel Nigiri, for me. Just nice. A bit smaller than I expected but still nice. Purple plate costs RM8 normally.

This isn’t on the belt, shitake and enoki mushroom teppanyaki. Bigger serving than I expected, the sauce a bit overpowering and too salty, I drenched it in miso soup and later green tea to tone it down.

I accidentally ordered two dishes of this. My friend could only stomach one tempura, I had 5. By the time I got to the 4th, I had to take off the batter to eat it. This was towards the last thing before dessert, I was stuffed.

This is the best, the green tea ice cream with azuki beans! The green tea ice cream was the best I’ve ever had, beats those fancy ice-cream shops. It was not too sweet, the tea taste not too overpowering, just very subtle. The azuki beans was just a bit sweet, perfect with the ice cream which was light and not creamy. A great palate cleanser!

Total damage.

2 Edamame. (Light blue plate costs RM5 normally) 2 Salmon Sashimi. 2 Yo! Rolls. 1 Salmon, Avocado, Crabstick roll. 1 Marinated Salmon with Dill Salad. 1 Soft Shell Crab roll. 1 crabmeat roll. 2 Prawn Tempura. 2 Mushroom teppanyaki. 1 Seared Beef Nigiri. 1 Eel Nigiri. 1 Dorayaki (It came with Raspberry sauce, interesting) 1 Green Tea ice cream. (We forgot to try the mochi! Was probably too full by then) We ate about RM173 worth of food in total. I ate almost RM80 worth myself…

Conclusion: Excellent value for great food, you know with Yo! Sushi, they don’t skimp on quality. And the rolls are huge, I could barely fit them into my mouth in one go. Wish the promotion will be on again sometime soon, before I go to UK. But then again, YO! Sushi’s from there, but maybe not as affordable as here.. Hmmm…

After all that eating, needless to say a workout was in order. I went swimming in the afternoon, it felt good.

Spontaneously good weekend

About time I posted another blog post, it’s been a good weekend. Spontaneously good. Friday night, when normally most people have gone home for the weekend, Grace and I were walking to the cafeteria for dinner just thinking of what food/fruits to get when we bumped into Kenneth and Joshua who were on the way out for dinner with Jia Cheng and Geraldine. Before we knew it, we were all squeezed into the car and off to Semenyih it was for dinner. No complaints there. Hehe. Then after that, the guys mentioned that they were going to sports complex later that night and so Grace and I spontaneously agreed to go as well. We spontaneously borrowed squash rackets and attempted to play squash, it was my first time. In fact, this weekend would prove to bring about many first times. I feebly attempted to serve while lacking either strength and/or aim.

Then we gave up and headed over to the basketball court where the pharmacy people were. Okay, so it was the first time I’ve properly played basketball. All my previous encounters with basketball were in PE class where you had to either dribble from one end to another, or shoot some hoops. With 5 guys and 3 girls playing, things got competitive. At one point, I remember being behind two of the opposing team players and one of them or their leg backed into me and I fell smack forward onto all fours. Sigh, sometimes I think my body is really not proportionate, my feet is a bit small and narrow considering my size, not the best thing for stability. And so that’s how I ended up with a scrape on my left knee the size of a 50 cent coin that later excreted pus and got inflammed the next day. However, at that time I was still kinda on an adrenaline rush and it wasn’t until much later that I felt the pain. Even went on attempting squash again for a bit. So much for a sporty night.

Saturday was same old same old, Moral Studies class where my brain has to switch to a totally different mode. I remember the first class I went for, I copied the notes as:

4 Aspects of Molarity

1. Individual Molarity
2. Social Molarity
3. Religion Molarity
4. Molarity and Nature

Yes, I miscopied Morality as Molarity 5 times and it wasn’t till after I wrote that out that I realised, what was I thinking?!

Later that evening when we were going to church though, Joshua suggested something that I never saw coming: climbing Broga Hill the next morning (today) to see the sunrise. That would be in the next post by the way, it deserves a post all on its own because the photos turned out amazing.

Okay I think that’s about the limits most people would go reading a post without any photos yet. So…

There was this one night this week before sleeping that I was frustrated how my camera couldn’t (and still can’t) take any good portrait shots of me that I decided trying something different. WIth my self-timer on, ISO put on low, exposure increased, I took a series of shots and got this.

Okay, it may not be that good but it was one of those “just hentam la” experimental shoots. My caption for this photo in Facebook is “Self Timer Shot. Late at night. Dark. Quiet. Just me.”

And then the obligatory food photo, feast your eyes…

Remember the Pastis at The Gardens half priced cake of the month promotion I’ve been raving about for the past two months? This month’s special is Chocolate Brownies with Ice Cream. Would you look at that chocolatey oozy goodness? And the crushed walnuts on top added a nice bite. The warmness of the chocolatey brownie complimented the cold and not-too-rich vanilla ice-cream very well. We went there last Sunday, followed by lunch at the newly openend Pasta Zanmai at Midvalley which also deserves a post all to itself in the future.

Here’s to hoping that the upcoming week will be a good week too, major event lined up is PharmNotts Cancer Awareness Week complete with a mini-food fair and band performances and an Illumination Night. Okay!

Next post: Conquering Broga Hill.

Friday Follies

Fridays, the day of the week when you realise that life isn’t too bad when weekends are approaching. My friday morning was spent around town, after my mum fetched my sister from school as her exam ended earlier that day. As we passed by Star Cineplex, took a photo of something that caught my eye.

Wah, looking at the two movie posters, one of the Lingerie movie, and another of Sex and the City, you wouldn’t have suspected that we live in a conservative country. But I bet the movies have been through a lot of censoring, look how long it took for the Sex and the City movie to finally be shown here.

Mid-morning breaks are an unusual treat, I guess a girl leaving Kuching soon for university is entitled to treats. Hehe. Forget Kaya & Toast, Kluang Station, the best toast and bancuh-ed drinks you’d find is still in an old-school kopitiam. The one we went to is the one next to Grand Continental Hotel, the one with the famous laksa.

My glass of barley with a block of ice hacked out with an ice pick, old school.

Toast! The toast there is seriously good. I like my toast light and crispy, and the insides buttery with kaya that is just the right amount of sweetness.

Later on the day found me home alone though. Stuck at home with no car to go out, and bored after hours of being online, I whipped out my trusty camera, fun times ensued. My neighbours probably already see me as the crazy girl who walks around the house compound pointing her camera here and there, getting into awkward positions to get a shot, pausing to survey where to shoot next. After a not so fulfilling venture outdoors, I came back inside and tried out an underused function on my camera, the self-timer. Somehow the lighting in the stairway, with the large windows letting in a lot of natural light, and the simple setting of the area struck me. And I placed my camera on the nearby piano, then got into action. It was all pretty spontaneous, it just happened. Glad it turned out actually quite well, at least in my opinion. After some quick editing on photoshop, the lazy person’s way, this is the result…

Edit: Okay, the steps involved in creating the photo above, in detail:

1. Placed camera on piano, looked for suitable angle to frame the shot.
2. Turned on self-timer to 10 seconds.
3. Ran to position, in this case the chair first.
4. Waited till photo was taken.
5. Scurry back to camera to check results.
6. Repeated steps 2 to 5, except moving to different positions in step 3.
7. Uploaded photos to laptop.
8. Opened up photos on Photoshop.
9. Combined 4 shots, using different layers. Adjusted opacity of each layer. (Lazy person’s way of editing)
10. Tada! All done.

The Five Ringgit Movie Experience

In Kuching, and many parts of Malaysia, Wednesday is Movie Day. A movie in Kuching that you would watch on any other day of the week for RM9/10 would set you back a mere RM5 on this special day.

Normally, the movie experience would be alike any other day of the week, but not for me today in this case.

What is the one horror faced when in tall buildings? Lift breakdown! And that was what greeted us when we arrived at the building where Star Cineplex was. So, up the stairs it was.

From the Upper Ground floor, to 1A.. 1B.. *Still chatting happily*… 4A….. 6B…. *Leg feels a bit sore* 8A… *Short of breath, almost there, almost there*. Finally, level 9A!

Hang on, why’s it so dark here? It looked more like a pub than a cineplex, with glowing movie posters being the only source of lighting. And wait.. it feels a bit warm, no air-conditioning too?!

Flickering candlelight lit up the ticketing office as customers were assured that there was air-cond in the theatre and people walked around in half-darkness, almost half blind.

When it was our turn, we found out that the only seats available were at the first two rows in front of the screen. SIgh, sorry girls it was partly my fault for being late. But it turned out to not be too bad, could enjoy the movie without neckache. Whew. Hehe. Not as bad as that time at GSC Midvalley when watching Ah Long Pte Ltd and we got front row seats, impossible to see the screen high up above us. So we ended up sitting along the stairs on the floor, very memorable.

Oh yea, another stupid thing, this time it was me that was stupid. I don’t know what came over me, maybe it was the heat, maybe it was the half-darkness, I bought a whole jumbo combo, medium sized popcorn and a large 7up. Apparently the girls weren’t too keen on popcorn as I was and I ended up eating half of the popcorn. Right till the end of watching the movie, I was still eating. Haha!

Kungfu Panda. Haha. Yea, that’s it. It was funny.

I loved how they made the Panda’s stomach so big and bouncy, cute! I loved how they showed that great strength can be found in the most unusual places. I loved the scene where they showed the kungfu-master-in-training tiger cub and the old-and-wise squirrel(?) Sifu flashback and they were standing together after the small cub delivered some cute, gutsy kungfu moves, and they were they same height! Cute and funny movie all in all. Shorter than I expected it to be, but still good. I’d watch this again with my little brother just to see how he would laugh at the scenes.

*Sugar high from popcorn wearing off as I type*

Getting out from the theatre, the cineplex was still in semi-darkness. Thanks to Jas and her mom/dad for giving us a ride to and from her house and the cineplex. I think I would have panicked if I went there alone and found the lifts spoilt and expecting me to walk up those stairs alone at night.

Whew. Wandkey can do with more outings, bring it on!

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