O'Food O'Life Top 12 Must-See Christmas Malls Decorations In Malaysia This 2015

The favorite season of all time has to be Christmas. One thing that I truly look forward to is the Christmas theme put up by the shopping malls. For the past weeks, upon visiting all the malls that I could, there are some that kept me awed, whilst there are some I felt slight let down. 

I've list them accordance to my preference in terms of theme, how happy it made me feel at the instance I looked at them, and how elaborate of the work that the team of each malls had put together. 

1. KLCC : Candy Theme

I super loved the Candy theme Christmas deco. I felt like I'm taken back to my childhood, and living in my dreamworld filled with nothing but candies and goodies.

Concourse area. Love the gingerbread, cupcakes, lollypops surrounding it. 

All objects came to life 

How yummylicious these looked 

KLCC : The tallest Christmas tree facing the park

Merry Go Round filled with the candy theme 

A look to concourse from upper floor 

2. Bangsar Shopping Complex : Elfland 

I love the apples in various sizes used to decorate the Christmas tree outside of the mall, and within the concourse area, lies the Elfland theme, which is so vibrant in color, and each piece of its decoration matches perfectly. 

Apple Christmas tree

Father Christmas

Beautiful Elf & superb colors 

Fairyland

Spotted - elves hanging all over. How beautiful they looked.

Food booth never looked this good 

3. Mid Valley : Cardboard Toys 
The use of wood, capturing the decoration that certainly captures the heart of children. 

Combination of lego and wooden soldier toy and home

A look to concourse from upper floor 

4. Ikano, Petaling Jaya : Cardboard Town of Swedeland 
I love the feeling of this cardboard theme and it placed a dark green King seat for patrons to pose for pictures. 

Simple yet stunning

Specialized wooden home for various tenants 

A look across the concourse 

5. The Gardens : Oriental Theme 
Though not as elaborate, but the color that made-up the Christmas tree really is nice. They also used plenty of paper fans and butterflies and truly brought up the Oriental feeling.

Lovely Oriental Christmas tree

6. Pavillion, KL : Swarovski 

Who hasn't been impressed with the value of the Swarovski Christmas tree placed at Pavillion. It truly is an impressive "tree". 

Christmas tree made-up of Swarovski is truly the centre of attraction 

7. Avenue K : Winter Wonderland 

Avenue K truly maximize its space, and put together lovely Christmas deco to depict the Winter feeling, with lots of white snowflakes, white ornaments accompanied by a huge white teddy bear. 

White & Gold Christmas 

The Big Bear by the side of Christmas tree 

8. One Utama : Garden and Glasshouse Theme 

The combination of white Christmas with the Garden theme whereby its decoration uses lots of flowers. 

Glasshouses and White Christmas

White Snowflakes & lots of flowers 

Brolly @ Menara Felda, Kuala Lumpur

If I were to award a restaurant for the most interesting concept and design, I would award it to non other than Brolly. 

The 6 of us took the challenge of getting in to town for our dinner gathering, and upon battling the jam, we all reached safely on the rainy evening. 

I was pleased as soon as I turned into Menara Felda also known as Platinum Park, being greeted by 3 artistic mannequins. With the cooling breeze that greeted me, I was in a great mood as I stepped in to Brolly. 

The lighted bus that serve as bar area stole the limelight, and what a unique idea this is. I love the transparent glass panels that surround Brolly, and I was smitten by the aromatic popcorn that was popping away. Its always nice that guests are given the popcorn as snack, foc. Lovely gesture. 

The outside are of Brolly 

The interior was seriously impressive. I seemed to walk through sections of display that seemed to be endless and was unique on its own. 

The design revolved around various theme, which seemed like inspiration from travels, and mechanic, as I saw gramaphone records, US license plate, and tools used by mechanic being used as decorative items, which were all plastered neatly on different walls. 

Interesting interior 

Bar seating area 

Pool table, with car hung upside-down

The highlight of the interior ought to be this pillar of wash basins that used tyres as sink, gasoline pumps for tank, and side mirrors hung all over the pillar. Love the lighted Christmas tree that reflected onto the side mirrors. 

How much I love the Christmas tree side-by-side with the washing "sink"

The room that we reserved was big, and I love the car ream used as decorative to the room's door. 

Nice room for privacy 

The menu was somewhat interesting, combining 9 categories of food, that ranged from Chinese, Japanese, Western, with aplenty of offerings such as live seafood, pizza, chicken wings, rice and desserts. 

Their drink menu was refreshing to me, and one range of drinks included beer booze mixed with margarita, and other flavorings were also available. 

Classic Beergarita. Price-RM28

The appetizer was so charming in presentation, with the fried onion that took centrestage. Those that came slightly later has totally no clue what was this. The onion was beautifully opened up, and fried till crispy.The coating was thin enough and the sweetness of onion was apparent, and dip was yummy to accompany each strip of the onion.

Onion Flower. Price-RM18

The salad was deliciously healthy and the light sauce that accompanied them, a good start to our dinner. 

Rocket Mango & Grilled Watermelon and Pineapple Salad. Price-RM22 & RM15

The buffalo wings came with 9 choices of flavors and we picked the Kung Po, and the Japanese Curry version. As much as they were both very tasty, and were strong in flavour, I felt I was crunching too much of the skin, that resulted from the batter. 
Each serving came with 3 pieces of big sized chicken wing, cut to 6 pieces.

Buffalo Wings. Kung Po and Japanese Curry version. Price-RM18 each 

The one order that I think I would repeatedly order is the Prawn . Reasonable in size, they were fried till extremely crunchy, highly fragrant, and coated well with spices. 

Prawn Popcorn. Price-RM23

The pizza choice we made was Seafood Matriciana. It tasted fairly well, with thin crust, and topped with small cuts of seafood and lots of goodness from the cheesy cheese. 

Seafood Matriciana Pizza. Price-RM28

The one item that was enjoyed the least was the spring chicken with Chamalla sauce (used mix of herbs). Lovely presentation, with some salad, mashed potatoes, and herb sauce that accompanied it, but the taste of the herbs was overwhelming to me, and somewhat I did not like the herb taste. 

Spring Chicken. Price-RM45

We also took the chance to celebrate a lovely friend birthday, and with that, we were presented with unbelievably generous amount of dessert, COMPLIMENTARY! Wow! 
There were 6 of us, and 6 jars of dessert were brought to us.
Love the simple presentation that used mason jar, with generous portion of each. What we tasted included Creme Brulee - extremely creamy and milky, Honey Yoghurt - sourish and totally appetizing, Chunky Peanut Butter Granola - healthy and crunchy, and Rocky Road - chewy and yummy. 
Everyone has their own favorite, and I must, all tasted equally delectable. 

Dessert In Mason Jar. Usual Price-RM16 each

Verdict : It's a great place for booze, finger food, plenty of food varieties. Service was exceptional. Price is fair, however, there are some seafood that is priced on a high side. 

Food - 7/10,  Price - 7/10, Service - 10/10, Ambiance - 10/10 

Brolly 
Ground Floor,  Menara Felda, Platinum Park, 
No 11, Persiaran KLCC, 
50088 Kuala Lumpur

Business Hours : 11am till late

Tel : 03-2181 4122

FB link, here

Restoran Bai Wei Xuan @ Kota Kemuning, Shah Alam

My family and I visited this Sichuan restaurant located at Kota Kemuning several times, of-late. We like the homey non pretencious set up of this restaurant. 

The Chinesey deco, used of red, paper lantern and chinese painting 

During our visits, we were all satisfied with quality of all dishes that we ordered. Well, majority. 

The sauteed diced chicken with chile pepper is really to die-for. Despite the fact that this tasted extremely spicy and pungent, the fragrant that derived from the spices were simply aromatic. The marination sipped in to each part of the bite sized chicken and the crunchiness of the diced chicken was absolutely pleasing to our palate. 

I digged through the dried chile to look for left over bones or mini size of the diced chicken, so that I can keep it in my mouth and let it be chewed slowly.

Sauteed Diced Chicken with Chile Pepper. Price-RM28 

Some dishes will immediately turn your stomach to aching, as the spiciness may look unbearable. The fresh fish fillets soaked in this hot oily oil was extremely delicious, and has such strong flavor from the spices and pepper used.  

Fish Fillets in Hot Chili Oil in Chongqing. Price-RM36 

We love the fresh fillet of fish that was cooked with the picked vegetables. Fish were sliced thick enough for us to savor the nice chunk of them, and this dish certainly opened up our appetite. The sourness from the picked vegetables were so yummy. There were also some vermicelli within this bowl. 

Boiled Fish with Sichuan Picked Vegetable. Price-RM36

It was our first time to see potatoes served this way. Shredded so thinly, and cooked with vinegar. Love the crunchiness of the potatoes, and tasted simply great. 

Sour & Spicy Shredded Potatoes. Price-RM12

The Sweet & Sour Pork was another absolute favorite of all. The pork was fried so well, whereby tenderness of the pork could still be felt, while it also came with slight crunchiness. The sauce that accompanied was excellent, a well balanced of sweet towards sour. 

Sweet & Sour Pork. 

The mushroom can be opted for non spicy. We love the generous portion of mushrooms, with extremely good balance of mushroom of all sorts, mixed with some vege. Tasted totally delicious, and what a good value for what we gotten in return. 

Mushroom. Price-RM24

The steamed egg was soft, and topped with lots of gravy made of good portion of minced pork. Its so tasty, and went so well with rice. 

Steamed Egg with Minced Pork. Price-RM16

The beancurd was soft, which came with a slight crispy layer. The sauce was yummy which was favorite of the kids. 

Beancurd. Price-RM12

This was the only one dish that we did not favor. The squids were too chewy that it felt slightly plasticy, and it has a weird peppery taste. 

Sizzled Squid Tentacles. Price-RM22

Verdict : So far only 1 dish that we felt did not delivered, while all others did 100%. A place that we will return over and over again. 

Food - 9/10, Price - 8/10, Service - 6/10, Ambiance - 7/10 

Restaurant Bai Wei Xuan 
No 8 Jalan Anggerik Vanilla 31/BE, 
Kota Kemuning 
40460 Shah Alam 

Tel : 017-366 4190

Business Hours : 11am-10pm (closed between 3-5pm)

Teochew Seafood Noodle House @ Damansara Jaya, Petaling Jaya

As I was walking along this row of shoplot outside Atria, I spotted this shop selling fishball that I used to frequent. It doesn't have a store front signage (its located next to Seni Jaya) but you could see a smaller sign of its name "Kedai Makan Teo Chew" as you are heading in to the shop. 

The stall right in front of the shop 

I heart fishballs. I can eat fishballs every meal. I can't wait to walk down the memory lane to taste what I used to savor. 

Customers have the option to take their standard noodle that comes with fishballs, and fishcake. In addition, there are fresh seafood, and yong tau foo to choose as add-on. 

The soup has a mild sweetness taste, and the quality was certainly satisfactory. Most of all, it tasted the very same as before. Their fishballs were extremely bouncy and extremely pleasurable to my palate. Each bowl of noodle soup came with 5 fishballs and 4 slices of fish cake. For the price of RM7, I think this is a fairly priced bowl of noodle. The garnishing that included fried spring onion and some parsley, does makes the noodle soup to be so aromatic. 

Fishball Noodle. Price-RM7

The dried noodle were equally satisfactory. 

Dried Noodle Soup. Price-RM7

The fish cake tasted fair enough, with extremely crispy layer of its outer layer. It tasted good, however, just a tad hard. I have tried much more bouncier fish cakes.  

Fish cake. Price-RM6

They have been opened for more than 20 years. This surely deserved a WOW! 

Anytime I'm around this area, craving for something light, I will definitely head here, for a satisfactory bowl of noodles. Its nice to know that I can have it for either breakfast, lunch or early dinner. 

Food - 8/10, Price - 9/.10, Service - 6/10, Ambiance - 4/10 

Teochew Seafood Noodle House 
10 Jalan SS22/21, Damansara Jaya, 
47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor 
Tel : 03-7725 9139 
H/P : 012-205 9139 

Business Hours : 8am-8.30pm