Frontera, Sol of Mexico @ Jaya One, PJ

For a special dinner with my BFF, I searched for some ideas of recommended eateries around PJ. Read some reviews on Trip Advisor, and Frontera at Jaya One seems to have gotten many positive reviews. 

In fact, I have passed by Frontera countless times in the past, thus these reviews that I read online did help in getting additional businesses for some F&B outlets. 

The feeling I got when I stepped in was it was very simple, with minimal decorative items that represent the feel of a Mexican restaurant. We chose the inside seating, with apparent bright orange color walls that exudes warmness and cosyness of Frontera. 

Entrance of Frontera

My BFF started with plate of Caesar Salad. This was a plate of fresh romaine lettuce served with their homemade Southwestern Caesar dressing, and topped with some tortilla strips to add in the crunchiness to the tastebud. Some shaved Parmesan cheese were also included in this salad. 

Overall all their food were presented in a absolutely neat manner. Nice. 

Southwestern Caesar Salad. Price-RM11.95

All main meals came with Mexican rice. Main ingredients to make consisted of white rice, tomatoes, garlic and onion. 

One of my dinner companion had the Tex-Mex Burrito, whereby it was homemade flour tortilla filled with shredded chicken (option available for beef too), refried beans and cheese. 
Very tasty with the cheesy wet cheese accompanying each bit of the tortilla filled with chicken. 

Tex-Mex Burrito. Price-RM19.95 

The Enchiladas Nortena is corn tortilla wrapped with fillings, and this particular one that we ordered was the roasted beef. The entire corn tortilla was oven baked, and then served with more slow roasted beef, topped with cheese. This style of cooking made the beef much softer, and the juiciness of the beef was truly satisfying to the stomach. Sides included the beans, cooked in a nice sauce, pico de gallo (tomato salsa), and Mexican rice. 

Enchiladas Nortena (Beef). Price-RM32.50

Me and my bff had seafood, and throughout eating, we were just nodding our head, with sense of satisfaction apparent on our faces. 

She had the maple glazed Salmon, whereby the salmon was flame grilled, cooked to just the right level, to bring out the pure taste of salmon. It was then glazed with maple chipotle, served with Mexican rice, and saute vege. 

Maple Glazed Salmon. Price-RM37.50

I was craving for prawns thus went for the Seafood Skewers. One of my best choice of food I ever made. It came with 3 skewers, with each consisted of 2 big prawns, 2 chunks of salmon, bell pepper and mushroom at one end of the skewer. I was highly satisfied with the portion, and the taste. It tasted divine, with just the right balance of aroma and natural sweetness of of the ingredients. 

The sides consisted of guacamole and pico de gallo. Healthy and tasty. The combination of the Mexican rice, the skewers and the sides were just right to deliver a satisfactory meal. 

Seafood Skewers. Price-RM39.50

It has been a long time since I had such an awesome dinner. We were all very pleased with our food, and am certain to be back to repeat the same order, and try out their other offerings. 

During my dinner, it was apparent that most of its air-conditioners weren't working well, and for the one working that was close to where we were sitting, it has some water leakage. Overall, it was rather warm. The interior and furniture seemed a little over-used, and some slight touch up wouldn't definitely give their patrons a much better experience.

Food - 10/10
Price - 9/10
Service - 8/10 
Ambiance - 5/10

Frontera, Sol of Mexico
18-G-2 Palm Square, Jaya One, 
72A Jalan Universiti, 
46200 Petaling Jaya 
Tel : 03-7958 8515

Business Hours : Tue-Sun 12noon - 12mn (Fri & Sat close at 1am)

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Bird Park @ Kuala Lumpur

It has been a few years since the last I visited the Bird Park. I took advantage of the Raya holidays to make another visit there. 

The Bird Park indeed is still very well maintained. However, I do noticed less quantity of birds at certain areas. This is one park that will definitely be enjoyed, for family with kids outing. 

Taman Burung KL 

Within the park, there are many trees to offer shade to the patrons. 

 Trees are everywhere within the park 

I like the fact that we can get upclose and personal with some of the breeds within the park, as they are left to roam and fly around (some within restricted caged area). 

Here's sharing some of the photos I took : 

There are some photo opportunities with the parrots and other birds. Fees is at RM15, and RM38 including a print out photo by KL Bird Park. Love their colors. 

The bright lively colors of parrot 

Rhinoceros Hornbill

Love the blend of nature within 

Beautiful Indian Blue Peafowl

Enter their Nursery section that explains all about eggs incubation. Its nice to refresh ourselves with the simple facts that we used to learn in school. 

Beautiful cute chicks 

Beautiful Southern Cassowary

I love the flamingos where this wading birds originated from Africa, and its amazes me to see them standing on just one leg. 

Self balanced is part of life for flamingoes 

Being in pair is always more fun

Quite a handful of the Western & Victorian Crowned pigeon

Am I beautiful?

Drop by for ice-cream, to ease the hotness from the park 

Around the Wall's kiosk, we spotted many Milky Stork that build their own nestle on the trees. I witnessed how this Milky Stork attempted to bring some branches, to build a stronger nest. 

Milky Stork at work

Roaming around

I ended my visit by visiting this very cute Buffy Fish-Owl. Love their blur yet adorable look. 

Owl in a pair, taking their nap

Love the sleeping looking owl 

Dos : 

i.Try to be at the park by the opening time (it's also easier to find parking) and finish your visit before its gets too humid. 

ii. Wear a hat or cap if possible, as there are some areas where you are at risk of being greeted by birds dropping.

Entrance fee : 

Without MyKard : Adult RM50, Kids RM41 

With MyKard : Adult RM27, Kids RM13 

(for a limited time, there is RM5 discount using Aeon membership card)

Kuala Lumpur Bird Park 

920 Jalan Cenderawasih 

Taman Tasik Perdana 

50480 KL 

Tel : 03-2272 1010 

Operating Hours : 9am-6pm daily

Sozo @ Sunway Giza, Kota Damansara, PJ

I don't really fancy buffets, but being a regular to visit to Groupon website, this particular deal caught my attention. Priced at RM56.90 per person for Japanese buffet, I found this deal enticing, as 1 order of few kinds of sashimi could have costed us this much. 

For a friend's birthday celebration, I suggested to try out Sozo buffet. I liked the fact that this is an entirely ala-carte buffet, whereby all orders were made fresh upon ordering. For those who prefers non buffet, they can select from their ala-carte menu, however, in comparison to the prices, its very much worth it to actually go for their buffet. 

This place actually got crowded close to 8pm, and I love their simple clean environment inside, and ample of outside seating available. 

Inside & outside of Sozo

With the 3 of us, we looked through their hundreds of items list in their menu. We do not want to overeat, thus we pace our orders according to capacity of our stomach. 

Actually arrangement of food are not in sequence of the eating time, as many food were served at the same time. 

The chawanmushi despite not being too smooth, tasted divine with generous portion of salmon roe on top. I love how the roes were crushed by my tongue.

As for the fried shrimp, crispy and aromatic. Good start to our dinner.  

Koebi Karaage and Ikura Chawanmushi

We were indeed very pleased with freshness of each of the items that were served to us. I loved their handroll with tempura prawn, filled with just enough amount of rice, wrapped with crispy seaweed. 

The appetizer being the Chuka Lidako (octopus), Chuka Kurage (jellyfish), Chuka Hotate (scallop) were all served chilled, and love the crunchiness of each.

The mango soft shell crab were absolutely fresh and the soft shell crab were fried till really crispy, with apparent size of it. It has a vinegar-ish taste of its homemade sauce.

The shisamos were in just the right size, and fried till real aromatic. I liked the feeling of biting the eggs in shisamo's stomach. Hehe..

 

From top left (clock-wise) : Handroll, Chuka Kurage, Chuka Hotate, Mango Soft Shell Crab Salad, Edamame, Chuka Lidako, Shishamo

 

We ordered a plate of the Sashimi Moriawase that came with 5 kinds of raw fish plus salmon roe, to be so-called taken as our starter. They were cut to generous size, and we could totally taste the original raw taste of the fish, which ranged from salmon, tuna, and raw prawns.

Despite it being a norm for Japanese meal to be well presented, the placement and effort on all these sashimis always gave me a much pleasant feeling. We absolutely can't wait to dig in. 

Served chilled on ice & what a lovely presentation

We also placed additional order of raw fish, salmon belly and oysters to fully satisfy our fondness of these raw goodies.

Second serving of sashimi, salmon belly and oyster that we had

The Saba Shioyaki tasted so fresh, that we could taste each part of its flesh. Pan fried till superbly fragrant. 

Oyster wise, it was truly lip smacking. To be frank, too small size makes you feel like you are not eating anything, but too big, will give the effect of overwhelming. Sozo served just the right size of oyster, that made us slurping them right into the mouth, yet chewable and tasted so rich in its vitamin. 

Also separately ordered another extra 5 pieces of salmon. Yummy yummy. 

Saba Shiyaki, Salmon & Oysters

To be frank, we were so enticed with their pictorial seen in their menu, and tempted to order more, yet, we had to suppressed our greedy desire, but gave in to one last order of the unagi roll. I loved the crispness of the bbq eel  that was used on top of this roll, and compact sushi rice wrapping around the crabstick and tamago (grilled egg). The entire roll was drizzled with teriyaki sauce to complete the 'look'. 

Unagi Roll

Upon the dinner ended, and despite the overfulfilled stomach capacity, we took some risk by still trying to squeeze in small scoops of ice-cream. Burp burp burp! 

This is definitely THE recommended place for Japanese buffet. As freshness and deliciousness of food is present in every way.

Food - 10/10

Price - 10/10 

Service - 9/10 

Ambiance - 9/10

Sozo 

13-G, Block A, Sunway Giza, 

Jalan PJU 5/14, Kota Damansara, 

47810 Petaling Jaya. 

Tel : 03-6143 712

Business Hours : 10.30am-10.30pm daily 

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