For those who don't frequent Glenmarie, they would often find Glenmarie being a location where it's hard to find any food stalls there. For those who's familiar with the area will know that there's merely a specific location in Glenmarie where all the food restaurants centralize in. Gusto Giusto is one of those restaurants in that area.The area here is known to draw in the considerable lunch crowd of the working class during working days but known to be like a ghost town during weekends hence coming on a Saturday or an hour where the lunch crowd has dispersed is best.

Gusto Giusto is an establishment that serves authentic Italian food and uses key ingredients imported from Italy but some things are fine tuned a little to suit the Malaysian taste. Interestingly, the prices on Gusto Giusto's menu are very affordable unlike the usual Italian Restaurants that you usually find in Malaysia where a serving for 2 persons already rack up to more than RM50. But be warned though, there's no alcohol nor pork served here.

Let's not ramble on further and proceed to see what we had on that fateful day.
Started off with Antipasto as an appetizer:The warm hosts of the place even served to us a special Antipasto for us to try which is with Sun Dried Tomatoes and Buffalo Mozzarella:The special version that they served us is more towards my liking. The Sun Dried Tomatoes were nice and sweet but not too sweet. The olives were surprisingly pleasant to me. Usually, I don't like olives because of a very strong queer sweet olive taste to it hence I usually take out the olives from pizzas if I see them but this one doesn't give out that strong taste. It still taste like olives and it's sweetness but it's like a milder version of it and goes well with the dishes that were served in. The Buffalo Mozzarella taste like a milkier version of Mozzarella and less cheesiness to it.

Another appetizer served is a delicacy available only in Italy. And even so, it's merely found in Sicily. Over here they called it Nasi Sicily but really, it's Arancini:Arancini are Fried Rice Balls with breadcrumbs as the outer layer. Something unique to me that I've never tasted before. A crispy breadcrumb outer layer with rice inside and some Parmesan Cheese at the top with some tomato sauce and some Ragù meat sauce in it, I believe. Also some Buffalo Mozzarella and peas in it. Basically, the main taste is the breadcrumb taste followed by the rice taste.We later carried on with the Pastas.
Our first serving was the Spaghetti Bolognese both the Chicken and Beef variation:Can't taste much of the meat after all it's minced but I do taste a good load of the pasta along with the sauce. The spaghetti was cooked right. Very soft and tender and nice to the taste buds. The sauce is not too overwhelmingly tomato flavor with sweetish taste (which is the reason why most of the time I would pick Carbonara) but just good for me.

Another Spaghetti served is the Spaghetti Frutti di Mare (Seafood):I'm not a lover of seafood but this tastes okay.

Yet another spaghetti, Tartufona:[Full review: http://www.ktheblogger.com/2013/08/gusto-giusto-glenmarie-food-review.html]

I was so looking forward to try the Charcoal Grilled Skin Prawn Dumpling "Har Kau" because I find the concept of a dim sum charcoal dish interesting and was wondering does it taste good. The day finally arrived but unfortunately, they ran out of that and I couldn't get to find out how it taste like. Anyway, there were a few dishes of dim sum that I tried out.
Started off with some Tea Pot Soup.This was one out of 3 varieties of Tea Pot Soup that we tried.Which are Ginseng Chicken, White Raddish with Spare Ribs and Nutritious Herbal Pork. Personally, I find all of the soup really strong in one type of taste which will not get me past more than one cup. If it were soup with some ingredients for me to munch on so as not to come on me too strong, I'd probably be able to drink more but just drinking the soup alone feels that it chokes my throat and immediately left me wanting some water to soothe me. Each pot is RM12.80.

This is the Unagi Puff in BBQ Sauce:Too dry for my taste. Only thing I like here is the seaweed that keeps it together. True story.

Steamed Bak Kut Teh Soup Dumpling:Didn't taste like Bak Kut Teh to me. Can't really taste much of what I ate but I know that pointy thing that's sticking out is hard as hell. I believe it's some kind of pork inside?

Here's one charcoal type of dish that I get to try here. It's called the Egg Custard Bun in Charcoal Grilled Skin:The filling of the bun is egg yolk and custard.Could taste just a bit of the custard but a lot of the egg yolk. I find the filling insufficient with the bun ratio. But then again, just tasting egg yolk with the charcoal bun isn't exactly my idea of good taste.

Enoki Mushroom Wrapped in Bacon:

The place, Xia Mian Guan, is located at the ever popular Sunway Pyramid next to Overtime but it is well hidden from view though because in front of it is a hot pot restaurant which blocks Xia Mian Guan from being visible from the main road.The place looks like a posh 5 star restaurant which at 1st look, I don't even dare to enter let alone try out it's food.So with the upper class outlook of it, I expect the food to be of a much dearer than normal price but of a nature where the food will be exquisitely delightful to taste and the chefs making the dishes considering it as an art form. I'll let you be the judge of that through my writings.

We started off with a bevy of appetizers to further stimulate our appetite for the main courses.

First off, Caesar Salad with Crispy Soft Shell Crab and Boiled Egg, a RM48 starter:There were 2 sauces provided which are the mayonnaise with black pepper and sesame sauce.
All of it together with the Soft Shell Crab were poured in and mixed:Although Caesar Salad is best known to be served at western restaurants, this is the first time I'm seeing one available at a Chinese restaurant and with soft shell crab. The taste of it mixed together was indescribably good. Better than most normal Caesar Salad I've tasted but then again, I don't eat Caesar Salad much at restaurants. Anyway, to sum it up....good!

This is the Winter Melon with Chilli Flakes:An unusual combination which just by thinking, I wouldn't be able to comprehend on how a combination like this would taste good. But surprisingly to me, it tastes okay. The winter melon gives a refreshing taste while the chili flakes merely makes it a bit spicy. But it's more refreshing than spicy.
This is the Crispy Beancurd SkinRM12 for 8 pieces. Can't really recall much of it's taste.

This is Homemade Smoke Egg:With sprinkles of seasoning on the top to give some salty taste to it, these are made with duck eggs. I always like eggs. This is no exception. I had a mouthful of yolk taste pressed upon my tongue when I put the whole piece in my mouth.

Crunchy Pork:[Full Blogpost at http://www.ktheblogger.com/2013/08/xia-mian-guan-sunway-pyramid-food-review.html]

The Journey Cafe is at Setiawalk, a place where it's buzzing with people but the cafe is located at the more quiet side of the area where some of the shops are not occupied yet and without the nightlife crowd for the bars there, the establishment can be a nice place where people chill out to have some nice quiet time to get work done.There are even books and magazines around should the patrons desire to have a quiet read to past the time but for me, the main draw would be their western breakfasts.

I find it hard to get good western breakfast around Klang Valley, it's usually small in portion and unsatisfying in taste not to mention with the price to pay for a western breakfast can get you a nice sumptuous Chinese breakfast. The closest to my expectation around Klang Valley would be the OldTown White Coffee but still the taste is way under par from my expectation.

Best I ever had so far was when I was down in Ipoh at Greentown where I just went into a Chinese hawker style restaurant there to grab my breakfast while I waited for my family. The western breakfast was surprisingly full of contents, cheap and satisfied my craving hunger not to mentioned that they gave bacon as well.

Anyway, back to The Journey Cafe, as I was saying, the Western Breakfast are the ones that I would enjoy here.
This is the European Continental Breakfast:From the picture you can see in contains two-eggs-your-way (in this one is the sunny side up eggs), 2 beef bacon, 2 chicken sausages, baked beans, sauteed mushrooms and a pastry called Laugenbroetchen roll. All is well and nice but the baked beans seemed to be a bit off in taste to me unlike the canned ones that I'm used to.

I like western breakfast so much (since I haven't had one for a long time that's acceptable enough to me) that I had a second one after trying on other food:This time, the European Continental Breakfast came with Scrambled Eggs. Really rich and buttery.

Another Western Breakfast set that was given to us for a try was the Aussie Brekkie:The Aussie Brekkie has a 100g Grilled Beef Tenderloin and grilled tomatoes with sauteed mushrooms and toasted baguette and for this one, they served the two-eggs-your-way scrambled eggs style to us.

Grilled Chicken Salad:Taste okay but grilled chicken a little dry. Counter with the greens.

Chicken Bruschetta:A whole slice of grilled chicken on top of the bread. Costs RM9.90

This is Swedish Meatballs served with Fries:Meatball is also dry but with the sauce, it's okay. The taste is delicious to me.

Softshell Crab Spaghetti:[For full review please go to: http://www.ktheblogger.com/2013/07/the-journey-cafe-food-review.html]

Before going on about the dishes I tried at this place, I would like to express that Korean food is never my preference. The first ever Korean food that I tasted was Kimchi and I never liked it. I don't remember how it was introduced to me nor who brought the food for me, I just remember that I don't like it and till this day, I still don't.

But I'm still open in trying out Korean food in hopes that I find one that I really, really like. Currently, there's still no Korean dish that I like but there are some that I deemed okay.

SeoulScape Bistro is easy to spot from outside despite it being on the 1st floor. It has a vibrant type of setting that contains an eye-catching graffiti art on the wall, a projector that plays K-pop with the audible music around and some K-pop naterials as decorations on shelves.There's also a mirror on the wall for the vanity in most of us.

The main dish that we tried, one was housed in a wok and another in a pot.
The one in the Wok with some broth in it is the Jeuksuk Ddeokbokki:Ddeokbokki's main ingredient is the Rice Cake. In the variation we had, it consists of some crab sticks, sausages, onions, boiled eggs. Ramyeon was later added in too.The chili paste which I think it's gochujang makes the broth spicy but doesn't affect the ingredients too much except for the ramyeon of course since it will absorb the broth up.

The other main dish that's served in a pot is the Budae Jjigae.It may seem tame without the reddish color settling in yet, but it does contain chili paste at the bottom. Budae Jjigae literally translates to Army Base Stew. Back during the days of after the Korean War, meat was scarce. Hence, people tend to make use of surplus food that they can find in the US Army base to make Jjigae like sausages, canned hams and thus become Budae Jjigae.

Ours were added in extra chili paste - Gochujang hence it was spicier than the Ddeokbokki. But if it weren't so, I believe that the Ddeokbokki would be a more spicier dish since it's not soup-like like the Jjigae.

Some side dishes were served as well:And some meat as well:[Full Review at: http://www.ktheblogger.com/2013/07/seoulscape-bistro-strand-kota-damansara.html]