Here's a quick fact about Ramen: It is a Japanese noodle dish that consists of Chinese-style wheat noodles served in a meat or fish based broth, often flavored with soy sauce or miso, and uses toppings such as sliced pork, dried seaweed, green onions, corn etc. I'm sure there's a lot of ramen shop blooming in Klang Valley area alone and the ramen prices are ranged between RM15-RM30. This time round, I am going to introduce you to a place where you can get high quality and affordable ramen in the one and only place, the ramen revolution: Ikuzo Ramen.Hokkaido Ramen RM8.50
Next in line is the Hokkaido Ramen with Miso Paste. I think miso paste would be most likely to be acceptable for majority of people who have tasted all the paste. Comes with 2 slices of cha-shu, bamboo shoots, spinach, bean sprouts and sweet corn.Yakiniku Ramen RM8.50
Bear in mind, the type of ramen which is offered in Ikuzo Ramen is not those typical thick broth/soup but it's more towards a clear based but still has the very basic taste of ramen. NO MSG, no soup concentrates, no artificial flavouring. There's 3 type of paste which are the miso paste, shio paste and the shoyu paste. Also, there's 2 type of noodles, original thin and original thick noodle. Previously they had the spicy thin and spicy thick noodle but due to some of the customers feedback saying that it wasn't spicy enough for them. How good if I can ever try it before they took it out of the noodle selections. The very first ramen shown above is the Yakiniku Ramen with Shoyu Paste, which is one of my favorite. This ramen has grilled beef and cabbage kimuchi to accompany the thin ramen noodle.Cha-Shu Ramen RM8.90
For pork lover, Cha-Shu Ramen is a must have! Comes with 5 pieces of sliced cha-shu in a shoyu paste soup. If I want to have something simple but a lot of satisfying pork meat, I will make sure to order this on my next visit!Curry Tan Tan Ramen RM6.90
The name of this ramen, Curry Tan Tan sounded quite funny to me and I thought it would have something to do with egg (tan in Chinese) but it actually comes with mah lat spice (peppercorn) and minced chicken. The taste wasn't spicy as I expected and might be a bit too heavy on the salty side. Maybe it's just me, anyway for those who really want to go for some good spicy ramen, the Tom Yum Ramen at the picture below is the one to go for.Tom Yum Ramen RM10.90
The Tom Yum Ramen comes with Shoyu paste soup, prawns, squid, crab meat and fish slices. I know some girls really like to have some good spicy tom yum occasionally compared to guys and so this one is a recommended ramen for you!

I personally prefer the thin ramen noodle instead of the thick ramen noodle. Some of the soup based reminds me of Maggie Mee curry flavour, not sure if it's a good or a bad thing. Anyway, the prices for all the ramen are really affordable, from RM5.90-RM10.90. The side dishes will definitely be the reason for me to go back to this place.

Nowadays, I often being invited to Taiwanese dessert and bubble milk tea outlet to do a review for them. Since this franchising business is trending now and so many such outlets are blooming in the market day by day, the drinks, desserts and snacks prices offered are slightly too costly for me to go back to those outlets every single week. So when I was invited to do a review in Cup-Bon, I told myself that it's just another overpriced bubble milk tea outlet which I can easily find nearby my place and this newly opened outlet is located so far away but somehow I was wrong. This latest concept Cup-Bon branch is opened at Low Yat Plaza and they offer a HEALTHY & QUALITY style of Asian's world new tea drinks culture to the customers in Malaysia.Mango Snow Ice with Jelly (RM3.50).
Thanks to the personal invitation from Ryan, finally there's a bubble milk tea outlet which I can look forward to. During the review, the co-founder of Cup-Bon, Mr Vincent Chin explained to us, "This Halal certified Cup-Bon franchise has been running for 10 strong years and that it initially started off with 16 flavours, Cup-Bon now offers 28 different flavours." Waffles with Chocolate filling (RM3.50) Waffles with Peanut Butter filling (RM3.50) This one is my personal favorite, Pure Green Tea with Green Tea Jelly (RM2.00) Oreo Mocha (RM7.50)
Mr. Vincent claim this to have the same standard as the ice blended that we can find in Starbucks but I am pretty sure that he might have exaggerated too much about this. The taste was just so so...

Food and drinks concept outlet a good place for customers to hang out especially during a hot and sunny day, a cup of icy cold beverages is what you need. Overall, it's a place which offered a wide range of affordable beverages to the customer and it's halal. That is the bigest selling point to gain more Malay customers to purchase beverages and food from Cup-Bon.

Have you heard about this new taiwanese dessert shop called the Blackball? If you are staying around Subang SS15 or always hang out at Asia Cafe in Subang, I'm sure you won't miss this particular shop. It was back in the year 2006 where Blackball first started and it has bloomed up in a very short time standing as one of the biggest dessert chains in Taipei with over 20 outlets and still expanding. Now, we can all have experience the awesome and original Taiwanese tea and dessert at the first BlackBall outlet in Malaysia which is located in Subang SS15 as I had mention earlier.Cranberry Crushed Ice with Milk (RM6.50) add Aloe Vera (RM1)BlackBall Signature with Brown Sugar Jelly and Sweetened Bean (RM6.50)
The owner explained that their 'Xian Cao' is the finest quality 'Xian Cao' imported directly from Guan Xi, producing top notch quality 'Xian Cao' tea and grass jelly, it gives the heavenly taste we will never find in other dessert chains... literally they all tasted the same to me! xDRed Bean Ice with Barley and Lotus Seed (RM6.50) add Sky Pearl (RM1.00)
The owner claimed that they use only handmade taro balls with natural ingredients, promising every customer that it is the most chewy taro balls have ever tasted.By combining the various type of Original Taiwanese Tea selections with the dessert, customers can either choose to have a light drink or to have a bowl of icy cold or hot but refreshing dessert in Blackball.Grass Jelly Ice with brown sugar and sweetened bean (RM6.50)

What I like most about Blackball is their Taroballs and Black Pearl. Price wise, quite competitive and of course they are way better than ZenQ!

What they can improve on is, their crushed ice and also maybe the size of the bowl. When the crushed ice melted, it seems to be almost overflow.

Although the famous Snowflake is just right beside them but their winning point is that the location of this floor is ground floor and most family members and elder people would rather settle down at Blackball instead of taking the stairs up to Snowflake.

Hey guys, some of you might know that I am from Sabah and seafood is very popular from the place where I come from. No doubt that sometimes I will have slight demand on choosing a seafood place to go to in terms of the taste, portion and price. Anyway, there is a seafood place very near to the place I stay which is in Kota Damansara. This seafood place is called Bali Hai Seafood Village.For the very first dish, we had the Australian Lobster and Canadian Geoduck Sashimi with Superior Soup Steamboat. Lobster flesh is commonly known to be eaten raw but what about geoduck? Not many know about the taste of raw geoduck which is a species of very large, edible, saltwater clam.

I've tasted both the lobster and geoduck raw and cooked in the Superior Soup Steamboat. For the lobster, the flesh is soft, fresh and sweat and as for the geoduck, it has a chewy texture in it but quite appetizing.Second dish is the Stir-fried Vegetables. This plate of vege comes with lotus, french beans, celery, cashew nut, wild mushroom and chili. It's nicely fried without overcooking it and not too salty or oily as well.We had a fish dish next, and it's called the Vietnam Style Mackerel. The sauce that comes with the dish gives a sourish and sweet taste onto the fish good to eat along with rice. The sauce which is placed on the saucer is just for photography purposes.

The sauce is covered on top of the fried mackerel was tasty but I'm not quite sure if I can taste the freshness of the fish.After that, we had the Golden Garlic Steamed Freshwater Lobster each. What I like most about this dish is the generous amount of garlic they topped on these freshwater lobsters. It was one of my favorite dish that night. I recommend this to you to give it a try.Right after the delicious freshwater lobsters, we had the Crispy Deep Fried Chicken with Thai Sauce. From what we heard from the chef, this dish is cooked just like how they did in Thailand. The vege and the shredded chicken meat was put at the side of the roasted chicken. I kind of like the roasted chicken with the sweet and sour thai sauce with a hint of orange but the side vege and meat were a little out of the way to scoop them one by one.

The price for the set course above is RM 1388 and comes with Fresh Fruit Platter and sides starter.

I've been wanted to try Aunt Christina's Sarawak Laksa since a very long time after reading some of the food review blog post and my Sarawakian friends in KL who actually recommended this place one of the best Sarawak Laksa to be found in KL area.Located at Lucky Garden in Bangsar, this little stall takes a part of Nam Chuan Coffeeshop. They have other choices such as economy rice, Penang prawn mee, pan mee and of course the Sarawak Laksa.Laksa Sarawak (Small RM6.50 / Big RM7.00)

A bowl of Sarawak Laksa to cure my cravings. On top of the bee hoon, you can find the 2 fresh prawns, some chicken meat strips, bean sprouts, omelette strips and coriander leaves. In my opinion, the laksa gravy was pretty rich and the flavour was almost similar to the one I had back in Kuching a few months back but the bean sprouts was a little too much that every single bite I had to chew the bean sprout more than the noodle itself. The prawn was too raw as well, the laksa gravy wasn't hot enough to make it less raw. It was too pricy too. I guess maybe the rental in Bangsar cost more than places like PJ or the owner purposely increase the price just because some famous celebrity went to eat at the stall before and it was on the newspapers.My typical cup of hot Milo while Daniel having his hot Teh-C.

Apart from the Sarawak Laksa, Aunt Christina also sells rendang, black pepper chicken and pig stomach which I heard was quite good as well.