Skinny Foodies

Heard of The Manhattan Fish Market? It is located at most of the shopping malls such as Pavillion KL, Mid Valley and Sunway Pyramid. They always offer good foods and value meals for their customers. For example, offer value Lunch Meal, Light Meal and Dinner Treat.

Price for their foods are affordable as they also offer good price to their customers. You only need to spend around RM11.90 for their value lunch meal and RM9.90 for light meals. You also may choose to have dinner at here as well. Their dinner treats are kinda pricy compared to their value meals which around RM29.90.

Other than seafood, they also offer kind of foods as well. So, no worries that you are allergic to seafood, because you can always have a better choice at The Manhattan Fish Market. As they always offer good foods with reasonable price, just choose whatever you think that is nice from the menu !! Well, in fact every food in the menu are nice !!

Once you have tried, you definitely want to have more and more and more !!!

After having their different kind of meals, you should try their dessert as well. They offer you their Fried Fish Fingers with Vanilla Ice Cream. It is so special that hot and cold is combined together and make you have a great memory with The Manhattan Fish Market.

If you happen to come here during their promotion period, please do not hesitate to order their significant meals - Fish and Chips as this is recommended by their chief. Also, it only costs you RM 6.90!! Have you tried such reasonable Fish and Chips ?

Come and try them at The Manhattan Fish Market. Guarantee No Regrets Trying This Out !!

Besides, visiting The Manhattan Fish Market along with your friends is a great ides too ! They would offer you their sharing seafood platter which is quite famous at here. Their price range is in between RM10-RM60 and could serve up to 3 pax. If 3 person are sharing this, then it would be a reasonable price for everyone and would be an enjoyable night for them. Rating for The Manhattan Fish Market would be 8 out of 10.

I am not too familiar with any reputable Japanese restaurant in Johor Bharu and most of the time Sushi King is the only one I always saw in shopping mall. So happen i was lucky to come across this restaurant called Nijyumaru Japanese Restaurant which is quite popularly rated on the web and among the locals around. it is always mentioned and ranked as one of the famous and best Japanese restaurant in town. My first visit was very spontaneous and we underestimated the restaurant with the thought of walking in would be sufficient for us to enjoy their cuisine. However i was caught by surprised that the place was crowded. I only stayed for an hour as the other tables was reserved for the next hour. A word of advice, to avoid bumping into awkward situations like this, you can make an early reservation to secure your seat and save you all the hassle.

About their interior, they had a combination of black and golden simply put up modern Japanese feel. With red lanterns hanging around that will attract attention at night.The lighting is dim yet cozy and i could easily feel myself seared in a traditional Japanese restaurant from the ambiance displayed around. To enjoy the ambiance, you can choose to sit on "Tatami" floor rather than the modern tables or at the sushi bar. This place is also suitable for gathering and to chill out as it isn't very noisy.

Taking a look at their menu, their pricing is quite similar with another Japanese restaurant known as Sushi Zanmai. I would consider it quite worthy to savor such good Japanese food. When i am in a Japanese restaurant, food choices like baby octopus, bento sets and ramen are the few items one shouldn't miss out. What's more surprising is that the portion of food that was served to us was very generous in terms of portion. It definitely satisfy a big eater and huge foodie like me!

Marinated Baby Octopus was the first on table as appetizer, it tasted no much different from other Japanese restaurant, but it is still my favorite dish of all. Nijyumaru will be my first choice in future when I have cravings for baby octopus, because it is considered quite big despite of its price at RM7!

The biggest size of octopus compare to other Japanese restaurant, A MUST TRY !!

Lastly, i decided to give one of their signature Ramen a go, as i was craving for a bowl of authentic Japanese Ramen. However i was fooled by the hot and spicy red color bowl f ramen soup. It was my fault for i didn't read the description well enough. The ramen had various seafood in it, Japanese fish cake and etc. The minced meat and corn bits inside, made the soup looks not so clean and clear, but rich in flavour. Overall, the taste and the noodles are near to the authentic ramen.

Price range: RM6 - RM60

Rating: 9 out of 10

(MUST TRY !!)

IKEA Damansara - Food Hall

As usual, the hall is always crowded. You may consider to go there during weekdays.

Signature Beef Meat Balls - RM15 to RM 18
When you walk through the food hall, you will notice that every table will have this !!

Signature Fried Chicken - RM5 (2 pieces) to RM12 (5 pieces)
Children might prefer this to Beef Meat Balls.

Price range: RM 1 - RM 25
Rating: 7 out of 10
Provide variety of food, do find out yourself !!

Mentai series sushi is a MUST TRY !!

You won't stop eating it once you try it !!

Price range: RM3 - RM6

Curry Chicken Rice and Curry Ramen/ Udon

You will finish the whole plate/ bowl and order another bowl of rice and finish it with the remaining curry!!

Sashimi - RM8 - RM15

Small octopus, Chawanmushi and Mentai series sushi.

What a nice combination !!

Delicious maki from RM16 - RM30

Here comes the Gyoza !!

Just RM11.90 per plate.

Try it before you regret!!

Price range: RM7 - RM50

Rating: 8 out of 10

It was late after our classes at college had ended. We were looking for some place to chill after our dinner and to continue with some of our college works. We stumbled upon a cafe named OldFactory Bulb located around Kota Damansara. The cafe was built on the second floor, therefore some climbing up the stairs was needed. The interior of this cafe at night was different from the other types of cafe that I've seen before. It definitely matched the name of the cafe. How?
There were many hanging lightbulbs used as their source of lighting in the cafe. It played an effect on the environment by making it looked cozy, peaceful and romantic at the same time because of the dimmed lightbulbs. Hmm.... Creative and romantic too i would say.

We each ordered a cup of our choice. Some of use had coffee, some had chocolate. The coffees came in cute interesting little cups to impress us. It was something a little bit out of the ordinary. Apart from that, out of all the other waffle choices, we ordered the Black Label Waffle. When it came, all of us quickly pulled out our cameras and started taking pictures of it. Some of us even Snapchat about the current situation and posted it on their feed. We are so eager to shared it as we were also overwhelmed and excited to try this waffle because the waffle wasn't just named after some fancy name to catch customer's attention. It really had black label drizzled all over the waffle and ice cream! *Yumms!* This waffle really stood out among the usual waffles that we used to consume and often see around most cafes. Moreover, the decorations on this waffle had little s'mores all around the ice cream. Another thing interesting about this waffle is that it was served in it usual waffle shaped piece. Besides that, the waffle was baked into separated little pieces. Made just nice for us to fit it perfectly in our mouths topped with the s'more, vanilla ice cream and black label drizzles without messing up our faces. It also tastes as good as it looks!! Yummy!! To pair with this Black Label waffle, we suggest coffee or chocolate besides tea.

A little downside coming to this place would be the effort to find parking space. It is a busy area as there are many other food shops around. Moreover, besides waffles, tea and coffee. Another interesting thing about this place is that it serves coffee cocktails, smoothies and beers. I would say it's not your ordinary cafe stop due to the interesting background of the owner of the place. They sure do know what they are doing with their drinks as they are good at whipping up coffee, chocolate and tea-based cocktails. Aim for their drink menu i would say if you decide to come here!

Overall, prices for the food and drinks are reasonable based on its value and the service was good. We had a great time talking, eating and doing our work. Ratings to be given to this cafe would be 8/10!! Thumbs up for this place if you would like to get away from busy and noisy areas.

By: Jia Yi

Hello, Sunday! We're all tired and stressed up after a long day at college doing our group assignment. However, the weekends only allows us to rest for a few minutes or hours. We heard that a new cafe had just popped up around Kota Damansara. Heard of Fifth Palate? It wasn't hard to locate this place as we depended on Waze to brought us here. When we reached the place, we noticed several small signs that lead us directly to their cafe located upstairs.

It is definitely a beautiful, simple and cozy place to be at. Loved the ambience and the black and white theme cafe interior. We ordered a plate of 'Drunken Frenchman' and picked two different flavours of yogurt from the display fridge beside the counter which was 'Wheatgrass' and 'Mango'. Both the yogurts had textures so soft like homemade yogurts and it tasted exactly as it was named after without the flavour being too overwhelming for our tastebuds.

Next came the 'Drunken Frenchman' (what a catchy name for a french toast) as previously stated in our order!! Hooray! Actually, it is a french toast, spread all over the toast was their own-made peanut butter, topped with bacons, bananas that has been caramelised and ice cream on the top. It is definitely appetising to look at. Also a HUGE diet spoiler with all that calories in one plate. If you love PEANUT BUTTER, i would recommend to try out this french toast for sure! Their peanut butter jam is very rich. However a part from the beautiful appetising way it was brought out, somehow the taste didn't quite blend together. It isn't bad but the combo tasted either too sweet or savoury salty for a french toast. The peanut butter however for some reasons, appeared too sweet or sticky based on individual opinion. We shared the toast together and ate everything except for the toast that was generously given a lot of peanut butter spread on it.

Overall, we loved the ambiance and the service provided. However the prices of the food there is a little bit pricey for college students but it was served at a reasonable portion. Ratings given to this cafe would be 7/10. Not bad!!

By: Jia Yi