Au Lait Revisited

Went to Au Lait again to celebrate my dad in law and my nephew's bday, and while I didn't really take pictures of the new and improved renovated Au Lait setting, I did take a few awesome pics of the food

Authentic English fish and chips made by their new chef from Britain, genuine product on the house (for my dad in law's bday) and may soon one day be part of the Au Lait menu. It's amazing and tastes really juicy and fresh, though it's just a little bit salty, but still very succulent

My hubby's lamb chop

My fish and chips with tartar sauce, which is the Au Lait version, and yeah, total big difference with my dad in law's fish and chips

My dad in law's grilled fish (that he originally ordered before the chef surprise-treated him)

Both my mom in law and sis in law's lamb chop

This is what I've taken so far at the spur of the moment. More reprisals and revisits possible, but I totally hope that authentic English fish and chips would make it into the official Au Lait menu

Savy's Brasserie

We went for our sungkai dinner as a family, and it's in buffet style, and our spot was in Savy's Brasserie

Location: Within the Mabohai Mall, just a couple of floors above Supersave, same floor with Toys R Us (apparently it's a branch of the same name that is downtown, which is in the same area where my previous workplace Brudirect, and technically have been there before but never really got to do a piece of it since I didn't have my camera at the time)

Setting: Pretty standard new restaurant look, nothing too impressive about it, pretty small and cramped though
Atmosphere: 7.5/10 (filled to the brim with customers, mostly definitely due to the sungkai buffet they have there - $18.90 per head for adults, kids, not sure, maybe $9.90 per head of standard price)
Design: 6.5/10 (could use a bit of work, and space, since it's kinda sorta pretty cramped around the area and hard to navigate, but then again it could be because I'm pregnant that I think that way)

Our own private room that we've booked beforehand

Since it's buffet style, I went around to catch what do they have in store, and captured just enough pics without actually blocking people taking the food or holding up the line (though people seemed to view their stomachs more important than a pregnant lady struggling to get a good shot; whatever happened to chivalry? -_-)

Salad/appetizer section

Main courses section

Dessert section

The dessert section seemed to be a big hit since everyone aimed to grab as many of the cakes and confectionaries first before grabbing the main course that I couldn't even grab a decent picture of the desserts served (gluttonous bastards). but overall the food was pretty good and tasty. Not as par as the main branch downtown, but still it's good, and has potential.

I'd give this place an overall 7.5/10

Ching Nam Hong Revisited

Went to Ching Nam Hong to have lunch with my hubby and his colleague so that I can hang out with him at the office for later night's sungkai dinner with the family. We were having economy meals, so just felt like sharing what we were eating

My dish of fried egg, kangkung, sweet and sour fish and pork trotters

My hubby's dish of sweet potato stalks, sweet and sour fish and chicken curry

I forgot what my hubby's colleague's dish, but it seems to be similar of nature. The economic meals taste pretty good, considering, might wanna try it again the next time I feel like going frugal

Shabulicious Restaurant

My hubby's cousin was treating us to dinner before our run to watch The Expendables 2 movie, so we wouldn't want to miss that opportunity, and surprise, surprise, we were being treated at Shabulicious Restaurant, the restaurant that I've been curious about since they first opened their doors to the public

Location: At Batu Bersurat area, where Neo Metro (the modern furniture shop) is in the same building

Setting: A regular shabu-shabu restaurant, almost similar to the one in Ice Bar & Cafe in Kiulap Plaza
Atmosphere: 7.5/10 (nice and full of people, though it's prolly due to sungkai time and whatnot, though it does give a feel that is a little better than its competitor)
Design: 7/10 (looks pretty good, interesting dividers and great colour scheme, and I would've added that line of pretty Japanese dolls from across the table, but there were quite a number of diners there that I didn't want to bother with my ominous presence)

The sauce stand, which is suspiciously similar to its competitor (plagiarism comes to mind)

Random shots of my eating utensils

Food: Beef sets (all ours except my hubby's colleague) and salmon set (my hubby's colleague)
Presentation: 8/10 overall (looks pretty delicious, though seeing from the menu, it's almost too similar to their competitor)
Taste: 7.5/10 (for mine at least, since I didn't really actually taste the salmon set, but the food seemed fresh enough, and the best part about the set is that it came with quail eggs, which is my most fav stuff to have for steamboats)

It's a good place to go to have shabu shabu if they run out of places at the Ice Bar & Cafe, since it's pretty much more or less similar in menu and stuff, and it's got a nice, bigger and spacious area for more room to eat, though it would be advisable to go with a big party since the tables are mostly for 4 people and above