Step 1 – Admire the glistening egg on top your your Beef rice..
Step 2 – Gingerly break the half boiled egg and let the yoke run into every crevice of the beef..
Step 3 – sit back for a moment and admire the work of art..
Step 4- Chow down with great gusto!
We like the sets at Pasta Zanmai because they are value for money.
Also, Cumi & ciki wanted to check out the Chocolate Fair at Midvalley KL with 3iling and decided to have a quick lunch with her to catch up in the new year, before heading to the exhibition.
What was supposed to be a simple, fast set lunch turned into a massive eat-fest.. and as we devoured our enormous meal, we knew we had to walk it off soon at the Chocolate Fair. The pizza pasta set, the rice and salmon pasta set and the steak set, only just set us back by approximately RM80 for three persons.
A nice meal and great catching up with 3iling.. time to hit the fair.
At the fair, 3iling introduced us to many luminaries and famous chocolate chefs because she is so damn well connected!
We were also introduced to the DG of the Malaysian Cocoa Board, Felicity who was a really nice and friendly lady. She has agreed to help arrange an outing to a cocoa processing center sometime this year! C&C and 3iling will liaise with her for a date.. stay tuned;)
We saw some interesting things at the Fair such as Chocolate printing,
innovative chocolate molds,
( I especially liked this one!)
Above pic, as 3iling put it.. chocolate aromatherapy. Now we know what to do with old chocs that we cannot eat..!)
We noticed that whilst the packaging was pretty nice and there were wholesalers present,
A lot of the chocolate on display were just the run of the mill,
However, one did stand out in the crowd.. Deanna Yusof’s Grandjean Freres.
We love Deanna.. she is one classy lady.. the model-turned actress is more than a pretty face. Malaysians know her for her daredevil skills at the races – I am talking race cars! (Merdeka Millenium Race), she is a great singer and songwriter and the thing that not many people know about her is that she is a great cook as well.
Anyway,at the fair, Deanna was charming and talked to all the passerby’s informing them about these handmade swiss chocolates Grandjean Freres, which are made by award-winning patisseries, Marcel and André Grandjean from Givisiez, Switzerland. We tried some samples and they were exquisite! These are high end luxury chocolates but are worth every penny in terms of quality and presentation. 3iling was saying this should be the last stop for chocolate sampling – you palate a long ,lingering, aftertaste of the best! We agreed.
CRISPY chocolate rice cereal bar .. the chocolate snack that many Malaysians grew up on.. ! You will notice the new branding – the blue dinosaur. Back then it was called Kandos. Again 3iling knew all the exhibitors so we got a whole handful of samples.
Ryan Khang of My Nourishment magazine was also at the fair. He offered us some excellent macarons and chocolate chip cookies for sampling. 3iling liked the cookies so much she bought a box for C&C and one for herself. Thanks sweetie!
The fair was fun because of the company. We found the exhibition somewhat lacking in activities and participants, though.
Wah so fast! I have to agree that this fair isn’t filled with enough booths and more importantly, not enough chocolate varieties.
yar true.. but was great seeing ya.. LOL 😆
Oh that dish with egg with beef!
I’m so looking forward to my trip back to Malaysia!
when are you coming back btw ❓
Hopefully June-July, that’s the plan atm.
i remember kandos/krispy! i think i must have eaten hundreds of those bars between the age of 4 and 18!!! 😀
same here.. damn addictive and because we got so many samples, i am chomping one even as i type! 😈
KANDOS! That brings back memories of endless playing, squabbling and gorging in primary school, haha!! Generally I have a prob with MVEC as a venue for such exhibitions… the space & layout just doesn’t seem conducive somehow.
looks like some bad-shape warehouse sale! 🙄
What chocolate fair? Looked like PC fair only. ROFL.
Sorry, but my eyes are fixated at the Eggy Beef thingy! Let’s do lunch.
munkey.. u got all your priorities in the erm.. right places! 😆
Heya. first time here. 😀 nice layout! And love your pics too! 😀
didn’t know there was a chocolate fair in mv! but can’t blame anyone, i haven’t been there for ages despite me staying in PJ. hahahaha
medie hello! and thx for stopping by:D really.. so what sort of event do you normally go for? 😉
somehow the fair seemed very amateurish ( from your pix)….like some pasar malam trade fair….i want my 70% cocoa Dak Chocolate!!
it looked v spartan – not enough exhibitors
Drooooooooooool 🙂 Whisky and choccies!
haha.. alkie!
eh I like Sushi Zanmai loh, somehow. Pasta Zanmai also ok, but smaller portions, no?
Sushi Zanmai beef salad tasty lah … and rather cheap.
not cheap but massive sets .. it’s pretty value for money too
Definitely not enough publicity nor activities , otherwise how come bsg dunno one eh ? Lucky C&C 😆 was there otherwise will be non-event graciousNo. Deanna lost many weight , has she been following ya running ?
😉
ROFL.. no she has not la 😛 🙄
Looks good! 🙂 🙂
(I wuz avoiding this fair specifically… thought that I would not be able to resist stuffing my face with too many samples…)
😆 really are – no need to fight it!
Looked like you hooked urself the right guide. Well done! 😎
thx LL.. she was like oh.. u gotta try this.. and this.. good right?!
*signing up for the next lawatan sambil belajar*
yup yup.. must go for sure!
Hi….may I know which restaurant this is? The sight of the egg atop the beef is just killing me! Gotta, hafta, wanna try it soon! Thanks!
Pasta Zanmai in Midvalley 😉
Thanks!