What’s for lunch? A common question among co-workers every working day – a simple yet challenging question especially when one runs
out of idea on what to eat in Bayan Lepas area! It’s especially a headache
during “Non-Government” week where bosses are on vacation. *wink*
So let’s see how we fare during the “Merdeka” week! One
thing we noted was Queensbay can be a good choice – you can dine & shop at
the same time and there are a variety of foods there. Here are some of the
foods we sampled!
Azuma
A very popular Japanese Restaurant at 2nd floor
and it’s always crowded during lunchtime. My absolute favorite order is the
Soft-Shell Crab Rice set (RM18). They give out generous portion of the crabs
and tons of rice served with Miso Soup – definitely a must-try! If you are
adventurous, try eat it with tons of wasabi-soya sauce combo… you might
surprise yourself by finishing all the rice as well.
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| The Irresistible Soft-Shell Crab Rice!!! |
Azuma also provides seasonal sets which cost around RM20-30
which served with cawanmushi, salad and soup – their portion is quite big and
here are some of the samples of the set.
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| The Sushi Set! |
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| Rice Set with Fried Salmon |
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| Curry Udon |
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| The Curry Katsu Set with Salmon Miso Soup |
Queens Market
Restaurant can be pricey for poor working class like us –
one of the more economic choices would be Queens Market at 3rd floor
– in fact, we spent quite many lunchtimes in the foodcourt to try out different
stalls and dishes.
Do you know that there is a Japanese stall there? Not the
teppanyaki stall but the stall beside Little Wok. The Japanese stall sells lots
of different set rice range from RM9.80 to RM20. The set normally includes 1
dish, rice, soup and green tea. You can always add on RM1 to get the
cawanmushi. There are wasabi and other condiments at the stall for your taking.
Here are some sets that we tried.
Kare Chicken set – it was on promotion and was only RM10.80
a set and we added on RM1 for cawanmushi. The kare was SPICY!!! It was so spicy
that it makes you sweat like a pig! Or I guess the air condition there wasn’t
working that well. But it was so yummy to eat with the rice. A must-try for
spicy-lover!
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| The HOT HOT HOT Kare Chicken Set |
Another chicken set – ‘horraido’ or something… only RM9.80 a set. The sauce is slightly sweet and quite common.
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| A Milder Set |
There is also another stall called “Ippin Ramen” selling
ramen/udon of sorts. We tried out their fish ramen and Si Chuan ramen (RM7.80).
The fish was fresh for the fish ramen whilst the Si chuan ramen was sour and a
bit spicy served with 3 big dumplings and some crabsticks. There are chili
concentrate at the counter for your taking as well if you feel like something more
exciting. I wish it was more spicy though.
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| Fish Fillet Ramen |
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| Si Chuan Ramen - Sour & Spicy!!! |
The Little Nyonya Cuisine
The little Nyonya Cuisine is similar to Oldtown but with
Nyonya food. Since we’ve run out of idea what to eat, we’ve decided to give
this one a try. We were not disappointed though. We had the “Black Pepper
Chicken Rice” and “Nyonya Curry Noodle” and both were delicious.
Unlike the curry noodle from hawker stall, the Curry for the
noodle was very thick – like kapitan curry thick! Very nice!
Other than Queensbay
mall, I-avenue is another spot that’s full of restaurants. Some of the more
obvious choices are Daorae which I love their spicy bean curd soup
served with rice as well as Eastern Wishes for exciting tomyam!
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| Daorae Unlimited Appetizer, Spicy Beancurd Soup & Kimchi Soup! |
There are also some other restaurants such as Red
Chopstick – which we felt the quality is sliding low at the moment when we
visited during the week. We had the lotus yee mien and lotus fried rice and
they tasted so-so only…
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| Lotus Yee Mein |
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| Lotus Fried Rice |
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| Yee Mein |
Another of our favorite spot for lunch is Ichiyo Japanese
Restaurant – unfortunately the restaurant seems always empty whenever we
went in! Our absolute favorite is their ‘Don’ series – GyuDon, chicken-don,
pork-don, ten-don (price ranges between RM16-RM18) etc… The waiter there
actually recognizes us and even jokes with us on our obsession with their
‘Don’. Anyway, if you are a FIZ worker, you get 10% discount for lunch and you
get to upgrade your rice from plain rice to garlic rice for FREE!!!!
They always gave us generous portion of the garlic rice as
well as the chicken or pork or beef for our “Don” – and it actually tastes
superb. If you want value for your money, you’ve got to try this!!! One “Don” makes
you full until 7pm for dinner!
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| Chicken Don with Tons of Garlic Rice Beneath |
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| Ten-Don with Tons of Garlic Rice Beneath |
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| Cawanmushi |
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| Garlic Fried Rice - RM6 only but Super Big Portion & Yummy!!! |
Any suggestions for nice lunch in the area? Do drop us some
comments so that we can try it out!!! We really do hate to think about “What’s
for Lunch?”!
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