What’s for Lunch? – Golden Week Edition (Finally!!!)

It was finally our golden week after a long long draught and we welcomed it with a one week lunch splurge! So what does golden week mean? Well, here you go – “body-expanding & wallet-shrinking” week. *facepalm* Here is our gloriously DEADLY food escapade! We are burdened with glorious purpose indeed!

It's a Beautiful Week!

“Think THIN” Monday – Idealite

We were still in our right mind on Monday when we chose to eat in Idealite Queensbay. It is a vegetarian healthy lifestyle restaurant…. Wait, you might be thinking I’m typing this wrong but YES, we went to a vegetarian restaurant!!!! *Proud*

The Menu

Top Sellers

Idealite has totally different meal style from another vegetarian restaurant – JanxDen that I frequented but they were good! Eventhough it’s vegetarian, the food served in Idealite was really tasty and the best part was you could chomped down everything GUILTFREE!!! 

Drink for Slimming & Anti-aging?! Count me IN!!!

Look at the Beautiful Layers!

My favourite set in the restaurant was those brown rice set meals served with mushrooms. They tasted really scrumptious especially the sweet & sour Hericium Mushroom (猴头菇) which was so chewy. Another nice mushroom was the black pepper Eryngii mushroom.

The Sweet & Sour Hericium Mushroom Set

Those are actually Mushrooms!

Black Pepper Eryngii Mushroom Set

My colleague ordered the bat kut teh set and she said it was yummy and full of varieties of mushrooms – just that the soup was a bit too bitter for her taste. Another ordered the Pumpkin set and she loved it.

Bat Kut Teh Set

Pumpkin Rice Set

Fried Gyoza Noodle Set - slightly Chinese Medicine taste soup base

“Slowly SUCCUMB” Tuesday – Sakae Sushi

We accidentally saw the promotional banner in front of Sakae Sushi yesterday and decided to give it a try. We ordered the Salmon Mentaiyaki set and Teriyaki Chicken set – all set came with a complementary pink plate as well.

The Sakae Sushi Lunch Deal - Look at the size of the Salmon!!!

The sizes of the salmon were not equal as we ordered 3 sets and 2 of them were big but one of them was pitifully SMALL!!! And I ended up getting the small one… UGH!!! Look at the difference between the picture (for display only of course!!!) and the real set! The good thing was the salmon was really tasty and soft unlike the salmon in Manhattan Fish Market which was dry and hard. It was a good set to have IF you got the bigger portion of the salmon. =P

This is the Actual Set...

With a Small Piece of Salmon

Teriyaki Chicken

“Ohno FAT!!!” Wednesday – Taiwan Courtyard

Just like yesterday, we went to Taiwan Courtyard because we saw their menu on Tuesday when we were waiting for our colleague to pay the Sakae Sushi Bill. We went to this restaurant once before and were impressed with their set meal. We ended up ordering the same set meal again – the fried fish/beef in egg & tomato sauce set.

The Fried Beef in Egg & Tomato Sauce Set

The set was gigantic but I guess it would be more worth to order the fish option and they served fish generously. The beef option simply consisted of very few pieces of meager size beef which were really hard to ‘fish’ out from the mini-wok. *sweat* I guess it was like a needle in a haystack? LOL! The beef tasted soft and great and i love the egg but i just wish they at least put more beef in there.

This is the Fish Set

This is the Beef Set - the Beef on top was basically what i get

Free Drink from some Ala Carte Promotion

“Body EXPANDING” Thursday – The Cruise Steak House & Wheat Connection Bakery

The Cruise Steak House was one of the popular lunch spots at The One with reasonable price set lunch. Order 1 set lunch for RM14.90, 2-3 sets for RM13.90 each and 4 set and above with RM12.90. The set consisted of a drink, main course and a scoop of ice cream.

The Cruise Steak House at The One

Their set lunch main course menu mostly consisted of grilled chicken chops and we kind of liked their grilled chicken as it was tender. There were a few choices of the sauce to be served with such as brown sauce, black pepper sauce, oriental sauce, Bombay sauce etc. The brown sauce was thick and tasted really well with the grilled chicken. The black pepper sauce was not peppery enough for my taste though. =P

Iced Lime Juice & Iced Peach Tea 

Black Pepper Chicken Chop

Oriental Chicken Chop

Brown Sauce Chicken Chop

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We did try their mushroom soup during team lunch before and it was really THICK but too salty. It wasn’t like the homemade mushroom soup version with blended mushroom though and it felt like Campbell soup cooked with half can of creamy milk. We didn’t really liked the texture per se.

The Mushroom Soup

After lunch, we walked to Wheat Connection to get their scrumptious baked goods such as Smoked Salmon Spinach Quiche, Chicken Quiche & Pain au Chocolat. Mind you, the little unassuming bakery is opened by the former executive chef at Shangri-La Rasa Sayang Resort. Yum! Other than breads, they also sell tons of mouth-watering dessert which i haven't got the chance to try yet. Also, the master chef himself always greets you with a warm welcome. =)

Smoked Salmon Spinach Quiche, Chicken Quiche & Pain Au Chocolat

“We are HOPELESS” Friday – Sushi Tei

Going to Queensbay was a last minute decision and someone’s shoes broke! Hahaa… We were thinking about to eat the Sushi Tei set lunch but did not realize they had changed their set lunch menu. The new set was really as attractive as the old one thus we ended up eating plain soba! Well, it was about time we slowed down our weight gaining week! One thing i realised was the Sushi Tei food quality in Queensbay pale in comparison with their branch in Gurney Plaza.

Soba!!!

Coincidentally it was Jusco day with a lot of promotions but we did not get any promo items – our items were all healthy foods such as Korean Strawberries (SWEET!!!), Tomato Cherry On-Vine (my one TRUE LOVE) and some Australian Grapes. Got myself a RM39 dress from P&Co too!

After one week, our body was definitely expanding and our wallet was totally shrinking *facepalm*! Anyway, we did find some good deals at Queens Market before like this set of curry katsu don with cawanmushi which cost RM9.90 and also their salmon set which was value for money. If anyone wants damage control during golden week, Queens Market is definitely a great choice. =)

Curry Katsudon

Salmon Set