Sushi King Card RM2 Bonanza wil come again soon in October. Those who missed it, you still have the chance to enjoy it in October.

This time it’s opened to Sushi King Card members of 2008 and 2009. You can bring a maximum of 5 people only. Promotion is applicable only to sushi(rice based) on all coloured plates on the kaiten belth exclusing Tsunami(appetizer) and Handrolls.

Remember don’t waste food.

These are the dates you should look out for:
West Malaysia, 13-16th October 2008
East Malaysia, 20-23th October 2008

erdeka Palace Hotel and Suites is offering a special deal for diners during its anti-inflation campaign effective this month.

Under this campaign, the second person from a group of two people or every second person from a group of four people and above will be charged only RM10++ instead of the usual RM59++ per adult or RM25++ per child.

This is only applicable on weekends during the ‘Fresh and Fabulous’ buffet dinner at its Aurora Court restaurant every Friday and Saturday. The same deal applies every Sunday during the La Casetta Etoile’ buffet at Ristorante Beccari located on the hotel’s ground floor.

The ‘Fresh and Fabulous’ commenced last Saturday featuring local and international dishes such as pasta, sushi, seafood and grilled meats cooked a la minute to the diner’s liking by Aurora Court’s team of chefs.

This time, the Middle Eastern and Indian section is added to spice up the buffet spread. It will be manned by a Pakistani-born chef Ghazi-Ur-Rehman who will be serving up specialities such as spinach mughlai, mutton karahi, chicken shawarma kebab, BBQ stuffed chicken cottage cheese and many more.

Consumers will need to dig deeper into their pockets to quench their thirst as a box of bottled water is selling RM2 more starting today.

Sarawak bottled water manufacturers dropped the bombshell yesterday, saying they had no choice but to price their bottled water at RM10 per box of 500ml and 1.5 litre, from RM8 previously.

The fuel prices had cost raw materials especially plastic to double in cost from RM2 per kg to around RM5 per kg. Bottled water manufacturers in the state bought their raw materials for packaging from Peninsular Malaysia and overseas.

Bottled water is currently sold to retailers at a very cheap rate compared to some six years ago when a box would cost RM18.

The manufacturers assured consumers that the measure taken was not to make an extra buck but to cope with the fuel price hike.

The press conference was attended by 10 bottled water manufacturers from all over Sarawak while the rest, although not present, had given consent to the increase.

A box of 500ml bottled water holds 24 bottles while in a box of 1.5 litre, 12 bottles, which means manufacturers’ price per bottle now will be about 42 sen for a 500ml and about 83 sen for a 1.5 litre.

If the usual price of a bottled water is RM1 (500ml) and RM2 (1.5 litre), then retailers would be earning 58 sen and RM1.17 respectively in profit. However, this profit could increase if retailers were to hike their prices following this announcement.

Kluang Station is one of the eateries you can find in tHe Spring. It’s just next to Starbucks. They serve local cuisine and if I’m not miskaten it should be a franchise. It can be considered a kopitiam where you can get basic Kopitiam food.

Let’s see what you can find there:

Nasi Ayam Merah, RM8.90

Nasi lemak, RM3.80

By the way, Kluang Station’s Kaya (coconut jam) is a very much sought after item for its quality taste and texture. Anyone tried it before? What do you think?

One more thing, they are pork-free.

You can visit Kluang Station website here.

Ever see 3D cake before? I’m sure many of you haven’t. This is going to be something interesting. It’s different from the cake that we usually see. If you are wondering how they do it, you can see them Crown Square entrance soon. At the same time they will be showing you various types of 3D cakes. I hope they do demo on how this cake is done. You can also buy cakes there.

Here’s the details:
Time: 10am-8pm
Date: 13.6.2008-15.6.2008
Venue: Crown Square, near the main entrance

Not sure on the live cake making demo time though.

We know we are late in posting this, post it now better than never. Also we might slow down on our update in food post as you know the fuel prices are increasing, a drastic increment of more than 40% increment for petrol and more than 60% increment for diesel will indirectly make us reconsider about our budget to dine out and would dine out less frequent too. Rest assure that we will update from time to time, just slow down a bit for the time being. Thanks for your support.

Effective on 1st June 2008, the ceiling price for the broken grain Super, 10% and 5% Super Spesial will be standardised nationwide. Coloured stickers will be displayed on the rice packs for easy differentiation.

Here’s the pricings for the controlled rice:
Super 15 rice(blue sticker) is priced RM1.80 per kg
Rice with 10 per cent broken grains (yellow sticker) is priced RM2.70 per kg
Those with five per cent broken grains (purple sticker) is priced RM2.80 per kg.

These are not controlled:
Beras Putih, Super (Import)
Beras Istimewa, e.g. Masmati, Pulut, Beras Perang, Beras Merah, Herba Ponni, Bario etc.
Beras Wangi, Super (Import)
Beras Rebus

However, we just found out that some retailers are trying to earn quick money from the controlled rice nad non controlled rice! They try to cheat their way tru’ by placing labels on the incorrect rice! I think this is a serious offence and the ministry in charged must send thier men to check on it before it gets bad. If you found out any, do report them.

Ten Ichi is now having their June promotion now. You can gather your friends or your family to dine there. Cost spliting is the best way to ensure that you can try most of the food and it’s much more cost effective also.

Let’s see what they have this month:

Beef lovers, you will love this very much! Beef Maki(RM16.90) The beef is medium rare.

Salmon Ni Set(RM12.90) is two pieces of deep fried tempura salmon with mixed vegetables at the bottom that comes with a bowl of rice and a bowl of miso soup. This is very filling dish. The salmon is highly recommended.

As usual, there will be two dishes that are only available on Thursaday and Sunday for only RM9.90 each:

Spider Maki(RM9.90), sushi that consists of soft shell crab, mayonaise and fish roe. The sushi size is big, you will surely cannot finish one sushi in one go.

Hiyashi Ramen(RM9.90), ramen with various ingredients which includes vegetables and seafood. Wasabi lovers will sure love this as it comes with a bowl of sauce consists of wasabi and Japanese soy sauce mixture.

By just ordering the 4 promotion items above is enough to fill 4-6 stomach or more depending on how much of eater are you.

Here are some other food that are available at Ten Ichi if you don’t want to go for the promotion:

Sushi set that costs RM20+ made from locally available fish instead of imported fish. The freshness is guaranteed because imported fish are usally frozen. When you pick it up with chopstick and you can try to shake it, it won’t crumble at all. Good sushi should be this way.

Teppanyaki that is about RM30+. Portion is huge! There are vegetables, prawns, cuttlefish, beef, sardine and few more ingredients that I can’t recall. See the side dishes that comes with it? They are salad, fruits, garlic rice, miso soup, and Japanese kimchi. You can share this with 2-3 people. In case the rice isn’t enough, you can order an extra garlic rice for only RM2.50 per bowl instead of ordering this whole set. The garlic rice is highly recommended.

I’m sure you are smart enough. Do your math, it’s not that expensive and most food can be shared as the portion is quite big. Just split the cost with your friends.

Ten Ichi Japanese Restaurant
Address: No 315-319, Bangunan Bee San, Jln. Padungan, 93100 Kuching, Sarawak.
Tel: 082-331310, 335042
Fax: 082-337736

Today is the last day and I know posting this is late but you can still get these from the menu just that you won’t be getting free Lipton Ice Red Tea.

Sushi King’s May promotion, Oh-so-yummy Japanese Curry. There are many curry dishes on offer, let me list them out for you:
Curry Bento, Curry Nan Desu, Yasai Curry Soup, Croquette Curry, Ebi Fly Curry, Ika Curry, Chicken Katsu Curry, Sakana Curry, Curry Don, and Curry Odon.

You’ll get a free Lipton ice red tea free when you order 2 curry dishes but they gave us two tins for ordering 2 *SHRUG* It’s actually while stock last, this means there’s still stock. However, only valid till 31st May.

Curry Udon (RM13.50), Japanese wheat noodles in curry sauce served with soft tofu, crabstick, hard-boiled egg and spring onion.

Curry Nan Desu, Japanese Curry Rice Pancake(RM10.90).

Pino Ice Cream (RM7.90), ice cream coated inside thin layer of chocolate crust.

Don’t worry, you can still try them, it’s in the menu like I mentioned just now.

Just for your information, Desserts is already opened at tHe Spring. The place isn’t as big as the one at Boulevard.

How can you maximize your dining experience using My Privilege Book? There are many buy 1, free 1 coupon for Desserts in the book. We love the buy one triple scoop and got another triple scoop for free. One triple scoop is RM6.50 this means each scoop is only RM1+! It’s so worth it using that coupon because if you notice you can no longer get 1 scoop of decent ice cream with RM1 these days anymore.

Here’s 6 more flavours that we had tried.

d’ Kit Kat has many crushed Kit Kat pieces, Kalamansi Samboi, refreshing on a hot day, and Blueberry Cheese Cake, tastes like cheesecake.

After Eight, great for chocolate and mint lovers. d’ Snickers is for Snickers lovers and peanut lovers, very rich in peanuts flavour but it doesn’t taste like peanut butter. Caribbean tasted sour.

If you have My Privilege Book, you should take this opportunity to try them out, it’s really worth it!

Sushi Bonanza started yesterday(21.4.2008). It’s the way Sushi King say thank you to their loyal customers. Go now! It will end this Thursday(24.4.2008). It’s an annual promotion.

Went there early so there wasn’t many people but I’m sure dinner time would be packed! All the rice based sushi on the kaiten will only cost you RM2. This is the best time to try out all those expensive sushi and also those sushi that you had never try before.

You only have 45 minutes to eat and one member can only bring 5 friends with them. Be sure that you don’t waste any food. You must finish whatever you take. It’s only applicable for dine in.

These are some of the sushi we had.

We had 39 plates of sushi!! They only total up to RM89.70 including the taxes(10% service tax and 5% GST).

If there’s no discount, the price would be more than RM173, after adding in the taxes, it would reach almost RM200! See how much you can save? We went there in 5, means each of us only need to pay less than RM18 to eat all these:
Blue: 3 plates
Yellow: 5 plates
pink: 14 plates
red: 6 plates
purple: 11 plates

Go with your friends and family now to enjoy this offer. It’s only open to members. If you are not a member, then you will be paying the full price like usual. I’m sure you don’t need to read Christian books to understand the simple rule.