homemade blues

Yesterday, SL, IW and I went for lunch with a supplier in PJ Hilton's japanese restaurant (I can't remember the name for the life of me! Will check later. Got it - Genji!) and had a nice sashimi appetizer, and all of us had bento sets. I took the unagi! My favourite.

Great conversation, but it mostly was us talking. The supplier kept pretty quiet much of the time, coz basically she doesn't have a clue to who and what we were talking about. :)

Genji PJ Hilton is well known anyway, so no need to do review lah.

Today was another farewell lunch - with big boss this time. And I didn't manage to do much work, because head office have the afternoon off. So, the review.

d'italiane kitchen @ Jaya 33 Review
Well, YN and I went with SL's car although she was supposedly on leave today (ya, we had to hear how she was cleaning house...) and got there earlier than everyone else. The place had a nice ambience, and my only complaint was that the table-setting had very little arm space, so we're practically rubbing elbows with one another as we eat.

The lunch crowd was substantial - plenty of tables with more than 8 people in a group. They must be pretty popular...

Anyhoo, I couldn't keep track of everybody's dishes (there were 18 of us, I think), so I'll just write about what I had. I had the Mushroom Soup (on the waiter's recommendation) and Sicilian Grilled Chicken Salad. SL ordered Garlic Bread as appetizer, so I ate some of that with my soup. And it's pretty damn good. And the portion was huge! I basically was stuffed to my nose trying to finish just the soup and the salad.

The soup was more like the wild mushroom soup variant (although it wasn't said in the menu) and came with plenty of button mushroom bits as well as several big slices. It was also creamy, but light, and I finished the bowl in a jiff (it was already nearly a quarter to 2pm - i was famished!). Ahhh... The salad was also quite light, colorful, lightly seasoned with balsamic vinegar and had bits of mango and grapes (pleasant surprise), BUT the grilled chicken was covered in some kind of cream sauce that was ok at first, but after the soup, was too much "jelak" for me... Probably if I had some sort of a consomme earlier, maybe it would've been just nice...

The rest of the gang had angel-hair pasta, lamb shank, chargrilled sirloin steak, pizza... a variety of stuff. Like I mentioned earlier, the portions were big, so needless to say, most of us opted not to have dessert. Except for SL and YN - they wanted to try the mascarpone, which in the end, tasted a bit medicinal. Urgh. Maybe we're too full already. :P

They don't have a website, but there are plenty of other reviews available online (just Google it!), and I got the following link just to see the food shots and get contact number (in case we wanna go again) - http://www.jaya33.com/retail_outlets/ditalian.html

Afterwards, I left for home and waited for G to go pick up the boys from Wan Umi's house. The boys were glad to see me (big hugs and kisses) and D finally got his toy boat from Wan Umi. Sigh. D's getting too clever. He now knows that he can get what he wants from his grandparents, when he can't get it from his parents. What's a parent to do when children are spoilt by the grandparents? Ni belum A lagi... Sigh.

Tomorrow I'm going to Andana Spa with Liz. I was already thinking about getting pampered by myself even if Liz didn't ask me. I blame the department retreat we had in Tioman! That's when I really got hooked on all this pampering stuff. G says I'm spoiled... He's right... :)