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After snapping around and loitering at Kampung Midvalley, wifey and I wanted to fill our tummy. It was already 2pm then. “To go for Manhattan Fish Market or to try something else in the Garden?” Both of us are still undecided. But since we had MFM a few months ago in KLCC, we made p our mind to let our taste buds try something exquisite. We wanted to relish something we won’t have in Malacca. Then both my wife and I ventured out of Midvalley into the the Gardens. That was our maiden visit into the Gardens.
We were awe-struck to witness Gardens with our own eyes. All this while, we didn’t have the opportunity to step into this luxurious mall. The designs and architecture of the Gardens is very much, different from Midvalley. Everything here look classier compared to their older sibling. A lot of zen and touch has been applied. But somehow Gardens is a little bit “colder” compared to the friendlier Midvalley. Some part of the Gardens was really human-less when we were sight-seeing. Or perhaps we are just used to Midvalley. :p
After scouring the Gardens for quite a while, we decided to settle down and satiate our hunger. There were several food restaurants that really grabbed our attention but in the end we have chosen Yuzu to gratify our needs. All thanks to Foongpc’s Yuzu recommendation. We were greeted by a rather elaborate decoration at the entrance. There was even a small pond housing several cute dancing koi. 
Then we were asked to choose between smoking and non-smoking areas to dine in. Of course we chose the latter.
The environment is very soothing and I love the warm ambiance. After we had placed our orders I roamed around the restaurant to admire its decoration and its amiable atmosphere. I like Yuzu I must say and their waitress are really helpful. Wifey and I was quite hungry.
We were chatting about our next destination and then it came-our appetizer! Aww…welcomeIshiyaki Geso Mayonnaise. It was squid tentacles with mayonnaise wrapped with aluminium foil and grilled on a hot stone. The taste was so glorious! This is certainly one of the a la cartemeal you should try at Yuzu! Then our next a la carte Geso Tatsuta Age made its way onto our table. These deep fried squid tasted just nice. Yummy! :p
I really enjoyed the meal a lot. Hmm…perhaps I have never tried such Japanese Cuisine before? There a variety of weird stuff that I have never seen before. For example the…err…noddle soaked in cold soup? :p But of all the foods, my favourite was still the raw salmon slice. Yum! Yum! The Unagi made me wanna puke. I guess I just don’t know how to appreciate it. An acquired taste for the smelly Unagi I bet?
After our tongue had tasted the appetizers, we will be bracing for our main meal! My Unagi &Soba & Takikomi Gohan Set settled first. Gosh I never thought it will be so huge. The meals are nicely placed in a…er…special “tray”? :p A few moments later, my wife’s Yuzu Bentolanded. I thought hers was equally large too, if not larger. Well…after visually admiring the food for awhile, wifey and I started to let our taste buds do the talking! “Itadakimasu!” 
By the time we finished our meal we were very quite full already. Our next food stop, Manhattan Fish Market has to be scrapped. It was indeed an enjoyable treat for both of us. The whole mealcosted around RM120. Indeed an expensive indulgence huh!
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Gourmet foods are now available everywhere, thanks to the internet. For those of us who live in small towns, we realize that gourmet in a rural supermarket can mean leaf lettuce instead of iceberg. The Internet has changed that. It has revolutionized the way we shop for everything- and food shopping is no exception, especially when it comes to procuring gourmet food.
When shopping online you have access to a wider selection of products than that found in an average supermarket. The internet also allows you to purchase gourmet food items at the best price. There are a number of reasons you may wish to go online to buy your gourmet foods. More choices and better prices are just two of them. Geography is another reason. Depending on the area in which you live, you may not have easy access to a store that sells high quality products or specialty grocery items. Simply put, obtaining gourmet foods online is easier and more efficient than running all over town (or in some cases, running to a different town) to track down a special ingredient.
Gourmet chocolate gift baskets, wine and cheese selections, wonderful sauces and marinades and fresh Maine lobster are just a few of the countless delicacies you can order online. Next time you are throwing a dinner party, skip the grocery store and order the entire meal online. That may be taking it a bit far for some of us- especially those of us who love salad, but by thinking ahead and going online you can save time and money when you need that perfect hard to find ingredient or a fresh bouquet of beautiful flowers to complete your table. When most of us work in excess of 40 hours a week, but want to live like the Cleavers, we need to take advantage of all the free help we can get!
Those are great time and money savers for your enjoyment. The same items will be appreciated by others. Gourmet food gifts including wine and cheese baskets, chocolate gift baskets and olive oil gift sets are always appreciated by their recipients. In a world that never seems to slow down, ordering gourmet foods online shows your friends, family and colleagues that you care- even when you can’t be there to celebrate important events with them. Mail is fun to receive, but when the box contains a beautifully packaged yummy treat, your friends will love the mailman!
Gourmet food gifts will be well received by whomever you send them to. Gift baskets can be suited to any taste. Chocolate, popcorn, retro candy from your youth, all the fixins for an Italian dinner, seafood… You name it, it is available online. So what do you do if you are unsure of what to buy? A gift card, of course! You can’t go wrong when you allow recipients to choose their own gift based on their personal tastes. Depending on your foodie’s level of interest in cooking, you may decide to go with a restaurant gift card, a gift card to be used for gourmet ingredients, or you may decide that a subscription to a cooking magazine or cookware is the ultimate gift for your recipient.
Whether you are entertaining guests with a dinner party or you are looking for that extra special gift, gourmet food can represent the perfect solution. It adds that extra touch and can bring the ultimate culinary experience to any kitchen.
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Did you know that the fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia whilst a fear of fruit is known as Carpophobia? Perhaps there is good reason to fear fruit because the humble coconut kills more than 150 people a year. Even though falling coconuts kill more people a year than sharks, I can’t see Steven Spielberg racing out to make a block buster thriller about these tree terrors of the tropics. Another reason to be suspicious of fruit is with the knowledge that apple pips actually contain traces of cyanide. Peanuts are another deceptively dangerous food as they are an ingredient of dynamite.
Fruit and vegetables can be suspicious characters. They are not always as they appear. Broccoli and Cauliflower are actually flowers. Almonds are a member of the peach family; strawberries are really roses whilst Lettuce belongs to the sunflower family. The Lettuce is particularly sneaky as it actually started out as a weed in the Mediterranean and now creeps its way into salads all around the globe.
Cucumbers are the charlatans of the vegetable world because they consist of about 95% water and have very little nutritional value. Someone should have informed Roman Emperor Tiberius of this fact, for in ancient times this famous ruler grew cucumbers in carts and had his slaves pull them around the city to catch the moving sunlight. Cucumbers burn more calories whilst digesting than they actually contain making them one of the few vegetables that can be negatively geared for dieting.
If you are looking for a vegetable that punches above its weight look no further than the carrot. This year the Institute of Food Research carried out an experiment showing that the body only absorbs about 5% of the beta carotene from a raw carrot which is well below the nutritional value of a boiled carrot at 60% absorption. If a person boils and blends a carrot they will receive a whopping 90%.
Those who aren’t so health conscious and prefer their foods to have some kick can still take the carrot into consideration as a carrot can produce more distilled spirit than potatoes. Someone needs to tell the Russians to start using a vegetable that is a bit red in colour to make their vodka.
Potatoes haven’t always been considered the empty carb vegetable on the dinner plate. In 1897 during the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, potato nuggets took on a new meaning as a potato was literally worth its weight in gold. Miners valued the vegetable so much due to it containing Vitamin C that they would trade gold for potatoes. Times have changed however and the new treasure is the golden fried potato chip which costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes. Somehow, I think the reflection in price of the chip no longer reflects the value of the Vitamin C content.
Speaking of over inflated foods, the truffle, which is a fungus sniffed out of the ground by female pigs, actually detects a compound found in the saliva of a male pig. This chemical is also found in the sweat of humans. So next time you see a well off person about to stuff a truffle in their mouth, you can perhaps suggest to them that they save their money and lick an armpit or kiss a pig. This could save them between $800 to $1,500 a pound which is the going rate of one variety of truffle, the Tuber melanosporum.
If you want real value for money in your fungus, head to the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon where the largest living organism ever found is the Armillaria ostoyae or the honey mushroom. Make sure you bring a big plate because it covers 3.4 square miles!
Perhaps you just don’t like the taste of vegetables. The good news is you can still get your quota of healthy food by adopting them as fashion items. If it was good enough for Babe Ruth to wear then it is good enough for you. Legend has it that Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his baseball cap to keep him cool. He even changed the cabbage over every two innings. Who would have believed that vegetables gave this great baseball star the winning edge? Mr Ruth wasn’t the only one to adopt vegetable greenery as a clothing item. Women in 17th century England wore carrot leaves in their hats in place of flowers or feathers. Possibly we will see a celery stalk adorning the headwear of supermodels on the catwalks of Milan this season.
Finally we turn to politics and religion in this strange journey of vegetables. Counting the words of certain documents reveals that the Lord’s Prayer has 66 words whilst the Gettysburg Address has 286. The Declaration of Independence weighs in at 1,322 words but it is the US government regulation on the sale of cabbage that takes the prize with an epic 26,911 words. Maybe we need to say Amen to government bureaucracy and hallelujah to fruit and vegetables. No more words are needed to describe their worth.