Latest Recipe at Le Meridien KL

We recently took a day off from work to spend some time together. My mum kindly agreed to babysit while we had fun, so that was really nice.

We watched 2 movies- 'Legion' (which was errrr... rather strange) and 'Sherlock Holmes' (which was absolutely great). That was followed by a Thai massage, which was not too bad, but not relaxing enough. Think I should just stick to aromatherapy massages.

Anyway, we capped the day off with a fantastic buffet dinner at Latest Recipe, Le Meridien KL. A special seafood buffet was featured for the month of January, and we had a marvellous time tucking into the prawns, scallops, abalone, oysters, and so much more!

The fresh oysters were plump and juicy; I should have eaten more at the beginning of the meal because it's just impossible to enjoy something as raw and slimy as oysters on a full-ish stomach. Made me gag when I had some more later in the meal. I loved the tapas- not many choices, but there was one featuring a whole scallop coated with sesame seeds which was really nice.

The seafood teppanyaki was a little bit on the salty side (too much sauce I suppose); could have been much nicer if we ate it with the garlic fried rice.. but hey, eating too much carbo is a waste at buffets!

I was sold the minute I saw the 3 chocolate fountains- check out the plump strawberries!

Yummy!

I didn't fancy having salad (what a waste of stomach space) even though the dressings were creatively presented and looked oh-so-yummy. Talk about trying to get diners to eat their vegetables. Haha!

Test tubes?

Hand lotion, anyone? (The orange liquid is actually thousand island dressing..)

Although I didn't have rice, I succumbed to the call of the pasta station. A few strands of squid ink fettucine, with small chunks of all things seafood, served in a creamy pesto sauce. Nice. So much for the no-carbo rule at buffets. Sigh.

I loved the desserts at Latest Recipe as well. Having 3 chocolate fountains certainly caters to everyone (unless you don't like chocolate of course); after all most people usually prefer one type of chocolate to another. And the strawberries were large and juicy so that was a huge plus.

Also, the teppanyaki ice-cream counter was so much fun! You can choose all the different stuff you want to mix in with your choice of ice-cream flavours. There were all kinds of nuts, dried apricots, dried apple slices, raisins, wafers (remember those shaped like a fan?), M&Ms, marshmallows, chocolate balls, chocolate chips, sprinkles.... the list goes on. The teppanyaki ice-cream turns out a bit like 'rojak' but it's really quite nice tasting the creamy ice-cream with bits to nibble inside.

Spoilt for choice!

While waiting for the teppanyaki ice-cream I saw this.. so cute isn't it?

But should one just take the chocolate, or the whole spoon? Haha :)

We used the complimentary dining voucher from my Starwood Privilege Card so it was really worth it. Otherwise it would have cost us RM118++ per person!

We really really enjoyed ourselves at dinner. I was still thinking about the yummy seafood for days afterwards!

My new Starwood Privilege Card

After mulling over it for the longest time, we finally decided to sign up for the Starwood Privilege Card. The benefits appeared really attractive, and I wanted to get it on time to utilise some of the benefits for hubby's birthday.

At RM620 for a 13-mth membership, we get to enjoy:
- One complimentary dining certificate for 2 at Le Meridien KL
- One complimentary dining certificate for 2 at Sheraton Imperial KL
- One complimentary dining certificate for 2 at The Westin KL
- Dining benefits (2 pax 50% off, 3 pax 33% off and so on)
- One night complimentary stay at any of the 3 Starwood hotels above
and much more!

We've since used one of the complimentary dining certificates- more about that in my next post! We're also planning a trip in early March, and I tried to utilise one of the accommodation benefits, but I was a bit miffed to find out that I could not do so, due to some conditions that I didn't know about. Hmmph. Oh well, we got another deal that seemed quite reasonable so hopefully it works out after all.

Celebrating hubby's birthday with dinner at Duck King

We celebrated hubby's birthday recently with a simple meal at Duck King. It was a weekday so a simple dinner was all we could do.

Food was relatively nice, but it was a bit tough to really enjoy the meal because the little one was fussing quite a bit. Fortunately my parents came along, so we managed to take turns eating.

Eating duck at Duck King is a no-brainer..

Frog legs- way too salty! And the photo is not blur- that's steam..

Loved this dish- I have a thing for 'tau kan'! =)

Got a lovely birthday cake from Fatboy for hubby, which was simply delicious. Nutty Boozey Spencer- so chocolatey and stuffed with macadamia nuts! Yum...

Strawberries were our own... :)