Good Food at Grandmama's

Grandmama's is a delightful little place in Pavilion mall that serves really delicious foods, as I've discovered recently during a lunch outing with my colleague Elaine. As she's rather camera-shy (most of my friends are like that, I don't know why..) I'll post here a picture we had recently taken during our company excursion to an island somewhere to the east of the peninsula.

We look GOOD!! haha

Ok, ok, back to the topic at hand. Grandmama's, as it turned out, offers a healthy mix of both eastern and western foods. Now, I have to say that the prices at this place is somewhat leaning towards the premium end of the spectrum, but hey, you have to acknowledge the fact that sometimes good foods come at a price.

Now, the place is actually divided into three areas, one is an in-house dining area like most enclosed restaurants, while the other two are open-space areas where the atmosphere is a much more relaxing one. We chose the open-space area inside the mall because we like looking at shops and people as they strut around us. Wea re kaypoh like that...If you like, and especially if you're a smoker, you can choose the other open-space area that is outside the mall...

Here is me again, with my trademark mugshot before the meals arrived. As you can see (or not), the open-space area is much more comfy as they have couch-seats that feels really good to the bums.

Elaine, or ELA, as I liked to call her, ordered the Nasi Lemak set that comes with big piece of chicken and some acar. It looks really good. Price is at RM 15.00.

Meanwhile, I went for their chicken rice set, priced at RM 15.50. Frankly, at that price, I expected more. Oh well. 

The chicken rice is nice..though it's nothing to shout home about. I can't really say it's better than those I've sampled at other place. So, unless you're a REAL chicken rice fan, you might want to give this a miss. They have other foods that taste better, like their excellent Hokkien fried rice and Nasi Jawa, which I've ordered before. Now, those are definitely recommended.

For dessert, I ordered the yummy-looking Banana fritter, which set me back for RM 10.00.

 The fried bananas are humungous! They have crispy outer layer, but the banana flesh inside remain soft and juicy! Hard on the outside, but soft on the inside (wink*wink*). Plus, you get two scoops of generic-tasting ice-cream. Now, me and ELA, being the pranksters that we are, decided to give the dessert a little ahem..'re-design', if you will. And the end result is, well...see for yourself..

For the more prudish of you, please move on and save your scowls of disaprovement (is that a word?). But you have to admit, it does look very convincing, hehe...

Dick jokes aside, the restaurant is indeed a good place to go for some good eatings. What I can vouch for is that they do have very good customer service. Their waitpersons are always smiling, attentive and helpful. And as we all know, good customer service is hard to come back nowadays, so savour it whenever you can.

Wong Kok Char Chan Teng, lunch-ing HK-style

On the sixth floor of the Pavilion mall in Kl is a place called Wong Kok Char Chan Teng, where you can enjoy your meals in true HK-style. The place is rather spacious, and you will usually find a good crowd having their lunches, or dinner here. So, your 'arrival' timing is crucial here. You don't want to be whisked away to a dreadful corner seat with pathetic view just because you're fashionably late....

My friend Seth and I decided to have an early lunch here one uneventful Monday..And since he's rather camera-shy (read: un-photogenic), you'll get to see only my mug...

I ordered their Honey Chicken set with vegetables and rice, priced at RM 9.30, and their dee-licious Chocolate Lava drink, priced at RM 8.50.

The dish is yummy-licious. I love it. The chicken is sweet-tasting and very very juicy!

The drink is really, really humungous! At below RM 10, it is quite a steal compared to those you can get from a certain major coffee chain ( I won't name names, but picture a mermaid  *wink*wink)

My friend, Seth (which is a dumb name, by the way) meanwhile, chose their Monday lunch set, priced at RM 9.90, which consist of a bowl of chicken noodle,  soup, a cup of tea and a plate of fruit (and by a plate, I mean two sad-looking winter melon cubes, and  one slice of pathetically-small melon cut into three even smaller more pathetic-looking pieces). But hey, I guess at that price, you can't really complain..

Here is me again, with my satisfied-looking mug after a good meal. My camera-unfriendly friend is forced to be my photographer that day. What can I say, some people are just destined to be BEHIND camera, and not IN FRONT. (well, since my friend made it very clear that he couldn't be bothered to checking out and reading my blog, I can make vicious jokes about him without fear of retribution mwahahahahahaha! Take that Seth!)

What I can say about Wong Kok CCT is that they have a huge variety of meals to offer, so you are surely to find something you like. The biggest plus have to be their prices, which I have to say are very, vey wallet-friendly. So, the next time your annoying friends/colleagues/relatives pester you about giving them a treat, feel free to bring them here for a wallet- and stomach-friendly eat-out.