Estrella's Recipe

With the current announcement of children being allowed to dine in restaurants and even entering other establishment such as shopping malls, it might take me sometime to visit any new eateries as I would like to avoid the 'very eager' and over enthusiastic crowd for now. 

With that said, here's another pre-current-MCO eatery that I've been to but only now managed to post. As I've mentioned in my previous post, the eatery is the latest extension to the ever growing locally known Estrella 'brand'. This one is located just around the corner to their drink station, on the ground floor of the Perdana Club building in Fajar Complex. Food wise, they mostly provided western & fusion food such as the Tropical BBQ Chicken Chop and Royal BBQ sauced Hibachi Fried Rice that me and my partner had. Both of the food had solid and palatable taste but do take note that the meat on my partner's plate (the latter) was on the medium rare side (something that the local's palate might not be familiar with - as evident in my partner's complaining that it looked 'uncooked' & 'still raw'). The Chocolate Chip Frappe drink that I had was also pretty tasty but their Brownies Ice Cream was too dry for my liking and the overall taste was just so-so.

** Current status - Has been closed & has moved to a smaller place right beside their drink station (as of June 2022) 

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Master Fishball

Yeah I know.. I should put more effort in updating this blog. But with a lot of things going on right now in my life (and with my somewhat 'inactive' foodie-venture these past MCO months) I'm lucky that I'm still able to do so, even if it is not as often as I would've loved to. 

So here's an eatery that I've been to a few times during the (ongoing) MCO period but didn't get the chance to dine in just yet. It is located at the ever popular Kubota Sentral commercial area at Jalan Chong Thien Vun (right beside the Svok Hotel) and has attracted patrons since the day they'd first opened. My mom is a fan of the place (since mommy dearest loves all things fishball and fishcakes) so I have tapau their Mixed Fish Noodle Soup, Hainam Chicken Rice and Curry Fishballs (I do apologise for the latter's 'missing' photo, as I totally forgot to take one). Personally I think that their food were okay but nothing too distinguishing I'm afraid. I've tried their soupy noodles before and I think that their soup lacks that 'oomph' taste (in my humble opinion la kan). But my mom totally loves their food so I guess it depends on your own taste buds.

**Current status - Has been closed (as of July 2023)

(FYI.. The pictures of the eatery above were taken during the no dine-in period) 

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Bakso Senario

Now this place has definitely shown their growth throughout the years. From a little known stall called Warung Senario, the place has evolved into Restoran Senario and now Bakso Senario, where they'd opened what appears to be their third (I think?) branch in (where else but) Kubota Sentral commercial area (they're located right at the main entrance connected to Kubota Square, right next to The Yunique Tea).

But here's the thing though. Staying true to their namesake, they're now focusing more on their most popular dish the bakso, so if you're not a fan than I suggest that you went elsewhere to eat. The only non-bakso food on their menu were the gado-gado and martabak jawa (which was not available at said branch when I was dining there). And because I was (sadly) one of those non-bakso fan but still curious as hell about the place, I went for their gado-gado instead. Thankfully it was actually delicious, with a very tasty peanut sauce to boot. I'll probably muster up the 'courage' to try their bakso one of these days so stay tuned for that folks!

**Current status - Still in operation (as of Sept 2021)

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Madam H Kitchen

Sorry guys but I'll just going straight to the main content of this review since I already spent like 15 minutes squeezing my (dead) brain trying to think of a good intro but came up with nada! 😑 Now if you're a big eater, I recommend you guys to visit this place (located within the Fajar Complex commercial area, on the same row as Dozo) during lunch time since that is the time most of their more scrumptious dishes were being served. And I honestly don't know why the eatery did not just made those menu available till night since not everyone is interested in having primarily 'yum yum' food for dinner (yum yum food = deep fried snacks that are paired with pre-packaged fried mee hoon or fried mee). But I guess that's how they roll so like it or not, we are rolling with them as well.

Me and my partner were really impressed with their Ayam Tulang Lunak and Sup Tulang Memey dishes. The former was very succulent and the meat can easily be torn apart from its bones while my partner literally cleared his soup right to the last drop. I would loved to bring my parents there but since those dishes were not available at night (unfortunately my parents were known to be 'dinner people' rather than the 'lunch crowd' types) I did not have any chance to do so yet. So here's to hoping that they might change that concept in the near future; fingers crossed y'all..

**Current status - Has been closed (as of April 2024)

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