Foodaholic Tawau

Yogurt Drink Special: Yees Yogurt & Taro Yogurt

Originally I was not too fond of drinking yogurt drinks. I find that the yogurt drinks sold in supermarkets has this overly sour tastes (yes, I understand that yogurt was supposed to be sour but still) and a weird aftertaste that I don’t quite like. So I was highly sceptical when a colleague of mine bought me a drink from Yees Yogurt (not knowing about my somewhat disdain for it). But since I don’t want to hurt her feelings, I simply smiled and took a sip of the drink. I admit that the first few sips still did not agree with my tastebuds but after awhile, the taste grew on me. And what was surprising was that there was no aftertaste after drinking it and the taste overall was actually acceptable. So out of curiousity (and suddenly finding myself actually ‘craving’ for it) I went to these two shops that are yogurt drink franchises.

YEES YOGURT

Location: Kubota Sentral commercial area, on the same row as Twentea and GETTO

Facebook page: Yees Yogurt Tawau

Drink that I had: Pistachio Yogurt

This is the drink has had managed to convert me into becoming a yogurt drink drinker. The blend of chunky and salty pistachio pieces together with the sourly taste of yogurt was just really well mixed. I also like the calm and cozy feeling of the place, especially since not that many people tend to patronized the shop. Will be trying other flavours in the future but I kept repeating the latter for some (yummy) reason.

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

TARO YOGURT

Location: Kubota Sentral commercial area, right in front of Acteasan

Facebook page: Taro Yogurt Tawau

Drink(s) that I had: Calbee Chocolate Yogurt & Strawberry Passion Fruit Tea

Opened just a month or so after its above main competitor (and on the same area no less), this cute shop has more choices on the menu especially for non-yogurt drink drinkers. I was familiar with the Calbee cereal like product so I was curious at how well it will blend with yogurt. Needless to say, it was quite okay tasting (since the sweet, chocolatey taste of said cereal manages to balance out the sour taste) but the cereal became a bit clumpy after awhile, making it hard to suck from its straw. Oh and my mom had the fruit tea and she said it was nice.

**Current status - Still in operation (as of April 2022)

Ocean 36 (KK FoodieVenture #183)

Labels: bistro, food, kkcity, restaurant

Ok I never thought that I would say this (nor did I thought that it would be possible) but me and my husband had gotten lost trying to find this locally viral restaurant. And we even use Waze and all! So do take note my fellow foodies that if you are using Waze to go there, they did not actually pinned the right spot of said restaurant. Rather, you'll end up at another commercial area next to it, which itself is nowhere near the exact location. We had to ask the locals (yes, emphasising on the S) to finally be able to figure out the place which was at WK Commercial Centre, Penampang. Granted, we were driving on a rainy night so that is also another visual disadvantage on our part.

But little old me was quite impressed with the internal decor of the restaurant, when we finally arrived of course. True to all of those viral posts that I've seen, the place were decked out with blue lighted under the sea themed aquariums, which me and my husband found very interesting (especially the eel like fishes). Servers were also very friendly and welcoming which was nice. Their menu were mostly fusion Western so we'd ordered their Sambal Fried Rice, Grilled Salmon Steak with your choice of sides and some Garlic Breads. Needless to say, the night turned out well as the food were pretty tasty. I loved my salmon as it was fresh and nicely seasoned. The expensive price that I've paid for it was definitely worth it. Oh and I do apologise beforehand for the blueish pictures below since I've taken them using my not-so-smartphone outdated camera.

Vanilla Crepe City Mall (KK FoodieVenture #182)

Labels: bakery, food, kkcity, snacks

Well well.. I never knew that this crepe cake outlet is actually from a franchise that's originated in the Peninsular Malaysia when I first laid my eyes on them. Heck, they were even named the Largest Mille Crepe chain by the Malaysia Book of Records (yes, I have this habit of 'researching' before actuallly stepping foot inside any intended place). So with that impressive achievement, how can I not try them out right?

They actually opened 3 outlets in KK but the one that we've been to is the City Mall one (on the ground floor of said mall, facing the CCK Local supermarket). There was a promo of sorts going on during our visit, where if you buy 2 cakes, the 3rd one will be given at half price. So we picked out their La Milo, Midnight Choc and Choco Peanut flavours and all 3 were moist and not overly sweet. But for some reason I thought that the cakes doesn't differ much from each other when it comes to taste. Then again, it might just be my taste bud (I mean, I did bought an all choco themed cakes so that might be the reason as well) so do try them out for yourselves to see.

Kawan Kawan Food Centre EG Mall (KK FoodieVenture #181)

Labels: beverages, food, food court, kkcity

So the highlight of my most recent journey to KK has got to be to EG Mall, Inanam particularly its Kawan Kawan Food Centre at the ground floor level of said mall (it's pretty hard to miss since it is the first thing that you will see upon entry). Me and my husband were very impressed with the overall layout and huge spacing of the place. I mean, imagine an (almost) entire floor dedicated to food & beverages! Choices for food and drinks were abundant, making both of us spoilt for choice.

After looking around the area a couple of times (and making other people look at us 'suspiciously') we settled on several things. My husband went to the larger HK Seafood Restaurant stall for some Nasi Campur (aka Chap Fan - I refuse to name it Economy Rice because sometimes the price is nothing but 'economy'. But don't worry, the ones there were still pretty affordable) because he was hungrier than me. I on the other hand, am not interested in heavy duty food and decided to go to the Pak Mund Laksa stall instead and ordered some Asam Fishballs. It has a Penang style laksa soup which was nice and not too spicy. After that, I went to Teahee and ordered for myself a Lychee Peach Tea just because I saw them on our way in. Pretty refreshing I might add. But what I was most looking forward to try was the croquettes from the Tokyo Korokke stall. I have never in my life tried croquettes (much less a Japanese version) before so it was both an interesting and delicious experience. I've tried their Veggie and Curry Cheese variety and both were very yummy, with the former being my fave (only because the curry one tasted exactly like a currypuff).