Ramadaan kareeem

Ramadan: is an Islamic religious observance that takes place during the ninth month of the Islamic calender, when the Quran was revealed. Prayers, sawm (fasting), charity, and self-accountability are especially stressed at this time. Every day during the month of Ramadan, Muslims around the world get up before dawn to eat and perform their fajr prayer. They break their fast when the fourth prayer of the day, Magrib (sunset), is due.

from Wikipedia

anyway, Ramadan feasts are completely different than the picture i posted below. In Ramadan, most people cook traditional dishes like Freed, Harees and Lgaimaat. (I'm going to post pictures of the dishes i mentioned and brief explaination of them).

today, i'm going to post a pic of the best hotdog sandwichs i had last week. my hotdogs were smothered with ketchup and mustard. i had baby cucumbers pickles with it and washed it down with gingerale + ginseng soda (must try).





Cheers!

Seoul's Garden Restaurant

REVIEW

restaurant: Seoul's Garden Restaurant

food: average

atmosphere: Zero
Service: Zero

this restaurant is located in the heart of Bur Dubai. Seoul's Garden interiors looked like a hotel lobby. they have a reception counter and a waiting area in the middle of the restaurant. there are no open dining table. Diners sit in small rooms "cabins" and eat alone (very boring).

anyway, we were ushered to a cabin and the waiteress placed 1 menu only on the table (we were two).so, we shared the menu to see what to eat.

the menu consisted of: main course, side dishes, no appetizers and no desserts.

we ordered a side dish to go instead of appetizers. deep fried shrimps, sea food rice cakes, sea food pancake. For main course, i ordered the pan fried beef ribs (traditional korean dish) and my partner ordered crab stew.

Left to right: Kimchi (popular korean pickle), yellow tofu, pickle beans, cabbage pickles, fried cubes of potato with spices and spinach or bok choy pickles.

they cut the fatty beef ribs with scissors and knife and placed on the heated pan. this brown paste on the plate is bean sauce and it tastes like medicine.

the beef is on the pan, and the waiteress explains that the beef is traditionally sandwiched in a leave of lettuce and filled with pickles tofu or bean sauce. i've only tried it with kimchi.

these two dishes are appetizers, but it didn't arrive till the beef was cooked. i guess this pasta-like dish was sea food rice cakes (the waitress didn't give us the chance to ask) it tasted like gnocchi. the yellow thing in the black pot was something like scrambled egg, i have no idea whats it was and i dont think we ordered this dish.

its called sea food pancake or pizza.

my partners crab stew, the curry tasted like tum yum soup and the crabs were really fresh and yummy..

Overall, the menu was complicated, not enough description. the food was average if not poor. so many selections but it all tasted the same (mostly sour and sweet). The beef was too greasy. personally, i'd rather sit in my living room and have dinner alone than sit in that windowless cabin with a partner.

lastly, i think Seoul's Garden Restaurant is not recommended. Only if you really fancy authentic korean food.

Hot Chocolate

Hot chocolate, hot cocoa or drinking chocolate is a beverage, usually served hot, typically consisting of chocolate or cocoa powder, milk, and sugar. While nomenclature varies, drinks described as hot cocoa generally do not contain cocoa butter, while drinks described as hot chocolate may contain cocoa butter.

from Wikipedia

i had the best hot chocolate ever in switzerland.

what makes the best hot chocolate is the quality of milk. the cow has to be fed the best green grass. and of course, Swiss cows just have it all.. i literally have had 5 mugs of coatina hot chocolate per day.. surprisingly i didn't gain too much weight.

the second best hot chocolate i had was in Harrod's 102 in London

it reminded me of coatina, but still not as good..

tomorow i might go with my friend Rozani to Chocolat-the in dubai.. and try there hot chocolate. hopefully it'll be like Switzerland's. =D

we were at our friend's place, and we (4 of us) had to get somethin to eat, only two of us got food and the rest,, well, we were not expecting anythin from Sooda and rozani anyway!! =p

we started with Yabisoon's salad

rocket leaves + cherry tomato's+ pine nuts +walnuts + parmesan cheese and homemade salad dressing (i think its made of olive oil, balsamic vingear, salt and pepper).. it was a refreshing starter,, i had waitrose's apple and raspeberry juice (highly recommended) and ma friends helped themselves with orinamin C.

then we had my mum's grilled shrimps.

shrimps marinated with a green paste that consists of parsely, corriander, garlic, ginger, lime, salt and pepper... my friends loooooved it..

i mixed mayo with ketchup and tabasco.. shelled the shrimpa then dip it and yuuuuummm...

Sooda just could not stop eating.. =p

and for dessert,, i made cheesecake with ready made blackcurrent topping

the recipe of this cheesecake is easy..

the biscuit base: digestive biscuit and melted butter.

filling:

-500g of cream cheese

-450g of sour cream

-3 eggs

-1 cup of sugar

-vanilla essence

-3 tsp of cornflour.

mix all together, then u bake it for 40 min.. then 5 hours in the fridge..

and enjoy... =D


thanx rozani for hosting such a lovely evening...
and the rest for showing up...

and yeah i did wash A dish...andoneesya mapee jain..

the journey of an endless food adventure.

I see cooking as an art and food as an artwork for my taste buds. I'm a 23 yrs old female and i live in Dubai. In this blog, i will try to post all the good and the bad food experiences i will encounter. i'll try to post reviews of restaurants, cafe's, food products and anything that has to do with food.

For professional restaurant reviews in Dubai, check out Time Out Dubai. they're really good.

cya