ALIYAA Island Restaurant & Bar @ Bukit Damansara

Drove all the way from Sunway Pyramid to Bijan Bar & Restaurant KL only to find out that it is closed on Monday. Hmpf!! Shouldn't have canceled our dinner last week. Anyway, there are places else where to dine right? From Changkat Bukit Bintang we drove to Damansara and finally it's Aliyaa Island restaurant & bar , the place that I wanted to revisit quite sometime ago. Okay... it's only quarter passed six.. so early for dinner?? Yes.......

Aliyaa Island Restaurant & Bar@ Bukit Damansara

Aliyaa Island Restaurant & Bar is more like a place to chill out with all kind of alchoholic drinks as well as non alcoholic drinks. But, they do serve authentic Sri Lankan food too. It's a restaurant & bar that operates in a bugalow with simple and yet elegantly decorated interior. Definitely, a perfect place with comfortable environement to dine in. Some information to share- if you would like to spend 3 days dining at this area, at the left of Aliyaa Island Restaurant & Bar would be The Courtyard Garden and at the right of it is the Jarrod & Rawlins, 3 different restaurant operating in 3 different bungalows. Eateries neighbourhood??

Started the early dinner with........

Rassam Soup @ RM 6

A famous Indian soup, which is believed to be originated from Southern India. Commonly serve by most of the Indian restaurants. Not as spicy as expected but sour enough, it's a tease for the taste buds.

Kiribath - Coconut Milk Rice

Kiribath- coconut milk triangle rice served with spicy curry chicken @ RM 18.00 (The Sri Lankan Nasi Lemak). The coconut milk triangle rice comes with half fried boiled egg , katta sambol (pounded maldivian fish flakes, dried shrimps, shallots, chillies & chilly powders fried till dry), seeni sambol (sambal with sweet onions and jaggary sugar) and pounded green bird's eye chilli pepper (cili padi) mixed with lime juice. All of the 3 spicy condiments tasted real good for me.

As for the rice, it is a bit different from our Nasi Lemak. The rice is prepared with very thick coconut milk and it's a bit wet when served.

Kiribath - Spicy Curry Chicken

The curry tasted different. Thick and rich curry gravy with slight taste of coconut milk. Tasted rather good for me.I guess it's prepared with some spice and a little bit of butter?

Appam Galore @ RM 20

Abbi is the Elephant in Chief (Owner) of the business. As stated in the menu, Appam Galore is one of Abbi's favorite and we have decided to give this a try.
Pick your choice of 4 appam (plain, broken egg or sweet coconut milk) served with katta sambol (spicy maldivian fish) and seeni sambol ( sweet onions and jaggary sugar). Definitely not a filling meal and I would say , it is unique to be served in this way but taste wise, it's just alright!

Vatilaapam @ RM 8

A Sri Lankan egg dessert, also known as coconut creme caramel. Not really sweet but the fragrant of the jaggery sugar mixed with coconut milk makes the dessert an outstanding one.

All kinds of alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks

In Aliyaa, there are over 50 choices of single malk whisky collection. Wanna get drunk? Some spicy food with gallons of alcohols might help!

Address & Other information

By the way, their signature dish - Sri Lankan Crab! Do try!

Visit:
http://www.aliyaa.com/

Claypot Station Restaurant @ Kota Damansara

Clay pot is a technique of cooking food in an unglazed clay pot. The unglazed clay pots are normally soaked in water for about 15- 30 minutes to absorb water before cooking. The process of soaking and the result of clay pot cooking may lower the fats of the dish and yet flavorful.

Claypot Station is the restaurant where you can enjoy dishes prepared in clay pots.

Claypot Station Restaurant @ Dataran Sunway , Kota Damansara

Asam Curry Chicken @ RM 12.90

Love the asam curry chicken!! The hot asam curry gravy tasted real good. The tantalizing aroma of the pot of hot asam curry chicken makes us sweat profusely and yet we continue to scoop for more of it!

Asam Curry Fish Fillet @ RM 12.90

Because we love the asam curry chicken so much that during our next visit, we ordered asam curry fish fillet. The asam curry tasted the same, as good as before but the fish fillet turned out to be a disappointment. The fish fillet were fried and because it was served in a clay pot and the dish remain hot for quite some time, the fried fish fillet turned soft.

Pickled lettuce Dou Fu @ RM 7.90

Another dish that pleased me, pickled lettuce dou fu, prepared with simple ingredients but delicious!

Hot & Sour Salted Vegetable @ RM 7.90

Claypot Station Restaurant serve flavorful and warming claypot dishes. It is also claimed that the dishes are prepared without using MSG!! Well, it's a good hot try!

Address:

Claypot Station Restaurant
No 23-1 Jalan PJU 5/12
Dataran Sunway, PJU 5,
Kota Damansara, Petaling Jaya
47810 Selangor, Malaysia

Umai-Ya Japanese Restaurant @ Damansara Perdana

I was telling Jessie that I went to Cat Whiskers in SS 15 for a dress, but it's out of stock. Jessie replied "Always go shop alone, didn't invite me." I replied "Sorry...I thought you might not be interested. We go tonight? To the outlet at Damansara Perdana and then we go for dinner?" ON!!

After shopping we strolled down The Place, a corporate building opposite Cat Whiskers, to find a place for dining. There are a few casual dining outlets in that building and we decided to have our dinner at Umai-ya since it is the only restaurant which somehow almost full house.

Umaiya @ The Place, Damansara Perdana a comfortably renovated Japanese Restaurant

Chicken Teppanyaki Bento Set- We both ordered the same set since both of us no really in a mood for sushi that day. The set comes with a tasty miso soup, a salad, and a weird side dish which I think ( if I am not mistaken) mashed/canned salmon fish and 2 pieces of fruits. A pickle was served with the rice enhancing the presentation of the Chicken Teppanyaki Bento Set. The Chicken teppanyaki tasted just like the common teppanyaki we can find in any Jappanese Restaurant. Not that it is not nice..........but just normal. Perhaps we should also try their sushi and other side orders as it looks so tempting.

Add on- California Roll @ RM 1 with Teppan Set, Normal Price @ RM 6

Well, we both enjoyed our dinner hereThe next day, while I was browsing for a venue for our company staff party, I came across Umai-ya 's review and it's seems to be in the list of recommended Japanese Restaurant. Well, why not give it a try!

For more information, visit
http://www.umai-ya.com/

Address:

Umai-Ya Japanese Restaurant
49G, Jalan SS21/37,
Damansara Utama, Uptown.
Tel: 03-77264410

Umai-Ya Japanese Restaurant- New Outlet!
G-3A, The Place, Jalan PJU 8/5D,
Bandar Damansara Perdana,PJ.
Tel: 03-77290015