February 2012

Food Review: Kalamata’s Resto Bar at Api-Api Centre, Kota Kinabalu

by Daniel Wong

It was many moons ago since I wrote my last food review. The last proper food review was 43 Food You Must Not Miss in KK.

/gasp!

I wrote that post on May 2011. That means almost 9 months didn’t write any post related to food. Yet, so many still call me “KK Food blogger”. WTF man.

Why no one call me “Sabah’s most handsome blogger”?

#dulan

So, yesterday I feel like doing some proper food review again, saw MeiTzeu blog about Kalamata’s restaurant at Api-Api Centre.

“Aiyah sui bian la, just go only” I say to myself.

“I lazy make decision, simply pick this restaurant to review la! You come join me ok!” I told me food partner in crime, Hin Ching.

Kalamata’s Resto Bar serves Western and Filipino food – Fusion style, bebeh.

“Can I ask, why are you taking photos of my menu?” tough Indian guy talked to me while holding a glass of Tiger beer.

“I write food reviews”

“Why take photos of my menu?”

“For reference”

I offer to shake hand with the owner, he reluctantly shake my hand. I hope I can ask more questions, “would you like to have a seat and have a chat?”

“No thank you” and the owner walks away.

“…… errrr”

“Can I have the name card also please” I raised a bit my voice while he is walk away.

He orders his staff to get one name card for me but it never arrived.

Meh, lousy first impression.

But hor, the environment is really nice. Like MeiTzeu described in her blog – the ambience is soothing and relaxing.

Maybe is the pint of Tiger making me feeling so nice. #somolin haha.

I started off with a caesar salad, RM10. Reasonable price. One thing worth mentioning, the chicken is tender and juicy. Unfortunately the dressing spoiled it.. By smelling at it, I know it’s the cheapest mayonnaise found in supermarket.

Yes, I am super sensitive to mayonnaise cause I’m a big fans for Kewpie Mayo.

Something something soup, RM10 (Hahaha I lazy to refer back to menu while writing this). VERY flavourful. Lots of ingredients were put into the soup. Both Hin Ching and me keep saying “whoa this is nice”. It’s mostly chicken, onion, tomato and ginger.

Edit: It’s Tinolang Manok RM10

Chicken chop RM15.90. The waitress recommended this, Hin Ching said he liked and and chomp chomp chomp – finished in 10 minutes. “Eh the chicken breast is very tender nehhhh” he said.

Adagong (Adogon? Adagang? Ada-apa-apa?) Chicken RM10, chicken that is prepared by vinegar and soy sauce. This shit is awesome man. I finish the dish by itself without makan nasi. This turns out to be a great food after you had 3 pints of beer.

Edit: It’s Adobong Manok RM10

Then, you mix the leftover sauce on your rice. MAKAN again.

Fulamak, punya syok.

Note: Each of the dishes above has special name respectively. I just didn’t bother to check, nor write it down.

Note2: The owner didn’t give me name card, thus I don’t know when is their business hour or contact details.

Note3: Despite the ungrateful attitude, I still write this post because the food is really nice. Most importantly, they also serve draught beer. It’s a great bonus for beer lovers like me.

Location: Api Api Centre, Kota Kinabalu. Behind Marina court.

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Unboxing iPad2 and Portenzo Leather Case

by Daniel Wong

“Hey dad, I know you have 2 iPads… if you aren’t using one of them, can you borrow me for few months?”

“You need it?”

“Yes Pa, I often need to check mail on-the-go, especially during critical period of setting up ZenQ Desserts.”

“What color do you want?”

“I want black, all my gadgets are black”

“How many GB?”

“Eh? both of yours is 16gb, no meh? why ask me?”

“Answer la”

“32GB is enough”

2 hours later.

“Come to my office. Your iPad2 is ready”

(Went to dad’s office)

Dad hands over a brand new iPad2.

“Walau, you buy new one for me ah!?”

“Yes. I bought 64gb. If you need this gadget for business purpose – I don’t mind buying it for you”

“WAH!! within 2 hours?! You buy already!?”

“How difficult to buy a gadget? I got “kaki” one mah, son”

WOOOHOOOOOO!!

Now I am proud owner of Apple iPad2, hehehe.

Immediately, I went online to search for iPad2 casing.

I had a casing in mind called “DODOcase”. I witness this company took off in a lean startup competition, and build huge customer base since then. I’ve been eyeing on their products for quite some time now.

DODOcase is also one of the top-notch product in iPad casings.

But, I decided to purchase leather casing from Portenzo instead of DODOcase – they are direct competitors, and both have excellent reviews. The only thing that sets them apart is the packaging. Heh.

Below are the unbox photos for Portenzo iPad2 case. Heard plenty of excellent reviews online.

On one unrelated note, if you’re Malaysian who uses Facebook or Twitter, here’s a short cut way to win MacBook Air.

Portenzo leather casing is handmade in USA and takes est. 2 weeks of shipment time.

I hesitated for………… 3 minutes before pressing the “BUY NOW” button.

You know what?

I did not unbox my iPad2 until my Portenzo arrives.

Do not attempt this if you do not have strong will power. It’ll crush you – spiritually and mentally.

“To open.. or wait… to open.. or wait… to open… grrr..”

It looks exactly like a leather note book. I didn’t have any worries leaving this case in car, or bringing it around, or simply leave it on table, because most of the people will think that this is a normal leather book.

After publishing this post, I cannot do this any more ^^;

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