Showing posts with label organic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organic. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

BMS Organics Vegetarian Cafe, Mid Valley Megamall, Mid Valley City, Kuala Lumpur (KL)

Address:
T-013B, Level 3, Mid Valley Megamall, Lingkaran Syed Putra, Mid Valley City, 58200 Kuala Lumpur.

Opening Hours:
Daily, 10am - 10pm

Time Visited:
7:30pm, Wednesday Evening

Attire worn:
Business attire

Item(s) Ordered (Photos taken as inconspicuous as possible with my phone):
Pumpkin with Nori Flakes Fried Rice and Premium Arabica Black Coffee
Seeing that I needed to be there at Mid Valley Megamall for a movie that night, I decided to take my dinner there as well. As Mid Valley Megamall is teeming with food outlets along with The Gardens Mall just on the other side interconnected, I had a smorgasbord of choice when it comes to food but as usual, shopping centers rarely offer me a specifically enticing place to dine as they're usually filled with franchise outlets that's available in plenty of other places. I finally settled for something healthy and organic at the BMS Organics Vegetarian Cafe at Mid Valley Megamall.

Due to it partly being a store that sells organic materials, the cafe part takes up only half of the entire place. Most of the tables are catered more for 4 people but there are quite a number that's for 2 people and so I finally settled for a table that's on the outside of the shop overlooking the walkway a Mid Valley Megamall's level 3 corridors. There's still place for the indoor but I preferred the outdoor because the indoor section looks a bit cramp when it came to the 2 people seatings.

I was given an order chit and a pencil to write down my orders along with a menu that has a vast amount of things to eat and drink. It's like a library or a dictionary. LOL. I finally decided to have the Pumpkin with Nori Flakes Fried Rice and decided to order......Coffee! There's call bells available on every table so all you need to do to grab their attention is to press the button and they will attend to you shortly.

They started off with serving a set of pills and a mysterious liquid which I know from it's color that it's not the coffee I ordered. LOL. I then proceeded to ask what are those pills that they had laid out upon me? But from the sip that I took from the mysterious drink, I know instantly also from it's smell that it's a ginger tea of some sort. They told me the pills were Spirulina. Ooooh. That's the first time I ever had a restaurant serving me pills to eat. XD

At a fair waiting amount of time, the coffee arrived and also the fried rice. The coffee was served with sugar syrup which is a nice touch. I've never had sugar syrup served with hot coffee before in my life but usually got it from cold coffee due to the difficulty of sugar to be dissolved in a cold drink. Hence, eateries usually serve those with cold drinks so that it mixes in since both are liquid and syrup doesn't need dissolving. The coffee has a somewhat caffeine aromatic taste that although doesn't really go well that much with the syrup, it does do it's job in sweetening up an otherwise inert coffee.

As for the fried rice, it was pleasant to look at from it's presentation. It was served with a small dish of potatoes covered in carrot strips and some greens. As for the Nori flakes, it has the unusual flair of serving along with some poppadom on top of it. The poppadom was nice in taste and crispy but it's crispiness quickly faded away being in an all air-conditioned mall. This seems to be the case with these small poppadoms which I wonder why that's the case. Being organic, the taste of the fried rice were more lacking in it's taste but to tell you the truth, it's still quite tasty. It seems to me like it's a grower. The more you eat it, the more tastier it felt to me. This has never happened before in my life but this seems to be the case for me with regards to this dish. I mean, I have changed my opinion on certain ingredients before with me not liking a certain type of food when I was little but now quite like it but never in my life had I experience something so quick in it's changes. So in conclusion, the fried rice is quite tasty for me.

Total Wallet Damage:
RM25.80. RM17.90 for the fried rice and RM7.90 for the coffee. These are inclusive of 6% GST.

Final Verdict:
I'm gonna give it a 7/10. I'm won over by this BMS organic shop. Though it may not be my favorite organic restaurant (my favorite of all time being Medifoods at SJMC), I'm giving it a rating on par to them simply because this is purely vegetarian while Medifoods serve meat and they've done enough to impress me with their food.
Note: I'm not sure if this is vegan material but I think they are. Didn't see any ingredient that has to do with animal products. 

Friday, November 27, 2015

Medifoods Healthy Lifestyle Cafe, Mediplex, Subang Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC), SS12, Subang Jaya, Petaling Jaya (PJ)

Address:
1st. Floor, Mediplex, Sime Darby Medical Centre, 1, Jalan SS 12/1a, Subang Jaya, 47500 Petaling Jaya

Opening Hours:
Mon - Sun: 7:30am to 7:30pm

Time Visited:
12:30pm, Thursday afternoon

Attire worn:
Business

Item(s) Ordered (Photos taken as inconspicuous as possible with my phone):
Garden Aglio Olio, Double Delight and Australian Black Coffee
I've been meaning to visit this place ever since I visited the Selangor Wellness Expo because I was highly impressed with the way they made their interaction with their booth visitors. They just made me want to learn more of the organic stuff that they produce.

Having a mild heart pain off and on for three days, I decided to finally take my 20% voucher that I got from the Expo and head towards SJMC for a bite. Despite being so near my office, I had never visited SJMC in my life and do not know what lies inside. As I exited the parking lot lift, I was a little lost and was utterly impressed with the place. It does not look like a hospital at all. It looks more like a shopping complex. LOL. No wonder the price here for treatment is expensive. Just look at the environment!

I soon located the Medifoods' Lifestyle cafe which is directly above Starbucks. When I was there, there were a few patrons over there but basically a very slow time for the staff. They greeted me as I walked in even though they were busy and I had a hard time choosing my seat since there were to many unoccupied. I finally settled for one that is near the window wall because I wanted to get some sun.

Medifoods' menu tells you each item on whether it's vegetarian (containing dairy, egg, onion or garlic but no meat), vegan (like vegetarian but no dairy nor egg as well) or gluten-free (no wheat, barley, rye or triticale products). Another good thing the menu offers is like those Japanese menu where they tell you how many calories each of the items contain. There's also the telling sign of the amount of salt in the dish for the mains.

The dishes came at a slower than a pace that I'm used to. Even the coffee took more than five minutes to reach the table and it's just black coffee. LOL. The Australian black coffee had a sweet characteristic to it even though it's black coffee. Unlike the European counterpart which is bitter like hell. This Australian black coffee is aromatic in it's essence and easy to drink down.

The rest of the dishes exceeded my taste expectation. Didn't expect these organic dishes to taste so good. But then again, I usual deviate away from organic food because it's more expensive albeit healthy. Haha. Story of a guy who leads a very unhealthy lifestyle. And now, my aches and pains has finally caught up to me. Sigh.

The Garden Aglio Olio has a nice taste to it but I find it a tad too oily for me. Being a vegan dish, they lavish it with a lot of vegetables. The strongest taste in the whole lot goes to the soybean chunks which I love. The rest all tasted above average with fresh produce where the pasta is even lesser than the amount of ingredients piled up on it. LOL.

As for the Double Delight, it was simply delightful. Such a simple food and yet tasted so good. Double Delight is mainly apple that's coated with yogurt sauce with the side of walnuts and sunflower seeds that contains cane sugar and sesame seeds. I like to just dip the apple upon the walnuts and sunflower seeds and just lift it all up to eat like a toffee apple. LOL. The apple that they gave was sweet enough on it's own and it's heighten further from the yogurt sauce. Sometimes it's just a little too sweet for me but nothing the coffee that I ordered can't fix. Haha

Total Wallet Damage:
RM25.60. RM17 for the pasta, RM9.50 for the Double Delight and RM5.50 for the coffee. The published price is inclusive of GST and they don't charge service charge. Oh, I also got a 20% off from the voucher I have.

Final Verdict:
7/10. It's nice to just chill and hangout here. I guess that's mainly the idea since it's located at SJMC. So if you have a person you're taking care there, you can pop by and chill here. But of course, I see most people prefer to chill downstairs at the Starbucks since they offer free WiFi as well. All the patrons I saw up there were mainly elderly people who's most likely at the medical center for themselves. I guess I qualify as one of them. LOL.