Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. @ Sunway Pyramid

Taking inspiration from the Forrest Gump movie, Bubba Gump specialises in shrimp meals and its decor references many scenes from the movie. I'm not going to elaborate more on the ordering method as I'm sure most of you would have been there before. Just wanted to share the awesome shrimps I had here <drools>

   

Eat me! ^_^

   

Mama Gump's Garlic Bread Basket (RM 5.90)

    
The garlic bread here is toasted to a crisp with the wonderful aroma of melted garlic butter and cheese. It tastes buttery and crusty and cheesy - both my brother and JS love it to bits.

  

Mama Blue's Southern Charmed Fried Shrimp (RM 38.90)

   
Are you salivating just looking at the numerous golden lumps of deep-fried shrimp? Imagine dipping each into the tartare sauce or salsa provided and eating the entire de-shelled prawn coated with crispy panko batter whole <ascends into prawn heaven> It feels so good not having to peel the shells off the prawns and being able to plop each crispy yet juicy and bouncy prawn directly into your mouth...absolutely heavenly. The tail bits are also deep fried to a crispy texture that you can chew into bits if you wish.

  

The shoestring fries are deep fried to perfection - no soggy, stringy, straggly bits. Very addictive with the tartare sauce (I even had a refill of the tartare sauce). The salsa on the other hand tasted a bit weird...there was this funny taste I couldn't quite place. It was slightly bitter and sourish with a tiny bit of unpleasant new wardrobe smell =.=

  

The coleslaw was average but I wished they provided a bigger portion to offset the heaty-ness of the deep fried platter.

  

Close-up of the golden shrimps

     

Lt. Dan's Drunken Shrimp (RM 39.90)

   
This platter consists of chargrilled shrimp and spicy sausage against a bed of mashed potatoes and sitting in a sea of non-alcoholic Bourbon sauce.
    

• Shrimp is fresh and juicy and has sufficient flavour when eaten on its own. 
• Spicy sausage is also good with a wonderful chicken taste.
• Mashed potatoes was average. Very smooth though.
• Bourbon sauce was a little too cheesy for my liking but my brother mopped up every single drop of sauce =P
• Skinny golden strips propped upright in the blob of mashed potatoes tasted like deep fried flour? Not too sure what it is but it's great with the sauce.

    
Apart from shrimp, they also serve chicken, beef and other seafood. The dishes served at Bubba Gump are very yummy but prices are a bit steep. But then what would you expect when you're paying others to deshell a whole load of prawns for you? =D

   
PawPoints: 4 Paws
Pawket: Cheese

  

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant & Market

Oasis Boulevard, Sunway Pyramid

Tel: 03 5638 4559

Daily: 11am - 10pm

Ichiban Boshi @ Sunway Giza

I've been seeing Ichiban Boshi's sprouting everywhere like mushrooms and finally, I paid it a long-due visit. It's quite value for money considering the options available and the price (somewhere between Sushi Zanmai and Rakuzen). 

 

Can't comment much about the quality of the food as I have yet to try their sushi. However I must say that the feature picture on their sushi menu (forgot to take a picture again) - was that meant to be appealing and appetising? The Ebi Sushi on the cover looked extremely gross and it's not just fussy me saying this, my friends who were with me agreed too.

 

Salmon Meshi Don (RM 19.90)

   
Since I didn't want to go for anything deep fried that day, I selected the Salmon Meshi Don which looked extremely good in the menu. And the real product did not disappoint either =) The set came with a bowl of miso soup.

 

The donburi came with plenty of crumbled slightly seared salmon, finely sliced spring onions and a good dose of Shichimi Togarashi (Japanese Seven Spice Powder). Here's another close-up of the donburi.

 

Comfort food

   
Mix it all up and what you get is a big bowl of comfort food. My salt intake is quite high so a good splash of soya sauce made the dish even yummier ^_^ Small eaters will feel extremely full upon finishing the entire bowl as the size is larger than a small order from Sushi Zanmai. 

 

The complimentary miso soup was average - could have been better though. The large salad which my friend ordered looked quite small in size when it arrived but then the price tag was about RM 11 so can't complain too much.

 

Ichiban Boshi has quite a number of udon meals which is a good variation from the usual rice sets you see in other restaurants. I was however disappointed that there weren't any ramen options. The bento sets at Ichiban Boshi are quite unique in the sense that you get to customise some of the sets with individual tofu, rice or miso soup options. Wouldn't mind returning to try other stuff.
  

PawPoints: 3 Paws
Pawket: Onion

 

Ichiban Boshi

Block D, F.01, 1st Floor

Sunway Giza 

Tel: 6148 1844

Daily

D'Italiane Kitchen @ Sunway Giza

My very first visit to D'Italiane Kitchen was the Sunway Giza branch. We saw a promotion for Bailey's ice-cream which unfortunately I don't have the picture for. As we already had dinner, we went in for dessert and the Bailey's did not disappoint. The ice-cream was smooth and creamy with a strong Bailey's taste - well that's what 3 of us thought and the 4th one could not detect any hint of Bailey's at all =.= We came to the conclusion that the more alcohol you take, the less you will be able to detect Bailey's in the ice-cream =P

We made sure to return to sample the dishes as the price was very affordable and ordered a soup, pizza, pasta and risotto to share.
 

Di Mare

The tomato-based seafood soup was good with lots of clams and herbs. Would have forgotten that we had also ordered pasta were it not for it peeking out from the background in the above picture as I probably forgot to snap a picture of it =P I think we had the Beef Carbonara from the amount of button mushrooms tossed alongside the spaghetti. I can't remember much about its taste but it must have been good since we were all raving non-stop about D'Italiane Kitchen =D
 

Shirraglia Risotto

It was the first time any of us tried risotto and our uninamous verdict? Rice cooked in thick chicken soup broth -_-" Well I guess that is expected since the dish consisted of numerous tiny chunks of smoked chicken and roasted chicken.
 

Hawaiian Pizza

Had the good ol' Hawaiian Pizza. Love the thin crunchy crust and cheesy base. The pineapple slices were sweet and the abundant toppings made each mouthful taste superb. We finished it in no time at all hence the risotto above =P Imagine us 4 girls finishing all the above!

PawPoints: 4 Paws
Pawket: Tomato

http://www.ditalianekitchen.com.my/index.html

D'Italiane Kitchen
Block D, F.10, First Floor

Sunway Giza Shopping Mall

No. 2, Jln PJU 5/14

PJU 5, Kota Damansara
Tel: 03 6148 1828
Daily 10am - 10pm