Home Dining at Huck's Cafe @ PJ

I was taken by surprise when my girlfriends suggested the dining venue for our New Year's eve dinner. She told me that it would be done at a home. Huh? Is it like a house turned into restaurant? Ok, to be honest, there were many bungalows that were turned into restaurants but to see a corner house of a residential turned into a private dining is something new to me.

This looks like one of those private dining concept in Hong Kong where the chefs offer dining at small condos or apartments catering for a few tables. Huck's Cafe, owned by Huck Seng (also the chef) and a partner turned a normal house into a dining place, literally embracing the term home dining. It's really done right at home, not mine but his home!

The house is certainly beautiful with lots of natural wood and an airy patio that sits 2 or 3 tables complete with private room with air condition. There is also a koi pond on the ground floor just before you enter the house.

This place allows you to dine comfortably without your shoes and there's even no reason to dress to the nines. It's just like going to a friend's house for dinner.

How about a glass of chilling Air Selasih?
(syrup with kiwi seeds)

Hue Gee enjoying her bowl of Mushroom Soup.

Some of us had the Pumpkin Soup. It didn't turn out so well.

The gang of Ipohrians.

Most of us are from Ipoh except a few and it's nice to get to know friends from the same hometown!

Hue Gee gets to poke the lemon with the chopstick (looks obscene, I know...)

We had one of the signature dishes which was the Roast Chicken with herbs, garlic and lemon. This dish is meant for 4 people and it was served with a generous amount of roasted potatoes, eggplants and carrots. Lots of fresh rosemary and thyme has been used to make it flavourful. One setback was, the chicken wasn't cook thoroughly when it was served as there were parts that were still uncook. Apart from that, this is actually quite delicious.

The other dishes we had were lamb stew, steaks, Spaghetti with meatballs, Pan seared salmon and fish and chips. The lamb stew and spaghetti meatballs is good but the others I felt it was just okay for me. Overall, they do have a very good choice of mains and you could go there with a group of friends and share the mains so that you can try more.

Most of the friends had the signature Creme Brulee.
Huck Seng torched it in front of us before serving to the table.

I had a chocolate brownie with ice cream.
The brownie was quite unique with lots of banana and raisin.

This place is quite a nice venue if you want to have a private dining with some friends. They claim that they do not use MSG in the cooking and thus more reason for a revisit. Not only they serve western food, they also do Italian, Mexican, Nyonya and Asian dishes. The array of dishes is quite impressive too. For RM88 nett, you get a drink, an appetiser, a main and a dessert with coffee or tea. In my opinion, the package is quite affordable but the food could have been better.

However, reservations is encouraged as they can only accommodate 15-20 people at one time. Corkage is at RM25 per bottle. There is no menu and you'll need to preorder the food from their menu in the facebook. Therefore, the hassle is that you need to scan through the menu on the facebook and think of what you would like to eat tomorrow!

P/S: Some pictures are taken from Huck's Cafe facebook as mine sucks.

Huck's Cafe
(pork-free)
26, Jalan 5/58, Gasing Indah,
46000 Petaling Jaya. Selangor. Malaysia.
603-7781 2781, sms 012 604 8719
Map
website/facebook

Ushering in 2011 with an adventure!

The year 2010 has indeed ended with a good note as I spent my New Year's eve together with some gfs and some of their friends. We had a dinner together at a new restaurant, well, not the average restaurant because this place offers a private dining at the comfort of a real home! It's in a house and one day advance reservation is compulsory. I shall reveal the location in my coming posts when I do feel like talking about food.

What was really eventful about my New Year's Eve celebration is that we rushed into KL to be in time for the fireworks and countdown. A friend of ours didn't want to miss the countdown because the previous year, she was stuck in a traffic jam and thus I suggested that we take the public transport to the city center, knowing that the traffic would be crazy.

We are good citizens, we take the public transport
(haha... only on new year's eve!)

And so, on the last hour of 2010, I finally had a chance to ride in our very own KL Monorail. We took the STAR LRT to Hang Tuah station and then change to the Monorail to get to Medan Tuanku. The girls wanted to go to the Asian Heritage Row for some partying. Finally, I have my cherry popped for Monorail on the last day of 2010. What an adventure!




After watching a 5-minute fireworks display from KLCC, we decided to party at a club nearby. The fireworks was kind of disappointing. It looked as if they were short of budget to put up a good show. By the way, the Asian Heritage Row now looks quite dead. Gone are the days when it was one of the most happening streets in KL.




One disappointment led to another because the club that we went to was terrible. To start with, we paid RM398 for a bottle of JW black label which we realised that it was not the "REAL thing" and then the DJ started to annoy us so badly that I feel like strangling him on the spot. He likes to pause and mute the songs making you sing the rest of it and then he will make an appearance on the stage and start singing the song. Most of the times, he liked to shout and add extra lines to the song which irritated me to the max! I will never go back there again!

I got home at 4+ am and went to sleep at 5am. It was indeed a nice new year's eve spending time with my gfs but the club spoils it. Over the weekend, I went for a run with Emily at the park in our neighbourhood, did some house chores and had a shopping spree on Sunday. I can't believe that my gfs and I spent 8 hours in Bangsar Village!


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