Carmelina North End @ Boston, Massachusetts

Carmelina located in North End Boston serving Italian meals. I arrived this restaurant quite early around 5.30pm. The restaurant is quite empty during that time. However, the server have a hard time to find me a table for me. I just need a seat. After around 5 minutes waiting, he finally give me a seat but only for 30 minutes as the seat were reserved. I ordered their risotto frutti di Mare. The meal were good but the service needs improvement. Somehow I feel that I was being rushed to have my meal.

Taste:8/10(Good. The clams and the mussels which were good in risotto. The mussels were done properly in red tomato sauce. Taste wise were good).
Price:4/10(Near expensive. The meal risotto frutti di Mare at USD22.00).




My main meal. Risotto frutti di Mare. Shrimp, calamari, clams, and mussels in a light fragrant tomato sauce with risotto.

Start with bread with balsamic vinegar.

Small restaurant with patio seating.

GPS/Coordinate: 42.363866, -71.054080
Address: 307 Hanover St, Boston, MA 02113, United States.
Public transport: 8 minutes walk from Haymarket subway station.

Great cioppino at Sotto Mare @ San Francisco, USA

I have done some research online on the good food to have in San Francisco with reasonable price. This place having a good review on their seafood. By following the crowd, we proceed to order their Cioppino and Benita’s Baccala. I have no idea on what is cioppino which they claimed to have the best damn crab cioppino. Baccala is from salted cod fish cooked with tomatoes, olive oil, potatoes, celery and onion. The end result is a tasty red paste which the taste is about like Malaysian sambal but better. It goes well with bread. Cioppino on the other hand is cooked with a combination of Dungeness crab, clams, shrimp, scallops, squid, mussels, and fish. The seafood is then combined with fresh tomatoes in a wine sauce, and served with local sourdough or French bread. Sotto Mare version of cioppino add in some pasta in it as well. Do come early to avoid the crowd as this place is quite popular. We have to wait for half an hour although we reached there around 5.00pm for dinner on saturday.

Taste:10/10(Excellent cioppino. The portion were huge and taste fantastic. The seafood were fresh and cook just right without overwhelming flavour. The tomato soup base is amazing with all the seafood goodness).
Price:5/10(Near expensive. Baccala priced at USD9.00 and crab cioppino at USD42.00).


Appetizer Benita's Baccala. This is a cold dish. Taste good.

Great pairing with bread.

The goodness is in the pot.


Wow, so much of seafood in the pot. Each of us able to have 3 plates of these seafood. Which means total of 6 plates. Its good for two and a very satisfying dinner.

Many prawns and crab meat on my plate.

Goes well with French bread.

Its noisy environment in the kitchen. Good that we get to sit here to see how they prepared our food.

We don't need the sauce. Its good to eat on its own.

Chilli pot for decoration.

Decorations in the restaurant. They have good oysters and other seafood dishes as well.

Look out for this shop for lunch or dinner when you are at little Italy in San Francisco.

GPS/Coordinate: 37.799736, -122.408327
Address: 552 Green Street, San Francisco, California 94133, United States (in North Beach).
Public transport: Nearest bus stop is Columbus Ave & Green St which is accessible via bus no 30, 41, 45 & 91.
Hours: Monday to saturday (11.00am to 9.30pm). Closed on sunday and public holidays.

Unique Seafood @ CITTA Mall, Ara Damamsara

Unique Seafood is a chain restaurant which serve fresh seafood and some of the seafood which hard to get somewhere else. Upon stepping into the restaurant, you will be amazed by the number of fish tank that they have. Its a great sign that they served fresh seafood. This restaurant is convenient for Citta mall shoppers.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. Fresh and good meal. Prawn and fish dishes are all recommended).
Price:4/10(Near expensive. Although the food here is good and fresh but the price is not cheap. However you pay for the quality food. Be prepared to spend more if you ordered their speciality such Grouper king, Alaskan crab or fresh oyster. Each dish of normal meal cost between MYR30 to MYR80).



Fresh steamed prawn. Well done and maintained their juicy and succulent texture.

Stir fry lotus root with macadamia.

Stir fry lala kong po style (clams).


Steamed fish with fried ginger. The fish is fresh as well.


Baked noodles with prawn. Lots of cheese. This meal have some Italian element in it.

Salted fried crab.

Fish soup.

The fish soup is in the hot pot.

Fried prawn.

Lemon chicken.

Four meal in sight. From left clockwise: fried bean curd with bean paste, fried prawn, lemon chicken and black pepper venison.

Black pepper venison.

Bean curd with pumpkin.

Butter prawn. This dish is done perfectly as well.


Longan dessert with pomegranate.

Nice decoration. We get exclusive room due to big group.

Towel provided.

Coordinate/GPS: 3.111227,101.579288
Address: G-39-G42A Ground Floor Citta Mall, 1 Jalan PJU 1A/48, PJU 1A, Ara Damansara, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Phone number: +603-7734 3006 / +603-7734 3030
Business Hours: Daily. Lunch, 11.30pm to 3.00pm, Dinner 6.00pm to 11.00pm.