Fusion food @ Good Friends Restaurant and Cafe, Subang Jaya

Good Friends Restaurant and Cafe located in Subang Jaya is a fusion eating place serving extensive menu from East to West. Good homely environment to have a decent conversation. They have seafood, chicken, pasta and grilled dishes as well. For coffee lover and beer drinker, this place is suitable for you as well. They have around a dozen options for imported craft beer. The menu were updated frequently and creatively designed fusion food.

Taste:8/10(Good. Chili cream mussels were good and the slight spicy sauce makes the dish taste well. Creamy mushroom tapas is a must order as the mushroom taste good and punched with flavour. Their chicken teriyaki with soba noodles is good just slightly salty. I guess due to the soy sauce. As for the nasi lemak, their sambal were not good enough and can be improved. Grill master taste rather normal and the sauce need to be improved).
Price:4/10 (Near expensive. Chili cream mussels at MYR29.00, creamy mushroom tapas at MYR23.00, premium good nasi at MYR24.00, chicken teriyaki with soba noodles at MYR22.00, grill master at MYR49.00, Naughty Rose latte at MYR13.90, Broken dial beer at MYR28.00, Hawkers Saison at MYR28.00 and Red rice ale at MYR28.00).


Chicken teriyaki with soba noodles.

Chili cream mussels. New Zealand mussels with sweet and spicy cream sauce.

The chili cream mussels have option of either eat it with brown rice or bread.

Free wifi.

Creamy mushroom tapas.

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.