Aquaria Kuala Lumpur @KLCC Experience

Last Sunday, I had the opportunity to visit Aquaria KLCC, a place I have been wanting to visit for all the years I live in Kuala Lumpur. I got to know that I could purchase the tickets for less at 11th Street site, the same online shopping portal I got my Instax Mini Films, also for an awesome bargain!

 

The tickets for adult Malaysians cost RM46 if you purchase at the counter but only RM35 for adults online.

However, you do need to send text message to the vendor to claim your e-tickets, which takes two days to process. I had initially planned for a Saturday outing but because I had only contacted the vendor on a Friday, they got back to my adventure kaki (Kaki means leg in Malay but it is a Malaysian way of saying a buddy who hangs out with you whether for travel or mamak session or just anything!), stating that they couldn't get the e-tickets confirmed.

We got there at 11AM, hoping to get away from the crowd but 10 minutes into checking in, there was already a mini crowd. We were lucky to catch the cute otters feeding slash exercising session and they were adorable! Fun fact, the Malaysian otters are the smallest in the world! Which means the other otters gotta be obese, cause the otters displayed was by no mean "small". Good to know there are fat otters around.

We cruised past mini aquariums with fishes, crabs, lobsters, eels & loads other animals then past a 'shipwreck' housing several other aquariums with odd looking fishes. I won't upload many photos here cause I don't want to spoil the fun of exploring Aquaria KLCC, but trust me, it may not be the biggest aquarium in South East Asia, it is still an interesting destination if you love aquariums as much as I do.

My favorite part gotta be the rain forest, which house a few tanks with humongous-size fish, you might wonder how many people one fish can feed. I know, I know, but they're sorta food so....

If you're as observant as me, you'd notice they play recordings of birds in the wild and even thunders, accompanied by lightning effect which was pretty cool!

My next favorite part is the tunnel, where you can admire the fishes swimming around and over you, even huge sharks and stingray! Or funny faces of stingray like this one

I'm under the sea~ under the sea~

If you're lucky, you might catch a glimpse of fishes feeding on one another. Spotted a stingray feeding on some fish LOL. 

I went through the tunnel twice because I love the place so much! Could have gone in another time but I don't want to bore my friend, just in case.

Afterwards, more aquariums and then it was browsing through the souvenirs shop. They have lotsa cute plushies and I bought a husky one, because the fur is so soft~~~ Another because I have been looking for doggy plushies :) 

See my cutie~

Anddd that was it! Oh how I wish there were more! Though we did spent a good one and a half hour in there LOL

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We were starving after that, me only had Porky for breakie because I was rushing out and my adventure kaki only had a box of milk wtf. Because we spotted a  palm-sized crab that reminded us of soft shell crab, we decided to go for Japanese hahahahah.

I recommended Yuzu, a place I had been a few years ago and love their bento set so much because the food is amazing and its generous portion so worth the price! Ben thought he could just go with a simple, small set but it came with so many sides which was not shown in the menu hahahaha

This was Ben's bento _ Salmon Bento RM37 or RM39 I don't remember.

Mine, Yuzu Bento for about RM50

I only remembered I ordered the similar set the first time I went to Yuzu when the bento arrived and everything was just how I remembered it. The food are just as how I remembered them too, so yummy and the quality unchanged. I still love them very much! Will highly recommend this place. We were so stuffed OMG, so much that I didn't feel hungry until late evening.

That same day, I got my hair dyed mermaid color, it was not what I planned. Tell you how that happened in my next post!

my super random Saturday: Japan Cultural Day by The Japan Foundation of KL

Hello, I'm back~!

It's June already, how time flies! I know, i know! Haven't been blogging much in May but my past few weekends I was sorta occupied. Three weekends ago, I had company event which I'm gonna share with you in another post 'cause I got something else to share today LOL. This post is about what I did last Saturday (before I fell horribly sick the following day fml) when I was out with friends attending a Japan Cultural Day by The Japan Foundation of KL in Gallery Shah Alam.

We were there to make Tsumami Zaiku~! One of my friends, Nadia found out about the event a day prior and asked me, and walah, we're in.

We were initially only given two different colored chirimen but traded among ourselves and the result is so prettayyy~!

Our masterpieces~~

One of my friend who never tried yukata really wanted to try it badly and luckily we didn't have to stay too long to try them on even tho it was scheduled for afternoon session.

Sensei was teaching us how to put on a yukata

Tadaa~~ Shorty here posing with my yukata~ Face so round here LOL

My friends and I in traffic-light-color yukatas.

Well, sorta, cause Japanese calls green light 'Aoi', which translates to blue but of course they meant green. Analogous colors, geddit?

Mandatory show-off-those-ribbons pose

Mandatory seiza pose wth LOL

Future event promotional pose LOL

Please come and join the Japan Culture events by The Japan Foundation of KL. And of course other Japanese culture events like Bon Odori and Isetan Japan Food Fair ahem ahem. 'Cause #goodJapfood

We also checked out the Tohoku Exhibition~ No taking photos inside so this is the only pic ( ^__^;)

Just found out Gallery Shah Alam is more than just a gallery. They've got a part with picnic tables with chess boards painted on it, a HUGE lake with running tracks, I'm envious! I miss jogging around the lake like back in uni.

And I saw some people kayak, I miss that too!

That's most of it. We didn't stay for long and GrabCar our way back. Then had late lunch back at NuSentral's Sushi Zanmai.

And tea time/dinner after a meetup among our Language School Peeps because mapo tofu (LOL) isn't filling.

Chamomile tea because it's already night. Boy, does this helped me sleep so well!

Green tea soufle~

Japanese Food-omnomnom

It's been over a month since I last blog omg. Yeah, mentioned my lappie broke down after that I was so caught up with work and very low energy reservoir(it's the weather...) and lotsa outings (hahahaha) I didn't blog... Sigh, now I got lotsa pending review posts I figure I should blog more often. Or write lots then do scheduled posting wtf. From last weekend I've been editing the tones of unfinished videos (there're still more) though they're mostly private videos with colleagues and friends. If I work on another I may have one to share at least after I get the greenlight from my friend to post it up...

Anyway today's post will be something fun-ner and yummeh _ Japanese food~! Yesshhh, been hanging out a lot with my friends 'cuz who doesn't fancy Japanese food?

Hokkaido Ichiba & Hokkaido Sushi

These are some of the few restaurants we're frequenting mostly because my friends suggested the latter LOL.

Just something I notice _ a lot, like MAJORITY of my friends prefer Hokkaido Sushi to Hokkaido Ichiba, citing that the price in the former is lower and they're the same company but heck, IMO the price for food in Hokkaido Ichiba is proportional to the portion, and the food is yummier, my personal opinion-lah.

One time, I ordered Sakura Ebi Okonomiyaki in Hokkaido Sushi my friends were pretty meh about it and ordered Cheese-something Okonomiyaki at Hokkaido Ichiba which was twice more expensive, twice bigger the size and the same friend went hoo-ha over it. But fine, most thing with cheese always win lah. On top of that there were fewer choices in Hokkaido Sushi too.

The Awesome Cheese-something okonomiyaki (Hokkaido Ichiba)

Tamauna don a.k.a. rice topped with grilled eel and egg (Hokkaido ichiba)

*photos quality are bad as they were extracted from videos

So yes, Hokkaido Ichiba, people!! Go try it, else you're missing out. pssssstttt, I love Sushi Zanmai too but people, Hokkaido Ichiba wins.

pssssssssstttt, I also love Kiku Zakura. And Kamimura. And Sushi Hinata. And Senya. Ok, I really need to shut up and continue.

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Yuzu

My newfound love! I've heard a lot of it from my then colleagues but finally went to try it to 'treat myself'. Sure the bento priced from RM35++ but the portion is huge! I ordered one set without much raw stuff because I wasn't in the mood, and for RM45++, I'm stuffed!

I mean look at this!!

Clockwise from bottom, furthest left: A bowl of fried rice (Chaahan, I think), best-est Karaage Chicken with mild mayonaise, some super-refreshing pickled radish with roe, melty & cheese-y fish cakes, prawn and vege tempura, tsukemono (hidden/not in picture)  some miso-leek soup served in a pot, 3 desserts _ fruits, a slice of cake, custard with caramel, sauce to go with the tempura, a rolled sushi topped with Unagi, and cold soba.

Close ups!

I also ordered green tea (as seen in the top, far right on this pic)

The tsukemono mentioned earlier~

After that I gatal wanna test out their Yuzu cocktail (I forgot what's it called) and find it really tough to down it... I still prefer Choya Umeshu.

The food is super duper satisfying and to die for! But no need to sacrifice anybody's life, just go to Yuzu.

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Mitasu

This all-you-can-eat place was actually suggested by a uni kouhai. Yeah, the Japanese Society Exec. Commitees gathering hahahaha. Actually all the kaichous gathering (more to come!) hahahaha. Ki siao don't bother. But yes, I suggested Yuzu but one of them wanted an all you can eat sashimi so oklo...

We ordered so-o-o-o many dishes I lost count! There were more than 20 dishes I tell ya!

Let's start with the collage I posted on Instagram. Helps me cut down a number of photos to post LOL

Super love the karaage, beef (I ate only a little else I'll get itchy all over), teriyaki fish and miso soup! Must try!

The rest~

These are delicious~!

No more raw oysters for me. Unless it's marinate ala Japanese.

I'm sure there were more pics I missed out as I was to busy omnomnom-ing.

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Senya

Then the most recent of my Japanese food escapade, I went to Senya~! Ordered this bowl of pork and salmon don. OMG the portion!! They even provide a bowl in case you want to put the toppings aside because you gotta dig to get the rice. Underneath the gloriously, godly portion of meat is some vege and a mountain of rice.... Yeah,  a mountain of carbs fml.

But the meat, so awesome~! Pork like bbq-ed char siew. Sorry, not halal to some of you...

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That's a wrap~! Hope I didn't make you hungry LOL. If you would like to explore Japanese Restaurants around KL and Selangor, I super recommend you to try Yuzu, Senya, Kamimura, Kirishima-ya and Sushi Hinata. Awesome places! Of course Hokkaido Ichiba and Kiku Zakura. I wanna say Sushi Zanmai too, tho I bet most people have been there. If you fancy Japanese-Western fusion restaurant, try Franco.

Till next post, cya~!