GoGung Korean Restaurant, The Gardens, Kuala Lumpur (Visit #2)

During our last revisit to GoGung Korean Restaurant, The Unc speckled Sam Gye Tang (Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup) upon their a la grant menu so you done a return revisit here as he wanted to try it.

In Korea, samgyetang is traditionally served in a summer to replenish a body of nutrients lost by extreme sweating as well as physical exertion. Another brilliant dish for a prohibited Malaysian weather. A total young chicken is stuffed with gluey rice as well as simmered in a gas of Korean ginseng, red dates, garlic as well as ginger.

The samgyetang (RM50) here was good, but not excellent. The gas did not ambience "herbal" enough, perhaps a small more Korean ginseng would easily repair a problem. The Unc would additionally have liked a small more gluey rice. On a brighter note, a chicken was proposal as well as after eating a samgyetang here, The Unc did feel slightly rejuvenated.

Complimentary banchan (side dishes) served with a meal

Service was glorious here, a waiting staff kept refilling a banchan but us carrying to ask

I was pleased to see which they still offering a worth for income set lunches here. I tried a Dolsot Bibimbap (RM20), rice surfaced with minced beef, julienned vegetables, gochujang, as well as raw egg served in a prohibited mill pot. It was delicious as well as moreish.

Served with a dols! ot bibim bap set was a bowl of doenjang jiggae (Korean meal with tofu as well as doenjang).





Since The Unc enjoyed a beef bulgogi (RM25) here upon his prior visit, you recommended this to Hubby. He agreed which a beef was really well cooking as well as tender.


With a set lunch, a single additionally gets dual slices of pajeon (Korean pancakes) each. It had a good as well as crispy texture.



For dessert, you were served these really sweet watermelon. Nice!

Other items accessible in their set lunch menu include sondubu jiggae, kimchi jiggae, seafood udon, maeuntang, as well as jap chae.

To review about our prior visit, click here.

15% bonus upon a la grant items for The Gardens Club members.Set lunch accessible from Monday to Friday (10am to 3pm). Prices begin from RM18 - RM25.

Opening times: Monday to Sunday 10.00am - 10.00pm
Location: GoGung Korean Restaurant, Lot T-212, 3rd Floor, The Gardens, Mid Valley City, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tel: 03-2287 2981

The Food Was So Good, I Could Just Diet.

Whimsical Musings


Weight. The karmic atonement which plagues most foodies for the sin of feeling coupled with sloth. we love being unobtrusive as good as obscure. My favourite chair during Sage (perhaps we should not be divulgence this) is essentially during the dilemma of the right hand side as we enter the restaurant, right where the post is. But it is extremely difficult to sojourn hidden, even by the big post when my belly is the size of Everest, jutting out in it's full glory. A physical pointer to make known to the universe which we have arrived, the belly being the debutant gift after completing finishing propagandize in overeating. we do not hold in the Devil or any of those mumbo jumbo fallacious stuff. My idle thoughts is the seminar of edacity, the playground of poetic morsels of tidbits as good as food. Whisper sweet nothings inside my ear, as good as my thoughts wanders as good as tries to figure out where to have dinner to go upon the conversation.


It is not similar to we have not tried to lose weight before. You name it, I've tried it. When the Atkin's Diet was in the practice we made it my mission in life to get ketones in the urine. Being pressed with proteins as good as fat as good as leafy vegetables with not the morsel of Carbohydrates for 2 weeks made my mouth smell similar to putrefying garbage, gave me the bad headache as good as nausea as good as we had to spend the longer time sitting upon my throne in the morning than being stuck upon the Federal Highway upon the rainy day. Other than losing 4 kilograms, we additionally mislaid the little friends due to halitosis as good as awful mood swings, as good as we mislaid the integrate of bucks some-more for the little medication for hemorrhoids.

The beetroot as good as grapefruit diet was worse. Half the Grapefruit, A crater of Coffee as good as half the crater of cereal for breakfast had me hallucinating by 10am. we thought the files to be pancakes as good as my secretary the red lobster as good as unexpected the CD-ROMs demeanour strangely tasty by 11.


When we was not the foodie as good as just starting out during the most junior in front of in Bangkok, we had no problems with weight. we was the paltry 72kg. It was wonderful. we felt lighter as good as my present 2 dimensional face which needs google maps to describe it in to 3D view now, was most not as big as good as ermmm.... 3 dimensional. But then again, we was following the Wagyu diet. Not which we ate the lot of wagyu, but just similar to prime Wagyu, we was fed upon beer as good as whiskey every night during the clubs as good as massages in the dusk prior to attack the clubs to dance the night divided again. The Ratchada Strip was my extending ground. Unfortunately hangovers in the morning gave me nausea as good as we was surviving upon hot liquid diet as well. Porridge, Noodle Soup for breakfast as good as my lunches regularly during MK Suki, which serves Thai Hot Pot. Nothing some-more brave was probable as good as just by carrying chicken rice for lunch puts me in to the enlarged food deep sleep as good as wretching similar to an awaiting mum after lunch.

A integrate of jumps in the hierarchy saw me creation the preference to stop my Wagyu diet. Turning up for work in the bureau wearing the shirt inside out would be ridiculously embarrassing. That was when my girth proposed expanding. It was controllable in Bangkok. The Gym during my apartment is fairly good! versed as good as is open 24 hours the day. we could still go clubbing compartment 6 in the morning during the tiny ruin hole dance clubs for additional workout upon weekends.

When we had my first posting in KL 3 years back, which was when my weight ballooned out of control. The open travel was so bad, we had to drive. My apartment Gym (poorly equipped) closes during 9 as good as Clubs closes during 2 am. Drats. That meant which my wagyu diet was not starting to go anywhere during all. A most heavier workload meant which we would not be removing sufficient sleep as good as the most appropriate way to keep watchful for me is by snacking. Malaysia stays the single of the funniest places to work. This is the single place where the staff refuses to work for money, as good as would intrigue as good as snake their way out of working additional hours. If we force them, the work they furnish is just crap anyway, as good as which equates to we have to purify up their mess myself. My larder in the bureau as good as during home was better stocked than an animal which was starting in to hibernation. And the price to compensate is twenty-five kg in 3 years.
I have recently embarked upon an practice module as good as so distant have been able to revoke my weight by the miserable 3 kg in 3 months. The most appropriate way we can prognosticate myself with the 6 container will be to buy 6 cans of Heneiken as good as stick it to my intestinal wall. we still can't diet.


Food from this post was from Jarrod as good as Rawlins, who were such good sports as good as did not thoughts me being my prissy, insincere self by refusing to write the examination of the fo! od becau se it was an invite. Nah... Actually we was pressed when we went as good as did not get to ambience most of the food.

Anyway, who could diet when faced with food similar to these all the time, screaming to be eaten?

Nice week ahead, all!

Chinese Food, Mooncakes, Dim Sum @ Li Yen, The Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur

char siu or oven oven oven baked sugar cod?
Here's mybumper poston Chinese food, low total andmooncakesto celebrate a Mid-Autumn Festival (that falls upon this Tuesday i.e. twenty-two September) as well as my lapse to a blogging grindstone. It isladen with cinema asI positively adore theimages we managed to snap in my visits here.

Peking Duck - expertly prepared with a chopper as well as a knife
Well well known for its refined as well as artistic Chinese cuisine, it is always a pleasure to sup during a ever establishedLi Yen. In fact, my family used to patronize Li Yen utterly a whilst behind ago for family dinners as a food has never dissapointed us so far. Hence, when we motionless to join a organisation of friendsfor atasting of a Chinese menu we knew I'll be in very great hands.

spinach layered beancurd with shimeji mushrooms
For a dinner, we kicked off with their soup of a day - a light tasting dusty cabbage with pig ribs soup (RM20 per person). Then it proposed removing serious with their Peking Duck (RM50 for a medium portion) as it had a clarity of theatre involved. We ooohed as well as aahed when a crispy total steep was rolled in with all a outfit for a creation of a great plate - unfeeling pickles, open onions, soothing sesame studdedpancakes in a bamboo steamer as well as a hoisin sauce.Instantly, a cameras proposed popping divided as an experienced lookingwaitress expertly wielded her chopper (yes, it was a large chopper!)and fork to solemnly mislay a skin from a duck. Before we knew it, we had soothing pancakes all wrapped up for us to enjoy. It may not be a crispies! t steep skin around but a pancakes were wonderfully soft. The steep was then whisked divided as a kitchen prepped it up for a second march (a choice of using a beef in boiled noodles or rice). Later in a evening, it emerged all diced up as well as connecting with niblets of feathery boiled rice as well as chopped open onions which we all ate even yet a tummies were full.

fluffy boiled rice with cubed Peking duck, champagne prawns
The grill does monthly promotions revving up their repertoire of attempted favourites as well as October's promotion is champagne, a prime part in Li Yen's barbarous mooncakes (more upon which later). We got to preview a oven oven oven baked prawns with champagne (RM25 per person) - all gleaming from bath of champagne scented sauce. we theory if Cleopatra believes in divert baths, because not anoint prawns with a hold of bubbly for a wonderful sensation. While we wasn't as well prejudiced to a hardness of a prawns which seemed to miss a bounciness we prefer, we did suffer a bubbly enhanced sauce.

Baked spare ribs with Chinese tea leaves
When this plate of gleaming oven oven oven baked spare ribs with Chinese tea leaves (RM14 per person) was placed upon a table, we could hear a resounding carol of ooohs as well as aahs. Once it went by a protocol of being photographed to genocide there was overpower as everyone solemnly enjoyed a wonderful pig ribs. Brushed with a honeyed sauce, a pig ribs were literally to die for as a beef was proposal with just a hint of a Chinese tea leaves. Equally as superb was themarine chronicle - oven oven oven baked cod pieces brushed with a similar sugar glaze which done it resemble large fatty pieces of burn siu with a sticky caramelised edges. Mingling ! in betwe en a "char siu" similar to dishes, we additionally had a light tasting home done spinach layered beancurd with shimeji mushrooms as well as spinach (RM12 per piece).
Moet & Chandon champagne snowskin mooncakes
Rounding up cooking was a avocado thickk cream - a luscious tawny dessert with a demeanour same similar to face facade buta feathery light hardness which done it easy to penchant even yet it was a heavy meal.
durian snowskin mooncakes, a selection of 8 mooncakes, oven oven oven baked mooncake with white lotus paste
Since we was during Li Yen, we grabbed a box of Li Yen's mooncakes to sample. Famous for their Moet & Chandon Champagne snowskin mooncakes (RM8.50 nett per piece), this year they have introduced their honeyed pinkish Moet & Chandon Champagne Rose chronicle (RM15 nett per piece). Even yet a pinkish chronicle looked darn pretty, we felt a rose taste should have been a tiny some-more subtle as itfelt a tiny as well jarringly honeyed as well as slightly artificial. Instead, we still elite theirclassic champagne chronicle which trumped a other mooncakes.Another renouned mooncake is a durianmini snowskin mooncake (RM8.50 nett). we had great expectations for this mooncake as when we cut intoitthere was a beautiful aroma of a sharp durian butupon tasting it, we felt thetexture of a stuffing was a tiny unevenly churned together. Moreovereven yet it had a clever aroma, it didn'ttaste similar to there was most durian in a lotus paste.As we had to get a box of eight, we additionally sampled their mini oven oven oven baked mooncake with white lotus pulp (RM8.50 nett). It wasn't as well honeyed but a skin wasjust abit as well dry for me.siu mai with prawn roe
Making it a trilogy of reviews, we motionless to give Li Yen's low total a exam run a single Sunday. They have been famous for their low total as well as based upon how full it is any Sunday, there's a unchanging clientele of people who adore theirdaintymorsels.Similar to their food as well as mooncakes, there's an air of refineness to their low total offerings. No large portions but punch distance ones which appear to have less oil as well as fats, so a after goods of a lunch is most easier upon a tummy.
beef dumplings, grouper strap chee cheong fun, feathery burn siu baos
I enjoyed a burn siu baos or steamed pig buns (3 pieces for RM9), not as well honeyed pig stuffing encased in a soothing feathery buns. The siu mai (4 pieces for RM10) was dainty as well as filled with chopped prawns, pig as well as mushrooms. we loved a prawn roe which topped any square as they had a slight punch to them indicating they were great as well as fresh.light as air yam puffs
Every month, they additionally have promotional low total equipment as well as we sampled their steamed covering baked sweat bread (ma lai koh for RM10) - feathery consume similar to baked sweat bread with tiny oil. Also from a promotional menu is a beef dumplings (3 pieces for RM12) - beef balls with a hint of ginger encased in a wantan wrapper which is low fried.
antique looking vases, feathery steamed covering cake, open rolls, flowering plant emblem as well as avocado rolls
I similar to their unusual chee cheong fun equipmen! t - we s ampled their grouper strap chronicle (RM11.50) which had chunks of a fish as well as a vessel boiled chee cheong fun with XO salsa (RM11.50). The vessel boiled chronicle was unique as well as poetic as it was pressed with a XO sauce, creation any punch full of flavour. Another prime was a ku chai dumplings (3 pieces for RM9). You can either order them steamed or vessel fried. While it was a tiny oily, a dumplings were laden with open onions as well as teeny weeny chopped prawns. The taro dumplings or wu kok (3 pieces for RM9) was additionally similarly great with a light as air feathery exterior as well as a soothing yam texture. A must for all low total lovers is har gau (4 pieces for RM10) where prawns have been encased in a transparent as well as soothing skin. We additionally sampled a avocado rolls (RM9) - an unusual combo of tawny avocado with chopped bananas in a open hurl wrapped with crunchy kataifi pastry. The open rolls (RM9) was great as well as crispy but zero well-developed in taste. My slightest prime was a low friedmango prawn rolls (RM10) given there was definitely a miss of honeyed mango taste with a prawns. We finished a dish with their seafood noodles (RM35 for a tiny portion) - poetic strands of noodles braised as well as served with an abundant volume ofseafood: prawns, scallops as well as fish.While a low total was not as well salty, we did feel a noodleshad a tad as well most sodium. Nevertheless, a total low total knowledge was enjoyable. Service is briskespecially after we have placed your orders. It can get a tiny chaotic especially upon Sundays as a place can get packaged to a brim.
avocado cream
The total dining knowledge during Li Yen has been memorable indeed as well as we vowed to lapse for their low total as they definitely done us a fan with their healthier chronicle of those tasty morsels to be enjoyed upon a! lazy Su nday. Also high upon a priority list is another turn of which beautiful oven oven oven baked spare ribs with Chinese tea leaves with a play of piping prohibited white rice to savour.
Li Yen
Ritz-CarltonHotel
Jalan ImbiKuala Lumpur
Tel:03-2142 8000
(Non Halal. Open for lunch from12 noon to 2.30pm from Mondays to Saturdays, 10.30am to 2.30pm for Sundaysand Public Holidays. For dinner, they have been opened from 6.30-10.30pm daily. Mooncakes have been available until twenty-two September. Reservations have been advised especially for low total upon Sunday lunchtime. For some-more pictures, see my Flickr set.)
*Notice: The reviewer declares which part of this review was by call in from a restaurant. The mooncakes as well as low total were all paid for by a reviewer.