Budget Food Crawl at Pavilion KL
I’m sure most would agree with my if I say that Pavilion in general is an expensive place to dine in. Being a higher class shopping mall populated by famous brands smacked in the middle of KL city, food definitely doesn’t come cheap here. When Saucer and I were there for movie one evening, we tried to explore looking for food that wouldn’t hurt our pockets too much. Of course, where did we go but to the Pavilion Food Republic food court at the Lower Ground?
There were plenty of stalls at Food Republic, making it that much harder to choose. After taking a walk around, I settled for a stall call Little Wok, which served Chinese style individual rice/noodles dishes. I chose it simply because the queue was long and I was in the mood for some rice. I always thought if there’s a crowd, the food must be good or above average. So I ordered the Dried Chilli Chicken Cubes with rice and waited patiently.
Dried Chilli Chicken Cubes with rice (RM6.90)
The rice was served in a cute mini metal wok (perhaps coming from the name of the stall) and was generous with gravy and chicken meat. Unfortunately, upon trying it out, it was nothing like what I expected ‘Kung Pow Chicken’ to be. The gravy was just boasting of salty flavour and nothing else. Really. No spicy taste at all. And after a few bites, I just couldn’t stand the saltiness so I didn’t even finish it.
As for Saucer, he was in the mood for Korean food, so he stopped by the stall Sam-Sam Korean Cuisine. The stall was not as busy compared to Little Wok, but he went ahead and ordered anyway – the Sam-Sam Dak Galbi with rice. This came in a set with kimchi, rice and some pickled vegetables.
Sam-Sam Korean Cuisine, Pavilion food court
Fortunately, the chicken on hot plate fared a little better than my dish. The original way of presenting Dak Galbi was actually on a much bigger hot plate, where one can mix the chicken, vegetables and rice all together, as shown here. Anyway, the taste of this was quite similar to the one we had in Seoul, except that the vegetables used was different. This version looked like it was Westernized? I mean, you definitely won’t find Koreans putting Thousand Island on their vege, that’s for sure. *LOL*
Sam-Sam Dak Galbi (RM15)
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Seriously, when was the last time you had ‘budget’ food?
Ever since you became a food ambassador, you have always dined in high class restaurants, for free. I’m so jealous of you!
khengsiong´s last blog ..Kota Kinabalu, and my Return Flight
Eh I eat at reasonable priced places most of the time ok
No need to be jealous!!
There got so much varieties le….I love to makan there also
uLi´s last blog ..Piggy Malacca Trip 2010 – Nadeje
Where do you eat mostly at Pavilion?
honestly, i have not dine at republic >< except for the soya drink there
ai wei´s last blog ..More in Umaiya @ IOI Bouvelard, Puchong Jaya
LOL! Then it’s time you give it a try!
i love mangoes too!! =D those foods looked quite nice too.
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You need to know how to choose!
dropping bye
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I tried the Ramen @ Food Republic, not bad though~~
mimid3vils´s last blog ..It’s A Noodle Bar
Really?? I will take note and try that next time then
Try the Filipino – Pancake House International…very nice!
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Ohh cool! Pancakes!!
i havent tried this italian ice cream yet….the food looks good…
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The ice-cream was pretty good.. and almost fat free!
looks good but seldom go there due to the traffic
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I agree with you… Go early should be all right
I want Gelatomio!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Come let’s go hunt for it!
some gelato for me too!
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LOL! Come and get it!
Hard to do a budgeted crawl in Pavilion really. Just go with the flow, and count your losses (or gains, in kg) as you go along.
After all, eating in malls has never been cheap.
You’re right.. but it’s good to explore a little and try out the food courts some times