If this doesn’t make your mouth water, I don’t know what will! Presenting you the latest ultimate bar in town, also known as Craft Brews. They are so advanced that they even have a solid working Twitter account, so do FOLLOW them for LOTS of FREEBIES and DISCOUNTS!

Crafty Craft Brews offers beer connoisseurs a whole new drinking and dining experience, starting with their international microbrewery look, yet maintaing a chic, casual and cosy setting. Looking at the place, it probably fits around 45 people comfortably, perfect for a relaxing corporate evening out!

There’s also an additional space outdoors for those who prefer to wine and dine al fresco. It’s huge capacity outside allows for up to a further 88 seats in total. All will enjoy not only scrumptious non-halal food to go with their home-brewed beers, but the variety of these rare, unique unfiltered beers makes Craft Brews something out of the ordinary, at least in Malaysia!

Utilizing microbreweries around the region, Craft Brews serves up to four draft and 10 bottled beer selections, where two coloured beers from Singapore-based Reddot Brewhouse will be the Restaurant’s signature, premium beers. They are called the Monster Green Lager and the English Ale respectively, served fresh on tap, yum! But more on that later.

Those invited to the bloggers night include our “atas” #porkgang like Horny, KY, Shaolin Tiger, Eyeris, Kim Cun and more. Suanie, Rebecca and Nicholas is pictured above

The place looks awesome, take a look at the wall decorations! Talk about beer-education ;D

There, I told you they had plenty of taps. Crazy Shit.

Oh did I tell you being invited also entitles you to a set of ingredients needed to brew your very own home-brewed beer, among other perks (ie LOOK AT MY VIP CARD!!!)

Of course, the Crazy Ones are here too. How could they not? Nigelais, Kellster and Yatz, at your service.

THEN THE MEGA POP CAME IN! Look at them beautiful towers… don’t you wish you own them? I know you do Well, at least Jessica does haha!

This is when the free flow starts and everyone sings in tune together

Food. OMG. NON HALAL FOOD. Let me try and decipher for you what’s in those plates:

1. Back Ribs – complete

with three kinds of style: Honey Mustard, sweet Malt and Maple Glaze, or tangy and smoky Tex-Mex Hickory BBQ Sauce!
2. Caribbean Spice Chicken and corn cobs, served with yummy portions of home-made wedges (freaking good!!)
3. Lemongrass Butter Grilled Dory Fillet (halal, but nevertheless yummylicious!)
4. Lamb Shank. Word.

The foodies, Ah Bok, Sloppy Chic and BBO also came. It was a meat-crunching galore I tell you, nothing was safe with them around!

April Yim decided to get something different. Here’s the Scampi Aglio Olio pasta which was pretty good. Luckily we were too full otherwise we’d have their desserts which sounded pretty yummy to us! Read:

1. Chocolate-filled Banana Fritters
2. Cinnamon Apple Pie
3. Papaya and Grape Melange
4. Premium ice cream flavours~!

The aformentioned #porkgang, who wiped the servings clean. Thanks guys.

Look at the colouriffic glasses, awesome pawesome aren’t they? You’ll also get a good look at April Yim‘s lips here, now don’t go getting any thoughts hehe…

The day was later spent with some games among others, with free vouchers to give out. Here’s Shaolin Tiger doing the tasting test… and I don’t think he got it right, not with the number of beer selections that was available! I swear I could taste the Spirulina though, which is the ingredient contained in the Monster Green Lager, which is, well, green.

It was truly a fantastic evening for us, thanks to the people at @craftbrews for having us around. It was kind of the first time seeing different groups of blogosphere all congregating at the same place. I will surely visit this place again

And if you do visit it, do call me along! Why? Cause i have this pretty awesome VIP discount card that allows me 30% discount on food items! (not on drinks, sorry :P) and best of all, I’m supposedly the only one that has the card that’s valid till 31st of December 2010!! How cool is that haha… not even the REAL beer drinkers nor the #porkgang has them. *does the victory dance

In any case, you can find them at the following addresS:

G3 Podium, Ground Floor, Menara Batu Kawan,
No.1 Jalan PJU 7/6,
Mutiara Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
03 77223000

You can find them just beside Tesco’s, you can’t miss it at all. Do note that there are Happy Hours from 5pm to 8pm daily, and opened from 12 noon till late

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If you did, chances are that you’ve already stumbled upon this area located at Jalan Hang Tuah, where you can see this brightly lit signboard which has nothing to do with the nasi lemak stall that is situated below it. In fact, it’s pretty amazing that an unknown, unbranded stall like this one got its word-of-mouth recognition although it was situated far away from busy areas of KL.

The area itself is littered with tables and chairs, with only 2 hawker stalls providing nasi lemak and chee cheong fun. But looking at the crowd sitting down huddled together enjoying their meals vivaciously, mostly from residents and students living at the apartments surrounding this area, you’d start to wonder what on earth makes their food so heavenly that PJians like us would go this far, just to have a bite!

Pjians like us, would refer to both me and Andrew from drewnity.com. Usually there would be more people but we decided to have a romantic supper together at around 11pm. And even then, the place was still pretty crowded!

Queuing up at the hawker stall can sometime take unreasonable time, no thanks to customers who would take away up to 10 freaking boxes of nasi lemak at one go! I shit you not! Luckily for us the said situation happened right after we got our food. Can’t help but pity the few people behind us who had to wait at least 10-15 minutes waiting for their turn.

As you can see, the selection is pretty limited in my humble opinion. However, they had to be pretty good because at that time, some of the dishes were being refilled, meaning that quantity of the “kuah” they had wasn’t their strength, but the quality of it!

After verification, we found that it was true that their dishes were to die for. Andrew himself couldn’t resist munching down his food as soon as we got seated at our table. He especially liked the sambal they have, which he always orders extra of.

This meal of his consist of 2 chickens!! Plus other things as well. Here’s one downer point: the food here is actually more expensive compared to other nasi lemak places. They charge for every single piece of food you take!

Oh yes. This is true for the ground nuts and ikan bilis. I kid you not lol.

I was, however, quite curious as a first timer who’s only had first hand information from Andrew, Ren and a few others. I mean, with all the talk about it, I can’t help but put some kind of expectation on it right? Especially after finding out that it was situated at a largely unknown spot, which takes a bit of know-how to get there as well, I was so curious to find out what makes this nasi lemak so special to this point of insatiable craving!

But as I took a look at my dish, I guess there could be many reasons why. I mean, how often do you get to eat luncheon meat together with your nasi lemak? or lap cheong, for that matter. Certainly a source of something unique in town that no one else has. Also, for some reason the messy outlook of the food on my plate looks appealing!

We gobbled up our food without much chatting between us and Andrew’s friend who came a bit later. In the end I guess the portion was still quite lacking despite the price I paid for, which as around RM6-ish. Andrew’s was RM8 cause he took two pieces of chicken. I guess when the stall owners know they are famous, they can charge any price they want because customers will come back for more anyway, since there’s no competing option for them.

That’s when we ordered the chee cheong fun which was the only other option available at this place. It was yummy, and thankfully, cheap as well. One thing Andrew tried to ask me to do was to put in the soup water (the boiling water used to cook the “liu” into our finished plate of chee cheong fun, to add to the leftover sauce. This is then drank like a soup which is apparently a tradition that came from somewhere! Who else knows about this, please tell me why!

Anyway, I have to say the experience was good though. All in all the food here was pretty tasty but I guess I wished the nasi lemak was a little bit more cheaper so that I can have more on my plate. Drinks were reasonably priced though limited in option as well. Reminds me of Kin Kin Spicy Pan Mee whereby only their Spicy Pan Mee and herbal drinks are sold throughout the day lol. Talk about exclusivity

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