KLIGF at Lai Ching Yuen

Last Friday evening, LM & I decided to head down to KLCC to meet Harrie & SH for dinner. Harrie & I had left over vouchers from our earlier visit to Oggi. However half of KL was cordoned off for a trial run of the police operations from the ASEAN summit. No matter, I just took the LRT 2 KLCC and Harrie volunteered to drive through the barriers, completely ignoring the sirens and convoys of flashing Perdana, Waja & superbikes behind us.

Its true, we did get through all the 'closed' routes, which probably explains the Head of Police for KL Traffic Operations' statement released yesterday that errant motorists caught violating the closures will be summoned on the spot and may face further disciplinary action. I guess thanks to us, the traffic police had a 'drill' of where a potential assasin or just 4 hungry souls may barge thru road closures. At least we now know that the head of states are much safer with our simulation.

Anyhow we arrived safely at the Regent hotel approximately 8.45pm amidst curious policemen staring at us. In fact our backup line was going to be 'We're carpark inspectors for the Summit'. Upon arrival at the restaurant's entrance bottles of Limited Ed Heineken Magnum greeted us. In a flash I was asking how much would it cost me to drink the same beer but from a well printed 1.5L bottle. RM120++ is far too high a price so we settled for a regular bottle each (minus LM). A bottle of Chardonnay from Oxford Landing was also ordered. I must say that the wine selection was rather limited and unimpressive.

We then proceeded to savour our varying orders of the menu. More details of the menu can be found here :

http://www.klgourmetfest.com/Restaurants/LCY/LCY%20menu.html

Photos of the dinner can be found at this link:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/taichowgroup/album?.dir=cb05&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/taichowgroup/my_photos

Overall the food was mediocre but with the discount of 50% (from the eat 1 free 1 vouchers), we had fun nevertheless. This visit pretty much wraps up my reviews on KLIGF venues as Chalet was very unprofessional to cancel my booking at the last minute to facilitate renovations on a Sunday & Monday! Perhaps next year we'll scour for some good bargains but also hope for better food from the participating restaurants.