Shopping at Carrefour and Subang Parade Shopping Mall 9 November 2007

Before I even had a chance to get up at 9am, I had already received so many sms from my colleague asking me about different things that had to be done while I wasn’t working. Tracy had gone to work by then. She had to be in school by 740am.

Since I woke up late and that night Tracy and I were going to have dinner with her friend Felix, I decided not to go too far. I took the train from Setia Jaya and went to the next stop Subang Jaya along the Port Klang line. On the way, I sms a former housemate whose office is in Puchong whether he’s free to have lunch with me.

I walked around Carrefour which is situated next to the Subang Jaya train station. Carrefour Subang Jaya was having some renovation in the store at the time so one floor was closed. I was a bit disappointed since I was looking forward to shop at Carrefour again. But the consolation was that the kitchen department (one of my favourite department in a department store besides clothes department) was not closed so I bought an egg separator, a lemon squeezer and 4 different sizes of funnels. I had bought a lot of kitchen gadgets since my travel to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in recent years.

When my stomach started to make noise, I had to decide what to eat. I did not receive any reply from my former housemate so I called him instead. But unfortunately he does not use the handphone number anymore while he did not answer at another number I called. Oh well!

Tracy called to ask me where I was and what I was having for lunch. She told me I was not at the Subang Parade Shopping Mall but Carrefour. There wasn’t anything that fancies me in Carrefour eventhough there are Japanese restaurants, Kenny Rogers Roasters, The Chicken Rice Shop, KFC, McDonald’s and a food court. I wanted to try The Chicken Rice Shop but since there was not a single person inside the shop, I did not dare to go in.

I walked over to Subang Parade Shopping Mall and glanced at the Directory to see what foods are on offer. There were Chicken Rice Shop, Nando’s Chickenland, The Manhattan Fish Market, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Sakae Sushi, Secret Recipe, King Pie, Dome Café, Dave’s Deli, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Uncle Lim’s Café, T.G.I. Friday’s, Eden Restaurant, Coca Thai Restaurant, Oversea Restaurant, Rasa Thai & Satay Yanti’’s. etc.

I never ate in The Manhattan Fish Market so I went into this shop. It is operated by Revenue Valley Sdn. Bhd. and located at Lot 20E, F&H Lower Ground Floor, Subang Parade Shopping Mall (Tel: 03 56370121). Their website is www.manhattanfishmarket.com

I ordered a set lunch of Fish & Chips which included a glass of ice lemon tea, mushroom soup and Fish & Chips.

The drink was ok. The mushroom soup was a bit on the diluted side. The Fish & Chips consisted of two big pieces of fish and lots of chips with a dash of seasoning on top, quite a large serving. To accompany the fish and chips, there were three small bowls of chilli sauce, tartare sauce and garlic. I could only eat one piece of the fish because it was on the oily side and then there were a lot of chips so I couldn’t finish them as well. Total price came to RM21.74 including 15% tax.

I would think twice of going to The Manhattan Fish Market when it opens in 1 Borneo Hypermall Kota Kinabalu next year.

After lunch, I walked around Parkson for a while before taking the train back. I only bought a small rice scoop for my sushi making from Parkson.