Sundays at Sassorosso, Jalan Yap Kwan Seng

Sassorosso, a not-so-new, cute little Italian joint, is tucked in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, a bit unassuming on the outside but lovely once you enter. The good folks here (who also run Giovino's) have a Sunday lunch deal that we finally got around to trying.

We went for the semi-buffet deal (includes appetiser & soup buffet, ala carte mains and dessert). Had a hard night prior so sadly, the booze option was wasted on us (top-up RM50++ for free flow of prosecco and wines).

Here's what we missed. If you're thirsty and you know it, clap your hands!

Buffet spread of salad...

... tortilla, pasta, clams in wine broth...

...cold cuts, grilled vegetables and fresh greens. We were well stuffed by the time we worked through this. Missing in the pic was a steaming cauldron of fresh green pea soup.

Hui's Grilled Jumbo Tiger Prawns. Jumbo awright!

My Pan Fried Sea Bass with potato crust. Truffle butter sauce was a lil' weak but not a complaint really. This was well-executed.

Mei Shean's main, Pan-seared calf-liver, was a formidable deposit of vitality, oozing juice, blood on a bed of mash. Too rich for a single sitting and half of this had to go back to the kitchen.

The sweets, (clockwise from top: Millefuille, Pannacotta and Creme Brulee) went largely under-appreciated as we simply were sated beyond negotiation.

Enjoyed our afternoon at Sassorosso, and during this time, eyed plenty of families enjoying a slow, lazy ala carte lunch. The deal does come in huge portions, with great service at RM118++ per head (without the booze but with free flow of fresh juices; RM168++ with the booze, totally recommended!)

Sassorosso Italian Restaurant & Wine Retailer

9 Lorong Yap Kwan Seng

50450 KL

Tel: +603-21166 6428

http://www.sassorosso.com.my/

Lunch Buffet at Sarkie's Corner, E&O Hotel #4

Papa Chow chowing on some lettuce.
Dessert Spread


Plate # lost count: with orange chiffon cake, fruity sponge, moussy something, red jelly, orange mini-cake, sago thingy. An excellent excellent buffet. Everybody was happy, it pleased and stuffed us all to the brim.

Lunch Buffet at Sarkie's Corner, E&O Hotel #3

Plate#4: The crispiest heavenliest roti canai with gravy and two satays with peanut sauce. Apparently the satay veered towards the excessively sweet, having not eated satay for about a decade, I didn't really notice. The roti chef seriously deserves an award.
Another award-deserving chef was the tall-hatted pictured on the back left with his back turned towards us - producing very praise-worthy char koay teow. The supremely good roti chef is on the far right. In front, we have the unmanned ais kacang stall.
Assam Laksa - Min rated this as so-so.
Chef shaving ice onto a bowl of ais kacang.
Topped up with syruppy goodness and condensed milk.

Lunch at Sarkie's Corner, E&O Hotel #2

Chicken Rice booth.
Chef starts fry-up.
Plate #1: Appetizers: (clockwise from front): seafood salad, yee sang (chinese new year raw fish salad), wakame,unagi & salmon sushi, thai salad, tuna salad. Hit.
Plate #2: (clockwise from top): garlic bread, Roasted duck (9:1 fat to flesh ratio), ladyfingers and fish in assam curry, otak-otak, Onion Ring, wonton and possibly the best most beautiful prawns I have ever eaten in my life. Hit.
Plate#3: Chicken rice with Fatty Roasted Duck with ginger & chilli sauce, cucumber and spring onions. Hit.

Lunch Buffet at Sarkie's Corner, E&O Hotel

Mag and Random person on cannonball paying tribute to historicity of site. The 107-year-old hotel has, in the past, played host to Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Noel Coward, Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham and Hermann Hesse. I'm sure Hemmingway popped in at some point as well - but I have no way of proving it. Someone told me so it must be true. Anyway, for us, it is the terror of one-on-one piano examinations which were held in its suites back in the day that is permanently tied to our memory of this place.
We arrived tres early so we had to wait patiently for the buffet to officially begin. The salad spread - Thai egg salad, (front bottom) was excellent. Sorry for poor detail.
Sushi platter
Laksa & grill station.