藍藜麥雞肉沙拉 Kale Quinoa Chicken Salad @ La Juiceria Superfoods USJ21 Main Place Mall

December 31.2023 Lunch

@ La Juiceria Superfoods Main Place Mall USJ21 (click here to Google Map)

GF-21 & 22, Main Place Mall, 47630 Subang Jaya, Selangor

GPS Location: 3°01'34.6"N 101°34'50.8"E 
藍藜麥雞肉沙拉 Kale Quinoa Chicken Salad rm$23.90 👍👍👍😋😋😋 8/10

Total bill: rm$27.70
Budget: rm$20 - rm$40++
Payment: Cash or Credit Card
Cuisine: Western and Fusion

Pork free: No Pork here, Available are Chicken, Beef dishes

Alcohol free: No Alcohol here

Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: Yes

Internet Wifi speed: N/A  

Digital Nomad Work-friendly Café: Unlikely

Electrical outlets for Digital Device: Unlikely

Free Drinking Water: Yes, Self Service

Menu prices: plus Service Charge 10% and SST 6%

Order & Delivery: Table Service or QR code on table

On-line Delivery Service: https://order.lajuiceriagroup.com/en_MY/

Indoor Seating tables: 6 tables (4ppl tables)

Outdoor Seating: 9 tables (3-4ppl tables)

Drive Through: No

Take away : Yes

Dine-in: Yes

Happy Hour: N/A

Parking: MPSJ (rm$0.50/hour) or Mall Parking (1st 2 hours rm$2, subsequent rm$1/hour)

Photos taken using: Huawei P60 Pro
Thoughts: Today's lunch is a rm$23.90 "藍藜麥雞肉沙拉 Kale Quinoa Chicken Salad" with the following recipe: 

烤雞胸肉 Grilled Chicken Breast (GI 0, GL 0)

羽衣甘藍 Kale (GI 5, GL 3)

藜麥 Quinoa (GI 53, GL 7.3)

甜玉米 Sweet Corn (GI 55, GL 8.4)

櫻桃西紅柿 Cherry Tomatoes (GI 3,0 GL 1.1)

日本黃瓜 Japanese Cucumber (GL 15, GL 0.4)

蘿蔔 Carrots (GL 35, GL 2)

白芝麻 White Sesame (GL 35, GL 8.1)

青檸檬角  Lime Wedge (GL 40, GL 1)

Caper's Plant-based dressing (GI 20, GL 0.8)

The menu describe this Recipe has a total of 514 Kcal with 35g Carbs + 32g Proteins + 27g Fats. According to findings (from the web), the entire concoction are with Low GI and Low GL, but still with a reasonable amount of Calorie for a Proper lunch meal! 

There are all-together 8 choices in the "Low Carb - Low Calory - Plant-based" Page and the other Recipe sampled was on December 9.2023, which it the the rm$22.90 "羽衣甘藍蘑菇淺田沙拉 Kale Mushroom Asada Salad" that comes in 537Kcal. 

Will definitely be back to any "La Juiceria" for Recipes on this page! 

Food today: 8 / 10 👍👍👍😋😋😋
Price: 7 / 10 👍👍

Value for Money: 8 / 10 👍👍👍
Service: 8 / 10 👍👍👍
Ambiance: 8 / 10 👍👍👍
Parking: 6 / 10 👍
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport: 7 / 10 👍👍 (400m from USJ21LRT station)

Website: https://lajuiceria.com.my/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LaJuiceriaMY/

Menu: https://lajuiceria.com.my/our-food/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lajuiceria/

Telephone: +603-8601 9698 
Operation hours: 10:00am - 10:00pm

藍藜麥雞肉沙拉 Kale Quinoa Chicken Salad rm$23.90

  

The Menu (Low Carb - Low Calory - Plant-based Page)

 

The Café

  

@ La Juiceria Superfoods USJ21 Main Place Mall

 

熱"零拿鐵"配杏仁奶 Hot Zero Latte w/Almond Milk @ ZUS Coffee in USJ21 Main Place Mall

December 31.2023 Coffee Time

@ ZUS Coffee in USJ21 Main Place Mall (click here to Google Map)

GF-20, Main Place Mall, 47640 Subang Jaya, Selangor

GPS Location: 3°01'35.7"N 101°34'51.6"E
熱"零拿鐵"配杏仁奶 Hot Zero Latte w/Almond Milk (x2) rm$11.80 👍👍😋😋 7/10

Total bill: rm$13.10 (for a "Buy 1 Get 1 Free" offer)
Budget: rm$10 - rm$20++
Payment: Cash, Credit Card, Touch&Go  
Cuisine: Coffee, Non-Coffee, 

Pork free: No PORK, available are 

Alcohol free: No Alcohol here 

Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: Yes

Internet Wifi speed: N/A  

Digital Nomad Work-friendly Cafe: No

Electrical outlets for Digital Device: No

Free Drinking Water: No

Menu prices: Net 

Order & Delivery: Self Service 

On-line Delivery Service: FoodPanda, https://linktr.ee/zuscoffee

Indoor Seating tables: 4-5 tables (2ppl tables)

Outdoor Seating: No 

Drive Through: No

Take away : Yes

Dine-in: Yes

Happy Hour: N/A

Parking: MPSJ or Mall Parking 

Photos taken using: Huawei P60 Pro
Thoughts: ZUS Coffee offers a "無罪系列 Guilt-free series that is supposedly 無乳 Dairy Free and 生酮友善 Keto Friendly Coffee" called the "零系列 ZERO Series". At rm$11.80, the "ZERO Latte" can go with 植物奶 Plant-based Milk options of 燕麥奶 Oat, 杏仁奶 Almond Milk or 豆奶 Soy Milk. AND today's Coffee is a rm$11.80 ZERO Latte of:

熱"零拿鐵"配杏仁奶 Hot Zero Latte with Almond Milk (150 Kcal, GI 50 and GL 5)

ZUS also offers a "KETO Black" variant which is often called a "Bulletproof Coffee", comes in a cup of Black Coffee with Butter! And here are some Statistics of the 4 Keto friendly Coffee variants by ZUS: 

燕麥奶拿鐵 Oat Milk Latte (60 Kcal, GI 30, GL 18.4)

杏仁奶拿鐵 Almond Milk Latte (80 Kcal, GI 50 and GL 5)

豆奶拿鐵 Soy Milk Latte (100 Kcal, GI 30, GL 1.8)

防彈咖啡 Bulletproof Black Coffee (300 Kcal, GI of 50+, GL <1)

Interesting and will be back to try them in any ZUS outlets! 

Food today: 7 / 10 👍👍😋😋

Price: 5 / 10 😐
Value for Money: 7 / 10 👍👍
Service: 8 / 10 👍👍👍
Ambiance: 6 / 10 👍
Parking: 8 / 10 👍👍👍 (Mall Parking at 1pm today)
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport: 7 / 10 👍👍 (300m+ from USJ21 LRT station) 

Website: https://zuscoffee.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZUSCoffeeMY/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zus.coffee/
Telephone: +6012-816 1340 
Operation hours: 08:00am - 09:40pm

熱"零拿鐵"配杏仁奶 Hot Zero Latte w/Almond Milk rm$11.80

  

The Menu

The Café

  

@ ZUS Coffee in USJ21 Main Place Mall

 

米粉配魚丸 Fish ball Beehon & 熱檸檬茶烏 Lemon Tea O @ 天天茶餐室 R.A.M Food Corner USJ20

December 31.2023 Breakfast

@ 天天茶餐室 R.A.M Food Corner USJ20 (click here to Google Map)

12, Jalan USJ 20/8C, 47630 Subang Jaya, Selangor

GPS Location:  
熱檸檬茶烏 Lemon Tea O rm$3.80 👍👍😋😋 7/10

米粉配魚丸 Fish ball Beehon rm$8 👍😋 6/10

Total bill: rm$11.80
Budget: rm$10 - rm$15++
Payment: Cash  
Cuisine: Chinese and Malaysian Hawkes Food  

Pork free: Porky place, Chicken meats, Some seafoods for noodles 

Alcohol free: Bottled Beers

Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: Fan only

Internet Wifi speed: N/A  

Digital Nomad Work-friendly Cafe: No

Electrical outlets for Digital Device: No

Free Drinking Water: No

Menu prices: Net 

Order & Delivery: Order from Stalls

On-line Delivery Service: Not sure

Indoor Seating tables: 20+tables (4ppl tables) 

Outdoor Seating: 4-5 tables (4ppl tables) 

Drive Through: No

Take away : Yes

Dine-in: Yes

Happy Hour: N/A

Parking: MPSJ  

Photos taken using: Huawei P60 Pro
Thoughts: The single corner shop lot in USJ20 offers at least the following hawker food stalls:

小玉豆霸 Soy Bean pudding and drink 

沙撈越囉麵 Sarawak Noodle

怡保雞絲河粉 Ipoh "Gai See (Chicken)" Hor Fun *** new since last visit ***

金寶魚丸粉 Kampar Fish ball Noodle

魚滑粉 Fish paste Noodle 

天天雞飯 Chicken Rice

板麵/伊麵 Pan Mee/Yee Mee

華聯咖哩麵/魚丸粉 OUG Curry Mee/Fish Ball Noodle 

阿梅豬腳飯 Pork Throttle Rice *** new since last visit ***

椰漿飯配炸雞 Nasi Lemak with Fried Chicken

張記蓮藕湯豬/胡椒湯 Lotus root soup with pork/pepper soup

釀豆腐 Yong Tao Foo *** new since last visit ***

文冬雲吞麵 Wanton Mee

炒粿條 Char Koay Teow

Today breakfast is a rm$8 "米粉配魚丸 Fish ball Beehon" with Beehoon,3 Fish Balls, some bean sprouts and topped with fried onions. 

1 portion Beehoon (Rice Vermicelli) (340 Kcal GI 35 GL GL 14.6)

3 fish ball (40 Kcal Should be Low GI and Low GL)

1 small cup bean sprout (15 Kcal GI 0 GL 0)

Lemon Tea without sugar (5 Kcal Should be Low GI and Low GL)

Total Calories is about 400-450 Calories with Low GI and Medium GL due to the BeeHoon

USJ20's Multi-hawker stall Kopitiam is the only Kopitiam in USJ20 and USJ21 area (as of today). Since the last visit Oct 15.2022 for a night time 小炒 Xiao Chao AND Dec 19.2021 for a lunch take-away of "豬扒飯 Pork chop rice" in the midst of Covid-19! The night time operator and the morning Taiwanese food stall have both change hands as of today to other operators. 

NEW stall since end of 2022 is likely the "怡保雞絲河粉 Ipoh "Gai See (Chicken)" Hor Fun" (at the back of the shop)! AND of course, 2 of the "popular" hawker stalls here are still in operation: the 華聯咖哩麵/魚丸粉 OUG Curry Mee/Fish Ball Noodle hawker stall's "咖哩麵 Curry Mee" and the 天天雞飯 Chicken Rice stall. 

AND another new stalls since last visit 1 year ago is "阿梅豬腳飯 Pork Throttle Rice" offering 泰式滷豬腳飯 Thai Style Pork Throttle rice, 泰式滷豬嬤嬤麵 Signature Braised Pork Mama Noodle, as well as Ala Cart dishes of 單點滷蛋 Braised Eggs, 單點滷豆腐 Braised Tofu, and 單點泰式滷豬腳 Thai Braised Pork. AND looking forward to sample this hawker stall. 

Food today: 6 / 10 👍😋

Price: 6 / 10 👍
Value for Money: 6 / 10 👍
Service: 7 / 10 👍👍
Ambiance: 5 / 10 👍
Parking: 8 / 10 👍👍👍 (7:45am today)
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport: 7 / 10 👍👍 (350m+ from USJ20 LRT station)

Website: not found
Facebook: not found 

Telephone: not found  

Operation hours: 08:00am - 03:00pm (Breakfast and Lunch Hawker stalls)

Operation hours: 05:00pm - 11:00pm (Evening 大炒 Dai Chao)

米粉配魚丸 Fish ball Beehon rm$8 & 熱檸檬茶烏 Lemon Tea O rm$3.80

  

The Stall - 華聯咖哩麵 OUG Curry Mee

  

The Kopitiam

@ 天天茶餐室 R.A.M Food Corner USJ20

 

香煎挪威鱒鮭 Pan Fried Norwegian Salmon & 燒春雞拼盤 Spring Chicken Platter @ Little Bally Cafe SS15

December 30.2023 Dinner

@ Little Bally Cafe SS15 (click here to Google Map)

58, Jalan SS 15/4, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor

GPS Location:  
香煎挪威鱒鮭 Pan Fried Norwegian Salmon rm$33.90 👍👍😋😋 7/10

燒春雞拼盤 Spring Chicken Platter rm$13.90 👍😅 5.5/10

Total bill: rm$61.65
Budget: rm$30 - rm$45++ per person
Payment: Cash or Credit Card
Cuisine: Malaysian, Fusion, Western

Pork free: Pork, Seafood (Sotong, Prawns, Fish, Salmon etc), Chicken, Duck

Alcohol free: Bottled Beers, Cocktails

Air-Conditioning in Restaurant: Yes

Internet Wifi speed: N/A  

Digital Nomad Work-friendly Cafe: No

Electrical outlets for Digital Device: No

Free Drinking Water: No

Menu prices: Menu Price plus 5% Service Charge and 6% SST

Order & Delivery: Table Service

On-line Delivery Service: https://api.whatsapp.com/

Indoor Seating tables: 2 corner shop lots with many tables for 2-6/8ppl dining

Outdoor Seating: Maybe 15-20 tables (outdoor roof top or open) 

Drive Through: No

Take away : Yes

Dine-in: Yes

Happy Hour: 4pm-8pm rm$10.90 to rm$18.90 meals, Before 6pm Spring Chicken at rm$13.90

Parking: MPSJ  

Photos taken using: Huawei P60 Pro
Thoughts: Today' early dinner before 6pm is to enjoy the promotion price of rm$13.90 for the popular "燒春雞拼盤 BBQ Spring Chicken Platter" (Promotion Price is before 6pm with a minimum spending of rm$30). The Spring Chicken will be rm$28.90 after 6pm! Comes with fries, a little bit of 沙拉 Salad and some 甜辣醬 sweet-spicy sauce, all sitting on an "舊中國金屬托盤 Old Chinese metal Tray" and of course with the 主菜 Main Course of 燒春雞 Spring Chicken on the 垂直串 vertical skewer on the tray. Overall, the BBQ Spring Chicken is well done and not too dry, not over cooked but just too salty for my liking. 

燒春雞拼盤 BBQ Spring Chicken (370 Calories GI 0 GL 0)

炸薯條 Potato Fries (250 Calories GI 75+ GL 23+)

沙拉 Salad (50 Calories GI 15 GL1)

Total Calories (650-800 Calories Low GI High GL due to the Potato Fries)

Another dinner dish today is a rm$33.90 "煎挪威鮭魚 Pan Fried Norwegian Salmon" with Potato Wedges and some salad on the side:

煎挪威鮭魚 Pan Fried Norwegian Salmon (370 Calories GI 0 GL 0)

炸馬鈴薯角 Potato Wedges (200 Calories GI 90+ GL 23+)

沙拉 Salad (50 Calories GI 15 GL1)

Total Calories (650-800 Calories Low GI High GL due to the Potato Wedges)

Compare to 米飯 Rice, 義大利麵 Pasta, 馬鈴薯 Potatoes, and 麵包 Bread, 馬鈴薯 Potatoes are said to be the healthiest of these 澱粉類 starchy and 複合碳水化合物食物 complex carbohydrate foods. This is because potatoes are dense in 營養素 nutrients, containing essential 礦物質 minerals, 維生素 vitamins, and other 微量營養素 micronutrients. AND of course 烤馬鈴薯 Baked Potato are the better choice as 炸薯條 fried potatoes like fries and 炸馬鈴薯角 wedges are prepared with 飽和脂肪 saturated fats which are culprits of 高膽固醇 high cholesterol. 

The glycemic index (GI) of 炸薯條 French fries is on the high side, and basically with a GI of 75-95+, this is due to the high starch content and the way they are prepared. AND the glycemic load (GL) is above 20 which is also on the high side as well. Considering it to be a High GI and High GL Food, making Potato the same as 米飯 Rice and some 麵類 Noodles! Therefore, Potato should be consumed in managed frequency and portions for People with 糖尿病 Diabetic or 糖尿病前期症狀 Pre-Diabetic Symptoms. 

Interesting history of the "炸薯條 French Fries" is that despite its name and popularity, the French fries are not 法國 French. One story claims that the origins can be found in 比利時 Belgium, where historians claim potatoes were being fried in the late-1600s. And the reason why it comes with the name "炸薯條 French fries" is that when the 美國遠徵軍 American Expeditionary Forces arrived in Belgium during World War I, they assumed that chips were a French dish because French was spoken in the Belgian Army. However, it is perhaps the American Fast Food Giant of 麥當勞 McDonald's that introduced the popularity of the "炸薯條 French Fries" to the World and influencing many Western dishes to offer it as a de facto side dish! AND the fries was first debuted on the original menu of McD back in 1955 at the first McDonald's restaurant, founded by 雷·克羅克 Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, 美國的伊利諾州 Illinois. 

SS15's "Little Bally Cafe" is a 2 corner shop lot, split by an open air table area; offering lots of indoors as well as outdoors tables with roof top as well as open air dining choices. The "Porky and Booze" eatery offers:

共享拼盤 Platters for Sharing

鐵板料理 Sizzling plates

芝士焗飯 Cheese Baked Rice

豬腳大餐 Pork Knuckles

碟頭飯 Plate Rice (Sotong, Pork, Chicken, Mantis Prawns, Grilled Teppanyaki

義大麵食選擇 a good choice of Pasta

披薩 Pizza

雞/鮭魚/豬/魚/排或鴨肉餐 Steaks (Chicken, Salmon, Pork, Fish, Duck etc)

AND the Café is open for dinner only to mid-night supper and booze until 2am.

As for the 鮭魚 Salmon dish, definitely enjoyable except for the High GI and High GL Potato Wedges! From the healthy perspective, 鮭魚 Salmon are one of the best available sources of "ω-3脂肪酸" Omega-3 fats as well as many other essential nutrients such as 維他命 Vitamin A, B and D, 鉀 potassium and 硒 selenium. 挪威鱒鮭 Norwegian Salmon from 挪威 Norway is said to produce one of the better Salmons in the world; this is because Norway is a long country, with rugged coastline stretches more than 100 000 kilometers, second only to Canada. Norway's plentiful cold, long fjords and coastal waters provide the perfect conditions for year-round production of salmon and trout of the highest quality.

Food today: 6.5 / 10 👍👍😋

Price: 6 / 10 👍
Value for Money: 6 / 10 👍
Service: 6 / 10 👍 
Ambiance: 6.5 / 10 👍
Parking: 4 / 10 😐😐 
LRT/MRT/BRT/MTR Transport: 7 / 10 👍👍 

Website: not found
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/littleballycafe/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littleballycafe/
Telephone: +6017-576 4495 
Operation hours: 04:00pm - 02:00am

香煎挪威鱒鮭 Pan Fried Norwegian Salmon rm$33.90

  

燒春雞拼盤 Spring Chicken Platter rm$13.90

  

The Menu

 

The Café and Pub

  

@ Little Bally Cafe SS15