Dinner @ Mandi Mandi

At least twice a year, SRB and I love to indulge ourselves in some sort of exotic dining experience for birthday or anniversary celebrations. You know, places where the lights are really dimmed sampai you have to squint your eyes to read the menu and sometimes, you can't even see clearly the food you're eating hehe.

I have to give most of the credits to dear SRB coz he's the one yg selalu rajin buat research or drive around to explore new restaurants for us to try (most of our favourite restaurants were discovered by chance). I know this is gonna sound lame but it's kinda thrilling to get ready, dress up, not knowing exactly where we're going for dinner since usually he won't tell me until we almost reach the place.

Haaanyway, this year we went to a place called Mandi Mandi in Taman TAR, as you can see, a restaurant that serves Thai and Malay cuisine.

Had duck salad (surprisingly yummy eventho the thought of eating duck made me squirm), seafood tomyam, squid sauteed in garlic & oyster sauce, dried chili BBQ chicken and kailan ikan masin. The price was a bit expensive but everthing we ordered was super delicious, tak tipu, and served in quite a generous portion. We honestly struggled to finish it all up.

The ambience, memang memenuhi criteria 'a romantic dinner for 2'. In fact, I thought it was too romantic coz it was too dark, quiet, you could hear nothing except for the flowing water nearby and cengkerik, agak self-conscious to talk or laugh at the normal pitch we usually do hehe. Service was great, waiters were extremely attentive and friendly - too friendly coz they kept asking us ada kena gigit nyamuk tak hahah! Nope we did not thanks to the strategically-placed traditional ubat nyamuk mcm kat kampung tu, comel!

They also have a place for group events at the upper deck, great for birthday parties, family reunions and what not. So girls, any upcoming farewell parties or anything, we can try here if you feel like eating out =)

And of course, THANKS A LOT dear for the birthday treat!