Marmalade For Dinner

First heard of Marmalade via Minishorts, and kept it registered as another makan place to try when lost for choice. When mentioned to lad, he gave a bleah for their deli burger...us guys are, after all, meat-eaters at heart (no celebratory dinner is complete without our steaks). But we were interested in what Marmalade had to offer, and so given that we had a fair bit of nothing to fill our Sunday evening, we planned the following:

• Dinner at Marmalade.
  
• Look around Bangsar Village.
  
• Get more hardboards from CzipLee to make more tablet counters.
  
• Find the missing Just Heavenly (trust our horrendous memory to forget the location even after looking it over twice and printing out the map).
  
• Oh, and C&C3 with others after all that.

First stop, Bangsar Village. Some facts we learned - don't go on Sunday. Interestingly enough they put parking rates as RM1 from Mon-Sat and RM3 on Sun. First hour. Gah! And CzipLee is closed on Sunday. Great start this is turning out to be.

Stopping at Marmalade, we find the decor rather simple. Nothing as furnished as Ms Read, where the decor openly exclaims, "Dress up, and speak culturedly if you want to be here." Doesn't mean Marmalade looked bland. Ambience was bright with good sense of spaciousness.

From a lovely hidden corner seat.

Menu had a fair bit to choose from, but since it's our first time and we weren't too sure what to expect from Marmalade we thought we might as well try something rather than the usual run-of-the-mill pasta.

Ocean Citrus salad.

In our case, it seems that the main meal, the Scandinavian Secret (in multigrain bread) looks more like a starter dish while the Ocean Citrus salad (the Light option) is the main course.

Scandinavian Secret sandwich in multigrain bread.

We'll excuse our lack of detail for a food review by saying that this isn't a food blog. But suffice to say that the food was good, everything (save one leaf) was fresh, the smoked salmon a suitable substitute to chocolate orgasm. All very satisfactory to the palate. We only dislike alfafa and left those well alone, and if we knew the salad that came with the Scandinavian Secret had a vinegar dressing we'd have finished that off before our Ocean Citrus. While our dinner lacked meat it made up with the salmon (little as it may have been).

All downed with a cooling Rise and Shine smoothie.

Books in lovely green. Penguin classics, whatmore!

After dinner we took a quick tour about Bangsar Village II, only to stop at MPH for a look-see. In the end ended up getting a book too - Pride and Prejudice, because:

• The cover was in a lovely green.
  
• It was only RM8.50.
  
• We only have it as a e-book in our Nok7710.
  
• We've no more new books to read (am giving up on Eragon).

The cashier did a very stupid move - when we told her that we didn't want a plastic bag, she stuck this long MPH tape on the back of the book! The book isn't plastic-wrapped - if we don't take extra care in removing the tape we might risk damaging the cover! Also why stick such a long piece of tape? Just a short piece sufficient enough to cover the price tag would do!

Thankfully we managed to remove the tape (and the price tag too because the tag stuck to the tape) without tearing the cover nor leaving sticky adhesive behind. We were so close to getting the cashier to do it for us, or alternatively telling her that we weren't taking that copy she just stuck the bloody tape on, we're going to take another one from the shelf instead. Geram how some people don't think.

Got lost trying to find Just Heavenly again. My fault for not bringing along the map. It's a house/bungalow, is it? Or not looking far enough, since cannot locate kindergarden also?

Ended up going back to meet the rest for C&C3, which they have been warming up while waiting for us. Ants caused some bitter feelings for the game, whatwith him being nicely protected between us, he goes and builds some 30 harvesters to hog all the resources, thus depriving us and lagging the game by using said resources to mass a way-too-large fleet of Planetary Assult Carriers. Sigh.

Oh, here comes Monday. Here's hoping FF The Curve finally know what's going on regarding the wall climbing thing.