Chief Celebrations 2009: Project Hard Rock Cafe

The following day it was pretty much an easy day for the two of us. Given the surprise Blue Party just the day before the Chief tried getting us to spill if there was another party in store on Saturday. We honestly told the Chief that there was no such party planned, but neglected to mention that it was because we were taking the Chief for a dinner at Hard Rock Cafe, somewhere the Chief always wanted to try.

Wasn't an easy task given that we've been telling the Chief that we wanted to go on a shopping spree that particular weekend, starting with Bangsar on Friday, KL on Saturday and about Damansara on Sunday. The Chief suspected a birthday party to actually happen on Saturday, and when the surprise happened on Friday instead the Chief was a bit off-guard and had to just play along for the following days, heh.

We guess the Chief wouldn't have suspected much if we managed, as planned, to go shopping around 3pm for a few hours before deciding to head elsewhere for dinner - HRC's a bit out of the way at Concorde Hotel and not walkable from Bukit Bintang.

Unfortunately for us we only ended up leaving to shop at Sungei Wang around nearly 6pm. With dinner reservations made for 7.30pm, we only had a hour or so to shop before we had to bugger off to HRC. We ended up walking about Sungei Wang for a bit before heading over to Lot 10 to check out California Fitness at the 8th floor, then heading back to Sungei Wang to leave.

Heading to Bukit Bintang with intent to shop, only to leave after and hour? Definitely suspicious. Whatmore even so when we turned down the Chief's offer to eat at KFC located oh so conviniently at the lower ground floor of Sungei Wang, instead giving the excuse that we had cravings for something Western (oh we told the Chief that we had cravings for mango sticky rice dessert on Friday).

So the Chief suspected something after we'd left Sungei Wang, but decided to go along and see where we'd planned for dinner. We even tried to distract the Chief while on Jalan Sultan Ismail, where as we were about to drive past the Concorde Hotel and Hard Rock Cafe, we pointed to some random spot away from HRC, telling the Chief that there was some Chinese restaurant of note to look out for. We made that bit up about the Chinese restaurant, but it turned out that there actually was a Chinese seafood restaurant, but it looked like it had closed down for a while now.

After we parked at the Concorde Hotel, the Chief casually asks if we could eat at HRC. We told the Chief we'd do so next time, we were eating at the Japanese restaurant U-Zen in Concorde for now.

We then directed the Chief with a slightly disappointed-looking Chief towards Hard Rock Cafe and away from the entrance of U-Zen (which was just next to HRC), and was led to our reserved table.

Good dinner. HRC didn't let us preorder for just two people so instead of ordering what we already had in mind, both of us looked through the menu in case there was something else the Chief was interested in instead. From the initial order of the Grilled Salmon Steak and Hickory Smoked Bar-B-Que Chicken, we ended up with...

The Jumbo Combo. From appetizer to main meal. The Hickory Smoked Chicken Wings was spicy and head us sweating a tad, the Tupelo Chicken Tenders good, the Spring Rolls smelled of Indian spices and the Onion Rings...well, we love our onions raw and so in this case the onions didn't do much for our tastebuds. The 4 sauces (Thousand Island, probably mayo, sour cream and ketchup) weren't used much, instead we obtained a bottle of chilli sauce, heh.

Our salmon fix, the Grilled Salmon Steak. Yummy.

It was still Happy Hour when we arrived so we got 2 Long Island Teas for the price of one!

Am getting the Chief to start collecting Hurricane glasses from different cities instead of the HRC City T-Shirts. After all, we've already started with a Hurricane glass from Barcelona!

Note to self: Remember to choose table seatings!