Gelatomio the Traditional Ice-Cream @ Pavillion

Ice cream is one of the dessert that often most of the time bring joys and happiness to people regardless the age range. I still remember my parents used to promise buying me ice-cream if I go for tooth extraction at dental clinic.

Throughout these days there were so many choices of ice cream available in the market. From Conetto, magnum until Baskin Robin, Swensen, New Zealand Natural and Haagen Daaz. But have you try out Gelatomio instead? Non other than the traditional Italian Ice Cream.

Massimo Minecci came to Malaysia from Italy 14 years ago and made Malaysia his home. However for the longest time, he could not find a place that sells gelato that he is satisfied with. So he decided to make his own in 2004 and called it Gelatomio (My Gelato)

Started at Bangsar Telawi, Gelatomio has grown with outlets in Time Square, Subang Parade, Pavilion KL, Penang, Melaka and Johor. For your information, approximately 70 major hotels and restaurants in KL carry them including Shangri-La, Le Meridien, Pan Pacific, Prince Hotel, Hilton, G Hotel, chinoiz and espressamente.

From a simple 12 flavours, Gelatomio has also grown to more than 60 flavours of Ice Cream today.

Quality is always the main concerned of Massimo when he producing the gelato. Only top grade ingredients be used in the production of Ice Cream. The fruits that used to make the Gelati are mostly imported from the best countries produces them and rejection is done if the fruits are not up to quality upon receiving it.

Massimo has just recently launched his outlet in Pavilion KL adding a new feature that his other outlets do not carry: the cold stone. Aptly called ‘Gelatomio on the rock’, you can choose your favourite flavours to be ‘fried’ together with your favourite toppings on the cold stone.

Take a look what I meant about ‘Gelatomio on the rock’ prepared by non other than Massimo himself =]

Chocolate plate for the Ice Cream and the Leaf decoration

"Frying" the ice cream and toppings

tadaaaa..... Here's the output production of Gelatomio on the Rock =D

Other than that, we get to try out a few flavours of ice cream at Gelatomio Lounge...

The Dark chocolate above is no milk added but yet rich and creamy in taste while the black sesame is nicer than any than I tried at other Japanese ice cream shop. Smooth in taste and doesn't make me feel "jelak" with.

Since I'm a huge fans of berries, the berries ice cream gave me the best memory in mind. It was made by 4 berries : Strawberry, Blueberry, Blackberry and Rasberry. Other than that, the Calamansi ice cream hits my mind with the sorbet-like taste and super refreshing for everyone. Taste it yourself if you want to know what I mean =]

A great thanks to my cousin Mei Ying for the invitation to the ice cream tasting session with the starter of Gelatomio Mr. Massimo himself.

(Group photo credit to Marcus)

House Of Buffet Food Tasting Session

Thanks to SmashPop , I were invited to a Blogger Night Food Tasting Session at House Of Buffet located beside Low Yat Plaza last night.

I guess most of you haven come across this buffet restaurant and it applied to me as well when I receive text message from Jason. House Of Buffet is yet open to public but good news that they are Opening on January onwards.



As from the name of restaurant, you can guess what type of business style they operating. Buffet!!! It's similar to Jogoya or Tenji which most of you familiar with, but the best thing is that their price are way cheaper than them.

We will talk about money later =P Enjoy the food first =]

* Registration *

It's so sweet of House Of Buffet prepared name tag for all the bloggers attending the blogger night =]

*Kim presenting her name tag *

Stepping in the restaurant....









The environment of House Of Buffet instantly delight us by having the feel having meal in a high class restaurant.

Okie okie, prepare more packs of tissue this time, don't want you guys blaming me for wetting your keyboard =P

* Cookies *

* Tons of Mexico Buns and buns buns buns *

* Curry Crab *

* Oysters *

* Sushi Rolls *

* Golden Grilled Lobster *

According to the chef, this dish easily cost RM 300++ in the market =]

* Lobster Meat *

The sour sauce of this dish brought out the freshness of Lobster, yummy =] Forget to mention that I'm a Lobster lover =P

* Dragon Roll *

* TakoBell *

Basically it consist of soft shell crab and some Japanese sauce, rolls wrap with fish and seaweed =]



Have a sneak peak of the desert section...

* Mua Chi *

* Cakes and Jelly *

Guess what? I actually tried all 4 types of cakes serves and jelly =]

Here' some food I have during the night =]



Sushi and Sashimi never failed to appear in my plate whenever I go for Japanese buffet and Japanese Restaurant.

The chef taught me the sequence of having Sashimi. For the Sashimi I took, I shall start with Sea Bass, Salmon then only Butter Fish. Thought Butter Fish contains highest fats among the sashimi I took, but no worry with it as it's fish, Healthy!

* Chicken Chop *

Boneless grilled chicken chop is serve in House Of Buffet as well. Actually this is the first time I found chicken chop in Buffet restaurant. The grilled technique makes the tender of chicken taste so nice for every bite you have =]

* Steam Fish *

Guess what I'm drinking?

It's not a beverage kay! It's actually fresh oyster mix with salsa sauce and fresh lemons. Erms, the chef said, shake it and drink it rock and roll!

* Salmon slices *

I love this the most during the night. I guess I drank four coconuts there =]

Lets go for some cakes tasting =]

* Mango cake and Oreo Cheese Cake *

* Tiramisu and Rasberry cake *

The cake taste so nice that I actually tried all of them. I guess this is the first time I ate 4 cakes one short during buffet session.

* Jelly Jelly *

I love the soya longan jelly the most =]

Bloggers rock!!!

* Group Shot before we leave *

Okie, let's talk about the price =]

For a cheap price below you get to taste all the food above =]

Lunch : RM55
High Tea : RM45
Dinner : 65