Perpetual Tockism

As you can see, it looks really contemporary. The indoor side is suitable for formal functions, with air-conditioner and an open kitchen! On the outside is like a Gabezo-styled dining area, where people chill with their snacks (Shepherdoo serves Curly Fries with their awesomely homemade sauce!) with a pint of beer, fresh!

What more can you ask for with these variety of draughts?

Anyway, we were seated inside within these plushy cushion in a soft, surreal environment. You can hardly tell that you’re in Klang!

We were given some mocktails to choose from. They were yummy, custom-made to suit a special taste that they are especially proud with. Shown here are the Passion Fruit Magarita @RM16.90 and Tequila Sunrise @RM16.50. I kinda forgotten my Mango Lassi but it was yummy!

Sour & Spicy Mexican Buffalo Wings @RM10.80 is actually made using the original recipe that currently others aren’t using. The Chef told us that it was meant to be a little more sour than what you get usually elsewhere in Malaysia. The Cucumber was meant to neutralize that flavour, and this very combination is supposed to add to the ZING of the dish. I felt it, but admittedly, it was something new to my tastebuds. Worth a try though!

The Patatas Bravas @RM8.80 fared better for me though. The fried potato drenched in sauce is actually quite flavourful, and the homemade lemon mayonnaise adds a zest to it all!

Typically you’d also find the Calamari @RM11.80 dish in this genre. Breaded ever so lightly, it doesn’t overpower the juicy pieces inside and hence, made to perfection.

The Quesadilla @RM10.80 are one of the many unique dishes available in Shepherdoo. Made of cheese and mushroom filling but surrounded in herby vineggerette sauce, it was truly a sensational experience to remember. A definite must try!

Of course, how could one ever forget the Mexican Pizza @RM8.80, and though it may look simple, it actually tasted very, very good. The texture was at most perfect as well, even BBO the famous food critic said so, hence it must be good!

Then of course there’s the all famous appetizer; the Nachos @RM11.80. Large enough to start for 4 people, it was a generous dose of avocado, mayo, tomato, tortilla chips among other dressings to appeal to our stomaches.

Gambas @RM12.80. Authentic, yummy, unique. Must try.

The pocket-friendly Latin American based Restaurant is a cross between fine dining and localised food and beverage. Started by two young entrepreneurs, we find that the team compromising of the waiters, the chefs and the managing guys all come from our very own local colleges such as Sunway and Taylors, all wanting to explore their own methods and ways to create both food and beverage without being limited by old chefs who seem to know-it-all elsewhere, and guess what?

I have to say they did it! Going through their dishes and drinks one will notice the vibrancy of the taste and the lengths they go through for every detailed dish, including their homemade sauces.  For instance, the following dish:

The Latte. No kidding. Ok I’m kidding, this is really the Creamy Mushroom Soup @RM8.80 that LOOKS like a Latte, but breathes and smells perfectly like wild mushrooms, complete with a piece of garlic bread. So pretty damn yummy!

Now comes the burgers and pastas! This here is the famous Shepherdoo’s Gringo Burger @RM19.50. Every part of this burger is home-made, especially the patty; pounded, marinated and cooked to your liking. It is CRAZY Delicious! Try and taste it, oh, and don’t forget to dip into their unique mustard sauce to complete the taste!

This, is called the Song of the Sea @RM21.90. Why that name, you ask? Well, the Chef takes pride in naming his dishes because the recipe, is also his. And I have to say, eating this really feels like being in the sea; the soft, fresh salty breeze of the sea permeates from the dish, and taste really good too. Kudos!

Santa Pe Chicken Burger @RM18.50. Gorgeous, if you like sweet burgers.

Now remember what I said about the Chef taking delight in producing his own dishes? Well, introducing the Pasta ala Pollo @RM18.50, one of his most amazing creations. Just taking a look at it, I’m sure you are drooling non stop. Well people, it tastes EXACTLY like how you’d imagine it to taste just by looking at this picture. Beautiful spinach pasta creation it is!

Gourmet Fajitas @RM27.50, a definite in any Latin-American menu, is probably your best bet for a snack while watching football

Oh, and did I say this was an overdued post? The tasting happened on my birthday, 19th November 2009, and when the Boss of the restaurant knew of it they prepared a cocktail just for me. I don’t know what it’s called but it was AMAZING, and apparently you can’t get this from the menu, so print out this page, point at it and let the Chef do the rest. Sloppychic mentioned this in her post, and I just wanted to say thanks yea!

I had to leave early, but they made me wait for at least on dessert.. and boy thankfully I did, otherwise I’d regret it so much! The Crispy Cinnamon Waffle @RM8.20 is to DIE for! Please, please, please bring me here again cause I’m dying for another round of the dessert, if not any of the food above as well. Haha.

THE SHEPHERDOO RESTAURANT & LOUNGE

Entrance- Forecourt, G Floor, Centro Mall,
No 8, Jalan Batu Tiga Lama, 41300 Klang.
Contact No. 03-33415828 / 03-33445829

And guess what, I’m one of them, many thanks to the guys over at Adverlets!

Getting to join blogger friends, friendly reporters from theStar among others, the UnseenTV crew and my favouritest radio station Fly.fm in this epic journey of 2009 was certainly a day to remember, and with that, so was the epic numbers of photo taken :p

That’s why I’m splitting up the the posts into many parts. This is Part 1

The day started with most of us waking up ever so early even when it’s a holiday in Malaysia. We were to be at Alamanda Putrajaya by 9.30am for breakfast @ Old Town White Coffee and we tried our best not to be there by Malaysian timing :p

Fortunately for us, the ride to Alamanda Putrajaya wasn’t very difficult at all, with signs located along the highways. We were like an entourage driving together to the destination, and while all these were happening, blogger friends Jeremy and Jon were snapping away (and caught me tweeting lol!) so all in all it was really fun! Well, just make sure not to drive too fast ok?

Arriving at our destination I met the gorgeous and popular Belinda Chee, along with purplish Leonard with Adalia and the lovely Bangsar-Babe. I thought it was a well done job to coordinate the “get-everyone-together” bit, all thanks to Rebecca of http://thenomadgourmand.blogspot.com

I was surprised to see that there were already some people walking around although it was still quite early. Guess most people in Putrajaya hang out in Alamanda as it’s one of the few places that has all fashion shops, great variety of food, major bookstore MPH (as above) and of course, a bowling alley and GSC Cinema!

In any case we headed to Old Town White Coffee, and there we saw another huge bunch of bloggers all waiting for us, together with the nice peeps at Fly.fm and several reporters from our local newspapers.

And so we sat down as Nigel explained to us what he had planned for us: an awesomely orgasmic full day trip where we’ll get to eat , play, rock climb and more! If you were me, you’d be so excited okay, take for example the handsome Evo here (far left) :p

Nasi Lemak – Always my favourite Malaysian breakfast

Or you could have the Butter + Kaya Toast, too. I had both. HAHAHA. And Wheatgrass honey juice as well, my defacto drink whenever I’m at OTWC!

Oh and while everyone was having their breakfast… I had a chance to play with Jeremy’s fish-eye lense which I attached to my Lumix G1 (which I got free as an official Lumix Shutterbug :p). Had funky results, like this!

That’s me with Smashp0p, Wilson and Bangsar-babe!

That’s everyone all excited to go for Rock Climbing, the first in our itinerary for the day!

You can see Howard-U, Amanda Choe and Hanie and Michelle all looking bored waiting for us to finish our food haha!

In any case we soon left, and I had to take this artsy-fartsy picture just cause it’s cool Thanks Old Town White Coffee, Alamanda for having us for breakfast!

Wait, that sounds wrong

It was time to return the fish-eyed lense to Jeremy, and until today I can’t help but admire the Lumix LX-3… such a beautiful piece of art

It didn’t take long for us to start doing our own camwhoring before the arrangement was even made. One fine example is Rames here, pro-self-group photog doing his thang, with Eu Veng, Amanda and Selena

Anyway one of the Alamanda crew did us a superb service of helping us take our group picture…. and man, did that picture turn out so fine or what?! Just take a look!

Fuuuyoooooh!! Alamanda all the way baby! *click to enlarge*

Many thanks to Eu Veng of http://euveng.com/ for the picture

We headed to Putrajaya Challenge Park next at Precinct 5 for a rock climbing session at Putra Climb where we sweated it out with a morning workout. The Putra Climb is currently the largest indoor climbing gym in Asia which had been recently opened. http://www.putraclimb.com/

Oh by the way I wanna show off what I got to take home- Dunkin Donuts, Quiksilver organiser, travel pouch, Alamanda t-shirts, photo albums and lots of snacks. Keh keh keh >:-D

Disclaimer: The overall objective of this hangout day is to showcase what Alamanda Shopping Centre has to offer as well as promoting Putrajaya as a destination for all. Putrajaya has everything to attract discernable visitors from shopping, sightseeing, water sport activities to friendly parks, rock climbing and recreations. A trip down to the capital city also enables one to pamper taste buds at the numerous eateries available or just shop in Alamanda till their hearts content. Everything written here is through my own personal experience, do contact me if you have further questions