Bay Leaves

No, this joint is not in anyway associated to the City Bayview group of hotels and certainly does not have a clear view of the bay. Bay refers to the plant that is associated to many uses
especially in the spices industry.

Bay leaves which are fresh and dry are used as spices in lots of countries especially Australia, India and Malaysia. I believe during selection of names to kick start an enterprise,the owner of this place chose Bay Leaves to represent their dishes which hopefully will be widely accepted by multi races local and overseas.

Located just a door away from Eastern Creative, me and two other friends had a good time shooting pictures and trying out their supposingly distinctive dishes as recommended by our former lecturer in Law. I had their RM 14.90 set meal which includes Grilled Black Pepper Lamb , a really thick mushroom soup with a mixture of various mushrooms and a glass of starfruitjuice. Mushroom soup was tasty, starfruit juice was blended purely from the fruit without adding in sugar. So far so good as asians will put it until it comes to the lamb.

Drinks were served with cute geisha?? coasters

Starfruit Juice

Homemade Cream Of Mushroom Soup

I do not know where to begin or to end. It was black alright, but i couldn't taste the pepper. The black pepper sauce was too watery it literally murdered the taste of the pepper. The lamb's texture is fine but the sauce is simply too disappointing to discuss about. It is like going to a concert to watch a black man sing, as it is a general understanding that all blacks sings well but this black man couldn't sing nor rap. It feels like a major ripped off!! I am not boycotting this restaurant and i believe not all the dishes here will turn out wrong . I just got the wrong lamb. This joint is worth a try , you got to taste it to believe it.

Grilled Black Pepper Lamb minus the black pepper taste

A friend of mine R, had a decent meal. Grilled Lemon Chicken tasted delicious. It was accompanied with lemon dressings that looks a lot like baby's vomit but it sure does taste good with the chicken. I grab a bite at the chicken without the lemon sauce , and oh my it was totally tasteless! but once dipped in the sauce, it is just perfect, lovely! it brings out the feeling of falling in love at first sight. However , different individuals has got different taste for food. By any chance after tasting the chicken and you file a divorce , bear in mind, i didn't incite you to it! Haha....

Grilled Lemon Herb Chicken

E had their lasagna's set meal but i shall leave it to him to grace this column with his personal experiences. There was little to no trace of oregano, in fact, I can't even taste or smell it. The bolognase was okay but in place of chopped onions there were cubed carrots. The kind you find selling per kg in supermarkets, blasphemy!!!. Cubed carrots!!!

However, the serving portion was decent, and the mushroom soup, as N so eloquently put it was rather good, but abit to heavy on the garlic and cream for my taste, a little more Swiss brown would have perfected it. The lemon herb chicken sauce was above average. Note that I used the word sauce because the sauce was good, the chicken was just below par, it did however make a decent contrast to the sauce, where the chicken did not overwhelm its dressing, but this would fall to individual preferences as some people would have preferred their chicken to taste better than a salted cardboard box.