My Elephant @ PJ Sec 17

27th July 2008...

Today CH and Luna had a day out with Miss Waffle from UK - Cione again. After long consideration, CH and Luna decided to bring Cione for Thaifood as dinner. As everybody know, Thaifood is known to be the most delicious food among South East Asia. Yet, there're another strong character of Thaifood - HOT & SPICY.

Without much hesitation, CH brought Cione to the small Thai Restaurant at Happy Mansion at PJ Sec 17 - My Elephant. My Elephant was getting well known for its delicious, finess of the cookings, and the flavour which tasted exactly like in Thailand. CH believes that My Elephant must be run by Thai owner.

My Elephant offers romantic yet casual dining environment. Just one thing CH doesn't like, which is the Restaurant air-con system was undersized(not cold enough, a bit warm).




Luna with Cione. Both of them are really adventurous in eating.


Ok, let's start some talks on the food in My Elephant. CH was regret that the photo taken was quite indecent due to low light in My Elephant. May be CH should blame his G9, it's may be CH's skill wasn't good enough.

One of the beverage recommended by CH - KraChiap Cooler. Roselle juice.


Luna had the Jasmine Green Tea


Besides Jasmine Green Tea and KraChiap Cooler, beer is another strong recommendation by CH. As most of the Thaifoods are extremely spicy, It's best to have it with a glass of chilling beer.

CH's recommendation for appetizer: Mieng Kum. Leave wraps with several types of ingredients. Clockwise from top: Wrapper leaves, pineapple cube, red onion, lime cube, red chilles, dried shrimp, fried peanuts, coconut floss, and the sauce in the middle. It will give u surprise and fantastic taste. 90 pts!
This photo was from CH's previous session. Today Mieng Kum was sold out. Too "laku" and too bad for us.


The assorted snack appetizer. This was from previous session also, and so so only. 70 pts.


Rambut Yum, which means Rambutan Salad, recommended by the waiter. Anyway, also soso only. 65 pts. This was from previous session also.


Stir fried Paku(fern leave) with Belacan. Nice, but the Paku will give over colding effect to human's body. Previous session also.


The Green Mango Yum with squid. Nice! The salad was sourish and spicy. 85 pts.


This is Cione favourite - Tempura Sotong. It was nicely cooked. Apparently everybody like it. The tempura skin was crispy whereas the sotong meat was just soft and tender. 85 pts!


Everybody's all time favourite - Green Curry Chicken. The restaurant wasn't comprising the flavour of the green curry with all the ingredient. Rich and flavourful with all the herbs. 90 pts!


2nd everybody all time favourite - The Tom Yum Gong. There are several version of Tom Yum available at My Elephant, whereas CH ordered the most spicy one. Which made everybody start to be mucus-ful, sneezing and sweating. Sorry about that! 90 pts!


Luna ordered Aubergine(eggplant) as vegetable dish. All of them found the aubergine was so tasty with the basil leave, chillis and the minced chicken. 85 pts.


And teh final dish was the most common dish in Thailand - Stir Fried Minced Chicken with basil leaves, long beans, chillis with sweet and sour sauce. 85 pts!


All the above 6 dishes(not including the previous session), costed them RM111 after 10% discount(Yeah, there're 10% discount in today's sin chew daily). Which CH thinks was slightly expensive. Anyway, My Elephant is still CH first choice for Thaifood in KL Selangor area.