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A couple of minutes ago, Adrian and I were just chilling when I took out a box of Max Brenners chocolates Andrea brought for us from Sydney.
This box of chocolate comes with a little menu/catalogue where it labels the type of chocolates in the box.
I chose the "Dark Chocolate Praline with Cornflakes" and Adrian picked the "Praline with Dark Chocolate".
Then he asked, "Hunn, What is praline?"
I thought for a second "I think it's high class chocolates."
He paused and said "o-kay".
For the next 30 seconds, I sat still and I came over to the check what a praline actually means.
Praline is a family of confections made from nuts and sugar syrup. (Source: wikipedia)
As originally invented in France at the Chateau Vaux-le Vicomte by the cook of the 19th century sugar industrialist, Praslin. Pralines were whole almonds individually coated in caramelized sugar, as opposed to dark nougat, where a sheet of caramelized sugar covers many nuts. The powder made by grinding up such sugar-coated nuts is called 'pralin' or 'praliné' in French, and is an ingredient in many cakes and pastries.
In most other countries the word 'praline' is used to mean this powder, or even a paste, often used to fill chocolates, hence its use by synecdoche in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium to refer to filled chocolates in general. In the United Kingdom, the term can refer either to praline (the filling for chocolates) or, less commonly, to the original whole-nut pralines.
After reading this, pralines are not exactly high-class chocolates. There are chocolates which have softer/caramelized texture inside and are covered with another layer of chocolate.
Hehe, I will need to explain this to my confused husband.
Lately, I had strange cravings for jap food. And knowing my cravings, it's best to get my stomach to Genki Sushi for cheap assortments of standard japanese food. Tonight in particular, we left for dinner pretty late, about 9pm. When reached Genki Sushi in One Utama, it was already closing for the day.
We found out from my sister that Carls Jr. is in town and it was just a couple of steps away from Genki sushi. So we've decided to give it a try. Afterall, I've missed it the last time when we were in Singapore.
Having the go through the menu was quite difficult as most of them looked similar except the burgers with mushrooms. For your information, if you've not heard of Carls Jr, it's another one of those American fastfood chains serving huge portion of burgers.
I opted for the Portobello mushroom burger while Adrian had the Western Bacon Cheeseburger. When we've finally made our order, the lady over at the counter asked if we would like to upgrade our fries to crisscut fries, onion rings or chilli fries. We asked how much is it to upgrade, she said RM3.00. Therefore we thought it was quite a good deal to pay 3 bucks to get chilli fries. GREAT! The total came up to close to 50 bucks for 2 sets of meal. *GREAT-EER* When checked why, the chilli fries cost about 7 bucks to upgrade. What a great way to get us to upgrade. GEE!
Anyways, we didn't make any fuss out of it hoping the serving of chilli fries would be good. When our meal arrived, we were pretty pleased to find that our wrapped burgers were in generous sizes: means to my standard - HUGE. However, to my horror, when I open up the burger wrapper, all I saw 2 huge hamburger buns with a tiny charbroiled beef patty. The patty looked 3 times smaller than what we saw in the menu and the yeah, the buns looked exactly the size - HUGE!
Oh well, without a word, we took our dinner “ quietly"
The verdict - The burgers were alright. Perhaps a 5.5/10. Yes, we were completely stuffed after finishing our meals, but that did not feel good at all. We felt we've stuffed ourselves crazy with more burger buns than any thing else. The chilli fries weren't that good either. Possibly a 5/10. As for the drink, Coke what can go wrong Coke.
The meal was nothing a shout about. Possibly it's because it;s halal here and the Asian fed cows here are just sad. To sum up, I won't mind trying Carls Jr. in America or even in Singapore. However, I don't think I will step into Carls Jr here in Malaysia again.
This box of chocolate comes with a little menu/catalogue where it labels the type of chocolates in the box.
