Hello folks,
Welcome back to the edition of the New Year Eve Gathering which took placed at Venezia Italian Restaurant at Taman Segar in Cheras. It was attended by 10 of us including Me & Kimmy, Sai Kit & Chloe, Han Chung, Matthew, Sai Kit 2 Friend, Steve Chai & Kevin Kong. We reached the restaurant at about 8.30pm after there's not much traffic jam in the city just yet. It was barely dissapointing when we enter the restaurant because there's no place to sit because the place is entirely small. All the tables were occupied. I told the waitress that I've called for booking for 9 persons. After 9.00pm, we still did not get our tables yet until 9.15pm. Then we were provided by a 6 persons table as a temporarily because still the tables were all occupied. Finally we got the table to be joined together at 9.30pm as after joining the table, it can accomodate 9 of us. We were very frusfrated because although we do booking already, we still did not get our seat until 9.30pm. The waiter service was OK but the system (booking & table allocation was very poor).
After sitting down, we looked at the menu and there were lots of varieties to choose from pizzas to pasta's and speghetti's. Me & Kimmy meanwhile had ordered a mushroom soup, a pasta and a shared 3 pan of pizzas among Sai Kit & Chloe as well as 2 of Sai Kit's friend. We ordered Green Tea as our drinks. (Please see below). The mushroom soup was not so tasty and it was not enough sweet and enough of mushroom taste. For pizzas, it was just fine and pastas was too oily and not recommended to take. Overall the food was just average and not up to my expectations. I would not recommend you to this restaurant if you want real quality of Italian Food. Frankly speaking, Michealangelo (SOHOKL) is much more better than this restaurant and the pricing is almost the same. MY RATING: 3/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 3/5. 
About others, they ordered various food and drinks (please see below). The feedback I get from them is the food was just average and not as tasty as expected. We got some recommendation from our friends and from the blogs saying that this restaurant is worth a try because it's tasty but unfortuntely the food aren't so tasty and great as expected. OTHERS AVERAGE RATING: 3/5. 
We left the restaurant at about 11.15pm and head towards the UE3 building near Taman Miharja to catch the glimpse of fireworks display where we can actually get a great view of KLCC, Times Square as well as KL Tower. There are splendid fireworks display after 12 midnight and that's it. We wish everyone Happy New Year 2010.
Address:
No.1, Jalan Manis 4,
Taman Segar, Cheras
56100 Kuala Lumpur.
Business Hours: Mon – Sat (11:30 am – 3:30 pm, 6:00 pm – 11.00 pm), Sun (11:30 am – 11:00 pm). Close on Friday
Telephone: 03- 91308992
The dinner kicked off at about 7.30pm and we was entertained by a group of band which was hired by our company. We had a wonderful time there whereby in between our dinner, the organizer had organized some table games for our fun which offered various prizes to be won. Besides, there were also lucky draw as well where about 40 lucky draw prizes to be won as well. The most attractive prizes throughout the night would be a HP mini netbook and a Mont Blanc pen. Others include electric appliances, cash vouchers as well as computer peripherals. There were also other contests as well such as The Best Dress Male & Female as well as Couples who dressed in green. We had a wonderful time with of course a wonderful food served by Tai Thong.
For me, I've picked No.18 as my lucky draw number and I've won myself a mini speaker from Sonicgear. Actually I would like to aim for more higher prize but still it's better than nothing. There were also a short message from our company chairman regarding our company performance throughout the year performance as well. The annual dinner ended about 11.00pm and then we were also allowed to dance as it would be a footloose time. We had a wonderful time there as well and enjoy!
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The menu meanwhile were not much choices especially in the rice & sushi menu. This restaurant serves more varieties and concentrate into japanese style mee like udon etc. According to Kimmy, he told alexleow-kimmy.com that their mee sucks big time and with that, I never ordered mee and ordered rice instead. I've ordered Chicken Teriyaki Bento with Green Tea meanwhile Kimmy ordered Unadon with Green Tea (see pictures).
Let's go straight to the comments. The Chicken Teriyaki Bento (rice) sucks big time. Wow! I never critic such a bad impression before but it really dissapoints me. The chicken was tasteless and only I can taste the roasted chicken skin only and I was like eating a raw chicken. In fact, not only that, the rice also sucks big time. It was very oily and too much garlic which makes the taste feel 'yuck' (you know what I mean). Very bad meal for this one. For the green tea, it was just normal and nothing special. It seems the hot green tea is better than the cold one because the cold one is a bit bitter compared to the hot green tea. For Kimmy, she ordered the Unadon (fish rice) and the taste according to her is not so good. The fish is pretty sweet and fresh too but the rice was very sticky and not up to the standard. She also commented that the display on the menu shows that the bowl of rice should come with a large egg but it came otherwise.