We spent most of Sunday afternoon shopping: visiting car dealers, obtaining an iron and an ironing board, getting lamps for the bedroom, and some grocery items that weren't perishable. At the end of the day, since we were in the city, we took the opportunity to eat out in Damansara Heights at a place that our relocation specialist had recommended to us, the Telawi Street Bistro (known on their menu as simply 'tsb').

We started off with a couple of salads, but the menu item which had entranced us was the pizza option. Specifically, the mushroom pizza. While some vegetables are either hard to obtain here (broccoli, surprisingly, is quite expensive, and comes from Australia) or strange to us (broad beans, also known as bitter beans, which we've used in a couple of stir fry/curries we've made at home), the sheer quality and quantity and relative inexpensiveness of mushrooms here has us wondering just how many things you can cook that have a mushroom ingredient. And, ever since cutting the majority of meat from our diet years ago, we discovered just how good pizza can be when it's not dripping with animal grease and that extended to just how wonderful mushrooms are on pizzas when you can actually taste them.

The "funghi" pizza at tsb had just the right crust--not so thin that you couldn't taste any bread, but not so thick that you felt you were eating bread alone. The mushrooms were very good and the sauce wasn't overpowering, either. But it didn't really have any zing to it, which is likely why the pizza arrived on the table accompanied by every type of tabasco sauce made by the little company from Avery Island.

I was still hungry afterwards, so we actually shared a dessert: lemon tart with raspberries and black pepper ice cream. The pepper wasn't quite strong enough in the ice cream, but the filling in the tart was perfect in its limitation of sweetness to sourness. The combination of good pizza and dessert didn't quite live up to our old hometown favorite (2 Amy's in the Tenleytown area of D.C.), but halfway around the world it was good enough to mark down for a return visit at a later date.