My bday dinner @ Ichiban Boshi (Great world city)

Finally!!! I have some time off my busy work load to post my bday pictures (after more than 1 1/2 months)

Nothing much to offer, just photos and more photos :P

Salad!!!! I definitely will not order this dish as I am not a veg eater. But if it is done nicely with thousand island and lots of "leaves", I will definitely finish them up :)

Yum Yum!!!! Sushi!! I just love Japanese food. Must have a certain standard then I will eat more than I should!!
Fried salmon skin with Mayo! So nice!!

More sushi!! Slurp!!!

Hmm....what's the exact name for this...Potato something...nice and cheap...$1.90...



I cannot never resist handroll!!! Unagi, california, salmon skin and soft shell crab...yum yum yum!!!
Actually I was looking for another picture which one of my friends actually ordered a set dinner which is definitely more expensive than the bday boy (which is Myself). Nevertheless, my friends split the bill evenly.

I need to input this here to my dearest friend whom just celebrated your bday in case you read my post......DID U COLLECT $$$ FROM THOSE WHO TREATED ME FOR DINNER?

Labour Day - May 01, 2008

Spent the whole afternoon at home on labour day...thinking of what to do on the next few days as I have taken leave on May 02, friday to enjoy the long weekend. Few days later will be my birthday, but I am not feeling at all excited...seriously...I am not excited at all...

I feel somehow tired and wanted to have some good friends to give me surprises to spice up my life and coming birthday...

Dinner at night is at this place around International Business Park (Near Jurong East) call the "Penang Place"

Below is the website:
http://www.penangplace.com/

I have been to this place several times. Each time is around my birthday. I remembered last year I treated my friends for dinner there. This year on Labour day, I went there with 2 new friends, more of my friend's newly found BFF (Best friends forever) for dinner. I got a free treat for eating quietly I suppose (hahaha....anyway, I will have to pay back on my next post for another dining place)

Anyway, I am surprised that their service is still maintaining the standard even after so many years in business. Staff keep coming to our desk to clear the empty plates, make sure that we have bottle of water to refill ourselves. They will use those bottle (think bought from Ikea) and replace the empty one so that we can help ourselves with the water.

This plate is with penang fried kuay teow, popiah, Otak, fried prawn. I tried taking better pictures, but I think I am not in the mood for photo taking that day. Penang Fried kuay teow is always served in small portion. Think the owner want to make sure everyone eating will be served with nice and fresh Penang style fried kuay teow.
This should be the penang laksa which I did not try. There will be a staff cooking this for you. Below is the penang hokkein mee, personally I like this dish :)
Other than these, my favourite dish will be satay. Nice chicken satay with rich gravy. I always have many serving of satay whenever I am there.

I remembered previously they do serve some chilli crab there, but on that day, I only see chicken curry, nasi lemak and some other not so famous dishes.
I helped myself with some kuay below.
They are quite normal. Not worth mentioning cos I only all on this plate and did not go for second serving.

Overall, every year I visit this place, I will only have a serving or two on the fried kuay teow and hokkein mee. Many servings on Satay. Do note that they do not open on Sunday. I will still go back maybe one year later or if I miss the authentic flavours of Penang cuisine again :)

Joo Min will definitely be the first to "buzz" me when she read my post. We are suppose to organize a trip next friday to have dinner with my other colleagues. Yes!!! I am here to have my dinner with two of my friends. One of them is Mr Handsome as named by Joo.
I was too overwhelmed with the fact that I am eating my favourite stall that I forget to take the pictures actually. My friend and I actually started to eat and when I exclaimed "Oh No!!", then took out my camera, my friend stared at me with his puzzled eyes....I explained "to take pictures for my blog".

We carried on eating and I ate 3 bowls of porridge myself. Still order rojak which is crappy and then dessert before I head back home with Mr Handsome driving me.

Shakey's Pizza

Please do not even try to eat Shakey's pizza when you are in Malaysia. I was at this Jusco place, opposite Melaka Mall (newly renovated) to have my dinner. The service is bad and the food definitely sucks big time!!!

Total bill come up to RM$44 something. Look at this cream of mushroom soup...it is so so diluted!! The rest of the food I cannot even bear to use my camera to snap them as it is a waste of time definitely!!

There is a place I must recommend for those whom are visiting Malacca soon. This place which I like the food is call "Donald & Lily". It is behind Jonker street, away from the crowded shophouses and busy street filled with so many "chicken rice balls" shop.

This is the outside view of the shop.

Before walking up the stairs to get a table, you will see the below sign on your right. It seems a bit dark before you reached the top level from below. But I think you will like the place if you like to see old display.
There are 2 sitting place upstair. I will call them sitting area (outside & inside). When you are there, you will know what I mean. This is the board above sitting area (outside) before your go to sitting area (inside).
This is a must try. Chendol (RM$1.30 I think), big one is RM$2.00. Good for a hot day especially :)
This is the curry chicken. As you can see, the curry is very oily. Does not suit my taste definitely. But my friend said it is not bad.

This is the nonya rojak (if I am not wrong). Consist of fried dao gua (bean curd), pineapple, cucumber, fish cake. Some chilli (not too hot) and a special sauce with a unique taste. You might not like it at first, but you might grow to like it.
Laksa with fishball and dao pok. Simple and taste very "coconut". Smell nice. If you are a curry fan, you should like this. It is served hot and I had 2 bowl of them despite my stomach flu :P

There are nasi lemak, mee siam (dry style), but when I was there that day, we are only given the above choices. I suppose this eating place do not want to prepare too much varieties for the day. I was there about 12pm. Luckily I was there early as there was a huge crowd whom came in without seats. I had experience previously at around 2pm, there are not much food left.

The eating place is full of different staff of different nationality. India uncle whom you can order chendol and drink. A nice lady in spec (I suppose she is the owner) will come serve you or her helpers. This is a place for tourists and local people. I like this place very much.

Not far from here (in another direction), there is a Nancy kitchen, which serve nonya food which are not too bad, but a bit pricey. I do not have the pictures to show you, but perhaps next time when my other friends visit Malacca. They might go there, but my top choice will still be "Donald & Lily"

Weekend passes so fast and now it is 1.25am on Monday morning. I am so awake and now I am here to update my blog.

Last friday, went to eat crabs at still road, total bill come out to $144.10, for 6 crabs and some other stuff.



I am actually too busy to take any photos. Another thing is also I am "so clever" to set my ISO to 400 and all the pictures turns out overly exposed. Just got to realize it after dinner on my way home.

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Sat in Ikea Alexandra, met 2 friends there for lunch. One friend told me a joke that he heard on mrt.

Boy: Mummy mummy...I want to pee!!!!

Mum: 2 more stops boy, I will find you a toilet later..

Boy: But mummy!! I want to pee...cannot wait...Mummy mummy!!! Can I PEE in your mouth???

Mum: No boy! How can pee in mum's mouth?? I find you a toilet later ok??

Boy: But..........I saw daddy "pee" in your mouth!!!!

(By then, almost all passengers whom heard this conversation turned and looked at the boy's mum)...but I had a good laugh while having chicken wing in Ikea. Will come back with more jokes I heard soon as I got to sleep soon.

Malacca Food Trip (19/01/2008)

My favourite dish in malacca once again. Standard order, one big noodle and one additional plate of pork ribs (Pai gu in mandarin). Will take all the pork ribs from the bowl to the plate as do not want the ribs to be soaked with the gravy for the noodle.

After that, mix the noodle well with the gravy and then dip the rib to the chilli and munch, follow by one mouthful of the noodle....yum yum....

New discovery for this trip is a malay snack call "Kuih Badak". It look like curry puff, but it's only the external which is similiar.

The waiting time for this road side stall is more than 20 mins for this to be made. During the wait, more chinese residents in malacca actually drove up to the stall to order the same thing. My friend ordered 10 and each cost RM$0.40. All for himself as he know I do not like malay food here, but obviously he is wrong!!!! I took 4 of them at one go....*slurp*...and why not take five of them, you may ask as to even out....well...reason being I pity him having to wait for so long for the food while I was busy snapping picture of a temple nearby...Woo hoo!!! (Good reason??)
The filling of "kuih badak" is with bean sprouts and some chilli which is not hot and nice. There is a "watery" chilli given to take with this malay snack and it taste nice. With or without the "watery" chilli, this snack still taste nice, especially it is so so hot as freshly made....

Alexis Bistro & Wine bar (KL, 30/12/2007)

Went to Alexis while in KL, a new mall somehow connected to mid valley, called the Garden. Nice new mall with many branded stuff. There is mark & spencer there and banana republic, levis and many other brands. One of my friends went off to do the shopping in Mark & Spencer, and another friend found Alexis in this mall, we are all very excited...because we can "lure" him out from shopping with his favourite Tiramisu cake at Alexis.

During our visit, this place is only around one week old. Greeted by very polite service crew whom find us a nice and cosy corner which we chilled there for more than 2 hours without realizing. As usual, food photos for reference. I must say the food are served hot and local food are nice and spicy. Now then I realized we did not actually took the main attractive to Alexis, Tiramisu cake.


This is some of the varieties of food you can find when you stay in Traders Hotel, KL during breakfast buffet.
Highly recommended by the manager there, prawns are quite fresh, but the group of us feel that it is not fresh enough. According to the manager, the prawns we took in some restaurant which are chewy and tasted very fresh is because the chef soaked them in soda water. So if anyone is free, can go experience and confirm this theory :)
Mushroom cream or something like that.
Mee siam, local stuff. I remembered it is sour.

Mussles are fresh, but I find the pasta ok only, not very fantastic.

Laksa, spicy and sour. One of my friends said it tasted like some "nong hiang" (wu xiang) taste.

Some kind of fried rice which apparently all of us forget the name. My handsome friend said that it is nice and have salted fish.

Anyway, I will give this place a visit again when I am in KL. But other than nice food, nice friends need to be there to perfect the makan session.

I saw more pictures on their malacca Nonya food, which I had posted some few months back for my visit 2 years back. I so envy my friends as I do not get to eat them :(

I might come back with the pictures of what my friends ate in Malacca.

I was browsing through some pictures and I must post this as this is part of the good memories that I had.

Above is the most delicious ham and scramble egg I ever eaten :) It is really very nice!! I ate the whole plate of them and cannot wait to have more of them...but I do not think that there is any chance as I have made a decision.

This is the Malacca prawn fried dumpling I have always mentioned which is so nice. I will always eat the porridge (century egg, with some pork liver). It is not the best porridge I tried, but it goes very well with the dumpling.

I do not have much photos in my office laptop, but when I looked at these 2 photos, I must really blog about them :)

Wow!! What a great difference leh!!! Fenni look so slim and slender...sighs...I am like double her size leh...MUST SLIM DOWN liao...but hor...dun be cheated by her shape hor...she can really eat...hahahaa....ok...another one runner up...

Ya...as all expected, it's Joo Min again...*Round Applauses"

These 2 young mei mei are very cheerful and sweet...can sing, can eat...can joke...Wow!! They are the best of the best leh...It is always good to have friends whom are close and can really cheer you up when you are down :)

Hanabi Japanese Restaurant

Went to a ala-carte buffet restaurant for dinner with my friends. Had a good time there, enjoying 2 hours plus there and once again I am the champion as all surrendered but I am still eating and ordering....If not for the late crowds whom do not book for table came, I would have stayed there longer :P
Here are the pictures taken :)