This bouquet of flowers have been sitting at my house for 2 years now, it still looks the same. They’re real flowers yo!

Taken in the car while going to KLCC. The overhead highways have gorgeous plants that makes a great silhouette.

White Chrysanthemum.

Hope Ring.

At Chilling Waterfall, Fraser’s Hill

Butterfly, at Chilling Waterfall, Fraser’s Hill

The Chef.

Me and Jennifer Pou.

Dumplings

By looking at it scares me. So many to choose from! Yum yum.

Beef Slices.

Fish

Crabby Crabs.

Ooh, best part is that you can make your own sauce!

Here’s some of their cooked food.

Mantao.

Spicy Vegetables.

Lala.

Their Signature Sauce.

XO Sauce

There’s about 8 choices of soup.

Spinach noodles with Inoki Mushrooms!

RM 26++ , RM 29++

Nang it!

1. Mamee Sllrrrp Chicken Flavour
2. Chicken fillet
3. Prawns
4. Xiao Bai Cai (Xiu Pak Choi)
5. Red Chilli, sliced
6. Spring Onions, sliced

Method

1. Wash vegetables. Slice chicken and shell prawns. If preferred,  marinade chicken with a little pepper and cornflour.
2. Boil water and put in noodles.
3. Add vegetable, prawns and the chicken slices. Cover and boil two minutes.
4. Add in packet of seasoning, transfer to bowl and garnish with sliced spring onions and a dash of pepper.

Voila! It’s that simple. For those who like eating it pedas, serve with chillies in soya sauce! YUM.

Basically, you can add any of your favourite ingredients. The sky’s the limit. Think fishball, crabstick, whole chicken wing, chicken balls, fish cake, beansprouts etc! Well, don’t add in stuff that don’t go with it like pumpkin or something. That would totally ruin the chicken noodles.

Nang it!

Hello! (: So at 6pm , mum and I left the house to Sheraton for Ruffino Wine Dinner . It was a long , long gorgeous dinner .

The bar.

There was rows of glasses ready for wine to be poured into!

This is how it looks in real life. Dark and romantic. (:

They have really cool lamps too. (:

Executive Chef Rajesh
Really nice friendly fella.

The 5 types of wine we had that night.

Pan seared US scallop marinated fresh endive with crab aioli.

Squid linguine with peanut tomato sauce and black caviar.
The linguine is actually strips of squid! (:

Oven roasted lamb loin, steamed white asparagus with button and morel mushrooms served with green buttered asparagus puree.

Spicy chocolate parfait, olive oil and rosemary cake served with caramelized honey pear.

Villa Danieli, Sheraton Imperial Hotel

Jalan Sultan Ismail Kuala Lumpur 50250 Malaysia
Tel: 03 2717 9900, 03-2717 9922

RM188++ per person

Nang it!

Anyway, Friday was Guan Yin’s birthday. Well, I always dread when it comes to this (I feel so bad, but yeah) because I’d go vegetarian for the day. BUT, going to restaurants , they would serve fake meat and all.. Which really taste terrible. And for lunch, I had to eat alone, so bought myself a Vegetarian Curry Flavoured Mamee Sllrrrp instant noodles. OMG, it totally saved my day. My mum buys the asam laksa and curry flavour all the time! That’s cause I loveee asam laksa, and it’s kinda hard to make at home, so instant noodles are like, just great! Takes only 2 minutes. Plus! It taste so, so good. I always add prawn paste, sliced onions and cucumber to my asam laksa instant noodles. How do you improvise your instant noodles?

OMG. Trials are coming.

The Tingkat Cruise was a 45-minute dinner cruise along the Singapore River. Priced at S$35 per person, the cruise started at the Merlion Park from as early as 4pm, with six cruises a day for the 10-day duration of the Singapore Food Festival from July 16-25.

The boat, a bumboat, was quite small and places were limited to about 30 customers maximum. The boat finally arrived and we gingerly stepped on board. The braver ones decided to take a chance and sit at the open space in the back of the boat to enjoy the fresh air (and possible rain) while the rest of us preferred the air-conditioned and more comfortable seating inside.

As we enjoyed our lovely late dinner, the guide on board gave a running commentary on the scenery on both sides of the river and a short story connected to each landmark.

The food was not exactly the stuff to write home about though. Similar items on sale at the Clarke Quay Food Street were far more tastier. I didn’t mind the chicken rice, fried noodles and the soon kueh but the carrot cake tasted more like an omelette and the sweet broth was quite bland.

Still, the whole experience did add up to a rather exotic adventure for the younger generation and for foreign tourists.
The Singapore Food Festival 2010 focused on the foods of the five mainstream Chinese dialect communities and apart from the Tingkat Cruise and Clarke Quay Food Street, included events such as Chinese Dialect Street Snacks, Heritage Feast, River market and Culinary Master Classes with cooking games and cooking demonstrations.

You get to sit by the window if you like. Watching the gorgeous Singapore landscape.

On each table were four bright red tingkat with pretty flowers prints on the sides of each of the three tiers.

I thought that putting the food into the tinfoil trays kind of deflated the experience of eating out of a tingkat but later, I realized that this was to keep the tingkat reasonably clean for the customers to take them home after the dinner cruise.

As for the tingkat, in the topmost tier were two tinfoil trays containing Teochew carrot cake and fried Hokkien noodles.

The middle tier had a piece of Hakka soon kueh and Hainanese chicken rice while the bottom tier held dessert – a plastic tub of Cantonese beancurd skin and barley broth with a quail egg.

Nang it!

They have 2 private rooms. This is the bigger one. Don’t be fooled by the plastic chairs. It’s one of the most comfortable chairs on Earth. I am dead serious. They ain’t cheap!

The lamp above the private room table. I could stare at it all day long. It’s really quite pretty.

The waiters dress in brown and they are really friendly and attentive people! (:

Focaccia Bread. A little too oily, and too oily to even dip into the olive oil and vinegar. And it takes ages to reach the vinegar.

Crab Salad with Avocado and Bisque Jelly (RM39)
From degustation menu.

Pan Fried Goose Liver with Saba Wine Must and Sweet Potatoe Galette (RM59)
This is from the degustation menu. I *heart* foies gras.

Rigatoni with Lamb Ragout, Fava Beans and Pecorino Cheese (RM39)
Lots of cheese. Bite size lamb which is chewable unlike the lamb shanks. Love-a-ly. Love-a-ly.  *MWAH (I think I’m trying too hard to sound like an Italian.)

Tagliolini with Lobster and Spicy ‘Calabria’ Salami (RM59)
They say that the spicy-ness comes only from the special salami they imported but the salami slices would not be visible for some odd reason. The lobster’s nice and so is the tagliolini. This is from the degustation menu so it looks a little smaller in size.

Gorgonzola Cheese and Radicchio Risotto with Hazlenut Sauce (RM39)
I’m not really a fan of risotto but this is OK. They have another champagne risotto with LOTS of truffle. That is quite good as well I heard.

Sardinian Roasted Suckling Pig with Plum Sauce (RM85)
Another from the degustation menu. It would be 3 slices if ala carte. You could hear so clearly how crispy it is when you cut it. YUM.

Duck Leg Confit with Truffle Salad and Caramelized Shallots (RM75)
A little too dry for my liking. Like a lamb shank. Not something I’d want to order. ):

Ricotta Cheese Cake with Orange and Pistacchio (RM29)
What? What’s that on top? GOLD? Yeah. They are real gold flakes. I didn’t really enjoy this though. Imagine a cheesecake which is almost like cream. x10 the dry-ness. And add in the orange and pistacchio pieces in it.

Degustation Menu (RM180)

Il Lido

Jalan Mayang,
Off Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: +603 2161 2291
http://www.il-lido.com.my

Nang it!

Do you take constantly try to snap your own photographs of your kids, little nephews, cousins etc? Isn’t it hard?They just don’t seem to be able to keep still.

No? I don’t have a really stunning photograph of kids. Never. They move too much. ):

Well, I ain’t here to talk about how to photograph kids.

I’m talking to you about The Picture Company! Your ultimate hangout spot to photograph your kids and mark the milestones of their growing up.

Currently, there are 2 outlets. One in One Utama and one in The Gardens.

Well, last Sunday, mum and I decided to check it out cause we had a complimentary ticket for a picture… Might as well. We’d never done this sort of thing and we were like so, so nervous.

We didn’t know what to expect either. Would they do our make-up? Do they have costumes we could borrow?

Anyway, just to play safe, we decided to bring some of our own.

When we arrived at The Picture Company in The Gardens Mall, we found a bright, colourful and happy atmosphere. And that included the staff.

They had many album samples of photographs that were taken by them.

There were 2 staff there when we arrived (on reservation) – Zen and Reza. As you can see, they are happy, cheerful types who put customers at ease.

They were really friendly happy people. They greeted and attended us immediately. Really.

Well, they thought it would be fun we did a few shots with a white background for fun shots and black background for more formal shots. Zen was our photographer.

We had loads of pictures taken, but I’ll only show you two. They are really lovely photographs.

She really captured the moments and made us feel so comfy and not awkward at all.

Here’s some of their baby photographs.

Well, The Picture Company specializes in baby and family photographs, but they do photography of all types,  good photographs of couples and groups too!

The Picture Company

Tel: 03-77251918 (One Utama)
03-22841918 (Gardens)

Hello world. Gonna update a little on myself today.. This week it’s been hectic. It’s library week. I didn’t really do much for the library.. I’d prefer calling it supervising. Teehee. Well, I felt bad .. But oh, well. It ends tomorrow. I shall make it up to them by helping them clean up tomorrow.

Anyway, other than library week, form 5s had to do some scholarship thing for ourselves.. Pn. Catherine came to our class few days ago to brief us about it. I didn’t really do much. Didn’t even get a teacher to sign my recommendation letter. So, gave up. Not applying for scholarship! Other than school, everything’s cool. Gotta study for my upcoming exams in few weeks and prepare for my career day next week! I’ve got so much to ask and do! I still cannot decide what I wanna do after SPM. Wondering, any suggestions? Well, I love children, I love photography. 2 years ago, my counseling teacher said I had the Event Organiser face. Thought about child psychiatrist, now I’m not too sure anymore. Thinking of the event organiser again. Maybe I should really get on with it? I don’t know. ): Help me out!

The launching of library week. Theme: Rewind.
I was very very far away.. Mind the heads and photographers.. I was too lazy to move 50m front. Heh. But, ain’t they cute? They are all being hippy and showing the peace signs. Including our 3 guests on the right.

The war zone in the library. Cool eh? They have real Japanese and Malaya actors!

Hanging Gardens of Babylon. They had about 6 of the wonders of the world displayed in the library. All of our hard work.

The stone hedge.

The APD room. This is where the fun and food is.

They even sell these cute ladybug chocolates!

I just love this effect. SO COOL! It’s the president, Anlie for the library week by the way. (:

This is the vice president, Shau Wei. The funny, crazy, and gosh.. He’s so sporting. And helped the library a lot. (:

Cindy and I got bored.. And we were in total darkness most times. Due to the mysterious rewind thing. This is cool right! You’d never guess that it’s a TV screen.

This is the hole in our library roof.

Physics experiment Miss Liang showed us. She’s the funniest teacher. (:

This is Pei Ling. (Hope I spelled that right.) She’s quite adorable, and often seen in the library these days.. I wonder why.

Well, I have no comment for this.

Then there is Alex, one of our famous real live-moving-robotic-wax figurine. Sad part – everyone either teases or bullies him. Fun part – he doesn’t mind!

Haider. He was one of the Malaya actors. I think. Tryna act sad.

Back in class, was just playing around with my camera while waiting for my teacher to come. Nothing much now.

Nang it!