DREAMS AND MEMORIES

Been super duper happy for the past two days despite all the datelines and lack of sleep.. All because my lappie has finally arrived ^_^  Finally, my very own new, light laptop. Super duper happy..

Everything is good so far and living up to expectations. I especially love the tomato red cover. Something different from the conventional black. For a home computer, it’s definitely a worthwhile package which is value for money and light in weight.

Although it saddens me to let my faithful Inspiron 6000 ‘retire’, I’m still glad that finally I got a new laptop that’s much more lighter. [Approximately 1.92kg] Definitely makes carrying it around easier and lesser chances of sporting a backache. Although the smooth finishes make it more finger print prone, I still love it all the same..

 

It’s been almost three months since my last post.

I’ve got so much to say. But not enough time to sit down and really write what I want to say and show in my pictures.. In a nutshell it’s been a busy busy one month since before my graduation up till now. So much has happened and I’ve crossed paths with so many new friends. Some of which are real treasures to be cherished always.

Need to work on my time management a little bit more I suppose. So till I get things sorted out better, here’s one for the wait.

Went down to Klang with my mom and a friend to settle some things. So while we were there, we decided to go try the famous Klang ‘Bak Kut Teh’. However, we were faced with the slight problem of not knowing which one to try. So after a phone call to a local friend, we made our way to a certain ‘kopitiam’ located some where further away from town.

It was about 11 plus in the morning when we reached the ‘kopitiam’. According to the shop owner, the portion served to us was practically the last serving for 3 left in his pot. If we had come any later, then it would have been just to bad and we would have to go back on an empty stomach.

Despite having only the ‘Bak Kut Teh’ and white rice for brunch, it was very satisfying. Best part was of course the soup which was thick and tasty. Yummy Yummy!!

 

Sunday’s are normally ‘Eat-Out’ days for my family. Especially for dinner. So yesterday, we decided to do some gallivanting around the Taman Kuchai Jaya area – just off Jalan Kuchai Lama. The area is practically a foodie haven as there’s just about anything available to try there. From Western food to noodles, seafood etc.

 

Since we weren’t really sure what to go with, we decided to pick a shop that has a considerable amount of patrons eating inside. So after one round, we decided to give this shop called ‘Hot Pot Bone Essence’  a try. It was located right at the end of the road so we nearly missed it too at first.

So anyway, as we first stepped into the restaurant, I was greeted by the aromatic smell of soup. It was simply delightful. And as we were making our way to a table further back in the shop, I took a quick glance around the tables to see what were the common favourites of the other patrons. We were then given a menu – similar to Old Town Kopitiam Style – to pick, select and mark and select from.

 

There’s a whole lot of things to choose from. So playing it safe, we decided to just try i serving of each of the signature dishes – assuming that you can’t go wrong since it’s supposed to be highly recommended. And of course, we picked the signature Pork Bone Broth for our soup.

 

Here’s a glimpse of some of the dishes we ordered. ^_^

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The price at this place is pretty reasonable too. On average, it only cost about RM20.00 per-person for such a fulfilling dinner – excluding drinks. So for those of you looking for a reasonable, comfortable and serves extra yummy fresh slices of pork steamboat place, do go and check out this place. The soup is simply awesome and I’m sure you would all agree that the soup is the most important ingredient of all when eating steamboat. The address is as follows.

 

 

Hot Pot Bone Essence,

No 41, Jalan Kuchai Maju 7,

Taman Kuchai Jaya,

58200, Kuala Lumpur

Tel: +603-79811006

Just discovered this really awesome place for lunch last week.  Although, when I first chanced upon this place, it was actually really late at night. However, I noticed that they did have a rather interesting Set Lunch Menu and I promised myself to come back and try. To offer more variety, there are two different kinds of set lunch. One which is priced at RM 14.90++ and the other at RM20++. 

The RM14.90++ set lunch are mainly a wide variety of Panini Sandwiches. From your regular bacon and cheese Panini Sandwich to various different styles of bacon and some even have peaches in them. Definitely going to try it the next round. For you pork and bacon lovers out there, you should definitely check this place out.

As for the RM 20.00++ set lunch, it basically goes by week number of the month. Every week, there are 3 different choices of Main course to choose from accompanied with your selection of soft drink from the menu. So far, I’ve only tried the Spaghetti Roast Pork Aglio-Olio With White Wine from the WEEK 3 menu selection. I did chance to peep at the Braised Lamb Shank and Pan Seared Pacific Cod which was served to my neighbouring table – and belief me when I say it looks absolutely mouth-wateringly-delicious.

For the benefit of those of you who are considering this place for lunch sometime in the near future, the following is the RM20.00++ set lunch menu list.

WEEK 1

• The famous chicken cordon Bleu with lemon and stoemp
• Crispy battered fish with lemon grass scented spicy tomato coulis and raisin pilaf rice
• Pork meatball penne with pomodoro sauce

WEEK 2

• Grilled lamb chop with stoemp and mint juice
• German bratwurst with stoemp and onion gravy
• Crab meat spaghetti with rose sauce

WEEK 3

• 4 hours slow braised lamb shank with potato mousseline
• Pan seared pacific cod with green pea mash and caviar hollandaise
• Spaghetti Roast Pork Aglio-Olio with white wine

WEEK 4

• Tequila sunrise chicken chop with sauté potato and mushroom gizzard sauce
• Pork schnitzel with forbidden love sauce and scallions potato
• Spicy clam fettuccine pasta with white wine and cream (vongole)

NOTE: if you plan to share without ordering anything else, there is an additional charge of RM9.80++, so personally, I think it is more worthwhile to order something else from the Ala-carte menu.

Apparently one of the things not to be missed when dining at Brussels would be the Brussels Pork Bacon with Cheese Burger – which looks and taste absolutely fabulous as you can see from the picture below. One serving can easily feed two people especially if you’re a petite eater. Unfortunately, this is not available on the set lunch menu. But still, it is not to be missed.

So if you’re a real porky pork lover like me, or simply looking for a place to chill and have some beer with friends, Brussels is most certainly a place to try.

 

Address:

Brussels Beer Cafe,

Lot G-12, 12A,

Jalan P. Ramlee,

50250, Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia

 

Tel : +603 – 2034 1800

 

Will get back to the Taiwan trip official post after this.. for now, let’s fast forward to this outing with my girlfriends. It’s definitely been a while since I went on a trip with them. So this outing has given us a great opportunity to catch up, have fun together and take lots and lots of photos for memories. Many thanks to Win Ann who extended the invitation to us – including Natalie ^_^

 

 

I took a total of 636 shots on my camera for that trip.. A real record breaker, considering it’s a one day trip. So after several times of filtering, I finally managed to reduce it to approximately 447 shots. We visited quite a number of places for a one day trip.

1.  Dragon Fruit and Passion Fruit Farm

2.  Longan Fruit Farm

3.  Tapioca Factory

4.  ‘Hai Yew Heng’ Pau places

5.  Ganofarm Mushroom Showroom

6.  Sepang Gold Coast Beach

And last but not least, the wonderful lunch and dinner place were superbly awesome food was served.

I’ve already uploaded the albums into Facebook, but here are some of my favourite shots.

 

You guys were awesome, and thanks for being so sporting to pose for the camera. Hope you guys had as much fun posing and smiling as I did capturing these beautiful memories.

 

 

 

 

Didn’t realise that it has been more than a month since my last post. Been rather busy for the past few weeks so do forgive me on my tardiness for updating.

Amidst the hustle and bustle of everything, I don’t really recall the details of everything that has happened over the last month so lets just skip straight to the highlight of the month for me. My trip to TAIWAN!!

 

 

Taiwan was simply an eating haven especially considering the fact that my favourite dish, Mr Porky Pork is served everywhere and anytime of the day in so many different styles. Didn’t manage to go around much to see the famous landmarks of Taiwan though, but had great fun all the same. Thanks to the great company of people and also the fun filled activities which were carried out for the whole of Challenge Camp.

 

 

The 8 days in Taiwan really gave me a chance to brush up and improve my spoken Mandarin. I only spoke 10-20% of English throughout the whole stay and communicated mostly in Mandarin. Although, I’m still hopeless for both reading and writing but I guess I survived. ^_^

More details to come in the next post.

 

 

When Mei Li and I first made our way here, we were aiming to have a buffet lunch. Unfortunately upon arrival, we were informed that the buffet is only for dinner T_T  Anyhow we settled for the Ala-Carte and set meals all the same and was shown to a cozy corner with a fabulous window view of Jalan Sultan Ismail by one of the friendly kimono dressed waitress [Of which Mei Li had plenty of opportunity to cuci mata  from our corner I might add]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was just so much to choose from the in the Ala-Carte menu. so after some considerable amount of thinking we finally made our choices. Mei Li settled for the Unagi Kabayaki Zen while I chose the Sho-Kado Bento. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We added another Spider Maki to be shared among the both of us – which we agreed was a good decision in unison when it arrived and we were devouring it. On the whole, we both agreed that our main favourites were the Unagi. Tempura and the Spider Maki

 

Honestly, I have passed the building where this Restaurant is situated almost everyday my entire life living in KL without knowing they served such great food here. Everything served was simply amazing and we were rather full that the walk back to KLCC was a welcomed exercise to help make some room in our tummies before our movie Killers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Despite having to plough through several other movie watchers to get to our seats (Especially the two horrible possibly perverted men who didn’t even bother to move their legs the slightest bit so that we could get to our seats) I’m glad to say that I still thoroughly enjoyed the movie. But maybe I’m biased because Ashton Kutcher’s in the movie and he was simply sizzling in the movie – especially the elevator scene in the beginning. *SQUEALSSS*

 

For those of you who would like to give Munakata a try, be it for the buffet dinner or Ala-Carte, the contact details are as follows.

 

Munakata Restaurant,

Mezzanine Floor, Life Center,

No 20 Jalan Sultan Ismail,

50250, Kuala Lumpur

Tel : +60321667441