For thE PrinCe & thE PrinCesS

Lobsterman, for seafood lover!

2012-12-30T12:30:00.000+08:00

Wow, it's a lobster day! As i'm a seafood lover, i'm so excited for this!

They catch the lobster fresh! yummy, it's very freshly sweet lobster!

A dinner set is inclusive of:

1. Appetizer- Cheesy Mussel

2. Main course- One Big Lobster

3. Side dish- Pasta

4. Dessert- Ice cream

5. Drinks for 2

Location: Lobsterman, SS2
Type of cuisine: Lobster Meal

Princess Broth: Tomato Taufu Soup

2012-10-23T10:18:00.001+08:00

This is pretty simple, just mix Taufu, sliced tomato, Goji Berry Leaf (Gao Gei Vege) and little of salt. You may add Anchovies for better taste.

KTZ Kei Tak Sek, SS2

2012-10-23T10:14:00.001+08:00

Mango ice at KTZ Kei Tak Sek..

And mango roll.. Today is the Mango day..

Moonlight Almond Tea

2012-10-23T10:13:00.001+08:00

My fav.. Yummy! Recently I got addicted to this weird taste. Believe it or not, previously I would vomit when smell this, or even tasted one mouth of this weird drink. But now, it is a must whenever I go any Hong Kong Cha Can Ting. Weird weird..

For beginners, I would suggest you to start with drinking the pure almond tea, without adding extra egg or egg white. As for now, I love Almond with egg white the most!

Chong Qing Chicken Hot Pot, Kuchai Lama

2012-10-23T09:15:00.001+08:00

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Restaurant Chong Qing Chicken Hot Pot at Kuchai Lama. The menu is designed in simple way, you can only choose either- Chicken, Ribs, Beef, Fish or Prawn, with fixed cooking style. The hot pot is served under fire, to keep the food warm all the time. I couldn't stop thinking of the special taste, the combination of all the herbs and chili used, is just nice and makes it great! We ordered 1 pot of Ribs Hot Pot, which tasted nice, and another Prawn Hot Pot, which tasted superb! You can choose the level of spiciness- slightly spicy, medium spicy and super spicy. For me, i think all tasted the same.. =p
What i can say, if you like spicy, you will love this so much!

Chong Qing Chicken Hot Pot, Kuchai Lama

Address: 21, Jalan Kuchai Maju 8, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama, Taman Entrepreneurs Park, 58200 KL (Beside Honeymoon Dessert House).

Princess Broth: Black Bean with Black Chicken Sweet Soup

2012-10-23T08:47:00.001+08:00

Recently I have been busy with experimenting soupy recipe, this is one of my favourite soup. Love the sweet taste so much, you may want to try it out yourself.

Ingredients needed:

50g Black Bean

10g Dried Lotus Seed

10g Gui Yuan (Dried Longan)

10g Yuk Zuk

10g Barley

Ginger, Black Chicken according to preference and little of salt.

Boil at least 2 hours until the black bean is cooked. You may add more Gui Yuan (Dried Longan) to add more sweetness.

Princess Broth: Black Bean with Black Chicken Sweet Soup- Ingredients

Princess Broth: Black Bean with Black Chicken Sweet Soup

Champagne Grape

2012-07-04T17:25:00.001+08:00

Champagne Grape is not very common in Malaysia. The super small size of this grape grabbed my attention, hence i bought it. It's a type of small (around same size as black currant), super sour, seedless grape in a bunch.

So what this small fruit is all about?

"Champagne grapes, aka Black Corinth grapes, are, in fact, the smallest variety of all seedless grapes. Black Corinth grapes are not the exclusive champagne grape, there are red and green varieties as well, though very uncommon. Corinth grapes are one of the very few Parthenocarpic type of grapes in production - Parthenocarpic grapes have absolutely no seed development at all, compared to other seedless varieties, which develop seeds and eventually the seeds naturally abort."
~ taken from Specialtyproduce.com.

"Champagne grapes are the individual pearl-sized fragile skinned fruits, aka the berries, of the seedless grape variety, Black Corinth. When eaten fresh, they are known as a table grape. In dried form the champagne grape is transformed into a raisin, in which they are known as the Zante currant, or dried currant."
~ taken from Specialtyproduce.com.

"Champagne grapes are ubiquitously utilized for garnishing champagne flutes and decorating desserts and cheese trays. The grapes can also be used in many other forms, added to pastries, such as scones, muffins and cakes. Like many other fruits, champagne grapes make a great addition to fruit cereals, granola and yogurt. They can also be cooked and reduced down into a jelly, added to sauces for savory pairings with lamb, game and pork. In dried currant form the Champagne grapes can also be added to pastries as well as couscous, rice, fruit and green salads and paired equally with aged and fresh cheeses alongside charcuterie meats."
~ taken from Specialtyproduce.com.

Now we know what to make with champagne grape, lets try with pastry, or cooking with meat, and even make cheese cake!
100gram of Champagne Grape is sold around RM6 to RM8. A small bunch of Champagne Grape is definitely more than 100gram.

Little Tokyo, Cheras Leisure Mall

2012-06-30T00:58:00.000+08:00

It's pretty's birthday. We celebrated at Little Tokyo, Cheras Leisure Mall. It's red red restaurant. Everything there's red!

We ordered set meal and ala-carte.
Love the shape of the sushi!

Ebi Fried Curry.

Chicken Teriyaki Egg.

Salmon set with Chawanmushi.

We ordered Sushi platter. The sushi roll looked really like displayed food!

It's birthday cake from Baskin Robin.

Happy birthday pretty. Everyone enjoyed the food very much.

Location: Little Tokyo, Cheras Leisure Mall (beside Starbucks)
Type of cuisine: Japanese food
Facebook: Little-Tokyo-Japanese-Restaurant

Tulip from KLM

2012-05-13T13:53:00.000+08:00

This is Tulip from KLM for mother's day present!
Thank you KLM.

KLM Tulip Sale for Mother's Day

2012-05-10T12:18:00.000+08:00

It's KLM- Royal's Dutch Airline annual tulip-sales again this Saturday, 12th May 2012.

KLM Tulip Sale for Mother's Day
(Pic courtesy of Rebeccasaw.com)

How to get Tulip in Malaysia for your lovely Mum for this special mother's day?
Just queue at Sg Wang Shopping Centre at KL on 12th May, 11am in the morning to get your stalk of Tulip.

KLM Tulip Sale for Mother's Day
(Pic courtesy of Rebeccasaw.com)

Besides getting something meaning for Mother's Day, you are actually doing charity.
Rabobank contributes RM1 for each Tulip sold, (public only pays RM5 per stalk of Tulip), and Dutch Bank will top up RM2 for each Tulip sold.
The beneficiary this year is Special Children Society of Ampang (SCSOA).

KLM Tulip Sale for Mother's Day
(Pic courtesy of Rebeccasaw.com)

My mother likes white Tulip. Quietly, she always look at my photos of Netherlands with Tulip. But how can i get her a Tulip from Netherlands? It's really a mission impossible for me. But now, here is the chance.. =)

Why Tulip for mothers?

Lets see what different color of Tulip means:

Red Tulip- Declaration of love/ True Love
Pink Tulip-   Caring
Purple Tulip- Royalty
Yellow Tulip- (originally hopeless love but changed) Cheerful thoughts and sunshine;
"There's sunshine in your smile"
White Tulip-   Forgiveness
Orange Tulip- Warmth, happiness, fascination, energy, desire and passion

Other interesting colors such as:
Violet- Faithfulness
Yarrow-   Good health
Zinna- Thoughts of friends

A tulip bouquet represents elegance and grace.

~ taken from source: Aboutflowers.com, Tulipflower.net, Romancestuck.com and Realtulip.com~

So why a simple yet meaningful Tulip for my mother? The above symbolism of Tulip can definitely answer this question. I just hope to bring love, caring, warmth, happiness, cheers, good health..everything..to my beloved mother! These are things that money can't buy, but hope that a stalk of Tulip speaks all.

Red Tulip

Pink Tulip

Yellow Tulip

Purple Tulip

White Tulip

Everyday is mother's day. But during this special occasion, do express your love and care to them more.

To all mother in the world, Happy Mother's Day.

Kiki Taiwan Cuisine, KLCC

2012-04-20T16:01:00.000+08:00

Kiki Taiwan Cuisine is located at Suria KLCC Level 4, by Fong Lye Restaurant.

Most of the main courses are served in Set. But the price starts from as low as RM19++ per set including main course, side dish, white rice and soup.

Kiki Taiwan Cuisine, KLCC Level 4.

Kiki Taiwan Cuisine: Menu

For the main course, we ordered a Steamed Fish Set. It is inclusive of Steamed Fish, white rice, Boiled Chicken Soup, Anchovies and vegetable, and a Custard Bun.

Kiki Taiwan Cuisine: Steamed Fish Rice Set

So Kiki- cat prepares the best fish? =p The fish was very fresh.

Kiki Taiwan Cuisine: Steamed Fish

I believed the chicken soup was boiled by individual bowl for each serving as the taste was very strong and sweet.

Kiki Taiwan Cuisine: Boiled Chicken Soup

The side dish- stir fry clam was served in a big portion than expected! But it's never enough for me. Seafood is my favourite.

Kiki Taiwan Cuisine: Side Dish- Stir Fry Clam

The corn soup was cooked with corn, ham-sliced, and crabmeat stick. If wanna compare between corn soup and the chicken soup, i would say, the chicken soup was far tastier than this.

Kiki Taiwan Cuisine: Corn Soup with Pastry Skin

Kiki Taiwan Cuisine: Corn Soup

In overall, the food is tasty and priced within affordable range.

Location: Kiki Taiwan Cuisine, 426- 427, Level 4, Suria KLCC.

Types of cuisine: Taiwan

Tokyo Kitchen, Sunway Giza

2012-04-06T17:28:00.000+08:00

I think the "Japanese wind" is blowing, that's why we had Japanese food almost every week!
Previously i posted Tokyo Shokudo, Mid Valley and Dontaku, One Utama and now it's Tokyo Kitchen!

Tokyo Kitchen, Sunway Giza

This week, we had it at Sunway Giza Mall. The decoration of this place was very unique with strong home-sweet-home feeling. There were lots of handmade craft, even for sales.

Tokyo Kitchen: Small decorative item

Tokyo Kitchen, Sunway Giza

Tokyo Kitchen: Handcraft for sales

The feeling when we walked inside was, "wow..is this a restaurant?" It was the feeling of coziness. The menu of the food was just like magazines.

Tokyo Kitchen: Menu

The food was served fast. For the main courses, We ordered each set of:

1. Salmon Sashimi Set
which came with Chawanmushi, salad, miso soup and green tea

2. Unagi Rice Set
which came with Chawanmushi, salad, miso soup and ice-cream

Tokyo Kitchen: Unagi Rice Set

Tokyo Kitchen: Salmon Sashimi Set

The way the food was presented was special, as the Chawanmushi was served in the steel cup that we used for milo during young time. And the Miso soup was served in the brown glass cup that our grandparent used for coffee last time.

Salmon Sashimi was in big piece, Chawanmushi was smooth that it just melt in my mouth, and need not to mention green tea ice cream which is my favourite!

Tokyo Kitchen: Salmon Sashimi

Tokyo Kitchen: Chawanmushi (steamed egg)

Tokyo Kitchen: Japanese Rice

Tokyo Kitchen: Green Tea Ice Cream

After meal, we still had some stomach space for dessert. The cold vanila ice cream seemed to be the best partner of hot chocolate lava cake. I love it so much!

Tokyo Kitchen: Hot Chocolate Lava Cake with Vanila Ice-cream

Tokyo Kitchen, Sunway Giza

Tokyo Kitchen: Projected clock

Tokyo Kitchen, Sunway Giza

The food here is nice and special. But the price is a bit higher than standard Japanese food. There is a 50% discount promotion on selected food after 9.30pm.

I will definitely come back to this place again.

Location: Lot C-01, Sunway Giza Mall, Jalan PJU 5, Kota Damansara, Petaling Jaya.
(Opposite Uncle Prawn)
Facebook: Tokyo Kitchen Facebook

Dontaku, Bandar Utama 1U

2012-04-01T16:46:00.000+08:00

It's Japanese again!

I wonder why we always, without realizing, made the similar order: one type of big bento set, with another noodle.. =_=''

Dontaku, One Utama

Dontaku: Menu

Dontaku: Set Menu

Dontaku: Menu

I had my favourite soft shell crab! It's crispy outside and juicy inside!

Dontaku: Soft Shell Crab

This bento set is inclusive of: Garlic Fried Rice, Teriyaki Salmon, Fried Chicken and Miso Soup.

Dontaku: Salmon and Chicken Bento

Dontaku: Yummy Garlic Fried Rice

Ramen again!

Dontaku: Ramen

Wow, full and satisfied!

Dontaku, One Utama

Location: Dontaku Japanese Restaurant, One Utama Shopping Centre, LG352, Lower Ground Floor.
Types of cuisine: Japanese

Ahroy Thai Cuisine, Cheras Taman Segar

2012-04-01T16:38:00.000+08:00

Located opposite Cheras Leisure Mall, Ahroy Thai Cuisine is a very famous place for its Thai food. It's always full with people, even on Friday night- Leisure Mall night market (pasar malam).

This place was visited by lots of local and oversea artists before, so you can imagine how nice is the food.

Ahroy Thai Cuisine: Cheras Taman Segar- Leisure Mall

Ahroy Thai Cuisine: Pictures of artists visited to Ahroy Thai

What we ordered:

1. Kadok Leaf Seafood Roll

2. Duck Meat Salad

3. Steamed Squid with lime juice

I like the special Kadok Leaf Seafood Roll very much. It's fulled of stuff seafood with the fragrant leaf, which i highly recommend if you want to try something special.

Ahroy Thai Cuisine: Duck Meat Salad

Ahroy Thai Cuisine: Steamed Squid with Lime Juice

Ahroy Thai Cuisine: Kadok Leaf Seafood Roll

In their website, there are full of tempting food pictures. So next time you can browse through the pictures before going to the place. If you like original Thai food, this is sure a recommended place for you.

Location: Ahroy Thai Cuisine,

48, Jln Manis 1, Taman Segar, Cheras.

(shoplots next to Cheras Leisure Mall)

Types of cuisine: Thai Food

Website: Ahroythai.com.my/

Tokyo Shokudo, Mid Valley

2012-03-30T16:03:00.000+08:00

Tokyo Shokudo, at Mid Valley. We seldom pass by this restaurant. It's located just opposite "Delicious". So we decided to give it a try this time.

Tokyo Shokudo, Mid Valley

Tokyo Shokudo: Menu

Tokyo Shokudo: Menu-sushi

We ordered:

1. Saba with rice

2. Salmon rice

3. Spicy Seafood Ramen

Tokyo Shokudo: Spicy Seafood Ramen

Tokyo Shokudo: Salmon rice

Tokyo Shokudo: Saba

The Salmon rice portion was quite big. It tasted very soft and juicy mixing rice with fresh salmon and sauce. However, it would be better without fresh bean sprout. The Saba fish portion is smaller than expected.
In overall, the price is quite reasonable.

Tokyo Shokudo, Mid Valley

Location: Tokyo Shokudo,

G-098, Ground Floor, Mid Valley Megamall

Type of cuisine: Japanese

Spasso Milano, Pavilion

2012-03-18T21:36:00.000+08:00

It was my friend's birthday celebration. So a number of us went to Spasso Milano Antipasti buffet to celebrate her birthday.

Spasso Milano before this was located at Nihonkan Club near to Great Eastern Mall. Recently it just moved to a crowded happening place- Pavilion shopping centre.

Antipasti, in Italian word, means before meal. So this buffet emphasis on appetizer. The price was increased from RM18++ at old venue (without main course) to RM28++ at Pavilion (with main course, but without drink). Still, it's a very affordable price for western buffet.

The main course is inclusive of Roasted of the Day- the roasted chicken and meat.

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Roast of the Day

What they mean antipasti? Garlic bread, soup, pasta, vegetables type like: grilled asparagus, tomato, baked pumpkin, salad; grilled clams, potato balls, onion rings, and lots more..

We started with soup, the bread, and so the others.

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Bean Soup

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Garlic Focaccia and Pizza Aromatica

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Self DIY Salad

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Egg Cakes

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Sautéed Asparagus and Brinjal

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Onion Ring

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Pasta and Spaghetti

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Potato Balls, Baked Tomato and Baked Pumpkin

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: DIY Salad Kiosk

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: On-the-spot Grilled Meat

I highly recommend their Garlic Grilled Clam. If you like garlic, it would be superb!

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Stir-fry Garlic Shell

We had a slice of birthday cake for my friend! She looked so excited when we brought her the cake!

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Cakes for Pretty's Birthday

Dessert are served too: Various type of cake slice- Chocolate Banana, Marble Cheese, Orange, etc..and fruits.
Gelato- ice cream is included in the buffet. Surprisingly, the ice cream tasted very nice with wide range of choices: vanila, coffee, mango, strawberry, mix nuts, pistachio, black sesame, etc.

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Cakes

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Marble Cheese Cake

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Gelato/ Ice Cream

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Mango Ice cream

Spasso Milano, Pavilion: Strawberry and Almond Ice Cream

Drinks can be ordered at price started with RM3++ for RO Water to RM10++ for juice.

Obviously the price for the lunch buffet is very affordable comparing to others. The choices are lesser, as you will feel like finish trying all the types after a few rounds. However the quality of food is really maintained even they produce a lot in a single buffet session.

Spasso Milano only offers buffet session for lunch. At night, ala-carte style Italian food is served. Make sure you make reservation first as the place is quite small and it's normally full during weekends.

In overall, i believe 80% of us were satisfied with the food and services provided. So this Restaurant is highly recommended if you haven't try it!

Further review can be read from The Star News on Spasso Milano.

Type of cusine: Italian Antipasti Buffet
Location: Spasso Milano, Pavilion Bukit Bintang, KL
Facebook: Spasso Milano Facebook

Macro's Pizza, Petaling Jaya

2012-03-11T22:00:00.000+08:00

Macro's Pizza Deal is back again. This time, i bought 2 vouchers, which means that i have bought 4 large pizza!

Each voucher is inclusive of:
1. Two (2) Large Pizza of any flavour
2. One (1) bottle of Coke 1.5L
suitable for 4 person portion

The original price is up to RM 78.40 depending on the flavour you order. This means that with each voucher purchased (RM30), we save 62% in this Macro's Pizza deal.

The pizza was made on the spot. The chef would first put sauce on the pizza skin, put on toppings like: chicken slices, seafood or egg, then only top with sliced cheese. Another chef would put the pizza into oven and baked until it's ready.

Macro's Pizza: Readily-made dough

Macro's Pizza: On-the-spot Pizza Making Process

Macro's Pizza: Pizza in the oven

Macro's Pizza: Baking in Process

Macro's Pizza: Groupon deal

It was lots of people that night as most of the customer came at last day of redemption, we had to wait longer than usual. So we ordered mushroom soup first for our hungry stomach.

Macro's Pizza: Mushroom Soup

We ordered different types of pizza each time. (We separated it to 2 times of redemption).

Pizza 1: Salmon Affumicato Pizza
Smoked Salmon with capers, onion, basils, Black Olives, Mozzarella cheese and Napolean Sauce

Pizza 2: Hawaii Pizza
Tuerky Ham with Pineapple, Mozzarella Cheese and Napolean Sauce

Pizza 3: Macro's
Chicken Slices with eggs, Mozzarella Cheese and Napolean Sauce

Pizza 4: Seafood Marinara
Seafood with Mozzarella Cheese and Napolean Sauce

Macro's Pizza: Macro's

Macro's Pizza: Seafood Marinara

Macro's Pizza: Full of Topping

Macro's Pizza: Salmon Affumicato Pizza

Macro's Pizza: Hawaii Chicken

In overall, i love Macro's and Salmon Affumicato the most. I would highly recommend Salmon Affumicato if you like fish. If you like cheese, I would highly recommend Macro's! Yummy!

Type of Cuisine: Western and famous for pizza
Location: No.81 to 85, Jalan SS25/2, Taman Bukit Emas, 47301 Petaling Jaya.
(It's located at the shoplot apposite Kelana Jaya LRT station at PJ. It's at the same row as King Crab Restaurant.)
Facebook: Macro's Pizza Facebook

Kei Tak Sek, KTZ Dim Sum Restaurant SS2

2012-03-05T18:05:00.000+08:00

Previously i shared post about Kei Tak Sek SS2 branch: Restaurant Kei Tak Sek SS2. That was long time ago. After that we always visit the place but never update the pictures.

Recently we went there again.

As usual, black sesame paste is a must-order-item. We ordered also peanut paste.

This is the first time we ordered the Zha Jiang Mian. It tasted very homecooked with ingredients such as mushroom, carrot, vegetable and lotus root.

Besides, (although it's bit oily) but still love the dumpling- Wo Tip .

Yummy.

Kei Tak Sek, KTZ SS2: Zha Jiang Mian mixed noodle

Kei Tak Sek, KTZ SS2: Peanut Paste Dessert

Kei Tak Sek, KTZ SS2: Black Sesame Hot Dessert

Kei Tak Sek, KTZ SS2: Chinese Dumpling

Location: Kei Tak Sek SS2 (same row as Nikudo Seafood)

Type of cuisine: (Chinese) Chinese Tong Sui, Fruit Ice Sai Mai Lou and Chinese Dim Sum

The Salad Bar, Damansara Uptown

2012-03-04T17:35:00.000+08:00

We had a healthy Brunch- Breakfast plus Lunch at Damansara Uptown (walking distance from Public Bank Damansara Uptown). The ambient inside is cosy and comfortable. And there is another station at the outside just for juice and drinks.
This place was visited by Ho Chiak before, a food-hunt TV-show by 8TV.

The Salad Bar: Displayed Menu and Sets

The Salad Bar

The Salad Bar: Outside Fruit Juice Station

We ordered each set of Big Breakfast, and Juice set which comes with Pasta. We didn't expect the portion to be so big! In total we had 3 drinks! lol.. I think the portion should be enough for 3 persons.

The Salad Bar: A Healthy Brunch

Big Breakfast (RM14.50 per set)
1. Toast Bread
2. Scramble Eggs with Chives
3. Oatmeal with apricot and nuts
4. Smoke Chicken Toast Slice or Turkey Ham
5. Sauteed Mushroom with Caramelized Onion
6. Side Salad
7. Coffee or Tea
8. Fresh Orange or Apple Juice

The oatmeal tasted just like home-cooked, healthy oatmeal with milk, apricots, pumpkin seeds, and fruits.
I like the scramble eggs and sauteed mushroom so so much. We felt just like having a western breakfast oversea. =)

The Salad Bar: The Big Breakfast- Toasted Bread, Oatmeal and side dishes

The Salad Bar: The Big Breakfast- Coffee with Milk

Juice Set (RM 13.50 per set)
1. Any Pasta
2. Side Salad
3. Fresh Orange or Apple Juice

An ala-carte pasta was priced at RM 7.90 only! The portion was quite big too, with dory fish fillet.

The Salad Bar: Carbonara Dory Pasta

Our pure Red Apple and Orange Juice. I really surprised The Salad Bar prepared such a pure juice! Yummy!

The Salad Bar: Pure Orange and Apple Juice

Our side salad- Vegetable and Apple, Vegetable and Corn. Vegetable and Corn tasted like our local "Rojak". But i believe their famous Supersalad should tasted nicer than this.

The Salad Bar: Vegetable and Apple

The Salad Bar: Side Salad- Vegetable and Corn

To create your own 2-3-1 Salad:

1. Choose 2 greens

2. Choose 3 toppings

3. Choose 1 dressing

The toppings looked really tempting and creative: Boiled Egg, Pumpkin, Shitake, Oyster Mushroom, Tofu, Fruits, Dried Fruits, Pitted Prunes, Raisin, Cashew Nut, Wheatflakes, Almond Flakes and nuts.

2-3-1 Super-Salad was priced RM 9.90 for full and RM 5.90 for half portion.

There were nice names even for Salad like: High Energy Superman, Spicy Salad, Old Granny Caesars, Tropical Fruits, Square and Rounds..

Next time i should order their Super-Salad!

The Salad Bar: Create Your Own 2-3-1 Salad

Beside Big Breakfast, The Salad Bar also provides other breakfast sets like: Healthy Wraps, and Pancake Sets.
For the Set Menu, you can choose either set with soup, side salad, sandwiches, supersalad, pasta, or juice.

The Salad Bar: Menu- All Day Breakfast and Set Menu

The Salad Bar: Ala Carte Menu

For dessert, they have a homemade yogurt too!

The Salad Bar: Menu- Pasta and Drinks

I believe this place will attract lots of girls who want a healthy and balance diet.
We go home with a full, satisfying and healthy stomach! =)

Type of cuisine: Healthy Salad, fruit juice and western
Location:
The Salad Bar
No. 41, Jalan SS21/60,
Damansara Utama,
47400 Petaling Jaya.
Facebook: The Salad Bar Facebook

Lovely DIY Valentine's Dinner

2012-02-27T17:21:00.000+08:00

Valentine= lover's day. Lover's day= love. Love= passion. So, passion= passion fruits?
Yeah, that is how i got the idea on my Valentine's Dinner menu.

Old couples might say: "Everyday is our Valentine's day. We can celebrate everyday at anytime."

But i still hope to prepare something special on this special day.

Seriously this is the first time i cook salmon, especially grilled salmon. But no fear as i did some homework before buying ingredients, on what ingredients mix with fish the best, how to grill, ingredients to season fish, and how to garnish my cooking.

Here is my menu:

Main dish: Grilled Salmon with Herbs (Thyme)
Side dishes: Sauteed Oyster with Passion Juice, Crab Meat, Mashed potato and Brocolli
Dessert: Sweet Lover

Lovely Valentine's Dinner: My Grilled Salmon

I called it a Romantic Pendaflour-light Dinner as we were having it DIY at home.
Why isn't it a Candle-light dinner? I think it's better option after taking into consideration the safety issue- the main course is salmon fish which has fish bone.. =p
Why is it Romantic? Who says romantic dinner is only meant for 2 person? On that night, we had a special guest- my sister. Wine was prepared too. This is also a special Valentine's day for me as i prepared for 3 pax instead of 2. Luckily my cooking standard was not dropped because of the stress level (to prepare for our fussy guest =p).

Lovely Valentine's Dinner: Special 3-pax Meal

For me, i didn't expect how well can the herb: Thyme completed my grilled salmon.
However, the real satisfaction comes from Agreement: When you hear "ya"..and Compliment such as "Wow", "good", "Umm.." and Action when you see all the food went into their stomach fast!

My serving task got completed to serve sweet dessert after meal.
It's Tiramishu Ice Cream with Passion topping.
Hope my valentine enjoy the meal, so as my special guest!

Lovely Valentine's Dinner: Sweet Lovers

To everyone who reads this, Happy Valentine's Day.

Pre- Valentine's Dinner at Strawberry Field, PJ

2012-02-26T17:16:00.000+08:00

It's our pre-valentine celebration. And it's 3 person to celebrate Valentine (with my lovely sister). The prince a.k.a my boyfriend said: He is so blissful that he is accompanied by two pretties for Valentine's Dinner this year. lol..

It was quite late at night, on 13th February. We took some times thinking of a nice place to go and we came to here: Strawberry Field!

Strawberry Field, Petaling Jaya

We ordered each set of this:
1. Hawaii Chicken chop
2. Lamb chop
3. Mixed seafood grilled

Strawberry Field: Hawaii Chicken Chop

Strawberry Field: Lamb Chop

Strawberry Field: Mixed Seafood Grilled

The price is reasonable and the portion is big. A simple supper celebration but it's super filling!

Strawberry Field: Dessert

Strawberry Field, Petaling Jaya

Location: Strawberry Field
2, Jalan Tengah, PJ New Town, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Chap Goh Meh at Taman Jaya Lake 2012

2012-02-14T16:09:00.000+08:00

It's Chinese tradition to throw mandarin oranges on Chap Goh Meh, the 15th days of first month in Chinese Lunar Calendar.
This year on 6th Feb 2012, there is a celebration as usual, at Taman Jaya Lake, located near to Amcorp Mall at Taman Jaya LRT Station.
Why throw mandarin oranges? As the Hokkien says, Tim Kam, Chua Ho Ang..
So what should guys throw? The answer is Apple! Tim Peng Ko, Chua Ho Bo..
What you think we have thrown? We use banana this time.. Tim Kin Jiau, Tiok Beh Piau!
The whole process was funny throwing banana instead of mandarin oranges as we were special than others. Even ourselves laughed non-stop.I wonder if our banana was "Lao" by anyone, or eaten by fish!

Chap Goh Meh at Taman Jaya Lake: Banana instead of Mandarin Orange

What were the activities that night? Chinese gathered at Taman-Jaya Lake that night. There are programs such as, booth selling things and food, Mandarin Orange throwing activities, light up Kong Ming Deng, etc.

Chap Goh Meh at Taman Jaya Lake: Busy guy "Lao-gan" at the lake side

Chap Goh Meh at Taman Jaya Lake: Mandarin Oranges thrown into lake

This is really my first experience lighting up Kong Ming Deng (孔明灯). It's also called Sky Lantern or Wishing Lantern. First, we wrote all our wishes on the paper. How we wish we have the smallest hand-writing and the biggest Deng to write thousands of wishes! But taking into consideration fairy in the sky needed to use more power to read our small writing, we wrote it big, and tried combining the wishes. The fun thing was: Suku couldn't stop adding zero and zero and zero at the end of 1..until i lost count, was it millions, billions, trillions? My sister wrote one of her wishes: To become clever! This made us questioned her: "Are you very stupid now?" lol..

Some "Kelian" Kong Ming Deng got stuck at trees when wind blew at different direction. Some "bravo" Kong Ming Deng crossed tree and obstacles to continue flying. And lots of Kong Ming Deng dropped back to the ground and lake when power finished.

Lighting up Kong Ming Deng is not easy especially the candle. You will need some people to hold sides of Kong Ming Deng when lighting it up. Everyone has to be co-operative and playing his/her own role to hold Kong Ming Deng from the balanced side. Some even burnt the Kong Ming Deng before lifting it up to sky.

The tip from the Kong Ming Deng's seller is: After lighting up, hold longer to boost the power before releasing it to the sky.
The tip from me is: Trust that your wishes will be brought to fairy and they will come true!
And we really got it! Our Kong Ming Deng flew fast up up up to the sky, getting nearer and nearer to fairy.

Chap Goh Meh at Taman Jaya Lake: Lighting up Kong Ming Deng and Make Wishes

Chap Goh Meh at Taman Jaya Lake: Kong Ming Deng

Chap Goh Meh at Taman Jaya Lake: Our Red Lantern Bringing Our Wishes to Fairy

On that night, i believe there's thousands of Kong Ming Deng were lifting to the sky. From far, it really looked like stars queuing in rows.

Chap Goh Meh at Taman Jaya Lake: Kong Ming Deng flying up to the sky

It's really a pleasant experience which requires co-operation, sweat and passion that each of you shouldn't miss.

This is a video on how a Kong Ming Deng crosses 2 big trees and continue flying smoothly up up up to the sky..

Chinese New Year Nice Food

2012-02-13T14:22:00.000+08:00

For most Chinese, new year is a celebration festival where we must have nice food as significance of having enough food for the whole year. Most of the new year food has its own symbolic of prosperity.

Aballon- Bao Hu in Hokkien (similar to "Bao Wu" in Hokkien- having for sure)
Arrowhead- Chiku in Cantonese (having children or to be exact: "son", during the old days)
Bamboo Shoots- Zhu Shun (similar to "Shun" Li in Mandarin, having a smooth year)
Black Moss Seaweed- Fat Choi in Cantonese (Having wealth)
Fish- Nian Nian You Yu in Mandarin (Having extra for every year)
Lime Orange- Kat in Cantonese (Means luck)
Lotus seed- Lian zi in Mandarin (Having large number of children)
Oyster- Hou in Cantonese (Similar to "hou" in Cantonese which means good)
Peanut- Fa Shang in Cantonese (Similar to "sang" in Cantonese which means longevity)
Prosperity Toss- Lou Sang in Cantonese ("sang" means longevity)
Rice Cake- Nian Gao (Increasing of prosperity every year)

~~ Others can be referred from Recipes.howstuffworks.com

This is our Prosperity Toss of the year.. It's put on a big plate with at least 50cm in diameter, but still we had to squeeze together while the whole family "Lou" the "sang" for this dragon year. I think next year we have to order a specially-made big plate just for the toss!

Chinese New Year: Prosperity Toss, Lou Sang

For me, Chinese New Year is a blissful occasion as it's the most happening time when the whole family member gather at the same place once in a year. Obviously, i can't resist the temptation of all nice food. I'm blessed that i have a chef-family. My mother can cook very well. All my aunties can cook well and fast. My own definition of delicious not necessary means expensive such as Aballon, shark-fin or tiger-prawn. It is as simple as: Taste of Home..Seriously i have gained not only happiness but also pounds of "real-physical-happiness" in that short period of a week.

What is our tempting nice home-cooked food?
I would say from A to Z, as long it's healthy and edible ingredients, all my magician-aunties-cum-mothers can transform it to tempting food.

I call this soup as New-Year Soup. It's combination of Chicken Soup, Fish Maw, belly (Zhu Tou), Straw Mushroom, Long Cabbage (wong nga bak), and sometimes abaloon slice.
Why is it New-Year soup? Since young from the day i know what is "Chinese New Year", i never miss this soup during every family new-year-eve reunion dinner.
It's normally boiled for at least 4 to 5 hours. So can you imagine how sweet and yummy is the soup?

Chinese New Year: New-Year Soup

As usual, Fish, prawn, meat..are meant for celebration!

So what did we have?
Sweet sour bone: This is Ah Yi's new recipe- Ribs. It's stewed ribs with sugar and vinegar until the bone itself is chewable..
Asam Prawn is simple, but it's really Bon-apetit! Just the sauce is enough mixing with rice to open your appetite.
Dried Bamboo Shoot is cooked with: Sea Cucumber, Chicken, Dried Mushroom, Dried Octopus and Chinese Red Dates (Jujubes) in salty black sauce.
Prawn with pineapple is another creative dish.
Eel with Ginger Black Sauce- a healthy dish.
Eel was purposely imported from Kelantan to Kedah by using family car!
Simple Curry Chicken without coconut milk. Every dish my aunty cooks, must be a favourite of someone.

Chinese New Year: Sweet Sour Bone

Chinese New Year: Nyonya Style Asam Prawn

Chinese New Year: Dried Bamboo Shoot with sea cucumber

Chinese New Year: Pineapple Prawn

Chinese New Year: Eel with Ginger Black Sauce

Chinese New Year: Curry Chicken

Every year, my parent's and Ah Yi's family will travel from Kelantan to uncle house in Kedah. This is the place we gather. My cousins are now working at different states in Penisular Malaysia: KL, Johor, Penang, Kuantan, Perak Anson etc..and even in oversea-Singapore.

That's how we have combination of different cooking style and each state's specialty.

Cha Hu is famous in Kedah, especially if you eat at Kuala Kedah, the harbour to Langkawi Island. I tried Cha Hu outside before but my aunty still cook the best!

Chinese New Year: Pan-fried fish, Kedah Cha Hu

My aunty's best cooking: Penang Har Mee (Prawn Noodle), Penang Laksa and Penang Otak-otak. She knows all of us love it, and i know she purposely cook for us.

Chinese New Year: Laksa Penang

Chinese New Year: Otak-otak Penang

Another special menu of this year- Satay Celup Malacca. My cousin bought packet sauce specially from Malacca, and we DIY all the Kushi/satay!

Chinese New Year: Satay Celup Malacca

Kao Jam, the green color mixed rice, which is famous in Kelantan, was traveled to Kedah. Of course my mother didn't import all the green rice from Kelantan, but only the green-color juice to cook rice.
It's mixed with: Fish meat, mixed raw vegetables and hearbs, Fried coconut, Fish Crackers, black pepper and "budu". I posted before Kelantan Trip: Nasi Kerabu Kao Jam in my previous post.

Chinese New Year: Kao Jam, Nasi Kerabu Kelantan

We also had BBQ, sponsored by my the other uncle. What i like the most? The grilled squid with Tomyam by my cousin.

Chinese New Year: BBQ night

For dessert, my cousin, who is guy, made this: Ice-Fire Mr. Red Bean.
It's hot red bean soup cooked with mandarin orange skin, mixed with cube Cincau, and a scoop of Vanila Ice-cream.
I admit, a guy can cook this better than me!

Chinese New Year: Dessert prepared by cousin

Every year in Kedah, we will eat the famous Miku (面龟). It's pao with red color skin, similar to tortoise shape. Surprisingly, it's plain without any filling, but it's famous that most people like it. I guess that's the taste of traditional-natural.

Chinese New Year: (middle) Stacked of Kedah Mi Ku

Why do we eat Ang Ku Kuih (红龟糕) during Chinese New Year? It's a shape of Red color Tortoise, which represents long live. It's rice cake, similar to Mochi skin, with Bean's filling. Not only Chinese New Year, Ang Ku Kuih is also used to for worship god, and distributed during baby's full moon celebration.

Chinese New Year: Nyonya Ang Ku Kuih

So now you understand why i gain "happiness" whenever i'm home? Who can resist eating nice food? I'm the most "Xing-fu" person! I'm touched that all the food was prepared with passion and love. That's what make it the best food in the world!

How to stand an egg?

2012-02-09T16:06:00.002+08:00

How to stand an egg? Egg on table

It's Li-chun on 4th February 2012 at 6.22pm. Li-chun (立春) or Lap Chun (in Cantonese) means the first day of spring in lunar calendar.

Li chun begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longtitude of 315 degree and ends when it reaches the longtitude of 330 degree. In the Gregorian calendar, it usually begins around 4th February and ends around 18th February (19th February East Asia time).

~~ source from En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichun

According to Chinese myth, Egg can stand on its end on the day of Li-chun.

But there are sayings that it has nothing to do with equinox. You can actually stand eggs at any time at any day at any season along the whole year.

If an egg stands on end, it would do it at any time, and not just at the equinox.

~~ source from Badastronomy.com

On the first day of spring- 4th February that night, i really wanted to try how to stand an egg. But i have non left in fridge! So the next day, i really bought a box of egg. 24 hours have passed from the exact Li-chun time, but we still wanted to try it out. So me, my boyfriend aka the Prince, and my sister were very excited with the experiment.

And out of sudden, and didn't we know how the prince did it, he managed to stand an egg!

Yeah, we can actually do it. Then only we found out our way to stand an egg.

First, you will need a smooth and flat surface, for example: Dining Table (not necessary on floor).

Then, we used 4 fingers, to swing an egg left and right the whole 360 degree until it reached a stable point. It was pretty easy to stand the other eggs once we found out how to do it. But, lots patience were still required to find out that stable point.

This is a short video how the prince managed to stand an egg in 10seconds time, i think it should be his best recorded time even it has passed the li-chun time.

How to stand an egg? Egg on the floor

Not only on table, i can also stand egg on floor. I found it easiest to stand on flat surface on a piece of cloth. It can be done in less than 2 seconds.

How to stand an egg? Easier to stand egg on cloth

So, now your turn to try it out? Be patient and confident!

When my HaPpy FaMiLy appear on ntv7

2012-02-07T14:01:00.001+08:00

NTV7 Movie: HAPPY FAMILY

Happy Family is a CNY movie starring by NTV7 team, airing on NTV7 on the first day of Chinese New Year, at 10pm 23rd January 2012. It's about a story of family members appearing from a family portrait. The family members from the pictures have totally different personality than the real one. And that is how they help the main actor, William, to improve his relationship with the real family member.

This is really a nice movie from Malaysian team. It's meaningful, and the way they capture every angle is perfect!

One of my cousin sent in our Happy Family picture for the contest on 哈比全家福 Happy Family Facebook. And the good news was..Our Family Portrait was on TV that night! Our whole family happily waited for our face on TV after dinner, and when the movie finished, we already had a few cameras ready to take pictures and videos to capture the memorable moment!

We waited for around 15 minutes, feeling so excited to wait for our turn!

This is how happening in our whole house that night when our family portrait appeared on NTV7 that night! Thank you ntv7.