Saturday, November 29, 2008

I made it to The Star-RAGE!!

It was early in the morning when I walked into my college through the guard house. As usual I will just grab an issue of the star-RAGE. I went in the classroom and read RAGE while waiting for my lecturer. As I was readind, I received a sms from my friend saying that my blog pictures was in RAGE. I was like "WTH", my pictures...in RAGE. Then a few more smses came in telling me that my pictures were in RAGE.

I quickly flip through and tada!!! I saw this:

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I was so happy because it's my first time of my name appearing in newspaper along with my blog pictures.

Ok, may be some people really doubt about it and think I lied. So I'm gonna show those people the pictures. Go compare yourself.

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Actually I got this notice about my pictures publishing on that day few days ago. At that time I was doubting because it was too good to be true for the first time. xD. I always had jinx on good things always turn out to be nothing for the first time. Finally, the pictures were published!!!

Thursday, November 27, 2008

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Dim Sum in Shang's Palace-Part 2

Let's continue from the previous post about steamed dim sum. I continued our dim sum dining with some fried all time favourite fried dim sum. There are not many types of fried dim sum available here but it's enough to satisfy your craves for dim sum.

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I did not order much of fried dim sum due to hot weather and the it's very heaty. I wanna avoid from getting sore throat. Haha. So we tried some chinese delicacy as shown below:

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I was 80% full after consuming almost all the dim sum's because my parents don't eat much. I whacked all the dim sum's with my brother, imagine how much we ate. It's crazy and I spoil my diet plan for the day. How sad was that.

Now lets move forward to some desserts. Yummy!!

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That's what we need to use after every meal.

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After dim sum, we head over to pavillion to have some coffee as usual. My family is a coffee lover. XD

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My Dark Cherry Frappucino

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Dad's Espresso Macchiato and Bro's Vanilla Ice-Blended

That's all for the day.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Dim Sum in Shang's Palace.

It was a saturday morning where I usually have brunch with my family. My parents decided to head to our usual dining place in Shangri-La KL called Shang's Palace. It is located on the first floor of Shangri-La. It's a place where they serve a very wide range of chinese cuisine from dim sum until ' dai chao'.

The design and interior of the place is more or less like a emperor's palace, no wonder they name is Shang's Palace. With the magnificent interior, it's also accompanied by their sumptious and tasty dim sum. The price was reasonable. You guys should go try it out sometimes.

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So I assume you roughly know how Shang's Palace looks like now, I opened the menu and just ordered what is fimiliar to me. The usual Chinese dim sum.

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There are three of dim sum like dried, steamed, and desserts. According to tradition, we start with some steamed dim sum.

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Next post, I'm gonna post the fried dim sum and their signature Chinese desserts.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Wondermilk Cuppacakes in Damansara Uptown-Harn's Decision

After he collected his cupcakes, me and zi yin were like so eager to have a look on his taste of design. Haha. He bought the bluejay design cupcakes with some flavour I can't recall.

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Since we were already there, we might as well try their cupcakes. It has been a year since my last visit with karyn and jia shen.

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Zi Yin ate too much and he showed many weird emotions. Haha. He said the cupcakes was really nice.

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You guys should visit there and order cupcakes for your friends and family.

p.s: rui ting is also called Jessica. Haha

Friday, November 21, 2008

Wondermilk Cuppacakes in Damansara Uptown.

It was a day before rui ting's 17th birthday. Harn just called and told me he ordered the cupcakes from wondermilk and wanted to collect it by today to give her a surprise birthday by 12am. What a sweet guy he is. So I fetched zi yin and harn and offwe go.

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It is a very nice place and atmosphere in wondermilk. Everytime I walked in, it feels like I'm gonna have a Sunday morning breakfast there. They have really nice interior and it's very unsual. Let me show you.

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They do sell very special and unique dresses.

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And some weird toys or may be I call it the collector's toys.

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As we were browsing the cupcakes catalogue, harn went to collect his lovely cupcakes.

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There are 3 types of cupcakes from the cheapest to the most expensive. The lowest end is the Bluejays and the medium end is Robin. The most expensive and highclass cupcakes are the Goldfinch. Even the name also got Gold. Haha.

Check back soon to see which cupcakes Harn ordered for rui ting. xD

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

My very own pasta.

After posting many post about food, I assume some of you may think that I only know ow to eat but don't know how to cook. Haha. If I'm one of the readers, definitely I will think the same way. The truth is, I kinda like cooking and I always cook secretly at home. My mom dislike males in the kitchen. Typical asian moms. xD

So it was a real boring day home alone studying for my finals, I decided to dig out some ingredients at home to cook myself a pasta. I found these ingredients:

serves 4
- 5 slicesbacon
- 400ml double/heavy cream
- 300-350g shitake mushroom
-350g rigatoni
-diced ham
-dried oregano
-1 garlic clove
-olive oil
-freash rosemary

Firstly, boil the pasta with lightly salt water until tender. Make sure to check often after approx 6 minutes of boiling.

Heat the pan with olive oil and add the mushroom. Cook it under low heat and stir it frequently for approx 5 minutes. Add the garlic into the pan and cook until garlic is golden brown not black.

Add all the cream and fresh rosemary and bring to boil for 1 minute to thicken it. Season with ground black pepper and sea salt and remove from the heat.

Heat a frying pan with olive oil. Fry the diced ham and the chopped bacon together with seasoning (salt and pepper) for 2-3 minutes under medium heat or until the bacon is crispy.

Drain the pasta, sprinkle a generous amount of dried oregano and serve it immediately with the sauce, ham and bacon.

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Tips:
-do not cook the bacon too long or else it wil be too dry
-eat 1 small piece of pasta to make sure its tender instead of just using fingers to test the tenderness.
-change a new garlic if your garlic is black, it taste bitter.
-hit the rosemary with the back of your knife to let it release more flavour before boiling it in the cream sauce

Happy trying. xD

p.s: This recipie is GCK's copyright. Taste may vary from different brands of ingredients.

Monday, November 17, 2008

An Awesome Thai Dinner Experince in Kinnaree-Part 3

It was already 10pm because it was a late dinner. We were all served with the dessert's menu and all I was eyeying for was their red ruby.

My all time favourite thai desserts. It's basically a water chestnut wrapped with gelatin and served chilled with ice santan. The taste was so amazing that it actually emulsifies the taste itself when it reached your mouth.

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My brother ordered the traditional thai dessert which is a mango served with pulut rice. They actually modified this dish or shall I say it improved it. They combine the taste of the pandan and pulut which makes your pulut more fragrance and top it with some santan milk. They added a new side dish which is a very special odourless durian ice-cream.

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I love both these desserts and it was the best thai dessert I have ever had. xD

Saturday, November 15, 2008

An Awesome Thai Dinner Experince in Kinnaree-Part 2

After the appetizer, everyone was chit chatting and I made a few local thai friends. They are pretty friendly and funny. I can say that was my first time talking to a thai. As I was busy trying to snap a few shots of the interior, my stomach was already grumbling.

Here are the main courses, tada!!

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I don't know what dish is this, all I know is that it's some deep fried fish. It doesn't look that nice but the taste was really mouth watering. xD. Sorry for not inserting the caption for this picture.

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I'm not done yet, there is still more to come. Haha. Next post it's about the famous thai desserts!!!

Thursday, November 13, 2008

An Awesome Thai Dinner Experince in Kinaree.

I was really tired after a long long day. I planned to take a nap when I reached home due to headaches. I get headaches often, no idea why. Once I reached home, mom said dinner at 6 and get ready soon. Argh!! No nappy.

It was actually a dinner with out Thai family friend. I never really met them untill this dinner. We headed to the Thai restaurant at Jaya One, Palm Square at Jalan University. Sorry because I can't provide a map. Was too tired to regonise the place. Ask around, many people should know that place. All I can say that it's near Jaya Supermarket.

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Sorry for the spelling error, clumsy me. xD

I ordered this Kinaree special drink made of lemongrass. I ordered this because I wanna relieve my headache and it really worked. Can become "future doctor", haha.

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So we started off with a very special thai appetizer that I never seen before. It's served in a spoon. It has small chucks of chicken with fish fauce. I just insert the whole spoon into my mouth and slowly chew it. The sweetness of the chicken was awesome as it comes along with some minor Thai dressing.

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This is one very common Thai appetizer, the thing is it's a bigger one. All you need to do is take the big leaf and wrap all d spices together and pop it into your mouth. Once you have your first bite, all the taste of spices will just burst in your mouth. Lovely.

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That's all for today, will post about the main course and dessert soon. It's the best part.

p.s: Make sure you prepare some tissues beside you before reading the next post. xD