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Trying Hard….

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Project fails twice. Though it might sounded just a short term towards certain group of people, but it ain’t easy as what I’ve thought. Having just strong-will isn’t enough still. Having passion wouldn’t be just the reason. Wonder am I trying hard enough? How long should I hold on to? Am starting to question God. “When will you be blessing me? Are you treating us* fair enough? I even asked hubby the same question. Hubby answered patiently; HE is treating us good enough; by allowing us to move forward step by step.

 

Am getting quite emotional nowadays. Even just a small piece of article could made me shed tears. Hence; of course there are some people there that may sounded rather sarcastic. I know you have done it well, I know you have succeed in your project. But is there any reason for being sarcastic in your comment or so-called advise?? Probably it may sounded quite humor to them. Or perhaps I took it too serious.

 

I must start to ignore certain comments. Please brave yourself by not just saying without practicing!

Chinese New Year, Mummy's Cooking

Mummy cooked Waxed Meat Rice (Lap Mei Fun)

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In conjunction of Chinese New Year; my mom decided to cook some CNY dishes. This is one of the dish which she tried from a recipe book. Its was her first attempt. The dish works well.

*2 bowls please* 😉

 

Ingredients A:

  • 3 cups rice
  • 4 cloves minced garlic
  • 4 shallots (sliced)
  • 1 stalk spring onion (chopped)
  • 4 cups water

Ingredients B :

  • 1 Chinese duck drumstick or substitute with waxed meat
  • 1 pair Chinese sausage
  • 1 pair Chinese liver sausage

Seasonings :

  • 1 tbsp light soya sauce
  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tsp dark soya sauce
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp sugar

Method :

1) Scald Chinese sausage and Chinese liver sausage in boiling water, flameout. Put in Chinese duck drumstick and soak for 10 minutes. Remove and set aside.

2) Rinse rice and drain. Heat up 2 tbsp of oil in pot, fry minced garlic and shallots till fragrant. Add in rice and stir-fry till fragrant. Add in “Seasonings” and stir-fry till fairly dry.

3) Pour the fried rice into electric rice cooker, pour in water and stir evenly. Put in Chinese sausage, cover with lid and cook.

4) Open lid and stir the rice evenly after bringing to boil (around 14 minutes). Arrange Chinese liver sausage and Chinese duck drumstick in cooker, cover lid and continue cooking until the rice is fully cooked. Allow rice to simmer in cooker with lid for a few minutes. Open lid and remove Chinese duck drumstick, Chinese sausage and Chinese liver sausage, cut it into slanted slices. (mix rice evenly).

5) Arrange Chinese duck drumstick, Chinese sausage, Chinese liver sausage on top of rice, sprinkle with chopped spring onions. Serve

Food, Halal, Seremban, Steamboat

Dinner @ See U Village Steamboat

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A halal steamboat restaurant is opened at Tesco Seremban 2.

Its no usual 1 big pot of soup on each table, instead each table comes with individual built in induction cooker. I prefer this method. Its more convenient and hygienic rather than mixing everything into 1 pot to be shared among everyone at your table. Who knows may be there are some people who can’t take seafood. At least now we can have our individual pot which allows us to cook the items that we ourselves like.

Unfortunately; it ain’t serving in buffet style. Its either you order in a set of 1, 2 or 4 pax or ala carte. Since its just myself, mom & bro; therefore we ordered a set for 2 (Dumpling Combo) and added some side orders.

Types of soup and the prices. There are 5 types of soup. Only ‘chicken soup’ & ‘tom yam soup’ are free of charge. 3 of us each ordered different type of soup. Chicken soup (kinda salty), tom yam soup (the best) & herbal soup (kinda bland).

Dipping Sauce

From bottom; blended red chili, fried shallot in oil, blended green chili.

Set for 2 (Dumpling Combo) – RM33.80

I was shocked when the waiter brought this plate over our table. Does this look like a set for 2 person?? Looked more like for 1 person. Or was it just me, the big eater? Adui…paiseh la if yes. ^^

A set of 2 includes 2 piece of noodles. There are 3 types of noodles for you to choose. We chose ‘yee mee’.

We ordered an extra plates of ‘chicken roll’, ‘chicken ball’ & ‘fried fish meat’. The dumpling is included in our set.

I dump everything into my pot of tom yam soup.

Food : 3/5

Price : 2/5

Ambiance : 3.5/5

See U Village Steamboat Sdn. Bhd.

G4 & G5 Tesco Seremban 2,

No. 1, Jalan Haruan 2,

70300 Seremban,

Negeri Sembilan.

Tel : 06- 631 3576   06-6339954

Map : Locate Us

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CNY Family Dinner @ Han Pi Yuan, Royale Bintang Resort & Spa

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As I return home on 2nd day of Chinese New Year, there were friends gathering, house visiting and not forgetting a family dinner which is the most important part.

 

To avoid the festive crowds in restaurants, we decided to dine at The Royale Bintang Resort & Spa. Mom gave the suggestion on Han Pi Yuan, a Chinese Restaurant after she read some good reviews from the newspaper. Apparently, Han Pi Yuan serves Halal Chinese food.

 

To my surprise; there were only 2 tables of guests having their meals there. Where are all the people in Seremban?? Is it because the service is bad? Too expensive? Or food is bad? Let me try it….

 

well lighted and looking pleasant

 

Well; we went for ‘Chinese New Year Menu’ package. Which consists of 9 dishes (including dessert) served for 10 pax. Moreover the price seems to be affordable too. Just RM438++ (imposed of 10% service charge & 6% government tax).

 

Prosperity Jellyfish & Pear Yee Sang

This dish will normally serves at the beginning of the meal. Yee Sang or Lo Hei or better known as Prosperity Toss symbolized abundance, prosperity and vigor.

 

“All diners at the table then stand up and on cue, proceed to toss the shredded ingredients into the air with chopsticks while saying various “auspicious wishes” out loud, or simply “撈起, 撈起”. It is believed that the height of the toss reflects the height of the diner’s growth in fortunes, thus diners are expected to toss enthusiastically.” (extract from wikipedia)

 

Braised Shark’s Fin Soup with Crabmeat

The usual shark’s fin soup. Good that this isn’t too starchy.

 

Roasted Chicken Shatin with Prawn Cracker

This dish is quite unique. The chick were deep fried. A credit to it because it ain’t too oily. No doubt its small, but its tasty.

 

Wok Fried Prawn with Spicy Sauce

The prawns size are quite big. Moreover the prawns are very fresh.

 

Steamed Sea Bass Fish with Quality Soya Sauce

 

Braised Two Varieties of Mushroom with Dried Oyster & Vegetable

 

Am so sorry. I was too busy eating till I forgotten to take a photo of the “Fragrant Fried Rice in Lotus Leaf”. It must be too nice till I’ve forgotten ^^

 

Deep Fried Nin Kou

 

Double Boiled Longan with White Fungus

 

Food : 4/5 (satisfying meal with big portion of food)

Price : 4/5 (worth eating)

Ambiance : 4/5

Service : 2.5/5 (waiters are kinda inexperience & inefficient)

 

The Royale Bintang Resort & Spa Seremban

Jalan Dato A.S. Dawood,

70100 Seremban,

Negeri Sembilan

Tel : +606 – 7666 666

Map : Locate Us

 

 

celebration, Chinese New Year, Friends

1st Day of CNY

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This year I spent my first Chinese New Year at my In Law’s house in Sarikei.

Had some mixed feeling. Had fun but on the other hand missed my family and home ^^.

 

According to Fook Chow’s culture (Alex’s dialect), on first day of Chinese New Year we are required to eat a bowl of Hong Zao Mian Xian 红槽鸡面线 (red glutinous wine ginger chicken vermicelli). Its a symbol of longevity. Mother in law is good at making a bowl of delicious one! She woke up very early in the morning (no idea what time) to prepare and arrange all the festive items (oranges, biscuits, peanuts and last but not least, my favorite kek lapis) for the visitors. Ok lar…I did made an effort to wake up early to help ler…But then all already kau tim by her. 😉

 

Hong Zao Mian Xian 红槽鸡面线

 

It was a wet 1st Day of CNY. Rain started at 9am. However it never fails us from going for house visiting (pai nian).

A tray filled with colorful and yummy kek lapis (taken from friend’s house).

 

There are actually 2 version of kek lapis(layer cake). 1 is by baking it and the other 1 is by steaming it.

 

A group photo was taken at Siu Ching’s house. It reminds me of school’s annual book. 😉

 

 

 

 

Chinese, Food, Kuching, The Spring

Lunch @ Xian Ding Wei

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On 2nd day in Kuching, we decided to meet up Alex’s colleague, Chai whom branched in Kuching before travel back to Sarikei. Since we were at The Spring shopping mall (biggest shopping mall in Kuching), therefore Chai suggested to lunch at Xian Ding Wei, a Taiwanese Cuisine restaurant.

 

 

selecting the food from menu

 

cosy & comfortable place

 

a beautiful picture of Taipei City as background

 

Seafood Fried Bee Hoon (RM10.90) – A big serving of fried bee hoon with generous amount of ingredients. And its tasty too.

 

Oyster & Large Intestine Mee Suah (RM7.90) – Well, this is quite good actually. The taste has 70% similarity to Taiwan’s famous Ah Chung Mee Suah.

 

Minced Pork Sauce Noodle (7.90) – Stir the noodles & minced pork sauce before consume. The taste is good. It looks abit like konlou noodles too.

 

Bamboo Pumpkin in Bun (RM8.90) – The skin is made of glutinous rice flour mixed with pumpkin. Stuffed with minced pork. This is quite special to me.

 

Strawberry Pearl Milk Tea (RM4.90)

 

Honeydew Pearl Milk Tea (RM4.90)

 

Mixed Fruit Tea (RM5.90)

 

 

FOOD : Food wise is good. Unfortunately the drinks are so so only. Especially the milk tea. Rather too sweet I felt.

SERVICE :  3/5

AMBIANCE : 4/5

 

Xian Ding Wei

G49 & G50,

The Spring Shopping Mall

Jalan Simpang Tiga

93300 Kuching, Sarawak.

 

 

 

Movie

3 movies in 2 days

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There are so many movies playing on cinema now. Couldn’t get the chance to watch any of them before the Chinese New Year.

 

Finally, gotten a chance now. Booked and watched 3 movies in 2 days. I’m catching up now….

1) Great Day – A successful Malaysian movie. A touchy and meaningful story.  Taught us to appreciate and take care of our parents. Half way through  the movie ;tears fall down my cheeks. Ooppss….sorry. Embarrassed.

 

2) I Love Hong Kong – An entertaining and comedy movie. A story on the lifestyle of Hong Kong.

 

3) All Well Ends Well 2011 – An entertaining and comedy movie. A movie with simple storyline. To cherish the one you loved.

 

All the about are nice to me.

 

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Dessert on Valentines Day

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A simple yet refreshing dessert, simply the best to serve today on Valentines Day.

 

All you need; just a box of frozen ice cream and some strawberries. The strawberries that I got here are from Korea (as printed on the label). Very very sweet. Unlike the one from Cameron Highland. ^^

 

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!! 🙂

 

Photography

City of Lights

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On 28 January, Alex and I made our way back to Kuching, Sarawak. Our flight scheduled at 7.05pm. Upon checking in at the MAS counter; we were told that the flight will be delayed for 1.5 hour due to technical problem she said. (I believed it was because of the bad weather.)

 

Apparently; went the flight took off; it was already 9pm. That means we’ve wasted about 2 hours in KLIA, where we suppose to reach our destination by then. *sigh*  What to do; safely comes first right.

 

Managed to capture this shot; City of Lights when the plane just took off. Night view of KL. Well, can you spot the ‘Twin Tower’ ??

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