Hungry-less November

Who love me the most? Of course besides parents, I do! I really know how to pamper myself… look at my lunch & dessert after lunch!

Once upon a time in November, I was craving for bak kut teh when I was in Kepong, then I came across this restaurant named 老彭绑线肉骨茶 (direct translation – old Phung tie string bak kut teh), this restaurant is this is exactly what I want. I ordered a bowl of their signature bak kut teh, the lady boss even advice me to take the small bone, I was not happy that she “underestimate” my stomach, so I ordered a bowl of yau char kuey and a bowl of rice too! ooooo… the bak kut teh was so yummy… but, the lady was true… there’s no way for me to finish the big bone, after finished everything, I was actually quite full, but as you know, lady also has 2nd stomach for dessert, so, I walked across the road to De Pastry Chef Cake & Cafe, one of my favourite cake house, ordered a slice of blueberry cake & a glass of pineapple juice (good digestive drink after a lot of meat).

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Once (or twice) upon a time in November, I need to work during weekend, at first I was a little depress but later when me & my teammate had successfully signed 2 deals with customers, I think we deserve a treat to ourselves, so, I brought her to visit this mille crepe cake house @ Kuchai Lama, which I wanted to try long time ago – Indulge Cafe (what an accurate name, indulgence indulgence indulgence!!!). We ordered a mango and a chocolate banana. Erm… comment? We prefer the Malacca one… check out my previous Malacca Trip blog entry.

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Once (or thrice) upon a time in November, my colleagues and I were craving for dessert and one of them haven’t been to Levain before, so we decided to meet up for tea! 3 of us shared a cup of Tiramisu and raspberry/ strawberry short cake… Taste wide, Tiramisu win!

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Once (or donno what’s next) upon a time in November, I was lepak-ing in a mall and saw this – Ninja Joe… I wanted to try this for a very very long time, but… when I was able to try… it gave me such a big disappointment… I thought the pork burger was similar to the Macau pork burger, just smaller in size (I can grab 1 burger in my small hand), but the meat is minced meat… not nice at all!!!

And because the portion was too small, I can even go for the tea right after. See the milo, so classic, milo drink come with another spoonful of milo powder and a piece of soda biscuit, NICE! But the otak-otak and fish stick are only so so…

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Once (…………….) upon a time in November, colleague invited me and another friend to her new house… we bought her a big bottle of Choya and bought some chips and sushi and sashimi and cheese to her for supper. We girls really know how to enjoy ourselves!!!

This version of Choya is super nice, I bet non of the girl can resist this drink… so far I only know it’s available in Jaya Jusco, no where else. Strongly recommend those who love drinking but hate the bitter after taste, or hate the burning sensation, you can try this, love at 1st sip is guarantee! 

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Once (………………) upon a time in November, Garrett Popcorn opened an outlet in KLCC… yes, we are one of the crazy people queuing up to buy it!!! They said the caramel is the best… well, I’m not a big pop corn fans, but the taste is really nice and no residue or hard skin left in mouth after eating. Worth trying, although the price is few times compare to the normal popcorn in cinema counter.

Rakuzen @ Desa Parkcity

After a few long-winded posts, it’s enough! Here come a simpler one.

I like Desa Parkcity, I think it’s a cool area, good security, variety of interesting shops, parks and lakes… However I seldom go there because it was a little bit far from where I stay. Thanks to my dearest friend, QiaoYi, I got a chance to dine @ Rakuzen in Desa Parkcity, and I always wanted to try Rakuzen too.

Monthly promo was Hokkaido Fair, so we ordered a Ishikari Nabe (aka salmon nabe, salmon stewed in a miso-based broth with vegetables in hot pot) (pic 3), spider maki sushi (pic 2), crab leg salad (pic 1), grilled scallop (pic 4) and baked crab leg (pic 5) with cheese… every dishes are so yummy…

This was also a birthday dinner treat to QiaoYi, I was sorry that this year I didn’t have time to bake her a cake, just bought a small one but we think that the cake has too much of cream, when I was choosing a cake, this one attracted me, because the strawberries remind me of the time when we both in Amsterdam. May those strawberries bring her lots of luck and make all her wishes come true!!!

What an “INTERSTING” island - Sibu Island

I do not know from where or which media suggesting that Sibu Island is as beautiful as a germ in the middle of the sea and fun yet not as commercial as Redang, so we should be able to enjoy the exclusiveness and serenity… but we forgot the challenges before “happily ever after” in every fairy tale.

We departed around 12 noon, from map, we thought we might the slowest can reach the island in 5 hours time. So, we were taking our own sweet time, stopped over Malacca for banana leaf (luckily we did, reason will be reveal later).

Around 3.30pm, one of the reception from Sibu Island Resort called us, asking for our location and told us the last boat transfer to the island is at 4pm… what?!?! How could they missed out this important information to their guest? There’s no way for us to reach the jetty in another half an hour time, so, after ding ding dong dong discussion, they offer us chartered boat @ RM250, well, what to do? Or the payment that we made to the resort, RM, will be burnt…

We kept driving, driving, following the road sign, took wrong turning, called resort… ding ding dong dong again… we reached the jetty at 8pm!!! 8 HOURS JOURNEY!!!

3 princesses in their CHARTERED boat!!! Anna, Serrea and me

Because of all the calling, discussion and questioning, our names were immediately becoming very famous among all the staffs in the resort.

As dinner was not included in the package, we ordered a la carte – Fish & Chip (my favourite dish when I travel to beaches or island), mushroom soup and seafood pizza.

Mushroom soup and fish & chip were fine, not delicious, but good enough to compensate our tired souls and starving stomachs, but come to the pizza… tasteless… it’s absolutely a surprise how the outlook presented so differently from the taste. So, we asked for chilli flakes, but, the waiter has no idea what were we asking, and we were giving chilli powder… tasteless chilli powder… another surprise.

We were told the activity of the night was bon fire… we went there, I saw one of the staffs was playing a guitar and sing with 4-5 visitors clapping hands to show support… ahhhhhh, we were not interested.

We went in to the karaoke room, Anna & Serrea ordered a can of beer for each, we thought since there wasn’t anybody in the room, we can sing until our lungs out, but, the staffs were slotting their songs with ours… ahhhhhh, boring… end up we rather drink the wine that we brought in our room.

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Since there’s nothing much we can do in the island, we decided to sleep as much as we want, woke up just on time to take our complimentary breakfast.

tada~~~, girls can eat and drink! We were too exhausted the night before, we only manage to drink half of the bottle, so, we finished the other half during breakfast!

What can we do in the island? 1. Animal feeding. There are a lot of deer, goats and peacock.

2. People and scenery watching, shell animal bullying. I have no idea how these foreigner ended up in such an “interesting” island, there are so many other islands which have better scenery, better beaches, better service, more activities, e.g. snorkelling, diving

3. Continue drinking, reading (pretending only, sunlight is too bright for reading), camwhoring…

4. Napping & swimming

At last come to dinner time, we are trying to order simpler food and at least some dishes which are Malay specialty (the chef is a Malay), so they won’t go too wrong. We ordered a salad, satay, nasi goreng kampong and seafood spaghetti, phew~ the food is much nicer than the night before.

One of the highlight for the dinner was the live band, they were very professional and sing really good. Instead of having our wine and beer in room, we spent the night chatting & enjoying live band in the restaurant.

p/s: if you notice, we skipped the lunch, we had very heavy breakfast and had only beer, chips and ice-cream for lunch!

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Avoiding the mistake that we made on the 1st day, we checked ferry time and were trying to catch earlier boat back to the mainland, we wouldn’t want to be home late night, yet we were so sick by just thinking about spending another 8 hours of road trip in car.

Our room in the island

Beautiful island from far

The beautiful and most romantic KFC outlet that I ever see. But what bordering us was the road trip back home and petrol volume in the car tank, we worried that with the what we have in the car can’t last us to the nearest petrol station. Luckily we were able to get the staff from the island to bring us to a local convenient store which sell petrol.

Moral of the story: If you are trying to be adventurous, and planning to explore a place which non of your friend has come across, it’s best to do a thorough check up.