封闭很久的泪腺竟然败在一部外语片（在追字幕的同时被剧情感动不容易）。若非朋友或影评热烈推荐，我很少看外语片，更别说是泰语的，只因本地上映的泰语片大多数不是惊悚片就是暴力武打片。会选看 Hello Stranger 是因为影评的介绍，加上它自21.04上映至今已有大概一个月都还没下画，一定有它的魅力所在。
故事非常简单，几乎99%的戏份都在韩国拍摄。如果是韩剧迷的话更会对片中的场景感到非常地亲切。两位主人翁巧合地在异地相识，他们的共同点除了拥有相同的国籍，还有他们都怀着受伤的心来到这个陌生的国家。他们彼此约定，除了彼此真实的姓名，他们必须要对对方坦诚。而且在陌生的国度，没有人认识他们更没有人懂得他们的语言，他们可以尽情地放纵自己，同时也被对方的真实相互吸引。
故事如何发展你大概也可以想象或有缘的话，我极力推荐你观看这部难能单纯又不失深度（我认为两位演员的演技有深度）的片子。
p/s: 我想应该是电影的某段情节勾起我对某人的思念，所以泪腺才会被“打通”。现在心里的疑问是，你也像我那样想我吗？
Since last cooking experience, I strongly believe I need more practice in the kitchen. Besides the lunch treat to my parents, I have decided to cook for them dinner on mother’s day. Flipped through recipe, these were what I chose:
Ponfret Fish Soup with Yam
1. Slice pomfret fish, 2. cook the soup base using fish bone and anchovy, 3. fry yam and last but not least 4. put yam, fish fillet and adequate seasoning in soup to cook.
Stewed Pork with Onion
1. Marinate pork (whole piece) with sesame oil, pepper and soy sauce for 30 minutes, 2. Fry pork until golden brown, dished up 3. leave a tbsp of oil in wok and fried diced onion until fragrant (10 pieces of small onion and 1 big onion), add 1 tbsp of oyster sauce, 3 tbsp of soy sauce and 1 tbsp of rock sugar, dished up, 4. add pork with sauce and steamed for another 1 hour, 5. cut pork into smaller pieces and boiled sauce until thickened. Finally, pour the sauce over pork slices and served!
Butter Prawn
1. Mix corn flour with water, 2. add in prawn and spoon the mixture to fry, dished up, 3. heat up butter, fry curry leaves and chilli padi until frangrant, 4. add evaporated milk and seasoning, cook until thickened, and finally 5. add in fried prawn dough and mixed well.
Comments from happy parents: Stewed pork with onion tasted good (actually I think the dish turned out better than I expected), the soup was nice too, but butter prawn has failed, the flour was too thick and not crispy at all.
Actually I should skip the flour, just cook the sauce with prawn will be good enough. As usually, many mistakes were made in the kitchen, most silly is, I used bare fingers to clean and remove seed from chilli padi, ended up my 10 fingers were “burning” internally the whole night. Then the clumsy me burnt my arm too when I was trying to clean the hot wok, rewarded myself a “tattoo” for my hard work 
, hope it won’t leave a scar later on.
Friends have recommended this book – Tuesdays with Morrie, an old man, a young man and life’s greatest lesson, to me long time ago but I’ve just finished the book in March. It’s not a book that you can keep it for yourself after reading, you will actually feel that you need to share the story with somebody eagerly . The book that I read is a Chinese translated version and now I’m looking forward to reading the original one.
The story is about the author, Mitch Albom, by chance seeing his professor, Morrie Schwartz’s interview on TV and knowing his favourite professor who he used to call him coach, had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease which eventually lead to death. Then, both of them decided to meet each other every Tuesday to discuss about “Life” before his ended. Each Tuesday, they will have different topics to talk about, for Morrie, he wished to share as much as he could and for Mitch, he wished to write down and tell the world what had he learnt from this life’s greatest lesson.
Topics that they discussed include family, regret, culture, love… It’s not a long story, but every words made you think. I watched the movie too, and these sentences got my attention:
“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
“Love each other or die.”
“What’s wrong with no. 2?”
“We think we don’t deserve love, that if we let it come in, we’ll become soft. But love is the only rational act, let it come in.”
“Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”
“There is no experience like having children… if you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.”
“Love wins. Love always win.”
“Afraid of aging reflects one’s life haven’t found a meaning.”
Frankly speaking, I am still searching the meaning of LOVE, I’m trying to find out how to define LOVE in a rational way, in a way that my stubborn and square head can understand. Anybody can spare me your understanding about LOVE?
This was an early Mother’s Day celebration luncheon with my parents! Last year we were in Nobel House and this time @ Ah Yat, Avenue K branch. I saw the package in the newspaper and it is very similar to what Nobel House offers – serving dish by dish individually, it is more pricy because the dishes are more premium, I guess (click hyperlink to compare).
RM88.80++ per pax, dishes include:
Starter – Salt & Pepper Crab Leg (lovely, I wish I had more)
Soup – Fish fin soup serve with beansprout
3rd & 4th dish – Baby abalone & Kailan (their signature dish, you can’t complain and of course all ingredients were cook flawlessly, much better than those abalone in can)
5th dish – Baked fish fillet with onion sauce (I like this dish the most!)
6th dish – Fried rice with egg (erm… has no idea why chef put this in the package, too ordinary compare to the above dishes)
Desserts – Almond tea & mango jelly (I usually don’t take almond tea, but I must say, this is nice, but I’ve no idea why chef choose this dessert over the others as I don’t think a lot of Malaysian like almond tea. The jelly is not as good too, I rather wish they serve me fresh fruit rather than colouring jelly)
I personally thinks that dishes from Nobel House were tastier and more unique and creative, simple ingredients but creative presentation.
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Address: M 6,7,8, Mezzanine Floor, Avenue K, No. 156 Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03 2166 3131
Website: http://www.ahyatyky.com/
Operating Hours:
Mon – Sun: 11.30am - 2.30pm-Lunch. 6.00pm – 10.30pm-Dinner.
你问我爱你有多深，我爱你有几分？(a song from Teresa Tsang, meaning how much am I in love with you?) I love this Portuguese fast food – Nando’s so much until an extend my friends will skip me when asking everybody’s suggestion on what to eat if they know that Nando’s is in the mall. Because my answer will always be the one – Nando’s Chicken. Ya I know, I can be very boring sometimes.
And every time, I order the same dish too - Quarter chicken with 2 side lines (coleslaw & peri chips), mild peri-peri for the chicken, and I want the drumstick part + ice lemon tea.
I think as I’m growing older, I can’t eat too much, as my mom like Nando’s too, now I usually order half chicken + 2 side lines for sharing. Then there was a day I craved for Nando’s again, I went there alone and ordered my favourite dish, when I called for the bill, I realized, Nando’s isn’t really very “affordable” compare to McD & KFC, RM25+ for a lunch meal… well, at least I can’t afford this everyday.
Ingredient:
Cake: 5 eggs, 30g plain flour, 1tbsp water, 100g caster sugar, 30g black sesame seed powder, 25g cornstarch, 30g melted butter
Filing: 200g non dairy whipping cream, 100g canned kidney beans (sweetened)
Method:
1. Whisk egg and caster sugar until fluffy. Add water and stir well.
2. Slowly add in plain flour, sesame seed powder, cornstarch and mix well. Add melted butter and stir well.
3. Pour the batter into a lined 14” square tin. Bake in a preheated oven at 180C for 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven. Leave to cool before cutting into 2 equal pieces.
4. Whisk non dairy whipping until stiff, spread the cream onto the cake and sprinkle sweetened kidney beans on top. Roll up the cake carefully into a swiss roll. Chill into a fridge for 1 hour before serving.
There’s a very small mistake that I made, for unknown reason, I mistaken corn starch as corn oil (I swear, I’ve been looking at the recipe for non lesser than 5 times, and my mom helping me up too, but non of us notice this mistake), that’s why my cake was super moisture, and make it very very difficult to come out from the tin. When my mom sending some to my neighbour, she was saying the cake tasted good and she wanted to copy the recipe, then only she corrected me the starch mistake. I must be blind or something… 
Recipe copied from YumYum issue 71 (Feb 2011)
The best thing being single is you can jump on a car and head to any destination that suddenly hit your mind. I still can’t imagine myself in a wedding dress even I have already started panicking on my biological clock. Well… come back to the topic, I have a handful of friends who are still in the single club, which I’m still a platinum member in it, and in a fine sunny day, I received a phone call from one of them, asking if I’m free the next day, if I want to join another 2 of them do a Malacca eating day trip. Without much or any further ado: “Yea!!!”, “alright, will let you know when & where we shall meet up to carpool.” Committing a trip is just as easy and fast as that.
Jonker Walk, only this happening during weekend. A place which is always in the must-do list visiting Malacca town.
Since this was an eating trip… what must I share other than food?
Pic 1: Popiah – a real famous (= good business) one in town, we waited for about 40 minutes to get it. The special part is, the hawker put pork lard in it. Taste interesting but try not taking a lot at a go, not only not very healthy for your heart but will get very greasy too.
Pic 2: Ban Lee Siang Satay Celup, some said Capitol nicer but frankly speaking, I can’t tell any difference. This is a must eat in Malacca, not eating means not entering the town. 
It’s another form of steamboat, but the soup isn’t herbal, tomyam or chicken stock clear soup, you are actually dipping the food into a pot of boiling satay gravy to cook!
Pic 3: Snacks @ Jonker Street. Must eat list included Cendol, nyonya desserts, dodol, pineapple tart and this time, I found Portuguese egg tart there and a very interesting snack – tornado chip.
Pic 4: Beer @ Jonker Street. The street getting so popular and flooded with tourists, there is a backstreet full of pubs. We can’t be stuffing any food into our stomach but that doesn’t mean that we can’t drink! We ended up pub-hopping for beer before we ended our 12 hours food trip to Malacca.
When I was studying the recipe of Chocolate Indulgence Cake, I came across this word – Couverture Chocolate… I only heard of chocolate, white and dark chocolate, couverture? Sound very interesting… Then, I googled a little and these are the easiest way helping me to understand CHOCOLATE, all over again.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the naming and ingredients of cacao products
| Product | Chocolate Liquor | Milk Solids | Sugar |
| Milk Chocolate | ≥ 10% | ≥ 30% | |
| Sweet Chocolate | ≥ 15% | < 12% | |
| Semisweet or Bittersweet (Dark) Chocolate | ≥ 35% | < 12% | |
| White Chocolate | ≥ 20% | ≥ 14% | ≤ 55% |
Products labelled as "Family Milk Chocolate" elsewhere in the European Union are permitted to be labelled as simply "Milk Chocolate" in the U.K. and Ireland.
| Product | Total Dry Cocoa Solids | Cocoa Butter | Non-fat Cocoa Solids | Total Fat | Milk Fat | Milk Solids | Flour/ Starch |
| Chocolate | ≥ 35% | ≥ 18% | ≥ 14% | ||||
| Couverture Chocolate | ≥ 35% | ≥ 31% | ≥ 2.5% | ||||
| Chocolate Cermicelli or Flakes | ≥ 32% | ≥ 12% | ≥ 14% | ||||
| Milk Chocolate | ≥ 25% | ≥ 2.5% | ≥ 25% | ≥ 3.5% | ≥ 14% | ||
| Couverture Milk Chocolate | ≥ 25% | ≥ 2.5% | ≥ 31% | ≥ 3.5% | ≥ 14% | ||
| Milk Chocolate Vermicelli or Flakes | ≥ 20% | ≥ 2.5% | ≥ 12% | ≥ 3.5% | ≥ 12% | ||
| Family Milk Chocolate | ≥ 20% | ≥ 2.5% | ≥ 25% | ≥ 5% | ≥ 20% | ||
| Cream Chocolate | ≥ 25% | ≥ 2.5% | ≥ 25% | ≥ 5.5% | ≥ 14% | ||
| Skimmed Milk Chocolate | ≥ 25% | ≥ 2.5% | ≥ 25% | ≥ 1% | ≥ 14% | ||
| White Chocolate | ≥ 20% | ≥ 14% | |||||
| Chocolate a la taza | ≥ 35% | ≥ 18% | ≥ 14% | ≤ 8% | |||
| Chocolate familiar a la taza | ≥ 30% | ≥ 18% | ≥ 12% | ≤ 18% |
Note: “Total Fat” refer to the combined cocoa butter and milk fat content.
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Ok, now, tell me 1. which chocolate first come to your sight? 2. Can you tell which chocolate belong to which categories?
This box of chocolate was given from my company to all staffs during Annual Dinner. 
love it so much!
