Show Off Time!!!

Show off! Show off! Show off! I don’t remember I have a lot of birthday treats before my 30s, last year I had 3, but this year I have 1, 2, 3, 4… In short, I had a whole month celebration!

1st celebration: with my cute and pretty colleagues, Anna & Serrea, @ Chili’s Grill & Bar, Mid Valley. We ordered my favourite Triple Play! Yum…

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2nd celebration: with ex-colleagues, 3 October babies birthday celebration @ a porridge steamboat house opposite Maluri Jaya Jusco, Woon Ching, my 1st superior in life made us a blueberry cheese cake too… the cake is really nice, nobody gonna believe that the cake was made using a rice cooker.

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3rd celebration: with little “brother/ son”, Jeff Wan, @ La Bodega, Pavilion. This time I got to give him a big credit, I was really surprise when he suggested this restaurant. I ordered my favourite seafood Paella. This silly boy surprised me further by asking the waiter to prepare the cake for me, they were holding the cake and sang me birthday song out loud in the restaurant… .

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4th celebration: with one of my best girl friend, QiaoYi @ Dae Jang Geum Korean Restaurant, SS14. We both ordered a soup, chicken and pork belly BBQ, of course with a lot of complimentary side dishes/ starters too. This is my best celebration of all, the food might not the best, but she do. I really appreciate that I have so many good friends, QiaoYi is one of them who can really care and take her precious time off to spend time with me (I’m actually taking some parenting time from her to be with her beloved son). Thanks girl.

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5th celebration: with another good friend of mine @ Morganfield’s, Pavilion. We have been spending more than 3 years celebrating each other birthdays together! We always like to try out new restaurant in town during our birthdays. Although both of us, most of the time live a different lives (I hardly can think of many things that we share in common), but we care for each other. I wish, even if in the future, we have a busier lives, have already had a family or partner, we still can celebrate each birthday like that.  

Oh, not to miss out the food part, the portion is very big, especially the chicken, I think the chicken was overcook but nice sauce, of course no doubt, their signature dish, the sticky bones, is one of the best rib in town and I love the clam bowl too, it is to go with bread, but I love salty food, I can eat it just like that.

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6th celebration: with Avan @ a Japanese restaurant, Leisure Mall (I forgot the name of the restaurant d). Been eating everything in town already, how can I miss out Japanese? Probably like what doctor said I was too stressed or tired, or probably due to something like flu virus enter the stomach and cause infection (if I understand him correctly), or the food was not very clean, I had gastric for few days after this. I never had such serious gastric before, it’s so painful that caused me “diet” the whole next day and a day after too. However, I had a nice night out with this friend, too much to catch with him d!!!

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7th celebration: with college friends aka A33 siao za bo @ Bread Basket Bakery, Kota Kemuning. They actually already celebrated my birthday early of the month, this was just another excuse for us to meet up and gossip again. This bakery is running by one of the za bo, Joanne’s family, I always order the same old 2 no matter how much time I spend by going through the menu. Fried rice with chicken cooked with special sauce and mango lychee cake. For the rice, I requested steamed broccoli add on… look at the colour combination… so attractive! 

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8th celebration: with another best girl friend, Stephanie @ Ciccio Ristorante Bar Pizzeria, Changkat Bukit Bintang. I was craving for pizza, but Steph insisted we should eat something better than Pizza Hut… lol, so after going through the Malaysia Italian Restaurant Directory booklet (I’ve no idea where and how I get this booklet), I finally picked this.

I ordered a pizza and she ordered a Caesar salad, I ordered the starter – bruschetta and she ordered a dessert – tiramisu, what a best combination and best mate we are! We were too greedy, we need to pack half of the pizza to go end of the day.

I like the salad and bruschetta, the pizza is very authentic too, but I’m a bit, erm… dislike about the taste of rocket leaves spread on the pizza. After all, this was still one of the best meal I had.

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9th celebration: a casual celebration with Chris, my predecessor in work, @ Secret Recipe, we girls always meet up for lunch and gossip, celebration was just a smoke screen for us to continue lepak… lol

Rosemary Bites Restaurant

(This post seated in my draft folder for months… suppose to be up in July… opps)

1st birthday celebration with colleagues in this company which I’ve joined 1 year ago (dated back to July, and when the birthday girl was still in the company, lol)… The birthday girl picked this restaurant and I think it is a good choice! Very obvious, this restaurant served American food, the interior can tell.

All four different dishes that we chose – Salmon fish & chips, steak, chicken chop & chips and chicken thigh with mashed potato. The portion is just fine for us, I mean we are smaller eater compare to those big sized Americans, and the price is very reasonable too. I like the environment which is not too noisy (or probably that’s a weekday so, they didn’t have a lot of customers), we were able to talk and laugh as much as we like. We were able to hang out in the restaurant for almost 4 hours, we were drinking their beer until they have run out of stock!! (or I think probably they didn’t keep a lot).

How could a birthday celebration without a cake?! I bake this mango cake for Anna and I’m happy the she love that! Most of them thought that the upper layer was chicken floss, no no no… it was crushed digestive biscuit!!  

Right: Mango cake from Secret Recipe

Left: My home-made mango cake (I think I should be more generous with the filling)

Rosemary Bites Restaurant

A-G-28, PJU 1/43, Aman Suria Damansara, 47301 PJ Selangor, Malaysia.

For Reservation : 03-7805-2088

Website: http://www.bites.com.my

Chocolate Moist Cake 4 June Babies

Cake

Ingredients:

150g Butter

300g Brown sugar

2 Eggs

200g Boiling Water

45g Cocoa powder

250g Plain flour

1tsp Baking soda

½ tsp Baking powder

Methods:

1. Cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.

2. Add in eggs slowly, cream until smooth and light.

3. Dissolve cocoa powder in boiling water. Add in cocoa liquid and flour (premix with baking soda and baking powder) alternately, mix until well-blended.

4. Pour it into greased and lined 23cm mould.

5. Bake at 175˚C for 30 minutes and test it with skewer. If it comes out clean, allow it to cool for 5 minutes. Unmould and set aside.

6. Cut cake into half and sandwich the cakes with ganache. Cover the whole cake with ganache.

Ganache

Ingredients:

250g Whipping cream

500g Cooking chocolate (chopped)

30g Butter

Method:

Cook whipping cream until it boils. Add it into the cooking chocolate, stir until it has melted completely. Add in butter, mix until well combined. Leave aside to cool and set for at least 24 hours.

My hand was not stable while drawing the line

I baked 2 cakes at a go, this is another pattern but unfortunately I forgot to take the picture before sending half to my neighbour

Cake is solid solid and moist

One of the cake was dedicated to both pretty June babies.

 

p/s: Recipe taken from Alex Goh Baking Class

My whole new decade has just began.

Am I excited about my new beginning? At first yea, but when date was getting closer, I was a little uneasy, just hard to believe time flies and I'm in my middle age (I do not expect myself to live a long life).

I usually do not get a proper celebration each year, friends busy, everyone thought that I already had a date... but because I want something different this year, so I voice out to everybody, I want a celebration and here's what I've got! Thanks to everybody, whether you belong to the group which physically making your effort to celebrate with me or virtually in heart celebrating with me, Thank You, I really appreciated all.

A33 gals: Shook Fun, Yin Wai, Kar Foon & Keat

My 3rd candle

My birthday lunch treat @ Marmalade, Bangsar Village 2

My 2nd candle with Weng Hing

Dinner treat @ Micheangelo, Pavillion

Bruchetta & Oyster

Seafood Sphegetti

Spicy sphegetti with chicken leg

Tiramisu

Ex-colleagues: Woon Ching, Siew Lin, Roiree & Perlyn

My 1st candle @ Delicious, Jln Tun Razak

Salmon Ceaser Salad

Calamari

Fried Mushroom

Seafood Sphegetti

Roasted Chicken Leg

Pan-fried dory fish fillet

signatured bread & butter pudding

cupcakes