I love you - Penang!

Yes im still recovery from the last entry :

before anything I would like to verify something - i got the last entry from a forwarded email, NONO two forwarded emails! so it was NOT my experience!! although i really wish I was that I been dreaming about all these yummy food~~~~~~~~~~~~


I WANT them so bad that i could sing a song how much i want them right now.

GOSH!!!!!!!!! WHAT the hell Am i DOING it CANADA where I love Malaysian local foood soooooooooooooooo much!??!?!?!?!!

yea so what if i can make curry mee, so wat if i can make prawns mee,

I CANT make penang char kuey teow!!!!!

and why do I have to go through all the troubles of making something I like?

WHY cant I just walk across the st or drive 5 hours to get ONE!? ok TWO, OK! unlimited!!! char keuy teow!!!!!!!!

IM so frustrated right now......seriosly, is 4 in the morning and Im craving for penang's char keey teow..............torture, TORutre!! TORTURE!


My sister is so lucky coz she 's currently living in Penang right now!!!!!1

Oh yea and Asam Laksa too!

And Lam mee too!!!!!!!

Penang Char Kuey Teow in Lorong Selamat - Hv you tried?

Saturday, May 05, 2007
Lorong Selamat Kopitiam : Boycott!
*No offence to Penang-kias. This is strictly my personal thoughts.

This kopitiam is famous because of the "char kuey teow" only. Otherwise don't bother going there. This post is strictly to taruh the kopitiam kau-kau... for having such a stupid ruling to charge customers RM 0.50 just because they don't order a drink! X(

During our recent makan trip to Penang , one of my neighbours (a Penang-kia) took us to Lorong Selamat to savour the famous "char kuey teow" ( we also went to a few other spots for "char kuey teow" ). Since it was a big group of us, we occupied 3 tables lor, and subsequently ordered some drinks.

The drinks and food came and we all ate heartily. Yes, the "char kuey teow" is good, but expensive. At RM 5.50 a portion (and it's a small portion mind you), you can consider is one of the most expensive "char kuey teow" in Penang . But we're not gonna talk about the "char kuey teow" now. We're gonna talk about the kopitiam.

We asked this aunty to calculate the cost of drinks. 5 assam-type drinks and 1 ice-kacang a.k.a ABC. The aunty mumbled something and blurted out in hokkien "Zhap Zhi Kor" which means RM 12. Then hubby asked her how much was a glass of the assam drink, to which she replied RM 1.50 for each assam drink and RM 3.50 for the ABC while taking the money from hubby.

"Eeeeehhhh.... something's not right. 5 assam drinks + one ABC... that shouldn't be RM 12. Should only be RM 11! Aunty, you calculated wrongly liao!" hubby exclaimed.


Lansi aunty @ Lorong Selamat Kopitiam

The aunty dam kau lansi, just mumbled "It's correct lah!" and walked off! The bloody nerve of her!!! All of us were like in awe over her lansi reaction. I just watched that aunty walk off hastily cos she knew she was in trouble with our gang liao. Hubby then called one of the Indon maid and ordered another one of those assam drinks, and told that girl "Sudah bayar" .

The aunty returned with the assam drink and proceeded to explain how she calculated the cost of RM 12. She said that 2 of our members didn't order a drink, hence it's by default to charge non-ordering drinking customers RM 0.50 per head. Since the cost of drinks is RM 11, and 2 of our members didn't order a drink, so the total cost is...

RM 11 (for drinks) + RM 1 (for 2 non-orders) = RM 12

We were dumbfounded and argued that the ruling is utterly stupid. Even my Penang friend wasn't aware of such a dumb ruling. The aunty that pointed at the notice board, with fine prints written on it. Indeed anyone that doesn't oder a drink from the kopitiam, a RM 0.50 will be charged accordingly. Geez, even KL doesn't have such ruling ok.

So 6 assam drinks + one ABC brings the cost exactly up to RM 12. So by "default" , we should pay an extra ringgit for 2 non-orders, but we refused because it's a stupid ruling by the kopitiam.

By then we had a few tables looking our direction liao. But we couldn't care less cos the kopitiam is ripping its customers off. So it's our right as consumers to make a racket because it's OUR money. The aunty went on to explain she's only working there, the boss made that rule yada yada yada. Then we said "Call your boss out! We will talk to your boss! " Then she said "You talk to my boss! You talk to my boss!"

The boss never came out. And we also suspected that this aunty IS the boss herself, but scared of us oredi because we made such a scene in her kopitiam.The aunty even challenged us to take a photo of the kopitiam and report it to higher authorities. WTF?!? So lansi hor?

So, if your friends tell you that Lorong Selamat "char kuey teow" is very good, believe them. Because it is really quite tasty. But it will cost you RM 5.50 a plate for a small portion, which may not be worth the trip sometimes. But the kopitiam where it's located, skip it. Because it sucks! And they couldn't even get the assam drink right! Blek!

*Note: Not all "char kuey teow" in Penang is nice. Some are just so-so, and I've tasted one of the worst "char kuey teow" @ Gurney Drive hawkers.

SO lucky get to conned by the most famous char kuey teow in Penang somemore complain, I want to kena con also cannot! NO CHANCE!

Whats cooking in Nicole's kitchen?

THATS RIGHT BABY! Prawn mee aka Har min!

I finally found some imported prawns from thailand with the prawns head on!

Yummy finished product! taste very similar to the prawn mee behind my sentosa house!

Last night we went to Irish time to celebrate Pez's 27th birthday party! Happy birthday Pez!

Irish time is known for their irish beers, all different kind, from light to dark....(Harp, Kilkenny, Smithwick, guiness stout) - and i got a taste of everything !

Rasberry martini

There were list of 1912 Titanic meals for the cost of $19.12

This is one of them- I dunno what is call, belfast or something

There's homemade turkey pot pie.

This grilled halibut burger, isnt that good according to Bonnie

And I had cod fish and chips - the fist is incredibly fresh! but the batter just sucks! wat a waste for such good fish to be handled that poorly

Big ass nachos - perfect to go with ur irish beers!

Everybody digged in!
Last but not least, Pez's burger, I dunno whats in there coz he was too far away, i had to zoom in to take this picture.

Daniel refused to share his dessert with Harun

Big guys arm wrestling

Lastly I wanna apologise to darling about my behaviour last night, so sorry and thanks for your understanding...love you

Lazy part time housewives' solution!

Monday, Ma and Pa made san tong sui kao, this is their ancestor's secret recipe - we all loved it!

Everything made from scratch n nicely wrapped

you can boil or pan fry them
Everybody helped out in the kitchen

Finished products! yummm~ darling fried those sui kao, he's very patient in cooking and the things he fried usually looks very good!

Yesterday we went grocery shopping at Costco (kinda like Macro) and bought almost 300$ worth of food!! Pa mentioned something in the car, this is like 900rm!!!

Gosh I didnt realize that but after you convert it, that is really too much to be spending just on food, and we didnt buy any lebih stuff, just all very essential and basic necessities like meats, ham, cheese, rice etc...


Thanks to his lazy wife that hasnt been cooking much.... so darling came up with this idea to solve lazy wives' problem - how thoughtful? he suggested that we got whole bunch of meats and cooked them all then freeze them so we can use whenever we want. In that case - we always have food ready to go, just fry some vege or some other small side dish if I AM not too lazy.

So I split this mission into two days work, coz after 2 hours of grocery shopping, i got really tired on day 1 - but i still made whole bunch of masala chicken (I know i made this way too often but is everybody's favourite and our choice too!)

So now our freezer look like this - 3 big tubs of masala and some other uncooked meat.

Day 2- I made oyster sauce chicken with mushrooms n carrots just so we got some vege too.

and got whole bunch of cheap shanghai yu choy from china town.

Yea this is our normal portion for each meal, we do eat alot!

Lex was in this position for half an hour, he does enjoy his little sight seeing -
seem like a very sentimental dog =), him enjoying his deep thoughts....

Pub Crawling for the kids - How do you like that?

Isnt this weird - you wanna do some good to the kids? go pub crawling and drink more! This is schneider's yearly event, well is not organized by schneider but this guy with such big heart, all the donations will go to the kids. For their summer camps or wat not.

You are partying at the same time doing good deed, WHY NOT!?

We arrived at the first pub half an hour late and realised there wasnt anybody there yet? feel really strange so went wonder around downtown, bought a miki of vodka and cranberry juice - mixed them all up at a back valley (drinking in public is extremely prohibited) but no it only looks like we r drinking cranberry juice right? hahaha went back 15mins later, still no sign of our pub crawl crew, only another bunch of high school pub crawlers. Got a little bumped, went to the mall and have fries half drunk, finally 830pm which is the time we suppose to hit the second pub, then we see them! good rashes they are at the roof top!

So we joined them at the second pub - Hugo's
(darling, me, Ken, Austin, Martin, Amanda, and Jasen)

Me and Andrew, I tot i ll put this picture on its own coz of mr annonymous at the back :)

Austin's drunk face

Darling, me and Jasen were chatting outside of the pub, and Jasen is a big salsa dancer, so i told him to show us some moves - he crossed his hands and offer me to grab them, so i figured ok, im gonnna be his dance partner i guess, he twisted me and turn and flipped me 360 degrees in the air!? I was horrified! at the same time embarassed coz i was wearing a skirt. I promised to get back to him for that one!

When is time to hit the 3rd pub, I was pretty much done, but theres free drink at the 3rd pub, so we went ahead got our beer sat down and im ready to pass out, darling saw that and tot it wouldnt be a good idea to let my co-workers especially my boss to see this behaviour of mine -

So we left without finishing our free beer!!! I collapsed on the bed as soon as i got home.

I dunno what it is im such an eating maniac today! is like nothing can ever fill me up! woke up 10 in the morning extremely starved, so fixed myself some Unagi with some left over rice n miso soup.

YUMMMM~~~

After my breakfast, i lay on the bed watch "Friends" with some left over "cranberry juice" from last night - hahahha gosh im such an alcoholic i mean who drinks at 11 in the morning!?!?!?

Soon I passed out again and woke up 4.30 in the evening and starving again!! Gosh im such a pig and a bum!



What should I eat , what should I eat? looking back at my food pictures collection - I really want this!!! is one of the buffet dinner at the Hotel in Mexico....I would kill now for those grilled chicken, grilled fish and beef!!! hmmmmmmmmmmm MEAT!

k gotto go find myself some real food - pictures aint gonna fill me up, cya bye!

Moxies

Sorry about the images problem we had here before - i ve re-uploaded them =) Here you go!



We made pasta for dinner again and we had KFC for dinner last night -so nothing special about that coz I ve posted the pasta picture just few entries ago....

Anyway - This is my all time restaurant - Moxies! their food is affordable and absolutely delicious!

The Starter Platter - steak and goat cheese salad and Extreme burger (darling's must have everytime he goes)

Tandoori Chicken Pizza without cheese that my sister order sometime ago when she was here, I mean , how can u eat pizza without cheese?!?!?!?

Fettucine carbonara

And this is my must have! mustard roast lamb - the most tender lamb i ve ever tried in my life....sooo goooooood!!
So good that I had to tah pao one home - and by the way, thats the best mashed potato i ve ever had in my life too!!! geeeeez how did they do that ???? I wanna learn to cook like them!


Grilled chicken with hollandaise sauce


Perfectly roasted chicken

Bye Bye Ring................

So I shipped out the mother's day present, and I only paid 7 dollars but with insurance only up to 100, so if the ring got lost *touch wood*, i will only be reimburse for 100$. The next thing up is 50$ and I duwanna be paying that........sighh i know im being cheap but am I being stupid?

luck of a Monkey

Yesterday morning - Darling made this new fabolous breakfast!!

he fried the hashbrown and mushed them then fried with eggs, onion, green pepper and swiss cheese on top, gosh YUMMMM!!!

Thank you darling, I love you!

This morning I had this for breakfast, well is 2.30pm i think is brunch

Authentic loh mee

Why did I wake up 2.30 in the afternoon? coz i was at a bon fire going away party for really late - yea after supper, i slept at about 5am.

I was bornt in the year of monkey - and I think this year we monkey have really bad luck.

First a vessel in my eye popped, then I cut my finger while chopping basil, then last night...

Some guy got really drunk and decided to hopped over this 5 feet bon fire, I was at the other end and he freaking head bud me in my left eye!!! Maybe it was the alcohol, I felt dizzy and out of it for a while. Then I went to sleep in the van for two hours and came out to continue the party.

When I got home the bum looks like this

Next morning, my left eye were all sepet and blue black, FUCK! how m i going to work again tomorrow!!!!???? now i gotto find my glasses....
I just created a label "accident" not too long ago, and i been using it very frequently , i wonder if my dreams the past few nights has anything to do with it - I kept dreaming of my ramping the van into a big bus or tree.

It has gotten alot worse hours later, the purple is getting stronger...and surprisingly the eye part doesnt hurt, just the head. now i look like i have a patch of eye shadow