Trip Back to Kuantan

This week I send PW back to celebrate post-Mother day and her belated birthday. We started our journey back to Kuantan right after our work. Only arrived Kuantan at 12.30am. This is my second time travelling on Karak + East West Link Highway at night and I do not recommend this if you are not experience with the road, you will be driving in dark windy road. Poor Sunny boy is reaching it’s old ages, gets exhausted and heated up too quickly.

As usual, it’s always interesting when they come up with lots of makan places to go to. This time we ended up eating in a new place opposite the market with a Supermarket (the Store) in it.

Back in her Kindergarden days, this is the shop that PW’s family used to have their ko lo mee (Cheong Kee) everyday because her father loves it. She said it still tasted the same:

The Cheong Kee ko lo mee tasted very different from others. It taste more original (Cantonese: ‘cheng’), I like it though:

Later in the afternoon, we headed off for yum cha session at Phin Ju, Air Putih:

They sell a range of dim sum but what make them famous are the bestest ‘Wu Kok’ that I have ever eaten:

It is definitely the most meat filling ‘Wu Kok’ that I have ever eaten. Don’t you just feel like trying it? Yum YuuuUUMM slurp:

The day ended with a big dinner with her family and a stroll down the new East Cost Mall. I find Kuantan a very relaxing place to be in. This is the time that I get good rest from the exhausting and stressful working life. A trip to kuantan is like a trip to the beach for a relaxing holiday.

Directions:
Cheong Kee – near the wet market with The Store supermarket, click her for map
Phin Ju - It is located near a Petronas Petrol station at Jalan Air Puteh, click here for map.

-- Catfish --

Midnight Project

Every 14th of the month is a time for celebration and this month my plan is to surprise Catfish with a simple DIY dessert.  Inspired by a cooking game show, I plan to make the dessert called “Love at First Sight”

Definitely not easy to surprise him. It involves some wrestling. Have to ensure he doesn’t come out of the room. I practically move the whole clothing rack in front of the door to buy us some time in case he does come out. Whole night we were panicking at small sounds. Phew~

My partner in crime for this. Meet Catfish’s sister, Pui Yee

Step 1: Gather all the ingredient

1. 250g Cooking Chocolate
2. 2 Eggs
3. 300g Marie Biscuit
4. Cocoa Powder
5. Some dried fruits if you fancy.

Step 2: Based on experience I know better than to melt the chocolate using direct heat. Instead melt the chocolate using boiling water to avoid burning the base. Slowly mix in the beaten eggs while stirring.

Step 3: Break the Marie biscuits into smaller pieces and throw it in the melted chocolate. Stir until all the Marie biscuits are fully coated with chocolate.

Step 4: Camwhore!! hehehe.. Just Kidding!

The real Step 4: Pour everything onto the aluminum foil. Doesn’t look too appetizing isn’t it? hehe.. Don’t worry, everything is still under control.

Step 5: Roll. Sueeze. Roll. ‘Kemek’. Roll. Squeeze. Roll. ‘Kemek’….. Try to make it as compact as possible but be careful to not make a hole in your ‘Love at First Sight’

Step 6: Wait for the roll to cool down first before leaving it overnight in the fridge. That is the cue to camwhore again.

Step 8: The next morning, after you remove the aluminum foil it could still be a little sticky. Sprinkle some cocoa powder on it and it will be fine. End product is suppose to be a heart shape. FAIL~

Actually did you realize that during the whole process we were standing on a chair? Go look again.. That is because we have an uninvited guest hiding in the corner. Say ”Hi Mr. Siu Keung~”.  He must have think he stumble upon heaven because poor Mr. Siu Keung died of old age the next day. We were wondering why he didn’t move at all except for his antennae the whole night.

Finally, surprise Catfish in the morning before work. Yummy!

The whole process took only about an hour.. Fast right? So do try it out!! Tell me how it turns out. 

Love,

--PW--

Annoying SD card!!!

D*mn the SD card!! Kept giving me a write protected error when I tried to delete photos from it using a card reader (click to enlarge) :

The card lock was unlock. I figured must be the contact so I brush the contact pins with a sand paper. STILL NOT WORKING!!! Next suspicion maybe the lock mechanism contact is not very good. Next try used 3 layers of cello tape on top of the lock and hope that it will be pressed down it enters the SD reader slot, as below:

Yippie!! It worked!! I’m a genius!

Hahah then I realized this was a very normal problem occurred for SD card and the solution was all over the World Wide Web… sigh… What a disappointment…

I found a very good article for more detailed explanation and instruction:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_remove_write_protection_from_a_mini_SD_card

Cheers,
-- Catfish --

Dim Sum Hunt on Mother’s Day

 

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!!!!

1st Location: Din Tai Fung

Let’s see.. On the menu we have dumplings, xiu long pao, combo of dumplings + xiu long pao, la mian with dumplings (You get the picture). To give them credit, they have other dishes but not meeting the objective of the day which is Dim Sum!! Everyone on the table was sheepishly giving some eye signal to leave for another restaurant. After some wink wink we all sneaked out.

2nd Location: Canton-I

The menu looks a bit more promising with more choices and we know we made a right decision of changing location albeit the embarrassed moment earlier.

Lucky for them we were entertain by this open kitchen because the service was so SLOW~. It was like a game to catch the attention of a waiter.

When we finally got hold of the waiter, we ordered some Dim Sum, Carp Fishball Porridge, Chee Cheung Fun, and their famous ‘Char Siew Siew Yuk Wantan Mee’. When ordering it is frustrating that a quarter of the menu was not available or we have to wait at least 30 minutes for certain dishes.

Verdict:
Dim Sum and everything else was just Okay. Too pricey to enjoy more.
However, the ‘Char Siew Siew Yuk Wantan Mee’ was way fantastic. Totally recommended. Not much fat on the char siew and siew yuk, the mee was ‘boink boink’ and the black sauce has it’s own signature taste like no other. Look at the ‘fight’ and smiling faces.

For dessert, we have Koong Woh Tong Herbal Jelly.

Still feeling dissatisfied and craving for more Dim Sum…

Location 3: Koo Hiong, Taman Connaught. Taken when driving at 60km/h:    

Hahah I know it is very difficult to see so:
View Restaurant Koo Hiong in a larger map

Finally, hah~ The real Dim Sum. Cheap but quality is still not as good as the Dim Sum Seong Kee at a corner lot at “Jalan Arif 1” near CIMB bank.

 

--PW and Catfish--

Lok Lok Fun

Come Saturday morning, the questions will always be:

“Where to go?” “What to eat?” “What to do?”…..

After much discussion with catfish, we narrow down to 2 option:

Syabu   Shabu-shabu in Puchong (Me) or 1U (Catfish).

I lose! So we ended up in 1U just in time for breakfast lunch (because we ‘to to mo mo’ and only reach around 2pm). We were starving and Catfish was a bit agitated already.  So first mission is: FOOD!!! We hunt around the new food corners in LG floor (it’s near Cold Storage) and stumble upon LOK LOK FUN.

They were having a ‘All You Can Eat’ promotion for only RM9.90. A good deal I must say but Catfish was having second thought about it. All I can think about is I was meant to get my Syabu Shabu-Shabu.  

So let the makan begin:

Round 1: mussels, squids, marinated chicken, crab meat, century egg, straw mushroom, ‘um chun’ egg, UFO fish paste thingy, and lettuce.

Round 2: Panda fish cake (So cute~), bean curd skin, button mushroom, abalone mushroom, straw mushroom (Can see that we are fungus lover), ham, meatball, siu mai, kang kung and mussels again.

and Baby Octopus <-- Catfish favorite

They have 2 variety of soup base. Plain Water or Tom Yam.

erm… Plain Water???? Siao a… of course Tom Yam la… but with an additional charge of RM 2. It’s worth it though because the Tom Yam gives it an added Omph factor.

Bloop! Bloop! Bloop!

Catfish is the guinea pig for the day. They have the normal Chili sauce, Sweet sauce, Peanut sauce (which is good) and the most special and tastiest Thai Chili sauce.

It’s very obvious who is the photographer of the day lo.. All also Catfish photo..
Nah~a picture of me.

Look at the amount of food we ate.. OMG!!! I wouldn’t recommend this kind of eating without the promotion.

This is the reason why. Based on the amount we ate, the bill will totaled up to RM60.00!!!! So if you are interested, quick go try it out before the promotion end (according to the waitress, it’s end of May).

At the end of the day our bill is only RM26.50 including 2 drinks. No tax.

A fun and satisfying meal indeed. It’s definitely a more hygienic way of enjoying Lok Lok. No more staring in horror when some inconsiderate people re-dip their half bitten fish ball.. bluek~

We then proceed to walking around 1U to ease our full stomach and I found this. teeheehee~

Lok Lok Fun

LG311E 
Oval Zone,
Lower Ground Floor, 1 Utama

--PW and Catfish--

It’s not ME

It’s been ages since I tasted Maltese. Lavender bought one new tub of Maltese early morning to share with us. It was FULL at around 10am and by 2.21pm:

Thank you Qiong Go and Lavender so much!!!

 

On another occasion, we (my colleagues) were all jaw dropped at the sight of this:

Lavender and Helmut/Hew was defeated badly… It’s time to change…

 

PS: I have made some update at the end of “It’s not birthday without cake” Ying Yie’s B’day post.

It’s not a birthday without a cake

Birthday Girl: Ying Yie
Venue: The Apartment, KLCC

Ying Yie, this post is specially dedicated to you. You should feel honored for being the first birthday post on N.o.T (Nibble of Thoughts).
I think you are all exhausted with my ‘long gas’ on previous post so let the picture nibble away:

After a hearty meal, the main event took place…

Highlight of the day (credit to Su-Lyn, great attempt… it’s all about the effort *pats*):

Enjoying the most unique DELICIOUS cheese cake ever~! (FYI: only edible using spoon)

Birthday girl with the end product (the cake has a mole)

The beauties

The "smartest" handsome guy on earth

Camwhore after a good cake session

We were trying out burst shots for 12 brackets and edited with Photoshop. Check this out:

Cool leh~!

Updated by Catfish at 10pm: 
Thanks for the compliment, well it was my first animated gif photoshop. I was too tired to comment further on the photos yesterday.
It is quite interesting to look at what we did in the 12 burst shot, let me explain what actually happened:
Vincent was doing the "Sound Of Music" good night song.
Have you ever wondered why YJ is always blurred? he was shaking his head the whole time.
Su-Lyn was like being attacked by Isaac, hahah it was good act.
Shino seems like she started posing a little later when she found out Ying Yie has already started.
PW always have been so pretty with the camera.

Happy Birthday Ying Yie!

-- Catfish and PW --

Angry and Sad ‘Sun’ issueS

ITS GONE!!! GONE!!! GONE!!!

It’s really annoying when foods that I bought intended to be eaten by only me always just ‘poff’ gone into mist. Just like a murderer leaving no evidence left behind.

2 days back my colleague, Wong, specially bought a biscuit from Taiwan (well not exactly this one, but the transparent wrapper do look similar):

It was so nice for Wong to keep one for me since I have requested it. Thanks! I was so happy and can’t wait to try it but as always I’ll keep it till I get back to enjoy it with PW. Got back home placed it on the table and proceed to cook dinner and was left there till one day later (i forgot about the 2-legged mice at home). Just when I thought it was the right moment to eat it today, it was GONE!!! I felt so angry that I almost made PW into a bad mood.

Well it was a missed review so:

Sun biscuit (pronounced as Tai Yang Bing in Mandarin) is a popular and famous Taiwanese snack. It is even popular to be brought back as a souvenir. Well put it this way it is just like the famous Siew Pau when you are in Seremban. How did it get it name? 1. It was originate from a shop named ‘Sun Hall’ 2. Because it looks like the shape of the Japan flag.

The taste? I can’t really recall the last time I ate it, perhaps ‘Helmut The Lim’ can describe it. Some research online said it taste like Lou Po Peng (wif'e’s cake) but so much nicer than it. Why can it be GONE~ sob…

Actually I didn’t want to blog today at all, it was due to another sad story with regards to the other ‘Sun’. Sunny Boy (what PW call my old Nissan Sunny) got into an Alzheimer or some Parkinson disease. Imagine if you are driving in the dark, alone, what would you feel when you wiper suddenly turned on without you switching it followed by RPM and Volt meter to jump crazily? In the end your radio just trip OFF and turn on again… Way CREEPY~! After dinner, I was so scared that sunny boy is really into some serious sickness as he keeps waving to everyone on the road with it’s wiper, I can’t resist to drive to the mechanic nearby my house to get it checked immediately. When I got there, sunny boy could not be started, he is death silent. Feeling lucky (got to a mechanic) and unlucky (sunny boy is dead) at the same time but mostly sad. The mechanic changed the main fuse which he suspected, cross finger that is the main problem. It got started after that, phew. It was quite late so he asked me to bring in another day to have a thorough check up on him.

-- Catfish --

Exhausted Catfish

It’s been so tiring to get PW in to the blogging mood. This is what she did to avoid from starting up her first post:

• The blog design is a no no.
• Must have a proper introduction. Lengthy one I would say.
• Being rational she agreed that it is indeed too lengthy and it will take forever to finish, so she agree I should start writing other post first.
• After getting initial blog design + 2 blog started, she said we don’t have a good banner.
• Next, no site meter!!!... etc etc

Setting aside the “above”, I want to compliment myself that Nibble of Thoughts blog page design do look decent now. =P Don’t you think so? It’s been ages since I touched CSS and HTML.

The blog design was a courtesy of N.Design Studio. Painfully edited it to suit our blogging need. There were problems like the content width could not fit full length landscape photo, some part were nibbled off. Didn’t like the way how the labels, comments and post date were positioned. The most troublesome is the calendar display for each post was a pain. It takes me long hours to figure out how to use the CSS and javascript. It look alright for the moment although there is some problem loading the javascript on IE browser.

There was a big problem with the page header picture but it worked out nicely! All thanks to PW’s brilliant idea. Spot anything? (Note: 100% Genuine photo, only 1 history edit in photoshop) Best scenic photo taken with PW, was taken in Kuala Selangor during our 3rd year anniversary trip to Pangkor.

It was worthwhile after the pain. Do comment on the design, I did put a lot of effort in it. Suggestions are welcome, this is my first time designing a blog.

I guess reading this was painful and draggy post, I do apologize for it!

Pains and exhausted catfish aside, writing this post was a great experience and easy with the use of Windows Live Writer instead of the small post edit form in Blogger. This was recommended by Mr YJ Microsoft, thanks pal. I’ll update more after I get to learn more about it. If you’ve tried it, do share your findings with me.

-- Catfish --

Teary Day...

I am a total mess today... Tears streaming down every 5 minutes.. If the neighbours are watching, they must think some sort of abuse is taking place.. Poor DD (aka Catfish) will be blame for it.. nyehehhheh


The actual culprit: Britains Got Talent.... -_-"


Ridiculous isn't it? For the record, I'm not the sort of person who cry easily.. What is happening to me??? I just got so inspired by those participant. Some of the recommended acts : Shaheen Jafargholi, Good Evans, and of course the infamous Susan Boyle..

Go watch if you have the time.. :)

PS: One tip of making the show seems more interesting to you, watch it when you have something more important to attend to.. Trust me, every act will be eye catching...

PPS: I can see DD fuming behind me for the 1st PS... I am suppose to be preparing for a very important future shaping presentation... hehehe.... shh~

-PW-