Movenpick Ice Cream

Last weekend stumbled upon a new ice cream parlor at Gurney. Movenpick, Ice cream from Switzerland. Located just opposite Lalsa Shack. I asked the guy, is this ice cream standard the same as Haggen-Daz, he said quiet there. So I tried two flavours, not much varieties though. Each scoop cost RM 8.80. I had Maple Walnut and mum had Pistachio. I found the ice creams a bit on the sweet side.

Well will certainly go back there again to try other flavours. Hope it won't be as sweet to what i had that day. Aiming to try the chocolate ice cream. It looks chocolaty.

Pistachio Ice Cream

Maple Walnut Ice Cream

Movenpick Logo

Nyonya Breeze Restaurant along Abu Siti Lane

This restaurant is located at the beginning stretch of Abu Siti Lane. It sells Nyonya food which is quite good, knowing that there is another famous Nyonya food restaurant just down the block, Mama’s Recipe which Phuah Chu Kang visited once. Well food wise, each have their own specialty and each have a better tasting dish to compare.

Nyonya food comes from the Baba and Nyonya clan. If your interested in knowing how the Baba Nyonya were formed you can click to enlarge this photo and read the story.

Here we ordered 6 types of dishes. First dish was the Nasi Ulam. It was good. It has a lot of fresh raw ingredients such as galanger flower (Bunga Kantan), Daun Kadok, Basil leaves, small onions, kunyit, shredded dried coconut, roasted belachan and many more ingredients which I can’t think of already. The ingredients are all mixed together with the rice. This nasi ulam is best served when freshly made.

Second dish, Kacang Botol fried with sambal. This was lovely. Picture tells it all.

Third dish was the ‘choon piah’ or fried spring rolls. It contains minced chicken inside together with onions, carrots, sengkuang slices and other ingredients. You’re to eat this with a special made sauce which is made from Worcheshire sauce which has cut chilly and onions in it.

Forth dish is my dad’s favourite, sweet potato leaves in curry. Curry didn’t taste like those chicken and fish curry taste. This had a blander taste and contained a lot of coconut (santan). Basically a totally different curry taste. It has a lot of sweet potato leaves in it with sweet potato itself and prawns. This dish is something unique and I like it. A must try here.

Fifth dish was the ‘ju hu char’. It’s all about sliced up sengkuang (Malay), Bangkuang (Chinese) or also known as Chinese Turnips (English) together with some sliced carrots, Chinese mushroom, dried squid and other ingredients I’m not sure off. This dish best goes with sambal belachan.

Last dish was the Curry Kapitan Chicken. It was good and tasty, Another recommendation here for this Restaurant. For desert we ordered bo bo cha cha which was excellent, if only I could have 2 bowls!!!!!

So not a bad place to try out someday, Nyonya Breeze.

How Nyonya Food came about from the Baba's

Nasi Ulam

Kacang Botol fried with sambal

Choon Piah

Sweet Potato curry

Ju Hu Char

Chicken Curry Kapitan

Bo Bo Cha Cha

My parent and Aunty Jean. Ed was the photographer

The interior of the restaurant

Nyonya Breeze Restaurant

“Poh Piah” Skin

Have you ever seen how the do the poh piah skin?

Well take a look at my Video below. Sorry that you may have to tilt your head as I can’t seem to rotate this video.

Poh Piah skin is a paper-thin wrapping for spring rolls. This shop is many years old which is a family business of Mr Lim Kim Hoe who has kept the trade in the family for 3 generations. The shop is located along Chowrasta Road. You will see them making the skins just outside the shop. It’s so cool seeing how they twist and balance the dough with their hand.

Additions of Mizi Bistro

Additions to a few more dishes tried, you can click to read my first post on Mizi Bistro here.

Cannelloni Pasta, I rate it mamma mia yummy licious. Thumbs up for it. It’s actually pasta sheets stuffed with spiced minced chicken and topped with cream sauce.

Then the fish collection, fish with Thai chilly sauce. The fish was crisply deep fried to perfection and topped with the thai chilly sauce. It’s good.

Next was the fish with cream sauce. Fish was also crisply deep fried to perfection and topped with a special cream sauce. Now this time the cream sauce wasn’t too tasty. Needed a bit more salt and a bit more flavour to give it that Ommphh….maybe that day the chef forgot to put in some ingredients to the sauce.

So that’s about it to my additions of Mizi Bistro.

Ayu Mee Udang and the Beach

Last Saturday, took a drive up to Teluk Kumbar to try out the mee udang a friend recommended. Place is quite far in. Don't know if I can remember how to go. Ros is near your Tim Bak Tu house. Ayu Mee udang stall is owned by a malay. It is actually a house turned restaurant place where the porch area becomes the cooking and eating area. Quite a clean place.

Mee Udang was not bad...I wouldn't really know how to grade it as this is only my third try of having mee udang. We had four huge prawns in each bowl which were very fresh. Gravy here was to my liking as it was not spicy. I could slurp up all the soup.

Beside Mee Udang they have also created other dishes such as Nasi Goreng Udang and Mee Goreng Udang. Common similarity is in the taste as they use the same soup stock. How was the damage (bill), well 3 bowls of Mee Udang with one extra mee and a plate of Nasi Goreng udang together with drinks cost us RM 54.

Bowl of Mee Udang

Four huge prawns

Ayu Mee Udang

After eating we took adrive around the area to check out the beach. Stopped by this place, more like a fishermans village and the beach there was awesome. It's kinda like in a lagoon shape and had a waterfall at one end and a small river you could walk through which goes out to the sea. Had alot of school of fishes swimming together. They were more like Ikan Billis. But the stupid thing, when they swim near the shore and when the waves push them to the sand, some sorta get left behind when the water subsides. Jumping for their lives to get back to water, some survive some eventually suffocate, die and dry up on shore. Me being a good soul manage to rescue a few from their death. I bet my friend Ros would probably leave them to die, knowing her past childhood times.

Water was clear. Another one of those see feet clear water thing. Was walking in the water chasing the fishes when suddenly Ed realized there were a number of bigger fishes all floating around. They were dead. Was a bit weird, so we quickly got out of the water thinking there must be some kind of pollution in the water. bummer, just when I was enjoying myself.

Our friend said this beach in the evening alot of people come to dig for Siput (clams). Cool, must come one evening and do it. Lastly, I think this beach was one of the badly hit by tsunami because it's an open sea.

The beach right side

The beach left side

The river and waterfall inside the trees

Black colour shadow on the left of the sand area has tons of fish swimming

See clear water

Happy Valentines Day

Valentines day came and went. We both this year had it simple. Simple dinner and movie. Met up at around 6.30 at Gurney. Headed to our favourite Pizza place called Domino's and ordered our favourite Aloha Chicken cheese crust pizza. Yummy.

After dinner we headed to watch our movie, Jumper. It was so so for me. Story line wasn't really that good. Kinda predictable type. Movie finished at around 8.45. Kinda short the movie was.

Well this post I would like to dedicate this to my Boo, Ed. We have been together for 4 years already and my life has been so fullfilling knowing that he's here for me no matter what and that he loves me unconditionally eventhough I may have some flaws here and there.

We both met at my first job at a factory. He was a senior there and I was a newbie. When I was first introduced to him I thought to myself "what is he, not chinese, not malay, could he be eurasian?" Among the colleagues there, Ed was the main joker. Everyday without fail, we will not have a normal day without laughing away at his silly jokes. From here our friendship slowly grew. 3 months later, I resigned and carried on my life elsewehere. We were still keeping in touch. At this point Ed said he started to have feelings for me. Our friendship grew even stronger. We were both very close and we'll both hang out together.

For 2 years he kept his feelings to himself. I did not know he had feelings for me until one day at the office I received an SMS from him saying "Cher I love You". From there onwards things changed and a few months later on Halloween night he asked for a kiss and we both got together.

So it's been 4 years already together and recently we have agreed to tie the knot next Dec 2009.

To Ed also known as Boo....

I love you so much. Life would be so lonely without you. Everyday I love you even more and can't seem to bear a day without being with you. Your the best part of my day and life. And I just want to spend my life with you always.

Below song chorus part is dedicated to you Boo. This song will be added to my Boo collection apart from the song from Usher & Alicia Keys- My Boo

Artist: Chris Brown
Song: With You

Lyrics :

I need you boo
I gotta see you boo
And there's hearts all over the world tonight
Said there's hearts all over the world tonight
I need you boo
I gotta see you boo
And there's hearts all over the world tonight
Said there's hearts all over the world tonight

Roti Bakar Along Campbell Street

Ed and I recently have been having this craving for Roti Bakar and half boiled eggs. So one morning, we drove and tried this Roti Bakar place along Campbell Street. Place is called Toh Soon Café. It’s not exactly a coffee shop but it was a shop made alongside the side lane. Do not let this fool you but this place is really popular in the mornings. A lot of people come here for their hot coffee and toasted bread with the half boiled eggs. You can even find Ah Peks sitting around gossiping and reading their newspaper. We have come here twice already.

What is special here is that the have a variety of breads to choose from. There’s Wholemeal Bread, Sandwich Bread, Low Calories Bread, Chocolate Bread, Hainan Bread and Chocolate Marble Bread. Our favorite is the Hainan Bread, eventhough this is the only bread we have eaten so far. You can choose to have your toasted bread with butter, kaya or sugar.

The coffee here is superb. They have their own coffee, and it is really pekat and strong. After drinking 1 cup “kopi peng” I felt abit like floating in the air. But it good. Gives you that kick! So this has become one of our favourite spots for Roti Bakar. I think this shop opens until late afternoon too. So if you’re not a morning person you can still come during lunch time.

Before I forget, be prepared to pay abit more as it's rather pricey for what we ate.

Toh Soon Cafe packed

The Bread Menu

Toasted Hainan Bread with Butter

Half Boiled Eggs

Thick Coffee

Seafood at Teluk Bahang

Seafood Restaurant behind/near End of the world. Forgot the name, something like Water World. Located at Teluk Bahang. Turn 3'o clock at the roundabout, straight in and turn left at the end. Restaurant is on the right.

About 3 weeks ago, Ros my friend had cravings for Lobster which I once introduced to her. So she planned everything without letting me and another friend the conspiracy behind this dinner plan. So on the night, I arrived earlier than Ros did. Asked a friend where was Ros and the friend said she was following another friend. So fine for me, then came an SMS from Ros saying she’s on the way stuck in jam and is with a group of friends from KL. Then it got me suspicious wondering if her special ‘hunny bun’ was down from KL [hunny bun is her BF which I haven’t officially met after they got together, well literally speaking]……well to my surprise hunny bun was down!!! Ros planned this whole surprise. It was good, finally got to meet him, but was not fully armed to interrogate him as I felt abit shy. Well I always need to break the ice first before I can be my true self.

So about the food, we ordered 8 types of dishes.

First dish was the Lobster Termidor. It was baked with cheese, mushrooms, onions, salad leaves, and other ingredients. It was lovely. I could have just eaten the whole lobster for myself. Lobster is a frozen one. This one cost us RM 90.

Then we ordered Ma Por Taufu mainly for Ed to eat as he’s not a seafood person as he gets rashes. This dish I didn’t really try as I’m not a fan of taufu, but everyone said it was ok.

Next dish was the Prawn Mantis cooked in Kam Heong style. It was excellent. Not too spicy for me even though it had a lot of chilli padi in it. Prawn Mantis was reasonably sized and deep fried perfectly.

Vegetable we ordered baby kalian in oyster sauce. Kailan was so small and cute!!! Dish was ok like any normal vege dish.

Ed’s dish again, we ordered sweet sour chicken. It was like any normal sweet sour chicken dish.

Next we ordered deep fried squid which was just ok for me. The batter wasn’t thick enough to coat the squid to make it really crispy when fried.

Then the real deal dish was the crabs. We ordered two types, Marmite crab and sweet sour crabs. Marmite crabs were something different for me. It was good and tasty. Preferred it to the sweet sour crabs which were normal for me. We had 8 crabs which at the end was abit too much for all of us. But we being pigs gobbled everything up.

After dinner, we decided to take a walk around Batu Feringghi to shop. Night ended early as we couldn’t think of wherelse to go as it was drizzling. Also the KL people were also feeling tired after a whole day of eating and walking in town.

But this I must thank Ros for planning this surprise for me and Becky. It was something special for us. Well I must also say, Ed also played a role here helping Ros on this conspiracy. Notti people……

Lobster Termidor

Prawn Mantis cooked Kam Heong style

Baby Kailan in Oyster Sauce

Sweet Sour Chicken

Deep Fried Squid

Marmite crab


Sweet Sour Crab

The group of friends. Smallest in front/middle is the one with the conspiracy and next to her right is her hunny bun

Golden Triangle Indochine Rest at Queensbay Mall

New restaurant at Queensbay Mall. My mum that day was bugging me for Vietnamese roll so I decided to give her a treat and check out this place.

Environment here was excellent. Decoration here abit contemporary style. Service was good. The menu had a lot of choices from Thai cuisine dishes to Laotian and Vietnamese. Since mum was craving for Vietnamese Rolls she ordered two type of Vietnamese Rolls, one was steamed Vietnamese Rolls and Deep Fried Vietnamese Rolls. I myself ordered Butter Pineapple Chicken. For dessert we ordered the Mango Glutinous rice and a tam tim krob.

Rolls arrived first. Mum was disappointed as it was not up to her standard. As i know Vietnamese food always has cilantro leaves, however these rolls did not have any. What was in these rolls was minced chicken, salad leaves, groundnut, carrot, and some special sauce. Mum said the rolls she had in Vietnam had a special sauce served separately for you to dip the rolls, here they gave us sweet thai chili sauce which was from the Thai cuisine....huh???

My butter pineapple chicken was good and tasty. The dish was something like the Chinese Sweet and Sour Chicken, except that there was a strong butter taste.

The Mango Glutinous rice here was excellent. Thumbs up for this dish. It cost RM 12 for a serving fit for two. The tam tim krob on the hand was also good, but I gave the Nangka slices to my mum as I'm not a fan of Nangka.
All in all, I would say if you plan to eat here be prepared to pay. What we ordered came out to 70+. Crazy.

The Entrance

The Environment front area

Back Area

Steamed Vietnamese Rolls

Deep fried Vietnamese Rolls

Butter Pineapple Chicken

Mango Glutinous Rice

Tam Tim Krob
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Then this is another version. Last Sat night, me and Ed went here again but this time to try out the dishes. This is what we ordered.
1) Seafood Tom Yam (Thai)- soup was excellent, nice and sour and thick....only bad thing was it was damn spicy for me.
2) Stuffed Mushrooms with broccoli (Laotian)- It was normal only
3) Garlic Beef (Vietnamese)- Ok for me but Ed loved it. Beef slices were thinkly cut, charred and topped with fried garlic.
4) Green Curry Chicken (Thai)- It was good. Very rich creamy santan taste. Not spicy. Good for me.
5) Seafood Otak Otak (Thai)- It was served in a coconut. Smelled good, looked good but was a fuel rocket for me. I couldn't enjoy my food after having a spoon of this otak otak. Way to spicy for me. Wished they had cut down the chilly. Then I would have cleaned up inside the coconut. Next morning in the toilet had a 'fine' time.

For desert we ordered the tam tim krob and the mango glutinous rice. Bill came up to RM 148

Seafood Tomyam

Stuffed Mushroom with Broccoli

Garlic Beef

Green Curry Chicken

Seafood Otak Otak