Look what I've got from Jodi!

And supposedly, this is not a Christmas present, but a (very) belated birthday present!
A HUGE STACK of cute and funky postcards! Jodi and I used to share postcards that we've picked up on the way from the uni or in Perth city. So she is just keeping the 'tradition' I guess. And The Sound of Music OST! How cool is that!
See, sometimes your best buddy just knows you so well! I mean, Jodi being my best mate in Australia, she knows I collect postcards, she knows my favourite movie is The Sound of Music. And so she sent me those stuff, although not very expensive stuff, but hey, SO SWEET OF HER~!Of course, knowing her lazy ass, she only sent all these to me after keeping them for like ages! What made her finally sent me these was because I sent her a pair of socks with elephants on it! FYI, she loves elephants! Read what she wrote on the card! She calls the socks 'fantastical ones'~! Hahaha~!
Anywayz, thanks a lot Jodi!
I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU SO SO MUCH~~~!!!

Two-dishes-and-a-soup dinner

Remember my previous post?
We actually had more than that in 2 days.
Haih, I didn't want to tell you this one, but okay lar, have to tell ya and let you laugh at us... Initially we thought Maytower was giving us a serviced apartment, so happily we bought whole loads of food and stuff to cook. Even a bloody big wok. When we stepped into the room... We were like.... Ah... Where's the kitchen???
So that was how we ended up having our dinner at Bayernhaus, Cap Square.
Of course, we didn't let the food go wasted. The night we checked-out of the hotel, we cooked them up for dinner. It was a very simple and healthy 2 dishes and a soup meal.

The Soup: Omelette with Minced Meat in Soup with Dang Hoon (Glass Noodles)
I got this idea from my Ah Ma (dad's side) and I just love making this back in Perth. You get a really yummy soup without having to boil it for hours! Simple yet delicious~!
Ingredients: Minced meat (usually use pork or beef, but I was using chicken this time because couldn't find minced pork and beef one a bit unhealthy for my dear), eggs, preserved vege(Dong Cai), Dang Hoon (Glass Noodles) and soya sauce, pepper and salt to taste.
Boil the Preserved vege...
Chef Shirlexia is on a mission again~!
Fry the minced meat... Arrrrhhhhh... It was a bit difficult with the chicken that day.
Minced meat omelette in the making...
Haha... had to switch off the fire before taking the pic.
1. Marinate the minced meat with soya sauce and pepper, at least two hours ahead.
2. In a pot of water, boil with some preserved vege.
3. Just like how you fry an omelette, heat up the pan or wok with oil, then stir fried the meat a bit, spread them out equally, and then put in the egg.
4. When the omelette is cooked, dump them into the pot of water. Let it boil. The soup will get the saltiness from the preserved vege and the soya sauce and pepper of the meat. But if you think it's not enough, you can add in some salt.
5. Finally, before serving, add in the Dang Hoon, and you're done! Yummilicious punya soup~~~~~

Dish 1: The Mushroom Lover
Haha, I simply give a name to my dish lar!
Since my dear and I both love mushroom and brocoli, I've decided to just stir-fried some mushroom and put them over some really yummy brocoli. It sounds more like a vegetarian dish, isn't it?
Ingredients: Chopped garlic, straw mushrooms, button mushrooms, golden needle mushrooms, brocoli, corn flour and of course some chicken stock (or oyster sauce) to taste. (Well, you can basically choose which type of mushroom you like to add in)Boiling my dear's favourite vege.
First step is to simmer the garlic lor...
Swishhhhhh... Stir-frying the mushrooms...
With some water now, then the corn flour.
1. Boil the brocoli for around 5 minutes, then arrange them in a circle on a plate.
2. Heat up the wok with oil, then simmer some garlic.
3. Add in the mushrooms and some water and let them cook.
4. As the water is boiling, add in some chicken stock, then corn flour which is mixed in water to thicken the gravy a bit. And that's it! Pour them in the middle of the brocoli to serve! Done in about 6 minutes I think! Ah... Looks so pretty, isn't it? In fact, it was super delicious, okay!

Dish 2: Random Grilled Yellow Zucchini
Well, we were supposed to have grill salmon. But with all the travelling, the salmon went bad before we can cook it. So the yellow zucchini that I bought out of curiosity came to the rescue. My dear knows I love grill vege a lot, so he did this specially for me, randomly. :) I know the first round one was a failure, but then the second round one was pretty good! Oh, it's my very 'yao yeng' dear again, cooking!
Ingredients: Chopped garlic, yellow zucchini, black pepper, salt, red wine.
1. Simply heat up the pan with oil, then simmer some garlic.
2. Add in the zucchini, my dear simply flip them over and over with the pan without using any spetula.
3. Add in some salt and black pepper to taste. Finally a wee bit of red wine. And thats it!Ahhhhhhh... I love grilled veges!!!

I just love cooking! What more is that when you can cook for the one you love, and get praised for what you made? Plus, you can cook whatever you like, create dishes according to your preferences! And eating at home is so much more healthier hey! :DAnd taking picture with your camera's timer is fun too... According to my dear lar.

Now... Is my blog turning into a complete food blog already??? ==|||

Too much of food in 2 days!

Last Thursday, my dear and I checked-into Maytower Hotel for a night as a short break. This is a special treat from I Rene, who had won the complimentary stay at the hotel through a lucky draw. So, a trillion thanks to I Rene! :)
Here are some of the stuff we ate during that 2 days.

Uncle Seng Restaurant @ SS15, Subang Jaya
This restaurant is no stranger to people staying in Subang area. It's a very famous restaurant selling homemade Wantan Noodles. Mind you, this place can be very busy during lunch time!
So that was lunch for us before checking into the hotel.Uncle Seng Restaurant, one of my favourite restaurant to go recently.
As usual, my dear ordered his Noodles with Wantan and Char Siew while I had mine with the braised chicken feet with mushroom.
I don't know about my dear's, I mean that is just such a common flavour. But mine is awesome! I love the chicken feet! It's just tasted so good! It's cooked till ngam-ngam where the skin is crispy and the smell is so good! Loving it man!Loving my noodles with the chicken feet and mushroom!
My dear's noodles with Wantan and Char Siew.
Some people actually pour a lot of this Sambal onto their noodles!
Upon request, my little bowl of curry gravy!
There are more variety of flavours for you to choose from, like curry chicken, minced pork, etc.
A regular plate of the noodles will only costs you RM 4.60! I think the large one is only RM5.30.

Bayernhaus @ Cap Square, KL
I think Cap Square is such a hidden mall in KL. I mean, do you even know there is such mall called Cap Square??? Well, it was right across the street of Maytower, so we went over to search for a nice place for dinner. Although the mall is quite empty, but surprisingly we found a really good restaurant and had a really satisfying dinner there!Bayernhaus has a not-too-bad interior design and deco.
Shirlexia posing with the loads of German beer.
At first, I didn't think he is cute-looking. But now, I really really think my dear is cute-looking, hey~! :p
Bayernhaus is a German restaurant so expect lots of sausages, pork and German beer there! At first, we were a bit skeptical about the food because the waitress who served us looks like she is so confused with everything! And the menu was like printed in different sheets of A4 papers! And then they told us beforehand that the credit card machine is down and we had to make sure we have enough cash for our meal. We were like... Duh??? But a good thing is, this restaurant doesn't charge you any service or government tax! :)Too lazy to type the long long name. So this is what I had.
And my dear had the meal A.
Well anywayz, luckily we were really impressed by their food. The Bavarian Potato Soup with German Sausages and Pork Belly was the first thing to impress us. It's just simply very unique yet yummy~! Well I must say, I prefer my dear's pork meal than my salmon meal. It's either he always order the nicer food or healthy food are always not-so-yummy. The gravy was really really good! We especially love the side, the Butter Tossed Parsley Potatoes a lot~! Bavarian Potato Soup with Sausages and Pork Belly~! Mama Mia~! Super nice~!
My Salmon Steak was okay lar.
Dear's pork meal was fantastic!
Great food I must say! We really enjoyed them! I guess we must also try the German Roasted Pork Hand one day too because we saw almost every table has that! And the German beer too! I guess we were really lucky to have chosen the restaurant for dinner! :)

Breakfast Buffet @ Maytower, KL
FYI, I'm totally a breakfast person.
And FYI, I'm such a big fan of breakfast buffet.
And that is why I always love to stay in a hotel that offers free breakfast buffet. I mean, you will get Western, Chinese, Malay, Indian and all kinda different breakfast all at once! Plus, the omelette counter is always my favourite part!
That's why I was very excited about the breakfast buffet at Maytower this time around! La Maison Cafe at a glance. Actually quite a small cafe for a hotel.
I was really excited about the bacon!!!
But some people just not really used to waking up too early for breakfast. :p
Well, I must say, the variety of food wasn't too much. As in, there aren't like too much of food compared to those that I've tried before. I mean, normally there will be hash brown, nasi lemak, roti canai and stuff. But I must say their food aren't too bad lar. The fried rice was really good. And it seems like my dear loves their potato wedges a lot. Oh yea, the crossants!!! The corssants was really really good! Very crispy and fresh! Love them! My first round... But the bacon aren't really good.:(
My dear's first round... This is when we found out the crossant is really yummy~!
It's been a while I didn't have Coco Crunch!
Green salad and some fruits are a must!
Too bad they don't have mushroom at their omelette counter!
Took more crossants because they were simply too good!
True to my Teochew root, I had some porridge. But not very good lar... The ikan bilis was too salty and the peanuts were not crispy already.
Not the best breakfast buffet, but it was good enough to make me really happy the whole day! I always think a great breakfast cheers up my day! :D
But hooo~hoooo~ I'm so bloody sure I've put on weight after dating Mr. Wong!

My first visit to T.G.I Friday

WHAT??????
I know that is just what you will say!
It's true... I think it's basically because my friends and I would never thought of having a nice chat and a meal at fancy restaurants like this before. And FYI, I've only been to Chili's once, and that was only during tea time. I've been to Tony Roma's once, but that was in Perth last year.
So my dear was also very surprised and he promised to bring me there one day. So last week, as a repay for something I've promised him to do, he brought me to T.G.I Friday for dinner. And since it's such a famous place that everyone goes, I don't consider this post as a food review lar, just a post to tell ya about my first experiece at T.G.I Friday.One of me and him at the restaurant...
To start, I would still emphasize the fact that I STILL HATE SCHOOL HOLIDAY! Everywhere you go, it's all packed! And in restaurants especially, you will hear babies and kids crying or making annoying noises! OMG~! Get me out of KL!!! :S
Anywayz, my dear ordered this 2 course meal thingy which is only RM29.90 and you get an appetizer and a main course. It's a very good deal indeed. So he went for the Boneless Wings as the appetizer and the main was Adobo Chicken. To me the Boneless Wings was okay, but the Adobo Chicken really impressed me. It tasted like a bit spicy yet sour, plus some mint sauce on top of it, it's just simply delicious~! The Boneless Wings...
Adobo Chicken, served with some deep-fried sweet potatoes with cheese sauce! Yum~!
I had the Grilled Lamb Chop with Mint Sauce and some bacon as well. I thought it was only so-so. Still prefer the chicken.My very unhealthy Grilled Lamb Chop.
Big hole in my dear's wallet after the dinner... :(
And as we were leaving the mall, we saw Grasshoppers!!! No, not the real green-coloured grasshopper! But the quite-old band Grasshoppers! 草蜢! They were there to promote their concert and we were lucky to catch a glimpse of them. But they look really old liao ler...Hey hey! And my favourite Grasshoppers is the long hair guy, 蔡一智~!
More food to come~! Stay tune~! :D

How to make Wat Dan Yee Mee... For your loved one!

If you are a loyal reader of my blog, you would have know that my dear loves Wat Dan Ho a.k.a Fried Hor Fun with Egg Sauce a.k.a Cantonese Fried Noodles a lot. I, myself is a Wat Dan Ho lover too. Because of that my mum used to cook that for us a lot, and because of that, I learned from her how to make it.
I've shown you how to make the Mui Fan before, it is actually the same method. I didn't make the Hor Fun too this time, because I'm lazy to separate the noodles one by one. So here you go~ Wat Dan Yee Mee...
What you need...Yee Mee soaked in water to soften them, chicken pieces marinated with soya sauce and pepper plus corn flour to make them tender, prawns, choy sum, a beaten egg, chopped garlic, corn flour as well as you know... Oil, dark soya sauce, soya sauce and salt to taste.

Start with the noodles. Simmer some garlic, then fry the noodles with some soya sauce and dark soya sauce. Remove the noodles from the wok. Step 1: Simmer some garlic.
Step 2: Fry the Yee Mee a bit...
And then, simmer more garlic in hot oil, then add in the chicken and prawns, fry for a while. Add in some water. The amount of water is depending on how much you love the egg sauce gravy lar. Let it boil, then add in some salt, not too much because the marinated chicken already gives some taste to the gravy. Then the vege.Step don't know how many: fry the chicken and prawn.
A-Must Step: Have a look at the sexy chef~! LOL!
Add in the water and let it boil...
Almost-done-step: Put in the vege~!
Let it boil, and now put in the egg. Stir well. Then pour in the corn flour which is mixed with water, cold water okay! Otherwise it won't work! Stir well. FYI, the corn flour is to thicken the gravy. The final step: Add in egg and corn flour.

Tips: After a few attempts, I got this tiny tip for you guys. If you want the egg in the gravy to be bigger in pieces, then put the corn flour in to thicken the gravy first, then only the egg. If you want the egg to be in smaller pieces then it's the other way round! :)

And you're done~!Doesn't it look fantastically yummy? *I'm being so beh pai seh~*
And you will need a satisfied diner for your cooking~!
I think it's a really simple dish lor, minus the time I needed to clean the prawns and the fussy process to wash off the smell of garlic on my hands... :p

Couples Retreat

I don't know, for some reason, not many people know about this movie. I guess 2010 lar, Ninja Assassin lar, Twilight lar got all the attention.
I chose to watch this movie after watching the preview and the Yoga scene made me laughed like crazy. So off I went to watch this movie with... Who else if not with my dear? Come on, the movie is called 'Couples' Retreat mah! :p
Well, it's a movie about four couples on a trip to an island, some just for fun, some to solve the problem in their relationship, etc. They ended up almost screwing their relationships up... But of course it was a happy ending lor, what can you expect? It's a bloody comedy ler! I didn't like the crappy ending, it was a bit too cin cai.
But I love the movie. First of all it is so damn funny! The Yoga scene especially made you wanna laugh till you fell on the ground in the cinema. I was literally beating my dear's lap while laughing out loud! And second of all, the problems and the stuff that the couples go through in the movie are just so real. It's like everybody might face the same problems in their relationships! And I definitely adore the cast!
I'm looking very-the forward for Alvin and the Chipmunks 2! The preview is sooooooooooooo CUTE!!!

Do you know???

That the Swedish meatball at Ikea's food court is sooooo DANGEROUSLY DELICIOUS???
Yea, I always go to the one downstairs to get my favourite curry puff with egg, until Ducum told me about the meatballs upstairs. I think the meatball is ok-ok, but the gravy that comes with it is awesome. And it's so abnormal for us Malaysians to have meatballs with cranberry sauce, but trust me, it's GREAT!!!
And...
The Roast Pork with apple sauce at Yut Kee is such a BLOODILY SINFUL AND YUMMY food! It's only available on weekends, my dear and me accidently saw it the other day and thus had a taste of it~! Mama Mia~! That's was soooooooo gooooooooood~~~~!!!
Okay, now it's back to our diet plan... :(

The BF...

So apparently I'm just so not famous that I can't even get 15 comments to say you guys are interested to see how my dear looks like.
Well, and I also beh tahan already... It's just too hard for me to hide my happiness and a bf who treats me so well and that I'm proud to show him off. Ducum actually said I look so sad in my blog, always only showing pics of me alone like I went to makan myself, went to Genting myself... So yea, from now on, I can put his pics too!!! :D
Some of you may already know him, that includes my mum. Haha... It's CL, our senior in Hua Lian.

Nine Years ago... We were like 哥儿们......
Nine Years later, we ended up like this...

Okay, Thanks for watching...

A Christmas Carol

I went to the movie without knowing much about the storyline. It was solely because I'm a fan of Jim Carrey and that I know he plays a few characters in the movie.
I read Lay Jing's blog post saying it was only so-so, so I didn't have high hopes. But then it surprises me a bit cos I actually love the movie! Even my dear loves it too!
It's about this old man Scrooge who is a really bad man who only cares about his money and all. He finally met three spirits/ghosts who then change his character. Part of the story was really touching but I think the most important thing is that it is such a meaningful story! It's a great movie for both adult and kids to learn more about themselves, I think. Although, my dear and I think it's a bit not-too-suitable for kids to watch because of the ghosts thingy.
And I was surprised to see Colin Firth and Robin Wright Penn! In fact, Colin Firth's character looks just as though it was he himself, a younger version of course! Really amazed by the way they created the characters using the actors' actual face!
Great movie for the coming Christmas! :)

意外的风声？？？

好久没打中文了，也好久没来电中文片的影评了~！

意外
之前就已经很想看了，但结果还是等到最近买了DVD回来才看。
故事方面呢，我觉得真的还好而已，因为那个twist、那个结局，一般像我这样的观众都猜得出来了，毫无惊喜，更略嫌处理得马虎了点。演员们也没有什么特别发挥的空间，尤其是任贤齐的角色，更是很浪费.......很失望！
当然，还是有好的地方可以说一说的。我喜欢它的杀人的ideas，是那种完美得看了会让人觉得很佩服的那种！只可惜整部电影就只出现那么两次，第二次还差点失败的......里头不管是动作或者是一些特效的东西都做得很不错啦！
就这样，句号。

风声
那么多实力派演员聚集的一部电影，我一点也不想错过，更对它有着莫高的期望。
电影的故事就是要抓那个“老鬼”，一直围绕着这个话题，但中间会血腥得让我突然觉得这部电影是单纯想让我们看演员们被虐待时的不同表情、不同的演技，而不是看故事情节吧？但渐渐的，到了后面才明白当中的twist，也是我很喜欢的一个twist。哈，不告诉你那是什么！:p
黄晓明的日本人角色一直是我很期待的，可惜并没有我想象中的好，well，应该说他只需要装出一副很凶、很恶劣的模样就可以了，根本考不了他的演技。苏有朋的娘娘腔角色也是另外一个我觉得有点雷声大、雨点小的，演得不够到位，有时候听到他大喊时还要破音就一直在摇头了......还好，有着周迅和李冰冰这两位美女加实力派的女主角，整部电影只是看他们就够了！感觉周迅的演出是比较外放的，而李冰冰的就比较内敛一点。恭喜后者在金马奖获得最佳女主角啦，绝对是实至名归！:)还有张涵予，他真的好酷，搞到我很想看集结号！！！
不是说拍得超好，而且有一点没有我预料的好，但却是我会推荐的一部电影啦！

Raya Haji @ Genting

So it was the first long weekend out of the lot which are coming the next month. My dear came up with a plan to bring me to Genting because I've only been to Genting twice. Listen, first time was when I was 6, where there were nothing yet up there! The second time was during college time when YV and Ally were kind enough to bring me there for Tension's (who? you'll say... David's Tao accapella group ler, remember???) mini concert, and that was at least 5 or 6 years ago! I had never been to any of the hotels, any of the restaurants except for KFC, any of the casinos or theme park... Sad, right???
Anywayz, first thing we did was walking around but Genting isn't that cold lor. I was wearing this low-v top also didn't feel the chill. Took some nice pics which I cannot show you yet cos there aren't 15 comments to say you want to see him yet (vote here)! Then he lost 100 bucks in the casino... :(

And then... Comes my favourite part! LUNCH!!! Oh I mean, FOOD!!!
We had the buffet lunch at Coffee Terace at Genting Highland Resort. They have buffet for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even supper till 2.30am! Amazing, right? And the lunch buffet we had was only RM 48 per head!
Okay, now let the pictures do the rest of the work...First round: Food from the Nyonya and Western Asian corner, Stir-fried Bak Choy with sotong, salad and some fruits.
I'm sooooo ready to swollow them up!!!
Second round: Stir-fried Kai Lan and Bak Choy with sotong, Satay, Grilled vege, chicken and lamb leg, brocoli soup from the Western corner.
Third round: Some dumplings and sweet and sour chicken from the Chinese corner, small snacks from the Local corner. Dear had his favourite curry noodles while I had Prawn Mee.
My fourth round: Teochew porridge.
Our dessert, we actually had two bowls of the ice-cream. The mint one was really yummy~! :)
They have a wide variety of food, which is what I like the most. From locals, Nyonya, Chinese, Western, Japanese to Western Asia. There are a lot of stuff that we were disappointed with, like their satays, the ayam percik and more lar. But I definitely love their salad bar and the stir-fried vege where you pick what you want and the chef will fry them for you. The curry noodles' soup was a bit too 'lemak', so only good for those santan lovers. Well I guess I would give the food there around 3 out of 5 lar. It's not really fantastic yet it's good to have a try lor. Plus, I think for RM48, it's worth it lor.
And then it started to rain heavily. Dear's plan always fail to work one lar... :p So we can only stay indoor. Strolled past almost every hotels and finally we decided to go for bowling. Or to be accurate, he played the bowling while I watch. Haha, Shirlexia the old lady having back pain mah... A preview of my very 'yao yeng' dear... 's back! :p
And I just love my pair of red shoes from Cotton On! So Comel~!
Well then still raining and we don't even know where to go. Plus, Genting is SOOOOO BLOODY CROWDED I HATE SCHOOL HOLIDAY!!! Even when we've decided to go have a cup of coffee at Starbucks it was all so crowded!!!
No choice, go home lor~!
But on the way, I kept seeing this signboard saying 'Taman Cendawan' and I demanded that we should go and have a look! Yea I was soooooo excited before finding out it was closed... :'(
Woow~~~~!!! Look at those mushroomsssss!!!!!
Dear said I looked so naturally excited in this pic! What lar? This is how I look like when I see mushroom lar!!!
Shirlexia looking very satisfied with the mushrooms she bought! Oh by the way, that top was a brand new one from Forever 21! Nice and sexay~!!!
Too bad the farm was closed for don't know what reason lar! So I have to take pictures with the fake but big mushroom outside and bought some really fresh mushrooms home! Yay~! I LOVE MUSHROOMS!!!And then there was this really fierce monkey trying to protect her son...
Well, my dear and I took a really nice pic with the fake mushroom too but you know, you know what to do... :p

Anywayz, I had a great day at Genting lar although the crowd and the rain kinda ruined it a bit but still I enjoyed the trip a lot and I must say a very big thank you to my dear for his effort! I really appreciate it okay, my dear! Love ya~! Muaksss....

Bonus pic:Yes! This is what I had for dinner last night. The mushroom I bought from Genting! Looks good, right??? It is yummy I tell ya, the mushrooms were really really fresh!!! *Slurp~~~~*

Very SEDUCING Japanese-Style Chicken & Cucumber Salad

Remember on my birthday dinner this year at Pasta Zanmai? We actually ordered a few pasta dishes with the sesame sauce. For instance, I had this...It was some beef pasta with the sesame sauce lar. Well, the picture can't really show you how the sauce looks like. But I actually tasted the sesame sauce before when I Rene made this Chicken & Cucumber Salad with the Deep-Roasted Sesame Dressing and I just totally fell in love with it. And then I made it for my family in Taiping last month and they all love it! My mum actually commanded me to buy more of the dressing for her even though it is actually quite expensive, considering the little content it has. I also made it for my dear few days back and he loves it 'three'!
So... I'm here to tell you this VERY SIMPLE yet VERY SEDUCING and SUPER YUMMY salad's recipe!

First of all, you will need...The Deep-Roasted Sesame Dressing, which you can easily find at the Japanese confectionary shop. It's RM15.90 per bottle but you can get it at RM10.90 when they are having sales.Some cucumber, preferably Japanese cucumber. Cut into long pieces.Some chicken, any part but I guess the breast is better.

All you need to do is boil the chicken, pinch it into small pieces as showned on the picture above, then refrigirate it until it's cold. You can do the same with the cucumber too. Then take them out and mix well with the dressing! That's it! This is how it looks like when it's done! Trust me, this is a MUST TRY!!!
See, it's just sooooo bloody simple, but the taste is... Wow~ Mama Mia~! :)
Try this at home too~! :)

Oh, by the way... You still wanna know who my guy is? The so called 'voting' is still open in my previous post! :p

One month Anni @ California Pizza Kitchen

Well, he wanted to bring me to Chili's for dinner but plan didn't work as Chili's KLCC was so bloody full with loads of people, including some family who brought their kids out for meal! Aaaarrrrhhh... I HATE SCHOOL HOLIDAY!!!
So I recommended California Pizza Kitchen, which I've been there N years ago when I was still in college. I don't really remember how was the food like already, but hey, it's always good to try new things!
So here's what we ordered...Sedoma Tortilla Soup, with mild green chili and corn in it! Yum~! RM15.
Wild Mushroom Pizza... Decided to go vegetarian, eh? RM35.
Pan Sauteed Salmon... Comes with spaghetti and asparagus! RM32.

Well I must say, we were both very satisfied with the dinner! The soup was really special and filling. The Pizza was well, what can I say? Mushrooms! They are so yummy, okay? But I think my dear and I are most impressed with the Pan Sauteed Salmon. The huge piece of salmon was cooked so well on the outside, yet still raw inside! Aarrrhhh... So nice! And the spaghetti was well cooked, the simple asparagus was great! You see, I got mushroom, corn, salmon and asparagus, four of my favourite food for dinner! How can I be not satisfied???

Well, the month has been really really long for both of us, or at least we both think so. It's like only one month? We've been to so many places, ate so many different food, did so many things together already! We only had 100 Plus and Milo to cheer with as we celebrate our first month anniversary! :p
The next thing for us I think, is to reveal it all to you guys... BUT DO YOU GUYS ACTUALLY WANT OR EVEN CURIOUS to know who is the lucky guy??? How does he look like??? Do you guys actually care???
Okay, let's do this, I know I'm not a celebrity blogger or something, so just make the amount smaller. If I get 15 comments from you guys saying you want to know more about him, I'll tell ya and show you my guy! Deal?

*Pa, you wanna join the survey too? :p*
Okay, the survey starts now!

鸡窝包 Supper @ Sri Petaling

And yes... I know!!! SUPPER!!!

Shirlexia is soooooo not supposed to be having supper!

Okay... I can find an excuse... Let me think...

I seriously cannot find the English name on its signboard, so I can tell you it is pronounced as 'Gai Wo Bao' （鸡窝包）.
I always think Sri Petaling is a food heaven, it's just that I don't have the time and transportation to explore it. So last night after another pak-tor session (tak jadi because of the rain) at Putrajaya, my dear and me decided to have supper at Sri Petaling on our way home. And here we arrived at this shop that sells the Gai Wo Bao and all kinda Dim Sum.Gai Wo Bao restaurant??? The shop is quite obviously located by the road side.
Out of curiousity, we of course ordered the very famous Gai Wo Bao. It is this big Bao with chicken, mushroom, onion, glutonious rice and salted egg york in it. We both love it! It's a bit like a Lo Mai Gai in a bun you see. But this one comes with some gravy in it... And button mushrooms! We both are real huge mushroom lovers you see. :DHungry now??? The Gai Wo Bao is yummy~~~!!! *salava drips...*
But that was the one and only dish that gets thumb-up from us. The Dim Sum weren't that amazing lor. I think the ones I had in Taiping's Tai Or are better.Salad Prawns... The skin is too thick and it was too cold!
The other dim sums which are also so-so only.
Ohyea! I think I just found an excuse for me to have supper last night!
I scored Grade A for my Korean Beginner 1 Exam! Hurray! I'm going to continue my Korean class after this! Yeah~!
So yes, the supper was a reward okay? :p

Bonus pic: My dear knows how to use my Shawn Zai in manual mode but I don't know... Kekekeke... Here's his masterpiece taken at Putrajaya...Copyrighted okay!

Dinner @ Seoul Korean Restaurant

An nyeong ha sae yo~!
(Hi there/ How are you?)

Jo nun Shirlexia im ni da, han kuk sa ram a ni e yo. Malaysia Sa ram i e yo~!
(I'm Shirlexia, I'm not a Korean. I'm a Malaysian)

Yoon Sang Hyun sshi chu wa yo~!
(I like Yoon Sang Hyn sshi.)

Haha... Just showing off the little Korean I know! And bear with it that they are like romanized, cos I still haven't figure out how to type in Korean. I was going to say my bf will be 'eating vinegar' if I say I like Yoon Sang Hyun, but my 'limited Korean' didn't allow me to say that.
Okay, so this is finally not a blog post about my outing & eating with the bf! You wanna say 'hurray'??? Especially you, Kevin Foo Chuan Yee???
I've tried the lunch meal a few times at Seoul Korean Restaurant at Taman Desa, right in front of my boss's house. And I just love it and keep saying it is the best ever Korean food I've ever had so far. But for dinner, last night was the first time and I couldn't help it but to tell you guys that... IT WAS SOOOOOOO BLOODY AWESOME!!!!!!Gotta take picture from the top cos it was hujan-ing... :(
The menu might looks quite ordinary, but the food aren't!
The restaurant in a glance! And best thing is, you don't get the BBQ smell on your body in the end of the day!!!
It was just perfect day for BBQ! Bloody hell, it rained the entire day man!!! Aaaarrrrhhhh.... So we had Saeng Gal Bi Sal (fresh Ribeye Lean) as the BBQ beef set, Jeon Tong Bulgogi (traditional style Marinated BBQ), Sam Gae Tang and Sun Du Bu Ji Qae. My auntie-alike boss and colleague...
The Saeng Gal Bi Sal wasn't too bad, but then it could have been better if they aren't frozen. the Jeon Tong Bulgogi, which is something like what I had for lunch before this, was as good as it is. The Sun Du Bu Ji Qae is a must try to those who love tofu and spicy stuff a lot. BBQ beef with no oil oh... Only the onion! So healthy~! :)
Eat it the Korean way... With sauces, onion, green chili and garlic, wrapped in a lettuce.
The sauces, chili and garlic for the BBQ.
I know, I had so much of beef! But my colleague doesn't eat pork mah, so... Maybe next time lor, anyone???
This is the Sun Du Bu Ji Qae, which is some tofu and egg in spicy soup~Yum~!
The steamed egg was a complimentary dish and it was really tasty too!
BUT my favourite of the night goes to...SAM GAE TANG!!! Well, if you read it properly you would know what it means... It's the Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup with Glutonious Rice. Oh my goodness, how come Korean Ginseng can be so good ah??? It was so so so so good I cannot find a word to describe it now! Best of all it's RM25 for a big bowl, which I think enough for 5 people (of course if you go with less people you get to eat more lar, :p)! I LOVE SAM GAE TANG!!!!!!
Of course to me, the best part is always their variety of side dishes! I JUST LOVE THEIR SIDE DISHES!!! Especially the Korean mushroom, the big tauge and the zucchini in fried egg. I've counted, there are 13 side dishes all together, the most I've ever seen in a Korean restaurant! And it's like you will love most of them except for those that are 'too Korean' that they become weird lar! I just love it, I always finish them faster and ask for refill! Kekekeke... With Shirlexia around, restaurant can really close down faster man! :pOhhhhh yeah... My favourite part... The side dishes!!!
This zucchini in fried egg is so simple but so delicious!!!
So there you go, a very sinful yet yummilicious dinner~! Thanks to my directors in Korea! :)
I was going to get a name card and tell you guys how to get there and the business hour, but I forgot. Nevermind, you can always ask me, I'll tell ya~! You guys just really gotta try this! Better still if you ask me to bring you there and then give me a treat! :p

Thanks for reading... Gam sa ham ni da...

The Celebrity Couple Attack KL!

Kevin Foo Chuan Yee... Are you that sick of me talking about 'dear, dear, my dear...' in my blog??? What about you guys out there who are reading my blog?

I'm sorry if you are irritated, but I have no choice! I spent most of my time with him now, what can you expect wor? I love him so much that it's already killing me not to show you guys the photos we took together. So just bear with me for a while lar, okay? Alright, you have no choice, cos this is my bloody blog! :p
Being the celebrity couple as we are pretending to be, here are the pictures taken without him on Friday night as we went for our pak-tor session after my Korean class.Pavillion KL was just putting up their Christmas deco and we were so lucky to be among the first few people to take pics over there!
At around 10 at night, I was feeling like eating something (oh man, save me please! I'm so getting fatter and fatter! :S). So we went for this Ngau Kee Beef Noodles at a street behind Jalan Alor. My dear said he used to go there back then when he was still a college student.Ngau Kee Beef Noodles... Nice supper~! Yum~!
Like he said, the noodles isn't fantastic lar, but it was really okay. There were quite a lot of people having their supper over there you know! So I guess it has attracted some loyal supporters over the years! I personally think the minced meat on top of the noodles were really good, although it is obvious they were minced with machine... I went for the soup one... Oooh look at the beef belly~! Love it!
My dear had the dried wanton noodles.
The chili is quite different too, I can see lots of onion and serai in it.

And then we just had a walk around Bukit Bintang, while trying to find a place to sit down and have a drink and spend some time together.
And then we arrived at Island Bistro at Pavillion. Wow, so happening at night man! I love its design very very much! It's a bit like a Balinese design, with some oh-so-cute green colour (yay, green is the best!) cozy sofa and the unique-looking lights! Island Bistro at a glace....
I love this pic! Look at the green colour cushion! I wish I can have that cushion at home!
Too bad the kitchen was already closing when we were there, and we can only order the snack! Cos I think their salads and sandwiches look really nice... In the menu! So we had the extremely fattening and oily Tumeric Fried Chicken Wings which was pretty good! Aaaarrrhhhh... Yummy food are always very fattening, oily or unhealthy! :(I had the house pour white wine and my dear had his favourite Heineken.
My dear's masterpiece... Nice or not??? Got potential???
The very the yummy but oily chicken wings...

So that was another great night out with my dear~! :)

Dinner @ New York New York Deli

Before my dear and me went for MJ's This Is It, we had our lovely dinner at New York New York Deli at 1 Utama. My dear's sister said it's not too bad wor, so we went to try lor.Love the design and deco of the restaurant!
I must say I love their design and deco a lot. It's pretty modern-looking and looks really clean. Here of course, true to their name, they serve American food. There are whole lot of choices, from salad, soup, sandwiches to the main course. But then I must say, do not expect American portion here! And yes, the menu looks really good too, at least it explains to you what's in your meal.
Ooooopsss... That's my celebrity bf's hand! Haha... No lar, he's not a celebrity, but because we are still not ready to reveal it all, we are both having the 'underground relationship' like the celebrities! :p
I ordered a Fisherman's Clam Chowder and the Mo' Mushroom while my dear had the Cheesy Chicken. I think the Clam Chowder was really so-so only. Even the fast food kinda Clam Chowder at Mos Burger in Singapore tastes better. I'm actually quite interested with the Mushroom Cappocino, which is a soup with milk and mushroom with coffee powder? I'll try that next time if we go back to the same place. The Mo Mushroom... The mushroom aren't very special, but the combination of it with some onion, cheese and lettuce, with my favourite Focaccia (oh I miss the Avocado Chicken Focaccia at Curtin's Bookmark Cafe!), it was not-too-bad. Best of all it's healthy lar! But I think the Cheesy Chicken is the best of all we ordered, although the half a chicken really looks too small. The drink with very interesting name: Bloody Eyeballs. Dare to try?
Lime Light Lemon? Doesn't taste as good as the name though...
The Fisherman's Clam Chowder.
Mo' Mushroom. Mushroom lovers would love this no matter what!
Cheesy Chicken, very sinful meal but... It's yummy! :)
Oh yea, Shirlexia loves taking picture with her food! Especially when it's MUSHROOM!!!!!!
I would say not bad, I think it depends on what you order. I seriously think the portion could be bigger. I like the atmosphere a lot though. It all came up to RM66.55, urm, I guess acceptable lar for this kinda restaurant.
Still enjoying time with my dear lately. He's sick of food after his Bangkok trip. So tonight we are having something different! Karaoke~! Yeee~Haaaah~~~! My dear can sing well lar, so I want him to sing for me! Yay~! :p

Inglorious Basterds, This is it!

Before everything, I just found out Lian Sze has been following my blog for a while and I didn't know that! So hi Lian Sze! :) And she actually told me that I don't update my blog so often nowadays!
I wonder if all my dear readers have the same feeling? Missing my crap already?
Hmmm... I think I'm just going through a change in my life at the moment, so yea I lost the opportunity to do certain things, but then at the same time there will be new stuff to crap about in my blog. Just give me some time, cos I'm just so busy because of 'the change'! :)

Inglorious Basterds
The movie is a story with World War II as background, surrounding the Nazis, French and Jewish. Pa will be shaking his head again if I say this... I've heard so much about the history of this war, it's just that I never remembered them, even once! HISTORY IS BORING!!!
Anywayz, its the kinda Quentin Tarantino movie, and I think people who love him would love this movie too! It's quite interesting the way he presented the movie. There are all these different stories and different people but you will never felt it's all mixed up. I just wish the movie can be a bit shorter, cos as it progresses slowly, it became a bit boring...
I personally like Melanie Laurent's acting and her character as Shosanna! She is so cool! After hearing much about Diane Kruger, I finally saw her in a movie! And hey, she looks so different in the movie! And I must say she is pretty and not-too-bad in acting too! :)
Okay, that's all I can remember, I actually watched the movie two weeks ago... :p

This Is It
Alright, I read and heard so many nice comments before watching it. Plus, my dear is a super fan of MJ, so yea, I went to watch it with him last night.
Well, I must say, I enjoy the movie, which I would prefer to call it the making of MJ supposed-to-be concert in London when it's all about the design and the flow of the concert. Seriously I'm so amazed by how the pre-production of the concert, and watching it only on rehearsal just makes me feel like wow~If this concert were to go on, it must be a BLOODY COOL one! And those back-up singers, musicians and dancers must be so sad losing the chance to be really on stage performing with the King of Pop! And the money and energy the people spent! Really, it's just such a big waste.
But yea other than that, it's not so much a movie, it's like a documentary, it's like watching non-stop of rehearsals. My dear and me both expected it to be better. I know some of you really like it but to me, it was just average.

Anywayz, my dear really can sing hey! He was singing along with MJ throughout the movie! I love guys who can sing! :)

Oh by the way, check this trailer out, it's one of my favourite actor, Tobey Maguire's latest movie, Brothers! I just can't wait to see this! I mean, when was the last time you see him in a movie??? Missed him soooooo much!!! And I can see his performance in this movie is going to be so good it might win him some awards, maybe~! :) We'll see!
And I always thought he and Jake Gyllenhaal look alike! Now they finally play brothers in the movie!

宣传时间！

11月份的iFeel杂志，也就是谢安琪封面的，里头有我哦！
翻到119页就会看到我......很小一颗头啦！
谢谢YV，也谢谢布莱恩！:)
虽然我承认我没有什么理财观念，但我所说的都是自己的真正经验和建议哦！

Kedai Makanan Tepi Sungai & the Homey Food...

Before I head back to KL tomorrow, here's a food review on a new place I went for makan in Taiping, plus other home-cooked dishes done by my dearest Ah Ma and mummy.

Since I wanted to try new stuff, my family suggested this restaurant. The Kedai Makanan Tepi Sungai 海上is located in the little fish village of Sepetang, around 35 minutes drive from Taiping. I can tell you, that was only my second visit to Sepetang and my first one was way back when I was in F3! Phew~ Nevermind, I think a lot of you Taiping people haven't even been there before! :p
Alright, the restaurant is built right above the river. In fact, at the end of its ground floor, there is where the boats would stop to deliver the seafood, and upstairs would be where we had our sumptious PLUS guiltful dinner. So you can imagine how fresh the seafood are.Here we are~! You can already see the river view at the back.
The place where we had the dinner is like a balcony to the shop, where you get to see the river view leading to the sea. Really nice view that most costumers like me, would snap some pictures there before dinner.Some pictures taken, on a rainny evening...
One with my pa, who has cut down a bit of weight...
With Vivian, who always wants to open the eyes SO BIG for pictures.
We ordered some baby crab, baby prawns (both would be perfect snack if you have beer to go with), snails, Lai Liu Har, Steamed Groupa and a portion of vege (not uploading the vege pic cos the picture is a bit blurred). Very fresh and big snails... Yummy~ I love snails!!! RM7.
The baby prawans are really nice too! RM15.
It's just that you'll feel bad to eat these baby prawns and baby crabs cos they didn't even have a chance to grow bigger. :(RM12.
The medium size Lai Liu Har is selling at RM4 each.
Teochew Steamed Groupa, RM39.
I'm quite happy with the food, although mum said the fish was over-cooked. Not to say fantastic but it was enough lar. I love the baby crab and baby prawns, they are really yummy~! And the snails are about one of the biggest ones that I've ever tried, and they were cooked just ngam ngam hou~! :) One bad thing is that... This is a very very GUILTFUL dinner full of Cholesterol, which is not very good to pa... And my dear who is now enjoying his massage in Bangkok... :p
Anywayz, all the dishes, together with rice and Chinese tea, came up to RM110, which was well, still very cheap to me! People should just eat in Taiping cos food in Taiping are just madly cheap!

The rest are my home-cooked dinner for the other two nights in Taiping...Before that, let me introduce... Here are the chefs, my Ah Ma and mummy~! Say hi~!
Mum got the Sang Yu for me just because she knows I love them!
The fish head was then fried and cooked with some choy sum, and there you go, a very nutritious soup!
I requested for this before I came back, the pig kidney~! Dear, you sure you're going to stop eating them??? They are SOOOOO GOOOOOD!!!
My mum knows me best... This special dish with golden mushroom, button mushroom and the Korean Enoki mushrooms was just specially made for me cos I'm a MUSHROOM MANIAC! :)
This some special steamed fish was my dinner tonight. Urm, sorry took these pics with my handphone...
Stir fried eggplant and long beans with sambal udang was another dish on my wish list! Love it!
The steamed Tofu with dried prawns has always been one of my favourite simple homey dish.
And the really nice herbal soup was just great!
Didn't get to stay long this time around. Will be heading back to KL tomorrow because of my Korean language class at night. But the bf won't be in KL yet. So sad... I miss you my dear! :(

Before that, here's a bonus picture...
Haha... I love bonus picture~!
Taken in front of my Ah Ma's place, which is also where CRAZY PEOPLE go there to see the wildboars. It now says:"BUS DO ENTER".
WTF???