Pan Fried Dory Fish with Honey Mustard Sauce & Cold Soba Salad

I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to do this on purpose, but this is a post about food AGAIN!!!
So, I went to Subang Parade last weekend and was soooooo excited to find the honey mustard seed at the Cold Storage there! Well, I don't exactly remember what or how Jodi did with it when I was in Perth. I only remember it made a really yummy salad dressing! And so I bought one home.Yay! I love honey mustard! This one wholegrain somemore ler!
Apart from making salad with it as my breakfast lately, I've decided to make a fish dish with it. Well, I got the idea from my visit at Food Foundry. I'll call my dish Pan Fried Dory Fish with Honey Mustard Sauce & Cold Soba Salad (Phew~Such a long name~!). The stuff I used are: dory fish, soba, celery, tomato, button mushrooms, asparagus, honey mustard. To taste: sald, pepper, soya sauce, vinegar, sesame oil and margerine (well, I always use that in stead of cooking oil). And don't ask me how much of those stuff you need, I always just 'agak-agak'. Hehehe...All the stuff I used. Aaahhh... The soba was hidden behind the FAT celery!
First thing first, cut the dory fish into pieces and marinate the fish with salt and pepper. This one I've asked my mom, she said I should 'massage' the fish.And so I 'massage' the fish with salt and pepper.
At the same time, boil the soba in salt water. Cut the button mushroom into smaller pieces, then dump them into the pot to cook for a while too. Then do the '过冷河' (drain over cold water), after that store in the fridge to make it cold. Also for the noodles, cut the celery into small pieces, tomato into cubes. Yup, all of these for the noodles, as side dish for the dory fish.
Next thing to do... Heat your pan, then put some margerine. Pan fried the asparagus... Oh the asparagus you only need to wash them and cut the end of the roots. It takes only about 2 or 3 minutes to cook them. After that, of course, do the same with the dory fish. Pan frying the asparagus and fish... Just one simple step to complete the dish! :)
Now for the fish dressing!
Now, this one, I DO NOT advice you to follow my way because I just did it randomly. I tried to find the resipe from the internet, but somehow couldn't find any! So I just simply mix everything in. At first I was just going to mix the mustard with soya sauce and wee bit of vinegar, but then it just looks so little! So I just heat up the wok and then add in some margerine then the mixture of the stuff, then some water, then more soya sauce and mustard...
I KNOW!!! Ducum was like... Wei, you really simply put anything in lor! Dressing randomly made by Chef Shirlexia!
BUT... Later everbody was crazy over the sauce! Hahahaha... My random experiment works, AGAIN! :p
Ok now, get the noodles (and mushrooms) out from the fridge, pour the tomato and celery in, mix well. Add some soya sauce, sesame oil and pepper to taste. And that's our cold soba salad!Very easy-to-make cold salad soba noodles.
Next thing is of course to make them look pretty on the plate! With Ducum's help (who put the noodles nicely on the plate), and me lying the asparagus as the base, then place the fish on top of them, finally pour the mustard sauce dressing over fish and around the plate, it's all done!
Here we have, Shirlexia's special Pan Fried Dory Fish with Honey Mustard Sauce & Cold Soba Salad...How? Do you feel like wanting to have dinner at my house now?
Everything I did tonight for dinner was really random, it was just me trying out everything with stuff that I love. And it turned out, it looks really good and tastes not too bad hey! The honey mustard sauce especially was like, really crazy! I don't even think I should 'cook' the dressing! Chef Shirlexia all smiles with her very satisfying work!
Other 'customers' who had the dinner tonight. Eh, they didn't pay!
I always think there isn't very sure rule in cooking! So go on and try cooking with your own way! It's just FUN!!!

My fattening dinner @ Food Foundry

Oh before that, if you have earphones or speakers on, you will find I've finally put in a song into my blog. I used to hate that when I visit other people's blog, sometimes it's just annoying especially when you are watching some video or doing something important, and suddenly this annoying music came up when you open that blog! Aaaarrrhhh... It can be embarrassing sometimes if the music is some la-la songs or some funny songs.
But anywayz, I'm currently so addicted to this song called Barcelona by Giulia y Los Tellarini that I cannot control myself from sharing it with you guys! This is a very cute Spanish song I just fell soooooooooooooooo in love with after watching Vicky Cristina Barcelona! Try listening to it, you will understand why I said so!
Okay, back to the business... XT and the Cincai Group went to Food Foundry not too long ago and happily seduced me with the pictures of the Mille Crepe!!! Aaarrrhhh... I've always wanted to try that in one of the famous cafes in Malacca!!! And... And they actually said the ones at Food Foundry are better than the ones in Malacca!!!
So... I asked Wei Jian out for dinner last night at Food Foundry! Well, the driver got a treat in the end! :)The little cafe situated at the groud floor of some really old flats.
Food Foundry's location really gave me a shock. I certainly didn't expect this... And I want to make it clear that I know how hard I make it to appreciate me often... Oh no no no... That was Sean Penn's Oscar acceptance speech, sorry! :p I wanted to say, I certainly didn't expect the cafe looking so simple and situated in the middle of some super old flats (with mozzies all over at night)! Yet, as we sat down, more and more people came in and filled up the tiny little cafe! Wei Jian and I were really impressed, thinking... Wow, the food must be DAMN GOOD!!!
Now, here's what we had for dinner...
As starters, I originally wanted the mushroom with garlic and butter, unfortunately it wasn't available... So sad!!! How can they not prepare mushrooms for the super mushroom lover!!! :( So I went for the Smoked Duck with Apple Cider Dressing and Lettuce. I think it was not too bad, but Wei Jian doesn't like the duck smelling like too 'smoked'. Smoked Duck with Apple Cider Dressing and Lettuce, with lots of green apple too!
And for main course, I had the Chicken Corden Bleu (don't ask me, I don't know how to pronounce that) while Wei Jian had the Grilled Salmon with Honey Mustard Sauce. Both were equally good actually. I especially love the sides they gave with the food, some very yummy mashed potatoes and some grilled (or fried?) cucumber and eggplant. Very different. We love the gravy that came with the salmon, and I just found out it was honey mustard! Oooh yeah! Honey mustard was like one of my favourite 'thing' in Perth! I just had that for breakfast with my Salad this morning! Yum~! Anywayz, I would say the portion is not as big as you may expect from the cafe. But adding up with the dessert... It's so filling and... FATTENING!!!Chicken Corden Bleu, not 'Blue' lar, okay?
Grilled salmon with the very tasty honey mustard sauce, yummy~!
Wei Jian said his real estate business isn't doing very good, he wants to become a model, what do you guys think, huh?
Whether he can be model or not, I'm sure he cannot be a good photographer. He took about 4 pictures of me and some were blurred, some just looks wierd because of the angle...
The main guys are coming!!!
Yes, the super duper fantastic Mille Crepe!!!

Wei Jian didn't seems to fancy any of them but I made him try. And? He totally loves it, okay!!! We ordered a piece of chocolate one, and another of vanilla. I first tried the vanilla one, it really melted in my throat and I was feeling like dancing... I mean, I've never really liked anything with vanilla flavour, but this one... OMG, it was SO SO SO SO SO NICE!!! Then, I had the chocolate one, that was awesome and simply beat the vanilla one. Wei Jian actually wanted the whole slice after trying it... Of course, that is not in the question with me around! Hehehehe... Mille Crepe, vanilla flavour.
Mille Crepe, chocolate flavour.
I must say the Mille Crepe is a bit pricy, but I guess it's quite worth it since it is made of many layers of pancakes (takes lots of work, man), and it tastes just SO BLOODY YUMMY!!! :)
Although the location isn't that impressive and price is a bit too much, Food Doundry is definitely a must go place, at least for once, or at least for the Mille Crepe!
Find out more about them here!

**Updates: I just tried reading this blog post (with pretty food pictures) with Barcelona playing, so 'got feel' lar!!! What do you think???

Broga没有Hill，捐血活动！

Phew~Just finished Sean Penn's 21 Grams on YouTube! OMG he looks so SEXY when he is naked in the movie! Kakakaka...
Anywayz, Sean Penn is not the main subject of this post, as promised, here's our Broga Hill's adventure...
终于可以来分享一下上个星期六的Broga没有Hill之行了。没办法，要得到专业的摄影照片和修图“服务”(还免费的咧）就是要耐心的等等嘛！
好啦，话说，上个星期六是我第一次参与Cincai Group的活动。Cincai Group当然不是我创办的，那个那么'cincai'的名字当然也不是我想的。至于是谁搞出来的？我想再等一下吧，会有人来招认的！哈哈哈！:p
这次的节目是到Semenyih附近的Broga Hill爬山、看日出。
哎，为了这个日出，我弄三明治弄到半夜12点多（结果被人家很不给面子的嫌弃，没吃完！），然后早上3点多就起身了！哎，做多几次mask也补不回来！啊~（大叫）！！！然后花了大概1个小时吧，可能更多，因为迷路了，不知道哪里才是那座山的入口处，才开始我们的“捐血运动”！看到了吧，时间是大概早上6点钟，我们这些疯人开始往山上爬......
一行7人，全都是这座山的“初哥”，看到几条分岔路，也不知道选哪条好。选到了，走进去有时候还是死路一条，就要走回出来。一路上斜坡还蛮多的，搞到我整个担惊受怕的，you know me,怕死得要命！不过.....这次我似乎遇上了对手了！XT小姐竟然比我还怕死耶！哈哈哈~！果然是同样天枰座的，只是你的怕死指数比我好高哦，一直在后面慢慢走的，还要人一直抓着你......问题是，这个爬山节目竟然是你搞出来的！==|||不过，最难以忍受的大概不是这些斜坡，而是那些可恶的蚊子！啊~~~~！！！一直不停得吸血，要不是XT提醒我要穿长裤，大概我会被吸得更惨！所以那天我还算ok,XT和伟健整个手脚都是一粒粒的，所以我才说，这次上山是去捐血的！不过沿路还是有很漂亮的风景啦！:)漂亮的风景.....连环图！
有那么开心吗？被蚊子“攻击”的一群人！
休息时间......伟健，天上是不是有一个穿着迷你裙的仙女啊？她穿什么颜色的内裤啊？
Anywayz, 就这样一直走错路，结果日已经出了，我们都还没到山顶。最衰的就是，我们走着走着，突然就到了一个没有路可行的地方，可是根本还不是山顶啊？到底是怎样的啊？怎么还没看到所谓可以在上面欢唱“The hill are alive......”（以上被剪短了，因为本人忘了接下来的歌词！==|||)的漂亮草地啊？
没错，我们是从山下的第一个分叉口就选错了！！！所以，当然上不了山顶、也看不到山顶上那些漂亮的景色啦！哎，真是冤枉啊！！！:(
就是这里，我们走到了尽头，只有一堆杂草......
下山-ing......
在山下看到很可爱的迷你Nangka！
没办法啦，到了Broga，但没有到它的Hill,只到了它的后面那座山，就只好默默地走下山，也不重走了，反正日出都看不到了啦！（哭~）在山下呆了一下下，拍拍照、再听听“柑皮”说的冷笑话，就出发去到附近的一个庙宇去了。你没有看错，后面多了一个红衣的.....陌生人。
Broga Hill的后山日出之行成功！大合照来一张啦！:)
发福后的伟健和有“人造兔牙”的包包！
好colourful的一张照片哦！很刺眼捏！
为什么住在家里也会很危险？因为飞机会“插”进你的屋子！哈哈哈哈哈~~~！笑死我了！！！美玮好像不觉得好笑吼？:p
超爱这张照片的！很漂亮啦！而且这可是伟健随手把相机举在空中拍的哦！
找不到路的朋友们，Broga Hill的入口处就在这个Rabbit Fun Land的对面。很恐怖的Rabbit Fun Land，里面竟然卖新鲜兔肉！:S
完蛋了，我忘了那个庙的名字......总之就是一个在山上、很漂亮的一个庙。我觉得那个拿督公的庙最奇妙的地方就是有一堆有的没的的水果雕像，整个看起来就是好像一个幼稚园。哎呀，不可以乱讲话，拿督公，我小孩子不懂啦，乱说话，不要怪我啦，我还是要发财的！在那边参观、拍照和拜拜之后，就下山去医肚子啦！我们来拍贺年歌MV，for明年的怎样？？？旁边的大屁股uncle很煞风景耶！
庙宇里面的小亭子！
包包专心拜拜......你以为啦，我还知道人家在拍我，特地把肚子缩进去咧！哈哈！
猜猜这是谁的背影？快猜快猜嘛！
答案就是.....很帅的孙悟空！！！
说到吃，我就最high了，有多累我都精神起来！更何况是Broga Hill这里出名的柚木园烧鱼！OMG，ikan bakar，我的最爱啊~~~！！！
点了几道菜，除了那个咖哩羊肉略嫌那个咖哩太清了以外，这一餐真的很棒！足以弥补之前看不到日出的遗憾了啦！他们的烧鱼和我们一般吃得不一样哦，不是那种烧到黑黑的、然后上面有一堆辣椒酱的。他们只用非洲鱼（没见过烧非洲鱼吧？），烧出来也不会变黑的，就是好像蒸鱼一样。我们点的招牌烧鱼真的很不错，招牌蒸鱼就没有那么出色。超好吃的招牌烧鱼，快拍照啦，我已经迫不及待要吃掉它了！
招牌蒸鱼，个人不是很喜欢他们加蚝油，有点太咸了点。
还有味道超到位的药材鸡，超级无敌美味的！！！Belacan番薯叶整个很香、很有家的味道！香炸sotong就不知道为什么有点硬，不是很好。咖哩羊肉的羊肉真的做得很软、很好吃，但如果那个咖哩汁不要那么清的话，一定会更好吃！光看就知道一定很棒的药材鸡。
Belacan番薯叶，让你吃了突然会很想家！:(
香炸sotong,只是外表就知道也是跟一般的不一样的。
咖哩羊肉......知道这张照片的“制作过程”吗？
就是这样啦......还要被某人说是我的stomachache pose咧！（踢~）
以茶代酒，干杯！不醉无归......我是喝醉了还是要睡着了啊？
就这样，我们就满身汗臭味、吃到很满足的回到KL啦！整个就是从郊外回到了城市，一到Cheras整个就大塞车了，讨厌！
虽然呢，是真的没有看到那个很漂亮、可以让我想像自己就是Julie Andrews在那儿奔跑、唱歌的草原，也没有看到所谓很漂亮的日出，但还是很开心耶！因为平时都是在gym里运动，很少有机会这样出来爬山、呼吸一下新鲜的空气、看一下绿油油的山景的，所以还是很满足、很开心！柚木园的食物也很棒，而且价钱很合理哦，我们那天一个人才吃了RM14！大家有机会一定要去试看看！


XT去了槟城之后，应该要很久之后才再有Cincai Group的活动了吧？

P/S:特别鸣谢提供照片和修图的Li Jing、XT、Ochean与Phoebe!：）

I need help, guys!!!

OMG, I've just finished watching Sean Penn's Oscar acceptance speech again! And that was like probably the 100th times or something like that. I can even remember what he said now, you commie-homo-loving sons of guns! And oh, the more I see him, the more I think he is so handsome, and the more I wish I was Robin, his wife who actually used her hands and forced him to kiss her before he went on stage to accept the award!!!
Gosh, Sean Penn really makes me blush!!!*Blush*Sean Penn is the most handsome guy in the world, at least for this week!
For those of you who haven't watch Milk, which is obviously not going to be on Malaysian cinemas (because Malaysia is not a commie-homo-loving sons of guns' country), you better watch it whenever you have a chance! I just found out the director, Gus Van Sant was also the director of Good Will Hunting! Gosh, he is my hero man! He made my Matt Damon won an Oscar years ago, and now he made Sean Penn has his second one too!
Anywayz, here's the preview...

So I'm obviously having this Sean Penn fever since the last few days. I'm now crazy hunting for his older and famous movies!!! I just got Mystic River, the movie that he won his first Oscar's Best Actor award 5 years ago, and surprisingly found Into the Wild (2007), which is a movie he directed. I'm now dying to get 21 Grams (2003) and Dead Man Walking (1995), which is so old that I'm almost sure it's very tough to find the VCD or DVD. And if possible, I want to get Sweet and Lowdown (1999) too!
So guys, I will need your help to find them! Whether it's VCD or DVD, originals or pirated (but don't tell Sean Penn lar), or even downloaded version (shhhhhh...), I want them all, PLEASE!!! Help me find them, ok?
Thanks a lot in advanced!!! :)
And here are the movies I've watched recently...
Burn After Reading
I got interested after seeing the very unique and eye-catchy poster and knowing that it's the latest work of the Coen brothers (last year's Oscar Best Director winner).
The storyline itself is quite unique, it's like everything happened very randomly and you will be surprise by many of the scenes. I think it is basically a comedy, although I think only about 20% of the movie made me laugh, a little. But I honestly don't like the ending, it made you feels like, WTF??? That's all??? But maybe that is art, not for me to understand.
But I guess the best thing is the cast! I love almost every single one of them! Except for John Malkovich (really have no idea who's that guy), there are George Clooney (ooohhhh... Sexy old man+funny), Brad Pitt (I actually like him in this movie more than in Benjamin Button), Tilda Swinton (she is bloody cool) and Frances McDormand (gosh I love her)! They just made the movie looks so good, especially Frances, she is hillarious!
So... My conclusion is, it's not too bad, if you don't mind spending your money watching these very famous actors and directors' work! Of course, don't be surprise with the ending!

Billu Barber (Hindi)
So, a Hindi movie after probably 2 years!
I saw the poster at the cinema earlier and I thought, this one looks good, I must watch it, although it means I might be the only Chinese in the whole cinema (in fact I was the only one). The reason I was attracted was because it says it's a comedy, and incidentally starring Shah Rukh Khan ('Shah Rukh Khan' didn't attracts me okay, it was the word 'incidentally'), and most importantly there is Irrfan Khan. If you just watched Slumdog Millionaire, he is the guy playing the role of the police, I'm quite a fan of him!
The story talks about Billu, the barber (Irrfan Khan) who owns a barber shop but is having no business and no money. Suddenly his old time friend Sahir Khan (Shah Rukh Khan), who is a superstar came to his village to film a movie. Everybody knows Billu is his friend and thus came to pamper him with money and all loads of stuff so that Billu can bring them to meet Sahir. But Billu's egoness avoided him from going up front to meet Sahir, worried that he might have forgotten who he is... Then there is this stories in the middle lar, of course in the end it's a happy reunion.
I actually like the movie. Simply because it is not that 'emo', not that 'over-reacting', and not too much of the dancing and singing (got lar, but considered little liao lor). Best of all, its all about friendship and not about love, or hardness to love, etc... Just not that kinda ordinary Hindi movies you know. But it's really weird watching Irrfan Khan speaking Hindi in the entire movies! I reckon he is such a hot item in Hollywood now. I saw him in the Namesake and A Mighty Heart, and then Slumdog Millionaire! Of course, all English speaking movies! By the way, Shah Rukh Khan didn't sounds so 'incidentally' as the poster says. I actually think he has quite the same scenes as Irrfan Khan okay?

Alright, I hope I can post up one on my Broga Hill trip by tommorrow. Till then, see ya! :p