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Saturday, December 13, 2008



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This was tonight's dinner. Klang Bah Kut Teh....Yummy. Very herbal...malaysian style...together with golden mushrooms, black mushrooms and tao pok
Yesterday's dinner. Crab bisque, Assam Fish and Vege.

Cooking crab bisque is not easy man! SO MANY STEPS! no wonder it's so freaking ex la!!!...but somehow i can't get the taste. I added loads of shells already. It was hell preparing this. First i had to wash the mud crab, peel the prawn shell; steam the crab, pick the meat out (that took a total of 45mins!!!); boil the stock for an hour +; put in the celery, carrots and onions and boil for another half an hour; sieve out the solids; boil the soup with white rice; sieve the rice out; boil, add with thick cream; salt & pepper. I skipped one step which was to puree it....super TIRING CAN!!! n it's only 70% near what i had in Las Vegas. (which incidentally, cost USD$12...but certainly worthit!)

The crabs were good though. Bought is at only $3 per pc at NTUC

See my new TV!!! Samsung Series 6! Nice right? Touch screen ok....bought at $2199, free home entertainment system and $300 Robinson voucher. Timely since the festive period is comin.

Look at my baby! haha...feeling so bored today!
Yummy Wine & Mushroom Sauce Chicken Chop. A little salty coz of the sauce, but ok la.

Chillin out the the Malaysia roadtrip gang....we gathered on Saturday to look at the photos

More on Malaysia

Realised I still have some photos in my phone waiting to be uploaded.....so here we go:

Curry mee....something like our laksa..but oooo spicy!
Chee Cheong Fun.....interestingly, they dont use sweet sauce, instead they use rojak prawn sauce

Carrot cake. Less sweet compared to Singapore
HO HO HO!!!! So adorable! Signage @ G Hotel Penang. next to Gurney Drive
This hotel is super modern and luxurious! even has a butt washer

Sink -- Chio chio armaniEven the toilet wall is so chio!

Jingle bell jingle bell


There's a hundred and one different chairs at the lobby. Cool.
Bar @ the lobby
That's a Bench!

Malaysia RoadTrip 2008 -- DAY 5 & 6 @ Cameron Highlands

Saturday, December 6, 2008

It was quite a ride up Cameron highlands. It took us about 1 hour from the base of the hill right up. Along the winding way, I kept falling asleep. Motion sickness la! ya right. The plan was to check out various hotels and see what's best.




Nasi Ayam -- What we had before we hit the hills



Along the way, we passed by Cameron Valley. There was a little teahouse where we stopped for a good cup of teh terik! bought some green tea and strawberry tea too.



Strawberry cupcake. A little too sweet for my tastebuds




Here we are....5300 ft above Sea level at The Equatorial hotel



Scenic View along the way up the hotel



A nice 1 bedroom apartment, which comes with a living room that has a sofa bed, a TV with a remote that doesnt have batteries and a toilet flush that drips the whole night! URGH
The room wasn't fantastic either, but it's great to get fresh air. It was really great weather. Natural aircon!






What's for dinner? This piping hot steam boat!! on charcoal. YUMMY..a real treat on such cold weather .. also, the vegetables were all organic! Super healthy. what a change







Their sauces are to die for! I liked it so much, i bought three bottles of that dark brown sauce which was supposedly a mixture of garlic and oyster sauce. Perfect for frying veg! bought for mommy dearest and mil.



After dinner, we strolled down their Pasar Malam...there was an array of food stalls selling a wide variety of makan. FOOD AGAIN! how not to get fat!





This was the Malay form of "mi jiam kway"



CHar Kway TeowWe bought back heaps of foodstuff, including the famous RAMLY BURGER and stocked up on booze and had a feast back at the resort.


What a view from my balcony.



Deep in thoughts . AGAin!haha



What a welcome...to see such lovely flowers! Hinted to sweetie that perhaps he could get mi a bouquet here since it's cheaper...he's always complaining that flowers are useless and overpriced. As much as i'd like to agree with him, i do find it touching to receive them. So far he has only given me two bouquets. The first officially being 6 yrs after courtship!! but his reply to it was that, if he were to gv me flowers, he wouldn't be so cheapo n just buy off the market on top of the hill! orrrhhh okie, i forgive him. :-)


Hit out to visit strawberry farm



Look at the strawberries!! too bad it's not in season thus we can't pluck them ourselves.


Strawberry tart. Nice. bought 6 back...gonna split with mil and mommy


Strawberry cheesecake for breakfast. Together with strawberry tea.


Visit to bee farm. OUCH




From Cameron, we headed downhill towards Ipoh for none other than Ipoh hor fun..but we ended up eating some other delights! The black noodles u see in the corner's actually their version of Hokkien mee! Go figure.
My fav dessert -- Gingko + Barley
Ipoh hor fun? not quite the same in SG
After lunch, we cheonged all the way to JB. At one time hitting a speed of 185km/h!! was trying my best to take a good shot, but the car was trembling tremendously! luckily never kena fine. Our frens in the other car wasn't that fortunate..haha
Our last meal before leaving JB.....my favourite Bittergourd soup together with Hakka fried pork! YUM. ohhh did i mention we just had KFC like 2 hours ago? PIGS isnt it!? i had to keep takin sour plum to regain my appetite!


It was overall a good trip...and the company brought loads of joy to my life. Really get to see a different side to everyone. Hope we get to do this again. :-)
PS: FINALLY! I've finished blogging about the trip! Gosh! it's tiring
PS: More pictures on my facebook. (if u are interested)
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