UPDATED : What a token from *SUNSWEET *

UPDATED : MY GOD............I HAD TERRIBLE PROBLEM OPENING UP THE TULIP CAN lar ....
THAT PROVED HOW LACKING I'M DEALING WITH CAN food.....YES, I SELDOM EAT CANNED FOOD !!! BUT THEN....WHY CAN'T THEY DESIGN THE CAN IN SUCH A WAY THAT ANY "PIG OR COW" ALSO KNOW HOW TO OPEN......NOW ISN'T THIS CALL NOT USER FRIENDLY ENOUGH leh ????


grrrrrr.....so geram & was cursing all the way.....u see how my luncheon meat turned out???

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I called this a GIFT !!! A gift that came just in time for the festive season !!

A month or so before, sasha's friend asked if i'm interested to testify the products of a company as part of its' marketing gimmick as well as to further boost awareness!!! In return we are just 'encouraged' to give our sincere testimony and no 'hard sale' is expected !! Obviously i see no reason to reject it !!

A BIG THANKS to sasha, hui min & teik senn !!

And of course i wasn't the only blogger invited to participate in this campaign .....many other bloggers around would have already received this same goodies pack !!

lets check out the content ....

I must say i'm quite impressed (will tell u why later) with what i see inside, though i've tried most of the snacks before.....with the exception of the below TULIP luncheon meat !!!

It is all acknowledged today that luncheon meat is no longer an acceptable food in our diet due to reason obviously known .......
yet i trust that you & I still thinks that it is a very delicious food, no??? emm.....yum yum !!

Since young 'mader' already said we cannot eat this food too much, so my brain has forbid me from buying this for ages....in fact, i think my boys had not tasted this food before !!!
But now that i received this for FREE, no way that i'm not eating it
who cares.....eat first lar !!!
Btw, i'm not that worry as it is not from CHINA, LOL LOL !!!

Next item is the most impressive part among the goodies which i'd mentioned earlier!!
The pack came with a complete RECIPE folders !!!
Although the main reason behind the recipes was to call for the use of their products, i'm still very much attracted with their creative recipes !!!
As if they just knew how passionate I am into baking & cooking recently.......** wink **

I collected the goodies together with Irene in KLCC and the first reaction from Irene in an sms to me was :
" wuah...got recipe file wor, geng lar....good for you man...hahaha "

Complete recipes from main dishes to cakes, muffins, cookies & snack !!!

Meaning....??? ?? i got more work to do lar (as if i'm not busy enough......grrrrrr) !!

NZX.....of FOOD and Entertainment

NZX (NiuZeXui) ......arghh, sorry but frankly speaking, i hate this name and reckon that it was very stupid of the founder to name this place such.....i mean...... i don't mind the 'chinese' version of it, be it cantonese or mandarin BUT can't they put up something 'more english' for the official English name of it?? Translate it if need be!! Else, i wouldn't imagine getting the 'non-chinese' to pronounce these words.......made the place 'sounds' so 'ah beng', 'ah lian', 'ah pek' or watever!!

Anyway, the place is now having the
Festive Fun-Tasy Lantern Festival (15/11/2008 - 15/02/2009)

where there are a variety of Disney characters to be seen such as Mickey & friends, Winnie the Pooh, Lion King, Nemo, WALL E, Lightbuzz of Toys Story2 & etc.

I wasn't really very excited about bringing my kids there, knowing that they would've outgrown with these characters!! But it was more for the fun of a family get-together bcoz it was an outing with my siblings & our parents!!
But i gotta mention the ultimate goal of going to this place was to fulfill our dining needs i.e. to try out a recommended steamboat and the lantern show was only a secondary event.

Anyway, we did not made it for the steamboat session ultimately as the place was just too crowded and being the impatient lots, we just couldn't wait for our turn after 15mins in the queue!! The fact that we had about 15pax made it even more difficult to get a suitable place to equip us!!
I hate waiting for food.....
So how??
We separated the group into 2.
The 2 good EATERs of the family, BIL Angus & my huby decided to go for Japanese food & my other sister, Mic family went with my parents for chinese food!

Angus & Mag are regulars to NZX as it is near their home. So they knew this place has good food....and being such a food expert, i just can't doubt his recommendation!!


KANSAI restaurant, we will surely be back for you!! Yes, good food..... unfortunately, there wasn't a very good crowd as compared to others that offered different type of foods like the steamboat & chinese cuisine, what a waste!!! Not sure if it has anything to do with the location, the price or simply luck/ bad feng shui but we trust it wasn't due to the taste of the food!!
We sincerely hope u could sustain the bad time & will shall still see u around in the future!!

The varieties of 'maki' were truly impressive not only with the look but the taste too!! And with interesting names too......like 'Earthquake'.........'Caterpillar'........etc etc

DROOL over them .....


My boys were extremely hungry after waited for quite sometime at the steamboat restaurant so they swallowed their all-time-favourite UNAGI rice like nobody business, pheww blissful !!!

Superbly fresh & moist salmon

I'm not a beef taker but this time, not only did i not reject their beef but i even went for a 2nd & 3rd piece ...haha
Nice terriyaki Squids

As fate would have it, my parents missed this nice jap food.....
now, i believe my mom surely knows which son in law to follow for good food, the next time around, LOL !!
(apparently my other BIL whom my parents were eating with, isn't a food fancier, hehehe)

After filling up the hungry stomachs, we proceeded to see the disney lantern show.
Adults = RM10
Kids = RM5

Actually you can have the show right here.....i'm giving it free, hahaha
For those who had been to any DISNEYLAND before, can forget about wasting your money there....u get what i mean?? as we are one of them of course...

Oh ya, must mention also la.....with 2 adults ticket purchased, u get a print 5R photo of yourself absolutely FREE complete with a very nice Disney cutboard paper frame!!

That was how i spent my hectic weekends, how about yours??
Hope you had a fruitful weekend too!

Our holiday updates

OK here i am....finishing my homework!! Felt really shame lar....everyone has long done with their raya holiday.....sob sob!!

So i better cut the story short ....

It was a trip to savor a 'heavenly' meal recommended by our Malaysian Food Blog:
Taste with Jason/Ah Xian!!

The family had long talked about making a trip to this place to try out the dishes! Finally we made it this time with my parents, sis Mag & Angus who had been there before and since the location was at Mengkarak, Pahang (super 'kampung' really), a day trip was not possible. The nearest spot that we could put up a night was Bukit Tinggi, Pahang - the French Colmar Tropical hotel, that is where we stayed. It was certainly a regret to travel on such festive season, the sight of bumper to bumper started as early as when we reached Kg. Pandan & towards Ampang..... sigh!
The checking in at the hotel was another "HAVOC"......they failed to deliver our room despite a promised at 3pm until i really couldn't tolerate, hence 'ter' showed my 'tulan' face.....gosh!! If not bcoz of our anger voices & noises, they would've continued to hold us waiting......(remember a 'bully' always win, so dun care anymore?.....haha)

Anyway, without much a doo, here i present the food porn of the "heavenly meal"....hahaha,
but do take note of the truth fact, what was shown in the TV will always be more superior which is nevertheless expected la!!!

And with the lousy lighting and 'palia' camera, the dishes i captured do not looked as appealing as those in Ah Xian food blog! So u can take a look to compare if u r interested....

Buddha Jump Over the Wall / "Futt Tiew Cheong / Fo Tiao Qiang"

Certainly looked oily ehh.....the minimum pax to order for this dish is 10. Since we only have 7 adults & 2 kids, each of us had at least 2-3 bowls of it. The amount of ginsengs used were tremendously generous i would say thou the other 'good stuffs' like abalone, scallop, shark fins weren't as much & big as we'd expected!! Lesson learnt was never to expect too high!! The taste of the soup was undeniably tasty !!! Cost=RM450

Cereal buttered prawn!!
Thou not much different from elsewhere, they were good too!!

Goose feet / "Ngor Jeong"
the gravy was super 'finger licking good' !!

Fried frog / "Thin Kai".
Very big, thus meaty & fresh ! My boys love munching them....

Stewed Pork with Sea Cucumber / "Man Chue Sao"
I find this 'so-so' only......

That's the end of the meal. We were approx.ly RM700++ poorer that night!!!
Well, the verdict from all of us was: despite the food was worth the 'penny' esp. the "Futt Tiu heong" considering the expensive ingredients used, but to endure the journey of at least 1 and 1/2 hour (from BUKIT TINGGI to Mengkarak) was just too much to bear for us!! So, unless if the place is within easy reach, it's gonna be a tough decision on us to go to this place again!!

Some more, Bukit Tinggi was such a darn boring place. There was really nothing much to do there. But due to the festive season, the place looked "people-mountain-people-sea"
....a very rare scene !!!

For Mag & Angus, they had 10 more friends (5 couples) tagging along this trip in 3 cars so guess,
they just enjoyed the company of a group of buddies hanging together!! As huby was driving a super heavy 7-seater, we had a hard time chasing behind these youngsters who willingly risked their life speeding on the highway until i felt like crying for their mother, i tell you.........
It was kinda funny seeing how my mom & myself (being also a mom now) complaining & cursing how these bunch of kids do not seemed to value their precious life, without realising how much I, myself also behaved & acted like them at one stage of my life, hahaha.........sigh !!!!

See the guys playing mahjong behind ??? Not forgetting the fun part also includes beer, cigarettes & snacking..... Thank god we were not staying together in the same unit, else our hearts & lungs would had a hard time 'clearing' the polluted smoky air we inhaled !!!

Just another 'boring' sight of bukit tinggi !!!

The next morning's buffet breakfast (which was included by the hotel) was another ugly affair!! Long queue........not enough seat.......not enough food........

Since we don't have enough voucher, we left the vouchers for my parents & 'kakak'. Huby, myself together with our boys went for a "PAID" simple breakfast elsewhere!!

Scot picked a piece of his favourite chocolate cake.

Sean had donut & sausage bun!

Other pastries......
No doubt the price of the bakeries was a little high, at least we benefited from a quiet, peaceful & nice english breakfast with a cup of nicely brewed coffee..... :P

Then we proceeded to the Rabbit Farm.........arghh, another 'boring' place!!

Then, it was a session with the magician ' bluffing / kidding ' the kids......

Finally, something 'worthy' we had done......

I forgot what this is call..... the boys had one of their hand 'moulded' with wax !!
Said only RM10 each hand, but the base was charged separately, colour needs add'nal charge & etc etc....ended each wax cost ard RM30!!!

Clever SEAN who showed the 'big gut' of trying it out first.....

The cheeky SCOT 'chicken out' at first & only after much convincing, he reluctantly tried !!!

But sadly, the wax was too thin so it was a little difficult to keep it intact given our warm weather so Scot's one has melted a little at home.......sigh !!!

Back at our suite room, the boys were boring until they had to play hide & seek in the wardrobe!!

Overall, it was a 'memorable' outing !!!