Food crawls are all the rage these days, aren't they? I realise they call it a "crawl" because by the time you have stuffed your face tummy with as much food as possible within a limited timespan, you practically have to carry your overloaded tummies and crawl back to some cosy comfy spot to hibernate, wait for digestion before hitting the next grub store!On a decadent weekend back to Ipoh, we decided to do just the above.Upon reaching Ipoh, it was way past lunchtime and of course our tummies … [Read more...]

House of Zen's My Cuisine39 & 41 Jalan Puteri 1/4Bandar Puteri Puchong47100 PuchongI read about this place recently in one of the blogs which gave a good review of it. It seems they have this All-You-Can-Eat promotion for RM28.80 per head and the food was rated as "good". So, since I was in the vicinity of Puchong the other day with some colleagues, this was the choice for our lunch (even though I had wanted to go back to Kong Sai Chicken Rice!!).When we stepped into the restaurant... … [Read more...]

On our 2nd last day in Shanghai, we decided to pay a visit to my Shanghai office which had just been relocated to a spanking new building on Jiangsu Road. After a quick tour round the brand new office and some simple breakfast there, we proceeded to do some shopping at the Pearl Market in Hongchiao. It’s a cosy little mall which sells lots of local products, not only pearls. By lunch time we were quite famished and we eagerly went off to lunch with several of my Shanghai colleagues at the … [Read more...]

This is what I have for lunch most days now... especially if I have had Village Park Nasi Lemak for breakfast!Just toss together some butterheads, cherry tomatoes and zucchini with these delicious Sesame Salad Dressing from Zanmai...They have a few varieties of Sesame Dressing - but I love their No-Oil Soya & Creamy versions. I combine both types and pour over the vegetables and you'd be surprised how refreshing & filling a lunch that can be! … [Read more...]

The Gelateria6 Jalan Anggerik Vanilla V31/VKota Kemuning40460 Shah AlamTel: 03-51221206I have lived in this neighbourhood for more than a year and never knew about the existence of this cafe until a colleague mentioned it. Tucked away in the middle of a side road behind the never-used multi-storey carpark in Kota Kemuning town centre, I would never have thought of venturing there if someone had not alerted me to it. I was given some good feedback about this place and armed with those positive … [Read more...]

My friends have been asking me when I'm resuming my Shanghai posts as the last one was 2 weeks ago. OK, here's continuing the food fest ... on to Day 4!The highlight of that day was our trip to Zhouzhuang, a popular water village in the outskirts of Shanghai. We joined a local tour for the afternoon trip there. More about this later.Since we had the morning free before going to Zhouzhuang, my friend CH suggested we go to Carrefour as I wanted to buy some Shanghainese snacks. Now it seems … [Read more...]

I'd like to take a short break from my food posting to acknowledge with deep appreciation this Friendship Award given to me by VG of "My Household Capers". Thank you, VG, for your kind award and it's been great to know you and grow a friendship over the Net and through blogging!Since I started blogging, it's great to get to know many fellow bloggers through this bond of virtual friendship in blogosphere :-)) … [Read more...]

As my friend CH had to go to work on our 3rd day in Shanghai, we decided to explore the area near her neighbourhood. We took the free shuttle service available from her condominium - there're regular vans going to several key areas in the city.As we got onto the van, there were a couple signages inside which got me kinda perplexed.I'm sure the signs make perfect sense if you read the Chinese words... but the English translation was a bit confusing, don't you think?Anyway, since it was my … [Read more...]

Are you one of those clever nifty people who can just do any repairs around the house with no problem at all? I am hopeless in such things. Any DIY task in the house will be made worse if I even just attempt it! Recently, the sink in my bathroom was not draining water as it should. Most of you would probably know how to suck or dislodge whatever that’s blocking the water pipe. But me - I had to call in a plumber! The same thing happened when there was some leaking under the kitchen … [Read more...]