Dinner @ Las Carretas Mexican Restaurant -USJ Taipan (REVISITED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN)

I guess it was the cosy ambiance and great food that brought us back to this place over and over again.

We started off with a bowl of black mussels. We literally licked the bowl clean :p

Black Mussels Lightly Simmered in Its Own Broth & Flavored with Fresh Coriander Spiced with Habaneros.

The lazy me had a beef burrito. The mussels filled up 3/4 of my tummy by the time my main came. Nearly 1/4 of my burito ended up inside X-T's tummy instead..

X-T had Pollo Locco.

It's actually Charbroiled Boneless Chicken Chop Smeared With Black Peppercorn Sauce. It was surprisingly delicious!

A crispy secret

After years of experimenting in the kitchen, I realised that I've did alot of silly things over the stove. Some accidental secrets are a keeper because the dish turns turned out great. Once I was actually frying some chicken strips but I ran out of cooking oil. The only oil available at my kitchen was crisco. So I melted the lump of oil to fry the chickens instead. Well, it turned out the chicken was crispier and tasted even better. After the meal, I checked on the Internet and found out that it was a norm that people actually uses crisco for frying. But that day, when my friend asked what's the secret to crispy chicken, I told them I used cisco. They were so shocked to hear that. Later, I realised that it was actually my typo error. I used Crisco and not CISCO. :p

Change of interest?

I love shopping but lately, I tend to get a little lazy to drive all the way to the mall. I used to go shopping every weekend. With or without a shopping list in hand, I'll just walk and walk to pass the time away. Lately, I noticed that I'm buying my groceries from those tiny little shops near by my house more often than the hypermarket or malls. If possible, I wanted someone to deliver my stuff right to my door step like how the supplier delivers our office supplies to our offices. I wonder what's wrong with me. Change of interest or age is catching up :p

One of my favourite fruit

Besides strawberries, there's another fruit I couldn't live without. Persimmons! Whenever I return to my hometown, mom would usually stock up the fridge with these bright orange coloured fruit. Some like it soft but I like it crunchy.I'm so obsessed with the fruit that I believe if one day, if given a chance to stay in a country where Persimmon trees can be planted, I think I'll plant my own fruits!

Vietnam Kitchen @ Jaya33

After church and was hunting for food and as always, we'll be asking each other the same question.... "What and where to eat?". I spotted Vietnam Kitchen as we were shopping for junks at Jaya33's supermarket and I suggested Vietnam Kitchen. I remembered they serve very delicious dishes in the other outlets but I'm not too sure about this one at Jaya33. We gave this one a try..

As always, X-T wanted me to surprise him with my selection of dishes..

The first dish was Fish fillet with 3 sauces and it was good. Juicy fish fillets coated with a hint of sweet, sour and spicy sauce.

Next, we ordered sesame chicken. Boneless chicken meat coated with a light and crunchy batter on the outside. It was good too!

Stir fry lotus root. One word: YUMMY!

The two drinks I would never stop ordering whenever I'm at Vietnam Kitchen. Avocado milk shake & the 8 treasure icey cold dessert. Sigh... let's go get some more :p


Vietnam Kitchen @ Jaya33 was as good as the other branches. Greattttt!

Dressing up for the big day...

The relatives are very excited about our wedding this coming December. We receive emails from uncles and aunties offering their help and I believe we're so blessed and loved. On my last trip back to Ipoh, I noticed that everybody was discussing about what to wear. The ladies were thinking of wearing an evening gown for the wedding reception and the gents were talking about tuxedos . I should've mentioned "smart casual" in the invitation card... hehe..

So much to remember...

Tick tock, tick tock, the wedding day is approaching and the days are getting more and more stressful for the X-T and I. The first thing we noticed about each other is we tend to forget things easily. Be it a task that we need to do or things we need to bring or buy at the supermarket. We just forget! Well, we did program it in our PDA and guess what? We even forget to check our PDA when we arrived at the supermarket. How lei? Not that we can do a memory upgrade like a computer. :(

TJ Haus, SS18 Subang Jaya (Revisited again & again)

Realised that we've been visiting this place over and over again. It's just a tiny little restaurant with only a few tables. Sometimes, we just want a comfortable and quiet dinner without the hoo haa of dressing up "for the occasion". Here we are, once again... dressed down to enjoy our non pretentious European chow and a good chat.

Herbed bread to start off with..

The appetizer we won't miss ordering every time we dine at TJ Haus. It's a platter filled with Smoked Salmon, salad and rosti

Creamy Carbonara which is not too creamy. Good!

We made it to dessert this round cos usually we were too full at the end of our meal. A very delicious scope of Mango Sorbet for sharing.

Novel Cafe, Ara Damansara (Revisited)

We revisited Novel Cafe at Ara Damansara again because...

If we buy 1 pork chop rice set..

...we can get another pork chop meal for free... I asked for meehoon instead of rice and it tasted as as nice! The only difference between the one that comes free is the missing soup, the drink and a tiny piece of fruit. :p

We couldn't decide to have our spring roll appetizer fried or not and so, the very kind waitress suggest we have one of each. X-T preferred the fried crunchy ones..

Since my free meal doesn't come with a drink, I ordered myself a glass of lemonade with peppermint. I wonder what's lacking in the drink but overall, the drink tasted okay.

We're now a member of Novel Cafe ...yay!

The membership card comes with a stack of coupons too. You get something free once each card has been completely stamped. Looked so colourful and somehow these cards reminded me of the property mortgage cards found in a set of Monopoly game hehe...


Till my next craving for Vietnamese food ;)

Here's the write up of our previous visit to Novel Cafe

Saying goodbye to the cash voucher from Korean BBQ Chicken

Once there was a franchise Korean BBQ chicken restaurant at Ara Damansara. X-T and I used to go there very frequently for their char grilled chicken sandwiches. There was a time, they even gave us a RM5.00 cash voucher for our next visit to their restaurant. Before the raya holidays, we had a sudden cravings for their char grilled sandwiches again. We brought along their cash voucher to the place and was surprised to know that the restaurant was no longer there. As for the voucher, we're not able to redeem our meals from other outlets except the one at Ara.. sad...sad....

Home improvement before moving in...

Our apartment is ready but there are still some minor details or add-on that X-T would like do for the unit before we move in. Yesterday evening, he suggest we should buy ourselves a proper sound system for the living room since we love hanging out at home watching DVDs. Next, he thinks the bathroom faucets are kinda old and he wanted to change it too. Well, guess it's gonna be another shopping weekend for us again!

Gadgets..gadgets..gadgets...

How time flies and soon we're going to celebrate Christmas. This year is going to be extra busy for me because I've to get the Christmas presents earlier this year since our wedding falls on the same month. In fact, I'm already starting my Christmas shopping now.. yes NOW! Well, I did some research over the Internet and I found something very interesting to give to the boys.It's called the Slingbox. I wonder if this works in Malaysia... Mmm..

First I tried the game and now I'm addicted...

X-T's passion for badminton has infected me. He plays with his badminton buddies on Saturdays. After the game, I would hear him talk about the new skills he learned, the moves, the speed, the type of shuttlecock and also the rackets. I was thinking, why not I try learning the game since there's a badminton court at our new place? I stopped stepping on my elliptical for a day and asked X-T to take me to the court. Guess what? I never stop playing since that day...

Audemars Piguet?

I was reading TheEdge few weeks ago while X-T was surfing on the lappy. Suddenly, I said, "Hey dearie, Audemars Piguet looks smart hor?". He turned his head and say "Auder Piqu who??". I repeated "AU-DE-MARS PI-QUET the watch my dear!". Haha, I bet he was thinking I was commenting on another rich business tycoon's face on the business weekly newspaper again. Yes, I always do :p

Tis the season to be jolly...

FAT...lala... lala..lala.la...la. It's weird how we Malaysians celebrate it. Whenever a festival is coming up, the first thing in everybody's mind would be what to eat. Where to buy food, how much is enough and what's nice and what's not. To me, celebration is a time to where we can sit together with our family and friends to fellowship but no, what to serve was placed as the TOP priority in every celebration. Well, in any parties, of course there will be food served but it shouldn't be the main superstar for the day. Do you or do you not agree with me? Mmm.. I bet everybody will be talking about the diet pills they're going to try out once the celebration is over.

The Roach & I

Whenever I see a roach, my whole body turns weak, my heart beats faster than usual (maybe I should strap on to a pulse oximeter to check the speed of my heart beat someday) and I felt like I want to faint. When the roach and I meet, I'll be screaming for help. X-T would usually be the hero, running towards me with a can of aerosol. Of course he'll be laughing as he approach me. If you think I'm such a weakling, let me tell you why. It all started when I was only 5. I went to the loo and I saw 2 roaches playing inside the toilet. I wasn't afraid of roaches at that time but as I begin to pee, the 2 brown devil decided to craw up my 'you-know-what' as I pee. That's how my phobia started... :(

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. @ The Curve, Mutiara Damansara

A gurl's night out with moi sister.

This time around, instead of my fav Paddington Pancakes at The Curve, we tried Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

Since we were not that hungry that day, we ordered an apetizer & a main dish. Even that, we were struggling to finish.!

An appetizer we ordered and i can't recall the name of this dish. Well, it's Cajun spiced shelled Shrimps with garlic bread.. A ted too oily but it tasted wonderful

That's how we enjoyed the shrimps :)

Bourbon Street Barramundi was the main dish we ordered. If only the dish comes a little warmer, that would be perfect!

The heavy meal was washed down with two glasses of strawberry & blueberry lemonade.

And again, no desserts as our tummies are about to explode...

Scary truck drivers

Last Friday, X-T and I drove all the way to Ipoh for our pre wedding photo shoot. We enjoyed the highway ride all the way to my hometown but the horror starts the minute we arrived at the Simpang Pulai Toll. The trucks are driving so fast and I believe their trucks are empty. Not only that, they cut queues without giving the driver in front and the back a signal. If and only if I'm the transport minister..ahem...I shall sent them all back to truck driving school !

The cute kid with itchy hands

As X-T and I was enjoying our dinner one day, we couldn't resist watching a cheerful little boy sitting next to our table. Well, he is around 3 yrs old, big eyes, brown hair and very spiky too. He was holding on to his daddy's hand phone and he was reminded not to drop it. As he was happily pressing the buttons on the keypad of the phone while chewing on a spoonful of rice, suddenly, he shouted "Oh ho"!. Right away, the dad took the phone away from him and and sighed. Apparently, we heard the man telling his wife that their son has pressed on some numbers and now they need someone who can unlocked cell phones to unlock his phone.

Happy Mid Autumn Festival!

Just incase I lost my sense of day & time chewing on mooncakes and sipping Chinese tea this coming Sunday ...

I would like to wish everybody a Happy Mid Autumn Festival 2 days in advance :p

This moon cake was made with love. Read all about it here.