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只交替而没交换的人生啊

2010-08-24T08:05:00.000-07:00

恍然觉醒，自己真的有点年纪了。

可能生理上看上去还是那么的年轻活泼，可是老成的心智却是无可药救的要不得。
现在的彬彬有礼和斯文优雅（*见人见智*）相比于年少时的轻狂和自大，一直都是自己与心里的辩论课题。

少年时觉得自己已是成人，有独立的思考能力，总是想什么就说什么，不扭捏和吞吞吐吐；喜怒哀乐？下一秒旁人就知晓。

不成熟，出到社会终会招来苦头与钉子。苦的吃多了，也怕了。开始没那么尖锐，开始掩饰，开始包装，开始圆滑，开始怀念从前。

人生历练的的多少，就好比一位演员在演艺圈打滚了多久。
愈演愈老练，无论什么角色都能够演得精湛得来又叫人拍案叫绝。久后，唯独忘了该怎么重演最初的自己。

原来，《把自己真正活出来》这部影片，少年的我是最佳演员。

追人的月亮

2010-08-14T11:01:00.000-07:00

小时候常在回家途中的车里醒来，惺忪的看着车窗外不断向后退的景物，变换，又变换。。有天发现，怎么月亮一直都跟着我们的车子走？？？

发现新大陆的问妈咪，胖手指着月亮说：“咪，做么月亮跟着我们走的？？”

妈咪转过身子看我一眼，然后猛然的拍打我的手指：“不可以指月亮的！！！”

不服气的我：“做么咧？？！！”

妈咪：“问酱多做么？？！！你跟我快点睡回去！要不然月亮来追你就够力了！”

笨头笨脑的我，怕得赶快关回眼睛，不久就呼噜呼噜的睡去。。

自此，到现在，每当想手指月亮时，就会想起妈妈的话，就会赶紧把指头缩回，或来不及缩时就假假指去其它方向。

其实，月亮追人会很可怕的咩？

如果换于现在的小孩，他或她会说：“追就追啦，哼。。。！”

唉，还是我那个年代的小孩们比较易掌控，可能奶粉成份的关系吧。。

Dining's - TONY ROMA's Ribs.Seafood. Steaks Restaurant

2008-07-15T00:37:00.000-07:00

Papa and Mama was visiting KL last weekend, for sure, my showtimes again to bring them for some good food that they hardly to get in Kuala Perlis. My parents would never give any comment before I bring them to any restaurant as they knew their daughter is really Tham Chiak and pandai makan!! heheheh... Tony Roma's is one of my favourite American Style Restaurant, it never disappointed me so far, however lots of friends gave bad comment for it.. Don't worry Tony, i still loving you!! (*;*)

We were welcome by a friendly waitress (every waitress/waiter there always greet their guests warmly) to the seat. There was a group of Malay frens celebrating birthday for one of themselves.. HappY Birthday to You~~~

Iced Lemon Tea (RM6.90) and Orange Juice (RM8.90) - Refillable

We ordered Iced Lemon Tea (come with fresh half lemon) and Orange Juice. They are refillable and four of us share the 2 big glasses, heehhe... Miskin people memang like this, forgive us ya.. Definitely, we asked for refilling for more than 5 times!!! *blek

Baked Potato Soup *Bowl (RM5.90)

Wooo... The potato soup really "khaw", every single taste come with great potato aroma. This is a must try item for potato lover. Apart from blending the potato into juices for the soup base, as you can see from the above, fresh potato in cube were added for greater satisfaction. I personally think the RM5.90 for the soup is superb worthy. U must share the bowl portion with someone or it will be very filling for your stomuch until couldn't fit for the following main course. Cup size is also available.

Kick'in Shrimp (RM19.90) *Star Order******

The attraction from Tony that keep let me think of want to give another visit to their outlet is..... *Kick'in Shrimp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Probably due to I'm really big fans for prawns and they really present a finger-licking dishes, this became my most favourite from Tony's. The raw vegie was topped by medium size prawns (more than 15 pcs) that was lightly fried and seasoned with their in-house Kick'in Sauce. You would find that the raw vege comes very very match to serve with the prawn, so do not ignore the vegie ooo! Yummy..........................

BBQ Half Chicken (RM26.90)

The half BBQ chicken big portion enough for 2 persons serving. I have visited few times and ordered this, i can only tell u that depend on your luck of the day if u ordered for the chicken. Sometimes, the chicken really smooth and tender, even for the breast also was very juicy! However, if your luck is not that good, the chicken breast will taste quite hard and dry (like the normal chicken breast u had). Undeniable, when the chicken is cooked in good and skillful condition, this is also one of my favourite.

Fried Mixed Mushroon (RM14.90)

Mushrooms are Shittake Mushroom, Button Mushroom and etc.. Fresh Mushroom is always my choice from menu of any restaurant, know why? Coz I love the unique smell from all the Fresh Mushroom, ahahha... While I know actually there are lots of people who cannot stand for this kind of "aroma" , kekekeeee.... The Fried Mushroon tasted like.. fried mushroom la.. But when dipping with their home-made honey mustard, wooo, yumm yumm... Ho Chiak! Even my parents (uncle and auntie) love the sauce so much!

See... Satisfied face from my Papa.. As long as they enjoyed, then I happy lor!

Finally Got'Cha!! Catched your tham chiak face liao, neh neh neh~~~ She is my elder sister, BUKAN SAYA!

Tornado is passing by?????

Secret Recipe from my sister, putting all the food in the hot bread provided (free one), plus the honey mustard sauce, surprising good wor....

Oh ya... Another tips for you all, if any of you all happen to visit Tony Roma's, do not shy to ask for more hot bread la, sauce la, etc etc.. Those free thingy are welcome to be refilled one oo, they won't show you black face, if yes, report to their manager and you may be got extra discount!! Hahaha... Anyway, their services provided really good. Happy Enjoying your meal there!

Address: Lot G-29(II), Ground Floor, Mutiara Damansara, 47800, Petaling Jaya. Selangor.

Tel: 03-77287833

Shopping's - Met with Alan Yun !!

2008-06-24T00:22:00.000-07:00

I met this guy in Cineleisure Shopping Complex for few times edi, saw him in his BMW once when I was searching for car park, saw him twice when I was on my way for movies, hahha. Last Saturday, again, appeared in front of my eye while shoping with my family, WuuHaaa...

Guess Who is that in Cineleisure's Mac City?

The One and Only *Charming Alan Yun*

He was kind and friendly when we ask for taking picture with him. Dunno why in the photo he looked not as nice as face to face, but tell u what, he very handsome and attractive neh.... If you do not know who is him, please refers to the aboves:-

"Alan Yun received his first commercial break being a talent on a Rejoice television commercial back in 1999. "

"Alan is now one of the most sought after commercial talents and actors in Malaysia being involved in various feature film and TV productions."

Gambateh~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dining's - Din Tai Fng (鼎泰丰) at The Gardens'

2008-06-22T20:26:00.000-07:00

I should upload the post few weeks ago, but due to heavy workload.. Sigh.. Anyhow, now is good time for sharing!

Another visit to The Gardens' (Mid Valley) to find good food.
I've heard about Din Tai Fung for quite sometimes already, it is awarded as TOP 10 Restaurant in the world!? So, the Tham Chiak Queen here was decided to verify the truthfulness... Hehehe..

When you pastby the restaurant, you may see through the clear glass that all the chefs are busy on making all those "Dumpling @ Xiu Long Pao". The see-through kitchen is to show their cleanliness to customer and it really confident them! That's why you may find out there is always a long queue outside the restaurant.

Luckily Hero Leong and I got the seat quite fast, as table for two was available at that moment, hiak hiak.. See.. Fulled House!!!

We were served an Shanghainese appetizer just right we on the seat. A small plate of Shanghai style "kerabu" really open our appetide so much due to the sweet+sour taste *...KRRUWWW...* . The ingredient I could see were glass noodle la, sliced cucumber la, sliced pepper chilli la, sliced black fungus la, hard-beancurd and bermacam-macam (so on).
The first served was Spicy Fried Seafood Udon. I couldn't remember well the prices for all the dishes we ordered that day, please forgive the Old Woman here.. Thanks!

Spicy Fried Seafood Udon

The Spicy Fried Seafood Udon wasn't really that "hot", this maybe due to shanghai recipe that not that famous with "spicy" food. For me, the taste was similiar with Malaysian's Singapore Fried Bihun but not as dry as the Singapore Fried Bihun la, and the Udon is "QQ" when chewing. Not a big surprise nor disappointment, but I think the dishes is worthy as lots of fresh seafood was in the fried udon.

Shanghai Dumpling with Minced Pork and Prawn Filling (蝦肉蒸餃)

Since Xiu Long Pao is quite common these days and not that hard to find in Malaysia, we decided to try on their Steam Dumpling @ Kao Zhi. The dumpling was serving hot with vapouring vapor, yoohooo, i love to see this as it gives me a sense of "romance" to taste the food and the person that sit opposite you will ambiguosly, look more attractive! (*^_^*) I personally think that their Kao Zhi was not much differences with Xiu Long Pao that I normally had, only the shape and the thickness of the thin dough wrapper (more chewy) are different! Anyhow, the soupy filling again, open up my appetide to wider!! I love the soup that was wrapped in the Dumpling, tasted very very fresh and succulently sweet!!!!!! I guess the prawn has been the great contributer to the freshness and sweetness taste of the filling, meat filling was not coarse at all, smooth smooth smooth... OMG.. My diet plan, again, was destroyed.. Wuu...

Braised Homemade Beancurd with Spinach (菠菜焖自制豆腐)

Thumbs up for this item!! I'm big fan for Tau Fu, and this dish has won my heart deeply. I would say that this is my most unforgettable item in Din Tai Fung. Other than the fresh spinach that was placed on bottom of Tau Fu, you may noticed the chef has added in the chopped spinah while steaming the Tau Fu and has became the beautiful and charming thin green layer on the BeanCurd!! Great odur from mixture of egg and soya milk (the BeanCurd) plus braised sauce is really perfect and satisfying my taste buds when serving with white rice, YUMMY~~~

Deep Fried Big Prawn with Salted Egg Yolk.

Caution!!!!! This is the high-fat, high-colesterol item!! Don't over take this if you have high-colesterol health issue or on diet. However, it's NICE, ahahaha... Make sure that there are at least four persons to share the dish with you. I could see that the prawn wasn't fried by normal oil BUT by using butter!! Butter + fresh big prawns+ salted egg yolk = perfect matching for tasting; evil matching for diet. Haha.. The taste was amazing with strong sapor like those fresh baked pastries, hmmmm..~~ Lazatnya...

Soup Based Dumpling @ Wan-tan Soup

A so-so item I've got in the restaurant. It neither too bad nor great for me. Purpose for ordering this was to get some soup to drink, haha.. Frankly speaking, this was the biggest wantan I had ever got! The dough wrapper was very thin and smooth, riched with meat filling and chopped vegie.. Worthy for the price paid.

Processing.....

The Perfect Ending.... Hehehe.. See You Again, Din Tai Fung... Muacksss..

Advise: Do not follow what me and Hero Leong did above if you did not plan to exercise for the day, the whole meal has far exceed the standard calories level. After the lunch, we had go to Kepong Leisure park for playing kites. We both had run almost the whole padang to fly the stupid kites. Geee...

Adress: Lot LG 207 Lower Ground,The Gardens, Midvalley City Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 Kuala Lumpur.

Dining's - Ajisen Bento (One Utama)

2008-06-15T19:40:00.000-07:00

Lunch time again! It always be our headache moment as have to choose among so many restaurant to lunch in.. Finally, we all voted Ajisen, a smart choice because it priced economically and there is 20% discount for IBM employees.. Hehhe.. Don't jealous on me ya..

Here we start...

There are lots of choices in Ajisen Menu, various flavour of Ramen, Bento, Sushi, Teppanyaki, Desserts and etc etc.. It's wouldn't hard for any of us to get our favourite here. I've tried their ramen before, it was satisfying my stomuch (fulled) and taste buds. Nontheless, we all order bento as everyone seems like hunger for rice! ahaha..

The food served quite fast after the order (>10 minutes).

My Chicken Delux Bento Set, Yummy!! (RM13.90)

I love my bento set. As u can see, RM13.90 can get such many side dishes! Other than the main dish Chicken Teriyaki, 2pcs of fried dumplings and 2 pcs fried chicken balls (Chicken Karaage?) It may not be the ideal Japanese Cuisine if you looked for traditional Japanese food. But in terms of economic, it is a good choice for those Office Ladies and Gentlemen. The white rice they used is what you normally had in Malaysia instead of Japanese rice. The miso soup is "so-so" only. For me, it's good enough for Lunch.

Seok Ching's Pan fried Beef Set (RM10.90)

When I interviewed Seok Ching about her Beef Set, her answer was so ambiguos. Know why? Coz her mouth was fulled of food! From that, I guess her order was really good. *Giggling*

Siew Teng's Fish Katsu Set (RM10.90)

Siew Teng's Fish Katsu Set, two cubes of Agedashi Tofu was caming along. I personally not really like it, as the Fish Katsu was too thin, not worthy for me; however, Siew Teng seems enjoyed the set, as i noticed edi two times she ordered this set.

Bento Set come with Miso Soup, Ocha (RM1.50) Free refill!

READY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arh.. Another satisfied luncheon. Lalaaalaa~~~

Dining's - Good Old Days

2008-05-14T19:30:00.000-07:00

Found a new and interesting place to share with everyone ooo... "Teng Teng Teng Teng...!!"

Hero Leong discovered about this good place - Good Old Days (旧阵时) from the newspaper food intro, after checking out the map shown, even not so sure on the location, we hiong hiong gave ourselves a food adventure, ahahha...

Actually not so hard to go to the place, from LDP, follow the sign-board to Kayu Ara, will have to turn left on the traffic lights and follow again with the sign-board Kayu Ara and you will have to turn left again and go through a small malay kampung, do not doubt, it's the correct way, just go straight until the end and Good Old Days is just on your right hand site. Another tips for all those even went for Kayu Ara Seafood Restaurant (水上人家), Good Old Days is just located beside.

When we just reached the restaurant, the deco really made us felt like flying back to old China, like what we watched from old chinese costume piece drama! Even the waiters/waitress were in ancient costume, ahaha. I love their concept and idea on managing the restaurant!

Okay, time to decide dishes to order. *My Show Time*

There are highlighted selections that are recommended by the chef. Without any doubt, we ordered 4 dishes + 1 soup from the recommended list. I guess it wouldn't go far for following that. For drinks, definitely we ordered for chinese tea, to suit the old chinese style environment mah..

When the chinese tea was served, we were stunned for few second, followed by LOL then. You will know why when refer to the below.

Still remember that in costume piece movie, actors in the drama have their drink with the bowl like that? hahha..

Our food served:

Pork Leg with Black Bean (黑豆猪脚醋) RM 12.00

I love this as it is what my mom very good on her cook list. Got mummy taste! The only difference from mom's is the added black bean. The black bean just nice and tender enough, and absorded the taste from the gravy. The pork wasn't too fatty even with the skin. It wasn't the most succulent pork leg i had, but still ok for me. For those that never taste this kind of traditional dishes, i wouldn't encourage you to try unless you love gravy in sweet taste. The gravy is sweet for the dish because black vinegar is used to cook the pork, thus lots of sugar is also added during cooking to reduce the sour taste from vinegar.

Brinjal with Shrimp in Claypot (茄子虾仁煲) RM 18.00

CAUNTION!!! The Brinjal and the Shrimp is pipping HOT! May be due to the Claypot and there wasn't much gravy, all the heat was transfer to the brinjal, hahah. My mouth was almost scald out by the brinjal. So, becareful while putting in into mouth. This one tatse good too, especially great when came with white rice. Wheewww.... Lots of dried shrimp were used thus come with very strong fragrant. Good good.. The fresh shrimp was fresh and "springy".

Steam Black Talapia Fish in Homestyle (家乡酱蒸黑非洲) RM 15.00

Fish is the item we would never missed in our order list, so this time we were attracted by the "Homestyle Steam Fish". It came as what we expected. Simple, nice, fresh. Remember how your mom always do for the steam fish at home? Without much seasoning, chopped ginger, onion, sliced chillies, marinade bean sause, chopped chives are the simple ingredients to bring out the freshness of the fish. And Goood Old Days does the same for their Homestyle steam fish. Another satisfied item.

Traditional Fried Turnip-*lengkuas with Cuttle Fish filar (鱿鱼丝炒沙葛) RM 8.00

Not much restaurant offer fried turnip. So once i saw it in menu, "That's it!". The fried turnip was good too, tastily, and waterly crisp... As a big fan for fried turnip, it was finished very soon, moved into my lovely stomuch. Heeee...

Chicken Soup in Coconut (椰子鸡汤) RM 12.00

The Herbal Chicken soup steamed in Coconut which i hardly to get in KL area. The last time i had chicken soup in coconut i guess was last year in PJ old town, a claypot chicken rice shop? Er.. got lots of people asked me why is so special about Coconut Herbal Chicken Soup, nah.. Let me share with u what my mom told me about this. Actually is to get sweetness from coconut filling to enrich taste for the soup during steaming process. However, it will taste disgusting with coconut oil odor if over-steamed, whenever u got the soup like mentioned, probably the soup is already overnight or not fresh anymore. And i find out.. the soup got a little bit coconut oil odor, a little bit only, you wouldn't realised if not so sensitive on tasting. Anyway, i consider it as okay la, don't want to be too carp ler.. :p

2 people finished all the 5 dishes, too much for you? But i think just nice, hehhe..

About environment, no need to talk much, you can see it all from the photo above. Whereas for services provided, thumbs up! Fast responce and friendly talking. Another things that must be mentioned and highlighted is, their government tax is 5% and services tax is only 3%!!!! So total tax for the bill is 8% only instead of 15% that we have to pay in most restaurant. Good news for those who is going to try it out right?

Tidbits in Office~~

2008-05-01T23:03:00.000-07:00

Dear All, Just to share with you one of my fequent activities during my office hours. When my hands busy, normally my mouth kinda busy as well!

Happy Junk Family!!!
Prefer Rocky in Strawberry flavour; and new discovered favourite, Pretz in Corn flavour, surprisingly great!

My Destressing partners :Chocolate!

Seaweed and Japanese Vanilla Waffer some more!

2008-04-23T01:49:00.001-07:00

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ZweetBeez Dining - Fong Lye Taiwanese (The Gardens)

2008-04-21T20:50:00.000-07:00

Got date again from three pretties on Saturday (04/20/2008), yahoos…!! Kind of miss them for didn’t meet up since months ago. We decided not to go for Karaoke this time; planned to have some good food and hot chicks’ favorite---shopping in Mid Valley + The Gardens, hiak hiak~~

Mei Yen kept saying she very the hungry when we met up at 5pm. As a result, we agreed to have early dinner before the little princess Mei Yen fainted down or got gastric, ahaha.. Too early for me actually, but since I’m a sincere person, no problem! See, that’s called friend ok, be tolerant and caring to each other!! *Eksyen*

I’m this piggish person already made some research on special and attractive restaurants that new opened in The Gardens before the day, ehehe.. So I suggested to try at either Sushi Zen (Wai Yong loves Japanese food) or Fong Lye Taiwanese Restaurant (I wanted to try out this so long long ago!! :p). The “election” result from four of us was Fong Lye, yeah! (^;^) Before walking to Fong Lye, the decoration and crowds inside gave us confidence to dine there, it wouldn’t be wrong too much for following where crowds go. We stepped in happily lor then.

WaiYong: Ermmm... This looks nice, that looks nice too.. Which one to choose leh.. Aiyo, sakit kepala!!

Wendy: *Happy* We order banyak banyak la.. Must eat puas puas!!
If you order any tea from the menu, it will be serve in this authetic teapot and little cups.

The selection list from menu made four of us excited n looked forward to taste it as much as possible, haha, tham chiak!! Half of selection from the menu are set meal (1 person), and the rest: A’ la carte, appetizer, side order, dessert, beverage and etc.

The following are what we ordered and the comment for each of them:

Appetizer, Sweet Potato Ball (地瓜球) RM 4.80

The most special thing about this lovely appetizer was, it came the last among the food, hahha.. Sweet potato ball is favorite delight for Taiwanese and you can get it easily from most of streets in Taiwan. The main ingredients are mashed sweet potato and Tapioca starch. All ingredients are mixed into dough, deep-fried, and then sweet potato ball will be born! It tastes like Malay’s Cucuk Ubi, but when u bite the ball, it gives u the feel like puff, wonder how the chef make it! Hence, it not as sweet as Cucuk Ubi, so even u finished whole plate of it, your stomach wouldn’t filled much, there’s still more spaces for food to go! If the Sweet Potato came first for the meals, I believe it would be a good start for the dining. I like this one!

Set Meal, the Three Varieties Supreme Diced Chicken (三杯鸡) RM 18.80

Included in the set meal were: Three varieties diced chicken in clay pot, soup of the day (lotus brewed with chicken), two pieces little deep-fried thingy, pickled cucumber and a bowl of rice topped with Taiwanese beloved braised mince meat. One thing should praise for Fong Lye is, they served the exact varieties in a set meal like what people do in Taiwan, didn’t cut-off anything to save cost or effort (like lots of restaurants). Wendy & Mei Yen claimed the chicken was a little too sweet and salty, but for me such heavy taste lover, it really good and just nice! Even better when have it with rice! One thing to be noted, if you’re not use to basil leaves’ smell. Please do not try this or you will just leave the chicken over.

Taiwanese Deep Fried Boneless Chicken (盐酥鸡) RM 8.80

Thumbs up for the deep fried chicken! The cutlet’s out layer was crunchy and juicy for the inner part, “ho liao”! Again, the basil leaves were use for the selection but it didn’t leave much unique fragrant after deep fried together with chicken. It’s really wonderful when I recalled the moment the chicken melt in my mouth in juice with crunch… Owhh.. A must try item for fried stuffs’ lover!

The disappointed items were Taiwan Style Fried Clam (台式炒啦啦) RM13.80 and TW Meat Ball (肉圆) RM5.80

The fried clams tasted like home-style cooking like normally our mom did, fried with garlic and a little oyster sauce (additional ingredient used by Fong Lye was again, basil leaves). This way of cooking style for clams is to bring out the freshness and succulence of the clams (provided the clams are really fresh). Unfortunately, the clams used that day weren’t that fresh and it tasted yucky for me. I couldn’t stand for non-fresh poultry and seafood. If you want to go for this, make sure u double confirm with their waiter/tress that the clams for the day is fresh enough.

Next, Taiwan meat ball. The meat ball wasn’t similar with the meatball we had in local. It’s like giant dumpling which the thick skin was made from sticky rice starch with mushroom braised minced meat filling. The meat ball has really thick + tasteless skin (at least 1cm I think) and filling inside was pity little. Personally feel the meat ball was terrible but Wai Yong seems like enjoy it, she finished another half of giant meat ball after three of us gave up on this item. Haha.. Wendy: Yeah.. I'm on camera! Give you a sweet sweet smile.. Hiak hiak..

Finally, dessert time came! Peanut Snow Mountain (花生泡泡冰) RM7.80

Peanut Snow Mountain is water ice in peanut flavor. The water ice was really smooth and rich with peanut paste. You could get the gamy peanut savor for every single mouth, woooohh… Syok!! Wendy kept praising the peanut snow mountain from her first taste until bottom of the water ice. Four of us LOVE this! Another must try item for Fong Lye. Foooh... the food all gone like after tornado *gigling*

Total bill was RM 78.90 and about RM20 for each of us, reasonable price huh.. Nice décor , clean condition and good ambiance, I will pay for another visit to try out many other food on their menu. Looking forward!!

Adress: Lot T-208, Level 3, The Gardens, Mid Valley City.

ZweetBeez's Dining - DuViet Vietnamese Cuisine

2008-04-15T20:19:00.000-07:00

After heavy rain that started since evening, traffic was jammed everywhere even the junction right infront my condo! Aduh... After struggling, decided to give up my plan to dinner at Sri Hartamas's Sugimoto since this morning in office *grrr..*

Hero Leong suggested to explore some dinner place that we never tried yet in Uptown (Damansara Jaya) since there is quite near from my place and still heaps of restaurant that seems attractive. After rounding n rounding the whole Uptown *choosy right? :p* , we decided to dine in a vietnamese restaurant named Du'viet that looks great from outside, hope the food is as surprising as the "cover", eheheh...

The "cover" of the restaurant.

*Besides the booklet menu that placed outside their entrance, menu on LCD screen also helps to attract customers!! and i'm one of those dude who was attracted.

You can see the circumspective wall decoration while walking up the stairs. And, their menu for customers. (right)

Since Hero Leong said he wanted to go for "Tong Sui" in SS2 after the meal, we decided not to order too much dishes like we always did. hehehee... Felt like wanna eat both noodle and rice, we ordered Vietnamese Fried Seafood noodle, Tamarind Prawns and Braised duck in Special Nut Sauce as recommended by the friendly and cutie waiter. Didn't make decision to order the favourites for vietnamese food like Combo Platter (vermicelli salad + sugarcane prawn stick+meatballs+prawn rolls+etc etc) coz we had it everytime we were in vietnamese restaurant, wanna try other vietnamese specialty indeed.

For drinks, i gave up my beloved Vietnamese"Triple Color Ice" to reserve place for 'tong sui' later. So again, recommended by cutie waiter, Vietnamese Lotus Flower Tea become our choice.

The drink came very fast, around 2-3 minutes after that.

The Lotus Flower Tea (RM6/pot) taste differently from Chinese Tea or English Tea that we normally had. Hero Leong claimed that the tea aroma smell like basil leaves' (九层塔), ahahaa, and I argued the taste similiar with dried grasses, it taste odd at first when i drank it, but after sometimes it become smoother and smoother for my taste bulb and throat. The waiter kept coming and refilled the tea for us, i guess we finished at least 3 pots for the tea. Hero Leong discovered there wasn't any lotus flower in the pot, only something looked like chinese tea leaves were found, we suspested that the ingredient is lotus leaves!! Hiak hiak.. No wonder the tea tasted like "Steam Sticky Rice in Lotus Leave" (荷叶饭)。

Vietnamese Fried Seafood Noodle came next, 5 mins after our drink served, fast right? The noodle was good, seafood (prawn, squid, fish fillet slices) was fresh, vegetable heaps and enough for me this vegie lovers, but the noodle was a bit little. Anyway we satisfied by the volume of seafood and vegie inside.

Vietnamese Fried Seafood Noodle. RM13,90

After that Tamarind Prawns!!! (RM15,90)

We love the prawn! It tastes like my mom's Assam Udang, the kampung style cooking that use assam juice,oyster sauce and thick soy sauce as seasoning and gravy. Ho chiak, ho chiak, yummy! The prawn size was medium, just right to pay the price lo. Haha.

Braised Duck in Special Nut Sauce(RM15.90).

The braised duck was the disappointment for the night : (. Duck was duck, nut was still nut, both ingredients didn't match each other to bring suprising taste. Even the soup itself dun hv nut's fragrant.. Aduh... When we ordered this, we thought the nut sauce would be something like satay gravy, but when served, we discovered the nut sauce here was whole peanut+walnut cooked in the "soy sauce soup",hehhehe, that's what was recommended by the waiter. Swear not to believed them easily next time! But still there are lots of waiter/waitress intro good food in other place la..

Over all, the ambience were great, nice decoration and friendly waiters, food was served fast and not really too bad. You can get whatever you want such as tissue paper, chilies, spoon etc etc, from the waiter in a twinkle of eyes!

Believe that there is still some good food, may try it out another day if I couldn't think of where to eat, hiak hiak.... Du'Viet won't be my first choice for Vietnamese cuisine, ahahha.. However, if you are looking for a romantic and serene place to date special one, you may try out this place!

Address: 41A&43A, Uptown 37,Damansara Utama, PJ. (Same row with HSBC and Starbucks)

马桶之溅

2008-04-15T01:12:00.000-07:00

很多朋友都说他们不大喜欢用公厕，尤其是想上‘大号’ 的时候。我当然知道当中的原因啦，因为我也曾经和大家一样！

八十五巴仙的姐妹们每当用公厕时，无论是蹲厕(没马桶)或坐厕(有马桶) ，老实说都是蹲在上面的啦。就算你是个公德心爆膨的家伙，坚持蹲厕才蹲，坐厕就坐；可是当你又急马桶上又布满鲜艳的黄色‘斑点’ 时，我看你也得乖乖蹲上去了啦, 嘻嘻。。

言归正传，我之前非常讨厌使用公厕，因为经历过一些恶心到我无法原谅我自己的上大号过程。中学时的某一天，我可能吃错东西而‘漏粪’(泻肚子) 了。记得那天上厕所的次数比一个星期上的还多。 *笑* 当天第N次时，由于肚里那‘巧克力色海浪’ 似乎就快排山倒海的涌出来了，直到已蹲上马桶的那一刻，才看到~~ 妖孽！！前一个人没把他的“蛋糕” 冲干净。。。啊啊啊。。！！！我还来不及让我的巧克力海浪煞车，它们就吼着冲向马桶里去了。。

结局如何？各位聪明人士请动动脑筋吧。。当某个物体在空中向静止的水面冲下去时，水的反应就是，反弹向同个方向咯。超级无敌幸运的我，白嫩嫩的屁屁布满了曾经浸过别人大便的水滴。。。<惨痛回忆>

经过那次中奖后，如果没急到四肢软弱的话，上大号决不用公厕。大学开始，多数时间都得留在外面忙课业，要上大号时成了我最大的烦恼啦。幸好有个同学知道后教了我一个很妙的方法，上号时马桶里的水不会溅上来了耶！

使用这个方法的主要材料是，蹬蹬蹬蹬。。多张<厕纸>，俗称大便纸，或纸巾也可以。使用前把它们平铺在马桶内的水面上，那就会减低水滴溅到你屁屁上的机会咯！！虽然有点浪费纸，可是我觉得这个方法赞！也比较为生嘛。。可是最最最重要的还是，把马桶多冲一次噢。。祝大家，上大号愉快！！

油炸鬼

2008-04-14T01:36:00.000-07:00

前几天到新开不到半年的国际美食街场逛逛，除了发现有不少打破传统和具有创意的小食店外，最令我感兴趣的是油条专卖店！不难在各巷口和巴杀(菜市场) 都能见到的廉价小食，材料和制作过程都很简单 (当然工夫是重要的一环) ，经过商家一些些“创意” 改造，价格提升了大概三倍以上！！决定试试！！啊~~ 我只能一面咬着含榴连馅的“创意” 油条，一面自叹生意脑袋不如人。不妨告诉大家我的<吃后感>，我只能说油条还是油条，榴连还是通常吃到的人造榴连味，没什么惊喜啦，嘻嘻。。

还记得油条的由来吗？传说南宋时代有对秦桧夫妇，因卖国而遭受百姓痛恨。这对夫妇财势壮大，百姓们只能把对他俩的厌恶往肚里吞咯。那时京城有名脑筋转得快的丁姓小贩，把面团做成人形，一双双的于油锅里大火炸，取名油炸桧。意图为何？聪明的大家肯定明了！

那时人们为了向他们俩暗暗复仇而研制油炸鬼，希望能够借此令这两夫妇遗臭万年，后人口垂弃。可是到了这个年代，似乎多数人都爱那香喷喷，爽爽脆口的油炸鬼呢！当我们香滋滋的吃着油条时，有多少人还想得起那人鬼共愤的坏蛋夫妇？我想我们多数人所想到的是：“如果现在有碗热呼呼的豆浆/炼奶/枷耶(kaya)让我配油条那多好！” 哈哈，多讽刺！代表这坏蛋夫妇的油条现在是千里留香，万人至爱噢。。。

回想起来，真该表扬那姓丁的小贩，他为多少后代开了条生计之路啊，*掌声*

亲爱的朋友们，将来当你和孩子们一起享用油条时，别只顾着赞油条有多好吃或警告他们油条吃太多会热气之类的话，提一提油炸鬼的由来吧！

憾less？

2008-04-13T23:10:00.000-07:00

许许多多人在咽下最后一口气前，都或多或少会有遗憾。遗憾没吃到某些食物，遗憾没见到某个人，遗憾没去到某个地方，遗憾没为自己的梦想努力，遗憾。。。

我家一向都有个不成文的规定，那就是不论清明节，祭祖，已故祖先忌日，都一定要有一样(与别户人家不一样)的供品, 那就是我爸小时候村子里一档叫罗记的肉包子。每逢拜祭祖先的日子，我爸都会特以两小时的车程回村购买肉包子来拜祭嬷嬷。话说嬷嬷年轻时嫁给了当锡米工人的爷爷。对贫穷又多小孩的家里来说，包子，尤其是肉馅的，是奢侈的呢。嬷嬷为了补贴家计，每黎明时分前就得到橡胶园里割橡胶树。罗记前的那条小路是她每天的必经之地，冒着烟的蒸笼里是那热腾腾的，嬷嬷的最爱，肉包子。。嬷嬷只能趁经过的那几秒钟，暗暗的嗅着由蒸气透出的包子香(爸说的，可能是嬷嬷告诉他的吧)。孩子们(我的姑姑伯伯) 大了之后，都到外坡工作，我爸也带着嬷嬷搬到城市生活了。爸知道嬷嬷爱吃肉包子，尤其是罗记的，就常特地搭车回村里买给嬷嬷。两三次之后，嬷嬷就囔说包子水准大跌，不准爸爸再去买了。几年后的某一天，嬷嬷突然致电于正在办工的爸爸，说她很想吃罗记的肉包子，吩咐爸爸一定要买回来。干完活后爸就连午餐都没吃就赶回村里去了。饿透的爸爸随手拿了个包子来吃，一口咬下，松软多汁的肉馅，油香鲜甜即刻溢满口中。‘还是没变啊，味道和功夫和以前一样嘛’ 爸心想。顿时他了解了，罗记包子并不是水准变差，嬷嬷也不是不爱它了，而是疼爱爸爸的她不忍心爸爸为了几个包子老远奔波。回城的路上，爸的手提响起了，传来的是嬷嬷逝世的消息。。。离开人间的嬷嬷把她的憾，遗留给了爸爸。。

外公生前是名知识份子，在中华民国革命时考虑到一家大小的安危，飘洋过海来到马来亚半岛寻求安定的生活。从此就把自己献身于教育界，奋身执教工作，希望能培育出一般有知识的华人子弟。外公重病时最挂念的是家乡的那片土地，一直懊悔没重归旧土。

妈妈有个会计师朋友，临终前说：“芭蕾舞啊，我的梦，为何我从没让你在青春里停留过？” 妈含泪告诉我这位阿姨自小的梦想就是穿上芭蕾舞衣忘我的旋转在音乐世界里，可是高中毕业后听从长辈们的意欲就读了会计。日复一日的现实社会令她遗忘了自己对舞蹈那颗曾经炽热的心。。。

回想在过去的人生当中，做了多少让自己遗憾的抉择呢。人通常走到人生尽头时，才发现自己为了追求遥远的目标而错过身边平凡美丽的事物; 当然，也有觉醒自己一直原地踏步，忘了梦想，忘了追梦的。

我有许多的朋友们，都觉得我是个很会享受的一个人，难听的说，就是个挥霍的家伙(笑) 。我喜欢享受当下，吃得好，穿得好，那样会让我觉得满足和快乐，有时候甚至觉得如果我的人生都是这么充满满足感，可能到离开人间的那一刻，都不会觉得自己白活了吧。。人生嘛，就是自己活下来的，待自己好些吧，我们永远都不能肯定明天的到来。珍惜眼前的一分钟，稍微加点心思，完成自己的理想吧；别让遗憾这个被包留在任何人的担子上。

*:*Splashy Space*:*