Ah… I had an early annual holiday this year… just in time to see the Cherry Blossom in Taiwan. It’s so much more beautiful than what I expected it to be. More pink… more lovely and definately more romantic

 And we were both busy playing and enjoying the pink flower falling down just like snow~

But yeah, it’s more that just the pink flowers and beautiful scene to me. At the end of the day, it’s the happy and good feeling and great company that makes every moment special.

Weeee…. we’ve hit the 2 year mark. And decided to just celebrate it  with the theme “Do As You Like”. So what exactly me and Deon did. Hemmm… we just follow the flow and do things that cross our mind.

And so, after we woke up.. the first thing that pops up at Deon’s head is “Fried Rice”. Yup, and particularly the one in Chatterbox. So Chatterbox…. here we go!

Funnily, my dear didn’t order fried rice as what he initially thought of. Instead he ordered Set Lunch A which consist of Cheese Bake Rice with Fish in some spicy sauce, Yin Yong HK Style (cold) and a bowl of soup of the day (RM12.90). As for me, I ordered the HK Fried Rice with Beef (RM10.80) and a HK Ice Coffee (RM3.80).

To date, I think they serve the best Cheese Bake Rice. Yup, much better than Wong Kok Char Chan Teng and Kim Gary. Yum yum! And I love all their fried rice.

We then walk around a bit and decided to head down town to KLCC. Yup! I’ve been DYING to go Kinokuniya, while my dear wants to search for his Victorinox wallet!

Ah, and each time I go Kinokuniya… I sure walk out a broke person. I can’t believe how that have such wide range with such interesting books, in comparison with other bookstore here.

After shopping, we went queue up to get tickets for The Time Traveler’s Wife, which caught my attention back then when I saw the trailers. Since we have extra time before the movie starts, we had our tea break in Chili’s.

We both share a basket full of Chips and Queso (RM14.95). I ordered a Pineapple Juice (RM8.95) too. Yup, that’s my favourite drink each time I go to Chili’s. Deon just  love the Queso. Of course we both think Oscar (Deon’s little cute doggy) would love it too since he loves cheese. We are still figuring what ingrediants they put in to make such yummy queso!

Then it’s movie time! Yeay!!! I’ve been wanting to watch this movie ever since I saw the trailer. Not to mention, with Eric Bana in the movie!

Rating:
The Time Traveler’s Wife official site: http://www.thetimetravelerswifemovie.com/

Wow, it was such a deep and beautiful story. I mean, to begin with… I think the person who wrote this book is like… I don’t know how to put in words. I guess it’s really amazing that someone actually think of something this interesting. I mean, what the time traveler have to go through in his life.. not knowing where he would end up at. And well, not to mention the stress and loneliness the wife have to go through. I love this. I think it’s amazing!

After movies, we then drop by at the Secret Recipe near my house to have dinner!

I ordered the Tom Yum Noodles (RM13.00) while my dear ordered his old time favourite, Grill Black Pepper Chicken (RM13.50) and we both shared the Appletiser (RM7.80) and the Grapetiser (RM7.80) and followed by a slice of Pecan Butterscotch Cake (RM6.50).

It’s been a while since I had Tom Yum in Secret Recipe, but I still love how generous they are with the mushrooms! I think it would be better if they could add in some Straw Mushroom!

While my dear enjoy his Griller Black Pepper Chicken, I can’t stop eating the cake despite how I keep saying “I’m full” cause I just love butterscotch! Awwww…. buttery taste with crunchy Pecan Nuts! This is such a great closure to the perfect day!

Address:
Chatterbox - 1 Utama,
LG 388, LG Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Centre,
No. 1, Lebuh Bandar Utama,
Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor DE.
Telephone: 03. 7710 8833

Address:
Chili’s Grill & Bar - KLCC,
Telephone: 03. 2164 1400
Fax: 03. 2164 4211

Address:
Secret Recipe @ Taman Melati
73-G, Jalan Melati Utama 4,
Taman Melati Utama,
53100 Kuala Lumpur.
Telephone: 03. 4106 0200

I know it’s not spring and since there’s no spring at my place, I decided to create my own spring.

But I wish I could experience spring… autumn and winter. I love to see flower blooming, red dried leaves and pure white snow.

I guess I am easily influenced by TV programmes. I love watching taiwan’s travel and food show. So, I would think taiwan have many good food. Which automatically attracts me to this shop called Little Taiwan in 1 Utama.

Of course I would have to credit the scrolling lightbox as well *wink*

In my humble opinion, a good chinese restaurant is one that serves superb dumplings. Yes, so we ordered the most common… Pan Fried Dumpling (RM8.90) and to my disappointment… it taste like frozen food. It doesn’t have meat taste to it and tasted blend.

My dear ordered the Salted Chicken Set Lunch (RM1 3.90) inclusive of Bubble Red Tea. Additional Pearl costs RM1.00. The physical look of the dish is nice and makes our tummy goes goo goo gaa gaa…. but taste wise, it’s really lacking of standards. The salted chicken is not crispy and “not salted”. I seriously didn’t enjoy this dish at all as I have seriously tasted better salted chicken.

I’ve ordered the Taiwanese Beef Meat Ball Set Lunch (RM15.90) inclusive of Bubble Red Tea as well. This dish comes with 2 huge beef meat ball. I seriously don’t know how to explain this… it’s nice and tender… cook to perfection. However, it has this strong “beef taste” which I would think make a lot of other people to not like it.

We add-on the Chicken Meat Ball Soup which cost us only RM2.00 since we ordered the set lunch. I personally think it’s overly priced cause the chicken meat ball tasted like the Ayamas frozen chicken meat ball served in an oily soup.

To be honest, I though the whole lunch was a huge disappointment to me. Probably cause I expected a lot from it’s name, probably they should invest more in taste testing.

Address:
Little Taiwan
Lot LG 325 & 326, LG Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Centre,
No. 1, Lebuh Bandar Utama,
Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor DE.
Telephone: 03. 7729 5582

Weeee… I am back to backdated again. Yup, my boyfriend’s birthday was like… roughly a month ago and I actually planned a birthday dinner bash at the actual day but since his parents are leaving to some place else, I postponed my plans a day later. So, we went dinner with my boyfriend’s family at Tokyo G to celebrate.

From what I know, this place was previously owned by Shushi Groove… which I didn’t have the luxury to try before they change name. I’ve always like the renovation cause it looks… er “COOL” from the outside and I can’t help to notice the walls and how green the area is.

So wee…. I finally get try out Tokyo G. I actually have quite high expectation from the outlook of the shop and of course their “modern twist” to conventional food.

Our dinner starts of with the Chawamushi, which I personally think has strong egg taste however, it seems to be a little overcooked and seriously doesn’t tasteless… in terms of, it’s neither salty or sweet. 

My boyfriend’s brother ordered the Chicken Katsu Curry (RM14.90) which in my opinion tasted pretty standard. It is not exactly the yummiest every Chicken Katsu Curry… but great enough to spark my fire. My boyfriend ordered the Ebi Don Buri (RM15.90). Yup, he is always a ebi tempura lover and most of the time… this is what he ordered. I quite like this dish. It would be like perfect if the egg and sauce is salty instead of sweet. I just love how they put those crunchy bits from the tempura in the rice. It seriously added texture in this dish.

 I ordered the Mayonnaise Dream Roll (RM10.90) to share. I love it. I love how they cleverly cook this. It’s raw salmon in the center wrapped with seaweed and rice at the bottom, topped with sauce… which I would think consist of tousand island, mayonnaise and cheese in it and ebiko on the top. Yummy… saliva dripping!

However, the Deep Fried Gyoza was quite a disappointment to me. The dough seems to be a little thick. And I don’t know… somewhere, somehow the taste and texture of the entire gyoza just didn’t mix along well in the mouth.

If anyone is looking for THICK slices of sashimi, I guess Tokyo G is the place to go. But becareful of what you wish for… cause thick slices of sashimi can be really gross to swallow. Yup, this is the case when we order the Sashimi Combo (RM29.90). Each slice is really thick. So thick that I myself felt gross chewing… especially the tuna slices. The thickness of the tuna slices was like around 1.3cm each. Grrrr.. scary!

The Ziggy Roll (RM12.90) is one of the dish that I didn’t try out as I was busy chewing the sashimi and no one else except deon’s mum eats sashimi

The Godzilla Roll (RM15.90) is lovely as well. Yup, this long roll filled with ebi tempura in the center wrapped with rice, salmon slices and sweet mango! I love how the mango and thousand island compliments the dish.

Deon’s dad loves teriyaki chicken… however, this “modern twist” restaurant does not serve big chunky teriyaki chicken. The only thing that has teriyaki chicken in it was the Teriyaki Chicken Roll (RM8.90). I personally think the chili flakes on the top over power the entire dish.. to the extend that I could hardly taste any chicken taste.

I would say the experience and ambience is great… except the fact that we can’t lean back and apparently, facing the fancy lighted wall can really cause headache and discomfort while eating. I think the staffs were friendly and nice… but the service is seriously slow.

Address:
Tokyo.G
Lot G342 & 343,
1 Utama Shopping Centre,
No. 1, Lebuh Bandar Utama,
Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor DE.
Telephone: 03. 7725 3733

Ah… I was browsing through some magazines and I suddenly thought about this topic, “my ambition”. I used to re-call this used to be a favourite topic my primary school teachers would ask us to write.

Of course, like most of what other kids would write… I initially said I want to be a teacher. Why? Cause, I get to receive gifts and flowers during Teacher’s Day. Haha… yup… back then, that’s what I’m thinking. But of course during the exams… we’ve gotta just write how cool and wonderful it is to being a teacher.

And then, later on… after being influenced by those dramas and series…. I wanted to be an engineer, lawyer or a doctor. Well, I recall holding on to this few ambitions for quite a long while. Of course with the influence of parents and uncles and aunties… this seems to be the best job ever in life. Anyone who falls are engineers, lawyers or doctors were being treated like god. Which in my opinion, many still strongly think so.

And of course finally being a designer. I can seriously say this is a common misconception. People would thought designers/artist are weird or maybe cool. Most people would think life as a designer is glamorous. Like you get to wear funky cloths, wear stylish and weird clothings. I must say, yes… those that are famous… do get away with the bad style but those whom are more low profile would constantly be labeled as weirdo/geek. But to be honest, after being so long in the industry… this isn’t how it works and at least those that I know… mostly do not wear weird/funky looking… most of them looks sleepy/zombiefied (probably due to lack of sleep). So yup, you either be famous or be weird. I am weird by the way

So what exactly is my ambition? My ambition is…. (I still wonder how I pass my primary school essay).

Carl’s Jr… mmm, I probably went there somewhere last year… but yeah.. this post is very much inspired by the “She’ll tell you size doesn’t matter. She’s lying” card that my colleague conveniently used as a barrier between our tables and yup as I go through my search list, I noticed I forgot to add this in.

Where to start, hemm… everyone told me the burgers are like giaganticly huge. Many told me it was expensive… some say it was reasonably priced.

If you ask me, to be honest… I think the burgers were only huge. Not as huge as I would imagine it to be (not to mention as I am typing, the burgers probably shrank in size). Expensive… hemmm… I would have to agree that it’s kinda expensive for a fast food chain restaurant.

Okay… in details, I ordered the Double Western Combo which includes a Double Western Burger + Medium French Fries + Medium Coke (RM23.00) while my dear ordered the Chili Burger (RM14.00). For the drinks… weeee… we could refill it as many times as we want, so we actually shared… since I don’t really drink much water and as for the fries, seriously nothing much to hype about.

The Double Western Burger has 2 beef patties in it.. with loads of cheese and bacon. The patties were juicy and ah… not to mention the crispy bacon to top. I just love bacons Too bad it’s a non-halal shop… or else I think it would be better if it’s a pork bacon.

As for the Chili Burger,  beef patty.. with loads of special Carl’s Jr. chili sauce and cheese. Yummie…. but I still prefer the Double Western compare to the Chili Burger.

But if you really ask me… seriously, the size doesn’t really matter, but the price does matter. I think the price is expensive. I mean, this tasted not much difference from Burger King.. but it’s almost double the price of it.

So yup, to date… I’ve yet to re-visit Carl’s Jr. cause “If I tell you the price doesn’t matter. I’m lying.”

Address:
Carl’s Jr.
Lot 210C, Ground Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Centre,
No.1, Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor DE.
Telephone: 03. 7729 6718

Weee… I am officially a Sony Ericssonian. Hehe… a phone that will automatically snap a picture when someone shows a smile. Just great for me as I love to smile and my phone definately won’t miss any smile.

Yeay, more reasons to capture happy faces and sweet smiles.

My dear suddenly made this weird remark… just the other day before he went out and yum cha. And the conversation was like… him, asking me if I want to go out yum cha. And of course I said no… as I was too tired and would just wanna surf and blog a little. He then said…. okay… you are a blogger, I am a yummer.

Hehe.. which caught me thinking… I used to be a yummer… which I have no idea why… I sorta don’t felt like it nowadays. So yes… now we both are in different catergories. So what about you? Which one you actually fall in? Or maybe neither?

I must say, it is pretty weird for a person like me who loves Japanese food but doesn’t quite fancy Japanese noodles… for instances ramen or udon or soba. So, Ajisen Ramen is really not my choice of food. But well, since my sister wanted to go… and yeah, why not bring my mum and try some new stuff as well… so yes… here I am in a ramen shop… which to my surprise… sell many other stuffs besides ramen.

Hehe… I ordered most of the non-ramen stuff such as Pan Fried Gyoza (RM7.80) which turn out to be damn good. Well at least in my humble opinion has a crunchy skin yet the meat inside is tender and moist. I also ordered the Pork Cheese Cutlet (RM11.80). This was quite a disappointment dish. Not only does it look way different from what it is being pictured… it was like super dry and I can hardly taste the cheese… probably due to the thick and dry batter. As for the Tuna Sakura (RM5.80)… the tuna is probably one of the thinnest slice I’ve ever came across… and again… fish tasted not moist enough. Probably not fresh enough.

My sister ordered the Renkon (RM4.80) which practically is thin slices of lotus root being fried till golden brown. I must say this is a simple yet delicious dish to start of with. Ooo… I love fried stuff!! She also ordered the Sakae Sakura (RM8.80). Mmm… according to my sister… this is one of the best dish here. To me… it tasted really good cause it has strong sesame oil taste. But I don’t think many can take the strong taste of it.

As for my mum… haha… she ordered the Hot Plate Seafood Ramen (RM13.80). If you ask me… it doesn’t taste much difference from the yellow mee… put on a hot plate… add some boiled seafood topped with bean paste sauce. I mean… seriously… it doesn’t have any seafood taste in the sauce. Personally… ramen still doesn’t makes me go wow!

My sister and mum then decides to order some dessert. Yup.. mum loves ice kacang… so we ordered something similar to suit her taste. We ordered Kakigori Anmitsu (RM8..80) and Macha Sundae Anmitsu (RM11.80) to share. Well.. nothing much could go wrong with something that looks and taste like ice kacang. For the Macha Sundae, yummie… but, peach and red bean… hemmm funny combo~

Address:
Ajisen Ramen
Lot S01, Second Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Centre,
No.1, Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor DE.
Telephone: 03. 7726 6860
Website: http://www.ajisen.com.my