tiramisho: July 2008

Saturday, July 26, 2008

6 Years! (21 Jul)

Yes, we’ve been married for 6 years! Not too long nor is it short.

We took ½ day leave to go "park-tor". Watched "Dark Knight", sipped coffee, go shopping at Vivocity before heading to Four Seasons Hotel for ala carte dinner buffet at its One-Ninety restaurant. We came to know about this from someone else’s website hehe..

For S$52++, the “Smaller Bites” buffet allows one to choose from 30 dishes of appetizers and main courses (ranging from cod fish to lobster and foie gras) as well as 9 different types of desserts. You can take a look at its menu from http://www.fourseasons.com/singapore/menu_120.html.

It’s called “Smaller Bites” for a good reason – all of its dishes are really of bite size per serving. Given the variety, it was quite a pity that 2 of us couldn’t savour everything on the menu but we did try all the 9 types of desserts, which I especially reserved stomach space haha!! Perhaps we had too high an expectation, we felt there were only a few good dishes and desserts deserving of our praises ;p. The best of all? WARM CHOCOLATE CAKE!! I had 2!! Yum yum!!!

Anyway, I gained more than just a dinner treat from my hubby. He sent a bunch of flowers to my office, bought me a BIG watch and a new moo-moo wallet. What did I give my hubby? Errrr…. Nothing! Hahaha!!! OOppss..!!

KL again (28 Jun-1 Jul)

Another KL trip, the 2nd this year. This time round, my hubby found a website introducing the kopitiam/ hawker style makan places from http://www.journeymalaysia.com/M2_foodkl.htm.

We reached KL close to 3pm cos there was a slight jam at the Tuas Checkpoint, all thanks to Mr Selamat. We wanted to eat lunch at Weng Heng Coffee Shop (one end of Jalan Imbi, opposite Honda Showroom), which was said to serve the best pork ball noodles, Penang kway teow and popiah. Unfortunately, by the time we reached there, the stalls were already closed!! No choice, we had to eat at the coffee shop next door. We ordered chicken rice and Ipoh hor fun. Very tasty!! I love my hor fun - very smooth kuay teow and tender chicken breast meat! The wanton soup was a bit too salty for me hehee...

At least our walk from Times Square wasn’t a wasted effort. Including a bowl of wanton soup and 2 glasses of lime juice, the bill came to RM$20. Can lah… hehe…

Dinner was settled at Chinatown, Petaling Street. My hubby recommended this claypot rice – very nice! Ours was chicken + salted fish. I love the salted fish! Thinly sliced and very fragrant! Bak kut teh was another not to be missed.

We also ventured to another coffee shop, which according to the above website served “great wanton noodles with roast pork” and “yuan yang” (mix coffee and tea). So we walked all the way from Impiana (the hotel we stayed) to the end of Jalan Bukit Bintang where this coffee shop is, called Toong Kwoon Chye. It’s along Jalan Bintang, across the road from Century Hotel. Quite disappointed actually, cos nothing that special. I think my Segamat wanton noodles are better haha!! Worse is, the bill came to RM14 for 2 plates of wanton noodles and 2 glasses of cold “yuan yang”!!! Felt ripped off!! We are not misers or are stingy, just didn’t think simple dishes like these will cost so much in a coffee shop setting. Anyway, not recommended for you guys out there unless you stay nearby and wanna just give it a try ;)

The last night before our departure, we went for something more high class but were equally disappointed. It’s a Spanish restaurant called "La Bodega" at Pavilion (the newest shopping mall in KL). We ordered its tapas dinner promotion which cost RM78++ – came with 4 choices of tapas and paella (pronounced as “pa-eh-ya”). Aiyoh, these dishes REALLY CANNOT MAKE IT! So, I'll not go too much into introducing each of these dishes ;p cos these were the worst tapas dishes I’ve had before hahah!! The place I've tried really good tapas? Barcelona haha!!