Masak-masak time!

The final day of the official public holiday for the CNY celebration - 3rd day. Dad and younger brother came early in the morning to visit my new place and also my brother went for a swim. We were suppose to have lunch together after that but hubby and I had other plans.

Don't be shock to hear our plans!

Instead of hanging around and chat or gamble, we have decided to cook up a lunch. LOL it was like a gang of housewives gathered to prepare lunch and the husbands just sat and watch TV, chat over beer and reading the newspaper. I felt like we have join the "si lai" (auntie's) club! Xian Pin + Hui (the hosts) even took the effort to go to the market to buy the ingredients!

Who would have thought that we have come down to this?
It's back to kid's play - masak-masak time!

Alan + Uli went join the hosts to Carrefour after that to buy additional ingredients.
When we arrived, we started preparing the lunch.

Look! I helped (a bit!) ;p The only dude that helped from the start was Alan. He did everything from peeling the potatos with spoon (!), to washing, to cleaning. Husband material! My husband was just taking picture LOL! But he did helped with the cleaning after.

After about 2 hours and taking turn to cook each dishes, lunch if finally served! Dishes are:

ABC soup - Chef: Uli + Alan + Xian Pin
Luncheon meat and egg - Chef: Alex
Vegetables - Chef: Phoebe
Soy Sauce Chicken - Chef: Uli
Baked beans - Chef: Michelle!
Fried roasted pork - Chef: Xian Pin


It was a great lunch in the house. It was the very first time we did this, and it was really fun. We must definitely do this again soon!

Happy Tiger Year - Day 1

The first day of CNY. Just did the usual - Started off the day by visiting my mum and had vegetarian lunch. Then went over to my mum's relatives for a while. Then Vincent left to go back to his own place while I went over to my dad's mum's place in KL. Hubby is never a fan of visiting relatives cos he finds it boring, so am not gonna force him to do it.

At night, we went to Pavilion with Hui + Xian Pin & Yew + Phoebe. We were gonna watch 14 Blades together. We met up earlier for yam cha session and since all is full, we found a place at Athena.

Not our first time here, but we have never fancy this restaurant. We saw their bar was full with used glasses. They ran out of glasses cos there wasn't enough workers that day to wash the utensils. Needless to say, the service sucks and we waited forever to have our food.

Hubby was hungry cos it was vegetarian that day, but he had to forego the diet, and ordered the Spaghetti Prawn Olio instead.
Hu + Xian Pin ordered the Lamb Shank "just to join in the fun to eat together" LOL! Not my idea of light snack.

The Tiramisu that Phoebe ordered took forever! It finally arrived (after a few times asking them for it).

This is the first time we celebrate V-Day together with hubby's friends. LOL!

Although the restaurant was in a mess and chaotic, the food was actually quite good. It's the new year... so no yelling and stressing over late food!

Lifestyle store & cafe - Garden

We were at the Curve on the eve of CNY and was there to look for CNY gifts for my parents. Supposedly to get some wines from Tesco but we ended up in the Curve... and we stumbled across this new cafe. Nobody can miss this place. The deco just stood out! They have a white grand piano outside! Cool!


This place is called the Garden. The ambience resembles the Westerners.

Their menu is really cute too. One side of the page is their dishes, and the other page would be the type of flower for every month and what it means.

Since we've just had our "reunion" lunch with my mum, we were still very full, thus opted for their beverages. One of the recommendation is their soda range. I ordered the Strawberry soda.

And hubby ordered the Passion Fruit Soda. It was definitely a thirst quencher.

This restaurant serves both loval and Western cuisine. They serve Thai food as well. Although the service here sucks (big time), but I wanna come back to try their food. Such a hypocrite!

V-Day + CNY 1st day

For this year of the Tiger, the 1st day coincides with the special V-Day. Every year, we celebrate V-Day a couple of days earlier to avoid the human traffic... But for this year, we were too busy preparing for CNY and did not take that into consideration. Luckily, we have done the reunion dinner by 13th Feb 2010 afternoon. So we had the dinner time during the eve of V-Day and CNY free. Seeing that we have done our dutiful responsibilities to our families, we went to Changkat for a special dinner - Just the 2 of us.

Other than 2 special days falling on the same day, it is an extra special year for us as this is also:

• The first time we are celebrating CNY as husband and wife.
• Our very own family reunion dinner.

The place where we had our meal to celebrate all these joyous events is La Vaca in Changkat BB.

Since this was a last minute arrangement, we did not make any reservation, but not worries, the crowd is lesser than usual V-Day since most of the people are back with their families or hometown.

The theme of this restaurant is beef-dishes. Everything here is beef. Their specialty and also they have fresh oysters. With cow as their main theme, check out their cute menu:

The wine menu. The wine is fairly cheap... Quite reasonable for a place in Changkat.

The starter - On the house. Really tasty and warm bread.

We ordered the Ceasar salad (RM26.00). With so much Chinese dinner before and during CNY, we need something to cleanse our system. The serving is reasonably big, and very tasty too!

This is the Jumbo Beef Sausage (RM38.00) I ordered. It was H-U-G-E! LOL! Very big and long! ;p
The sauce that was very yummy too! Very nice fragrant of onion.

Hubby ordered this - The Sirloin Beef (RM68.00). The serving for this is bigger than the normal steak... It's even bigger than the one from Angus Steakhouse. We couldn't finish this. It was just too much for us.

This is the platter of sauces that came with the beef. We barely touch it cos the steak was already good enough.

Very very full and satisfied with the dinner. This year's V-Day celebration just proved to be yet another memorable occasion!!


46 Changkat Bukit Bintang 50200 KL

Happy Tiger Year!

Roarrrrrrr!

Happy Chinese New Year all!!

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Happy Woohoo everyone!

First day of CNY + V-Day! I've just finished visiting my relatives and came back to hubby's parents home.

Here's wishing everyone:

1) Roaring abundance of wealth!
2) GRReat health!
3) Ferocious happiness!

Leaving you with the CNY deco for this year in major shopping complexes in KL.

1 Utama

Berjaya Times Square

Lot 10
In Lot 10, they hung all the surnames. This is hubby's surname, which is also mine - FOO.

Pavilion

CNY dinner on the Boss

Yet another CNY dinner. This time, it was only us, i.e. the ME Marketing Execs. Boss' treat. He asked us for suggestion, and after all the menu research etc, he decided on the Overseas Restaurant along Jalan Imbi.

Boss never understand why myself and Rock Chic insist on this dish... Well, there is no particular reason. It's a CNY dinner, and this is definite dish on the table.

One thing about this restaurant is that you need to pre-order their signature dishes. And this Honey BBQ Pork (Char Siew) is one of it. The group really like it, but to me, I just find it so-so. I still prefer the Char Siew from Canton-I.

Another pre-order dish is the Suckling Pig. When we ordered this, boss asked if we have any remorse for the poor pig. Sigh we do, but pigs meant to be eaten. None of us are vegetarian here...

Fried Cod Fish - Yummy! Very fresh, very crispy on the outside, very tender on the inside. Totally recommended!
This soup is their chef recommendation. It is not listed in the menu... You have to ask for it.

Another one of their chef recommendation. This is actually a prawn dish. It tasted like the marmite prawn, but with a twist. Hmm can't exactly put my finger on it.

Desserts - Fruits. They did not include this, and my boss was asking if they can give it complimentary. Obviously the manager there does not speak English, and we have to ask for it. I asked from the lady manager, and she agreed to it! Yay that was easy! Very nice person!

Group picture.

I wonder when is our next meal on boss' tab? Hmm... Another record-breaking week?

Family reunion dinner

This year, I have family "reunion" dinner with my dad. He made the effort to ask me and my sister, so I said OK.

This is where all the trouble and headache starts.

After the OK and the confirmation, he asked me to invite my mum and my grandma. I was utterly shocked cos that has NEVER happen. I thought he might be trying his best to make up for what he has done, or turning over a new leaf, so just in the spirit of CNY. Whatever it is, I told my mum about it.

Again, I was surprised again when my mum agreed! Fine, so I told my dad the number of pax confirmed.

Then he tells me that he is bringing the woman.

Sigh... What a nightmare.

To cut the long story short, mum and grandma didn't go, and my sis backed out last minute. So hubby and I went ahead, and dad brought along the woman, my half-brother and my "biological" brother. I know I have never mentioned him before cos he has never spoken a word to me in the past 4 years. He finally showed up today, and we talked a bit. Well, it's a start. I realised I've missed out on my brother's 4 years of life... And I do regret it.


Yee sang - A must-have for myself.

After the dinner, we left. Dad wanted me to go back to his house to chat but I was tired, and hubby wanted to go home to watch MU vs Portsmouth.

I would really want a peaceful and the whole family together for a CNY reunion dinner... Without any other unwanted guests. I wonder if it will ever happen...