Draw Something!

Discovered the game earlier this week. Thanks to iPhone and iPad.. Make our life more interactive within the cyber social network.

It was addictive. Had many good laughs too. Thanks to it, made my day when there was some funny pictures drawn. Let's see how long will this last.

Besides, as you can see below, I tried to blog from iPad.. Cool huh!

Happy weekend to all friends out there.

Foods @ Kota Kemuning : B'Liv Cafe [closed]

Healthy living comes from proper diet and healthy food.

Another extra ordinary food blog, for residence around Kota Kemuning. Discovered this place near my home. A cafe with their organic store built in, located the row opposite Aeon's MaxValu supermarket, you gotta be patient hunting it, as the row of shops still not really occupied with shops, mainly offices so far. Head out for a store in Orange, next to a furniture shop.

Here's the internal look. The dining area and the little corner selling their organic products, i.e. powdered soy milk, organic sugar and salts, etc.

Tried a newly discovered Chinese steamed cake, usually made out of yam. This made out of pumpkin, my favorite!

My freshly blended juice for dinner.

Here comes my favorite noodle, one of their signature dish too. The pork noodle.

Simple noodle like this, had their very own made noodle and pork balls, super like!

They serve many types of healthy rice meal too. Can't remember what's that served below, somewhat had spices of curry sachet on it. In fact, I do like their grain riced Taiwanese minced pork (滷肉飯). Yummmm.... healthy meals always been my favorite so far!

Address:-

United Kanboo is their distributer office which located just next door.

Picnic @ FRIM, Kepong Mar 4 2012

Nothing much to update in my blog these days. Life has gone to a stage where things had been in status quo, no excitement nor anything much to share. One thing I am blessed with, is myself and family members are all good in health, that's a greatest blessing for sure.

Time flies...

Guess my life has gone into a sentimental mode, staring at those good old days friendships, relationships, childhood days and so. Flipping through some novels that brought back some school days memories. Made me feeling like writing. But, I am not good in either English or Chinese language. That's why I have been stuck in between, write or not write. All wordings had flooded my brain, I find it so hard to start a word in writing.

Anyway, I am starting to capture some words in here, as a start from the memories I had over a recent small picnic trip at FRIM waterfall. The nature's sound of music brought me to certain thoughts, some inner thoughts I had to my own self and those I care for.

No picture of the messy foods at the picnic area.. but this tiny little greenie had captured my attention around the stream area. I held my DSLR once again, with those picture capturing moment, especially when the heart filled with dreamy thoughts...

Hope I am able to write more sentimental words in my next blog, other than those boring food blogs with all kinds of standard foods served out there. At least, for another new challenge to take on in the year of Dragon, 2012!

DIY - Three Cups Pork Belly

Ops, this is a dated post once again. A dish I shared on the last day of 2011. Everyone liked this very much, I like it too. Originated from the famous Taiwanese Three Cup Chicken dish, I modified it with pork belly instead. Oh dear, it taste even much better (hehe, self praised). Seriously, I initially thought of pork rib, as originally served by Fong Lye at Jalan Imbi (heard of it, but never try either). I put off that idea as it is not easy to share dishes like pork ribs at a buffet styled potluck dinner.

Here comes my Three Cups Pork Belly, the essential ingredient has been the rice wine and Thai Sweet Basil leaves.

Ingredient :-

chopped garlic 4-5 cloves, sliced ginger, pork belly sliced in dices, Thai Basil leaves

Marinate :-

Pork belly with little soy sauce to taste, add cooking rice wine

Sauce :-

Sesame oil, barley malt (麥芽糖), soy sauce, dark soy sauce, pepper, water to dilute, cooking rice wine

1. Mix sauce ingredient in a bowl, set a side
2. Stir chopped garlic in sesame oil, stir on ginger and few cloves of Basil leaves
3. Add marinated pork belly and continue stir till cooked
4. Add bowl of sauce, adjust sauce according to your like; add more cloves of Basil leaves
5. Simmer for 15minutes
6. Ready to serve

Interested to try?

DIY - Kuih Mor a.k.a. Momo

While I was thinking what else special to bake for this coming CNY, I suddenly thought of this. It was my annual year end vacations, where my mind was full of experimental dishes to try on. Here comes the mood for me to experiment new things, specially those specialties of what we have in the East. How celebrate CNY in the East is ever unique, full with fun and hospitality. Open houses are the norm around, we invites relatives and friends around to gather and have meals together.

Introducing this little white biscuit, which commonly known in the society of Borneo - Sarawak, Sabah and Brunei. The Kuih Mor a.k.a Kuih Momo. Taste to melt in the mouth, milky taste, powdery look. I didn't know it made of Ghee, always thought it is made of butter.

http://cornercafe.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/kuih-momo/

I followed exactly the recipe given with steps. Modified some of the steps given into following for my easy reference in future. It's pretty easy to follow, enjoyed the bake but somewhat my 1st trial did not really melt in mouth as it should.

CNY 2012, The powerful Dragon year :)

Gong Hei Fatt Choy! Another year has past, here comes the year of Dragon. The most powerful creature in the world of Zodiac sign.

I don't have much preparation for the celebration this year. Everything keep simple and less emotion as well. Wishing all prosperity as always & blessed in good health always. Stay safe and be happy.

Happy Chinese New Year ! 恭賀新禧。。。

YET - South Korea Ski Trip, Nov 25-Dec 1 2011 (Part 3)

Upon late afternoon on Day 5, we headed to their domestic airport for our flight to Jeju island. Hooray!

Anyway, we first need to have our early dinner at the airport. Fast food time! A set of burger, one for guy one for lady, how sweet. Check out the spoon, it's made of paper! (Environment friendly, reduce plastic use)

Domestic airway, includes Korean Air and Jin Air. We were on Jin Air to Jeju, the only moment I remembered was the queue we had to bare with some other tourists, it was nightmare. Not to mention the country they were from, but you might be able to guess, it's Asian! Other, was the lengchai Korean steward we say on board, he was just wearing neon Green T-shirt, ever casual.

By the time we checked in hotel at Jeju, it was almost 8pm! Oh dear, all started to feel hungry once again. We had to hunt food on our own that night, no translation or any help. A group of 15 went into a Korean BBQ restaurant and start order (with the help of owner's iPhone!) Mind you, Jeju is much more remote than Seoul, their proficiency in English is extremely low.

The food was heavenly good that night. The best we had throughout the tour, but of course... this was a self paid meal. It cost us like RM600++ for 15pax. Not cheap yeah!

Jeju island, a must go destination of South Korea. The scenic places were made famous because of a Korea Drama too, if not mistaken was called All In. I am not familiar with any of those early 2000 Korean drama, so I barely has any idea on the scene taken.

Day 6 - Tour of Jeju begun. First destination of the day was the Mysterious Road. How mysterious it can be? They said was due to optic illusion, one may see the road as downhill but in fact was uphill. That's all. I can't really spot the difference, but heck.. the morning sun was stunning, that was what I saw.

We headed to a tiny Orange orchard.

The most scenic place I have been in Jeju was Seongsan Sunrise Peak. It was a lovely walk that morning, temperature went a little high up to 20C before it went down to 10C again later in the afternoon. I created a video for the scene.

Seojikoji was another nice place for photography. Unfortunately, I have not many photos to share here as they are all my own portraits. :)

We had pork for lunch. It was yummy. I spotted many windmill surrounding that area.

After lunch, we headed to Seongup Folk Village (that was after lunch, skipped the sequence a little) for honey demonstration and sales. The early part of the story telling was rather interesting, but when the person turned the topic into sales, oh.... I all started to get bored.

3D Trick Art Museum was interesting. Worth a visit.

I skipped another tourist place, the Dragon Head Rock (Yongduam Rock) as the weather changed drastically, it was extremely cold that time, close to 1-2C.

Dinner we had Ginseng chicken soup with rice & noodle. Each person a bowl. Oh! Heavenly nice to had hot soup during winter. Slurp...

Honestly, to explore around the whole Jeju island may need a full 1 week. Our tour was barely hit-and-run of those famous places. If I ever had the chance to come here again, will surely enjoy the scenic places once again.

We stayed Jeju for 2 nights. On the second nite, we had our supper again. It wasn't as full as the previous nights, but the rice wine was good. We can't resist to have it again.

Day 7 - Check out from Jeju Hotel, took a flight back to Seoul. We had some time in between before our flight back to KL, we had our final shopping spree at Myeongdong 明洞. I didn't get anything exciting except a pair of high heel crocs :D

Okie... that's all for this long winded story telling. Overall, I found there's pros and cons upon joining a tour trip like this.

Pros - Ease language barrier; accommodation are decent & up good; tour bus ever ready, less walking; cover wide area of tourist spots;

Cons - Having to wake up early; packing bags and check in new hotel every other days; not able to taste so much of local good foods; shop less (can be good);

Other observation about South Korea....

1) I tend to understand more of this particular country.

2) Internet access at hotel, still not wide coverage. Only available most at the lobby. Anyway, I find my way to enjoy surfing, especially when the tour bus is waiting at hotel lobby.

Overall, it was an excellent trip, glad that I have widen my knowledge on this country.