Month: December 2009

Zhong Yuan Kitchen

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Went hunting for dinner at Permier 101 few days ago. It felt like just happened yesterday but we went there on Monday. See how time flies? It’s the end of the week already!


Anyway, walked around the place and we ended up at Zhong Yuan Kitchen. We utilized the 10% discount coupon in My Privilege Book.


Left: Braised peanuts that were served to us. We thought there’s a charge for it but no charge at all. Cool! First time came across Chinese restaurant that didn’t charge for the peanuts. Furthermore, the portion was quite big compare to other places too.

Right: The rice was served in a mini rice barrel. Usually other restaurants will just give you a bowl of rice but this was different. We ordered rice for 4 persons but WOW! The portion was big, each of us got to eat 2 bowls of rice from the mini barrel. In other words, 8 bowls of rice for only RM4(RM1/person). Mind you, the rice wasn’t simply any cheap rice.

Just for the two things I mentioned, I’m giving them 2 thumbs up already!


Left: Braised Meatball Shanghai Style (RM12 – small), not our kind of taste, maybe it’s a dish that we are not familiar with. However, is not that bad.

Right: Sizzling Ostrich Fillet with Black Pepper Sauce (RM16 – small), nice! I love it.


Left: Fresh Jellyfish with Spicy Homemade Sauce (RM12), pretty spicy but not bad.

Right: Stir-fried with Dry Mushroom and Fresh Mushroom (RM12 – small), this dish wasn’t bad too. Very crunchy vegetables, not overcooked.

Overall the meal was good. We were fully stuffed. Didn’t expect the small portion was beyond our expectation. Bigger than we had expected.

However, they didn’t have cheaper soups. The cheapest soup was RM15! WAH!

Zhong Yuan Kitchen is located at the same row as bing! Premire 101 and the shop selling Korean products.

Food Porn

Going into 2010

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How time flies!?!?! I didn’t realized that it was already the last day of November few days ago. When I woke up on 1st December, I didn’t even realized it’s already December the 1st! This is the last month of 2009, in few days time, I know… There’s still weeks but weeks feel like days to me coz one week will gone without I even realize it. Even now, one week is almost over yet it felt like new week just started only!

Freak out already? I admit that I do freak out a bit. It’s like we just stepped into 2009 not long ago and that was when my nightmare started and now it’s almost the end of 2009.

Now… I almost recover from my nightmare but there are still many uncertainties awaiting me in certain aspects. I hope I can get the answer before we go into 2010 to get some stuffs done. Without the answer, things will not be able to proceed or achieve. I hope I can get the answer on my own but I can’t, like I said before, you need 2 hands to clap. Do you hear me?

All right, that’s all for now. Will come out with a food post tomorrow. Don’t forget to join the contest.

Randomness

Win a Pair of Gingerbread Men

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Check out the gingerbread men that you might be getting! They’re so cute! Click here

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Hello people! Here’s another contest I’m having. It’s December now, Christmas is just around the corner, it’s time to share. I have 12 pairs of gingerbread men for you! 😉

My friend, Josh, is kind enough to sponsor the prizes for this contest. He is the man that will be making your gingerbread men. Not only that, thanks to 175° Café for supporting this contest.

The contest is simple.

Just tell me your best Christmas celebration or how you intend to celebrate your Christmas this year. I don’t care how you are going to present it to me, it’s up to you. It’s your creativity. Even with one or two sentences I also don’t mind.

The best 12 entries will win a pair of gingerbread men specially made for you by Josh.

I will feature the winning entries in my blog. One post each day. It can be on any day after the result is announced. It can be before Christmas, after Christmas, 2010’s eve, 1st of January, or when I’m away in KL for holiday early next year. Rest assure that all the 12 entries will be featured before February 2010 comes.

Here’s something extra to those who own a blog and also one of the winners. I will feature your link along with your entry in my blog.

This contest is only open to those reside in Kuching.

Submit your entry now to aiilinglaw[at]gmail[dot]com with your name, e-mail, phone number, and blog URL(optional) with the subject Win a Pair of Gingerbread Men.

Entry can be in BM, English or Chinese.

The contest will end on 9th Decemeber 2009, 11.59pm.

p/s: The gingerbread men you see here are for illustration purpose only

Interesting

Table Setting @ UCSI

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We went to UCSI yesterday afternoon to learn about table setting. This is one of the activities of tHe Spring Ambassador Hunt. Not all of us could make it as it’s working hour so those working were allowed to skip this.


We were briefed by Mr. Dicky and some of the faculty students about table setting. It was really fun and interesting. Now I know how to do all these! WEE! If I need to prepare a romantic dinner for my darling next time, I know how to do it hahaha…

There were 4 parts.

First part was setting up the table centerpiece. Just like wrapping present don’t you think?

Left: Here’s my group’s table. Didn’t know a table centerpiece can be done this way. Nice or not?
Right: We were split into 3 groups, each group with 3 people.

Second part was setting up the table.

Left: The demo table.
Right: Our table!

Third part was folding the napkin.

Left: We made the fans with the napkins for our table.
Right: The rest made candles with the napkins.

Forth part was opening the wine/champagne bottle and how to pour it into the glass.

It’s not easy, the bottle was so heavy.


Left: Finally we filled up our glasses with sparking juice.
Right: Pour… Pour… Pour… I was so afraid that the whole bottle would tip over due to my small hand. Only one hand was used but I ended up using another hand to support the upper part of the bottle just in case. That’s obviously not my hand ;p

After that, we’re done!

We took our time sitting down, sipping the sparkling juice, eating the pudding and catching up with each other before we called it a day. One interesting experience and new knowledge gained.

p/s: ignore the typo in the images ;p

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