Hmmm..been very busy n had been neglegting this blog for many moons ha ha..anyway, few weeks back my ex-boss arranged a dinner for ex-colleagues and another ex-boss who just got back from India (he's working there), due to busy schedule I had to miss the dinner at E-San Thai Kitchen Ara Damansara http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/e-san-thai-kitchen-ara-damansara. My ex-boss fav restaurant it seems. He took us to the other branch in Taman Seputeh before http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/e-san-kitchen-taman-seputeh
Anyway, I had not seen my ex-colleagues TH (last met her during our Bangkok trip during xmas 2010), VK & NMM...since our dinner at VK's place. So, NMM called and insisted that we should have dinner soon. Since I'm only available on Sunday, NMM suggested we meet up for tea. I suggested Delicious since as UOB card holder, I can have 50% discount on 26/3/11 n 27/3/11...
On Saturday, my bf was busy with wedding dinner, so I went to 1U n walked into Theobroma Chocolate Lounge (bloggers seem to adore this place), ordered their Iceberg Lady and Seafood Spaghetti Olio Olio. The verdict? Iceberg Lady is just ok n the spaghetti Olio Olio not that satisfying...lack the oomph. For price visit here http://www.chocolatelounge.com.my/
Anyway, after the meal, I walked over to Delicious and tapau "Pan Seared Cod served with Sauteed Prawns on Ratatouille & Fried Potatoes" and "Aglio Olio Spaghettini with seafood". The cod fish was delicious but quite pricy at RM48.90 however at 50% discount, why not? The spaghettini..much better than the one in Theobroma Chocolate Lounge. http://www.delicious.com.my/#menu_mains
So, Sunday came and I got 2 massages from NMM n VK that they'll be late. I texted TH and she was at Mark & Spencer. We walked over to Delicious and she ordered "Hearty Noodle Soup with Cod, Vermicelli, Salted Vegetables & Tomato" and I ordered "Pan-seared Crispy Skin Salmon served with Coriander Relish, Asparagus & Fried Potatoes" and for drinks I ordered "Watermelon & Lychee Blast" and TH ordered "Frosty Lychee & Lime'. We enjoyed our late lunch and NMM arrived. She ordered Caesar Salad with Salmon and same drink as TH. VK arrived when I had finished my salmon n she ordered Caesar Salad with chicken. All of us enjoyed our selection. Then we decided to try "Traditional English Afternoon Tea for Two"....we can choose one cake from the display cabinet. "Peach Frangipane with Vanilla Ice Cream" looks good.
The set came with:
Warm Scones with Preserves & Fresh Cream
Assortment of Finger Sandwiches & Duck Confit in Filo Pastry
Strawberry Chocolate dip & Hand-Rolled chocolate truffles
Rosemary & Cheese Cookies
Choice of any one cake on display - we chose Peach Frangipane with Vanilla Ice Cream
Choice of any two cups of tea
Everyone attacked the scones first, then the peach frangipani. the scone is nice but the peach frangipani is just way too sweet...we couldn't finish the set n decided to tapau the leftover..
We stayed there for almost 4 hours and spend almost RM300 (RM287.20 to be exact), but at 50% discount and good chatty time with old friends...priceless.
What others said about Delicious & Theobrama n E San:
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/theobroma-chocolate-lounge-one-utama
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/delicious-cafe-tea-bread-one-utama-pj
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/e-san-thai-kitchen-ara-damansara
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/e-san-kitchen-taman-seputeh
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Monday, 22 November 2010
Portuguese Settlement & Asam Pedas
I just got back from Melaka yesterday. Went there with my sis, 3 nieces n 2 nephews. My bro's family need to attend my niece's convocation do in Trengganu so my bro's asked for our help to send his son to Kolej Yayasan Saad for final selection program (form 1 intake) http://kysm.edu.my/
Anyway, we got there about 3pm++, sat for briefing etc and proceeded to check-in into our accommodation for the night at Garden City Apartment http://www.gardencity.com.my/
Not a bad place, we have stayed here before during our family outing years ago, the place looks like any residential apartment. Reasonably clean though one lift was down so long queue to use the lift and most peoples decided to use staircase. The bed in our unit..hmm need to be careful, my 3 year old nephew kept on asking why is the bed tilting when we slept on it.
That night we went for dinner at Portuguese Settlement, as usual the moment you parked your car, a group of them came to 'promote' their stalls. We felt harassed n decided to walk around before deciding which stall to have our dinner at. While walking around, we googled and found someone recommended stall 88, hmm not a good choice. We had scallops cooked with dried chillies (powdered chilly tasted uncooked), butter prawns (guts not cleaned), Portuguese bake fish (tasted so so), sotong fritters (not nice), garlic kailan (nice), cili padi lala (nice). Total inclusive drinks for 5pax RM138.00
After dinner, went back to the apartment n zzz. Next morning had bread n peanut butter for breakfast. For lunch we decided to look for best asam pedas daging in Melaka, googled and someone suggested 'Restoren Nasi Ayam Special di Bachang', she mentioned http://www.kakinakl.com/2010/05/makan-apa-yang-sedap-di-melakabest.html it is nearby Melaka Sentral, so we went looking and couldn't find the place, we were hungry and saw this restaurant "Restoran Cinta Rasa & Kafe" at Plaza Melaka Sentral. Their daun ubi masak lemak cili padi is delicious, their asam pedas daging is not bad too. lunch cost us RM38 for 4pax.
After lunch off to KL
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Excerpt from my blog entry in 2009:
The stalls -
* Seafood Terrace
* Joan n El' Chico's - we had our lunch here
* Seafront
* Joe Splash Five
* Big Benz Fountain
* Jenny Kopitiam
* J&J Corner
* De Costas
Food? Delicious! We had clams (lala), grilled portuguese fish, brinjall (portuguese style) and butter prawns. Total? RM80++?
What others said about Portuguese Settlement:
* http://www.usj.com.my/bulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=24358
* http://j2kfm.blogspot.com/2009/01/seafood-portuguese-settlement-melaka.html
* http://www.iwannaseetheworld.com/?p=7
* http://www.foodpoi.com/2008/10/portuguese-settlement-sea-terrace-seafood/
* http://jasonmumbles.com/2008/12/sea-terrance-portuguese-settlement
* http://jasonmumbles.com/2009/01/revisitng-sea-terrace-portuguese-settlement
* http://absolutginger.com/tag/portuguese-settlement/
* http://www.melaka.org.my/eatingout/portuguese.html
* http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/only-one-mango-juice-portuguese-settlement
Anyway, we got there about 3pm++, sat for briefing etc and proceeded to check-in into our accommodation for the night at Garden City Apartment http://www.gardencity.com.my/
Not a bad place, we have stayed here before during our family outing years ago, the place looks like any residential apartment. Reasonably clean though one lift was down so long queue to use the lift and most peoples decided to use staircase. The bed in our unit..hmm need to be careful, my 3 year old nephew kept on asking why is the bed tilting when we slept on it.
That night we went for dinner at Portuguese Settlement, as usual the moment you parked your car, a group of them came to 'promote' their stalls. We felt harassed n decided to walk around before deciding which stall to have our dinner at. While walking around, we googled and found someone recommended stall 88, hmm not a good choice. We had scallops cooked with dried chillies (powdered chilly tasted uncooked), butter prawns (guts not cleaned), Portuguese bake fish (tasted so so), sotong fritters (not nice), garlic kailan (nice), cili padi lala (nice). Total inclusive drinks for 5pax RM138.00
After dinner, went back to the apartment n zzz. Next morning had bread n peanut butter for breakfast. For lunch we decided to look for best asam pedas daging in Melaka, googled and someone suggested 'Restoren Nasi Ayam Special di Bachang', she mentioned http://www.kakinakl.com/2010/05/makan-apa-yang-sedap-di-melakabest.html it is nearby Melaka Sentral, so we went looking and couldn't find the place, we were hungry and saw this restaurant "Restoran Cinta Rasa & Kafe" at Plaza Melaka Sentral. Their daun ubi masak lemak cili padi is delicious, their asam pedas daging is not bad too. lunch cost us RM38 for 4pax.
After lunch off to KL
===================================================================================
Excerpt from my blog entry in 2009:
The stalls -
* Seafood Terrace
* Joan n El' Chico's - we had our lunch here
* Seafront
* Joe Splash Five
* Big Benz Fountain
* Jenny Kopitiam
* J&J Corner
* De Costas
Food? Delicious! We had clams (lala), grilled portuguese fish, brinjall (portuguese style) and butter prawns. Total? RM80++?
What others said about Portuguese Settlement:
* http://www.usj.com.my/bulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=24358
* http://j2kfm.blogspot.com/2009/01/seafood-portuguese-settlement-melaka.html
* http://www.iwannaseetheworld.com/?p=7
* http://www.foodpoi.com/2008/10/portuguese-settlement-sea-terrace-seafood/
* http://jasonmumbles.com/2008/12/sea-terrance-portuguese-settlement
* http://jasonmumbles.com/2009/01/revisitng-sea-terrace-portuguese-settlement
* http://absolutginger.com/tag/portuguese-settlement/
* http://www.melaka.org.my/eatingout/portuguese.html
* http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/only-one-mango-juice-portuguese-settlement
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Halal Restaurant in Port Dickson
My sis had a seminar (organized by her office) at Thistle PD. She wanted to bring her son along but as she'll be busy all day, she asked us (me, my 2 nephews n niece) if we want to come along. Hmm..short weekend break? Why not..
My sis was a designated driver, so she left early Saturday morning with her colleagues. I left later (after office hour) with the troop. When we reached PD, my nephew played with my car window (back window) and it was stuck. We stopped by at a workshop and the mechanic help to close it but he told me that it will stay close as it will take him some time to fix it. He advised me to take it to a workshop in KL later for proper repair.
We reached Thistle about 4pm and it was really hot. My nephew wanted to swim but we have to wait till later in the evening.
Thistle is a nice hotel (formerly Guoman Resort), everything is new except bathroom fittings (I guess they burst their renovation budget).....I like the hotel as it family oriented n very comfortable with plenty of facilities - pool, children playing area, library etc...
But, since it was quite new when we visited the place, they were not ready for huge crowd, it was chaotic during breakfast. They ran out of clean coffee cups (we had to use bowls for our coffee), the trainees waitresses/waiters were very inefficient (caused many guests to lose tempers)....a part from that, I enjoyed my stay here.
Dinner? before the trip I surfed the net on where to eat good seafood, found 2 places, one is Weng Yin Seafood Restaurant and the other is Restoran Chardin Seaview; we decided to go to Weng Yin as it is near Thistle while my sister joined her colleagues at Chardin Seaview.
We enjoyed our seafood dinner - we had soy sauce fish (forgotten what fish we ordered), butter prawn, Kam heong bamboo clams and vegetable...Definitely will visit this place again if we go to PD again.
What others said about Weng Yin (pork free):
http://j-travel.blogspot.com/2010/01/weng-yin-seafood-restaurant-at-port.html
http://www.portdickson.net/pages/wengyinseafood
http://stevenhavingfun.blogspot.com/2008/09/restaurant-in-port-dickson-weng-yin.html
http://www.usj.com.my/bulletin/upload/archive/index.php/t-10408.html
http://www.malaysianbabes.net/forum/index.php?/topic/6990-any-food-to-recomend-in-port-dickson/
http://www.friedchillies.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/3179/
What other said about Chardin (pork free)
http://joshuaongys.com/2009/11/restaurant-chardin-sea-view-seafood-village-port-dickson/
http://lifeofcontinues.blogspot.com/2009/02/restaurant-chardin-sea-view-port.html
http://kadusmama.com/2008/06/lobster-crab-geoduck-any-for-you.html
Read what others said about Thistle Hotel here:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g303991-d1473370-Reviews-Thistle_Port_Dickson-Port_Dickson_Negeri_Sembilan.html
http://www.thistle.com/hotels/malaysia/port_dickson/thistle_port_dickson/index.html
Other nice hotels in PD:
http://babytaz38.blogspot.com/2007/01/destination-port-dickson-malaysia.html
http://khongfamily.com/blog/?p=318
http://www.cuti.com.my/hotel/info.php?id=2782&hotel=Avillion+Admiral+Cove
http://www.kuali.com/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/4/eatingout/5013840&sec=eatingout
My sis was a designated driver, so she left early Saturday morning with her colleagues. I left later (after office hour) with the troop. When we reached PD, my nephew played with my car window (back window) and it was stuck. We stopped by at a workshop and the mechanic help to close it but he told me that it will stay close as it will take him some time to fix it. He advised me to take it to a workshop in KL later for proper repair.
We reached Thistle about 4pm and it was really hot. My nephew wanted to swim but we have to wait till later in the evening.
Thistle is a nice hotel (formerly Guoman Resort), everything is new except bathroom fittings (I guess they burst their renovation budget).....I like the hotel as it family oriented n very comfortable with plenty of facilities - pool, children playing area, library etc...
But, since it was quite new when we visited the place, they were not ready for huge crowd, it was chaotic during breakfast. They ran out of clean coffee cups (we had to use bowls for our coffee), the trainees waitresses/waiters were very inefficient (caused many guests to lose tempers)....a part from that, I enjoyed my stay here.
Dinner? before the trip I surfed the net on where to eat good seafood, found 2 places, one is Weng Yin Seafood Restaurant and the other is Restoran Chardin Seaview; we decided to go to Weng Yin as it is near Thistle while my sister joined her colleagues at Chardin Seaview.
We enjoyed our seafood dinner - we had soy sauce fish (forgotten what fish we ordered), butter prawn, Kam heong bamboo clams and vegetable...Definitely will visit this place again if we go to PD again.
What others said about Weng Yin (pork free):
http://j-travel.blogspot.com/2010/01/weng-yin-seafood-restaurant-at-port.html
http://www.portdickson.net/pages/wengyinseafood
http://stevenhavingfun.blogspot.com/2008/09/restaurant-in-port-dickson-weng-yin.html
http://www.usj.com.my/bulletin/upload/archive/index.php/t-10408.html
http://www.malaysianbabes.net/forum/index.php?/topic/6990-any-food-to-recomend-in-port-dickson/
http://www.friedchillies.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/3179/
What other said about Chardin (pork free)
http://joshuaongys.com/2009/11/restaurant-chardin-sea-view-seafood-village-port-dickson/
http://lifeofcontinues.blogspot.com/2009/02/restaurant-chardin-sea-view-port.html
http://kadusmama.com/2008/06/lobster-crab-geoduck-any-for-you.html
Read what others said about Thistle Hotel here:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g303991-d1473370-Reviews-Thistle_Port_Dickson-Port_Dickson_Negeri_Sembilan.html
http://www.thistle.com/hotels/malaysia/port_dickson/thistle_port_dickson/index.html
Other nice hotels in PD:
http://babytaz38.blogspot.com/2007/01/destination-port-dickson-malaysia.html
http://khongfamily.com/blog/?p=318
http://www.cuti.com.my/hotel/info.php?id=2782&hotel=Avillion+Admiral+Cove
http://www.kuali.com/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/4/eatingout/5013840&sec=eatingout
Laksa oh Laksa
I just had S'pore laksa as lunch. Bought it from Secret Recipe. Tasted ok but I'll not go for second helping as it is a bit too rich for me..
I was thinking why not blog something about laksa, after all we've so many variations of laksa here in Malaysia..
I was in Sibu airport few days back, went there for a site visit - basically visiting the airport itself as Ministry of Transport (MOT) is planning to expand the airport. One of the worst airport that I ever visited. Doors are rotten, floors are stained..about time they do major renovation work.
Anyway, we had no time to go to town, so we had our breakfast and lunch at the airport restaurant (only one restaurant there), it looks like typical malay nasi campur restaurant. For breakfast I had laksa (Sarawak) and for lunch we had nasi campur. The laksa was actually quite tasty, better than what I had tried at Tesco's (Mutiara Damansara) food court and Alexis (Great Eastern Mall http://alexis.com.my/html/ampang.html ).Nasi campur? The dishes were too sweet to my liking..
Anyway, back to laksa. Basically, laksa has 2 major variations - sour and without coconut milk (penang laksa, assam laksa, kedah laksa etc), and lemak (rich) laksa (nyonya laksa, mi kari, curry laksa etc).
What's the difference? Well, read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laksa and here http://www.squidoo.com/ultimate_laksa_guide and here http://www.pickles-and-spices.com/types-of-laksa.html
Anyway, my article here is base on personal experience, taste and preference.
Kedah Laksa
I love this version. For obvious reason since I was born and raised in Kedah. I love home made version, but making it, is quite a tedious process. In Kedah, Laksa Teluk Kechai is very popular. Tried it before and I love it.
http://www.friedchillies.com/index.php/site/detail/laksa_teluk_kechai/
recipe sample - http://www.scribd.com/doc/24064747/Laksa-Kuala-Kedah
Kedah Laksam
Not many people knew that there is a Kedah version of laksam as it is not popular outside Kedah. Even in Kedah, laksam is only popular in Kuala Kedah and nearby area like Alor Star. Anyway, my parents' neighbour originated from Kuala Kedah. The late Mak Mah made a mean laksam. Before she passed away, my sister managed to get a recipe from her. And now we can always enjoy laksam whenever my sis invited us over for makan makan at her place..
sample recipe http://kuaci-corner.blogspot.com/2009/09/laksam-chek-nani.html
Penang Laksa
Very close resemblance to Kedah Laksa...
recipe sample - http://resepi.mesra.net/Detailed/1058.shtml
Perlis Laksa
Close resemblance to Kedah Laksa. But they add sugar in their gravy...
i tried Perlis Laksa before, tasted like Kedah Laksa to me...anyway, I heard people said (urban myth?) that authentic Perlis Laksa use eels as its main ingredient..
recipe sample - http://www.docstoc.com/docs/8290699/My-Resipi-Laksa-Kuala-Perlis/
Penang Assam Laksa
I prefer Kedah Laksa, assam laksa is an acquired taste for me, my bf is chinese so sometimes when we eat at chinese stalls, there's nothing much that I can eat except assam laksa, rojak, grilled fish or grilled tauhu. After a few bowls of assam laksa over a number of years, I now love this version...
recipe sample - http://www.penangchefs.com/recipe.aspx?recipeid=22
Curry Laksa
Spicier version of nyonya laksa
Sample recipe - http://kuali.com/recipes/viewrecipe.asp?r=830 (for halal version, opt out pig's blood)
Nyonya Laksa
Quite similar to Singapore laksa but spicier...
Sometimes when I have craving for this laksa, I'll have it at either Secret Recipe or Nyonya Colors http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/nyonya-colors-nyonya-foods-one-utama
Nyonya Colors also offers Thai Curry Laksa & Dry Curry Mee (close relatives to Nyonya Laksa)
recipe sample - http://www.malaysianfood.net/recipes/recipelaksalemak.htm and http://resepi.mesra.net/Detailed/758.shtml
Pot Laksa
Another variation of nyonya laksa. My sis's specialty. She found a recipe in a recipe book, modified it and made it her own. Another dish that we'll always enjoy whenever she has makan makan do at her place.
recipe sample http://www.101cookingrecipes.com/nyonya-recipes/pot-laksa.php
Mi Kari
Malay version of Nyonya Laksa, less creamy, spicier. Taste like you are eating your noodles with thin curry...
Recipe sample - http://www.resepirrrecipe.com/recipe_details.php?rec_id=172
Sarawak Laksa
Will never eat this version in Peninsular Malaysia. Tasted horrible. But In Sarawak it actually taste quite nice.
recipe sample - http://www.1easyasianrecipes.com/borneo-recipes/sarawak-laksa-recipe.php
Singapore laksa
- not my favourite kind of laksa. Secret Recipe offer this dish in its menu
recipe sample - http://www.hpb.gov.sg/hpb/default.asp?pg_id=1488
Johore Laksa
- not my favourite, a bit too rich for me..
recipe sample - http://resepi.mesra.net/Detailed/3321.shtml
Kelantan laksa & laksam
My favourite during fasting month..
recipe sample http://qutreen.fotopages.com/?entry=1668638 and http://kuali.com/recipes/viewrecipe.asp?r=85
And many more variations that I've yet to try...
I was thinking why not blog something about laksa, after all we've so many variations of laksa here in Malaysia..
I was in Sibu airport few days back, went there for a site visit - basically visiting the airport itself as Ministry of Transport (MOT) is planning to expand the airport. One of the worst airport that I ever visited. Doors are rotten, floors are stained..about time they do major renovation work.
Anyway, we had no time to go to town, so we had our breakfast and lunch at the airport restaurant (only one restaurant there), it looks like typical malay nasi campur restaurant. For breakfast I had laksa (Sarawak) and for lunch we had nasi campur. The laksa was actually quite tasty, better than what I had tried at Tesco's (Mutiara Damansara) food court and Alexis (Great Eastern Mall http://alexis.com.my/html/ampang.html ).Nasi campur? The dishes were too sweet to my liking..
Anyway, back to laksa. Basically, laksa has 2 major variations - sour and without coconut milk (penang laksa, assam laksa, kedah laksa etc), and lemak (rich) laksa (nyonya laksa, mi kari, curry laksa etc).
What's the difference? Well, read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laksa and here http://www.squidoo.com/ultimate_laksa_guide and here http://www.pickles-and-spices.com/types-of-laksa.html
Anyway, my article here is base on personal experience, taste and preference.
Kedah Laksa
I love this version. For obvious reason since I was born and raised in Kedah. I love home made version, but making it, is quite a tedious process. In Kedah, Laksa Teluk Kechai is very popular. Tried it before and I love it.
http://www.friedchillies.com/index.php/site/detail/laksa_teluk_kechai/
recipe sample - http://www.scribd.com/doc/24064747/Laksa-Kuala-Kedah
Kedah Laksam
Not many people knew that there is a Kedah version of laksam as it is not popular outside Kedah. Even in Kedah, laksam is only popular in Kuala Kedah and nearby area like Alor Star. Anyway, my parents' neighbour originated from Kuala Kedah. The late Mak Mah made a mean laksam. Before she passed away, my sister managed to get a recipe from her. And now we can always enjoy laksam whenever my sis invited us over for makan makan at her place..
sample recipe http://kuaci-corner.blogspot.com/2009/09/laksam-chek-nani.html
Penang Laksa
Very close resemblance to Kedah Laksa...
recipe sample - http://resepi.mesra.net/Detailed/1058.shtml
Perlis Laksa
Close resemblance to Kedah Laksa. But they add sugar in their gravy...
i tried Perlis Laksa before, tasted like Kedah Laksa to me...anyway, I heard people said (urban myth?) that authentic Perlis Laksa use eels as its main ingredient..
recipe sample - http://www.docstoc.com/docs/8290699/My-Resipi-Laksa-Kuala-Perlis/
Penang Assam Laksa
I prefer Kedah Laksa, assam laksa is an acquired taste for me, my bf is chinese so sometimes when we eat at chinese stalls, there's nothing much that I can eat except assam laksa, rojak, grilled fish or grilled tauhu. After a few bowls of assam laksa over a number of years, I now love this version...
recipe sample - http://www.penangchefs.com/recipe.aspx?recipeid=22
Curry Laksa
Spicier version of nyonya laksa
Sample recipe - http://kuali.com/recipes/viewrecipe.asp?r=830 (for halal version, opt out pig's blood)
Nyonya Laksa
Quite similar to Singapore laksa but spicier...
Sometimes when I have craving for this laksa, I'll have it at either Secret Recipe or Nyonya Colors http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/nyonya-colors-nyonya-foods-one-utama
Nyonya Colors also offers Thai Curry Laksa & Dry Curry Mee (close relatives to Nyonya Laksa)
recipe sample - http://www.malaysianfood.net/recipes/recipelaksalemak.htm and http://resepi.mesra.net/Detailed/758.shtml
Pot Laksa
Another variation of nyonya laksa. My sis's specialty. She found a recipe in a recipe book, modified it and made it her own. Another dish that we'll always enjoy whenever she has makan makan do at her place.
recipe sample http://www.101cookingrecipes.com/nyonya-recipes/pot-laksa.php
Mi Kari
Malay version of Nyonya Laksa, less creamy, spicier. Taste like you are eating your noodles with thin curry...
Recipe sample - http://www.resepirrrecipe.com/recipe_details.php?rec_id=172
Sarawak Laksa
Will never eat this version in Peninsular Malaysia. Tasted horrible. But In Sarawak it actually taste quite nice.
recipe sample - http://www.1easyasianrecipes.com/borneo-recipes/sarawak-laksa-recipe.php
Singapore laksa
- not my favourite kind of laksa. Secret Recipe offer this dish in its menu
recipe sample - http://www.hpb.gov.sg/hpb/default.asp?pg_id=1488
Johore Laksa
- not my favourite, a bit too rich for me..
recipe sample - http://resepi.mesra.net/Detailed/3321.shtml
Kelantan laksa & laksam
My favourite during fasting month..
recipe sample http://qutreen.fotopages.com/?entry=1668638 and http://kuali.com/recipes/viewrecipe.asp?r=85
And many more variations that I've yet to try...
Monday, 1 March 2010
Kijal and Cherating - 3D/2N
3D/2N Kijal/Cherating
Day 1
We planned to leave KL last Friday (26/2/2010) at 9am, I reached my sis’s house and my 2 nieces yet to arrive n my sis was still feeding her son breakfast n my sis in law was cooking breakfast.
After everything was done, we left at about 10am. We drove straight to Kijal, along the way we stopped at Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan at Kuala Kemaman for satar & otak-otak at about 1.30pm. Too early n they were not selling anything yet. So, we decided to drive around Chukai town n perhaps stop by at Hai Peng, it was closed! We drove further to check out other shops, Tong Juan was open (they are famous for stuffed crab) but my sis looked at the shop and was not keen to eat there.
We turned back to Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan Kuala Kemaman n waited awhile (they open at 2.00pm) and enjoyed satar, otak-otak, pais and keropok lekor. The food was nice but the weather was really really hot.
After lunch we drove straight to Awana Kijal n checked in at about 3pm. I stayed here before as my previous employer had a plant at Teluk Kalung. To me this is the most decent hotel around Kijal/Cherating.
Since it was hot outside the room, we decided to laze about inside our room n at 5.30pm decided to try out their fitness centre (my sis n her son swam). We worked out for an hour n after that we went for a walk on the beach (we walked until we reached Star Cruise jetty n turned back to hotel).
Really good work out n we were sore all over..then returned to our room to shower n got ready for dinner. We had our dinner at Grandview in front of the hotel. Everyone was hungry but my sis didn’t finish her rice as she felt bloated (she was too hungry n her stomach felt like it was filled with air n she could’t eat) and I thought the food was not to her liking. Anyway, the others enjoyed their food. We ordered stuffed crabs, butter prawns, kailan with garlic, lemon chicken and garoupa cooked with soy sauce.
After dinner we drove to Kerteh to view lights from oil & gas plants there. Reached hotel n we were all tired. Tried to watch dvd but all of us fell asleep before the movie ended.
Day 2
We planned to wake up early, go to the gym at 7am, then at 8am walk on the beach and have our breakfast at 9am. We woke up at 9am! Would not have woken up if my bf didn’t call. My 2 nieces decided to sleep in, so my sis n I went down for breakfast by ourselves. Same spread as per my previous visits.
We returned to our room and it was time to check out. We packed our stuffs n my 2 nieces decided that they wanted to go for a swim. So we loaded our stuffs into our car n waited for them n lounged about by the pool.
We left Awana n went to Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan again for our lunch. This time we had satar, otak-otak, mee calong (different version of mee soup) and nasi air, ABC, jelly kelapa and kelapa laut. Mee calong n nasi air were actually quite nice.
After lunch we drove straight to Holiday Villa Cherating. After checking in, again it was hot n we just stayed indoor. Went to the gym at 5.30pm n went to the beach for a walk. Took my nephew along as my sis wanted to go for massage.
After our walk, went back to our room and prepared to go out for dinner. This time we went to Duyong Restaurant at Kampung Cherating. The waitress recommended Ikan Barat (cooked with dried chillies), Kam Heong crabs, my niece ordered kalian cooked with oyster sauce n the other niece ordered tom yam.
After dinner, my niece needed to look for areas where she can have wifi access as she needed some info to finish her assignment, we found a café with ‘free wifi’ signboard. No other customers there n the owner was more interested in listening to music on his pc rather than serving his customers. His moody son acted as a waiter, the internet connection was very slow n we decided to leave n asked the boy to pack our drinks. Guess what he said? Sorry we have no plastic bag to pack your drinks! I asked for ice n I guess they ran out of ice too :-(
2 cans of cokes (no ice) and a mug of hot milo cost us RM8.00. Will never go to this place ever again. This place is called Payung Café.
We walked towards a shop where my sis n the other niece was browsing for souvenirs n along the way we stumbled onto a cyber café. Lucky break for my niece. They charge RM2.50 per hour. She downloaded her work (by borrowing thumb drive from the owner before downloading them into her laptop), took her less than 15min n the owner didn’t charge her a single cent. The cyber café is next to Little Bali.
Then back to our room n zzz…..
Day 3
We woke up early today n went down for breakfast early ie around 8am. After breakfast my nieces wanted to go for a walk on the beach but it was too hot for me n I lounged about on the hammock, very relaxing – just swaying, feeling the sea breeze n enjoying the clear sky…
They came searching for me after their walk, sweating n we went to the gym. We worked out for an hour and then went for a swim. Then time to pack n go home.
We stopped by at Turtle Sanctuary – small displays but they have both live turtles n turtle replicas……my 3 year old nephew loves the displays.
We returned to Kuala Kemaman to buy keropok to bring back to KL but since it was still early we decided to go to Hai Peng for light lunch. Then back to Che Wan to tapau keropok n stuffs.
Earlier plan was for us to have our lunch at Pak Su Beserah but we already had our lunch at Hai Peng so decided to drive straight to KL.
We stopped by at Gambang rest area to pray n later stopped at Termerloh rest area for drinks. We reached KL at about 7.30pm.
Good holiday but I was offended by my niece n sis at the end of the trip, we were having a conversation and they said something vague implying they talked about me behind my back. I was tired n the weather was super hot n I found their remarks to be extremely rude. To me if you want to talk behind my back be my guest but keep it behind my back (whatever it is, that was not my concern) but if you want to hint to me that you talked behind my back, you better tell me what was the issue. Hiding it by saying it’s nothing is plain rude. Anyway, I was fuming n was ready to scream if anyone bothered me. Thank God they left me alone to simmer or everyone’s holiday n good mood will be spoilt……but then again I guess that's family, we quarreled n we made up....
Day 4
Good holiday, I was expecting to be too lazy to wake up, feeling tired to go to work. But I woke up early n feeling very fresh………
Hotels Review
I prefer Awana than Holiday Villa.
Holiday Villa a bit run down, you can see blood on the bed sheet (from smashed up mosquitos, was wondering whether they changed the sheet or not before we checked in or rhe blood was old stains). The compound, walkways not spotlessly clean, the gym had little to offer n the breakfast spread was very small n taste wise they were awful.
My sis left her sunglasses in Awana, she called them n they said they’ll keep for her..
But then again, we paid RM230 for Awana n RM160 for Holiday Villa so I guess you can’t expect much.
Beach? I prefer Kijal as it was cleaner. Cherating beach was dirty n at some part of the beach, dirty n smelly water (sewer?) was drained to sea……eew!!
But the beach at turtle sanctuary was very beautiful n clean……. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/5/15/southneast/14226065&sec=southneast
Expenses
Petrol – RM140 (return)
Tol – RM58 (return)
Awana Kijal - RM230 x 1 room x 1 night (normal rates view here http://www.awana.com.my/en/ak/accommodation/roomrates.htm )
Holiday Villa - RM160 x 2 rooms x 1 night = RM320/night (normal rates view here http://www.holidayvillacherating.com/accomodation.html )
Lunch 26/2/010 - Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan Kuala Kemaman RM24
Dinner - Grandview Kijal RM162
Lunch 27/2/010 - Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan Kuala Kemaman RM34
Dinner - Duyong RM110
Lunch - Hai Peng Chukai RM58
Tapau satar+otak-otak+lekor at Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan Kuala Kemaman RM3.50x4 + RM 7x4 + RM5x4 = RM62
Tapau keropok+ikan bilis + etc at tenggiri = RM100
Pineapples - RM10 x 2 = RM20
GRAND TOTAL: RM1,138 for 4pax
What others said about:
Awana Kijal
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g303999-d455027-Reviews-Awana_Kijal_Resort-Kijal_Terengganu.html
http://dexxy.net/travelogue/treasure-hunt-awana-kijal-terengganu/
http://headsteadi.com/2009/02/03/room-review-awana-kijal-terengganu/
http://bacss.blogspot.com/2009/01/awana-kijal-terengganu.html
http://www.adiwong.com/sunrise-at-awana-kijal-terengganu/
Holiday Villa Cherating
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g298296-d631296-Reviews-Holiday_Villa_Cherating-Kuantan_Pahang.html
http://www.virtualtourist.com/hotels/Asia/Malaysia/Negeri_Pahang/Cherating_Beach-1294899/Hotels_and_Accommodations-Cherating_Beach-BR-2.html
Light shows at Kerteh
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=228342
http://kertehcommunity.blogspot.com/2009/03/evulusi-remaja-kini.html
http://razmahwata.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/travelling-around-kerteh-taxis/
Cherating Turtle sanctuary
http://www.paikia.com/2009/08/cherating-day-2-turtle-sanctuary/
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g666315-d1126914-Reviews-Cherating_Turtle_Sanctuary-Cherating_Pahang.html
http://journals.worldnomads.com/taroso/post/1134.aspx
Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan at Kuala Kemaman
http://sigilatv.blogspot.com/2010/02/travelog-to-kuala-kemamansatar-sedap-di.html
http://knizam.com/keropok-lekor-satar-pedas-jeli-kelapa-kat-kuala-kemaman-terengganu/
http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2008&dt=0629&pub=Kosmo&sec=Rencana_Utama&pg=ru_01.htm
http://nouryssa.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/warung-che-wankuala-kemaman/
Kedai Kopi Hai Peng
http://bernsy.blogspot.com/2008/03/haipeng-kopitiam-kemaman-terengganu.html
http://headsteadi.com/2007/06/05/famous-hai-peng-kopitiam-in-terengganu/
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2006/07/hai-peng-kopitiam-kemaman-terengganu.html
http://bangsar-babe.blogspot.com/2009/08/hai-peng-kopitiam-kemaman-terengganu.html
http://yewhenry.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/east-coast-trip/
Tong Juan
http://jasonmumbles.com/2009/04/stuffed-crab-kemaman-restaurant-and-pak-su-seafood-restaurant
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/tong-juan-stuffed-crab-chukai-kemaman
http://www.paikia.com/2009/10/terengganu-tong-juan-stuffed-crab/
Restoran Grandview Café Kijal
http://www.adriancjy.com/wordpress/2009/11/kl-kuantan-pahang-kijal-terengganu-day-1/
http://cherylzen.blogspot.com/2008/11/awana-kijal-3-where-to-eat.html
http://belacans.blogspot.com/2005/06/awana-kijal-11-june-2005-day-2.html
http://www.virtualtourist.com/hotels/Asia/Malaysia/Negeri_Terengganu/Kuala_Terengganu-1281769/Hotels_and_Accommodations-Kuala_Terengganu-Awana_Kijal_Resort_Terengganu-BR-1.html
Duyong Restaurant Kampung Cherating
http://elamic.blogspot.com/2009/08/duyong-seafood-restaurant-cherating.html
http://tzeemeng.com/what-to-eat/dinner-at-duyong-restaurant-cherating/
http://weiyein.blogspot.com/2008/05/cherating-in-nutshell.html
Payung Café Kampung Cherating
http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Cherating/blog-279551.html
http://www.legendria.com/2009/01/26/surfer-paradise-cherating/
Restoran Pak Su Beserah
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g298296-d1132955-Reviews-Pak_Su_Restarant_Seaside-Kuantan_Pahang.html
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/restoran-pak-su-jalan-beserah-kuantan
http://kyspeaks.com/2010/02/04/pak-su-seafood-near-kuantan-best-night-view-by-the-seaside/
http://pingmouse.com/2009/06/school-break-2-cherating-pak-su.html
http://becklee.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/pak-su-seafood-restaurant-kuantan/
Ikan Bakar Awang Cherating – note to self “try this place next time”
http://tamkiapo.blogspot.com/2008/07/kuantan-food.html
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/ikan-bakar-pak-awang-jalan-kuantan-kemamam
Day 1
We planned to leave KL last Friday (26/2/2010) at 9am, I reached my sis’s house and my 2 nieces yet to arrive n my sis was still feeding her son breakfast n my sis in law was cooking breakfast.
After everything was done, we left at about 10am. We drove straight to Kijal, along the way we stopped at Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan at Kuala Kemaman for satar & otak-otak at about 1.30pm. Too early n they were not selling anything yet. So, we decided to drive around Chukai town n perhaps stop by at Hai Peng, it was closed! We drove further to check out other shops, Tong Juan was open (they are famous for stuffed crab) but my sis looked at the shop and was not keen to eat there.
We turned back to Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan Kuala Kemaman n waited awhile (they open at 2.00pm) and enjoyed satar, otak-otak, pais and keropok lekor. The food was nice but the weather was really really hot.
After lunch we drove straight to Awana Kijal n checked in at about 3pm. I stayed here before as my previous employer had a plant at Teluk Kalung. To me this is the most decent hotel around Kijal/Cherating.
Since it was hot outside the room, we decided to laze about inside our room n at 5.30pm decided to try out their fitness centre (my sis n her son swam). We worked out for an hour n after that we went for a walk on the beach (we walked until we reached Star Cruise jetty n turned back to hotel).
Really good work out n we were sore all over..then returned to our room to shower n got ready for dinner. We had our dinner at Grandview in front of the hotel. Everyone was hungry but my sis didn’t finish her rice as she felt bloated (she was too hungry n her stomach felt like it was filled with air n she could’t eat) and I thought the food was not to her liking. Anyway, the others enjoyed their food. We ordered stuffed crabs, butter prawns, kailan with garlic, lemon chicken and garoupa cooked with soy sauce.
After dinner we drove to Kerteh to view lights from oil & gas plants there. Reached hotel n we were all tired. Tried to watch dvd but all of us fell asleep before the movie ended.
Day 2
We planned to wake up early, go to the gym at 7am, then at 8am walk on the beach and have our breakfast at 9am. We woke up at 9am! Would not have woken up if my bf didn’t call. My 2 nieces decided to sleep in, so my sis n I went down for breakfast by ourselves. Same spread as per my previous visits.
We returned to our room and it was time to check out. We packed our stuffs n my 2 nieces decided that they wanted to go for a swim. So we loaded our stuffs into our car n waited for them n lounged about by the pool.
We left Awana n went to Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan again for our lunch. This time we had satar, otak-otak, mee calong (different version of mee soup) and nasi air, ABC, jelly kelapa and kelapa laut. Mee calong n nasi air were actually quite nice.
After lunch we drove straight to Holiday Villa Cherating. After checking in, again it was hot n we just stayed indoor. Went to the gym at 5.30pm n went to the beach for a walk. Took my nephew along as my sis wanted to go for massage.
After our walk, went back to our room and prepared to go out for dinner. This time we went to Duyong Restaurant at Kampung Cherating. The waitress recommended Ikan Barat (cooked with dried chillies), Kam Heong crabs, my niece ordered kalian cooked with oyster sauce n the other niece ordered tom yam.
After dinner, my niece needed to look for areas where she can have wifi access as she needed some info to finish her assignment, we found a café with ‘free wifi’ signboard. No other customers there n the owner was more interested in listening to music on his pc rather than serving his customers. His moody son acted as a waiter, the internet connection was very slow n we decided to leave n asked the boy to pack our drinks. Guess what he said? Sorry we have no plastic bag to pack your drinks! I asked for ice n I guess they ran out of ice too :-(
2 cans of cokes (no ice) and a mug of hot milo cost us RM8.00. Will never go to this place ever again. This place is called Payung Café.
We walked towards a shop where my sis n the other niece was browsing for souvenirs n along the way we stumbled onto a cyber café. Lucky break for my niece. They charge RM2.50 per hour. She downloaded her work (by borrowing thumb drive from the owner before downloading them into her laptop), took her less than 15min n the owner didn’t charge her a single cent. The cyber café is next to Little Bali.
Then back to our room n zzz…..
Day 3
We woke up early today n went down for breakfast early ie around 8am. After breakfast my nieces wanted to go for a walk on the beach but it was too hot for me n I lounged about on the hammock, very relaxing – just swaying, feeling the sea breeze n enjoying the clear sky…
They came searching for me after their walk, sweating n we went to the gym. We worked out for an hour and then went for a swim. Then time to pack n go home.
We stopped by at Turtle Sanctuary – small displays but they have both live turtles n turtle replicas……my 3 year old nephew loves the displays.
We returned to Kuala Kemaman to buy keropok to bring back to KL but since it was still early we decided to go to Hai Peng for light lunch. Then back to Che Wan to tapau keropok n stuffs.
Earlier plan was for us to have our lunch at Pak Su Beserah but we already had our lunch at Hai Peng so decided to drive straight to KL.
We stopped by at Gambang rest area to pray n later stopped at Termerloh rest area for drinks. We reached KL at about 7.30pm.
Good holiday but I was offended by my niece n sis at the end of the trip, we were having a conversation and they said something vague implying they talked about me behind my back. I was tired n the weather was super hot n I found their remarks to be extremely rude. To me if you want to talk behind my back be my guest but keep it behind my back (whatever it is, that was not my concern) but if you want to hint to me that you talked behind my back, you better tell me what was the issue. Hiding it by saying it’s nothing is plain rude. Anyway, I was fuming n was ready to scream if anyone bothered me. Thank God they left me alone to simmer or everyone’s holiday n good mood will be spoilt……but then again I guess that's family, we quarreled n we made up....
Day 4
Good holiday, I was expecting to be too lazy to wake up, feeling tired to go to work. But I woke up early n feeling very fresh………
Hotels Review
I prefer Awana than Holiday Villa.
Holiday Villa a bit run down, you can see blood on the bed sheet (from smashed up mosquitos, was wondering whether they changed the sheet or not before we checked in or rhe blood was old stains). The compound, walkways not spotlessly clean, the gym had little to offer n the breakfast spread was very small n taste wise they were awful.
My sis left her sunglasses in Awana, she called them n they said they’ll keep for her..
But then again, we paid RM230 for Awana n RM160 for Holiday Villa so I guess you can’t expect much.
Beach? I prefer Kijal as it was cleaner. Cherating beach was dirty n at some part of the beach, dirty n smelly water (sewer?) was drained to sea……eew!!
But the beach at turtle sanctuary was very beautiful n clean……. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/5/15/southneast/14226065&sec=southneast
Expenses
Petrol – RM140 (return)
Tol – RM58 (return)
Awana Kijal - RM230 x 1 room x 1 night (normal rates view here http://www.awana.com.my/en/ak/accommodation/roomrates.htm )
Holiday Villa - RM160 x 2 rooms x 1 night = RM320/night (normal rates view here http://www.holidayvillacherating.com/accomodation.html )
Lunch 26/2/010 - Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan Kuala Kemaman RM24
Dinner - Grandview Kijal RM162
Lunch 27/2/010 - Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan Kuala Kemaman RM34
Dinner - Duyong RM110
Lunch - Hai Peng Chukai RM58
Tapau satar+otak-otak+lekor at Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan Kuala Kemaman RM3.50x4 + RM 7x4 + RM5x4 = RM62
Tapau keropok+ikan bilis + etc at tenggiri = RM100
Pineapples - RM10 x 2 = RM20
GRAND TOTAL: RM1,138 for 4pax
What others said about:
Awana Kijal
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g303999-d455027-Reviews-Awana_Kijal_Resort-Kijal_Terengganu.html
http://dexxy.net/travelogue/treasure-hunt-awana-kijal-terengganu/
http://headsteadi.com/2009/02/03/room-review-awana-kijal-terengganu/
http://bacss.blogspot.com/2009/01/awana-kijal-terengganu.html
http://www.adiwong.com/sunrise-at-awana-kijal-terengganu/
Holiday Villa Cherating
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g298296-d631296-Reviews-Holiday_Villa_Cherating-Kuantan_Pahang.html
http://www.virtualtourist.com/hotels/Asia/Malaysia/Negeri_Pahang/Cherating_Beach-1294899/Hotels_and_Accommodations-Cherating_Beach-BR-2.html
Light shows at Kerteh
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=228342
http://kertehcommunity.blogspot.com/2009/03/evulusi-remaja-kini.html
http://razmahwata.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/travelling-around-kerteh-taxis/
Cherating Turtle sanctuary
http://www.paikia.com/2009/08/cherating-day-2-turtle-sanctuary/
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g666315-d1126914-Reviews-Cherating_Turtle_Sanctuary-Cherating_Pahang.html
http://journals.worldnomads.com/taroso/post/1134.aspx
Warung Otak-Otak Che Wan at Kuala Kemaman
http://sigilatv.blogspot.com/2010/02/travelog-to-kuala-kemamansatar-sedap-di.html
http://knizam.com/keropok-lekor-satar-pedas-jeli-kelapa-kat-kuala-kemaman-terengganu/
http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2008&dt=0629&pub=Kosmo&sec=Rencana_Utama&pg=ru_01.htm
http://nouryssa.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/warung-che-wankuala-kemaman/
Kedai Kopi Hai Peng
http://bernsy.blogspot.com/2008/03/haipeng-kopitiam-kemaman-terengganu.html
http://headsteadi.com/2007/06/05/famous-hai-peng-kopitiam-in-terengganu/
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2006/07/hai-peng-kopitiam-kemaman-terengganu.html
http://bangsar-babe.blogspot.com/2009/08/hai-peng-kopitiam-kemaman-terengganu.html
http://yewhenry.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/east-coast-trip/
Tong Juan
http://jasonmumbles.com/2009/04/stuffed-crab-kemaman-restaurant-and-pak-su-seafood-restaurant
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/tong-juan-stuffed-crab-chukai-kemaman
http://www.paikia.com/2009/10/terengganu-tong-juan-stuffed-crab/
Restoran Grandview Café Kijal
http://www.adriancjy.com/wordpress/2009/11/kl-kuantan-pahang-kijal-terengganu-day-1/
http://cherylzen.blogspot.com/2008/11/awana-kijal-3-where-to-eat.html
http://belacans.blogspot.com/2005/06/awana-kijal-11-june-2005-day-2.html
http://www.virtualtourist.com/hotels/Asia/Malaysia/Negeri_Terengganu/Kuala_Terengganu-1281769/Hotels_and_Accommodations-Kuala_Terengganu-Awana_Kijal_Resort_Terengganu-BR-1.html
Duyong Restaurant Kampung Cherating
http://elamic.blogspot.com/2009/08/duyong-seafood-restaurant-cherating.html
http://tzeemeng.com/what-to-eat/dinner-at-duyong-restaurant-cherating/
http://weiyein.blogspot.com/2008/05/cherating-in-nutshell.html
Payung Café Kampung Cherating
http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Cherating/blog-279551.html
http://www.legendria.com/2009/01/26/surfer-paradise-cherating/
Restoran Pak Su Beserah
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g298296-d1132955-Reviews-Pak_Su_Restarant_Seaside-Kuantan_Pahang.html
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/restoran-pak-su-jalan-beserah-kuantan
http://kyspeaks.com/2010/02/04/pak-su-seafood-near-kuantan-best-night-view-by-the-seaside/
http://pingmouse.com/2009/06/school-break-2-cherating-pak-su.html
http://becklee.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/pak-su-seafood-restaurant-kuantan/
Ikan Bakar Awang Cherating – note to self “try this place next time”
http://tamkiapo.blogspot.com/2008/07/kuantan-food.html
http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/ikan-bakar-pak-awang-jalan-kuantan-kemamam
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Huddersfield.....down memory lane
Lately i'm feeling nostalgic...I miss Hudderfield :-( I graduated from University of Huddersfield n I love the place. Why the sudden urge to reminisce? I guess it was triggered by my niece n nephews. They had just completed their SPM and they had been attending education fairs n naturally I shared my student days stories with them.
It made me realize that I should document whatever I can remember now before I forget them totally, who knows one day when I've money to spare I'll visit Huddersfield again and visit the places that I used to frequent when I was studying there...
I've forgotten about most of the places but thank Allah with google map (satellite view) it managed to trigger old files stored deep inside my brain :-)
My first day in England
We (MARA students) arrived in Heathrow, MARA had rented a coach for us n all of us got into the bus. Along the way, students were dropped off to their respective universities - Luton, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester etc. Every time the bus stopped we'll take photos n bid goodbye to each group. Then we reached Huddersfield! It was cold (autumn) and wet September. The university organized a little reception for us. Temporarily we were given accommodation at Hollybank House in Lindley. That night a M'sian family who resides in Huddersfield prepared dinner for us.
Next day I woke up early (jet lagged) at 5am! But it was already quite bright. So I went out n explored the surrounding area. No one was around. Very quiet n I enjoyed the new sights, new experience...... (I remembered a pizza place n google reminded me it is called Pizzeria Napoli) and I did this everyday during my stay here before my body adjusted itself to the new time zone.
A few days later, JPA students arrived. And the university was ready to sort out our 'permanent home'. Some of us preferred to rent a house and stay with friends while others prefer to stay at residence hall (hostel) - my residence hall was in Warrenfield Hall (room 32, Warrenfield Hall, 221 Deighton Road, Sheepridge Huddersfield HD2 IJL) 2.3 miles (3.7km) to Huddersfield University.
Direction to Warrenfield Hall (now demolished and Warrenfield Court a residential homes occupy its site)
http://maps.google.com.my/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Queensgate,+Huddersfield,+HD1+3DH,+UK+(University+of+Huddersfield)&daddr=warrenfield+court&geocode=FZKLMgMd59bk_yknGxMSc9x7SDHwKSGzq2nBUw%3BFenwMgMdxRbl_ymLYfKDL9x7SDFIO5qxzwGnPQ&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=53.667661,-1.769979&sspn=0.000745,0.002411&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13&dirflg=d
Next day we explored the surrounding area, can't remember other places but I do remember a church, kebab shop n fish n chips shop. Couldn't recall the name of the shops but I managed to google the name of the church.
Woodhouse Christchurch, 43 Ashbrow Road , Sheepridge , Huddersfield , HD2 1DX
Very old church. They have been Church of England on this site since 1828. When we took photos at the church (with cemetery) it was foggy, trees were without leaves n it reminded me of vampire movie ha ha.... I couldn't find pictures online, perhaps later I'll scan my pic n post here.
What I remembered most about this place?
Yorkshire accent :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB1yuYwExGs&feature=related n they addressed you as 'love'..
Hmm.. I was carrying grocery bags (after I got down from a bus) and was walking to my hall when an English guy basically ran after me n offered to carry my bag! Very chivalrous :-)
2nd incident? A bus driver grabbed my hand n refused to let me got out of the bus ha ha. Why? He was dating my friend and she decided to ignore him so he wanted to find out from me what happened to her! I told him off n asked him to let go of my hand n he did..
next memorable incident? My hall was a co-ed hall with toilets separating boys n girls sections. Some of the students loved to hang out at the corridor outside the toilets :-) these students loved to party n drank themselves silly, one night a girl was really drunk n she was pissed with one of the guys, she brought a pail n went from one room to the other asking us to deposit any liquid that we have into the pail - shampoo, conditioner, moisturizer, washing liquid etc then she poured the content onto the poor guy's bed! ha ha it was a cold night n i didn't know where he slept that night.....
I loved my morning shower too.. the students woke up late n they don't shower in the morning, so I had the shower to myself..
Being M'sian I loved to cook spicy/smelly food (chilly, belacan etc) so I avoided cooking at the common kitchen with the rest of the English guys/gals. (kitchen was in separate building from our rooms - ha ha just to have dinner I had to go through through snow and ice)
I normally cooked in my room by using rice cooker where I cooked rice n after that boiled Brahim dish (pre-cooked M'sian dishes) or I'll cooked late at the kitchen after everyone had their dinner. So, one day I was happily cooking my sambal tumis bilis n suddenly an English guy ran to the kitchen breathlessly.. he asked me what I was cooking because he can smelled it from outside the building and he was sneezing ha ha...
hmm..being students, some were very naughty, so one cold night we were sleeping n fire alarm went off so everyone scurried outside as they were without coats or shoes! Very very cold brrrr n it was false alarm..
My friend Linda and I decided to check out what was the fuss about going out at night to Student Union, so off we went one night n students were drinking n dancing. A group of English guys approached us and asked to us to kiss one of their friends (they claimed it was his birthday) we declined n they teased us and accused us of being lesbians... I stopped going there but Linda loved it n she frequented the place often.
I also remembered making a call to my parents (they were at my aunt's house) but they didn't sound excited to hear from me, I guess they were concerned of the cost calls.. anyway after that cold reception I never bothered to call them again. I just wrote to them occasionally.
After few months, they had vacancies at Hollybank hall (81, Hollybank House, Hollybank Road, Lindley, Huddersfield HD3 3BP, 2.6 miles (4km) from Huddersfiled University). Hollybank had better facilities, in safer area and I moved there. I shared a house with common kitchen with a Nigerian, 2 English ladies and 4 M'sians (including me).
http://maps.google.com.my/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Queensgate,+Huddersfield,+HD1+3DH,+UK+(University+of+Huddersfield)&daddr=warrenfield+court&geocode=FZKLMgMd59bk_yknGxMSc9x7SDHwKSGzq2nBUw%3BFenwMgMdxRbl_ymLYfKDL9x7SDFIO5qxzwGnPQ&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=53.667661,-1.769979&sspn=0.000745,0.002411&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13&dirflg=d
Memorable experience here? the Nigerian lady was in her 40s, we were in our 20s, perhaps to her we were like her children. She told us that she was from a rich family, she used to vacationed in London (when she was residing in Nigeria), never washed her hair by herself etc. Because she was a newcomer, we helped her to acclimatize, my roommate Linda (ha ha the same girl who dated the bus driver) took her shopping n accompanied her to church. What did she do? She treated Linda like one one of her employees! Linda had to carry her shopping bags n followed her around! Anyway, I didn't like her that much n I couldn't be bothered with her. One day she had a bleeding nose (most newcomer experienced that because of the cold temperature) n she went to a hospital, when she came back I didn't rush to ask her how she was doing and she went ballistic and called me heartless! Ha ha what a drama queen.....
One day I woke up slightly late, by the time I got to the bus stop the bus had just drove off. I ran after the bus and of course the driver didn't see me and just drove off. One lady driver took pity of me and gave me a lift to the university. She told me her sister worked (or holidayed?) in M'sia before and the malaysians were very nice to her. Ha ha I guess that was safer days, I mean I got into her car without question! Anyway, thank Allah there were still good people in this world.
Other things I remembered - got excited whenever I took filled milk bottle n replaced it with empty bottle outside the door (used to watch it on tv n I was experiencing it myself), I loved UK milk, very tasty, used to enjoy it with cereals - morning, noon, night ha ha. I don't quite enjoy m'sian milk as much.
what else? Huddersfield was quite near to a strawberry farm, whenever friends visited us from other cities, we'd take them to the farm n brought back baskets of strawberries. Ha ha what did u do with so much strawberries? cakes, puddings, all kind of desserts... the Nigerian lady was not all bad, she helped to bake cakes etc :-)
What else? the house had paid phone inside, I used to chat with friends for hours...
During winter, we built our first snowman inside the compound (the house had huge compound).
Food - we (malaysians) shared our food, we took turn to cook, one of the girls never cooked in her entire life, during her turn she fried chicked without the usual salt n tumeric n washed the chicken with water without flour (to remove the smell) that was her last cooking turn, we told her to wash dishes instead. One day we decided to share our dinner (fried meehoon) with our housemate the English lady. She was crying as the food was really hot but she kept on eating it as it was delicious ha ha..
During my 2nd year at Huddersfield we had to move out of residence hall n find our own accommodation (students were only allowed to stay 1 yr in residence hall due to insufficient rooms, priority was given to 1st yr n final yr students).
This time I moved to a house in Victoria Road (couldn't find correspondence for the full address) but it is nearby Jamia Mosque (google helped me again) only 2km to the university. I walked to school everyday.
http://maps.google.com.my/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Queensgate,+Huddersfield,+HD1+3DH,+UK+(University+of+Huddersfield)&daddr=warrenfield+court&geocode=FZKLMgMd59bk_yknGxMSc9x7SDHwKSGzq2nBUw%3BFenwMgMdxRbl_ymLYfKDL9x7SDFIO5qxzwGnPQ&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=53.667661,-1.769979&sspn=0.000745,0.002411&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13&dirflg=d
I shared a house with 3 other M'sian girls. They were my juniors. Same arrangement - we shared rent, bills n food hence the need to share house with muslim mates. All of us were quite good with cooking and we ate good food everyday - chicken rice, nasi tomato, nasi lemak, rendang, kerutuk etc.
Memorable experience?
As I mentioned I walked to school everyday hence my slim figure (ha ha even though my staple food for lunch was crisps n snickers and occasional sandwich n fish & chips n takeaway lunch from Marks & Spencers), anyway one day it was raining and very windy. The gale swept my umbrella away n while trying to hang on to my umbrella my glasses flew off! I was frantically looking for my glasses n one lady stopped to help but we couldn't find it. I went home n used my spare glasses n next day I found the broken glasses :( since it was expensive to make glasses in England, i forwarded my prescription to my sis in M'sia so that she could make a new pair for me n posted it to me. Thanks :) wasn't super thrill with the glasses that she chose for me, so I used it temporarily n changed the frame later.
I joined parachuting club, cost me a pretty penny. Learned all the techniques, everytime we were scheduled to jump, weather was bad. One day everything seems ok n we drove to Doncaster for our jump. On the way we visited fellow club member who broke his leg during a jump (we were already very scared after the visit), after that we reached the field n tried sitting in the helicopter (plane?) - how to sit, sequence of jumping etc slept there for one night then we waited for our turn. Weather was bad n we returned home. Happened many times, I guess bad timing to join the club n I didn't manage to jump at all.... sigh..
I love bowling n no bowling alley in Huddersfield. What did I do? took a train to Leeds (15 min ride) to bowl. Took my swimming lesson there too but stupid decision as I took the lesson during winter n I gave up....:-(
During summer a friend came from Liverpool n we toured areas surrounding Huddersfield - countryside, Castle Hill, Haworth, Yorkshire moors etc. We left the house in the morning n came back at night for few days. Very nice n tiring ha ha.
I love travelling and I was short in cash so I worked during summer wrapping soaps, gift baskets etc. The money was good and enough to finance my Europe backpacking. During my sandwich year (internship year) I was paid for my training and I used the money for my almost 4 weeks USA trip. I'll blog on this later.
Apart from Europe & the USA, I visited London (visiting friends n visited famous spots), went to Lake District with a friend, visited York, joined tour group to Scotland, joined tour group to Amsterdam (I used coupon in newspaper in my first week (or month?) in England) n of course various cities where we could get free accommodation ha ha (friends' house) - Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, New Castle etc.
Others?
I was preparing for my final exam, all my housemates were already on holiday n were visiting other cities. I received a call from my friend wishing me 'Selamat Hari Raya (Haji)! I didn't even realized it was raya haji n was wondering why pakistanis were walking past my house in their finest dress n there was something going on at the mosque n i thought it was a wedding!
What else? I remember my first trip to Sainsbury at Market Street picture here http://www.qype.co.uk/place/347233-Sainsburys-Huddersfield/photos/237271 shelves n shelves of bread - various brands of thin cut, medium cut, thick cut, wholemeal, etc click here to see what they are selling http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1264251835725 . Never before that I saw that many choices just for bread (I guess if an English guy shops at our supermarket he'll be overwhelm with our choices of rice too). Due to proximity of Sainburys to the bus station I did my grocery shopping here. Ha ha one day I bumped into this really cute English guy at the bus station. I thought he was really good looking but I never saw him again :-( n he smiled at me ha ha. Perhaps he was hoping to bump into me again too (I wished).
Tesco - when I was there I preferred Sainsburys to Tesco (located at Viaduuct Street). But I did shopped here occasionally, sometimes I also visited Iceland at Trinity Street http://www.iceland.co.uk/page/view/store_locator n of course when I visited Manchester my friend there preferred Asda.
Lunch - my staple food was crisps from Sainsburys (I bought them in boxes) n snickers. Occasionally I'd buy packed rice from a M'sian student (she sold it at the surau), sometimes it would be egg or tuna sandwich from a shop near the market n library aka Princess Alexandra Walk / Piazza Shopping Centre (couldn't recall the sandwich shop name, googled n couldn't find it I guess they had moved), I enjoyed having my sandwich on the bench al fresco.. typical british style. Sometimes I visited Marks & Spencer at New Street for their lunch to go yummy!! n of course sometimes I enjoyed typical british staple food - fish & chips...
Pizza - I was excited to try pizza n went to a pizzeria couldn't recall the name but from the map it could be Sole Mio, anyway I ordered 4 seasons n when they sent to me I saw sausages on the pizza, they told me it was pastrami/pepperoni I was like..ummm they said what's wrong, I said I couldn't eat them because of my religious diet, n they said ' no problem, just put it aside when u eat the pizza.' Since I've ordered the pizza I paid n asked them to pack it for me. I went back to my hall n gave it to my non-muslim friends. I also enjoyed going to The Deep Pan Pizza chain opposite lloyds bank. I googled but I guess the restaurant had either closed down or moved somewhere else.
Shopping? read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddersfield
Banks - when we first stepped onto Huddersfield we had lots of money - tuition fees, allowance etc. Of course all the banks tried to lure us to become their customers - very attractive offers, deposited certain amount of money n they'd pay us 100 quids! Ha ha being typical kiasu M'sian we subscribed to all the banks with good offer, collected their goodies n closed the accounts except those most convenient to us. I opened my accounts with Barclays at New Street, Natwest at Market Street and Lloyds at Westgate. I kept my Barclay's account n closed the rest.
Recently my sisters n I were talking about our next year holiday plan - London! My sis asked if we want to visit Huddersfield, I was like of course I'd love that but in term of tourist spots nothing much to see and it is 310km from London. It has no direct rail line to London - passengers have to change at either Manchester Piccadilly, Leeds or Wakefield Westgate
but I guess we can do things which I did but not typical agenda for M'sian tourists, we can stay in Huddersfield (ha ha when I was studying I always wonder what will it be like to stay in George Hotel http://www.georgehotelhuddersfield.com/ , from there we can explore Haworth (30km) , Yorkshire Dales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Dales n http://www.yorkshiredalesandharrogate.com/ which is about 32.2 miles (51km) and York http://www.visityork.org/inspire/must-see-york/default.aspx (77km) from Huddersfield.
I guess 4 days in Huddersfield is good, perhaps 5 or 6 days in London...
You Tube
• London (330km north to Huddersfield) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2X6fOEMF8
• Greenwich (10km from London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHF3R3gc9MM&feature=channel
• Oxford (95km south from London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxAU88LxLis
• Canterbury (97km south London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgWeWdMMVmU&NR=1
• Stonehenge (139km south from London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yz0xNkMmAI
• Cotswold (162km south from London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVongz0PMZo n http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYtPDJhVvNA&feature=related
• Stratford-on-Avon (167km south from London)
• Bath (185km south from London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvPcq8jkco&feature=related
• Huddersfield http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PMm7RjtGX4 n http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxDEdAoJBvY&feature=related
• Haworth (30km from Huddersfield) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcQqpxRdiPs
• Yorkshire Dales (51km from Huddersfield) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssFsEekgCd8
• York (77km from Huddersfield) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQbAMp_Weg n http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKejmSb_51M
• Lake District (220km from Huddersfield) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHh5SPpjzw&feature=channel
It made me realize that I should document whatever I can remember now before I forget them totally, who knows one day when I've money to spare I'll visit Huddersfield again and visit the places that I used to frequent when I was studying there...
I've forgotten about most of the places but thank Allah with google map (satellite view) it managed to trigger old files stored deep inside my brain :-)
My first day in England
We (MARA students) arrived in Heathrow, MARA had rented a coach for us n all of us got into the bus. Along the way, students were dropped off to their respective universities - Luton, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester etc. Every time the bus stopped we'll take photos n bid goodbye to each group. Then we reached Huddersfield! It was cold (autumn) and wet September. The university organized a little reception for us. Temporarily we were given accommodation at Hollybank House in Lindley. That night a M'sian family who resides in Huddersfield prepared dinner for us.
Next day I woke up early (jet lagged) at 5am! But it was already quite bright. So I went out n explored the surrounding area. No one was around. Very quiet n I enjoyed the new sights, new experience...... (I remembered a pizza place n google reminded me it is called Pizzeria Napoli) and I did this everyday during my stay here before my body adjusted itself to the new time zone.
A few days later, JPA students arrived. And the university was ready to sort out our 'permanent home'. Some of us preferred to rent a house and stay with friends while others prefer to stay at residence hall (hostel) - my residence hall was in Warrenfield Hall (room 32, Warrenfield Hall, 221 Deighton Road, Sheepridge Huddersfield HD2 IJL) 2.3 miles (3.7km) to Huddersfield University.
Direction to Warrenfield Hall (now demolished and Warrenfield Court a residential homes occupy its site)
http://maps.google.com.my/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Queensgate,+Huddersfield,+HD1+3DH,+UK+(University+of+Huddersfield)&daddr=warrenfield+court&geocode=FZKLMgMd59bk_yknGxMSc9x7SDHwKSGzq2nBUw%3BFenwMgMdxRbl_ymLYfKDL9x7SDFIO5qxzwGnPQ&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=53.667661,-1.769979&sspn=0.000745,0.002411&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13&dirflg=d
Next day we explored the surrounding area, can't remember other places but I do remember a church, kebab shop n fish n chips shop. Couldn't recall the name of the shops but I managed to google the name of the church.
Woodhouse Christchurch, 43 Ashbrow Road , Sheepridge , Huddersfield , HD2 1DX
Very old church. They have been Church of England on this site since 1828. When we took photos at the church (with cemetery) it was foggy, trees were without leaves n it reminded me of vampire movie ha ha.... I couldn't find pictures online, perhaps later I'll scan my pic n post here.
What I remembered most about this place?
Yorkshire accent :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB1yuYwExGs&feature=related n they addressed you as 'love'..
Hmm.. I was carrying grocery bags (after I got down from a bus) and was walking to my hall when an English guy basically ran after me n offered to carry my bag! Very chivalrous :-)
2nd incident? A bus driver grabbed my hand n refused to let me got out of the bus ha ha. Why? He was dating my friend and she decided to ignore him so he wanted to find out from me what happened to her! I told him off n asked him to let go of my hand n he did..
next memorable incident? My hall was a co-ed hall with toilets separating boys n girls sections. Some of the students loved to hang out at the corridor outside the toilets :-) these students loved to party n drank themselves silly, one night a girl was really drunk n she was pissed with one of the guys, she brought a pail n went from one room to the other asking us to deposit any liquid that we have into the pail - shampoo, conditioner, moisturizer, washing liquid etc then she poured the content onto the poor guy's bed! ha ha it was a cold night n i didn't know where he slept that night.....
I loved my morning shower too.. the students woke up late n they don't shower in the morning, so I had the shower to myself..
Being M'sian I loved to cook spicy/smelly food (chilly, belacan etc) so I avoided cooking at the common kitchen with the rest of the English guys/gals. (kitchen was in separate building from our rooms - ha ha just to have dinner I had to go through through snow and ice)
I normally cooked in my room by using rice cooker where I cooked rice n after that boiled Brahim dish (pre-cooked M'sian dishes) or I'll cooked late at the kitchen after everyone had their dinner. So, one day I was happily cooking my sambal tumis bilis n suddenly an English guy ran to the kitchen breathlessly.. he asked me what I was cooking because he can smelled it from outside the building and he was sneezing ha ha...
hmm..being students, some were very naughty, so one cold night we were sleeping n fire alarm went off so everyone scurried outside as they were without coats or shoes! Very very cold brrrr n it was false alarm..
My friend Linda and I decided to check out what was the fuss about going out at night to Student Union, so off we went one night n students were drinking n dancing. A group of English guys approached us and asked to us to kiss one of their friends (they claimed it was his birthday) we declined n they teased us and accused us of being lesbians... I stopped going there but Linda loved it n she frequented the place often.
I also remembered making a call to my parents (they were at my aunt's house) but they didn't sound excited to hear from me, I guess they were concerned of the cost calls.. anyway after that cold reception I never bothered to call them again. I just wrote to them occasionally.
After few months, they had vacancies at Hollybank hall (81, Hollybank House, Hollybank Road, Lindley, Huddersfield HD3 3BP, 2.6 miles (4km) from Huddersfiled University). Hollybank had better facilities, in safer area and I moved there. I shared a house with common kitchen with a Nigerian, 2 English ladies and 4 M'sians (including me).
http://maps.google.com.my/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Queensgate,+Huddersfield,+HD1+3DH,+UK+(University+of+Huddersfield)&daddr=warrenfield+court&geocode=FZKLMgMd59bk_yknGxMSc9x7SDHwKSGzq2nBUw%3BFenwMgMdxRbl_ymLYfKDL9x7SDFIO5qxzwGnPQ&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=53.667661,-1.769979&sspn=0.000745,0.002411&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13&dirflg=d
Memorable experience here? the Nigerian lady was in her 40s, we were in our 20s, perhaps to her we were like her children. She told us that she was from a rich family, she used to vacationed in London (when she was residing in Nigeria), never washed her hair by herself etc. Because she was a newcomer, we helped her to acclimatize, my roommate Linda (ha ha the same girl who dated the bus driver) took her shopping n accompanied her to church. What did she do? She treated Linda like one one of her employees! Linda had to carry her shopping bags n followed her around! Anyway, I didn't like her that much n I couldn't be bothered with her. One day she had a bleeding nose (most newcomer experienced that because of the cold temperature) n she went to a hospital, when she came back I didn't rush to ask her how she was doing and she went ballistic and called me heartless! Ha ha what a drama queen.....
One day I woke up slightly late, by the time I got to the bus stop the bus had just drove off. I ran after the bus and of course the driver didn't see me and just drove off. One lady driver took pity of me and gave me a lift to the university. She told me her sister worked (or holidayed?) in M'sia before and the malaysians were very nice to her. Ha ha I guess that was safer days, I mean I got into her car without question! Anyway, thank Allah there were still good people in this world.
Other things I remembered - got excited whenever I took filled milk bottle n replaced it with empty bottle outside the door (used to watch it on tv n I was experiencing it myself), I loved UK milk, very tasty, used to enjoy it with cereals - morning, noon, night ha ha. I don't quite enjoy m'sian milk as much.
what else? Huddersfield was quite near to a strawberry farm, whenever friends visited us from other cities, we'd take them to the farm n brought back baskets of strawberries. Ha ha what did u do with so much strawberries? cakes, puddings, all kind of desserts... the Nigerian lady was not all bad, she helped to bake cakes etc :-)
What else? the house had paid phone inside, I used to chat with friends for hours...
During winter, we built our first snowman inside the compound (the house had huge compound).
Food - we (malaysians) shared our food, we took turn to cook, one of the girls never cooked in her entire life, during her turn she fried chicked without the usual salt n tumeric n washed the chicken with water without flour (to remove the smell) that was her last cooking turn, we told her to wash dishes instead. One day we decided to share our dinner (fried meehoon) with our housemate the English lady. She was crying as the food was really hot but she kept on eating it as it was delicious ha ha..
During my 2nd year at Huddersfield we had to move out of residence hall n find our own accommodation (students were only allowed to stay 1 yr in residence hall due to insufficient rooms, priority was given to 1st yr n final yr students).
This time I moved to a house in Victoria Road (couldn't find correspondence for the full address) but it is nearby Jamia Mosque (google helped me again) only 2km to the university. I walked to school everyday.
http://maps.google.com.my/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Queensgate,+Huddersfield,+HD1+3DH,+UK+(University+of+Huddersfield)&daddr=warrenfield+court&geocode=FZKLMgMd59bk_yknGxMSc9x7SDHwKSGzq2nBUw%3BFenwMgMdxRbl_ymLYfKDL9x7SDFIO5qxzwGnPQ&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=53.667661,-1.769979&sspn=0.000745,0.002411&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13&dirflg=d
I shared a house with 3 other M'sian girls. They were my juniors. Same arrangement - we shared rent, bills n food hence the need to share house with muslim mates. All of us were quite good with cooking and we ate good food everyday - chicken rice, nasi tomato, nasi lemak, rendang, kerutuk etc.
Memorable experience?
As I mentioned I walked to school everyday hence my slim figure (ha ha even though my staple food for lunch was crisps n snickers and occasional sandwich n fish & chips n takeaway lunch from Marks & Spencers), anyway one day it was raining and very windy. The gale swept my umbrella away n while trying to hang on to my umbrella my glasses flew off! I was frantically looking for my glasses n one lady stopped to help but we couldn't find it. I went home n used my spare glasses n next day I found the broken glasses :( since it was expensive to make glasses in England, i forwarded my prescription to my sis in M'sia so that she could make a new pair for me n posted it to me. Thanks :) wasn't super thrill with the glasses that she chose for me, so I used it temporarily n changed the frame later.
I joined parachuting club, cost me a pretty penny. Learned all the techniques, everytime we were scheduled to jump, weather was bad. One day everything seems ok n we drove to Doncaster for our jump. On the way we visited fellow club member who broke his leg during a jump (we were already very scared after the visit), after that we reached the field n tried sitting in the helicopter (plane?) - how to sit, sequence of jumping etc slept there for one night then we waited for our turn. Weather was bad n we returned home. Happened many times, I guess bad timing to join the club n I didn't manage to jump at all.... sigh..
I love bowling n no bowling alley in Huddersfield. What did I do? took a train to Leeds (15 min ride) to bowl. Took my swimming lesson there too but stupid decision as I took the lesson during winter n I gave up....:-(
During summer a friend came from Liverpool n we toured areas surrounding Huddersfield - countryside, Castle Hill, Haworth, Yorkshire moors etc. We left the house in the morning n came back at night for few days. Very nice n tiring ha ha.
I love travelling and I was short in cash so I worked during summer wrapping soaps, gift baskets etc. The money was good and enough to finance my Europe backpacking. During my sandwich year (internship year) I was paid for my training and I used the money for my almost 4 weeks USA trip. I'll blog on this later.
Apart from Europe & the USA, I visited London (visiting friends n visited famous spots), went to Lake District with a friend, visited York, joined tour group to Scotland, joined tour group to Amsterdam (I used coupon in newspaper in my first week (or month?) in England) n of course various cities where we could get free accommodation ha ha (friends' house) - Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, New Castle etc.
Others?
I was preparing for my final exam, all my housemates were already on holiday n were visiting other cities. I received a call from my friend wishing me 'Selamat Hari Raya (Haji)! I didn't even realized it was raya haji n was wondering why pakistanis were walking past my house in their finest dress n there was something going on at the mosque n i thought it was a wedding!
What else? I remember my first trip to Sainsbury at Market Street picture here http://www.qype.co.uk/place/347233-Sainsburys-Huddersfield/photos/237271 shelves n shelves of bread - various brands of thin cut, medium cut, thick cut, wholemeal, etc click here to see what they are selling http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1264251835725 . Never before that I saw that many choices just for bread (I guess if an English guy shops at our supermarket he'll be overwhelm with our choices of rice too). Due to proximity of Sainburys to the bus station I did my grocery shopping here. Ha ha one day I bumped into this really cute English guy at the bus station. I thought he was really good looking but I never saw him again :-( n he smiled at me ha ha. Perhaps he was hoping to bump into me again too (I wished).
Tesco - when I was there I preferred Sainsburys to Tesco (located at Viaduuct Street). But I did shopped here occasionally, sometimes I also visited Iceland at Trinity Street http://www.iceland.co.uk/page/view/store_locator n of course when I visited Manchester my friend there preferred Asda.
Lunch - my staple food was crisps from Sainsburys (I bought them in boxes) n snickers. Occasionally I'd buy packed rice from a M'sian student (she sold it at the surau), sometimes it would be egg or tuna sandwich from a shop near the market n library aka Princess Alexandra Walk / Piazza Shopping Centre (couldn't recall the sandwich shop name, googled n couldn't find it I guess they had moved), I enjoyed having my sandwich on the bench al fresco.. typical british style. Sometimes I visited Marks & Spencer at New Street for their lunch to go yummy!! n of course sometimes I enjoyed typical british staple food - fish & chips...
Pizza - I was excited to try pizza n went to a pizzeria couldn't recall the name but from the map it could be Sole Mio, anyway I ordered 4 seasons n when they sent to me I saw sausages on the pizza, they told me it was pastrami/pepperoni I was like..ummm they said what's wrong, I said I couldn't eat them because of my religious diet, n they said ' no problem, just put it aside when u eat the pizza.' Since I've ordered the pizza I paid n asked them to pack it for me. I went back to my hall n gave it to my non-muslim friends. I also enjoyed going to The Deep Pan Pizza chain opposite lloyds bank. I googled but I guess the restaurant had either closed down or moved somewhere else.
Shopping? read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddersfield
Banks - when we first stepped onto Huddersfield we had lots of money - tuition fees, allowance etc. Of course all the banks tried to lure us to become their customers - very attractive offers, deposited certain amount of money n they'd pay us 100 quids! Ha ha being typical kiasu M'sian we subscribed to all the banks with good offer, collected their goodies n closed the accounts except those most convenient to us. I opened my accounts with Barclays at New Street, Natwest at Market Street and Lloyds at Westgate. I kept my Barclay's account n closed the rest.
Recently my sisters n I were talking about our next year holiday plan - London! My sis asked if we want to visit Huddersfield, I was like of course I'd love that but in term of tourist spots nothing much to see and it is 310km from London. It has no direct rail line to London - passengers have to change at either Manchester Piccadilly, Leeds or Wakefield Westgate
but I guess we can do things which I did but not typical agenda for M'sian tourists, we can stay in Huddersfield (ha ha when I was studying I always wonder what will it be like to stay in George Hotel http://www.georgehotelhuddersfield.com/ , from there we can explore Haworth (30km) , Yorkshire Dales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Dales n http://www.yorkshiredalesandharrogate.com/ which is about 32.2 miles (51km) and York http://www.visityork.org/inspire/must-see-york/default.aspx (77km) from Huddersfield.
I guess 4 days in Huddersfield is good, perhaps 5 or 6 days in London...
You Tube
• London (330km north to Huddersfield) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2X6fOEMF8
• Greenwich (10km from London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHF3R3gc9MM&feature=channel
• Oxford (95km south from London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxAU88LxLis
• Canterbury (97km south London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgWeWdMMVmU&NR=1
• Stonehenge (139km south from London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yz0xNkMmAI
• Cotswold (162km south from London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVongz0PMZo n http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYtPDJhVvNA&feature=related
• Stratford-on-Avon (167km south from London)
• Bath (185km south from London) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvPcq8jkco&feature=related
• Huddersfield http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PMm7RjtGX4 n http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxDEdAoJBvY&feature=related
• Haworth (30km from Huddersfield) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcQqpxRdiPs
• Yorkshire Dales (51km from Huddersfield) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssFsEekgCd8
• York (77km from Huddersfield) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQbAMp_Weg n http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKejmSb_51M
• Lake District (220km from Huddersfield) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHh5SPpjzw&feature=channel
Saturday, 5 December 2009
BB THAI SEAFOOD VILLAGE n more
Hei you....
Wow! been shying away from this blog for reaaally loong time, well.. one reason - I can't no longer blog in the office as they've installed firewall....sigh..
At home? Well most of the time after work I'll either see my bf for dinner or go to my bro's house to play with my nephews..... n by the time I got home I'll be plonking myself in front of the idiot box :-) Weekend? Hmm.. I'll stay in bed longer than usual, idiot box again n day dreaming on becoming a millionaire ha ha ha how? I've this character in my head that I wish I can animate in a cartoon movie... the problem? Ha ha I know diddly squat about animation... been surfing the net trying to learn cartoon making but..... too hard.... anyway...
So.. what have I been eaten for the last 3 months since Raya Puasa? Well... the usual haunts in Sri Damansara which I've blogged before, seafood stall behind Imbi which I blogged before as well, 1-Utama - been visiting Sakae Sushi few times, Chilli's, Victoria Station, Coliseum, Subway, Flying Chillies at Mid Valley, Salero Negori TTDI, Sari Ratu, Rumah Thai, Ayam Penyet, Nyonya Colors, Taiping Lim, restoran Anje, etc etc ... 3 months is a long time n I eat out every night....
Anyway, one night my bf asked me what I want to eat, I suggested De Chiang Mai in Sungai Buloh... ha ha easy to suggest but I don't know where the place is located! The suggestion was made when we were already in his car. So, he said we'll try to find the place. So, off we went and ended up at Sungai Buloh Hospital! We were hungry, so next suggestion Lala Chong near Terminal 3..... and guess what? They've moved! Well.. too late to explore for more restaurants and we decided to try a restaurant located next to Lala Chong former site.
A restaurant called BB THAI SEAFOOD VILLAGE.. ha ha I've forgotten what we ate but the food? Not bad all..... I'll definitely pay them a second visit....
Why not visit these sites to see what others said about this place:
If you want to know about Lala Chong Ara Damansara (Chinese), visit these sites - tried the old restaurant, yet to try the new one.
Taiping Lim kiosk, Desa Park City - best RM1.50 karipap (curry puff) in KL
Flying Chillies The Gardens (Thai) - expensive but I like the food - spicy!!!
Village View Bandar Baru Bangi - - hmm...typical thai hawker food (menu & taste) in restaurant setting! Probably will not pay a second visit..poor service too.
Salero Negori TTDI (Nasi Padang) - ok, but I prefer Sari Ratu.
Sari Ratu Jln Sultan Ismail (Nasi Padang) - I like the food here
Nasi Briyani Gam Johor Restoran Anje Bandar Baru Bangi - not bad
Sakae Sushi 1-Utama - ha ha a jap restaurant that offer decent food w/o burning holes in your pocket
Chilli's 1-Utama / Bangsar Shopping Centre - my fav order? Cajun Fajitas :-)
Victoria Station Jln Ampang- my nephew loves Thomas the train..choo choo
Coliseum Cafe KL - food quality not as good as before, either they changed chefs or ... everything here don't change much since looong time ago.
Ha ha 3 months food......
Wow! been shying away from this blog for reaaally loong time, well.. one reason - I can't no longer blog in the office as they've installed firewall....sigh..
At home? Well most of the time after work I'll either see my bf for dinner or go to my bro's house to play with my nephews..... n by the time I got home I'll be plonking myself in front of the idiot box :-) Weekend? Hmm.. I'll stay in bed longer than usual, idiot box again n day dreaming on becoming a millionaire ha ha ha how? I've this character in my head that I wish I can animate in a cartoon movie... the problem? Ha ha I know diddly squat about animation... been surfing the net trying to learn cartoon making but..... too hard.... anyway...
So.. what have I been eaten for the last 3 months since Raya Puasa? Well... the usual haunts in Sri Damansara which I've blogged before, seafood stall behind Imbi which I blogged before as well, 1-Utama - been visiting Sakae Sushi few times, Chilli's, Victoria Station, Coliseum, Subway, Flying Chillies at Mid Valley, Salero Negori TTDI, Sari Ratu, Rumah Thai, Ayam Penyet, Nyonya Colors, Taiping Lim, restoran Anje, etc etc ... 3 months is a long time n I eat out every night....
Anyway, one night my bf asked me what I want to eat, I suggested De Chiang Mai in Sungai Buloh... ha ha easy to suggest but I don't know where the place is located! The suggestion was made when we were already in his car. So, he said we'll try to find the place. So, off we went and ended up at Sungai Buloh Hospital! We were hungry, so next suggestion Lala Chong near Terminal 3..... and guess what? They've moved! Well.. too late to explore for more restaurants and we decided to try a restaurant located next to Lala Chong former site.
A restaurant called BB THAI SEAFOOD VILLAGE.. ha ha I've forgotten what we ate but the food? Not bad all..... I'll definitely pay them a second visit....
Why not visit these sites to see what others said about this place:
- http://calliefoodblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/bb-thai-seafood-village.html
- http://alicetsj.blogspot.com/2009/10/bb-thai-seafood-village-subang-airport.html
- http://baby-chimaera.fotopages.com/?entry=864213
If you want to know about Lala Chong Ara Damansara (Chinese), visit these sites - tried the old restaurant, yet to try the new one.
- http://www.aradamansara.com/2009/09/24/la-la-chong/
- http://blog.saimatkong.com/index.php/2009/09/11/lala-chong-seafood-restaurant-kayu-ara-damansara/
- http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/lala-chong-seafood-ara-damansara
- http://kevineng76.multiply.com/journal/item/15
- http://boonchuan82.blogspot.com/2009/01/restaurant-lala-chong-ara-damansara.html
- http://cinasami.blogspot.com/2008/04/la-la-chong-ara-damansara.html
- http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/nyonya-colors-nyonya-foods-one-utama
- http://blog.saimatkong.com/index.php/2008/01/12/nyonya-colors-1utama/
- http://che-cheh.com/food/nyonya-colors-1utama/
Taiping Lim kiosk, Desa Park City - best RM1.50 karipap (curry puff) in KL
- http://eatinout.blogspot.com/2006/09/taiping-lim-nyonya-kueh-ss2.html
- http://good-food-everywhere.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html
- http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/6/sundaymetro/19900407&sec=sundaymetro
Flying Chillies The Gardens (Thai) - expensive but I like the food - spicy!!!
- http://reviews.pinkelle.com/2008/05/12/flying-chillies-the-gardens-midvalley/
- http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/flying-chillies-the-gardens-mid-valley-city
- http://www.foodbuzz.com/blogs/my/malaysia/216763-flying-chillies-the-gardens
- http://ls-lushia.blogspot.com/2009/01/simply-thailicious-flying-chillies.html
- http://karynkhoo.blog.friendster.com/2009/04/flying-chillies/
- http://bernsy.blogspot.com/2008/01/flying-chillies-restaurant-gardens.html
- http://tesstotoro.blogspot.com/2008/05/de-chiang-mai-sungai-buloh.html
- http://femoqu33n.xanga.com/708462411/de-chiang-mai/
- http://rencahhidupku.blogspot.com/2008/07/lunch-di-de-chiang-mai-sg-buloh.html
- http://kyspeaks.com/2006/10/26/ky-eats-de-chiengmai-thai-seafood-restaurant-at-sungai-buloh/
- http://mamatisya.blogspot.com/2009/05/restoran-rumah-thai.html
- http://aishifa.blogspot.com/2009/01/food-review-rumah-thai.html
- http://puteri1.blogspot.com/2009/09/menu-berbuka-puasa-di-rumah-thai.html
Village View Bandar Baru Bangi - - hmm...typical thai hawker food (menu & taste) in restaurant setting! Probably will not pay a second visit..poor service too.
- http://www.shahsramblings.com/?p=2311
- http://lailakamilia.blogspot.com/2008/06/jalan-jalan-cari-makan-village-view.html
- http://gembiraselalu.blogspot.com/2006/03/agm-2006-village-view-restaurant-bangi.html
- http://amokika.blogspot.com/2009/01/jalan-jalan-cari-makan-village-view.html
Salero Negori TTDI (Nasi Padang) - ok, but I prefer Sari Ratu.
- http://www.litefm.com.my/leisure/kitchen_whizz/eat_beat/default.asp?id=138
- http://losethisblogitstoxic.blogspot.com/2009/01/food-adventures-1-salero-nogori.html
- http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html
Sari Ratu Jln Sultan Ismail (Nasi Padang) - I like the food here
- http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2006/07/nasi-padang-restoran-sari-ratu-desa.html
- http://www.anilezfa.com/buka-puasa-at-sari-ratu
- http://www.murai.com.my/article/default.asp?article_id=2113&c=13&s=57
- http://bbd.kisahberuang.com/2008/11/29/sari-ratu-kelana-jaya-2/
- http://lieyalatif.blogspot.com/2009/04/si-ayam-penyet.html
- http://ummuilham.blogspot.com/2009/08/ayam-penyet-bangi.html
- http://awiscool2007.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/lepakayam-penyet-ap/
- http://vintagesmitten.blogspot.com/2009/07/ayam-penyet-in-kl-vs-kuching.html
- http://kyspeaks.com/2009/03/18/ayam-penyet-ap-at-sunway-mentari-pj/
Nasi Briyani Gam Johor Restoran Anje Bandar Baru Bangi - not bad
- http://orangkecilorangbesar.blogspot.com/2009/02/nasi-beriani-gam-johor-restoran-anje.html
- http://bernsy.blogspot.com/2007/11/nasi-beriani-gam-johor-jb-power.html
- http://hamydy.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/restoran-anje-beriani-gam-johor/
Sakae Sushi 1-Utama - ha ha a jap restaurant that offer decent food w/o burning holes in your pocket
- http://jasonmumbles.com/2007/07/sakae-sushi
- http://www.ewinee.com/2009/09/sakae-sushi-subang-parade.html
- http://www.chi3nming.com/2009/10/24/sakae-sushi/
- http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/sakae-sushi-japanese-sunway-carnival-nall-seberang-jaya-penang
- http://www.foodlah.com/2007/10/17/sakae-sushi-my-favorite-sushi-joint/
Chilli's 1-Utama / Bangsar Shopping Centre - my fav order? Cajun Fajitas :-)
- http://www.vkeong.com/2006/food-drink/chilis-midvalley/
- http://mizzamy.com/2008/09/berbuka-di-chillis-klcc.html
- http://www.omoshiroi.org/2008/11/dinner-chillis-1-utama-round-2.html
- http://www.trickflip.net/wordpress/2006/06/13/hard-rock-cafe-and-chillis/
- http://www.budihermawan.com/v2/?p=299
Victoria Station Jln Ampang- my nephew loves Thomas the train..choo choo
- http://missmisya.fotopages.com/?entry=1852147
- http://teruterubonzu.blogspot.com/2009/07/dinner-victoria-station-jln-ampang.html
- http://food.malaysiamostwanted.com/venues/victoria-station-jalan-ampang
Coliseum Cafe KL - food quality not as good as before, either they changed chefs or ... everything here don't change much since looong time ago.
Ha ha 3 months food......
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