Archive for the ‘Live to Eat??’ Category

Some time ago, (so long that i have forgotten all about it till i went thru the folders the other day) i went for MFM for dinner with my sugar muffin. I’ve always like MFM and my favourite is the ‘Pacific Baked Dori’.(thats the only thing i will order..i’m not so adventurous with food) I’m the kinda ppl that will go to specific restaurant for a specific dish. Weird but i dont think i’m the only one having this problem.

My visit this time was not really satisfying and i notice everytime i visit it will be worst than the previous visit..and i’m still visiting, pathetic………I remembered when LH & LL first intro me n Menghua to MFM, the service was fantastic, the food was superb, *the food is still above par now..* the ambience WAS great plus the company were always happy and happening but now its deteriorating slowly. This visit, noone actually bother to get us a seat even though there were only two tables occupied. NVM, we can just sit anywhere. Then noone bother to come to serve or at least present the menu. We had to flag them down in order for them to notice our existence. After the looking at the menu for about 15mins and noone came bk to take our order, we had to shout out to get their attention again. Had to wait quite long for the food to come so the camwhore bug attacked me…..

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Hmmmm…..

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Wait till can sleep on the table… zzZZZZ

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Still waiting… Hmmmm What should i do next??

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Hehehe.. i think i’m gonna fill in the comment card and personally pass it tot the manager. Kuang Kuang Kuang Kuang…..

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Why are u looking at me like that?? Ok ok we shall just wait.

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They served us this and made us waited for another 15 mins before the actual thing reaches our table.

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Tadaaaaa…

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Makan time….

The past week was really crazy. Everyday finish work roughly bout 7plus. Wonder what i was caught up with?? THE ANNIVERSARY thingy la.. This coming WED, 11th APRIL (as per my announcement board) is the SWISS COCKTAIL. There will be some performance goin on and it will be in KDU SQUARE. So can you guys imagine the amount of things to prepare?? hell alot!!!
Anyway, for those who havent give any confirmation to me plz do so.. we are expecting quite a number of guest.

Well so much for the week, obviously the weekend will be for rest and relax. Friday nite was my ex-school mates gathering. It was the first gathering after our graduation that so many turn up. As per ’some’ ppl’s request we end up in KLCC on fri *thinkin of the crowd still scare the hell out of me* (when u hang out so often in 1U and the Curve, i advice u not to go KLCC..its totally different) As most of us were really 1U fans goin to KLcc on LRT really almost suffocated most of us. But for the gurls.. its ok la..(Tan WuYing, plz sacrifice the next gathering ok..)

Most of the good restaurant were full, we innitially planned to go to Chillis but hav to wait for at least 40mins. We ended up in Madame Kwan. Food was good but a bit pricey. Didnt get to take any photos of the food as everyone were really starving by the time we got a table to be seated so, i guess better let the photos do the rest of the talking.

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Sampai sampai they started d..

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Best buds since secondary..

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Bestie color scheme..*winks*

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Group Photo. Wheeee whens the nex gathering??? huh huh huh???

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Then we went outside for some KLCC feel.

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I like this..

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Camwhoring….

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More…

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And more…

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And more with CinaWoods wannabes..

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Half the group.

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Then when Judy started doin ‘her thing’, we all decided to..

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take a final shot and GET OUT OF THAT PLACE.. (malufying nyaaaa)

After camwhoring for more than an hour, we decided to head to PJ for our second round. We visited Laundry bar. Among all only one got really drunk..Look at the photos and see if you can guess who was the special one.. hehe..

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Really glad we meet up and looking forward for the nex trip that might take a few donkey years for it to happen hehhe…

Finally here i am sitting in front of the pc thinking hard where to start off. Many complaints received and it somehow told me that i have to start somewhere and make it on the go again… Some eager for the Vietnam trip update, some for the small trips around that had kept me occupied for the last two months and some wants to know what happened to me recently and what caused the MIA.. so where should i start??

Might as well start with something that is still fresh in my memory aka the Hanoi trip beginning of last month. Continuing to the previous post i typed out in Hanoi city itself, i’ll recap a lil of the Vietnam trip and top it up with the photos.

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One of the handsome that made our stay so memorable.

One thing i missed the most from Hanoi apart from the two guys and a wife is the FOOD! We ate so much yummy food as we get by day by day. From breakfast till supper. People there eats everything..when i say EVERYTHING i mean EVERYTHING. (sorry minh, but i have to repeat the dog story again) From things as small as the snail to something as big a doggy. maybe there are more, just that we are not aware off.. On the way to Hung’s House on the 3rd day, i actually saw a ‘barbecued’ dog by the road side on a chopping board. Scared the hell out of me but its their culture so have to tolerate. They have this ‘dog meat’ place that we didn’t visit,according to minh they serves all kind of cooking method, be it deep fried, barbequed, in soup..you name it they have it…..K nuff said time for some pictures of yummylicious food.

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The ‘wrap ourself’ spring rolls.

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The snail noodle that is one of the ‘MUST TRY’ item.

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Deep fried spring rolls in smaller sizes. Whatever size it is..its still yummy and thats the main point!

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Check out the prawns.

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The traditional Vietnamese salad.

After the heavy meals, some cold desserts just completes the whole meal…

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Mixed fruit with milk and coconut milk (by the road side on the small stool duh)

Ok Ok nuff bout food?? I think its bout time to get on with some picture of sceneries and ME..(there are more food blog later kkk….)

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Navigating the map is not the main prob in Hanoi and better still when you don’t need a map to move around as the local tour guide will bring u to the places u wanna visit. Cool huh??? Thanks to Minh and Nghiep for the hospitality provided. So we went around on the bike which is freaking scary. Imagine the traffic are so complicated that u find motorcycles coming from every freaking directions. Luckily we came home in one piece.

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A ride at nite (notice the imbalance of the traffic, so many motorcycles in the on coming direction.)

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One of the mornings after breakfast. !@#@$@ how come not many vehicles wan??? @!#!#!#

Once you reach Hanoi, the fist thing you will actually notice how this —->

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Notice the hat?? almost all the ladies have one of it and at the end of our trip we end up like this—>

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And like this –>

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And to make it timeless —> tadaaaaaaaaaa

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NICE??? Just a short trip i turn into some illegal immigrant (according to esther) SO think think think and seek consultation from me if anyone wanna visit Vietnam..Kidding la…Vietnam is a sure MUST go destination if you are ready to tolerate the hygiene issues.

Back to the photos. As my previous post, i went to Halong Bay and Catba Island and here are some photos of it…—>

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Crusing into some Water Caves side by side with another sampan motorboat.

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The scenery was breathtaking!!

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Agree with me???

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Finally saw smth like the market on the river ..

Ok la folks… boys n gurls stay tuned for the next episode of the Vietnam trip… to be continueeeeeeeeeed

As my life span in FH is coming to an end this weekend..its a norm for the boss to hand out a meal voucher worth for a meal for four and two bottles of wines.. So i got one of the voucher and decided to call Vi, Violet and Lucy to hav a feast be i leave..

Since i started working there, i’ve always hav an urge to try the beef steak that looked so yummy…i repeat..’LOOKED’….

I made a reservation under my name few days before..

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We met up @ Fondue House at 7pm last Sun as i was given one miserable  day off on a Sunday after a long nine days of work (all shops close la.. sien..) when we meet up.. chit chat abit and waited for what seems to be like ages before ’someone’ actually noticed our existance.. service sucks big time!!!! (please exclude me..) and this guy that i really HATE really gets on my nerves… i’m so glad i dont hav to see him anymore after this sat…PHEWWW…

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Vi n Violet

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Me n Lucy

We ordered a BunderTeller for starters..Its BunderFleish…I love this meat so much i’m thinking of buyin a big chunk home cos it costs a bomb in Malaysia to get ‘air dried meat’…The meat goes very well with Raclett cheese, pickles and bread.. thnking of it my tummy is having a live jazz performance…

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And we also had a salad bowl consist of cabbage, purple cabbage, lettuce and a lil of julienne carrot..

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The Yummiest food of the day… BREAD.. I’m a bread person so i guess i live with Bread instead of rice.. haha…

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Then we waited for a few centuries before our nex course arrived on the table..a big pot of CHEESE …its Fondue time again… i’m gonna miss smellin like a piece of cheese everyday after work…

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Potato and bread in cubes and lotsa pepper…into the pot, out and slurrrppp jus yummy!!!

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Everyone enjoyin the pot of cheese…and what else can we do other than eating talking and sitting around waitin??? pictures!!!!

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After a heavy round of cheese, this is what happened…

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Complainin the white wine not cold..

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Noone refill her glass of ice water..

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Its stiill the same pot of cheese infront of her… ‘wheres the next course???’

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Wondering if i should get in and say smth…but… jus in the midst of me standing up…

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someone came and lit the fire.. means the nex pot of oil is arriving..

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And my plate of beef steak which tasted more like a cold cut from the fridge instead of a yummy piece of steak… *eewwww*

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After hours of chewing, finally finished it.. n i hav no more space for the choco fondue.. n not much mood to click on the camera due to some ‘better not to mention scenario’..

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so 7pm to 10pm i was @ FH.. makes no difference even on my offday.. i’m still in that old sucky place.. i couldnt explain how this place seems to normal in the photos but so so so  horrible in real life….

GLAD ITS COMING TO AN END SOOONNN!!!

Some sudden news came on my last offday from Ms Lek Ah Siao.. The sudden decision to go bk Malaysia..We hang out the whole tuesday in Zurich and even made her stayed overnight in Esther’s place.. Lek did Shopping Shopping Shopping like noone’s business..

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Hmm which one she want??at the end bought both hehe..

Then we went ‘yum cha’ in Manor..

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(missing Swiss coffee ??)

How did we end up with Fondue??Ms Lek said it was a sad thing she never tried the famous Swiss food before she leave this wonderful place..(Lek, i’m jus trying to b lanci i’m still here..) So we decided to go FONDUE that nite ..but where?? Well i dont wana go all the way bk to Luzern to Fondue House that serves the best fondue (konon la) and noone knows if there are any good fondue place in Zurich.. KA CHING!! i remembered that Esther’s work place serves Fondue upon request but not sure if we need to do any reservation befora hand.. Anyway we went bk to Morgental to try our luck..if they cant serve fondue we will opt for the daily buffet..

But lucky us, Esther said.. no problem even though she has to do extra work cos it was pretty busy that day..Esther went running around to do her daily routine of cleaning and also preparing our ‘CHEESE’…

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Yummy.. yum yum.. delicious… Our pot of Cheese..

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Brown bread with cheese..(esther arr, in my place we serve potatoes too ler.. suggest to ur boss la..)
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Whoa…. check out check out..

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Hehe.. jus disturbing..the last time to kacau her in Swiss…

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Gloria and Edu busy with their cheesey cheesey…

(Lek, must b wondering how come so few photos.. i did a smart thing earlier.. created a new folder for all the photos from the camera, then went to shower.. came bk and forgot that i havent copy the photos to the new folder.. and START DELETING from camera.. luckily stil hav a few cos i thought of developing it..SMART RITE?? You take care till i see u in TWO months time,… try to bring the temperature down when i get bk okai…muakss)