100% Cookies and Cream

This, my friends, is the real deal. Available from the Margaret River Chocolate Company, Western Australia, the gourmet cookies and cream chocolate is absolutely to die for. Okay, maybe not literally, but if you are a fan of cookies and cream, you definitely must try this.

Unlike other brands, this piece of chocolate is exactly what I imagined it to be. With each bite, you can taste the crunchy Oreo-like bits mixed with rich white chocolate.

It may be a long drive to either the Margaret River or Swan Valley branches to get your hands on these delectable chocolates, and it may burn a hole in your wallet, but it will be worth it. Did I mention they allow free chocolate tasting as well?

Visit the Margaret River Chocolate Company (Swan Valley branch)
5123 West Swan Road
West Swan WA 6055
www.chocolatefactory.com.au

Kimchi Korean Restaurant

Today is my birthday. I treated myself a nice lunch at Kimchi Korean restaurant. I wanted to order grill beef or seafood steamboat but they are too much for one person to finish. At the end I ordered Kimchi Ljikeh (RM18.90++), it is a kimchi soup with glass noodle, beef, taufu and mushroom.


The soup is tasty, it's sour and spicy. Besides this main dish, their side dishes are nice as well, especially the fish cake, sweet and sour fried tofu, and the kimchi!


Good taste, good service, reasonable price! I will come back again next time to try their other food.

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Location:Tropicana City Mall

The heavenly aroma

A not so fantastic Yee Sang we had during a family dinner. The highlight wasn't this, but the next pic,


A brandy older than myself- possibly more than 30 years of age. The aroma itself was heavenly, a family friend wanted to hug it to sleep.

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Something Special

Wasn't exactly our first choice for breakfast, somehow or another we ended up having Something Special.


Chicken noodles- a rather big serve for the price we paid.


Something special curry noodle- looks really 'creamy'. As I joked, it looked as if half a can of cream was poured into it.

At least prices weren't increased, unlike many other places. Brunch for three costs under RM17.

Something Special
170, Jalan Sultan Iskandar
(Hugh Low Street)
30300 Ipoh
05-2414346


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Beef-y steamboat

The family went for a beefy steamboat yesterday. At a place where we were guaranteed to sweat, we were served plates of different parts/organs from a bull.

Are we ready to start? A platter of oxtail to make it an awesome broth.

Beef tripe and all things chewy. I always love tripe.

How can we not have a platter of meat?

Beef tendons and hmrph, let your imagination go wild guessing one of the items on the plate. I did miss a few dishes which came later as we were busy tucking in.
A very interesting night- a first for me to have some parts of a bull I never had. Definitely also a fun night to have dinner with families and catching up with coussies from the other end of the world. =)

Teochew Restaurant
Lintas Idris 2 (off Jalan Labroy)
Taman Idris
Ipoh

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DIY Yee Sang

DIY Yee Sang, healthier and fresher than those ready made Yee sang selling in the market.


To make the Yee sang looks colorful, we have variety of fruits: papaya, apple, guava, cucumber, water chestnut, and carrot.


All the fruits are cut into slices.


The crispy part we have those Chinese new year home made biscuit and chips such as seaweed chip, nga ku, fried crab meat chip, sesame seed and grounded peanut. Sauce is made from sugar, lemon, sour plum sauce


Served


Lou sang!! Yit Lou Yit sang!! Huat ah!!

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Location:Triang - Grandma's house

CNY Reunion Dinner

This year my grandma prepared few dishes for Chinese New Year reunion dinner:


Spring roll(ingredient:onion, carrot, yam, water chesnut, minced pork, wrapped with pork nested oil- God knows what is that...)


Steamed Chicken


Stewed pork hand with sea cucumber and pork knuckle arteries


Stewed chicken feet with bamboo shoot and fish maw

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Little Nyonya dishes

A belated post of this gorgeous lunch in Malacca- nyonya dishes! No dish throughout the entire meal majorly disappoints, in fact a few of them impressed me.


Top hat (paiti?) This was different from any other ones I used to have because it was spicy. Perfect appetizer.


Popiah. This one has pork lard in it! Not for me, but I could think of so many other people who love the extra crunch.


Chilli fillet. Simply beautiful.



Babi ponteh. Apparently it's the only non spicy nyonya dish. According to our hospitable friends, we were lucky to get that dish as they tend to run out rather quickly.



Chicken with candlenut. Honestly I do not remember much of this dish.



Four angle bean. This, however, was a pretty normal dish for me.



Assam prawns. All I can remember os it's small serving size- sorry!

For the six of us, the meal cost us Rm112.90 inclusive of steam rice and two jugs of Chinese tea. Thought it was pretty good :)



Nancy's kitchen
7, Jalan Hang Lexia (third cross st)
Off Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock,
Malacca
06-2836099

Location:Malacca

Tang hoon / glass noodles

Black pepper claypot glass noodles with prawns. The flavours were extremely good in this particular dish.

We ordered another serve of plain glass noodles later but found that the flavours didn't work as well as the first, possibly due to the extra amount of noodles and yet the same amount of sauce.

We also did order a 'frog' dish which carried a strong aroma of Chinese wine and a sweet dish of pork spare ribs.

The restaurant (which really is a coffee shop) is located behind jusco in Ipoh, possibly the third or fourth street. The shop also has an 'economy rice' stall- which serves a wide variety of dishes to go with rice at a very reasonable price.

Will update exact location later after getting accurate details.

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Location:Ipoh

Home cook Chicken Rice

I am home for Chinese new year celebration. My parents are very good in cooking. During this Chinese new year holidays, I am going to share all the home cook!

Today my dad cooks Chicken rice. I help my dad to make some chicken rice ball (it was my idea to DIY as I just had Malacca's well-known chicken rice ball with mich and alex yesterday). The rice ball means 团圆(tuan yuan) to me, I named it "团圆饭".


This is my DIY rice ball - 团圆饭. Of course the shape is not as round as the one in Malacca as they are using a machine to do it and I'm using my hands ( with a pair of plastic gloves)


Main dish - Chicken


Sauce, cucumber


Soup- abalone chicken mushroom soup


Side- rendang Chicken ( I bought it from Malacca yesterday)


side- lap Cheong ( Chinese pork sausage)


Side- fried mushroom, vege and roasted pork


Served!

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Location:Jerantut home