Earth hour 2012

In conjunction to Earth Hour 2012, coincidently we were in lowyat plaza, surveying for some IT gadget, we had the chance to claim free frappucino at Starbucks by checking Foursquare at any Starbucks outlet between 8:30-9:30pm.
Fun fun, two frappucino has saved us rm 28!!!!
We ordered caramel and green tea flavor.

Fish Manhattan Market fish and chips

Fpig saw the fish manhattan market fish and chips promotion, rm 6.99, original price is rm14.99.

The promotion only lasted for two days, 29 & 30 March.

So we decided to go before the promotion end. 1 utama does not have fish manhattan, so we dicided to go e-curve. The parking is rm2 for five hours.

Fpig likes the fish and chips, the portion is big enough and really worth rm6.99.

Then we also ordered cream cheese mussels, rm10.99 for fours medium size mussels and bread. I do not think it worth the price.

MPig had baked fish with rice and vege, quite delicious.

The total price is rm 40.35, only rm50 and above will accept credit card.

Then we watched Wrath of The Titan at Cathay Cinema. It is a good effect movie. Story line is just normal.

IKea Restaurant

This is a place that I insisted to go long time ago but MPig kept on giving excuses that the restaurant is actually in the middle of the showroom and need to walk a big distance only can reach bla bla bla.

3/3/2012 finally I successfully forced and dragged him to go with me.

We parked at Tesco at the opposite of the road. Now Tesco started to charge for those who do not shop at there.

But if you buy rm5 stuff from Tesco and still within 3 hours grace period, you still allowed to park for free.

When we reached Ikea Restaurant at around 6pm, there was a long queue.


I went to queue for food while MPig went to wait and reserve table to eat. It is a self service where I waited for nearly 20 mins only reached my turn










I ordered salmon which is something I missed most when I was in the UK. It costed rm12.90 which I think it is reasonable price.

This is the whole bird chicken with chips that costed rm15.90.

Of cos there is the famous Swedish meatballs which costs rm5 for 5 pieces, rm10 for 10 pieces and rm 14 for 15 pieces. It comes with chips and cranberry sauce.

The softdrink costs rm1.50 free refill

There is the choice of coffee, cappuccino and juices too.

There is a lot of desserts such as the daim cake, cheese cake, muffin and Cinnabon bun. I wish to try but we were to full to try all. I wish to come again next time for dessert!

After our meal, I noticed that the queue was still very long. It is really considered economic price to have international quality food.

Groupbase at Sri Damansara

Just came back from lunch with my longkor at Groupbase Bandar Sri Damansara.

I felt the business was not like last time anymore. Not many customers even though lunch time. There was full house 6 years ago I came here.

I had cincai Bandung, it was so watery and tasteless. It costs rm 2.20.

I had mee Bandung, again, the soup was watery, the portion of yellow noodles was small with a few pieces of chicken and extremely small prawn. It costs rm6. One word, not worthy.

Longkor had nasi USA. It was just the fried rice, with 3 small broccoli, chicken masak merah and a fried egg on top. It costs rm9.90.

I don't think I will go back again. I think they have changed the chef. Last time it tasted so delicious and tv3 Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan also came here for introducing the food.

Address:
Groupbase Restaurant
No 7&8 Jalan tanjung SD13/2
Bandar Sri Damansara,
52200 Selangor.
Tel: 0362721184

Happy Solstice Day 冬至快乐

Yesterday, suddenly decided to make some tang yuen after reading so many blog post regarding self made tang yuen.
This is the first time I made the tang yuen myself without any guidance or help from others. Still remember last year I made the tang yuen with Chai Shen.

This year, I on the skype, making the tang yuen while chatting to mom and dad. So happy to have the technology that link us together.

I made the red colouring tang yuen and the black sesame tang yuen. I am so pround of myself that the tang yuen that I made was so Q. Mom taught me to use the plain water to boil the tang yuen until it floated, then put into a bowl of cold water to make it Q.

As for the black sesame tang yuen, since it is the first time I made it, the look was not good, there was some holes of leaking. I kept in the freezer for a few hours until it harden, then put into boiling water, turn to small fire to boil it until it float.

As for the soup, I used Molassess Sugar boiled with ginger. MPig said it tasted great!!!! I am contented!

My reference is from here:
http://singmei1218.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011.html

KFC VS Burger King

Initially, I was so excited about KFC offered the free Zinger combo set with any purchase. I printed out the coupon and planned to go to KFC at night for dinner. However, I felt so dissappointed when KFC announced that this promotion has finished and it just lasted for half a day only. What a shame. The coupon stated that the promotion is until next year January and suddenly it declared that the promotion ended.

Then I saw a lot of KFC lovers aka fan voiced their dissappointed in KFC facebook page. Truely dissappointed with KFC now.

A week later, Burger King introduced the promotion of the week, where you just have to buy a value meal and pay RM 1 for the deal of the day. It was cool. I immediately printed out the voucher, and went to the nearest burger king at our nearest BK branch.

MPig ordered the Supreme Angus Steakhouse Flame Grilled Burger (black pepper flavour) value meal costed RM 16.95, and I had the ala carte Grilled Chicken.

I loved the Burger King Grilled Chicken so much, the chicken meat is so juicy and tender. It is not dry at all.

For those of you who have missed it, you can visit Burger King for the RM1 Grilled Chicken  next Wednesday or any other ala carte that they are doing promotion until early of January 2012.

I have confidence in Burger King that they will not be like KFC who will have the promotion for only half a day!  My advice to KFC is that if you really cannot commit to such a big promotion, why don't introduce something like buy a snack plate free a zinger burger????

Cookies

My first attempt to make cookies, not very successful but it was a good try.

Recipe:

200g Caster sugar
200g unsalted butter or margerine
400g plain flour

cooking time: 8-10mins for 180 degree

1. Place the caster sugar and unsalted butter in a mixing bowl, mix them together until fluffy.
2. Add in vanila essense
3. Crack one medium egg into a jug and beat it lightly
4. Add the beaten egg into the mixture followed by flour.
5. Mix them together until it form a dough.
6. Place in a plastic bag, freeze it for 2 hours before use.

Make into shapes and bake.