Grilled Beef Salad with Ratatouille "Puff"

4th January 2009 (Sunday)

After a long morning spent in Sentul East, we arrived at Bangsar for 2 hours of "rich people" lifestyle =P

Bangsar is a different kind of neighbourhood - it always give me the kinda not-so-Malaysia feel. Of course I still couldn't forget the experience that I had when I volunteered at the World Vision Gift of Hope booth at Bangsar Shopping Center. Lost count of how many LV bags that I saw, and of course, the 2 years old baby girl eating Haagen Daz! o.O" (sorry, HD ice cream is too luxurious even for myself)

Anyway back to topic - we had lunch at a nice Italian restaurant called Telawi Street Bistro. In total, we ordered 1 starter and 2 mains. But only this, the starter, which really caught my attention...

Grilled Beef Salad with Ratatoiulle "Puff"

(Macro shot taken using my Canon Ixus 70 - quite happy with the macro effect!)

This dish is good -medium done tender beef strips + salad + and the superb puff...

Father's Day

Today is my last day before my working life starts... Spent whole day in Klang + Subang Parade...

Well, spending money always makes me feel happy =P

and today I spent Rm180 for my new pair of Nike...

I just need it, before i can go for any trials at gyms.

And i just got myself a free 7 days pass @ Celebrity Fitness Subang Parade =)

hopefully will be able to go there this coming weekend. I'm allowed to bring guests, so anyone who's interested pls sms me XD

OK. Back to topic. Father's Day. and so 3 aunties (including my mum) decided to buy 3 dads a dinner. And so we went to the new Restaurant Laut Sungai Yu @ Klang. The business is so good, until all the tables were reserved, and they had put their customers on schedule. 5.30pm one round, then 7pm another round. (same thing happened with our seafood dinner on mother's day) and they rejected at least another 10 tables of walk in customers, cause they just dont have enough tables.

Most of the dishes are normal stuff, but they're good =)

Fried Long Bean

Fried Mantis

Lala Fried Meehoon

Fried Oyster

Teo Chew Style Steam Fish

Fried Crab with Belacan and Curry leaves

OK la. That's all for tonight. Gotta go sleep and have a fresh morning for the new chapter of my life =)

Super Luxurious dinner @ Ah Yat Abalone

For the past 8 days, we had 5 visitors from China - our relatives from our kampung...

4 of them are about the age of 50s - and they're my cousins...

1 of them is younger, age 34, and he's my nephew... (i'm old...) haha...

And so my uncle decided to bring them to Ah Yat Abalone Forum Restaurant at Swiss Garden Hotel for some really luxurious food... and he invited our family to go along... yum yum...

It's a set dinner, one of their current promotion... Rm 99++ per pax...

But for some unknown reasons, the dishes that they served to us are very different from the ones listed on this board...

I really looked forward for the meal, particularly after watching "Heart of Greed" (溏心风暴), a TVB drama about a rich family that sells abalone...

The interior of the restaurant...

1st Dish - Double-boiled Shark Fin's Soup with Ginseng and Chicken
(花旗参鸡炖翅)

2nd Dish - BBQ Whole Suckling Pig
(鸿运片皮乳猪)
We only ate the skin, the whole piggy is then taken back to kitchen and later you'll see it again...

3rd Dish - Whole Abalone (4 ppc) with Fish Maw
(四头鲍扣花胶)
First time i'm eating real whole abalone...

4th Dish - Fried Crab Meat and Conpoy with Egg White
(蟹肉瑶柱炒蛋白)

5th Dish - Black Pepper Alaskan Crab
(黑椒阿拉斯加蟹炒冬粉)
Really strong black pepper, the crab is very fresh...

6th Dish - Stir-fried Squids and Sliced Fish with X.O. Sauce
(XO 酱花姿凤片)
This is nice, a bit spicy, and they fried together with celery...

7th Dish - Steamed Tiger Garoupa
(清蒸老虎斑)

8th Dish - Stir Fried Piglet (this piggy is the pig that we ate its skin...)
(椒盐炸乳猪)
This is really nice, especially if you eat it while drinking wine...

9th Dish - Fried Rice with Shrimps, Conpoy and Abalone in Lotus Leaf
(瑶柱鲜虾荷叶饭)
This dumpling is really nice, they put in a bit of jagung in the rice...

10th Dish - Dessert - Milk and Egg White Pudding Double-boiled in Thailand Fragrance Coconut
(香椰炖鲜奶蛋白布丁)
This is really really really nice, imagine the creamy mixture of fresh milk and egg white that is full of the scent of fresh coconut... This dessert is certainly heavenly...

This meal was really enjoyable, and a truly luxurious meal compared to normal hotel buffet dinner which would have cost almost the same. When they served every dish, all of us just kept discussing and guessing on the ingredients and how they cooked it. I really that its a great way to pamper your parents =)

Buffet dinner @ Eastin Hotel

Actually this dinner took place 2 weeks ago, but i was too lazy and only managed to post up the pictures now =P

This dinner was meant to celebrate the birthdays of 3 uncles... one of them is my dad... keke...

and so 4 families gathered at Eastin hotel for a buffet dinner...

the price was supposed to be RM68++ per pax, but they gave a 20% discount to those who are using a Hong Leong bank credit card...

Appetizers - mini sandwiches... with all sorts of topping such as olive, cheese, ham...

Appetizer - Sushi and sashimi...

Main - Curry fish head (this is superb) and abalone...

Stuffed mussles - the mussle "meat" is being taken out and cut into smaller pieces, fried along with crushed cheese and other unknown ingredients... very very cheesy...

Fried spicy seafood platter - this is fun, they put up all sorts of raw seafood on a counter, where you can mix and match yourself, then order the chef to fry it for you with your desired flavour...

4 aunties and 4 uncles from 4 families...

Me, my sis and my bro...

After the dinner, all of us went to uncle Phua's place for birthday cake... and also wine...

Birthday "boys" with the Secret Recipe Moist Choc cake...