Alive, once again =P

MIA for 2 months this time.. =P

Lack of blogging material lah.. unless u wanna read about my everyday boring routine or my wuliao research lah.. Yeah.. that's my life.. How sad... XP

ANYWAY, I went KL to visit my bro last weekend!!

It was a sudden decision. All because my aunt wanted to pass some stuffs to my cousin so she asked if my parents and I would like to carpool. Of course we accepted her offer gladly.

We started journey on Saturday morning, put a night in KL, and then drove all the way back to BP again on Sunday evening. It was a short but pleasant stay.. =)

Bro brought us for Korean BBQ dinner at a shopping complex named NZX (Niu Zhe Xui) near his housing area. We went jalan-jalan in the complex upon finishing dinner for our tummies were bulging out so much so that it was difficult for us to squeeze back into the car right away.

That was when I saw this!!

Fullhouse Lifestyle Store and Cafe!! Kindly ignore passerby A, B & C.. XD

I had already heard all good comments about this concept shop when Kah Yee's birthday celebration was held there but I never knew about its exact location. Super beria-ia wanna try loh!! Bro somemore said it's not bad... Ok lah... Set!

So under my persuasion, we had lunch there the next afternoon. Kaka...

The menu. So cute so unique!! Like a story book!! They even took note of small detail like the barcode. Bro said the menu was different from its previous version. Well, I tak tau~ =P

The interior

The merchandise

The set lunch was quite value for money. 4 sets to choose from, each consisted of 1 soup of the day, 1 beverage, 1 main course, and 1 dessert. The price ranged from around RM16-18. Three of us took the set lunch while the other two ordered from the ala carte menu.

Mushroom soup!! Super creamy, thick, and rich in mushroom taste!! MUST TRY!!!

My ala carte Wasabi fish fillet. Besides the dipping sauce, there was nothing else wasabi about it...

Mum's ala carte dish.. Baked fish cooked in raspberry & fruity sauce. Yummilicious!!~

Bro's gf and my dad ordered the same thing, wok-sear chicken chop set lunch.

Signature dish of the shop. Another MUST TRY!!

Bro's set lunch. Baked fish cooked in some-kinda-sauce. Can't recall liao lah... The taste was superb though!!

The desserts.. Chocolate mousse and lemon cakes.. Tasted so-so only...

That's my car!! Yeah, I wish... XD

Overall, the food, the ambience, and the service provided were all above averaged. Prices are rather affordable, too. Definitely worth a second visit ;)

iT's @LL AbOUt hWOoD

Helo!! Me Maria. Just done grocery shopping with Ma'am. It's teatime now. So Maria has some free time to blog. XD

Maria masak another new dish 2 days ago. Chai Po (sweet radish) baked hwish. Maria tiru the recipe from a cooking book. Rasa not bad, tetapi abit too sweet lah. Maria think it's the problem of the chai po. Maybe next time should use the salty type instead.

Macam fish pie hor? Sebenarnya 3 slices of thick slicked hwish.

OK OK. Switch identity to Pei Ling. Got serious stuff to tell.

It's Raya yesterday. So Maria was off for the day. Dad & bro-in-law went to tapao "dai chao" for dinner. Haiyo. Not enough lah. Our whole family big size + big eaters mah. I wasn't even 20% full when all the dishes were already gone.. =(

Not full = bad mood de loh. So, I screamed (jokingly lah):

"KOKO!!!!! I'm still hungry!!!!! BUY ME ZINGER BURGER!!!!!!!!!!~~ Craving!!"

Was expecting either reaction number 1:

"Haaaaaaaar? HAHAHA! Go eat shit lah!"

or maybe reaction number 2:

"Walau!! Still not full meh? U think u still very slim ah?"

when I heard

"OK. No problem. What else u want?"

and he really went out right after that to get me the burger!! OOH!! Happy!!! =D

Was very very de touched loh. He seldom pamper me so much de loh. Hehehe... =) See see my ai4 xin1 Zinger burger!! ^^

Ooh huhu... Suspense.. What's inside?

Tada!!!!! Yum yum!!! Almost 2 year since I last had Zinger burger eh!! *Slurp* =P

THANK YOU, KOKO!!!!! =D

Hehe.. Mum cooked meehoon soup this afternoon. Think it looks very de tempting & seductive. Took a picture of it.

Oosh!! Yum!! Mama, cook for me, pls!!!!! *drool*

OK lah. Maria wanna go eat her kuih liao. Later gotta go sweep floor & cook dinner liao. Tata!!

P/S. Good luck to all of u who start work tomolo!! Whoa!! Another stage of life!! Congrats!! =)

LeT Ur s@LivA dROoL~~~

Muahahaha... I made this!! I made this!!!

Nice leh? Nice leh? Nyek hehehe...

It was an attempt to immitate this dish from the Keyaki Japanese Restaurant in Pan Pacific Hotel (Singapore).

The genuine version

Kakaka.. Not bad what. At least got 90% similarity mah, no?

Taste wise, of course Keyaki's version better lah. The bacon taste of my version was a wee bit too strong liao. The middle part of the prawn was a wee bit too soft, too. See? That's why I'm a pharmacist, not cook! XD

But hor, Dad said he preffered my version to Keyaki's!!!!! Cause my one tasted much better wor!!!!!! Woohuhuhu.... Kembang dao~

Yala yala... I know he was just trying to console me and give encouragement lah. Ish...

Mum suggested pan-frying the roll-ups first the next time I cook. I had that in mind as well actually. Teehehe... =P

EDIT: Xin asked me to add this. "Mum, Sir! Me Maria~ Me can cook nice hwood. See see the pikture I ambik! Me can speak Engrish also. And Sir, me can strip dance also kalau mau~ *wink wink*" Grrrrrrrrrr.....

hApPY Le@P DaY!!!!!~~~

Yo yo!! It's the leap day today!! Once in every four years eh!! Decided that I must write something on such a special day for remembrance sake. Keke... =)

So, it's the 29th of February, 2008 and I am here in Glasgow!!

I woke up in the morning, regretting for pigging early again last night, having written not even a single word for my CPP and Pharmcare essays... GAH!!! (-__-"')

Then I attended "Gene Therapy" lectures delivered by Dr. Christine Dufes. Was expecting Prof. Clive Wilson but he was off to Budapest dy.. Shiok-nye~ Anyway, I got totally inspired by Dr. Dufes cause she's so geng!!!!! So young yet she's already lead so many gene therapy studies & published so many research articles!! She even discovered a new gene delivery system which is more efficacious but less toxic than the best one available on the market now!! Like whoa!! (Know Xin will be very pleased to see this. Ish.. MY Dr. Fiona is very geng as well lor, okay?!!)

Then, for the FIRST TIME in my entire life, I borrowed journals from the library!! 4 altogether somemore eh!! NERD dao~~ XP Thanks to my "exotic" CPP topic la!! "Alcoholic Liver Disease + Hepatic Encephalopathy" wth... Limited electronic journals (that our ciplak univesity has subscribe to) focus on these la.. Bo pian... And THANK GOD I saw Geok Ying (role model!!) in the library!! If not I seriously had no idea where to look for, and how to borrow a journal lor... XP Final year pharmacy student I am, huh? Anyways, am still proud of my "great" achievement today lor.. XD Don't laugh at me lar, u nerdy ppl...

At night, me & housies made wan tan in celebration of the leap day!! Uh hum... Actually just an excuse to binge eat la.. But well, the wan tan was AWESOME, can??!!! And mind you, we took it with chili padi somemore!! OOSH!!~ Except for Su Ann who doesn't like pork, we took TWELVE wan tan EACH, okay????? Stomach bloated like I'm pregnant with a 5 months old baby... *burp* XD Pure bliss, pure bliss ah... =P

Think am gonna spend the rest of my "leap night" looking into sien journal articles. What an "exciting" way to "celebrate" the leap day, man!! XP Haiyo.. Ate until too full liao la.. Blood all diverted to the GI tract liao.. Brain not functioning dy lar.. Parasympathetic dao~ XP Can I go read some manga or watch some movies first?? XD

Bye bye Journal of Hepatology!! Bye Bye Gastroenterology!! XD *I wish*

b@KEd sPin@cH wIth EgGS

Came across this recipe few days ago and I decided to give it a try last night. In very good mood ma, after seeing sleet for the first time in my entire life.. Keke.. It turned out to be rather successful!! Hohoho... Am not gonna tell u what sort of ingredients I added to give it the yellowish-brownish colour.. Just assume it's some virtually fat free coloured-paste, alright? =P

mY fIRst cHEesEc@kE!!!!!~~~ 2

While makan-ing... XD

mY fIRst cHEesEc@kE!!!!!~~~

Another post on food... XD I really shouldn't be eating that much la... How I wish I could just inflate and deflate as easily as a balloon... Yeah.. I wish... XP

Anyway, I baked my first very own cheesecake today!!! A successful attempt!! *Totally ignoring the fact that the cheesecake expanded too much and "exploded"* YIPPIE!!!~~ XD

Found the recipe for chocolate cheesecake supreme online.. So I just followed step by step, except the part on making crust with chocolate wafer crumbs. Ulu Malaysians tak tau apa tu chocolate wafer crumbs la.. So instead, I crushed my Sainsbury's chocolate chips cookies and made them the crust. Kaka... Also, there should be 1/3 cup of chocolate chips in the cheese layer.. However, giam siap ppl like me was unwilling to invest on chocolate chips before I even knew whether my cheesecake would jadi or not.. That was my first attempt to actually bake a cake ma!! A cheesecake somemore leh!!! Can't blame me for being giam siap... *shrug* =P

Haven't tasted the cheesecake, yet. Gotta wait till Ganas Voon comes back from work then only we will have it as supper! Kekeke... It smells nice though! Hopefully it will taste equally as nice la! Wish me luck! Huhuhu... =D

Chocolate cheesecake supreme!!~ OOSH!!! XD

cURry FrIEd rICe

So so so long didn't update my blog liao... Paisay paisay... Everytime came back from the Hong Kong Cafe also half dead liao... Pls forget about my previous post on how good the ppl were.. It was all but a show put up by them in front of the lady boss.. Am so glad that I actually survived... Will talk about it more in my other post..

As for now, I wanna share another new recipe I learned over the net here! Yup! It's curry fried rice!!!!! *chiang chiang chiang chiang chiang~~*

First, boil the rice. Remember to put slightly less water than usual so that they don't stick together when frying. Then, pan-fry garlic, onions, mushroom and ham (poor student like me can only afford these.. Of course u can substitute them with the luxurious seafoods or meats la). When they are almost cooked, beat an egg and add it in. Stir fry until the egg is cooked and then add in curry powder and a little bit of chili powder (depending on how spicy u want it to be). Fry for a while more and pour in the cooked rice. Then continue frying. Make sure the pan is hot enough because that is the key to yummilicious fried rice. The rice would actually jump (yes, jump! trust me!) around when the pan is heated hot enough. Then serve it hot and u are ready for a ride to heaven!!~ Ngek ngek ngek...

Curry fried rice!! WoOHOo~~ XD

I made this 3 days ago.. Overestimated my spicy threshold. Added too much chili powder and so I ended up perspiring and galloping down glasses and glasses of water while eating.. EeWWw!! (>_<") Hot & Spicy!!~ Rock & RoLL~~ XP My tongue was already burning before I was even half done.. Tak boleh tahan la! It was so much more spicy than Nando's extra hot piri-piri (OOh.. I miss Nando's...) la!! In the end I left the fried rice to cool while online-ing and finally managed to swallow everything down half an hour later... XP Still super duper spicy even after it turned cold lo.. Vermicelli Law sure si3 diao4 after one mouthful de... Kaka...XD Anyway, it was really very tasty le!! Shiok!! Felt as if I was back in Malaysia liao.. Kekeke... =P

Stomach went burning after that though... Diarrhoea later on at night tim! XD What a good way to lose weight, girls!! Enjoy the food without absorbing the fats!! What else can be more ideal than that??? XD Kakaka... Seriously, give it a try! =)

mERcH@nt cIty fEStiV@L

Huhuhu... Still super lazy to blog at the moment... Why ah why ah? Could I have accidentally caught infection that causes laziness from Czech or Germany??? Arh.. Maybe I should start off with a post with many many pictures since "a picture paints a thousand words", as the saying goes. Kaka... =P

So, me and housemates Eng Su Ka, Ah Xin and Ganas Voon went to attend the Merchant City Festival going on near our campus yesterday. Hmm... Basically, there was nothing much to see. However, there was this French market selling real loads of tempting foods + snacks!!! Oooh ooh... I bought 2.80 pounds worth of super duper chun smoked cashews!! *Finished them all within 2 days time* XP Fancy spending RM20 on nuts alone.. I must be nuts!!!!! XD

EJ, something like this is only fit to be called a "nice graffiti" lo...
Unlike those on Berlin Wall... Erm... (-_-")

Super cute baby statue!!~ =)
and Hee Sheong, this is for you! "Ang moh baby got bigger meh??" XD

Then the four of us couldn't resist the call of a traditional French food known as Chicken A'la Provencale with New Potatoes and took out 4.50 pounds to give it a try. Oosh!!~ It was damn nice la!! The chicken somemore got grilled satay fragrance leh!! Yum... ^^

Chicken A'la Provencale with New Potatoes and our "tam chiak" look XD

Chicken A'la Provencale with New Potatoes close up! Yum~
Spot the chicken wing we purposely "digged up" from beneath the potatoes!

A postcard shot! Who dares to say Glasgow is not beautiful? *no idea what's this building though*

We found this bar known as Da Gate while exploring around and decided to have our dinner there. Talking about giam-siap-ness, we barged into the bar so that we would be able to place our orders before 7p.m. when the promotion of 2 tapas for the price of 6.95 pounds would end. Keke.. The ambience was surprisingly good! Very suitable for dating or small group gathering. The waitresses were all super friendly, too! We were brought to a corner meant for dining, known as Secret Garden. Apparently Da Gate was "the gate leading to the secret garden"!! How romantic and artistic that idea was!! =)

Was expecting some Italiano cuisine when I found out that they were actually expert in Asia Pacific foods! What a surprise!! Haha.. The service was good. It seriously did not look like a place where u could have a decent meal with just 6.95 pounds only! Anyway, we quickly placed our orders at 6:58p.m. to be eligible for the offer. Cheapo!! But who cares??? XD

Housemates!! =)

Posing before the foods arrived. Lalala~ XD

Soon the foods arrived. And now, be prepared to get ur saliva drooling all over the place. Woo hoo hoo...

Prawn Piri-piri Tapas

Sweet and Sour Fish Tapas

King Prawn Tempura Tapas

Lamb Meat Balls Tapas

Crab Meat and Potato Fritters Tapas

Needless to say, the food was awesome!!! Oosh!! Those meant to be spicy one were really spicy. Much more spicy than ang moh can tahan. Most importantly, the dishes were made from seafoods!!! SEAFOODS!!!!!~~~ Real fresh seafoods!!!!! Can feel the prawns "doink doink" in my mouth somemore! The chef didn't overcook them. Thumbs up!! Felt as if I was swimming in the deep cooling sea with the soothing sea breeze blowing on my face... Like shooting MTV like that.... Aaahh.... XD Anyway, that was my first time getting the taste of fresh prawn in Glasgow le... Sob sob.. Why must seafoods be so expensive here??? T_T

And, the final shot of the day... Tada!!!~~

The building right opposite Da Gate. A church maybe..

Nice leh? Glasgow's night view also not bad ma, right? =P

Aaahh... What a satisfying outing... Am so lucky and blessed... =)

aM B@cK!!!~~

Hey hey!!~ Am back from trips!!! Phew.. I see spider web on my blog already!! Haha.. Deserted liao... =P

Anyway hor, am still a bit lazy to blog now leh.. Post-trip syndrome.. Just feel like lazing around only, even though am not really tired... Kaka.. Will update on my trip to Germany and Czech soon, when I am in the mood la... XD

So, what's for lunch today? Yong Chow fried rice!!! Huhuhu.. but it's the westernized version, i.e. with sliced sausages.. Haha.. no choice la.. fridge is currently super empty.. Gotta wait till Ganas Voon is back from trip then only we will do grocery shopping together... But still, it tasted superb.. Maybe I simply miss Chinese food too much liao ba.. Haha...

Yong Chow fried rice!!

not bad leh?

sUpER dE hE@lTHy LUncH

Since I have fallen sick over the past few days, coughing like hell which wakes me up naturally without fail everday 6 or 7a.m. in the morning, mama thus forbids me from eating "heaty" foods. Being a good girl (more because I wanna get rid of the super duper annoying morning cough), I decided to obey. This really throws me into a desperate position since being a poor student here in UK already leave me with very little choices of foods for lunch... No grilling, no frying, and I have no porcelein bowl for steaming... Wah liao eh!! How to cook la like that???!!

At 2p.m. in the afternoon, I still had no idea what to cook for today's lunch. No wanting my lunch to turn into teatime, so in the end, desperate ppl came up with desperate recipe... First, I steamed the rice (Poor students DO have rice cooker la, even though we have no porcelein bowl.. DUH!!~). At the same time, I fried some onions with mushrooms and then added water and milk to make a gravy to pour over the rice and accidentally added too much milk.. #*%&@ celaka betul... So I had to add some flour to make the gravy thicken.. After that, I added in an egg to turn the gravy light yellow so that it looked more appetizing only to realize that I forgot to beat the egg first before adding it into the gravy... So it now stared right back at me like a mata kerbau... The consequence of being even more forgetful when rushing... Grrrr... Dun want mata kerbau la... not eating nasi lemak also... So, I poke the egg yolk open with the ladle and stir the entire mixture vigorously... Oh well, now the egg yolk "solubilized" into the gravy while the egg white solidified... Argh... Who gave a damn!! I just scooped it out straight and poured it over the rice...

and so, this was how it looked like... (-_-")

More like a bowl of rice covered in cat's vomit... YEEEWW!!~ But it didnt taste as bad as it looked la... In fact, not bad at all... Hey, I finished eating everything, OK? Not that I am trying to defend my cooking skill or what lor... or maybe because I was simply too hungry that even cat's vomit tasted nice to me... (><") My turn to vomit now... XP

Oooh ooh, by the way this pic was taken using my new phone Sony Ericsson K800i!! Woohoo~~ I have a new phone lu~~ ^^