Christmas Eve's Steamboat (at home)

When you have more commitments, you will start eating out less and celebrating less, like those Christmas lar, new year lar.. can be very costly if you eat out! For our case, we still hope to get the Christmas feel but we do not want to spend that much, that is why we have this.. steamboat at our house on Christmas eve!!

It's kind of weird to have steamboat at home for 2 person.. well, it's true, it's quite difficult to prepare too. If buy too much, cannot finish but if buy too little, it's like nothing much to eat.. hehe...

This is the 2nd time we used this steamboat, bbq pot since we bought it last year. what we have here? For bbq, we have chicken and pork marinate in curry powder, chicken and pork marinate in teriyaki sauce, and beef without marinate and also otak otak...For steamboat, we have fish balls, meat balls, abalone mushroom, vege, chicken, pork, beef, fish cake...

You may think it's not that much of food but it's really A LOT. We were not able to finish all these food!! hehe...After having this steamboat, we told ourselves not to have steamboat again in the near future but few days later we had steamboat again at FL's house.. hehe..really no more steamboat for this year. :)

Korean BBQ @ Daorae (Kepong)

When FL and I first visited the Daorae Korean BBQ Restaurant (Kepong), we did not try their BBQ. The name of the restaurant already let us know that this is an BBQ restaurant but still we didn't try it, very regret, hehe so.. we decided to visit this Korean restaurant again to try their BBQ. Oh yes, another excuse to eat nice food. hehe..

A bowl of charcoal will be placed into this hole.

They will heat up a bowl of garlic before they start bbq. I think this will make the bbq smell nicer gua..Surrounding it are the free dishes where you can ask for refill if you like to have more.

Besides the free dishes, these vege and soup are free too... can ask for refill too. The soup taste nice, taste a bit like the white radish soup (白萝卜汤), nice!!

A plate of onions, free too, and can refill too..

some sauce..

If you want to try the BBQ, you have to at least order two different dishes (can be meat or toufu), so we ordered a plate of pork and a plate of beef and also a bowl of Kimchi soup (Kimchi-jjigae, RM 16) which comes with a bowl of rice. (we actually didn't want to order the soup but the boss (i think he's the boss gua, also a korean which speaks little bit english, we need to guess what's he's trying to tell us.. hehe..) kept insists that we should order the soup cos for korean bbq, soup is a must. hehe..that's wat he said lar, that is why we ordered.)

Dak-gai-bi, RM 27
which is pork marinate with dono what sauce. hehe..

Cha-dol-bae-gi, RM 40
which is beef..without marinate

The staff there will help us BBQ so basically we just sit back, relax and eat when they finished bbq. hehe.. hmm..it's quite enjoyable also, but I will prefer to bbq myself if they let me to... not sure whether can or not.. :)

So how to eat? According to the boss, you take a piece of vege, then put the meat above the vege, add some sauce, then you can add some onion too, so that's the way you eat...The pork taste nice, sweet... but the beef taste nicer...

While we're eating, the boss gave us a bowl of steam egg, free...

and this, egg pancake (i think), and it's free too..

Their BBQ is not cheap but the portion of the 2 dishes are very big and with all the free stuff, it's really enough for 3 or 4 person!! This meal took us Rm 91.30 (include 10% service charge), not cheap but it's worth it. Have you tried this before? If not you should really try one day...best to go with 3 or 4 friends, else really very hard to finish all these food...

Dinner on the plane (Eva Airways)

A lot of people said the food on plane sucks but after my recent trip to Taiwan with Eva Airways, I felt the food on plane is not that terrible lar. hehe..

It takes 4 hours+ to reach Taipei from KLIA (direct flight). My flight departed at 3pm+. An hour later after we departed, they served us some snacks. A packet of peanut and a cup of drinks (fruit juices, soft drinks, beer, wine and etc).

Snacks. A packet for each person

And another hour later, they served us dinner (5pm+). You can choose either fish with rice or chicken with noodle.

FL took chicken with noodle.. not so nice. hehe..

I took fish with rice. taste great.. maybe i'm super hungry lar. hehe..

Besides the rice/noodle, there's fruits, salad, bread and dessert. For drinks, first they will serve u fruit juice/wine/soft drinks/beer, then later on they served coffee or tea. Really not too bad lar the taste. hehe.. If you are a vegetarian, you have to let us know when you book your ticket, they will prepare the vegetarian food for you.

Triple Celebration - Christmas, December Birthday & Year End Lunch!

Yesterday my company had a triple celebration for Christmas, those colleague birthday which falls in December and also the year end lunch. hehe, geng leh, 3 in 1, cut cost mar... Let see what we have...

Ribena, Tau Fu Fa, Mango Pudding

turkey

Popiah, rendang, fried rice (the one covered up)

Fried Meehun and acar

Christmas + Birthday Cake

Christmas Cake

Wow, I never taste turkey before, this is definitely a good chance.. Hmm, I took a small slice and tried, so how is it? Well, it's a bit 'sou' and I don't like the taste. hehe..

After singing birthday songs, making wishes, cutting cakes and eating.. we had a simple and yet fun gift exchange.

What about you? Do your company have similar Christmas makan session + gift exchange too?

Macau Famous Double Skin Milk!! (澳门双皮奶)

We did some research before we go to HK and a lot of people mentioned that this shop is the most famous shop for the double skin milk ('xiong pei nai' 双皮奶) in Macau. So here I go...

义顺鲜奶（牛奶）公司

the entrance

see, lot's of 'xiong pei nai'..

It's a small shop, two storey, only a few tables inside. When we walked in, we were lucky that there's people leaving, else we got no place to sit also.

the menu

ginger 'xiong pei nai' (hot)

original 'xiong pei nai' (cold)

Two 'xiong pei nai' costs us HKD 34, not cheap also... How it taste? I shall say I prefer the ginger one, the original one taste very geli. I'm ok with milk but I can't stand the smell.. hehe.. The ginger one taste better! But it's still worth to try!

Macau Portuguese EggTart （澳门葡挞）

When you talk about Macau? What is the first thing you will think of? Casino? erm.. ok, I mean food lar, what is the first thing that came across your mind? Portuguese Egg Tart!! Yes that's right!!

I'm not really a fan of Portuguese egg Tart, I prefer the normal egg tart, but since it's the famous food in Macau, then have to try lar..

This small shop is just beside the Yik Shun 'Xiong Pei Nai' (义顺 - 双皮奶). I think most of his business come from the customer from Yik Shun. hehe...

We bought two to try..

HKD 7 each

I'm not sure this shop is the famous shop for Portuguese egg tart or not, but to me, it taste normal only lar. I still prefer the egg tart from Pie & Tart Specialist (蛋挞专门店).

How a plastic surgeon helps a girl to regain her confidence

I went out for lunch with Sandy just now. During lunch, Sandy told me how her cousin, Ally regained her confidence after the car accident. Ally was a beautiful girl, a car accident took away her pretty face and since then she had changed from a confidence, optimistic girl to a person who is pessimistic and lack of self confidence.

Ally stopped contacting her friends and rarely leaves her room since the accident until she pays a visit to the plastic surgeon from Denver Plastic Surgery. After she undergoes the surgery, she now started to feel confidence again. I'm really happy for her!

Yummy yummy Hong Kong Lor Mai Gai

Before my trip to HK, I told myself I have to try their Lor mai gai (glutinous rice chicken, 糯米鸡). But when we had the HK dim sum for lunch on the 3rd day of our trip, FL ordered wrongly, he thought he ordered lor mai gai but that one turned out to be paper wrapped chicken!! So till now I still haven't had the chance to try lor mai gai yet.

When we were on the way to the sports shoes street (波鞋街) to shop for Nike sports shoes (after we were back from HK Disneyland), we passed by this little shop which sells lor mai gai, some dim sum + bao. Yay, I still got chance to eat HK Lor mai gai!!

Their lor mai gai looks a bit different than the one we have here. It's much more bigger and the lor mai gai is wrapped with banana leaves (i think...it's banana leaves. hehe..)

Unlike our lor mai gai, this one is white in color. The chicken is at the bottom. Smells really nice and taste really good! oooo.. I love lor mai gai, I love HK lor mai gai!!

Vitasoy, original and honey dew flavor
维他奶

I don't like soya drinks but a lot of people told me this is a MUST drink thing in HK. So i bought one packet at the 7-11 opposite my hotel to try on the first day. Since then, I bought 1 packet EVERYDAY!!(on the last night, i bought 2 packets!! hehe..) It's really nice, not too sweet, even me who doesn't like soya drinks love this!!

and this.. what's the name for this ar?

this taste so so only, why? cos they add soy sauce on top and there's no chili sauce! taste a bit weird la..the lor mai gai + this costs us HKD 26, not cheap also... but really should try the lor mai gai lar.. taste really good!!

The best sausage roll I've ever had at Hong Kong Disneyland

The HK Disneyland is not very big but still we took almost a whole day visiting or rather queuing to visit each and every corner of Disneyland. It was already 7pm+, the fireworks will be at 9pm. We were both tired and a bit hungry, therefore we decided to have a break and have some snacks at the bakery shop on the main street of Disneyland.

the bakery shop

the menu
hmm, not too expensive also wor, right?

wow, everything looks so delicious and
smells good too!

nice paper bag with disneyland logo

Iced Tea, HKD 15

Sausage Roll, HKD 22
looks really big and delicious! yum yum!

see, huge right?

egg tart, HKD12

The sausage roll is more expensive than the Iced Tea but it is really really VERY nice!! The bread is very very fresh, you should really try if you visit to HK Disneyland one day.

Our lunch at Hong Kong Disneyland

After a few hours walking under the hot sun at HK Disneyland, we decided to take a rest and have our lunch. There are a few restaurants/food court there with different themes. (depend where you are) We were at somewhere near Tarzan's tree house, so this is the place we're having our dinner.

not bad right? it's like eating in the forest.

There are not really that much of choice there, got rice, got mee..We were hungry and tired so both of us ordered rice.

BBQ pork rice (Char Siu Fan 叉烧饭)， HKD 50
and a plate of vege (cabbage), HKD 15

Three Treasure Rice (三宝饭), HKD 50
and a cup of Pear Sweetened Soup, HKD 15

Eating at disneyland is a bit expensive. This meal costs us HKD 130, approx RM 60+. But then again, even we the food at Genting also more expensive lor.. So the price still reasonable lar. You can see there's really a lot of rice, both of us also can't finished it. How it taste? Not bad actually...I like the cabage and the tong shui. taste nice!

Another Hong Kong Char Chan Teng (明苑粉面茶餐厅)

This is the 4th day of our trip in Hong Kong. Today we have to eat FULL FULL. why? We're going to the HK Disneyland!!! A lot of walking, a lot of sweating.. so breakfast have to be full, right? Again, we picked a char chan teng near our hotel (ya, there's really a lot of char chan teng around the hotel we stayed..)

明苑粉面茶餐厅

my cup of coffee...

I forgot this is ice tea of ice coffee. hehe, but looks nice right?

this one is very nice!! sweet, and SPICY!!

my minced meat mee, not bad, but not as nice as the
one I had on the first day at Eat to New（新之食）.

soup

FL was addicted to the beef noodle 'ngao lam min' （牛腩面） he had yesterday. So this morning he ordered the same thing again, but it's not as nice as the one he had yesterday.

Overall the breakfast here is normal, not bad but not so good as well. Price about the same, about HKD 30 per person.