Dear Diary # 4

Whenever there are too many food posts in my blog, I'll write something personal to 'neutral' it; more food posts are coming soon. ^^

| the second time |

Attended Wei Wen's piano recital performance (should say, it's USM piano recital performance) for the second time, probably the last time as she is graduate this year. Like I said, thanks to her, if not I don't think I will go for this kind of performance in my life. Cause of this, I think I would love to attend another one as if there is another performance again. Bravo to her and her mates.

| face to face |

Went to Face to Face Noodle Face for their pan mee as I miss them again (KL's one of course). Was really hoped that the pan mee can make me surprise but they didn't turn out quite well, still prefer I Mum Mum Pan Mee compare to this (in Penang lah). 

| sushi tei |

Was planning to go Sushi Zanmai at first, yeah, it's finally open in Penang; but I heard that they don't really like it over here, I shall find a time and try it myself. To skip the queue, we went to Sushi Tei instead. Don't really like the service over there as we need to ask for our food to serve, awww, disappointed. But the salmon sushi did a little bit calm me down, quite good btw. 

| the lucky one |

I'm living somewhere near to Penang Turf Club for two and a half decades, but I never went inside the Turf Club until boyfie dragging me to there last week. He never been there either. I bet we are the youngest inside the club, you can only find aunties uncles over there. They were so excited when horses scamper towards the finish line, all of them shouting the lucky number they bought; we were the only one sitting still on the bench.  

| the key to success |

Saw this little hearty box on my table, a key-liked thumb drive which design by my big boss. Some of us were helping out the event during the Chung Ling High School visit weeks ago, and I was so lucky to be chosen as one of the presenter. As an appreciation, big boss gave us this for our hard work to make his event goes well that day. 

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Change is needed.

Cozy in the Rocket with bestie

Still remember the time when I went to Amelia Cafe with my Jhu babe? Click on the link if you forgot about this. I think most of the Penangites knew that Amelia Cafe is shut down and this little hidden gems is gone from the island; but then the proprietors of Amelia Cafe are back in business with a new name, Cozy in the Rocket. It was launched like few months back and caught my attention since then; didn't have a chance to get there until I got a call from my bestie Yin Shin. Managed to make a time with her (if you want to know, we didn't met for each other since we got into university), we decided to look for a good cafe as our first stop. 

Again, you can see the effort they put on their sign board, all handmade like usual. Spotted the flying pig with the word "la cucina", it means "the kitchen" in Italian (I'm actually googled it). Had no idea why they named it as Cozy in the Rocket, I can ask for the answer but I had zero contact with the bosses, they are still as cool as last time. Their services should improve (my personal thought). 

If you are a frequenter of Amelia Cafe, it's not hard for you to spot they actually move most of the artworks here. Lovely no? You can find fresh flowers are place on every wooden table, still love their idea to plug those flowers in bottles instead of proper vase.

The huge bar with tiny tin mugs hanging on top. Menu is chalked on the wooden board, so get your place and refer to this board for your order. The banana make me think of minions, gosh, so wish to get the plastic toys tho, minion-fever mode still ON. 

Miss wooden tables that you used at your 10++ ages? Students love to use liquid paper and make some doodling on the table, still remember no? Other than magazines, they also have event flyers; spotted the "Switch Their Life" from ASA.

Caffe Latte . RM10

I'm not a coffee lover but if you didn't try their coffee during your visit, it's a waste! In fact, there are no other choices for you instead of coffee, they do have juice, but only limited for one per day. Wine of course in the list as well lah. Didn't add a bit of sugar, still the caffe latte is good even with its bitter taste. Luckily I didn't feel a thing after this cup of coffee, took it with empty stomach. Gosh. 

Homemade Spaghetti with Bacon 'n' Asparagus . RM28

It sound so normal but the taste did surprise us. Never understand how the 'homemade' come from until I had a bite on the spaghetti, it's totally handmade! Not the normal pasta that you can get from supermarket and throw it into broil water, but they make the pasta themselves with flour. Literally, we finished it in a minute. Thanks to the bacon that boost the taste and also asparagus for making it not so oily. Bit of cheese slices is sprinkle on top to make the spaghetti become creamy-er. 

Homemade Gnocchi with Mushroom 'n' Truffle Oil . RM28

I did some research before meeting up my bestie that day, and the review on their gnocchi is quite good; so we gave it a try and it's totally worth of our penny. In case you don't know what is gnocchi, it's a kind of dumpling that mostly made from potato, wheat flour, egg and etc. I was so scare the gnocchi is full of wheat flour that you can't taste anything, in fact I was totally wrong; I can tasted the potato in every bite. I really adore this gnocchi until I can't even find a word to describe it.

Reflection of us on that sunny day, ps: her boyfie was tagged along and it's really a good outing overall. Wish to have more next time. ♥


Cozy in the Rocket
Location: 262 & 264, Lebuh Pantai, Georgetown, Penang.
Business Hours: 10am - 5pm, closed on Monday
Contact Number: 012-4967838

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M.I.S.S

Sabah, the land below the wind

Woke up early morning again (not that kind of 8-9am but 5am in the morning) and felt that it's time to have something done while listening to the drip drop rain. The drip drop sound remind me of Sabah, why is it so? Because the days when I was at Sabah, I listened to it like almost every night and it accompanied me when I was going to bed. So here comes my Sabah post after one month. 

Told you I was there not for playing trip but to join the Mangga Travel team for their fair. If you followed my blog, you should know I joined them once during Penang Matta Fair and they are all from Kuala Lumpur. Knew them through my cousin and this time they offered me to fly with them; went to Sabah which is the first time for most of us. Took leaves and poof I had my short holiday with them.

I was flying alone from Penang to KL a day before we departed to Kota Kinabalu; thanks to Mike and Davian for adopted me from the LCCT, it was late in the midnight if you want to know. I quite enjoy that moment, I mean flying alone to somewhere; it is like I only have my own for the entire exploration, I don't need to bother how others look at me and I'll just do what I want. Dreamer. 

Many first time for me during the trip and I'll keep reminding myself about those memories I had until my brain cell died. Yeah, I was in MAS and compare to AA (AirAsia), the seat is really much more comfortable and bigger space. Yet, each time I really dislike the way they landing, so hard! Grrr. Had our meal inside the plane as the flight is 3 hours to Kota Kinabalu; I brought a book too but I think most of the time I was asleep than reading it, but I did finished the book on the 2nd day and I wished I had brought more books tho. 

Love the sea, and the scenery. We were able to find some time before the fair, walking around the city to get some nice shots. Sabah is a good place to travel, because everything inside the city seems 'slow' and calm, somewhere away from your hustle and bustle life.

During weekend, we went to their pasar pagi to have a walk, hunted for souvenirs. You have no idea how clean is the street, we couldn't find a rubbish on the street, amazing no? The souvenirs I bought were not enough for all, sorry if you couldn't get one. 

[ F o o d i e ]

These are some of the food we had throughout the trip, no fancy seafood (which I think we should really go and try it) and nice dried shrimp (heard that it's really famous in Sabah), all we had is what you can find along the street and hawker center. Quite tasty tho.

[ A c c o m p a n i e s ]

Here comes the nice accompanies I have with me, nice travel with them and I wish we will meet again at somewhere somewhere. Davian don't like to be captured, so the one he playing with his phone is the only photo I can put up here. Specially thanks to Mike, Davian, Jimmy, Weyson and May for the wonderful days, you all made me feel like a princess and kiddo in myself throughout the trip. Miss you.

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Chubby face, go away from me!

I miss Curry Chee Cheong Fun at Yap Hup Kee

I remembered my roomie Kai Yien bought me nice curry chee cheong fun during my days in uni, and I remembered how tasty it was. I seldom eat chee cheong fun unless I'm sick (when I was a kids) and it's hard to look for a nice curry chee cheong fun in Penang (if you found one, please do tell me!). Boyfie's friends called and there was a reason why I willing to leave lovely Levain that fast as I heard the name of curry chee cheong fun! I was extremely hyper along the way from Levain to reach Yap Hup Kee Chee Cheong Fun. 

If you were a newbie to this place, you definitely need a GPS to lead you there. We went to Pudu branch, I think they do have another branch at Damansara area, google it for more details. Look for the red shop lot when you reach that area and that's it; yuuhooo!  

The first thing that came inside my eyes is this stall and I wonder where the hell is tables and chairs for diners? Don't get worry that fast, you will have your seat inside and air-con is provided, this is a plus during broiling weather. The main entrance is on right side.

Take a plate and pick your love from the yong tau foo spread laid out, the price is clearly stated in their menu which stick on the top. The next thing is to choose your main course, either dry curry chicken mee, minced pork lou shu fun (short rice noodles) or chee cheong fun with dried shrimp (you can choose curry one or the normal sweet black paste). I think they do served other type of mee, which stated in their menu. Take your seat and now wait your food to be served! 

Curry Chee Cheong Fun with dried shrimp

At first I do not know why they served chee cheong fun topped with dried shrimp (for decor I thought), yet the moment I had a bite on it, it's heavenly good and it did a little help to enhance the taste. All of us did not ordered the normal sweet black sauce or other mees, so I can't show them here. This is so good until some of us ordered 2 bowls in a row; the chee cheong fun is chewy and thinly shredded which ease the consumption. It's so good until I can finish 1 bowl my own even I just had my spaghetti at Levain earlier. 

Here comes the yong tau foo we picked, it was all fried stuffs here; we purposely forgot to get some soup stuff and we just realized about it after they served this up. You don't have to worry the thick flour coated with little fillings (which we always face at normal hawker center), you can't even find thick flour over here, how generous they are. You need to try their fried tofu skin roll as it's awesome and not too salty! Not much photos in this post as I'd been attracted by the food and they mumbled: eat me, don't take photo... 

Restaurant Yap Hup Kee (Pudu Main Outlet)

Location: 45, Jalan Brunei Barat (off Pudu), 55100 Kuala Lumpur.

Business Hours: 9am - 5pm and 5.30pm - 11pm (Closed every 2 weeks on Tuesday)

Contact Number: 03-21489220

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I woke up at 5am and have this post done.

Dear Diary # 3

Kinda lack of feeding my bloggie now due to something something I'm busy with, the blog view stat make me feel like I should blog more often instead to get back to the normal level, laugh out loud! Ever-since the Penang second bridge collapse (in front of my company and I feel the shake my own!), I started to work OT just to avoid the crazy traffic jam and this make me feel lifeless. That's why I enjoy my weekends to the fullest to pamper myself; sometimes you might think that I play too hard but I'm actually get inspired by a term YOLO (You Only Live Once), so while I'm working hard, I should play hard to get my life balance. I shouldn't bla so much to make all the lovelies here get bored, so scroll down and skip the grandmother story here. 

 | water ubah in penang |

Do you still remember the 54-foot-tall floating rubber duck displayed at Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong? One month after they removed The Rubber Duck from Victoria Harbour, we have this Water Ubah at IJM Promenade until end of August. First time in my life I saw terrible traffic happen nearby that area because most of the people want to have a peek on this Ubah bird, believe me it's a good thing.

 | polka dot casing |

I changed my iPhone casing again, no more Starbucks casings as I decided to keep them for collection only, was really broken heart when I saw a scratch on the casing! Omgimgonnadie! So I put some retro element on my gadget even I'm quite into Korean style casing which are quite hit nowadays; I'll only put them on next time if I make this spoil. 

 | so called holidaaay |

Been to Sabah with a bunch of mates for one reason, definitely not for a play-trip purpose yet we still had fun throughout the weeks. They make me feel like I was a princess, I think most probably I'm the youngest among them and I really do like them a lot; hope that I can meet them again elsewhere and I miss them a lot from the day we apart-ed at KLIA. Will compose a Sabah post to show some photos soon and Triumph In The Skies 2 (衝上雲霄2) is showing now, I'm currently at Episode 5!

| hi-tea at cbtl |

Went to Neway with pals and I'm kinda addicted to singing again after so long although my started-to-be-sore throat did make me suffer awhile during that time. The food they served in Neway just couldn't fulfilled us, that's why we decided to have a second round at CBTL. I don't really like cakes except for mille crepe and cheesecake; the Chicago Cheesecake is quite awesome and melted in mouth. 

| heal my crave |

I craved for Japanese food for times and I knew I might gone crazy if I didn't have a bite on salmon sushi. So, we had a great lunch just now at Azuma just to heal my craving towards sushi. Photographed on my seafood fried rice before I finished it in a second, laugh! I'm a happy girl today and this make me to stop procrastinating and have this post done.

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I'm lucky number six.