Happy Chinese New Year 2015: Goat Year

Goat Sculpture spotted in The Spring Shopping Mall Kuching

Best remedy during this festive season...Honey Lemon with real extraction of lemon juice! I drank lemon drink continuously for 4 days and it fact it helped to prevent pimples from popping out!

This year we made our own Steamed Chocolate Cheese Layer Cake (recipe taken from 一零鼠烘焙屋) and our all time favourite rich Cheese Cake with sponge cake at the bottom. The Chocolate Cheese Layered Cake was a little too sweet although I reduced the sugar level. Maybe next time I could reduce the chocolate layer amount and change it into 3 layers instead of 5 layers...easier to steam and to bring out more of the cheese layer taste...

Shaun The Sheep...Shaun Bubble Blower

Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year!

Gelato Italiano, ST3 Shopping Mall

Gelato is an Italian version of ice-cream. It contains less fat and less air churned into it during the freezing process. Gelato Italiano is located at ST3 Shopping Mall and operating daily at 4pm. 

My cup

Matcha, Black Sesame Seed and Berry

His Cup

Mama cookies, Latte and Chocolate (if not mistaken...visited it last month!)

Love the Gelato so much especially the black sesame seed...it was so light and soft and every sip of it was healthy as the black sesame taste was so intense...same goes to other flavours as well.. Too bad it melted too fast, thus making the overall eating messy and rushing =(.

Nam Sen Cafe 南星茶室

Located at Market Street, right beside the Brooke Dockyard, Nam Sen Cafe is one of the oldest coffee shop in town. 

Kolo Mee@RM3 and Big Teh C around RM2

Strongly advise to avoid the seat beside the window as you seen at the above picture. Because when I started to sip in my very first bite of the mee, there blew a piece of feather into the tip of my bowl. Luckily the feather didn't drop inside my mee and spoilt my meal. Vehicles were seen driving past the window, affecting the air quality inside the coffee shop.

We also ordered a set of roti kahwin...around RN1.50++

Rising Ramen

Purchased the Rising Ramen@ Jln Song deal from Supermain for only RM18 with 2 Ramens and 2 side dishes. Indeed a worth deal.

Although can only choose a few types of ramen, but it was okay for newbies like me!

Kuro Ramen

wheat noodles in darker meat based broth and served with sliced pork, dried seaweed and green onion.

Original Rising Ramen

wheat noodles in rich meat based broth and served with sliced pork, dried seaweed and green onion.

Both Ramens were flavored with same toppings but different broths. The noodle portion wasn't generous, but the broth can make you very very full after consumption.

For side dishes we had:

Croquette

breadcrumbed fried mashed potatoes rolls with sweet and salty dark sauce

Chicken Katsu

fried chicken with sweet and salty dark sauce (same sauce with the croquette)

Little Owl Cafe

Little Owl Cafe is situated just below Central Inn Kuching. Couldn't really remember the exact menu pricing because I visited it last month ago!

Smoked Duck Aglio-olio, below RM15

quite nice but a little too hot for my taste buds. The spaghetti was cooked to perfection al-dente and made a good match with the smoked duck.

Chicken Chop with blackpepper sauce, below RM15 as well

Fried Potato Wedges, around RM5

not the typical petite wedges but giant fried wedges =)

Macchiato

Overall the pricing wasn't too high and fell in low-medium end category but the wait time was a bit too long considering only 2 tables occupied in the cafe. Presentation and food quality was acceptable and there is more space for further improvement. 

Wakakakaka Cafe, Brighton Square

Strategically located in Brighton Square, Jln Song, Wakakakaka Cafe is another hot and ideal place for dining and gatherings. This place employed all female service staffs and all of them were friendly and helpful. The cons was the place was rather small, therefore you were seated very close to the nearby tables.

Hot Lemon RM3.80

I requested omission of the syrup...very sour and bitter!

Root Beer Float RM6.90

Potato Maddness RM10.80

a decent potato starter/appetizer with bit pieces of bacons. Not too sweet nor too over garnish with mayo sauce

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Lamb Chop with 3 sauces (creamy mint sauce, blackpepper sauce & mushroom sauce)  RM26.80

the lamb chop was cooked to perfection and tasted great even without the sauces!

Ice Cream Chicken Chop RM16.80

grilled chicken chop with mushroom sauce with coleslaw and french fries dipped in vanilla ice-cream

they use machine pump type of soft ice-cream. Surprisingly their french fries were good and still tasted good after a period of time.

Causeway Bay 2 Dim Sum Promotion

Causeway Bay 2 (Brighton Square) was having RM2 Dim Sum promotion for a short period of time. I had several days of annual leaves to be clear off before end of Dec, thus I went to try on the promo items during one sunny morning.

There were only 8 types of dim sum having RM2 promotion. We ordered 5 types out of 8.

Polo Bun...filling of pineapple custard in the sweet bread 

Sesame Ball...nothing to shout off

Yam Puff...loving the Char Siew wrapped in Fried Yam

Bamboo Roll...quite nice

Tao Sao Bun...average!

The bills came up to be RM17.60 inclusive of 5 types of dim sums (RM2 each) and two cups of hot drinks. Just nice enough to fill up 3 petite tummies.The taste of dims sums were quite satisfactory regardless of unrest and disorder queues and wait time. They should set up their system as soon as possible and hire more staffs especially during their promotion period.  Thumbs up to one of the male staff who performed prompt and friendly service during my visit.

Fresh & Simple Station

Recently there's a new eating trend developing tremendously in Kuching. Sandwiches! I'm always a Subway lover, thus I was keen to try on the sandwiches in Fresh & Simple Station. Located in Green Road, this shop is selling Submarine Sandwich with plenty of choices. 

I don't think we can customize our vegetables, salad, fruits or sauces like Subway did because they didn't offer me to do so. You pick your choice, pay and wait for your sandwiches. 6 inch/12 inch bread is available. Pay RM0.50-RM0.80 for topping up to other breads like Pumpkin bread or wholemeal bread.

6 inch Teriyaki Chicken Sandwich RM4.50, add on to pumpkin bread RM0.80

Tasted alright but less appetizing after you had the lamb sandwich!

6 inch Lamb Sandwich RM10.00, add on RM0.50 to wholemeal bread 

Super love this lamb sandwich! It's delicious but personally I think it's a bit expensive.

Dream Trip to Macau

Located across western bank of the Pearl River Delta in Southern Guangdong Province, China,   Macau was an overseas territory of Portugal until 1999. Macau is now one of the World Centre of Tourism and Leisure and the Historic Centre of Macau was fêted as UNESCO World Heritage List.

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) is sending three lucky bloggers for an awesome 3 days 2 nights trip to Macau. As one of Nuffnangers in Malaysia, I would not want to miss out this golden opportunities! What's the three amazing things that make me want to visit Macau? Unquestionably, I am fascinated with Macau's historic, unique & authentic architecture like Senado Square, Macau's renowned foods such as Almond Cookies & Portugese Egg Tarts and finally magnificent view of Macau casinos.

1. Macau's Historic, Unique & Authentic Architecture

Macau is a place with unique cultural infusion of Chinese, Western and Portuguese cultures. One of Macau amazing architecture is Senado Square. Senado Square is listed n the UNESCO World heritage Site "Historic Centre of Macau". There are several historic and unique buildings around Senado Square such as Leal Senado Buiding, Holy House of Mercy, St Dominic's Church. I would love to visit these beautiful places, perhaps one day, and assemble the precious memories in my blog.

Senado Square (source from Google)

There are also other wonderful sightseeing sites such as  Taipa Village, Chinese Temple, Kun Iam Statue, Macau Tower, Macau Museums and Mount Fortress. Imagine you are standing in one of world's identified cultural and natural heritage. This certainly will be an ultimate and astonishing inspiration for the generations to come.

2. Macau Food Hunting

Macanese cuisine is a blend of Portugese and Sourthern Chinese Cuisine. Portugese Egg Tarts, African Chicken, Pork Chop Bun and Almond Cookies are among famed delicacies in Macau.

African Chicken, Pork Chop Bun, Portugese Egg Tart (source from Google)

I'm blessed to be able to devour Macau well-known Koi Kee Almond Cookies! My bestie, Cecilia is currently serving for hospitality industry in Macau. Last April she went home and we had a quick meet up. She bought me a box of Koi Kee Amond Cookies! Koi Kee Almond Cookies is light, delicate, super crumbly and they seriously melt in your mouth. I'm missing it! I wish I could savor some of other exquisite kind of Macau foods and compile it in my travelogue!

Macau infamous Koi Kee Bakery Almond Cookies with Whole Almond

My adorable niece Lynelle was busy picking up the Macau Almond Cookies to try on =)

3. Magnificent View of Casino Light in Macau

Macau is also known as the "Monte Carlo of the Orient". Macau's largest source of revenue comprises of gambling tourism.  Of course I do not gamble, neither do I gamble even during Chinese New Year. In fact, I would love to experience the beautiful night life of Macau myself. There are 44 legal facilities available in total in Macau. How would it be the Casino Lights in Macau? I always watch the amazing scene of Macau casino in TVB Dramas, thus I hope to have the opportunity to visit this magnificent place myself and share my Macau travelogue with my readers of my blog. 

Casino lights in Macau (source from Google)

Macau is absolutely an amazing place and unique place of interest! Sincerely hope that I am entitled the chance to experience Macau's life myself and subsequently share my Macau travelogue to my avid readers.

For more information of Macau. visit to Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO).

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3D2N Trip to Sibu

Attended 27th Annual Company Dinner at Sibu. A total of 8 hours ++ bus trip from Kuching to Garden Hotel, Sibu. Very tiring journey!

Garden Hotel

Twin room (2 single beds), equipped with hot water shower, mini fridge and TV. No hair dryer and water kettle for the room type I stayed.

Coffee Shop at Garden Hotel

Breakfast of the day...limited 3-4 choices of  foods 

Kinda having difficulty of finish the whole meal =(

My companions for the dinner performance and trip 

Tua Pek Kong Temple, Pier, RH Plaza

Some of Sibu delicacies I had:

Tea Street Bakery Cafe

love their buns...so fresh, light and fluffy, especially the Signature Cream Cheese Bun

Sambal Kampua, Soup Kompia/Kompia, Lai Chee Kang & Beef  Rice Cake.

 The beef rice cake was so good. Indulging in bits of beef slice with the sweet sauce. 

Dinner at Taman Selera Muhibah: 

Satay, Fried Sotong, Fried Brinjal, 免带冰, Fruits Ice

Being introduced of Sibu signature Teh O Peng 免带冰...only at Sibu =) 
免带冰, a very distinctive budget drink at Sibu

Trio girls 

Must buy at Sibu...Bought 1kg of mee sua end at RM12/kg.