Archive for the 'Food' Category
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
I was sifting through old photos when I found cakes taken in Dorsett Hotel buffet. It was a treat by my youngest sister when she recently joined Oriental Rewards as a member. With this membership, you can dine at half price and stay in hotels in Asia at discounted prices. Above is a strawberry cake [...]
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
I was in Sunway Pyramid (SP) last night and wanted to dine in a new pasta restaurant near the entrance of SP in the new wing. It is set up by Pasta de Waruku Singapore for this Japanese Casual Pasta & Restaurant. When I enter, I was told by the waitress that at the moment, [...]
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
The buffet dinner was themed Seafood with slipper lobster, prawns, salmon, oysters and more. Prawns and more prawns. Nice decoration. Seafood buffet dinner with meat and veges. Good selection of dessert with custard, chocolate mousse, etc. Outside the hotel with tourists resting by the pool. Beautiful swimming pool lined with palm trees. Foot Massage in [...]
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Today is a Saturday and it is time for my weekend hotel stay. I have not decided which hotel to stay yet, but last week, I was in Vistana Hotel in Bayan Lepas, and before that in Cititel Hotel in town. Vistana hotel is near to Max, a famous ‘tim sum’ restaurant which is always [...]
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Each time I come back from KL, I will stop in Tapah to buy about RM50 worth of fruits back home. I will buy a large pomelo, a packet of red apple custards, imported giant mangoes and sometimes some star fruits. My family loves to eat fruits which is our dessert after lunch and dinner. [...]
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
Last night, I had dinner in The Food Loft in Gurney Plaza. And yes, there is a statue of a brown naked woman with a violin. It was part of the decoration and the ambience looks like those of a hotel. The chairs were linen covered soft cushion. You need to get a card each [...]
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
I did not go to Gurney Plaza for quite some time and when I dined in Food Loft last night, I noticed that there were a lot of changes to the refurbishment in the process. On the ground floor outside, there is a new restaurant called Chilis serving something like Mexican food with burgers and [...]
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
On the 6th of July, my family treated me dinner in Jade Seafood Restaurant beside Sunway Pyramid in Subang for my birthday. Above is one of the orders of yam basket. The yam is deep fried and added with stir-fried pieces of chicken, green pepper, button mushroom, cashew nuts and other ingredients. This was super-licious. [...]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
This photo was taken some time ago, about 3 weeks back in the lobby of the hotel that we stayed. Aren’t the purple orchids beautiful? There are so many of them here in the lobby of the hotel by the staircase. Here is the salad spread for the buffet breakfast downstairs in the hotel. There [...]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
This photo was taken at the breakfast table during my weekend stay in a beach hotel. The pink gels provide moisture for the otherwise dried white orchid. Here is my breakfast of mushrooms stir-fried with thick sauce, grilled tomatoes and some potatoes. This is the lobby and I took the opportunity to take this shot [...]
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Along with durian, mangosteen is one of the two most popular Asian fruits. However, unlike durian, mangosteen is thought to have cooling properties. The fruit of an evergreen tree native to Malaysia, the mangosteen is often available in Asian markets when in season. The ripe mangosteen is roughly the same size as a mandarin orange, [...]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
I just love seafood mainly steamed fish, nestum butter prawns with chilly padi, black pepper crabs and scallops. Oh yes, I also love sharks’ fins soup that’s double boiled with dried scallops and abalone like Mini Buddha Jump Over the Wall. It is so delicious that even Buddha, instead of meditating for enlightenment, he could [...]
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