KL Weekend Trip - Day 1

Me and my hubby went down to Kuala Lumpur for the Good Friday long weekend. It was a rather eventful trip which I will share with you in this blog via 3 blog entries.




Day 1's arrival was smooth, landing at KL Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCC) airport at 8:15am. The express bus to KL Sentral cost only RM8 per person. We made our way to a Hakka Restaurant at Jalan Kia Peng near Raja Chulan station at . The food was wonderful (but a bit salty). Highly recommended for Hakka Food fans.

After lunch we make out way to Classic Inn Hostel located just at the back of Berjaya Time Square. Here are some photos of the lovely hostel. It looks more like a boutique hotel and it cost us around S$50 per night for a double bedroom, with breakfast included. The breakfast was wonderful! We ate outside the hotel everyday we were there on coffee/tea, 3 pieces of toast bread with peanut butter, one roti canai (a.k.a roti prata), and cut fruits! The roti canai actually came from an indian shop some 100m away from the hostel. The shop get a phone call everytime a guest in the hostel comes down for breakfast, and an indian guy will deliver the freshly made roti canai to the hostel. Usually he delives 1 or 2 roti each trip, along with the curries, so you can be sure you get really fresh roti for breakfast! Highly recommended!

The rest of the day we spend wondering around Bukit Bintang, and at Berjaya Time Square where we managed to have a Dr Fish Spa(15 minutes) and a foot reflexology(30 minutes) for a total of RM50 for TWO person! The indoor theme park there was rather impressive as well! Btw, those are not my legs in the photos, they are my hubby's. Also, as it was raining heavily every day, I slipped and fell right outside the hostel while trying to get to Berjaya Time Square.

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KL LCCT
Hakka Restaurant KL
Dr Fish
Classic Inn Hostel

Tampines 1 opening 9 Apirl 2009

Living in the East side of Singapore just got cooler! Tampines1 will be opening tomorrow 9 April 2009. That's one more reason for me to skip Orchard Road all together! We're already planning to go there for lunch tomorrow to check out their Japanese Food Court Manpuku. You can read more about it at Mall Blog from the reference link below, as well as the Manpuku web site. Other shops I'm looking forward to is Carl's Junior, Sake Inn, and Sushi Tei. I guess I'll be roaming the mall after work everyday from next week onwards :) See you there!

Post Note:
Here's an interesting article posted by a reader in the comments section. Thought you might like to read about it. Click here for more info.

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Tampines1
Mall Blog @ Tampines 1
Manpuku

Thai Green Curry

Another one of my favourite dish to cook is Thai Green Curry. Here in the photo are all the ingredient that you need. The Thai Green Curry Paste can be found at Giant supermarket, selling at S$1.90 per bottle. Or you can also buy a tub of it, available only in Giant Malaysia Branch :)

Cooking Instruction:
1. Mince up all the shallots. Heat up oil, and saute for 5 - 10 minutes until fragrance.
2. Add in the Thai Green Curry Paste and saute for another 3 minutes. Mixed well.
3. Add in chicken meat and saute with paste for another 10 minutes. Let it burn a little, it's ok.
4. Add in coconut milk and bring to a boil. Add in eggplant. Bring to a boil, and then lower heat and cook for 30 minutes.

And you're done! Taste great with white rice and vege! And in case you think any dish with coconut milk is bad for health, here are some health info to enlighten you about this dish:

Eggplants/Brinjal: is effective in the treatment of high blood cholesterol hypercholesterolemia. It helps to block the formation of free radicals and is also a source of folic acid and potassium. Eggplant is richer in nicotine than any other edible plant, with a concentration of 100 ng/g (or 0.01 mg/100g) (no wonder I am so addicted to it!).

Shallot: contain more flavonoids and phenols than other members of the onion family.

Coconut Milk : The monolaurins in the coconut oil have been found to be very powerful antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal agents in Ayurveda. Some people believe that coconut milk can be used as a laxative. It is also used for healing mouth ulcers.

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Thai Green Curry
Eggplant
Shallot
Coconut Milk
Giant Hypermart

Woohoo! New Camera

With reference to this blog entry here, the results are out, and somehow, I managed to won myself a Canon Ixus 80IS Camera worth S$430! It comes with a 4GB SD card, and a mini tripod worth S$9! But what really facinate me is how small the camera is. Very compact. You can just put it in your pocket whether you go.

This is actually only the 2nd camera I've ever own in my life! The first was my Nikon Coolpix 4200 which is 5 years old, and cost S$500 then. Somehow, I think I still prefer Nikon :)

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Canon Ixus
Nikon Coolpix 4200

Departures (おくりびと)

One of the most beautiful show I've ever watched. Who would thought you can shed so much tears watching a movie about funeral and casketing! I'd say that Slumdog Millionaire pales in comparison to this movie. This movie is just pure poetry from start to end. I highly recommend you to go watch this movie!

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Departures (おくりびと)
Slumdob Millionaire