Dinner at Lala Chong, Old Subang Airport

May 19th, 2009

Dad and Kevin joined me to KL as we had to settle some college stuff for my brother as he just gotten his offer letter to study in KDU in culinary arts. We decided to head to Lala Chong at the old Subang Terminal airport for our dinner.

Me auntie

Lala Chong? We just had to order the "shiong tong" lala. Pretty good. I had dinner here once, the same dish but many years ago with an old friend of mine, CCY. I thought the dish looked like butterflies especially when they served it with some candles underneath and it looked so pretty. Okay for those new, I have a thing for butterflies; which probably explains the butterflies motives on my Roman blinds in my room at home.

Thai style tofu. Pretty good also. Nice flavour to it and the tofu was really smooth.

"Pat ku choy" or paku pakis in Malay stir fried with some tuna and some chillies. Hey this is really unique and tasty. Definitely a must order, a nice change from the usual yaw-mak with beancurd or typical greens stir fried with garlic. Highly recommended.

Steamed "patin" fish with some shredded ginger, garlic and soya sauce. This is a river fish, so not many people would like this. My dad loves this fish and he goes around searching for patin every single time. It was really tasty and we got a smaller-medium sized one and it was steamed just right. Look at the fins! Note: this fish can be a bit more fatty than the other usual type of fish. If you are a patin fan, do order this.
Another close up of the fish.

Steamed mantou buns to go with the crab dish.
The other sinful alternative: deep fried mantou buns.

Butter sauce crab. The sauce was very tasty and crab was also pretty good. I was too lazy to crack open the shells for the meat so I just had a small taste. I had a cracked tooth so it was kinda hurting me pretty badly so I decided not to further damage the tooth. Had crowning done the same week also!

Took this one after dinner. These are tilapia fishes and they can be quite good and very reasonably priced. Some would not like this as it can taste a little muddy also, just like the patin.
Anyway, it was a good dinner and the bill was just under RM200 I think, inclusive of drinks and a large bottle of Carlsberg.

Caroline's birthday dinner at Alai, Ikan Bakar

May 17th, 2009

We had a family dinner to celebrate my sister's birthday, Caroline. I decided to go back to the place we had dinner the week before, which is Ikan Bakar at Alai. We really enjoyed the food there, fresh seafood and best part, it was really cheap!

Daddy looking very serious, haha he didn't know it was for the blog. Taken with the birthday girl, Caroline.

"Otak-otak bakar" (brain-brain) haha, no it's just fish paste with some chili paste blended together for details please see the photo below.
Nasi lemak bungkus. I think I had 2 packets but Belle probably had 4 packets? haha
Dipping sauce. Sweet sauce with some freshly cut onions and some lime juice. A must to go with ikan bakar.

Me and Laura.
The otak-otak that I was talking about earlier. It was wrapped in the leaves and bbq-ed or burnt over charcoal. It was pretty good. I think tasted like those from Muar. Costed Rm0.60 each/ per stick.

First dish: Mussels in sweet and sour sauce. It was okay, but I found the mussels a little too small and thin. I prefer the bigger ones. But it was seriously cheap, like a full huge plate for Rm8!

We had a whole fish and they cut half and cooked it into 2 different styles. First one was Ikan siakap goreng sambal. Basically fried fish with sambal sauce. Oh the fish was really sweet and tasted really fresh. We loved the sauce, spicy and yet tasty. It complimented the nasi lemak bungkus really well!
Look at how juicy the fish was.
Closer view.
The other half was baked over charcoal grill with banana leave and covered with sambal (a type of chilli paste).
After removing the banana leave, this was delicious too.

Fried calamaris with chili sauce dipping. It was seriously cheap also, a huge plate and it costed probably around Rm12. I love this place!

Christmas in England, 2008

December 25th, 2008

2008 was an awesome year, I had never visited so many new places before and it was great being able to experience and see so many different things. This was the final trip for the year 2008 ended and we had a trip to England and France. We managed to get our 3 weeks' holiday and headed to England just a week before Christmas as Laughton wanted to spend Christmas at home, after spending a miserable Christmas in Bermuda the year before that all by himself; while I was partying away at the Playboy's Club in Las Vegas. Well, I did extend the invitation to him to join us in Las Vegas and San Francisco but I remember him telling me about wanting to experience something in Bermuda. Haha, I bet he regretted not taking the offer! Anyway, I was excited myself too because I have never really spent Christmas away from Malaysia. Deep down, I was hoping for a white Christmas but it did not quite materialize. More like an icy and chilly Christmas! It was a great pleasure meeting his family and spending time in Nottingham and we managed to extend our shopping to London and Manchester before having a weekend in Paris.

Fireplace that kept me warm. :) I thought it was really, really cold at one point I started to miss home. I think I told Laughton, I prefer it hot so I can turn on the air-conditioner. But now, after being home for couple of months, I dread the hot weather. It's like sitting in an oven all day long, it was really crazy! Look at all the presents lined up underneath, actually there were many more and it sorted of extended all the way even on the opposite room.

I didn't want to wake up and as you can see, I am pretty much not a morning-type of person. Well, here I was trying to open all the presents, one by one.

I was smiling from left to right simply because of this particular gift from Laughton! Yay!! The purse that we went looking all around London for this particular purse. Finally got it from Old Bond Street in London.

He wanted to take photos of each wrapping I unwrapped and I was just trying to get to the purse as quickly as possible but they probably had 4 or 5 wrappings before I got my purse!
Come on, hurry up. I was almost there!

Another smile..
Me purse!
Laughton's Grandad.
Laughton and his lovely Mum.

Short trip to London for Christmas Shopping

London, December 2008

We took a 3 day trip to London during our 3 week's holiday to England and below are some photos taken. We didn't do a lot of sightseeing in London as I have done quite a bit in my previous trip last year and we mostly did our Christmas shopping here.

Harrod's.
LLondon's Chinatown.
TSome photos taken around the Tower Bridge area just before our lunch at Claridges, Gordon Ramsay.















And just before leaving London heading back to Nottingham, we managed to meet another Wendy, she was nice enough to treat us to dinner at this Malaysian restaurant. The food was pretty good too! I think we had nasi ayam, fried kueh tiow, sate and teh tarik!