Malacca food hunting with a bad ending

Woosh!
I thought I will missed my September month posting of blog! I must make it a monthly thing now.

OK..September 10th, I decided to venture down south to Malacca with Unicef friends and also to meet up with ex colleague for his wedding. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I skipped his wedding dinner but still try to meet up with him and pass on my best wishes.

So the trip was average. The weather was hot and stuffy yet at night, down pour was quite heavy.
I found amazing good food and good hotel.
But the end of this trip was a nightmare!
Due to the traffic, I drove pretty slowly and until Seremban Highway, the car broke down!
First in my lifetime, I had to push the car from the middle lane of a highway, then waited for almost and hour plus to get my car towed to the nearest rest area. Then, waited for another 2 hours for my car to be towed back town.
What happened next, was just adding salt onto the wound.
My car had to undergo a massive makeover. All parts and labour charges may wind up the bill to 3k-4k!
What a crazy expensive local trip!

Luckily I had Moe with me..Love her lots. She was there to calm me down..
I was almost in tears.
And due to fate, we kidnapped a cat from Seremban back to Moe's house.
The cat found a wonderful master of course.

Despite the crazy unhappy ending of this trip, it was still a good one to get to know friends and great food.

Emreet with me

Emreet/Moe/Szilvi

Smile!!

Most probably due to the massive 'attack' by both local and foreign travellers, this small town had turn to a shopping arcade. Also thanks to the government, the whole Jonker Street had changed its outlook and the shops along the street had become more appealing to picky shoppers like me!

Spotted few decors in the shops I visited with really historical taste. It was such a shame some of us only got to value these pieces now. We should have promote our history more to the world out there!

A floor above

No idea what is this, I believe is a bathroom?

Since I only had a night to stay here, beside the night market walk in Jonker Street, I managed to get to meet my married friend and had some time spent chatting with him. Catching up our lives and stuffs. Marriage turns a boy into a man. He talks chivalry and good to know he had mature in a good way. The wedding pictures were perfect! Cos' of his beautiful wife of course! LOL

And Moe attention was with the cute doggie called Mei Mei

We went back to our hotel and crashed the bed. We didn't wake up until 10am the next day. We head for more food and shopping and some good cheap antiques bought by Moe. The place that we got is called The One Vacation Home. Their website is www.theonevacationhome.com The service from Steven is excellent and we cannot ask more for his generosity to allow us to take our time during our checkout. We managed to enjoy our breakfast with cuppa of good fresh brewed coffee and more shopping before going back to refresh ourselves. Definitely will give Steven a call for my next visit!

I am already missing my Satay Celup and Cendol~~

As we head home through the highway, the traffic piled up and after an hour plus drive, my dumb car broke down. We were miserably stranded in the highway and no one offers to help. Except there is this one Malay guy help us to push the car to the side of the road. While we are waiting for the tow car's help, Malaysia rude drivers were widely seen. We were parked on the emergency lane and to avoid the traffic, those stupid drivers just take this lane and make an emergency break when they saw our car. Moe was freaking furious and kept yelling at the drivers! Sigh..Malaysian drivers, can you please behave?

Due to the traffic, we were stranded on the road for an hour before help came. And due to more traffic, I reached town only at night. What a nightmare.

Sigh..as to date of this post, my car is still left at the workshop waiting for it to get fixed. And quotation of the repair is yet to be received. Pathetic!

I'm so touched and very much appreciate the offer from her Frog Prince to sacrifice himself to ensure Princess Piggie will not have to take public transport to work. He offered his car without second thought...
His birthday is coming near, and though I'm broke, surprise still awaits..To make up to him being a good boyfriend.

That concludes my road trip to Malacca.
Next, a even more interesting one!
Stay tune!

Typical weekend but with unexpected plans

Another weekend came and claim his way. But this time is way too fast to even know its ending. Friday, was a blast to me at work. Completed my assignment with compliment by bosses and that’s what I refer as performance oriented reward motivation. With just a simple gesture and note of appreciation, we feel that our work was acknowledged by the bosses and will strive for more! But still, it seems to take ages for every hour to end this Friday. So when the clock finally strikes 5.30pm, we were busy packing for a short shopping spree. That’s the major crisis for working near a shopping mall. You tend to shop and shop and shop. Or maybe just ME!

I crashed Mya’s house again and she made my weekly hard work of burning calories back to square one. She cooked pasta with cheese and beef bacon then stuffed us with chips and mayo dips and worse, pizzas and more cheese! Also paired our sinful food with vodka and 7up, which sum up more calories than just Cola! We stuffed ourselves to perfectly full and bitch bout life. But not too sure what make me so exhausted, was too tired to make an effort to talk, slept on the couch and all the way till 6am in the morning! But wasn’t a welcoming morning at Mya’s apartment. The stupid security clamped my car wheels because I had a wrong visitor pass. I should display an overnight pass if I’m staying over 2am in the apartment. Seriously! How would I know if the security did not inform when he recorded my details at the entrance? Bugger! And the security guard (yet a Chinese pig) was too rude. I had to pay fucking RM50 for a fault that was not MINE. Stupid!

Went home furiously but make a stop to take away breakfast for mom. Just to compensate for not being home for her while she was around. Took few more hours slept during the day and went off with BFFs for dinner.

The question: Where should we have our dinner? What should we eat?

Like a super difficult IQ challenge question. And you will never ever come out with a good satisfying answer. Luckily, we hang around Solaris which was way too familiar..We decided to try Naab, an Iranian cuisine.

Car was parked at roadside and with 2 welcoming rats along the walkway! (No worries, we parked opposite the restaurant so definitely the rats are not permanent residents of the restaurant. LOL). We walked in the restaurant with a welcoming human being waiter who can’t wait to serve us. I always happy when the waiter allows you to pick the seat rather than being usher to a table that you don’t prefer and ending up pouting while looking at the your desired table. So we pick a corner with sofa seats. The restaurant is thoughtful enough to place a fan around each corner to ensure the guest enjoying the food rather than busy wiping the sweats/can’t wait to get out of the stuffy restaurant. For restaurant owner, this is a very important point that you should take care of while planning on the interior layout of your restaurant. Ensuring you guest to feel comfy is the second important thing after the quality food.

We were served some lime juice to cleanse your taste bud and get your tummy growling. Since Monica is here and she is so well know of Iranian food, she ordered some appetizers and main dishes for us.

Hummus - creamy dips for the bread

Tabouleh - taste better with the lemon juice

The big piece of bread

This is horribly taste. Yuck! Not my favourite at all.

The kebab meat is so juicy and well marinated. The Basmati rice topped with saffron is the best combination. Overwhelmed with good food AGAIN, so I missed the pictures. Will try to compensate again next time.

But the Iranian tea was quite disappointing. It taste no difference compare to normal English tea. And worse part, I ordered a cucumber/mint/apple cider juice which the combination sound soothing and detox-ing but it taste more like sucking your toothpaste tube. Exactly…very Darlie oriented taste. LOL. So as we update our lives, I tried my best to gulp down the Darlie drink cos quite pricey wei!

The exhaustion of sleepless nights due to movie whoring with Astro 322 and 411 channel (Chinese and English movies channel) plus bitchy night with colleagues, worsen my condition of paying full attention of what the BFFs have to say. I can’t keep my mouth shut for yawning every 30 seconds. So we decided to call it a night and head home.

I was supposed to get straight to bed yet, the movie whoring version of me, jump out of the closet again. So, I was a potato couch till 3am. True enough, it makes me late for my Sunday brunch appointment. What worsens the whole “I am sorry for being late” situation was my little black car battery died. Damn it!

Frog Prince helped me to jump start the engine while I search for workshops to replace the battery. The first workshop didn’t offer much explanation on why my car battery is more expensive than usual ones. He just mentioned the price and leaves it to me to decide. RM330 was too expensive! So I thought him trying to cheat an innocent girl who knows nuts about car parts. Then I head to Uptown to meet with BFFs and get my battery fixed. That is when I know my darn little black battery is so unique. Due to the battery box size is shorter aka custom made, the retail price is higher than the normal one. This means, I still need to pay RM300++ for the darn battery. Fuck it!

And we headed to Tropicana Mall for brunch which turned out to be lunch by that time.

Bad Ass Coffe originated from Hawaii

Kinda cool interior design they have there

White & Dark Choc Coffee Blended

This is Crazy Chew's drink..Yummy with cream

9595 good number. TOTO please!

Beef Bacon spaghetti..with spicy hot chilly kick!

Special wedges which I did not find anything special on/in it

Pollo Spaghetti aka Cabanora?

Such captivating scene when everyone is so into food cam whoring

We were in Bad Ass for more that an hour or so just to bitch about our friends..Erm..well, not so close friends. LOL Maybe..Not even friends. Of course, we talk about world topics and just about anything that sparks our interest.

We had a crazy movie : The ZooKeeper which was superbly hilarious! Then we head to our dinner at Kiku Zakura. It's been ages since I step my feet there for dining experience again. The food is still at is highest quality. Never fails me!

I'm trying to use the 'chin down' angle to hide the fats away :P

Our movie tickets!

My stir fried beef dinner set. Yummy!

2nd last piece of gyoza. Yum Yum

Crazy Chew geh Tempura + Sashimi dinner set

Franny geh Sashimi dinner set

Fresh from the seaaaaaaaa

My all time fav: Steam egg

How can my Jap dinner without this? BBQ squid. Burp

I had a wonderful Sunday with great friends.

And of course, I made a promise to Franny to complete my new found hobby before end of Dec 2011. I'm working hard on it babe. Trying to accomplish an art creation for my new house. And if I am still interested to continue for 2nd one, I'll opt for the sunset view for my mom's room.

You ought to get yourself devoted to every corner of your new house. Not just to claim territory like the animals do (LOL, so into The ZooKeeper) and not trying to get out of your Herbivor life (ROFL) Just a way to show your concern and love for your new house aka my dream house.

Next post will be the update of the progress of my new found hobby.