Dinner at Sri Siam

Yesterday had dinner at Sri Siam with sis and family, to celebrate my niece Ade's birthday. My initial reaction to the restaurant was that it had a slight "cockroach-chy smell". We looked at the menu and debated what to order, but both myself and my nieces agreed that we will be ordering "Tam Tim Grob", which is water chestnuts in santan and sirap for dessert.

The service, especially from the lady who did the ordering was not that good. We didn't want the peanuts they served, then she asked rather rudely whether we want the 3 small plates of chilli sauce, which they also "charge". She was asked to leave 2 of them.

Of the food that we ordered, this was the one we liked most. It's actually fried squid, but it was cut into small pieces, and very crunchy.
This is sambal-fried asparagus. Not bad.
The hot-plate beef was quite juicy, but a tad sweet though.
The pineapple fried rice was pretty good, probably because we were still hungry. Notice the almost empty fried squid plate at the back ? Hehe....
Their fried mee is basically using maggi mee and frying it with prawns and chicken. I think some of the mamak's fried maggi actually taste better !
The otak-otak that we ordered. Not so good....
The signature dish of any Thai restaurant will be their tomyam. So how does Sri Siam's tomyam taste ? Well, by the end of the meal, the soup in my bowl probably went down oni 1 cm. Yes, the soup was yucky, because it has a weird taste ! Doesn't taste nice at all.
However, their Tam Tim Grob dessert taste pretty good. It would be tastier if they added some nangka into it. Whole meal cost RM200+. Conclusion ? First and last visit.....

Dinner at Dragon-i

Last Sunday went to Mid Valley's Dragon-i for dinner (non-halal restaurant) with my friend. We ordered quite a few dishes, so by the end of the meal, we were so full that we had to tapau one of the dishes. But what we had were quite interesting.

This is the "Hua Tiao" chicken, and it's a cold dish. The chicken is chilled and placed in chinese "hua tiao" wine. Quite nice and fragrant, once you get pass the bitterness of the wine.
Next is their signature "siao loong pau". Inside each of these miniature "buns" is a spoonful of HOT (as in scalding) soup and some pork. Very yummy .......
Then came the seafood soup, which is made of clams and also had red dates and other stuff in it. Bit "fishy" for me.
Now, this is an interesting dish, and it also taste really delicious. The white stuff are actually made of egg whites and some mushrooms fried together. Beneath the broccolis are soy sauce. Then they place a raw egg yolk in the middle. You are supposed to mix the egg yolk and the whites properly before eating. The end result ? A yummy dish, especially when eaten with rice.
This is another interesting dish. They fry chicken (sorta like KFC popcorn) with dry red chillies, and this is quite a huge basket. The taste is nice, but slightly dry. Goes well with or without rice. This is the one we couldn't finish, and had to tapau.
Lastly, we also ordered their honey-sauce pork ribs. Quite nice, but to me, it was a bit cold when delivered to our table. I would have preferred it to be piping hot.All in all, a very nice delicious dinner, and there are still some other interesting dishes we have yet to try out. The only regret we had was ordering the lemon barley drink. It was really too weird, especially when it's warm. On the plus side, having the lemon probably help in our digestion, because we were so full !

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows

Well, 21st July 2007 is the launch of the final Harry Potter book. I went to Kinokuniya at 5am in the morning, in the hopes of being the first 13 to get a free book. Unfortunately, after parking my car in the carpark, the doors to the escalators were still locked, so I actually went up to the Park entrance, where I saw there were already tons of people going up the stairs towards the 3rd floor.

By the time I reach the 3rd floor, there were like hundreds in front of me. Sigh..... no luck at all.... Just look at all the people ! My colleague was also way in front of me. She came with her hubby. I took my HP Book 6 to read while waiting, just to refresh my memory on what happened previously.

Kinokuniya setup the main entrance like the Gryffindor entrance, where they placed a "Fat Lady" and you had to give her the password to "enter" the store. Kind of fun and nice... The mall also had the Harry Potter theme song repeating. By the time I reach the entrance, it was already like 7:40am in the morning.

I asked one of Kinokuniya's staff to use my K750i to take a photo of me and the "Fat Lady" but the stupid idiot didn't press the button properly, so my photo was not taken at all ! Stupid ass**** !!!!!! And I was so eager to get the book that I didn't check my phone to ensure the photo was taken. AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH !

Anyway, I finally got the book. And I also drove to Carrefour in Sri Petaling to buy another copy, which was RM69.90 only, even cheaper than my copy which cost RM77 because of a 30% discount given. The copy from Carrefour was given to my nieces.

I went home, read 2 chapters and fell asleep, I was soooo tired ! However, after reading and falling asleep a few times, I finally finished the book at 2am in the morning. JK Rowling did a pretty good job on the book, and there were so many deaths. I would have preferred Harry to die though........ he was getting annoying. Hehe....

Visit to KLCC Sky Bridge

Recently I visited the KLCC Sky Bridge with my brother and his family. Before proceeding to the bridge, we had to watch a short clip about Petronas and the Twin Towers. The show is in 3D, so they gave us these glasses that made everyone look like "The Fly".

Then they took us to the elevators, that goes up one floor every second. So to reach the 41st floor, it only took us 41 seconds ! Fast leh....

41st floor is for the public and 42nd floor is for the VIPs, so the Sky Bridge is actually a two-decker.

From the top, this is what you will see........

Pretty leh........ And here's a photo I took of myself on the Sky Bridge.

Bro Has Left The Country

Yeah, my bro went back to Australia on 18th July. Aside from his whole family catching flu and colds, I think all-in-all, he had quite a good time in Malaysia, and he must have bought half a shop !

He was laughing at my kucilek, saying it was so small when compared with his huge car in Australia, which not only can fit ALL his 10 pieces of luggage / boxes, BUT also his whole family. Hmmmpph. Next time come back don't lend him my car, see how he go shopping ! Hehehe......

Well, already told him next time I go over, he hafta take the bus to work while I drive his nice huge car around ........

So Sick !!!

I am soooooo sick. Yesterday morning woke up and was feeling a bit feverish. I took one of those flat termometers and place it on my forehead to check if I am really having fever, but those things seemed to light up almost all the numbers, and I started sweating again (usually signs of no fever lar), so I decided to go to work.

When I reached the office, I was still feeling hot and sweaty so thought I could last through the day, but by 9am, I was already feeling feverish. After the morning meeting, I really couldn't stand it any more. I was not only feeling cold, I was also drinking many cups of hot water just to keep warm.

I told my boss that I want to go on MC and took the LRT back home. Then I went to the clinic to see the doc, who told me that I need to rest for 2 days, thus he gave me 2 days' MC. Went home, took the medicine, then went to lullabye land. It was also diet day, coz all I had was 3 spoonfuls of porridge and 1 cup of tea in the morning, and hardly 1 spoonful of loh mai kai for my lunch.

Well, I woke up around 7pm. then took some rice, vege and fish for dinner. After that, added a small bowl of soup. Normally that meal can't even fill up 1/4 my stomach. Then came torture time. After resting about 1/2 hour, had to take the pills again. I reallllly hate pills, but no choice. So took the pills, then watch Astro until 11:30pm, decided to go sleep.

Unfortunately, probably due to the aircond, until 3-4 am I was still feeling feverish. I took the fever pills again, and switch to fan instead of aircond. After that I felt much better, especially when I began sweating. Never felt so happy in my life to sweat so much !

Well, this morning after breakfast, fever acted up again. I took the pills and am now in the "sweaty mode". Hopefully the fever will not recur, otherwise I will have to go check whether it's denggi ! Scary thoughts.........

Wish me good health ya.