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Chee Chin’s Birthday

February 8, 2009 · Filed under Cafe, Cakes and bakery, Event, Friends

This is an outdated post. Chee Chin’s birthday on 11/1/2009. Let me recall what happened. It was my idea to hold a surprise birthday gathering for Chee Chin a.k.a. Abu. I text-ed everyone about this. And i’m happy that most of them able to make it. Siow Fei so wanted to join us. She was working in KL but kept ask us to hold the gathering on Saturday instead of Sunday. But due to everyone has confirmed on Sunday, we could not make it on Saturday. Anyway…… Siow Fei able to join us no matter how! :D She brought togather all her luggage with her and joined us for dinner before she went back to KL.

I was working overtime in office on that day. I ordered the birthday cake in advance. I went to pick up the cake and reached Cosmo Noodle Bar before everyone reached. I requested the staff to present the cake to the birthday cake after our dinner. Dinah brought Chee Chin to meet us up. Chee Chin still did not know what was going on until she saw my car parked outside Cosmo Noodle Bar.

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Rich american chocolate cake from Ambridge Cottage (again). This time, i topped up RM20 for the decoration. Don’t you think the cake is very adorable and lovely? The staff presented the cake with a big plate and they even played Happy Birthday song to Chee Chin!!

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Chee Chin, the birthday gal. =)

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Me and the birthday gal. Not a good photo due to the camera lighting. >_< Anyway, really wanna wish Chee Chin HAPPY BIRTHDAY and may all her wish come true. I know she was happy and surprised for this birthday dinner.

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With my old buddies, Dinah and Yok Suan.

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I like this photo very much. Everyone is pretty! =)

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Group photo….all my sisters. Imagine, we know each other for 15 years!!! I really treasure this group of friends, this friendship. After this birthday dinner, everyone then requested ME to hold the same birthday gathering for everyone! OMG… O_o We take turn to organise la, k!

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FMIL’s birthday

November 2, 2008 · Filed under Cakes and bakery, Chinese, Event, Family

Yesterday i was having great and happy family dinner with hubby’s family; we were celebrating FMIL’s birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, FMIL

Actually we were rushing back from KL to attend the birthday dinner.

Chiow Ching asked hubby to look for one restaurant and buy a cake. Hubby was too busy with his work, and of course i’m very willing to help him on this! :-) I was thinking so hard to buy what cake. Initially i wanted to order chocolate cake from Ambridge Cottage because the chocolate is very rich-chocolate, but not too sweet as well. But dear didn’t want chocolate. So, finally i ordered carrot cake from Ambridge Cottage. At first, i’m so worried that some of them would not like it, but Agnes’s mum and Agnes herself keep assured me that their carrot cake is very well-liked and mostly elderly people. So, i gave it a try. I topped up another RM5 for simple topping deco (just some fresh flowers).

Yes, Ambridge Cottage never dissappoint me! The carrot cake is good. I’m happy that everyone of them compliments on the cake i chose. I seeing FFIL was taking the cream to eat. He even asked why the cream tasted so good, different with normal cake’s cream. Hui Ling told me that actually mum loves chocolate cake. Oh..oh…i take note of this. Next time i should order chocolate cake, don’t care if hubby likes it or not. :-P

Oh…i forgot to mention where we had our dinner. This was our tough part when thinking where to have dinner. Me and hubby were thinking one whole day. At first, i suggested Teo Soon Loong, but hubby said it is pricey. Rejected. :-( Shortlisted a few, then finally we chose Fei Li Restaurant ar Ayer Keroh. Good choice because none of us try before, except hubby. But this restaurant is very well known already, and i actually wanted to try so long!!! The service here is very good and comparable to hotel service i mind you! Really good. They only serves halal food, no pork. But we were almost having seafood dinner here. :-)

What i love most is their signature dishes, cheesie mee hoon with big prawns. It is really good. The cheesie is not too strong cheesie taste, but you will want to have to take the cheesie soup alone! But this cheesie mee hoon with big prawns cost us RM84!!! It is the most expensive mee hoon i had ever! But still i think it is worth! haha

We also ordered creamy crabs upon recommendation by the captain. But i don’t really favour this. I still prefer the grilled crab at Seremban. ;-)

Other dishes are, steamed fresh fish (i do not know what the fish name, sorry), ginger wine kampung chicken (everyone commented very good, especially FMIL), sambal sotong (very good if eat togather with rice, but eat alone like this also very good) and sabah vegetables ( claimed one of the most famous dishes here, but honestly, not too bad either).

Errr, i truly enjoyed the dinner. I’m very happy looking everyone enjoying the food and cake. Okay, actually i’m very simple, as long as we can get togather and have dinner, i’m very happy and appreciate the moment. I do not mind if you want me to look for restaurant or buy a cake, i’m very willing to do so, as long as everyone happy! Nature of cancerian i guess, family bonded type.

I’m actually thinking to organize a family trip togather. I’m really looking for it. But wondering if everyone can make it or not, and i’m sure it will be very fun.

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Hari Raya Outing

October 19, 2008 · Filed under Asian, Cafe, Cakes and bakery, Chinese, Friends, Hawker food

My college friends came visiting me on the first day of Hari Raya. It was quite some time we did not meet each other due to work commitment. Ching drove all the way from KL, with Swei and Lijun to meet me. I’m glad that they took some time to visit me in Melaka.

Basically, this was our makan makan and chit chat time. They reached Melaka quite early, about 9am something. I picked them up at Jusco and brought them for breakfast. I brought them to Yong Mao Coffee Shop for dim sum breakfast, as Swei and Lijun have yet try the dim sum here before. Of course i recommended them the glutinous rice wrapped with “he ye” or we called it “he ye fan”. ^_^

After that i wanted to take them to ride the Taming Sari Tower beside Dataran Pahlawan. But it was closed due to public holiday. What a stupid thing i think because there were more tourists would wanna take this ride due to public holiday! Then, i brought them to have a coffee at Good Morning Vietnam. Yes….i simply love the ice coffee there.

More varieties of menu compared to last time, such as cupcakes. But i was dissappointed as there was no cupcake on that day. :-( Nee told me that the cupcakes here not bad especially the chocolate cupcakes. I purposely come here for ice coffee and cupcakes. :-(

The vietnam ice coffee. One of the best ice coffee in town. At least suits my taste lah. Hehe

Ice blended dragon fruit. What can i say? It is pure real dragon fruits, not artificial flavouring kind, with water or ice. But i think it would taste better if some milk added on. I’m still missing the mango juice from Vietnam Kitchen at One Utama. It is really pure mango juice with no water added. So concetrated. hehe

Mango and coconut pudding as replacement for cupcakes. One scoop of vanilla ice cream is topped at the pudding. 

We sit down and talked and talked for about two hours. I shared my Bangkok trip experience and photos i took with Swei and Ching as they are going in couple of weeks.

After that we went to have light lunch. I brought them to New Newton Foodcourt near Plaza Mahkota. Ching once passedby here and comment that the ambiance here is quite good. So, just brought them to local foodcourt to have some local food.

Here are what we have….

One of the most famous popiah in Melaka. What make it so famous? The pork lards!!! haha

Taiwan style chee cheong fan. Different with HK style chee cheong fan. Here, they put curry and dark tomato sauce to the chee cheong fan and it is very little. Besides, there is minced pork wrapped inside the chee cheong fan other than normal prawns.

“Lei cha” biscuits. I don’t even know got such thing here. This is ordered by my fellow college friends. :-) Thin layer of the biscuits. At first i thought it is crunchy, but it is not. Quite lembik lembik one. But it does have fragrant of the lei cha. But the taste of the lei cha is not strong enough for those love lei cha, like me.

Squid satay. My first attempt. How embarassing hor!!?? But i still prefer pork satay lah. Hehe…

Lastly, my friends ordered fried oyster after seeing lots of people ordering. But it was really really bad and i really wonder why so much people ordering. I think this is the worst fried oyster in Melaka. I don’t even bother to take the photo.

Very full… let’s go for drinks and more chit chat session. Next, Nadeje Patisserie Cafe.

Rum raisin and original mille crepes.

Cheese and strawberry mille crepes.

My favourite among four… ranking is as follows:

1. rum raisin

2. original

3. cheese

4. strawberry

Long black coffee, only about RM2 or RM3 for every each mille crepe ordered. Not mine as i’m definitely do not favour dark or bitter taste coffee. :-S

Tea, also at about Rm2 or RM3 for every each mille crepe ordered. Nah, this is mine, tea lover! :-)

Forgot the name of this drink. Ordered by Lijun, who likes trying different thing. But she told me no taste one, like mineral water. Haha.

This tea time costs us more than RM60, for 4 pieces of mille crepe and drinks. Of course we sit down more than 2 hours here, if not how to recover the RM60? Typical auditor/accountant!! :-D

After that, we have a shopping session at Dataran Pahlawan. Lijun bought the most and we really wondered why she could spent so much in PDI Concept Store Melaka, but not in KL. I believe KL PDI Concept Store has more varieties and choices compare to Melaka loh. I bought one stylish sandals at 20% off. :-) Swei and Ching bought nothing as they were saving for Bangkok shopping spree!! hahaha.

After the shopping, it’s our dinner time  before my friends headed back to KL.

Dinner at the following post….

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Nadeje and Coconut House

October 20, 2007 · Filed under Cakes and bakery, Western

Second day, we continue food hunting and walk walk around. Initially we wanted to have chicken rice ball at Chung Hwa Coffee Shop, but it was too packed, the crowd was taking umbrella queueing outside the coffee shop. I gave up and i brought them to have nyonya laksa at Donald Lily. Ching ordered chicken pongteh rice, while me and Angel ordered nyonya laksa. The nyonya laksa was my all time fav!! hahaha.. Angel loves the laksa too, commented that the laksa was very spicy and tasty. The ayam pongteh rice also quite tasty with the black bean sauce.

Me and Angel at Donald Lily.

After that, i suggested to have a walk at Jonker Street as we did not really have a good time at Jonker Street last night. It was a very hot sunny afternoon. Angel able to buy a very nice and simple dress from Jonker Street at RM55, claimed imported dress. I was able to buy cheap short at only RM25. After the walk, i brought them to Nadeje to rest (after under the hot sun) and drink.

We ordered two pieces of mille crepes, one original and one rum raisin. The above one is original flavour. Both Ching and Angel fall in love with the first bite! You see, i bet you love this, as i love mille crepe so much too! Ching tried to count the layers. I counted again from the close up photo that i took. I counted about 21-22 layers. How about you, Ching?

This is rum raisin flavour. The taste is really good!! Equally good with the original one. In fact, i prefer rum raisin than original. GOOD, GOOD and GOOD!!! I would definitely have this again.

We really have a good rest in Nadeje as we sit there doing nothing, just having our tea, mille crepes, chit chatting for about two hours before we went to Dataran Pahlawan for walk walk. After the walk, we went to have Bunga Raya Porridge. The taste of the porridge and “mien fen gau” are always good to me. Angel claimed that she can cook better than this. Hahaha…

We went to Mahkota Parade to walk walk after our dinner. After all, i still think that Dataran Pahlawan is better than Mahkota Parade. Maybe it is new, i guessed.

No idea where to go after that, Ching and me thought of Coconut House. But too bad, most of the signature dish and drinks are out of order due to lack of “raw material”. I was quite dissappointed, really. After all, i ordered oreo milkshake.

My oreo milkshake, so cooling… Felt so cool after the drink. hahaha…

Angel ordered fried asparagus with parmesan cheese. Taste not bad, but a bit salty salty due to the parmesan cheese, i guess.

After about an hour in Coconut House and both of them still have room to eat, i suggested to bring them to Pak Putra’s chicken tandoori. Called PL and she able to join us. We ordered one chicken tandoori and one cheese naan, thinking to order more when PL arrive. After the chicken tandoori arrived, i tried to order another one, but the waiter said already finish. I was quite surprised, and at the same time very sad because i know one chicken tandoori just not enough for four of us, because it was too tasty!!! PL ordered another cheese naan and roti canai. Angel was saying that the dhall sauce (for the cheese naan) was super good. The cheese naan also very soft and tasty. The chicken tandoori also have good comments from them. haha. I was quite happy after able to introduce them such a nice food for them.

After the Pak Putra, PL saying that she wanted to go second round supper, which was satay celup. Initially we went to Capital Satay Celup, but there were people queueing up (again…). We did not want to wait, so we gave up and went to Ong Kim Wee one. I really full and could not eat anymore. But the satay celup smell was so strong and tempting until i could not resist. I have been so long have not eat satay celup.

After the satay celup, PL decided to stay overnight at my house, so we can have more chit-chatting session, as Ching and Angel were going back the next day.

We went back home after the satay celup. Chit chatting (besides Angel because she was too tired) until about 3am.

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Portuguese Egg Tart ~ Italy Bakery, Melaka Raya

March 17, 2007 · Filed under Asian, Cakes and bakery

Bought the portuguese egg tart few days ago from Italy Bakery. RM1.20 per piece, RM1 per piece if you bought more than 3. I bought 3. The portuguese egg tart here is very freshly baked, crispy and crunchy. I just simply love it. Hubby and sister also love the portuguese egg tart here.

Box that your portuguese egg tart are put in.

Italy Bakery Melaka can be found at Melaka Raya, Bunga Raya, Taman Melaka Baru and Taman Asean. (Only places i know). I’m not sure whether KL do have branches. Update me if you know. ^_^

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