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CNY Potluck Gathering

Every year, i will have gathering with my group of gfs. This year, we made something different, we had potluck gathering instead of normal yam cha session gathering.

Again, i was working on 5th day of CNY. In fact, i started work on 4th CNY. We had our potluck gathering at Chee Chin a.k.a. lady boss and owner of Venus Station. I went to Venus Station straight after work because it is just nearby my office.

Here are what we have….

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Chocolate cake from Dinah. The cake is not made by her la, it was actually ready bought from somewhere else. hehe

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Fried meehoon from Lai Yen’s mom.

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Watermelon from Chee Chin. Chee Chin not only bought watermelon, but also sponsored all the drinks from her shop. And the most important thing is, a cosy place for our gathering, Venus Station. Thank you Abu!!!! =)

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Very nice guava from Yea Huey. She should make more guava because it is so good until we were craving for it!

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Melaka best wantan mee from Siow Fei and Hsiau Hwei. Both of them, especially Siow Fei had been craving for wan tan mee for ages.

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Fried salad “yu tiao” from Siow Fei and Hsiau Hwei too.

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Otak-otak all the way from Muar, from Chun Sia.

Not only these, we also have fried oyster. Just the photo taken after Siow Fei ate half way, so it was kinda disgusting. haha..Yok Suan brought red wine and whisky. And how about me? I brought myself! =P

I didn’t know what to bring and i was working on that day. No time to do any preparation of food. I called up Hsiau Hwei and she told me my job is finish the food tonight! So, conclusion, i did not make or bring anything. Hehe.

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With all my sisters again, only me in working attire! >_<

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Group photo. We were all enjoyed the so-called potluck gathering. It was fun, eating, chit-chatting and taking photos. The most importantly, this year we had our gathering at Chee Chin’s Venus Station, where we all conquered the place!! No business that night. :-P

I’m looking forward another gathering with my gfs, probably birthday gathering, who next?

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Chee Chin’s Birthday

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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Hari Raya Dinner

Okay…this is a continuous of the previous post. Dinner time.

This was the day where you unable to get any food to eat even though you have money!!! Everywhere we went were fully packed. Let me recall….

1st stop…. Tandoori chicken @ Kota Laksamana – [closed]

2nd stop…. Satay celup @ Jalan Ong Kim Wee – [fully packed...don't even try your luch at Capitol Satay Celup because i can assured you it was much worst than here]

3rd stop…. Teo Soon Loong Chan restaurant – [fully booked, the boss asked us come back tomorrow -.-]

4th stop – Seafood @ Portuguese Settlement – [every shop lots packed with people, every bosses told us need to wait for more than an hour 0_o ]

5th stop – Nyonya food @ Melaka Raya – [ we went to few restaurants and everyone of them was fully booked and some even said finished]

6th stop – finally i brought them to have western food bah….haha…Cosmo Noodle Bar. Only this one would never tell us it is fully booked or finished. So, we just settled our dinner here. FINALLY…. after round and round for more than an hour…we got a place to settle down for dinner. hahaha

Hazelnut milkshake and teh tarik cold. When the hazelnut milkshake is served, we were all wondering what’s drink is that, until the waitress told us it is hazelnut milkshake. We were wondering why the color is white instead of brown / coffee? Teh tarik cold is for Ching, who never bored having teh tarik cold or teh ais. But this teh tarik cold consists of clear sago inside.

Flower tea, Globes Osmanthus Jasmine and Apple Rose Jasmine for me and Swei. Ate too much for the day. The flower tea could help us to detox and reduce the heat and excess fats, i suppose. hehe.. 

Mini pork bun. Of course highly recommended by me. hehe.. This is really licking good!!

This is porklet, ham and mushroom with rice for Ching. The taste is just like “wa tan hor”. haha..

Fried spaghetti with special sausage for Lijun. Actually the so-called special sausage is taiwan sausage. Lijun commented it is too spicy.

Udon with tuna and cheese for Swei. I suppose Swei loves cheese a lot. She loves cheese mille crepes and she even ordered udon with cheese. It’s too cheesy for me. :-(

Quite some time i’m not having tomyam dy. So i ordered thai style vermicelli in tomyam soup. My friends also commented that the soup is pretty good! hehe

Recommended by the waitress, fried crispy wantons with shrimps. Actually the taste is exactly like the fried carrot, just the ingredients different. Nothing special. Mini pork bun and fried fries is better.

The bill footed at RM82.05. Average RM20 per person. So it’s consider ok for us. By the way, the bill was settled by Lijun. A big thank you to you!!! hahaha…

After that, i quickly sent them back to Jusco as Ching’s car was parked there. They safely reached KL about 12-1am.

I really enjoyed the small gathering, chit chatting and makan makan session this round. Hope you all enjot too. :-)

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Hari Raya Outing

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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