Archive for August, 2008

On the decline…

Published August 20, 2008 Felis domestica-licious Leave a Comment

No improvement since this one…

 

March 2008…

 

July 2008…

 

I just realize my most recent blog mainly revolved around FOOD! That goes to explain why the extra pounds on me!

spaghetti @ Marche

Published August 10, 2008 Gastronomical Experiences Leave a Comment
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Kawan-kawan sekalian,

 

Go! Go! Go! Go try the seafood tomato spaghetti at Marche. In case the quality control is not in place, it’s Marche @ The Curve to be exact.

The spaghetti whetted the appetite so much that we ate through half way then only thought of taking picture…

Trust me, this photo failed to even reflect 10% of the tastiness!

“Chicken in paddy field”

Published August 4, 2008 Gastronomical Experiences 2 Comments
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Actually, it’s rather misleading for Chinese to regard a kind of frog, Rana tigerina rugulosaas 田鸡(chicken in the paddy field if translating literally).

 

My colleagues brought me to taste the famous frog meat mee hoon within this region. The location: travel for around 30km from Sg. Siput Main Street until you reach Lasah police station on your left, this house shown below is just next to the police station. 

Home-style cooking!

The raw ingredients! I really think I was so brutal by taking this photo before I had them in my stomach…..

 

I was amazed by this creative DIY flies-trap! Some flies’ favourite e.g. salted fish was placed in the middle of the trap, and they cut a small holes at the bottom. My manager told me that the design principle of this trap is that flies don’t really walk and when they get trapped, they always fly upwards! I think this explanation carried certain truth!

DIY flies-trap

While I was working my way through the meal, the following thoughts kept crossing my mind:-

“This is gonna be the last piece of meat that I can have…”

“No, wait, still have plenty in the bowl!”

Yummy!!!

Besides the mee hoon, you can also order this dish with rice

 

Not only we ate everything in sight, we gulped down all the soup which was added with mild alcohol.

I was teasing my colleague that his face turned red even with the mild alcohol content in the soup, but I did not realized that even my ears also flushed!

The price=RM12 per bowl. To me, it’s really worth eating . So, this is another delicacy for you to try if you are visiting me! Hehe…

Rating:  Thumbs up!

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