Eating, shopping and going out- every Malaysian's favourite pastime :)

I have ingested 9 bottles of Vitagen since my return to KL...and with added collagen and less sugar, why not?

Consumed more than my fair share of 'pan mee'- my absolute favourite

Opened a coconut with my bare hands

Enjoyed pipis in herbal ginger soup. Looking at the pic makes me want to go back and have seconds.

Nommed my way through delicious butter crabs served with 'man tou'

Been pampered with a serving of birds' nest. Round 2 tonight-yay!

These flowers are called 'birds of paradise'- how apt? They really do look like birds you'll find in paradise.

Steph took me to Mont Kiara today for brunch at Coffee Bean with its outdoor seating and relaxed environment.

In the car on the way from Mont Kiara to Bangsar for some shopping. KL is littered with flyovers.

Artistic sketches on the wall leading to the entrance of an independent boutique

Stopped at Marmalade to refuel. Good juices. Pretty murals.

Interesting ice-cream flavours- chendol, horlicks, lychee lime & lemongrass, hawflakes. Mmm..too bad I was too full to try any :(

Conjoined mushrooms I ate for dinner :D

Ran out of pics, till the next time I go trigger happy again....xox

omnomnomnom time

Finally got my lazy arse out of the house and went clubbing on Friday night in Zouk. It was a pretty good night because my best friend who hasn't gone clubbing in 2 years came out with us!

And then we had a BBQ the day after.

Very burnt but very tasty chicken wings marinated by MeatWorks. The burger we had was awesome, but too bad I gobbled it down faster than I could take a pic :)~~~

Biggest dog this side of the world.

The next day I went out for dinner in KL- guess where I wanted to eat at? On the way to Changkat Bukit Bintang in KL...

...to eat at El Cerdo!

This is situated in a row full of restaurants- still very much a hive of activity on a Sunday night.

Jamon Iberico- very very delish. Everyone who goes there should definitely order this.

Customised mirror reflecting how we were to eat the suckling pigs. It has been said that pigs are one of the animals which you can eat every part....I remember watching someone on MasterChef cooking a wild boar head. Imagine the presentation of that dish. How do you eat something if it's staring right back at you? :s

Iberico ribs- tasty, but I've had better ribs.

Another dish everyone should definitely try- this is the seafood risotto with scallop, king prawns and calamari. The rice is amazing.

And finally, the pièce de résistance ... half a suckling piglet. Came with its own theatrics!

Chopping up the piglet and when done, you were supposed to make a wish and break the dish you used to cut the piglet for good luck (and for your wish to come true) :)

Complimentary mini margaritas to 'digest' our meal. So kewt!

It was the 8th day of Chinese New Year and a day the Hokkien people 'pai tin gong', which literally translates to praying to the sky god. So we made an inpromptu drive down to Klang to watch some fireworks and look at kongming lanterns floating in the sky. It was so beautiful in the sky- there were fireworks going off everywhere once it was past 12am, and we saw the sky dotted with kongming lanterns.

If you squint hard enough you'll be able to see the kongming lantern floating in the sky in between the trees. Don't mistake it for a dust speck! The last pic shows more clearly the lanterns floating in the sky.

Heading to bed now- it's 3am :\ and I have a facial tomorrow at 10.30am. Good nights!

We've come a long way dodododo

I went out with my ex yesterday because he wanted to get out of his house before his ex went to visit his mom for Chinese New Year hee hee. Yes, I was an accomplice in his escape plan :s 

Time for another unwrapping post! I knew he was getting me a birthday pressie from his yearly trip to Vegas- I just didn't know what till I actually received it :D (after a lot of bribing hahah. He got something he wanted in return so it's all good ;) )

Can you guess what's in the bag? *excited

Tada! Are you curious yet?

Lil' orange/black boxes.

Trivia: Did you know that the black boxes found in airplanes are not black? They're usually orange. Aha, bet you didn't know that!

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One big happy Hermes family. Yay!

I don't know what to do today, the thought of going to Bangsar is really not that appealing since it's like 500 degrees outside. But imma having butter crabs for dinner, and then out to KL for some partying. And there's a BBQ tomorrow- half-excited about this because it's gonna be 600 degrees tomorrow (maybe).

Reunion dinner

On the eve of Chinese New Year, most Chinese families will return to their hometowns to have dinner with everyone else- from kids to grandparents, from aunts to uncles...you get the gist. The Reunion Dinner is a pretty big deal for Chinese people and shops in Malaysia even close earlier on the day itself so everyone has enough time to get home to have dinner with their extended families. For me, we always head back to my Grandparent's house to have the dinner with other family members.

It's tradition to have yee sang for Chinese New Year- with the belief that the higher you mix the ingredients, the better the year ahead will be for you.

'Lou ah, lou ah!'

Our Reunion Dinner spread consisted of yummy steamboat ingredients! Yummmm....*salivates at the thought of the food I had.

My mom with my grandparents and her 2 brothers.

And with all their grandchildren! Minus my sister who's in Melbourne, and my dad who was still at home with visiting relatives.

Heading to Bangsar tomorrow, hopefully most of the boutiques are open?