Food, Food, Food
St Patrick’s Festival with Guinness @ Malones, Sooka Sentral
It’s St Patrick’s Festival in March, which means lots of partying with Guinness, shamrocks, fairy forts, leprechauns and pots of gold!
… layan me, can or not?
Got invited by Nuffnang to a food tasting do at Malones, one of the Irish pubs involved with GAB’s celebration of St Patrick’s Fest. Took the [...]
Young Master Chicken? WTF is “Young Master Chicken”??
At a night market or pasar malam as we Malaysians know it, I saw a stall selling the most peculiarly named Young Master Chicken. Any meager signage on display or elaboration on the product was in Chinese, a language that I unfortunately cannot read.
Photo nicked from a Facebook page
The birds were small. At first [...]
Chinese Traditions: Dong Zhi aka Winter Solstice Festival
Today is Dong Zhi, aka Winter Solstice Festival. It is a time of Chinese get-togetherness/ family reunion, something about unity and harmony and other such nilai-nilai murni yang dipentingkan oleh bangsa Cina. Check out the Wikipedia entry for more information.
Apparently this festival is more important than Chinese New Year. I’m unsure of the reason, but [...]
The amazing half-boiled eggs cooker
When I was a kid, my grandmother fed me half-boiled eggs with a cup of hot Milo for breakfast. She always had a stash of kampung eggs from her own chicken coop in the refrigerator. One day I followed her to the coop to see how she gathered the eggs. It was quite a traumatising [...]
Skewers Restaurant and Bar @ Subang Avenue, Subang Jaya
Some time back, Pinkpau’s friend Ken invited us to Skewers to sample its offerings. It is at Subang Avenue next to Carrefour, which I’d no problem locating as I used to go to a gym in the same building.
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