Farewell Lunch @ Santini, KLCC

Straight from the American-Italian kitchens, Santini@Suria KLCC offers a wide selection of delicious food fares, from wood fire pizzas to crunchy salads, creamy pasta and grills for weight watchers, all prepared with the freshest blend of ingredients.

I love hanging out at this place for gatherings and their food are pretty good too. Aside from ala-carte in their menu, there are weekly set lunch offered at RM 14.90 inclusive of a main couse and drinks.

It was my manager's last day in early March and "we" who sat at the same island went for a farewell lunch together. :)

Pasta!!!


Spaghetti with roast duck and mushroom in cream sauce!


My all time favourite of Caesar Salad with bacon! *slurrp* One of the best salads I had thus far...


The ladies - Kris, Celine & myself :)


David and the ladies....


A manager who was very much like a mum and friend :)


Group photo!


After food it was time to indulge on some sinful desserts.. Mango cheese cake... yum yum!


Marble cheese cake was quite good too though I never really fancied cakes... I prefer savoury pantries :P


Later in the night, it was party cum farewell session at Rum Jungle... Partying on a weekday like Tuesday? There was an early meeting the following day, hence I left early together with my bestie


The group photo! That's about it! :) Have a great weekend all! :)


I'll be off to Singapore later tonight! Weeee... need that de-stress vacation really.... till then! Enjoy! :)

Burger King - Seattle Tacoma Airport

Before we left the Seattle Tacoma airport in the morning, we had breakfast at Burger King where you get to enjoy a world famous flame-broiled burger.

The Menu: Burgers, chicken sandwiches and salads for lunch and dinner. Croissan'wich®, sourdough breakfast sandwich and the Enormous Breakfast sandwich (sausage, bacon, eggs and cheese all-in-one sandwich) are on the breakfast menu. Price Range: $2 - $6

But for me, I much prefer the all time favourite McDonalds breakfast menu! :)

Box of hash browns...



Fresh toast with honey.... hmm.... look weird right? Looks more like nuggets to me! :P


Ham and Cheese muffin! Pretty good!


We left mid morning and was on our way back to KL where we stopped at the Narita Airport, Tokyo after a 7 hours flight. Phewww... M leg was aching badly... thank god we stopped! :)

Late lunch time at the Food Court by Ana Festa... Pretty good Japanese food can be found here!



"Fuka" Ramen noodle shop, "Ikku" udon and soba noodle shop, "Nantensei" curry and donburi (rice bowl) shop, "Pastana" pasta shop and the "Bluest" bar. Narita nakamise's unique food court. No matter what your reason for travel. Take a moment to relax here before you leave.


Yummy Onion Tuna Bowl.... big serving chucks of minced tuna on rice! Damn nice! :) RM 40 for the bento set that comes with tea, soup and pickles...



How to eat it? Add the shoyu sauce and mix the tuna, rice and sauce all together! Tada! Ready to be eaten... *slurrp*


I ordered this from the Ramen Shop....Chinese noodles with pork and boiled egg. Approx RM 30


The flight back to Singapore got delayed.... hence we walked around and snapped more photos...


Wooo Japanese Whisky!!!!



More Japanese Sake!



I miss home already... the bed especially... LOL!


Taking off finally back home...


Beautiful view... Bye bye to Seattle! :)



That's about it.... Up next more food from other gatherings I went. Stay tune! :)

Shopping @ Seattle Premium Outlets....

The final day at Seattle was spent on SHOPPING!!!! Wee my favourite hobby.... Before we headed down to Tulalip, we had lunch at the Pacific Place once again... We just simply loved the food at Gordon Bierch.... :)

In the morning we went down again to Pike Place Market for some last minute shopping as I wanted to get some souvenirs for my family...


Wooo mobile restroom?


My 2nd time, lunch again at Gordon Bierch.... Read about my previous post here....
http://joanchew_1911.blogspot.com/2008/03/amazing-sea-creatures-seattle-aquarium.html




Again we ordered their Barbeque Salmon with Asian BBQ sauce, balsamic grilled red onion, spinach and sweet ginger rice! Awesome wei... :P


After the sumptous lunch, we took a 45 minutes drive down to the Seattle Premium Outlets for some shopping. Address: 10600 Quil Ceda Blvd., Tulalip, WA 98271. This is a shopping paradise with cheap bargains from famous brands like GAP, GUESS, Banana Republic, Nike, Calvin Klein and more! There are total of 110 outlet stores offering a wide range of branded clothings! Gosh! 4 hours of shopping wasn't enough for me :P



Shopping time! :)



Thank you for accomodating to my shopping needs! :) more shopping next time? LOL! :P


Dinner @ Shiro's Sushi

We shopped till late evening before heading back to downtown for dinner.... This round we had Japanese food at Shiro's Sushi!

A two-time James Beard nominee, Master Chef Shiro Kashiba has been profiled in every major cuisine periodical and newspaper including Bon Appetit, The New York Times, and USA Today. In 1967, Shiro brought this same passion to Seattle and started up Seattle's first full service sushi bar. The food was seriously up to standard! :)


The restaurant is located at 2401 2nd Avenue Seattle, WA 98121, Corner of 2nd & Battery Street... sushi here ROX! :)


Operated by Japanese chef! Woo fresh sashmi on the table... *slurrp*


Small Plate of 7 pieces of Sashimi - tuna, salmon and albacore. USD 12 per plate. Approx RM 40


Tai or Smelt Umeshiso Age - Light fried Red Snapper or Smelt, w/salmon, shiso and plum sauce


Uni Tempura - Sea urchin tempura


Tuna, Salmon, White fish w/Shiro's Sauce


Salmon Sushi! Gosh, the best sushi in town ever! Darn good. A must try place if you're in Seattle! :)

Fry Electronics & more FOOD

Weekend is here again! Woo Hoo... I'm always anticipating the weekends! :)

I'm counting down to my Kota Kinabalu trip in April. 12 more days and I’ll be away climbing the great mountains. This is my first time in my entire life that I’m worrying about my trip, due to the fact I haven’t be strict in my exercise regime.

I heard stories about the hectic journey up there. It’ll take 6 hours to reach mid hill and another 3 hours to the top. I’ve been doing a little exercise here and there but not a lot. I’m planning a rigorous exercise plan for the next 12 days. I’ve got to kick my lazy bum and start exercising! :P

Anyway back to more photos of Seattle... Sunset.... on our way driving down to Renton to visit Fry Electronics...


Fry's is a one-stop-shopping electronics retailer that carries over 50,000 hi-tech products. Founded in 1985 in the Silicon Valley, Fry's Electronics has stores across the country and provides products that embody the latest technological trends and electronic advances.


We did some random shopping around and I bought a talking doggy stress ball named Brian! LOL! :P


More toys we saw...



Xbox Rockband special edition... pretty cheap in the US!


After visiting Fry, we drove back to downtown Seattle and had dinner at Anthony's Pier 66 for some good food... Anthony’s Pier 66 is located on the downtown Seattle waterfront and is a premier Northwest seafood restaurant with panoramic views of the downtown Seattle skyline, Mt. Rainier, and Elliott Bay's boating activity. It features fresh Northwest seafood simply prepared, in a contemporary, sophisticated waterfront setting. :)


Complimentary bread with butter, served when you dine there...


Anthony's New England Style Clam Chowder! Super yummy...Chowder is any of a variety of soups, enriched with salt pork fatback and thickened with flour, or more traditionally with crushed ship biscuit or saltine crackers, and milk.


Fresh Tombo Ahi salad. Seared medium rare ahi, won tons, mangos, avocado & tomato over a bed of seasonal greens and sesame dressing.


Fresh Wild Pacific Salmon Alder planked with smoked sweet pepper beurre blanc. Accompanied with yummy mashed potatoes and brocolli! What else we did the next day? Stay tune! :)

High & Above at Space Needle, Seattle

Weeee.. it's a public holiday today!!! :) I'm going for my favourite hang out hobby - karaoke later in the noon. tsk tsk...

Back to more photos of Seattle.... I visited the famous Space Needle, an attraction here, something similar to the KL Tower where you get to view the whole city from high above... nice!

South Lake Union line of the Seattle Streetcar - the Emerald City's newest way to get around downtown Seattle.


The Space Needle, Seattle's crowning landmark, offers a 360 degree view from the observation deck which includes both an indoor and outdoor viewing deck, a gift shop, and an espresso bar. Above the observation deck is a revolving restaurant offering Northwest cuisine.


It's not really that high....


Me Myself & I taking a photo outside the space needle...



The great travel companion...



Outside the space needle, there was a tiny fun fair going on.... ferris wheel...


The ticketing counter... :)


Wooo breadth taking. It was reallyyyyy COLD outside....




Best thing to do is of course camwhoring! :P



Food Lover in action! :)



A nice photo taken by a passerby....



Can you see the ship cruising on the big blue sea?


The town center with tall buildings and offices...


Snap snap....


Some nice photos from his camera in his previous trip! LOL! More food up next.... the yummy dinner we had at Anthony Pier 66! Stay tune and enjoy your holidays k! :)


Night view from the space needle!

Amazing Sea Creatures, Seattle Aquarium....

The Seattle Aquarium, located at Pier 59 on the waterfront, features several species of birds, fish, invertebrates, and marine mammals. Highlights include the 400,000-gallon Underwater Dome with a 360 degree view of Puget Sound's aquatic life, the Pacific Coral Reef Exhibit, the Tide Pool Exhibit, sea otters, seals, and a salmon ladder and hatchery.

I felt like a little girl once again! LOL! :P

From the outside...


The grand entrance.. kids were all darn excited; so am I... hehe...


Jelly fish... so nice!


Corals and fishes...


I love this... the famous nemo and dory fish :)


Some weird looking fish which I forgot the name


The Salmon Ladder. The 1st time I see soooo many salmon fishes. These are known as fingerlings that hatched last winter. They will be moved into salt water as they grow bigger and be displayed in the Underwater Dome Exhibit. :)


More corals! :)


Some photos outside the aquarium, overlooking the sea... the view was breath-taking :)




After the aquarium visit, we travelled back to downtown Seattle searching for a place for lunch


You see Starbucks wherever you go....


Famous brands around...


Lunch @ Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant

We decided to venture into the Pacific Place - a downtown Seattle's premier shopping, dining and entertainment center.


We ushered in to Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant for some western food! This restaurant has an interesting story behind it. Read on! :)

It all started with the dream of two passionate guys named Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch. This dream of exceptional beer and delicious food became a reality on July 6, 1988 when the first Gordon Biersch opened in Palo Alto, California. Acquired by Big River Brewing Company in 1999, Gordon Biersch now has 24 locations in 14 states and Washington D.C. The Gordon Biersch heritage of superior beer, great food and good times are now served up fresh daily in locations stretching coast to coast and across the Pacific to Honolulu.


Instead of the famous brewed beer, we had root beer! hahaha! :P


Barbeque Salmon with Asian BBQ sauce, balsamic grilled red onion, spinach and sweet ginger rice! It was sooooo good! USD 26 approx 90 bucks for this salmon, expensive but it was freaking good man!


Thick creamy Fettuccine.... sooo creamy.... :P


Cheers to good food... :)


Him, enjoying the yummy food too! :) Stay tune for more. Up next, Space needle and more FOOD we had! :)

Pike Place Market, Downtown Seattle

Gosh it's Sunday, why can't weekends be longer? I always have this feeling that weekends will just swift by so very quickly and without realizing it'll will be Monday again, restart of an entiring long week at work.

Weekends are the best time to catch up with housework, spending time with your loved ones, catching up with friends and family and just spend your time infront of the TV watching your favourite sitcom or movies. Ahhh.. that's life! :)

Back to more photos of Seattle shall we? I'm missing the sashimi and endless servings of salmon I had... :)

Some photos of old buildings and factories....


Railway train....


This place is famous for its great seaview and seafood... the place I had dinner later part of the night... Anthony's Pier 66 at Bell Street....


Ahhh... so peaceful, traffic free with no cars.... lol...


The harbour....



I visited the Seattle Aquarium later in the afternoon... more photos of fishes and assorted sea creatures I saw in the next blog post :)


The famous Pike Place Market... Situated just above the waterfront, the market is popular with natives tourists alike. It features about 600 businesses including farmers and merchants that offer fresh vegetables, seafood, food bars, cafes, restaurants, crafts, art work, and gifts from booths, stalls and shops, and the original Starbucks.


Us camwhoring :)


Lots of fresh seafood for sale....



Wooo Alaskan King Crab and prawns....


Starbucks opened its first store in 1971 in the Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle. Because the Market is a historic district with design guidelines, the store retains its original look.



The first starbucks in the world.... :)


Me Myself & I....


After venturing around, we finally settled down at a small cafe for breakfast! The usual breakfast of toast, buns, pastries and coffee...


Croissant with cheese and ham... yum yum! :)



HOT Coffee....


The highway overlooking the sea.... ahh damn cold... more photos.... :P





Aside from seafood, there were fresh vegetables for sale too...

I'll be the happiest girl alive if I have my fav salmon everyday.... hehe... It's pretty common here...



Inside the pike place market... lots of souvenirs for sale....



Shall stop here now! Next up more photos of Seattle Aquarium... Stay tune and have a great Sunday! :)

Emmanuel's Birthday, Bavarian Bierhaus - The Curve

OMG! This was sooo overdue.... just realized I have this pending post on Emmanuel's birthday last January'08. :P

Before I continue more about my trip at Seattle, let's see what we had at Bavarian Bierhaus, The Curve in conjunction with Emmanuel's 24th Birthday. :)

I've blogged about this place before, kindly read the review here...
http://joanchew_1911.blogspot.com/2007/10/german-beer-sausages-bavarian-bierhaus.html

Birthday gathering with my fellow college mates from APIIT!


Making a wish....


The group photo....


The lovely couple.... :)


Some of the drinks and food we had... Nevertheless the food were as good as usual :P


Assorted sausages... RM 52!


Super creamy egg and ham spaghetti! yum yum!


More sausages...


Grilled cod fish!


Grilled salmon! Have a great weekend all.... More photos up soon! :)

Valentine's, 14th Feb

My first celebration of Valentine's overseas... :)

Getting to spend time with your loved ones is Valentine's everyday, am I right? LOL! Be it with your friends, families, bf, gf, mum, dad, sis or brother, you can still spend this special day with them regardless of anything.

You exchange gifts, go for some nice dinner, movies and etc, but it's not neccesarily to do all these just one day. You have 365 days a year to shower your love and care to the one that matters the most. :) In fact, I think Vday is just overbranded, prices of food at restaurants are more expensive than usual and it's sooo packed during this special occasion. I rather stroll in the park, go for a movie just to chill and relax. Haha....

Anyway here are somemore photos of downtown Seattle...


Winter time... it was freezing cold.... But I love it... I love winter :)


You see this sign almost everywhere you go....


Car wash anyone?


Sunset... a beautiful view from the hotel...


We had dinner nearby the hotel cause it was running late and we were tired from the jet-lag and exhaustion.... simple Vday dinner at Emerald Grill, Holiday Inn...


A basket of breadroll and butter


My all time favourite grilled chicken caesar salar topped with bread crumbs... yum yum...


Fish & Chip!


After dinner, we took a stroll around before heading back to the hotel... Space needle.... Up next would be more photos the following day :)

A trip to United States...

Seattle is a coastal port city and is the largest city in Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It's pretty much a quiet and peaceful city, with less cars and less traffic as compared to other happening places.

The many attractions include Starbucks which was the first franchise founded in 1912, Pike Place Market, Space Needle, Seattle Aquarium and so forth. The BEST thing of all is the FOOD! Seafood are one of the best and freshest you can ever find. So nice....

Since I had a short stay, hence I only conquered Seattle. In fact there are many other interesting states around which are couple of hours away such as Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco, Canada and etc .... shall keep that in future itenery! LOL!

After arriving from Japan, I left for US in a day time... tiring..... On the way from the Singapore airport to Narita, Tokyo...


Wow.... coffee from starbucks at the plane... coffee keeps me alive :P


My breakfast.... Eggs, sausage, potatoes...


Finally arrived at the Narita Airport, Tokyo transit... approx 7 hours flight from Singapore.... *yawn*


Awaiting my next flight to US!


On my way finally... :) So excited to meet someone... ;) It will be another 8 hours to Seattle from Tokyo... OMG!


Sun rise... I touched down 8 in the morning... US has a 16 hours different timezone if I remembered correctly...



My first coffee at Starbucks on the way back from the airport... Hot Mocha.... yum yum!


Holiday Inn Seattle....


Temporary car owners of Chevrolete for the week... haha! My fav red color! The special someone rented the car so we could travel easily... the tricky part is driver is on the left hand side, hence you would some time to adjust...




Washington car plate! :)


Interior of the car... really nice!


We drove out to downtown seattle for lunch and tried out the famous Nijo Sushi Bar and Grill. The restaurant is a neighborhood favorite, and offers a casual, friendly dining atmosphere that you enjoy with the combination of good Japanese food.


Inside the place... I was darn hungry and it was so cold...


The bento set that came with one sushi roll, teriyaki katsu chicken, salad and grilled salmon! HUGE!


Going healthy with the option of fresh sashimi salad...


My all time favourite adegashi tau foo... deep fried and drenched in japanese soy sauce...


We also ordered one of the maki sushi in the menu - tuna, salmon, cucumber, avocado and yellowtail... USD 10, approx RM 30++... the sushi were freaking good man.... *fainted*


Took a stroll around the seattle street....


Me myself & I! That's for now, do stay tune for more YUMMY food we had, up next...

CNY Family Reunion Dinner....

It's Wednesday and exactly a week after my manager left.... still surviving from the overwhelming work *faints*

Let's blog about something more happy shall we? :)

CNY Reunions are the best time to catch up with families, relatives and friends for some good food. Pretty much a good reason enough to indulge right? LOL!

Amber is just sooo cute.... damn lucky dog who gets to enjoy spa and wear cheong sam... I don't even go for a spa wei... *unfair*


My niece & I.... seldom meet up except for special occasions...


My uncle treated us to dinner at some chinese restaurant at his golf club... can't remember the name though....Is this sign of getting old ar? Yee Sang with salmon!!!


My aunties and uncles...


Steam fish in superior soy sauce! awesome! I love fish of any styles....


Butter prawns... didn't touch this dish cause of high cholestrol... LOL!


Roasted Crispy Chicken! yum yum...


Fried lotus! Vegetables are good... hehe...


Family photo..


CNY Eve @ SKY BAR, Traders Hotel

After dinner, a group of us detoured to Sky Bar at Traders hotel just to chill out and relax... counting down to the first day of Chinese New Year before I flew off to Japan the following day


You enjoy the nice view.... I think Luna Bar is much bigger and nicer....


The special someone and me *peace* we look darn sleepy....


My bestie & I.... No photos of Aaron and MP cause I forgot once again... haha! I can't wait for the weekends just to chill out once again.... :)

Finale of Osaka Trip.... :)

It's finally the last post about my Japan trip... tsk tsk.... which took me almost a month to update as well... LOL!

I have tons of outstading posts... do stay tune ya! To sum it all up, Japan is one hell of freaking nice place to visit... :)

Peanut mochi stuffed with red bean... Mochi is a japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice moulded in rice and pounded into shape. The texture is soft and fluffy... *thumbs up*


FULL of rean bean paste...


During the night, we visited yodobashi umeda shopping mall - a place with tons of cool gadgets and robots.. my brother's wonderland... He bought the PS3 at a pretty good price too


Packed with people!


Dinner time at the shopping mall.. We had jap food again... Nabeyaki Udon with tempura and chicken!


Tempura and soba set....


I love soba...It is served either chilled with a dipping sauce, or in hot broth as a noodle soup. Moreover, it is not uncommon in Japan to refer to any thin noodle as soba in contrast to Udon which are thick noodles made from wheat.


deep fried tempura set...


The sis who is a food lover too... haha! :P


Me enjoying a hot bowl of udon noodles...


Time to bid farewell to Japan.... I left 2 days earlier due to my next trip to US and it was my 1st time travelling all the way back from Japan alone...


Waiting to take off at the Kansai airport...


All my goodies I took along... chocolates and tons of food! haha!


This is damn nice... only 100 yen per box, approx RM 3.50. Chocolate sticks with almond...


Bye bye....


The sun set...


Finally reached home by midnight... darn tired... unpacked all my lovely goodies I imported back...


That's about it... Stay tune for more photos in the quiet and peaceful city of Seattle...

2 Birthdays Celebrations in a Day! :)

Happy Belated Birthday...

Don't you just enjoy celebrating birthdays of others? LOL! :P

Aside having fun; you get to meet up with your friends again catching up just like good old days. It is definitely a GOOD reason to meet up due to the busy schedules of everyone else who are working and so forth on other days....

Anyway Happy Birthday to Kee Sheng... a primary friend of mine way back in the year 1993 when I was just a mere 9 year old. How time flies and I'm glad we still meet up occationally :)

He treated a group of us at the Golden Dragon Seafood restaurant at seapark for some good authentic chinese cuisines... no photos of the food though cause we were too hungry :P

The chocolate cake! Happy 25th!


My primary lady friends...


The guys...


The food lovers who attended the yummy dinner...


The birthday boy & me!


A group photo of us after a sumptous dinner...


After dinner session we rushed over for Alicia's birthday at Souled Out, Sri Hartamas. Sorry for being late babe, hope you had a blasted celebration ;)


Us with the birthday girl looking so happy


Drinking session... the birthday girl was put to the test with flaming lambugini... oooppss


Sip sip sip.... I would have died on the spot if it was me due to my poor tolerance to alchohol...


The alcoholics... 2 BELOW was freaking strong le... mixed it with Orange and it still tasted so bitter....


A group photo of us... :)

Day 3 - Tempozan Market Place

Anyone went for Election today? I missed this round cause I didn't register previously and it was my first year to be able to vote....

Anyway back to Japan...

During our 3rd day visit, we visited America-Mura centered at Sankaku Koen (Triangle Park) during the morning and had breakfast at Mcdonalds. :)

America Mura is always full with young people sporting unique fashion.


Mcdonalds.... breakfast time! :)


Each of us ordered their breakfast Mcvalue set!


Hot hashbrowns!!!


Sausage Egg Mcmuffin.... The bread was different cause it came filled with honey.. *slurrp*


Then we headed back to Shinsaibashi Suji for somemore shopping....


Stopped by for mid morning snack....


Crepe wrapped with tons of cabbage.... nice! :)




Then we boarded the MTR and headed down to Tempozan Harbour Village featuring the famous Osaka Aquarium, a talk of the town food court, extensive retail outlets, Giant Ferris Wheel and right beside would be the famous Universal Studio!!


Giant Ferris Wheel at the Tempozan Market Place


The world's largest apparently...






The view overlooking the deep blue sea....


Sushi for lunch.... my fav!


Pork Katsu don!


Ramen soup...


Little sis order kentucky set! Chessy pasta....


Fries anyone?


The famous fried chicken!


Tempura prawns don!


Curry pork katsu rice....


Outside Tempozan Market place...


Stay tune for more... One final post on Japan up next :) Enjoy your weekends...

Snowing at Kyoto, Japan

Wee it's finally Friday. It seemed to be a long week I don't know why, maybe with the situation I'm in now without a manager and things seemed to be not working quite well lately. Fortunately I have someone to hear my endless nagging, thank you. :)

I need a break!!!!!! I know I just came back from my trip in Feb but I just want to break free from the confusing world I'm at now. :) Looking forward to my weekend getaway in March.

Anyway here are more photos of Japan and it was freaking snowing at Kyoto.... I just love snow... hehehe....

The kyoto city....


Shopping shopping as usual :P


We went visiting around and saw the temples... lol!


So nice right?? :P






Little sis and me posing under a huge tree without leaves.. haha!


My comfy pair of shoes which travelled so many places... lucky shoes eh? :P


Me myself & I.... isshh... soooo cold.....


The ladies in the family... sisters and mummy... :)


My new hat......


Boots anyone???


Camwhoring.... :)


We had dinner.... jap food!!!! damn rox! :P


Assorted steam food... I decided to go healthy after endless eating spree around...


Deep fried pork chop with salad!


Sizzling hot plate shredded pork topped with bulls eye...




Fried pork too but topped with egg.... nice!


Me at the makan place.. peace :)


A fruitful day with food food and shopping all in one! :)

Osaka Day 2 - Kyoto

My manager was officially gone today, it was her last day with Microsoft and she will be back to Philipines tomorrow. It will be days with lots of planning and proposal approvals in the next couple of weeks before they find a replacement, sigh.... *I don't want the pressure*

March is going to be crazy I believe, aside from my usual work routines; I'll have additional jobs which was covered by my manager earlier in terms of planning. Hence the special someone and I decided to make a trip to Singapore in end of March during the weekends to de-stress a little since he will also be pre-occupied with many many things in the next week few weeks.

*sigh sigh* perhaps I should look at the bright side? :)

Anyway, let's continue with Japan shall we? This time would be more photos of Kyoto, another part of Osaka which we visited and it was my first time. :) The other time I visited Kobe 2 years ago....

Coffee is part of me... can never live without it in the morning...


The complimentary breakfast set at the hotel... toast, salad and egg!


Little sis & I... big girl :P


My set which came with additional ham and scrambled eggs!


At the MTR station, on the way to Kyoto from Higobashi stop...


It was snowing on the way there... wee... freaking cold...


Reached Kyoto in 30 minutes... a smaller city of Osaka.... but there were lots of shopping to do which was much cheaper... I got a couple of winter tops and goodies from here...


The street shopping.. Japan is so lovely... you get to shop even under the MTR station....


Vending machines everywhere....


Sis & I... I love snow!!! :)


The place we had lunch... Chinese food this time. One advice, don't try Chinese food unless you have to, M'sia have better choices... LOL! :P




Cantonese style fried noodles with seafood.. this was the best already... hahaha....


Sweet & sour pork... OMG! so different and I didn't enjoy it... You don's taste the crispyness of the pork at all and the sauce didn't taste sweet and sour lee...


Ramen in superior vegetable soup...


Assorted stir fry mix vegetable set...


The side dishes that came with it.... One set is about 60 bucks! *faints*


Chinese version of "Man Fan"


After the lunch we went shopping at Porta, the major shopping mall @ Kyoto....


Isetan @ Kyoto... Shopping is my therapy to many things.... :P


Heart Shape ice creams.... wooo.... 70 bucks for 12 pieces... what's next? stay tune for more photos we had at Kyoto :)

Dad's Company Dinner Lou Sang...

Yes I know Chinese New Year was long gone but I still have this pending post to blog about. You can never miss the famous Yee Sang - one of CNY's items which top the list. My dad had a company reunion dinner before CNY at the New Chow Yhang Restaurant near PJ. A pretty nice place for some good authentic Chinese cuisines.

And I'm so happy to be visiting Hong Kong again coming May. We did a last minute booking since my bestie will be going as well. I'm missing the FOOD and shopping!!!! :)

The season this time around would be the end of Spring and the begin of summer in the happening city of HK! I'll be visiting Disneyland this time... *excited*

I'll continue with Japan later in the week. Have a great working week peeps!

*dreaming in a far away land*

Amber the chihuahua, the dog in the family in a very nice red cheong sam I bought from Bangkok earlier!


Me posing with doggie at home... :)


Wooo salmon! *slurrpp*


The famous yee sang with salmon! :) You eat it only during CNY! :)


4 Hot Combination...


Sharkfin soup!


Steam fish in superior soy sauce... very fresh and juicy


Suckling pig.... I never fancy it....


Big giant prawns in marmite sauce! The head was bigger than the body le.. haha!


Lotus rice!