Favourite Lunch Places in KL

After being in KL for more than half a year now, we have found two 'excellent' eating places that ALL of us like. This is for lunch. Both places offer rather limited menu but what they have, we are happy.

Little Penang Cafe @ Suria KLCC




















This cafe is famous for its Penag food (of course!). Its motto says it all (see above). We like their Penang Fried Kuay Teow, Lam Mee, Rojak, lunch plates (variety of nice Peranakan food choices with rice) and their Ice cold Sian Chow (grass jelly). I'm salivating now! Yummy... no wonder I have put on weight! :(

One of the reason why we like this cafe is because it is at Suria KLCC. So after shopping at Isetan, eat lo. :D And then shop some more!




















Old Town White Coffee @ Jalan Ampang



















Now this outlet opened about a month plus ago. It has an excellent setting along a busy Jalan Ampang. It is not crowded and it is airy and cool. Great layout! Nice place to get away from the heat actually. Furthermore, we live in Ampang so this place is a stone's throw away. This chain of shops in KL is suppose to hail from Ipoh, where it is famous for that.

We like the Rendang Chicken Rice, Ho Fun, Xi Mut tea (ice tea in ideal milk), toast slices in kaya or ice cream, prawn mee, ice lemon tea, lemon tea and lots more. Again.. salivating here!







































And one thing we like about these places is.... the clean toilets! Ha ha ha. Very important when you have kids!

Oranges... how do you see them?

Oranges; Vitamin C power packed fruit in all its goodness! It's the best source of Vitamin C if you are having a cold or flu. BUT if you are coughing, this fruit doesn't really help as it thickens the mucus and makes your lungs work harder to expel the mucus in your throat!

As for eating it, one can slice it with a knife or just simply peel the skin with your bare hands to get to the juicy insides! However, I know that there are some people who do not like to peel the skin. As for me, I love it as I get the nice orange scent on my fingers after peeling and eating them. Lovely!

Well, have you ever viewed oranges like this? (Someone sent me these in an email and they are... well, artistic and cute!)
































































































































Good night!

For our friends Alex and Deluxe

This post goes out to the soon to be newly wedded couple... Alex and Deluxe, our dear brother and sister in-Christ. They marry on 7th July 2007 (07.07.07), the same day and month that we got married, too!

ALEX & DELUXE,
May His love, peace and joy shower the two of you as you determine in your hearts to be each other's companion on life's journey upon this earth.
God bless!

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Beads Galore

Yesterday (Saturday), we went to visit our sister's shop at Plaza GM. It is a wholeseller's 'mall' located right in the town centre itself (off Jalan Raja Laut). We were impressed by the car lifts to access the parking lots on the 8th floor onwards. Yes, we actually drove our car into a lift; big enough for one car!



































The full address of the shop.

My sister's shop is located on the 5th floor and it is a decently sized shop selling beads and all things related to these beautiful beads. It has beautiful display of necklaces, earrings, bracelets to beads of all sizes and colours, little hooks and various sizes of plyers. It was my first time visiting such a store. There were other similar shops in that plaza/mall but I reckon my sister's had the most variety and taste (bias perhaps?). My sister's shop also offers customise necklaces and bracelets. I think that is a good idea. Something different that will bound to attract customers to the shop.

Do have a look at the photos I took whilst we were there. Maybe you can drop by too and learn a thing or two about beading necklaces! Oh, and buy some of the lovely accessories available at the shop. :D

















The shop layout.


















Very accessible beads, that can be bought in plastic packages.



































The smaller beads are sold in tiny bottles.


















There are items for kids too.



































Hearts of all shapes and sizes... and colours too!


















The beautiful beads... better and more beautiful than those at Mardi Grass!




















































Can you see me in the reflection of one of the golden beads?

















The shop sells some different type of crystals too. Hope you like the shot above.


















They also have an array of earrings. The ones above are quite intriguing... I like the design on it. Reminds me of snowflakes or "silver" stained glass window design!


















More earrings.



































The picture above is one of my best shot of the day.

Cameron Highlands, Pahang

We had a little holiday up in the mountains during the King's birthday-weekend; to the tea and strawberry moutain to be exact. Driving up to an elevation of about 5,000 feet above sea level, we were greeted by fresh and cool air. Low lying clouds were surrounding the mountains and it was just spectacular. A good change from the concrete jungle that we left 3 hours ago. It was a 3-day 2-night stay for us at a hotel called "Century Pines". The hotel is relatively new and comfortable.


















Despite being part of nature itself, Cameron Highlands is highly commercialised. There were plenty of strawberry farms, butterfly farms, souvenir shops, vegie stalls, tea plantations and tea houses. All these lined the road side from Tanah Rata to Brinchang. If you know Boh tea, this is its hometown. There is also another big tea plantation here and it is known as Bharat tea; not as common as Boh tea I guess.

I'm going to fill this posts with pictures taken up there... so be prepared for a photo overload! Like they say, a picture paints a thousand words. So judging by the number of photos I have uploaded here, I think this is a novel! Ha ha ha... anyway, enjoy the photos.



















Strawberries were aplenty up there. They even allow us to pick our own strawberries.





































































We had fresh strawberries... and then there was strawberries with cream and castor sugar. Yummy!


















Then, there was strawberry with vanilla ice cream!

















Oh, and not to forget about the preserved strawberries. Very nice! It was indeed a strawberry overload holiday! And did mention about the strawberry flavoured green/black tea and strawberry tarts?


Besides the strawberries, there were plenty of flowers and cacti up there.



































These lillies can be found within the hotel compound.


















There are plenty of roses.

















This is the stunning Bird of Paradise. Beautiful isn't it.





































































































































































There were orchids too.


















There were pitcher plants here. I will tell you later why this is so important in Cameron Highlands.



















Apple pie and ice-cream anyone?



















How about this delicious scones with butter and pure strawberry jam? T-Cafe at Tanah Rata has the best scones ever!

















We went to one butterfly farm. We have been to the butterfly farm at Penang and we can say that the one in Cameron Highlands is not as nice. There were not that many varieties of butterfly. But it was a nice change from strawberries! Jess was a bit terrified by the butterflies actually.




















































Together with the butterfly farm is also an inesct exhibit. Look at the one above. A bug with a design of an African mask on its back. Interesting eh?


























Josh holding a stem with an insect.


















Tea leaves!



















We drove up to the Boh tea factory/plantation and had tea there in a little tea shop. Very refreshing break.





















































We hiked up to one of the tea "hill" and the view was fantastic. Acres and acres of short, stubby tea plants!



















On our way home, we stopped by a water cress plantation and had a water cress lunch!


















The picture above shows how the water cress is grown in Cameron Highlands.


One low light about our trip to Cameron Highlands is the numerous, ....

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fly colony!


















Look at how they stick to my car bonnet (it's because of the warm engine.. it is cool up there!). That's why the pitcher plants are so important in Cameron Highlands! Thank God KL is not 'infested' with these annoying insects of flight!