BaBy OcToPuS in the Flesh~!!!

Finally it's here. I had finally made up my mind and start to blog using blogger. Sigh~ What a loooooooong tedious process to incorporate my old feeds to this new blog and than transferring all the pictures and also editing all of it later on. But it's finally done and I am 70% satisfied with this blog that I had created almost half a year ago. My Gosh~!!! Anyway, I will be discussing or rather blogging the same stuff that I had been doing from my previous blog. Which is makan places and some of my other gathering with my frens and my social life happenings (but dun keep ur hope high though, hehe~!!!) So here goes .....

Pick n Brew - Glenmarie

It was Wednesday noon and I was surfing the net looking for some info and then LP msn me and invited me to go "market survey" with her. I know the place so I "offered" to accompany her since got "free" coffee. haha~ and an opportunity to blog the place. I read of the place from another blogger and I had since wanna go over to look for myself. The place that I mentioned is called Pick n Brew.

The name "Pick n' Brew" refer to both the name of cafe and coffee. Pick n Brew consists of 30 different types of coffee categories into 3 main categories namely Vibrant, Inspirational and Passionate, allowing customers to select and pick coffee from different regions that best suits their palate. The coffee will then freshly grind and brew with Moka pot. The idea of Moka pot is basically to bring rich, syrupy attributes of espresso to our customers. (caption from Jackson Kah - co-owner of Pick n Brew itself).

What do they served? Hmm...well beside coffee they do served food which consists of western (pasta, spaghetti and fish & chips) to Asian food. They have a small pantry selling cakes and also muffins. The ambiance of the place is nice as it's cozy and also the music that they play is jazz type. So if u can imagine from the picture above, ur sitting on a comfortable sofa, small rain drops outside the window, one hot cup of fresh brew Brazilian coffee with a soft scent on ur table with ur favourite novel on ur hand. Relaxing~~~ : )

But sadly to say, there were some water shortage when I reached over so they couldn't prepare any hot coffee for us. They can only served ice blended coffee. Sad case :( So I asked the waiter to recommend to us and he had recommended us the ice blended mocha frappachino~ i forgot the exact name as it's very complicated to remember. haha~

The drink is nice. Presentation wise is alright. I like the ice blended that they recommended to us. Will i drink again? Yup~! Well anyway, the price for the pasta is slightly on the high side. Don't have the time to try it out as we need to rush for 5.45pm BP @ MC. haha~ They are opening their branch in 1U soon. So look out for that. (Rating : 3.5 out of 5.0) - cause i didn't taste their food yet~ But I give 4.0 for their environment : )

My New Gadget ... Sony Ericsson K850i

Finally, I had get a new hand phone to replace my old SonyEricsson's K700i. I really like the phone but it kept having problem while I am charging the phone. It's quite difficult for me as I need to use my hand phone almost all day long. Sales man .. haha~ So I happened to saw Maxis was having this promotion on the phone that I eyed for so long. It's not new but it's quite adequate for my use I guess. Or else I'll be getting myself a HTC TyTN II which is quite good too. So at the end I decided to get a SonyEricsson's K850i. Like my friend once said, "Once U Go Sony, U Never Go Back". haha~

So the phone runs on normal GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G Network) and also HSDPA (3.5G Network). The display type is TFT, 256K colors while the size is 240 x 320 pixels, 2.2 inches. It runs on Memory Stick Micro (M2)/microSD , and comes with a 512 MB card. Yes, You can buy a microSD and use also. Cool~! The internal memory is 40MB which is the same with my old K700i. The data runs on Class 10 - GPRS, supports EDGE and also HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps - 3G. The bluetooth runs on v2.0 with A2DP, which means I can get a bluetooth which support A2DP and listen to my music wireless. Sweet~! And it also support USB v2.0 (same the other models). Other features includes WAP 2.0/HTML (NetFront), RSS reader on the browser.

Ok the cool part is yet to come, 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, video(QVGA@30fps), xenon flash and 3LED video light; auto lens cover, secondary videocall camera. Damn it's hard to say it all out with one breath. haha~ Yes, finally~! Xenon flash. No more LED lights as flash. Xenon flash is the same flash they used in our Cybershot cameras. Now we can really do some serious night shots. The video support MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player. Other features includes Picture editor/blogging, Built-in handsfree, Motion sensor (with UI auto-rotate), FM radio with RDS, Java MIDP 2.0, TrackID music recognition, Image viewer, Voice memo/dial and etc. So for those who like blogging like me, it's a convenient way to upload my pictures to my blog. Well maybe someday u will see me doin my blog entries that way ... hehe~! Standby time is up to 400 hours and talk time up to 9 hours.

Romi Curry Puff @ SS2

Best Curry Puff I had in town. Where else but Romi's Curry Puff in SS2. It's located on the food court at the corner. Same row with the Dim Sum shops. I forgot the exact address already. But opposite the place is a row of houses and the last house is a flower shop. Anyway u can PM me if u wanna know the exact location. : )
Why is it so special u may ask. Well for one, the outer part of the curry puff is very crunchy. U can see from the picture that the skin is so crunchy and tasty. The curry puff is prepared hot each time. As there is a lot of people who queue up to purchase it so u can assured that the one that u bought is not from the morning needless to say overnight. Yummy~! Secondly, u can smell the scent of Planta so strong. I had purchased half a dozen home and on the way home I can still smell the curry and planta scent in my car. Hehe~! :P What else, hmm...the outer layer is divided into two part. One which is thin and crunchy and the other which is soft and pack to cover the inner ingredients. The ingredients inside consists of potato, curry leave, minced chicken and whole lot of curry powder. So u can imagine the smell of strong curry powder plus Planta. haha!! It's selling at RM 1.30 per piece and best part is, it's HALAL~! I even ta pou for my colleagues few months back. So if u do pass by the area and wanna eat something light, why not try this out. Highly recommended : ) (Rating : 4.0 out of 5.0)

*PS: Sorry that I don't have a picture of the stuff inside, as I was too busy munching the puff in before I could snap a picture. hehe~! :P

Restorant I-Po @ Bayu Perdana, Klang

This is not my first visit over but it's been awhile since I last visited the place. The place I am referring to is called Restaurant I-Po which is famous for their Crispy Duck. Yummy~! I went over for lunch with my customer. The parking is really a pain in the arse over there. As there is a Maybank situated on the same row. The place is on the right hand of the road if your coming down from the main road. The address is No.180, Jln Batu Unjur, Bayu Perdana 1, 41200 Klang. Their contact is 03-3324 2295. OK, let's get back to the food. So me and my friend had ordered 2 plate of drum stick.

The portion above is for single person but it's not that large as we had imagine so we had also ordered some Siew Yuk~! The roasted duck is crispy and also juicy. But the portion of meat is not that much. So I am not that full after the whole meal. hehe~!

The dish is served with the conventional sweet sauce but they did have this spicy sauce which is not available else where if I am not mistaken. I asked for second on the sauce as it's really appetizing.

The siew yuk is a bit disappointing as it's quite dry but still I finished it up cause I was really hungry. haha~ Still can order la, just that I got high expectation on the Siew Yuk that I ate maybe.

All together it was a nice lunch and the roast duck is not what I had expected but still it was better than the average roasted duck that I had ate. Will I go back again? Let's put it this way, I will not purposely go down to eat it but will recommend it to my frens. haha~!!! (Rating : 4.0 out of 5.0)

Lorong Selamat Char Kuey Teow @ USJ 11

This is one of the best Char Keuy Teow that I had in KL. Well the name says by itself I guess. For Penang people or Char Kuey Teow lovers u should know Lorong Selamat. It's a street name in Penang which is famous for their Char Kuey Teow. The couple (old folks) came from Penang and u can talk Hokkien with them if u know. But Mandarin and Cantonese is OK too. So this morning I went over with my bro, Robin to have breakfast as his car was sent to Honda service centre nearby. It our usual place for breakfast i guess. hehe~! So upon arrival, I straight away ordered one plate of Char Kuey Teow with Mee without Cockle and Bean Sprout. haha~ I know, I Know. My fren told me that is not the way to eat Char Kuey Teow but I don't really fancy cockle and tau geh that much. And definitely not kuey teow only. By gosh No~ haha~

The mee is prepared on top of a banana leave like in Penang. Ok, let's get into the details now. They have 2 big prawns. They also add some crispy lard which I love a lot ... : P And some slices of Chinese Sausage on top. This is onli available if u eat Penang style char kuey teow according to my Penang frens. hehe~ The way she cooked the mee almost to perfection. The distribution of eggs on each mee is just right. U can see some eggs on almost each mee that u eat. That is not simple. Mostly we will see people messing up the eggs and come out the char keuy teow looks like a piece of wet mee mix all together with some other stuff. Yukk~!!!

Btw, u can see the uncle puffing in the black pepper onto the mee with such passion and concentration. It's like an "art" to him. haha~ No laughing matter. You can go and see if you want. But I highly recommended to those who like Char Kuey Teow.. two thumbs up~! (Rating : 4.0 out of 5.0)

Gerai Yati @ Selera Jaya 223

It was late at night and Romiko was bugging me for supper. I looked at my watch and both the needle is at high noon. Wow~! It's midnight now. Where the hell do I wanna bring her? I can always choose to eat outside my house. But I had something else in mind. My old time favourite, Nasi Lemak Panas at Selera Jaya 223. I had previously bring some of my gym mates over to try the place out and all were amazed.

So I drove over the place which is located opposite Amway building in Jln 223. It was very dark at one end and as we're walking in, we can see a shimmering light coming from the other end. (Wah! this sentence sounds familiar - haha~!!!) I know the place should be very lively around this time and damn I was right. The place was almost filled up completely. Luckily I got a table near to the stall which I wanted to eat.
The stall is called Gerai Yati, No.6. Always remember to eat from this No.6 stall. U will know why later on. The other stall nasi lemak is a bit different from the one that this is serving. It's more spicy, and for me this is the way nasi lemak should be eat.

So I called the "ane" over and ordered my favourite drink over there, Milo Ice "Kau". You must remember to tell him "Kau" as this is the way it is suppose to be drink. Thick and Cold. They should called it Milo T-Rex or something la~ haha!

Next, I ask for the guy to bring me some Nasi Lemak Panas from No.6 stall. And he brought over 4 packs. So little but no problem. There were more to come. haha~!!! Always remember that there will be an in print of the stall's name on the packet of nasi lemak. Remember it!!! They even got a tel no for u to pre-oder. I think.

When u open it up. U can really see steam rising up from the rice. Damn~! It's HOT!!! Oh ya~! One reminder, always touch and feel the packet 1st b4 u open it. If it's not HOT, than ask for him 2 exchange it for u. The portion is not that large and there is the normal ikan bilis, peanuts and half boiled egg inside. But the thing is that, the nasi lemak is prepared HOT!!! It's raining when I was going over so u can imagine the HOT & SPICY nasi lemak felt while I am eating it. Damn!!! It's indescribable.

And if u like spicy food (as crazy as I am) than u can ask for extra sambal. I always ask for it from the kakak inside the stall. (TQ TQ!!) But a word of advice, the sambal is really freaking spicy. I am not shitting u here. So if u have a sensitive tummy, please dun force it. This is one of my favorite nasi lemak stall other than the SS2 opposite the police station. All my colleagues and frens had good reviews about this place. Thanx again for my bro for introducing this place to me 10 over years back. hahaaha~!!! (Rating 4.0 out of 5.0)