: : Birthday Cake : :

Note that I’m putting up actual conversations.

3:25 p.m. Hotel Grand Continental

Melvin : We’re going out to celebrate Maylin’s birthday. Planning to go to a Japanese/Korean restaurant. Ex-Dea Ba Ru at Green Road. Located at BDC.

Wena : Okay.

7:00 p.m. Sunflower Deli

Wena : Is there any chocolate in the fruit flan?

Cashier : Okay.

7:05 p.m. In the car outside Sunflower Deli.

Realised that I saw something orange in color. Is it orange? Oh oh… better check with baker again. So, rushed out of the car and went back into the bakery.

Wena : Sorry ah but is there any oranges in the cake?

Wena : Phew!

8:00 p.m. At Green Road

Wena : (calling Melvin on handphone) Wei! Dea Ba Ru close shop lah. Where is the place again?

Wena : Aik! Ok ok. Am on my way there.

8:10 p.m. Arrived at restaurant

Wena : Sorry sorry I’m late.

Melvin, Maylin : No worries.

9:15 p.m. After dinner

Wena : Hmm… wanna go to coffee master and eat the cake there? But dunno whether can bring cake there or not?

Melvin, Maylin : Well, can try.

9:30 p.m. Coffee Master

Marvin : Excuse me but can we eat the cake here?

Wena : Okay.

9:35 p.m. Outside Coffee Master

Min Yen met up with us and we all went to SoHo.

9:40 p.m. SoHo

Wena : Finally!

Birthday song. Birthday girl blows out the candle. 5 people eating 2/3 of the cake.

10:10 p.m.

Wena : Wah! Full lah! But how to finish the cake? Cake box thrown away liaw!

Jackson : Can but after movie lah. Will meet up with you guys at SoHo at 11.30 p.m.

Phew! The cake issue settled. A delicious fruit flan coated with fresh cream. Yum!

Happy Birthday Maylin!

: : Hotel Grand Continental ~ Part I : :

Sort of an easy day today as I was attending a training session at Hotel Grand Continental. The buffet lunch was great! Took a lot of pictures so it’s going to be in parts. So, for today, it’s going to be pictures from the salad bar!

The salad comprises of cut honeydew and raisins mixed with mayonnaise, cucumbers and crabsticks. One of the more popular salads that seems to be the ‘in’ thing at chinese restaurants around Asia for the past 4-5 years. The love affair between mayonnaise and the Chinese diner.

A beautiful coleslaw.

This is the local version for a condiment that goes extremely well with anything. It’s basically ikan billis @ fried juvenile (!) anchovies with peanuts and in some soy sauce, chilli powder and sugar.

Now, onto the local version of fresh salad. From bottom left, clockwise : fresh tauhu, pineapple, cucumber and guava. To be eaten with rojak sauce.

Some more fresh vegetable. From bottom left, clockwise : lady’s finger @ okra, long beans, coriander leaves and kacang botol @ four angled beans. Center : not sure. Could be cucumber or some mango. These will be eaten with sambal belachan @ spicy belachan sauce.

Some sauces to go with the ulam. Usually, ulam is eaten with sambal belachan which is in the bowl on the right. On the left is the rojak sauce that goes great with fruits, tauhu and cucumber. It’s a thick spicy sauce mixed with soy sauce and chopped peanuts. It looks pretty ugly but the taste is just short of amazing! Try it one day.

More pics tomorrow! Have another two more days of training to go to at this hotel.

Nite nite!

: : Tis the season : :

For DURIANS!

Granny ordered some durians from one of the ladies nearby whose family has a farm in Bau. She was so excited to get them.

Small but sweet! To her that is.

Me, I can’t stand the taste and smell of durian. Too pungent.

: : My House ~ Steamboat : :

No, it’s not an invitation for dinner at my house. :p The name of the restaurant is called My House and they have a buffet style of serving Steamboat. Anyone game to go this Saturday evening 7 p.m.?

Tentative people going :

Wena

Bev

MayLin

Melvin (think he’s off to Penang by then)

Jackson?

Christine?

Joyce, Gette, Sheebs and Autreyu : you guys game to go and try it out?

Dinner is RM15 (USD3.95) per head. Eat all you want.

If you’re interesting, drop a line in the comment section.

: : Ristorante Beccari ~ Part II : :

The second part of the posting. This time, the desserts at Beccari’s at Merdeka Palace!!

As usual, there are always fresh local fruits at the dessert counter. Not to mention delicious tasting fruit tarts! A lot of whipped cream under those tarts. And cakes! Chocolate cakes and cheese cakes.

This was a delicious chocolate sponge cake. Very nice but not as rich as the other chocolate cake.

The cheesecake was so-so but by then we were so full that we could barely eat it!

Chocolate-fudge-coated-profiteroles! Oh man! This was seriously very nice. The best thing was they used cream rather than custard. Was tempted to swipped the can of whipped cream at the crepe suzette counter to add more inside it.

This was a very riched chocolate cake. As we were all sharing the dessert, I ate a quarter of the small piece. Thought that Melvin will have another quarter and pass the rest to Bev but he swiped the whole thing! Bev had the same thought as I did. Haha! Was kinda shocked that Melvin just quickly put it all inside his mouth.

Lastly, the chocolate mousse! Only Melvin had it. The rest of us didn’t as we were pretty full by then.

Looking through the photographs, realised that I totally forgot to take a picture of the ice-cream with the crepe suzettes! Arggghh! Now that was nice although they put in too much lemon concencrate sauce on it. That made it so sour. Still, the ice-cream was delicious with pancakes!

Bon appetit!

: : Ristorante Beccari ~ Part I : :

Dinner was at a great Italian Restaurant in town called Ristorante Beccari. As it was Sunday night, it was the Pizza and Pasta Buffet for RM36 (US$9.47) per head. It was great to meet up with Melvin, May Lin and Bev after such a stressful week at work.

The first thing we headed for was the salad bar. A lot of very nutritional stuff there. Sounds corny but true. :p From the left, it was the seafood salad, potatoe salad and carrot and sultanas sald (minus the raisins. Darn!).

Also had the tomato salad which was pretty sweet actually.

We also headed to the pasta counter where you can mix and match the ingredients. So, creavity is all in the mind! The chefs were wonderful and the food definitely tasted delicious! My mistake was not taking the picture much earlier so you can see that the food arrangements weren’t at it’s best.

May Lin ordered some linguine which came cooked with the bolognaise sauce and garlic! Definetely a strong garlic taste.

Melvin ordered the traditional all-time favourite : spaghetti bolognaise.

I went and had my favourite : spaghetti carbonara but with linguine. It taste so nice! All the three pasta dishes came piping hot, fresh from the cooking stove!

Here, you can see the chef preparing the seafood pizza. There is a wood-fired oven in the middle of this restaurant and one can actually smell the wood-fire from the pizza. Yum! Very Italian. The smoke from the oven is vented outside so one doesn’t smell the smoke in the air-conditioned restaurant.

The pizza slices, clockwise from the bottom : beef pepperoni pizza (it is a HALAL restaurant), chicken and ham pizza and seafood pizza. Hot hot hot! Yum yum!

Roast beef cooked until it was so tender and still moist. Served with brown sauce and mushroom gravy. Ooohhh delight!

Well, that’s all for tonite! The dessert portions will be covered tomorrow!

Arriverdeci!