: : H is for Hamburger : :

Funny, the use of the word HAM in front of BURGER when it’s made completely out of beef. So, it was a lunchdate with Mum, Dr. B. and the beautiful Mayor of Denton, Euline. We had lunch at the Denton County Independant Hamburger Co. located in the town center.

Mum had the Chilli Burger. I had the Hickory Burger. Dr. B. had the Old Fashion burger with chips. I tihnk Euline had the Chicken Fried Steak Burger but am not sure. Forgot to ask. Too cold and hungry.

Dr. B was very sweet. Kept mentioning to everyone at the cafe that I have a food website. Only problem was that he didn’t know the URL. Ah well. Will let him know later. 🙂

The different salads available for order.

I think this is a pressing device for pressing out honey from honeycombs. Anyone?

While waiting in line for my turn, saw this cute poster. Haha! Very ‘tongue-in-the-cheek’ poster.

Some more posters. Most of it are very old posters and signages from long long ago.

Side orders for the dish : beans and chips.

Chips from California but burger from Texas. Interesting combination.

My burger with Hickory Sauce and Cheese and Onions. Believe me, it was spilling over everywhere. Had to eat it with a knife and fork.

Mum’s burger with Chilli Sauce, Cheese and Onion. The chilli sauce is made from capsicum and not from jalapeno chilli which is abundant here.

Dr. B’s Old Fashion Burger. Nice chips though. They fried it with the skin still on.

A Willie Nelson photo. Saw a lot of Willie Nelson stuff at the Prairie House Restaurant but that’s for another posting.

A picture of a Victorian couple. Black was in, in those days.

More advertisements and posters.

A gumball machine. Old-fashioned one, that is.

Country and Western theme mural.

Article on the restaurant. Click on the image for a bigger picture. Else, click here.

Yo Veritas! This poster is for you! Haha!

Details of Cafe :

Denton County Independant Hamburger Co.

113 W. Hickory Street

Denton, Texas, USA.

Tel : 940-383 1022

Mon.-Sat. 11 am to 3 pm

Wouldn’t mind going there again. 🙂

: : H is for Hamburger : :

Funny, the use of the word HAM in front of BURGER when it’s made completely out of beef. So, it was a lunchdate with Mum, Dr. B. and the beautiful Mayor of Denton, Euline. We had lunch at the Denton County Independant Hamburger Co. located in the town center.

Mum had the Chilli Burger. I had the Hickory Burger. Dr. B. had the Old Fashion burger with chips. I tihnk Euline had the Chicken Fried Steak Burger but am not sure. Forgot to ask. Too cold and hungry.

Dr. B was very sweet. Kept mentioning to everyone at the cafe that I have a food website. Only problem was that he didn’t know the URL. Ah well. Will let him know later. 🙂

The different salads available for order.

I think this is a pressing device for pressing out honey from honeycombs. Anyone?

While waiting in line for my turn, saw this cute poster. Haha! Very ‘tongue-in-the-cheek’ poster.

Some more posters. Most of it are very old posters and signages from long long ago.

Side orders for the dish : beans and chips.

Chips from California but burger from Texas. Interesting combination.

My burger with Hickory Sauce and Cheese and Onions. Believe me, it was spilling over everywhere. Had to eat it with a knife and fork.

Mum’s burger with Chilli Sauce, Cheese and Onion. The chilli sauce is made from capsicum and not from jalapeno chilli which is abundant here.

Dr. B’s Old Fashion Burger. Nice chips though. They fried it with the skin still on.

A Willie Nelson photo. Saw a lot of Willie Nelson stuff at the Prairie House Restaurant but that’s for another posting.

A picture of a Victorian couple. Black was in, in those days.

More advertisements and posters.

A gumball machine. Old-fashioned one, that is.

Country and Western theme mural.

Article on the restaurant. Click on the image for a bigger picture. Else, click here.

Yo Veritas! This poster is for you! Haha!

Details of Cafe :

Denton County Independant Hamburger Co.

113 W. Hickory Street

Denton, Texas, USA.

Tel : 940-383 1022

Mon.-Sat. 11 am to 3 pm

Wouldn’t mind going there again. 🙂

: : USA or Bust! : :

It’s a long delayed posting. Was rushing around like mad last week and feeling very down. This flu is bad to have in the middle of winter. Sigh. Plus, the throat isn’t feeling all that well. Urgh. Was speechless and hoarse over the weekend. Thanks to TheraFlu, my throat and nose is on the way to recovery. Although, the coughing fits are making me break out into sweat each time. Sigh. Oh well.

Anyway, let’s start from KL. Boarded the plan at around 11 p.m. at nite and we took off to Dubai, enroute to Newark Airport, New York. Airline meal wasn’t too bad but it could have been a lot better.

On the way to Dubai, supper was :

Smoke Chicken with Cream Potato Salad

Szechuan Chicken

Banana Strawberry Gateau

Wasn’t too bad. I enjoyed it. Then, it was a tiring time of tossing and turning for the next 8 hrs to Dubai. Couldn’t really sleep that well.

The stopover in Dubai was about an hour. Had to take off a lot of things as the alarm was going off every other second. Didn’t dare take any pictures of the airport in case the camera was confiscated by the security guards everywhere.

Supper (again) was :

Nicoise Salad

Nile Perth with Tomato and Corn Salsa with boiled potato wedges in parsley butter and mixed seasonal vegetable. Very nice but then again, I luv eating fish.

Chocolate Fudge Cake

The bread was kind of funny so didn’t take it.

Another tossing and turning session. Been on the plane and in transit for nearly 24 hours and rest is not so forthcoming. Am definintely not going to enjoy the flight back home to Malaysia. Anyway, the sun was rising so it was time for breakfast.

I had the creamed mushroom omelette with hash-brown potato, chicken sausage and tomato. Decided to play it safe.

We were nearly there and I was getting more and more anxious. However, kept falling asleep due to exhaustion. It was not an easy flight, I can tell you that.

Beautiful scenery everywhere. Got some videos so here they are (right-click and Save As… into your computer!):

An interesting spotlight amongst the clouds (1.61 MB)

Below the clouds (2.24 MB)

Landing in Newark Airport (2.89 MB)

Arrving in Newark International Airport, I cleared customs with no problems at all. 🙂 Note to travellers to New York, do not look at the centralized airport departure times. They’re not updated regularly. Look for the TV screens dedicated for each airline. Also, couldn’t find a single CLOCK in Newark Airport. How to know if one is catching the flight on time?

Anyway, was feeling a bit cold and hungry so was looking around for some breakfast. Had some at Famiglia. Needed something hot hot hot. Bagels? Another day I guess. Probably on the trip back.

The final leg of the journey was a 3-hr flight to Dallas-Fort Worth airport. No food served on the flight. Most of the time, I was fast asleep on the plane. Too tired. Anyway, got in into Dallas and saw my sis! Hugs hugs and laughter at the airport with me cursing at the cold. Grab the bags and off we went to eat dinner! Yep, had mexican food at On the Border!

I luv corn chips with salsa sauce! Luv it better with Queso sauce, courtesy of Donnie, my sis’ bf. Pics of that homemade sauce will be up later.

I tried out the Border Sampler which is ‘sampling of chicken quesadillas, steak nachos and chicken flautas. Served with guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo and queso’ as mentioned on the website. Confirmed that I luv quesadillas now. Gotta find the recipe to making tortilla from scratch. Don’t think I can find it back home.

Jas had the steak fajitas. Again, I just love the tortilla. Something about unleaven bread that makes me addicted to them.

Snapshots of the restaurant.

And of course, my sis, Jas. Haven’t seen in something like 3-4 yrs. Time really flies.

Anyway, more pics up later. Still got a lot of KL pics to be posted up but thought I’d post these up first. Am now off to sit on the Homedic Therapist Select Shiatsu Massage Seat which we got at Bed, Bath & Beyond for USD99.99 (about RM400). Granny’s Christmas gift and it’s definitely a lot cheaper than the OSIM Medic Chair (RM14,000!!!).

: : USA or Bust! : :

It’s a long delayed posting. Was rushing around like mad last week and feeling very down. This flu is bad to have in the middle of winter. Sigh. Plus, the throat isn’t feeling all that well. Urgh. Was speechless and hoarse over the weekend. Thanks to TheraFlu, my throat and nose is on the way to recovery. Although, the coughing fits are making me break out into sweat each time. Sigh. Oh well.

Anyway, let’s start from KL. Boarded the plan at around 11 p.m. at nite and we took off to Dubai, enroute to Newark Airport, New York. Airline meal wasn’t too bad but it could have been a lot better.

On the way to Dubai, supper was :

Smoke Chicken with Cream Potato Salad

Szechuan Chicken

Banana Strawberry Gateau

Wasn’t too bad. I enjoyed it. Then, it was a tiring time of tossing and turning for the next 8 hrs to Dubai. Couldn’t really sleep that well.

The stopover in Dubai was about an hour. Had to take off a lot of things as the alarm was going off every other second. Didn’t dare take any pictures of the airport in case the camera was confiscated by the security guards everywhere.

Supper (again) was :

Nicoise Salad

Nile Perth with Tomato and Corn Salsa with boiled potato wedges in parsley butter and mixed seasonal vegetable. Very nice but then again, I luv eating fish.

Chocolate Fudge Cake

The bread was kind of funny so didn’t take it.

Another tossing and turning session. Been on the plane and in transit for nearly 24 hours and rest is not so forthcoming. Am definintely not going to enjoy the flight back home to Malaysia. Anyway, the sun was rising so it was time for breakfast.

I had the creamed mushroom omelette with hash-brown potato, chicken sausage and tomato. Decided to play it safe.

We were nearly there and I was getting more and more anxious. However, kept falling asleep due to exhaustion. It was not an easy flight, I can tell you that.

Beautiful scenery everywhere. Got some videos so here they are (right-click and Save As… into your computer!):

An interesting spotlight amongst the clouds (1.61 MB)

Below the clouds (2.24 MB)

Landing in Newark Airport (2.89 MB)

Arrving in Newark International Airport, I cleared customs with no problems at all. 🙂 Note to travellers to New York, do not look at the centralized airport departure times. They’re not updated regularly. Look for the TV screens dedicated for each airline. Also, couldn’t find a single CLOCK in Newark Airport. How to know if one is catching the flight on time?

Anyway, was feeling a bit cold and hungry so was looking around for some breakfast. Had some at Famiglia. Needed something hot hot hot. Bagels? Another day I guess. Probably on the trip back.

The final leg of the journey was a 3-hr flight to Dallas-Fort Worth airport. No food served on the flight. Most of the time, I was fast asleep on the plane. Too tired. Anyway, got in into Dallas and saw my sis! Hugs hugs and laughter at the airport with me cursing at the cold. Grab the bags and off we went to eat dinner! Yep, had mexican food at On the Border!

I luv corn chips with salsa sauce! Luv it better with Queso sauce, courtesy of Donnie, my sis’ bf. Pics of that homemade sauce will be up later.

I tried out the Border Sampler which is ‘sampling of chicken quesadillas, steak nachos and chicken flautas. Served with guacamole, sour cream, pico de gallo and queso’ as mentioned on the website. Confirmed that I luv quesadillas now. Gotta find the recipe to making tortilla from scratch. Don’t think I can find it back home.

Jas had the steak fajitas. Again, I just love the tortilla. Something about unleaven bread that makes me addicted to them.

Snapshots of the restaurant.

And of course, my sis, Jas. Haven’t seen in something like 3-4 yrs. Time really flies.

Anyway, more pics up later. Still got a lot of KL pics to be posted up but thought I’d post these up first. Am now off to sit on the Homedic Therapist Select Shiatsu Massage Seat which we got at Bed, Bath & Beyond for USD99.99 (about RM400). Granny’s Christmas gift and it’s definitely a lot cheaper than the OSIM Medic Chair (RM14,000!!!).

: : Asia Weblog Awards 2003 : :

It’s amazing how much publicity is generated from this award. I remembered only 2 nominees for Best Malaysian Awards and that was just a day ago. Hmm…wonder if it was because I left a link at Jeff’s posting? Ah well.

Between Wednesday afternoon (the time I posted the comment to Jeff’s page) to about 24 hours later (flight travels), there have been a lot more nominees including this blog. Blog followers try to show their appreciation by nominating the blog. Although, some people (scroll down to 9 December 2003) have gone to the extreme end of the line (via ruach). Lighten up! No big deal lah.

How I feel about it? Nothing much. The reason I’m blogging was for :

1)My sis and Mum to sort of have a glance at Malaysian food again

2)For Lolly to have some ideas on what to cook next :p

3)For fun and that’s the reason that this blog is up.

And hey, if everyone enjoys reading about food, then I’m glad. Everyone needs something good to look at. (I can hear a few people disagreeing with me on this as food pictures are temptations! Ha!)

Anyway, Mum is arriving in another two more hours and hopefully, can persuade her to take us out for dinner. 🙂

Toodles people! (Now doesn’t that greeting make you cringe? Haha!) Off to rest for awhile. The flu bug that had been hovering for weeks and weeks has now finally decided to crash me in. Urgh. Not feeling too good at the moment but since I’m here, I’m going OUT!

: : Denton, Texas : :

After journeying for 24 hours on the air and waiting 8 hours for layovers, have finally reached Denton, Texas. A very groggy Wena got through Dallas Fort Worth airport to see her sister waiting for her at the baggage claim area. A sight for sore eyes. Can you imagine that we have not seen each other in approximately 3-4 yrs? Long long time. Anyway, it was hugs and kisses at the airport with Wena groaning about the cold and wind.

Dinner was at a Mexican Restaurant called On the Border. It was amazing and we had two dishes. Couldn’t finish them so we took them back to eat. I was so cold that I was eating the leftovers late at night and in the early hours of the morning.

Pictures will be up either later today or tomorrow. Need to get a socket adaptor else the docking station will not work without the download. So, gotta wait for another day for the pictures to come up!

Ciao people!