: : Blogspot Hijack Saga : :

Blogger came to AiLin’s rescue and resetted her userID and password. Good for you hon!

And surprisingly, the hijacker left a message in my Comments Box. Here it is below :

pinches malasios de popocita verde… me qitaron mi blog robado, al carajo, ya no los quiero!

ah, y tu blog también está de hueva… igual que el de chia… que mamadas son esas… esas fotos de comida me provocan ganas de guacarear

Translation anyone? The babelfish translation doesn’t come out so well.

For reference, please goto this posting.

It’s also not very nice to call her a b*tch in the first place and then attempt to be nice about it later. Ah well. Reap the consequences afterwards.

Although, it must be said that the quickest way to fame is to be bad than to be good.

: : Diary : :

Two new places that I heard that just opened recently. Mind you, recently as in the past few months. That’s how long I’ve haven’t been out eating.

Bollywood Cafe at Carpenter St. : Heard that one of my collegue’s Dad opened up a little cafe along Carpenter Street that serves Northern Indian cuisine.

Mango Tree at Crookshank Road : Previously know as Kikyo-Tei @ Japanese Restaurant, it is now the posh Thai restaurant that is a franchise around the world. One thing about having a food blog is that one always ends up arranging for gatherings. Am arranging for a farewell dinner for some friends. Here is their UK website. I remember finding their corporate website but now, can’t seem to find it again! Google is giving out too many hits on reviews rather than their official site! Although it is an expensive place to dine, they came up with a great menu within the budget that I asked for which was RM30 – RM35 per head (USD7.90 – USD9.21). It’s what you order that gives you an indication of the final bill. The ambience has been raved about a lot so worth to check it out.

BTW, if anyone is impatient for updates on food places in Kuching, check out Huai Bin’s site. He’s been going around to more food places than I have recently.

On another note, I heard a rumour that some shipments of freshwater prawns @ udang galah to the USA were rejected by the FDA. Reason being is that there were too much antibiotics in the prawn that was deem more harmful to health than normal. Hence, a lot of freshwater prawns are going really cheap in the market. Note that this is an UNVERIFIED RUMOUR so it’s anybody’s guess. I heard this from a colleague who mentioned it to me after I recount my dinner at the Junk with Baked Prawn (yeah, freshwater prawn) and Cheese. Both the freshwater prawn and tiger prawn is cultivated in “farms” in Sarawak. Suffice to say that I’m still hale and healthy.

: : Nonya Otak-Otak : :

What to do with a freezer full of mackeral.

Granny : Nah! Here! Try this!

Granny : Better than outside one. Put in oven or panggang (grill) not so good. This better. This is Nonya style. Cook like this in Penang one.

Haven’t posted up conversations like this in a long time. Hope you enjoy it folks. And for those who are new, Granny does talk like this. It’s always fun to talk to her like this. Sound very coy. LOL!

: : Blogspot Hijack : :

Looks like Chia’s blog has been hijack since October 5 and Blogger has not responsded yet. The layout has been change.

He’s since change her layout and posted up observations of how he took over her blog via blogger’s dashboard. Goto babelfish to get a translation (Spanish to English).

Scarey, isn’t it? To have one’s blog hijack.

Still, the hijacker is giving a bad reputation to other Mexican bloggers out there. Sigh. Kids. According to Jeff’s posting, seems like he is asking for a laptop in return for her blog.

For Blogspot users, you can send your concerns via their Help feedback page.

Chia, I do hope you’ll get your blog back soon.

: : Dessert at the Junk : :

Dessert : Pavlova

Ingredients : Sugar base with whipped cream on top and a smattering of delicious fruits.

Beautifully done at the Junk Restaurant. Had dinner with David, Jack and Garnet. It was an interesting evening where we spoke about many things.

One of them was how the British “unionized” West Malaysia before 1957. Not literally, of course.

As for the main course, it was Baked Prawn with Cheese @ Prawn Thermidor. Two pieces of King Prawn (the huge ones that are as big as your hands) @ Udang Galah. It came with a huge portion of fries and salad for about RM32 @ USD 8.42 . Yummy, tasty.

For those hoping to go and have it there, it’s not from the regular menu but rather, the dish of the day.

: : Magenta, Again : :

I was bringing around a KL tourist, treating him to a nice dinner and all. Apparently, he’s here with a whole bunch of people from the same college on a 3 day tour of places in Kuching.

Since he was into architecture and interior design (so-so lah, according to him), I wanted to take him to The Junk. Unfortunately, it’s close today so I took him to Magenta instead.

He ordered this : Grilled Salmon which came with potato ragout and salsa on the side. I’ve always love the food presentation at this restaurant and it’s always so eye-catching.

I ordered the Chilean seabass which came grilled. It tasted really good : tender and juicy. Same side dishes as the salmon except that the decorative orange sauce had some sumboi @ plum powder mixed with it. Now that tasted different, very different.

We had a delicious fruity Riesling wine, the Royal Bleu Rheinhissen, 2001. It was a sweet and fruity white wine made from wineyards in Germany. I’m pretty sure it’s this one that we drank tonite but it was definitely NOT priced as high as that. The wine was RM78 (USD20.50, &#163 11).

Who was the Kuching city tourist?

😉

After that, it was desserts and coffee at bing! He’s off tomorrow to check out the Sarawak Cultural Village with the rest of the group. Now, hopefully, it doesn’t rain too hard in the afternoon. According to him, part of the group were grumbling about having to bring raincoats and yet it didn’t rain today. They’re lucky. It’s been raining cats and dogs every day for the past few weeks with turbulent winds with thunder and lightning. Let’s see what tomorrow brings for this group.