: : 2nd day of Raya : :

Wena : Wanna join me to go to a friend’s house in Santubong? Her mother is a good cook!

Granny : Okay! Wait ah!

Wena : Oohh!! Wait ah! Gotta stop the car and take picture of Kuching. Nice lah!

Wena : Not much cars mah! Besides, the clouds look so nice!

Unfortunately, my little camera didn’t do the picture justice. It was a beautiful day with clear blue skies and interesting cloud formations.

Anyway, we went to visit Zee and her family. Wah! A nice spread of food with satay, rendang, curry chicken, ketupat, lemang, nasi lemak with great sambal, agar-agar and fruits. No pics as bit malu @ shy lah. Too many people around, especially the big bosses.

Walking to the car.

Granny : Taking pictures again ah?

Wena : Yeah lor! Can seldom find these malu-malu (shy-shy) plants anymore lah!

Granny : This one, flowers can be eaten lah.

Granny : That time no rasa (feel) one!

Anyone knows how the purple flowers are cook? There were no flowers blooming when I took the picture.

So, waited for Granny. Another collegue parked his car nearby, saw me taking pictures as usual. Asked me to take a picture of his family by the beah, so I did. The backdrop was the sea at high-tide. The tide comes right up to the parking area.

Again, no justice to the picture. It was a glaringly bright day so was very hard to take pictures of the sky. This is Santubong Mountain. Legend has it, it is actually a goddess lying down. Can’t see the shape from this angle but believe me, it’s a beautiful sight to behold and just awesome.

Granny : Eh! That old man at coffee shop remembers me lah! Ask me whether I’m Cyril’s mother (my uncle).

Granny : Years ago.

Wena : You must have made a BIG impression on him lah. *BIG GRIN*

Granny : Choi! (Yeah right!)

My uncle goes down to Santubong almost every Sunday to fish. After that, he and his pal, Sydney, then takes a tea break at the old coffee shop shown in the picture.

That’s all for tonite! Ciao!

: : New Paris Restaurant ~ KL PJ: :

TV Smith : I’m going to bring you to a place that is non-halal but the food arrives within 15 minutes. Food isn’t that great but it’s the concept that is different.

Wena : A lot of people lah! Do we have to wait for long to eat?

TV Smith : Don’t worry. We queue up.

Wena : Wah! Got loud hailer some more. Haha!

TV Smith : At least they got a queue-ing system going on.

Wena : Wow! That’s a lot of chefs in the kitchen.

TV Smith : Yeah lor. At least 20 of them.

Wena : No wonder they say 15 min.

TV Smith : They used to operate from a wooden shack further down the road but recently moved here.

Wena : Hmm… people do like coconuts here, don’t they?

Head honcho with loud hailer : Person with surname *censored*!

Head honcho : Table no. 3. Over there.

We finally got the table after a short 5-10 min wait. Those people are efficient.

TV Smith : Know how I knew this was our table?

TV Smith : Wokay.

Note : I took the bill back but somehow lost it between KLIA and Kuching Airport. How’s that for a tendency for losing things lately? Sigh.

TV Smith : This is the signature dish for the restaurant. They steamed the fish with a sauce made from lard (pig fat!!!).

Wena : Smells good. I think I taste ginger, garlic, chilli and, of course, sugar. Really tasty.

Note : Took awhile to identify the fish. Jeff mentioned it was Tilapia which seems right as the flesh was pretty soft and tender. Granny said that it was red snapper but didn’t taste like a snapper. She also mentioned that they put some assam jawa into the sauce which would explain the slightly tangy flavour. Believe me, it was real good.

Wena : Hmmm! Tastes so good. Can’t get this back in Sarawak.

TV Smith : Then you have it lor. I’m not a real fan of it.

Note : I ate about half the plate. :p They cooked it with some curry paste, soy sauce, chilli powder and sugar. The clams were a bit small but tasted really good though.

Good ol’ kangkung belachan @ Chinese spinach cooked with the famous Malaysian butter. Pungent like hell but loved by all. It’s the prawn in the belachan lah! Luckily, the kangkung didn’t give me cramps that nite. Somehow, that old wive’s tale always work for me. Darn.

Wena : Is that kiam chai @ salted veggie in there with the pork?

TV Smith : Nope, it’s something else.

Note : At this point of time, my brain memory cells started depleting rapidly, hence forgot what was the name of the veggie. It’s some sort of preserved veggie. So paiseh (bothersome) to call him up to ask lah. Anyone know what the veggie is? The dish brought to mind memories of my Auntie Joan’s cooking. The dish that she cooked were layers of stewed pork with layers of yam pieces. Scrumptious!

Update : From chooki and others in the comment page, the dish name is mui choi kau yok. And, actually another signature dish of the restaurant.

Address Details :

New Paris Restaurant Sdn. Bhd.

No. 62, 63, 66, Jalan SS2/72

47300 Petaling Jaya

Selangor.

Tel : 03-7955 9180 / 0186

Business Hours :

11.30 a.m. – 2.30 p.m.

5:30 p.m. – 10.30 p.m.

After that, we met up with Jeff Ooi of Screenshots fame. Dinesh couldn’t make it and neither could Shahrizal. Over beer mugs and glasses of green tea and Chivas (TV Smith: tastes weird lah!), we talk about many things under the sun moon at Bangsar. Had a great time with those two where everyone was mutual admirers of each others’ blog. 🙂 Suffice to say that they think that my Granny is spunky and cool. 🙂

TV Smith : Where did you get the money to eat all those food?

Wena : Most of the postings are my lunch meals outside at coffee shops or Granny’s dinners lah. Also, a lot of unused pics which I save for rainy days.

The pictures of food and drinks are taken whenever the opportunity arises lah. I’m not loaded neither do I have a sugar daddy stashed somewhere. Besides, apart from eating at Merdeka Palace (which costs me RM38), everything else was cheap as costs were split between friends.

Ending this post with Granny’s comment :

Next time we go to KL, we ajak (invite) this fellow along lah! I wanna eat too!

: : Morning Breakfast : :

Abridged version

12:47 a.m. MSN Messenger

joyce : ello

joyce : i get gette.

9:40 a.m.

A sleepy looking Wena and Gette with a bright and cheery Joyce. Having a bowl of laksa each.

Wena : (finishing the bowl) Hmm… somehow when one gets to the bottom of the bowl, feeling hungry for another lah.

Joyce & Gette : LOL!

10:00 a.m.

Gette : Hmm… Now I know what you mean by that.

Wena : Ya lah!

: : Morning Breakfast : :

Abridged version

12:47 a.m. MSN Messenger

joyce : ello

joyce : i get gette.

9:40 a.m.

A sleepy looking Wena and Gette with a bright and cheery Joyce. Having a bowl of laksa each.

Wena : (finishing the bowl) Hmm… somehow when one gets to the bottom of the bowl, feeling hungry for another lah.

Joyce & Gette : LOL!

10:00 a.m.

Gette : Hmm… Now I know what you mean by that.

Wena : Ya lah!

: : Misc : :

My sleeping time clock has been shot to pieces since the KL trip. Arggh! Luckily, it’s a holiday tomorrow.

Few things :

IreneQ has sent me this cute gif. Hahaha! Definitely appropriate. Going to use it for the post links.

Someone (sorry! Lazy to scroll through my archives to look for the comment!) once mentioned that I should crop pieces of my pic and post it online. So, here’s my hair! Haha!

Now, off to force myself to sleep.

: : 1st day of Raya : :

9:40 a.m. At Kuching Airport

Wena : Hi Dad!

Dad : How about Foody Goody?

So, off we went.

Foody Goody is a hawker food center in Tabuan Laru. The laksa available there is just nice. Well, for Dad and me, that is. They do not add in so much coconut milk so tasted real good. RM3 per bowl I think. Worth every penny. Definitely cheaper than the one available at Alexis, Bangsar. RM12 per bowl there! Aiyo!

After that, we went to visit two of his bosses as well as his Mum, my other granny. Then, we started to head back to my house to see the hamsters. 🙂

1:00 p.m. Along the road through the Sarawak Museum Grounds

Dad : Hmm… got any nice place to eat ais kacang (iced drinks)?

Dad : Ok! We go!

Dad ordered some sotong kangkung. Sotong is squid but it was really cuttlefish with rojak and Chinese water spinach. Pop by the Pet Shop after that but they ran out of those plastic aquarium cages that I wanted. Will have to go there again. Came home, we saw the hamsters. He took some pictures on the BenQ camera he brought along. It was one of those Point and Shot cameras. He had some questions to ask me so we look through the manual. Nifty thing.

Drop Dad at the airport in the afternoon. Later on, went to another friend’s place at Santubong. Posting pics later. 🙂 Now, that visit was an interesting visit with Granny.

My Dad. 🙂