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One fine day in 2003, I decided to start a food blog to tease my sister and my mother who were both living in the USA. Somehow, along the way, I ended up feeding a lot of people just via the food pictures that I put up everyday. In 2005, I decided to take a break from blogging and just take it easy. So there were sporadic posts from my travels in the US as well as Germany and England. Now in 2009, I'm trying to pick it up again and start chronicaling my journey towards a better lifestyle that is more healthy than what it currently is right now.

: : You say po-tae-to, I say po-ta-to : :

Granny : Wei! Come down and eat dinner! Got sweet potato lah! Very fresh fresh somemore.

It’s a better day today. My worry has left me a bit so feeling less stressed out. Still, got some more things to do within the next few days i.e. in one weeks time. Another dateline. Hmm….

Still, coming home to an excitable old lady is pretty…err… cute? She had so much to say about the sweet potato the neighbours gave her.

Very fresh, hoh!

Just dig one.

From kebun (farm) in Bau.

Very sweet lah!

Pipeman can only finish one and half lah! His kuli (workers) also!

Well, one thing she sometimes do is add small cut pieces of the boiled sweet potato into the rice cooker. Wah! The rice became so fragrant and sweet. Not to mention that one gets to eat the sweet potatoe as well. Yum!

: : News : :

The Good

My application for Goggle AdSense has been approved today. Yippee!

The Bad

No registration of clicks yet until my site has been indexed at Google AdSense. Sigh. Oh well. Gotta have patience. Still, I’m amazed that I’m on. Wow!

Stressful day at work.

And, no comfort food! 🙁 Wish I had the following –

Soya bean milk! Perks me up. This one is supposedly freshly bottled. Not too sweet too. However, a friend did mentioned that he didn’t think it was that fresh as he tasted something “weird” in it. Ah well!

Remember the miniature cupcakes found in the market? Haven’t had these in a long long time. Wah! Patty-Cake is my stockist. Hee hee! Gosh! It’s light and fluffy. Lighter than the muffins found in the bakeries.

Hmm… maybe will pop down now and have something to eat. Still haven’t eaten dinner. Too stressed out.

: : Expert Food Court : :

Was so busy the past few days that I didn’t have time to go out of the office for lunch. So, had to dig up my archives of unused pictures to see if I had anything interesting to post. Found a few pictures.

The following pics were taken at Expert Food Court, Tabuan Jaya. Went there for lunch 2 weeks ago on the day I flew back to Miri.

Pascale decided to have the crispy chicken and onion rings with her bowl of rice. Well, the rice is equal to one bowl. ;p Something western (the chicken and onion rings) and something Asian (the rice). Looked pretty good.

I had the fried fish with rice. Luckily it came with some thousand island sauce which helped a lot. The fish wasn’t fresh but as long as I didn’t have a quesy stomach after the first bite, then still have to finish the meal.

We all shared a bowl of spicy dumplings. It’s was wantan with chilli oil poured over it. The wantan filling was chopped mangkuang and mince pork. Again, so so.

Now I remember it wasn’t that an appetizing meal. Hmmm… oh well! Had a great dinner that nite in Miri!

: : Richmond’s Place : :

I got this in my mailbox today. It was a forwarded email.

Hi all,

I am sure those who live in Kuching know where and what Richmond Place is. It is at Ellis Road which is near Central Road. For those of you who seldom frequent that area, Richmond Place is a cafe selling western food.

We just found out that the waiter and waitresses working there have a ritual of INSULTING customers after the customers leave the place. If you are lucky’, you will catch those low people backstabbing you just before you pay the bill; right ALMOST in front of you. This may not be a big matter for most of you but we go around a lot; eat out a lot and discovered that Richmond’s waiters and waitresses really go over the board in demeaning the customers. All the good ones have gone away. You will be shocked if you know what they can actually gossip about you. We are fortunate enough to be within ear shot when it happened. When a waitress realized we noticed her, she pretended to cover her mouth like she’s having flu. What they don’t realize is that they may backstab those customers who have left but those who are still sitting around LISTEN to what they say.

Here are the examples:

i)”Macam potong apa!” (Like cutting what lah!) — A waiter commented on a customer who dropped her fork on her table a few times shortly after she left.

ii)”Order big punya! Dapat habis ke? Nanti, ta pao!” (Order big meal! Can finish meh? Later will takeaway!) — Those customers did not request anything to be ‘ta pao’ at all. Those waitresses just created something out of nothing.

iii)They judge you from head to toe. You can see it in their eyes. (Errr…..was in the email)

There must be more but we pity the Boss who own the place so we don’t want to say much. Rest assured this is just to tell you all out there about Richmond Place’s waiter/waitresses’ rudeness because if you are a person of mood and you want to enjoy your food; you know what to do. We all want value for our money. We pay for food and good service, NOT insults when we leave after giving them MONEY.

For now, those workers are really dark and they are not tall. If you want to check them out, you can go there and do so.

If you by chance know who the Owner of Richmond is, please do well to tell him/her so that he/she can do the right thing before losing customers.

I’m just wondering : why didn’t this irate customer informed the person in charge there? Wouldn’t it have been easier? Then again, I’ve never eaten at Richmond’s Place before so cannot comment. I do see a lot of people going there to eat though so food must be good and affordable.

Why didn’t I go and eat there in the first place? Dunno. Guess I’m a snob when it comes to western dining. Oh well. It’s not easy to run a food establishment anyway.