: : Soup for the Soul : :

Good Atkins Food : Chicken Soup which I had about two weeks ago.

Bad Atkins Food : Sushi that I had for teatime. It had rice inside it! Argh!

: : Fried Ice-Cream : :

Huai Bin has put up the pictures including the one on the fried ice-cream. So nice.

Sigh. I hope that I do not put on anymore kilos to the 4.8 kg that I’ve already lost. Not to mention the inches that I’ve lost as well. I’ve shrunk by 12 inches and I hope it remains that way!

: : Changing to Gmail : :

Am changing my email to Gmail at myremi@gmail.com.

: : Kuching Bloggers Meet ~ Hot Seat : :

Well, made it to the Bloggers Meet today at Hot Seat. Unfortunately, I didn’t set the settings properly on the camera so most the pictures came out overexpose. Well, Huai Bin also took all the food pics so check out his site for updates later. I could only salvage two pictures so here they are :

Because there was no more peanut sauce, the chef(s) came up with this great satay mix and it was so delicious. I don’t know what is in it other than marinated satay but it was fabulous. I had one of this on top of my chicken chop. Fina had it as well. Huai Bin ate 3 dishes and this was one of them. That dude can really really eat.

A meal ordered by Dee’s friend, OO. Well, it was lamb with pasta with a great tomato sauce. It was seriously very very nice. But, by then, I had already finish my meal, including the famous fried ice-cream with chocolate sauce.

Yes, I broke my diet today by eating fried ice-cream. I just couldn’t resist because it was so tempting. Everyone had a plate of it except for Mac, I think. Believe me, it was seriously great. The ice-cream was still very cold and firm, smothered completely in chocolate sauce.

Who else was there? Well, there was Aida, Lizzy, Joyce and Gette. Also, Melvin joined us later on as he was in town.

We were all very satisfied with the meal and had to sit down for a LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGG while to digest everything. I left early at about 10 p.m. to get some quick rest.

Darn, the ice-cream is not sitting too well in my stomach. Suffering from a sugar high at the moment. So, cheerio until tomorrow then.

: : Dynasty : :

During my trip back home to Miri, I had a wonderful dinner with the Khoo Clan and my parents. We had a delicious meal at the Dynasty Restaurant at the Dynasty Hotel. I must say kudos to the chefs of this establishment. Even the chef at the Dynasty Coffee House is amazing. The way the meals are served are absolutely terrific. Not to mention that it is forever tasty. Note that although the Coffee House is halal, the Chinese restaurant is not.

When we entered the restaurant, this was the first thing that we saw. I think the left hand statue is Quan Yin @ Goddess of Mercy and the other chap is one of the Gods (prosperity? Anyone?).

Once we settled down, it was a time to prepare the chillis that acts as a condiment for the entire meal as well as having some tidbits to settle our hunger while waiting for the food to come. It was a choice of chopped chilli with garlic and sugar or just plain cut chillis. The chillis are put into a small and cute little sauce bowl. If one is having cut chillis, black soy sauce is added although some people would add black vinegar instead. For my family, we would also add in some chopped garlic into the mixture of cut chillis and soy sauce. As for the tidbits, we had some pickled cucumber (that is sweeten) and boiled peanuts. I love boiled peanuts so had to seriously control my intake that night.

This was such a tasty dish that I just had to have two of them. The tauhu is fried first and then hollowed out so that chopped mushroom and pork is added into it. It’s like a little treasure chest, no? In the middle of the dish is some stir-fried chai sim. Chai Sim is something like spinach only that it’s very crunchy.

Another interesting dish : steam fish, mushroom, carrot and ham with an eggwhite sauce poured over it. On the side, the entire dish was surrounded by boiled brussel sprouts which was covered with oil, I think. Still, it was very nice altogether and fairly easy to do. Well, it look easy to do anyways.

As my young cousins were with us, we ordered this plate of roasted chicken especially for them. The chicken is salted so needs to be eaten with some rice or veggies. The crackers on the side is made from prawn mixed with flour and later deep fried. It’s very crunchy, by the way. Roasted chicken is a favourite for kids and just about everyone loves it. If it’s done well, the skin would be extremely crispy but the inside flesh is still moist (or perhaps oily).

The star of the entire meal was the roasted pork leg. Yum yum! It’s difficult to get good roasted pork leg around here and this one was done very nicely.

The waitress then started to cut up the pork leg into smaller pieces for us to eat it. It was so soft that the cutleries just slices through it easily. Needless to say that everyone “pigged-out” on the crispy skin as well as the soft and tender meat in between. Wah! So delicious.

Dynasty Hotel is located in one of the old parts of Miri. Growing up, the restaurant used to be part of a shopping mall area which closed down some time in the 90s. Not sure what happened to the upper floors but the ground floor was converted into this restaurant, or rather, the restaurant moved from it’s old location on the 1st floor of the hotel to this Ground Floor. It’s a very popular family restaurant and one needs to have a reservation during the weekends to dine here. Chinese families like to go out and eat during the weekends and enjoy the time together as a family on a favourite pastime : EATING! Including us, that is. Well, we were a mixture of Chinese and Kelabit family members all put together but the food was definitely so tempting!

: : Relief : :

Phew! Luckily, I’m still about half a kilo down from last Friday. Not too bad but not too good either. Not losing enough though! Haven’t bought the swimsuit or goggles yet. Just didn’t have time yesterday.

But anyway, this is the sauce that I make regularly to eat with my salads. I have metamorph myself into a rabbit. I eat everything but raw carrots. It’s raw cucumbers, raw celerys, raw capsicum, raw jicama and raw lettuce. Why? Because I’m looking to increase my fibre intake. Since I cut out a lot of rice, I now need to get my fibre elsewhere. I suppose another way would be to take fibre tablets but those stuff contains apples and I can’t exactly eat any fruits at the moment. Oh well.

Anyway, back to the sauce. It’s a mixture of herbs with mayonnaise and some Dijon mustard which is absolutely fabulous with the mayonnaise. Don’t add to much unless you want the entire salad dressing to be very sour. Just a little bit will do and you’ll be fine. Also, since I cannot touch tomato sauce or chilli sauce, this is my OK-go-ahead-no-worries dressing.

I’m too obsess with my dieting.

Ah well.