It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Christmas is really in the air now...my favouritest shopping mall in Kuching is starting to put up their Christmas deco now...

With Santa Claus taking pictures with children...

At the main entrance of the shopping mall, there's another Christmas tree sponsored by celcom again with fake foam-snow...like last year

Foam snow blowing out from the top of the tree...

Sorry la...pics so blur....i only had my compact cam with me just now...

Here's what they had last year at Travilion....

This one taken with my dslr so clearer lorrr...

sekian...terima kasih 'x'

Salmon Fair @ SK!

Great big shiny balls in the Spring's water feature....niceee....

i hope no one steal the balls back! very typical of kuching people...

we were stuck in Spring on a saturday afternoon bcos of a very very heavy downpour...much to my joy and much to someone's dismay...

Being stuck in Spring is not such a bad thing for me...hehehehe ;D

And we ended up at Sushi King when we found out that ToPie was there

Actually we didnt plan on ordering anyhing from SK la...just wanted to go in and look for him but the waitress almost immediately poured us both green tea when we sat down....

so boh pien have to order something lar....or else kena curse by the waitress 'x'

this is the err....

3 pieces of salmon topped with wasabi flavoured fish roe, normal fish roe and mayo

and fried salmon sushi

so so only.... give me salmon sushi anytime!

Sisters Day Out

One fine Friday, 3 of us decided to take leave on the same day for a secret rendezvous...

Secret as in not letting any other people in the family know we are not workign la...but at the end, it wasnt much of a secret anyway *shrugs*

To start the day off, we went for a dim sum breakfast at Xin Tsui Siang in the Petanak area (next to Frydays Chicken)

i quite like the place and its dim sum bcos of the affordable price (mostly RM3.80,except for the noodle) and the environment's nice also with free wifi =)

here's what we ordered...Shredded Duck Meat Noodles...

Portuguese egg tarts...

Har kau

Phoenix claws aka Chicken feet

We were quite full after the breakfast and all hyped up to do....some Shopping!

In one morning we went to around 4 or 5 boutiques along the row of shops where Optimax is situated...not sure the name of the road la....but i really like the boutiques there for its affordable price and nice sales assitants =) now i know where i can shop for cny clothes!

after that its off to The Spring...

MAC is open in Kuching!! woohooo

Couldnt decide where to have lunch so we ended up at ...

2 hours after that , we had tea break at Secret Recipe

Seems more like a eating day than a shopping day ho? *burp*

My Sushi King Adventure

I know this is a very very outdated post but better late than never...

Still remember the Sushi King RM2 bonanza from the 20th Oct till 23rd Oct? I practically went for 3 days before we manage to get inside :(

On the first day, we thought we would get a competitive advantage if we go straight from work at 6pm...but look at what greeted us there?

So we decided to have dinner at Manhattan Fish Market instead

Total damage : RM65

On the 2nd day, i still didnt wanto give up...so off we went again...earlier this time, at around 5.45

to no avail =(

and this time we went to Food & Tea for dinner (total damage : RM25)

On the 3rd day! i die die also must eat! so we rushed there and die die also must queue up in the long long queue...hehehe

30 mins later...

I was never that happy to enter Sushi King...sobs, i almost kissed the ground 'x'

but then, the sushi were all prepared hurriedly and therefore its not that nice lor, the rice was still not that cooked cos it was a lil hard :(

but its ok ... cos i feel a sense of accomplishment! wahahaha

and the ironic thing was..we went there 3 days in a row just to eat RM2 sushi mah...but at the end we spent RM65 on the first day, RM25 on the 2nd day only to get to the RM2 sushi...

so i think nxt time we better go during non-offer period lah

Silhouette at The Spring

Silhouette opened its doors in The Spring shopping mall few months ago if im not mistaken but not many people i know have tried it out. Some of my friends dont even know about the existence of this restaurant.

I blame it on the location of the restaurant, cos it is quite hidden. The entrance is located outside of the mall....

We've walked past the place a few times but we never went in cos the place looks very expensive and posh...so we thought it must be a very 'atas' place lah...

The interior is very stylishly designed and there shelves upon shelves of wine for you to order from there...

One thing i do not really like about the place is, the dining area is adjoined to another area which smells and sounds to me like a pub...hahaha...i did not go n peep into that area but i can hear loud music and smoke...so i assume it to be some sorta pub place 'x'

i must say the food there is not REALLY REALLY expensive....for instance this bolognese is around RM20++

I dont know the price bcos this wasnt ours 'x'

We ordered fettucini carbonara and they brough this to our table, he told me isnt carbonara supposed to be the creamy white sauce? i said yes...but proceed on to take a photo of it anyway! wahahaha...after a while, the waitress realized her mistake and took it away from us...

ahhh...this is ours...

priced at RM21...i think its a passable carbonara with creamy enough sauce but someone said the cream is not enough :P

and we ordered the thin crust pizza with seafood toppings...(RM26)

I personally didnt like this very much cos its too 'seafood-y'...lol

but its ok ... but i still like Bella Italia's thin crust pizza...mama mia!

Flashing the card...

One fine afternoon in The Spring, i decided to sign up for the Padini member card where i get special privileges like pre-sale discounts, points for purchases made, and birthday coupon of RM30 every year! its only RM10 per year!

and guess what! i got a RM10 voucher in return

so that makes my member card FREE!!!

so while we were in the mood...went in to Sushi King to apply for the member card as well...

for RM20 you get a 2009 calendar and a set of Sushi King utensils...

and .... guess what???

we got RM20 vouchers...and again ... that makes our member card FREE!

LOL!

what a happy day :)

Unagi Fair @ Sushi King Part II

So after out first little unagi-escapade, we went to try other types of unagi at another sushi king few days later...

i was craving for unagi the whole day in the office all bcos of my little detox plan, i'll talk more about that later 'x'

This time we ordered the unagi tempura...

it's unagi covered with seaweed and deep fried in tempura batter...

verdict??? can do lah....

and we ordered the unagi bento to share since its labelled BIG!!!! (rm19.90)

Do u think THIS is big???

okla the unagi is quite big...but not enough to share

so have you tried out the unagi fair? it ends on the 31st of aug....hurry up!

Toy & Anime Convention

Went to The Spring for the so called Toy & Anime convention ...

what we saw were merely 2 small anime booths and one larger display of soft toys and other types of toys in the center court... and a track for racing toy cars (???) and an area confined for some laser shooting kinda game....

basically...to call it a convention is an overstatement!!!

but of course we spent some time goofing around with the toys and taking pics...

star wars figurines based on the new animated movie...

and the anime display casing...

nah!!....for you guys to drool on...pls excuse my reflection 'x'

while i was taking the pics of the anime figurines, a group of ah lian school going girls were talking loudly among themslves in hokkien right beside me (AS IF I AM DEAF ISIT???)

girl 1 : EH SAI HIP SIO ENG MEH? (are we allowed to take pictures?)
girl 2 : BEI CAI LE (i dont know le)
HIP LAI CO SIMIK???? (for what purpose???)

HELLO!!! never heard of blogs and bloggers isit?????
i looked at them and they just walked away =_=

ahah!! the millenium falcon!!! jeng jeng jeng

see??? i know star wars...

p/s pls forgive me for the super grainy pics...i was half hoping that there's some problem with my camera and i could get an excuse to buy a new compact 'x'
but i just checked it just now and found out that i've accidentally set the ISO to the highest =_=

Kluang Station @ The Spring

Was looking for a place to sit down, have a drink and WiFi last night...and we ended up at Kluang Station @ The Spring

But we were disappointed to find that Kluang Station is WiFi-less!!!!

since we were already there...just order lah!

my Kluang Station coffee =)

this is my 2nd time having Kluang Station coffee and i think its nice!!!
good for coffeeholic ... you know who u r...but u cant drink coffee now!...waha!

i had toast...

i didnt think it was that nice...it came with their signature Kluang Station kaya which is sweeter than normal kaya, but i didnt really fancy the bread cos it was a little burnt =_=

half boiled eggs....

somehow eggs in a GLASS doesnt seem too appetizing to me...hmmm

look at that.....arghhhhhhhhhhhh...ewwwwwwwww......bluekkkkkkkkk....

pls excuse my overactive imagination

Free Air Cond

phew! i am quite done with paid posts for now...
they gave me 2 opps at one time so i have to do both of them before 1am tonite :P

anywayyyyy....
what is wrong with the weather??? it is like an oven!!!

i am sorry, but due to the weather i just had to go to the Spring one more time 'x'
to go take a look at the Padini sale get some fresh cool airrrrr...ahhh!!!!

anyway before that, we had to drop by the Post office to renew his driving license...and i saw this on the notice board...



what the!!!! i call this insect cruelty! :(

ok lets get back to the cooling aircond of the spring...lol...

first stop...



mwehehehe...sorry, i just had to try the durian flavored donut one more time 'x'
absolutely yum! taste 99% like the real durian...1% missing cos there's no durian shell...HAH!

for lunch...we decided to try out the food court at the spring...cos we've never eaten there...
we walked round and round and round and could not decide what to eat. That was a sign! we should have walked straight out! but instead we decided to give this stall a chance...



cos its cheap!
one hotdog bun and onion rings for RM2.80...



onion ring tasted like plastic :( i practically left them untouched
hotdog bun was as puny as my little finger...ok! i am exaggerating a bit here! :P

one quarter chicken for RM3.50

do u call that a quarter chicken???????? i call that FOUR PIECES OF CHICKEN!

They obviously need some math lesson 'x'

after the pathetic "lunch", i went and bought some pie tee...

5 for RM5.50 which was quite pathetic as welll...SIGH

and that was yesterday...

today is still hot!....need some more free air cond from another shopping mall :P

had lunch at ....

had white coffeee...

i love this...thick enough and sweet enough =)

kaya and toast...

buttery enough...kaya-ey enough...

egg and ham rice....

not meaty enough and not fast enough 'x'

i can fry a better looking egg in less than the amount of time they used to deliver it to our table

never going back there again sorry...

the sour faced waitress and the blur waitress (who went on a tour around the shop with mr bf's ham and egg rice) is another reason...

byebye Ipoh Kopitiam...

now where should i go for free air cond tomorrow? =)