My family had dinner at the famous place where they serve delicious cheese cakes with initial SR. My son loves the cheese cake there. As usual I ordered meatball spaghetti for his dinner and a piece of cheese cake. While I wanted something light and tried the Singapore Curry Laksa.
After about 10-15 minutes, my bowl of Laksa came. My jaw dropped. For the very first time, I cannot believe what I saw. I thought I ordered Curry soup. I used a spoon and chopstick to scoop to see what is inside. There were 3 medium size prawns and laksa noodles. No taufu (beancurd), taugeh (bean sprout) or any kind of vegetables. When I look at the picture in the menu, it has egg, squid, taufu, peppermint leaves, fish cake, prawns and noodles. At that instant, I regret what I ordered. If you were me, what will you do?
A. Just keep quiet and eat what you ordered.
B. Get furious and call for the waitress.
C. Ask someone else to eat it.
D. None of the above, please comment.
What I did was? Nicely I called the waitress, and told her that whatever I ordered, doesn’t look exactly like the picture. No egg, no vegetables, no squid…etc. She carried my bowl of curry back to the kitchen. I saw a few people discussing by the kitchen, the chef was there, another waiter holding a menu. It seems to me that the chef himself doesn’t know what was supposed to be in the Curry Laksa. After a while, she carried it out and told me that the one in the picture was Seafood Curry Laksa and not Singapore Laksa. I asked her again nicely, “You mean to say that Singapore Laksa only has noodle and prawn with no vegetables. By the way the price of both is the same?” Later she told me that the Singapore Laksa is supposed to have taufu and fish cake, but the taufu went rotten and the fish cake ran out. I did not say further but ask her whether I can cancel the order and take that away. Finally got what I wanted.
What will you do if you order a meal that doesn’t look and taste like what you ordered?
After having children, I have started collecting McD toys for them. RM5 for the cost of meal and toy. My hubby and I eat the meal and they play with the toy. Someone once told me that McD is not selling fast food but a big chunk of their revenue comes from selling these Made In China Toys. Not sure how true.
Last time, I am sure you remember the craze of those lovely pair of bears where people fight over it. At 7am in the morning, there is a long queue outside of McD to buy those bears. There is one grandfather who queued early in the morning, bought a few cups of ice cream to get those few bears for his grand children. How loving and sweet. I don’t mind a grandpa like that.
Then came Hello Kitty, Pooh Bears, Snoopy, which didn’t sell, as well as those lovely pair of bears. I wonder what next?
Emily & Tim:
The rest of the gang:
I like going to Ikea when I am done in KL. There is lots of small and nice deco for my lovely home. Once I went there during long holidays and to my surprised I met 4 friends from Penang. I didn’t even bum into any friends in KL. Maybe Ikea is for outstation folks, I donno.
Anyway for those people outside of Klang Valley who wants a copy of the Ikea catalog, email to their customer service department (customer.hotline@ikeastore.com.my) and request them to send you a copy.
For those who doesn’t want to chop down trees, please visit the website http://www.ikea.com.my/catalogue06/ to get a pdf copy or you can browse online but it kills your bandwidth.
I am a collector of the Ikea magazine. I have the catalog from 1999 – 2005.
Lanterns & mooncake festival is coming. You can tell, as the shopping mall is decorated with beautiful lanterns and selling mooncakes. I bought 2 traditional lanterns (baby & fish) for my children. Not the battery operated ones with noisy music. Every year without fail, my FIL will get those for my children. I still have the past years lantern that he bought and it is still in working condition. Now they have butterfly, dragon fly, flower basket and ultraman.
I love playing traditional lanterns. You lit up the candles and switched off all the lights. It is very beautiful. When I was young, I love playing with candles. You know what I did? I use can candles with my masak-masak set made of aluminum to cook rice. I will put a candle in between 2 match box, fill the masak masak pot with rice and water, put the pot to sit on the match box and let the candle heat up the pot to boil the water to cook rice. Isn’t that amazing? I was only 5 years old.
Here are some pictures of the beautiful lit up lanterns at my front porch.
My son picked a butterfly lantern and I picked a baby for my gal…
This is a cool website to show you, the real time traffic in Penang Bridge via camera. Don’t do any hanky panky on the bridge…
Source: http://www.penangbridge.blogspot.com/
Camera Here: http://penangbridge.info/15.html
Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka! Happy National Day Malaysia!
Yesterday was the Chinese Ghost Festival. Penang has a lot of different and many variety of kueh available. The one that I love is Ang Ku. I never used to like it until I came to Penang. Usually the Ang Ku will come in RED color and most often served during full moon of a newborn, with the RED egg.
The red Ang Ku has a delicious yellow filling. Not sure what is that made off. The green one has a yummy coconut with brown melaka sugar. The pink has a superb brownish peanut filling. I can say it is pretty oily. All gone now!!
I love Photoshop as it helps me to edit photos or any images. It can help to do a digital makeup on the photo. It can beautify a picture. It is not hard to learn the basic of this tool but if you want to advance to the next level, do get books. My hubby just got a few books on it, mostly tips & tricks. He is into photography. Hey look at what he did to a photo.
Now you see it, now you don’t. All the slime from the nose is gone.
Before:
After:
By the way, the top logo is done using Photoshop too. I just don’t have time to play around else I can create more fun things. Like this one that I did years ago:
