Monday, December 17, 2012

Kelantan - Tumpat One Day Trip (Part 2)

After visted to Wat Photivihan, we went to another temple. Yes, don't feel weird. There are actually a numbers of temples in Kelantan although this is an islamic state. The next temple we visited was Wat Mai Suwankiri. (龙船寺) which is located in Tumpat too.

There is a 400 years old dragon boat and a  standing Buddha. We were amazed by the huge standing Buddha from the entrance and misunderstood that it was a Standing Buddha Temple. Instead, it is the famous Dragon Boat Temple. Opps, sorry for the mixing up.

Like other temples in Kelantan, the temple was constructed more than 100 years by craftman from Thailand. The interior of the main temple is such majestic.  You will be stunned by the huge gigantic Standing Buddha at top of the building.


ANother main attraction in the Wat Mai Suwankiri, the Dragon Boat.There are 4 dragons act as "guardian", and the boat is surrounded by water.



You will notice that I don't take many photos of each temple even I found that the architectual is amusing me.  One of the reasons is that I do not know whether the action of photographing inside the temple is prohibited, and another reason is the weather on that day is terribly hot.


I believe I will revisit all this temples plus some temples which are already on my list soon. Do stay tune for more updates .

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Kelantan - Tumpat One day Trip (part 1)

Due to boringness here, we decided to go for one day trip nearby. You see, life here is like very peaceful and back to those time when our parents were young. No cinema, no shopping complex , no city entertainment here. Gonna find something to keep ourselves happy, right?

Upon some very last minutes google search before falling asleep, we came out with some lists of visit : a) Wat Photivihan (the sleeping buddha) at Tumpat. OK, at least one choice had been chosen. We believed we can go for other places of interest with the little help from GPS.

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Something happened during the trip, where we had accidentally set the wrong destination( we set the wrong wat name. U know, there are too many wat-wat here with long name where we can't really remember). No wonder why it leads us to Bachok la, luckily we believed with our instinct and we got some help from the locals. Oh, forget to mention, the locals here are friendly,which is a different norm from our west coast.

Soon, reaching our first destination -- >  Wat Machimaram at Tumpat. When you see the huge sitting buddha from the roadside, you will feel that are the hard works to find the location do worth.

Magnificent Sitting Buddha can be seen from the road side. Don't worry if you scare you can't look for the location, because the signboard of the temple is along the road when you reach Tumpat.






Wat Machimmaram contains a large statue of the Seating Buddha, that is 30 metres high and 18 metres wide. This Seating Buddha took 10 years to build by the skilled craftsmen from Thailand, and its was completed in 2000. Wat Machimmaram located in Kampung Jubakar, Tumpat and occupies over 2.4 hectares. The Thai group will conduct the religious celebration at the Wat such as Wesak Day, Kahtinna, Loy Krathong, Saibat, Songkran, and so forth. (source : http://dhammapath.blogspot.com/2010/10/wat-machimmaram-seating-buddha-tumpat.html). 

After that, we went to Free Trade  Zone  of Pengkalan Kubor. This FTZ is just located at Thai Border. To get there, we need to pass through a police checkpoint. Although it is a FTZ, I still find the items here mostly more or less same in our shopping complex. Kind of feel like being cheated. Can't even buy my lovely chocolates as they are not cheap. Mark you, you won't able to find any alcohol drinks here. Almost end up with disappointment but at last something there to cheer me up. 

 I called it rainbow ice cream because the ice cream is so coloured full, with only RM2 you can have a full cup of ice creams, with bread and glutinuous rice at bottom, topping with jellies, peanuts and corns. DOn't try to choose any flavour, the colourful of the ice cream is the trend mark.


After hanging in Pengkalan Kubor end up buying not much and under a huge hot sun, we moved to Wat Photivihan.

The temple houses a 40-metre statue of a sleeping Buddha, which is the longest of its kind inSouth East AsiaThe devotees of this temple are mainly ethnics Thais , and the temple itself is a typical Thai  Buddhist temple.(Source: wiki).





(to be continued)






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Thursday, December 06, 2012

Brief introduction to Tanah Merah Food

Ok, gonna make this very short article regarding the food at Tanah Merah, Kelantan. 

There are Chinese food in the town, but honestly only some are a bit tasty.

1. Chengrai Restaurant

I assume this as Chinese mixed with Thai Style food. The food above from CHengrai Restaurant. The sotong we ordered was spicy + sour sotong. I considered it not bad becasue the sourness of the dish is appetising and the sotong were fresh. The upper right dish was curb ribs (南乳排骨). Good recommendation from me. And the last one was salted fish fried with kai lan. Not a bad dish, but I can't really taste any salted fish there. Overall, the first meal over there was not a bad impression to me.

Ask the local chinese, they will able to guide you to the restaurant. Or you can try to look for the signboard of the Chengrai Restaurant beside the road. If you come from Tanah Merah town, the signboard should be at your right just a few kilometers away from town.



2. Roti Tempayan Belimbing

This was once my dinner. Roti tempayan and ayam tandoori. Trust me, nice dish. The roti tempayan is somehow like the roti canai we ate, but  it is thicker than the roti canai. Whereas the ayam tandoori is abit similar taste with "Cha Xiew". Don't look down upon the onion, try it. The onion was marinated and you can feel sourness from the sauce and sweetness from the onion itself.


3. Satay Kajang in the town

You can imagine how excited we were when we discovered there is Satay Kajang in the town. Sorry but I have to say, there is actually nothing much in this small little town. You can feel it when You see I am excited over that there is even waffle selling in the town or seeing that there is gym in the town.




 Tried it. I feel the taste of the satay is not bad. But I am not satisfied with the sauce they provided. I don't feel like there was any taste in the sauce. There are also other foods selling in this restaurant, somekind of mamak restaurant. The satay is not cheap, RM 0.80 per stick. But the drinks here is good. We had tried carrot milk  and singa beng. Wonder what is singa beng? It is actually air limau kasturi. Just cost RM 2.00 and Rm 1.00 each. Cheap drinks right??

Search for the big signboard of "satay kajang" left side of the road from tanah Merah town area.


You can find all the signboards or restaurant above driving along the main road of Tanah Merah Town to Kampung Belimbing area.





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Monday, December 03, 2012

Road Trip to Kelantan

The moment that I thought for days had finally arrived. That's the moment I gonna leave my hometown for another stage of life. Not to count what I had scarified  I am still reluctant to leave my lovely home, yet the decision had made. LIFE GOES ON.

Before I started my journey, some people had told me that the road to the EAST is quite tricky and steep. But now I would like to clarify that although it is not a road like North-South highway, the condition of the road to East is acceptable.



My journey is Ipoh-Kuala Kangsar-Gerik-Jeli-Tanah Merah. The picture above shows the journey from Kuala Kangsar to Gerik.




We stopped at Gerik Town for lunch. Please make sure you pump full petrol to your car if you wish to continue your journey to Kelantan. This is because there will be no petrol station after Gerik town for around 100+ km/ 1.5++ hours (depending on your speed). The nearest petrol station from Gerik will be in Jeli, Kelantan. BUt don't worry about rest house, there will still be some rest house along the journey in case you wish to rest or go for washrooms.





Actually after Gerik will be hill road. So beware. The scenery after Gerik. You will feel like you have entered into jungle or kampung area. Indeed, yes you are. Look for the "beware of Elephants" sign board. There will be  elephants appearing and crossing the left and right of the jungle of the roads. 





Ready to pass by Tasik Temenggung. The scenery here is quite beautiful. However, it was a raining day and I can't capture photos from my window.

The only best picture without any water mark on my window. Tasik Temenggung.



Journey after Tasik Temenggung. I have kind of feeling that I was going to Cameron Highlands.


Breathtaking scenery at top of Banjaran Titiwangsa.

From my rough calculation, the journey from Ipoh to Tanah Merah, Kelantan is actually consuming around 5+ hours excluding the rest time at Gerik. As I said, it still depending on your speed. We drove slowly along the journey as our car is small. 


First dinner at Kelantan which denotes my new life here??? 

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Friday, November 09, 2012

再一次站在人生的十字路口, 徘徊着,不会走 看不到前后左右的路口 该责备命运的无情 还是自己的懦弱 缘起缘去 何去何从 软弱 无助 我的情感又有谁懂 原来要牺牲也不是那么容易的一件事 是要我直诉您的无情 是要我痛彻您的不平 为什么?为什么? 许了的愿 为什么不让它实现? 接受了的事实 为什么又一而再的有变数? 您无情 您残忍 您不公平! 我只求安安稳稳 都不可以?
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Lost

For the first time, I look at the map of a place that I never been for such a long time...
For the first time, I pledge for the appearance of miracle...
For the first time, I seek for Your guidance, lead me to a correct path...



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Thursday, November 01, 2012

Vegetarian Spaghetti + ham roll

Decided to become the chef of the lunch out of a sudden. After a few hours of thinking, I decided to go for spaghetti, which I haven't consume it quite a long time.

 Basically, this is what you need for spaghetti cooking. 


Ingredients : 
Spaghetti (quantity based on your consumption)
mushroom ( you can put the amount you like, as for me, I put in half can for 3 servings)
spaghetti sauce ( I prefer PREGO spaghetti traditional sauce, I like the sourness of the sauce very much XD)
1 Onion
1 green bell pepper
Ham

 The "Agnesi" brand spaghetti is a brand that I tried first time. I bought it because .... *wink* ( it is with extra 33% of spaghetti compared the other brand with same price. Huh...I know I am quite aunty  abit.)


Started my preparation work by cutting the onion which had caused tears ran out of my eyes for few minutes. 

Vege Spaghetti Cooking Steps:
1. Boil a huge amount of water and add in a small amount of salt. Add in spaghetti to the boiled water and let them cooked for around 10 minutes.
2. Cut the onion and green pepper into cubes. Slice the mushroom as well.
3. Heat the saucepan with some olive oil. Fried the onion, green peppers and also mushroom for several minutes. You can smell the aroma of the vege now. :))
4. Add in PREGO spaghetti sauce. ( You gotta adjust the amount accordingly. As for my 3 servings, I put in at least half jar of the sauce.) (mine is the biggest size of the PREGO jar)
5. Flavour the sauce with salt/oregano and mix it with the vege. You can add in some cheese or milk into the sauce depends on your flavour. 
6. Drain the cooked spaghetti and mix the spaghetti with the sauce before serving. 


See, the spaghetti cooking is as easy as abc right? And it takes less time in preparation and cooking compare to other food and it suits lazy fello like me.  (Instant mee is not count in)

At the same time, I had prepared an appetizer for my lunch. The dish is somehow inspired by some other famous dish. Somehow I only can prepare the appetizer with the ingredients available. I named them -- > ham roll. (ok, i know the name is sucks LOL) 


Like the above idea?

It is just a simple and nice dish.
Ingredients:
2 pieces of ham (cut into 3 slices each)
2 french beans
carrot (slices into rectangular sizes )
6 slices mushrooms
mayonnaise
tomato sauce


Steps :
1. Divide the frenc beans into 3 pieces each.
2. Grill.fry the ham. Serve the hams on plate to let them cold. Then fry the french beans, carrots, and slice mushrooms for about 3 minutes. Add some salt and pepper to taste.
3. Lay some mayonnaise on the ham. Put a french bean, carrots and a sliced mushroom at the end of the ham. Then roll it up. Use toothpick to stable the roll.
4. Repeat step no.3  with the remaining. Served.






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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

B.E.D. (Bread Espresso Dessert)

By looking at the title, do You have any idea what issue I am going to bring out?


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 Tempting??? Feel like wanna have a bite , or more of this cute pretty thing?




Yummylicious?

Or, you are starving by looking at this photos?


Let's see...


Bread???

Espresso??

 Or... Dessert?
(Above Pictures taken from B.E.D facebook page)


Start to have a clue regarding my topic? Da~~Dang~~~ let me introduce you this new cafe in Ipoh Town. The cafe opens throughout the day and feel free to drop by if you have no way to go on a weekend.
I have seen people sharing photos of dessert in the shop in facebook and this is how I get to know this cute and nice cafe. Honestly, they have drawn my attention with their food. So lovely ~~




Seeing the shop receiving good comments, I decided to pay a visit at B.E.D today.  This is the front of the cafe, in case you don't know or easier for you guys to look for it. :P muahaha







The interior of the cafe. Warmth and Lovely. A good place for evening tea.  


My caffe latte which made my day XD.


Delicious chicken quiche. Taste better than I expect. You have to check with the counter regarding the food because they will change their desserts and food daily.


Banana frangipane. A must try. 



What a relax evening sitting on a coach reading some magezines, with a cup of latte and some dessert.


Bread Espresso Dessert
No 3, Medan Istana 6, Bandar Ipoh Raya, 30000 Ipoh, Perak
05-2411048




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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Homemade Chee Cheong Fun

I should have blogged about this days ago. ANyway, I just picked up my mood to update my blog. Sorry for the late update.

Holiday at home made me feel so enjoyable and thus, I had try so cooking-baking time at home.

One day I was craving with chee cheong fun and I found the recipe online. I discover that the steps are easy, erm...at least not as hard as i thought. So I decide to give it a try.

It makes me run quite a numbers of store/supermarket in order to get myself wheat starch/wheat flour.

Here comes the recipe : (from Jessie-CookingMoments)



160g Rice Flour 粘米粉
10g Corn Flour 粟粉
10g Wheat Starch/Flour) 澄面
660ml Water
10ml Oil
Pinch of Salt
40g Dried Shrimp, washed & pan-fried
Few Stalks of Spring Onions, chopped
1 tsp White Sesame Seeds, toasted.

However, I modified some. As I told you, I can't find the wheat starch. So I skipped the wheat starh, and add the amount of shrimp freestyle, and I replace long bean instead of spring onions.


Method:
1. Place flour, salt & water in a bowl & mix until a smooth batter is formed.  Add oil & stir to combine.  Cover the bowl with cling wrap & rest for at least 30 minutes. ( I have totally forgot this step when I was facinating in my own cooking world, wtf @@)
2. Bring the water in the wok/steamer to boil at high heat.
3. Cut the dry shrimps into pieces. Cut the long bean into cube size. Fried the dry shrimps and long bean for a few minutes.
4. Oil a baking dish.  Stir the batter before pouring into the oiled dish to form a thin layer on the base of the dish, about 2mm-3mm.  . Sprinkle with some dried shrimps and long beans.
TIP: Do not use too much of dried shrimp as it will make the rolling & cutting jobs harder. (great, I have forgotten this notice too. )
4. Steam the batter at medium-high heat for 6 minutes.
5. Oil the dough scrapper.  Scrape up 1 side of the Chee Cheong Fun, use hand to roll up the CCF.  Place on a clean, flat plate.  Repeat until the rest of the batter is all used.





Here's come the outcome of my chee cheong fun. I know I know, they don''t look temting and not looking good either. But this is my first time making chee cheong fun leh. :P

I didn't cook any dipping sauce. What I did was just add in some soysauce and sesame oil, which the combination of these is a great yummy sauce to me.

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

八月花酒家 Moon Palace Restaurant Sdn Bhd

在一次机缘巧合之下,我有机会去尝试了八月花酒家。

八月花酒家是一间坐落于The Mines 绿水坊的中式餐厅。 之前有听过关于八月花酒家的评语,都是一些负面的评语。所以我这次也没有抱着什么希望去吃。可恰好的是最近八月花酒家在做着优惠,龙虾一只RM48++。只可以在堂内食用,不可外带。而且每席只限两只。看到这个优惠,我们也决定尝试了。



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  龙虾,说它像螃蟹倒不是螃蟹,是虾类中最大的一类。 
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每只龙虾大约600gm-700gm.于是我们尝试了两种不同煮法的龙虾。


 伊面配龙虾。吃下去还蛮不错的。 



清蒸龙虾。这个蒸龙虾呢肉质鲜甜,有咬劲,配上一些枸杞,再加入些酒去蒸。说实在的,这道菜还蛮好吃,必佩伊面的味道和口感好。


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  龙趸属鲈形目,石斑鱼科,石斑鱼亚科,石斑鱼属。它体呈长椭圆形,侧扁,口较大,鱼头部、体侧及各鳍均散布着很多青黑色斑点,为大型名贵食用鱼类。 
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清蒸龙趸。之前在友人的喜宴上吃了龙趸,那次的尝试让我对龙趸却步。这次因为叫菜的人不是我,所以决定再给它一次机会。结果意外的原来味道还不错。而且也不会像上次的硬。整体还不错。





 番茄炒蛋。个人觉得还不错,但没有炒得太老。味道适中,适合在场的小朋友下菜。 


我们还点了一个豆腐和青菜。基于是上菜的时候大家已经开动了,所以也没有拍到什么照片。 


 八月花酒家在做着优惠,所以凡消费超过RM50斗会获赠烧卤鸡。




最后来个饭后甜品-煎锅饼。口感是不错,我略嫌它油腻了点。


饭后水果,有益健康。所以我们也点了一道水果,解腻解腻。 


这么多的菜那么少的人,吃得我肚子胀胀的,什么减肥计划都抛诸脑后了。 这次的菜肴都煮得很不错,所以决定为它来个平反。得空想尝试的朋友不妨去试试他们的食物。而且据了解八月花酒家好像是蛮常有推出优惠哦。



 Moon Palace Restaurant Sdn Bhd (Head Quater)
L5-02/03 (P), Mines Shopping Fair,
Jalan Dulang, Mines Resort City,
43300 Seri Kembangan, Selangor.
Tel: 03-8942 7868 / 03-8942 9868
Fax: 03-8941 7648









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