Author: dixonthum

Food & Drink

Food Review @ Flamenco

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Just got back from Flamenco… Won a RM50.00 voucher to dine there and here we come to invade the restaurant!!! Indeed it’s one of the recommended restaurants in the country by Tatler’s. The food there is delicious and it has all it takes to become one of the best restaurants in Malaysia – the environment, the service and the “PRICE”…

There was a table across our table with middle-aged uncles and aunties, talking about their experiences in London, Melbourne & where ever they’ve been to… Mein & I were there enjoying listening to their conversation. How I wish to become one of them in the coming future – enjoying life with a group of close friends in a good environment with good food and drink.

Anyhow, Mein & I ordered our food, drink and dessert. Mein ordered Fettuccini with Lamb Tenderloin in Black Pepper while I had Linguini with Scallops & Salmon Slices. We ordered just one drink, Snowy Mango and a dessert, Chocolate Indulgence.

What I liked about my dish is the sauce. It was extremely rich with cheese taste and creamy. Yum! Yum! What I didn’t like about it was the salmon. They were not really cooked. They still have the fishy taste. Overall, the dish was good but could be better if the fish were more cooked.

For Mein’s dish, what she liked about it was the lamb was tasty and not too hard to bite. The meat were marinated long enough but they still has the mutton taste in them. What she sis not like about the dish was the pasta was too thick and its got a heavy floury taste. The black pepper taste was strong too!

The drink, Snowy Mango was nice. The ice was shaved tiny enough that it melts right after being put in the mouth. As for the dessert, it’s one of the best dessert we’ve ever tasted before. The taste and excitement of the dish are indescribable in words. A recommended dessert indeed!

 

 

My Personal

Fake-sters in Paddock Lounge

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BMW Paddock Lounge! What an experience… Not everyone can enter this “exclusive” lounge. Working in my current company has given me endless opportunity to experience various excitement – driving 5 different types of  BMW, driving Mini’s & yesterday, entering the “exclusive” Paddock lounge in the Pit Lane Park held in Jalan Binjai (somewhere near KLCC).

Well, drinking bottomless alcoholic drinks and eating “strange” food, in small portion is the most memorable experience in the lounge. In shortly one and half hour, I’ve drank beer, champagne, red wine & cocktail (vodka lychee). Well, nothing much besides that. Oh ya! Seeing a few local celebs is also another thing worth mentioning – Soong Ai Ling, Natasha Hudson, Stephanie Chai & any other non-celebs-acting-like-celebs kind of people. Wow! What a view!!! I’m not very sure what actually is the purpose of having this kind of function every now and then but I know that it helps those who are doing business… I can see people exchanging business cards… (as if their names will be stick into their mind…)… I’m sure they’ve forgotten one another by now. Haha! Fake-sters!!!

 

Food & Drink

Food @ Gasoline

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Tried food & drinks in Gasoline on the 6th Floor of Sg Wang after months listening to a suggestion of a friend. Well, looking at the menu itself, they have a lot of choices and they are all rather fresh ideas of food unlike Kim Gary to Food & Tea. The variety of food & drinks here are really wide and refreshing. I had chicken chop and ice-blended rum & raisins mocha. Taste good and I liked the drink! The price was rather reasonable & affordable for young adults like me – who are not earning as much… Mein had chicken pie on mushroom soup & a cup of hot chocolate. Not new enough for me but still taste good. Share some photos of the food we ordered.
 
Food & Drink

Home-made Fruit Wine

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Got to know from a colleague of Mein this way to produce wine. Simple & easy.
 
1. Prepare grapes, lemon & blocked brown sugar and also a jar which can be closed air-tight.
2. Cut the items into small pieces.
3. Put a layer of grapes in the jar.
4. Followed by a layer of slices of lemons.
5. Followed by a layer of cut blocked brown sugar.
6. Repeat Step 3-5 until the jar is full.
7. Close the jar air-tight and leave it for 20 days.
8. After 20 days, pour the liquid out into a cup & drink.
 
According to Mein’s colleague, this wine is good for health as it contains fruit enzyme & vitamins. Please also note that grapes and be subsituted with any other fruits like apple, pear, cucumber, or even mango! They will give you different taste. Pictures will be uploaded soon…
 
Here are the photos as promised
My Personal

Generation Gap

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CNY is going to end. 15 days… a short yet long period. According to Chinese customs, visiting friends & relatives is a regular practice. Bringing a bag of food and fruits (mandarin oranges to be precise) is not a rear thing to do.

During the first day itself, my family & I paid a visit to a relative and found out an old-fashion telephone in the house, which is actually working and I am sure this kind of phone is no longer in the production anymore. It’s actually an “antique” as I wish to call it.

Why so? Well, for those who were born in the 80’s, I think they might still have the chance to see and use this kind of phones, as I did during my younger years… (ok, when I was a kid!) I still remember the way to call someone is to dial each and every number by making circles from the starting point of the number to the end of the circle and back.

My young cousin saw the phone and asked, “What is this?”

“A telephone!”, I answered.

He was curious as he has not seen it before until that day. I told him this phone was just an ordinary phone like what we are using currently which the numbers are pressed or pushed by fingers. My cousin laughed. I quickly grabbed my camera and took a photo of the phone & my cousin. I have a name for the picture. I call it “Generation Gap”

In my mind, questions popped out. If this kind of phones can be substituted by the ones that we are using now, what kind of phones that we will be using in the future? Hmm… Any idea?