Month: June 2013

The restaurant with no romanised name

Recently, a new restaurant opened in my neighbourhood, literally behind our old apartment.

I’m always happy whenever a new restaurant opens. That means, more dinner options!

At first, I had no idea what the restaurant was selling…because it has no english wording on the main signboard! Finally, I noticed a tiny “Chee cheung fun” printed on the smaller signboard.

# – What? Don’t know what 后巷肠粉记 means but that’s the name, I think.

# – Nice interior.

When I opened the menu, I was so happy because there were like 6 types of chee cheung fun or rice rolls.

I ordered 4 types…

# – Penang style. Really nice prawn paste sauce, very strong flavours perhaps even stronger than the one in Genting Cafe! I was very pleased.

# – Curry fun. A bit too mild for me but decent overall.

# – Ipoh style. I think this is the first time I’ve tasted Ipoh style chee cheung fun. It’s red, a bit sweet and a bit tart, quite unusual -Anyone know what is the sauce made of?

# – KL style. Sweetish tart.

The other two types are plain with soy sauce and stuffed. Going to try those the next time.

# – Yong tau fu. Quite nice to go with the rice rolls.

# – Deep fried dumplings. Okay.

Food was okay, certainly not the best rice rolls I’ve ever had but it’s nice to get so many local specialty rice rolls in one place.

My favourite part of the restaurant has got to be the faux vintage cups and plates! I want me some of those!

# – Michael Jackson in a retro steel mug.

后巷肠粉记
Jalan Tanjung SD13/2,
PJU 9, 52200 Bandar Sri Damansara
(same row as Groupbase Restaurant)
Closed on Tuesday

River cruise

Here’s a break from my usual mirror. Wore this to Damien & Amy’s wedding dinner.

# – Legs crossed.

# – Legs apart.

# – Legs hidden.

# – Legs not hidden.

The dress is from H&M. Gold stilettos from Payless Shoes, clutch bought in Bangkok. Watch is my favourite Tough Solar G-Shock, which was a birthday present to myself many years ago.

# – My clutch with a peacock.

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After Damien and Amy’s wedding, someone suggested to go on the Melaka River Cruise, which is near the Stadhuys. Since the hubs and I have never been on it, we decided to go for it.

# – Damien and Amy <3

We didn’t carpool so ended up at different jetty points. There were like 3 or 4.

There were some difficulties trying to pinpoint where everyone was. KY in particular was very helpful with his “We are at the jetty in front of this large red building”.

At last, after walking for a bit, we found the rest of the group. They had been trying to stop a boat to get on by waving from a jetty, kind of like hailing a taxi? There’s a signboard that actually said you could do that.

Anyway, one particular boatman signalled to us to go further up (or down? I wouldn’t know) along the river instead, so we started walking.

And ended up where hubs and I were before. Also found out that we needed to buy tickets to get on the cruise, not stop it by waving lol

Lucky for us, we just made it! We were the very last passengers to get on the river cruise.

What an adventure! Hahaha.

The ticket was RM10 for local and RM15 for foreigner. The price is actually quite okay because it’s a pretty long cruise (45 minutes). That said, maybe it felt long cause there was a kid with a toy cat that wouldn’t stop meowing. WTF parents?

# – River cruise!

Contrary to belief, the river was not smelly. The water’s not crystal clear though so we tried our best to avoid stray spray.

# – Under a rainbow bridge.

It’s really nice to see the improvement they’ve done to Melaka river. So much cleaner and so many beautiful murals on the walls of the buildings located along the river. Nice ambient lightings too!

# – Kim on a river cruise.

Would be cool if they could do something like that to Klang River :D

Melaka River Cruise
Jalan Laksamana, 75000 Malacca
Tel: 06-2814322
Operating hours: 9.00 am – 11.00 pm

Golden showers

In Melaka now. We have checked in to Mio Hotel, a new one near Jonker which is pretty nice.

Our earlier accommodation was decent too…but its name is just awesome x infinity.

“Golden Showers”. 

For those that are stumped, here is a definition of golden shower.

# – Golden Showers.
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We were giggling about it like school kids. Of course must take pictures!

Bridegroom also cannot miss out, hahaha.

# – Damien and entourage.
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By the way, here’s a comparison of size between my foot and husband’s hand.

# – Hand and foot.
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Have a good weekend!