HK trip - 1st day (24 sept 2008)

This year on my birthday, I went for a HK trip. My whole journey takes 5 days and 4 nights, starting from Sept 24 til Sept 28. Boarding Air Asia flight directly to HKIA & back to LCCT. Lucky to say that throughout my journey there were only few short rainy sessions and all the time it is sunny day. Why i say so? As i have checked the weather forecast for the whole week and its showing rainy days and thunderstorms occured during the whole trip. On the day before my departure, Typhoon Hagupit hurtled towards the southern Chinese city and all flights departing and arriving HK airport have been cancelled. I rang up the air asia hotline and were told that my morning flight have not been cancelled yet and were told to wait at the airport til further notice. When the time comes by, there were no notice or announcement of the flight delayed or cancelled and the flight came on time and reach HK within 4 hours.

Throughout my journey, I manage to go HK Disneyland, Lantau Island for the Big Buddha, Golden Bauhinia Square, Madame Tussauds, Happy Valley Racecourse, Avenue of Stars, Wong Tai Sin temple and etc. 5 days is definitely not enough to visit HK as there were many tourist attractions, shopping places & night markets. But HK is definitely a very convenient place to walk around as the MTR were connected to different lines where you do not need to get out from one spot to other to exchange lines. Their bus system is very on time and very organize as there were different stands for each bus routes. Throughout my itinery, I have missed the Symphony of Lights which is a show held 8pm everynight which have a combination of interactive lights of 44 key buildings on both Hong Kong Island and Kowloon with musical effects to showcase the vibrancy and glamorous night vista of Victoria Harbour.

1st day in HK -Happy Valley Racecourse (Night racing)

There were this horse statue in front of the Happy Valley Horse racing entrance.

The crowd inside the horse-racing. There were many Tents selling different kind of beers to the crowds. One cup of Tiger beer is HKD30.

Counter for buying and collecting pay for the horse racing bets.

Some food shots in HK

Mango Dessert in Hui Lao Shan.

Chocolate pie from McD HK

Mochi with green tea and red bean fillings from Kee Wah Bakery

The old traditional milky ice-cream van. Din manage to take the picture of the ice-cream.

Krispy Kreme Doughnut.

Some local eateries around Mong Kok.

Ingredients insde the Chut Qin Yat Ding cup noodles which include one egg and 3 small piece of pork.

Sweet Chat, Mid Valley

Always pass by this corner side cafe, they have a very nice comfy red coloured cushion-seating by the side. This can be a really nice place to have tea-break or lunch after long day of shopping.

Checking out their menu, they do have sets which include the main meal, one drink, and dessert.

I have choose the Honey BBQ chicken burger set. Include one cold drink (Tropical punch) & a hot dessert (Tong Yuen in Almond soup), priced at RM17.80.

Drink of the day..Tropical punch..A very refreshing drink.

Honey BBQ Chicken Burger..The BBQ chicken is really yummy.. Honey sweet and goes well the mayonoise.Somewhat taste like those honey bbq sold in the chicken rice shop. (Guess its using the same ingredient with the ones sold in the chicken rice shop as they are under one company)

There were also chips and salsa sauce aside.

Finally, a bowl of Tong Yuen in Almond soup. This is the first thing which drools me to this cafe. U can choose either both black sesame or peanut fillings or one each.

I have make another order of Mango pancake, they came in a plate of 3, Rm5.90.
There were a chunk of mango inside the cream-filling.Not too sweet which suit my likings.

In the meantime, u can get a sweet chat loyalty card in the first RM20 purchase. Continously RM10 for 1 stamp, after collect for 3 stamps, you can exchange for a large bowl of sweet hot dessert, 6 stamps for 2 cold dessert, 9 stamps for one meal and a drink.

A Little Dim Sum Place, SS2

Went to this restaurant on a Saturday for a breakfast. They are having All You Can Eat for Rm22.80 per person, not included drinks. This is only applicable on every Saturday, Sunday and public holiday, 9 am til 2.30 pm. And the food are limited to 30 choices.

After check out the menu, saw that one of my favourite dimsum is included in the menu so i give it a go.

Here it is, my favourite one--Avacado wrap. Look at the avacado butter fillings.Its so yummy.The outer part is wrap with the fried bihun like crunchy stuff. Sweet & crunchy..

Follow on is egg tart. They came in bite size. But the egg fillings were so creamy.Never get enough of this.

Carry on with the scallop dumpling. I selected 2 orders for the first go. U can clearly see the big juicy prawns but the scallop is quite a small piece one. This is still a very nice dimsum.

Sharkfin dumpling. Im not sure if there is any sharkfin inside but it does taste good and meaty too.

I have ordered a porridge with century egg and pork. Well, this is not really a good one. It tastes like the white porridge were boiled separately where the fillings were only added later on.

Coming on is the glutinous rice with chicken and mushroom. Not really oily for this one. Not bad.

This is a plate of steamed spareribs. Fresh and juicy. The soup gravy is so yummy.

Deep fried prawns with mayonnaise. It goes well with the mayonnaise.

Shrimp Cage. There were tiny cheese together with prawns in the fillings. But could hardly taste the cheese. Probably the mayonnaise cover it taste when taken with it.

Fried dumpling. A meaty one. Goes well with the ginger vinegar. Already too full to actually taste it.

We ordered 2 headcount of jasmine tea. Total bill came in RM51.25 for two. Is it a worth-go.?U decide it. It depends if you are or not a big eater or a big dimsum lover..

Mamma Mia! The Movie

Nuffnang is organizing premiere screening for this movie - Mama Mia ! in two locations!

Date : 22nd of September 2008 (Monday)
Time : 9pm
Venue : GSC One Utama (New Wing)
Hall : 9

Date : 22nd of September 2008 (Monday)
Time : 9pm
Venue : GSC Gurney Plaza Penang
Hall : 8

The main actress & actor will by MERYL STREEP and PIERCE BROSNAN which is previously in the Devil Wears Prada and James Bond. What does attracts me is that there will be musical celebration of the family where the Mamma mia song which is popularized by ABBA can be heard. There will be dancing and singing throughout the movie, this reminds me about my all time favourite " The Sound Of Music ", where the family gather together to sing and dance.

I guess the highlight of the movie is when the daughter sends out three wedding invitations to three of her potential-being father without telling her mum. She believing that after spending time with them, she will found out who is her real father.

I guess that PIERCE BROSNAN shall be her real father.
If you would like to know who is her real father, do grab a chance to win yourself 2 movie tickets from Nuffnang.

MY FM - Meet the Stars, DJs, and CiB online games @ KLANG

On a Saturday morning, MY FM and CiB Net Station have an event in Centro Mall, Klang. MY FM launch their 500th Pop songs chart while CiB Net Station sets a booth for the public to play their new release game .

There will be few artists who will attend this event which is 龚柯允 Karen Kong, 黄威尔 William Ng, 曾国辉 Tate Chan , Heng & Frankie 滿江汯etc. but my main purpose is to support my buddy's favourite artists Karen Kong.Wherever she goes, 'someone' will just always be there.

In the event, you will get your chance to grab 2 tickets each for the upcoming MY FM 10th Anniversary on the 9th August 2008 in Genting Highlands. Since i will not be free that day, i did not get it for myself, giving more chances to the participant.

I do not stay til the event ends. After taken few pictures with the artists, we head for the Klang Bak Kut Teh.

Me & Mei Yan (My FM DJ)

Isn't she a pretty? She is so skinny in person

Me & Karen Kong

She is just so sweet with her smile. You should see when she sings, sweet face with a wondferful voice. You would never glance elsewhere whenever she sings.

Frankie, me & Heng.

They were from a group 滿江汯 .
Need me to say more?Picture says all. They are just so handsome

Aun Kheng Lim Ipoh Salted Chicken

I went back to my hometown a week ago as one my favourite TVB artist is coming over to Ipoh to promote a TVB drama.

When i reach home, there is a pack of the all time famous Ipoh Salted Chicken from Aun Kheng Lim.
Without hesitating, i unwrapped the package and microwave the salted chicken. After 2 minutes, the whole kitchen is filled with the 'Dong Gui' aroma. The herbal aroma is just so tempting.I started to tear out all the parts and behave like a barbarian.Oops, but a slightly tidy barbarian.

Just have a look at the chicken after being torn out by me..So neatly finish although this is my first time to separate out all the parts..There were pieces of Dong Gui herbal contain. Another method to fully utilize the chicken, u can tear out the chicken meat into slices together or just the chicken bone to boil up a very tasty herbal flavour chicken porridge.If you have any chances to purchase one of this chicken, you shall try out this recipe.Its really yummy.

The price of the chicken--Not sure. Few years back, should be RM15 each.

Ajisen Ramen ( One Utama)

On my off day, I went to One Utama to spare my time. After purchase Get Smart from GSC, i headed to Ajisen Ramen for a dinner. This is the 2nd time i step in to this shop but still my first time trying the food. WHY? Because the shop is too crowded when it first open and im not pretty enough to get attention of the waiters to order my food and walk out from there. But i never give up, after nearly one year, i try my luck again when there were less than quarter of the seats were being taken. Tadaa... Successful this time.

The restaurant atmosphere is quite nice where the lights are soft lighting and there were sections which have tatami mats.



I have order myself Gyoza Ramen, price at RM12.50. The Ramen is serve with milky soup base, 3 pieces of Gyoza, 1/2 piece of boil egg , bean sprouts & seaweed. The Ramen is the thinny ones, some what like the angel hair spaghetti noodles.

You can add chilli oil, chili spices and shallot flakes to your dish to enhance the taste. Truly speaking, the ramen seems tasteless without adding these.

After adding the spices and chilli oil, turns out to this.

This is another set of Mix grill with salmon, chicken slice, beef slice and tauhu. The sets comes with a bowl of white rice and miso soup. Priced at RM18.90.
Here's a closer picture of the dish. The beef and chicken slice is tasty with its marinated sauce. But the salmon seems a bit too dry.

If you were to ask me for 3rd time to step in to this shop..I really do need think for triple time (not twice). The shop gives me a bad experience as i seldom gets additional stuff in my dish before. I have spotted a thinny hair in my Ramen at first, thinking that its just a thinny one. It's ok. In my 2nd attempt, oh my god. There's another longer one. No No No. But the staff were helpful enough to change me another new one in speed. Sorry to say no picture taken.