Drools alert!!

One month and nothing can be heard from me. By this rate, there would only be less than ten posts in a year. I have plans to go on a long vacation - which exact date and duration have yet to be determined. Mom have been voicing out her wish to get me back to school. Both can only be done if I am to work in another place.
And that also means more time to get my thoughts out here.

All this while I can only soothe myself with food. Yeah, Operation Getting Me Fat. I have two partners in crime now.

Partner A is as adventurous, eat as much (sometimes more) and have a penchant for Korean/Japanese same like me. So we go to eat sushi and Korean food, plus everything else we'd feel like having. But she has yet to get permission to go out of this state.

So that's where Partner B comes in. She can join me for outstation excursion(s) - making me a happy kid when I can eat all those things not available here.

Lunch at Nandos today

Three cheese spinach lasagna

Pizza lover's request

Seafood curry something

Salmon sushi

Ikea meatballs

Love this Double Choc latte

Sukiya's teriyaki chicken rice

My current wish is to have my own food program. I don't even need payment, just give me all the food for free ;D
I'm craving for Salmon sushi now. -__-

East Coast

It had been one month since the trip to the East Coast, and what makes it funny is that we didn't even take the scenic coastal route. I really miss the long stretch of coconut trees and the expected bright fires at the Kerteh area. Again, it also means that I did not have any chance to eat the fried seafood I've been wanting to stomach since forever.

But all we did was eat and eat. But we forgot to go eat at Kedai Nasi Kak Wok, and I just realized it when fellow Instagrammer posted a photo. Well, save it for next time then.

One of my favorite was Nasi Ulam Cikgu, Kampung Kraftangan.

And of course, the yummy kueh spread at Pasar Siti Khadijah.

The trip also made me eat a lot more when I came back. *sigh*

east

I already told my manager last month that I need extra rest days because of this trip, and he was okay with it. I was excited ever since then, but felt the days could have gone faster so I can be away from work and have fun..eating. Yeah, that was what I planned long ago and that was what I did there.

We didn't reach Kelantan on the first day. The journey started from home, then to Shah Alam and then we headed to KL. After I finished taking care of things there, which was around 1 in the afternoon, only did we head to Kuantan and onwards. We decided to stop for the night in Kuala Terengganu, which was great because the next morning I got my fill of Akok gula pasir, Akok gula merah and another type of kueh that I don't know the name, at Pasar Payang. I go crazy whenever there is an array of kueh waiting to be picked by me :p

Then we continued the drive towards Kelantan and picked up my sister. We had vegetarian lunch because my sister loves to eat that at the cafeteria. We walked around Bazar Buluh Kubu after we had some rest and mom bought Batik shirts for my brother. That night we went to Wakaf Che Yeh and it was totally different from the last time I went there. It was packed with people because the next day was Friday and they don't have to work. I felt suffocated having to walk at narrow alleys with people bumping into each other all the time. I didn't really look at the stuff there after a while, I was trying to figure out which way we came from.

This photo was taken the next morning, after breakfast at Pasar Siti Khadijah. We went there quite late, and I didn't see any Akok at the stall near the stairs. Only Bahulu was left. If not, I'd surely buy some from the lady.

After that we spent some time at KB Mall, then back to the hotel for a nap before going out again. This time we went to the night market near my sister's campus. There were so many food that I wanted to try. But we could end up wasting them, so I tried very hard not to be tempted by everything :p There's this kueh which has yam cubes in rice flour and wrapped in a leaf, which made it looked a bit like kueh koci..it was so nice.

 

where else can we get coconut shake with this price?

 

love the one with grated coconut filling

The next morning we bought even more kueh for breakfast. It was the best holiday for me, especially since there's no telling if it's the last one for a long time after this. We stopped at the Crystal mosque because I've never been there. Yeah, lame I know.

Another stop was at Kampung Geliga, Kemaman for satar and otak-otak. And so we were done with the stops along the journey. Maybe I really should move to the east coast..hehe.

worth it or not?

I already planned on going to eat at Crystal Bay's ikan bakar when I heard my brother's coming back home. But mom wanted to try the one in Muar. Sabak Awor, to be precise.

After getting lost for a bit (because we have no idea of the exact location of the place), we finally found the place - dad went to ask a person by the roadside, and mom called her colleague. So we headed to Wak Jos' - a little bit further ahead from the Medan Selera Ikan Bakar Sabak Awor.

Image via dunia mayaku

We chose the seafood and waited for our food. Then I saw the sign for satay. Hehe. What can I say? I just love food. You can also order different types of fried rice and noodles, unlike the places that we used to frequent here.
We have to wait quite some time for our food to arrive, especially because there were many other customers.

But, the total bill was very cheap compared to the ikan bakar joints here. The food taste nice too. It's just a little farther away from our house, it took us a 30-minute drive to reach there.

p/s: Looking at Yusry and Lisa's solemnization pix wistfully..huhu.

bummer

I had been imagining the yumminess (does that word even exist?) of the curry laksa after reading about it so many times at kak Peej's blog. And then there were also posts about them reducing the portions of food, but I was hopeful that they'll be good (as in being generous) when this outlet is new.

So I went to the PappaRich in Melaka Raya with my brother on this very day when I don't have to work. I hate going the same way that I use to go to work every single day, and would usually head somewhere else if I want to go out - but today was an exception. All for PappaRich, and they had to let me down.

The only time I went to PappaRich before was with one of my friends when I visited her a year ago (if I remebered well). We shared Roti Bakar Susu as we already bought sandwiches for lunch. That Roti Bakar Susu was so delicious and they were very generous with the condensed milk. We looked at other tables having delicious food, and I somewhat wished for them to open one outlet in Melaka.

Yet I didn't have time to go there for a meal even after they've been opened for quite some time.
So after putting it off long enough, I drag my brother there. I didn't even need the menu, I could just say what I wanted to eat. So I chose those two dishes and brother picked the chicken rice. Everything was a let down. The Roti Bakar Susu was a far cry from the one I had back then. I couldn't even tell it was Roti Bakar Susu when I looked at it.

The chicken rice portion was so small, and they give some kind of seafood broth to go with it (I'm not sure what it was, actually).

And don't even get me started with the curry laksa, they put in two small parts of chicken wings - totally different from what I expected.

All that for the sacrifice I did (I gave up sleep to go out and eat there..huhu).
Then while I was waiting for my brother who went to catch a movie, I hung out at my work place - every single day I went to work. So much love for work??
I was very sleepy, though and I think people passing by can even see me yawning (or rather, trying to stop yawning) :p

munching nonstop

Just because my sister told me I'm kinda thinner now (compared to the time when I haven't started working and doing nothing at home other than lying down in front of the telly), I am eating a lot these days. Yikes. I need to slow down a bit, but there's too much food lying around the house calling out to me :p

My sister is scheduled to go back to her uni tomorrow after the week off from classes. I hope I'll be able to curb this big appetite somehow and not make another surprise for my sister when she comes back again (by gaining weight this time..haha).

The only thing I didn't get to do is having our usual sisters time (or maybe siblings time - because of our youngest brother) of going to watch a movie and spending money on things we don't really need at the mall.

We went to JB to have a late lunch with our brother - it was our parents' first time eating at Seoul Garden, coz us siblings used to go there on weekdays for the students' rate..hehe. The City Square's SG and Mahkota Parade's SG each have their own pros and cons.

 

Then when I got a day off on the second day of CNY, we went for a picnic by the lakeside behind the zoo. I miss Taiping, very very much. *Sigh*. I want to have a picnic by the lakeside in Taiping. After the picnic, we stopped by the mall for a while and caught a glimpse of a group of people performing acrobatic which I think went on for nearly everyday for some time.

look at that girl folding her body..huhu, I'm scared just by looking