Puppy For Adoption (Free)

Anyone in the Ipoh area wants to adopt a puppy? Meet Hazel. Someone abandoned her at a back lane and we rescued her. She is 4 to 5 weeks old and has gotten her first vaccination today from Dr Ranjit Kaur of JR Veterinary Centre in Ipoh Garden South, Ipoh. She is now being fostered by a family in Ipoh Garden. Those who are interested in adopting Hazel can contact this email address
       LoveAllAnimals68@gmail.com
It's free, by the way. She will be vaccinated and neutered before her foster family hands her over to her new owner. They would not be charging a single cent. All they want is a good home for Hazel.
Remember.......a pet is forever.

My name is Hazel

How can anyone dump this adorable little puppy, hah?

Restoran Old Generation, Ipoh

On a whim, we decided to drop by at Restoran Old Generation for a steamboat buffet dinner. Not many people around even though it was a Saturday night. Quite a large spread they have there. There's the usual steamboat ingredients plus a small selection of sushi, some fried yong liu, roast duck, roast pork, roast chicken, soup and lamb chop. Not forgetting the drinks, fruits, jellies and ice creams. Additionally, they also have a serving each per customer of sharks' fin (yup....I know, it not the done thing to eat sharks' fin) and suckling pig (it's not right to eat babies). Overall, the food wasn't too bad although the sharks' fin was tasteless and some of the fried yong liu tasted quite weird. Don't know why. 50% discount for senior citizens though.
Restoran Old Generation is a corner lot at Jalan Lapangan Siber 10, Bandar Cyber, Ipoh.

Lamb Chop

The sushi counter

Yong liu and steamboat ingredients

The roasts

BBQ prawn

Hong Kong Kim Gary Restaurant, Ipoh

Feeling hungry after a morning of shopping, we went into Hong Kong Kim Gary Restaurant for lunch. Wow, full house but we were lucky to find an empty table. The ordering process is messy, lor. We were given a folder filled with all sorts of different note pads with the names of the food served printed on them. Why can't they just print everything in one note pad instead of a different note pad for different categories of food, hah? Sorting out whose order belongs to which note pad is so maddening especially when you are famished. Anyway, Dad's order of roasted honey spare ribs with chinese mushroom rice is dry as a bone and not tasty at all while Mum's order of the E-mix set meal is equally not good. Meanwhile, the order of baked chicken wings with cheese is given the thumbs up by sis while my order of cheese and bacon baked with potato was not bad either. Ermm.......don't think there's going to be a repeat visit from us, heh.
Hong Kong Kim Gary Restaurant is located inside AEON Ipoh Station 18.

E-mix set meal

Roasted honey spare ribs with chinese mushroom rice

Baked chicken wings with cheese

Cheese and bacon baked with potato

Honey pomelo tea

Fresh lemon ribena ice blended

Food For Thought (35)

I think if we know how to worry about someone or something, it is a good thing as it shows we care buut.........too much of worrying is not good.

Fish Head Noodles, Penang

On a visit to Penang, our driver took us to Wong Chau Jun Restaurant at Jalan Rangoon for a lunch of fish head noodles. Wah......one of the best fish head noodles I've ever tasted. I love it that it doesn't have a fishy smell and taste unlike some fish head noodles I've tried. The soup is full of flavour. A perfect blend of spicy and sour with a hint of lemongrass flavour. Yum, yum. The fish, too, is fresh and tasty. Just thinking about it makes my saliva flow.

Kedai Makan Choy Kee, Sungkai

On our way back from Kuala Lumpur one weekend, we detoured to Kedai Makan Sungkai to 'ta pau' (takeaway) their very popular braised pork knuckles. If you are not planning to eat it on the same day, better get  a frozen one. The meat is tender and full of flavour and it is not oily either. Perhaps the cooking method has removed most of the oil from the pork knuckle??? And.....the sauce......ooohh, I love the sauce, especially poured over my rice. Perfect blend of ingredients. Yum, yum.
Kedai Makan Choy Kee is located at Jalan Besar, Sungkai.

Food For Thought (34)

We are teaching our girls how to avoid rape but are we teaching our boys not to rape????? Which is more important???? Hmmm..........

Mua Chee, Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur

Seeing a crowd at the mua chee stall while nosing around Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur, we decided to join the crowd. After all, a crowd at a food stall usually means the food there is good, right? So, we bought a pack of mixed flavours mua chee to share. Even though it is supposed to be a mixture of six flavours, none of us could tell the difference between them. Something wrong with our taste buds????? Anyway, flavours aside, the texture of the mua chee is good. Slightly chewy and not too soft or too hard. Good.

A Message

To Hasihin Sanawi :

Congratulations on winning a silver medal for the men's individual recurve W1/W2 at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Keep up the good work.

Aberdeen Cafe, Ipoh

In conjunction with Mother's Day (I know, it's long gone), we went for lunch at Aberdeen Cafe at Jalan Medan Ipoh 3, Bandar Baru Medan Ipoh. Dad's order of Oriental Fried Rice was quite good, he said. Tasty with enough 'wok hei'. Meanwhile, Mum liked her Wat Tan Hor too. Just 'ngam' for her. The gravy was not too watery and neither was it too thick. Not starchy either. The Tuna Red Spaghetti got the thumbs up from sis. Yum, yum. My order of Assam Laksa was 'hou sik' buuttt......this must be the spiciest Assam Laksa I have ever tasted and I am someone who chews on chilli padies (is there such a word......plural for chilli padi?) Made my whole mouth burn leh. But I still liked it, heh. I have a feeling this will be my favourite item in the menu.

Oriental Fried Rice

Assam Laksa

Wat Tan Hor

Tuna Red Spaghetti

Observations Of A Food Blob (8)

Have you ever noticed (if you haven't already) that lately, some of our very learned judges have been spouting rubbish when it comes to statutory rape. Statutory rape is statutory rape with or without consent, big age gap or not. Yikes...........do our learned judges concerned even understand the term statutory rape, double yikes!! The perpetrators are young and are supposed to have a bright future, you know. Indeed????? Huh!!! A rapist does not deserve a future, bright or otherwise. Public interest, some more lah......... Did I miss something here? What public interest when the very public is outraged??? I wonder if the judges who presided over the two statutory rape cases that has been causing such an uproar amongst the public would want their under age daughters, granddaughters, sisters, nieces or female cousins to have sex at such a young age. Ha??? Hmmmm....... Errrrr........ Erm......

Food For Thought (33)

Err.....shouldn't I make the effort to ensure you don't misunderstand me?????

Kedai Kopi Dong Long, Ipoh

Having read in the newspaper of this place in Ipoh old town, we headed out to look for it one Sunday. Found it quite easily. We ordered some yong tau foo (apparently, these are homemade), a dry and also soup version of fresh water prawn curry noodles, a dry curry noodle plus a chicken slice curry noodle. Erm.....all the curry noodles tasted the same to us. The only difference among them are the accompaniments. Same goes for the dry versions. Taste wise, let's just say, we've tasted better ones elsewhere. As for the yong tau foo.....well.....we don't quite like it. The stuffing is too bland and soft for us. No more repeats for us as far as this place is concerned. But you can try and judge for yourself lor. As the saying goes.......one man's meat is another man's poison, heh.
Kedai Kopi Dong Long us located at Jalan Sultan Yussuf in Ipoh Old Town.

Fresh water prawns dry curry noodles

Fresh water prawns curry noodles

Chicken slice curry noodles

Yong tau foo

Dry curry noodles

Restoran Moon De Moon, Ipoh

Having heard of this coffee shop somewhere in Taman Mirindy, we decided to check it out one Saturday. Not many stalls there. Only the curry noodles stall together with a fried noodles stall. Dad ordered the fried noodles 'kap tai' although it didn't look like 'kap tai' to us. Only a few small prawns with a few pieces of fish cake. Dad said it didn't taste good. Mum didn't like her order of dried curry noodles too. Too gluey, she said. My order of chicken koay teow soup was disappointing too. Looked like chicken koay teow soup but didn't taste like it. Not going back to this place again. But....you don't have to agree with us lah.
Restoran Moon De Moon is located at the corner of Selasar Tebing Kinta 5 and Hala Wah Keong in Taman Mirindy near Kampung Simee, Ipoh.

Psst....sorry about the quality of the photos. Took them with the camera of my little handphone.

Looks can be deceiving, no?

Too starchy

Doesn't look like 'kap tai' to us

A Message

To Pandelela Rinong Pamg :

Congratulations on winning Malaysia's first ever diving medal. Good job. Keep it up.

Spasso Milano, Kuala Lumpur

As we were feeling peckish while nosing around Pavillion in Kuala Lumpur, we hopped into Spasso Milano for their antipasti buffet lunch. Ooooh.....the roast pork is goody goody. So is their roast chicken. The garlic bread is not bad either. Same goes for the saltcake and vegetable frittata. Mum said the pumpkin soup is yum yum while sis gave the thums up for the asparagus soup. Actually all the antipasti offered are good but it is the desserts which are to die for. The cakes are creamy, fluffy and best of all................not too sweet. The different flavoured ice creams too are worth a few helpings. Makes me salivate just thinking about the desserts and I don't have a sweet tooth......not a single one, no siree.
Spasso Milano is located at Level 6 of Pavillion, Kuala Lumpur.

A Message

To Datuk Lee Chong Wei :

Whether you won the gold medal or not is not important. What you managed to do was even more priceless than the gold medal. You managed to bring all Malaysians together irrespective of race and religion to cheer for you as a representative of Malaysia. Two thumbs up to you. Well done.

(FYI: I am not a fan. Just a casual observer who is not even interested in badminton.)

A Suggestion

Punishment for the Somali and friends who threw the little dog down the manhole and this includes the one who recorded the whole episode (whether the little dog is still alive as claimed.........or not is irrelevant) :
As the saying goes : Do unto others what you want others to do unto you. So, do unto them what they did unto the little dog. Throw them down the manhole too and leave them there for a week. After that kick them back to where they come from and blacklist them so that they can never ever step foot onto Malaysian soil again.
I absolutely detest animal and child abusers. Makes me want to go after them and deal with them............. my way.

Observations Of A Food Blob (7)

Have you ever wondered (if you haven't already) why ordinary folks are always forced to wait for their turn for whatever while those privileged folks can just swan over to the front of the queue? Does this mean ordinary folks are not important? And why are these privileged folks allowed to jump queue in the first place? Would I do the same thing - allow queue jumping, I mean? No, I won't. I once told off a Puan Sri for trying to use her title to jump queue and showed her my badge so that she can make a complaint to my manager if she wanted to. I also pointed her to the direction of the management office in case she got lost or something. So, no, I don't allow queue jumping from anyone. Btw, that Puan Sri didn't lodge any complaints, in case you are wondering.

Kafe Teen, Ipoh

As it's been quite a while since we patronise Kafe Teen, we decided to go there for breakfast one Saturday morning. According to Dad, his order of prawn noodles was quite disappointing. No 'prawny' taste. Looks can be deceiving, heh? Sis'order of Siamese fried bee hoon with chicken rendang from the Malay lady was not bad but a bit on the expensive side lor. My order of chee cheong fun was not to my liking at all. Aiyah, gluey, lah. Why must some people put so much starch into the sauce, hah? Something which I hate.
Kafe Teen is located behind Domino's Pizza in Medan Ipoh Bistari.

Prawn Noodles

Siamese Fried Bee Hoon with Chicken Rendang

Chee Cheong Fun

In Memory Of Sabrina Yeap

Restoran Nasi Kandar Nasmir, Ipoh

The aunt got a sudden craving for mutton curry and so.......off we go to the nearest nasi kandar shop. Restoran Nasi Kandar Nasmir at Jalan Medan Ipoh 2, Bandar Baru Medan Ipoh opposite Tesco.My order of squid curry, fried chicken and stir fry long beans with the rice flooded with all sorts curry gravy was 'hou sik'. The squid was not chewy at all and the fried chicken was good too. As for the stir fry long beans, it was done just the way I like it; the long beans being nice and crunchy. The aunt's and dad's order of mutton curry with cabbages got the thumbs up from both of them. The mutton was tender while the cabbages were sweet and crunchy. Ho chiak.

Squid curry, fried chicken & stir fry long beans

Rose syrup (my favourite drink)

Special Dedication

To the late Sabrina Yeap, founder of Furry Friends Farm :


The world has lost a true champion and a hero. Your successor(s) has a very big pair of shoes to fill. You did extremely well in your short time here on Earth. Please continue to look out for your furry friends from your place in Heaven. God Bless.

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Lot 10 Hutong, Kuala Lumpur

After spending the whole morning shopping at the Bukit Bintang area, we decided to pop into Lot 10 Hutong for lunch. Yikes! Lots of people already. Ahhh......finally managed to find an empty table after walking round and round and round. Err......what to order ah? Okay, Penang Assam Laksa from Chua Brothers (Stall H3). Wow, almost as good as in Penang. A bit spicy for some but.....not for me, heh, heh. Ho chiak. How about Duck Egg Penang Char Koay Teow from Yummy M & M (didn't get the stall number. Sorry.)? Hou sik. One of the best char koay teow outside Penang. Spicy too. Just my cup of tea, hah.Why not try the Imbi Road Pork Noodles (Stall H8A)? Yum, yum. Prefer the dry version more than the soup version. Don't know why.

Duck Egg Penang Char Koay Teow

Penang Assam Laksa

Imbi Road Pork Noodles

Gua Tempurung and Char Koay Teow, Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur

On a recent trip to Kuala Lumpur, we stopped by at Gua Tempurung to check out the place. On first sight, the area was OK but when we reached the ticket counter, we were surprised to find it closed. It was already 9.30 a.m. and there, written very clearly on the signboard, was a notice telling all and sundry that the place is supposed to open at 9.00 a.m. After 10 minutes, another place opened and surprise, surprise..........they were selling tickets from there. Anyway, after purchasing our tickets, we were told to wait for the ranger to take us into the cave. After 10 minutes of waiting, we were finally told to follow another ranger who was taking a huge group of people who were taking the whole tour (yup, the one where you have to squeeze in and out and between small cracks and get thoroughly wet). As our group has aged members, we took the easy tour ie part way only. So, we were left to our own devices while the ranger was very much far ahead with his group. What impression this will give to tourists, I don't know. But, the place is beautiful. This, nobody can deny. Only the service is somewhat lacking............as usual.

Anyway, as it was almost time for lunch when we reached Kuala Lumpur, we decided to stop for lunch in Chinatown (yup, I know, Chinatown again) before proceeding to our hotel. Having decided on Tang City Food Court at Jalan Hang Lekir, we set about ordering our lunch. Koon Kee Wantan Noodles and Penang Char Koay Teow. The char koay teow arrived in a jiffy. They are willing to fry the noodles with chilli, so, they are in my good books already. That aside, the char koay teow was yum, yum. Very tasty and flavourful. Enough 'wok hei', you know, and not too dry. Could easily eat another plate if my tummy wasn't full already, heh, heh.

Observations Of a Food Blob (6)

Have you ever wondered (if you haven't already), how some people can bring themselves to abuse defenceless children and animals and bully those who are perceived to be weaker than them? What is wrong with these people? Don't tell me it is due to stress or some other nonsense. I know a lot of people who are very stressed out or are carrying a heavy burden on their shoulders and yet they don't go around abusing children and animals and bullying those who are weaker than them. In fact, these people even go out of their way to help those who are less fortunate than them. Why don't those abusers and bullies go and pick on someone their own size? Cowards. I think the most suitable punishment for those who do these kind of despicable things is to do to them what they did to their victims. Agree with me?