Xiao Fei Yang, Damansara Uptown

Last month, me and some friends planned to have dinner at a Mongolian steamboat place in KL........well, that didn't happen. So we ended up in the new Xiao Fei Yang restaurant at Damansara Uptown.

When you walk into the restaurant, you would notice that the place is very clean! Even the utensils are all wrapped in cling film. We ordered the 2 soup combo, one is herbalish and the other spicy-ish.

All wrapped up

Appetizers and chili

2 kinds of soup

What we ordered

Still frozen pork liver

Full of steamboat goodness

After and before. Somekind of noodle that comes out transparent after cooking

The bill

The food was great, but on the pricey side. The bill as you can see came out in Chinese. We tried to ask for a translation or an English version one, but alas, they couldn't do it for us. So the bananas that we are, just paid up.

Thistle, Port Dickson

Two weeks ago, me and the bf decided to have a short trip someplace nearby. The bf surprised me by bringing me to Thistle, Port Dickson (used to be Guoman). We went on a Sunday, so it wasn't too crowded.

On the way to PD, we stopped by Seremban to have brunch at the market. Yep, the market! They have fabulous beef noodles there. Tried it the first time during my college days, and ever since we always try to make a point to stop there for the noodles when we are in Seremban.





Being in Seremban brought me back to my college days. We used to travel from Nilai to Seremban by train and then walk all the way to Terminal 1 for some shopping or to catch a bus. :D

After brunch, we continued our way to PD. Thistle is quite a ways away from the town area, tuck away nicely in a secluded area with its own private beach.




Turns out Thistle has been opened for 377 days only! It is a nice place to sit back, relax and enjoy the facilities. They have a few restaurants, games, a huge pool and a private area for adults with a smaller pool and bar, called Cumulus. Nice!




The room we stayed in had a great view of the pool and the sea. The room was nicely decorated and really cosy. The only flaw was the bathtub, it was kinda old and dirty looking. That's the only complaint I have of the whole place.







After checking out the room, we headed to Cumulus, for a swim in the pool. It was too sunny to go down to the beach, so the pool was a better and shadier alternative. The pool was next to the beach anyways, so we could watch other people going on the jet skis, banana boats and speedboats.



We lazed around till evening and then headed out to find a place to eat. We actually wanted to go to a Mexican restaurant, but turns out it was closed. So we just randomly picked another spot for dinner. The food was quite alright (too much lemon grass in the dishes for my liking) and reasonably priced.

It was back to the hotel after that. We walked around the hotel for a bit and took some photos of the place.

Then we headed back to Cumulus for a drink and to watch the live band. The performance was not bad. 3 out of 4 can sing pretty well. :P





Well, that was pretty much what we did at Thistle. We left the next day after breakfast. A great place for a relaxing weekend getaway.

A porky lunch buffet

As you can see, this is not a halal post :)

On weekdays, Bavarian Bierhaus serves a buffet lunch for RM25++ per person. This may sound like any other buffet, but they do have this special item on the menu.


One fine day, I was on leave, so I picked the bf up from his office and drove to Bavarian Bierhaus at The Curve. Once seated, we were served their soup of the day. I think ours was some kind of pea soup? Kinda icky, not tasty at all.


We then attacked the buffet table. The selection of buffet dishes are only a few, consisting of some cold cuts, sausages, spaghetti and mash. Nothing special here rite?

Buffet fair

And then they take out their secret weapon, The Pork Knuckle! We were served just one, but it was a very generous portion.

The Pork Knuckle, before

A form of measurement

Tucking in

After..........actually still got a lot of meat on the other side

We couldn't finish the pork knuckle, and being the considerate people we are, *ahem*, we offered to generously take-away the pork knuckle. But alas, we were not allowed to do so. So we purposely asked the waitress if they are just going to throw it away to waste? They said 'Yes'.
Geez......so wasteful. :P

Ooooh, Baby!

Sometime back a friend brought us to this seafood place called Restoran Baby Seafood in Klang, at Batu Belah (i noticed a school nearby). The food was great, so we went back again last weekend.

When you walk in, you would notice that everyone is eating their signature fish......dish. It's sort of a Teochew-Thai style. It's unique cause it's served hot with burning charcoal below the dish. It's a must-order. Firstly, a bowl of hot broth will be served. The broth is delicious to drink on its on, but it's mainly for us to top-up on the fish. The broth becomes thick and tasty after a while of simmering on the hot plate.

Ze broth

Ze yummy yummy fish

They also have their signature vege dish. It comes in a thick gravy with slices of ham, salted egg yolk and scallops!! Lots of scallops!

Ze vege swimming in gravy

Another delicious dish would be their Thai style fried tofu. The tofu is crispy on the outside and smoooooth on the inside. This would be one of the few times I like tofu. An honour really.

Look Ma! I'm eating tofu!

Next is the Nestum mantis prawn. The cereal is really tasty and crunchy. We also had the pandan chicken, which was nothing to shout about.

Mantis prawn. Yum yum.

Chicken all wrapped up in pandan leaves

Lastly, we had the stuffed chicken. It was filled with ham and some vege. Quite nice really.

Ze stuffed chicken

Overall the food here is really good. Do go earlier as the place tends to get packed at dinner time. It opens at 6, so it's safe to be there around 6 plus. And go with more friends, so you can sample more dishes. Would definitely go back again for their fish and to try other dishes.

A Saturday Post

Ok, so maybe that's not a very interesting title for a post. Oh well, just ranting here about what I did today. I realise i don't 'talk' much in my blog anymore, it's always with pictures nowadays.

My morning started out at 9am, when me and the bf went for breakfast at a shop nearby. Ate a 'char siew pau' while watching the replay of the Spain and Chile match. Only managed to catch Spain's first goal.

After breakfast we went back home to chill out for a while. I played 'Flower' on the PS3. It's this interesting game where you are the wind and you're blowing flower petals around. Your mission is to blow the wind close to other flowers and gather more and more petals. Sometimes after blowing around a cluster of flowers you will cause effects like bring colour to previously dull fields or starting windmills. It's quite fun. Had to stop my game when the bf's friend came over and they started playing Red Dead Redemption. It's sort of like a cowboy kind of GTA (Grand Theft Auto). Sorry if you don't know what I've been talking about so far, please Google. (Reminds me of a scene in Hot Tub Time Machine, funny show btw, where Google was named Lougle instead).

Noon came along and I went out with friends for lunch and then a movie at Tropicana City Mall. It proved to be a free-gifts day there. We had lunch at Otak-Otak Place and after we paid for the meal they gave us free coffee sachets. A brand called Cafe Up, which is coffee with Tongkat Ali (I just realised why it's named Up!), Gano? and Ginseng Extract. Hmmm...wonder what it would taste like. After lunch, we had a spot of shopping......well, I did a spot of shopping. We then went to catch our movie. When collecting the tickets, we were given Loreal Hair Mask! Another free gift! Watched Sex And The City 2. I thought the storyline was kinda draggy. Too much unnecessary stuff. It was still as vulgar and hilarious, though I think I prefer the first movie.

It was back to home after the movie. Surf net a lil and then had my dinner. Made my own tortilla pizza. I watched 'Enchanted' again while eating my dinner. Enchanted is one of the movies that really turned out better than expected. Really enjoyed the movie when I first watched it few years back. My favourite scene was when Giselle and Robert was at Central Park and Giselle started singing That's How You Know. Loved just how Giselle started the whole musical thing with everyone in the park.

So now that the movie's over, I'm here blogging about my day. I hear shouts of 'Gooooallll!!' from football fans below. Their watching the Uruguay and Korea match and the score is 1-1 now.

So I'll leave you all with the clip from Enchanted. Enjoy!

Things you should not throw in the toilet

It's quite common to see some posters in the toilet, telling you what you should not throw into the toilet. The common things would be litter, sanitary pads and then they would caution you not to squat on top of the toilet bowl.

Check out this poster stumbled upon in the toilet of a MNC company:

What is that last item??? Looks like a voodoo doll with glowing eyes....ooOOOooo... Or is it a baby? Why did they put such an image to classify as 'anything else'?? Hilarious!