Journey to Aussie Land.. - Fun in Gold Coast



Gold Coast - Quiet and breezy weather made our walk around the city comfortable
















Yummy-licious food we explored



Sea World - Gold Coast



Movie World... it was great fun to the max...

A Quiet & Relaxed New Year

Happy New Year 2012!!


New Year’s here…had a long New Year’s holiday. 1st of January, we stayed home, decided the night before that we shall stay home the whole day, didn’t want to go crowd up with people. So, we still need to eat and we went and get ingredients for the little home cooked feast on New Year’s Day Roasted chicken wings and tea were served for lunch, I had marinated it the day before, and the flavor was great. The ingredients to marinate was real simple, some cooking wine, sesame oil, ginger wine, oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt and pepper to taste. While roasting, basted some honey on it to make it a little sweet and golden brown. Had a compliment from J, he said the taste was just nice, not too salty not too sweet. The flesh was tender and juicy… Awww… thanks a million for that. *shy & blush*.


Lazed around for a few hours and it was time to prepare dinner. We had steak with coleslaw and tomatoes for dinner. Marinated the steak with BBQ sauce, Chivas, butter, salt and pepper, a little sugar and honey. The steak was cooked well-done, he doesn’t like medium well so I shall just follow suit. It took about 20 minutes to cook in the oven, 5 minutes before the steak was cooked; I popped in the tomatoes to bake it a little. It turned out quite well as to what I expected


So, there goes my New Year’s first home cooked meal.

Dinner at Home on Sunday

It was a sunday morning when we woke up and decided to stay home the whole day. With this,it was time to put my cooking skills to the test again. I was like a little mouse digging through my little fridge and found some ingredients which was sufficient to put up 2 meals,lunch and dinner. Lunch was simple, pan fry baby potaoes with cheese and a baked fish with lemon and seasoning. It took about 80 minutes to properly cook the fish, and when i checked it out, it turned out peefectly. The taste of it was nice, the lemon worked its way and covered the 'fishy' smell while the seasoning brought out the freshest taste of the fish with its juicy flesh flaking up easily with just a scrape of our forks. The pan fry potatoes were delicious, with the sprinkles of some chilli flakes, it sends a slight tingling of spiciness to our toungues. Prepared an asian dinner in 60 minutes. We had sweet and spicy crabs and stir fry okra in spicy prawn paste (a.k.a lady's finger to malaysians). The crabs was delicious. It's my first time cooking crabs and i can say i'm quite satisfied with the output. The taste was all just nice, sweet, salty, spicy all just right, nothing too much and nothing too little. We enjoyed our dinner, and we got our fingers dirty without others looking on. Normally if we have crabs in restaurants, we will try our best to use as few fingers as we poasibly can to peel and crack and eat our crabs while being polite and decent. So, at home, we just didnt need to bother about glares from the other table and feel shy or embarrassed. It was a day of home cooked food me and fed the man and happy to see his satisfied look and tummy.

Giveaway - BubCap Home Button Covers

While I was reading through imafulltimemummy's blog (http://www.imafulltimemummy.com/) I came across this great giveaway and it's opened to the whole world. Can you imagine it? opened to the world as long as you have an Internet access, and fortunate enough to stumble upon this blog of hers... Yes, advertisements are a great source... Anyway, back to my story. While reading through those posts of hers, my eyes spotted a great giveaway. Since she said it's opened to all, without thinking twice, I clicked away to add my entry into her database.

This is an interesting product, imagine myself touching on the only button on my iPhone extremely often, what if i have this protector to protect my phone and slows down the wear and tear process, i shall let my luck do the job. So, my fingers are crossed and just hope my luck is activated and i can lay my hands on this super-duper product...

So, that's all about it, BubCap is current having this great product to protect the HOME button on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch...

Here's the link to the giveaway http://www.imafulltimemummy.com/post/2011/06/01/Giveaway-BubCap-Home-Button-Covers.aspx

Hurry and waste no more time...

Tony Roma’s @ The Curve

I was talking to my high school classmate the other day and one topic was about food. When it comes to food, I can go on and on without getting bored, and by then, my imaginations will go crazy, picturing sumptuous meals and a diversified option of food will be spinning in my mind.

I decided to go for dinner at Tony Roma’s as my taste buds were demanding for steaks and something from the Western menu. My man went with the flow and there we were, at Tony Roma’s having our dinner

First came the little loaf of bread with a small scoop of better and herbs, it was catching at first but I held my tongue for the entrée and main dish. We had a little chat and sipping a cold beer while waiting for our food.

Woo-hoo, entrée’s here, onion rings coiled up to 3 inches high with special barbecue sauce, chicken wings marinated in honey, and baked potatoes with bacon and herbs. The onion rings were perfect, but it had excess coz we couldn’t finish it, the chicken was great but a little bit too sweet and the potatoes were a little too dry… however, it was delicious enough that we directed them into our tummies.

Then, there came our mains, three pieces of filet medallions and a strip of ribs to complete the dish. The filets were cooked medium well which kept the texture and richness of the dish and the ribs were silky smooth. Perfect is the word.

To end my post as usual, here goes the pic

Sunday Brunch @ Dome, The Curve

It's was Sunday afternoon and we (a.k.a. my man and I) decided to go for a lunch date at a cafe and the first place that struck my mind was to Dome, The Curve.

The weather was really hot and humid during the day but despite the hot weather, we quickly prepared ourselves and within 20 minutes, we were on our way to our destination. We were seated comfortably at the corner of the cafe and ordered our food.

My man and I spent quality time together while enjoying our meals. The food that we ordered were great, the soup was really rich and creamy, the salad was up to taste and the pasta tasted just nice. However, the portion of the pasta was a little too small but anyway, the taste was great enough to savour.

Here you go, photos to tell it all with a glance...

Genji @ PJ Hilton

In January this year, I attended my company’s annual dinner and I was lucky enough to land my hands on some dining vouchers at PJ Hilton. After some casual research done with the help of the oh-so-informative internet, I finally decided to go for a Japanese buffet with my man at Genji Japanese Restaurant at the hotel.

We made earlier reservation and on a Sunday, we went over to start our relaxed and slow paced buffet lunch. The variety of food was ok but I didn’t really eat much coz I felt full that very day. The price for buffet lunch is at RM89++ and for buffet dinner, it’s at RM99++.

The buffet spread was 80% Japanese cuisine and the remaining was western. You name it; they most likely will have it. I had my fair share of sashimi and fresh oyster to start off. Followed by grilled unagi, tempura, sushi, baby octopus, tepenyaki, steamed egg, and last of all, ice cream for dessert.

The sashimi is fresh, but they sliced it a little weird, it’s a little small sized compared to the normal salmon shashimi which other places served. Overall, the sashimi is fine. The butterfish sashimi was also delicious, the plus point of Genji was, they had sweet teriyaki sauce available, so for those who don’t really like the normal shoyu salty sauce, you can opt for the sweet sauce instead.

The oysters were fresh, but I didn’t eat much of it. Lots of people lining up just to get themselves sufficient portions of fresh oysters, by the time its my turn to pick, it’s either all gone or only those thin and shrank sizes of oysters left.

The steamed egg (a.k.a. chawanmushi) was nothing great, it was too hard, most likely, they steamed it too long and made the whole thing hard. Of course, not rock hard, but to me, my perception and expectations of chawanmushi must be wobbly enough when scooped but, at Genji, it wasn’t wobbly, it was firm…

There were varieties of sushi and hand rolls, didn’t wanted to invest my stomach on those coz its rice, if I eat those, then I wont have enough space to try out other stuff. Sushi that day are fine, however, the salmon was very thinly sliced for the salmon sushi, so, rather go for sashimi instead.

Next was the tempura stop, they have a variety of vegetables and prawn tempura. It was a hit that day, the chefs cant even cook it on time, and everyone was already lining up to fill their plates with prawn tempura. I managed to get only 4, so my man and I each had 2. we didn’t want to join the crowd, so we just watched the people in line waiting anxiously for the tempura to be scooped out from the pan.

We tried out the tepenyaki, we were given an option to choose our ingredients to be tepenyaki-ed, so my man chose squid and beef. The squid turned out to me a little rubbery and the beef a bit too stiff. Lucky we didn’t pick much for the chef to fry and we managed to finish up our portion we ordered.

And finally, we ended our buffet with mocha ice cream, of course, there were other flavors but I only went for green tea ice cream. I had a satisfying amount of ice cream before we called for the bill.

Once again, pictures tell a thousand words… here you go…