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…

A getaway to unwind

Last month, my man and I went for a short getaway down south on a weekend just to unwind after a whole year of work. Although we usually have periodic getaways but nothing beats a nice vacation before we usher in another year of work.

We packed our stuff the night before, had a good rest and drove down to JB. I’ve been to JB several times, nothing much to shop there, so, I wont have any excuse to go out shopping. We arrived in the afternoon, checked into our hotel straight away and our unwind moment kicked off. First, was a short nap, followed by a warm bubble-bath. After that, we went out for dinner at a local restaurant which serves crabs. It was marvelous maybe because I really loved crabs. I had sufficient servings of it and my stomach was finally filled with crab meat…

My cravings for crab = MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!

Our night was spent at the bar at the hotel, we had our cup of drink while enjoying the music and songs sang. The night was getting late, my man and I had a stroll back to our room and we called it a night. The next day, we had our breakfast in the hotel. The first think I thought of having, was a cup of coffee and some cheese for breakfast. So, off we went to the café for our breakfast.

Coffee – Checked

Variety of cheese – Checked

Lunch was at a Japanese restaurant before we headed back to our little home in KL. As for now, a picture to summarize.

Happy New Year, 2011

Hey there,

I know its being late in wishing everyone a very happy new year, but there's a reason behind this late wish. Even before the new year kicked off, my work was pouring in like a burst pipe, flowing in like no one's business. However, I have to be happy with this sign coz some people just don't have a job (*ehem* I'm a full time mummy: am I right?)

Things at work are settling in, it will be a really busy year for me but I will somehow try to squeeze some time to blog on interesting stuff.

As for the new year, I was celebrating it with my man and his siblings. We went over to The Hill at Damansara Heights for a drink and some snacks and we managed to count down with the crowd at 12 midnight. It was quite a great sight to see so many people chatting happily and having the time of their lives till the clock striked 12.

Now, it is already middle of January, my calendar for this year will be with a few vacations spreaded throughout the year. Just hope everything's smooth sailing and no hiccups (e.g. unapproved leave) along the way...

Till my next post, have a blessed and great New Year...

Signing Off, ciaoz~

Merry Christmas 2010

Christmas is here again, and this year, it's on a Saturday... Although it’s a great day to celebrate but the not-so-happy thing is that, I have to spend Christmas at my workplace. This is nothing new to me since the day I joined my new company 2 years plus ago. My Christmas is not really joyful as I have to work. This year’s Christmas is also the same for me. While others are happily celebrating with their loved ones, family and friends, I had to celebrate it with my PC, my work, at my work desk in the office.

My man also had to accommodate to me and my job so, he too had to send me to and from work today. I just hope, next year’s Christmas I won’t be celebrating it at my workplace again.

Lord, please hear me out as I don’t wish to celebrate Christmas at my workplace anymore. Amen.

To those who are celebrating Christmas, have a blessed one, and those not celebrating, have a great weekend

As for me, got to get back to work again... sigh...

Cooking time again...

It’s cooking time again for me today since it’s a holiday for us. I had a request to cook something nice for them since my man’s siblings will go back to their own hostel tomorrow and will only come over to our place 2 weeks later. So, their request was for me to cook them chicken curry and Chinese bean curd seafood soup.

At 3pm, I was there in the kitchen preparing all the ingredients since it was quite a lot of preparation to be done just to cook something like this. Although it sounds easy to some of you, but for me, it’s a task that had my skills put to test. The whole preparation process took more than 3 hours coz I had to start from scratch e.g. peel, chop, and blend garlic, onions, ginger, etc…

At 7pm, it was dinner time, lucky thing my dishes came out well enough for them to go for second helpings and the look on their faces showed that it was a satisfying and hearty meal.

In the future, when I have funds for a small little oven, I’ll try my hands on some roasts stuff. I don’t have a sweet tooth so baking will be out of my list… maybe roasting a chicken or bake some potatoes, etc… got to start at the beginner’s level before I can be a pro like my mum…

A Saturday spent planting a Tree, Carey Island

It's the end of the weekend again. The 5 working days didn't move smoothly, there were so many walkthroughs and meetings to attend and suddenly, there were too many things to do with so little time given.

However, the weekend was better. My man went for tree planting at Carey Island in conjunction with Alfa Romeo's 100 year anniversary. We started off our journey at 7.30am and headed to Auto Connexion's sales office for the flag off at 9am. The whole journey was great coz there was a straight convoy of 78 cars with escorts all the way to the island. The weather was a little upset coz it was drizzling off and on throughout the activity. The whole event ended in the afternoon and by the time we reached home, we were dead tired.

Sunday was also another event related to cars. We went over to KLGCC for the Alfa Romeo’s car show. All owners of Alfas were given the privilege to see an almost full collection of Alfa Romeo antiques to modern makes of the cars. It’s an event worth going for car enthusiasts’ coz everyone was able to have a close up view on the cars.

And now, it’s 9.15pm. Time for me to take an early rest to charge up for the week ahead. Tuesday’s a holiday for us and I’ll hope I can spend time at home resting, but I can foresee I got to prepare meals since I have guests at home.

Till the next post soon… Good night…