Restaurant LEONG AH, Serdang

We starved for the whole morning without breakfast, just a cup of milo. As i mentioned in previous blog post, we wake up in the morning just for the hot air balloon fiesta. However, we don't feel hungry until we arrived the shop. Come to play, we can totally forget to eat, (FOOD)! Such a Playful gang of friends. After that fiesta, we head to Serdang to have paper wrap chicken as our friend recommended.

So we head to Seri Kembangan, a restaurant named, Restaurant LEONG AH Serdang.
Address:26-28, Jalan Dagang SB 4/1, Taman Sg Besi SK4, Balakong, 43300 Seri Kenbangan, Selangor.
Opening Business Hour: 10am-10.30pm
Telephone: 03-89415942

We ordered 4 dishes, of course a MUST order dish is the famous paper wrapped chicken "纸包鸡", then we order 四大天王，佛砵鸡丁 and 奶油蘇冬.

纸包鸡: I thought it would be a dry roasted chicken cooking style, but it turned out alot of gravy flowing out after unwrapped the chicken. The gravy taste sweet and salty taste a bit like marmite chicken. I personally prefer not too sweet the dishes, so this is consider average to me.

奶油蘇冬 (Fried sotong with butter silk): Nice and crunchy coating the sotong as i love heavy butter taste. Heavy butter and egg taste which you will thought got salted egg present, but actually there is no any salted egg.

佛砵鸡丁(yam basket with chicken dice) : a basket made by yam paste which i like the most, inside contain capsicum, cashew nut, chicken dice, onion and etc taste sweet.

四大天王: actually it suppose to contain 4 types of vegetables, but the shop doesn't have petai, so only have three types of vegetables.

The bill for this meal costs around RM76 for 5 pax quite reasonable, standard price not expensive which you can have seafood, chicken as well.

The Social, Publika

My bestie date me to hang out for a relax saturday. Here we are for the happy saturday, Publika.

First time, i came to Publika was brought by one of my zi muiz, thanks to her i know this lovely place which its interior design is different compared to any other mall. This place are full of quirky decorations, bistros, boutiques and art galleries, a place where all the visionaries and artists gather.  Frankly speaking, i like this place very much to see this art culture stuff. "Life without ART is boring". Don't you think so? even the earth contains ART, "earth" without "ART", is just "eh".

Anyway, me and my bestie went to Social, Publika have our lunch+dinner as she suggested.

Social, this place's interior design is so rustic especially the timber style decoration. They do serve liquor, cocktails and wines as you can see is all on the rack.

Here's their menu. Looking to the menu, there are many choices and looking to their price are quite pricey as i expected but it still depends what you order. For a student that haven't start earn money by myself consider a luxurious meal, though once in a while have to pamper my stomach and enjoy my life.

Hmm..don't know why every time come this such a place i would like to try their coffee up, normally i will order either flat white or latte, as i like white coffee, instead of dark coffee. So i order one latte to kick start my day up, as i am a coffee lover and a piece of cheese cake. A slice of cheese cake and a cup of not too sweet latte is the perfect match dessert. I start my dessert first instead of my main course. Hohoho... weird eating style huh? I refer ends salty food although dessert should come last.

       

Latte -RM8; Cheesecake- RM10

A latte with coffee art, so far i didn't get any latte that come with a special coffee art, is either a leaf or a love shape. I like surprise by the coffee art. Anyway will search for that the next. :>

For main course, me and besties choose pasta : spaghetti carbonara with turkey bacon and  muShROOOMM (in cheesy creamy sauce) & penne pesto with grilled chicken (tossed in basil pesto and pine nuts)

Spaghetti carbonara - RM22

Nice carbonara, creamy enough and the mushrooms are so nice. Besides turkey there is another choice which is smoked salmon. 

Penne pesto with grilled chicken -RM24

Spaghetti tossed with basil pesto, well i would say if you don't like basil taste you better don't choose this. Most of my friends cant accept the smell. Anyway, to me this is not strong enough, they don't have tense basil as i love basil a lot. But for others who don't like intense basil taste, this is just nice.

Address: The social, Level G2- 31-32, Publika.

Contact no.: 03-62079225/9221

Bukit Tabur West Hike

Early in the morning as in 4.40am we have to wake up for the early hiking due to we want to see the sun rise. Anyway luckily we manage to crawl out from the bed. We stat depart from PJ around 5.00am. Everyone still in their sweet dream. Finally we reach the destination around 6am. It is still a total dark for us to hike, so it is necessary to bring along headlamp to hike. It's good that you hike with big bunch of people especially those experience hikers. This is my first time to follow my friends to hike this bukit, according to them is dangerous and a bit tacky. So is better you train yourself and hike a few bukit before you go there or guide by experience hikers. To me i am kinda beginner to this type of bukit.

Bukit Tabur is also known crystal hill. As i know, Bukit Tabur divided into few trails which are Far east, west,east extreme and more. Bukit Tabur is located at Taman Melawati in Kuala Lumpur. This hill is a  magnificent limestone ridge. Why it is call crystal hill, is due to the hill contains quartz crystal which appear on the surface of the limestone. We start hike around 6am, everyone steps are so fast to rush before the sun rise. Finally we are up to the place to watch sun rise but the sun grandpa haven't wake up so we are waiting and start ss-ing. The first response of me is WAAAHHHH....This is amazing..so nice..is like you are in Heaven!!! 一片云海仿佛孙悟空驾雾腾云。 Thanks to my friends brought me to this place. No regrets to my decision and take risk to go there.

Sun rise!! with the lake view and the cloud

You know what? I thought this was the final destination who knows is actually first station, first peak, there is another 8 peaks more..sweatsweatsweat...-.-" alright, after rest and watching sunrise we have to keep moving on. We pass through two stop point which is quite dangerous and have to be careful. One point is use the handle to cross over (which dont have picture to show) another is as shown below have to use rope slowly go down) where you need people to tell you where your leg should put. You might say it seems easier, try it yourself then you will know.

Finally, the above two pictures displayed is the last peak of the journey, which no any route for you to move on. Hiking over this 9 peaks take around 3 hours included rest and ss-ing This is not the end, cause we have to hike down the hill. Before we go back, everyone rest and have a cup of nice coffee prepared by other hikers. They all are so nice, bringing things up and share with everyone.I think i am too addicted to coffee, the moment we smell the coffee brew we are like suddenly awake and after drank it cant feel any tiredness. Again, never forget to take a big group of hikers photo. This is my first experience to hike bukit tabur. 

As they are still resting, i decided to go down first, hiking the part that i fear the most is going down the hill. Dont ask me why, i just not that fast and like a tortoise. I try to becareeful but one most important thing i forget is to cut my toes nails. So going down the hill is like killing me. In the journey of going down i try to balance myself as much as possible but i didn't use proper way to go down according to one experience hiker. In the end, i slip and 'sit' on the ground.

That uncle told me i have to curl my toes up and go down in small step. So that my toes' nails wont feel pain, if not my nails will break. Yeah, i cant imagine how's my nails condition, for sure very terrible due to the consequence of having long nails and wrong way of going down. My nails all turn into purple red..T.T i take this as lesson, i sure remember to cut nails before i go hiking. Sigh, still i try to tahan and adjust the way i going down to finish up the whole. 

Finally mission accomplished!! :)

After the long hour of hiking (actually not that long most of the time is ss and rest), we start hunt for food as everyone is hungry. First we went for cendol and then have steak for our lunch

Cendol and Restaurant Ampang

Cendol:

We have this in a mamak, seriously don't know where is the exact location. But all i know is opposite the BHP petrol station, Taman Melawati and beside the Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Melawati 2. That mamak is just along the road side. Thanks god there is no raining on that day which is a good weather for hiking. However is hot and stuffy, so cendol is the best treatment to cool down everyone especially after hiking.Here is the cendol, Yummy... My favourite corn and kidney beans...In cendol most important is the kidney bean got taste but kidney beans don't have the bitter taste.

Cendol- PASS!! After hiking, i don't feel hungry instead i feel thirsty but after the cendol retreat my stomach start growling. Time to find main course!

Restaurant Ampang 安邦中西茶餐室

Here we are for the western and chinese cuisine. When we first arrive, i was is this a restaurant, doesn't look like. Anyway location will be provided below. Due to i am poor in identify road and my friend is driving so i just provide the address.

Address: 423, Jalan Ampang, Batu 4 1/2, 50450 Kuala Lumpur.

Business Hour: 11am-3pm, 6.30pm-11.30pm closed on Monday

Telephone: 03-42569717

Here's the menu, please order.

After cheking the menu, there are too many choices till we feel like try as many as we can. So we decided to choose combo set which contain two types of choice meats (chicken or pork) and seafood (prawn). We order sizzling chicken (black pepper gravy) with big prawn and sizzling pork (garlic gravy) with big prawn and share among four of us. The portion of the food are quite big as for girls appetite for guys i think they are just enough to fill them up. We order hailam tea for drinks since everyone didn't try before. 

 Sizzling chicken (black pepper gravy) with big prawn.

Sizzling pork (garlic gravy) with big prawn.

 Hailam tea drinking session: Yum Seenggg~~~~

 This is the restaurant boss extra give us. 

When we almost finish our food, guess what? Restaurant boss serve us two plates of lamb ribs for free maybe he saw us big bunch of people come and eat here, so give us to try this ''lamb spare ribs" with secret gravy. Hurray, my favorite lamb meat. Hehehe... Lamb meat of course is little as is spare ribs part but the gravy really not bad quite nice, perfect match. The lamb spare ribs are nicely marinate and match with the gravy which did not really over-mask the lamb taste.

Overall rating: 4/5

Price range: Average and affordable

Environment: Ok but A bit 'romantic' not so bright environment. 

Birthday card (2) for my deer friend

 It was my friend's birthday. I know her less than one year. She is very friendly and cheerful. Although we are not knowing each for long, yet she is always there to accompany me to go through tough time, bring me out to eat nice food, ask me out to join her some nearby nice places, some special events and influence me to have the interest to take photos.

As days go by, i found out she is a traveller. She likes to travel to every corner in this world. So when her birthday, i decided to make a card for her, a simple one based on the theme of travelling.

Birthday card and bookmark for friend

A birthday card for friend. A simple card with attach of the owl bookmark which actually i made pair.

the front side of card

the back side of card

sweet pair of owls

Bukit Gasing 19.2.2012

Early morning 7.30am, we depart to Bukit Gasing Forest Park, Petaling Jaya where near to University of Malaya even the weather not really on our side~~drizzling. Due to yesterday rainy day, the path is muddy, wet and slippery to walk especially the steep part of path. In the middle of hiking, we were quite lost when there is junctions since none of us remember the map well. Luckily, the hikers are very nice, telling us which way should we go. 

Bukit Gasing is one of the best place for those living in PJ seeking exercise. In the heart of the city, this is the only nature place full of tropical trees and nature sounds. A nice place to hike and have a morning walk. No entrance fees but no toilet, limited parking space, so carpooling is advisable.