LAMMEEYA @ Empire Shopping Gallery

I just woke up one morning and just felt like going Empire. I texted Nik and we went there around lunch time, we kinda walked around scouting for nice food to eat for quite awhile. But then I see this restaurant thought just wanna try it out, since the rest of the food places we came across, he said were either "not nice one" or "too many people".

Turns out, it wasn't really that nice after all. Average service, average looking menu, average food with average taste. Seriously.

Mee rebus.

Our drinks, ice lemon tea & iced coffee.

Should've tried their fresh juices instead.

Prawn meee. Normal only.

Nothing much to wow about, thought quite a lot of people in there must be something nice, mana tau.

Really, what happened to the good food nowadays ah?

"Mouth is alive with juices like wine,

and I'm hungry like the wolf."

Hungry like the Wolf - Duran Duran.

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Homemade Fettucine Carbonara

Just because we still got some left over ingredients from the Alfredo we made last week, extra fettucine and parmesan cheese, so we made carbonara this week. More like he made it.

So this is the list of the new ingredients for carbonara:

Bacon chips (we couldn't get bacon bits, so we had to cut it ourselves)

2 cups (400ml) of pure cream

1 pack of parmesan cheese (preferably, freshly grated ones)

4 eggs

Fry the bacon with just a bit of olive oil, because bacon will produce its own oil. Medium heat.

Meanwhile, mix the cream, cheese and 4 eggs. (depends there are how many of them to feed, and don't use too much of cheese.) Stir throughly.

Cook the fettucine in boiling salted water at the side.

Drain the pasta if cooked.

Then pour the pasta into the pan with the bacons.

Add the eggs, cream and cheese mixture.

Mix well, make sure the pasta is coated with the creamy sauce.

Season with salt and ground black pepper, and extra parmesan cheese handed around separately.

Remember to cut the bacon into bits.

Not really THAT good, still can improve ;D

"I'ma do the things that I wanna do,

I ain't got a thing to prove to you,

I eat my candy with the pork and beans,

excuse my manners if I make a scene."

Pork and Beans - Weezer.

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Teh Tarik Place @ Empire Shopping Gallery

Cheap, fast, and simple. If that's what you like for your quick bite or afternoon tea like me. I won't say the food is excellent, just average. But the service wasn't really what I expected.

My all-time favorite. Teh tarik.

Roti Bakar with butter and kaya.

Indomeeeeeeeeee.

French toast.

He's more like a poser compared to me =.=''

That's the end of it. Peace out guys.

"From Malaysia with LOVE."

Teh Tarik Place.

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Fettucine All'Alfredo

"This simple recipe was invented by a Roman restaurateur called Alfredo, who became famous for serving it with a gold fork and spoon."

Too bad I used stainless steel ones. =.=

I have always loved pasta. And Alfredo seemed to be the easiest to make, but the ingredients are quite costly.

Oh yea one thing, my so-called Alfredo not the kind of ready-made alfredo gravy in a packaging can or glass container one ok, my alfredo gravy here is 100% homemade *proud*

So this is what the boyfriend and I prepared for the pasta:

Preparation: 1-2 minutes. Cooking: 10-12 minutes.

Parmesan cheese, shaved & plus extra to serve (preferably freshl

y grated ones, depending on how you like your dish)

1/2 cup of President butter (or just normal butter)

2 cups (400ml) of Pure cream (even better, get double cream)

Fettucine

Salt & ground black pepper for seasoning

When cooking,

1. Cook the fettucine in salted water until boil for few minutes.
2. Meanwhile, add the butter in a hot large pan, then pour the pure cream. Let it boil.
3. Add 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese (remember: extra for serving)
4. Season it with salt and ground black pepper. Taste.
5. Turn off heat, add the cooked fettucine, mixed it. Make sure it is all coated with the gravy.
6. SERVE when hot with extra parmesan cheese handed around separately.

As for us, we prefer it to be really creamy and cheesy. What an awesome job we did in the kitchen.

p/s: can't wait for the boyfriend to cook salmon for me ;D ;D ;D

"Better shut up or get shot down,

it's all about the know how all just a matter of taste,

stop telling me the way I gotta play now,

too much food on my plate."

Too Much Food - Jason Mraz

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Chocolate French Toast

This isn't the first time I cook already, but it was my first time trying 2 new dishes. Nik and I were tired of eating out too often so we decided some dishes to make and picked up the ingredients at supermarket.

The first dish was Chocolate French Toast. Caught the recipe on AFC, and thought it was a different kinda thing to try out. Haha.

Here are some tips from me, do not use the normal white wholemeal bread that you always eat like I did, try using french loaf instead, because normal white wholemeal bread are waaay too soft.

And, when making good french toast isn't really about the way you mix the mixture, it's all about the heat and the pan. Medium-Low is perfect.

4 eggs

1/2 cup of milk

2 tbsp of vanilla extract

1 cup of cocoa powder

1/2 cup of brown sugar (you can add more if you like your toast sweeter)

Mix that all up and soak the bread. Then at the pan, add olive oil & a pat of butter to cook your bread.

You might be wondering why not use those melted chocolate for it instead of cocoa powder, well, the chef on the show I was watching was right, because cocoa powder has a lot of true chocolate flavor in it, unlike those normal milk chocolates.

Try it yourself at home. You'll love it ;D

"This could be the very minute,

I'm aware I'm alive,

all these places feel like home."

Chocolate - Snow Patrol.

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Putrajaya Night Marathon 2010

Last 2 weeks, Malaysia had it's very first night marathon, held at Putrajaya. We started our journey there around 7.30pm. I haven't been to marathons like this since I last stop running. And no doubt the whole event was familiar to me.

It was held on a Saturday, 6 of February, 2010.

We managed to get a glimpse of the sunset at the carpark there. Beautiful scenes like this don't always show up everywhere.

It was indeed a beautiful day. No rain, not too shiny and not too hot. Just simply perfect for a run.

One big chunk of clouds.

Nightfall at the carpark.

Just a little bit of changes in settings can do wonders.

Pre-marathon

People queuing up for toilets before the race. Typical scene at any marathon events.

Many people of all ages and all races from all over the world participated in this marathon event.

Ang mohs, say hi to the camera :)

From locals to foreigners, from young to old, from white to black, people from all around the world, top to down under.

Putrajaya Night Marathon '10 categories:

- Full marathon (42km)

- Half marathon (21km)

- Junior (7.7km)

- Fun run (5km)

My sis Serenie. Looking all relaxed for her 7.7 km.

Deep Heat is one of the sponsors for the event.

Here are some of the sponsors:

There were many others more like, Kenanga BHD, Fly FM, Sportsplanet mineral water, 100 plus, Nescafe, Breathe Right, NTV7, TMNet, Hong Leong Bank etc.

The flag-off.

The flagging off was at Persint 3, near that 1Malaysia building.

The Full marathon runners.

Dad. Going for the 21km.

The 7.7 km runners. So cooperative to pose for the camera.

Some just can't wait for it to start. Why the long faces?

Feeko, from Batu 9, Ulu Langat.

The Feeko men in action.

So pro until can still talk on the phone.

Drooling? :p

There, my chocolate + vanilla drink. Thanks for this, boyf!

You bet. Of course I love it.

The Feeko guy man behind the drink. He's actually very nice to talk to.

Then the boyfriend decided to go for his Mango smoothie, that was when the crowd came.

Freshly blended from fresh mango.

Add little of strawberry syrup to the whipped cream,

then mango syrup to secure the taste.. Ahhhh drool drool.

Memang sedap giler. The freshness of the fruit is the best part :P

Perfect thirst-quencher.

Refreshing.

Funny to see people actually camp in the registration hall.

Enlarge this pic to see what is wrong in this pic. XD

Water stations for the 21km participants.

The timing clock for the full marathon runners, it has been about 3 hours since they last flag off.

That's the end of the night, congrats to all winners from all categories :D

Signing out.

"Wait for me,

I fell behind,

honestly,

this is my best try."

Running Away - Lifehouse.

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