Dinner At Chun Yuan

Its merdeka eve, everyone is out at the Padang Merdeka of Kuching, waiting for the arrival of the National Day. My parents decided to have a nice merdeka dinner at the nearest western food outlet which was a house set up into a cozy and pleasant environment for people to enjoy their expensive western food in their garden. Its name is "Chun Yuan 春园" which was situated at one of the corners to the Hui Sing Round-a-bout. It had romantic night lights set up in the yard and the best of all, they didn't have Malaysian Flags around the house, which would make it look so stupid and so "Ah-Beng". Anyways, it was a nice and comforable place to eat in.
The waiteresses were friendly and one of them showed us today's special which was called the "Holiday Special" which was written on this mini chalk board. It contained "Mushroom Soup in Bun, Prawn Cocktail, Braised Lamb Cutlet, Grilled Rib Eye" and more. After looking at the mini chalk board, I decided to choose something from the menu instead. I ordered my favourite drink, The Ribena-Sprite which was what I always order when I come to this place with my friends.
This drink is just ordinary Sprite from a can with some Ribena fluid. It tastes spectacular and YES its sweet. This drink is only best when its served chilled and when its stirred right! This beautiful drink has always been my thirst quencher when I played in the Private Clubs of Sarawak. It not only looks good but its taste is out of this world. Then it was time for the main course to be served.
Firstly, we had this Garlic Dory Fish Chop, it looked again spectacular and very photogenic too. Its fried Dory Fish with garlic and spices toppings. They had mayonnaise and a slice of fresh lemons to mix together the aroma of this dish. A little bit of salad on the side and of course, Frech Fries. It was a very beautiful dish.
Next, we have the famous Chicken Chop. It looked almost the same as the Dory Fish Dish, but it had this nice and soothing sauce on top of the chicken which was juicy and tender and oily too. It was much more simplier but it still had a very delicious taste.
Then we had the BBQ Lamb Chop which costed the most and we ordered 2 dishes too. The amount of lamb chops on this dish was very little, but it was tasty enough to be satisfied with. The decoration was perfectly done with baked patato with mayonnaise and of course a bigger salad than the rest of the dishes. It was spectacular as well. It was the king of all chops and it had this delicious BBQ sauce that kept us asking for more. Too bad the amount of lamb chops on it was too little. But it was nice and delicious anyways. It costed us a lot but it was a dinner that our tummies would remember... until we had our Number 2!And then again, Merdeka! to all Malaysians and a happy new day! Please don't fight at the Padang and destroy chinese people's cars this year!

Sotong in english is Squid, which are actually dipped in boiled water for a few seconds in order not to overcook it. This way, the taste and smell of the sotong will be as nice and fresh as it reaches your taste buds. This squid is actually dried squid soaked in alkali water. Sotongs are usually the cause of this dish to be more expensive as Kangkong vegetables merely cost about RM0.50 for a big bunch. Kangkongs are then presoaked in boiled water to also gain the freshness and the chewable texture on the particular vege. Which makes it juicy and desirable. After that, less pungent rojak sauce is pured on top them while spreading some grounded peanuts, which gives eaters a chuncky and sweet feeling. Unlike the ones I tried in Kuala Lumpur, Kuching's Sotong Kangkong's sauce is more sticky which tastes better and can be eaten with chopsticks. In Kuala Lumpur, this dish is watery which is like soup and I don't think I like the ones I tried in KL. 




This packaging design was actually quite impressive from the start. It had this professional looking box and some cool shading colours. But the grammar is so wrong. It quoted "The Special For You Of Children Design". I thought maybe I read it wrongly? I decided to read it in a different manner:
Here it states "Power Rangers - The Best Welcome Gifts For The Children" From the look at this toy, its just a lame old plastic sword called "Super Power Sword" I noticed that China Chinese People like to use the word "Super" in most of their products!!! Sounds kinda Tacky. Anyways, as its stated the best welcome gifts for the children. Should get it. Cough!* Cough!*
Bill Gates & Steve Jobs has another new competitor. CHINA TOYS!! The latest computer system named "HOME OFFICE". Provided with preinstalled sticker monitor and miniature floppy disks and mouse that is larger than half of the CPU!!! WOW!! I bet that Uncle Bill haven't thought of that right? Hah~ China Toys is the next generation of future technology. No wonder they say that China's economy is rising and is the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Awww.. Yeah!!! (taken from Puppy of RABs) 
And so I learnt that her name was "Chivas" which at first I had mistaken it for "Chibai" which means vagina in Hokkien Dialact. I had been calling her name and enjoying it during that night "Chibai, come here" "Chibai, Don't Bite Me" and "Chibai La" well, it was a good experience and to have a new "room mate" in the room. She was the most precious thing I had ever seen. A breed that even "Doggy Expert Russell Liew" and "Puppy Expert Edwin Yiing" didn't even know. I didn't care about what breed it was. I just hope that Chivas couldn't find my Fruit Tart that was hidden under my computer desk. She was playful that she wanted to bite our innocent modem and LAN cables. I had no chance but to use some empty plastic bottle and trick her into playing with it. And it succeeded! WOo-HoO! And then again, Luis came and picked her up and kissed her Aww... ( I mean the puppy ar)
Chivas was so playful that she had finished her energy in a flash. She looked very sleepy and Luis gave Chivas a blanket and then she fell asleep. But suddenly, after a few minutes, Chivas woke up and ran towards my computer and started to PEE!!! OMG, Luis screamed so terribly and carried her instantly into the bathroom. Luis put him into the bathtub in order not to let her escape again and simply pee around the room. Well, suddenly I heard a loud Shreek "SHIT!!!!!" I tought that something went wrong in the bathtub, so I had to stop blogging and went rushing into the bathroom to see what had happen to Luis & Chivas. When I looked at her from the bathtub, she was barking and wanting to get out of the bathtub like so. Aww.. another cute moment.
When something unfortunate happen when I stood up and stared INTO the bathtub. It wasn't chocolates, it wasn't a sausage. IT WAS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!! Awww... all I could say was SHIT!!!!!! and this was one of the smelliest Dog Poo I have ever smelt. It was terrible and it wasn't a good sight. But I captured the moment with my IXUS again. Acks.. my bathtub was bombarded by this THING:
Just after 2 hours of caring time with Chivas it turned from Aww..So Cute to Aww..SHIT!!!! and this is what our Luis had to say to amatuer Dog Lovers. Be sure to know how to take care of Dogs before bringing them home especially poo poo training. Its the worst thing that can ever happen to anyone. And I mean it... I can still smell it!! YUX!!!!!!
Well, Friday (5th August 2005) our class (CD01-1) had our figure sketching class at Sunway Lagoon. It was a life sketching session and we all had to meet at the entrance of the lagoon (which was a carpark of Sunway Pyramid) at 10:45am. Me and my friends went there as early as possible hoping not to miss out this trip. But, the lecturers only appeared after a 45 minute wait which was a total waste of good sleeping time. I was so fed up with the damn heat and was walking around waiting for the lecturers to get our Damn entrance passes. I noticed this sign:
Finally we gained access to the lagoon and was assigned to draw 4 different people from the lagoon. We all ran to the nearby place (which I don't know what that place is called) where it has a view of some of the playgrounds with the most people. I was too lazy to look for good people to draw and decided to just imagine someone and just draw. Well, we had a couple of cooperative classmates who posed for us. As a result, they too became imaginary figures for my sketching, cause I was too tired to focus on something and draw draw draw.
Then it rained and we were damn stuck in that shed while all the people in the lagoon ran for shelter leaving no one in the pools and parks. It was a nice and cool vision of sunway. The awful haze in Sunway has finally been washed down by rain. It was a comfortable sight. Rain was rare in Sunway and this was the moment to cherish.
As I was enjoying the raining sight, classmates in the shed were chatting, drawing, running, screaming, laughing, sleeping, boasting and so on. It was just like class. Nothing changed much when I saw these gals fighting over a pair of groovy spectacles.
After the rain, the sun was out again and the smell of the haze was gone. Me and a few friends went for a stroll in the lagoon and hoping to find something interesting. I saw a whole lotta 'Ninjas' around the lagoon. Walking, Jumping, Transforming and stuff. We also noticed that Kakashi Sensei was there looking for his 3 missing Diciples (Naruto, Sasuke & Sakura) as there were too many ninjas around. It was sure hard to find 3 active ninjas in the pile of 'ninjas'. Everyone looked the same.
I was wondering what the hell are they doing here anyway? They can't take off their clothes, they can't let people see their faces in the public. Damn, stupid people, paying so much money just to come into the lagoon and walk around? How stupid is that? We're suppose to come to Sunway Lagoon to swim, play, draw and fight! Hell, these wierd 'ninjas' Must have mistaken Sunway Pyramid as their Egyptian Pyramid of Giza. Haha.. Seriously, really what the hell are they doing in the lagoon if they can't swim?

I didn't want to just stick to one type of drink and get tired of it. I ordered Teh-O-Ais and Teh-O-Ais Limau. Very refreshing and light. No condensed milk at all and very chilly. It wasn't the best I tried so far, but it still passed from my food encyclopedia (my Taste Buds). The weather was getting hot and the customers were piling up. I was pissed off when the food I ordered haven't arrived on my table yet.
I waited under sweat and saliva, when suddenly, my long lost love, the Roti Pisang (Roti Banana) arrived. Yay~~! The obvious bananas inside the Roti (some flour made fried stuff) made me drool even more. Sweetness from the banana with roti was a good combination and nothing was more delicious when it came to this snack.
Next, the main course came, my favourite, THE MUTTON PARATHA has arrived. Royal trumpets began to ring in my ears. The fat and juicy paratha with mutton curry filling. Oh~ the aroma, the smell, the sight! All came crushing into my brain. I couldn't resist this delicious, juicy indian speciality. Everyone, You should try this out. A price of RM4.50 is just worth it all while students (Yay!!) have 10% discount for all the food and drinks in Chola Spice.
After Blogger Eugene saw my delicious Roti Pisang, he himself ordered one for himself. He didn't gave much comments but the evolutionary and legendary Critic of all time, Kam Fook gave a thumbs up for Chola Spice. It was the signal for success! Chola Spice, You Did It! and so did I. Helping such a nice place to promote their delicacies was my honour.
I'm a food lover what do you expect? Good Food Requires Respect!! It wasn't an easy task. I had to take picture, try this and that, pay this and that, get this thing written right and all sorts of thingamejig. So, suddenly I noticed that Blogger
I was totally shocked by the "gigantic" size of that particular roti. It was as small as Russell's palm and I instantly knew that this little menace won't make our Russell full this afternoon. It was a Rm1.50 little cute roti with sugar as filling. I was lucky I ordered the Roti Pisang instead of this little menace. And so, the story continues as Russell orders another course for this meal. Time was leaving me fast, I had to catch up and paid the boss and asked for my special 10% discount. I left while everyone waved Goodbye to me and dashed home for a bath and a good nap.
I loved the sky beacause it consist more of the colour I love, Blue! So, we continued our dinner journey across the busy streets and walked slowly among the shoplots when Juliana (housemate) wanted to go to this Mamak Stall called "The Taj Curry House". Well, it wasn't my first time there and the food was quite Okay. I agreed and so did the others. We walked to Taj Curry and entered the shop. I ordered Maggi Goreng (Fried Maggi Noodles) and a bottle of Alfalfa Drink. I waited for just a couple of minutes and both my orders were here. That was really fast. I have to say that the service there is fast but... unfortunately the waiters there seems to have hearing problems. For example: My friend asked this waiter to "tambah ayam (add chicken)" and the waiter nodded while saying "tambah nasi? (add rice?)". My friend repeated again and the waiter repeated what he said before. My friend was annoyed and folded his arms to his armpits and acted like a chicken in order to let the waiter understand what the F*** he wanted. Then again, the waiter says "nasi (rice)"!!! But the wierd thing was... he brought him the chicken he wanted instead of rice. Hmm... I was damn confused. Okay, back to the point.
The Maggi Goreng Ayam... a famous delicacy in the mamak culture. It looked nice and it was tasty. From the first look at it, my brain gave me an "OK" signal and was ready to go for it. Maggi Goreng tastes a bit salty but if you love lime, you better squeeze them onto the dish to even out the taste. So, Maggi Goreng Ayam is just Maggi Goreng plus some Indian Fried Chicken. You can notice the way they cut the chicken meat is unlikely correct but it doesn't really influence the taste... but just the look. Ok, so I ate and ate and ate... and I noticed something terribly wrong.
There was damn whole lotta oil on that darn fork! It was the oil from that particular Maggi Goreng Ayam. It scared the wits outta my appetite. I couldn't waste money at all and I had to finish that darn dish. I wondered if the past maggi gorengs I ate in Taj Curry was like that, and I couldn't help but to think that this is the big cause towards many types of cancer and teenagers' most evil nemesis, ACNE!!!! This crappy goreng will shorten your life by one week with that grease. I knew that I wasn't going to order another one from this wierd shop anymore. It was a good thing that I ordered this Alfalfa drink which was quite healthy and better off, it has less sugar in it than any Teh-O-Ais or Air Tebu.
The Alfalfa Drink comes in a cute little bottle and some ice. Well, I preder to drink it direct from the bottle as I don't know what kind of crappy water they used to form that ice. I never seen Alfalfa drinks sold in other restaurants except for mamak stalls, and I think I know why. Its because of the greasy food made by the mamak and Alfalfa is the only drink that can nautralize the whole oily process. Alfalfa drinks in Taj Curry is sold at the price of RM2.00. Its more worthy than a glass of Teh-O-Ais which is normally just sugar and ice. Well, the taste of this drink is a little sweetness plus a little vege feel. When drinking it, it feels like its washing down the ugly looking grease on the maggi goreng to give you a more relieved feeling. The colour of the drink also provides a natural feel together with some extraordinary taste. Try It and you'll love it too.
Well, children who eat healthy school lunches are stereotyped as "posh" or "uncool", according to new research from UK children's charity Barnardo's. I tought maybe trying one of these wierd looking Alfalfa drinks might change their minds. hehe...

Okay, so next, it was our group's turn. We were modern pirates, very different pirates. Haha... and so the story goes and goes, about 2 friends called "Jin (literally means 'very')" & "Soi (literaly means 'unlucky')" who wanted to make money fast. So, they became VCD pirates through some underground organization. It was a wierd ending but oh well, it turned out well because we stalled enough time to make the whole play a 15 minute~! Woo-Hoo!! Although we missed out some of the lines. Well, it was funny as there was this character named "Ah Chun (played by Chuan Ho)" who in the play is a total retard and a henchman of Adam (the gangster). And bad things happened to the 2 friends and blah blah blah.... Anyways, here's a preview of the Cover:
Then Then Then, the last team was Xiao Wen's Group (starring Xiao Wen, Sook Ee, Justin & Aaron) about some Japanese stuff. Which till now I still don't really get what the story is about. All I know is that this girl Mimi-Go (played by Sook Ee) goes to the past when she went to some toilet and met some japanese samurais or shoguns or something. (Not sure lar) and... erm.. some cool fighting scene.. Oh Yea!! Very Cool fighting, Guys. Using some Samurai swords or something (correct me if i'm wrong). And... after all the scenes were played, they still had about half a minute to go till 15 mins. They hurried and came up with some wierd scenes to stall the time which was actually the only part I understood. Haha... Anyways, It was great too. Love It, Guys. You All should watch it too. One of the coolest scene:
And so... the day ended with laughter and hunger. It was tiring but it was fun. Watching everyone's acting skills while comparing it to mine (which was total crap) made my balls seem smaller (That's bad). Haha.. Well, everything turned out nice and fun. Great Job Everyone from E2, You Guys ROCK!!!!!!
Ok, so this might be just a typo error as the letter 'T' and 'Y' on the standard keyboard is next to each other. I began to choose something else, something more soothing and nice to eat. I scanned and scanned and scanned.. till a sudden stop.
"Cantoness" Kuey Teow with Egg? And I doubt that this is a typo error. Cause maybe it sounds nice when its put with Kuey Teow. And then again I must point out that "Kuey Teow" is NOT "Hor Fun" as the chinese translation on top of the dishes' name is typed as "河粉 (Hor Fun)" which is wrong. OK? Damn these people, don't even know how to differentiate 'Kuey Teow" and "Hor Fun"!!! and look! Pepper is spelled wrongly too. Aduh! Next, I saw this:
"Bitterguard" whatever that is! Good thing there was chinese translation on the top which was correctly spelled and written as it actually meant "Bitterguord"! Tiew~ this cannot be a typo error right? The letter 'A' and 'O' is so far apart on the standard keyboard. Wonder what happened to copywriter's eye. Oh well, then again, I noticed that I haven't chose something to eat! And my stomach was mumbling! I quickly ordered this "Sweet and Sour Vege. Fish Rice" which had quite a reasonable price of RM4.50. I waited and waited, drinking my "雪茶 Xue Cha", i waited and waited again. My housemate's order was here, and they had been gobbling up their food like savages for a few minutes already. After 4 disturbing minutes, my dish came. The waitress put it on my table and I looked at it. To my astonishment, I saw THIS:
HOLY CRAP! RM4.50 for this thing??? How could they? I counted, 1,2,3,4,5...6! Six crappy wierd looking vegetarian fish with some leftover pineapples served with this .. this.. rice? Oh My Goodness, what have we done to this world? I picked up my spoon and started to eat. After 3 minutes, I finished the whole dish. I began to wonder: " I waited for 4 F***ing minutes and I only enjoyed my food for only3 minutes? and that I finished first among my friends while I was served last????" 

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