Working Holiday 2 - Everything Kiwis

Remember in my previous post , the kiwi tank? Below are the food we have done with all the "unwanted kiwi" yet delicious and healthy!

The very first recipe that we tried to make -KIWI PIE. Recipe was given by Fiona (the friend from Taiwan). First trial - YES! DELICIOUS!!!! Let see if i could find back the recipe and share it here ! I think i might lost it :(

The next was KIWI JAM. Recipe is just simple. Cook the kiwis with some water and sugar (If you would like your jam to be sour, just do not need to add sugar). Put into the fridge and finish it asap due to it is 100% "natural" :)

The next - KIWI JELLY. As you can see, we bought the ready made "3 in 1" jelly from supermarket. Just cook it and add the kiwis into any mold/casing will do:)

Last but not least, KIWI SALAD made by Fiona during our gathering dinner:)

Working Holiday 1 - NZ Tepuke

Life is short, let's do whatever you wish to. Started from Feb 2011, I have been away from my lovely country Malaysia and headed  to New Zealand for working holiday. There, written the another story and experience of mine and Adrian. It was so happy to see him came and visit me.  Before that, let's have some fun and see what is "Working Holiday"!

Here is the amazing house that i stayed in New Zealand during my working period.

The front part of the house.

The kitchen.

 The swimming pool!

The living room.

My room:)

There, i started to become a kiwi factory gal that i ever had, as a kiwi packer :D Worked from night shift until the early morning 3.30am. Standing the long hours was so hard for me. From there, i started to understand how's those people life in the factory. Salute. Lots of experience gained.

Got to know many friends came from different countries:) Red color shirt named Fiona, from Taiwan, and the other beside her is from Hong Kong, named Max.

Below is the scene how people choosing the "unwanted kiwi" left out from factory. This "unwanted kiwi" could be the minor damaged one, or the "unpretty" one or the "out of size" one..:D This is really excited! We were so happy to have this moment. Here is always the source of our ingredient preparation- kiwi for our food , always!

                            

To be continued in the next post...:D

...and We are Back

wow!!! How's everyone here doing? (Is anyone here by the way? :p) Previously all the posts were posted by Adrian, but from now on most of the posts will be posted by me. Reason? Adrian is getting busy:p

Life...making us can't breath sometimes, isn't? But still, we surely have our own time to play, eat, make, and share..! Same do we :) It has been long didn't update the blog here, almost 2 years? ohh..my goodness. We have millions of pictures and stories to share right now!!!Well, we need sometimes to tidy up everything first:P

Enjoy our blog, friends! Hope it helps you to get a new place for trip, a new food for dating and even a new idea to share your life with your loved one :) For those who are still single, don't give up, God is just preparing the BEST ONE for you.

Let's start!!!!!! Today is a good day to you , Adrian and ME^.^ 3rd August 2012

Home ~ Potong Manga!!

Yesterday beebee's mum got the manga down from the manga tree beside her house. and today is the day to cut it off :P So happy...this is the first time! See , big?:D





wah, see is this nice? yummy>.<


And this is the outcome after 30 minutes of hardwork:P



We tested the manga already, hem, it looks great but the level of sweet is still not enough. Aunty thought that can use salt to add on the sweetness of the mango. So guys, now that you know this *tip* hehe...just use bit salt as shown below



Let the salt balance up among all the mangos. Put it aside for about 30min, and u can feel it sweeter.

TTDI ~ Porto Romano

Return of the blogger! Long since I was blogging. Been exteremely busy, extremely exhausted and just came back from fighting a great war! :) Thanks to my sweetheart introduce sunshine and smile back to my life. Well we came to a place to have our diner, which supposed to be our 22 monthsary but it was this time belated. We made our way to TTDI this time to visit an Italian restaurant, name Porto Romano. It is situated along the roll of shot lots behind the 24 hours KFC in TTDI where the restaurant has it catchy purple colour and its difficult to miss this restaurant, very noticable.

It's not too difficult to find this place. As we got down from the car, we saw this decent quiet restaurant from the outside. This is how it looks like.

As we got closer to this restaurant we heard the slow and soft Italian songs played and it sounds to authentic! We looked at the menu from the outside but we chosed to sit in the inside because those are smoking area. We were greeted by a, foreign worker which I am extremely sure they are not Italian, which actually sound weird, is there an Italian in the restaurant? No! I do not see any. Anyway, we chosen a sofa sit all the way in the inside. It was really cosy and we were looking at the menu when a waiter spoke to us and it sounded very rough! But I was really satisfied with the environment. They do not have much tables which I felt less packed.

We were looking at the menu and were wondering what are we going to order and we asked for recommendation. We ordered the seafood soup, mediterranean Pizza and beverage as red grape juice. Hmmm, the seafood soup was nice at the first taste but felt that the more we drink we feel it was a little too salty and fishy for the clam:P

Then not too long, the Pizza came. It looks nice and tasty. Never knew the portion was so big. The pizza taste good, the crust was crunchy and tasty. It was cheecy too but when we were half way finishing it, we realised, domino pizza is a little better than that. Anyway, the crust is still nice. :p

When the drink arrived in the end, I felt that it was the best dish! The red grape juice.

Well, nothing much I would say about this place rather than the ambience of the environment was really nice and have a cosy sofa set to sit on, the food was so so, but if would like try, should try Lamb Shank next time as recommended by my colleague! Price was considered above average, our bill came with almost Rm65 inclusive of tax.

Enjoy food!~~~^.^

Bukit Bintang ~ Elcedor (Nose to Tail Eating)

Porklicious! This is what I can regard when we paid our visit to this fine dining at Changkat Bukit Bintang. A few days before, I had already went online to check the feedback of those who had paid a visit to this pork oriented fine dining! :) It was drizzling when we was about to reach. Traffic condition there were packed...as roads are very narrow and the time that reached was about 8pm, time when everyone dine. They have jokey parking but I refused to because they are going to cause you a bomb! So what I did was I parked my car across the street at a lil car park cum car wash, right opposite the Radius Internation Hotel. Its gona cost you RM10...among the cheapest you can get in the town area.

Well, we walked across the street and from far we saw the elegant sign board stated "Elcedor" from far...we were so excited looking across the street expecting something extraordinary! we were looking at the menu and had a glance thru it and decided that this is the ONE!

Here is where we reached.....nice...

After we had our sit,we being served and given the menu. The service here is fantastic and the people are friendly. We were served with the warmest welcoming greetings. Later we were greeted with the astounding menu and we decided to order for these two dishes after a long thought.

One plate of 4 different mini Sausages
Farmer - Thuringer - German Pepper - Spicy Lyoner with mustard sauerkraut and potato Salad
Marinated Port Shoulder Steak
Marinated for 48 hours, with the finest paprika, herbs, onion, garlic and mild dijon mustard

While we were waiting for our food to be served, we looked around and many PIGS you can find it here ~~^.^

Even in the toilet itself, see haha..!

We were anticipating for the meal and while chit chating we observed the table next us to made an order on the suckling pigglet and the way they present their meal was so special. The waiter or waitress will serve the meal and giving two plates for the customer and to ask them to make a wish. The wish can be financial or relationship related. Once you have made the wish, you cut the pork using the plate and then break it into a bucket. That is the speciality in Elcedor.

In a short while, on our table, in front of us, it appear to have the tea that we order which is Aged Agate. Hem...tasted 'okok' lar...not really special, just you will feel it 'wangi' :p

In another short lil while...appeared on our table is the Green Peas Soup...and I am going to tell you that, it is really fantastic! You will never be able to resist this because it is just too nice. Although this is just complimentary, but I feel like asking for more. I was shy, so I refrained from asking for another one. It looks somewhat like this!

Aha!, this is our first fantastic meal...the different types of sausages (Farmer - Thuringer - German Pepper - Spicy Lyoner) blended with the mustard Sauerkraut was just hit the list of my delicious dishes! The four different taste of sausages seems appealing ... and I like them. It's a must try with the mustard because that will bring out the real taste of the sausages. The Germans eat it with the saying, finger licking good!

And at last it came our long waited meal, the Marinated Pork Shoulder Steak...The pork was marinated for long enough to travel from Malaysia to USA...haha...that exaggerating but you try it and believe yourself! I never expected that is tasting good. Well, this makes us feels satisfied truly and it worth the money you spent. No wine that night, because it was costly. But special occassions will just make it sweet with your partners.

You can also check it out from the site below if you want to bring your friends, family and love one to taste it! :)

Address: No. 43 & 45, Changkat Bukit Bintang, 50200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Phone : 0321450511

Website : http://www.elcerdokl.com/

Business Hours: Open Daily for Lunch & Dinner (closed between 3pm - 6.30pm) Saturdays, El Cerdo is closed for lunch and open for dinner only

KL ~ Revolving Restaurant in KL Tower, it spins!

Oh hi, its another nice place that we have been on our beautiful day, 9th June 2008. We went to this place in KL Tower, its 280 meter above the sea level through the very fast lift that brought us up to this restaurant called, Revolving Restaurant or also known as Restaurant Angkasaraya. Booking has to be done over the phone (03-20205055) and the restaurant is located at TH02 at Menara Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Puncak, Off Jalan P. Ramlee. When we first got into the building its like just a normal building with tight security that we have to be guided to the fast pace lift to the almost the top of the tower.

When we got into the building, we got to the information counter to retrieve our booking number and head straight up there. Oh, you would just get fascinated of how fast the lift could bring you onto a speed that in seconds you got up there! Our ears shuts! :) When we got in there, it gave us a feeling of spining, cause the restaurant is actually turning 360 degrees having a bird eye view of the whole night life in KL. Great!

We were brought to our seat, number 43 that we have "accidentally" confiscated the table number with us back. Anyway, we did not hesitate to walk around with full of hunger in ourself. There are choice of buffet and ala carte menu. :) we chosen buffet..haha, cause we were so hungry and tempted by the food there when we were walking in. There are some photos that we have frantically taken to share with you guys. Lets come over here...let us show you...



Oh our left, this is the satay...I am just very hungry now when I am mentioning about this, its really delicious! With the rich and tasteful sauce it really going to spice your taste bud up. It is just delicious, really, trust me! If you don't trust me, trust your own taste buds! hahah...



And this? you might be questioning what is this...Its fried muscles which taste a little hot but you will never regret it.



This is the view from the revolving restaurant of the night of Kuala Lumpur. Beautiful isn't it?



They serve tasty food. Good soup, but we do not like the sup tulang rawan, because it taste a lil too spicy and for those who do not like spicy do take note of this ya :). But generally their soup is YUM! The Japanese food are so so, compared to the Japanese food served at the authentic Japanese Fine Dining like Mizu. Their local food are just good. Do try.



From the photo above,this station serve some local delight. Satays, soups, salads and seafood spread.



Seafood! I like prawn, and they taste well to my buds. :)



This stall lookalike, it serves local delicacies. You don't want to miss this.



And I would want you to just nibble this. You will pick a few. Its big fresh prawn fried with cheese in there...argh...is it opened now? Let's call, what to wait?



After a few rounds of battle with the delicious foods, its time to get your mouth washed with some deserts. They are cute aren't they? They are just not only good.



Scallops in there? wuh, desert huh...



Comon' stop by for deserts.



The place we were sitting, they change every seconds. :) spining restaurant.



Ice cream lovers, you are not missed. Here you can sniff some.



Last but not least, I love this the most! You have to try if you see this. I repeat! You have to try. Best try!

Due to safety reason, they do not cook the food in the tower, but food are cooked at Restaurant Seri Melayu and kept on warmers. The restaurant opens daily from 12.00pm to 3.00pm for lunch and 6.30pm to 11.00pm for dinner. Just remember no shorts are allowed or you will be given sarong to wear when you are dining here. Let yourself to have at least 1 hour and 20 minutes there to allow yourself to see the whole scenery of KL as the spinning is taking that long. For song lovers, you can also pick your song and there is a pianist, a real good one. :) For comers, the buffet will cost you approx RM 150 ++ per pax. ENJOY!