Happy Merdeka Malaysia

For a week now, I have been looking for a place which sells halal dim sum. I searched high and low and tried to avoid settling for hotel restaurants to fulfil my usual food craving. Two days ago with the miracles of the internet, I discovered a restaurant called Yum Cha in Plaza Damas does what I want.

Hence yesterday, I went to check the place out before the 50th Merdeka countdown. Hartamas was surprisingly quiet unlike any other places around the city last night. I was very excited to look for Yum Cha until a phone call confirmed the closure of this halal dim sum place. Sigh.

As much as I was dissappointed, this girl's stomach needed to be satisfied with the next best thing. Warong Aji-Don Alley was recommended and thankfully the food was quite satisfying. I ordered the last 10 chicken satay and that completed the first round of the restaurant hopping night.


My current favourite midnight blog is masak-masak which does food reviews and cats entries. A picture of a unusual french toast caught my eyes and since then I'd always wanted to try it out. Finally yesterday for the second round of the restaurant hopping night, I headed to Spicy Kitchen in Desa Sri Hartamas to check out their apparently-famous Roti Bakar Telur Cheese.


I would have smacked the nearest person to me if Spicy Kitchen was also shut down. That person was lucky because Spicy Kitchen was very much alive with many customers to serve. The waiters were all big sized and probably were all imported from India.

Anyway, the verdict. Roti Bakar Telur Cheese was amaaaaazingly delicious. My tongue could taste a variety of flavours from the cheesey taste to the sweetness of the french toasts. I was thinking of the O word again, and I think this was much better than the combination of Hugh Grant and Haagen-Dazs Coffee flavoured ice cream.

It was a sinful night, considering the amount of the F word consumed.

On a completely different story, at 10.35am today I started becoming responsible for 4 innocent lives. This morning I bought 2 pairs of moon fish from the market and I am definitely being observed by my family now as they want to see how long these will keep breathing. I guess one will say, "Takdo kojo, cari kojo".


Let us welcome Nana, Nini, Nono and Nunu Harry, Hermoine, Ron and Voldemort in the house. Woot woot.

My So-Called Profession

I have always been told that engineer graduates like me are not very artistic. Somehow true but ever since I reached my homeland, I am often given the opportunity to express my artsy side. Take for instance, I was hired on the spot to redecorate my friend's wedding hantaran the morning of his big day. Of course it doesn't match up to a professional standard, but I was rather pleased with the outcome. First time given a huge responsibility during a wedding, I was flattered.


And then, I challenged myself with this fairycake project. My icing decoration debut, so I was expecting it to be a mess. True enough, I was covered with icing mix. My fingers, my hands, my clothes. It also didn't meet the professional standard such as that of Angel or even Cuppacakes, but I did receive some wonderful compliments about the colourfulness of my fairycakes. ;)


From the moment I started working at the coffee house, I felt I should have thought about being a school teacher. I was constantly holding chalks of all sorts of shades, thinking of what to scribble on the black boards. And then, came yesterday where I was requested to make up a recruitment ad for a position I had just left. I guess it's funner than making many cups of coffee.


I knew for a fact that I have the wrong tertiary ed qualification and there no doubt that I did enjoy the times spent completing the artsy work. An all round decorator, that's what I like to be called. I'm still not as good, but I believe it takes time.

Tribute to Tinkerbell*

I decided to explore my limited creativity by baking fairy cakes, also famously known as cupcakes. It's a craze over here in Malaysia to bake tiny little butter cakes and then make them pretty with icing sugar and sugar decorations. Since everyone calls them cupcakes, I thought why not be slightly different. So I call mine fairy cakes.


This was the first time I baked at home since 4 years ago. It took twice the usual time to prepare the ingredients mainly because I couldn't locate all the tools and machines I needed for the bake. The mix was impressively nice with some taste of orange zest in it.


The fairy cakes (actually they look more like muffins now) smelled orangeely gorgeous right after they came out of the oven. Note that these are still my cakes even if the cups are different from the previous picture. And this was not it. Far from completion.


Next task was to use our imagination to decorate these small little fairy cakes. We were very into decorating, also a bit too competitive for the first few cakes. After the 8th cake, I honestly couldn't be bothered to make them anymore prettier because I was overdosed with sugar. Also I ran out of ideas.


The final product. We also decorated our fairy cakes with fish roe. Check the orange one out. Haha, no... those are all coloured sugar.

Later after the mini project, we headed to The Apartment at The Curve to check on the popular cuppacakes. I have to admit, they were wonderfully done. Compared ours to theirs, you can actually see that we're beginners.

Fairycakes

Cuppacakes

From this, I can conclude that baking these fairy cakes was no doubt a fun experience. But I just cannot bring myself to eating them. So I'm sticking to basic cakes with no fancy decorations.


*my missing fairy earring who is probably enjoying herself in Sabah.