✿ Here and there, in Kuala Lumpur: October 2012

Oct 27, 2012

Sunday brunch~ Ben's General Food Store, B.I.G, Publika

October 2012. Sunday morning, woke up late.. Oppa said, lets go for nice brunch at Ben's~😍This Bens General Food Store is located inside Ben's Independent Grocer in Publika. We order 2 breakfast pizza~ their signature Big Ben Breakfast and another breakfast pizza~ Eggs Benedict. An English tea for him and a cappuccino for me.

First pizza is BIG BEN'S BREAKFAST~ a personal size Pizza with Beef, bacon, chicken sausage, baked beans, button mushrooms, semi-dried tomatoes, hash brown & eggs. It's like the usual big breakfast we know where they turn it into pizza with the ingredients that a big breakfast have as filling.

The second pizza EGGS BENEDICT is turkey ham, spinach, semi-dried tomatoes, truffle oil & poached eggs pizza. I love how the spinach taste like when it mixed with poached eggs & ham in this pizza! He also commented their food ingredients taste fresh.

If you are not a big eater, 1 pizza breakfast is enough for 2 adults to share. We were told by the waiter who attend to us that 1 breakfast pizza is good for 1 serving. So, we ordered 2 breakfast pizza and end up over-stuff our stomach. I didn't really enjoy my cappuccino as I was too full to finish it. Overall, the pizza taste good, but the brunch cost us RM80++ because we order 2 pizza lol!

Oct 22, 2012

참치 김치 찌개~ Kimchi Jjamchi Jjigae (Kimchi Tuna Stew)

October 2012. Love kimchi jjigae? Then you should try kimchi tuna jjigae! This is the first Korean jjigage that I learned how to cook! Simple, quick and easy jiggae. It is one of his favourite Korean stew. He will eat at least 2 bowl of rice with just the jjigae because it is so savoury! Jjigae (pronounced as chee-geh) is a Korean dish similar to a Western stew. A typical jjigae is heavily seasoned with chili pepper and served boiling hot. A Korean meal usually will include either a jjigae or a soup.

Ingredients:

Chopped Kimchi - 1 cup

Tuna chunk (soak in oil) - 1 can

Rinse rice water - 2.5 cups

Spring Onion - 1 stalk

Sesame Oil - 1 tablespoon

Soy Sauce - 1 teaspoon

Sugar - 1 teaspoon

How to cook:

Step 1.
Heat up the earth-ware and add 1 tbsp of sesame oil in it. Then add 1 cup of chopped kimchi and saute for 2-3 minutes on a normal heat. Saute until the chopped kimchi until it looks golden brown. This step can make the kimchi more savoury and crispy.

Step 2.
Remove the oil from the can, pour in the tuna chunk into the earth-ware. I prefer to use tuna chunk soak in oil than the soak in water type as I found out that this local brand soak in oil type tuna chunk is less salty compare to the soak in water type.

Step 3.
Add in 1 teaspoon of the excess oil (optional), mix the tuna chunk and chopped kimchi well and saute it under normal heat for another 2-3 minutes. The tuna chunk oil will add more flavor to the stew.

Step 4.
Add in 2 cups of rice water - the water from rinse rice. If you do no have rice water, use normal water instead. Bring it to boil. Meanwhile, chopped 1 stalk of spring onion as above - the green part is about finger length and the white part chopped into 2-3cm length. Set aside.

Step 5.
When the stew is boiling, add 1 teaspoon of soya sauce and 1 teaspoon of sugar, continue to let it boil in a medium heat for about 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, add the chopped spring onion and boil for another 30 seconds to 1 minute, the stew is ready!

Serve the Kimchi Jjamchi Jiggae with a bowl of steam rice. I love to use Korean earth-ware (Ddukbaegi) to cook jiggae, as it can keep the soup bibim-hot and continue boiling for a while when served it on the table.

Oct 8, 2012

香港JW万豪酒店~ JW Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong

October 2012. We stayed in JW Marriott Hotel, Queensway for 4 days 3 nights in Hong Kong. It is conveniently located in the heart of Hong Kong - the Central district, with direct access to Admiralty MTR station (金鐘站) through the Pacific Place Shopping Mall (太古廣場) which is linked with the hotel. We use MTR travel to various places such as Central, Mongkok, Tsim Tsa Tsui without needs to pay more to hire a taxi. Our room is located at Level 32 with partial city view and mountain view, overlooking at Hong Kong Park. Room size is standard, not spacious but not too small as well given that property in Hong Kong is expensive. The double beds in queen size is super comfy and we have a very good sleep during the stays. The two single seat sofa next to the window corner is our most favourite place in the room besides the beds. The blackout drape curtains are remote-control, control button panel for lighting including iPhone charging stand just next to the bed.

The bathroom and walk in closet is located between the door entrance and room entrance curvy corridor. We could store our large size luggage inside the walk in closet, there are also multi-level drawers and top shelves above the cloth racks to keep more stuffs. The Bathroom has separated shower area and bathtub. Well equipped toiletries. The mimi-bars comes complimentary drinking water, coffee and tea including the coffee / tea maker, as well as assorted premium snacks and beverages such as beer, wine and champagne which is chargeable.

Since we have access to level 33 executive lounge as a Marriot member, we get to enjoy nice coffee & drinks all day long. The lounge has an amazing view of harbour view and city view. There are also wide range of breakfast selections from Hong Kong dimsum, porridge with sides, fried noodles to western breakfast like cereals, waffle & pancakes, breads & pastries, yogurts etc, and we did not had breakfast outside (of the hotel).

Oct 6, 2012

香港杜莎夫人蜡像馆~ Madame Tussauds, Hong Kong

October 2012. We plan to spend half a day here at the Peak including visit Madame Tussauds. However we end up browse in quick mode because my nephew terrified by those wax figures which we did not expect lol. So I took pictures of almost 70% to 80% of the celebrity wax figures thinking that maybe I can take a look later when I want - which I doubt I will do that. Anyway I am glad I did that (taking photos) else I probably wont be writing a separate blog post on Madame Tussauds and looking at those photos again right now. The entry ticket cost HKD185 for adult and free admission for children under 3 years old.

Upon entering the museum via red carpet, you will first greet by paparazzi's camera flashlights and questionairs as if you are one of the superstars lol. Hong Kong actress Sandra Ng 吴君如 was the very first figure we saw when we were inside. The figures are custom made according to the celebrity actual size and she is so skinny in actual.

Follow by Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie

Proud of Malaysia ~ Dato Michelle Yeoh

Hong Kong actress Cecelia Chueng

Taiwan Singer / actor Jay Chow

Taiwan Singer / Actress Barbie Hsu 大S

Hong Kong actor Louis Koo

Hong Kong Singer Joey Young

Hong Kong singer & actress Kelly Chan

Hong Kong singer & actor Aaron Kwok

Hong Kong singer & actor Andy Lau ~ my uncle since we have same surname 😆

Chinese actress Fan BingBing

And she is Madame Tussauds

From here we walk down the staircase with photo frames of history of Madame Tussauds Museum hanging both side, to the hall of "The making of..." featuring the process and details of the making of Donny Yen & Jet Li wax figure.

Chinese Kung-fu stars - Jet Li and Donny Yen

One of my favourite actor~ Johnny Deep

James Bond ~ Pierce Brosnan

Audrey Hepburn in her iconic “Little Black Dress” in the opening of the 1961 romantic comedy film Breakfast at Tiffany's.

American actress~ Marilyn Monroe's iconic flying dress during the filming the subway grate scene for The Seven Year Itch in September 1954.

Diana, Princess of Wales, her wax figure is so elegant just like her!

US President - Barrack Obama in the White House, where Ex-president of US~ George W. Bush is standing at the right corner in the White House staring at him lol.