Kik Kok @ Ikano Power Center

I love food, because it can make me tummy happy. I am always curious when seeing something new that I never tried before, but curiosity can kill the cat. This happened to me for many times, yet it doesn’t stops me from being ‘adventerous’ again. I can’t be that unlucky all the time right. For instance, the kik kok at Ikano.

It’s just a very small stall located next to the escalator, but its name ‘Kik Kok’ has captured my attention. I bet most of you must be thinking the same with me, what does Kik Kok means. There is no such word for it in the English dictionary at all, but those who can read mandarin can immediately tells that it is literally means as ‘crispy’. To be more precise, it is actually just a very thin version of pancake called crepe, filled with jam or other ingredients.  

Unlike my FW’s chicken floss crepe, my peanut butter kik kok wasn’t made upon order. It was a bit hard and cold but still good enough for a quick bite before dinner.

Monster in the house

We are now officially ‘low-bat’ after another round of studio photography yesterday (one of the prizes we won during The Proposal event). Supposed to wake up early for the Terry Fox Charity Walk this morning, however we were really tired and couldn’t make it. All because of a night out during Halloween.

Due to busy life, we also hardly stay at home recently or spend time with the two cats. Just like last Monday, we were out since 9am till 11pm plus, we were well prepared that the monster Oreo will surely mess up the house, as he usually does if we didn’t come home at certain time. Surprisngly, nothing happened but both didn’t even bothered to miaw and just ignored us when we opened the door.

The reason why we called Oreo as a monster because he is really such a monster who can turn the house up and down like the aftermath of a tsunami (it might be unbelievable, but he does react when we call him monster Oreo). Kitchen napkin and toilet roll are his favourites, if we didn’t keep it somewhere that he can’t reach, he will just grab and shred the whole roll into small pieces. A real Nightmare!

At first we thought that he should be less hyper after being neutered, who knows it doesn’t help at all, except that he isn’t interested with female cat at all. Sometimes he will still be very ‘manja’, want us to pamper him or suck/bite my FW’s finger till he fall asleep. He can also get jealous over my other cat furfur easily. He loves to disturb furfur sleeping especially if he saw furfur sleeping at his ’territory’.  He really treat himself as a king in this house and we are his slave!

For quite some time, he must want to sleep with my FW at night and he will cry if she didn’t bring him in to the room. Somemore, he must want to sleep next to her only, which means in between both of us or even just simply ignore me and even at times sleep at my side of the bed and on my pillow when im not around. So now you know whose bed is it. Somemore, he will usually wakes my FW up at 4am or 5am when he is hungry. Think this is how life going to be when we have a baby in the close future, or it could be worst than this – forget about your beauty sleep.

On the other hand, furfur’s behaviour is totally opposite with Oreo. He is sooo pondan and miaw like a female cat. All he knows is just to eat and sleep, this explains why he is so heavy now. For certain unknown reason, he will kick me away when I try to carry him. But seriously, he is very heavy and I really dunno how to carry him like how my fiance does.

My FW and I always joke around that furfur must be wondering why we took a monster home in the first place. Instead of keeping him company, the monster is bullying him more often. He must be very happy when the monster is being punished when i put Oreo into the cage, only then FurFur will be sleeping like a pig, lying down with his tummy up and both legs opened, hahaha…

Anyhow, both of them share the same characters too… eat certain flavour of can food and use only certain brand’s litter sands. These two cats are just too lucky to be with us and have someone like my FW who treat them as her precious. Most of the time i feel sad when i see dead cats on the road, or see little kittens even being thrown out of a car. These two should feel lucky we saved them and decided to keep them as our pets.

Sneak Preview of Pre-wedding Photo

After almost 5 months of brainstorming, finally this special moment in our life is over.

It’s SOOO tiring after 8 hours of shooting but all of us really enjoyed it. Everything went on smoothly even though there were some small issue over the attire few hours before the shooting.

Big thanks to the Mr. Photographer who was more exhausted than we do. I am glad that my FW has chosen the right photographer who is so creative and doing very well in capturing fine art photos. Not to mention he has gave us so many precious advice beyond photography matters and introducing us to one of the top 10 make-up artists in Malaysia.

The way this make-up artist do his magic ‘transformation’  to us is really amazing. He can transform my FW into another look within few minutes only by taking out his travellers bag filled with his assortment of makeups, and even by doing it at the road side. Truly professional! Somemore, he was always next to my FW, checked on her make up and gown, helped her to carry the gown, brought us props and shoes. Really appreciate it.

Not to forget also Jo who flew back to Hong Kong this morning, for accompanying us till late at night; assistant make-up artist who kept ‘kipas’ my FW, worrying that she will sweat and last but not least, the assistant photographer. Millions of thanks to you all and looking forward to seeing you guys again on our wedding day.

So far we have only seen a few out of few hundreds photos, here is one to share with all. Don’t ask me for more, it can only be revealed after our invited guest have seen it on the actual wedding day^-^It’s meant to be a surprsie for everyone during the wedding dinner.

Tenji Japanese Buffet

We are still very excited with the dinner last night – Tenji Japanese Buffet @ Solaris Mont Kiara. We didn’t plan for it at all, it just happened to be, spur of the moment event in the evening. Originally we’re suppose to go Xenri D’Garden Terrace @ Menara Hup Seng but who knows it was closed for private function, lucky for us. Then, we went to Rakuzen but no buffet on Saturday night. My FW was craving for Japanese ryori and insisted for Japanese buffet only (don’t ask me why and I am sure it’s not because she is studying Japanese now).

Seriously, yesterday was the first time we drove to Mont Kiara and you know how ‘good’ is the sign board in Malaysia. We got lost at Hartamas, Mont Kiara and even at Solaris Mont Kiara itself, lost of direction when we came up from car park. Luckily, a good mannered citizen whom we all know as the taxi driver, showed us the proper direction and i trust them the most as they are the masters of shortcuts and so on when it comes to areas of interest. [ TIP: If you ever got lost, stop by at a taxi stand and ask these kind gentlemans, you may get the good ones or the bad ones, your luck.]

It’s already about 8.45pm when we reached there. Hungry and unable to think properly, we went in, deciding to go or not to go because of the price. In the end we end in, paid for it and was amazed. Plus getting lost looking for our table.

We were so worried at once that the restaurant could be full house, because of its well known popularity in Kuala Lumpur, we decided may as well. Despite the hefty price, i really do not mind because it’s my FW birthday. But for those who wants to impress your gf/bf/family/in-laws/scandals/ be sure that it does cost a lot. I even saw a guy running to an ATM machine while the gf was there waiting, pity the poor lad i got to say.

Well, I am sure that we won’t waste our time looking for table anymore during next visit as it’s already pre-assigned when we paid. The 1st thing im going to do when i come here again in the next few months is to take the food then go to my table.

I was so happy when found out that they are having free flow of young coconut here. Guess what, we had 10 of it during two hours of dinner. But i still feel its not enough, if we didnt got lost looking for this place i guess the number of coconut that im going to consume would double that.

Didn’t the buffet counter make us drool? Eventhough this counter does attract my stomach but it was another section which i targetted every 30mins or less.

What we picked from sushi counter isn’t even 1/4 of what they have here.

Sashimi is a not-to-be missed item also when you’re having Japanese buffet

There are unlimited serving of salmon, tuna, abalone, scallop. octopus…

I couldn’t remember how many plates of salmon did I have while waiting for my Unagi. It is really very fresh!

It is only worth the money you paid when you take only the expensive stuff over and over again. Ignore those local and inetrnational food! And so, my FW had a dozen of oyster all for herself and i had many plates of Unagi.

We were stunned for a second when first saw this giant oyster that is bigger than my palm, do not let the picture fool you. Be there or be square because this thing is not to be missed.

It is grilled to perfection before topped with diced mango and onion, i never really tried it but from what i concure, with so many people lining up for this thing. It must be good, and it must be very worth it.

Also found was the giant cockles, i honestly thought this thing comes in smaller packages but i was astonished to find out that its huge.

Kill two birds with one stone, Baskin Robbin’s Lychee and Mango Mousse Cake for the birthday girl. At least then I don’t have to spend buying her a cake anymore^-^

We were so full after about 2 hours of non stop eating, so by the time when we attacked the dessert counters, both were already almost faint due to indulging ourselves [pengsan]. But we couldn’t say no to Baskin Robbin, Haagen Dazz and also Kindori’s free flow ice cream. Too bad, we were just too lazy to take photo anymore.

I don’t mind to visit Tenji again but definitely not this year, wallet bleeds and tummy need to rest before overload again. Need to look good before wedding. I need to look fit in my tux too, time to hit the gym.

Lunch – RM77++ per person, Dinner – RM88++ per person; www.tenji.com.my

Back to Nature at Naili’s Place

A reader left a message for me and complimented that I am honest in what I wrote. I must admit that I am also one of those many out there who read other people’s blog, to know what are the good eating places before I try it out. Therefore, I always remind myself to be very honest while blogging. If the place isn’t worth to spend your $ at, why would you still want to recommend it to the others?

Well, let’s get back to our main topic today, Naili’s place. The last time we visited Naili’s was about two years ago and we end up at this place again because of the cheese macorroni, which was prepared for dinner but was spoilt by a smelly bad egg. Even during this writing, i can still imagine it as if it happened an hour ago.

I cannot deny that Naili’s Place in Sentul has a very nice landscaping design that will certainly gives you a feel of back to nature.

 It was about 8pm when we reached there but somehow, we didn’t see much customers as well. Not even a waiter / waitress escort us at all upon our arrival. So we just simply chose where we want to seat – a private ‘pondok’ style dining section like traditional kampung people do. Who knows, a guy suddenly came to us and said that there were only two of us.

Instead, we’re told that we must pick a table at the common dining area only. I can understand why they are doing so if the restaurant is full but it’s not. This place which has seating capacity of 350 pax wasn’t even 10% full. Sigh… we almost feel like leaving the place immediately.

Now I wonder what’s the minimum requirement to climb up to the tree huts.

 The menu has not much surprise as it comprises Malaysian’s favourite food plus some common Western dishes. I expected a great taste from my special Temasik Rice but the butter rice doesn’t even have any butter taste. I would say that Ayamas’ frozen fried chicken is even better than what I was served.

Mee mamak that’s over price, if you prefer to eat a mee mamak i would suggest Nasi Kandar at Bangsar or the one in Genting Klang called Steven’s Corner. Better and worth the price.

ABC jelly with ice cream is surely the only item that pleased my tastebud, because i have a sweet tooth anything nice and sweet and is called “ABC” is good enough for me. Explains why most malaysians are obese and have diabetes plus high cholesterol level.

Our bill came up to RM30 plus, which makes us really regret for coming here. I doubt so the quality of food and service here deserve that much. Look like it’s really hard for us to consider come back here again! Looks like it will be another 2 years before  i set foot there again, not the mention the mosquitoes was having a field day having me for their “dinner”.