Kissaten, Kuriya

Ξ May 28th, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |

Kissaten

fried dumplings, standard

ramen… pity we took them after the extravaganza that was Marutama Ramen

crispy foo chuk, standard, moving along

juicy succulent pork burger, now we’re talking

taking photo of another photo taking

tamago chicken mayonnaise pizza, we really gorge ourselves today

Kuriya

our standard goto dinner for 3 sundays running

every sunday the appetizer changes, tonight is salted fish thingy

ordered salmon sashimi tonight

current favourite - cold buckwheat noodles (seiro)

wife taking duck meat broth with buckwheat noodles (kamo seiro)

 

Dubrovnik @ Solaris Mont Kiara

Ξ May 21st, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |

http://www.dubrovnikrestaurantkl.com/

A no-occasion dinner at a Croatian Restaurant. Everyone was definitely better dressed than we were :P

Appetizer - Homemade bread with salsa

artsy fartsy salt and pepper shaker

Appetizer - platter ~ Strukli, Palacinke, Okruglice and Mixed Green Salad - Croatian appetizers, too exotic to list ingredients here so look it up!

Main Course - Lamb Peka - cuts like butter, two thumbs up from wifey

Dessert - Royal Chocolate Cake

Sorry if all the photos look too chocolatey, lighting not good enough for phone camera :(

 

Lunch at Fahrenheit 88

Ξ May 15th, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |

Thanks to wifey, I’ve got to try an amazing Ramen that has thick chicken stock soup, pork bellies that melt in your mouth, egg that is solid on the outside and liquid on the inside, Marutama Ramen - unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of what we had so check out a photo here: http://www.fahrenheit88.com/content/stores_info.php?sid=96

Then we had another fantastic desert - this time at the Cream and Fudge Factory:

Ice cream that is chunky, solid and tasty!

Fortunately wifey reminded me to take pictures:

jars of stuff used to mix in the icecream

more jars

the selection… kinda hard to see in this pics but there are many

mixing our chocolate icecream in marshmallow and walnuts… yum

according to poster, apparently it IS the creamiest icecream on earth!

the result: one chocolate icecream rocky road… yummy

 

Han Room Gardens Midvalley

Ξ April 24th, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |

Chinese Fine Dining - substance ok, style over the top:

The menu

Appetizer: oyster with salted egg - trust me it just taste good

Soup: Abalone double boiled chicken - taste kao kao (yes, we did switch out shark fin soup)

Abalone

Meat: Charcoal-grilled spanish pork in teriyaki sauce - juicy and pepperific

Fish: Unknown fish (see if you guys can identify from menu) in pomelo sauce. sweet!

Rice: served in shell with a type of sauce normally used in noodle, filling but mildly disappointing after the others

Desert: lemongrass jelly/cincau - its desert, its sweet, its cold, what more do you want?

Obligatory wife photo to commemorate dinner occasion

 

What is Meaning of Life?

Ξ February 23rd, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |

I was inspired to write the following in response to a friend’s posting on http://fallingstones.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/finding-the-soul/

i too believe in the soul as i believe that there must be some force that holds our flesh together and give birth to life. but i too agree with Buddha that is is meaningless to question the existence of the soul as it can neither be proved nor disproved. does it matter if it is made up of muons and quarks or if it is made up of n-th dimension material?

what i like to concern myself is the meaning of the soul, or what is the meaning of life, the purpose of the soul. we come from dust and we return to dust, it is easy for those simple in mind to read nihilistic meanings behind those words. but it is actually very simple, the soul is here to do … nothing. there’s is nothing in this world that needs doing. we are here to experience the ups and downs of life, there is neither good nor bad to both ups and downs. same as there is neither good nor bad to the rain, there is neither good nor bad to something like earthquakes. it is just something that happens to be experienced, how we read into the event, experience triumph and despair is entirely up to our own mind. as in departures, death can be a sad occasion, or it can be an occasion of joyous appreciation of a life lived.

so what is the purpose of the soul. broadly, i read that there are two:

1. to experience giving, the self-sacrifice

2. to experience living, the hedonistic self-pleasure

i myself lean towards the first, it is actually the passion that drives me on everyday. life is suffering, as Buddha says, if i do just one thing a day that brightens someone’s day, isn’t this life worth living already?

 

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