Yahoo! Donuts! Do-nuts!!!

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Short Talk:
Holidays for me! Wakakaka.... eh wait.... after the break I have assignments and exams... darn and my taxation facilitator ( what he calls himself), Nick told us that our exam will be extremely tough and we need to study hard for it... read the MTG ) Master Tax Guide.... and I still have MDM assignment to do.... Company Law to study....

*Poofs* there goes my holidays..... sighs....
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As all of you know... I dwinz is a donut freak.... yesh.... I luuuuuvvvvvv donuts... I am 'do'-'nuts'! get it? do-nuts? Lolx.... ok... fine I am really crazy.

Well, Since the opening of a few decent shopping malls in Kuching we have been seeing and influx of new retailers coming into Kuching. One of the most recent and upscale mall, named The Spring, which spelled heaven to me. Why? Well Spring is the premier lifestyle shopping mall in Kuching. It houses most of the international brands such as Esprit, Padini, Guess, G2000, Samsonite and many more.

Part of Spring Shopping Mall

To add in my love for this mall was the recently open donut shop called Big Apple donuts and Coffee. Yes! Yes! I am elated, finally a decent donut shop in Kuching... its like I am in a dream. So first was to taste the donuts!

Big Apple's outlet in the Spring Kuching

Big Apple Donuts! Yums!


(L-R) Pink Panter, Mango Tango, Chococino


(Clockwise L-R from top) Ice Berg, Mango Tango, Chocoholic, Green Teaser, Strawberry and Chococino.


Big A's donuts range

Earlier on in the morning, I heard that there was a long queue of people buying the donuts or more like trying out their luck for 1/2 dz of free donuts. So I went around 4 in the afternoon and to my surprise the queue was still quite long! I had to be in queue for 45 minutes just to get the donuts... yeah everyone in Kuching is in a donut craze now... I wonder how long would it last though. Believe it or not I went back again today! bought another 1/2 dz half of it given to cuzzie Sylvia (p/s: enjoy them cuzzie!) ha ha.

My favourite logo =P


Everyone is on donut frenzy!




The open / see through concept whereby one can see how the donuts are made

Anyway Big A is not bad at all, actually their donuts are quite good and the price is reasonable too! Their outlet design looks more or less like J.Co donuts and coffee in Pavillion KL and their donuts are comparable to J.Co too!

J.Co @ Pavillion KL


J. Co's logo


Hmmm... J.Co's donuts seem to be bigger.


Bananarama.... I miss it!


Cheesy donut

The only sad thing is... they don't offer Banana rama down here in Kuching...sad.... but they have the mango tango though! he he.

So far I tried a few of the flavours and I thought chococino was good. Green teaser (Green tea) was not that bad either. The weirdest flavour I have seen is the Duren Duren... or Durian flavour donuts! LOL... YES! Durian flavoured!

Overall, I like Big A's donuts and of course I will be going back for more.... Cheers to Big A for opening in Kuching!

Hmm.... I wonder is J.Co thinking of coming into Kuching or not? Lolz

Spiced up the day!

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Short Talk:

Sighs..... I'm surrounded with mid-term tests....someone save me.....
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How do you usually start off your day? with a cup of coffee? milk? pancakes? How about starting off your day with a bowl of steaming hot, spicy laksa?

Well, that was what I did a few mornings ago. There is this eating place at Stutong area, called Fat Cat and in this eating place, there is a small stall that sells pretty good tasting Laksa. The price is reasonable too and the portion given is fair.

The shop... called fat cats... I didn't see any fat cats inside...

Laksa is a local delicacy in Sarawak, can be found particularly in the city of Kuching. It is a spicy dish which consist of gravy made from coconut milk and spices, the vermicelli is blanch and it is served with chicken strips , egg and prawns. A lime is provided to add in sourish taste, 'belacan' is given to give it a more spicy taste.

Mmmm.... smells good....looks good.....tastes good.


Yippeee.... Prawn!!

The lime and belacan that goes well with it

Not many people know how to make good laksa. The stall in 'Fat Cat' is one of the good ones that can be found in Kuching.

To top it off.... a locally brewed coffee!!

To top it off.... is to drink a good old cup of locally brewed coffee!

Unagi~!

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Short Talk:
Back in Kuching....but I might not blog much about the trip to KL cause the photos are not with me :( . Can't show you guys the fun I had if there are not photos provided.

On another issue...YAHOO! I just got married! LOL....no no not that kind of married... I finally got my new comp! I am so happy~~!
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I have cravings for Japanese food. I love Japanese food! Recently a famous Japanese food chain spread its wings into Kuching. That is non-other than the famous Sushi King. Before Sushi King came into Kuching, there are a few Japanese restaurants in Kuching. Some of them are quite good.

Last year I got to know this new dish...well... I guess it was in the menu ages ago and its just that I didn't bother to try it. So one find day, while I was having lunch at Momoyama Japanese restaurant. I decided to try out something new. So I settled for the Unagi set. Just in case some of you do not know what an Unagi is, let me explain to you what an Unagi is....ahemz...ahemz...the definition of Unagi as define is "edpedia"....Lol...joking, joking it should be wikipedia, Unagi is a Japanese word for fresh water eel. YES! Eel...slimy...squirmy snake like eels. Unagi are pretty common in Japanese menu.... the most common one is smoked Unagi and it is usually served with rice. So on that fine day, I got to taste Unagi... and I fell in love with it...the meat is soft and fleshy, the bones are edible (I think...so far I ate the small bones too...). The way the Japanese prepared the Unagi is just sensational.... the eel is not overcooked and the sauce they used for the Unagi is very nice. The sauce is sweet. From that day onwards...I became Unagi crazy.

Unagis .... awww...aren't they a cute bunch...sad they have to end up in someone's stomach...muahahaha

Whenever I am in a Japanese restaurant, I will order Unagi and gobble it down...and I feel so happy once I am finished with em.

Ready to be eaten Unagi...big portion....reasonable price =)

Then for the past few days... I kept having cravings for Unagi again! So I learned that a supermarket in Spring shopping Mall. So decided to go take a "looksee"..."looksee" and to my surprise it is not at all that expensive. In fact it is cheaper than eating them in a Japanese restaurant. Prices are tagged according to the weight. Average price is around RM11.60++ and its the whole Unagi as compared half Unagi when you go to the Japanese restaurant. I find the price reasonable and I sort of became a frequent customer there. Haha.!

The other thing I tried was...seasoned octopus... not sure is this a Japanese delicacy... but Kelly introduced it to me. You can obtain it from Ta Kiong Supermarket in Spring too. Price range for the octopus depends on the weight too. On average the price is around RM8.00. The seasoned Octopus is just as good as the Unagi. Is kind of sweet too but its really really very nice. I feel in love with it too. The best part for both of these dishes is that, no preparations are needed for it is ready to eat.

Seasoned Octopus....ready to be eaten too.... they taste just as good as the Unagi!

I know... I must have sounded like a glutton now... gosh...but food is just so good... I mean good food makes you feel so good. But...hey... I watch my diet too ok... I have been going for jogging sessions with my friends during weekends.... I know what are all of you thinking! WEEKENDS only?? Better don't go jogging like tha..... but... but... hey.... its a good start for me.... considering I am such a lazy bump when it comes to exercising. Ha Ha!

Time to end my post now... back to assignments! Ciao~!

Chicago 7

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Short Talk:
Wanted to go for a shopping spree... but I noticed that my wallet keeps telling me insufficient funds... sighs......
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Eating outlets are mushrooming everywhere in Kuching these days. Some are good some are bad, some are acceptable. Some have good food, some has inedible food, some have good food but damn lousy service.

Chicago 7 would be a new fast food chain in Kuching.They proudly claimed that they have the best broaster chicken in town and its being done the original way. But when I visited the restaurant, the broaster chicken was NOT yet available...ok fine... I accept the fact that maybe the machines has not arrived yet. So we had no choice but to order what was on the menu that is Burgers only.

Genuine Broaster

For those of you who had read Kenny Sia's blog, Chicago 7 should not be a new name to you. They gave their beef burger some weird name. The called it Cow burger...so I ordered the double cheese cow burger and ordered a blackcurrent drink. They gave me a number and said they will send my burger over. After paying up, adorable Tee Heng and I went and look for a seat to settle down.

After a few minutes a group of ladies sat a table or two away from us, then a small family sat opposite us and another family came in much later. To our astonishment, the people who came later than us got their food first. So we thought maybe their orders are easier to make. Maybe they have not caught or slaughtered the cow for my cow burger yet and Tee Heng's chicken burger's chicken must have escaped and they are trying to catch that naughty little feathered fowl back.

Then things got a little quirky, everyone who came later than us got their food and ours seem to be lost somewhere, I was going to be late for work... damn those people... has my cow really ran off? Has Tee Heng's chicken flew away and got into someone's pot of curry?

I called the person who took our order and asked...

Me: Excuse me, where is our food? We ordered earlier on and all the other people who came later got their food and I am going to be late for my work.(*tulan face...)

*tulan means pissed off in Hokkien

Waiter: (nervous and frightened look) ... oh ok... I go check now... (runs off to check our order)

Me: *Smirks*

But... we still had to wait for quite sometime. The order came... adorable Tee Heng takes a look at his burger and...

Adorable Tee Heng: (in mandarin...) Kanineh...this type of burger ask me cook at home I also know ma....GY...&^^$#%**U

Me: *looks at my burger*... mine looks good... but my fries... so sad looking... bloody hell!!

Do you guys have any idea that the fries portion is so little... so sad looking.

Look at the fries portion!! So little....bloody hell


At least Mr. Cow was not so bad.

Cute Tee Heng: KANINEH I ALSO KNOW HOW TO MAKE THIS TYPE OF BURGER! *&$%^^&

To be fair my burger was good. As for Tee Heng's I have no idea, you guys can ask him bout that.

My Ratings for Chicago 7:

Food: 7/10
Service: 4/10 (They didn't even apologise for the late coming of our food)
ambience of the restaurant: 8/10

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On another issue, totally not related to food is that I am so bored in my office and I do not have any internet connection and I don't know what to do until I started playing with Microsoft Paint. Is Started to create a few things...that was how bored I was. I will show you some of my masterpieces here. Well in all seriousness.I think it just sucks. LOL!

Now I am here, bored and blogging this post via notepad, in the office. I seriously have nothing to do now. Hahaha!

Vacation @ Kuching Part 1- The Junk Restaurant

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Short Talk:
Thinking of shedding of a few more Kgs...woo hoo... diet time...lolz....nah joking...
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Well after giving it a good thought I am going to split this post into a few parts. So that it won't get too long and bore all you dear readers out there to sleep. haha. I assume it will be neater this way too.

well the first night of my so called vacation was bringing both Brendan and Hans to this cheeky little restaurant downtown. The name " The Junk Restaurant" as mentioned in the name, the restaurant is really full of junks. But wait...it is not just any kind of junks, these junks are valuable junks because the owner of this restaurant loves to collect antiques and use it as decorations for the restaurant.

Antique clock

Antique lantern

Once inside the restaurant even with all the antiques inside it...there is no eerie feeling. But there is this romantic atmosphere as the restaurant's lighting is dim. Very dim for me, cause I can hardly read the menu. And when I worked there, I hardly know what I was scribbling onto my order chit, cause I can't see what I was writing.

Antique Piano or organ?...anyway it doesn't work

Well I am drifting off topic. So back to topic. I decided to settle down for Asparagus prawn and also the Aglio olio prawn pasta. Yes I know, I know why is it all prawns... Well someone likes to eat prawn and I am also a prawn lover...LOL

Asparagus Prawn


Aglio Olio Prawn Pasta

Brendan settled for the Lamb Shank and Hans settled for the Terriyaki Chicken.

When the food came, we started to dig in. The Asparagus prawn was good, but sadly the asparagus was a tad too old so it was hard to chew it. After that came the Aglio Olio Prawn Pasta. It was good, but a bit too dry. But It was still alright for me. The bright side was that the prawns were very fresh.

The terriyaki chicken was good...but the meat was burnt so it has this bitter taste to it. Hans loved the mash potatos though. I loved the Saute vegetables.

Burnt Terriyaki Chicken

Last but not least was the Lamb Shank. The lamb shank was good. The meat was tender and juicy. The sauce was superb.So I guess the lamb shank was the best dish for the night.

The best dish of the night...Lamb Shank

The drinks that night was good.No complaints for it.

So here are the overall ratings for the food that night.

Asparagus Prawn: 7.5/10
Aglio Olio Prawn Pasta: 8.5/10
Terriyaki Chicken: 6/10
Lamb Shank: 9.5/10


overall ratings for the restaurant: 8/10

The total cost for that night was RM 134.00

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ivy a very good friend of mine who works at Junk for giving me special treatment that night.

To someone special, being with you was the happiest moment in my life.

Stay tune for part 2 guys!!

Cheers!!

Hari Raya Delights!

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Short Talk:
FUCK! I am so broke and its only middle of the month! Shit! No more going out...maybe not even staying back for WFL any more...its BUDGET TIME!
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The one thing I look forward to Hari Raya is that I can meet my Malay friends. We have been separated since our Diploma graduation and some of them are working. I sure miss them. My Malay friends are always warm and sincere towards us. They never fail to invite us to visit them during Hari Raya. Even now, when we are apart and not studying together we are still being invited to their house for raya. Now, that is true sincerity and friendship. I truly respect them.


Another thing that I look forward to is the food and cakes! Oh I tell you guys, some of my friends serve wicked food. I usually look forward to eating masak merah, rendang, lemang, ketupat, pulut, curry and many more. The cakes and cookies, I need not say more about them for right now as I am doing this post and recollecting back what I have eaten there is making me drool like a bull dog!

The cakes were good too!

The first house I visited was Zeti's house. Her house was the first house we visited and the only house we visited this raya because some of our other friends are not in Kuching for this Raya. As usual Zeti's mother cooks some really wicked food. The cakes are great too. I ate so much curry, lemang, pulut and of course masak merah that I felt bloated but surprisingly, I was greedy enough to continue on with the cakes and cookies after that glorifying meal.

Look at all those food!


My first round XD

After the satisfying lunch at Zeti's house I was back home sleeping! Yes I was such a pig! I know! But I went jogging with Morgan and Shawn that evening. Well "Jogging"....

Then I had this lil dude for dinner...YUMZ! ok....ok... joking this prawn is still living happily in its aquarium in Kuching International Airport. LOL