Monday 28 January 2013

Long weekend~

I had a very busy weekend as CNY approaches, there are extra chores to do before we celebrate the festival, and Spring cleaning is part of it.

Over the weekend, Mr Sunny is very co-operative so I quickly wash the curtain, cushion cover, mattress, floor matt... etc etc On top of that I still have my usual vacum, mop, wash, and the almost forgetting IRON clothes. With all these, I am dead tired by late afternoon and no mood to cook as well. (Plus I don't want to mess up with the kitchen that I just mopped! Shhhh)

Solution? Manja Dear Hub to dine out! hahahhha 10 tried 10 successful!

So on last Sat, after a tiring day, we revisit this new place inside Isetan Eat Paradise - Tonkatsu by Mia Maison. We arrived early (almost 6pm) so the place is not crowded yet. We are seated promptly and handed the menu to read.






Mainly pork is served here, hence the cute lil piggy :)






After we have decided, we looked around and found that few of the waitress were here and there and no one actually to my hand wave until I manage to catch an eye contact from the chef in the kitchen and he signal a waitress to come get out orders. Hmmmm service is not as prompt as the first visit, maybe because the Japanese Boss is not around so the staff slack a bit? Well never mind, this is nothing major, just close eyes.

As we are both very hungry, we order 2 sets for both of us! Dear Hub doesn't like to share when he is hungry!

I ordered the Rosu Katsu Set (Deep Fried Pork Loin)



and Dear Hub remain his choice and order the Mameton Set again. Mameton set is more like a combo set which few of each item - Deep Fried Prawn, Pork Loin and Pork Fillet. Ang this is also the only set that comes with a small ramen.



And feeling adventurous, Dear Hub ask if I want to try their fried Oyster, (CNY is just 2 weeks away!!) but I'm not keen so he ordered one piece to try. Yes, good thing about them is that some item like fried oyster or fried prawn can be ordered in single piece, good for those who just want to have some variety.

All the set comes with rice, tonjiru (grated dashi) and cabbage. And you can choose to have white or multi grain rice. Needless to ask, we opted for the more healthier Multi Grain Rice.




The order arrived in a reasonable time (we have to spare some time for them to fried the stuff rite? :))

This is my Rosu Katsu Set


160g worth of Pork Loin!! Sinful Sinful!!



Dear Hub's Mameton Set, look at the mustard at the side, does it reminds you of anything? hahahhaha





The fried Oyster



Oh yah, when you are here, do remember to check out this weird UFO, it's a sesame grinder actually, and I am wondering where can I find this little gadjet here in Malaysia. Maybe I can ask the staff on my next visit? The grinded sesame really lifted the boring rice to a whole new level!






Their portion is quite big and even Dear Hub cannot finish his serving (because I gave half of my portion to him already) So he decided to just tapao the rest as his bed time snack! To my surprised, they even top up on the cabbage salad and pack the salad dressing on a separate container for us!! Waow, I am very impressed about this! Not many restaurant will care about giving you the dressing needed for the food.



Total bill came up to about 70++ with the GST & Service Tax.
Currently Isetan Eat Paradise is running a promo, if you spent more than RM28 excluding gst & tax, you will be entitle for a spint of fortune!






Lucky star shine upon us that evening and we got ourselves RM15 worth of food Voucher (there's another shy shy RM5 voucher hiding underneath)



My POV: This place is worth a visit, but provided you don't feel heaty nor having fever, cough nor sore throat as this place's menu consist 90% of deep fried stuff :)



Tuesday 22 January 2013

A fussy wife

I was on strike last nite for not cooking dinner as I was just too tired and the fridge is kinda empty. (Was too busy shopping over the weekend and forgot to replenish stock, so this strike will go on for few days.. heheh)
Dear Hub was very understanding and suggested to dine out. What to eat? Of course my favourite Japanese food! So we just hop on to his car and off we go to Paradigm Mall for Sushi Zanmai.

Why Zanmai? Coz their price is alright for the quality and quantity of food and it won't burn DH's wallet with a big hole. We were quite hungry and we ordered sashimisalad, salmon sashimi, oyster carpacio, mentai sushi and unadon.

After a while, the first to arrive - Unadon 0_o


I was rolling my eyes towards DH, I think he can telepathy what I think and quickly ask the waiter where is the salad. I just feel very strange to eat rice first then only salad. Arrghhhh This is a Japanese restaurant, don't they know on how to arrange the sequence on what to serve first and what should be later?


After Unadon, our salad reached our table (we were half finishing the unadon already! Nope, we were taking our own sweet time on the don as we still feel like having the fresh item first)






Then the oyster carpacio arrived. The oyster is kinda small but for the price of RM6.80, I can't expect that much rite?

Then the mentai suhi came


After everything, our salmon sashimi arrived finally!!! I really don't understand, how could the the sashimi chef slower than those preparing the don? And it's really a different feeling when you have eaten all cooked stuff then only go for raw food!! Really not a good experience!



And look at the pathetic tiny lemon slice that accompanied the salmon, Frankly I don't know the purpose of the lemon, to make it more appealing and appetizing?



All in all the food were okay, just that I am not that okay. I still don't like to be served rice before the sashimi & salad. But DH just said "Don't be too fussy" :PP

Sunday 20 January 2013

A forgetful wife!

I am a very forgetful wife!

As usual, I was very excited to go home last Friday to kick start the weekend with dear Hub. As usual I just quickly pack and dump everything into the bag and off I go to start the weekend! After some mad rush and a lovely dinner, both of us were lazying around watching TV and playing with phones. Suddenly, I jump up and scream that gave a bit of a shock to dear Hub and quickly asked what happened!

Apparently I left my phone charger in the office!!!! Arrghhhhhhhhhh it's kinda impossible for the phone to last thru the weekend without any charging!!! After tossing out everything in the bag, I certified that the charger is left in office (where I last charged). Then in my mind I start cursing the phone designer team on changing the connector, if not I can charge using the old phone charger.

"Tomorrow, when you go shopping with Mummy, go and get another cable, ON ME" he mention this in a cool tone. And then he walk up to reach for his purse and gave me RM100. In my mind I am still thinking if I should get or not, because that cable would cost RM70, and it's kinda costly for a stupid cable rite? But he re-insisted... Just go and get it at Machines when you go shopping at Mid Valley tomorrow okay? Don't buy the pirated ones, get the original~ Of course I must reward him with a big hug and kisses rite?

Somehow I went to KLCC on sat instead. So sun morning, after his usual jog, he told me he wanted to go Mid Valley and we can get the cable there!! Yay!!!




Thanks Dear :)

Thursday 17 January 2013

苹果蜜枣炖莲子

When I reached home last night, beside the usual bear hug I got from hub, I was also welcome by a "pouty" sexy lips!! Oh no, that's a sign of heatiness! And before I'm able to put down my bag, hub is already complaining that he he is feeling the heatiness coming out from his body resulting in the red sexy pouty lips!

*DING* I can use this to experiment with the new kitchen gadjet that I about online a while back. So I quickly search through the fridge and find myself an apple, chinese honey dates & lin zhi. I shall put all ingredient in the pot and make a soup stew for hub to reduce the heatiness

This is new pot that I bought, mini and compact


Comes with digital display and equip with few cooking options - Steam, Fast Stew, Slow Stew & Keep Warm


Before


After

And served immediately!!

This round I use the Fast Stew option and the automated cooking time is 2 hours, which I think is quite sufficient. After 2 hours, even the Lin Zhi is also soft n melt in the mouth!! I'm definately gonna try more recipes with  this new gadjet!


Recipe (Adapted from various sources to suit my limited ingredients)

1 Red apple - Peeled and quartered (There were some findings saying you should include the skin as well, but I am lazy and didn't do a pre-wash on the apple so i just peel & quartered the apple)
1 handful of Lin Zhi
1 handful of Dried Sea Coconut - aka Kon Hoi Dai Ye
1 Honey Dates - aka Mat Zhou
1 bowl of water
Double boil for 2 hours

 


Sunday 6 January 2013

Who is PJ Wife


I'm married to a humble ipoh guy and have decided to build our cosy cot in PJ :) So I'll be sharing stories on my my daily happenings, my frust, my encounter, things i Like, things I hate......

Happy reading~