Dragon Cousin

My son, Ernnes, 6 and my cousin's son, Daniel, also 6, both born in the year of the Dragon! 

Herbal Tea Stall @ Penang Chinatown

One of my favourite herbal tea stall located at Campbell Street in Penang Chinatown. As usual you may find some sweet and bitter herbal tea. My favourite is the bitter herbal tea added in with some medicine powder. Good for reducing heatiness in the body system. 

Pork Shogayaki @ Aji Nippin Japanese Restaurant

One of the first Japanese restaurant set up in Ideal Avenue shops is Aji Nippon Japanese Restaurant. Passing by this restauarnt a few times but did not try the food until tonite.

Ordered Pork Shogayaki dinner set instead of my favourite Salmon due to pricing. Apparently the food there is a bit pricey. The onion pork is done perfectly superbly with lots of gravy. The set is priced at RM28.00!

Lucky me, as I'm holding a UOB credit card, i was entitled for a 10% discount. Seems like a long time since i'm using credit card discount!

Thin Lam wedding

Thin Lam wedding, originally uploaded by See Teck.

Went back to hometown Bidor for my cousin, Thin Lam & Li Ying wedding dinner. The Cheng family eldest son, Thin Fook has a Singaporean wife while youngest, Thin Lam has a Chinese wife. My grandpa should be proud of them!

Grill Salmon @ Zakuro2

I was in Kuala Lumpur and was entertained by a business associates. She selected a Japanese restaurant, Zakuro 2 at Jalan Ampang.

As usual, my order was butter grill salmon fish. Nothing unusual, but it was the price of RM19.00 which suprise me! Cheap and affordable.

Penang 2006 Oktoberfest

The first Oktoberfest took place in 1810 to celebrate the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Sachsen-Hildenburghausen. The first Oktoberfest in Penang was organised by the Malaysian-German Society in 1973!

The festival is to celebrate cosiness, the notion of belonging, social acceptance, cheerfulness, the absence of anything hectic and the spending of quality time in a place not too large, well heated and nicely furnished, ..eh... cosiness.. Everybody sit together without any social barriers, talk to each other in a relaxing manner, have some good food and nice drinks to enjoy the day off with beautiful music and dance.

I attended the first Oktoberfest in my lifetime, yesterday at the Malaysian-German Society. The signature to this event is the ever popular Oktoberfest Song, Ein Prosit, ein Prosit der Gemuetlichkeit. Immediately after the song, everybody will shout aloud, oans, zwoa, gsuffa (in Penang, follow by a long 'yum seeeeeeeng'!) and takes a big gulp of beer.

Lots of good German food i.e sausages, meatloaf, pork knuckle, sauerkraut and not forgetting the beers and wines. Entertainment was provided by a 6 piece German band, Inntaler Musikanten with their 'oomph-pah-pah' songs, dances and games! In fact this is their 15th visit to the Society.

Tashiro San @ Kirishima

Tashiro San, originally uploaded by See Teck.

My Japanese Sales director, Tashiro San, and I were having Japanese food at Kirishima Japanese Restaurant at Cititel, Penang. According to him, the best Japanese food in Penang is at Kirishima!

He is enjoying his Seafood bento set, priced at RM33.04! Comes with rice, grilled seafood, tempura prawns, vegetables, pickles, cawan-mushi, miso soup and 2 slices of watermelon.

Ten Zaru Soba Gozen

Ten Zaru Soba Gozen, originally uploaded by See Teck.

My favourite Japanese food is salmon! However, today, for a change, i've ordered cold buckwheat noodle and tempura combo. Ten is actually Tempura, Zaru is for the bamboo mat used to place the soba, the buckwheat noodle. Gozen, is combo! The combo set is priced at RM18.26 only at Kirishima Japanese Restaurant!

I can translate this is because i have with me, my office, Japanese Sales Director, Hiraku Tashiro San.

New Flyover being constructed in Ipoh

New Flyover, originally uploaded by See Teck.

Even though Ipoh is a city, she does not have many flyovers. There was one recently completed at the junction of Jalan Azlan Shah and Jalan Kampar whereby vehicles entering the city from the south i.e through Gunung Rapat will drive unobstructed to the city centre!

Here another flyover being built at the junction of Jalan Azlan Shah and Jalan Raja DiHilir in front of Pantai hospital. With this flyover, there will be no congestion with a direct linking to the airport and the city centre.

Ipoh is progressing NOW!

Ipoh Field

A view of the serene Ipoh Padang snap in the morning. The field normally is full of activities holding cricket competition, hockey/football tournaments or other festivals. The tall building on the right is the KLK-Kepong group head-office, one of the first plc head-office to be based in Ipoh.

Riverside Seafood Restaurant

A business partner recently took me to a seafood (halal) restaurant in Nibong Tebal near the Nibong Tebal river. Ordered curry prawns, fish and vegetables. The prawns were big and the curry was superb. We ordered rice but most of the customers there ordered bread to go with the curry prawns. The prawns were big & fresh!