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After the longest time, I went down to Klang for the weekend to spend time with my Yee Ma and cousins. I used to head down to Klang almost every week when I first moved to Subang; now it's hard for me to head down so often since I have Sunday classes.

Anyway I reloaded my long dead T&G and spent the afternoon with Yoong in Sunway Pyramid before heading back to Klang with her. Between the both of us, we carried about a dozen US potatoes. Yes, potatoes. Purchased on the order of my Yee Ma who had a kitchen project for our dinner and her cell group meeting that very night. Yoong and I pitched in to help with..

And pop them into the oven for 15 minutes. The smell of baking cheese will fill your kitchen. I LOVE that smell. Well, this is what we got when we opened the oven door:-



Hehe...Yoong and I only had room for one of the potatoes after we finished baking because we were so full after all the 'tasting' we did during the process. Can't wait for our next project. Weee!!!!

P2 classes are getting seriously brain squeezing these days. I dread those classes like some people dread going to the dentist. And yes, I do do other things besides eat and post food in my blog. I just don't blog about it, duh. Would you rather read about me fidgeting in class and chugging Red Bull to stay awake than my food posts???

Anyway, Ben brought me out to dinner after one of the terrible classes. It was also to spend time with me before he went on his Kuantan trip with his friends. I walked some of my P2 stress away round and round Pyramid with Ben (I think I increased his mall walking stamina ever since he met me. =P ) and in the end settled on FRAMES for dinner. I've been here before, and my last visit was quite satisfactory. This visit, we were showered attention from a certain man who seems like the manager, but I didn't clarify that so I'm still not sure what was his position. Well, it reinforced my opinion that FRAMES has a very good team of serving staff. So do go there if you're looking for a nice place to unwind and enjoy great service.

It's original flavour is grape and lychee but I got apple and lychee after the man I mentioned earlier offered to whip up whatever I wanted. It turned out pretty nice!!!




Overall, I would say FRAMES selling point would be it's environment and desserts. It provided the perfect environment for me to relax and enjoy my company. Oh oh, and I finally installed foursquare after some initial resistance. All due to Ben and Adrian's fanatic 'check in' mania that made me join the cult to not feel left out. Talk about falling for peer pressure. Haha!!!

This one is dedicated to my beloved W31 and W51 awesome members. You guys really make me high with all the laughter I get from each of your antics.

Desiree, I should have listened to your warning of Nasi Goreng Maryland being super huge and hard to finish!! Being so hungry clouded my better judgement. Aaahhh!!! Ended up wasting the rice and fries of this plate:-

Jee Kit turned up wearing hotel slippers which he got from his flights to Taiwan. I was so tickled by it that I HAD to snap a picture of it to show.

Okay, I admit it. I secretly wished I had a pair too!!! Aren't they cool because they're BLACK??

Mooncake Festival this year was different because it was my first time away from home during this period. Not that we celebrate it big at home but it was weird watching people lighting candles and lanterns and not being part of it. No, I didn't get emo. Ben surprised me that afternoon by turning up unexpectedly to bring me to lunch. He left for his family dinner after that.

I had dinner with Brian, Francis, Stanley, Desiree, Yean Shan, Jee Kit, Kar Ning and Samuel in a restaurant in USJ 1. It was the dinner of The People Away From Home (technically Jee Kit isn't) but it was a really fun dinner. Thank you all for the great Mooncake Festival dinner.

Just let me show you a random picture of the restaurant we ate at. It's actually a factory building and the owner parks his car IN the restaurant when he closes because his house is above the restaurant. Cool or what. Hehe.

This has been such a random post. Haha!!
But typing this made me feel a blessed girl to have such wonderful people in my life.
I hope I am as much of a blessing to those who have blessed my life....

Do you like ribs??? If you do then you'll love-hate me for this post. Love me because I'll show you a place to get nice ribs, and hate me because you're sitting somewhere which is not Riblees and looking at my food pictures. Hehehehe...
Okay okay..I'll stop taunting you and move on with the story. Don't throw whatever you're holding at me just yet!!! The place for nice ribs I'm talking about is Riblees which is located in Desa Sri Hartamas. Uncle brought us there for dinner based on a friend's recommendation and it turned out to be a very enjoyable dinner.

Riblees is located above the Al Rajhi Bank. You'll have to keep your eyes wide open to spot the sign else you would think you were tricked into going all the way for nothing. See if you can spot the Riblees sign at first glance in the picture below:-

Upon entry, we learned that it is best to make reservations at Riblees before dropping in there for dinner because the interior space was smaller than we expected; and we had to sit in the outdoor area for some time before we were moved to the indoor table. The environment there was very relaxing, with nice music to get you into a good mood to enjoy your food. The dimmed lighting added to the relaxed atmosphere but wasn't very conducive for picture snapping with my camera. I did my best though.




And Riblees specialty which was the highlight of the night:

Ben and I were wondering what the bunch of black stuff in there was and it turned out to be crispy seaweed. It's something new and I quite liked the fusion of flavours in that dish. Very Western meets Japanese.


After the main courses were finished, we asked for the menu again and ordered the 'desert'-s. Haha!!! Alright, I'll stop making fun of their mis-spelling. I was full to bursting from all the meat but I was interested to see what the desserts were like. We were all 'Ooh'-ing and 'Aah'-ing when the two desserts we ordered were set down on the table. In fact, everyone had forks in the ready-to-pierce-in stance while waiting for Ben and I to take pictures. Sorry!!!



This totally usurps the TGIF's Mocha Mudpie as my favourite ice-cream dessert!!! I LOVED this one!!! Again, what will the world do without ice-cream???

It was a really enjoyable dinner. Not just because of the great food but I was in great company which complimented my dining experience in a way no chef can do. I really really enjoyed myself.
Thank you Uncle for the nice dinner. And Aunty, Michelle, Jessica, Emily and GM for the great company. And my dearest Ben, I wonder what I'd do without you...

I finally returned to spend Raya break in Ipoh. Enjoyed this trip very much because Ben came with me. I was a really happy girl to get to enjoy the comforts of home, with family, friends AND my dearest with me during the trip.

If you want a word that summarises the whole trip; it would be EAT. That was practically what Ben and I did majority of the trip. Since Ipoh is famous for delicious food everywhere, Ben was brought on a food marathon throughout his week in Ipoh. I felt a little guilty that I didn't have any special places of interest in Ipoh which weren't food shops to bring him to; but he was fine with the EAT EAT EAT theme (after all, isn't that what visitors to Ipoh come for??), so I added some fun into it with a few baking projects.

I left all the Ipoh food blogging to Ben (click here, here, here, here, here and here to read) since I was already behind in updates and I'd already blogged about a few of the places we went to. So let me show off some of my home kitchen products in this post. My dad got my mum a nifty new microwave oven which can be used for baking cakes; so at the request of my dad, I made some baked goodies. I dug out my Mummy's old recipe books and decided to make chocolate cake. This was the result of first attempt:-
It was burnt on the top because the new oven was really hot. My mum cut of the burnt crusts before we sliced a little to taste; and we were smiling gleefully when we found that the cake texture turned out really nice. I decided to make chocolate icing and iced the cake. The icing didn't really turn out due to some mistake in the measurements but it was still alright. See the final product:-

We brought Ben to the Royal Perak Golf Club for dinner and the most adorable kitty came up to our table hoping to get a share of our dinner. It sat at our table almost the whole time and I was so tempted to stroke it!!!

Moving from kitty to kitchen, I attempted another chocolate cake recipe with lower temperature settings in the oven and it turned out NICE!!! See it fresh from the oven:-


Am I making you wish you had an oven at home and want to start baking??? =P