PAN MEEN

This is such a belated post. A few weeks back we've been treated to a marvellous home made pan meen dinner by L. I've never tried this in Penang believe it or not. So, I'll just let the pictures do the talking. This is gonna such a mission on dial-up connection but I shall give it a go... :)

Started off with the ingredients for the pan meen creation. Of coz, when cooking you have to have some titbits to munch on


Nice setting to set the mood (cozy & casual)

Now, here comes the fun part! Making the pan mee! Everyone gathering around the huge pot of boiling water to make the meen.






Looks fun, eh?
Can you spot my no. 1 fan? Hehehehehehe....

Now here comes the assembling part, just like an lean mean assembling factory, ingredients are placed on the noodles with accuracy & precision.


Please note, I've added an extra ingredient from my own creation. See the paste like thingy next to the canister? Well, the garlic bulbs used for making the soup stock was gonna be chucked out. So I grabbed the garlic bulbs out of the waste disposal (I bet didn't need to know that, hahaha) which smelled very fragrant and mash it all up to add to the noodles! Genius! Hahahahaha.... Apart from my kay poh ingredient, the essential things that goes with this type of noodles are fish balls, shitake mushrooms, fried anchovies, spring onion, fried mince, veges & fried shallots. Our generous host L prepared all this by himself the whole afternoon. *HUGS*********


THE FINISH PRODUCT!


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YUMMY!!!!

Thanks L for the whole make & eat experience:) Your cooking creations always top of pops!

We will definitely miss you when you leave Auckland in a couple of weeks time. Make sure you bloody use your return ticket!!!!!

I LEARNT MY LESSON

Lesson I learnt this week is that never, NEVER EVER, send cash through the post. For my sister's birthday, I sent her a birthday card last week and thought would be nice to include a $20 dollar bill in it. I guess I don't have to continue telling you what happened! But I'm going to anyway...

Let me tell what this person (animal) did. First he/she would have to scan all sorts of mail to know that there's money in an envelope. The bill was in between a greeting card which is quite thick, so this animal would have to put it through xray or whatever to find out. Ok, once $$$ detected, this animal actually took a lot of effort to cover his/her crime. He/she carefully cut the side of the envelope, got out the money then you wouldn't believe this. He actually glued the side up! Like as if nothing happened. I'd rather he just dump the card or just did a really bad patch job! This f*cker had the audacity to take time to beautify his handy work as if he cared! When I spoke to my sis, she didn't even know that there was $$$ in the card in the first place (I didn't mention the note in the card, just a spontaneous action).

This type of person should be caught and fired and stoned!!! But we know how the system works, don't we? He/she would probably get a little talking to (not even a warning) from his/her partner-in-crime boss. Then continue whatever it is they are doing, probably gluing more envelopes. Sucks! To even get to that stage, the animal needs to be caught.... I just don't even know how to catch someone like that when there are thousands employees working there... sickening!

I guess it's my fault to send cash in the first place, but but but.... argghhh, let's just not send anymore cash in the post.



P/s: I purposely didn't mention which country it is I think is involved as I can't prove it. End of story. So just consider this a lesson learnt :)

REVOLVING DOORS OF VENGEANCE

A good friend recommended this Hong Kong TVB series to me. As the title suggests it's called The Revolving Doors of Vengeance or the cantonese name is "Chou Tim Fong Wan". Don't you think whoever thought of the English name for this series is such a genuis? For me, I would have thought of something lame and similar to a direct translation, let's say, "Hotel Wind Cloud"! hahahahaha.... So smart and creative some people are.

I am not disappointed, this series is marvellous. Ok, I'm not talking about The Da Vinci Code storyline standard, but just for some light suspense, romance, business and family war, this is sufficient. There are 30 episodes and I only have 10 days to finish it. Not that it is a difficult task to accomplish, me being a TV addict, but it does add some pressure, y'know?

The story goes something like this:

This hotel owner has 3 sons who are not the ideal type sons, ie gambling lah, money laundering lah, fighting la, ya the terrible types. Also, not fighting with other people outside only, the 2 elder ones are constantly bullying the youngest son, Kai Kit (Ron Ng), and his mom (2nd wife, 1st wife passed away). The hotel owner wished that his 3 sons would one day work together like happy family to run the hotel.

So, he and Martin (Joe Ma Tuk Choong) worked out a plan to make his dreams come true.. The theory is that if an outsider comes in to mess with the family, the sons would reunite to protect the family. Of course, we know that it's not so smooth one, right? Martin would come into the hotel board of directors and act like a baddie to get rid of the 3 sons. The deal is when the 3 sons prove that they are capable of running the hotel, Martin would reveal the grand plan and leave. Who knows, the old man after transfer his shares to Martin, got hit in accident and died! So, cannot prove that he is actually there to help the brothers instead of really being a nasty a**hole. Can you believe that most of this happen in the first episode??? So kan cheong...

Anyway, there is some romance in between the storyline. I especially like this character called Happy Li Hoi Sum (Ella Koon). She's very pretty, I don't recognise her from any other movies. I'm really bad at remembering faces, for all I know, I might have seen 10 of her movies. Anyway, I think she'll become a big star if she's not already one by now. As her name suggests, she's the happy go lucky type. People take advantage of her also don't know one, though she doesn't act like a bimbo...

Of course in these type of dramas, there must be the evil characters. This time it's a father-daughter double act. These two damn evil, trying to take over the hotel and gave the family all sorts of trouble. The father (John Chiang) is ok la, do what a normal evil character does, quite good. The part I can't stand is the daughter (Elaine Yiu). You know the type, act like so innocent like that but extremely evil inside. This is not the problem, the worst part is her voice! In "weak" mode, she speaks so soft and slow, I can't even hear what the hell she's saying. Just so want to slap her till real tears roll... hahaha... In "nasty" mode, she pushes my fave character, Hoi Sum, out onto the road to be run over by a funnily decorated truck (they were in Phillipines for that scene) but luckily it managed to swerve in time. Guess what? The truck rammed straight into the b*tch!!!!! OMG, I know I shouldn't laugh but remember this is only acting and she's been a real bad a**... The worst is yet to come for her, you see. The reason for the attempted murder is because she and Hoi Sum going for the same guy, Kai Kit. When she's lying on the hospital bed, Kai Kit went to go chase after Hoi Sum. He's also quite heartless in that fact but I overlooked it because I want HS to be with him... hahaha... chee sin one..

In the end, bad people either die or paralysed. Good people have loving families and become rich & successful. Great viewing! There you have it, 30 hours of screen time summarised to a few paragraphs.

Anyone else wants me to do reviews for any other movies/dramas/series? Drop me an email. hahaha...