Posted on 29 July 2007 @ 22:09 in Food, Friends
After a day of almost non-stop eating with Anne, one of my bestest friends (we go way back before some of my young friends were even born), and her hubby, Dale (IKEA breakfast and lunch at Face to Face that Anne read about from an earlier blog entry), I was telling myself I really didn’t have space in my stomach for dinner. But I had to eat and at times like this, my mind turned to something really light and really yummy and totally reminiscent of childhood …
Plain porridge with a selection of accompanying dishes.
This is comfort food at its best. Well, almost best. Better than this would be a bowl of plain porridge with Marmite (during times of childhood illness).
The porridge shop also sells duck rice, which I will try another day. I don’t know the name of the shop, but it’s located in the row behind Face to Face.
Oh, the dishes in the picture with the porridge – (left to right) half salted duck’s egg, fuchuk (beancurd skins) in gravy, boiled peanuts in gravy and muichoy (marinated vegetables). Just writing about them is making me drool …
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Posted on 26 July 2007 @ 22:42 in People
Penang born and bred author Tinling Choong, whose debut novel FireWife was published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in January 2007, will be appearing on NTV7′s The Breakfast Show at 8:45 a.m. on Friday, 27 July 2007.
In addition to the NTV7 appearance, Tinling will be in two other events in town this weekend.
On Saturday morning, she will be speaking at the MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers at 11:00 a.m., along with Kam Raslan, the man behind the Old Boy himself.
The same afternoon, Tinling will go on to do a reading at Seksan’s at 3:00 p.m.
Friday, 27 July 2007
8:45 a.m.
The Breakfast Show, NTV7
Saturday, 28 July 2007
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
The MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers
MPH Bangsar Village II
2, Jalan Telawi I
Bangsar Baru
Kuala Lumpur
3:30 p.m.
Readings at Seksan’s
67, Jalan Tempinis Satu
Lucky Garden, Bangsar
Kuala Lumpur
Thanks to Kim for the NTV7 alert.
Related Posts:
MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers 6 at Eric Forbes’ Good Books Guide blog
“Readings” July at Sharon Bakar’s Bibliobibuli blog
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Posted on 24 July 2007 @ 13:20 in Food
I’d first heard about IKEA breakfasts from the old grey poet’s site, but didn’t find anything similar at our local IKEA. The closest was the RM2.99 breakfast I had with Eliza a while back on a Sunday, comprising sausages, baked beans and humongous buns called pillow buns (so humongous a lot of the customers couldn’t finish their portion and there was a lot of wasted buns, which prompted Eliza and I to wonder why IKEA didn’t offer smaller ones, but I digress).
When Anne and family showed up from Toronto, we arranged to meet up for breakfast at IKEA, and that was when I discovered the IKEA 99 sen breakfast. The day we ate there (a Wednesday), the breakfast offerings were fried soohoon and french toast with jam. The next time I went, on my own and on a Monday morning, there was nasi lemak and cereal with milk. This morning, I was there again and ordered both items available today:
Meehoon goreng and set of three mini dumplings (red bean, pandan and custard fillings). Coffee or tea is free before 10:00 a.m. 99 sen per item, RM1.04 after tax. Including parking – total of RM3.08.
I try to sit at the same place each time, near the entrance, to watch the people coming in. They’re mostly elderly Chinese, retired, but there are also younger, athletic-looking ones, in Ts and shorts and sneakers, looking like they’ve just come from their morning walks or jogs. There are also other young ones all dressed up ready for work but there for breakfast and maybe a business meeting, too. Me? Not too elderly, not retired (yet), and definitely not younger athletic-looking or all dressed up ready for work! Altho I did find myself thinking the IKEA cafe would actually make a good place for meetings. The only thing missing is free wifi.
And yes, I’ve made it a personal eating mission to check out the weekday breakfast menus at IKEA, altho not on consecutive days, but one day a week. Let’s see I’ve done Wednesday with Anne and family, and Monday and Tuesday on my own. Next week, I’ll know if they serve the same breakfasts according to the day of the week. Yah, it’s kind of complicated … but at least it gets me out of the apartment early in the day … like I said, it’s complicated.
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Posted on 23 July 2007 @ 12:31 in Stress Busters
Over on the Pandas Unlimited’s discussion forums, there have been some heated (read: passionate) arguments about whether panda cubs should be weaned from their mothers at the tender age of 6 months and whether panda mothers should be made to breed every year, especially after news of Hua Mei’s latest pair of twins.
Well, whatever we hoomans may do to the pandas to try and “rescue” them from extinction, at the end of the day, it seems the pandas themselves know best.
Take Mama Mei Xiang at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. She was artificially inseminated with San Diego Zoo’s Gao Gao’s sperm, and she also mated naturally with Tian Tian. Everyone was so hopeful of another cub at the National Zoo. With Tai Shan turning 2 and looking all grown up (altho still behaving like a cub sometimes), it was time for the pitter-patter of cubby feet and the swish-swash of cubby tushie at the national capital! But at the end of the day, it wasn’t up to us hoomans to dictate when a panda mother has her next baby (at least, not this panda mama).
Mama Mei didn’t have a baby this year, and on 22 July 2007, we all found out why. It was her 9th birthday, and oh mama, did she celebrate! Her body was tired of not having celebrated her last two birthdays (2005 – in confinement after giving birth to Tai Shan; 2006 – no peace with that “Peaceful Mountain” shadowing her everywhere and trying to get at her food), and so it was no to a baby this year, and yes to the funnest birthday bash in a long time!
The following pictures are by PU photographer ajna6.
First, Mama Mei treated her body to a rejuvenating time at the spa:
Then, she tumbled down the hill just to show she could:
As if that was not enough, she showed who was queen of the trees:
Way to go, Mama Mei. You rock!
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Posted on 20 July 2007 @ 16:15 in Personal
20.07.2007
My brother’s birthday.
Also the date I registered for my business to start.
*quiet whoop of joy*
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