BKT and Pizza

I did not get to sleep much throughout the night. It was as if I was only shutting and resting my eyes while my mind was completely alert of what was going on around me. The hot and humid weather in addition to the noise from below the apartment after midnight must have contributed to my insomnia.

EY fetched me at 9.30a.m. and brought me to Klang to have ‘bak kut teh’ (BKT) at Restoran Fong Keow. It was really an eye opener because when we have BKT in KK, it is a totally different concept altogether. We usually have it for dinner while West Malaysians are having it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

(The only time we as family ever had rice for breakfast when I was growing up was during CNY. We had rice with vegetarian dish)

When EY & I arrived at the shop, there were only two tables with customers.

The waiter told EY to choose a packet of Chinese tea from a small basket (usually use to put clothing pegs). He chose the following.

Then he ordered our meal.

He opened the packet of tea and poured the content into a small teapot. He proceeded to fill the small teapot with hot water. After a few minutes he poured the tea into these small teacups.

Next he told the waiter to bring a plate of fried onions to put on top of the plate of rice before mixing the rice and fried onions together.

When the BKT arrived, he told me to dip the ‘You Char Kway’ (literal translation ‘oil fried ghost'!) into the pot and eat with the rice.

'You Char Kway'

He scooped some of the BKT onto my plate and then his.

Half way through breakfast, he told me to drink some more of the tea. The tea complimented the food really well. We were so full and unable to finish the BKT.

By the time we were leaving, there were more people eating in the restaurant.

EY, thanks for the memorable breakfast and the belated birthday gift.

EY had to leave to attend to his business urgently while I stayed at Subang Parade and walked around. At one stage I was sitting outside the shops resting and nearly felt asleep because I had a total of only about eleven hours of sleep the past three nights.

I called Tracy but she was still busy at the tuition centre. I sat down some more and watched people passed by.

After that I walked over to Carrefour and found a section filled with lots of fiction books. After spending half an hour looking at some of the books, I chose five books.

After paying for my stuff, I waited for Tracy to arrive and before we went to Domino’s Pizza, we stopped by the loo and I told myself I had to take a shot at the ‘ancient toilet flush’ as I entered the loo. I have not seen anything like it before this.

Tracy and I met Adrian Ooi at Canon Fred David’s open house during Christmas last year. He works for Domino’s Pizza and has given a discount card to Tracy. The card entitles buying any regular, large or extra large size pizza and getting another one of the same size for free.

We ordered one regular Extravagganzza Crunchy Thin Crust Pizza from the Domino’s Pizza sauce section and decided to take away one regular Classified Chicken Classic Hand Tossed Pizza from the Top Secret sauce section for dinner.

Extravagganzza Crunchy Thin Crust Pizza

Classified Chicken Classic Hand Tossed Pizza

After we finished eating the Extravagganzza Crunchy Thin Crust Pizza, Tracy ordered one serving of onion rings. She preferred the onion rings in A&W though.

Oning rings???

Onion rings

Oning rings???

We went home and rested before Tracy went for her class. I stayed home and slept from 5p.m. to 7.15a.m. the next morning. I only woke up at 8p.m. for an hour to eat the take away pizza and read the newspapers.

I really thank God I had no more insomnia and could rest so well.

One thing I discovered about Mentari Court, the place where Tracy is staying: There are peace and quiet all throughout the evening but from midnight onwards, people come out and have their field day. The noise is way too unbearable.

Labour Day 2009

Tracy and I skipped breakfast and had this village chicken with rice and bean sprouts after 11a.m. at Tian Tian Lai Restaurant in Sunway for brunch. Usually I do not like to eat chicken in West Malaysia as the taste of chicken is better in Sabah. But this village chicken passed my test.

Only half way through brunch, Tracy realised she could not take the bean sprouts as advised by the Chinese doctor she has been seeing recently. So I had to finish more than half the plate by myself.

After brunch we went to check out the terrace house in Sunway which Tracy is going to move into this month. And I took these shots of her future housemate’s car.

Then I was off to Sunway Pyramid to shop while Tracy went home to sort out her things for her move to her new home soon.

Right now Sunway Pyramid is having ‘My Great Dressing Room’ Contest from 1 – 10 May 2009 with fashion shows, vouchers giveaways, etc. I noticed the next fashion show will be at the Lower Ground Concourse at 3p.m.

This time my intention was to shop for exercise gear ie. clothings and shoes for the gym or exercise. The other thing that was on my list was a thicker scarf. I have a lot of scarves but they are too thin especially if I want to keep myself warm during Canaanland Celebration.

A couple of days before I went to KL, when I was chatting with EY who goes to California Fitness at Sunway Pyramid every weeknight to exercise to recommend me a shop to buy my exercise gear.

I went straight to that shop and surveyed the stuff available. I did not try on anything. I went to other shops including Nike, Jusco Departmental Store and also stumbled across NikeKids accidentally.

At Nike, I tried on some of the clothes but none of them fit me. There were quite a lot of clothings on sale but I could not get anything. At NikeKids I wanted to talk to the shopkeeper but he was busy with other customers. I decided to come back to this shop later.

I found a stall selling scarves and chose a scarf. The stallkeeper said the scarf was RM30. I decided to go elsewhere before coming back again.

I went into a lot of shops before going back to the shop recommended by EY. I tried on two pair of Nike pants and three Nike tshirts. I could wear one pair of pants and I liked one tshirt. I decided to try on another two tshirts. I chose another tshirt to buy from the second lot I tried.

Then I looked at the Nike shoes available for sale. I chose one pair I liked and asked the shopkeeper whether there was any size 3 available. He had one look at my feet, went straight to the back and came back empty handed. Then I asked him which of the shoes has Size 3 (which is sometimes my practice in buying shoes ie. letting the shoes to choose me instead of the other way round). He told me to go back next week when there would be new stocks available. I had to tell him I would not be around by then and asked him one last question ie. the smallest size they usually sell. He said Size 4.5. That would mean I need to wear a very thick pair of socks in order to fit in those shoes or the shoes may not even fit me. I paid for my stuff and saved about RM100 because the clothings were on sale.

Then I was off to the Ground Floor facing the Concourse and booked a place where I can see the fashion show clearly. I was 10 mins early and the show did not start until 3.15p.m. When the third male model came out, Jeff was calling me on the mobile phone re. dinner tonight. I did not go back to watch the fashion show and went to Parkson Departmental Store.

At Stars Archery with the slogan ‘Now Everyone Can Shoot’ (copying AirAsia’s slogan: Now Everyone Can Fly), the public can pay money to play archery. (I tried it during my first high school camp in Down Under, it was quite fun).

I wanted to go back to NikeKids and it took me about 20 mins to find. This time there was no other customer in the shop and therefore I could ask the shopkeeper whether he had any Size 3 sport shoes available. He gave me two designs and I chose one of them. Instead of using shoelaces, the shoes use Velcro. I tried on the shoes, they fit me perfectly. I was so happy when the shopkeeper told me everything in the shop is half price. I also bought two pairs of socks. I saved about another RM100 for the pair of shoes and two pairs of socks.

I went back to the stall selling the scarves and found another scarf I liked. The stall keeper was busy attending two other customers and therefore I had to wait for her to finish. When she was free to attend to me, I asked her the price of the second scarf I liked and she said RM15 ie. half of the price of the original scarf I wanted to buy. So I saved RM15.

Jeff arrived around 6.30p.m. and we proceeded to Sushi Zanmai for dinner. About 15 mins later, Tracy turned up.

Jeff ordered Sashimi, Seaweed Salad, Seasoned Baby Octopus, Soft Shelled Crab Maki and Medium Rare Beef with Tataki Sauce.

Medium Rare Gyuniku with Tataki Sauce

Soft Shelled Crab Maki

Chuka Wakame

Rokko (6 x 3pc)

Rokko (6 x 3pc)

Rokko (6 x 3pc)

Next we had Mini California Maki and Scallop with Teriyaki Sauce.

Mini California Maki

Hotate Teriyaki

To make sure we were full before we left the restaurant, Tracy and I shared a large Tempura Udon while Jeff had a small Shoyu Ramen.

Large Udon

Tempura

Small Shoyu Ramen

Tracy had black sesame ice-cream while I had green tea ice-cream for dessert while Jeff gave this a miss.

Part of Dessert Menu

Goma Ice-Cream

Macha Ice-Cream

Thanks Jeff for the dinner. *burp*

Before Tracy and I proceeded to cell group near Jeff’s place, we dropped him off at Plaza OUG for him to go to the cybercafé. Cell group was cancelled and we proceeded home to rest.