A table for two

  When in Ipoh, eat, eat, eat! I have lived by that motto for nineteen years, and I still do whenever I go back to Ipoh, that’s my hometown where I was born and grew up in Malaysia. Ipoh (ee-poh) is approximately 200km north of Kuala Lumpur, not much of a tourist destination I must [...]

Day 4. We are heading up to the Highlands. After spending two days in Kuala Lumpur and a short day trip to Melaka, we finally packed up our bags and check out the hotel, it is time for our “real” road trip and heading north to the Cameron Highlands. It’s been a while since I [...]

Wellington on a Plate. Let’s devour to our hearts’ content. I seldom see a whole snapper being served at a dinner event, unless it is a traditional Chinese dinner banquet. So when the waitress brings out a whole roasted Northland snapper, proudly resting on a plate and surrounded by Cloudy Bay clams, I simply can’t [...]

My travel bug is on strike again, suddenly unmotivated off late. All I want to do is going through my holiday snapshots from the South East Asia trip last year and feeling sorry for myself stuck at home with no where to go. Then it reminds me that I actually still need to catch up [...]

After a two-day whirlwind tour of sightseeing and eating in the hustle and bustle Ho Chi Minh city, we’ve decided to slow the pace down and venture up north to center Vietnam. Hoi An is a must visit in my itinerary (blame Bourdain), and to get there, either you are prepared for a long haul [...]

Question: Are you a backpacker, or a flashpacker? I have to say I will be the latter one. I am definitely not in the “young” age group anymore. (“Shut up, Yas!”) Just the thought of communal shower room terrifies me. Having said that, I absolutely enjoyed the communal hot spa at the capsule hotel in [...]

Are you a Michael Jackson fan? Me too! But my Michael Jackson is different from your Michael Jackson, well… at least my Michael Jackson is drinkable and slurp-a-licious. This Michael Jackson drink (I actually learned about the MJ name from Almost Bourdain) also known as Black and White drink which I blogged about a while [...]

I wish you can smell my fingers as I am typing on the keyboard right now. The sweet pungent smelly socks aroma on every keystroke is driving me insane, I have to stop and put those fingers next to my nostril for a good sniff… “Ahh…..” This is the good stuff. Durian, either you love [...]

Ahoy! Shiver me timbers! Work has been hectic for the last couple of weeks and thank god me finally got the chance to breathe and relax a bit on the last weekend. Well, “relax” is probably not the right word, but I definitely had such great time cruising on a house boat with me hearty [...]