慈济香积面

上回跟大家介绍了香积饭，现在带大家认识香积面。香积面有5个口味，听说药膳是最受欢迎的，因为其他的香积面都有货，只除了药膳味的香积面。我买了番茄口味的香积面，以下是它的包装。和香积饭一样，香积面也是素食。

香积面的准备方法有两种，一是烹煮，二是热水浸泡至熟。我担心香积面热水浸泡会很难熟，所以选择了烹煮。方法很简单，如果你会煮快熟面，那你一定会煮香积面！

我个人比较喜欢香积面，因为我比较喜欢吃面，还有最重要的是，香积面的分量比较大，比较吃得饱！看吧，大大的一碗面！看了就觉得很满足！不好意思，里面其实还有一些蔬菜和素肉粒，看来水还是放多了，面都浸泡在汤汁里头，什么也看不到了。

你还可以自己加入一些其他的蔬菜或配料来丰富这香积面，由于我是第一次煮这面，所以还是先试试原味，之后再改进吧！

番茄口味的香积面味道酸酸甜甜的，还蛮开胃的，我很喜欢这口味！

由于香积面不添加防腐剂，所以它的保存期限只是6个月，比起外面的快熟面，这应该比较健康得多了。

香积面的研发者是味全康师傅，当然香积面的研发也是为了赈灾使用。

有意义吧？还是那句，如果大家有光顾慈济静思书轩，不妨买买香积面，尝一尝吧！:)

慈济香积饭

上几个礼拜在慈济静思书轩购买了香积饭，大家应该没什么看过香积饭吧？以下就是香积饭的包装，还不错看吧？

刚开始是抱着好奇的心态买下这香积饭，再加上朋友们都大力介绍香积饭，试一下也无妨。

（饮食治疗师应该对新的食物多研究研究吧！嘻嘻！）

香积饭有几种口味，我买了沙茶海带芽糙米饭。里面一共有5各包装，可以准备5份，但如果你的胃口比较大，那就没办法做5份了，顶多能准备2-3份罢了。我一次就必须吃两包了，嘻嘻！

身为饮食治疗师，查看食品的营养成分是不可或缺的，总应该看看自己把什么东西吃下肚子吧？哈哈。。

此外，还附有烹调方法 (说得好像很隆重似的，通常食品包装上都会有吧？）。看看，很简单吧？只需要把调味料及米饭倒在一起，然后加热，不然，你也可以直接加入 120cc 的热水，再等个大概20分钟，一份香喷喷的香积饭就准备好了，非常简单！

（请继续往下看）

咦，怎么这么多水？饭泡在水中了。。。

以上是我第一次准备香积饭的成果，当时的成果就是.....香积饭变香积粥！！！没把水的分量量清楚，就胡乱的把热水倒进去，结果水份太多了，把饭变成了粥，不过味道还是不错啦！

第二次准备就比较得心应手了，掌握了水的分量，终于成功准备香积饭，看看，还不错吧？至少我自己还蛮满意的 (沾沾自喜中）。忘了告诉大家，香积饭是素食，里面的肉块，也是素肉。饭里有蛋白质，有蔬菜，还蛮均衡的！因为有沙茶，所以这个饭会带一些辣味，大体上还不错！

开始时还真不知道香积饭背后的故事，可能大家跟我一开始的想法一样，那就是，香积饭嘛，应该就像快熟面之类的食物，热水泡泡就可以吃了，简单方便。上网查了查，才发现香积饭背后的意义还真不平凡。

香积饭的研发者是德晗师父，当初香积饭的研发，是为了国际赈灾或急难救助使用，香积饭容易准备，在赈灾或急难救助时，能够发挥它省时省力的功效，让灾民们以及赈灾人员能够获得温饱。

想不到香积饭背后还有这么一段有意义的故事吧？如果大家有光顾慈济静思书轩，不妨买买香积饭，尝一尝吧！

Pork Burger at Cristang, Petaling Jaya

Pork burger... This is actually introduced by my friend. She LOVES pork burger very much, but she has problem with directions and tends to get lost all the time. Therefore, we distribute our roles very well, in which she plays the role to search places for good food, while I drive her to the place. Well, my sense of direction is at least better than her. LOL... 

So, here we are... Cristang... located at 8 Avenue, Petaling Jaya. For those who do not know the place, just google it, Google map is my favourite. 

Some deco for the restaurant itself.

So sorry for the bad resolution, the lighting was dim inside, and I was taking photos using handphone, my bad...

Here comes the pork burger..

They serve a lot of different burger there. If I am not mistaken, the one I took should be pork burger P4, it is burger with pork patty, minced pork, and petai stuffed inside. Special huh? For those who like petai, this is something you should try. It is so nice, you cannot really smell it, but once you eat it, the aroma of petai will fill your mouth. Erm.. for those who do not like petai, there are still many others different burger that you can choose. 

Here's the address of the place : Cristang Restaurant, Unit B-G-19, Jalan Jernih (8/1), Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Search for it, and go try out the burger. 

Banana keeper

Saw this in Daiso.. thinking of sharing this, what a weird thing to be sold in a shop...

I never know Japanese loves bananas that much... They create a banana keeper to store the banana so that you can bring it out along with you.

Rapid Kuantan

Yeah, at last saw Rapid Kuantan... Reach Kuantan today, I stopped near the stadium, which is also near to Rapid bus station.

The Rapid bus is free of charge until end of April. It is no harm to give it a try, right?

My friend and I was thinking to go East Coast mall by Rapid Kuantan since one of the bus route will reach the mall. After waiting for a few minutes ( not so sure about the duration, but we waited until both of us lost our patience ), eventually, we walked to the East Coast mall. Yes, you heard me, we WALKED!!!

Actually it was nothing big deal, as the mall is near to the bus station.. hehe.. We thought we wanna wait for the bus, at least have a tour with the brand new bus in Kuantan, but we gave up, not much patience to wait for the bus to come under big hot sun.

Erm... Rapid Kuantan? May be next time... 

Salted Gula Melaka Ice cream at Simply Mel's, Bangsar South

Ice cream time!

This is the salted gula melaka ice cream that my friend introduced me last time. I went through my photo album today, and saw this lovely ice cream, therefore thinking to share with you all. 

This is really a special ice cream, well, at least it is special to me, since I never taste salted ice cream before. The name attracted me at the beginning. 

Salted Gula Melaka Ice cream

Just like its name, it's salted, therefore the taste is a bit salty. With the aroma of gula melaka, it really taste nice, hard to describe it, go and try out yourself at Simply Mel's, located at The Sphere, Bangsar South. 

Simply Mel's serves Malacca Portuguese cuisine, and they serve a lot of desserts prepared with coconut milk. I didn't order those as I never fancy coconut milk much. 

I prefer their ice cream instead. They have different flavour of ice cream, the salted gula melaka is just one of them. Thinking to try out the others some other day... hehe... 

Hokkaido Cake

This is my first Hokkaido cake.

At first I was wondering why everyone is so obsess about this Hokkaido cake. Well, it really taste good, soft and tasty. It's like chiffon cake, may be a little bit sweeter, and with some icing sugar on top of it (well, I guess that is to mimic the snow at Hokkaido...hehe.... )

Hokkaido Cake

The one that I chose is vanilla flavour. Whenever you choose to taste new thing, better take those standard one, for example vanilla or plain one. If it really taste good, then you can proceed to any other flavours.

At least this little snowy thing is not disappoint me at all. I like it, it's much softer than standard chiffon cake and like what I said earlier, a bit sweeter as well. Well, no harm to take some sweet cakes occasionally, isn't it?

You can find this at many different cake shops, go and try out some, it really taste good for those who like simple, soft and spongy cake !

My stay in Johor Bahru

Just like what I post earlier, I went Johor Bahru last weekend. During my visit, I stayed in Tune Hotel Danga Bay, Johor. I never stay in Tune Hotel before as I notice the hotels normally located near to the airport instead of the town (not to say Tune Hotel in downtown KL and Penang)

Here's the place, looks nice and new, isn't it? 

With the Legoland getting most promoted nowadays as one of the important tourists' attraction in Johor, Tune Hotel also provides tickets and together with the stay in the hotel itself with cheaper price. You can look at the photo below, They even put up the banner to promote the place. 

Tune Hotel Danga Bay

Check out this to know better - Tune Hotel. There are various services that they provide. And they actually put up different prices that they charged for each of the services available. Therefore, you can individualized the service that you want and drop those that you do not need. For example, if you need aircon, just add in on in your request during hotel booking. If you missed it, you can also add on during check in. Easy, right?

For myself, I do not use aircon that much (afraid of cold), therefore I will face big problem whenever I stay in hotel since they always have centralized aircon system, it is always too cold for me. During my stay in Tune hotel, I just pick for the single room with double bed, and nothing more than that, help me to save money as well. :)

If you cannot survive without aircon, you can buy prepaid air-conditioning credit units in sets of either 12-hours or 24-hours. According to Tune hotel, prepaid air-conditioning units are programmed into room key cards, deducted while in use and can be split up over the entire period of stay. For example, if you purchase 12-hours for use over a 2 night stay, you can use 6 hours on the 1st night of your stay, and another 6 hours on the 2nd day. Not bad, huh? Since normally when we travel, we don't usually stay in the room all the time, therefore the usage of aircon can be controlled by ourselves. 

Where did I went for my tour to Johor? Em... nothing much after settle my thing there. Just hang out with my friends, and visited City Square. My friends told me, do not expect much, there is nothing much in Johor. Even the mall there is smaller. Well, we can not compare KL with Johor, right?

El Migos Mexican Pizzadillas

Here is the place for our dinner - El Migos Mexican Pizzadillas inside the City Square. Took minutes and minutes to wait for the food to be served, lack of staff I think. 

Grilled chicken with spicy Mexico sauce

Grilled Chicken that I ordered. The spicy sauce is special, as what we normally have for the sauces will always be standard sauces like mushroom, or black pepper. This sauce is special, not too spicy, adding extra aroma for the chicken itself. However, the dish is a bit oily, I believed you can see from the photo above as well. 

So there goes my holiday in Johor.  :)

Lavender Bistro at Senai Airport, Johor

What a busy and tiring weekend!

I went to Johor to attend my friend's wedding last weekend, while waiting for my flight back to KL, I had my brunch at Lavender Bistro.

This is the 1st time I visited Lavender Bistro a.k.a L.Bistro, as I only saw Lavender Bakery all the time around KL. Today when I google Lavender, I found that L.Bistro is available in AEON Bukit Tinggi, Klang. No wonder la, it's so far away from KL!

I didn't manage to take the photo of the shop's outlook, but I'm sure most of you able to identify the unique logo of Lavender. The menu for breakfast is a bit limited, as not much of choices is available for that specific timing.

Here's what I ordered for myself -Peach & Berries French Toast, a beautiful and tasty brunch to start off my day..

Peach & Berries French Toast RM12

This Peach & Berries French Toast consists of 4 pieces of the toast, peaches and blueberries, together with some blueberry jam on top of it. You can spread it according to your desire.

Does it seems too sweet for you, since there are peaches and berries, and some sifted icing sugar on top??? Guest what, the taste is just nice, never too sweet... somehow, you can cut down the jam if you really do not like it to be too sweet.

The toasts are nice, never too oily and never too greasy. Try this if there is any L.Bistro around your place. Too pricey? aiyo, once in a while, okay la... :P

And this is what my friend ordered - Caesar salad

Caesar salad RM12

The salad sauce tastes very nice, the aroma is different from those standard salad outside there. It is difficult to explain it here, you need to try it out yourself. I like this as much as I like the French toast.

Nutritionists' Choice Cookbook Volume 2 : Buku Masakan Pilihan Pakar Pemakanan

This is volume 2 of Nutritionists' Choice Cookbook. Different from the volume 1, this books provide recipes for the whole family. Therefore, the recipes will suit all of your family members from different age groups.

Ini adalah lanjutan daripada buku Nutritionists' Choice Cookbook volume 1. Berbeza daripada buku jilid 1, buku ini membekalkan pelbagai resipi yang bersesuaian dengan seisi keluarga.

Buku Masakan Pilihan Pakar Pemakanan

For those who have problem thinking what to cook for different meal time, this cookbook contains different sections to give you some ideas to choose which meal that you want to prepare. They are divided into breakfast and snack time, lunch and dinner.

Bagi mereka yang mempunyai masalah untuk berfikir apa yang hendak dihidangkan, buku resipi ini membantu memberikan idea untuk masakan sarapan dan kudapan, serta makan tengahari dan makan malam. 

Different recipes for different meal times
Pelbagai resipi masakan 

This cook book contains various style of cooking including Chinese, Malay, Indian style, as well as Western style cooking.

Buku ini mengandungi pelbagai resipi termasuklah masakan style Cina, Melayu, Indian dan Western. 

Colourful and interesting illustration
Gambar makanan yang berwarna-warni dan menarik

Just as same as the cookbook volume 1, this cookbook is also full with colourful and interesting illustrations.

Same seperti buku jilid 1, buku resipi ini juga mengandungi gambar-gambar masakan yang menarik. 

For those who wants this, you are welcome to contact me. I still have a few copy of this book with me.

Bagi mereka yang berminat dengan buku ini, anda boleh download daripada Nutrition Society of Malaysia. Saya masih mempunyai beberapa copy buku ini, bagi sesiapa yang lebih berminat untuk memiliki/membeli buku ini, anda boleh menghubungi saya. 

Nadeje KL at 3 Two Square, Petaling Jaya

My supper for last few days was Nadeje mille crepes. Yes, it is now available at Petaling Jaya, congratulation for all mille crepe lovers since you do not have to spend 2 hours journey to go Nadeje at Malacca.

Nadeje KL

The only problem is that the place is quite small in this KL branch, in which there are only about 10-15 tables available at the shop (if I'm not mistaken, since I only had a glance around the place, flooded with people). So you can either wait for your turn or just take away.

I had to take away my mille crepe instead of having there since the place was over-flooded with people. Lazy to wait for the tables. Here is the packaging of my mille crepes.

Nadeje take away

They also provided ice pack to prevent the crepe melted along the way when you bring it back home, so sweet!

I ordered banana chocolate mille crepe and rums and raisin mille crepe. The last time I have Nadeje was last year when I visited Malacca. They still taste amazing after all.

Let's have a closer look at the crepe layers... Layers by layers.....

Banana chocolate

This is the one, banana chocolate, it is full with banana aroma, as if you are eating the banana itself, taste very good!!! Those banana lovers outside, don't forget to try this out.

Rum and raisin

This one is special. I don't really know how to describe the taste, but this is really nice, it's not too sweet, the aroma was amazing, really amazing... never try something taste like this before. I heard this is one of their best seller as well.

For those who still don't know the place, check this out.

Location : Nadeje Cake Shop, B-01-01, Dataran 3 Two Square, Jalan 19/1, Section 19, Petaling Jaya.

Lunch time with Soto Jawa

Soto Jawa, my 1st trying today. There are nasi impit, soohun, some chicken floss inside with clear soup. You can add some chili inside if you like a little bit of spiciness in it.

Soto Jawa

Just notice it is available in the cafe, another food choice to be taken for lunch next time. But the portion is a bit small, coz I feel hungry much more earlier than it used to be. 

Hang out with my buddy

I hang out with my buddy this evening and enjoy our dinner together.

It is such a long time since we meet each other last time, a lot of things to catch up for both of us. 

We took our dinner at Nando's.. have not be eating that for quite some time. I just ordered the quarter chicken with side dishes, it should be the usual menu whenever I visited Nando's. Hehe..

Here's my dinner tonight

1/4 mild peri chicken with beans salad and potato wedges

How come the chicken looks so small in this photo? Bad photo shooting skill... @_@

After having the dinner, both of us still feel like much more to chat about, therefore we proceeded to Starbucks cafe for another round of chit chatting.

This is the usual drink I ordered almost whenever I go Starbucks, which is the hot chocolate. Well, I don't really able to stand the caffeinated drink, especially when it is night time.

My caramel hot chocolate...

Caramel Hot Chocolate

That's all for tonight, good night!

Dinner at Kenny Rogers Roasters

This is my 1st time eating at Kenny Rogers Roasters without ordering the roasted chicken meal set.

This is the platter, consists of 3 side dishes and 1 muffin, without the chicken.

What to do, fulled of people everywhere during weekend, by the time I reached here, the waiter said need to wait 40 minutes for the chicken. Well, I am too hungry to wait for that, therefore just order whatever they are able to served at that moment.

So here is my dinner for tonight.