The Book of Memories: Food

Mediterannean theme dinner @ Swiss Room and four of us have the pleasure to try out some delicious Mediterannean delicacies. Chef’s from Malaysia and staffs from Singapore to Russia and Canada and many more.

There weren’t much expectation from the food cause I have no idea how does mediterannean food look and tastes like, so it was all just an expectation of more-than-moderate level.

First impression was good because we were given champagnes for an aperitif at the reception area before seated. Nice glasses and obviously smooth champagnes to gulp down.

First off, some appetizers were served : Soury-Bitter dont-know-what

Let’s see…I seriously have no idea what is inside, all I know is that it has Lime skin, orange and some herbs and as for the skin…no idea but it sure is delicious if you like sour-ish food *Good way to start a meal *Gastrick people will ~~LOVE~~ HATE this serving**cough cough*

the plating

Second Appetizer: Fried Bread with garlic served with Mediterannean dipping

Well…same goes to this. Garlic lovers will adore this food but applause for the dipping is a must! It’s delicious…tomato puree with some mediterannean taste to it.perfect combination…

Third Appetizer: Cold Cucumber Cube garnished with HOT chilli liquid and finish with a spoon of Sour Cream

Yet another appetizer that has to have their deserved credit. Who knew that cold cucumber served with spicy chilli paste will taste so good and to neutralize your taste bud after the spice with a spoon of sour cream? magnificent combination

Drinks (alcohol cocktails or non-alcohol?)

Tivu Blue : A specialty drink from Tivu with the senses of tingling tangy orange, leamon and zesty lime coated with sugar lining

The Horizon: Fusion of Pineapple and Strawberry cocktail

Sunset Passion: Fruit Juice with a tinge of sparkle

Personally, I prefer Sunset Passion the most cause it doesnt contain any alcohol and it tastes just nice. Same goes to our table guests’.

Long waited and at last our starter arrived. Slyvia & I ordered Chicken Roulade served with Cucumber Raita. Czet and Joe Joe ordered the Duo of Tea Smoked Tuna and Tomato Cumin shooters.

Both equally delicious but I think the Chicken Roulade was nicer and the yoghurt dipping was perfect with the chicken.

Chicken Roulade

Smoked Tea Tuna

Mmm Nyum Nyum….after the delicious but light starter we have our main course. Well, originally there were two choices for main course but due to some kitchen error, ~~they do not have enough LAMB~~ so we took the second choice; Black Tiger Prawns. Not bad but I would definitely prefer to have the rack of lamb instead. Plus, the starch for the tiger praws were not cooked enough, the rice were slightly uncooked. So it was alil disappointment in that. Anyway, it still tastes more like nasi lemak’s sambal prawns…haha!

Starch were too much as you can see, therefore, none of us managed to finish the whole plate except for the prawns of course….

Dessert and Hot Beverage: The Maldivian VooDoo Lily + Cappuccino

Oooppss….I know the picture loooks very….unorganized but actually it was a very nice decoration. Unfortunately, none of us remembered to take the picture.

Anywhoo, the dessert is a Mediterannean Jelly with some Passion and Lily liquid and decorated with crispy and aromatic almond slices and caramelized rose petals.

Sounds delicious? BECAUSE IT IS ~~VERY~~ FREAKING DELICIOUS!! Every dish was great despite the main course’s rice.

That marks the end of the meal and before I forget…credits to the restaurant’s decoration….it was awesome!romantic with the mediterannean feeling to it. Applause and great job y’all!!

Well…let’s not forget that we obviously did some cam freak-ing of course…how can we not?? it will not be us if we didnt right?hehe…

CIMG0268

Special guest guitarist and one of the canadian staff

Delicious Meal, Delicious Memory, Delicious Delicious Delicious…

Signing Off

Yin

WooHooHoo!! At last it’s Spring Break!! Have been looking forward for this day to come for a VERY VERY VERY loooong time….Plans after plans during Spring Break. For us? there ain’t no such thing as spring break because we ARE clean people….we dont need any spring cleaning during spring time…*Mom must be saying “ya right!”* (sorry mom…but my room IS indeed very clean…neat but im not gonna deny on the thickness of dust collection…^^)

Sooo…Spring Break and so is also for our never-ending courseworks *phew* Well…me and a few of my friends and housemates planned to have a trip to d’Amsterdam but plans had to be canceled cause

something huge came up that made us financially tight
the accommodation during that time were mountain HIGH
some restrictions plus it was too short a period to plan on a perfect trip

So yea…our trip to visiting the windmill was a failed one. However, we did not fail to plan other trips but this time we were all separated..each going their own trip. Some went to Spain and some Germany, Paris, London and many many more down the list. Sadly I was not part of any those holiday plans because I headed up to UNITED KINGDOM BABBYYY!!! not London, not Liverpool and DEFINITELY NOT Man U!!(read that Ade? =P) Anyways back to the path…intention to go was to visit no other than my precious and beloved sister Ling…

Well, we both were very excited for me going there to visit here because it has been so long since we actually saw one another sides Webcam of course…but that’s so NOT counted! my intention of going there requires a HUGE price okay…it aint cheap at all…who said travelling around Europe is cheap when you’re there? Well, technically yea it is cheaper cause you dont have to pay for another long-haul flight…but it IS still expensive…just by saying on the exchange rate can eat up pocket till a big hole..a price to pay?definitely but I will not argue with anything because it was a trip worth all the $$ I spent (excluding the amount of things that I have to specifically buy under the request of her…namely CHOCS!) *the bad point of coming from a country so famous in producing milk and delicious chocs…

*Note": the ~~best~~ worse thing that happened on the whole trip from going to leaving was to wait for 5 hours for my delayed flight when I was flying there…FREALKING 5 HOURS!!No joke…insanity waiting at an airport that doesnt have anything much! DOUBLE INSANITY…

ANYWHOOS………It’s already the pass and all I can remember most is not the bad flight-experience but more on the UK busses, FOOD, and definitely my SIS… Happy Happy me…(we both were jumping up and down while hugging as a greeting after almost a year of MIA)

Nottingham Day 1

Rise and Shine early in the morning and off we went for some Shopping SPREE! yup.,…shopping spree…some money allocated to shop of course…what you find @ Nottingham, you don’t find it here @ Swiss…so who will miss the chance to buy?well…of course not alot…still need to safe up ok…

FIRST stop : Greggs

Some breakfast needed before a rough day ahead no? So I was brought by MY personal tour guide to try out this really famous pastry bakery that sells (well) PASTRIES of course…and trust me..they sure are famous in UK! The line were long and they sold out real fast…plus, the people that goes in those shops are people of ALL ages…and I mean ALL ages (people from even babies were choosing their favourites and old people queuing up to buy some for themselves as well…) Lucky me when i went there i got to buy the one very well recommended by sis to try cause it’s one of her favourites…hehe!

Mmm Nyum Nyum *munch munch* IT WAS DELICIOUS!!!!yes I know it is very fattening indeed but heck the weight-watching for these few days wont kill me…^^ So where was I? oh yea….it’s VERY VERY delicious and it’s BIG & TASTY…no wonder why the line were so long…

*Btw…we went in to this cafe that sells stuffs similar to Starbucks and Coffee Beans but they are obviously SLIGHTLY BIT less expensive as compared to Starbucks but they tastes as good……ordered another recommended product *The Latte* – Delicious Delicious too…(yes I do know that it seems like everything that i ate here is delicious but they seriously are…I wouldnt wanna say that something is disgusting when it actually tastes GOOD would I?)*

Millie Cookies!!! Some very special cookie that I have never seen and tasted before in Swiss…hehe…it’s a Soft cookie by the way…

SECOND stop :

After satisfying our lil tummies it’s time to WORK and get all dirtyly hands on…

*Wouldnt elaborate on this part…there isnt much to say when it comes to two-shopaholic going to town looking for some shopping fun…

End result?

MAC products (My fav!)
Zara Cardigan
A top

THIRD stop : Food Market

YUP!!food AGAIN…confirm gaining some pounds after spending those pounds on FOOD…

well…this one we didnt get greedy and instead of getting one each, we SHARED our choice…placed our decision on the roasted potato which LOOKS great & SMELLED great of course…^^ Another Yum Yum…

FOURTH stop : SteamyBOAT

Yes Yes i know we just ate our “tea-break” but then in reality it was a few hours later ok…we’re not really stuffing ourselves with food!

Yummy steamboat and I know that for you guys who are back in Msia must think “STEAMBOAT???”but over here…even steamboat is great…we planned to have some really delicious 3 course meals but unfortunately our luck weren’t that good that for all the restaurants that we wanna eat in are fully booked! Thanks to their Mother’s Day (for your info…Mother’s Day @ UK falls in March and not May) But who cares what we ate…so long as the company was great nothing matters much……

FIFTH stop : Nottingham Casino

Oh well…there weren’t anything much in there but it was just for an experience being in one @ UK…but of course it is also smaller than any other casinos…they’re just for some small leisure moments…nothing HUGE or EXTRAVAGANT (all in all it was an experience being in one…)

That marks the end of Day 1 of Nottingham…overall…GREAT fun…happy me happy US…And I slept pretty early too due to the lack of sleep the previous day (it’s close to a no-sleep)

Nottingham Day 2

Day 2 Day 2 Day 2….not a good day cause it means it’s my last night being with my sis…bad bad bad!

FIRST stop : Nottingham University

HUMONGOUS!! Notts Uni is 10 to 20 TIMES bigger than IMI…a small part of the uni that was used for some accommodation is even bigger than my Uni…Plus…the engineering faculty itself is already 5 times bigger… It’s Un-Be-Lie-Ve-Able!

Btw….there’s a faculty (if Im not wrong is the art faculty…the building is made of all wood…pretty interesting)

It was only one stop today….though there were a few places that we went but it’s nothing huge or much to talk about…we went home after the trip to Notts Uni cause sis’ COOKING dinner FOR ME! another thing that’s unbelievable…hahaha!she never cook back in msia…well..she does for only small meals for her own. But now she even knows how to make ‘stuffed mushrooms’, ‘stir fried something with onions’, Marinated Roast Chicken’, ‘Garlic Rice’, and WHITE WINE SEAFOOD PASTA…! Sounds alot and difficult huh?

the food overall was delicious and not bad for a starter…*two-thumbs UP!*

Last Game before I left we had a traditional family game called the MONOPOLY! Miss it?100% missed it…long time since I touched or even say SEE the game…hehehe! It was fun and a night filled with joyous laughter and stupidity actions. What happened that night stays in the room…only 3 of us can know about the details..

Nottingham Day 3

The last day and the day that I have been dreading for it to come…

Woke up early in the morning to catch our flight…the time where we both parted towards our own paths…one off to Scotland and the other back to mountainous cold-old Swiss…

Not knowing when we will meet again since you CHOSED to go for Euro Trip over MY GRADUATION….so we wont get to see till who-knows-when…bad bad sis….I know you insisted on arguing that it wasnt your fault that it has to happen on the same day but STILL…it’s still a MIA for it….hmph!

Anywhoos…..that marks the end of my trip to Nottingham during the Spring Break…back to Swiss and a whole week of ‘Green Day’ and being Socially Responsible for the environment…Our theme for this semester.