Archive for October, 2006

Pak Putra’s Tandoori Chicken

October 19th, 2006, Jason

When you are craving for a meal of delicious and finger licking good Tandoori Chicken and Naan, head down to Taman Kota Laksama’s Pak Putra Restaurant.

Tandoori chicken, a Punjabi delicacy that is made famous by the Mamaks and Indians. The chicken is marinated with herbs, spices, curry powder, turmeric powder, garlic, ginger, red chilies and a whole lot more of not-so-secret secret ingredients. The chili powder gives the chicken a super bright red colour. On the other hand, naan is more like the instant version of white bread and tastes a bit like pizza’s crust. Both items are baked in an oven, also known as tandoor.

When you are at Pak Putra Restaurant, do try out their naans especially their double cheese naan and garlic naan, not to leave out their tandoori chicken. They have other northen India’s cuisine, but I never try out because the price is a little steep for me.

Their tandoori chicken is grilled to perfection, not over cooked or too dry. The tenderness of the chicken is maintained thoroughly and its juicy as well. They are not stingy with their ingredients, hence, the flavours are strong and the taste will linger inside your mouth after you finish your meal. However, it is very spicy, as in very spicy. If you can’t take chilies, don’t bother ordering unless you want to suffer throughout your meal. It is served with a plate of special home made sauce, which the ingridients are cili padis, mint, lime and etc. It goes well with the chicken.

This mamak stall was once featured in The Star, which was written by my colleague.

However, do take note that this mamak shop closes around 2AM. Hence, be early if you want to try the tandoori chicken.

P/S :

I have create a sub category “Eating… In Malacca“, since there was a request for me to compile all Malacca’s delicacies into 1 post. By doing so, it would be easier for you to go through the food that are available in Malacca and you might even can make a check list out of it.

However, I realized that there are a lot more food which I have yet to blog and discover. Ironically, I haven’t even blog about the most famous Malacca’s chicken rice ball.

Green Tea And Dodol

October 18th, 2006, Jason

Jasmine flavoured green tea with less sugar, a healthy drink since its not too sweet and very refreshing. It’s something nice to sip on while I sit in front this computer doing my stuffs.

However, you know you are drinking way too much of green tea when your toilet has green tea smell after you pee.

-sweat-

I was assigned to do a write up on a dodol cooking event.

A Chair And A Bag That Cost Me RM220

October 15th, 2006, Jason

One afternoon, my phone was ringing and the phone was behind me / on my bed. I pushed my chair backwards like I always did, but this time, a sound was heard.

“Piakkkkkk…!” The plastic chair broke, but I didn’t fall.

“Craps. Again.”

I went to the furniture shop to get myself a new chair.

“How much is that plastic chair?”

“That plastic one? RM25, but then, I dare not sell to you even if you want to buy. These plastic chair not reliable one.”

“……”

“Take this one lah, metal chair with arm rest. RM75.”

“Fine. I will take one.”

Now, don’t rub it in again and again and again. -sniff sniff-

RM75 gone.

I have been looking for a bag to replace my current Panasonic’s e-cam bag. The bag is getting very dirty, after following me to every ocassion for more than 2 months. The strings are getting loose and edges are tearing apart.

I asked a few friends to check out for me, but none gave me a reply. Hence, while I was walking at Mahkota after my exam, I paid Fotokem a visit. The worker offered me the same Panasonic’s e-cam bag for RM35; but why would I buy the same bag again, right?

I told him I wanted a bag, which is big enough to store my digital camera, battery charger, an external flash (I have yet to buy.), notepads, stationary and card reader.

“Try this one. This one is for SLRs, with raincoat lagi.”

“No smaller one?”

“Got, but not big enough to store your external flash. Unless you want to try your luck at KL.”

“Craps. How much?”

“RM145.”

The raincoat and in raincoat mode.

The bag.

Just 2 weeks, I spent RM220. -sighs-

5sc1 Ex-Classmates Gathering

October 13th, 2006, Jason

After David Tao’s showcase, we adjourned to Han Yan’s place for a small gathering of 5sc1 of Pulau Sebang Secondary School.

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Back : Chun Kit, Jason Lioh, Chee Yong, Yee Leei, Hong Wai, Hui Zhi and Iu Chong.
Middle : Han Lin’s GF, Han Lin, Seong Yee, Pei Lin (Seong Yee’s GF), Wei Song and Han Yan.
Front : Siew Pey, Pei Yueng (Han Yan’s GF), Yee Leei’s GF, Hong Wai’s GF and Chin Siong.

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Yon Hui, my junior in Interact Club and school, also Han Yan’s cousin sister.

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Chee Yong’s Toyota Innova

October 11th, 2006, Jason

Chee Yong’s father bought a new family car, Toyota Innova for slightly less than RM100k. With nothing better to do, Chun Kit and I forced him to drive the car to Gemas to pick up his girl friend wife, Lee Hwee. It sure looked like we were going to pick up the bride (接新娘咯!).

We started our journey from Chee Yong’s house around 2.30PM and the driver was Chee Yong himself. Bummer!

The odometer at the dashboard was 104km, that’s how new the car is. Dashboard is sleek and neat, no weird placing like Kancil’s. It’s illuminated in white colour, not bright red / blue / yellow / orange like other cars, which I personally find it cool. The center board is the CD player and control panel for air conditioner, hazard lights and other stuffs. You can control the air conditioner’s temperature and even set it to auto. Once you set it to auto, the fan speed will change accordingly to the temperature.

It’s very spacious inside, regardless of front seat or back seat. For the back seats, you can put your seat down until 180 degrees flat and make it into a bed. There’s even an arm rest at the back, just like those high class sedans.

Since it’s still a relatively new car, Chee Yong didn’t floor the accelerator. Hence, I could’t really feel the power and pick up of the car / van / SUV. However, throughout the journey, it was quiet and stabil. Gear changing was very smooth as I couldn’t feel the power lag or mechanism when it changed gears.

Where’s Chee Yong’s picture? He went inside to see his “mother”, so we left him out. Heh!

Overall, it’s quite a good car. Of course it’s a good car, else it won’t be priced at almost RM100k and called Toyota. Heh!

My 2 best friends since primary school - Chee Yong and Chun Kit.

Now, with another family member, Lee Hwee. The same people who went to Cameron Highlands and Penang more than a year ago.

Yong : “Next year’s May, we go holiday in this car!”

Jason : “Let’s drive to Phuket, Thailand this time!”

Kit : “……” -speechless-

Now, we have 2 more seats, anyone wants to join? That’s if Chun Kit or me hasn’t find our own partners. -coughs-