Getting to know May Gin is definitely one of the best things that ever happened throughout my three years blogging career life.

I got to know her very briefly during my second delivery of Mille Crepe. Perhaps we share the same passion for food, we just clicked. Our subsequent meet ups were at SS2 Secret Recipe, SS2 Wong Kok Char Chan Teng, a brief one at Sushi Groove and recently, a half day outing to Pavilion (J.Co Donuts & Coffee) and 1U (Sushi Groove) together.

By our third meet up, she has already baked chocolate chip cookies for me to bring back home!

For our forth meet up, she prepared more food for me to bring back home!

The night before that, I was reading her blog and she was blogging about pineapple fried rice. Hence, being the greedy one, I gave her a call to tease her.

J : “I want to eat pineapple fried rice also.”
MG : “What?! Cannot. I have baked muffins for you.”
J : “But I want to eat pineapple fried rice.”
MG : “Cannot.”
J : “Sulk.”

Yet, to my surprise, I saw a tupperware with pineapple fried rice in it when I collected the food from her on Sunday. There was a big grin on my face at that moment.

I reheated the fried rice when I reached my Tampin house. There were a lot of ingredients in it, lots of chicken chunks, mushrooms, chili flakes, cashew nuts, onions, spring onions, carrots and of course, pineapples. Taste? Absolutely delicious although I would prefer it to be freshly out from the wok.

Apart from the pineapple fried rice, she baked me more chocolate chips cookies. It wasn’t as sweet as the first batch , which I told her about it that time. Crunchy as ever still.

Apart from that, she also specially baked muffins for me. Yes, those soft, fluffy and delicious muffins that come in assorted flavours like banana, chocolate, vanilla, orange and pandan.

I told her I love pandan more than vanilla and chocolate. However, she said she never bake pandan flavoured before and it would be her first time baking so, hence, she wasn’t very confident with the taste.

After sinking my teeth into the pandan flavoured muffin, it tasted heavenly. It wasn’t steaming hot or right from the oven, but definitely, I could taste the pandan flavour in it. I hope that would definitely give her the boost of confidence in baking more pandan flavoured pastries.

Do you want to have a bite? Heh!

After reading this post, I think I have sort of explained why I put the status message of “I love you, May Gin!” on my MSN. Really, never feel so being loved before, from a friend, that is. As for the title, “May Gin’s Love”, well, it wasn’t the food that really melted my heart (It did, actually.) but rather the heart, effort, time and love put in to cook and bake something for a guy who she only met less than five times.

Thanks, May Gin. Really, it’s more than just a mere “Thank You”. Love you, a lot!

So, what are you going to surprise me with the next time I come KL? Ha!

Although my objective whenever I come to KL is to eat something different and try restaurants that I have never try previously, there are bound to be situations where I couldn’t think of anything new or there are no makan kakis to bring me around, I tend to visit the same old restaurants and places again.

And so, Sushi Groove was one of them. Since I have blogged about it before, do click on the link to read a more complete review eating experience at Sushi Groove.

It was my sister, Jamie’s lucky day that she called while May Gin and I were on our way to 1U. Being the kind and awfully nice brother, I went to pick her up so that she could join us for dinner.

We placed our orders and food was served in a nifty. First up, salmon sashimi. Fresh and tender, dipped with a little soy sauce mixed with wasabi. Nice! We also had the spicy beef hamburger, egg with rice. I ordered the same thing during my last visit too. Tasted pretty much the same still, a good sign that they maintain their standard and quality.

The curry chicken rice bibimbab came highly recommended by Nee and I placed my order for this dish the moment I sat down. Heh!

The rice was served with hot stone, burning the rice to create a slightly burned yet crispy “burned rice” (I am pretty sure there’s a specific name for it, but it slipped my mind.). Right in the middle of the rice was a raw egg and chicken cubes, which was meant to be mixed up together. On top of the rice was a kind of fish (柴鱼), that seem to be dancing / moving on top of the rice when it was served.

You need to stir them as soon as possible (before the rice gets too burned), hence, get your camera ready.

I can’t recall what was the sushi’s name but I think it was on the top ten favourites for September 2007. It has cili padis in it but I don’t think its spicy at all. The waiter recommended us this sushi and we bought it. Definitely worth trying out.

We also ordered Godzilla Roll, which was a plate of sushis with shrimps and mangoes, topped with cream cheese on top. Absolutely delicious. Although I couldn’t really taste the shrimp, the flavour and colour combination were unique and eye pleasing respectively.

And definitely, my unagis! I ♥ Unagi! Yes, that is also the name for their unagi sushi. I ♥ Unagi!

Heh!