Driving up north in a ridiculously slow speed taking up nearly a quarter of my day, tight schedule of business meeting & lots of paper documentation to be completed was kinda draining my energy away. As such, I was determined to say yes to an invite to join the group dinner at Miraku, G-Hotel recently. I immediately agree knowing the facts that I know some of them either loosely by the name or some that I’ve spoken to occasionally.
It was a group dinner by JobStreet.com PG sales team to celebrate their recent so called sales achievement & for some merriment. I was by then the only outsider joining them. How should I describe the whole encounter – was it rather weird or was it rather uncomfortable to be posed with question of “can we interview you”. These Jobstreet people do really like to ‘INTERVIEW’, don’t they? LOL. Nevertheless, it was a pleasant fun encounter.
Everyone is up there
The process of food ordering was uniquely silly than my sillycar. JC started it by pulling out a piece of paper out of her handbag. Apparently, she has known what she wanted to order and simply passed the list to the waitress who stunned for awhile, overwhelmed by her ‘creativity’. Well prepared maximizing the budget set for individual, salute. Everyone of them was ordering tones of food like there is no tomorrow or there was a feast. Mid-month 7 festival on lunar calendar describe best.
Look at the table full of food. really mid-month 7
These were my order. Not as much right?
Another little outsider was Emeryn, SM’s daughter who has been positioned at the end of the table like some little princess chairing the group. Being the central of attention of that night, she delighted everyone with her beauty and her stint of funny act. Her mom was relatively busy that evening feeding her to the max. Interestingly, the sicked CL was suddenly energetic to walk over pretending to finish her bowl of ice-cream, Big-Bully.
The little princess
The highlight of the evening was how a ‘story’ of scallop shell was told & innocently believed. The hotate or cheesie scallop was served in a pair using the scallop shell as its plate. It was told that the shell was labeled by its own serial number due to its uniqueness to be used up to 50 times only. Due to that, JC held the scallop shell up high, searching anxiously for the so called serial number. Epic.
Serial Number Checking 123
I might be the only outsider to them and also often put into certain uncomfortable situation even from the very beginning of the event. I was greeted by the question of how much I was missed & offering of a very warmth question of kisses & hugs. All in all, it’s just some hospitality shown for an acquaintance like me. I’ve enjoyed the food & evening though.
This site has been neglected for quite some time and as the result me got screwed upside down, front and back, top and bottom, right and left by some of my fellow
#porkgang. I promise I’ll blog more often, ok.
First of all, since today is the very 1st day of Chinese New Year, let me wish everyone a very happy and prosperous New Year ahead and Gong Xi Fa Cai. Last year, I had an eventful yet wonderful
CNY trip with my entire family to Hainan, China and this year, it’s going to be a peaceful one celebrating at home, Penang. Sometimes during CNY, it can be kinda bored until your house is full of friends and relatives. As of now, I’m enjoying calm and peaceful blogging session at home while waiting for the rest to arrive.
Yesterday, instead of the usual reunion dinner, my family did lunch instead. Since morning, I have been assigned as food transporter, delivering cakes to my aunts, waiting for the barter deal, shipping
LorBak (marinated minced pork) back to my mom. This has been one of my favorite food during festive season because my aunt can really make some juicy succulent awesomesauce LorBak which is uniquely different from what we usually found outside. Nom Nom.
Let me share what I saw while waiting.
Homemade LorBak is always awesome because we only choose the best part from the butcher. According to my aunty, she will only do it if she manages to get the meat from Pulau Tikus’s wet market. She claims this particular stall has 3 freezers and the pork supply is always fresh.
Marinated LorBak filling blended with special secret ingredient.
Nice soybean sheets is needed.
Now, you place the filling & wrap it, seal both end by simply pressing it and hold for few seconds.
Deep fried them with hot boiling oil. Make sure the oil is heated up properly before placing the LorBak. Make sure you turn the LorBak regularly to get it cooked evenly.
Scoop them up one by one once they turned golden. Do not wait till they turn brown else you would be eating charcoal-taste-alike-LorBak.
Leave the LorBak on netting to drip off excessive oil. Do not cut and eat them immediately. Do let the LorBak cold down so that the wrapping will really stick to the filling perfectly.
Now, the LorBak is ready to be served. Yum Yum Yummy.
P/S: do not ask me for the recipe, because I DO NOT have it. Happy Chinese New Year.
To visitor or those who work outside of Penang , stepping on the island of food means starting a food spree. As for me, I’m not so into filling up my tummy with all the yummy hawker’s food (eat every 2 hours) but rather meet up with friends for some talk kok session.
Last 2 weeks when I was back in Penang waiting for a friend for yamcha session, I was walking around Gurney Plaza and found a photographing exhibition. There were many impressive shoots displayed and these 3 captured my attention.
Although we can’t really see the expression but can feel the happiness. How nice to be a kid. Easily satisfied.
How’s my eatable mask?
The referee has incredible Yellow Card which more than half her size. Damn funny and do check out the expression on each and every player. Anything wrong if I call this picture 1 Malaysia?
Play as in 1 Malaysia?
This was the picture that I love most. I found out later that this is actually the grand price winner. I think the lighting was just perfect and the shooting angle made it looks great. However, the reason I really like this picture is not about the shooting but how much it tells. I have no idea why and what make it so special but I did make me felt so touch by just looking at it. What do you think?
Peaceful moment shared among grandma & grandson. very nice~
Ohhh dear, my last post was posted almost two weeks ago and since then, I’m in procrastination mode until… NOW. Everything seems to be sluggish as if an old snail having evening walk at it’s own sweet time. I just felt tired and not in mood all the time but couldn’t be certain if it is physical, mental, spiritual or emotional. The only reason best accounted for this situation = Laziness. This is definitely not the best way to start the 1st month of energetic roaring tiger year, NO! Things need to get back in pace immediately.
Let me do the 1st day of the year to feel rejuvenate. Annual New Year Eve party = Michael’s home party. Yeah, we are too old to do the sardines squeezing at those so call happening places. So we did the annual drunken Jeng Jeng Jenga.
Allah God I mean cheated to drink | Fatty forced to drink.
This year, on top of loser who collapsed the artistic Jenga construction got punished for a shot + face ‘mural’.
Pinkpau with hairy dick and after awhile, it ejaculated.
Shaolintiger welcome the tiger year 2010 his way.
Kimberlycun with colorful face. She was the winner of the night.
The usual ferocious Fireangel (background scary Sotong) and the toy story’s @Lubeeliz
Will you wonder why these people can be so crazy? The secret disclosed below. The overwhelming host always come out with weirdos mixture with 1 motive. Not to walk out his condo’s door in straight line. However, failed in making JacJac Attack KO all thanks to gentleman KY offered help on 1 shot.
The wicked male witch in preparation of the poisonous liquid
These was what caused the party to end early around 2am+. Game started while ST still reading the instruction which led to a lot of laughter. When the alcohol level reaches certain level, volume control will surely fail. Drinking was 10x faster than Jenga = DIE.
Hand on red, backside on green, head on yellow etc.
ST|KY|KIM|HAZE|JAC|FATTY|PAU|FA|KROLL|KEVIN|LY|EYERIS
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010, A YEAR NEARER TO 2012 ALREADY
Yesterday dinner was great. We were invited for a dinner and beer tasting session by Craft Brews located at Mutiara Damansara. Thanks to HsuJen for the invites and in the invitation email they have this quote, “Our food is seriously non-halal” which I like best. LOL.
The place is kinda cozy with more open-air hangout spaces than indoor seating. To beer enthusiasts out there, this might be a place for you to venture into something different from the usual ordinary brand on the market. On top of their signature, premium Reddot Brewhouse’s selection, they do have other 4 types on draft and 10 award-winning bottled beers as alternative. Further to that, there are selection of serving range from ribs to pasta including of burger as well on the menu and they are ditanggung halal.
Beer buffet, free flow house’s signature drinks throughout the night. Many headed towards this rather than the food and I was on the sissy side, I need fill up my tummy before intoxicate myself with these colorful drinks.
Wheat Beer | Monster Green Lager | English Ale | Czech Pilsner
Due to the bad traffic, many couldn’t arrive on time and the event delayed quite a bit and by the time food was ready to be serves, hungry ghost we were. The food was pretty delicious even while serving on buffet style. It could be better if serves direct from the kitchen. I personally like the Caramelized Roast Pork the most. Both ribs with honey mustard and the BBQ sauce was scrumptious but I personally thinks that I could be more tender but well, I do like them. By the way, the wedges and the spicy eggplant were surprisingly awesome too.
Dinner… 70% PORK
Look at the happy #porkgang faces. We enjoyed the PORK and had fun with the BEERS
Some1 showing long leg and some1 showed long arms?
From the right,
Wheat beer actually was the one I like best. you won’t go wrong with wheat beer.
Dark brown English ale which is kinda bitter and it does has this bitter aftereffect man. However, out of the 4, I think only this beer consider having personality of its own.
The Czech Pilsner feels ordinary, light and smooth. Quite nice actually.
Green Monster, really don’t know how to comment. Not bad but it just looks weird because of the color I think. A healthy beer with spirulina. It actually sound so wrong right? hehehe
the drinksssss of the night.
The evening not all about tummy filling and alcohol intake. It came with some light education which Suanie refer it as Beerducation. We were brief on how the beer is brew and how to identify a nicely brewed beer.
The Beerducation session
Who cares about the brew processes, we only want the CHERAS CHEERS
During the Beerducation, we were given bacon and also brownie to go with the green monster lager. I think I got the best answer for why beer goes well with bacon. “Beer goes well with bacon because it is not halal”. Do you agree with this answer? you better be. On the other hand, sweet stuff just taste disgusting with beer. Yucksss…
Incredible hulk green monster lager with bacon & brownie
Alcoholic bitch who purposely lost a game to win a beer
