Revisit to Master Toast@The Scott Garden, Old Klang Road

Hubby's squid sambal with rice.  He gave both thumbs up!

It was the first weekend after we came back from our Bangkok trip.  My fridge was literally empty so we went to Tesco, The Scott Garden for some grocery shopping.  We woke up late, had our brunch quite late so naturally we had our lunch late too, around 3 pm when we were done shopping.  Hubby wanted to try their squid sambal he didn't get to savour on our last visit there.  So here we were again at Master Toast.

My plate of spaghetti bolognese... taste wise, so so only

My boy, still full from his brunch ordered fried nuggets that came with

A big portion of fries

2 glasses of mango smoothies to be shared among us

The boy with his X'mas pressie.. Yes, X'mas came early for him this year! :)

Gai Wo Bao (Chicken Nest Bun) 鸡窝包

Chicken Nest Bun.. what a weird direct interpretation.. Hahaha.. It's basically a lo mai kai (steamed sticky glutinous rice with chicken) wrapped in a bun.

Hubby brought home 2 nicely boxed 'Gai Wo Bao' the other day.  Gai Wo Bao is one of the famous item originated from a dim sum restaurant in Sri Petaling.   Hubby bought them from a dim sum restaurant in Bandar Puteri, Puchong, guess they have a new outlet there now though I can't confirm that. 

To me, it's just a combination of a big bao (minus the filling) and a lo mai kai.  For RM5.80 or was it RM5.50, I would rather have a big bao and a lo mai kai separately, more filling to the tummy at almost the same price.  Sorry, I am practical person by nature if you don't know it already! tee hee hee..

Peking Duck @ Ming Restaurant, Sabah Hotel, Sandakan

I had dinner with a bunch of my old buddies, some I have known since the kindergarten days.  For a table of 5 adults and 2 kids, we ordered peking duck set, yes, all duck dishes. Hahaha...

Peking Duck, or Peking Roast Duck is a famous duck dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the imperial era, and is now considered one of China's national foods.

The dish is prized for the thin, crispy skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat, sliced in front of the diners by the cook. Ducks bred specially for the dish are slaughtered after 65 days and seasoned before being roasted in a closed or hung oven. The meat is eaten with pancakes, spring onions, and hoisin sauce or sweet bean sauce. Source

The pancakes as wrappers

The crispy duck skin

cucumber

Roll everything together with a spread of hoisin sauce.  Yummilicious.. but why no lettuce geh?

What was to be done with the rest of the duck?

The roasted duck dish

Duck porridge

Salted vege duck soup - the duck bones went into boiling the soup.. no wastage!

And taugeh stir fried with deboned duck meat 

I did not take my boy along as he had other plans with his cousins.  My brother and sister in-law took them for a KFC treat after the cousin's tuition class was over.  I had a swell time chatting and catching up with fellow buddies all night long without the boy. LOL.. 

Coil Spring Noodles @Sim Sim Seafood Restaurant, Kg. Buli Sim Sim, Sandakan

Kampung Buli Sim Sim - I spent first 8 years of my life here since birth  in this place I called home.  We moved out after my father got the family a landed house.  I can still recall those days when my father was a fisherman and due to the nature of his work, he was only home after a week out at the sea, back home for 2 days and back to the sea again.  We were lucky to have been blessed with good neighbours who would lend their helping hands whenever my mom and her young family were in dire need of help.

We bumped into an old neighbour while on our way to the restaurant.  She was all excited and invited us in and even showed us her family photos with some of our childhood playmates, now all grown up with their own families.  Those were the days.  Most of our good ol' neighbours had moved out and settled themselves on landed properties. The once Chinese populated water village is now left with only a handful of them, mostly dominated by Malays and foreign (Indonesian/Filipino, etc) immigrants.

"Dan Kung Meen" literally means Coil Spring Noodles in English.  Taste wise, it was good but you really need to have a set of steel teeth and a good digestive system to savour it.  Hahaha.. just kidding.

The lobster supplier with his young family in the sampan.  Can you spot a baby in the arm of the mother? Life is hard!

Live Lobsters!

The cousins

My Honeymoon

I got a deal from milkadeal.com a while ago that I only had to pay RM5 for RM20 worth of purchases from My Honeymoon dessert and forgot about it until the voucher was near expiry.

One fine Sunday before expiry of the voucher, we made a visit to their Kota Damansara outlet after picking up the boy from his school's excursion trip.

The place was quiet, only us with another table was occupied.

The boy ordered this - Mango Snowflake

Tai Chi black sesame and taufoo fah to be shared between hubby and myself.

Glutinous Rice Balls

We spent RM10 in total for the above desserts, not a bad deal huh? 

Dinner at Madam Lim's @Tesco, Mutiara Damansara

Claypot mixed vege tofu

This is a backdated post.

Madam Lim's is one of the favourite hangout place for me and the boy and once a while I will take him for a TGIF (Thank God It's Friday!!) ice kacang treat and simple dinner after school.

We decided to patron this restaurant one of the days during CNY with dad in-law and ordered a few simple dishes.

Sambal vege

Foo Yong Egg

Chicken Chop

Ice Kacang

The bill for four was slightly over RM40 inclusive of tea and ice kacang but hubby commented that the food was so-so though I thought it tasted okay.

SkyPark Subang Terminal, Subang

I had to send my parents in-law to the SkyPark Subang Terminal, Subang (former Terminal 3) this morning.  It was my first time there after their recent refurbishment.  I dropped them off at Lane 1, parked my car at the car park just opposite the airport and saw them off at the departure hall before leaving with my boy for lunch and school.  They were taking a FireFly flight to Penang to attend a wedding dinner.  

There are four dedicated lanes provided to ease traffic flow into the airport.  Lane 1 on the left, nearest to the airport entrances has been designated for passenger drop-off and pick-up; Lane 2, designated for taxis and valet parking (more about this later); Lane 3 for coaches and delivery vehicles while Lane 4 provides quick access to the SkyPark Fixed Based Operations that caters to private and business jet travels.

Those who have deeper pockets and don't mind paying more can park their car along Lane 2 which is near to the airport entrance at a charge of RM10 for first 2 hours and RM5 every subsequent hour.  Maximum charge per day is RM50. 

Opposite the SkyPark Terminal is the airport's open-air car park accessible via an overhead bridge leading directly into the terminal.  The parking fee is RM2 for the first hour and RM1 every subsequent hour.  Maximum charge per day / Lost ticket is RM30.  The car park doesn't look well maintained though being overgrown with grass and weeds and certain sections of roads not properly tarred.

Access to the car park is through a U-turn located not far after the airport terminal under the bridge of the main road (on the right side for those arriving from Subang Jaya).

Food and beverage outlets are aplenty.  I spotted Starbucks, Big Apple Donuts & Coffee, Sakura Cuisine and Cafe, Kapitan Kopitiam, 1901 Hotdogs, an Italian pizza outlet, a noodles speciality restaurant, a sports bar and grill, a dedicated section serving popular local delicacies, a chocolate shop, an ice cream bar and a fruit juice “island”.  Wow, really spoilt for choice and definitely a headache to decide what to eat here.   Nope, we did not have our lunch there before leaving the airport as I had earlier promised my son that we would have Chilli Pan Mee minus the chillie flakes for lunch, his all time favourite! :)