Cookie Monster Contacts Santa

OMG i can't stop laughing...how can anyone not love Cookie Monster?

COOKIE MONSTER CONTACTS SANTA PART 1




Cookie monster tries to contact Santa by writing him a letter


COOKIE MONSTER CONTACTS SANTA PART 2




Cookie monster tries to contact Santa by typing him a letter


COOKIE MONSTER CONTACTS SANTA PART 3




Cookie monster tries to contact Santa by calling him on the phone

Lavender

One of the eateries that i always patronise when i'm in Johor Bahru is Lavender. This place was first introduced to me by a Singaporean colleague who is practically a Malaysian PR ( judging by the frequency he goes over to top up petrol!). Later several friends also brought me there at a few occasions, so i've sort of fell in love with this place which has such varied choices in their menu.


This time i was over to have breakfast. That's my cocktail coffee...heehee...it comes in a martini glass, so that i can imagine i was James Bond having coffee.

I don't like those thin, crunchy kaya toasts which comes in pandan kaya they serve in kopi tiams in Singapore. I still prefer the thick and soft toasts with brown kaya!

Woooooo~ Heaven...... The kaya was fragrant and the toasts tasted like marshmallows...mmmm.....

Let's try something western...what about the Florentine Egg Set?

Akakaka....this was what it looked like.....this place is halal, so no pork and bacon for us... Instead it was turkey bacon....I had a great breakfast.

This soya sauce bottle looked so 'Chinese' it seemed so incongruous there. Anyway, i love Lavender's waffles. If you ever go there for tea, go for the waffles. Fattening but sure worth getting fat for =P

A & W

The last time i had A&W was about 10 years ago....the franchise has already closed in Singapore, so the only chance i have of sampling this old-school fast food chain is in Malaysia.


One A&W specialty is their root beer / float. It has been a practice by them that this beverage is served in an ice-cold mug.... the mug itself must be refrigerated...feels so good to be holding the icy handles and guzzling a good ol' mug of beer~ Oh yah...and that's the Coney Dog... If you don't know what to eat there, i suppose the Coney Dog is the safest bet.

Oh, here's my Waffle Burger...tastes awful, to be frank. Ideally, waffles should be eaten sinfully with cream and chocolate, not cheese and meat....blech...forego this if you ever go there.....Tastes like cardboard!!

(Sand)Castles In The Air

Puffyrazzi : Hmmm....What's this?


Puffyrazzi : Castle beach? Looks like some kind of sandcastle building activity organised for under-privileged kids every weekend! Let's head over to the beach side to have a closer look....

Puffyrazzi : Wow.... so many sandcastles! Some were fantastic...some were errrrr... small and basic....

Puffyrazzi : I'll have my photo taken with the grandest of them all!

Cookie Monster Spells Food

Cookie Monster was my favourite childhood hero. In fact, i still love him to bits!! This video never fails to cheer me up. Hope it brightens up your day as well =)

Hong Kong Cafe.....in Singapore

This time, what about some nice Hong Kong food in Singapore? Kenny and I happened to travel to the east and it was raining, so we hopped into this Hong Kong Cafe ( name's C.Nai) to have a tea break.


Kenny's pondering what to eat....


He He He....what about the recommended Red Bean Mountain? Looks pretty nice on the picture...note the small print that says 'Pictures for reference only'....


Looks a little flatter than the pic eh? Yumm...i love red bean...and this one comes with a scoop of vanilla ice cream...super!



Kenny always sticks to having 'Iced Yin Yang' in HK cafes....always....

Some Chee Cheong Fun, with beef curry....i actually love having curry chee cheong fun. I don't really fancy having it with the sweet sauce they normally serve with for breakfast. This is a great change =)

Let Sleeping Cats Lie

Sleeping on Jie Jie's handbag feels so good...



Sleeping on Jie Jie's bed is not bad either!

Unlike Puffy, who can sleep anywhere, anytime, in any pose.

Swiss Food............in Singapore.

Let's go and have some Swiss food! haha...but this is in Singapore =( Half a year after my trip to Switzerland, here i am in Singapore having Swiss food.


The interior designing reminds one of those old style Swiss cottage. Every small detail reminded me of the land of the Alps. Even the photos frames were filled with shots of the beautiful place.

This is some sort of Prawn Rice....kinda wasted to be eating rice at a Swiss Restaurant huh?

In Bern, we were scouring around for Rosti cos it is supposed to be a Swiss specialty but we couldn't find a good place, so here i am trying it in Singapore. Rosti is a dish consisting of mainly potatoes and used to be a common breakfast eaten by farmers in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

My rosti came with Chicken Stroganoff. It is basically sauteed chicken served in a sauce with sour cream.

Of course, I'll be needing some cold refreshment to wash all the heavy food down. Some Ginger Beer and Watermelon Juice should do the trick!

To top it all up, a slice of Fruit Cake for dessert.

Kukup Indulgence Part Two

In Kukup, the one famous food item that tourists buy is the Jelly Ang Ku Kueh. They are similar to the conventional Ang Ku Kueh but they are made of agar-agar.

They come in a pack of 12, in 6 flavours : Red bean, corn, pineapple, yam, peanut and pandan.


When you take the first bite, there are goodies inside . Cheers~

The hotel at Kukup really spoiled us rotten. Just after our lunch, it was raining...and so we headed down to the common area for tea.

At night, a BBQ dinner was prepared for all hotel guests...you can say that it is a form of ala carte buffet. You can order anything once you've finished them, and the hotel owner will promptly grill them for you.

At the pier, there was a grill for chicken wings as well...

Yummy! BBQ stingray...this sure is cheaper than Newton Circus Food Centre!! And it's free-flow too!

This is my favourite! Hum!

Alamak...look at those aunties playing mahjong behind us....

Kukup Weekend

After wanting to have a weekend getaway for quite some time, we finally made it by planning a short time in Kukup, near Johor Bahru. We hopped on a bus to JB, followed by a 4-car big group journey to Kukup. It took us about an hour to reach. Kukup is a really small place, so we had no problems getting around.


One of my friends had actually been there the weekend before to recce the places to stay and found this cheap and nice place, but to book this place, you require a minimum of 10 pax. It only costs us SGD 50 per person, which included a room with bathroom, a breakfast, 2 seafood lunch, 1 BBQ dinner, 1 teatime and 1 supper. We also had a common activity room catered for us which included karaoke and mahjong facilities. Quite a bargain, really...




After settling down for a bit, we walked to the restaurant for the lunch provided. After the good and fulfilling meal, we walked around the town. We had initially wanted to take a boat out to visit the 'kelongs' and the neighbouring island, but it was too sunny so we decided to go back to the hotel first. Thank god, cos it rained buckets about an hour later.

Instead of the outdoor activities we had planned, we played cards instead. Meet Stanley, the God of Gambler....this so-called god was holding 4 jokers instead of 4 aces....what a joker...haha...

Here we are.... caught in the act....Later we went down for tea which was provided and promptly came back up to continue our card game.

Time flew quickly and it was already sunset. The sunset scenery was very pretty so i couldn't resist capturing a photo or two.

We had alfresco BBQ dinner by the pier. The post-dinner activity in Kukup was to have some fun with fire crackers and fireworks. The pier next to ours spent a bomb buying those National Day Parade kind of fireworks...and we got to watch without having to jostle with a crowd. Later we went to our activities' room to have some mahjong session and karaoke sessions.

I took this photo from my hotel room window on the day i arrived... the mangrove area was dry and i could see many mudskippers running around...

This is the 'after' photo....which i took the next day....the same area was flooded with seawater...

One group photo before we leave!