Ocean Green Restaurant

Location: 48F, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, 10050 Penang (It is hidden from the main road, behind the old Paramount Hotel)
Tel No: 04-2262681

Serves lunch and dinner but usually my family goes there for dinner..So what's nice there? Lotza yummy dishes.. sadly, i do not have great photography skills so i had to use pics from other websites along with some of my not-so-nice shots of the dishes. Of course we ate all those dishes on separate visits, not all at once....

Four Season

Shark's Fins Soup

Crab with Salted Egg ( the prawns with salted egg is recommended too)

Spring Chicken

Geoduck and 'Dong Gui" soup( along with some green veges, shitake mushrooms, tofu)

- We ate geoduck without knowing what it actually was, so i Googled and found that it was actually a type of clam..a gigantic one...the testure of the meat was chewy and frnakly i don't really like it..it's like a sort of exotic food to us but it was a nice try!! however, THUMbS UP for the soup, it was very very nice and fragrant!!!

Two Flavour Fish ( part of it was deep-fried and the other part was stir-fried)

 Cheese-baked Crab (my all-time favourite)

called "Siong Thong Heng Cai" in Hokkien...a type of vege with soup filled with dried scallops and sautéed garlic cloves)

Crab stir-fried with mihun ( the mihun has taken up all the sweetness of the crab, NICE! would be nicer if the mihun is a bit more moist)

Steamed Tapioca with Coconut milk ( it was yummy but we ate that once only, a few years back coz they don't serve this often)

Only 4 out of the 10 pics were taken by me due to my horrible photo-taking)
therefore, credits go to all these bloggers and websites:

@ Eileen Eu, my dear cousin who takes much much better shots than i do
@ Eileen's Mummy, my ah chim who blogs quite a lot about food
@ what2see. Best of Penang Food!
@ Life Thru the Lens

Bravo Italiana

Location: i-Avenue (01-01-11, Complex I-Avenue, Medan Kampung Relau 1, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang.)

serves great Italian food

that suits Malaysian taste buds

dishes worth your money

took only some pics of the dishes yesterday

to have a look at nicer pictures 

visit Steven Goh's Penang Food

Soup of The Day: Broccoli soup

Hawaiian Pizza RM29

it's different from the ones by Domino's and Pizza Hut..1000x yummier=)

Catch Carribean RM23

Salmon Simone RM28

it has a orange-flavoured sauce which was quite different from what i usually have

Ocean Catch Cleopatra RM22.80

this fish dish is the best compared to the other two above

visit to the Doktor GiGI

i'm supposed to post this last week but delayed due to the blogger's laziness..

i've not been going to the dentist like for the last 2 years because of my braces. so went with mum on last wednesday. the clinic pun sudah pindah to another place. the nurse could still recognize me though as  i've been going there ever since i was about 7 years old.

did scaling and polishing which cost me rm155! but he has really good skills and i trust only him to do my teeth...only if he practises orthodontics, i wouldn't have gone to that Looi Orthodontics. One conclusion i can  make of a dentist's job: they need to  really take good care of their hands! =)

while waiting for my mum, i had nothing better to do than taking pictures of the place..Hahaha! oh one more thing, of all places, i met my Hsc friend Wen Zhen in the clinic! and it seems she still has a few milk teeth!

the entrance and the waiting area..it's quite small though

the reflection on the mirror, that's me! vaining =)

Cheese Tarts

i've successfully attempted baking cheese tarts! woohoo! the self-satisfaction was just overwhelming...

Here's a look at the cheese tarts i've  made..

You can get the recipe from auntyyochana's strawberry cheesetarts.i followed all the measurements given coz it was my first time baking tarts) can make 60 tartlets (it depends on the thickness of the crust) however, mine was coffee and kiwi not strawberry coz i dun have the strawberry jam. you can actually use other jams or can even use fresh fruits if you like.

as for mine, to make the kiwi puree, you just need to smash the kiwi, put it in a pan, add icing sugar( depends on how sweet you want it to be), let it simmer, add some corn flour, simmer and it's done!

as for the marble effect, you just need to put a drop of the coffee mixture( make sure it's not too diluted), use a fork or skewer and swirl around. if you have any doubts, feel free to ask me =)

sounds simple right? it took me almost the whole day from 2pm till 8pm to complete baking and washing up everything. my legs hurt like mad after baking 'cos i was standing most of the time. but i'm  very satisfied as i did everything by myself (yes that includes the cleaning part which i hate the most) That was the first day after my exams that i did not laze in front of that idiot box! the compliments like "yummy", "nice" from those who have tasted my tarts encourage me to keep on baking!

 all in all, it was a day well spent! 

more posts on cookies, cupcakes in the next few weeks =)

save the planet!

i have never expect myself to watch MJ's "This Is It" because i was never a crazy fan of his. i did not really watch his funeral event or download his songs. however, there are songs which i have been listening to through the radio ever since i was young- "I'll be there", "Heal the World", "Man in the Mirror" to name a few. i've been noticing some instant fans which he gained right after his death which to my opinion, are just superficials. they become MJ's fan because everybody is talking about him, everybody is buying his CDs, everybody is praising how good his moves are on stage. my 8-year old cousin was one of them. she has been asking me whether i know this song and that song, mostly to which i said i have never listened before. then i asked her "Girl, do u know who Michael Jackson is when's he's alive?". she replied "No". to reassure, i asked her again "So u only know him  after he is dead lah?" "yes."she replied. see, one solid evidence of MJ's instant fan. i know who is MJ even before you were born and now you're testing me whether i know his songs or not? of course, i did not say that to her coz that would be so rude.=) they become fans without even knowing who MJ actually is. 

Ok back to the movie. before we went in, i was hesitant whether i would doze off inside the cinema or not. actually we weren't keen to watch that movie but i think one of our friends insisted so the 11 of us just followed. to my surprise, the movie was actually not that bad. the background dancers were great! they must have been so proud with themselves to be able to dance for Michael. thay are the best among the best! NO JOKE. 
i thought Michael would be a very fussy person to work with due to the negative image of him in my mind. again, i was wrong. he expresses the things he wants in a polite way, makes sure his musicians get the message, and one good thing...he will say "God Bless you" to his musicians when they managed to reach his expectations. 

the last part was the best. 'Coz he sends the message of saving the environment to all his viewers. i feel that he is really sincere in his words. he said that it begins with US to SAVE the PLANET. makes perfect sense right? of course it makes sense. i guessed it is the environmentally-conscious side of him which develops my sense of respect for him. MJ, may you rest in peace.

so people, every tiny step you take will have a huge a impact on the planet! it is all up to you to choose wheter you want to SAVE your beloved PLANET or to KILL it. among the simple things you can do are:
1. say no to plastic bags when you're given one ( you are definitely killing the planet if you can't even do this)
2. use GREEN bags when grocery shopping
3. reduce and recycle
if, you're not doing any of these three simpliest effort, you are definitely killing the Planet!

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Exam free

my blog has been dead for months...so the blogger is now back!

I've just finished my last HSC paper today and it was not good. In fact, there is none of the papers that i did which i can say "okay". wished i had put in more effort, wished i had not done my revision at the eleventh hour, wished the exams were not that soon, etc...Could not turn back time. What is done is done. At least when i was doing my last minute revision, I've tried to cut down on my tv time and sleeping time. oh i listened to Laala's advice and stayed out of Facebook! but i could not refrain myself from tv, i just can't do it! that's frustrating. that's why i have to sleep at 2.30am almost every night coz' i just can't focus in studies in the afternoon *that's because of the idiot box- TV * yes TV is an idiot box according to my former Math teacher, Miss Lee.*

I have been very much like the above over the last 3 weeks.

Disrupted sleeping time, stress, affected me mentally and physically. the erupting pimples on my face is the obvious consequence of stress. gosh, it keeps growing and it really lowers my self-esteem. ergh. my stomach also went haywire. One minute perfectly fine and the next minute it hurts until i couldn't even stand up straight. stomach upset-that's one symptom of stress too. had mouth ulcers too which made me uncomfortable one whole week. thank god i did not fall sick during these 3 weeks, so the extra vitamin C-kiwis, oranges, veges, cups of nutrient drinks, consuming lots of fish protein proved effective to boost my immune system. =)

exams... it's all OVER for NOW!

i 've been preparing a long list of stuff i would want to do after this grueling period. Until now, i already have 27 things i want to do, the list is going to be endless...my top priority is to regain my beauty sleep. but for now I'm going to sit in front of the IDIOT BOX...lol=) Bye!

p.s. Just one little thing to share with all of you you... do you know that STRESSED is actually DESSERTS spelled backwards??