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Aug
20

Restaurant Chicken Hot Pot

Filed Under Food

If you’re looking for a fast food restaurant but not the conventional ones, here’s one you could look at. The place is known as Restaurant Chicken Hot Pot. They presently have 2 branches, the 1st is in Kuchai Lama and the 2nd one is located at Kepong. I do travel to Kepong quite often and it’s a surprise that I’ve not really seen this restaurant there despite it being there for a year plus (since March 2007). With Cheesie and Freaky to tag along with me, this is where we experience fast food like never before, well for me that is.

Why do I call it fast food? Well, when you walk into the restaurant, the place is lined with photos of various dishes you could order. There’s 5 main dishes and a number of side dishes that you can choose from. As there’s only 5 main dishes to focus on, their kitchen can prepare and have it ready in a jiffy, hence the fast food concept.

I was recommended 3 dishes by the boss of the place and as soon as I’ve placed my order, the food was served all within the time span of less than 3 minute. It’s fast!

The first one served was the signature dish, the Chicken Hot Pot. Its tender chicken served in a pot of the famous sauce that’s used across all the Chicken Hot Pot chain. You can choose from 3 levels of spiciness depending on how you hot you want it to be. The nice thing here is, the chicken used here isn’t your normal chicken that is used by most restaurant and fast food chains but are free range chickens which are high quality chickens when you talk about chicken meat.

The next dish that came out was the Dinosaur Ribs. Basically its pork ribs cooked in gravy, which tasted like TGIF’s lamb shanks if you’ve tasted it before. The ribs are so well cooked that when you bite into the meat, you can just rib the bone out with ease. Now, just like the chicken dish, the dinosaur ribs are cooked in imported sauces and spices straight from China. After all, this restaurant chain is from China. Again, you can choose from 3 levels of spiciness as well for this dish.

The final dish served was the Scandalously Spicy Shrimp, with only 1 choice of spice level, you can’t really go wrong with it. I love my prawns and I totally clean out this dish despite it above my tolerance level.  Now, you might think with these 3 dishes, that’s it for the dishes right? Well, you’re wrong. The other secret these 3 bowls of dishes have is that you could pour in soups pre-prepared by the restaurant into the bowls and you could select from their side dish collection vegetables, meat balls and meat ingredients to put in and make it into a steamboat dish.

It’s very different from the usual type of steamboat or hot pot we eat and it’s worth several visits. I’m definitely going back again as the owner of the local franchise informed me that I should make another trip back for their fish head dish which is locally made but is endorsed by the head office in China.

Price range for the Hot Pot? For a small Bowl, it’s RM16, medium sized is RM22 and the large bowl is RM30. The Scandalously Spicy Shrimp only comes in a medium sized bowl though. The side dishes ranges in prices depending on the type you pick.

Restaurant Chicken Hot Pot

11,Jln Metro Perdana Berat 2, Tmn Usahawan Kepong,Kepong Utara,51200 KL

Opening Hours:
11am to 12am

Ratings:
Food : 4/5
Service : 4/5
Cleaniness/Ambience : 4/5
Value for Money : 5/5

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Aug
19

Mamma Mia! The Movie

Filed Under Events

This is one of the upcoming movie that I’m lookin forward to, ain’t because it’s a romantic comedy but because of the songs by ABBA.

Yeah I know, I’m from the time where ABBA music was still a huge hit. All the way until like the early 90s in a way.

Before it was turned into a movie, it’s the blockbuster stage musical seen by more than 30 million people in 170 cities and eight different languages. I’m a big theater person so definitely would love to see how they would turn a musical like this into a movie. I’ve been dissappointed by some musical turned movies before this so now, let’s see this one and see how it works out.

OK, the truth is, this is a contest by Nuffnang to watch the movie. So do I get the two tickets?

Nuffnang is proud to hold a simultaneous Premiere Screenings of Mamma Mia! The Movie in two locations! Please find the details of the Premiere Screenings for Mamma Mia! The Movie as followed;

Date : 22nd of September 2008 (Monday)
Time : 9pm
Venue : GSC One Utama (New Wing)
Hall : 9
Pax : 250


Date : 22nd of September 2008 (Monday)
Time : 9pm
Venue : GSC Gurney Plaza Penang
Hall : 8
Pax : 180

The first 215 Glitterati members who write in will receive a pair of tickets to watch the Premiere of Mamma Mia! The Movie. A confirmation email will be sent by the 17th of September 2008 to the bloggers who secured themselves a pair of tickets each. Should any bloggers can’t attend the Premiere Screening, kindly reply to the sent email and revert to us so that your tickets will be given to the next in line.

So have you done something about it yet?

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Aug
19

When name calling isn’t swearing

Filed Under Big Boys Toys, Holler

Just to bring some laugh to everyone who drops by this blog. At times, not even sure whether I should call it a blog or my lil portfolio of photos/work I’m doing as I tend to mix both of them here and there despite the fact that I wanted this site to be my portfolio to showcase my works to my client.

Anyway, sit back and enjoy these, hope you have a good laugh.

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Aug
18

Portrait: Allan Wu

Filed Under Photography

Got the chance to meet with Allan Wu (The Amazing Race host) to sit down and have a talk with him before proceeding to do a few potrait shoots of him.

The shoot’s nothing fancy, no fancy props and all. It’s one of the most simplest and most straightforward shoot ever. Just Allan, my camera and some place to stand.

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Aug
17

A Visit to Rumah Kasih

Filed Under Events

Project RAOK, a Facebook group I’m in recently visited Rumah Kasih in SS3 bearing gifts and our time to spend with the kids. The home is quite new with only 16 children living there along with 2 caretaker mothers.

Seeing us there, they were quite happy and cheerful, especially when they see the new clothes I got them and the toys that Lynn Dhia brought. There was also cupcakes too while Alda brought along a guitar to entertain the children with his guitar skills.

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