I'm superior. I do not stuff myself.
Yeah, right.
Screw the diet. Bikini can wait.
Stuffing is in order at Amuleto by Crystal Jade.
I suppose what's distinctive about this place is the solid, confident tone of blood red. Not that I'm complaining. Red is the color for hunger, how apt that a restaurant is dyed that specific shade. Amuleto is however, prepared to satiate that appetite.
The interior is divided into a few sections. Soccer (or US Open) fans can hide in the back with a huge projector screen with the main dining area upfront. It's generally stylish and modern.
One thing I cannot tahan is how there's too much of 'a-bit-of-everything'. It's not a bad thing, it just took me a bit of time to absorb the whole concept.
This place makes me happy.
Skip the spoon clinking, and on with the stuffing!
Papaya Salad with Chicken Floss, Thai Style
With the naked eye, the young papaya strips looked like salmon. But Chris was so smart, that he put on his smug face and said it's Kerabu. Hahaha!! OMGWTF..!! Why not call it Salmon Lookalike Kerabu Salad?
Ringo says "Kerabu is so not fucking Thai can". I fucking agree.
Greens Tempura with Shredded Dried Scallop
I swear, I nearly passed out from the orgasm I got from this dish. Not only is it kangkung and deep fried tempura style, it also has scallops! Nevermind that it's dried and in the form of shavings. Imagine the grease oozing with every bite. Damn shiok.
Quartet Soup
The first three soups were very deceiving, they looked like kiwi, orange and mango, but the mushroom soup is obvious. It is a combo of Broccoli, French Onion, Pumpkin and Mushroom soups, uniquely served in shot glasses, apparently for indecisive guests. The straws were a little unpractical though, as it was shared among a few people (including strangers) during the Food Tasting.
My favorite is the Broccoli, because mushroom soup is overrated, I hate pumpkins, and onions could turn you into the next TauPaSing in action.
Mental note to self: Bring Sze here.
Vegetable Beef Roll
Meat! Finally! Sorry, I cannot help it. I'm a carnivore, short of stirring a human in a cauldron, which would make me a cannibal. Served cold, not only is the presentation pleasing to the eye, the taste is also pretty good. Of course, the star of the dish is the beef.
What's more is that it can be eaten in one single unladylike-fashion bite. Here's something I'd like to see in girls. Chewing mouthful.
Sizzling Cheesy Glutinous Rice Cake with Seaweed & Katsuobushi
Chris tries to make up for the humiliation of Thai Kerabu, and refers to the Bonito Flakes as onions. LOL! Wei, bonito is a kind of mackerel la. It's a fish. Fish and onions are quite different, my friend.
Despite its cheesiness, it is only tasty when eaten hot. When the cheese is still all disgustingly melty.
Rosti with Mushroom
Potato lovers will absolutely die for this. I have to say, the creamy mushroom gravy wasn't too compatible with the rosti. In fact, going by the norm that jacket potatoes are usually served with sour cream, I think the sour cream would have been a much better accompaniment. Or even eaten plain on its own.
On a somewhat unrelated note though, I think the mushroom cream would do good if it stuck back to poultry instead.
Amuleto Fried Seafood Spaghetti with Olive Oil
This studio photo doesn't do much justice to the succulent prawns. Let Sony T-200 macro show you something.
It's just one, but you can almost taste it in your mouth.
The taste is quite bland, but then again, the ratio of spaghetti to seafood is about 3 to 2, which is pretty good by my standards.
Wasabi Steak
This studio photo also doesn't quite show the oomph. So, here.
Heart attack on a dish.
Beef! To hell with health, calories and cholestrol, we're all going to die anyway.
Awesome and slightly bleeding medium steak topped with wasabi sauce. Beef doesn't get any better. Except maybe for wagyu - damn things are so freaking expensive.
Chocolate Fondue
Pretty pretty.
Have you seen something so pretty? On the left, dark chocolate. On the right, white chocolate. I personally vote dark chocolate, but people like me devour any kinds of chocolate in whatever shape, size, and form.
Fruits to dip into the thick, delicious chocolate.
What perfection to the end of a meal. Chocolates pretty much say it all. Chocolates should be a religion. Or at least an ajaran sesat or something. There's already a cult for cheese, why not for chocolate?
Amuleto by Crystal Jade, located on Ground Floor, Mid Valley Megamall.
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Also served that day, specially for Ringo, was the Cheese Fries.
Cheese Fries
Look at it, all melty, rich and shiny. Needless to say, we attacked like we just came from a famine.
One more pretty-pretty picture of the dining table : )
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Levi's Live Unbuttoned Launch Party
Was damn boring.
And so Malay-dominated. Nothing against Hujan, but let's just say they're just not the right feel to a Launch Party.
Envy KY who got his hands on the 501 before it was launched. When are they launching the ladies' version?? Think if I can muster up all my will power to save money despite being in a daylight robbery situation for three months, I'd buy me a pair of Levi's too.
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Pyo got her PSP - makes me want to get one too.
If all is good, I'm going to Japan again in March 09. : )
And so Malay-dominated. Nothing against Hujan, but let's just say they're just not the right feel to a Launch Party.
Envy KY who got his hands on the 501 before it was launched. When are they launching the ladies' version?? Think if I can muster up all my will power to save money despite being in a daylight robbery situation for three months, I'd buy me a pair of Levi's too.
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Pyo got her PSP - makes me want to get one too.
If all is good, I'm going to Japan again in March 09. : )
Sunday, August 17, 2008
I Feel Empty
That Malaysia lost.
Mother says Lin Dan read Chong Wei's every move, and knew where the shuttle would land.
It's OK, Chong Wei. Malaysia knows you've put in grueling hours of strenuous practice. And we all still love you. Especially since your body is damn hot (minus quite scrawny) when you're sweaty.
Of course, realistically, sweaty men don't tickle my fancy, they're just really easy on the eyes.
High School Musical Ice Tour rocks. Corbin fell a couple of times, but recovered very quickly and calmly. Spotted a cute 5 year old couple dancing. They were twins. So cutesie!!
It was awesome, but paled in comparison to the Olympics Badminton Men Singles Finals.
Mother says Lin Dan read Chong Wei's every move, and knew where the shuttle would land.
It's OK, Chong Wei. Malaysia knows you've put in grueling hours of strenuous practice. And we all still love you. Especially since your body is damn hot (minus quite scrawny) when you're sweaty.
Of course, realistically, sweaty men don't tickle my fancy, they're just really easy on the eyes.
High School Musical Ice Tour rocks. Corbin fell a couple of times, but recovered very quickly and calmly. Spotted a cute 5 year old couple dancing. They were twins. So cutesie!!
It was awesome, but paled in comparison to the Olympics Badminton Men Singles Finals.
Malaysia On Pause
Friday night, when Lee Chong Wei was playing against Korea's Lee Hyun Il, a bunch of us at work pushed couches together and held beers in our hands to cheer him on.
Tonight, Malaysians nationwide will be on halt to witness Malaysia's first medalist play for the gold. It'll be the first medal since 1996.
But I won't be at home watching that!!
OMGWTFscrewscrewscrewdiudiudiunianianiasingsingsing!!!
Aunt is dragging me to High School Musical on ice. And I can't witness the nerve-wrecking, jaw-clenching match and cheer in unison with everyone who's watching for every point Malaysia wins! Dammit!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo!!!!
Somebody please SMS me if Malaysia won the gold. My hopes are up.
Tonight, Malaysians nationwide will be on halt to witness Malaysia's first medalist play for the gold. It'll be the first medal since 1996.
But I won't be at home watching that!!
OMGWTFscrewscrewscrewdiudiudiunianianiasingsingsing!!!
Aunt is dragging me to High School Musical on ice. And I can't witness the nerve-wrecking, jaw-clenching match and cheer in unison with everyone who's watching for every point Malaysia wins! Dammit!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo!!!!
Somebody please SMS me if Malaysia won the gold. My hopes are up.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
I have to blog this
Cos i'm so happy i can't even be bothered with caps lock anymore.
so so sosooooooooo happy you found your hot military boyfriend. so happy for you!! so excited!!! going to pass out ok! so happy i literally smiled the entire time!!!! so happy!!!!1
euphoria sucks and cannot lawan this can.
so so sosooooooooo happy you found your hot military boyfriend. so happy for you!! so excited!!! going to pass out ok! so happy i literally smiled the entire time!!!! so happy!!!!1
euphoria sucks and cannot lawan this can.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Wall-E
Before I sing praises of Wall-E, here's a video I'd like to share. Project Blue is an advocate to this.
The Story of Stuff
I know it's probably longer than most Youtube videos, but I thought it was worth the wait.
Wall-E is
f.r.e.a.k.i.n.g a.w.e.s.o.m.e!!!
First off, Disney Pixar animation totally trumps everything else!! Actually that might have been exaggerated just a wee bit. Apart from the Toy Story series and A Bug's Life, I've watched everything else that came from that studio. And I've never been disappointed.
As cliche as it is, Wall-E is also far from disappointing.
After watching The Story Of Stuff, I felt like Wall-E is the perfect touch to it. The Earth on Wall-E is how the Earth will potentially look like in a few decades to come, if we keep up out destruction of the planet.
So apparently, that happened, and the inhabitants of Earth had to migrate to outer space. And with technology like substantiating life in space, people eventually made even more funky gadgets to ease life.
Slowly, mankind in general were expanding particularly in the midsection and at one point, cannot even get up on their own if they had fallen off their comfy hovering robotic chairs.
I dread to imagine that in reality (but I think TaiPaTaiPa fits that category - almost), it would be downright humiliating.
Anyway, I personally found it amazing that the movie is so entertaining, that in the first 30 minutes at least, there was no script. No words, only actions and sounds. And the cinema still managed to burst into laughter.
I loved all the scenes with Wall-E's pet cockroach. It just sort of scurries and bounces around. It's so cute, I swear! I'm ashamed to say it's better than Spongebob and his pet snail, Gary.
It's a very original movie I thought, that actually serves a purpose and has a solid moral message to it.
I would so watch this again. That makes four in my list.
The Dark Knight because I was so freaking sleepy that only when a Lambo was sacrificed, I actually started paying attention. Don't ask me how I did it, I'm a pig.
The Mummy because I was too fucking drunk making my own Screwdriver, the movie lost me at the dragon/bird/lizard thing. I did however, managed on my own accord, notice that the girl who played Michelle Yeoh's daughter is quite pretty. =D
Forgetting Sarah Marshall because fat assholes sitting in their leather cushions in the Board of Censorship decided to cut out the whole movie. With the way they bleeped and sliced the film, they might as well not even show it. Stupid cows.
And Wall-E because I love it and I want to have its babies.
Which would be rather impossible because he's a computer graphic. Of a robot. In an animation. That's in love with Eve.
By the way, I say 20/10 : )
The Story of Stuff
I know it's probably longer than most Youtube videos, but I thought it was worth the wait.
Wall-E is
f.r.e.a.k.i.n.g a.w.e.s.o.m.e!!!
First off, Disney Pixar animation totally trumps everything else!! Actually that might have been exaggerated just a wee bit. Apart from the Toy Story series and A Bug's Life, I've watched everything else that came from that studio. And I've never been disappointed.
As cliche as it is, Wall-E is also far from disappointing.
After watching The Story Of Stuff, I felt like Wall-E is the perfect touch to it. The Earth on Wall-E is how the Earth will potentially look like in a few decades to come, if we keep up out destruction of the planet.
So apparently, that happened, and the inhabitants of Earth had to migrate to outer space. And with technology like substantiating life in space, people eventually made even more funky gadgets to ease life.
Slowly, mankind in general were expanding particularly in the midsection and at one point, cannot even get up on their own if they had fallen off their comfy hovering robotic chairs.
I dread to imagine that in reality (but I think TaiPaTaiPa fits that category - almost), it would be downright humiliating.
Anyway, I personally found it amazing that the movie is so entertaining, that in the first 30 minutes at least, there was no script. No words, only actions and sounds. And the cinema still managed to burst into laughter.
I loved all the scenes with Wall-E's pet cockroach. It just sort of scurries and bounces around. It's so cute, I swear! I'm ashamed to say it's better than Spongebob and his pet snail, Gary.
It's a very original movie I thought, that actually serves a purpose and has a solid moral message to it.
I would so watch this again. That makes four in my list.
The Dark Knight because I was so freaking sleepy that only when a Lambo was sacrificed, I actually started paying attention. Don't ask me how I did it, I'm a pig.
The Mummy because I was too fucking drunk making my own Screwdriver, the movie lost me at the dragon/bird/lizard thing. I did however, managed on my own accord, notice that the girl who played Michelle Yeoh's daughter is quite pretty. =D
Forgetting Sarah Marshall because fat assholes sitting in their leather cushions in the Board of Censorship decided to cut out the whole movie. With the way they bleeped and sliced the film, they might as well not even show it. Stupid cows.
And Wall-E because I love it and I want to have its babies.
Which would be rather impossible because he's a computer graphic. Of a robot. In an animation. That's in love with Eve.
By the way, I say 20/10 : )
Friday, August 8, 2008
I Tried To
Find a word to describe the feeling of unease that I'm experiencing in the pits of my stomach. My heart is feeling very heavy and weak. No energy to pump blood.
I don't even know how to express this painful and numb feeling. I can feel like even my trachea muscles refuse to work and it's so tiring to perform the basic task of breathing.
Why why why is it so painful. And it's not even PMS yet.
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I don't even know how to express this painful and numb feeling. I can feel like even my trachea muscles refuse to work and it's so tiring to perform the basic task of breathing.
Why why why is it so painful. And it's not even PMS yet.
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