Babe in the City - KL

Sorry guys, I'm on hiatus as I'm currently under the weather, hazy most times due to the variety of pills and syrups for my cough and cold. Will be back on track once I'm not on a high.

For the benefit of Joe and others, here are the new car park rates which I managed to capture the week before for MidValley Megamall and The Gardens effective from 1 November 2010. I think the price is the same just that there is no more ceiling rate! I wonder what's the rationale... so they don't encourage shoppers to eat, shop and watch movie in one long stretch???

I have these video links of fake eggs found in China to share, take a look... awww sorry I tried to embed the videos here but doesn't seems to work so you'll have to click on the links.

Video One

Video Two

There are some pics of the cracked eggs which looked exactly like the real thing except for the yolk sac that is hard to break. The above videos showed a hard boiled fake egg and it looked like real except that the yolk is rubbery when pressed together and bounces like a ping pong ball :p

Dear all,

Thank you for all your comforting messages during this trying time. I really appreciate that. Things are more or less settled now but the grief and pain that hit during our lonely periods are the hardest to overcome. I guess time will heal... and it will be a long one.

Just an announcement before I restart my blogging proper... there will be a new, well not exactly new, blogger contributing for Babe in the City - KL. It will be non other than my makan partner who has been all these while contributing to this blog by being the growing-together-side-way-partner, paymaster and taste bunny... my hubby la hahaha. There is something installed for us soon and I will reveal that when time comes.

Welcome on board darling ;-) and thanks for everything.

Another pimping in the line is The Miele Guide.



Am sure by now, most of you are aware of this guide which will be published in October especially if you're an ardent fan of Masak-Masak. In case you're not aware, our makan queen Boo_licious, have a role in this guide which she had highlighted in her blog. In the meantime, the voting period is still on until 31 July 2008. You might even surprise yourself by winning opportunities to wine and dine in Asia's best restaurants or stay in the region's most luxurious hotels! So hurry over to The Miele Guide and cast your votes!!!

What exactly is The Miele Guide?

The Miele Guide is an exciting, new and truly unique Asian restaurant guide. The Guide is set to become the newest and most respected standard by which restaurants in Asia are judged. Written by food lovers who know and love Asia, The Miele Guide will rank and profile restaurants across the region’s major cities in a slim, indispensable volume.

Unlike most guides, there will be no arbitrary, secretive selection procedures. Instead, an initial list of restaurants has been shortlisted by 84 of Asia’s most respected food journalists. The restaurants that make it to the guide are decided by people like you and me via online voting. From 15 May to 31 July 2008, we have invited the public to cast their votes via our website www.mieleguide.com. Voters can vote for restaurants that are already shortlisted or can nominate restaurants not yet on the list. In July, a Special Jury of foodies and F&B professionals will also cast their votes. The results from these two polls will then be tallied and confirmed by our in-house team in August.

The Miele Guide 2008/09 edition will be released and distributed internationally at the end of October 2008.

Remember my pimping on the sloppiest burger in Malaysia??? Well, I'm glad to announce that this video had won the Best Super Short Film award in the 2008 NYC Food Film Festival!!!!

I wish to congratulate the team at Friedchillies for their win. May you guys be blessed with more recognition and success.

Press Release:

FRIEDCHILLIES WINS AT THE NEW YORK CITY FOOD FILM FESTIVAL

New York, 20 June 2008 - FriedChillies Media won the Best Super Short Film at the NYC Food Film Festival on Friday night. The super short film titled 'The Sloppiest Burger in Malaysia' garnered top prize in the super short film category. Organisers of the festival dubbed it, 'Malaysia gonzo food reportage to the max. Watch out Bourdain'. "We can't believe we won and that people half the world away watched and loved our little film," said Mohd Adly Rizal, founder of FriedChillies Media and director of Sloppy. Audiences can watch the award-winning film on www.friedchillies.com.

The NYC Food Film Festival which is in its second year celebrates the best in food film-making. It was held at the Water Taxi Beach in Queens from the 14th to the 20th of June. FriedChillies Media sent 3 films of which the Sloppiest Burger in Malaysia was chosen for screening. On the second night of screening over 750 New Yorkers watched one of Malaysia's beloved street burgers take shape on-screen.

"We filmed the footage gonzo-style because that's what our street food is all about," added Adly. "Even though it was one of our first shorts for Friedchillies.tv, I believe we won because the content has world-wide appeal." Another of the films titled 'Ipoh Invasion' was also considered for screening. However because of the limited run of the festival this year it might be slotted for next year's festival.

FriedChillies Media through its site www.friedchillies.com has been promoting Malaysian cuisine be it street-fare or fine-dining to the world since 1997. They use a cross media platform to capture the hearts and tummies of food fans all over the world. In March 2007, FriedChillies launched Malaysia and Asia's first Internet Food Channel (www.friedchillies.tv) to further promote Malaysian cuisine to the world.

The NYC Food Film Festival is a multi-sensory experience where filmgoers are able to watch food films then sample the food portrayed in those films. For more information go to www.nycfoodfilmfestival.com.

I need to do a bit of pimping here... there will be a Malaysian entry for this year's 2008 NYC Food Film Festival submitted by Friedchillies. The 2 minutes video featured the famous Burger Om stall located in Ampang Jaya. Very mouthwatering video there!

We all love our Ramly Burgers. This June 2008, New Yorkers will get a chance to see how much us Malaysians love our burgers. Our short video titled 'The Sloppiest Burger in Malaysia' featuring one of the most famous and talked about burger stall in the Klang Valley, Burger Om made it for the official screening of the 2008 NYC Food Film Festival.

They dubbed this video as 'Malaysian gonzo food reportage to the max. Watch out Bourdain.'

Go over to Friedchillies' The Sloppiest Burger in Malaysia to view the video.

Updated at 4.24PM

I think it's more or less done now. Gee, never knew this template is so much easier to deal with. I decided to change to this template cos my previous one is getting very cluttered.

Should there be any problems or issues, please do let me know ok. Thanks so much.

I'm in the midst of upgrading my template, please bear with me with any inconveniences at the moment. Thanks.

ANGUS!!!!!


As we were passing Fraser & Neave Business Park at Sungai Besi yesterday's evening, I saw Angus at the parking bay. Kekeke hubby turned into the area and looked for Angus. Oh my he still looked as handsome as before! Glad to know that Angus' new owner took care of him so well. We felt good for him and so happy to see him there, everything intact without any changes on him, well except for the number plate which we were aware of.

Gosh I just checked my farewell post, in 2 days time, we would have parted from Angus for exactly 2 years!!! What a coincidence...

...to post up her interview with me. The first in her project to interview the Malaysian floggers was on Swee San.

I've always fascinated with Rachel's story of her ahmah (grandma) and look forward to her posts. The little anecdotes always spices things up. Do check out Tham Jiak!

Sorry no food updates today or the next few days... have a deadline to catch!

As you would have known by now, my fellow floggers - Jackson, Precious Pea, Teckiee and WMW, participated in the recent The Star, Drive For Food competition. The voting is now open for you to pick the best video travelogue for a friend who would like to take an 8 hour leisurely drive from KL-Penang.

The floggers have entered 2 videos under FANTASTIC FOUR and THE APPLE CRUMBLE TEAM (ACT) since 2 of their round one videos got to the final. Would appreciate if you guys go help vote for their videos which are the top two videos displayed.

Please VOTE HERE. Thank you very much.

Check out WMW's account plus the details of those places FANTASTIC FOUR have visited.

Been sick, hence the lack of posts. Also busied with updating my index, didn't realised I did not do so for the past one year!!! It looked more organised now.

Anyway, today is Pink Ribbon Day! The Pink Ribbon is the symbol of support for women who have been affected by breast cancer globally. Ladies, it's high time to learn how to do Breast Self-Examination.

I was scouring thru my photos for pink food and found these...

Next Change!!!

Note: The Smilebox will take a bit of time to load up, be patient :)

UPDATED 10 Sept 2007

Hi all, I've just closed the poll. Results will come out in the next post. Thank you all for participating.



UPDATED 4 Sept 2007

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I need to push up this post as I seriously think my readers must have been away for the long holidays and have not seen this request of mine. So far only 85 votes have been casted which I think it's way too low looking at my number of visitors per day or week for that matter. Hence, I'll have this poll run for another week.

So if you could, kindly just perform a simple 2-clicks action at poll over at your left side under Main Menu. Your help is deeply appreciated.

Thank you once again.



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Dear all,

I'm trying to get to know the population of my readers, hence I'm conducting a little survey here asking for your gender. Kindly help me out by performing a simple 2-clicks step at the poll I have put up right at my Main Menu on your left.

I know I have a lot of readers who doesn't leave comments which is fine with me but for once could you all please just let me know whether you're a male or female. This poll will be up for the next 7 days.

Thank you so much.

Hmmm... I think I'm almost done with my blog renovation. Still tweaking here and there though. Not sure how long the paints and walls going to last me but for the time being it's going to be a sweet and red strawberries theme. I thought it was going to be easy but nooo... well not when you want something else than offered kekeke...

BTW, I'm not sure if you could click on the icons at my links that will expand and collapse the long long list. I can't seems to be able to click on them on my side. Will check later at another location. Oh yeah, do you prefer to remain in this window when you click on links or would rather have it to open in a new one??? Let me know ok cos for the time being, they will open in the same window.

Hey tummythoz, I got the navigation bar back up there!!! Thank goodness for search engines. :p

In the meantime, about the Merdeka Project, I've got an idea but need to spend some time to cough the words out here. Gimme till next week to come out with the post ok. Sorry for the delay.

Happy weekend all!

My fellow blogger Kat had her bag snatched right from her lap whilst she was at The Food Foundry yesterday's evening. It's so alarming to know that this actually happened in a restaurant proper and boo_licious had mentioned that it occured in KLCC as well.

Well this is not something new but it usually happens in hawker places... so far the hawkers opposite Neroteca and at Madras Lane have warned me of such occurrences. Do not leave your mobile phones and wallets on the table while you're eating and now you can't seems to put them on your lap too! I guess the best would be stuffing everything into your pockets!

Well usually I twirl the strap round my arm whenever I placed my bag on my lap, can't imagine what will happen to my arm should the nasty snatch thieves decided to pull some stunts on me.

So be mindful ok.

Sorry folks for the long silence. First I was really upset then I have no mood, next I was kinda busy with work. Will try to post up some updates later.

To tide things over for the time being, why not visit my album on the places I've visited in Penang.

Kek Lok Si.



Butterfly Farm.



Jetty and ferry ride.



Buah tangan.

It is with the heaviest heart to inform that a very good friend of ours, ST Tee, has lost his life in a car accident. His car crashed into a stationary crane at NKVE on Tuesday afternoon. I supposed by now you must have read about this piece of news in the paper.

There will be no postings until... I'm not sure when... I guess when I have the inspiration again.

I'm very disturbed with the way things are being done in this country and I feel sorry for the Tees to have lost a wonderful husband and father; and for myself, a very great, helpful, wise and kind friend; all because how some arseholes took things for granted. I'm not going to speculate anything until a thorough investigation have been done by the Police and sincerely hope there will be witnesses stepping up to offer any information that they could share.

Police urged those with information on the incident to contact Chief Inspector P. Nallusamy at 03-55102222 or the nearest police station. So if you've witness anything on that day, please do contact the police. Thank you.

Unker Tee, we wish you a great life in Heaven. Your laughters will echoes through the corridor of our memory.

Lavendar, in your silence and grief, we are here with you always. Let us know how we can help.

I had always drool over Nicky's pics on Delicious Days and gosh how time flies, 2 years have gone by and to celebrate, Nicky had written up 15 pointers on the Do's and Don't of Food Blogging.

For newbies or oldie like me, it's a wonderful piece with lots of tips and tricks on how to make your food blog work. Click the link to read up more.

Thanks Nicky and happy belated 2nd blog anniversary!

Just a few minutes ago, I thot I was dizzy... but then I see my monitor on my desk shaking. I rocked my chair to make sure it's secured and yes it was. Then my colleagues confirmed... it's tremor!

I'm right in the middle of the Golden Triangle, anyone out there felt it too?? This reminded me of the tremor I felt on the night before Tsunami. Gosh I hope it isn't earthquake over at our neighbour's again...

So what we should do now??? Get out of the building for an early lunch?? LOL...

UPDATE @ 12.27 pm

There was an earthquake at the magnitude of 6.3 in Sumatra, hence the tremor I felt earlier.


UPDATE @ 1.55 pm

Another round of tremor felt... I hope it did not hit Sumatra hard...