Thanks for visiting my blog! :D

Goodness me, it's August already!

I rarely put up a post without pictures, but for the sake of updating my blog before it gets too old for my last entry, I decided to at least write something just to check in what everyone has been up to lately.

Last night, I had a friend visiting this blog and telling me how hungry she quickly got after seeing those food pictures. Well, all I can say is my blog does make one's mouth waters and I often get this from people all the time. Even my mouth can water every time I see the pictures, so you can basically count me in!

Therefore, I thank you for visiting my blog! :) For the moment, I won't be able to put up new posts as promised as I am currently busy with my final year projects and all, but I try to make all up for it soon.

You visitors take care yeah!

Max

Food Blog #31

This is a special post as I'm going to give you reasons why I love my hometown so much! Even though I had so much fun, a blast (literally) in Melbourne; I study in KL (it's OK now as I'm in my final year!), basically me away from home, there will always be a place, permanently for KK in my heart. In no particular order, the pictures below are my favourite food (more like I must have these when I'm home) that I would die for to eat :)

Yes, you hear me right, Maxwell Tommie Lajawai aka The Great's favourite food! :D

Goodness gracious! I can faint right now just by looking at these pictures. These dishes above are must haves for me when I'm back at home. Pork, sweet & sour sliced fish and pork soup...and I will eat these with minimum 2 plates of rice. Taken from Pasar Besar Kota Kinabalu.





Aesha Special! If you're in KK Waterfront, you must go to Aesha Corner. I will never order any other food in the menu than this one! I love the fact that they have everything in: Chicken, keropok (crackers), sambal (chili paste) + mayonnaise, and the fried rice! My good friends Wendy & Steffy know I will always order & eat this. Tutup mata diorang tau suda apa sa mo makan.



Tanjung Aru Plaza's BURGER, and it is HUGE. This is old school man. I love the fact that the portion is so generous that you can share it with your friends. Yeah, beware! you may need your friends to finish this burger, or Sabahans like me would say "Tapau ja ba ging kalau nda dapat kasi habis". They don't have to tell me that because I can finish it all by myself! I love food remember? :P



OK, avocado juice is not really a food. Well it was, before they blend and squeeze it to be drinkable. If you go to Tanjung Aru First Beach, this drink is a must! It is so creamy and milky, just the way I like it. It isn't really a juice, more like ice blended actually. But who actually cares? This drink is a thirst quencher, a winner hands down! XD



OK, this may look foreign to you. People will tell me the pizzas in the western countries are much better because they are more authentic! I don't really care because this pizza (the name's Margerita) is the bomb. Little Italy's Margerita, in my own words, completes me. Period. Go figure! :P







Wan Wan's Dried Noodles, Tom Yam and co. need no introduction. These dishes are to die for, period. The moment you step into the restaurant, though it's hot and makes you all sweaty, once the food comes to you, you know you are on board the Wan Wan Express :)

Beaufort Mee! Again need no introduction. I will always order this Ka Liau, period. Oh no my mouth waters...

Goodness, I think I have to stop. There are so many awesome KK food that I have yet to talk about, but I will save them in my next post! I warn you, there are SO MANY of them! :D

One Perfect Getaway to Melbourne, Australia!

Finally, somewhere far! And this is just the beginning.

As much as I wanted to travel abroad, finally I've got the chance to visit Melbourne, Australia. I was in this beautiful city for 11 memorable days a week after I completed my internship in PCSB-SBO.

P/S: There will be a special post on my six-month internship which will be released by yours truly soon! :)

According to Wikipedia, which I did a little research prior to my visit to this very beautiful city, Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia after Sydney. In my own words, Melbourne has so many things to offer. The city is so full of life; and one should not be deceived as there are quite a large number of international communities from world all over, good enough to earn the phrase "melting pot of international flavours". The buildings in the city have great architecture, integrating old and new. So many good food, good places to go around.

I ♥ you Melbourne! :)

Let these pictures speak for themselves:

Flinders Street Station. One of the major train stations in Melbourne. One iconic building, it lights up so brilliantly at night! :)

St Paul's Anglican Cathedral. One of the few cathedrals in Melbourne, just right next to Flinders. Can you spot the modern buildings behind it? Awesome, good that they preserve the old buildings.


So that's Eureka Tower! Apparently the tallest residential tower in Melbourne, and that's where my favourite place to go around, South Bank is. Ooh and that's Yarra River.


Federation Square! and this is the place where I...




took this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend the Tim Burton exhibition! I was barely a day in Australia, no sign of fatigue nor jet lag whatsoever yeah?


This alley is called Centre Place. I call it "Little New York in Melbourne". The food here is amazing. I recommend you to try this small restaurant where they sell different kinds of soups. This is where I had my Middle Eastern Meatballs soup that came with two generous slices of french breads.

More random but awesome pictures! :D

All these pictures were taken barely 24 hours since I stepped foot on Australia. Day 1 to be exact. I have yet to talk about the best part of my trip in Melbourne: Food! Do look forward to it!

Some of you might be considering visiting Melbourne already, no? ;)

For your viewing pleasure Part 7 ;)

Kota Kinabalu City at night. Not so frantic, just the way I like it.

I like the way how this flame bends almost perfectly. Took this photo at Aesha's Corner @ KK Waterfront.

I love what I see high up in the sky. This is when you say to yourself, "God, I thank you for your beautiful creations!"

P/S: I will always love Sabah, always :)

Food Blog #30

Praise the good Lord that it's my 30th post on food! :)

First and foremost, I have to thank my good friend KJ for this. He was the one who suggested this Japanese restaurant to me somewhere in Damai and spent me along the way :) Both of us adore Japanese food, period.

Well, I thought there were only handful of Japanese restaurants in KK where I normally go to (Nishiki, Wagamama) until Fukurou came into the picture. I had no idea whatsoever about the location of this restaurant, let alone its existence in KK! So KJ, you're the man! :D

OK, get ready to be hungry!

My bad for not being able to provide you readers the captions for every photo you see. All I can say is the food we ordered were so good/above average that I completely forgot to note down the name of every dish. The sushis, salmon, tofu, pickled vegetables, chicken teriyaki, pudding...everything was good from the get-go. No complaints!

I believe from these pictures you can tell that they are good. The restaurant is located on the same row as Yoyo@Damai, right at the very end opposite the car park building.

Fukurou's to go! :D

To come and think of it, my BB does take good pictures after all. Cute eh? :)

Quality of pictures :), :\ or :( ?

If you would have noticed the pictures I've taken since the beginning of this year, they are a bit different from the pictures I took last year. This is because I changed my handphone to BlackBerry Curve 8900. I previously used SE K810i, still use it though for emergency. I am actually a bit disappointed with the quality of the pictures taken from BB, they look slightly blurry compared to SE. I can't help but to use it to take pictures; or maybe I just don't know how to take good pictures with a BB?
So what do you think? :), :\ or :( ?

Food Blog #29

Goodness, it has been awhile, yet again!

A good friend of mine was good enough to spend me a good dinner last Wednesday (since I spent him twice already) at Upperstar Damai.

Upperstar is one of the most popular restaurants in KK; and now that they have three branches already: Lintas, Damai and the one in front of Hyatt Hotel. You are pretty much spoilt for choice! The one in Lintas is always full of customers regardless of any days. The one in front of Hyatt Hotel exudes that at-the-bar-get-me-a-tequila-shot feeling & the one in Damai probably gets you laid-back a little; and that was the exact way how I wanted it to be after working out that day :)

OK, pictures!

Grilled salmon. I've to say it was really good. Note the sauce on top of the salmon? Amazing. Everything was above average.

Bruschetta. The bread was a bit overgrilled, and I saw no main ingredient: tomatoes! Completely different from what I had the last time. The toppings were lettuce and cured meat. I gave this one a 5.5/10. Tough luck...

Overall I had a wonderful dinner; I really liked the grilled salmon. Be careful with the bones though, there were plenty of bones and I used my hand to take them out from my mouth. You may have to think twice about ordering the bruschetta though, if you're a conservative bruschetta eater like me you would probably be a bit disappointed. No tomatoes; ask the waiter if the toppings include tomatoes :P

Thanks KJ! :) Mentioned you in my blog haha xoxo

Earlier in the afternoon, I had lasagna for lunch in Secret Recipe @ Centre Point. I was tempted to take a picture and publish it in my blog. It was pretty good, although the portion could have been slightly bigger :P

I guess I've to be contented with the portion, after all I need to lose weight. I really like the wholemeal bun, eat it with the lasagna, ain't that bad after all.

Food Blog #28

Back in KL where I study I almost have Indian food all the time! Be it breakfast, dinner or lunch. I always thought it was always difficult to look for a good Indian restaurant in Sabah until my unit section head spent us lunch last Wednesday :) Since I'm crazy about Indian food and all...

What did we eat?

Pictures please :)

I love this. Fish head curry. This is a must :)


Mine, and will you look at the generous portion :)


Look at those hands. They are helping themselves with the fish head curry, pappadoms and fish eggs (the ones with the fork in the picture) which I helplessly thought they were nuggets in the first place.


I think I'm going to faint. Fried mackerels, quails and vegetables on the other side of the table. 10/10 no doubt. My unit section head fed us really well :)

Since I rarely distribute photos of myself as well as people whom I know of, here's your rare chance to see a few:

Before

and after! I see no difference. Talking about being photogenic :D No hard feelings yo.
From left: Mr. Kamal, Stephen, Kak Fiza, Fairuz, Kak Raja (my SV *applause*) and Gerard.


Smile! Jangan tidak smile. :)
From left: Sonia, Steffy, Amilin, Fred, Joy & Soffie :D


From left: Joy, Soffie and yours truly.


From left: Sonia, Steffy & Amilin.

My hope of finding a good Indian restaurant in Sabah sweet home (and probably more) has been renewed! It's kinda embarrassing not to know the existence of Krishna Curry House which is situated in Millennium (the one where Ocean is). For you Indian food lovers like me out there who have all sorts of difficulties of finding a good Indian restaurant in KK, this is the place :) Everything was great, excellent from the get go :D

I was the only one who asked for more rice. Thank you Mr. Kamal for the lunch.

Food Blog #27

What? It's April already?

Before I go on with my 27th food blog post, I just want to thank you guys so much for the wonderful comments. They may not be a lot, but I appreciate them as they are.

I love porridge! I mean, who does not?

I disagree when some people say porridge is the food for the sick and ailing. If it is cooked properly & correctly, porridge can be delicious, yummy, nutritious and healthy for you. That is why last Saturday after the Easter Vigil mass my family had porridge in Foh Sang for dinner.

Fish porridge. Wow, the portion is generous. Two to three people can have this together at one-go. Well, it depends on your hunger pangs. As for me, I finished this all by myself ;)


Seaweeds, carrots & cabbages are provided together with the porridge. Condiments I believe.


...and who would have thought that together with the porridge and condiments, my dad ordered zhu chap ( pig = pork+ skins + intestines) garnished with cucumber and hard boiled chicken eggs? Interesting. It ain't that bad.

So, if you're around KK and interested in late night dining/supper, drop by Foh Sang. There are a few restaurants/coffee shops to choose from; this place is full of activities day and night.

For your viewing pleasure Part 6 ;)

For the last few weeks I did a lot of outdoor activities like jogging after work & I find it very de-stressing. It is definitely good for your health, physically and mentally. One of the places I like to jog (or hike) is in Bukit Padang where I can enjoy this...

Sunset from above :) Overlooking the city of KK.