Delicious Dim Sum 美味点心

For those people who love Cantonese cuisine, Dim Sum is definitely "a must eat" item in the menu. Many overseas Chinese who living in foreign countries, especially from the Southern region, Dim sum is carrying a very special meaning to them. It is a kind of cultures and practices that they will normally do in their home country. In Melbourne, I love to visit a Chinese restaurant called Golden Dragon Palace (金龙宫) for Dim Sum, about 30 minutes drive from the city centre.  It is a well reputable Chinese restaurant in town. If you have a chance to visit Melbourne, you must give yourself a chance to dine in this restaurant, highly recommended.

对喜爱吃粤菜的人来说，点心是绝对不能被忽略的！很多在国外生活的华人，尤其来自南方的，更是对点心持有一种皮肉不离的情感。在墨尔本，我特别喜欢到一家中餐厅叫金龙宫(Golden Dragon Palace)吃点心，它离开市中心大概三十分钟的车程。它是一家很有名望的餐厅。如果你有机会到墨尔本游玩的话，不妨去品尝一番。

Enjoying my dim sum @ Golden Dragon Palace. 

Har Gow (Shrimp dumpling) - 虾饺

Siew Mai (pork dumpling) - 烧卖

Char Siew Sou (BBQ pork pastry) - 叉燒酥

Steam chicken feet with black bean sauce - 蒸凤爪

Baked scallop with cheese - 芝士焗扇贝

Steam flat noodle with BBQ Pork - 叉烧肠粉

BBQ Pork - 烧乳猪

Salty Egg Yoke Cake - 千层糕

I hope you like the photos above.

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My A380 Experience with Singapore Airlines to Melbourne.

I guess many people have talked about this super jumbo airplane since its launch in many years ago. A380, by far, the largest commercial aircraft in the world, it contains two decks (upper deck and lower deck) and the jet body is wider as compared with other aircrafts, e.g. Boeing 747-400.

Singapore Airlines - A Star Alliance Member

Indeed, Singapore Airlines was the first airline company in the world to fly this jumbo jet.

SIA's A380 at Melbourne's Tullamarine International Airport

SQ238 touching down at Singapore Changi International Airport

My A380 experience with SIA was amazing, especially the boarding moment, all the passengers need to ensure which deck they have been assigned to. According to my observation, all Suites cabin, it is located at the lower deck, for business class cabin, it is located at the upper deck of the aircraft, whereas for economy class, it is scattered at both decks.

The new economy class located at the upper deck

While you are on board, you will greet by the world famous SIA icon - Singapore Girl. The stewardess are friendly and they are well-trained to serve everyone on board. Indeed, they are part of the SIA experience - A Great Way To Fly.

Singapore Girl - SIA stewardess 

The seat design of the new economy class is very comfortable and it designed to provide more space and minimizes intrusion into one's personal space even as the passenger in front reclines. Guess what, a pillow and a piece of blanket are provided too, unlike those low-cost airlines, you need to bring it on you own or buy it on-the-spot during the flight.

Hainanese Chicken Rice was served on board - from SIN to MEL

On board, you will never get starve as the foods served by SIA are delicious. For drinks, SIA has a great list for you to choose, from red wine to beer, cocktail to soft drinks, coffee to tea, many varieties to select. One of the drinks you must try when you are on board SIA, is the world renowned cocktail, called Singapore Sling. It is a very refreshing drink and it tastes fantastic, highly recommended beverage.

Singapore Sling

A brief history of Singapore Sling - printed in the menu 

One thing I love about SIA is the entertainment system, KrisWorld. It guarantees each and every one on board will never get bored. From latest blockbusters to popular TV shows, music to games, SIA's KrisWorld is the "best friend" to be with while on board.

By far, SIA has the largest TV screen in the economy class

Charging my iPad on board while listening to Hins Cheung's latest Cantonese album - No. Eleven

You will never regret to make Singapore Airlines as your preferred travel mate when you go overseas. I can assure you. Hope you enjoy my photos here!

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A Lovely Paradise in Ipoh - The Banjaran Hotspring Retreat.

I have recently visited a 5-star luxury spa resort in my hometown. This spa resort called The Banjaran Hotsprings Retreat. This luxury spa resort is not widely known among the locals in Malaysia. I don't really know about this little paradise until I saw the promotion spa package advertisement in the HSBC monthly e-Newsletter. To explore this place, I gave myself a chance and I decided to spend some time there. So I brought my mum together with me to have lunch there.

The Banjaran Hotsprings Retreat, Ipoh

At first, I don't really believe that there is a high-standard spa resort hotel being set up in my hometown as Ipoh is not a major tourist spot in the country, unlike Langkawi Island, Penang, and Kuala Lumpur. The design of this spa resort hotel is unique and specially located at the hot-spring valley in Ipoh. This luxury spa resort hotel is indeed, manage by one of our top property developers in Malaysia, Sunway Group. The environment of the spa resort is well maintained and I find the quality of the services are close to the world resort hotel standard, truly amazing.

Pool Side @ The Banjaran

The Banjaran is a private place, it only allows its guests to enter the mansion. The security guards at the entrance will definitely check everyone's identity before entering the resort. So, please don't forget to make your reservation before visiting the place.

The hot spring pool @ The Banjaran

Wondering who will go inside the dipping pot during a hot day?

For my lunch at The Banjaran, I have ordered a mustard soup and a garden salad, whereas for my mum, she has ordered a pumpkin soup only and shared some of my salad. Before serving our orders, breads were being served as starter. The bread texture was tasty and it is hardly be found in the small city like Ipoh, cause most of the people who living in Ipoh are mostly Asian-food lovers, thus it is hard to find such breads in my hometown.

The Pomelo - the only restaurant at The Banjaran.

Lunch menu of The Pomelo.

Buns and breads will be served b4 the main dishes.

Salad and soup.

We didn't order much food for our lunch as we had an afternoon tea session with our relatives in a local "kopitiam". If you are a Malaysian food lover, like curry laksa, roast salted-chicken, kaya-butter toast, and white coffee, Ipoh is a best place to visit. A promising place to provide all kinds of delicious foods to you. Drop me a line in my Facebook, if you wish to visit this fantastic place (only friends will be entertained ya!!).

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Simply an irresistible place for nice food - Tropicana City Mall @ PJ

Is been a long time I never update my blog, due to my inflexible working hours. This year, however, I have promise myself, I must spare some time here to share my joy and happiness with all of you. Well, I am back. 

Recently, my colleagues and I have set-up a promotion booth at Tropicana City Mall @ Petaling Jaya to promote our products and services. We spent a week there, restaurants in the mall are the only places for us to get our lunches and dinners. 

If you are a food lover and prefer to dine at a "peaceful" place, I guess you should visit this shopping mall. I must say it is a good place to dine since this mall mainly cater for the neighborhoods. Unlike the big shopping malls, volume of people who visiting this mall is considerably less. 

I took some pictures of the food and uploaded part of it here. If you like to see all of them, you are welcome to visit my Facebook. I hope you will like it, enjoy the photos.

Kopi Panas (hot coffee). One of the best drinks from Otak-Otak.

Taiwanese snack food, located at LG floor.

American style sandwich, it served with potato chips. Loving it!

Tip-pits. Snack food served by Room Eighteen (a Chinese restaurant located at Ground floor) before the main dish is served.

Marinated chicken chop served with brown sauce.

Japanese grilled skewers.

Baked chicken rice. A must try item if you got a chance to visit Papa John's Pizza. The store is located at Ground floor of the Mall.

This pizza called Fishermen catch. You must try this, extremely delicious.

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Gong Xi Fa Cai! Kung Hei Fatt Choi! 恭喜发财!

恭喜发财!  身体健康！万事如意！

Jumbo Wing wishes you a happy and prosperous Chinese Lunar New Year!

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How to manage and create wealth comfortably? Something you need to discover...

I have attended two seminars with John yesterday in KMDC Damansara. For the first seminar,Carol Yip was the host and she shared the topic of Making Your Money Work, for the second seminar, it was hosted by Sen Ze, the topic was Create Wealth Via The Internet. All the seminars were conducted in small classrooms. I enjoyed myself so much and find the interactive part with the participants was fun.

Topic of the seminars were surrounded by the ways of managing and creating money! Indeed, money is part of our life and it is important to manage it well to ensure our financial goals are being achieved. For majority people, managing money could be very challenging and many people find it very hard to practice it. So, what has gone wrong? Well, managing money could be easy if you have the " right ingredients"! Keep on learning new skills is one of the "secret recipes" to achieve the desire results.

Carol Yip and I in KMDC Damansara Uptown 5.

Carol has shared many good and practical ideas with the participants, really benefited from her coaching! She encouraged us to have frugal living rather than just simply spend the money without proper management. Totally agree with her! However, it is hard to practice it since many temptations around.

In the seminar, Carol split us into groups, I was joining the group which all the members are still carrying the "single" status. We discussed the topic of retirement, and one group member of mine has caught my attention. He called Adrian Ng. He is the youngest in my group, around 20 years of age. He is a positive guy and I noticed that he has the passion to "discover" for more financial related knowledge! He is different in the sense that not many youngsters like him have such an attitude. To be honest, many of my friends who around 30s don't have such mindset of managing wealth, many of them still struggling with their financial position. Worth to mention him here! Wish him all the best!

We continued for the second seminar after a short lunch break. The second seminar was all about creating wealth through internet business. If you are thinking to start an Internet Business, I guess Sen Ze's Google Magic System is able to help you to create a bundle of wealth in this area. The seminar was interesting, Sen Ze has shared many techniques with us about how to become top search in Google when people looking for information. Sen Ze is going to organize a boot camp in April and he is going to share more information with those people who got serious about Internet Business. It roughly cost RM3900/pax. I am planning to attend it since internet is an up and coming new way of doing business!

Source: KMDC Web page.

What a fruitful day! I believe learning is a life long business. Through seminars, it provides me valuable chances to share information with people and it also allow me to learn new things by talking to the participants. I am loving it!

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Truly an Unforgettable Sunday!

Is been a while! I didn't meet up with my old friends since long time ago! Sunday was truly an unforgettable day! I met up with two different groups of friends for lunch and dinner.

In the afternoon, I went out with Ester, my ex-colleague from ORIX. She updated me with some latest developments in my ex-company. The stories were interesting and some even shocked me. Anyway, it is good to be updated! After lunch in a mamak stall, we decided to have a light chat in a cafe where located in Damansara Uptown, the cafe called Wonder Milk.

Wonder Milk is specializing in making cupcakes. The designs of the cupcakes are attractive and the cakes are very colourful. Esther and I tried two different types of cupcakes. To me, the cupcakes were just taste normal, just like an ordinary sponge cake with icing on top! Nothing special! And I also find the cakes are pricey!

Environment of the cafe is just okay, it separated into two areas, smoking area and non-smoking area! The shop is a little bit small and squeezy, not much privacy when having chat with friends! I still prefer Starbucks Coffee!

After the tea time session with Esther, I went straight to Centerpoint in Bandar Utama to meet up with my old friends for dinner! We settled down in a Thai food restaurant called Black Canyon! I feel so glad and excited to meet my friends' new born baby, he called Louis Tan! A very cute baby and he looks very adorable!

We really enjoyed our time there! Hope to have more gathering like this in the near future! ^^

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