Belum Forest

Recently I attended a friend's wedding in Kelantan. Yeah, I guess it's the farmost friend's wedding I've ever gone. Instead of went to wedding, I explored more of Kelantan even though I've been there before but it was long time ago.

After the wedding, I went back the next day. Guess what? I saw this Belum Forest and stopped here.

Pretty interesting to explore, I suppose. Actually, I stopped at Banding Lake earlier to eat lunch and explore the place but too bad, there was no food sold and nothing much to see.

The place was breezy and I feel fresh when looking at those green trees. Love it!

Yeah... here I am.

Banding Lake

Time to order food. I was starving! :)

Nice decoration. Unique.

The restaurant.

A nice place to eat with beautiful view.

Keith told me that this one suppose to be near the sunlight, so that they will shine!

Keith's fried rice.

My black pepper chicken.

Amri's lamb chop.

Heaven, resting with teh tarik!

Resting here was like heaven. I wanted to stay longer but time was flying fast. If you go to East Coast Malaysia, you must stop here for lunch, some refreshing cold drinks or coffee. Maybe, someday I might even stay here for 2 days. A place that can give me a peace of mind!

Mom's birthday at Puncak Mutiara.

Since I had enough sleep last night, I took hot shower and now in front of my Macbook replying email, reading and replying Facebook comments regarding Olympic which I think it is bias and Asia countries are the victims, argument with someone who thinks I wrote a wrong sentence for my status which I think he has problem to understand what is "fall asleep" about and I will do some reading later.

Wow! what a long introduction. LOL.

My mom's birthday was on July 27. Last week, her birthday was on weekday and I thought it might be messy with the traffic jam on the bridge during weekday and some other thing like fetching my 2 nieces from the kindergarten and nursery. So, my sisters and I planned to do the celebration on Saturday.

We planned a proper plan through Whatsapp. Mom usually cook special cooking during weekdays for us because that is the only time she can stay in the kitchen for almost half of the day. It's tiring after work and usually she will cook a simple meal for us helped by my two sisters. 

Last Saturday, she already made a to-buy-list and wanted to go to the wet market with sisters. My sisters did a good job gave some excuses to make her cancel the plan.

I went for overtime and went back earlier to get cake at Jenny. Keith picked me up and then we picked up Linda. The road was not jam. We reached there a little bit early but managed to set things properly with Kak Mimi who was the person in charge there with the cake and song arrangement. Then, we started to walk around and saw ostrich and goats. 

The food came early which I prefer to come here not in fasting month anymore. The food became cold when it was the time for us to break fast. Last time, there was some date served. Now, no more. Luckily Linda brought along with her some dates. 

Here are the pictures of the foods:

Lamb Chop. I ordered this one. It was my first time and cold. I want to try this one again next time but not in fasting month :)

Beriyani with Lamb Shank. Ok, I have tried this one for few times and I like it a lot. It is recommended :)

After we finished our meal, my sister text Kak Mimi for the song and cake. Mom was day dreaming I guess haha as she was not focusing on anything during that time. Then... tadaaaaaaaa!!!

The cake from Jenny. It was the first time, the cake could be eaten until finish :)

Mom was surprise... and I knew she was so happy and almost cry.

It was a successful plan.

Happy Birthday Mom!

p/s: Oh yeah... we sent her flower at her office.

Harvest In

A new place found by my friend is Harvest In. It’s located at Irrawady Road which is somewhere around Citibank area. You can email me at chanija@yahoo.com for the direction or kindly leave message in my Facebook inbox.

The foods there are much better than JL cafe at Prangin Mall (which my friend told me exactly like Mizi’s cafe at New World Park). Only that the portion in Harvest In is smaller than them. Who cares about the portion when the taste is so delicious? At least, I do not care :)

I have been there 3 times and these were the foods that I have tasted (sorry for bad quality pictures as there were taken by my Nokia N70 phone-camera) :

My first time…

Grilled BBQ chicken (the gravy is so delicious and the chicken is very tender)

Black pepper fried rice (delicious!)

Soup and garlic bread (nothing special)

Juices were good!

My second time…

  Chicken Cordon Bleu (this one confirm much better than JL!)

Yummy black pepper steak!

… and the 3rd time,

Chef’s choice chicken chop (I’d say so so as it was crispy enough but the gravy was so so like others)

Delicious too :)

I’ll surely go again to Harvest In soon. What about you?

Western food @ Prangin Mall

These were what we ate last Friday (2/10/2009) :)