Lamps

Interesting lampshades at the Colonial Times Restaurant in The Curve Mutiara Damansara.

Colonial Times Restaurant

Serving original North Indian cuisine, Colonial Times has started to offer other Asian fare such as Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai etc. According to the outlet manager, this is to cater to the customer profile at The Curve in Mutiara Damansara. The tandoori chicken was good, freshly roasted & steeped in spices. The briyani rice served with the chicken was fragrant and tasty on its own. We tried some starter items like spring rolls & prawn in sugarcane skewer which were not bad. Overall, the quality of food here is good. Pricing appears on the higher side though.


Tandoori chicken & briyani rice

Windancer

Kites have gone high tech. We were shopping for a birthday gift for my seven year old nephew Wen Jia when we thought he could learn how to fly a kite. Nowadays kites come in durable ripstop nylon (parachute material according to the proprietor of the kite shop), fibreglass frame & interlocking stitches (?) I remember we used to make our own kites fashioned out of bamboo frames & rice paper. Bamboo was abundant everywhere & the paper costs less than RM1.00. The more adventurous would stick the strings with crushed glass & have a go at "cutting" other kites flying in the air. And if a kite was defeated, the kids will run all over to claim the prize.

Colorful high-tech kites on display

Kites & other windancing items in various shapes & designs

KK Chan's Photoblog

Fellow blogger & colleague KK Chan has started a new photoblog called KK's Eyes. Looking forward to seeing some interesting pictures. And of course once he has upgraded his camera to a DSLR, we can even expect some photo masterpieces !

And speaking of which, Lai May who has recently procured her first DLSR the Canon 350D, has also started to make use of photo hosting facilities from Photobucket. She's posting the photos from China and her debut postings on Yi Xing can be viewed here.

Dragon - i

This Shanghainese styled restaurant serves la mian (pulled noodles) and the famous xiao long bao (steamed meat dumpling). Opened recently at the new wing of 1Utama, the outlet has been attracting customers in droves. And it doesn't disappoint. Actually today was our second visit. We couldn't get enough of the xiao long bao, which we think is even better than the original ones from Shanghai! The la mian sifu apparently made it to the Guinness Book of Records for having pulled the longest & most strands of noodles made in 1 minute!




Juicy & succulent xiao long bao (steamed meat dumplings)




Huang qiao shao bing (deep fried minced meat & sesame pastry)




Fried la mian with meat and black fungus

Sheng jian rou bao (pan fried meat bun)


Master chef Sung Koon Sang deftly shaping the meat dumplings