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[[ Pumpkin Porridge Steamboat ]]

- Friday, August 17, 2007 -
Porridge steamboat may not be a new thing already nowadays, as most of us have already tasted the well-known porridge steamboat from Tian Yuan (田园) for more than once. Frankly to say, I'm kinda sien already eating their porridge steamboat....

So, how about Pumpkin Porridge Steamboat ?

We first heard of it from Kin Loong's mouth when the last time we had our porridge steamboat dinner at Tian Yuan. It sounds interesting and I could imagine that it should taste like the pumpkin soup I had before, sweet and tasty.

Thanks to Chunny's strong desire on nice food, he invited us to try out the Pumpkin Steamboat together on Monday's night. So Chunny, Kongny, Karen, Loongny including myself headed to the restaurant named Lin Yuan Steamboat Kitchen (淋园火锅小馆) located in Cheras Queen's Park.

Lin Yuan Steamboat Kitchen (淋园火锅小馆)
At first, we ordered three person sets, an additional plate of beef slices and 'sauce burst‘ meat ball (酱爆肉丸).

The raw food looks fresh and clean ~

What's the steamboat soup ? Of course Pumpkin Porridge lor !!
We also ordered a side dish - Nam Yue Spare Ribs 南乳排骨. Taste good, but I preferred Tian Yuan's.

The Nam Yue spare rib is hot and tasty, look at Chunny's hungry face

They started putting the food into the Pumpkin porridge, while I was busy taking photos.


I remembered someone said, 'Waiting is the most painful thing'. Yes it always is.


Whoa! It's cooked ! Let's start eating ~


Kong just couldn't stop drooling while looking at the food.


After we've finished the food inside the pot, we still have two eggs left. As usual, we did the 'Eggs flower 蛋花' trick again, performed by Chef Ho.

Look at his lansee face, like nobody in this world can break the egg as good as him....

Look at his cheeky sepet eyes, he must be thinking that he looks cool using spoon to stir while others use folk....


Look at his lansee face again ! Wie Siong, he is challenging you to see who makes the better egg flower (蛋花) lah !!


Kong, 'Chow hai, fai lan dit lar !'
(mother fucker, faster lar !)
The Pumpkin porridge soup is just so nice especially after added the eggs. It's so sweet and tasty until we finished all the pumpkin porridge.

The Aftermath

Chun was shocked when he found out that his spare tyre rim has increased from 16" to 18".


The bill arrived at RM131.99. I think it's quite reasonable at around RM26 per pax, as we had ordered somemore additional food.

The bill, 1 cent for the tips so it's RM132 in total :p

The only girl that night, Karen on the left


Overall, I'm very satisfied with their food and services. The food is fresh and clean, and the Pumpkin Porridge soup is just nice, not too sweet. The service was very good as well because from time to time the staff will come and check on your table, add porridge and tea for you when necessarily, probably because it's not that crowded that night. Next time if I'm to go for porridge steamboat, for sure I will choose this Pumpkin Porridge steamboat again, until I've bored at it or something new has come out.

Queen's Park, Cheras
Lin Yuan Steamboat Kitchen is located at Cheras Queen's Park, along Peel Road and opposite Cheras Carrefour. Parking inside Queen's Park only RM1, and it has many factory outlet shops like MNG, Esprit, Giordano, etc and it even has Starbucks and Sushi King, definitely a place to visit.



[[ BBQ again ]]

- Tuesday, August 7, 2007 -
Event: Gathering - C.K back to M'sia (4th - 9th Aug 07)
Venue: Wai Yan's place
Date & Time: 5th Aug 07, 5.30pm - 11:00pm
Attendee: Kong, Chun, Chean, Yan, Loong, Jet, Siong, Lee, Jeanie, Elaine, Karen, Sharon & Yvonne.
Photo by: Chean & Jet (photos are taken with Fujiflim F31fd & Canon PowerShot S3is)



BBQ Menu

BBQ Black Pepper Beef (sirloin)
BBQ Teriyaki Lamb shoulder slice
BBQ Black Pepper Crispy Honey Chicken Wings
BBQ Hungarian Sausage with honey
BBQ Cooked Ham with honey
BBQ Pork Cocktail with honey
Mixed Lettuce Green & Red Coral salad (serve with 1000 Island sauce)
Tomatoes cherry (with sugar icing)
Mayonnaise Potato (Boiled US potatoes and boiled egg mixed with mayonnaise)
Fresh local cucumber
Home made Garlic Baguettes (Toasted French bread with garlic and butter)

Home made Cheese cake with chocolate topping (sponsored by Chee's Baker Sdn Bhd)

Comment

Jusco marinated beef & lamb shoulder taste just nice 很入味.
The meet does not taste hard or over cooked. The lamb 口感 quite tender & the fat was fantastic 很香! 真是好吃到飞起. Too bad Chun can't eat, coz his stomach not feeling well for the passed whole week.
Mayonnaise potato cube 薯仔粒 turns to mayonnaise 薯仔泥 mash potato. 错有错着 It tastes quite nice with some egg mixed in it 都几受欢迎.
BBQ toasted baguettes with cooked ham taste superb! Thanks to Ah Lee for his patient and ber-skilled BBQ'ing for us.

The whole BBQ session quite relexing and fun. Everyone have the initiative and keen to help 大家挟手挟脚, the table was well arranged by the girls, tidy and in order. The BBQ fire only takes around 30 minutes, and thanks to windy weather. Lucky the meet did not turn bad this time.

Not to missed out our 大会指定 photographer - Cheany & Jet. They have captured every single memorable moment in the photos 好感动哦. Thanks guys, you've done a tremendous job 你地好嘢! Well done!! Thanks to Siongny also, that he quickly rush home & return with his wine opener. And finally we managed to end our BBQ with Carrefour's year 2000 Lafitte. Yanny feels encouraged with such good feed back, and don't mind to have more BBQ session in future (but not too often la…).


Overall rating : 9/10 Distinction!



[[ BBQ @ Yanny's place ]]

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Event: Sharon got > 10% salary adjustment & 3 months bonus!! So, we 'wat' her to belanja us makan. BBQ + KK slide show viewing + Video Conference with C.K.
Venue: Wai Yan's place
Date & Time: 28th July 07, 6.30pm - 12:00am
Attendee: Chun, Chean, Yan, Lee, Karen, Sharon, Yvonne &
Joell.
Photo by: Chean (all photos taken with Fujiflim F31fd)


BBQ Menu

BBQ Smoked Bacon with honey
BBQ Smoked Back Bacon with honey
BBQ Jumbo Pork Frankfurter
BBQ Lamb shoulder (non marinated)
BBQ Aussie beef cube (non marinated)
Jusco Teriyaki Wings
Mixed Coral Lettuce Salad (serve with 1000 Island souse or expired mayonnaise)
Fresh Cherry Tomato
Japanese cucumber
Japanese sweet potato

Comment:

Crispy honey smoked bacon & back bacon too salty.
Jumbo Pork Frankfurter taste sourly.

Cooked Ham turn bad because exposed outside from the ice box for quite a long period.
Lamb shoulder & Aussie beef cube too thick. Take times to cook. Not suppose to wash it with tap water in the 1st place.

Japanese sweet potato brought back by Sharon.
Yanny was kalang-kabut on that night, due to not enough time to prepare the BBQ stuff.

Overall rating : 3/10 Failed