Malaysia’s API on 24th June 2013

24 Monday Jun 2013

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When I left for work this morning, the air looks thick and hazy. On top of that, I can detect a faint burnt smell. I heard on radio that Muar went as high as 746 API yesterday. I tried several attempt to check the API website but it was down most of the time. sigh…

Hubby manage to get hold of the index and I thought I’ll share here for those who have similar problem accessing from the main site.

Set 1 Set 2 Set 30 – 50 = Good
51 – 100 = Moderate
101-200 = Unhealthy
201-300 = Very Unhealthy
> 301 = Hazardous

Please take care everyone. Drink plentiful of water and try to stay indoor as much as possible.

Updated @ 6.30pm

Port Klang, Selangor officially hit more than 300 at 5pm readings. Seems like Selangor is getting most of the haze at this moment…. sigh.

Set 4

 

 

Shucked Oyster and Seafood bar – Publika, KL Malaysia

20 Thursday Jun 2013

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Few days back, I had a sudden craving for Oysters. Must be from all the browsing I did at some of the oyster pictures during my recent trip to Melbourne. LOL…

Normally, if I want to get my hand on some nice fresh oysters in Malaysia, the only choice I have is to head to a western restaurant (like Ship / Monte and etc) Or Japanese restaurant. Unfortunately, I don’t feel like having either of the mains in these restaurant. I just want oyster (full stop).

Shucked

Hence, I was super grateful for Oyster bar such as Shucked in Publika. Here… I get to satisfy my oyster cravings without the stress of ordering mains. I could just walk off after having my oysters. Awesome !

Hub and I decided to go for 3 pcs of Irish Premium (recommended by the ‘oyster-bartender’) and 3 pcs Tasmanian Prime. The Irish premium are the fatter ones on the right side in the picture.

Oysters

The taste of these both are so different. These Tassie-ones are quite similar to the Coffin-bay (south Australia) variety in terms of the after taste. It carries the same salty-iron-like after taste except that it has less bite compare to the coffin-bay. I was actually quite surprise that these Tassie ones are kind of small in size. I remember the last time when we were in Tasmanian, the oysters (Barilla Bay) we had there was freakingly huge…

The Irish Premium was a delightful surprise. At first bite, it was a bit salty. But after that, you get a burst of creaminess flooding your whole mouth ending on a sweet note. Very interesting.

Yum… yum. Craving satisfied.

Happy Papa Day 2013

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Whenever we have the opportunity to gather together for family lunches / dinners, Dad always ‘pesters’ / ask us what we want to eat.

My sis being the ‘kangaroo-ized’ (Australian-ized), always demands we eat western food. She will go crazy if she eats rice more than 5 days in a row. (LOL). As for myself, I prefer Japanese or Korean. My brothers are not so picky. 

But when we start throwing out suggestions on different restaurants to try, dad will sneakily slot in the conversation… “why not Chinese?”. Half of the time we give in to him… but most of the time we will not give up without a fight first.

So for Father’s Day this year, I organised a family dinner in a nice Chinese restaurant for dad. Sufficient to say, he’s a happy camper after the meal. ;p

Happy Papa Day !!! love you !