tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73789312984885616012024-03-13T07:32:24.143+08:00justme-elaine.blogspot.comElaineCharmainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04593843386528983221noreply@blogger.comBlogger365125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378931298488561601.post-6303662356622678002013-05-26T23:41:00.000+08:002013-05-27T23:23:35.805+08:00Mango Garden Restaurant - Rumah Terbalik, Tamparuli , Kota Kinabalu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">No idea where to find a place in Kota Kinabalu that serves true authentic local malays and native east malaysian food?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Fret no longer! We finally have a restaurant in Kota Kinabalu that serves all these delectable and authentic traditional cuisines from Sabah under one roof and that is - Mango Garden Restaurant.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">If you're wondering where is this restaurant, it is actually located just right next to the first upside down house (Rumah Terbalik ) in South East Asia, located in Tamparuli area which opened in early February 2012. There is currently only 5 of these unique structures in the entire world, two in Japan and Europe respectively. I was there to visit the Rumah Terbalik when it just opened last year and at that time, the restaurant doesn't exist yet nor any construction work was taking place at that time. Now that they have a restaurant within the span of a year, shows that it has fast progressed as a unique choice of tourist destination in Kota Kinabalu.</span></div>
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I personally didn't know this restaurant existed until the owner of Rumah Terbalik's wife Ms. Diana Chia dropped me an email and kindly invited me for food tasting. So I did my usual research on this restaurant and found it very interesting because I am looking forward to the unique traditional dishes that I get to taste. Since my dad is a fan of traditional Kadazan food, I'm a Sino as well so I took him along with me for this food tasting.</div>
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Upon arrival, my dad & I were greeted by their friendly staff, the manager, Kenny at the carpark, then by Diana herself and their Executive Chef, Fortunato Lowel.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Mango Garden Restaurant derived its name originally from this piece of land as it used to be a mango tree farm. I honestly didn't know this place used to be a mango tree farm until Diana enlighten me about the reason why they chose this name.</span></div>
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Mango Garden Restaurant has a very nice exterior to it, designed to look like a house with a structured body made of glass, it does add on the little touch of class to this restaurant. This restaurant able to cater to 100 person at once, on any occasion just inside. However, they're able to add more tables and a mini stage if you require one outside and cater to a larger functions. I also noticed that they have a couple of mini portable live cooking stalls outside which they use for functions as well.</div>
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The Executive chef, Fortunato, previously worked with Petronas for a couple of years, where he took his chance to travel around the world and explore cuisines from different parts of the world until he realized that his job environment is constantly a high risk area. Being a family man himself, he decided to quit and settle in Sabah where he previously worked at Lembah Impian, and now Rumah Terbalik. </div>
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He brought along his years of experience to create fusion dishes, and on top of that he always travels to other towns in Kota Kinabalu where he spoke to local natives around the areas and learnt their signature dishes . Together he incorporated both ideas and that's how the menu came about for this restaurant.</div>
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As you can see above, the menu serves a variety of dishes, from appetizers to main course, local favorites individual meat and vegetable items, desserts and drinks.</div>
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You'll definitely be spoilt for choices because there's just too many to choose from. I find it very interesting and easy to read the menu because it has very detailed explanation of the dishes, especially when it involves the clear picture of the ingredients used and method of cooking. What made it even better, it comes with pictures of the dishes as well. I no longer have to guess how my food will look like or wonder what is it, good job on this one!</div>
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So firstly, we ordered our drinks. We were told by recommendation of the waitress that they are famous for their smoothie, made with local fruits. Thus we opted for Pineapple smoothie and Mango smoothies.</div>
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I liked how their smoothies tasted so fruity with just the right amount of fruits and sweetness to it. Texture wise it is really smooth and thick, unlike some other which I've tasted before that's just pure watery and tasteless. A great drink to have on a warm sunny day definitely.</div>
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For starter, we had the Tinutuk Mangga which is basically young mango being cut julienne style and mixed together with traditional fresh herbs, lime, shrimp paste and chili. As the mango is young and raw, it creates the sour-ish taste to this dish and the chili complement this dish well and created a mild spicy and sour-ish appetizer.</div>
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Next, we had another very popular appetizer in Sabah originated from the Kadazan Dusun Tribes called the Hinava Sada. It is actually a dish made with f<span style="text-align: center;">reshly selected fish fillet marinated in lime juice, shallots, ginger, sliced chili and grated Badu (wild mango seeds). It was my first time trying out this dish, as I don't normally eat authentic Kadazan dish. This dish has an acquired taste in my opinion but I know it does taste good. More like local made tuna where you can eat it with your bread. Nevertheless, I gave it a try but still it's not what I can easily get use to eating instantly. </span></div>
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Another appetizer, is actually sliced beef marinated with Tuhau, or what we call local ginger stem pickles, char-grilled and mixed with chili, lime, lemongrass and other herbs. According to Fortunato, this dish is taken during drinking session as titbit but can be taken with rice as well.</div>
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For main course, I'm sure everyone knows what is a Rendang Daging. It is one of my favorite malay dish of all times, and a must have during any special occasions such as Hari Raya. I liked how this dish was exceptionally tender and flavorful as it is the key to cooking a good rendang. The beef cubes were slowly braised with local herbs and spices, with mixture of thick coconut milk till it is soft and tender.</div>
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Next, the last main course of the day is a favorite <span style="text-align: center;">dish of the Bajau Ubian Tribes.</span> we had the marinated and barbecued squid topped with homemade sweet and spicy tomato sambal and onions which created a thick and flavorful sauce to cover the strong barbecued taste. </div>
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As it was Mother's day during that weekend, I decided to buy my mum a Cassata Siciliana cake because I find it unique. Unlike any other cakes you normally find in the bakery shop. It is actually an Italian cake, similar to a fruit cake. However, I find it a little bit too sweet to my liking though. I wished its a little bit less sweeter then it would be perfect.</div>
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Finally, the latest addition to Rumah Terbalik which just opened about 3 weeks ago? Which was the Tandas Terbalik, or what we called as "Upside Down Toilet ". Be sure to check it out!</div>
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MangoGardenRestaurant?fref=ts">Mango Garden Restaurant</a></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Sushi - King is relatively known in Malaysia since 1995 for serving healthy and reasonably priced Japanese food. From originally only a single outlet Kuala Lumpur, this place quickly gained popularity and expanded to another 60 more outlets nationwide and counting making it the largest sushi chain in Malaysia.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I think it is very much reasonable compared to a lot more other Japanese restaurants that I've tried be it in East Malaysia, West Malaysia, or Singapore itself.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Their sushi set meals goes with a complete set of main course, soup and desserts and it costs only about RM16 minimum to RM 28 maximum for a set. Not to mention, they do have an expansive of ala carte menus for you to choose from too, but I always opt for Fried Calamari, Unagi, Salmon, Fish Roe, Soft Shell Crab and Pregnant Fish (Shishamo) whenever I have Japanese food in any Japanese Restaurant, thus explains what you will see in some of the pictures below. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">I'm a very traditional person, if I like something in the menu, I will stick to it for quite sometime until I find something new , go figure :P</span></div>
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As for their sushis, there is always a sushi conveyor in any Japanese Restaurant, however, for Sushi King I noticed lesser choice was placed on their conveyor whenever I go into Sushi King. Those displayed are usually, non-inexpensive ones but fret not, those that are more expensive, are available for order and will be freshly made, which is great I think. Rather than, just make it and put it on the conveyor and if no ones order it, it will be a wastage and added cost to their food cost. </div>
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If you're interested in becoming their member, just pay RM20 for their annual membership card, and enjoy 10% discounts whenever you dine. Their card looks really cute but too bad I have no pictures of it with me.</div>
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Fried Calamari with Mayonnaise Sauce</div>
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Mixed Bento which included Grilled Salmon and Chicken as its main.</div>
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Prawns, Assorted vegetables and Sweet Potatoes</div>
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ElaineCharmainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04593843386528983221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378931298488561601.post-78111240292327636102012-11-24T20:54:00.000+08:002012-11-24T22:32:26.719+08:00Santola Bar Cafe, Inanam - Kota Kinabalu <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Searching for a place around Kota Kinabalu city to have a nice coffee session with family or friends? </div>
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Santola Bar Cafe is the place to be.</div>
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As many of you might have already known this place, since it was opened for quite some time now, it is no stranger to us that they do serve good quality coffee in this little small cafe. However, due to its location which is kinda, <i>remote </i>and not in the city area I would say, many does not know this place existed including myself who only knew about this place about 4 months ago after reading it in other person's blog, and worst is I used to pass by the same road quite often back then and didn't know it existed. </div>
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Anyways, I was glad to finally able to drop by this place for a visit with my family. We had a great tea break there on a lovely Sunday afternoon. The place was rather peaceful, not as noisy as other places, easy to get a table, wifi is free, parking is easy to get as the entire place is a private property. So convenient.</div>
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A little bit information about this place is, they take pride in their "Cap Kuda" brand coffee. In here, they serve quite a variety of beverages, be it cold or hot beverages. You name it, they have it freshly brewed for you. Besides that, they do serve a variety of pasta, cakes, sandwiches, pies and etcs.</div>
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Price wise, you can get a coffee and probably, a pasta priced below RM15 :) everything has a member and non - member price, so if you're a member you can enjoy your food cheaper! If I'm not mistaken, the membership only cost RM20 a year. Really worth every penny. </div>
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Today I would like to introduce you to this amazing thai restaurant that has been around for more than 10 years :) and honestly, their food is still that delicious ever since I stepped into this shop some many years ago, and of course my most recent visit to this restaurant was on Valentine's Day :) - Tam Nak Thai Restaurant.</div>
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If I'm not mistaken the owner of this shop is actually a Thai too , which explains the various really authentic thai cuisines that is offered in the menu and their dishes are sure to not disappoint you.</div>
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In my opinion, this shop is rather unique it serving its rice to their guests. They actually used a silver pot and delivered their rice using the russian service. Whats interesting about this is that you don't see this service that much around places like KK and for RM 1.20 per person, you can get unlimited refills for your rice :) Their staffs are really attentive and are always polite and pleasant to their guests.</div>
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This soup is definitely my favorite soup among the available thai soup that I've tasted since I don't take tom yam really well. This is like a less spicier version of tom yam soup and it is really tasty because they cook it with coconut milk , some lemon grass for appetizing , chicken and chilies for taste. I have tasted this soup previously during my visits to Thailand, and I must say that the soups are comparable to each other's in taste. </div>
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Next we had is the Nuer Yarng, which translate to " Grilled Angus Sirloin". The meat itself is a tad-bit dry because its sliced thinly and grilled, this dish is accompanied by its own thai sauce, which has a hint of sweet and sour taste to it. </div>
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Gai Pahd Med - RM 13</div>
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This dish is actually called " Chicken with Cashew Nuts" and yes, I love cashew nuts with any dishes that I've had so far and this combinations are perfect. The breast chicken is cooked with black soy sauce, spring onions, mushrooms and onions just to name a few and it tasted really sweet and easy in the mouth.</div>
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Tawd Man Pla - RM 15</div>
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For that night, our last main course was this Thai fish cakes. This dish is usually served as an appetizers back in Thailand but not for this shop. The texture of this dish is firm and bouncy, made with red curry paste, some lime leaves and really fresh fish. The taste of the lime leaves and red curry paste compliments each other and dipping it with the fresh made chili dips made the whole dish tasted even better. It actually reminds me of the famous nyonya dish , otak-otak :), well some say its actually the same because their recipes are really similar.</div>
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As for desserts, my parents and I ordered different desserts. Each of this desserts looked quite similar, which actually is the crushed ice dessert, similar to our famous Malaysian dessert called the ABC .</div>
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Tap Tim Benj - RM4</div>
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Both of my parents opt for this , which actually is crushed iced top up with coconut milk, brown sugar syrup, sago, jackfruit and waterchestnut , I tasted this and I really liked it!</div>
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and for myself I chose this instead of my initial choice which was the mango dessert because they ran out of it :( This is actually quite similar to the first dessert, just that it has more corns and mangoes in it . Well, look at the generous amount of ingredients they put in my dessert, I was really bloated when I'm done with all of it heh. </div>
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Fancy a place to have a nice tea break session chilling, catching up with friends and family while taking a break from the hustle bustle of a city life? This is the place to be. Apart from serving fine teas from around the world, they also serve a variety of cakes and pastries along with a la carte selections of traditional English specialties and of course local Asian favorites, they do not sell pork though. </div>
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If you ask me personally what do I think about the price of the food and beverages here, I can honestly tell you that the price is actually quite reasonable for a coffee house / a restaurant but not for all the items. What I meant by reasonable is because they're charging the food at a higher cost but the portion is huge, service is considered top notch and the food quality is definitely there. It all depends on what you're looking for.<br />
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Experience the lush, tropical greenery and cool breezes while you enjoy <b>spectacular views</b> of the town and bay. Relax with a cocktail in hand, socialize with friends and family under a gazebo or enjoy a <b>wide selection of beverages</b> at the long bar.</div>
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Award winning restaurant :) </div>
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If you would like to know more about this place, do check them out at this link :) </div>
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<a href="http://www.englishteahouse.org/sandakan_index.html" target="_blank">English Tea House , Kota Kinabalu</a></div>
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p/s: I don't know if some of you are aware of this restaurant in KK which is located near Jesselton but honestly, that branch can't beat the original branch that is located in Sandakan in my personal opinion. You really got to just try this place in order to notice the differences :) </div>
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During my recent trip to Sandakan , we decided to head to English Tea House for tea to spend quality time with the family after all the temple visiting ( <i>more about it to come later </i>). While we were there we decided to walk ourselves for a visit to the Agnes Keith House as it was already our countless trip there and we have not visited this place still.</div>
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If you're wondering who is Agnes Keith, her full name is actually <b>Agnes Jones Goodwillie Newton Keith</b><span style="color: black;"> (July 4, 1901 – March 30, 1982) and she was an </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="color: black;" title="United States">American</a><span style="color: black;"> author best known for her three autobiographical </span><span style="color: black;">accounts of life in North Borneo</span><span style="color: black;"> (now </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabah" style="color: black;" title="Sabah">Sabah</a><span style="color: black;">) before, during, and after the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" style="color: black;" title="World War II"></a><span style="color: black;">2nd World War. One of her book, </span><i style="color: black;"><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Three_Came_Home_%28book%29&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Three Came Home (book) (page does not exist)">Three Came Home</a></i><span style="color: black;">, tells of her time in</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" style="color: black;" title="Empire of Japan"></a><span style="color: black;"> Japanese POW and civilian </span><span style="color: black;">internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak which then made into a film</span><span style="color: black;"> in 1950. She published seven books in all. </span></div>
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<li>Land Below the Wind (1939, November)</li>
<li>Three Came Home (1947, April)</li>
<li>White Man Returns (1951)</li>
<li>Bare Feet in the Palace (1955)</li>
<li>Children of Allah, between the Sea and the Sahara (1966)</li>
<li>Beloved Exiles (1972)</li>
<li>Before the Blossoms Fall: Life and Death in Japan (1975)</li>
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<span style="color: black;">If you're interested in her books, the first 3 books are available for sale at the Sandakan airport, or even at the nearby souvenir shop of the English Tea House.</span> </div>
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In 1934, she married <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Keith" title="Harry Keith">Henry G. Keith</a>, known as Harry. Keith, was an Englishman working as Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture for the government of North Borneo under the Chartered Company, and was also Honorary Curator of the Sandakan (State) Museum. He had worked in Borneo since 1925, and was based in Sandakan.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Newton_Keith#cite_note-4"></a></sup> Agnes spent an idyllic five years at Sandakan, sometimes accompanying her husband on trips into the interior of the country. Harry persuaded her to write about her experiences and enter it in the 1939 <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Monthly" title="Atlantic Monthly">Atlantic Monthly</a></i> Non-fiction Prize contest. </div>
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It all began when Harry was ordered back to Borneo when war was declared on 3rd September 1939 from Canada. Almost a year later their first child, Henry George Newton Keith, known as George, was born in Sandakan on 5 April 1940. </div>
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The Japanese invading forces landed in Sandakan on 19 January 1942. For the first few months of occupation, the Keiths were allowed to stay in their own home. On 12 May Agnes and George were imprisoned on Pulau Berhala near Sandakan, in a building that had once been the Government Quarantine Station, along with other Western women and children. Harry was imprisoned nearby. After eight months Agnes and George were sent to Kuching, Sarawak by a small steamer on 12 January 1943 and arrived on January 20 and imprisoned in Batu Lintang, Kuching. Harry later arrived at the camp and the camp was finally liberated on 11 September 1945 by the 9th Australian Army Division under the command of brigadier T.C. Eastick. All three members of the Keith family had survived their internment. In later years, Agnes and Harry had one other child a daughter, Jean Allison Keith, born on August 30, 1947, in Sandakan.</div>
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During the war times, although punishable by death if discovered, many inmates of the camp, both civilian and POW, kept diaries and notes about their imprisonment and thus all the information was used in her books and some pictures or old notes can now be found in this historical site. I found it rather interesting that they showed all kinds of equipments and furnitures used by the Keith's family in their house such as the fridge that mentioned they are the ones who introduced the first ice cream to the natives in Sabah, the doll that she made for her child during war to keep and hide all of her notes about their imprisonment which later was turned into famous books of hers, the settings of her house displays was kept like how it was before.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">After the war the Keiths returned to Sandakan to find the house destroyed thus they built a new house in 1946-47 on the original footprint and in a similar style to the original. They named this house </span><i style="color: black;">Newlands</i><span style="color: black;"> and lived there until they left Sabah in 1952. After nearly 50 years of gradual deterioration, first under tenants and then as an empty shell, the house was restored by Sabah Museum</span><span style="color: black;"> in collaboration with the Federal Department of Museums and Antiquities in 2001.</span><span style="color: black;"> The house is a rare survival of post-war colonial wooden architecture that was opened to the public in 2004 and is a popular tourist attraction. It contains displays on Agnes and Harry Keith as well as information about colonial life in Sandakan in the first half of the twentieth century, and is commonly referred to as the Agnes Keith House.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In this house you're also expected to see many old interesting historical images and there was also a theater room inside the house. One very interesting thing can be found in the bedroom of this house would be a book about Agnes's claiming she had seen something ( a presence of a local native woman ) around the house and one of the image shows that it was in the room when she was just awake and another one was at the staircase of her house. Too bad we're not allow to take any pictures when touring inside the house so be sure to have a lookout when you're actually there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Apart from that, the Keith's was said to have planted a lot of Orchids back in those days around their house gardens and there were varieties of them. Nowadays, what's left are just those few that are still available in front of their house. </span></div>
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On the very last day of my trip to Sandakan recently, we had the famous Yu Kut Teh and Bak Kut Teh that is a must try here. Well, if you know me well I've been to Sandakan too many times but have not actually heard of <strike>seafood teh</strike> (fish kut teh) before until the boyfriend kept asking me to try it because apparently he loves it so much and tried it the last trip he was here. He even took pictures of the articles on the walls along with the contacts and sent it to me! </div>
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Anyways, my uncle is familiar with this place so off we came to Good Taste Restaurant to try out their famous, none other than their <strike>seafood teh</strike> fish kut teh (<i><strike>is that how you even call it?</strike> that is how you call it.</i> ) since in Kota Kinabalu and most other states in this nation we only tried Bak Kut Teh before. Of course, this shop do serve Bak Kut Teh still for pork lovers but I still prefer the original ones back in Jesselton ( <i>Gaya Street , KK</i> ).</div>
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like I said, this shop is famous and was featured in seriously a lot of magazines and newspapers that the articles are enough to fill up the four faces of the wall and I have never seen any restaurants / cafes featured in so many before , this place is proven to be <i>really that good</i> :)</div>
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Their unique seafood dishes features dishes like fish slices kut teh and prawn teh which comes in two types of soup. A strong pepper soup which is the dark color soup as shown above and the lighter in taste yet sweet soup which is the white soup as shown below. Personally, I liked both of it, but I love the lighter one the most, it complements the sliced fishes really well.</div>
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Another dish that is a must try is this super soft, easy to peel off skin called "Nai Mang" according to the chinese . I am not sure what is the name of this fish in english but I know its a poisonous kind of fish but it is alright to take it in small quantity , and surprisingly it is very good!</div>
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The rather normal Bak Kut Teh in my opinion, like I said I still prefer KK's one as compared to this because I love the taste of the herb soup in KK's one better :)</div>
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Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia.</div>
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Anyways, today I would like to share about my recent trip to Sandakan during the recent Chinese New Year that went by.</div>
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Firstly, I would like to introduce this little cafe in Sandakan called Equator Coffee. Well, many of us already knew that Sandakan is one of the best place where we can find fresh and reasonably priced seafoods around Sabah. However, most of the time Sandakan folks have nowhere else to go as in shopping mall to do shoppings due to the fact that it is still a small city after all thus, most of their time will be spent sitting down chit-chatting with their friends in a cafe during noon time and most importantly, during the weekends.</div>
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ElaineCharmainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04593843386528983221noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378931298488561601.post-55692544213097843382012-01-09T00:00:00.007+08:002012-11-15T17:56:29.865+08:00The Chub's Grill , Kota Kinabalu, Sabah<div style="text-align: justify;">
My parents & I headed to The Chub's Grill for dinner tonight. Treated my parent's for dinner at this new grill joint as it was our first visit and to celebrate my parent's 20+ years anniversaries, glad it did not disappoint at all. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The food was good and portion was reasonable, in general but I really liked my mum's Grilled Salmon priced at MYR 45 for a full platter, I ordered the Grilled Lamb Shoulder ; MYR 25 and my dad ordered the Grilled Pork Belly ; MYR 25 which both are their Chef's specialties. The grills generally have a satay sauce taste to it but when the meat is in your mouth, it tasted different - more grill flavors in it. Though I think it lacked a bit of the charcoal grilled flavor but its alright, many of you don't fancy that kind of flavor anyways.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">As for drinks, we each ordered their signature chilled drinks - Chilled Mango, Kiwi & Peach. Priced at MYR 5 each, these light and easy to consume drinks are considered reasonable as they include a generous portion of yogurt pearls inside and it is definitely something new for the locals here, as I've not seen much of this type of pearls in Malaysia except when I was in Kuala Lumpur. Definitely worth the try!</span></div>
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ElaineCharmainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04593843386528983221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378931298488561601.post-7067844857481687792012-01-08T00:03:00.005+08:002012-11-15T18:00:35.256+08:00Secret Recipe , Kota Kinabalu , Sabah.<div style="text-align: justify;">
Today was spent lazing around the city with Mary, Leslie and Shaun who came visiting all the way from NZ! The last time we met was 2 years ago, back in KL? Time really flies , good and bad to this. I'm only back today just for a short post, thus its picture time!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Back in May, the boyfriend , friends & ; I headed to Bangkok for a short summer vacation. Explored around with lots of foods and sight-seeing. What I loved the most about Bangkok is that, it has so much to offer, regardless of food , sight-seeing or even shopping. Everything was just so unique and colorful if you actually dare to take the time and explore these places which are usually out of the city itself, just by using their public transports. Thus, this was whats on the plan throughout this trip. Well, its not my first time in Thailand but I can tell you that its always different being in the city itself and exploring places outside the city. Its way interesting and we really enjoyed our trip. Neither did we knew much about the transportation system around in Bangkok apart from its train system and cab but we made it to other parts of Thailand and that satisfaction you get when you get to explore other places using all sorts of different transportation and its all within your budget :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As for dinner, we researched on the internet that one of the best place that offers good authentic Thailand food is Cabbages & ; Condoms. I know as cliche as it can be for its name, this place actually offers really awesome and authentic thai food compared to those I've tried before. This place was built because it supposed to be a restaurant which serves food with a motive of educating the younger generations of practicing safe sex thus they actually sells various sex related souvenirs and also offering condoms instead of mints to the guests. They even have human size figurines all around this place with condoms covering them as added presentation. Oh, totally must try out their food here, especially the Grilled Pork Neck was our favorite among the rest. Price wise, it is quite reasonable for a restaurant. Highly recommended place to be and I will always go back there if I have the chance to someday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the second day, we headed to the Southern bus terminal to explore the floating market in Thailand. The most famous floating market which is the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market was a merely 2.5 hours journey away from Bangkok city itself. The ticket costs us approximately RM20 (200 baht) per person both ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Plearnwan is a place with an old vintage theme to it. What a good place to relive the old times.It's like a small shopping areas featuring lots of vintage items and of course in a unique setting. Seeing shops that sells old vintage items mixed with the relatively modern items, and the things there instantly brings us back to the fond memories as a little kid buying cheap snacks from the little van who visits our neighborhood, and also having stalls that sells candies and bubble pop bottles and more; we couldn't help but was so amazed that some things still exists since our childhood and being sold there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally after all the visiting, our driver sent us back to the hotel where we redeemed ourselves a 15 minute complimentary massage from the hotel. Just what we needed to complete this wonderful vacation. Upon checking out, we headed to a nearby huge shopping mall called Esplanade where we got to try out the McDonald's pork burger which is not available here in Malaysia / Singapore. It was not as good as how we expected the patty to be but it is still edible and acceptable. Lastly, we tried also the popcorn from the cinema. Why popcorn of all things? because it is a coconut flavored popcorn with real coconut shredding inside and it tasted so good I can't even describe it. I technically, finished up the whole thing and the boyfriend only managed to have few bites of it ;D</span></div>
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an early Christmas present from the Boyfriend :D</div>
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he has been wanting to get me one since forever because the Apple earphone I used previously has no mic,</div>
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and it absorbs all the noisy background sound so its kinda annoying.</div>
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It got me wondered how he stand the noise all these while. </div>
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I can't even stand annoying sound more than 2 seconds.</div>
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we both are happy after trying it out this afternoon through all the annoying updates from my parts,</div>
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finally it works well and improved the sound quality :D</div>
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thankyousomuch! :)</div>
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revamped my blog with a simple layout and banner today.</div>
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Till Then.</div>
ElaineCharmainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04593843386528983221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378931298488561601.post-64462561675056079532011-09-18T18:29:00.015+08:002012-11-17T23:19:12.844+08:00Forlino Restaurant Sunday Brunch @ One Fullerton, Singapore<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">That Sunday morning was a lovely laid-back Sunday and also the day we bid each other adios. Just perfect to how I would want to spend my weekends, just chilling and relaxing even if it meant just doing something simple. Bryan and I had breakfast at Burger King. No idea why we had burger king that morning, but just merely after 1 hour of burger king we had brunch at Forlino with my sister and Alan. Imagine how much we both can eat!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Forlino is a classic Italian fine dining restaurant that is located at One Fullerton, or better known as the Fullerton Hotel Building just across Marina Bay Sands which has the most awesome-st view of the iconic Esplanade building, Singapore City Center and of course the Singapore Flyer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">The Forlino restaurant seats only 80 persons and it's chef Patron Mario Caramella is the pioneer to his signature style of cuisine which combines classical Italian flavors and ingredients with contemporary presentations and modern cooking techniques. He focuses on bringing the "timeless" appeal of his homeland cooking to the world. - by means food that undergone intense preparation and of highest quality and to be partaken only on special occasions as an integral to a memorable meal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bryan came down for just a short visit/transit last Saturday. That night we headed to the largest observation wheel in the world - The Singapore Flyer , seriously it is bigger than the London Eye. The view up there was superb breathtaking. Tickets can be purchased online or via the booth counter available there and opt to print it yourself or collect it there. It costs $29.50 per person and we were given a $16 food voucher to use at the food court "Food Trail", thus we decided to just have dinner there after our ride . Since we went up around 9pm, the queue was considered short :/ and the ride took us 30 minutes for a complete circle. The nearest MRT station to get there would be Promenade which is at the yellow line and then you'll have to exit at exit A.</div>
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The view was superbly amazing, and of course the experience of being up there was so different compared to being on the Eye of Malaysia. The observation wheel was more solid build and no one should be afraid of getting up there because its very safe :P ( exception unless if you're afraid of heights teehee). I remembered feeling a little scared going up on the Eye of Malaysia but not this :S</div>
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Food Trail's Sugar Cane with Sliced Lemon drink, Fried Oyster Omelette, and Bak Kut Teh. Well, basically this place has a lot of local Chinese foods and it has the theme of the 1920's ambiance to it. Perfect for people who loves to reminisce back to things in the past. Though it's a bit pricier but that just cause its a tourist attraction area. </div>
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On the way there, we stopped by a drug store and it captured my eyes as their drug stores are all decorated with neon lights signboards unlike what we see in Malaysia where neon lights signboards are normally used for entertainment places such as clubs.<br />
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Using our student cards to purchase the ticket, it costs us 5 euro which is about RM21 for entrance fee.</div>
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The interior of the many places inside the opera house. I just love how everything looked so grand and I love how the architecture look so neatly done and thoughts of perfections were given to it the moment it was built and well preserved till this day.</div>
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I absolutely love this place because it was my first time actually visiting an actual opera house and initially I thought this place was a museum. Look at the picture below this, these are actually doors to individual balcony rooms and each room can cater up to 6 persons with velvet-ish walls. Classic.</div>
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The inside view of each of the balcony rooms. It reminded me of Phantom of the Opera the movie.</div>
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Lots and lots of beautiful chandeliers hanging on the ceiling which makes up the grand feeling when you're inside. Not to mention, the very artistic paintings surrounding the entire building.</div>
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This is actually the view from the main balcony of the opera house. Overlooking the city. The feeling when you stood up there is how you will feel as a pope, waving to thousands of people at St. Peter Square. But for this, you actually wave to the locals here and they are the ones that try to get your attention so you will take their pictures from above. </div>
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This building actually served as the principal venue of the Parisian Opera and Ballet since its open. Thus, this explains why they have a gift shop that is totally dedicated to ballet dancers selling the outfits, shoes, books, cd, keychains and many more other ballet related items inside.</div>
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After that, we continued our journey just shopping around Paris's famous shopping area , the Champ Elysees and visited the Arch De Triomphe. Fret not, more pictures coming in the next post.</div>
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Located at the heart of Paris is the Louvre. It is originally built as a 12th century fortress and then converted to a royal palace in the 14th century and now it is one of the largest and most visited museum in the whole world.</div>
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This place housed about 35,000 objects on display, all spread out around the palace which was divided into 3 main wings.<br />
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The glass pyramid originally received mixed review as it contrasts with the original classical design of the surrounding buildings but then it was considered as a good solution as to giving the museum a huge central entrance without the need to touch the historic patrimony.</div>
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Well, actually the main attraction here mainly is because of the Glass Pyramid which was the latest addition to this prestigious museum. This pyramid was built in 1989 ( exactly the same year as I was born :P ) but yet it still looked so good as it is so well maintained. The pyramid is actually the entrance door to the museum. </div>
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Just look at the amount of people queuing, dying to get in the museum everyday is enough to make you not want to go in and visit the museum unless you have 24 hours to spare just for this museum. This is not even half of the queue yet :/ thus we ended up just snapping pictures outside of the pyramid instead of going in the museum itself. </div>
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If you would like to read more about The Louvre, check out this link : <a href="http://www.louvre.fr/">The Louvre</a> for more informations.</div>
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After the Louvre, we had our brunch at a nearby restaurant. This restaurant serves the typical French cuisines you can find anywhere in France, but unlike the restaurants and some places in France, this restaurant allow us to take picture of their food and the owners were very friendly and efficient in their service. </div>
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I had fish the other day and it was really good. Tasted the French union soup and it was uber-delicious, unlike those you often get here, which always is diluted and tasteless.</div>
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and in Paris, you often can see really nice magazine booth such as above.</div>
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Remember I was saying that transport is very efficient in Paris? You can rent public bicycles everywhere and need not to worry you won't get any because they have tons of it and is often lined up by the road side.ElaineCharmainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04593843386528983221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378931298488561601.post-74765084238681099412011-05-29T10:41:00.005+08:002012-11-16T22:02:52.146+08:003rd Post on Paris - The City of Love - Fountaine St.Michel and Notre Dame<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Also known to the French as <i><b>"Our Lady of Paris"</b></i></div>
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Prior to reaching Notre Dame, we were just walking around streets and snapping pictures randomly.</div>
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And I love how almost, each and every memorable monuments are "almost" close to one another.</div>
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By "almost" I meant by some, not all. Some requires longer walks and you'll need to take other transportation.</div>
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I especially love the designs of their cafes, often in a classic old building, with outdoor patio where one can just sit, chill and relax while taking a break from the hustle and bustle life of the busy city.<br />
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Motorcycles are everywhere, which is why traffic jam is not an issue in Paris. Transportations there are so efficient, and they also have public bicycles for rent. Pictures will be in the next post :)</div>
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Then, at the heart of Quartier Latin, the Place-St. Michel is a famous Paris landmark that you'll see. There is a fountain ( Fontaine Saint Michel ) in the center of the square and it was created by a French sculptor , Gabriel Davioud back in 1860. This landmark basically represents Saint Micheal, the protector of France slaying a dragon.</div>
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Originally, the fountain central's statue supposed to be of Napoleon Bonaparte but it received criticism from some of the opponents thus it was then changed to the image of St.Micheal.</div>
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Walking across the road by the bridges and overlooking the river of Seine, is the Notre Dame.<br />
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As we reached the outside of Notre Dame, within sight you're able to see this shop and also a beautiful garden before entering the Catholic gothic church.</div>
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Notre Dame is famous for it's finest French Gothic architecture and the naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass are in contrast with the earlier Roman architecture. It was completed back in 1345.</div>
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Visitors are allowed to enter the church for free and the view inside is amazingly breathtaking. As a catholic myself, upon entering I was so amazed and fascinated by the church it got me carried away. I mean for us back here, the churches are just normal building with less architectural details been put unto it , the most you can get is just the glass windows and probably the altar that has a similar touch to the churches in France but other than that, the building architectural is nothing compared to churches in France.</div>
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A mini size figurine of the church on display.</div>
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There were also a lot of different small prayer rooms inside the churches, surrounding the main altar. Each and every prayer room is for different Saints, Mother Mary, Jesus and the father himself. There were at least 10 of them each with their own chairs and altars for praying. </div>
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Anyone is free to buy a candle as donation to the church and you can light it up for your personal prayers.<br />
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The side view of the main altar.</div>
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And you can also purchase souvenirs inside the church. Just walk towards the left upon entering the church. There is a special souvenir that I've collected when I was there and few other places whereby one can only get it from the place itself when you visit it. Picture on this will be shown next time :)</div>
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This church is located at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><i>6 Parvis Notre-Dame, Place Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France.</i></span></div>
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Well if you would like to know more about this church and more of it's specialties , you can view this website : <a href="http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/-English-">NotreDameParis</a></div>
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Basically, these was the queue while waiting for our luggage when we landed at Paris's Charles De Gaulle Airport. </div>
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And amazingly, they only have one lane for us to claim our luggage, which explains why you see so many people queuing here while waiting for their luggages. However, it didn't took us long. How efficient it was. </div>
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Upon departing the baggage claim area, we were welcomed by our French tour guides. Their job was just to make sure all of us got into the right bus, and then drop us off our hotel. While in the bus, they briefed us about Paris.. everyone was too busy looking at the beautiful sceneries to listen anyways. It was pouring when we reached the hotel but later on it stopped, luckily or else a day will be wasted, even though it was just half a day.</div>
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Upon checking in and settling down, we decided to head straight to the Eiffel Tower, since its open till night time, we figured it was a good time to see the Eiffel Tower during sunset :) so we took the train, and amazingly, each train station has this really tiny yet auto-open doors, so classic looking yet so modern.</div>
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In case you're wondering, it is always cheaper to buy the train tickets in 10 instead of 1 at a time. Each ticket will cost you about euro 1+ if you buy it individually. What amazes me was, each ticket can get you very far, like you can use one ticket for few places instead of one station only and it saves up so much time and money.Oh, sometimes, well <i>quite often</i> you can see the locals with their own "jumping" skills, they can just get through without buying ticket and it seems like a norm here :/ no one really cares anyway. </div>
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Took this shot while we're inside one of their oldest, slowest yet still way faster than KTM in Malaysia train. It is a very old vintage train, with no air con actually, just half opened window but it was winter, so it makes no difference. This train apparently has 2 levels, and it is not crowded at all. I'm really impressed with how efficient is their transportation system is. Not only you don't have to wait like half an hour minimum for a train, their's came almost every 10-15 minutes. I experienced taking at least 3 different types of trains there, none of them fail me. Of course, their trains were not pack, at times it was but it won't be as bad as those you get in Malaysia. However, one thing you will want to be reminded at all times, wherever you are in Paris is to beware of pickpockets. Everyone will tell you that, but more stories about that later.</div>
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and here we are, to visit the Eiffel Tower. We reached around evening time. First glance at it was, it gave me the impression of " Oh, we're here already? " HAHA I know right. I was actually busy looking at the merry-go-round across the busy road, and didn't realize that we reached our destination. When we reached, the Eiffel Tower was not lighted up yet, it was still the normal brown color steel building you see everyday and the picture above was when we lingered around for about an hour plus and it started lighted up. In my opinion, even though it was lighted up, it is not the best sight yet. Not until, the next 15 minutes..when..</div>
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The view from below the tower, actually was standing near the center to capture this shot. Standing in the middle gives you a square view and I prefer this over the middle view. See how much details did the French put in order to built this tower. I love how everything looked so fine and firm. </div>
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With the few people I've hanging around with for 2 weeks when we're in France. The group just gets larger and larger and it was fun like that :) we did not went up to the Eiffel tower on the first day but only went there another day during a second trip. Pictures on that later, the view was amazing.</div>
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See the four of us trying to take the center view of the Eiffel tower above us, fail attempt but its still a picture anyways. Everyone with different expressions and the face of "Oh we're in Paris already?" Look that cup of tea cup is actually a Mulled wine - which is red wine combined with spices such as cinnamon and served warm. It was normally consumed during Christmas and Halloween. It costs about 4 euros? Which is counted very cheap already, normally it costs about 8 euros for a glass and the currency differences will just kill you. It is a must try, so smooth. warm and yet the cinnamon will just make you crave for more. You are able to get it at the kiosk next to the official souvenir shop of Eiffel tower with a very short queue.</div>
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Few among all the crazy yet sporting guy friends that I have, bunch that loves food and touring with them was good cause these chefs, 2 of them on the left came to France for training previously and they brought us around so we won't get lost and gave us lots of ideas and of course recommendations on food. Oh this got worst especially when we're in Toulouse. Toulouse has the best food stuffs in my opinion. More on that later.</div>
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After the Eiffel tower, we walked to a place like 3-5 blocks behind from where we were, and found this shop for our dinner. Everyone was famished as we had enough of breakfasts through out our entire journey to France. Thus we settled here, but there were not many pictures from here simply because we were not allowed to take pictures of anything here. So much for giving them more than 10 euros of tips after that :/ However, the food was just moderately nice. We had wines too because it was cheap and it was really cold that night. I didn't really enjoy it because I was expecting more :P that's why I still prefer Toulouse's food over others.</div>
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After dinner, we walked out and then basically the entire streets looked like this. Somehow I love it, so quiet, yet its a pretty sight. Nothing fancy but just a fun time walking around exploring places with your friends, chit-chatting while enjoying the cold breeze till we landed at a small supermarket to buy water supplies. Evian was really cheap there, like 1 euro or sometimes lesser for 1500ml. In Malaysia, it'll cost you bomb to be drinking that. What's worst, using it to wash your hands in Paris :D</div>
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which I have yet to start on, </div>
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<i>Classes are resuming tomorrow! 56 more days to go, 56 more days of stress!</i></div>
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it has been almost a week since my last post!</div>
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Was really busy with my assignments and I'm glad all the reading paid off.</div>
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Yesterday had my economics presentation and my lecturer's expectation was really high this time.</div>
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This year's Chinese New Year was just back to how it was 3-4 years ago I guess.</div>
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Long gone the days, since my house actually have open house, it's getting tiring for my mum.</div>
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So she decided not to held an open house anymore and then our new years was spent overseas, or in Sandakan.</div>
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Last year I was at Beijing with my family, how fast time flies :/</div>
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This year's was spent back at Sandakan,</div>
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uncle's place, went there for 4 days 3 nights,</div>
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First day's best breakfast - the famous siew kut and<br />
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Ordered 2 glasses of Hot Chocolate, 1 Apple latte , 1 Nut Cocoa (MUST TRY!), 1 Ice blended Passionfruit , 1 plate of cocktail sausages with crumbs , 1 bolognese spaghetti and Beef burger set</div>
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Everything was good, seriously. Even the owner was being very nice, came talking to us and personally stood by the door to greet us goodbye even when the shop was packed.</div>
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I will and must go back there next time!</div>
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that night was the open house at uncle's place..</div>
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Thus,<br />
ends the update for my trip in Sandakan.<br />
More to come during this weekend!<br />
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Till Then!</div>
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