Ole Ole Bali - A trip to Solaris Mont Kiara

Nowadays seems Solaris Mont Kiara is a hot place for diners and clubbing kaki. All I know about Solaris Mont Kiara is that I always saw it lighted at night beside the highway, when I travelling in and out of Kuala Lumpur. Do not want to stay outdated; me and George decided to explore it out on one of the Friday night.

Finally we found our way to SohoKL via Sri Hartamas. For those who don’t know about it, SohoKL is a 1-stop hub comprising of the worlds finest in international cuisines and clubbing scenes.

http://www.sohokl.com/main.aspx

Getting there:

http://www.sohokl.com/images/map.htm

As we are not so into clubbing, we focused our mind on those dining place. Finally, we decided to try out Ole Ole Bali, as I am quite impressed by its design and atmosphere.

The shop name explained everything; it’s a Bali style restaurant selling Bali’s food. It was quite crowded, so I guess shouldn’t be too bad. The outlet here has two floors and a pretty huge dining area outside the restaurant (smoking area). We are lead to the second floor, and we choose to sit on the Japanese Style “Tatami”. From our seat view down to the ground floor, we could have a full view of the open kitchen.


Time to decide what to eat, let’s have a look on the menu: A lot of grilled stuff in this restaurant and also Bali style’s rice set. Since already have enough Ayam Betutu and various kind of rice during my recent visit to Bali, we decided to go for something different.

First, we ordered Ole Ole Trio @ RM38 from Balinese Specialties menu. It consists of 3 nicest starters: Ole-Ole BBQ Wings, Sate Lilit and Cumi-Cumi Goreng and served with Sambel Matah (Lemongrass sambal), Sambel Terasi and Tartar sauce.

Cumi-Cumi Goreng (deep fried squid) is crispy and nice.

The best of these 3 should be Sate Lilit. It is basically barbecued mix seafood paste wrapped around a lemongrass stalk. It tastes much better than the one I tried in Bali, soft and unique texture with strong fragrance of the lemongrass.

The Ole-Ole BBQ Wings are not bad, but I found nothing special about it. Too much of it make me feel very oily.

Next up is the Grilled Beef Steak Sandwich @ RM23. The half cooked beef steak taste nice with onions and BBQ sauce, and the meat is tender soft. However, the sandwich bread is a bit hard which minus some mark. It served together with fries and it’s indeed a filling dish after all…



After eating all the fried and grilled food, is best to have a cup of hot honey lemon @ RM6. It served together with a piece of peanut biscuit, which is sweet and nice.



Overall the food here is considered ok; just that too much of grilled and fried stuff make me feel quite oily. The price is quite expensive, not everyone can afford it.

However, the atmosphere saves a lot of marks. There’s a lot of artwork round here, make me feel as I’m in a Balinese art gallery.






Give it a try if you are fancy of Balinese food and afford for the price, why not?

Sungai Klah Hot Spring and Teluk Intan Trip

Want a short weekend getaway? You might want to try out hot spring at Sungai Klah then. It just about an hour drives from KL after all. Or you might want to consider copying my Sungai Klah Hotspring – Menara Condong Teluk Intan – Teluk Intan “Chee Cheong Fun” one day trip itenary.

Sungai Klah Hot Spring Park started operation since December 2003 and is reputed to be one of the best managed hot spring park in Malaysia. Me and George tried it out last year and found that it is quite an ideal place to relax and de-stress, and it’s suitable to go as a family activity as well. It was quite crowded during our last visit, due to school holiday. So please don’t go on public holiday or school holiday if you want to avoid the crowd.

SUNGAI KLAH HOT SPRINGS PARK
36000 Sungkai, Perak, Malaysia
Tel: +605 441 4493
Fax: +605 438 8760

Getting there:
Take the Plus North South Highway and get out at the Sungkai toll plaza. Take the left turn towards Trolak at the T-junction after the toll plaza.

After driving about 500m from the T-junction, you should come across a turnoff on your left. There is a school at this turnoff called the Sekolah Menengah Sg Kruit.

Once you are in the turnoff, you will see many signboards that will lead you to the place.

You’ll need to purchase a ticket at the entrance, RM10 for Adult, RM8 for Children. The operation hour is from 8 am to 10 pm.

There’s a directory board showing the map so as the facilities of the park:

Hot Springs Swimming Pool

Cold water Swimming Pool ... Crowded!!

There are Hot spring Therapeutic Pools with temperature range from 40°C to 100°C too. There's a yellow plate showing the temperature of the hot spring pool. So, please consider before soaking your legs in.

We choose to try on hot spring range from 40°C - 50°C, since most of the aunty and uncle soaking their legs here.

The hot spring is really hot… After few minutes I started to sweat and my skin gone red…. Really hot!!! My blood must be circulated really fast that time...

If your family loves egg boiling activities, you'll love it here. The water temperature at this area can go up to 100 °C. The reading of the water temperature can be seen by the thermometer that is placed here. However, you’ll need to prepare your own tools for egg boiling --- Basket and eggs.. I didn’t get to boiled egg because I didn’t prepare the basket!!

For those prefer to have the privacy of soaking in a private atmosphere, try the normal or the superior private Jacuzzi. It cost RM75 per hour for a normal type and RM125 per hour for the superior type. Due to the crowd at the big hot spring pool, me and George decided to take the private Jacuzzi room. We didn’t book early, in order to not leave with disappointment; we also get the Traditional Local Massage that can guarantee us a private Jacuzzi room.

The normal private pool is quite big, and can soak like 5-7 people. So I think RM75 is quite worth as you can get privacy and enjoy the Jacuzzi as well as hot spring water… There’s also a massage room beside the pool, with bathing and changing facilities…

Wooden bed for massage...

This is the Ayurveda massage that we tried. I can’t remember the price, but I don’t suggest you to try… They use oil (I’m not sure what kind of oil, but it got a weird smell) for massage, which is really oily and made me spent a extra long bathing time to get rid of the oil…

After the refreshing hot spring Jacuzzi bath, we headed to Teluk Intan, which is just an hour drive away by taking the old road. Visited “Menara Condong” and getting around Teluk Intan town.

The operating hours of Menara Condong..

It almost dinner time, so we look for the famous “Chee Cheong Fun” at Teluk Intan. After asking around, finally we found the factory. It only operate from evening to midnight.

A lot of people lined up there already..

The machine for “Chee Cheong Fun”..

After half an hour queue, we finally got our “Chee Cheong Fun” at RM3.00 per pack!! It is different with those “Chee Cheong Fun” we have in KL, there’s no sauce for it .. It with some minced pork filling and eat together with green chilies… Yummy… Me and George finish 3 packs of it and “tapao” some home ...

Beautiful Flora & Fauna on Mount Kinabalu

Thanks to George for contributing all these nice photo...

Give my Kitchen your best rating at www.IKEA.com.my

Today, I proudly present you my little messy kitchen... Teng teng teng deng..


Why I'm showing you this? Because I got no choice, need your kind vote for my entry to the Ikea "Go Clean Your Room" Contest..

IKEA Go Clean Your Room Contest: Anne's Kitchen



This is really a good chance for me to makeover my pity tiny and messy kitchen!! I just need to send in a photo or a video of the room that i think need to be "clean up", upload the photo or video in the IKEA website and tell everyone why i deserve to win. This will be the Part 1 of the contest...

If I'm lucky enough to outstand as the Top 5 of this Part 1, I will get rewarded RM2000 and entitle to enter the Part 2. I then can use the IKEA vouchers to pick up some IKEA storage solutions, to make over my Kitchen. Again, take some video and photo in the most creative way present it online. The best makeover will win RM5,000 IKEA vouchers!!!
If you are also interested please act fast as the closing date for Part 1 is 17th June 2009. So, those want to vote for me please act fast also!! You can vote as many times as you like!! Thank you!

IKEA Go Clean Your Room Contest: Anne's Kitchen

妈妈的爱心娘惹粽 Beloved Mum’s Nyonya Dumpling

好久好久没有吃到妈妈的娘惹粽了! 有别于平常的肉粽, 妈的娘惹粽无法在外头买到, 所以异常的想念. 在端午节前, 忍不住打电话向妈妈撒娇, 告诉她我好想吃娘惹粽.. 没想到妈妈告诉我她会来吉隆玻, 可以带粽子来给我!! 吔!!! 好开心可以吃到久违的娘惹粽, 更开心可以见到妈妈..
It’s been years I didn’t get to eat my mum’s Nyonya dumpling. Really miss it, as it’s different with normal dumpling and can’t buy it elsewhere. So happy that my mum told me she will come KL and she can bring me the Nyonya dumpling! Horray!! I’m not only can eat Nyonya dumpling and can meet my mum..

看..这就是我妈的娘惹粽了! 虽然妈妈放我鸽子没来, 但她交代我的好友把粽子带给我..
Even though at the end my mum didn’t come to KL, but she passed it to my best friend to bring it to me.. See, this is my mum’s Nyonya dumpling..


好感动哦…..粽子也好好吃哦!!!
Touching .. The dumpling is also very nice!!

娘惹粽的特别处是它的陷料..除了猪肉,栗子和香菇之外, 妈的温暖牌娘惹粽还加了磨碎了的香料和虾米… 至于是什么香料…秕密! (其实我不知道! 哈哈!)
Other than pork, chestnut and mushroom, my mum’s nyonya dumpling also added with rempah ingredient (some secret spice powder) and dry shrimp…

谢谢妈妈, 好爱你哦!!!
Thanks and Love you mum!!!