My girls are jelly-crazed. They love all types of jellies, especially those colorful ones in a small cup. But I don’t like the idea of them eating those as no. 1 there is chocking hazard and no. 2 there are too much coloring and food additives in these jellies, expecially those that are made in…
Author: Shireen
Buffet Lunch At Xenri Japanese Restaurant, Wisma Elken
We had buffet lunch at Xenri Japanese Restaurant at Wisma Elken, Old Klang Road to celebrate my mum’s birthday recently. Xenri’s Japanese buffet lunch is one of the best Japs buffet in town at a very affordable price. The fish, oysters and seafood are really fresh and tastefully cooked. I was already really full – had stuffed…
The Many Wonders Of Gold
Gold is not only considered a precious metal that many people invest in or wear them in jewelry. I read from the newspapers that edible gold is also used to decorate food in some very upscale restaurants in some parts of the world. I also found out recently that gold can be used to save…
A Pants That Alycia Has Been Wearing For 6 Years!
Can you believe that Alycia has been wearing this Disney Pooh Bear pants when she was a chubby 6 months old baby up until today? She is 6 years 9 months old now. When she was a baby, the length of the pants was up to her ankle. As she grew taller, the pants got shorter on…
Future Chefs
Since young, Alycia has a strong interest in culinary. She loves food and she loves cooking too. In fact, she loves watching Jamie Oliver, Anthonay Bourdain and AFC with me 🙂 If there’s anything that she truly loves to do, it has got to be cooking, painting and drawing. Well, swimming too 🙂 Here, she’s helping…
Accutane Side Effects
Have you been experiencing pain in your stomach, cramping, diarrhea, bleeding and frequent bowel movements recently? If you have also been popping Accutance to treat your cystic acne, then chances are you are suffering from Accutance side effects. Accutane can result in serious injuries such as Crohn’s disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Ulcerative Colitis….
A Morning With Superstars
Last Saturday when my parents were here, we had breakfast at Papparich. Half way through breakfast, our good friend Alan Yun and his friend, Emily came to the restaurant too. Alan Yuan and Emily are movie stars – they are starring in the current Mandarin series in NTV7. So I took the opportunity to snap some…
Our Hari Raya Holidays
It was an eating marathon holiday for us this Raya holidays. My parents from Ipoh and brother and sil from Singapore were here too. You can expect to see pix of food in my next few posts in my 3 blogs for the next few days 😛 Yesterday after my brother and sil returned to…
All Done Online
There are tens of thousands of colleges and universities around these days. How do you know which one is good and which one can offer you the courses that you want to enroll in at the budget that you want? I remember my mum used to attend education fairs, send snail mails and make endless…
Kids Ask The Darnest Questions
Just a moment ago, Sherilyn insisted that she wanted to shower with me, so I let her into the bathroom. As I was brushing my teeth, this was our conversation : S – mummy, what do people do after they (get) married? Me – (remained quiet as I was brushing my teeth) S – (asked…
A Good Laugh!
Yesterday my mum and I had a real hearty laugh over Alycia. This pretty girl of mine has a very girlish and pretty face with killer dimples on her cheeks but she has rather boyish taste when it comes to fashion. Instead of falling for all things cute, pink, dresses and princesses, she is crazy over blue…
Some Facts About My Sherilyn
Remember my earlier post on Sherilyn eating rice and porridge with her hands? And also about her wearing pretty dresses and necklaces at home? Also about her decorating her hair like a X’mas tree and about her tying her hair like Nina Wang? This little girl of mine just loves to be different. And she…
More Of Home-Cooked Catered Food
One thing I like about this caterer is that her dishes are varied and we hardly ever got the same dish for the past 2.5 weeks. But the combo of some of her dishes can be quite weird, like pumpkin cooked with curry powder! Egg Omelette with sausages, fake crab sticks and long beans. My first…
All Set To Shop But Left Purse Behind
Yesterday we made a trip to a nearby shopping mall to get Alycia a pair of new shoes and also to get my friend who’s getting married next week a gold jewelry as a wedding gift. I was happily shopping and just when I was about to pay, I realized that I had forgotten to…
Boiling Telephone Porridge
I remember I only started to ‘poa tin war choak’ or ‘boil telephone porridge’ which, in Cantonese literally means using the telephone for a prolonged period till the telephone becomes hot, when I was a teenager. Sherilyn who is only 5 1/2 years old has recently started to boil telephone porridge by calling her best…
Catered Homecooked Food
This week is the 2nd week we are having catered homecooked food. And I think I am not going to continue. Let me tell you why and you can have a look at some of the dishes: Steamed minced pork with preserved salted veggie. This dish was super duper salty… so salty that I had…

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