My wife and I don't share many things in common. In fact, if you wanna know what I don't like, you only need to see what she likes and vice versa. However, we do share some interest like our children....we are in the same mind where we will go everywhere with them. But that's another story. We are also very keen food tasters. We are can be adventurous when it comes to checking out food at far off restaurants and different ethnic cuisine. I should write more about the food I taste.
One of our common love is pasta. We only love olive oil pasta. I can take in a cabonara once in a while but no tomato pls. We both love capellini or angel hair and spagetti. Nothing else! And our most loved olive oil pasta place is Dave's at 1Utama. This is not the forum for it. For many years we have been looking for a place that is nearer and provided easier access than a mall.
Recently we found out this quaint place run by a husband and wife team called Vary Pasta. The place is small, tucked in the corner opposite Atria's KFC corner. It doesn't offer much frills but the pasta is great!
Another love of mine, is pork! I take anything pork. I don't eat fish because they can't put pork in it!! But this place has some really good pasta with pork, pork sausages and pork salad.
If you like garlic like me, my favourite is their garlic and herb pasta. You can take it plain (RM9.50) or with grilled chicken, lamb chop and park chop. They are all equally well done and marinated to my absolute liking.
They have other dishes like mixed grill (which is very normal) and sausages (which is not too bad). Pork knuckle was ok though I wouldn't really recommend it. They also do catering and I used them for our Christmas party where the were very accommodating and even customized the menu for us. There was hardly any food left, even the tomato based pasta. So check it out and write me to tell me what you think!
Enjoy!
I wanted to post some photos but I found lost of it on the internet. Just google it and it will show up.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Super Dog.....NOT!!
I wrote a little bit about the dog that we got a year ago from my sis-in-law from Kuantan. He is a mongrel or mutt or pariah...whatever your fancy. The weird thing is that we share the same birthday, so as of last Dec, our puppy turned 1. His name is Boomer, one of the world's stupidest dogs.
I am not someone who jumps to conclusion without facts or evidence. Even then convincing me takes a bit, but when your dog starts to bite and eat your car's plastic number plates, I think that would qualify them as stupid or at least....dense!! I have changed my plates 4 times and he continues to chow on them. I have since refused to change them and if the police were to stop me, I will just feign ignorance and innocence. If they give me a ticket, I will gift wrap my dog for them.
He will be on a leash for most of the day and before you yell animal abuse, let me break it down for you. If allowed to run around, he will bite, eat, destroy our potted plants and the pot. Maybe it's urge to dig is too strong to subdue. There will be scratch marks on the wooden panels and gate. Once he bit through our auto-gate wires as to render our gate immobile.
Every night when I get back, he will be trashing on his leash trying to jump on me as if, the leash will magically disappear despite being around his neck for the better part of the day. So he will jump.....and get choked back by the chain. Jump....choke.....jump.....choke....At this point, you may think that instead of choking maybe the chain is tickling him. Got to be!!! Why else would he inflict self pain??
The moment I go near him, he will pee. On my shoe and pants. Not the "lift-up-hind-leg peeing stance. Just standing there on all fours and peeing. I read on the internet, it's because as a puppy it has issues holding back it's bladder and it's just excited to see me. I should be flattered and show him with affection. I tried that on my wife.....you don't wanna know.
He is also afraid of the thunder and rain...yes rain!! Whenever it rains....regardless of thunder, he will crawl under my car to seek shelter. I let him out every night so that he could run, sniff and pee. I guess it's just the animal kingdom instinct to pee on everything to mark their territory and possessions. Boomer will be darting from one car to the other, smelling, hind leg up....pee! Move to our neighbour's gate, sniff, sniff, hind leg up....pee!
I guess it's just a secret instinctual competition that dogs have with each other and is only known to them. They have a competition going on who is going to be the biggest, baddest, pee-on-the-most-items, dog of the world. Incidentally you don't see that so much in female dogs. Hmmmm........
So my dog is going around like a brown wad of sponge soaked in pee and he is fighting against time to get rid of it on as many items in the world. Don't even get me started on the butt sniffing thing. The next time I see an ad about dogs saving their master like Lassie, I am putting an axe through the TV. But not after I pee on it.
I am not someone who jumps to conclusion without facts or evidence. Even then convincing me takes a bit, but when your dog starts to bite and eat your car's plastic number plates, I think that would qualify them as stupid or at least....dense!! I have changed my plates 4 times and he continues to chow on them. I have since refused to change them and if the police were to stop me, I will just feign ignorance and innocence. If they give me a ticket, I will gift wrap my dog for them.
He will be on a leash for most of the day and before you yell animal abuse, let me break it down for you. If allowed to run around, he will bite, eat, destroy our potted plants and the pot. Maybe it's urge to dig is too strong to subdue. There will be scratch marks on the wooden panels and gate. Once he bit through our auto-gate wires as to render our gate immobile.
Every night when I get back, he will be trashing on his leash trying to jump on me as if, the leash will magically disappear despite being around his neck for the better part of the day. So he will jump.....and get choked back by the chain. Jump....choke.....jump.....choke....At this point, you may think that instead of choking maybe the chain is tickling him. Got to be!!! Why else would he inflict self pain??
The moment I go near him, he will pee. On my shoe and pants. Not the "lift-up-hind-leg peeing stance. Just standing there on all fours and peeing. I read on the internet, it's because as a puppy it has issues holding back it's bladder and it's just excited to see me. I should be flattered and show him with affection. I tried that on my wife.....you don't wanna know.
He is also afraid of the thunder and rain...yes rain!! Whenever it rains....regardless of thunder, he will crawl under my car to seek shelter. I let him out every night so that he could run, sniff and pee. I guess it's just the animal kingdom instinct to pee on everything to mark their territory and possessions. Boomer will be darting from one car to the other, smelling, hind leg up....pee! Move to our neighbour's gate, sniff, sniff, hind leg up....pee!
I guess it's just a secret instinctual competition that dogs have with each other and is only known to them. They have a competition going on who is going to be the biggest, baddest, pee-on-the-most-items, dog of the world. Incidentally you don't see that so much in female dogs. Hmmmm........
So my dog is going around like a brown wad of sponge soaked in pee and he is fighting against time to get rid of it on as many items in the world. Don't even get me started on the butt sniffing thing. The next time I see an ad about dogs saving their master like Lassie, I am putting an axe through the TV. But not after I pee on it.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Happy 2011 and I killed a snail!
This is my first post for 2011. I was so tied up with work and also the most favourite holiday and time of the year for me....CHRISTMAS! So to my reading crowd, I apologize for the long absence. The year ended very well work wise and personal wise. We had a family holiday to Guangzhou, PunYi, Hong Kong and Macau. More of that in later posts.
Every year, I get plenty stressed over buying Christmas presents. I can get grumpy, irritated and a little anxious. Then on Christmas Day, when the presents are opened, you know it's all worth it. This year, I got my girl toys which wasn't that big a deal but she loved it...My son, asked for a bike and I didn't realize how expensive bikes got.
I could have gotten those from the hypermarket or some shop in a small suburb but you know those are just going to break down after a while and it will hurt your ass! The bike I wanted to buy him should have gears, is light, won't hurt your ass so much but not needed to take down the Himalayas or sprout wings and fly to the mesosphere!
When I visited some of the bicycle shops, they had bikes ranging from 1,200 to 30,000!!! I am not sure what those bike can do, maybe give you mouth to mouth resuscitation when you are gasping for air after flying through the mesosphere!! I am not sure but I think this bike CAN hear confession and perform last rites.
So we hunted a while and got the bike we wanted but still expensive.
Anyway, that was as exciting Christmas shopping was going to get. I tried a new caterer this year and the food was GREAT! You should check out this restaurant called Vary Pasta in Damansara Jaya. More on that later.
So how did I celebrate the passing of 2010 and the welcoming of 2011? I spent it with my family as well as a few very good friends on top of a hill in Shah Alam. My good friend Siaw Kng stays in a golf resort compound called KGSAAS and is on a hill. His place is a vantage point for 4 locations in KL and PJ for New Year fireworks. So that night I enjoyed fireworks from KLCC, Sunway, Ikana and 1U. There was an unidentified location but what the heck!
It was a great neighbourhood where all came out to the streets to enjoy the party and each other's company. It was great!! I think I should get a place there. The houses are those new contemporary houses without fences. And as the clock ticked 12, I leaned over to my family to hug and kiss them. Before that happened, I step on and killed a garden snail! So that was my first deed for 2011! Anyway, I wish that 2011 would be a fantastic year in terms of health, wealth and happiness!!
Happy New Year!
Every year, I get plenty stressed over buying Christmas presents. I can get grumpy, irritated and a little anxious. Then on Christmas Day, when the presents are opened, you know it's all worth it. This year, I got my girl toys which wasn't that big a deal but she loved it...My son, asked for a bike and I didn't realize how expensive bikes got.
I could have gotten those from the hypermarket or some shop in a small suburb but you know those are just going to break down after a while and it will hurt your ass! The bike I wanted to buy him should have gears, is light, won't hurt your ass so much but not needed to take down the Himalayas or sprout wings and fly to the mesosphere!
When I visited some of the bicycle shops, they had bikes ranging from 1,200 to 30,000!!! I am not sure what those bike can do, maybe give you mouth to mouth resuscitation when you are gasping for air after flying through the mesosphere!! I am not sure but I think this bike CAN hear confession and perform last rites.
So we hunted a while and got the bike we wanted but still expensive.
Anyway, that was as exciting Christmas shopping was going to get. I tried a new caterer this year and the food was GREAT! You should check out this restaurant called Vary Pasta in Damansara Jaya. More on that later.
So how did I celebrate the passing of 2010 and the welcoming of 2011? I spent it with my family as well as a few very good friends on top of a hill in Shah Alam. My good friend Siaw Kng stays in a golf resort compound called KGSAAS and is on a hill. His place is a vantage point for 4 locations in KL and PJ for New Year fireworks. So that night I enjoyed fireworks from KLCC, Sunway, Ikana and 1U. There was an unidentified location but what the heck!
It was a great neighbourhood where all came out to the streets to enjoy the party and each other's company. It was great!! I think I should get a place there. The houses are those new contemporary houses without fences. And as the clock ticked 12, I leaned over to my family to hug and kiss them. Before that happened, I step on and killed a garden snail! So that was my first deed for 2011! Anyway, I wish that 2011 would be a fantastic year in terms of health, wealth and happiness!!
Happy New Year!
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