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Went to the Magnificent Fish & Chips restaurant at Changkat Bukit Bintang with some media friends since Letitia was in town. I heard a lot about this place from different people as well as well-known as food-blogs such as boo_licious' so a must try I guess. :) It was definitely not a let down!

I was told that the potatoes here are one of the best around and well, I made the mistake of ordering too much of the same type of potatoes... ie the minted new potatoes. Not that it's not good but I should have taken the fried variety too. Love 'em to bits! :D

Letitia has the salmon with loads of baby onions beneath it. Yummy! Salmon's not overly done and doesn't have that fishy taste which was good and the baby pickled baby onions were a great complement to the fish.

Nadiah's kidney pie was something quite interesting. :) A little weird for me... maybe cause I know it's kidney I'm eating? Not sure but I think I'll try some other type of pie the next round for sure.

Nur's prawns was lovely. Portions real huge... if only they served calamari as well... man,we'll be in heaven. haha. :D

And finally, my fish & chips. Incidentally, I decided to change the chips for minted potatoes, told you I over-ordered on 'em. Anyways, if you had taken the fish & chips as it was intended to be served, you'll have a bucket load of chips below your fried dory fish or any other type of fish of your liking. It was magnificent. :)

Had some turkish coffee for the first time and I must say... it does take some getting used to. They put cardamom in the coffee. Guess that's what makes it turkish.

Anyways, for the uninitiated... cardamoms are the stuff people put into Biryani Rice. Interesting, don't you think?

Thanks to a good friend, I was introduced to a place in my opinion, the best siew yok [roasted pork] that I've ever tasted! Situated on Jalan Pudu, it's just a stone throw away from Pudu Jail. With a signboard like this, how can one miss it? :)

Let's start with the rice, it's so fragrant, I can just have the rice alone without any gravy but since I like my rice flooded, their sauces are a good complement to the rice.

Of course we can't be having all meat and act like carnivores so we had to have some yummy greens on the table.

But when these came, it was obvious why us 5 guys were there. :) Tell me your mouth's not watering right now, looking at this delicious plate of steam and roasted chicken. I definitely am! :P

Now to balance up our meat and vegetable ratio, we had some nice tofu. Good balance, don't you think?

And the pièce de résistance of the night was these heavenly siew yok [roasted pork]. Just look at them. Aren't they just oh-so-temptingly-delicious? Among the 5 of us, we have 2 plates of these. What bliss! :D It's good to be a carnivore! Hahah. Oh by the way, the place only opens at night. Now go look for the Kokok Chicken. :)

I'm sorry but I'm just too stoned to come up with a better title. :P Was up in Genting the past weekend and it was so unplanned and unexpected that I was still arranging my stuff on Thursday evening and the bus was leaving on Friday morning for Genting. Thanks to Lind, the media liason from Genting... everything was a breeze. :)

The media gang was housed at the First World Hotel while the rest of the people was in Genting Hotel above the venue... So the media bunch had a good 15 minutes walking to do to get to the venue and the press conferences. Good exercise I must say.

We were taken care of well. Food's aplenty, albiet substandard except for the coffee house at Genting Hotel where most of everybody was hanging out at. Great effort for the first time. :)

Went down to Singapore with the boys and girl of Aseana Percussion Unit. They were doing a couple of fringe performances for the 30th Singapore Arts Festival.

So some of us stayed at the Royal Hotel @ Queens and some stayed at the New 7 Storey Hotel, both in the Bugis area, which was good...foods aplenty and close by to Bugis Junction. :)

Latest fad for toilet-makers... in order to flush, you'll have to press and hold till the flush is complete. What a fun way to spend your time in the toilet! :D

Fancy a Allson Tunch? :) Sounds like Lunch but who's to say.

APU did a couple of performances at the Raffles City Mall as well as Timbre, the festival club. And this here's the best cheese fries i've had in a while. Definitely better than the KFC varieties you find in KL.

To end the trip, we went to Esplanade's glutton bay for some grub and listen to some Paul Ponnudorai at Harry's. It was great! :) Wonder if I'll have enough cash to check out Tommy Emmanuel when he performs at Esplanade on the 21st of July.