Sureno @ The opposite house, Beijing

If you have been to Penang G-hotel, you might probably impressed by its lobby. If you have not know, G hotel is a boutique hotel. It's my first time to hear the term boutique hotel when I first stepped into The Opposite House. For more information on the hotel design, room design and room rate, please visit their website. The room rate can fluctuate from RMB 2k to 5k per night depending on the season *sweat*.

There are few things impressed me:
1. The hotel staffs are friendly, they introduce their hotel concept, design and room decoration to all guest either diner or hotel guest. They think everyone is their potential customer in the future :)
2. The hotel is nicely decorated, with a lots of art deco. The hotel lobby looks more like living room :)
3. It doesn't looks commercial hotel but more like apartment :)

After that, the hotel staff bring us to the restaurant.


From right to left, bottom to top:
1) Mushroom risotto. Quite nice.
2) The best pizza I'd ever eaten. The crust is so thin and crispy :) The only food that will make me revisit the restaurant.
3) Wagyu beef, we think it taste normal only :p Maybe we do not know how to appreciate wagyu beef.
4) Seafood soup. The seafood is separately cook with the tomato soup base. So there is very less seafood taste in the soup, which make us think it is not complete :)

Le Petit Gourmand, Beijing

Look at picture below, would you think it is a library?



It's a French restaurant called Le Petit Gourmand. The restaurant is full with books rack, with systematic book organization using book title. Well, their food is nice too, let's take a look :)


1) Fresh and huge portion salad.
2) Nice mushroom soup, fresh mushroom taste and creamy.
3) Seafood platter. The sauce is special.
4) Beef soup.


Above is couscous with meat and vegetable soup. It is special but not my cup of 'rice' :p



The left is chocolate Opera is nice I think. It melted in mouth, but can feel the caramel layer.
Guess what is the dessert at the right? I can't remember the name :p Stiff beat egg white on custard. Until our last bite only we realize the sweetness come from egg white but not custard.

Feeling hungry? Get something to eat ;) Some Beijing food?

TGV will you come?

I was trying to look for movie showtime schedule from www.gsc.com.my, but unexpectedly the website is so slow. They are upgrading the server, as mentioned in the email. Well, I do not expect any server upgrade on Friday night, isn't this one of the peak time for user to browse for movie for the weekend?

Okay, don't give up too early, so I try to call their reservation phone line to check the schedule and made reservation. Guess what, after press a key to select the cinema, I get an automated reply on Connection Error.

Last choice, check cinema schedule from www.cinema.com.my (luckily I know this website), another surprises, neither Harry Potter nor Ice Age are showing in Queensbay Mall. Those movie appears in the popular chart but it's not on show. Hmm. Okay, I am too outdated then, maybe. Everyone watch movie when it was first released...

This is not the first time I have hard time with GSC website and phone reservation. TGV, will you ever consider to start your business in Penang?

Another roasted duck in Beijing for last dinner

It's Friday :) Let's relax with some roast duck from Beijing :D

Before we left, we went to 全鸭季Duck de Chine for last dinner in Beijing. Similar to Da Dong roasted duck, they provide wrapper and biscuit for the duck also. Here how those looks like:



My personal preference, I prefer Da Dong's, because Da Dong's wrapper is thinner, its biscuit is thinner and more crispy, its duck meat and dip sauce are better in taste, its duck skin is more crispy :) Well, I guess it summarizes the food in picture above :p

Nevertheless, some dishes here are quite nice. From top left, in clockwise direction:



1) Mongolian mutton - This taste good, really, it really taste good.
2) Scallop - Hmm, ok lar :p
3) Tofu and vege soup - Special.
4) Belly pork meat - Although the oil layer is quite thick, but surprisingly it doesn't taste oily, and in fact very nice :)

Have a nice weekend ahead friend.

Stay tune

Friend, please wait few more days for more blog post.
It was just 2.5 months, but besides unpack luggage, room cleaning and tidy up works are more than I expected.
I will be back :D

笑死人的12星座宝 zodiac jokes

Forwarded jokes on zodiac characteristics 转载电邮，笑一笑吧 :)

白羊座 Aries
妈妈经常叮嘱羊羊：“穿裙子时不可以荡秋千；不然，会被小男生看到里面的小内裤哦！”
有一天，羊羊高兴地对妈妈说：“今天我和小明比赛荡秋千，我赢了！”
妈妈生气地说：“不是告诉过你吗？穿裙子时不要荡秋千！”
羊羊骄傲地说：“可是我好聪明哦！我把里面的小内裤脱掉了，这样他就看不到我的小内裤了！”
（勇敢直率、敢做敢为的白羊）

金牛座 Taurus
卖瓜小贩：“快来吃西瓜，不甜不要钱！”
饥渴的牛牛：“哇！太好了，老板，来个不甜的！”
（持家、想出轨又顾全自己的金牛）

双子座 Gemini
妈妈叫双双起床：“快点起来！公鸡都叫好几遍了！”
双双说：“公鸡叫和我有什么关系？我又不是母鸡！”
（自我意识强烈、自行思维的双子）

巨蟹座 Cancer
公车上，蟹蟹说：“今晚我要和妈妈睡！”
妈妈问道：“你将来娶了媳妇也和妈妈睡阿？”
蟹蟹不假思索：“嗯！”
妈妈又问：“那你媳妇怎么办？”
蟹蟹想了半天，说：“好办，让她跟爸爸睡！”
妈妈：“！＠＃＄％︿＆＊（……—”
再看爸爸，已经热泪盈眶啦！
（恋母情结、依恋的巨蟹）

狮子座 Leo
狮狮去参加奶奶的寿宴。到了吃寿包的时候，狮狮问：“我们为什么要吃这种像屁股的寿包？”
众人听了脸色大变。
接著狮狮拨开寿包，看看里面的豆沙，说：“奶奶，快看！里面还有大便！”
众人晕的晕，吐的吐。
（以自我感受、不怕旁人眼光的骄傲的狮子）

处女座 Virgo
处处对肚脐很好奇，就问爸爸。
爸爸把脐带连著胎儿与母体的道理简单地讲了一下，说：“婴儿离开母体之后，医生把脐带减断，并打了一个结，後来就成了肚脐。”
处处：“那医生为什么不打个蝴蝶结？”
（好奇心强又追求完美的处女）

天秤座 Libra
父亲对天天说：“今天不要上学了，昨晚．．．你妈给你生了两个弟弟。你给老师说一下就行了。”
天天却回答：“爸爸，我只说生了一个；另一个，我想留著下星期不想上时再说！”
（聪明、权衡利弊的天平）

天蠍座 Scorpio
蠍蠍刚睡著，就叫蚊子叮了一口。
他起来赶蚊子，却怎么也赶不出去。没法，便指著蚊子说：“好吧，你不出去我出去！”边说边出了房间，把门使劲关严得意地说：“哼！我今晚不进屋，非把你饿死不可！”
（搞不懂、不按常理出牌的天蝎）

射手座 Sagittarius
射射：“爸爸，为什么你有那么多白头发？”
爸爸：“因为你不乖，所以爸爸有好多白头发阿。”
射射：……（疑惑中）
射射：“那为什么爷爷全部都是白头发？”
爸爸：！＠＃＄％︿＆＊（……
（喜欢思考的射手）

摩羯座 Capricorn
一天，羯羯跟妈妈上街；走在路上，突然下起雨来。
妈妈拉过羯羯的小手，说：“下雨了，快往前跑阿！”
羯羯慢条斯理地问：“那前面就不下雨喽！？”
（明白现实懒得改变的摩羯）

水瓶座 Aquarius
瓶瓶问妈妈：“问什么称蒋先生为『先人』？”
妈妈说：“因为‘先人’是对死去的人的称呼。”
瓶瓶说：“那去世的奶奶是不是要叫『鲜奶』？”
（天生的另类、脑筋思考永远和常人不一样的水瓶）

双鱼座 Pisces
爸爸给鱼鱼讲小时候经常挨饿的事。
听完後，鱼鱼两眼含泪，十分同情地问：“哦，爸爸，你是因为没饭吃才来我们家的吗？”
（富含丰富同情心、不分情况对象的双鱼）

Finally home :)

It's so good to be home, tasted the hokkien mee, few durian fleshes; don't have to rush to apply lotion after dinner; don't have to cover my nose while walking on the street. But of course I will missed Beijing too, it is so organized especially transportation and parks.

I received a lot of question if I need to be quarantine. Well, according to company travel policy, Beijing China is not a critical area and I don't need to be. In fact, I felt it is safer in Beijing in terms of H1N1.

At Beijing capital airport, most officer have face mask on, especially those have direct contact with flyers. But in KLIA, I didn't see any officer wearing face mask.

Maybe China learnt from SARS case and really take a lot of steps. From online news, I read Malaysia government is taking action for long too, but just I didn't see it, yet.

All my friends/readers, take care, healthy is our own responsibility but nobody else.