Bahau on CNY

This year, I went to a little town called Bahau, 15 minutes off Kuala Pilah, N9. When my dad heard of the town Kuala Pilah, all he could think of is - Siti Nurhaliza. My dad adores Siti until she marries that old guy.

I wouldn't say Bahau is that ulu or small, but I thru' my own observation, Bahau is as large and buzzling as Kluang but has more Chinese residence than the latter. The houses there resembles my late grandfather's old house in PJ Old Town because they are mostly single story bungalows with obvious designs i.e. half atap-zinc roofs, half bricks-half cement walls and cement (tile-less) floors. The house I was invited to has their jamban outdoors! And aha....of course...the food: As the Chinese in Bahau are mostly ethnic Hakka and their variations, you can't separate yourself from: lui cha.

LuiCha:

My housemate is hakka but has never cook luicha for me also :P

I am only so-so with luicha. Too much fibre. Toooo green. Too much munching going around. Honestly, I felt like a cow (ya...welcome, Ox year!). I have only tried it once in Bandar Puteri's HoBoh, and this home-made luicha in the Fam's family was my second time. Ahem...looks kinda easy to make actually as I observed how they prepared and cook the stuffs right at their lovely kitchen. Taste okay la. Lack ajinomoto though. But I guess with all these fibre and go-green concept and with only ONE working stomach, I got full real fast. I had enough. Burp!

home-made luicha my unfinished plate of luicha

Bahau has this food market similar to the food market in Taiping. In the night, after a hefty dinner and bad service from a so-called luxurious restaurant, I was introduced to a better meal in that market. They proclaimed he's famous in his curry laksa noodles (this stall also sold many other noodles) but frankly, it's not that sedap as I initially thought. They don't put santan wan worrr. Not enough taste. Lack ajinomoto (again!). I till prefer the curry noodles in Ipoh Old town and Medan Selera. Or there's just something wrong with my tongue!

In the morning we woke up early to rush (yes, i meant rush) to the market once more for their so-called famous mee soup kicap. Soooo many people! Dissapointingly, it's just taste like drinking kicap soya without the saltiness. I think the restless chef with his ample orders and bulk cooking all in one go (for the CNY crowd. I spotted 4 Singapore cars) made his mee soup kicap tasteless! I can say, if more...ahem...ajinomoto was added in, the noodles would improved lots more. Really, it was tasteless. I gave the chef credit for the beef meat he added to the noodle though as they were quite aplenty in one bowl.

Yah, Bahau was great place to be. The people were friendly and I've met altogether 4 people who hailed from UPM! What a small world.....

But I still have to say: Shake some ajinomoto to your food, else, bad reviews from me. :P

Adios, Bahau.

Condemned on both occasions.

Valentine's day (to my horror) is looming. Watching movies alone (again???!) and no popcorns to share with? My plan on V-day: re-watch Brokeback Mountain.

CNY was a major dissapointment because I was sick. On CNY's eve, the right side of my jaw and cheekbone were killing me. I blamed my wisdom tooth but I realised don't have any Wisdom since hell knows. So, what was it??? I wikipedia-ed the symptoms. Nothing. The pain throbs thru' the whole CNY eve dinner and starts to intensified 'til my neck got stiffened and soon my migrain started. Went to Assunta the next day and the doctor said I have some sinus points blocked. Bla Bla Bla bla bla bla bla.... Then my heart skipped a beat when she said the word: Bell's palsy. I felt like I was passed the death sentence (because it sounded like I was going to get retarded i.e. 'cere-bral palsy'), but who or what is this Bell??? Then I remembered my friend Kelvin Hew had something similar but I forgot the name of the penyakit. My two-week-incurable-runny-stuffy-nose-cum cold could be the trigger of it.

Then, my doctor uncle and aunt came on the second day. I asked them many questions about Bell. I ask JoNie too. All of them scared me to death with their explanation of the disease. Thanks Jo for the help and the fear instilled :P There's no medication. Just rest and let my nerves grow back. 2-6 weeks. Could be 6 months to 1 year. Depends. I really died-ed.

Btw, I still look leng-lui as usual, and my face is not SENGET. Not senget, ok!!? I can still smile and laugh. So, jangan harap ler, Beh!

Happy Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day. H/P: 016-2639631 if you want to watch Brokeback and cry with me.

R-T-F-M by Kingy

I'll backtrack the whole Jonie-BK-Ivy experience in KL last-last weekend. Please click here for Jonie's blog regarding the whole ordeal. Still I have to thank BK for helping me verbally on my molecular work. He's really an expert in biotechnology. Another noteworthy advice from him to me was to always "R-T-F-M" which is an abbrev. for "Read The F**king Manual". It really works! My molecular results were better after I've read the f***ing manual. Step by step and voila - good results. And how I hope life can be soo much better with a manual to every single thing! Just follow and all is well. Don't you think the Bible is a great manual? :)

Regrettably this year, I'll be celebrating my whole CNY in KL. Dad is orang KL/PJ. So KL it is. Mum's family side will be in KL too to hook up with my mum in Puchong. With my mum cooking every year and opens her Ipoh house on so many previous CNY, she wants some good rest this year. Though she enjoys doing it, everyone in her family pities mum for being sooooooooooooooooo tired after every open house and CNY celebration. She usually cook for 50 people or more in once single day. And I never help her; all she wants me to do is to invite a million more of my friends over :P

I know to the horror of many people after reading this: I don't really miss Ipoh and I love KL too much. So, I think I wanna be in KL this CNY too. If I have a choice, I would relinquish all traces of Ipoh from my blood(????!!!). I love all my old friends there, but not the place. Sorry guys/girls. Hah!!! - I'll only return to Ipoh (Timur) to vote in this coming GE (Some people are going to kill me after I say this. Will wear a bullet proof vest when I return to Ipoh). Maybe I should release my Ipoh Timur registration and change my vote to the Puchong Jaya constituency? Even consider changing my I.C. again because I want to change the address from Ipoh to Puchong Jaya.

But sooo many MPs are also not loyal lerrrr.....e.g. from Malacca to Penang, then to Ipoh, to gain votes. Still, Jelutong MP is most loyal to Jelutong. He's quite long there lerrr. And I've never seen a guy more loyal to Sg. Siput than the Sg. Siput MP. Too long for my liking. Wait, are they supposed to be loyal to their constituency arr?

Somebody please give me an Ipoh-manual so that I can read and make me a Ipoh-girl once more!!!