Saturday, February 23, 2008

Simple Chi Kut Teh Noodle that's all I need

Not feeling too well today
so I just had chi kut teh for dinner just now.
I called it chi kut teh because
chicken was used to add flavour to the soup.
It was just a simple nice good meal for the night.

WHY WE EAT DRAGON FRUIT?



Bought this dragon fruit or in Chinese is called "huo long guo" (fire dragon fruit when it is direct translated) from Boulevard Hypermarket this morning. Another name for this fruit is pitaya fruit. The fruit is very bright pink in colour.

It comes with three types that are white flesh with pink skin and red maroon flesh with pink skin. Another type that I have not seen so far is white flesh with yellow skin.. Have any of you seen the yellow flesh dragon fruit? Let me share with you some of the benefits you will get when eating dragon fruit.

This unique fruit is prickly, cactus-like. The dragon fruit is also known to be a healthy low fat fruit which is rich in vitamin C, fiber and have lots of minerals. When buying dragon fruit I prefer to buy the red maroon flesh as it is rich in antioxidants.

Dragon fruit has lots of water, which gives it the soft creamy texture when eaten fresh. The dried dragon fruit will be chewy and much darker in colour than the fresh ones.



Eating dragon fruit will maintain your heart healthy and it is a low cholestrol diet. People might be wondering why when mention eating dragon fruit will lower down the cholestrol level. It is the seeds from the flesh that is actually has lots of nutrition that helps to improve cholestrol level in our body.

This fruit is eaten raw, is mildly sweet and low in calories. For those of you who is on a diet I recommend dragon fruit. You will not have any regrets when eating this fruit as in dragon fruit vitamin C is more easily absorbed in the body system rather than taking a pill supplement of vitamin C. There are lots of vitamin C in dragon fruit. However the skin is not edible. When you eat it cold it has better improved flavour which I do not really understand why too.

Another benefit we can get when eating dragon fruit is it helps to lower down blood glucose levels in diabetes.

Going to Crown Square - Hong Kong Dim Sum for breakfast this morning


It has been a long time since we last went out for breakfast so for a change both my housemate and I agreed to wake up this morning and have dim sum for breakfast. There are not many vehicles yet at the car park. I reminded my housemate to stamp the parking ticket later so that we can save RM2. If we forgot to stamp the parking ticket we will have to pay RM3 instead.


After we parked the car, we went straight to the Causeway Bay Hong Kong Restaurant.


Before entering the restaurant, we look at the restaurant, we had a glance at the promotion banner outside. Oh I suddenly remembered, today is a weekend and so no dim sum promotion. This means we came on the wrong day.


other than dim sum promotion, they have tea break promotion too for weekdays. However what we need now is dim sum to fill our hungry stomach for breakfast not something for tea time.


We were recommended to apply for My Privilege Card so that we can get discount whenever we have our meal there when there isn't any promotion like today for instance. In the end we did not apply for any privilege card since we do not come here to eat so frequent.


This is the menu booklet for us to place our order.


this is what we have order for 2 person


char siew puff


siu mai


vegetable dumpling


lo mai kai wrapped in lotus leaf


lo mai kai ready to eat


we ordered coffee without sugar


iced horlicks


they have plasma tv for people to watch later on in the afternoon.


the chairs are for people to wait for places in a queue if the restaurant is full house


we sat in one of this places, table for two at the side


this picture is taken from another angle of the place


After we finished eating, we remembered to stamp our ticket or else we would have to pay extra RM2. RM3 instead of RM1.

Be strong Aideel, don't think of dying



One of my terrapins is real sick. His name is Aideel. All of a sudden he lost his appetite. She was still okay two days ago when I fed her with few floating turtle pellets.

Then just now I realized she is closing her eyes most of the time and when I put him in the water, he was like lifeless. Now he is in the ICU container all on his own. I don't want him to leave just like that. He is still so young. Do pray for his healing.

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