Borneo Bites & Insights: Hungry Minds Full Plates

In my previous post "Embroideries of Spring" early this month, I now bring the continuation in "Threads of Vernal".  Though Malaysia is a 2-seasons country, we sees the spring season quietly making itself known with blooms of flowers everywhere. 1. Frangipani - Floral aroma, fruity nuances. Different species offer slightly different scents, ranging from creamy-sweet in white varieties to spicier or citrusy notes in red and pink varieties 2. Moss Rose - a type of succulents, also known by other common names such as sun rose or Mexican rose.  3. Creeping Zinnia - Sanvitalia 4. Lantana camara . It has several common names, including:  Common Lantana / Lantana / Shrub Verbena / Wild Sage  5.  Bougainvillea   6. Marigold - comes from "Mary's gold, aromatic foliage  7. Passion Flower - aromatic  8. Periwinkle - Pink Periwinkle or Eose Periwinkle, known as Kemunting Cina in M'sia  9. Ruellia tuberosa , also known as minnieroot, fev...

We always bypass this restaurant whenever we shop at 1U but had never wanted or curious enough to eat there. Tak kenal maka tak suka.   Today we celebrated 1 of our beloved 🥰 Darlings birthday and had our dinner here. " Happy Birthday, B! Many more beautiful memories & blessings for good health !" ♥️ Color me surprised! The foods @ Robataya are delicious!  First timer experience perhaps. On that day the restaurant was very short-staffed, and our order ended up with twice the quantity of food entered incorrectly. I like the pancake cabbage with prawns. Mind you, I always received YouTube feeds about this dish cooked in different styles. Had salivated over it and told myself, one day am gonna cook it, see if it's as good as it look. Well... it's real good, restaurant quality 😄 Pork belly is a preferred choice in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cuisines due to its rich fat content, which enhances flavor while creating a tender, gelatinous,...

Practicing for the next pin awards. The targeted points this time will be 290.  Failed dismally, only gets 262. More practice, less distraction. Never² practice while tired, hungry and dreaming about eating Korean foods. 🤓 We ended up at Mong Tang Korean BBQ @ Sunway Giza. The bbq spicy pork belly was yummy. Plenty of kimchi - good for digestion 😄 When eating Korean foods, one is supposed to put some of the side dishes + meat on a piece of lettuce, fold it and pop ot into 1's mouth. Because we don't eat raw vegs, we stir fried them with the pork 😅 And while stir frying caught next door table giving us surreptitious looks 😆 Well, they ended up putting few lettuces in the pan too 🤭 After cooked down, the pot of lettuces reduced to only few bites 😬 We only had a bit of the fruit salad - its not cold, fruit salad taste nicer when cold. The sweet potato was a bit too hard to our liking - was concerned of cracking a tooth.The chewy mung bean ...

Today's went to IOI Mall D'sara for KR eats @ The Fire. Wr used to walk past this restaurant but outright decided not to eat there because it's The Fire.  Goes to tell you that 1 shouldn't judge a book...erm...a restaurant by it's name 🤗 Thrilled to discover a new to-go for our Korean food cravings! This is a roast chicken platter, comes with 3 sauces c/w gyoza sausage kebabs and sesame seaweed rice balls. Server siap² prepare the roast chicken into portions for us... it's just out from the oven..hot³. The restaurant also prepare a box of plastic gloves for us to use anticipating that we'll need it to eat the chicken 🤓 These are side dishes and they're refillable.  Surprisingly this type of Korean foods are suitable for my Mom's palate compared to the one we brought her to last month. 

Women-2-Women ministry this year will be studying The Way of Wisdom (Book of Proverbs). So looking forward to mine many gold nuggets from this Book. The place was decorated with artfully designed cards.  A lot of us ended up taking group pictures using the cards as a backdrop 🥰

A Tapestry of Blooms For the past weeks I have seen more blooms from this tree species. The flowers have a fragrant smell and is one of my favorites.    Plumeria  is commonly known as  frangipani , highly aromatic and famous for its intense, sweet, and exotic fragrance. While Malaysia does not have the traditional four seasons, the period from March-May is often considered the "spring" season or the inter-monsoon season in terms of travel and weather patterns.  Other flowers are also busy blooming too... (Top) -  Bleeding-heart vine  (genus Clerodendrum thomsoniae of the family Lamiaceae), also known as   glory-bower ; or  bagflower . Native to tropical west Africa from Cameroon west to Senegal. It is an evergreen liana. Popular during the mid 19th century under the name " beauty bush ". Toxic to pets and human. Skin contact with the plant can also cause mild irritation or rashes. It's -- so pretty but " Can see ...