What is good in Al Rawsha? For meat lovers, I was told that the Lamb Mandy is a must try. The Lamb Mandy is served with rice and the portion is BIG. For ladies who do not eat much, it is recommended for sharing between 2 persons.

For those who is not a fan of red meat but prefers chicken instead (like me), the Chicken Mandy is recommended. I tried it and it’s awesome!

Both the Lamb Mandy and Chicken Mandy come with separate gravy in 2 separate bowls. Basically, those are the tomato chutney and yogurt, and trust me, to experience the real delicious taste of those dishes, you must have them with both gravy!

Al Rawsha is really famous for its lamb dishes actually. If you would like to try other preparation of lamb dishes, their Grilled Lamb and Lamb Chop are good as well.

The Grilled Lamb and Lamb Chop do not come with rice though. Instead, they are served with Pita Bread or the Kebab Bread. But be warned, they are both served in BIG portions.

What I love most about the food here is the preparation of rice served with their dishes. The rice tastes nice. Something like bryani rice minus the oily taste. Hehe. Yeah the rice here somehow tastes healthy. It is dry (not oily at all) and it is yummy!
Oh and let’s not forget the choice of drinks there. I love the Al Rawsha Cocktail. It is a mixture of fruits (including banana & probably mango and more fruits) with yogurt. The drink looks so colourful and pretty too. So yes, this is a must try.

Besides fruit juices and yogurt drinks, there is also ’sparkling juice’ as I like to call it. The Barbican, that’s it, a carbonated malt drinks that comes in different flavours such as strawberry, lemon, mango, etc. If you have never tried one before, make sure you try it here.

If you need direction to go there, I can give the direction here ;)… Provided that you know where KLCC is. Hehe. Yup, from KLCC (Make sure KLCC is on your right hand side and Bangunan Getah Asli is on your left hand side), just drive straight. You will pass Avenue K and Corus Hotel on your left. Go further straight until you reach the traffic lights near Ampang Park. Ampang Park will be on your left (you can see McDonalds there) while Nikko Hotel and Menara Citibank will be on your right. After the traffic light, take the 2nd turning on your left. Just go straight until the end of the road and turn right. Go further straight for about 3 - 5 minutes. Al Rawsha will be on your left. Just park at the nearest possible ‘parking’ space that you can find.
The restaurant is usually quite crowded during lunch time and VERY crowded during dinner time. Well, when a place is crowded you know that that place is good
You can choose to dine outside at the open air dining concept or indoor with air condition. There are limited space in the air conditioned room though, so preference is given to families in that room. But anyway the open air concept is indeed better and more lively if you come with groups of friends.
Enjoy your dining experience!!!

Yup, all pork meat lovers should definitely pay a visit to Ribs @ Oasis.

Just as the name suggest, the signature dish which is a must try, is the RIBS!!! The BBQ Baby Pork Ribs are so tender and juicy, definitely a must try.

The pork meat is lightly marinated with BBQ sauce and is served with baked potatoes and vege. For those who prefer a stronger BBQ taste, a separate BBQ sauce (one with more spices) accompanies your meal as well. I, however, prefer the lightly marinated BBQ sauce.

To be honest, I think so far this is the best BBQ Baby Pork Ribs that I have ever tried. I definitely love the tenderness of the meat.

For those who prefer burgers instead, the choice of burgers there are also mouth watering. If you prefer the classic burger with cheese, I can assure you that the Pork Burger with Cheese is super delicious too! The burger with mushroom seems alright as well.

The pork patte is cooked to perfection. It is difficult to describe it though. You just got to try it to experience the taste

Like any other pork-serving restaurants, beer is a must. There are several choices of beer here. I think they have Hoegarden and Heineken. Can’t remember what else though.

I prefer to have meat with red wine. However, they do not serve red wine by the glass here, only by bottle. I was informed by the waiter at that time that they only serve Merlot. Not something that I would fancy anyway. But for those who likes Merlot, rest assured because you can enjoy them here.

The selections of non-alcoholic drinks here are also good. I tried the Lime Soda. It is awesome! LOL. The taste, it’s super sour with a zesty fizzy kick!

The Ribstropic is good as well - especially for those who love sweet drinks. It’s a mixture of mango + orange juice. Very pretty looking too - definitely a chick’s drink

For those who prefer something healthy and natural, there is a selection of fresh fruits juice here as well. I tried the carrots juice. It tastes… well, healthy!
Last but not least, let’s check out the Desserts!!! A must try - Molten Chocolate Cake with Hagendaz!!! It is RM16.00. Without the Hagendaz ice cream, it is about RM10.00. It is super yummy and is really a perfect closure for any meal
For those who does not fancy chocolates, there are other choice of desserts as well. However, whatever it is, please avoid the Tiramisu. I am not sure, probably something was wrong in their mixture on that night or something, but the Tiramisu tasted weird.

Anyway, I would highly recommend Ribs @ Oasis for a super fantastic evening out with friends or your special ones. - Especially so for all pork meat lovers.
For those who does not eat meat, don’t worry. There are ample choice of seafood dishes as well. My friend said the Seafood Marinara Spaghetti is good. There are other choices of pasta as well, and you can choose the level of spiciness that you want with your pasta (for olio especially).

The services are good. The crowd is alright too. Since the restaurant is not very big, it will get very crowded around dinner time; i.e. between 7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.

You can park your car right outside the restaurant. However, parking may be a bit limited when the restaurant is crowded. So it is recommended to come as early as 7.00 p.m. When the restaurant is still very empty :p

If you want to know more about Ribs @ Oasis, you can check out their website here: http://ribs-oasis.webs.com/

Map is provided in the website too!

Then you should all head to Ikano, Damansara (between the Curve and Ikea). The Japanese Crepe is to die for. Hehe.

I tried the Strawberry Cream with Vanilla ice cream. It was so fabulous I was thinking whether I should have another. ?

The name of the stall selling the Japanese Crepe is Shimino. It is an orange coloured stall near the escalator going up to the Kluang Station.

There was quite a crowd near the stall. So while waiting for my Crepe, I got the chance to watch the worker preparing it.

First, the outer cone layer will have to be prepared in advance. In a very very light amount, the flour will be poured into the pan. It only takes a few second to set it and to wait for it to cool.

Then, their special yummy looking cream will be spread on the pancake-like flour thingy. All the fillings will go in next, depending on which flavour you have ordered. I noticed that the Strawberry Cream with ice cream and the Chocolate Banana seem to be the favourite of most customers.

The pancake-flour thingy will then be folded half and rolled like a cone. The Shinomi orange coloured paper will be placed outside as a support to the Crepe. There you got it - the yummy Japanese Crepe all ready for you to savour!

I will try the mango flavour next week! ?

Stadium Negara Seafood Restaurant has an open air concept, where most people would be sitting outside on the open air. I noticed that they do have an air-conditioned premise if one ever choose to not sit outside at the open though. It is a halal seafood restaurant, where no pork is served.

I noticed that most of the customers there had steamboat foe dinner. My friends and I did not choose that though. We opted to order few dishes from the menu. There are a lot of varieties of food to choose from the menu. We had the assistance of the friendly uncle to choose what was recommended as ‘the best’ there. So yeah, I ordered quite a bit for just the 3 of us eating. Hehe.

I ordered chili crabs with deep fried & steamed buns, BBQ chicken, butter prawns, chili lala and kangkung fried with belacan. The food was GOOD!!! I love the kangkung fried with belacan the most and the deep fried bun! Hee… The butter prawn was good too!

I was so hungry when the food arrived that I almost forgot to take photos. Haha. So yeah, some of the photos taken were not when the food was ‘just’ served la, k. Will share some of the photos here.
The service was good too. The uncle who took our order was very helpful and friendly. The waitresses were nice, polite and very tentative too. The crowd there ranges from all sorts of races in Malaysia - Chinese, Indians and Malays, with some expats too.

Pricing wise, it was not so expensive either. It was affordable, especially taking into account the location (right at the heart of the city) and the good tasting food!
Overall, Stadium Negara Seafood Restaurant is definitely a good place to spend time for a Friday night dinner right after work when you do not want to travel some where far just to be stuck in the massive Friday night traffic. :p

Ok, here are some photos of the food that we ordered to be shared with all of you. Our bills came up to about RM176. Not bad for a good seafood dinner for 3 people :)…

I would definitely go for another visit to that restaurant again!

Although the bakery + cafe is quite small, but it’s actually perfect. That’s how the home-made touch is retained I guess. The owner, whom I only refer to as ‘Aunty’ is there every day without fail. She’s friendly, sweet and helpful. A nice lady indeed.

The pricing of the cakes and other food here is reasonable too. Today I decided to try Aunty’s new ‘creation’ - the Jelly Fish - that’s what she called it. Here is a photo of the Jelly Fish. It looks very much like a pretty little gold fish though! :p The taste? - Sweet! O, and it’s only RM2.00.

Edit: Well, it works! Now I am testing the editing function from the Wordpress app too. I tried to edit it from Safari but it seems that I could not do that… Unless I can figure out how to turn on the on-screen keyboard while I’m editing through Safari. Well, let’s see whether editing works from this app instead.

Edit Version 2: I confirmed that editing works with the Wordpress app for iPhone 3GS! Yeah, although instead of a record of the photo(s) posted in the blog through the Wordpress app, some weird random URL shows up, apparently there is no problem with editing the post and retaining the photo already posted in the blog!

This is a fabulous app for the iPhone indeed. More reason to love the iPhone, eh. Now I have no reason for not being able to update my blog regularly. Haha. Another reason this app is cool - I can write in landscape mode! So it’s like typing on a mini pc instead… Great app! Thanks, Wordpress and thanks, Apple!
And another best thing is - the Wordpress application is FREE for download for your iPhone through iTunes!

I stumbled upon artPad again. Few years back I like to spend some this in artPad to randomly practice my drawing and colouring (also, to just waste time).

I enjoy drawing. However, lately I have not been ‘fair’ to this particular interest of mine. Hee… Yeah, as usual, I blame it on shortage of time. There is just so little time in this world to do everything that we want to (be it something that we like to do, or something that we have to do; i.e. work).

Since I am on artPad, I decided to draw one of my favourite things - Rose. You can view my Rose by clicking HERE. You can even see the steps that I took to draw that Rose! And if you decide to view the whole of my drawing process until the end, you will realize that I became lazy towards the end (when it came to the colouring part). Haha! Well, enjoy!

dyvallion\’s Rose

Generally, men and women are attracted to things beautiful in their eyes. This general rule applies to me as well. However, the metaphysical property of each crystal and gemstone are what modern people would like to call as an added value to our favourite things in life.

Yup, today I feel like writing about another favourite things in my possession. Hee… The title says it all - Crystal & Gemstone. I have known for some time that crystal and gemstone are well-known for its healing properties, etc. However, I have to admit that what really attracts me in the first place is its beauty.

Being a typical girl that I am, I was first attracted to the beautiful and shiny colour of swarovski crystal. I first owned a purple & white swarovski crystal bracelet. The lady selling it informed me that the crystal bracelet was good to ensure clear mind @ clarifty of mind & for good luck. Not that that matters so much to me though at that time. Hee.. I just love the pretty light purple colour of that bracelet. But I do have to admit that my mind was indeed clearer and I was able to grasp things @ new ideas faster then. (Hmm… Maybe it’s just me, and not the crystal… Haha!)

Anyway, that was history. That particular bracelet was then broken and all crystal was then let loose. This happened when I was driving. Hence, I just put the bracelet near my hand brake while I stopped my car at the jockey carpark. I was rushing at that time and never did it occur to me that my favourite bracelet will be stolen. *sigh*

I guess I must have forgotten about that bracelet as well after I returned to my car (the jockey giving me back my car key & all)… Only a few days after that I started to look for that bracelet again (as I was thinking of sending it for repair). But a’las… It was no where to be found. Sad, yes… But I decided not to make such a big fuss of it though. My wishlisht is now to get another light purple crystal or gemstone bracelet. I am seriously thinking of getting an amethyst bracelet soon. (Yup, among others, besides of my love for the colour purple, it is also because of its known healing power to relieve headache…)

Oh well, in the meantime, I have my other favourite crystal & gemstone accessories to enjoy at the moment. Hee… Usually, I won’t really be out looking for these crystal & gemstone. If I so happened to be in a place where I spotted some sort of crystal & gemstone that can make me fall in love with it, for sure I will then buy it. Yup, some people might say that I am buying things on impulse. Hee… That is just me, alright

Here are some of my favourites:

Hematite Necklace - Hematite is another type of stone that I am quite familiar with. When I said “familiar with”, I meant that I have had an encounter with Hematite since I was a young kid. Hematite is one of the stones that I am strongly attracted to. When I was younger, in my teenage years, I used to wear a Hematite ring. My mom said Hematite is good for blood circulation. What really attracts me about Hematite is the polished surface of it which somehows drawn me to this stone. Now this is my favourite necklace here!

Besides that, I kinda like this one too. It’s a necklace with birthstones.

I want to upload another 2 pictures of my favourite crystal bracelets. But the internet connection at home is a bit crappy now. So I’ll save that for another day I guess. Well, what’s your favourite crystal or gemstone?