Archive for January, 2012

CNY Dinner @ Ben Tdi Wei, Centrepoint Bandar Utama

Today marks the seventh day of the Chinese New Year. It is known as everyone’s birthday, or 人日. Since it was weekend and most of us are already back in the city, the time was just right for a dinner to celebrate the joyous occasion. This time, the dinner took place at Ben Tdi Wei [...]

Life’s Simple Pleasure @ Kedai Kopi Keng Nam

Unpretentious and still going strong after more than 20 years in operation, Keng Nam Coffee Shop is the perennial favourite of local people of Ipoh. It used to be our favourite place for breakfast on weekend but given that we had to jostle for a table among the notorious crowd, we just had to let [...]

On the Second Day of CNY…

… it is known as the beginning of the new year, or 开年. I lit up my very first firecracker. Don’t believe? Luckily I shot a closeup video of it. You can watch it below, however the sound wasn’t clear enough due to the camera being enclosed in a case. The quality of the firecracker [...]