After two full days of cooking on CNY Eve and CNY day 1, hubby gave us a break from cooking for Hoi Leen Farn today! Eating out is always music to our ears. The girls were happy becoz they don’t have to wash the dishes and I don’t have to do the dreaded massive clean up after cooking.
Who likes post-cooking clean up? Never me. Washing dishes is something that I would avoid at all cost!
Maria our part-time helper of 10 years has not been coming in for work for almost two weeks. Lately she’s always giving excuses for not coming to work. Two days ago I asked her if she intended to stop working for us but she denied. This morning she told me that she’d be coming for work but at the eleventh hour, she messaged me to say that she’s still at Mid Valley and couldn’t come for work. Again! This has been happening almost every time she’s due to come in for work. I’m really pissed with her attitude lately and really disappointed. She was never like this before.
I told the girls that we have to learn not to be too reliant on Maria. We have to learn to live without her becoz the day will come when she decides to go back to Indonesia for good or has found other employers who are willing to pay her better than us.
Back to our CNY Chor 2!
It’s been such a long time since our family went cafe-hopping. The pandemic has been too unkind to us for the past two years. And it has also made us appreciate the little luxuries in our lives more than we did pre-Covid days.
We first had lunch at Kappa Takebayashi Japanese restaurant at Jalan Doraisamy, Chow Kit.
The photos look yellowish caused by the dim yellow lightings in the restaurant. Food was superb, albeit came slow.
After lunch we segued into Licky Chan & The Poke Guy to try their avant-garde boozy cone-tail ice-creams. Licky Chan is the ice cream parlour of freshly churned fantasies, with a cow-to-cone philosophy that embraces the coolest kind of creativity. Each flavour is unique, banishing cookie-cutter double chocolate cliches, refusing to take the easier, more familiar paths of cempedak, pandan gula Melaka or rum and raisins. Instead, you’ll find unconventional playful flavors that you’ll never find elsewhere, such as Nirvana (composed of almond milk, masala chai, cashews and turmeric). Each flavor is a triumph of taste and texture, with beautifully harmonised proportions of everything from pistachios to peppercorns, gin, sweet soy sauce, burnt butter to pickled beetroot.
After paying for the ice-creams, the cashier gave us a huge fancy-schmancy ang pow. I thought they were some badges but they were two condoms in fancy wrappers! 🤣
After ice-creams, we segued into Tapestry for cakes and drinks.
We’ll be back at Tapestry to try the main course menu.
I’d like to wish all my Chinese readers a very prosperous Chinese New Year. I hope that the year of the Tiger will bring everyone roaring success, wealth, good health, and happiness.
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