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Friday, August 14, 2009

From bbq to ELECTROQQ

During the dinosaur age, men used to eat raw meats...

Everyday

they have to chase the "ayam"

or hid behind the bushes to hunt down the "kambing"

Everyday the same raw meats and it's always RAW. And there weren't any seasoning or spices like what we had now in the past.

Till one day,

Men got bored of eating raw meats and it meant it's time for a change!!! They thought for a long long time & can't come up with any new idea.

Suddenly a man shouted: "Let's have something else different like human raw meats instead of animal raw meats!!!"

And MIRACLE happened right before these tragedy happen!

A lightning struck at one of the tree branches & caused ...

FIRE!!!

The humans were so shocked & scared thinking that the god must be punishing them for their silly idea. They threw the AYAMs & KAMBINGs to the fire as an offerings to the God & asking for forgiveness.

After a while, they smelt something from the fire... It came from the AYAMs & KAMBINGs, they were amazed and wondering what happened to the offerings. One daredevil stood out & took the one of the offerings and stuffed it into his mouth.

After a while...

These happened!!!

And that's how Barbecue starts.

BBQ had been a famous activity among us that we BBQ at our house area, beaches, forest reserves, balcony area & etc. Everything always has its PROs & Cons that same goes into bbq. Nothing is perfect that BBQ is quite dangerous too...

That's because

Small fire starts from a small spark that rub together & it'll lead to...

Bigger FIRE. [a picture taken by Andy's friend at DST Building in Brunei & sent it to me. That's what happened in Brunei recently. Extraaaa HOOTTTT weather, hazy & forest fire everywhere.]

For the sake of safety, peoples find ways to do more safety bbq. For the people's demand, here comes an invention which I named it as "ELECTROQQ" in here.

It's the same thing except these is operated with electricity but not charcoal...

We can put the meat on the hot plate & grill it. We even can adjust the heat level that we can control the hotness.

The time period for the foods to be grill is way more faster & efficient than using charcoal.

Other than meats,

"Jagung" also can be grill too.

With these ELECTROQQ,

Our hands won't get BLACK while panggang-ing.

And these comes with one extra function, under the hot plate there is one plate.

Where we can simmer the Chicken Wings. Say bye bye to "Chao Tah" wings & Hello to "Kut-Kut" wings. [hockien]

And I encountered this ELECTROQQ at Soon Tiong's house.

This is Soon Ai, Soon Tiong's smallest brother & his 2nd little brother, Soon Hao is at Australia studying.

Other than enjoying the "electroqq" foods, we had other foods as well... Soon Tiong's parent are both great hosts.

They keep offering us Foods, Desserts, Juices & worrying that we won't have enough foods to eat, are we full yet and etc.

Fried Keow Tiaw [Wet]

Fried Mee [Wet]

ToFu Fah

Imagine the foods, the peoples, the fun we had among the old friends. It was one great night dining in Tiong's place.

Wee gave double "Peace" instead of two-thumbs up!!!

And also some muscle showing pose.

FAILED!!!

And these is how a real man does it...

Yeahhh...

Not only Wee alone that enjoyed the night.

Everyone that attended too!

[Soon Tiong's farewell dinner on the 18th July 2009]

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Little India In Brunei

How well do we understand about India?

When I was small, the school taught me that India is famous for its SPICEs.

Of course not the SPICE girls... They're from the "Ang Moh" country, not from India.

It's the spices that are use for food addictive as the purpose of flavoring, coloring or preserving. Like "Curry" that originated in India which is used to flavor foods. Other than curry, "Kurma" & "Rendang" is what we always come across all these time. It's one of the dishes that always serve in catering, buffet and mostly in every occasion celebrated.

But the spices that produces is not only curry, rendang & kurma. Our ancestors in the past don't travel far out to India just to trade Curry with Silk... There are lots of spices to be traded & introduced to the world outside. And people willing to use the times of months traveling using ship bearing the strong winds & wave to reach India for its SPICES.

And now in the twentieth century, we don't need to travel out far to India to get to know/ taste the spices. Mankind now have the powers, technologies & resources that we don't have to use months to try the spices. In fact, it takes minutes nowadays...

[Tandoor.com] An authentic Indian cuisine restaurant that located behind of The Arch Building in Gadong. Definitely a place that serves more than "Curry". =D

Introducing "NAAN", a leavened & oven-baked flat bread.

It can be eaten by brushing or scooping...

"Chutney", spicy preparations used as an accompaniment for the main dishes.

Tandoori Chicken, one of the main dishes of Northern Indian Cuisine. It does taste spicy in a way but also not in a way. Don't know how to describe it. It's just so SPECIAL...

The Kurma Prawn...

Gobi Manchurian [Indian-Chinese Cauliflower Fritters] does looks like Cucur to me...

Mutton, surprisingly we can't find a beef menu. That's because most Indians are Buddhism and Buddhism doesn't eat beef. Especially thanks to Mr.Andy for the information, it does really make sense.

Ice-Creams...

Are the ice-creams taste differently & special too?

Errrmm... Nope!!! We had ice-creams too, that's because...

Buffet Dinner with 12 FLAVORS OF ICE-CREAMS!!!

Here are the 12 FLAVORS OF ICE CREAMS

Other than enjoying the foods serve inside, the spices that make the tastes so special. The decorations & designs of the restaurant also have the India feel.

Besides eating, we can do sight-seeing too...

And also pictures taking for the couples.

While you're eating your meals and you're worrying about the progress of the games in Facebook, how's your staffs going in the "Restaurant City", time to harvest the crops in "Barn Buddy". There is no worry for it because Tandoor.com also provide complimentary internet access for the customer.

Maybe you can surf online to check on the menu/ info of Indian Cuisine before we start ordering...

That's explain why "food-hungry.com" was spotted at the address link of the web browser!!!

Despite the foods & ambiance of the restaurant, it's one nice experience dining in Tandoor.com because of the nice service from its captain...

Daniel Jacob, one friendly man here and he gave a present as a complimentary of being the man of the night. "Being the man of the night is the people that ate the most on that night" Don't know that it's good or bad while receiving these gift!!!

But it's okay... I feel very SIOK...