U - Jam with Chin Solo at Move U Dance & Fitness Factory

Move U Dance &  Fitness Factory is a dance studio located in a booming newer area of Bukit Mertajam .
I'd already missed an earlier session , but this time I finally managed to squeeze myself into a slot thanks to Rina Tan !
Hurrah ! Thank you , thank you so much once again ya ?

Xiang 6 Chinese Restaurant - Hunan cuisine in Pulau Tikus

Someone mentioned that this restaurant serves Hunan cuisine .

So that's what we're here for on this cold night I guess , which is perfect actually since there are quite a lot of delicious spicy Chinese dishes on the menu .

Happiness Program - one off payment, to yoga for life

So yesterday I took the trouble to wake up extra earlier than I usually would , just to go and attend this Yoga FIT

 event at The Galleria by BSG on Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah .

After the roughly 2 to 3 hour free session ended , I opted to attend an Ayurveda talk and it was there that I was made more aware of this program which I had heard of around a year back,  but one ..... did not fully believe that such a thing existed , and two ...... it was due to a communication problem because the person who told me about it only spoke in Mandarin or Hokkien , 2 languages which I completely suck at .

We almost played tag , the green lion and I

Initially , the whole intention of me posing for the camera , ( yes that's me , Chun Li wannabe in yellow ) , was for the torch bearers to remain in the background .

La Senza Summer Vibes

Thanks to Capital Mall , I got a heads up on this event via sms .

Les Grains - Moulmein Rise

Long story short , I didn't even know that a bakery even existed until we parked in the basement the other day . Everything in this area seems to tout organic which is such a major turn off for me , so I was pretty delighted over that sinful fragrance enveloping this complex .

Almost driven half mad by the buttery aroma , I let my nose lead me and yup , sure enough , we found it right at the back , on the other end of the front entrance of this high rise called Moulmein Rise which is located on the former parking lot used by Pulau Tikus market goers. 

July 2018 durian prices in Penang

From what I understand , depending on which state you go to on the mainland , the prices of durians are much cheaper than what you will see in the picture below .

Kapili , Xiao Hong and Green Skin durians - Balik Pulau trio

Kapili , Xiao Hong and Green Skin are durian species that are not too expensive , sometimes worlds apart in taste , to tease out that durian connoisseur in you .

The island is in the midst of a bumper harvest and prices have reduced a little , but I never take my chances nowadays , so I only trust this little secret place now .

Howeverrrrr , if you want to know the exact location from me , move along and don't waste your time because my lips are sealed .

Anyway , yesterday was when we delighted in savouring the trio of different species which I shall attempt to describe the taste and texture to you , best as I can .

1. Kapili 

Two day Zumba event at The Top - Funky & Stylo

There was a 2 day Zumba event at The Top recently and every instructor who was in attendance was dressed so resplendently in the best Zumba wear your money can buy , you just have to see it for yourself to know how outstanding a fitness wear it can be to the human eye .

The theme was Funky & Stylo and if I am not wrong , one of the instructors told me , it was organised by Lin and Ika .

D600 - characteristic hint of sour

I used to just take durians for granted . We could get them so cheap last time , it was possible to enjoy a whole small durian for just 5 ringgit , before investors from China came in and bought acres after acres of our durian farmlands .

Today , the cheapest price we can get for less popular Penang cloned durian species starts from 30 ringgit per kilo . Durian kampung costs 15 ringgit per kilo. So pathetic !

Which is sad , because poorer folks or those with heavy financial burdens , simply cannot afford them anymore . 

Wan's Nasi Kukus Kelantan - Island Glades

Update : they are closed till the 14th of May ( I assume it is because the boys are going back to vote ) so please hold your horses and drop in only after that date 

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Last night I was actually on the lookout for a chu cha place which could whip up something with soy sauce for me , when I stumbled upon this stall right smack inside the circle of neighbourhood shoplots in Island Glades .

Vogue for Virtue 2018 - Charity fashion show pictures

Let the pictures do the talking .

Hope you like them :)

To earmark the Zaihani Zain furore

In all honesty , I started out hunting for a bright yellow earring elsewhere other than at Lovisa because I felt that , that , particular colour tone , was way overpriced in their stores . Then somehow I ended up with 2 pieces which I think Zaihani Mohd Zain would probably wear you know , thanks to a few days of the furore setting fire to my facebook feed .
In one post , netizens " bantai-ed " her round the clock for 3 days straight . Wowzers !

Opens at 3.30 , waiting from 2.30

My goodness .

It is now 3.15 pm and there is already a hoard of people waiting to buy Nyonya kuih .

Doesn't matter if they were hobbling along on a walking stick earlier , doesn't matter if the standard has dropped ( sad truth ) , some of these customers were already waiting for the stall to open from 2.30 pm already .

Teochew salted pork - indulgence for an improved metabollism

As it is , my weight has reduced by yet another 2 and a half kilos over a period of time . And it has stabilised at that for now . I'm not stepping on the scales as often because I know that whatever I am doing now is setting me on the right path towards being more svelte .

Both my metabollism and appetite has improved at the same time . I can now polish off a whole heap of rice and not worry about how much carbs are gonna sit in and destroy all that I've worked for .

I still try to keep off supper but I do let myself indulge every now and then although I do admit to worrying if  the scales will go back to square one after that . 

So far so good , so here we go .

Let's have some good old salted Teochew style roasted pork tripe tonight for supper .

Eam Huat - Kala fish in a Mongolian hotpot

Anytime you see these brass coloured funnels at dining establishments around Penang , it means that charcoal is used as the means to boil the hotpot soup .

Fat Mum -where blue barley is all the rage

There's one member of my family who is will drink any blue liquid on the menu .

So weird , I thought , but hey , now that person is no more alone because , well , we've stumbled onto the Blue Barley club .

Hmmmm....still not my thing but since everyone seems to be having a glass in this restaurant , ok , I'll try it once .

Nasi Dalca Rahim - Lebuh Queen

Well ,right now , I'm at Nasi Dalca Rahim . Not very difficult to find , just look for this Indian temple on Lebuh Queen , which Prince Charles and Camilla , the Duchess of Cornwall visited on their maiden trip to Penang , the open air stall which opens for business in the evening , lies directly across the road from the entrance of that said temple .

Go big or buy nothing - some chunky Lovisa's

Should never have passed by the shop just now ....because screammmm....I ducked in for a quick look and came out with 3 chunky Lovisa's !

The elusive Pei Pa duck

Pei Pa duck is very easy to find in  Ipoh .

However , when it comes to Penang , huh , boy , it can be quite a challenge .

Had my first fill at a hawker in Tg Tokong , then I went to Bee San in Air Itam twice and on the second visit , somehow the duck was so smelly , I just wanted to expire from the face of earth .

Long story short , after soooooo many years , I've found a new place selling this delicacy , 

but well , it's in a shady kopitiam which isn't very wonderful to look at as they seem to sell so much beer here , you'll be hard pressed to see so many beer promoters inside one kopitiam of this size, anywhere else . I counted at least 6 of them in here and that's really a lot for a place like this !