CNY 2010

                                      
Chinese New year is usually about Dinner, Alcohol, and Ang Pau, and friends gathering in a place meeting up with each other, saying hello, how are they getting on, how much we miss each other and so on ... bla bla bla...

But of course this one is not so much about me but about my wife's friends wedding. We all went to Damansara Palace, the restaurant is at kota Damansara area where the famous flash flood next to the Shell station the restaurant was located. It was a typical High End Chinese Restaurant, with some nice setting up. same as usual

 

I was seated in Table 27 as you can see here. I didnt had much chance to take some dishes but i could share with you some nice juicy duck and cha siau pictures that will make you go out now to get some..

So we had a sort of like chinese dinner style, rice. and dishes, Of course not missing the lo sang

 

I hope that i m right at this, as i came to know as someone told me Lo Sang originated from Malaysia, some chef had the idea of mixing some leftover ingredients after or probably before new year and thought of not wasting it and created a dish for himself so as it has become a required dish during chinese new year

So dont know when it started onwards,everyone had :Lo Sang, It can range from very expensive to cheap Rm 20.00 take away kind of Lo Sang... another word is Yee Sang. You know, Chinese people believe in what ever things you tell them as long as the things you tell them has got to do with Prosperity and happiness. Wether the Lo Sang works for you or not? no one knows, what i know is that it taste good and yearly i can look forward towards this nice dish.

  

Lo Sang, Dish, as you can see , its full with goodies like Salmon, sengkuang. Some red things dont know what, nice crackers. jelly fish, coriander, sliced ginger, peanuts, sesame seeds... and so on... with  sauce...all mix into one nice platter like the above.....so how you eat? this is how you eat, you toss them up into the air with your chopsticks and wish what ever  you want to be or have or do this year.... 

so the action of tossing it up is known as Lo, or mix it up.. Sang i have no idea... probably it meant raw or fresh new year... 

 

                                                

So we had Chicken, roasted and smoked one, but no duck. probably those ducks were for peking style. The char siu was juicy although i didnt had any, but again, it looked really nice i just had to take some pictures....
Mean while i got full time using my new DSLR and had so much fun with it..... then of course im still learning so pictures were taken not like a pro but a journey becoming a pro....

After dinner, as usual and i had mention earlier that it was cum with gathering.. so it must have some night activities, as you would have guess it we head to the nearest pub... Library, newly open and packed with plenty of young people,,, cool place to hang out as long as you fall within 18 years to 40 years of age... dont know why but everyone there is young... No hanky panky in this place, pure, clean and straight forward..

 

Some one intended to treat us with this Scottish whiskey so i will not refuse to try it. infact ended up with 2 bottle of it.. its nice and aromatic but not as nice as my smokey 18 years highland park scotch whiskey. Who cares i get to try it out. On the rocks and with water, taste not bad but no special signature. 

 

The whiskey glasses that we had. it was nice using my flash and diffuser which i bought a few days ago, so that i can get some nice effect with it.  Like this one.. with yellow diffuser and low flash compensation. Nice yellow glow on the whiskey.

 

Music is loud and its a place for live band, football fanatics, great chicks who wanna have great time, this is the place to be. 

 

So if you are one of those categories you can hang out great time here, Well we left after that, with plenty of tears and hugging and as usual bye bye, as i wanna go home and sleep...