Federal Hotel

Ha ha ha!!! Yet another food blog!!! My favourite preoccupation is now EATING!!! Star Nie as usual gave us teachers a year end free High Tea, and as always, I bring Pn Wong Ai Lian, she has gone to all the high tea with me and always look forward to it every year!!!


This year, Star split us up. KL teachers' do was at Federal, PJ teachers' at PJ Hilton.

My claypot yee mee minus the yee mee!

I was very surprised to meet my old colleague from Convent, Angie Ng Ah Hoy. She and her friend appeared in the Star the next day : pls see the post "Tribute to teachers"

http://iamyourgurupntay.blogspot.com/2010/10/tribute-to-teachers.html

She was my KH teacher, I was her Penyelia Petang....now she is in Bandar Tasik Selatan, me MBS

Me and Pn Wong Ai Lian, she retires next year, and still insists I bring her for Nie High Tea!!

Federal Hotel has a good selection of new and strange food/beverages and this is the ulam juice corner (herbal juice bar)

Ulam vegetables like cucumber, lemon grass, pegaga and tamarind are juiced.

I tasted all: tamarind was good, lemon grass awful, pegaga like medicine and cucumber is normal

Then I saw this and had to try it: Double boiled ginseng duck soup

Really double boiled in bamboo rafters/steamers!

Cool chef!

The taste? Did not live up to its hype...too little ginseng taste , soup too cold (must be piping hot), duck too leathery and hard!

Angie got me this yam ice cream in ice kacang because I could not move my butt anymore!

When I had gorged myself, I looked around and saw that all the teachers had gone home!

Except Pn Wong and another teacher, Yap Lay Lee, both of them wanted to linger and tarry a while..Pn Wong told her mum she was going back at 7, it is only 5 pm now!

I walked around looking for Kodak moments, and this place by the window looked so resort-like

What is left of the lamb shank after all the carnivores had done with it.

Federal Hotel is very old, it is the venue of Merdeka celebration and declaration

Remnants of crockery once used at banquets in the 70's

Then I left Wong Ai Lian to her desserts and ventured out into Bukit Bintang Road

Bukit Bintang is unrecognizable because of the influx of foreign workers and their influences like this Myanmar? Iranian? Cambodian statue outside THEIR shop.

Door gifts sponsored by Clinique. They also gave us mini makeovers and tips on Beauty.

Pik Wah Restaurant

Every occasion calls for a food celebration and after the 100 day celebration we booked two banquet tables at Pik Wah for a grand dinner to fete the people who came from overseas, especially from China.

Menu (wedding package!!)

Our menu in Chinese

Four Varieties

Shark Fin Soup

Pattaya Style Seabass fish

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Almond chicken

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Prawns with superior sauce

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Mixed vegetarian dish

Long Life noodles

Iced Longan with orange slices

Crispy pancake

Till we meet again...perhaps we will go to Swatow?

Xin Hui Orphanage

On Friday 29 October 2010, after school the Sivik dan Kebajikan (Civic and Welfare Society) with the MUET Club made a trip to the Xin Hui Orphanage in Cheras (Jalan Ikan Emas near the market off Jalan Tenaga)

Group shot with Mrs Goh, Brandon her son, the kids of the home and the students of MBS

Established in 1989 it has lofty and noble ideals, divine mission and vision

Xin Hui Orphanage is also a Buddhist retreat and refuge for the old, destitute and living creatures like these ducks below

Ducks, geese, hens, roosters, a python, monkeys, pups, tortoises, terrapins and frogs have found their refuge here...they will never be slaughtered.

The entrance and frog pond, with the recycling centre in the tent behind

Beautiful landscaping in the midst of the hustle bustle of busy KL

Splendid specimens of rooster that actually crows the hour

the students brought in the recycleable stuff and toys for the kids

Fine cuisine of vegetarian lunch was provided, served by the children (not seen!0

our place by the pond, with chinese ceremonial tea set!! on solid wood table and trunk chairs

our view of the pond where a menagerie of farm animals can be seen roaming freely(not meant for the dining table...nothing will go under the butcher's knife..it is a centre for life)

the hall and prayer altar

the children are resourceful and do not need electronic toys, here they play "lat ta li lat tam pong"

open courtyard and spacious ground makes this a cool place, however I found..........

Disturbing images at the orphanage...this boy sits motionless, expressionless, companionless, he presents a solitary picture of abandon, desperation, what is going through his mind?

Broken legs but not broken of spirit he is destined to live out his days in this "cave"

Kok Keong tells me everything is recycled here.....this tableau used to be the back of a chair

Look carefully, the lovely arch trellis of the doorway used to be someone's windows

Sek We catching hold of the edible frogs (teen kai) in the pond at the entrance

Let me get a close up shot before the frog leaps away!

performing for the orphans

some are in day care like this, her grandfather came to take her home

one of the frogs died....too much rough handling from the kids. Before we go back, we have to pat or touch the frogs

Bye!!!! Aren't we lucky we have homes and mummy daddy to go home to?