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.