~mademoiselle*shopaholic~: good lazy sunday

Last Sunday, I had a really good relaxed and chilled-out time with good food and good friends =). I met up with the boys (Alvin & Jet) after their Standard Chartered KL Marathon -- which, by the way, they turned up very late for their 10km run and had to do the 5km run instead because they had the wrong starting time in mind *SWEAT DROP* -- and we went on a breakfast hunt. We ended up at Taste of Foochow. Although my mom is Foochow and I grew up eating Foochow food, apparently the Foochow food in Sarawak is different from the ones in West Malaysia because I did not recognize any of them haha...

Different types of fishball -- the special one being the Foochow fishball, which has meat stuffing. Not such a huge fan as I still prefer fishballs to remain as fishballs =p.

Deep-fried fishball. Very good and springy in texture but according to my mom, springy fishball has added bicarbonate or something to produce the texture =(. And very little fish. But it's so fun to eat! Here's the funny part -- the owners spoke to us in Cantonese so it was a little bit disorienting and we just kept nodding and said "yiu" to everything. So we ended up with a lot of food =D.

Very yummy Foochow pancake. According to Alvin, the story behind this dish is that the owner was making this for his own family but the customers saw it and wanted to try them. Even now, you can see the owner sitting in the corner on a stool making these pancakes. Once, the son jokingly teased his dad (the owner) for not manning his pancake station and something about that scene that is just so heart-tugging and cute =).

Handmade egg noodle fishball soup. The soup was delicious and the noodle...well, as the boys put it, I don't particularly enjoy food which are tasteless in the centre. And this includes big fat noodles and taufu fa. Yes, even taufu fa =S.

Red wine mee sua with chicken. This is the most interesting one of all because red wine mee sua in Sarawak is very different! In Sarawak, the dish is basically mee sua in chicken soup + clearer red wine. In West Malaysia, the mee sua is cooked in ang zao (红槽) and I've only had chicken cooked in ang zao. So this was very very interesting =D.

After that, we chilled by the pool. Given that I'm moving out soon and that I've never used the pool at my condo, it seemed like the most appropriate time to do that. The sun was in hiding and the water was freezing cold but it was really fun to hang out with the boys. I'm still learning how to swim breaststroke and Alvin's still learning how to swim freestyle. And the state swimmer just watches us and laughs.

I cannot think of anything better than a good cup of cappuccino after the cold swim =D. There's something about a cuppa that warms you up slowly inside, followed by feelings of fuzziness and happiness. And at Palate Palette, we played board games as we savored our cuppa and food...snake & ladders, aeroplane chess, scrabble...obviously I wished the happy day did not need to end.