Mooncakes out already!
I never understood the fascination with moon cakes. I’m not one to really eat them – I only like the red bean one which is the cheapest you can find! Apparently I have cheap tastebuds 
That said, I noticed that moon cakes have gone on sale for nearly a month already. And the mooncake festival is still about a month away! That means it woudl have been 2 months of moon cakes by the time the festival comes around.
Won’t people be sick of it already? I remember when moon cakes were a rarity, coming out about 2 weeks before the festival. It was exciting then. Now, I’m just jaded
Time for Pasar Ramadhan
Its Ramadhan and for the Muslims that means fasting from sun up to sun down. It also means that pasar ramadhan or ramadhan food stalls will abound in the city. Its quite a fun time because we then get a large variety of Malay food and sweets which one sometimes find hard to obtain at normal times. I never understood why.
For some, fasting is better than any best weight loss pills for losing weight but for others, it might be a time to put on weight too if food intake is not watched. Its easy to over buy at a pasar ramadhan (shopping when hungry is a bad bad BAD idea!) and this is also the time when Ramadhan buffets are a-plenty so again, its easy to overeat both for muslims and non muslims who want to break fast with their friends.
For me I might be checking out the pasar ramadhan for some good ikan bakar or kuih. Its about the only time in the year that I do!
Dragon-i RM1 chicken and Citibank promotion
When I first heard of the RM1 soy sauce chicken promotion at Dragon-I restaurant I was sceptical. What on earth can RM1 get you these days? But one day I went to try it and to my surprise, it was a whole spring chicken cooked in soy sauce. All for RM1.
The conditions are:-
- You cannot take away the chicken
- You must have minimum 3 persons dining or if 2 persons you must order a minimum of 3 dishes
We had 3 persons so it was great and the chicken wasn’t too shabby. For RM1 I mean. The promotion runs till 30 April 2009.
While we were there our order exceeded RM50 which qualified us for a free Shanghai Dumpling (Xiao Lung Bao) if you use a Citibank Card to pay. However, the condition required that you leave your Citibank card with them.
I was wary. Haven’t these people heard of identity theft protection? You aren’t supposed to leave your credit card all over the place!
Krispy Kreme Opens in Malaysia!
When it was first announced that Krispy Kreme donuts would be in Malaysia soon, the excitement level was so high you’d think it was the latest boy band coming to Malaysia
Having eaten J.Co Donuts which I hear shares the Krispy Kreme recipe, I am not that impressed. Then again, I’m not a donut person so who am I to judge right?
Krispy Kreme sure knows how to make an entrance though. They promised a dozen free doughnuts every week for a whole year to the first person in line when the store opened on 27 April 2009 (Monday). I joked with a friend to start queuing from Saturday evening.
We would have been too late because the first person in line at Krispy Kreme queued from FRIDAY for 65 hours! 65 hours!
They win a year’s supply of doughnuts of a dozen doughnuts a week. I reckon at the end of the year they’d either be dead sick of glazed doughnuts or looking for the best diet pills to take care of the pounds that would have piled on by then!
Still, kudos to them for their patience. I’m going to wait till the furore dies down before going to take a bite of the famed glazed doughnuts that someone would queue 65 hours WITHOUT BATHING for. Ew…