Think it's too early? Think again! This time around, it is a huge celebration for Christmas and New Year's because in just a blink of an eye, it's gonna be 2020 very soon! So with that, now is the best time to start planning your celebrations before it's a full house! Amazing food & beverage delights await all, specially created by a team of culinary experts. Bringing a variety of specially crafted Christmas specials that will surely delight you and your loved ones.


Because Christmas is only celebrated on one special day every year; Hence, on Christmas Eve, 24th December 2019, Coffee House at Level 9 will be offering the Christmas Eve Buffet that is retailed at RM128 nett per person, kids below age 7 is F.O.C and it's half price for kids age 8 to 12 and/or Senior Citizens. From 7th October till 24th December 2019, Sunway Putra Hotel will be offering an Early Bird Voucher that will be priced at RM75 nett per person and the voucher is limited to first 200 guests only!


Over at Coffee House, for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve Buffet Dinner, diners will be able to enjoy their array of variety such as the Fresh Tiger Prawns, Japanese Snails On-Ice, English Lobster Bisque with Toasted Garlic Sticks, Roasted Turkey with Cranberry and Giblet Sauce, Baked Rib Eye with Mustard and Black Pepper Sauce and aso Honey Glazed Meatloaf with Brown Sauce. Not forgetting, their must-have Turkey Casserole, Chicken roulade with Orange Thyme, Vegetables & Mushrooms Sheppard's Pie and Minced Lamb Pie.


As for desserts, you can have a chance to enjoy their Eggnog Sabayon, Pumpkin Pies, English Fruit Cakes, Mango Panacotta, Fancy Cupcakes, Yam Mousse Cake, Christmas Stolen and Christmas Pudding with Vanilla Sauce.


There's also a mix of salad and appetizers such as Fish Salad with Tomato Salsa, Prawns' Cocktail, Avocado and Apple Salad and Breaded Mussels with Fruit Salsa and I know this will be most of my friend's favourite; Their generous and high quality of cheese assortments of Gouda, Cheddar, Blue Cheese, Garlic Herb, Baby Bell, Brie and Gruyere.


All these on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, but what about on these special days itself?
Well, on Christmas Day and New Year's Day; Coffee House will be serving the Buffet Hi-Tea priced at RM79 nett per person, kids below 7 eat for free and above 8-12 or Senior Citizen pay half price. With more than 50 selections of Western, Asian and basically a huge variety of creatively curated menu of Fusion variety that you will surely enjoy. They will also have their chefs preparing the food for you fresh in person at their Live Action stalls of Barbecue Mini Beef Steaks, Lamb Shoulders and Chicken Fillets, Seafood Porridge, Wanton Noodle Soup, Satay, Dim Sum, Yong Tau Foo and Pasta. Their mouth-watering Indian Briyani Rice and Hyderabad Chicken Briyani and their Chef's recommended rich creamy Asparagus Soup will also be available on these 2 days.
Desserts of variety that you should also indulge in are the Macademia Pralines, Orange Tiramisu, Christmas Cookies, Pistachio Bread & Butter Pudding and Gelato.



If you love to have a home-gathering these festive season, some of their specials are also available for order. From 1st to 31st December 2019, their Atrium Lounge also at Sunway Putra Hotel, offers assortments of Christmas savouries and sweet delights to order from, such as their Shepard's Pie (2kg per tray), Roasted Lamb Leg (RM158 per 1.2kg), Roasted Turkey with Chestnut Stuffing and Gravy (RM110 nett per kg), Christmas Pudding (RM60 per kg), Christmas Fruit Cake (RM60 per cake), Vanilla or Chocolate Yule (RM60 per cake), Ginger Bread House (RM20 or RM60, comes in 2 different size) and other sweet treats prepacked at RM12 per packet (eg. Cinnamon Star Cookies, Almond Ginger Cookies or Raspberry Cookies). All these goodies are available for pre-order of 5 days in advanced and you can easily pick up at Atrium Lounge counter at Level 9. For these orders you can send your request via email to spkl.dine@sunwayhotels.com

Chinese New Year 2019 is the Year of the Boar! A prosperous year filled with abundance! However, it is good to also look after our health to go through 2019 with ease. Have you found anything for your loved ones this Chinese New Year yet?

If not, then you can give the Gift of Health. A family favourite that has been in many Asian generation over the many years (over 180 years!!); BRAND'S® Essence of Chicken festive packs makes a perfect gift every time for your loved ones! Simple, easy, affordable and healthy at the same time!

The all-new festive gift packs are perfect for wishing your friends good health for the new year, it features cheerful designs based on contemporary Chinese patterns with a modern twist that combines bright colours and traditional motifs. Even the front and back has a different design and looks really good amongst your Chinese New Year house decorations!

The chinese word fú ( 福 ) is prominently displayed, to symbolize that BRAND'S® can offer you the blessing of health and where to have health is to be blessed. Very deep meaning with this.

BRAND'S® Essence of Chicken is the perfect gift for Chinese New Year, as it can increase metabolism, especially when you feel tired, this can help boost your energy and increases oxygen flow to your brain so you can concentrate better! Especially if you're going to be on a long journey back home in the traffic.


There are several BRAND'S® gift packs and hampers that you can choose from that ranges from RM38 to RM258 (inclusive of SST) and it also comes in a variety of BRAND'S® Essence of Chicken, BRAND'S® Essence of Chicken with Cordyceps, the 100% superior quality cave nest BRAND'S® Master Signature Bird's Nest with Rock Sugar and also BRAND'S® Bird Nest with Rock Sugar. In fact, there's a total of 17 different festive packs to choose from and offered through various channels including leading pharmacies, supermarkets, hypermarkets and Chinese medical halls nationwide.


If you'd love to get your hands on these beautiful festive packs for your loved ones this Chinese New Year, then don't wait, get out there and grab one today!

Ooh-la-la! Chinese New Year ‘round da corner… What does it really means to you?

I'm also a Earth Dragon.... Some pretty sheer "darn" luck this year I gotta F2F...

Before - In-progress of cleaning up my room....

It means cleaning up the house!! And also “AngPau” or “Red Packet” time of the year!! Red & Gold, the mixture of both colour combination brings “ONG”… HUAT ah!!

After - Manage to clean and clear!

Any plans during this season? I know everyone is busy finishing up and cramming up last minute work to take leave the whole week of Chinese New Year! Basically, we drink (till drunk??), eat (gain weight!!), talk (all-night…), gamble (till “pokai”) & definitely the key to this festive season is to make new friends, re-build & re-connect long lost relationships and to sum it all is to enjoy the reunion among friends & family! And along the way we get some “red packets” and “DOUBLE red packets” especially from those NEWLY WEDS in 2011!!! Ohohohoho! The first “Red packet” from the NEWLY WEDS must be DOUBLE! Don’t ask why, just give! (He-he-he…)
Last year and every other year, my dad will cook on CNY Eve.

CNY Dinner Feb 2011

However, since I’m jobless and a temporary house-maiden, I’m cooking this year!

Okay… To be honest, this was my 2nd attempt at baking and my 1st attempt at preparing the ingredients from scratch! The first time was ready-mix off the shelves which doesn’t taste good at all! But make it from scratch and mm-mmm YUMMY! I had a recipe taken off OTA but I kinda edited it on my own while mixing which is risky but it was worth it!

Now I have the cookies, and some pineapple tarts from my bro-in-law’s family. Plus all the other important delicacies for CNY celebration, me & my parents went for grocery shopping today to avoid the people traffic but there’s still people traffic alright, afterall this is the LAST WEEK to SHOP for groceries for CNY Eve! It’s 5 days away!
Malaysian mentality is LAST-MINUTE!! Plus the all-time famous, 30-minutes late concept… It’s N-O-R-M-A-L for us… Tee-hee… But not for me… I lose my mood when I get invited out last minute… I rather have it planned beforehand, much more organized and definitely the best way to make sure I don’t waste time… Unless it’s super ad-hoc then it can be excused to let me in last minute… If not forget it! SO you wanna go shopping over the weekend? My advise is… DO NOT GO OUT THIS WEEKEND! You will cry over the traffic jam caused by people & vehicles!! People heading outstation and hometown… People buying laaaassttt minute groceries… I won’t be surprise if some hypermarkets or malls actually offer a special CNY sales over the weekend just to triple-hype up the people shopping last minute…

Well, don’t wanna run off-track my main topic here… Hehe… I’m “cooking” steamboat this CNY Eve for my family reunion dinner!! I’m even going to cook our “Hokkien” traditional CNY must-have dish for the FIRST TIME! “Bang guan” with onions and something something wrapped in fresh lettuce and “chomp-chomp-chomp-swallow-gulp”… (Not my fav… but it’s tradition)

"Hokkien" traditional CNY every family reunion dinner -MUST-HAVE-

Have a go at some of the auspicious greetings to wish this CNY and every CNY yearly
(especially useful when wishing our elderly folks)


Auspicious Greeting sayings :
Greetings to an elder one and a younger one are lil’ different in Chinese, but in English, there ain’t a difference.

If the one you are to greet is older than you, you can say:
Wish you or bless you… (祝您…/joo neen/ )

If the one you are to greet is younger than you, you can say:
Wish you or bless you… (祝你…/joo nee/)


Phrases of Greetings
Common Greetings during the Chinese New Year

• 新年快乐(xīn nián kuài lè) Happy New Year!
• 过年好 (guò nián hǎo) Happy New Year!
• 新年进步 (xīn nián jìn bù) New Year’s progress (This is appropriate to greet any person of any age or relationship.)
• 恭喜發財 (gōng xǐ fā cái) happy and prosperous (It is always used as the phrase when one receives gifts or 'ang pows' during Chinese New Year.)
• 财源广进 (cái yuán guǎng jìn) wealth pours in from every direction
• 年年有余 (nián nián yǒu yú) always get more than you wish for (a wish for surpluses and bountiful harvests every year)
• 吉星高照 (jí xīng gāo zhào) smiles of fortune

Greetings for health

• 龙马精神 (lóng mǎ jīng shén) good health
• 身体健康 (shēn tǐ jiàn kāng) enjoy good health
• 精灵活泼 (jīng líng huó pō) awareness and being active (It is specially used for children with the age under 10 years, wishing them to be active and smart.)

Greetings for work and business

• 生意兴隆 (shēng yì xīng lóng) prosperous business
• 万事如意 (wàn shì rú yì) good luck in every thing
• 工作顺利 (gōng zuò shùn lì) everything goes well with your work
• 事业有成 (shì yè yǒu chéng) succeed in your career
• 平步青云 (píng bù qīng yún) have a 'meteoric rise' (usually used to in regards to work or promotions)
• 马到成功 (mǎ dào chéng gōng) success immediately upon arrival (It is usually used to express success in doing something, like taking part in an examination, a negotiation or even a competition.)

Greetings for studies

• 学业有成 (xué yè yǒu chéng) have success at school*
• 学习进步 (xué xí jìn bù) progress in studies (*These two phrases are greetings reserved for students, wishing them improvements in their studies.)
• 金榜题名 (jīn bǎng tí míng) succeed in examinations (This is reserved for those are going to take important examinations, including students.)

Greeting saying to family
阖家欢乐 (hé jiā huān lè) happiness for the whole family
 
Info courtesy of  Chinahighlights.com


Yours Forever Truly,
Sabrina

Yes, it’s a special day for all lover’s out there! Sadly it falls on a weekday and it ain’t a public holiday sadly but nevertheless, love CONQUERS all!



What did we do on 13th Feb 2011, Sunday? We celebrated Pre-Valentines day like every other normal couple in the world…


We had lunch at TGIF, Subang Parade! They had an offer to order 1 main-course and get 1 soup-of-the-day FOC! We ordered and the manager came over and apologize for the mistake that the offer is only on weekdays but since we were offered the deal, we’re still getting it FOC… AWESOME right?! (Btw, their Tennessee main course with their special sauce is awesome! The sauce is sweet and tempting by itself!)

Next up, We-SCREAMED-for-ICE-CREAM!! Head up to Petronas USJ 20 (the one right at the end of Subang Jaya with KFC restaurant together) and rummaged through their ice-cream area and got ourselves Wall’s Cornetto… Mm-Mmm… The luuurrvvee… hehe

We chatted up in the car and camwhored together! Enjoy some of the never-seen-before-shots taken with the Nokia N8 (front camera… ooo I love VGA cameras so badly)

The keychain was bought at a hawker stall around PJ during lunch time the week before from an auntie who has disabilities… True or not, I just love the keychain


This is my 2011 Valentines story… I wonder what will 2012 be like… I need to beat my own record and raise the stakes again! Ehehehe…. I have so many plans in my mind I just don’t know which to set in motion… Hmmm….

Have a great Valentines Day!

With Love,
Sebrinah