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Eating Contest at Gurney Plaza

Written by Nicholas Chan on October 14, 2008 – 12:03 am -

I went to Gurney Plaza to had my lunch-afternoon tea last Saturday. I planned to stay at home whole day to sleep, TV, DVDs, Internet but I can’t because I have run out of food at home. So, I had to go to the nearest place to me, Gurney Plaza to find food.

I didn’t know there’s a kind of contest was going on until I saw a a bunch of people beside Shih Lin. Being a busybody Penangite, for sure I went to take a look what’s happening on.

At first I thought it was just a Oyster Mee Sua eating contest, eat as many of Osyter Mee Sua as you can but later on, after eating a few bowl of it, then stand up and turn to other place.

It’s not easy to eat the Oyster Mee Sua because it’s hot and it’s a little bit spicy although it’s delicious. I’ve tried the food before. Somemore, one have to eat not one but a few bowls. It’s gonna be very full and hot.

Then what I was mentioning was they moved to the other station and another person sit down and eat. Only then I know what’s going on, it’s not just a oyster mee sua eating competition but it’s like a station eating contest in a team where a team goes to one station (one kind of food), one of the team member eat and when he or she finishes it, they will move to the other station and another team member will take turns to eat.

I never know about this contest and didn’t really bother to follow wherever they go because I was hungry at that time.

What a coincidence that I met the contestant again while I was hunting for food at the alfresco area. It was the last station for them.

Connect ten straws and suck (drink) the coca cola until it’s dry. When someone finishes the first can, he can get closer to the coke by reducing the connected straws to 5.

They seriously have skill. A guy was like going lower and lower for it.

That’s what I got. Eating contest at Gurney Plaza.

Tags: Alfresco, Coca Cola, Contest, Event, Food, games, gurney plaza, Penang, Pepsi, Shih Lin, Straw, Tomyam
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Farewell and birthday out at Chili’s

Written by Nicholas Chan on October 6, 2008 – 9:52 pm -

Here I gonna share something that’s part of my lifelog. It was Thursday night and I went to Chili’s with some friends to eat out together. It’s the LEO Club’s people and it was actually celebrating the birthday of a girl, Li Fei and a soon-to-be doctor in a few year times who had gone back to India last Friday, he is Vincent Khor.

I went there right after my tuition class finished at 8 and we were fooling around at the restaurant for about an hour only then we start ordering food. It was fast and if you want to look at what we eat, please go to my food blog.

There were like 20 peoples from the LEO Club who know each other already. Some of them are blogger too, like KOKahKOK, MX, Alvin Yang, Royblin, Jin and some more who blog for fun not as frequent as I am on other platform.

Li Fei, birthday girl of the day, from the Leo Club of Convent Datuk Kramat received a big box of something inside. At first, I thought it was a cake, but then it wasn’t what I thought.

What it is is actually a big Stitch plush toy. A big one but is it bigger than my 7 Zai?

The cake that I thought it was big but actually it’s only that big. Man on the right is Vincent Khor, soon-to-be doctor from Leo Club of Penang (City).

Then there’s a group photo before everyone goes home.

Tags: birthday, blogger, farewell, Food, Leo Club, Lifelog, party
Posted in Gathering, Leo Club, Lifelog | 2 Comments »

Penang 2nd Food Blogger Gathering at Edelweiss Cafe

Written by Nicholas Chan on September 29, 2008 – 7:57 pm -

Last weekend, I’ve attended a food blogger gathering at Edelweiss Cafe, a swiss restaurant at Armenian Street. If you know about me, I do have a food blog, I love to eat, I love to shoot and so I share what I eat and some food pr0n at SHIOK OR NOT - The Food Blog. I recommend you to visit it when you are hungry. Haha.

(Gill and Lingzie)

(Speaking is Nigel of Tripadvisor.com)

It’s the 2nd food blogger gathering, thanks to Lingzie for organizing it and Criz for informing me about this event. I missed the first one at Hai Nan Town, and I couldn’t be missing the second one again. Actually I have event that evening but at last minute it canceled and only then I could go to this food blogger gathering. I tagged along Yiphing and Alvin Yang with me.

(Nigel’s wife, Diane. Thanks for letting us to take photos of your sausages.)

It’s a small place, approximately local food bloggers and some guest attended this gathering. I get a starter, main course, dessert, coffee and a little door gift by paying RM38. It’s not that bad, once in a while is okay. It starts of with a little introduce-yourself thing by going round. I wore my NICKCHAN.NET shirt and it seems like people are liking it. Thank you.

I got to know about some other food bloggers that I’ve never heard before and also met the famous 5xmom who makes money through blogging.

(Durianberry of The Gastronomic Diary)

(Allen of Yummy-Station)

(Lingzie the organizer with Criz hiding at the back)

(I need names, please identify yourself. Haha. I know Steven Goh is the first one on the right)

(Criz of Criz Bon Appetite)

(Me and CK of What2See)

It’s a little gathering where people sit down on a round table, eat, talk and exchange ideas. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to know all, but at least I made friends.

Food was pretty good, it was my first time eating out at Edelweiss and if there’s a chance, I’ll go there again. My mom and dad don’t fancy swiss food and so I’ve to look for friends.

It was a nice experience eating out with other food bloggers and given me a chance to expose myself to the real world instead of just sitting in front of the computer screen. Thanks Lingzie for taking me home and Shi Hui for the brownie.

Tags: Dinner, Food, Gathering
Posted in Blogosphere, Event, Lifelog | 4 Comments »

Meeting at Greenlane McDonalds

Written by Nicholas Chan on September 14, 2008 – 10:10 pm -

Oopsie, it seems that I have been busy lately. I think I was. It’s mid autumn, and Happy Mid Autumn Festival everyone. =) This weekend was full, went to meeting at McDonalds for the Leo Club in the morning, to meet a friend in the mall in the afternoon, to a mini mid autumn celebration at night. Today, went to had a reunion dinner at grandma’s house, sleep in the afternoon and eat at night. I was so busy.

Sharing ahead is some photos that were taken during the meeting at Greenlane McDonald’s. The reason behind choosing McDonald as a meeting for the Leo Club activity was because that the organizing secretary did not apply permission for a class in school for activity usage, and so the whole meeting venue moved from school to a fast food restaurant.

Chia Yang and Rong Zhi.

Rong Zhi with the shakers fries and Kenneth.

Chia Yang who is celebrating his birthday tomorrow.

Alvin Yang who is the organizing chairperson for an upcoming event, our club’s anniversary.

=)

Tags: Food, greenlane, Leo Club, mcdonald
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USA Starbucks Card in Malaysia

Written by Nicholas Chan on September 5, 2008 – 12:28 am -

I remembered when I was ordering food at Starbucks Coffee, Suria KLCC, I saw a lady paid the cashier in cash and later she gave her a card. I then quickly surf the net to look for any Starbucks Coffee privillage card or sort of. What I found is Starbucks Card which is a prepaid card which stores credit for buying coffee.

Unfortunately, it’s only available in a few country only, etc. United States, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, UK and a few more. Malaysia is not in the list. However, that lady did give the cashier a card. Is it a foreign Starbucks Card and she was using it for point collection? I don’t know.

I saw the Starbucks Card quite interesting on the net and decided to get one for myself. For collection and also for use if I could use it in Malaysia. Checked Ebay and I found one that’s only $3. Bought it and it has arrived today in my letterbox. It took about 1 and a half week for the delivery from United States to Malaysia. It seems fast.

Nothing much in the envelope, there’s a greeting card and the Starbucks Card itself.

It has $0 credit in the card and I don’t what should I do with it. For the sake of funness and attractiveness of the card, I bought it off the net. I love Starbucks, but it’s expensive. Any Starbucks collector here?

Tags: card, collection, Food, starbucks, starbucks coffee
Posted in Cool Stuff, Shopping | 8 Comments »