The Porki Society, Seapark

Love the small tiny bowl of noodles which you can finish in one bite and then taking selfie with the colorful bowls stacking on top of each other after you're done? There's a new place for you to satisfy your one bite noodle craving here in Seapark, Petaling Jaya.

The Porki Society is situated in Seapark, few doors away from the corner KFC shop. It's the same area as the Seapark Myburgerlab, Flying Wan Tan Mee and Nasi Lemak Bumbung. Thanks to my friend from Big Boys Oven, I've got the invites to the soft launch The Porki Society. From the name itself, you will not expect that they are also selling boat noodles, a thai street food which had made us queue for hours to dine in Empire Damansara few months back.

Went to The Porki Society in the late evening around 8.30pm with my colleague. Finding a parking in Seapark in the late evening was easy. There were many people dining at their soft launch and we waited at their counter after we walked in with the above vouchers on our hand. Probably they were too busy but we stand there like 5 minutes feeling awkward when no one came to the counter :( 

Luckily, someone came over after that and we got our table. And we spend the next few minutes snapping pictures of the interior decorations of the shop.

The entire shop has this old school stool and tables which we used to sit on when we were in primary school. They are repainted with some basic colours giving them a fresh new look. If you look at the floor, it has almost the same design and colours as its stools. The same goes for its tables too and the main colours are red, blue, white, yellow and green. 

From the entrance, the colourful stools are on your right.

 Some inspiration in painting your stools?

Colourful old school stools

 Old school classroom tables and stools reminds me of having the year end or festive party in the class. It probably looks like a canteen setting due to the buckets of dining utensils on top of the table but to me it looks more like a classroom. Haha. My old school canteen has more modern tables and chairs :P

Dining in the classroom?

 I've also noticed that there's some Coca-cola bottles decorations on the wall. If you've not noticed, there's a Coke bottle painting hanging above the colourful row of stools on one of the picture above. 

Have a coke today!

Soon, we were served a mini glass bottle of Sprite each. It comes with a mug filled with ice for you to pour the Sprite in. I'm amazed to see the small glass bottle of beverage as most cafes and restaurant sells them in can form. Probably they should also input the Sprite bottle into their Coke bottles decorations :P

Just like the other boat noodle cafe, some condiments and sauces are provided to satisfy your spicy craving tongue. Hands up for garlic chili !

Their menu consist of only one page list with everything you need to satisfy your boat noodle craving. The main hero in the menu is of course the noodle which comes in soup or dry with a choice of meehoon or rice noodles to choose from. Selling at RM1.90 per bowl, the portion is just enough for one mouthful bite or probably two if your mouth is small :P

Besides the noodles, you can also order some snack or side dishes to complement your noodles. From the menu, there's 6 types of PORK side dishes to choose from. From braised pork, pork ball, BBQ pork, fried pork and etc; I'm sure you can satisfy your pork craving of the day too. If meat is not your cup of tea, you can opt to add bean sprout (tauge) or water spinach to your noodle at RM1.90 per portion. As for dessert, there's only one choice available on the menu which is Takoh kuih at RM2.50/2pcs.  

Should it be call The Thai Porky Society?  :)

 Soon, a waiter brought us a bowl of braised pork for sharing and this taste just like the home cooked braised pork which we had at home. Homesick :)   This is the Moo Tun Signature Marinated Pork, RM4.90 and it taste exactly like the braised pork that we had at home. Yum. Strong herb smell with soya sauce cooked with pork and complete with coriander as topping. Love the taste but too bad that the food is not hot. I would like it to be hot or least warm though.

Moo Tun Signature Marinated Pork, RM4.90

And they have this nice-to-hold chopsticks :)

And here comes the signature boat noodle. This is the soup version with rice noodle at RM1.90/portion. There's plenty of tauge, kangkung, small chopped pieces of pork, some pork liver and also 2pcs of pork balls. And the "soup" seems to be reduction of pork bone soup and it's quite flavorful. There's some traces of nuts too and I just love the coriander which complements the noodles. If the soup is a bit hot, then it would be complete.  

Soup noodles in rice noodle, RM1.90

We were also served a bowl of pork balls with some pork bone soup. You can see the traces of pork in the soup ;) The pork balls taste normal just like the normal pork balls you've eaten. But the soup complement the pork balls was good; unlike the shops outside which will use clear soup with it. 

Luk Chin Moo Pork Ball with soup, RM3.90

Yum Yum.

 Here's the dry version of the noodle. The presence of gravy in this bowl of noodle is very minimal that is just enough to wet the noodle. It has the same ingredient as the soup version except that it's dry. I still prefer the soup or wet version of noodles because it's more flavorful and the dry one taste bland to me.

Dry version with rice noodle, RM1.90

Here's another side dishes, the BBQ pork at RM4.90/2 sticks. I love this side dishes too. The BBQ pork meat has the same taste as the bakwa (dried pork meat or yuk gon) which we usually eat during CNY. Bakwa consist of thin layers of dried pork meat but this BBQ pork is thicker than bakwa and there's freshly cooked/BBQ pork meat inside the crunchy and brown outer part. Yum. Love this a lot! A must-order food when you dine here.

Moo Ping Porki BBQ, RM4.90/2 sticks

Food was good and it's a good try to come out with such a concept. However, the noodles are not warm or hot and it will be good if they are at least hot. Probably they need to hire more staff in cooking and serving the noodles as most boat noodles I've eaten before are at least warm. Didn't managed to try all the items mentioned in the voucher as it seems they were already closing shop or run out of food after that :(  In terms of service, probably they will have more staff when it's officially open as it's not ok to have customers waiting at the counter and also waiting more than 10 minutes unentertained or having no food to serve them.

The Porki Society
10, Jalan 21/19,
Seapark Seksyen 21
46300, Petaling Jaya,
Selangor.

Dialogue in the Dark, Jaya One

Have you heard about Dining in the Dark? I'm sure most of you heard about the restaurant which is located in Changkat Bukit Bintang. I've been there once last year and it was quite interesting except that I've ate venison which I'm not supposed to eat (exotic meat huh). Hmm.. spoil the whole experience :(

Alright. Can you read the Braille words here:

No? Then, it's time for you to learn about the words. It's Dialogue in the dark (DID).

Now, I'm sure you may not be familiar with Dialogue in the Dark. Does this means talking or chatting in the dark? That was my first impression when I heard about this place which is located in Jaya One. This place is founded by Steven Chan and the centre had helped many visually impaired individuals to overcome darkness and lead a normal life.Who's this Steven Chan? Back in May, I'm sure you had heard about a blind man with his guide dog being chased out of a shopping mall in Klang Valley. Well, he's the visually impaired man mentioned in the story. Who's the dog mentioned? It's Lashawn; Malaysia's first guide dog for the visually impaired.

Now, back to our visit to the Dialogue in the Dark centre. It was raining heavily that evening and left the office early so that I can reach on time for the unique experience. Reached there at 5pm and since the session only start 30 minutes later, we snap some shots with the props :)

Pig with the bird from Churp Churp.

Giant Braille writing on the wall

Our session starts at 5.30pm and there was a briefing given before we entered the dark. For those who are going to experience the darkness, do empty your bladder before your session start because there's no toilet in the dark (if there's one, I'm doubt you can make it there and do your business).

Briefing time.

Next, it's time to keep your valuable belongings (all your belongings) in the locker so that we don't lose any of them in the dark room. As there were many of us, we were break into a few groups. Oh, and we were in the first group to enter the dark :) 

Before the session starts, we were given one long walking stick which the visually impaired normally use while walking. It helps to guide you while you walk (you can't see because it's total darkness) by hitting the stick on the floor. You'll know that there's a danger or some other objects or person near you when your walking stick hits on it.

With a walking stick on our hand, we're ready to explore the dark. Hmm... you might be wondering why explore rather than a lecture session since the centre is call "Dialogue in the Dark". This centre is a place for you to see from the eyes of a visually impaired person's daily life. You'll be exploring how these visually impaired people think and feel in trying to fit themselves in our society. There's four specially constructed rooms which mimic our daily environments to explore with the help of blind guides. In Malaysia, the four constructed rooms are based on the theme of Cuti-cuti Malaysia in the Dark.

Cuti-Cuti Malaysia with Dialogue in the Dark.

When you enter the specially constructed rooms, you can't see any lights (I'm serious) although you open your eyes as wide as you can. All I did was knocking my sticks to see if there's a wall or someone beside me. Okay, I use the other hand to touch if there's a wall too :P  Our guide, Mimi was there for us.

Cuti-Cuti Malaysia in the Dark
The first thing we need to find after walking in the dark was to search for the bench on the left side and sit on it. I was glad to find a safe area to sit and relax after walking without direction in the dark. While we were sitting on the bench, I can feel that the floor is filled with sands and the surrounding is cold with some wind blowing us. We can hear the birds chirping and some insects creaking too. We were in the middle of a forest reserve in Malaysia. Mimi, our guide asked whether we want to search for the Rafflesia flower which grows in the forest (Okay, here we are in forest reserve in Sabah because Rafflesia grows there). How do we search for the flower when we can't see? Rafflesia has a rotten smell to attract insects to pollinate the plant. Thus, you can use your sense of smell to locate it. But we decline the offer to search for it as we don't want to smell the bad rotten smell :)  Then, pig was chosen to help the group to search for the bridge in the dark as we need to cross the river. When he found it, we all walked towards his direction by listening to his voice (your sense of hearing is important). 

The bridge does resemble a real bridge but it's a shorter distance :)  Next, we could hear the water splashing and we're near the waterfall. Then, we just keep walking and Mimi said we walked through a magic or time tunnel and we're back in Kuala Lumpur! Yay! Then, we touched an ATM machine and Mimi asked how do we withdraw money to use when we can't see? We just keep searching for the buttons on the screen and keyboard. Although I can visualize the numbers on the buttons through imagination, it was hard to feel the correct numbered buttons as your finger can press the wrong button which is next to the correct ones. According to Mimi, there's 3 ways the visually impaired can withdraw their money. First, imagine and feel the buttons on the ATM to withdraw themselves (I think training is required before I can press the correct buttons) but it's a bit dangerous as there might be a snatch thieves targeting them. Second way, walk to the bank and withdraw money from the counter itself. Or you can get someone you know or close to you to withdraw it. This is the most risky as the person might cheat all your money :(

Walk further from the ATM, we're said to be visiting the Tugu Negara. Hmm, I presume that we've in Lake Gardens as our National Monument is standing in the lake. And we keep walking and banging our sticks turning left and right, I can feel that we're nearby some shops. Managed to feel the different cooking ingredients in the line of baskets. I managed to identify the pumpkin, onions, brinjal, salted fish, belacan, etccc by touching, squeezing and smelling them. Oh, and the stall next to it is the bookstore where there's a row of books, newspapers and magazines. Then, someone had simply parked their bicycle and blocked our way. Managed to touch the bicycle too.

Next, I remembered there's a motorcycle too and finally a car but I didn't managed to identify the car's brand. It was time to cross the road and thanks god that there's no real cars there or else, I'll be badly hit as I can't see whether there's any car coming in. But I can hear the car's engine sound and the traffic light making the "tick tick tick" / "save to cross road" sound. Imagine if the visually impaired is on a real street, he or she will be putting their lives on your hands. Thus, do help them to get to the safe side when you meet one on the street.

And here we were at the beach. I can hear the sound of strong waves wash up the beach (I miss it since my last visit to Club Med) and there's sand again on the room floor. And there's some beach equipment too like the life jacket (correct me if I'm wrong :P ). Oh, there's a pizza store nearby and we can smell the yummy fresh from oven pizza smell. We were hungry after walking through the dark and I think the time pass so fast without us realize it. Walk further in and we were on our way searching for the chairs to sit. It was a round table with chairs surround it. And it's meal time!


Cuisine in the Dark
From there, we ended our Exploring Cuti-Cuti Malaysia session and begin our Cuisine in the Dark session. We waited for the other groups to arrive before meal was served. Thus we chat with Mimi, our guide and at this moment, we did not know that she was blind and thought that probably she was wearing a google that can see in the dark. Thus,we asked her questions like does she blog, etcc.. questions that a non-visually impaired can do. Soon, some of the groups arrived and our group was the loudest among all haha.

While waiting, we were given some games to play. We were given a small piece of paper printed with Braille. Tried hard to feel how does each alphabet feels like in a Braille writing. I can't remember all the alphabets in Braille system and probably I have giant fingers that the dots seems so small.
Next, we were required to write in dark where one person write a word from the required sentence and passed it to the next person to continue with the next word. I was hard to judge where the previous text was written on the paper as well as the font size. But it was fun!

Soon, everyone arrived and meal was served by Mimi. Meal was courtesy of Mango Chili; a Thai restaurant located in Nexus Bangsar South City which promotes the Food for Good project. For every meal you purchased, Mango Chili will feed a child in need! We were served lemongrass tea; it was refreshing and I accidentally spilled it after that :(

The dinner begins with an appetizer which consist of  mango salad and a spring roll. Mango salad was a bit spicy but I love spicy! And the spring roll was good. Wish that there's more spring roll. Then, there's Tom Yum soup with prawns. It was difficult to peel the shells. Main meal was a round plate filled with Jasmine rice, green curry chicken and another dish which I had chop it down before I can identify it. As everything is served on a plate, I can't see where the side dish is and just scope them in my mouth. But I can feel where's the green curry chicken is as it's served in a small cup on the plate. Our dinner ended with chocolate ice-cream but that's not the end of our adventure. We were then required to search for the flask and pour the tarik into our own cups. Luckily pig was sitting beside me and helped me with it :)

After dinner, some lights were turned on and it was only then we found out that Mimi was blind and feel bad that we had asked her around getting us more drinks and served our food or even asked her questions on things she can't see now. Then, Mr.Steven Chan was there and introduced the other guides in the room. He explained some background stories about the centre and the other guides also tells a short background stories about themselves. I'm proud of them that they are able to conquer their fear for darkness and fit into our society. The Cuisine in the Dark is run by these visually impaired.

Last but not least, Steven Chan brings in Lashawn; the handsome guide dog and we had a wonderful photography session with them. It was hard to capture a nice picture of Lashawn as he's very excited seeing us around and can't sit still. Wish to know more about Lashawn? Follow his page at Dogs for Sight. 

The many faces of Lashawn.

Would like to thank Nuffnang for organizing this meaningful Dialogue in the Dark #nndialogueinthedark) session for us. It teaches us to see from the blind's perspective and also to appreciate the sight around us when we can still see it. And of course to take good care of our eyes. Besides that, I've also realized how attached I am to pig that I can recognized his voice and smell in darkness. There might be many pairs of hands trying to search for direction the dark but I managed to recognized his :)  I guess I need to remember all these unique traits and might be useful in future in finding myself in darkness.

I'm afraid of Lashawn who's sniffing around.

Pig with Lashawn!

Nuffies and Churpies at Dialogue in the Dark.

We flew to Taman Negara in 1 minute from Jaya One.

Wish to experience the how you would react or feel in the dark or challenge yourself to find your partner in the dark? You can get more information from DID (Dialogue in the Dark).

And you can have a special birthday celebration by celebrating it in the dark. From RM388 for up to 8pax, you and your friends can sing birthday song in the dark. Drinks and cakes included and birthday boy or girl will get a mystery gift.

Dialogue In The Dark
100-P1-001, THE SCHOOL,
Block J, Jaya One,
No 72A,  Jalan Universiti,
46200 Petaling Jaya,
Malaysia.

Nuffnang Raya Open House 2014 (#NNRAYA)

Exactly 168 hours ago, NNRaya Open House 2014 was held at Wanaka The Bungalow.
Attended the event with Jade and it's been a long long long--g-g-g time since I attended any Nuffnang event. It was because of unsuitable timing, dates and work schedules. And I'm glad to be able attend this Raya Open House event. Based on the overall visual, communications and environment of the venue, the concept of this event falls on a simple but fun community gathering in a traditional kampong style. It's great to see that all elements gels together to bring a memorable gathering ala traditional kampong feel.

Was quite excited when I saw the e-mail to RVSP for this event. To gain a chance to receive the invites, you need to post a picture of the event poster on Instagram with the reason why you would like to attend this event. Here's the event poster set in a traditional kampong house feel complete with the coconut trees ;)
And thanks to UMobile and Ambi Pur for being the official partners and Wow Photobooth for sponsoring this event.

The event started at 3pm and I could only make it at 4pm because I had some work to do in the office that morning. There were many guests there when we arrived! Hurried to the registration booth and got our welcome gift. Basically, it a P&G Hari Raya special sample pack completes with Joy dish washing liquid and Scoth-Brite green sponge. It's not a simple pack but it does tells a story:

Imagine this, you receive a welcome pack with a shape of a simple house celebrating Hari Raya, and then you open it by flipping the page to the left (it means open-house) and Ayam Masak Merah with Nasi Briyani welcomes you (oh well, the recipes is right on the page). You smell the freshness of Ambi Pur in the living room (Look to the left page and cute cartoon welcomes you to the "house" too). Oh, you spend the moment of togetherness and of course-the feast! "Open the house" even further after that and it's time for cleaning up the mess (No worries because you've got the tool for cleaning).

[Hmm, well; actually when you "open the house" someone would welcome you into the living room smell of Ambi Pur and then the host will offer you the delicious feast. But I see the recipes first rather than the living room. Ahah!]

It's the "Open House" pack!

Armed with a list of fun things to explore in the bungalow and at the garden; we went for station hopping to complete the list of joy. Oh and when you enters the bungalow, you can see it as entering the host's house!

 Started our hunting on the top side of the house. The site featured Ambi Pur and UMobile worlds. Oh and Ambi Pur products decorated the whole "living room" of the house. Okay, we saw this mini living room complete with sofa, carpet, piano and table decorated with Ambi Pur products and props. And we saw 2 cars parking outside this living room. Thus, it supposed to be the entrance of the house? You know, park your car in the house and enters the living room? Aha! We took our selfies with the Ambi Pur products, upload them on Instagram and got our gift! Brought home the Ambi Pur Blossom & Breeze with me :)

Ambi Pur world!

The other room situated upstairs was UMobile world! You can tweet and get to make a free call to anyone instantly. By doing this, you get to participate in a lucky draw too which was held later. Hmm, didn't try to make the free call though. BF was busy working at that hour; don't wanna make a free call with no one picking it up :P It's great that UMobile gels into the Raya concept where it helps you to connect you with your beloved ones. Well, it's the time for jumping into the feeling of togetherness during festive season! Best part, UMobile helps you to communicate your message to your beloved ones for FREE.

Back to downstairs, there was a cooking demo on sambal ikan bilis by Ceera and Filla.

Cooking yummy Sambal Ikan Bilis!

And there's a Wow Photobooth and Wowgram! Since there's no people queuing up for the photo-booth at that time, we went crazy over the selfies at the booth.We also uploaded pictures of our selfies to Instagram with the selected hashtags and our photo will be automatically printed out at Wowgram booth. Oh, together with special event frame too! The frame is in orange (It's the colour of UMobile!!).

Selfies printed thanks to Wow Photobooth!!!!!

There were some lucky draws and games where you can win UMobile and Ambi Pur products. Ambi Pur showdown was interesting where teams with three members in a group need to do sketches using Ambi Pur product as props. And it was a great opportunity to have CMO of UMobile Malaysia to give a short speech. And guests had a chance to win products from UMobile during the question and answer session. [What's the colour of UMobile? Orange!  What's the hashtag representing UMobile during this event? #The BestFree]. Okie. I remembered the answer of those questions but not so much on the question. ;P

CMO of UMobile (left) and emcee of the day!

There's a green theme going on with the props too to match the Raya theme! There's many UMobile logo hidden in the house. Guess the number of UMobile logos and you might win a prize! There's another interesting game with UMobile during the event. Make a call to anyone and ask them certain required question (oh well, it's the same question during the question-and-answer session), if the recipient got it correct, both caller and receiver will get a prize!! 

Greenn-ny props in and out of the house!

An open house is not complete without the food! There's a whole roast lamb and common and simple open house food such as chicken noodle soup, sambal, curry chicken, kuihs, fruits and Raya biscuits. Just like a feast when you attend a Raya open house. The food was served on a table at the garden making it looks like how we are in a traditional kampong environment. I think more covers are needed to cover the food; well you know, it's outdoor. Oh, there's samplings from Humble Beginnings too but not much left when I arrived :( 

Feast of the open house.

And guess what! We managed to meet Fighter in person there!!! He's so-so cute and cheerful. Glad that he's enjoying his moment at the open house and he might wondering who all these people are. Aahaha...

Thanks my dear Jade for attending the open house with me!  Had a fun moment there! We left about 6pm as the sky looks like it was going to cry. Bravo to Nuffnang to bring the great open house concept.
Though need some improvements here and there but overall, it's okay!.

Nine West Spring/Summer Colection Launch, Pavillion. My first NIne West Handbag and Shoe!

It's the most exciting day ever.

why?

I'm attending NINE WEST launching in Pavilion.

enjoy my journey of the day:

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Had ADA lecture in the morning.. good that I had my nasi lemak to accompany me. haha.

After lecture, went for our first makan session with Sharon, Kar Mern, Veeiean, Kee Ang and Wei Han.

Ah Gong Bak Kut Teh which is located somewhere behind The One Academy in Sunway.

where's the soya sauce?

Mr.Wei Han pour tea for us.

Our Set (Rm70) for 6 ppl.

yumm..notice the giant bone? lots of bone marrow.

love this.

the guys in action.

JJ and Jay. ahhahaha

it was awesome.. ahaha... only RM13 per head. had a wonderful time there.

Then, went to Sunway Pyramid with Kar Mern while waiting for Joyce to reach.

Then, Joyce and I headed to Pavilion. It's been a long time since I stepped in to Bukit Bintang. Had lunch at Sakae Sushi. well, after my bad experience in Sakae Sushi last time; it turned good this time since it's located in Pavilion. Good service and the menu here are more extensive then usual. Next time, I'll only go for Sakae Sushi signature like the one in Pavilion!!!! I hate bad service restaurant..since I'm full, I had salad and some sushi while Joyce had her Unatama Don.


Here comes SUSHI.

yours truly.. Unagi with Mango.

Joyce's.

mine..!

Avocado Salad.

Mushroom with Unagi. I love this.

Had a wonderful meal. Don't know why I'm so obsessed with Avocado these days.



walked around and had window shopping.. hehe.. while waiting for the NINE WEST event to start. cool down ourselves at Snowflakes. I tried their month's special Green Tea Taro Balls. Yummm.. lovin it.. I'll be back for more.

Green Tea Taro Balls with Red Bean topping.

Joyce's Best Seller series.

At 4pm sharp, we registered ourselves at the event booth..

Thanks Female magazine for the invites.

the crowd.

MC of the day..

he looks super handsome right? ehehe

It's NINE WEST's SPRING/SUMMER collection Launch Party and their 15th anniversary too.

In conjunction to its anniversary, buy the first item at normal price and buy second pair of shoe for only RM15!!!!!!! a super deal right since normal pair of shoe in Nine West costs Rm200+ ..

There the fashion show begins.

Enjoy!

I was considering about this bag too.

and this bag too.

this bag costs RM500+

I love this bag and it's featured in their front cover for the collection.

Refreshments from espressamente illy.

yummm

Beef Pepperoni.

there were games and 15 pairs of shoe were given away... easy. Just remember the price for each item in the show correctly. so, the winners are all fans of Nine West coz they askyou how much exactly those shoe costs.

After the event ended, it's shopping time for us.

I had a hard time choosing between those bags.

Finally, I managed to choose the PLUM RED bag for RM299.. Super cool. It's their main featured of this collection. It comes together with the pair of heels that resembled Christin Dior's collection. And I bought a pair of flats for freaking RM15!!!

Too busy with my handbag that I ignore those lovely refreshment served. lots of food wehhh!! Nvm, those refreshment are from expressamente illy cafe in Pavilion. I'll dine there next time.

Shall post them in another post. too happy liao.,

My FIRST NINE WEST handbag and shoe.

I'll be back for another handbag. hahaaaa.. love them too much.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm too happy that I skipped my dinner..hahaaaaaaa

it was raining heavily on the way home. traffic jam.

HAHAHHAHA!!

what a HAPPY DAY.