H-Factor @ Penang
It was 7am on the Saturday morning when ShaolinTiger and I reached HELP College to meet up with the rest of the crew heading off to Penang with us. Why the journey? It’s cause we’re heading up north to meet up with Hannah Tan and the rest of the people for the H-Factor’s installment in Penang. My company, Events Xpert is involved in this as the official videographer.
The H-Factor Speakers when they are not on stage
Reached G Hotel about 12pm and got ourselves checked in before we head off for a quick lunch and briefing on the day’s agenda. With the H-Factor workshop happening on Sunday, the team including the speakers is taking every opportunity possible to do as much publicity as we could and the venue of choice was the Queensbay Mall on the other side of the island. (more…)
Mad Cow Disease the root of Ahmad’s sanity
I read with interest over the couple of days or rather week since that Ahmad made that stupid remark about chinese. And the fire of racism is being stoked even further with these kind of remarks. I’m just going to grab some of the quotes to share here.
Ahmad Ismail, a division chief in the United Malays National Organisation ruling party, claimed that the Malay majority was losing patience with minorities, particularly ethnic Chinese politicians.
“Consider this a warning from the Malays,” Ahmad said. “The patience of the Malays has a limit. Do not push us against the wall, for we will be forced to turn back and push the Chinese for our own survival.”
Penang Food Promotion @ Legend Hotel
Legend Hotel just launched their Penang Food & Cultural Promotion until the 8th of June. I was there on invitation to witness the launch of the promotion attended by the Chief Minister of Penang as well as various other members of Parliament.
After usual speeches by the Hotel Manager, Mr. Vincent Pillai and the CM of Penang and the launch of the promotion, the CM was taken on a tour of the buffet line checking out all the food that was spread across the restaurant. As for me, I just couldn’t wait to get my hands on the food that was there.
The first area I attacked was non other than the Nasi Kandar stall that the CM just visited, simple reason is when I was doing my round taking photos of the food, the one area that attracted me was that said stall. Each of the dishes there was perfect, especially the fried chicken (which incidentally was the first to go that night).
The other must try was the Roast Lamb that look oh so wonderful, smell and taste wonderful too. The meat was roasted to the right texture.
The other must try is the raw salmon, very fresh and no fishy smell. Even had a few helpings myself before they stopped refilling the station after the 5th time.
To top off the wonderful night, there’s the variety of kuih melayu which would just give you that perfect send-off into food heaven. There are loads of other dishes there that is worth to try but of course, what I mentioned was the favorite of mine that night. What was the other food served there? Look at the photo album and find out for yourself. 
Citrarasa – Flavours of Malaysia: Penang Food & Cultural Promotion
Lunch
RM53++ per person
Dinner
RM68++ per person
For Reservations, Call Di-Atas Brasserie @ 03-4042-9888
The Legend Hotel
Putra Place, 100 Jalan Putra
50350 Kuala Lumpur
Ratings:
Food : 4/5
Service : 3/5
Cleaniness/Ambience : 4/5
Value for Money : 4/5
Restaurant End of the World
After the completion of the Press Conference and some meetings with suppliers in Penang Island, the organizers decide to head out to Teluk Bahang on the Monday to grab some dinner before heading back to KL. So off we went, on a 20min ride from Tanjung Bungah to Teluk Bahang and finally stopping at this restaurant called Restaurant End of The World.
Not sure if it’s the end of the world we were at but definitely, the end of the road that we want to continue on for the driver would have been skinned alive if he doesn’t stop for food soon.
As we were there to just fill our stomach before heading back to KL, these was what we ate.
Seafood Fried Rice – Simple fried rice, abit salty to my taste though.
Braised Tofu with Seafood – Nicely prepared, what I like most of this dish is the sauce.
Oyster Omelet – I’m no oyster eating person, so I only dig around for the eggs which wasn’t completely cook, or was that the oysters I ate?
Grilled Red Snapper – One of the crowd favorite on our table, snapped up within minutes upon landing on the table. Perfectly grilled.
Wanted to order their Cheesed Tiger Prawns but the price they quoted us was madness (I suspect they have 2 separate menus for the locals and tourists seeing that there’s only 1 chinese and 2 Venezuelans and an indian lady on the table. LOL)
Gerardo Rosales & Our Latin Groove
The World Latin Salsa Congress is just around the corner and the excitement is building up in Penang especially Tanjung Bungah Hotel where the event will be held.
One of the most looked forward to aspect of the event other than the workshop is the LIVE BAND that’ll be entertaining all Salsa dancers at the Beach Party on Saturday night.
This year, we have none other than Gerardo Rosales & Our Latin Groove all the way from Venezuela. Check out this video of the band.
For those of you who hasn’t and have plans to attend, here’s some good news. If you are planning to attend only the Saturday afternoon workshop + Beach Party, we have a promotional package of RM800 (single room) and RM600 (twin sharing) with a 1 night stay at the hotel. So you can party like crazy and then just sleep over and head back to KL on Sunday after checking out at 12pm.
Have you registered your participation yet? If not, write to me and we’ll arrange for you now! My email’s zique76 [at] hotmail.com