New Team Member For Food POI

November 20, 2008 by email2me · 5 Comments

Today on 20th of Nov 2008, Food POI is proudly add in a new member into our team. Let me introduce Mr Envee Teo from Kuantan, Pahang.

During the daytime, he’s working as a professional car sales and turn into guest writer cum food tester of Food POI. He’ll be covering Kuantan and its surrounding area for nice foods which only locals will know. He claim that he can take spicy foods ! If really got chance that he come over to KL, I’ll definitely bring him over to Chili Pan Mee for a chili test ….. see how good is he in spicy foods … The last round I brought Gill Gill and Jason from Gourmet Gardens and made a double layer sausage on Jason’s Mouth.

So I hope he can bring us some good food recommendations from the east coast of Malaysia and again give him a warm welcome to the team.

His personal website is www.enveeteo.com

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Honda Asimo Humanoid Robot Live In 1Utama

November 16, 2008 by email2me · 2 Comments

Yesterday I was in 1Utama to have my brunch and watching the latest movie Madagascar 2. After finish the movie I can heard there’s a big crowd over in the main hall located at the new wing of 1 Utama. When I look down …. I can see the word Honda Asimo with plenty of posters showing their robots. ASIMO is a short term which means ADVANCED STEP IN INNOVATIVE MOBILITY.

This kind of show are very very rare and might be the only chance in your lifetime to be show cased in Malaysia. It is a very very high tech robot which resemble the movement of a human.

Just look at the crowd below.

Parents and kids were given priority to sit in front and I was on the first floor right next to the stage on left side to have the nearest coverage.

This is the stage where I can see from the first floor and ASIMO is just behind the door in the center.

Below is the video which I capture for the 2 session of its showcase.

More pictures :

The big screen which enlarge the view for people who stand at the back to see

ASIMO say Hi to everybody

Back Look Of ASIMO

Details of ASIMO’s road tours:
Nov 14-16, 1 Utama Shopping Centre, Petaling Jaya
Nov 20-23, City Square, Johor Bahru
Nov 27-30, Queensbay Mall, Penang

DON’T MISS IT!!!

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Big Fat Cheque From Nuffnang

November 7, 2008 by email2me · 22 Comments

Many of my friends think I am wasting of time taking pictures and blog about what I eat. I tell them …. we’ll see about that. Last month I show them this !

Now they start bitching me ….. hey teach me how to start a blog …. I would like to thanks Nuffnangrent a car bulgaria for this cheque.

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Tagged: Big Fat, blog, Bulgaria, Cheque, Rent A Car, Rent Car

Triple Happiness for Food POI Today

November 6, 2008 by email2me · 7 Comments

Last 2 days I receive a shout out at Food POI’s chat box saying that I won Makanlah’s October Give away which is a bottle of Estee Lauder Pleasures For Men Cologne spray. At the same period of time, I also redeem their treat points for a RM30 voucher from Chilis + the Makanlah car stickers .

Basically Makanlah is a new foodie in town where it works slightly different from us food bloggers. They are more like a portal where the visitors can build their own food location address books and also share out the info to the rest of Makanlah visitors. More details from their introduction brochure below.

I would like to thanks Sean the Multimedia Consultant who built Makanlah for giving me all these goodies.

Besides all the goodies above, I also received my Google Adsense cash out cheque amounting USD109.65

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Blogging Live on Halloween Day at theobroma Chocolate Lounge, 1Utama

October 25, 2008 by email2me · 13 Comments

Happy Halloween day to all Foodies, readers, my friends, family and everyone. After some hectic schedules of my job last week, finally I am able to take some rest especially Deepavali is around the corner. During festivals or celebration, I just couldn’t miss to visit 1 Utama. Their main hall or sub hall definitely has a nice decorations.

They have scare crows, pumpkins, bats, dead trees, crows and black cats. Usual EERIE stuffs which you could expect during a halloween day.

I didn’t go down to join the crowd directly. I just took it from from another floor on top of the celebration hall. I am actually sitting in theobrama CHOCOLATE LOUNGE.

The place looks a bit classy at first. But after you checkout their menu, it is kinda reasonable. A few pictures below showing their ambience and setup.

All the furnitures were brown in color and come with a quite comfortable cushion leather seats.

Basically this lounge is serving and selling anything that got to do with chocolates. Their chocolates are hand crafted and also came with many type of flavors and shape. At the same time they also sell chocolate drinks, pastries and also some light snacks.

I ordered myself a a SNOW WHITE which is a hot Belgian White chocolate in a mug n warmer. They do charge extra for serving it in a Mug ‘n’ Warmer.

RM12.90 and just the cup only without the warmer is RM9.90. Basically you are paying for a mini stove use and a small candle below it which constantly keep your chocolate drink warm.

The taste is so smooth and the white chocolate come with its milky taste makes you fly …..

Next to is is another glass of my drinks which is the MS Choco Frappe. It is a Dark Belgian Chocolate ice blended drink. Dark Belgian Chocolate come with a bit of bitter taste and strong in chocolate aroma wheras the white chocolate come with milky taste.

It comes with a cold whipped cream on top and also some dark belgian chocolate flakes. RM12.90

My chocolate espresso cake which got melted in less than 1 minute. Before my eye when I am trying to adjust my camera, the cake suddenly collapse a side. Then the chocolate layer suddenly turn into liquid chocolates. RM8.90

They are actually famous for their chocolate fondue which I can’t finish it alone. So I decided to pick a cake instead to go with my drinks. After this visit, I may not want to eat or taste chocolate for at least 1/2 year. I just had too much in a day. lol ….. If I order another drink, I definitely get diabetes very soon. ~.~”

Place: theobroma CHOCHOLATE LOUNGE
Location : 1Utama Shopping Complex
GPS Coordinate : N3 09.047 E101 36.920
Location Maps :

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Address : Lot FK3, First Floor Highstreet, 1 Utama Shopping Centre, No.1, Lebuh Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya
Contact No : 03-7725 0623
Website :
Business Hour : Daily shopping mall hour
Off Day :
Food Type: Everything related to chocolates
Price: Reasonable
Payment Terms : Cash/Credit Card
Cleanliness Votes : 4/5
Food Votes : 5/5
Air Conditioned : Yes
Halal : Yes
WIFI : Yes
Smoking and non smoking zone : No
Tax :
Recommended Foods : Chocholate Fruit Fondue
Recommended Drinks : Snow White

More pictures :

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Penang Food Blogger Gathering 2 - Edelweiss Swiss Cafe

October 2, 2008 by email2me · 24 Comments

On September 4th 2008, I saw CK Lam from What2See made an annoucement in Fooxion Forum on this event. Without any delay I sign up for it and confirm the attendance.

Last week, I drove home all the way to Penang for it. I arrive around 7.15pm and saw Nick from shiokornot.com and Alvin from alvinyang.com busy cam whoring in the middle of the road. Without any delay, I park my car and walkin straight to Edelweiss Cafe coz I was late for 15 minutes from the start time which suppose to be 7pm.

From the outside, you can see the this restaurant look very much like a typical old house in Penang. They purposely preserve it such away as this restaurant is one of the preserved historical premise in Penang for its antiques stuff.

Business Hour

Lingzie busy entertaining guest
When I walk in, I saw a few persons I which I met before or see their pictures from the first gathering. First was Lingzie which she was busy entertaining the guest. She’s the chairman of this gathering organizing team.

Let me show you all a bit of the restaurant before we go in to the gathering details …..

Old ceiling fan controller

Old School Bar Counter

Antique bar counter

OK enough for the brief intro of the restaurants. More pictures at the end of the post. Right now we start off with Lingzie’s doing the opening speech follow by the introduction by each of the attendees.