Four Seasons CNY Poon Choi Set @ Capsquare

January 25, 2010
spinzer
Food Galore
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5 min read

This year’s Chinese New Year started with a blast for me, even before it came! Thanks to Big Boys Oven we’ve been getting non-stop offers to go for CNY promotions almost every day, and today I will be sharing with you Four Season’s New  Year Chinese “Poon Choi” Set (虎年盆滿鉢滿庆新春)!

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Featuring the above, this is one dish that is very popular among the Chinese. In one look you can see that in the Special Four Seasons Hong Kong Style “Poon Choi” (文興金牌盆菜) there are Braised Chinese Mushroom, Sea Cucumber, Fish Air Bladder, Fried King Prawn, Garlic Dried Scallop, Dried Oyster Ball, Sweet & Sour Fish, Four Seasons Roast Duck (I know Boss Stewie would kill for this!!!) Crispy Pork, Garlic Chicken Leg, Dongfen (see-through thin noodles that is used to absorb all the mix juices at the bottom, TASTY!!), Chinese White Cabbage, Dried Bean Curd, Sweet Pea and Brocolli. Phew I thought it’d never end!

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Before that, though, we were given Mixed Seafood in cabbage for appetizers. Yummy and crunchy, goes best with Chilli Oil, these little morsels only serves to whet your appetite for bigger main dishes!

 

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Also we made sure we had cooling drinks after all the heaty (but super delicious) food we’d get with the “Poon Choi” set, as listed below. Beware: do not DROOL over your keyboard, Spinzer.uS will not be held responsible for the electrocution of yourself nor your laptop/desktop!

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As shown above, the Special Four Season’s Poon Choi is delicious with the myriad of ingredients used. The sauces all mix to form the broth at the bottom where the glass noodles are, all soaked up to form the most delicious noodles you’d ever eaten, serious! Oh, before I forget you WILL get Fresh Salmon Yee Sang (七彩三文魚撈生) before having the “Poon Choi” as per the set meal.

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Remember the Four Seasons Roast Duck that I’ve always mentioned before, the one found in London? Well, it may not necessarily be the same but the tenderness remains supple and delicious, just the way I like my duck to be. You won’t be getting this in the set meal, just showing you what is found in the Poon Choi dish!

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You’ll also be finding these tasty morsels called Crispy pork in your Poon Choi dish. Again, this is just to show you how delicious looking they are served in pieces, so just imagine how’d it tastes like inside the amazing dish, mixed with other porky materials lol!

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Now THIS, this tasty looking red-ish pieces of Char Siew (Roast pork), you won’t find in your Poon Choi dish, but you HAVE to try it, super tasty and comparable to some great ones outside!  Ok I kid, it might not be in the Poon Choi dish, but you WILL find it in the featured dish below, found in the Set also…

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Waxed Meat Rice in Hot Pot (瓦煲腊味飯). Made of Lap Cheong (Chinese Sausage), Lap Mei (Innards of the pig) and Char Siew all mixed into the Claypot and cooked like the Claypot Chicken Rice that you are fond of. And as you will be able to imagine, it’ll taste thrice as better…

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Ken here shows us how it’s scooped into a rice ball, ready to be eaten. Are you imagining yourself eating it already? Yumm…

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So what happens to the burnt pieces, you ask? I know some of you look forward to it… and rightly so, because you’d normally have it with Chicken Broth which the kind Four Seasons staff provided as well!

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Have you not eaten it like this before? If you haven’t, then you don’t know how Claypot-cooked style food is usually eaten. See here, a bowl of chicken broth, then…

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You add the burnt crispy rice (not too burnt though, cancerous!) and mix it up to get it soggy and absorb the flavours. Proceed to eat, and tell me if you like it or not!

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Finally for dessert, the New Year Chinese “Poon Choi” set offers you a uniquely special dessert called “Double Boiled Sea Coconut with Soya Bean (豆漿海底椰)”. I don’t know about you but it’s the first I’ve ever tasted, and I can tell you it tastes good! Definite must try in this season of celebration…

You can find the New Year Chinese “Poon Choi” Set at Four Seasons, Capsquare for just RM338+ for 6 pax. For the Fresh Salmon Yee Sang, Poon Choi, the Waxed Meat Rice in Hot Pot and the Double Boiled Sea Coconut with Soya Bean, I thought it was pretty decent especially with the generous amount of portion given. Do give it a try if you haven’t, because though it’s not the same as its London counterpart, it’s still delicious nevertheless.

Four Seasons Chinese Restaurant

Lot G16 & G17
Capsquare
No. 7, Persiaran Capital Square
Kuala Lumpur

OPENING HOURS:
10am-10pm

Contact: 03-2698 9393
Click for map here.

 

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Malaysians are cool! Why? Cos we made Tali Tenang project a success!

January 25, 2010
spinzer
Events & Travels, Project X
9 Comments
3 min read

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The day started with us getting briefed by ZainHD of RandomAlphabets.com

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It was a necessity that we remain calm at all times, especially when we’re about to tell everyone that we were meant to WALK from Bangsar LRT Station to Bangsar Sports Complex. And that’s one heck of a long walk!

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The crowd came. It was about 200, well off the 700 who RSVPed for attendance, but it’s only to be expected. Then again we’d have some problems if it was more than 200, crazy mang!

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Everyone came. I was so happy. Tekong was here. Flags waved. It felt really, really good 🙂

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Everyone was so sporting. KJ the Yo-yo champion brought his many strings to join the fun as well, and boy was he grinning ever so cheekily! Oh and look at our RA shirt, nice? 🙂

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I missed the long stretch of walk where everyone was in a line holding their strings, tied to each other cause I had to monitor the queue at the traffic junction, the most dangerous part of the walk. It was fine, though, and really heartening to see cars honking in approval and shouting their support along with us, who cheered back at them. 🙂

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Then the 200 odd group was split into three routes into Bangsar Village to maximise the impact. The whole procession was so cool that we’d managed to pick up some passerbies to join us, and eventually crossed paths with each other. Joy was clearly to be seen!

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As we cross the housing area towards the Sports Complex, cars a many slowed down to chat with us. Now this is what I call engaging with the public for a good cause!

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We’ve finally done it! It was crazy and everyone had a RAD time!

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Familiar faces? Yeap it’s Nigel and Felicia who joined us! Thanks guys!

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KJ doing something crazy -.- Anyway….

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Patriotism soared as I see all my beautiful friends, both young and old alike, gathering to join us for this amazing event called the #TaliTenang.

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What is Tali Tenang? It’s a project created by a group called United Colours of Malaysia, supported by RandomAlphabets, and it was meant to show that despite many incidents which has occured throughout the month and past, we’re still cool and unfazed. All provocations have been nullified, and here we are, proving to the country that Malaysians of all age, race, religion, gender and believes can still walk together, hand in hand (or in this case, string to string)

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It’s really very, very amazing to see these faces of pride for Malaysia. Notice that we had Marina Mahathir and family, prominent figures like Niki Cheong, Jules, Rina, influential twitterers like @theChannelC among the whole bunch of them and more that I can’t just mention in this sentence…

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And whatever it is, do remember that everytime you complain and blame others when shit happens to you, STOP and think for a bit. (Thanks Andy and Felicia for being the models :p) It would be better if you actually take a stance, believe in it, and do something for Malaysia, however small, because we can make a difference, like what Tali Tenang did. We are the future of Malaysia, so don’t ever give up hope, because if we do, who else will rescue our beloved Malaysia when she needs us most?

Tali Tenang – String of Peace, because we’re united like that 🙂

*The event is also covered in both theStar: 250 tied by strings of solidarity and on NST: Networking for a group cause. For more info head here.

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#yorais – A Malaysian-made Twitter Trending Topic Story

January 19, 2010
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Raving Rants
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5 min read

So it all started when Dr Rais Yatim, Information Communication and Culture Minister of Malaysia made a statement (quoted via a Bernama piece and theStar), saying ‘Muslims must avoid being totally immersed in Facebook, Twitter’ thus exhorting Malaysians to be wary of the popular Internet services. Now what Rais did NOT know is how he’d become a mini-celebrity in Twitter, touted as the most viral social media tool ever to be created, within a span of 4 hours from when the hastag, “#yorais“, got formed.

Update #2: Thanks to @bal_agil and @wernshen we have proof that #yorais made #4 and #3 respectively. Also, just updated The #yorais Chronology with the addition of theStar’s article!

Update: Never miss another #yorais moment, click on View More for the full transcripts!


A direct rise from 3pm to 4pm, 19th January 2010 to an even higher gradient line onwards. The viral effect is really an exponential force.

Malaysian tweeps all around the world of all race, religion and age got hooked into the hashtag #yourais so much that everyone was soon participating in what could seem to be an “orgy” of sorts. Friends and strangers alike pitched in their wit to form the best “quote” that best describes Rais’s fear for the social media tools, and soon, it became what we call a “Trending Topic“, as shown below.


Pic source from Icednyior, read her post here
 
To us Malaysians, it was an achievement of sorts, as it wasn’t an easy task to match up to other countries with giant populations such as our neighbours, the Indonesians. What more with a minister who does not support the use of social media in our lives commanding Information Communications of the country, no less.

As of 6.42pm the hashtag #yorais is the world’s 6th trending topic, only three below #Haiti, a world re-known phenomenon. In a mere half an hour, it got to 4th place as shown in the pic above. Just imagine the sort of interest this would place us at an international level, a blunder that would shame us as social media believers in the face of the planet.


Thanks to @wernshen for the 3rd spot proof! Click on pic to head to his post in LowYat.net

If you want to know the sort of quotes being made up by our fellow Malaysians in both Twitter and Facebook, click here. For more in-depth statistics, find them here. Best watched with a large pack of Caramelized Popcorn and a can of Coke. Just don’t blame me when you laugh out

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loud in public spaces though!

And as for Dr Rais Yatim himself, maybe it’s about time he read up on this article instead, because doing anything else (like banning the internet) will definitely not be such a good thing to do after all this. (source via @zhiq)
 


The #yorais Chronology


3:05pm |@bongkersz confirms that he started the first ever #yorais hashtag. He’s now a legend, and secretly hopes #yorais doesn’t ISA his rais. Also, he owns royalty rights. lol.

3:05pm |@bongkersz confirms that the first to comment after his first #yorais tweet goes to: RT @hidsie: @bongkersz LOL siap ada hashtag!

6:30pm | @spinzer: Ladies & Gentlemen, #yorais is now a trending topic. Dr Rais Yatim, how ironic.

7:17pm |@yoonkit reports that #yorais is now #4th place out of 10 – announcing Dr Rais Yatim as the best Minister of Information Communication. In a way, he’s right.

7:38pm |@timothyteoh reports that #yorais is now in #3rd place, while #haiti makes its exit. What a sad, sad day.

8:04pm |@jenkinyat reports that #Haiti is back on track on 2nd place..pushing #yorais to #4 on Twitter’s Top 10 Trending Topic

8:12pm |@amrirahim reports that we don’t need 1Malaysia. #yorais is uniting Malaysia y’all!! (via @tekong)

8:35pm |@nileshbabu reports that #yorais is now at 5th! This shows 60% of Malaysians are currently watching Berita Jam 8 RTM

9:00pm onwards |Nothing else to report, most Malaysians are probably more interested in #food, while the hashtag #yorais slowly slips off the radar, leaving only trails of jokes to chuckle on…

2:42pm 20th January |I can’t believe my eyes, but TheStar has gone on ahead and reported about the #yorais phenomenon! Kudos to @starIntech‘s team for your bravery! Many in the Twittersphere are stirred by this move, and we’re going to see a rise spike for #yorais once more.

ps. for reference, below is a dynamic 7-day chart to see how long the #yorais effect will last.

6pm – 7pm showed Malaysians having the highest Twitter usage at 0.16% of the world’s twittersphere

A question for you: what would you say, then, of the difference of influence between Twitter and Facebook judging from this scenario?

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LG’s LED LCD TV Launch @ Hilton KL

January 18, 2010
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Events & Travels
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3 min read

Some of us were lucky enough to be invited to the launch of LG’s latest LED LCD TV at Hilton, KL. As part of the media we got to witness a start of a new decade where flat screen TVs are a passé, while LED technology rises up as the next “in” thing to have.

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I was pretty excited because this was something I was looking forward to, a price I would pay for such an amazing piece of technology. Fine, it may mean another one or two thousand extra for similar tv size- but who could resist this sexy product, oozing with glory and fame? It’s the TV of the future!

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The few of us gathered together, ready to rumble. Simon just couldn’t wait to plug in the PS3 and play Final Fantasy 13 on the machine, that is, if he can even afford the system in the first place :p

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As you enter the hall, I swear you wouldn’t be able to resist the sexy back of this 42 inch SL90QD. You’ll find that it has just about every interface available (supporting USB, Bluetooth and even DivX among others!) to plug into your existing system. Better yet, you’d be force to find better system to accommodate this piece of beauty here!

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This picture is to prove how thin the TV is, compared to that beautiful LG Lady. Ok joke :p But seriously, if it wasn’t for the special anti-reflective glass covering the LED LCD screen, it could have been thinner than 2.9cm wide, and that’s very, very thin already! LED technology has made this possible, among other benefits 😉

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*inserting picture here just to prove a point :p*

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The whole theme of the launch centered around living borderlessly, hence the tag “Live)Borderless”. Smart I must say, and even the performance given during the launch emphasized much on the fact that due to the rich colours and amazing contrast ratio (3,000,000:1) even the pictures can come alive right out of the TV!

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The official unveiling is done, and here we see LG’s LED LCD TV model number SL90QD (this one’s the 47” version, as compared to previous 42” above!) placed FLATLY on the wall, kinda like a picture frame. I think it beats Plasma TVs, don’t you too?

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Here we have the VIPs (General Manager of LG, Product Manager) giving the thumbs up to the future of media, the introduction of HD quality images and videos to your very house via the Live)Borderless LED LCD TV series!

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You’ll soon be hearing about this at every news station and magazines, including technical information that I can’t be arsed to type out here :p

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Adele here either looks damn excited over the crystal clear images, or she could just be inspired by the presentation of the event as a whole, complete with lucky draws and a huge, scrumptious luncheon after the Q&A sessions. Kudos to the LG team for the well done job!

What food, you say? True to #tockism posts, here’s the yummyliscious pictures for you to chew on!

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The salad bar!

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Yummy Seafood Salad platter

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Ever awesome smoked salmon!

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Golden fried rice! :))

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Roast duck… OMG.

 

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Sesame seed flavoured prawns omgwtfbbqdvd!

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Cod Fish. Word.

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After all that techie information download makes me go hungry gaga ooh lala!

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End of story.

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So after all that, doesn’t it make you feel like getting the LG SL90 LED LCD TV Series? Live Borderless, no barriers, no boundaries, certainly living in all awesomeness 😉

 

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