ByGrace Dessert @ JB

This time I wanna recommend my all time favourite dessert house- By Grace!

This is so far the only dessert house that I will visit repeatedly in JB (except those traditional chinese dessert shops).

The decoration and atmosphere of the shop is very homey, cosy and comfortable. The shop owner has one small corner for their collection of dolls and small toys from their travelling! The desserts here are very special, however a lil bit pricey ^^

The desserts are all house-made, the typical dessert here comes in a set: one scoop of house-made icy cold ice cream and once melting hot lava cake. Take bit of the ice cream and bit of the lava cake, put them together into your mouth! Imagine how the different texture and different temperature of food merging in your mouth. Savour the sweet, cold and warm at the same time!

There are many different favours offered in the menu! It was offered in set which was designed to be matched for the best taste, one ice cream and one lava cake.

The day’s special dish: red date ice cream and lava cake (forgot the flavour of the lava cake)

The special dessert platter with different flavours which costs RM 100++.

The serving of the dessert platter is very special too! It was served on a transparent acrylic board!

( Do you see the blue ice cream? It is sea salt ice cream and it is really salty! Imagine the taste of cold salty ice cream with melting hot creamy lava cake!)

Some other desserts with ice creams!

They also offer some main courses like egg benedict and chinese braised pork meat with bun (扣肉包）withwild rocket!

This is a very lovely hangout place of mine and my friends, because of good food and cozy atmosphere!

Address: 93, Jalan Kuning, Taman Pelangi

Tel: 07-3337773

Operating Hours: Mon-Sun 6.30pm-1am

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Laughter is brightest where food is best  – – – – Olive <3

Broken Pieces

Hope this is true, come fix my broken pieces. Thank you

*Ice*

Dim Sum @ Nusajaya, Johor Bahru

New place for dim sum in Nusajaya!

Very OK restaurant (真味点心之家）is located at 2 jalan hijauan 4 horizon hills, 79100 nusa jaya.  

This place can be easily found, it is just opposite the Fairview condominium, and near the chinese primary school in Horizon Hills.

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Compared to other dim sum restaurants nearby this area, I consider this is the best dim sum around the area. A lot of varieties, dim sum taste comparatively good! As this is the corner shop, the place is very spacious. However, you still might need to queue on weekend mornings! By the way, I have no idea why but the place is quite windy. It is kind of relaxing while you are enjoying the full table of food with the breezy sunshine weather. (I love to go this place after a morning swim on the weekends, and it make you feel like “happiness can just be so simple” :p)

I was planning to take some nice photos of the dim sum to share…but we were to hungry and just could not stand the fragrance of the dim sum…so this is the only photo we had taken this time when the food was going to finished  -_-” Oops… a very messy table..

I would seriously like to recommend the yong tau foo, not really tau foo, but brinjals, ladyfingers stuffed with fishcake (酿茄子、酿羊角豆）. Fried wanton (the prawn inside is big), steamed pork rib, carrot cake, braised chicken feet… all are quite delicious. However, the chee cheong fun （猪肠粉）did not taste good because the chee cheong fun is too soft, no texture. I would  also suggest to try the fried chicken wings (南乳炸鸡） cos I really like it! Haha! Another one is the glutinous rice steamed in lotus leaf (荷叶饭）, I love the fragrance of the lotus leaf. I would suggest to order only one to share with your family or friends as the portion is quite big and loaded with fillings such as chicken meat, sausage, peanuts, mushrooms.

One thing to note, the serving of the dim sum is by order, not like the typical dim sum restaurant where you can pick the dim sum you want from a trolley cart. The serving of the food might take some time after you place your order.

So, just slow down your pace and enjoy eating slowly there. No rush!  Lol!

Yan. Olivia Ice ~ “Just love to eat”

Love Journey- 心之旅

每段故事的开始，都是带着最单纯的心，纯粹地期望在人生路上遇见对的人，一直开心地继续走着。。。

总以为，每一个人都同样带着一颗善良与真挚的心。

Every journey starts with an innocent and kind heart, with the hope to meet the right person down the road of life. In the hope of walking down the road happily till its end.,,

Without any doubt in the innocent mind, everyone seems as innocent, as kind, as friendly as ourselves.

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只是事实往往残酷，这段旅程遇上了错的人，我们害怕且惊慌失措。

However, reality is always cruel. We are terrified when we bump into a wrong guy or a bad guy in the journey.

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害怕与彷徨，觉得迷失了自己。深深地受到了伤害，我们的心也已残破不堪。

生命中不可承受之痛。

我们决定把这残破不堪的心好好收进盒子里，不让别人看见，不让别人触碰，不再让别人破坏它。

“我会好好把它保护好，没有人可以再伤害它了！”

Not only do we feel terrified and panic, we feel lost too. We are hurt badly until our heart is so broken.

Unbearable pain.

The heart is so broken that we decide to keep it in a box. So, no one can see it, touch it and spoil it anymore.

“Nobody is allowed to touch it anymore! I will keep it safe!”

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于是，我们带着这破损的心到处慌张躲避。躲开那些完整、完美的心，好担心别人会发现那残破的心。也好担心他们会再把那已经残破不全的心抢去，糟蹋至破碎。

“不能再相信别人了，他们都不是好人！我要努力避开这些人，把路走完。”

就在慌张乱窜间，不小心撞着了在前方的一个路人。 路人满脸堆笑道歉，我们只觉生气，为什么你挡着我的去路，闯进我的生活？！你是不是想打坏主意？是不是要抢走我的盒子呀？

但是这一个不小心碰上的路人，非常友善且不带恶意。是不是我们误会了？其实他并没有恶意的，我们好像反应过度了。 是不是不应该把全部人都一概而论，把他们全当坏人？这世上还有好人存在的吧。。。

Because we feel so panic, we are trying our best to run away from all the people. Running away from the complete and beautiful hearts, so that our broken hearts will not be exposed. The fear that the heart might be getting hurt again accelerate the pace for running because the heart is so damaged, if these people snatch it and hurt it, it will be totally crushed.

“Nobody can be trusted, they ain’t good and kind people! I have to keep running away from them， I have to finish the journey to reach the destination. “

Running panicky and recklessly without paying much attention on the road, we accidentally bump into a passer-by on the road. The guy keeps apologizing with a friendly manner. We just feel so angry and frustrated. Why are you blocking my way. why are you coming into our lives?! Are you planning to do something bad to me? Are you planning to snatch my box?

But this guy still maintain to be friendly and seems like a gentleman without any bad intention. Seems like we have misunderstood him and we are over-reacting. Maybe we should not treat all the people as bad guys， maybe, just maybe there are still someone kind out there.

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  在谈话中，他得知了那破碎的心。他想知道那心损坏的程度，他能帮助把心修补好。但是由于过去心被人恶意破坏伤害的经验，我们很坚持不能让别人看见或触碰。

“不行，我不能把心打开让你看见！” “不行，我不能再冒这个风险了！”

见到我们如此坚持，他不知道还能做些什么，只有选择黯然离去。 其实我们断然拒绝帮助且看着他默然离去， 我们的心里也是很难过的。我们一直承受着独自走在路上的寂寞，每分每秒活在担心害怕的恐惧中。我们也希望终有那么一天，我们能像旅途之初那样，抱着一颗完整的心，期待开心地走在路上， 不是像现在一样永无止境地逃亡。

During the conversation, the guy knows that our heart is broken. He is curious and want to see how bad it is. He can help to fix it! We insisted not to expose the heart due to the fear which caused by the past experience.

“No! I cannot show it to you!” “No, I cannot risk to take it out!”

After seeing the strong determination and resistance, the guy really do not know how he can help. What he can do is only to leave sadly. We feel very sad too by rejecting the help, by seeing him leaving sadly. We have been suffering by travelling alone, by living with the intense fear. We also hope to walk this road again with a complete heart, to complete the journey lightheartedly and happily just like the beginning of the journey, not with the ever escaping pace.

  

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内心挣扎不已，然后下定决心决定冒险一次，我们把那打开心的钥匙丢向他。他很开心因为我们给了他一个机会去修补我们那破损的心。他用那钥匙打开了那收藏心的盒子。当然，他因为看到了心毁坏不堪的程度也吓了一跳。

After a tough struggling in the mind, we throw the key of the box to the guy. He is very happy to have the chance to help to repair the damaged heart. He uses the key to open the box where the damaged heart lies in. And yea, he is shocked to see the badly damaged heart.

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虽然他很吃惊，但是仍深具信心一定能把心修补好！我们呢，心里还是很担心不知道能不能修好。在一番努力后，心终于被修好了。

虽然心不再像从前一样完美无瑕，可是心又恢复完整咯！

 Although he is shocked but he is very confident to be able to fix the heart! Yet we are still quite worried and not sure whether this can work out.

After the efforts by the guy, the heart is fixed. It might not be as flawless as before, but the heart is back!

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满心欢喜又重新拥有了完整的心。忽而刮来一阵大风，把我们吹到天上，我们惊慌失措。他伸出手给我们安心。 原来随着命运之风飘流，也能安稳安然地想前行。

走在路上，抑或是随风飘送，都是往目的地前进的一种方式。 旅程还在继续，虽然不知道会不会有一天又因为心破损而回到陆地上，沿途不同风景，美丽开心，抑或难过沮丧。

终究，我们会在命运安排下把这个旅程走完，到达目的地。

We are so happy to own a complete heart again. However, we are panic again when a sudden strong wind blows us up to the sky. He gives us his hand and hold ours to make us calm. Just realize that we are able to move forward steadily and calmly by not resisting  the flow of the wind of destiny.

No matter we walk on the road or fly in the sky, it is just a way to complete the journey towards its destination. It is an ongoing journey, we do not know if the heart will be damaged and we will be back to the land again.

 This journey consists of beautiful things, sad things, no matter what, we will complete this journey to its destination in the arrangement of fate.

Yan。Olivia Ice~ Hopes that love can water you and grow well.

Ice Cream @ Johor Bahru "Kate N I Scream"

Another hangout place to go in Johor Bahru!

Ice Cream Specialty Store with an interesting name ” Kate N I Scream”! I scream I scream….~Ice Cream!

Frankly speaking, I am not a crazy fan of ice cream as I do not have a sweet tooth. So unlike other girls, I do not love chocolates, I will only have chocolates  once in a blue moon, and will only take those with bitter taste and higher content of cocoa. I do not love extremely sweet stuff,  Just somehow sometimes still love to taste a bit or a sip of sweet stuff.

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*When girls are in bad mood, a bit of sweet and cold ice cream will help lighten the mood! 

(This is my personal experience, haha! At first I will keep saying I dunwanna eat ice cream and I dun like sweet stuff and get irritated, but after eating, really I feel better in mood! So this is something like magic to cool your girlfriends down, hehe!)

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There are varieties of ice creams in Kate N I Scream, from light fruity ones like fruit sorbet, green apple to very rich ones like sticky chocolate and etc. There are several toppings for you to choose as well, my favourites are hazelnuts and super cute gummy bears! This is a self-service ice cream store, you have to choose the package you want such as 1 scoop, 2 scoops or 3 scoops and 2 or 3 toppings at the counter first. After paying, you have to select the ice cream flavours and toppings you would like to have. After your ice cream dish is completed, you gonna have to take it to your seat yourself.

The store is considered as quite spacious as it is divided into indoor and outdoor two sections. The decoration is simple but comfortable so you can sit down and chit chat with the girls or buddies for a long time while having the sweet sweet ice creams.

“Yeah! Gummy Bears!!!!!” I Scream! Lol! 

The display of the ice creams is very cute too! They are placed on a wooden plate with holes! Ice cream and toppings fit into the holes! 

And for all this visual entertainment and environment, the price is not that cheap given the taste and quality of ice cream. The one I had in the picture, 3 scoops plus 2 toppings costs about RM 30.00. The ice cream just taste very common, nothing special. Ice cream from Swensen’s taste generally good (and cheaper), well Baskin Robbin also tastes slightly better. It is noteworthy that there is a small store in City Square, JB on fifth floor next to Action City named XXX Gelato” tastes better than all the above (I cant remember the full name and the exact location, just remember it is somewhere there). Although the price might be similar and no service, no place to sit, no outstanding display, the ice cream really tastes very different especially there is one chocolate flavour which is so rich with a tinge of bitterness, just tastes superb! No seat but you can take your ice cream and wander around the shopping mall, eating while shopping, haha! (Take note that some shops do not allow food and drinks)

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Address:

Kate N I Scream:  G03, Plaza Mentari (Sun City), Jalan Kuning, Taman Pelangi, 80400 Johor Bahru.

Operating Hours: 1.00pm – 1.00am (A decent place you can hang out with friends until late night)

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XXX Gelato: Johor Bahru City Square, 106 & 108, Jalan Wong Ah Fook, 80000 Johor Bahru, Johor. (Fifth Floor, next to Action City)

Operating Hours: 10am-10.00pm

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Hopes everyday can be as sweet as ice cream! 

Love you!

 ~ Lots of Love from Olivia Ice. Yan

Seafood @ Pengerang

If you love lobsters, Pengerang is the place to go!

Had been to these place for quite some time ago, they serve very fresh and tasty lobsters and of cos, other seafood dishes! The lobsters are fresh, and cooked in many various ways, deep-fried, stir-fried, steam…no matter how the cooking method is, the flesh of lobster is very succulent and tasty. 

(1) Jade Garden Seafood Restaurant (翡翠园海鲜酒家）

Address: 54 Jalan Kerisi Sungai Rengit, 81620 Pengerang, Johor

(2) Good Luck Seafood Restaurant (泗湾幸运海鲜酒楼）

Address: 86, Jalan Telok Ramunia, Sungai Rengit, Pengerang, Johor.  Tel: 013-7753555

The dishes offered by these two restaurants are comparably similar. The environment and setting of the restaurants are slightly different. Jade Garden has a large parking space opposite its restaurant, they have more staff to serve customers (although during peak hours, they are still unable to cope with the huge in flow of customers), they have divider which can separate a private area for customers upon request), the shop floor is big. Good Luck looks like a normal kopitiam, not many staff to serve customers, no extra parking space. Both restaurants open for lunch and dinner. The food served by both restaurants are equivalently nice. However my personal opinion is that the price is slightly cheaper in Good Luck Seafood Restaurant. Both restaurants are super crowded during weekends, especially for lunch,  do expect it will be very hard to find a parking for your car and be prepared it’s gonna take you to wait for 1 hr or even more to just get a table to sit down.

1) Stir-fried Lala (Clams) with dried chili and spring onion. Very tasty and a bit spicy, smells good! Yet, I still prefer steam or cook Lala with a lil bit of HuaDiao Wine (Cooking wine which made of rice). The soup of steamed/cooked Lala is superb with a combination of the sweetness and freshness of the Lala, ginger and wine. I just cant help drinking until the bowl is empty.

2) Chili crab, remember to order some deep-friend bun(man tou, 馒头). The sauce of chili crab best matched with the deep-fried bun, just imagine when the bun fully absorb the aromatic, delicious sauce…~yummy!

3) Yam paste with pumpkin. This is my favourite for all the time! It is a traditional Teochew dessert, because the cooking process is quite time-consuming and troublesome, it is hard to find restaurants selling this dish nowadays. So happy to find it on the menu of Jade Garden!

Here comes the main attraction of Pengerang, lobsters! Some people like to order deep dried-lobsters with cereal, or stir-fried. I would strongly recommend not to try those first, cos the best and most famous lobster dish in Pengerang is this- cooked in thick stock (上汤龙虾）. The sauce is a lil bit creamy, with a bit of herbal taste. All the seasoning tastes light, so that you can taste the freshness of the lobsters. Best lobster dish that I have ever had!

 Good food is my only indulgence…hahaha!

As there is quite a distance between Johor Bahru and Pengerang, this can be a whole day relaxing trip rather than a mere food trip, Desaru is just nearby, next to Pengerang!

It was a sunny morning. A trip full of sunshine!!!! This is one of the bridge on Senai-Desaru highway.

It was about evening time after eating, the Desaru beach was full of people. There were people and kids playing kites, BBQ and picnic. It was very windy with sea breeze! blue blue sky with a lot of laughter!

Everybody deserves such a good weekend!

Olivia Ice@ I wanna go on diet, just cant resist to the temptation of good food. lol!

Kiss In Need

Somebody, please come and give me a long french kiss

Kiss in need now, for all good!

Olivia Ice @ the verge of breaking down

succumbing to busy, fragile, tiring life

seeing all the people being busy like ants, realize that I do not want to be part of it.

Kit Harington, can I get a hug from you? 

Probably in my dream tonight.