Fusion Rest - in Cario

Hmm, any idea with this setting what food are we eating. Simple it is Japanese Tepanyaki. Yummy.... The resturant name is Fusion I just happen to see it in a dinning guide. And I miss Tepanyaki and have a great craving for Sashimi. Yeee.

This the Chopstick box.

Hubby's thinking: Why I let her decide on where to eat, this place look Expensive. SHIT

Hubby's Thinking: Hmm of course you look happy, I'm upset. My pocket is burning right through now.

Hubby's Thinking': Oh no.... This is really expensive total cost for each person is S$70, that will be around 550LE. That is an normal Egyptian 2months pay. My wife sure know how to spend.

Here come the sashimi, look how hungry Hubby. FYI, the sashimi is good, very good, better than the first sashimi I had in Cairo.

WOW, we finished this in mintues and we finished almost everything.

My first Miso soup

This is what in the soup, no very nice, salty and the tofu taste and smell like, taiwanese smelly tofu.

Here is the starter, salad.

Look the chef, make the egg stand.

Tepanyaki fried rice

The fried sotong and 2 large tiger prawn.

Chicken, Beef and veggies.

Overall, the Sashimi is great, the tepanyaki is not bad, there is room for improvement, like the beef they can try slicing it in thin pcs instead of cubes. So far the best Tepanyaki, I had is in Taiwan. Great seafood, beef because they uses wine and spices. But over all the Sashimi is very fresh, the stuns the tepanyaki chef perform is very entertaining, very rare to see it is Singapore.

First movie in Egypt : The Happening

Ok I had to admit, when Hubby said want to bring me for a movie, I actually feel a bit scare worry that it is going to be some sleazy, lousy cinema, probably with fleas in the chairs, that will come out and bite me or foul smell or maybe a few 小強 aka cockroaches rounding here and there. And the toilet will look like some scene from some ghost movies. Haha, why do I feel like this, because I had been to the worst cinemas before, when I''m just a little gal, my parents brought us to Malaysia for holidays, we might go for movies so that was how the cinema look like, if my memory din''t fail me. This should justify my worry. :P

When the first look at the cinema does look that bad.

The first Cinema, we been to in Cairo, at the Family Land. Per Ticket cost 30L.E and we even get to choose the seats. Note: If the time state starting at 6:30pm, there will be half an hour of previews of other shows. So remember in Egypt, nothing is on time. Something really amuse me is that, halfway through the movie. The film stopped, and everyone start to move out from the cinema, I was wondering what is going on. Is the 2nd half of the movie not ready for showing? hmmm.. Then I realised they are giving us a 5 mins break, for toilet visiting or for some it is time to have a breath of "fresh air".

Haha, time to review the movie The happening. Well it is an average movie for me, the sliver line for the movie is about the mother nature is attacking us by using the plants to release some toxic that control our brain and make us kill ourselves, because we are doing to much harm to the earth and the earth is trying to warn us we must stop global warming. But Hubby dun really like the movie, he find that it is very stupid. He still prefer M. Night Shyamalan's , The Sixth Sense. I had not watch that movie, but heard many good review. In fact, after the movie I heard a few movie goers said they too prefer The Sixth Sense. Haha so judge it for yourself.

I want to watch Kung Fu Panda!!!! That is the flim we are suppose to watch, but too bad the cinema was not showing at the moment. :(

Dinner before the Movie - Momen

This my first time trying - Momen. Their Fast food, though the counter staffs english is very limited. But we are able to get our meals. Over here, I learned something new, combo mean set with soft drinks and fries. Stay or away means: stay means eat here, and away means take away. Below is the menu.


After we order, they gave us a no. But funny thing, they never check the no and never take it back also. haha.

Ok here is our meal, Yummy or not here go.

Here is hubby, Chicken Tender Spicy.

This is mine, Philly cheese steak

This the fries, special designed box to make the fries stand. Good idea.

See the design of the fries box is been trademark.

Overall, not bad for local fast food. But I still prefer Hardee's that is what the Egypt name for Carl's Jr.

Pipi is growing!!

Well, he is growing and looking very handsome. But he is still very very notti... His fav pastime, play with his tail, ambuse us and try to fight with our feet, play with the curtain, play with tissue paper from the dustin, fighting with the shoelaces, sockes, shoes and still like to bite people. He still dun response to his name, but he response when we open the Fridge door, he is always hungry. He will eat, play then sleep. This is where he slept last night.

So cute!!!

Pipi the rascal model to be!!

Dine out & Visit to Alfra supermarket.

Hubby brought me to eat Egyptian food - Abou Shakra (http://www.aboushakra.com/). We had Shewerma Abou Shakra (chicken). It tasted great, I like it very much. And for main course we had Abou Shakra kebab and Krofta grilled on charcoal with fries and a stuffed pigeon with mixed rice & nuts. For sure there is dessert, yummy!!! Egyptian Omm Ali.

This is the starter, their "bread"with butter. There is 2 types, one is the biscuit type and the other is like soft. We prefer the soft one.


All the dishes have arrived. From the left it is the, soft "bread", the Shewerma Abou Shakra (chicken), Abou Shakra kebab and Krofta grilled on charcoal with fries and a stuffed pigeon with mixed rice & nuts.

This is the a stuffed pigeon with mixed rice & nuts. Well the Rice and nuts is in the pigeon!!

Tada..... the rice is mixed with spices, nuts and raisins. Though the pigeon is a bit skinny, not much meat but it is still ok with me.

Abou Shakra kebab and Krofta grilled on charcoal with fries, the long thing that look like sagauges is the Krofta and the meat is kebab. Till now I'm still thinking if it is lamb or beef... Ok now it is time for dessert!!!

This is the Omm Ali, it is very very sweet. We only have at most 4 bites. It is way too sweet. After the the dinner, Hubby bring to another supermarket, well luckily it is not as packed as Carrefour. I found Ostrich egg, selling at L.E 25, around SIN $5plus. The supermarket is so hot and stuffy. I think I will stick shopping at metro, R&S, Carrefour and Seoudi.

Fish

I bought fish for the first time in Egypt.

After numerous reading about badly polluted Nile River in Egypt, I haven't ate much seafood. I am particularly cautious about the food condition here as I don't want to fall sick after eating them. The medical service provided here is one of the "horror" story I read quit often.

As a newcomer, there's no way I can find out where the fishes on the market come from. We have seen some not very fresh fish and shrimps on the supermarket. Oh, and the crabs they have are so tiny that I doubt there's enough meat in it for us to suck it out!

Since Eve is now here to take care of our daily meals, I have decided to give her more cooking options other than beef, chicken, turkey and rabbit meat.

So, I went to a nearby shop to buy fish. I have frequent this shop for their shrimp and calamari rice before, but have never tasted any fish there. When I was there this time, they were loading new stock of fishes and I can see from the eye of the fishes that it's very fresh.

I picked my fish and it's selling at 60LE/kilo. I don't know the name fo the fish, I have problem recognising the fish name, unless they have cute name like Nemo...hehe..

I didn't realise that I have actually picked the most expensive fish, my colleague told me few days after I bought the fish. Anyway, I am very satisfied with the "catch". The meat is sweat and taste good when steamed.

I also gained some confident on this shop as my colleague who "self-proclaimed" himself as a picky seafood eater, gave good rating about the freshness of the fish in this shop. He said those fishes might be coming from Port Said or Alexandria off the Mediterranean sea

This weekend, we are going to eat more fish!

-VINcE

Sore!

I refused to become like that guy in the picture, say like 10 years later. Eve likes my rounded belly but I hated it! It's hard to bend down to tie my shoe lace with a big belly blocking the way you know?!

Since my arrival in Cairo, I have limited opportunity to exercise. I didn't get good chance to jog around due to the weather and air pollution. I started to appreciate the jogger friendly environment in Singapore.

Eve has managed to locate a pretty comfort place to exercise: in a gym, with air con some more. We joined the gym a weeks ago and has started our fat burning regime.

My muscles are crying in pain and soreness now. Inner thigh pain, hand pain, shoulder pain.... I even have problem scrubbing my back during shower.

But, like others said "No pain, no gain".....if we continue to push on, eventually we will be looking like the couple in the picture below:

..........but I ain't going to wear a PINK pantie!!!!!!!!!

-VINcE

A kitten's life

"Alamak, I am trapped by this stupid sliding door!"

"The couch is mine now! I will take over the whole house sooner or later..hahah...meowrrrr!!"

The weather is hot.....

.....and hence the cat feels sleepy all the time.

Found a nice cosy space for a quick nap, it's a little too crampy though. But I am too lazy to go find another place. What the heck, I will just sleep with my belly up.

kua si mi kua! I just had a heavy lunch and find it too bloated to lay down for a nap, and now you want to come and disturb me!

-VINcE

Influx of good fortune

Well, as Eve has mentioned, there's up and down living in Egypt. But today I am very happy that our ADSL finally works!

I woke up 5am in the morning, suddenly felt like Albert Einstein after a brief midnight business trip to the loo.

So I went to the living room and start to setup the networking.

It finally works! Don't call me noob anymore ok!

Another good news, I am getting my work Visa soon, very soon. This time for real.

More good news, I managed to "bargain" for another 4WD at a cut throat price! As good as a giveaway buy lah!

Wew, my money plant start to work its magic! hehe

-VINcE

Start to feel How bad it is!!

I read a few actiles that said egyptians are helpful and willing to help. Yes there are but I very sure that the security guard at my apartment is no a kind soul. Last monday, my husband asked the security guard to help us buy LPG tank.

Well, this should not be a problem for him. So he quickly came and change one for us and charged us 50L.E for one tank, that is the same size we used in singapore. And asked my hubby to give him 20L.E for tips. So my hubby gave him.

Haha, something happened yesterday. No more gas to cook. We are so angry with that guard, we paid 70L.E for the tank and it only lasted for 5 days. I never cook alot, Obviously, the AssH guard played some tricks, by giving us a almost empty tank of gas and charge us 70L.E

So my hubby go down to see where can he get a new tank of gas. Then he remember opposite our house there live a China family that open a Chinese restaurant. So he when there to check with them, and they are very helpful they gave us a free full tank and even help us change the gasket.

So yesterday dinner we dun cook, and we go to their restaurant to eat. And for the first time, in 6months my hubby finally eat fish!!! It is very tasty!!

we finished the fish... Yummy!!

What I understand from the lady boss, a full tank cost only 8L.E... See how greedy is the security guards... He charge us 70L.E. The kindhearted lady boss, said next time when our gas finished, just place it at their restaurant and they will help us buy. So nice of them.

Today is dumpling day, they even invite us to go over to celebrate with them, she even make dumplings. Haha we have dumpling to eat. But I miss my mummy make one.

Single woman

I wrote something for my classmate in one of our class mail. I was trying to "terrified" her of the reality that she might only realised after she is too old to find a partner.

I would think eventually when we grow older, life would be more fulfilling if you have a partner by your side, a family.

Here's what I wrote to her:

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致丽韵，

好男人的心比较容易碎。
坏男人没良心，无隙可击， 就像老成与无核。
请多小心，小心偷心的男人。

你不耕作，怎知收成。
你不点燃，怎会发光。

岁月，在女人的脸上留下了痕迹。
女人，又为痕迹铺上了粉彩。
一直这样, 年复一年。

直到一天，她铺粉彩的手再也把持不着疯狂蔓延的岁月。
她细研镜中的自己，默然发现，脸上的痕迹，没有故事。

镜子湿了，她也哭了。
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老成 = lau seng and 无核 = bo hook. My 2 naughtly male friends...hehe!

Captured!

Captured #1: Hit and run!

The way Egyptian maneuver their vehicle is something shocking and at times funny for me to watch.

Not too long ago, I witnessed a 4WD hit and bumped away an old car to create more parking space. The old car was obviously not on handbrake (or maybe it doens't even has any handbrake). It slided forward for 3 or 4 feet after the bump. o_O"

What I have captured here is a story of how a lady driver tried to parallel "squeezed" her car into the space between a Chevloret Optra and a BMW Sedan.

I used the word "squeeze" and not "park", because it's was so obvious that the space in between these 2 cars was simply too small, unless she can do like what we see in the "Shao Lin Soccer" movie, use "Lu Lai Shen Zhan" to push the car in.

The lady driver tried many time and gave up eventually. The Chevrolet's rear bumper was scratched during her last try.

I asked my Egyptian colleague once, what should we do if we involved in similar incident, he told me "fuck the guy".

.........well, what he meant was you simply shout at each other and then drive away.

It's not like in Singapore whereby you would expect the person at fault to make some compensation. In Egypt, you should come down from your car, shout and curse at the driver at fault like a crazy man and kick the bumper as hard as you can at the same time. Do all this while the driver is still inside the car (if he's at fault lah!)

Don't laugh hor, I didn't make this up, I saw it myself at a busy roundabout. The shouting man was so out of pitch at top of his voice.

Captured #2: Plant in my office room

I asked my company gardener to put some pots of plant inside my office room. I like the money plant on top very much.

I have one old money plant that followed me for about 4 years already. I am not a believer of feng shui or good luck charm, but I somehow like the money plant very much.

I think part of the reason is the "never give up spirit" of the plant, other than the good name. A dying money plant can grow back very fast if you give the plant some water, peel off the drying leave promptly and feed it some sunshine once in awhile.

The gardaner is awarded with a certification from Tree Lovers Club in Maadi recently. So, don't pray pray ok! My gardener got cert one!

Captured #3: Expensive Tropical *Rotten* Fruits!

We went to Carrefour for some late night shopping last Friday. It was so crowded! We sweared to never visit Carrefour again during weekend.

We found some tropical fruits there. Based on the pricing, I guess they are something considered very rare and precious in Egypt.

• Lychee: 15.05LE per pack= SGD4
• Mangosteen: 6 pieces for 29.80LE = SGD 1.30 per piece!
• Rambutan: 14.75LE for than 10 pieces = SGD3.80 a pack of ROTTEN rambutan!

Well, I can start to import tropical fruits to Egypt and make a fortune here.

-VINcE