Happy Chinese New Year

Today is the first day of Chinese New Year, it was a busy start for me this year, I hope I will be able to blog more this week since I'm on leave for the holidays. At first, I would just like to wish all my readers a very Happy and Prosperous Dragon Year. Here are some pictures of cheery yellow chrysanthemums I've photographed at my Grandpa's house this morning.

Round, brightly colored pom poms

How pretty they are

p/s: I'm sad Picnik is going away soon, its a nice photo editing tool that I used often to correct my pictures, they are so much easier to use, I dubbed it Photoshop for Dummies. But the good news is, from now till April 19, everyone can use its premium functions without having to pay for it. I'm taking all the advantages I could get, editing my pictures like no tomorrow. Picnik will be joining Google+ after this, I wonder if the function is still the same.

Blue Ocean Seafood Restaurant

Blue Ocean Seafood Restaurant at Inanam. We went there a few times before, too bad this time its just past Hari Raya Celebration, nobody was catching fish or other sea critters that time. Every seafood restaurant up to Sandakan does not serve crabs or clams, even the types of fishes were limited. Nevertheless, dinner that night is still great with the few dishes their friendly boss recommended.

There were no regrets ordering the Zhao Pai Tofu, deep fried tofu topped with minced chicken and a type of preserved vegetable from a can, its really good with rice.The Soon Hock is very tasty steamed, I always love the sauce that comes with it, I would drizzle them over my rice. Vegetables are passable and the prawns were   large and taste really sweet.

Hopefully next time we return, we could try the oysters, clams and perhaps crabs. I'm very fond of Hao Jien (Oyster omelet)

Those stray cat walking around are very friendly as well, they are not at all afraid of humans. Some of them liked to rub themselves against people's legs, no doubt they get many scraps from the tables, we couldn't resist throwing them bits of leftovers. I forgetfully left my camera lens cap here, luckily I'm able to get it back after turning around midway, didn't know why I'm so careless those few days, I kept dropping things and didn't realize it.

My recent obsession, better than drinking cola all the time, right?

Never neglect the rice

Tofu

Steamed Soon Hock

Vegetables with salted egg

Prawns in dark soy sauce

One of the few stray cats that dominate that place.

Dinner at Supertanker Restaurant

We usually dined at Supertanker only during celebrations or reunion dinner with our relatives. We've never dined there with only our own family of five before. We had a sudden intense craving for Chinese cuisine and so off to Supertanker we went, unfortunately there is a wedding event held at the established restaurant that night, therefore we had a change of plans.

Returning a few weeks later, its in the midst of the hungry ghost festival last month, we had thought, surely there are nobody celebrating any wedding ceremony or full moon celebration during such a non-auspicious month? (Fortunately no, although, someone was celebrating his birthday at the table next to ours)

We managed to grab a table once we arrived, the service was surprisingly fast that night, all the dishes were served in a flash, we were pleased. Here are the dishes we had that night, there is another cod fish dish done in 2 styles- steamed and fried, but we wolfed it down once it was set down on the table. Only after we're done with it, then I looked at the camera still on my lap and remember that I'm supposed to take a picture about that. Oh well, no picture for the fish, the steamed part is very smooth and succulent while the fried part is flavorful, perfectly crispy on the outside and succulent in the inside.

Every dish taste really good as usual, the fried eggs and abalone slices were my favorite from the cold platter, my dad ate most of the jelly fish since the rest of us were not so fond of spicy things. The ham, cheese and pineapple spring rolls is an interesting combination, everyone should try it. The rest of the dish are up to our standards and expectations. This is no wonder Supertanker continues to become a crowd-favorite place for Chinese cuisine.

Cold Platter

Fried eggs, my favorite

Spring rolls and Jelly fish (at least I thought its jelly fish)

Abalone slices (which I suspect is clam slices from a packet you can see in my previous post Japanese Night)

Favorite spring roll with Ham, cheese and pineapples inside. <3

Bean curd, mushroom and brocolli

Fish maw with crab meat soup