Went to TGIF for lunch after shopping in Queensbay Mall. This is our third visit to this outlet since its opening.

Hubby ordered the Friday's Burger which was recommended by the waiter. The big chunk of grounded meat was tender and juicy, top off with beef bacon slices and cheese. The taste is very much better than those serve in burger chain stores. TGIF do serve great and tasty burgers.

And this was my lunch - Chicken Quesadillas. A piece of grilled tortilla with fillings of grilled chicken, beef bacon and melted cheese together with pieces of onions, tomatoes and red chilies. Served with sour cream and salsa.

I ate half of the tortilla and share the other half with hubby so that I have room for my favourite dessert - Friday's Sundae. (I ordered this dessert during my last two visits too). Its basically vanilla ice cream topped with hot fudge and caramel, nuts and whipped cream... yummy...licious.

The food was excellent and the servings - quite LARGE !! It's a great place to enjoy a full course meal or just having a light snack. We were so full after the meal that hubby suggested that we continue with our shopping (hopefully the walking will help to digest the food faster).

We had a hot and spicy dinner last night. Went to Atawoo Restaurant in Trengganu Road for Thai food. This was our second visit. The first dish that we ordered was our favourite tomyam soup which comes with big prawns, fish slices, sotong, mushroom and tomatoes. The taste was just right for us.

The waitress recommended the brinjal dish. Mince meat with lots of chopped garlic, ginger and chili padi were laid on top of the slightly fried brinjal. It was a very appetising dish.

The last dish was a mince meat dish. The meat was fried with black soya sauce and chili padi with lots of basil leaves (daun selasih). The leaves gives a sweet and fresh fragrance.

The three dishes were equally good. This is a nice place for those who love spicy food with affordable prices. By the way, rice is charged at RM1 per person (eat all you can).

Drove over to Gurney Drive to have our seafood dinner with our parents in Bali Hai Seafood Market. This restaurant is on your right if you are travelling down from Gurney Plaza. The bright and colourful sign board can be seen from afar. There is a car park behind the restaurant.

The place is usually crowded during weekdays and weekends with locals and foreigners. Customers have a choice to pick and choose their seafood from the rows of aquarium.

We ordered the fried fish (cui jiam), flower crabs, claypot fish with preserved vegetable and yam, fried vegetable with sambal and noodles. The steamed flower crabs with pounded ginger and stripes of black fungus. They do add in some chinese wine to enhance the flavour. The crab meat is so firm and fresh. End up using our hands to enjoy eating this seafood.

We then had the claypot with pieces of fish head cooked with preserved salted vegetable and slices of yam. Cooked with dried chili and plenty of leeks - very unique taste and very appetising too...

After that we were served another two dishes. The vegetable dish is a combination of long beans, star beans and lotus root fried with sambal. The lotus root is thinly sliced and taste good. The fish (cui jiam) is fried until crispy.

Rounded up the dinner with fried seafood mee-tiau. Fried dried and not oily and goes well with the sambal.

This place has a cosy ambiance which is suitable for entertaining friends or a dinner with the family. You get to savour delicious and FRESH seafood and at the same time enjoy the beautiful seaview too but the price might be a bit expensive (but then it depends on the type of seafood that you order).

Yam rice for lunch? Yes,of course. How could I resist when my hubby suggested it. There are a few places in Butterworth selling it but we still prefer to frequent the stall in Bukit Mertajam, located behind Jalan Kulim. The stall is based in Kedai Makanan Hing Hing at Lorong Melor. It serves yam rice, preserved salted vegetable pork soup, stew soya sauce pork trotter as well as stew tofu and egg. Not to miss out the special chili paste with thick black sauce.

That's a choice of having white rice or yam rice but most customers will opt for the latter.The rice is boiled with the yam (which is why the rice is so fragrant). The yam is soft and creamy...and I love to have more pieces of it.

Ordered two bowls of soup that comes with chinese celery and preserved salted vegetable. First bowl was mix ingredients of pork organs - stomach, liver, pork slices and meatballs. The other bowl consist of rectangular pieces of pig blood (congealed pig blood). Its jelly like structure is very smooth like tofu.

We also had the stew pork trotter as a side dish.

Up to now, we still can't find any stalls selling this dish in the island.... so whenever we feel like having yam rice, we will take a short journey up to BM to enjoy this delicious food.

UPDATES :

* The stall has shifted to a new coffee shop located just nearby the old place. Do drop by Eleen blog's for a detailed map to this place.

These are some of my son's Coca Cola collectible items besides his Coca Cola - Bottles and Cans collection. I would like to share these images with you.

Coca Cola signs.

Coca Cola vending machine tin.


Coca Cola waxed paper cups. On the left is from GSC, Oliver Sandwich and TGV.



Coca Cola tins.

Coca Cola Santa 38 oz. popcorn tin featuring Santa Claus with 3 types of flavour popcorn in it - caramel, cheese and butter. The tin was designed and marketed by Houston Harvest Gift Products.



Coca Cola drinking glass bought from the flea market at Lorong Kulit, Penang.

Anyone seen a Coca Cola tyre tube cap????


A little coke bottle key chain.


Coca Cola battery operated train set.



Since my son started collecting the Coca Cola products, my hubby and myself also tend to be on the look out for other items to add to his collection.

Coca Cola is one of the famous and popular fizzy soft drink consumed by many people. Some even like to collect Coke products as a hobby. My second son happens to be one of them who started his collection since school days. Here are some of his collectible items of Coca Cola bottles and cans.

Coca Cola bottles collection.

Below are the aluminum twist top bottles and the 500ml cans from Japan which were made of very good quality..

Wrapped bottles from Australia.

This is a 4 part series cans collection from Australia - Limited Edition Music.

Collection from Australia - Australia Football League (only collected 4 cans)

Collection from Australia - 2003 Rugby World Cup.

Collection from Singapore - 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Collection for football fans.

Coca-Cola Light/Diet twist top bottles and cans.

Diet Coke Collectibles from U.K. by designer Denise Van Outen, Sadie Frost and Alesha Dixon.

Coca Cola America Classic Design Cans - 1 to 8 part series made in Japan.

Coca Cola 250ml cans from Korea..... http://www.cokeplay.com/

Cool and stylish cans from New Zealand.

Cans for the Christmas season from Thailand, U.S. and Singapore.

Cherry Coke anyone???

Coca Cola Zero was bought from Australia on a holiday trip.

A gift from Dubai by a friend - 330ml bottle and 150ml small can.

This cute Disneyland Minnie Mouse can is from Hong Kong.

These are from China - who will be hosting the coming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games http://en.beijing2008.cn/ and Coca Cola is one of the sponsorship of the games....