Daddy Mee

I saw Mama Tay bought a big packet of Daddy Mee Chicken flavor recently. So, I determined to share it. Honestly, Mama Tay had inspired me to write this entry.

Daddy Mee had been existed more than 10 years.

Ah Yi (Mama’s little sister) was the first person introduced Daddy Mee to us because she firmly believed Mama Tay was going to fall in love with it. Yes, Mama Tay had the deep love with Daddy Mee.

Ah Yi also enhanced our awareness that Sibu, Sarawak had produced Daddy Mee. It’s true. Daddy Mee was manufactured by SBFM Industries Sdn Bhd, 3 ½ Miles, Upper Lanang Road, P.O.Box 737, 96007, Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Why We Love Daddy Mee?

#1 Salty Aromatic Flavor

The main reason was Daddy Mee Chicken flavor offered salty aromatic flavors. The onion oil had been added the plenty amounts of salts. 

I can’t find the salty fragrance of instant dry noodles till now except Daddy Mee Chicken flavor. 

Other brands of instant dry noodles such as Indomie, Mee Goreng, Mee Sedaap and Sarimi had sweet dark soy sauce that made the noodles in sweet flavors.

#2 Fragrance, Chewy & Spongy Noodles Textures

The second reason was Daddy Mee was known for fragrance, chewy characteristics, spongy textures and golden colors due to the noodles being fried. 

It liked the “Yi Mein （伊面）” actually. Majority of the instant noodles widely found in the supermarket were the ordinary noodles. 

#3 Able to Cook in 3 Ways

Daddy Mee Chicken flavor can be cooked in 3 ways, 1) soup noodle, 2) dry serving, 3) snacks

Soup Noodles

Boil 450 ml water

Cooked for 3 minutes. But I cooked 4 minutes because I prefer easy chewing type noodles

Add on seasoning powder and onion oil. Be careful because both of them had salts so I put half packet of seasoning powder to balance the flavors. I Daddy Mee=half packet seasoning powder; 2 Daddy Mee= 1 packet seasoning powder.

Serve and feel free to garnish with vegetables. 

Dry Serving

Boil 450 ml water

Cooked for 3 minutes.

Drain away the water

Add on seasoning powder and onion oil.

Snacks

Crunching the Daddy Mee and add on seasoning powder & onion oil on top of the Daddy Mee. Then, shake it, shake it and eat like the snacks. It’s so easy. 

If you love salty aromatic flavors and crispy & spongy textures of noodles, then Daddy Mee was your calling!

p/s this is not the advertorial post and I just share my personal experiences.

5 Things I Have Learned From Travelling

Travelling means go from place to another either by cars, plane or ship. When travel, I can get away from the boring daily life and explore the new things. 

So, if I got enough money and times, I’m gonna plan the trip and just go. I prefer to plan my own trip and being the backpackers with my sisters most of the times. 

Few years travel within Malaysia and other countries make me realize 5 things. 

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1) Walking A Lot

First and foremost, backpacking tends to walk a lot. I can’t deny that travel through the tour agencies’ perfect arrangement is more comfortable but honestly I felt something missing. I can’t ask the travel coach drivers to stop at the halfway journey in order to let me enjoy the views or take many photos. 

This is different with backpacking. Backpacking really needs to walk for many miles to reach the attractions but at the end I satisfy the most. I allow pausing and seeing the amazing scenery and views throughout the walking journeys. Trust me, it is the R.E.A.L freedom. 

For instance in Central Hong Kong, I see the working adults move faster and quickly. They even touched me heavily when they walk faster and faster. Another example is strolling in Myeondong and other parts of Seoul, South Korea make me truly admire Korean women (white skin, small face and high nose) and wish to be like them too. 

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2) Taking Public Transportation

Besides that, backpacking trip always choose for public transportation. Public transportation such as bus and LRT are the cheapest type of transportation for travel because to and fro for each attractions less than RM 10. It is good enough for the backpackers or budget travellers. 

Nowadays a lot of countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea provide the good conditions public transportation. It really brings conveniences. Various bus and LRT information to reach the destinations are also available online. It’s damn easy and totally zero cost. 

Taking public transportations in different timing also has different scenarios that really amaze me very well. In the weekdays’ morning especially during working times, all the working adults in proper formal attires rushing go to work no matter in LRT Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea. 

Meanwhile, in the weekend nights like Friday, the LRT full with the teenagers go to partying. Other than that, majority of the LRT passengers kept on staring their smartphones while the rest reading the books and have a nap. In short, without taking the LRT, I can’t see such scenario. 

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3) Must Try Local Street Foods

Every country has different local street foods. Local street foods symbolize the foods always eaten by the locals and widely found in the various streets. 

Hong Kong street foods are egg waffles, curry fish balls. Korea famous for the street foods like Ttebokki, Chap Chae. The travellers must try the local foods. Otherwise, it felt like they never been there. 

After back home from travelling, usually I crave for the certain street foods of the particular country. Recently, I miss the Hong Kong style macaroni with ham and cook by my own. 

But at the end, I fail to cook. It is so different with what I eat in Hong Kong. Perhaps I need to buy Hong Kong’s ham and pork broth to cook the Hong Kong style macaroni with ham. 

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4) Make Friends With The Locals

It’s always good for the backpackers to make more friends with the locals because they will recommend the interesting attractions and local foods that hardly found in the travel guide books. 

Sometimes, they will warn you the tourist traps. Further, when you mix with them, you able to see and experience their traditions. 

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5) Make Friends With Other Travellers

I always meet other travellers along the way whether I follow the tour agencies or backpacking with sister and friends. Those travellers are from all walks of life and different parts of the world. 

But they share the similar interest with me, that is travel. They even choose the same place to travel like me. Needless to say, some of travellers that I have encountered are very friendly. 

I recalled my Korean backpacking trip with the bunch of friends. We met a group of Singaporean backpackers. Few of them were share some valuable travel information about Korea to us.  Travel friends are great even though they exist in my life for a short moment of times. 

So, try to get more travel friends either in the backpacking hostel but the most important criteria you must confident to say hi with them. 

That's all. Hope you enjoy!

8 Important Phrases for Abroad Travellers

When I travel abroad, I prefer speaking to the local people by using their languages.

Using English (recognized as international language) create troubles most of the times because the local people at particular foreign country can’t understand.

Thus, by using proper foreign language, I can understand better about their cultures and the most important thing is to avoid embarrassing situations.

Basically, I think 8 useful and important formal phrases plays the significant roles when travelling abroad.

(I google some of the foreign language phrases while some of them I know because I had been travelled there)

***do correct me if I wrong 

Photo credit to Mickey Tay 

#1 How Are You?

I need this when I greet and meet with the people. It is the powerful phrases for ice breaking

Mandarin: Ni Hao

Melayu: Apa Khabar

Cantonese: Nei Hou

Thai: Sa wa dee (sa wa dee “ka” spoken by females, sa wa dee “cup” spoken by males)

Korean: An Yong Ha Se Yoh

Japanese: Konnichiwa

Arabic: Kayfa Haluk

Spanish: cómo estás

German: Wie geht es dir

French: Comment allez-vous
Vietnamese: Ban khoe khong

Photo Credit to Mickey Tay 

#2 Thank You

I frequently use this phrase to show my gratitude to someone



Mandarin: Xie Xie



Melayu: Terima kasih



Cantonese: Do Je



Thai: Kop Kun (kop kun“ka” spoken by females, kop kun “cup” spoken by males)



Korean: Ham Sham Mi Da



Japanese: Arigato 



Arabic: Shukran 



Spanish: Gracias 

German: Danke

French: Je vous remercie

Vietnamese: Cam on ban 



Photo credit to Mickey Tay 
#3 Goodbye
A bit of sad when saying this phrases. But no choice. Every travelers
need apart with the local people

Mandarin: Zai Jian
Melayu: Selamat Jalan
Cantonese: Zoi Kin
Thai: Was Dee
Korean: An Yong Hee Ga Se Yo
Japanese: Sayonara
Arabic: Ma al-sa la mah
Spanish: Adios
German: Auf Wiedersehen
French: Au Revoir
Vietnamese: Tam Biet 






Photo credit to Mickey Tay 

#4 I Need Help!

Extremely important when I face the emergency situations and really hope someone can help me 

Mandarin: Jiu/Bang Wo

Melayu: Tolongkan saya

Cantonese: Bong Ha Ngo

Thai: choo-ay-noy (choo ay noy "cup" spoken by males, choo-ay-noy "ka" spoken by females)

Korean: naega doum I pil yo

Japanese: Watashi wa tasuke ga hitsuyodesu

Arabic: Saa di nii

Spanish: Necesito Ayuda

German: Ich brauche Hilfe

French: J ai besoindaide

Vietnamese: Toi can giuo do 



Photo credit to Mickey Tay 





#5 How Much Is It?

As a girl, I love to shop. So this phrase can’t avoid. Further, I’m 

the smart consumer and always wish to gain the reasonable prices 


Mandarin: Duo shao qian?


Melayu: Ini berapa?



Cantonese: Gei do chin



Thai: Rākhā thèā h̄ịr̀?


Korean: geugeos-eun eolma ibnikka?

Japanese: Ikuradesu ka?

Arabic: kam saerah


Spanish: Cuánto cuesta


German: Wie viel kostet das?

French: combien ça coûte?

Vietnamese: Cai do bao nhieu tien 



Photo credit to Mickey Tay 

#6 Any Discount?
You know hor, shopping also desperately need this phrase in 
order to buy more and more clothes. 

Mandarin: you zhé kòu

Melayu: ada diskaun

Cantonese: yau mo ji kou 


Thai: S̄̀wnld dı 

Korean: eotteon hal-in

Japanese: Nin'i no waribiki

Arabic: ay khasm

Spanish: Algún descuento

German: irgendein Rabatt

French: Toute reduction

Vietnamese: bất kỳ giảm giá


Photo credit to Mickey Tay 
#7 Where Is The Toilet?
This is because I’m the toilet lovers. 


Mandarin: Che suo zai na li


Melayu: Di mana tandas


Cantonese: Chi so hai pin do 

Thai: H̄̂xngn̂ả xyū̀ thī̀h̄ịn

Korean: hwajangsil-eun eodiibnikka

Japanese: Toire wa dokodesu ka

Arabic: ayn almirhad


Spanish: donde estael inodoro

German: Wo ist die Toilette

French: où sont les toilettes

Vietnamese: WC ở đâu


Photo credit by Mickey Tay 
#8 Where Can I Find The Taxi
When I lost, this phrase really helps me. I can back to hotel safely. 



Mandarin: Zai na li ke yi zao dao chu zhu che 

Melayu: Di mana boleh dapatkan taxi


Cantonese: taxi hai pin do 

Thai: Thī̀ c̄hạn s̄āmārt̄h h̄ā rt̄h thæ̆ksī̀

Korean: eodi taegsi leul chaj-eul su issseubnida

Japanese: Koko de watashi wa takushī o mitsukeru koto ga dekimasu

Arabic: ayn yumkinuni aleuthur ealaa sayarat 'ujra

Spanish: donde puedo encontrar el taxi

German: wo kann ich das Taxi finden


French: où puis -jetrouver le taxi


Vietnamese: nơi mà tôi có thể tìm thấy xe taxi




That’s all for 8 phrases that are considered very important for me when travelling abroad. 


What’s your important phrases for travelers? I loved to hear them so do share. 

Hope you enjoy reading!

When Sisters Left The Nest

Yesterday, 2 sisters, which were Rosamond & Naruto flew back to Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bharu respectively.

4 sisters having breakfast happily together last week 

Today counted as the first day of the empty nest for me despite the nest still got Papa, Mama, me and Mickey.

I began to feel emptiness. And also missed them a little. 

This early morning, my sleeping time no more interrupted with Rosamond’s “Bibi, Bibi, Bibi” (which was Mickey) sound.

Other than that, no more Rosamond’s incredible pity sound when Bibi refused to wake her up.

I also can’t hear any Bibi’s sound in scolding Rosamond so lazy to wake up from the bed.

So do Mama’s loud nagging voice that kept telling Rosamond was very slow action in doing everything.

Moreover, I saw the dirty clothes basket contained few dirty clothes only. The helper today must be very happy because less works. 

I found less lighting candles and incense sticks (family morning routine everyday). 

It used to have 4 lighting candles but now left 2 

No more seeing Rosamond and Naruto did revision and school assignments at the glass table.

Oh my god, the glass table looked lonely and empty too

Papa today buy less breakfast. Can’t see the dining table completely full with Rosamond, Mickey, Papa, Mama and me during breakfast times. 

Papa bought 3 packets nasi lemak. If they were at home, Papa needed to buy 8 packets 

Only left Papa & me in the dining table during breakfast times. 

In the afternoon later, no more afternoon tea ordering such as “ Kin Jio Kueh RM 2, Oh Kueh 2 pieces, Ais Kacang 2 packets”

I teased Papa you saved cost after they back.

Then, looking at the sofa can’t see Naruto loved to lying over there while hugging her favorite pillow

Naruto's favorite pillow was kept on the wardrobe rather than the sofa

In the evening, Naruto no longer sit at the driver seat in our Mr Innova to drive us without purpose around Saratok town.

More importantly, Mama never said “Is there any fallen hairs on the floor? I must sweep the hairs away. Otherwise, the home become very dirty”

In a nutshell, I believe few months are going to pass very quickly. Rosamond, Naruto and JoJo will back after few months.

At the moment now, let Papa, Mama, Mickey and me enjoy such personal times.

After few months later, we will reunite again. My family must be very happy when seeing each other.

                                                                                                            

Celebrated Friendship For A Reason, Season and Life

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Reflecting friendship issues make me realize I always encounter friends for a reason, for a season and for a life.

Of course lifelong friends are the best compared to reason and season friends. They are the persons that know me for so many years.

We share not only olden days but also develop new memories together. We also being emotional support for each other.

However, in reality lifelong friends are rare and very precious. It includes me. Luckily, I have 3 lifelong friends as described above.  

Moreover, I meet more friends for a reason, for a season.

I believe the friends for a reason and season is the friends that came into my life temporary for a particular reason or season. 

They only have short journey with me honestly.

In my student and working days, there are certain friends (classmates, coursemates, roommate, former colleagues) bring so much laughter, love and warmth for me during challenging periods.

As times develop, we move apart right now. Nevertheless, I appreciate the existence of such friends.

Recently, I also have a friend that concerns me. Her concern signifies the friendship element too.

For example, she sends the encouraging quotes through watsapp on regular basis to motivate me. Sometimes, seeing her encouraging quotes remind me that she truly become my friend.

In conclusion, I truly believe friends for a reason, for a season and for a life. At the same times, I also blessed with friends in my life journey.

A familiar saying “no man is the island”. No matter what reason or season, the friendship must be celebrated.