What's Cooking @ Foodies Gourmet Market & Café, Bandar Kinrara? | A week before MCO 2.0 was announced, my friends and I decided to café hopping and we unanimously agreed to visit a café in Bandar Kinrara, a city that's accessible to all of us. 

Arriving at the area, my eyes went directly to the huge shop sign that says FOODIES GOURMET. Nice - so the place is easy to find. And amazingly, the shop is situated right behind the LRT Station Kinrara BK5. So, the place is very accessible.

Foodies Gourmet Market & Café, No. 29, Jalan BK5A/ 3A, Bandar Kinrara 5, Puchong, Selangor

Adhering to the SOP, we scanned the MySejahtera QR Code, took our temperature and applied hand sanitiser before entering the establishment. 

But wait. This looks like a mini-market and not a café? 

There are shelves where a whole lot of spices and other cooking necessities (sauces, seasoning and many other) were on display. And some are brands that I have not seen elsewhere. 

And there were freezers and display units to display meat of all parts too. Oh wow. The meats are all from Australia and of course, halal meats, y'all. Choose your pick here and the assistant will also recommend some sauces and spices that better suit your style of cooking. 

Oh. The front part of the establishment is the mini-market and there's a back part of the shop that houses a dainty little café. 

The café could sit around 10 - 20 pax and as we were there during the RMCO, we were advised to sit adhering to the eat-in SOP ie a small table could only for 2 people. And then we were presented with the menu. 

I need to mention this too - your food will be made to order so that you'll enjoy your food deliciously warm. 

Oh my. Wow! 

The menu displays an array of fusion food of western, Korean and Japanese. And us being foodies like we are, we decided to just order one of each item and later share among ourselves. So let's see what did we order. 

Get your tissues ready to wipe off the drool. 

Our Choice of Appetisers and Drinks

Boss's favourite Beef Goulash with Baguette RM15.90

Cabbage Okonomiyaki with Bonito Flakes & Katsu Inspired Sauce RM14.90

Chef Driven Quiche Chicken RM17.90

Artisan Beef Pie RM19.90

Whereas these are our choice for the Main Dishes

Oven grilled 200g Aust Beef Ribeye Steak serve with Gourmet sauce and side of the day RM38.90

Oven roasted 180g Aust Beef Striploin steak served with Gourmet Sauce and side of the day RM32.90

Carefully curated spicy Gochujang Lamb Shoulder Chop RM25.90

Spicy Oven baked chicken leg with caramelised vege and potato wedges RM14.90

Garlic Teriyaki chicken leg with Japanese salad and potato cakes RM14.90

Australian Beef Udon, Soft boil egg in Rich Umami Soup RM15.90

Spaghetti with Truffle inspired white sauce and mushroom RM23.90

Spiced DF Hake Fish with Savoury Potato wedges and homemade tartar sauce RM19.90

And the last one, the dessert

Brownies with Chantily Cream RM9.90

There you go, guys. Salivating yet?

It seems that we ordered quite a number of dishes right? But when you are sharing with foodies, believe me, there were no food went to waste with the group. 

MY REVIEW OF FOODIES GOURMET MARKET & CAFÉ

Location: 4.7/ 5.0 Considering I am from Bangi, the place is very accessible. There's an LRT station nearby. 

Parking wise, because I was there during the weekend, it was easy to find a parking slot. 

Cleanliness: 4.8/ 5.0 The cafe was very clean, the staff preparing the food while using hair net and gloves and the toilet was clean. Thumbs up!

Price: 4.4/ 5.0 Being that the ingredients are all premium, the price is very reasonable. And the portion is enough for a person (for me at least). There are some other places where the price is incredibly ridiculous and the taste is questionable. 

Taste: 4.8/ 5.0 I don't normally take lamb but I eat lamb here. The taste is YUMMY-LICIOUS!

Will I come again: Yes, I will come again. You wanna come with me?

Do stalk them on their social media accounts to know more about their products and the café.

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Sightless [Movie Review] | Before Covid-19, I always find time to watch movie every week, if I'm not attending events or out of town for work.

And now with the global pandemic, all the cinemas are closed and my greatest friend to kill the boredom is watching Netflix. 

So, here's another movie review for all of you. 

SYNOPSIS

• Directed by: Cooper Karl

• Produced by: Akila York, Rick Benattar, Nigel Thomas, Todd Y. Murata

• Production companies: Particular Crowd, Headlong Entertainment
• Distributed by: MarVista Entertainment

• Release date: September 2, 2020

• Running time: 89 minutes

• Madelaine and Matthew Yang Kang stars in Riverdale

• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Tomatometer: 95%
• Metascore: 67

• IMDb: 6.5/10

The movie starts with a girl jumping off of her apartment balcony. Then the movie returns to a flashback scene where the girl is on a hospital bed, with both of her eyes covered in bandages.

Ellen, a former violinist, was attacked and left blind. Her brother, who is in Tokyo, hired an assistant, Clayton, to assist Ellen in her daily daily and slowly assist her transition as a blind person. As she eases her life into being a blind, she realises there are some oddities around her room - there's a car alarm that goes out the exact time daily and glass window that she can't hear anything from the outside. She also can't get hold of her best friend and brother ever since she checked in into the apartment. Clayton reassures her that it is all normal.

One night, she hears a woman crying. At first she thought that the woman is in her apartment, but turns out that the crying sound comes through the vent. She decides to invite her neighbour for tea. Lana, the neighbour appears the next day. When she touches Lana, she realises that there is a fresh stitch on Lana's face. Lana reacts by warning her not to trust anyone. 

When Clayton tells her that he has feelings towards her, Ellen rejects the interest by stating that she needs caretaker more than a boyfriend at the moment. Broken hearted, Clayton leaves the apartment. Soon after, someone comes into the apartment and attacks Ellen. Ellen manages to dial 911 before she passes out as the attacked pushes a syringe onto her neck. Later, the paramedic tells her that there's no apparent injury and not a needle mark on her neck. When a detective comes in and tells her that the CCTV also shows no one enters the apartment after Clayton, Ellen comes to agreement that she can no longer believe her own perceptions She decides to jump from her balcony to end her miserable life.

Instead of landing on a hard pavement, she lands on the floor of a soundproof room. Then she realises that the car alarms and the outside noises were all coming from a speaker system.

What is actually going on in Ellen's life? Will she be able to leave the apartment?

MY REVIEW

Plot: 4.7/ 5.0 The plot is nicely arranged and I was as 'sightless' as Ellen, until towards the end of the movie. The plot is simple and sweetly twisted - you'll love the end. 

Cast: 4.8/ 5.0 I love the cast. They all performed beautifully. Not because that my boo, Madelaine Petsch (who plays Cheryll Blossom in Riverdale) is the main actress - but because the actors are all great. 

Will I watch it again: Yes, I don't mind watching it again. 

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HESSA Presint 7 - Ciri Rumah Yang Aku Ingini | Ingat tak pesan mak ayah ketika kita membesar 'Belajar pandai-pandai, cari kerja elok-elok, beli rumah dan bina keluarga'. 

Bila dah bekerja, mak pesan begini pula 'Long, kalau beli rumah tu, beli la yang boleh bina famili sekali ye. Biar ada tanah senang nak bercucuk tanam. Kalau boleh jangan la jauh-jauh sangat - senang nak ke mana-mana.' Panjang lebar pesanannya.

Bila dah bekerja, rakan sekerja dok berbincang tempat paling strategik nak beli rumah. Of course di sekitar UKM dan Bangi dan terlebih padat dah. Sekarang tumpuannya ke arah selatan Lembah Klang dan menghala ke Seremban dan kawasan sekitarnya. Sedikit sebanyak perbualan dengan rakan sekerja mengusik minda dan jiwa ku. Ye lah. Aku nie dalam proses nak membeli rumah dan kalau boleh, nak seperti yang mak pesan (aku rasa faktor usia kot, walhal dah ada satu apartment kos sederhana hahaha). 

Dalam ketika aku membuat penyelidikan berkenaan projek perumahan yang kurasakan menepati kriteria yang aku nak, aku terserempak dengan dengan laman FB Matrix Concepts Holding Bhd yang menyebut berkenaan HESSA Precinct 7.

Seperti seorang pakar penyelidik, aku mula menyelidik latar belakang Tiara Sendayan nie. 

Fakta Berkenaan Tiara Sendayan

• Projek perumahan yang dibangunkan oleh Matrix Concepts Holdings Bhd di kawasan selatan Lembah Klang dan meliputi keluasan 295 ekar di daerah Labu, Negeri Sembilan.
• Projek perumahan ini dibahagikan kepada sembilan presint termasuk premis komersil. 
• Aku suka dengan projek perumahan ini sebab banyak konsep hijau. Ada taman riadah digelar Central Park seluas 12 ekar. (Dah ala-ala cerita Home Alone kan.) Sebagai seorang yang suka nak bersukan, aku memang gemar bersenam di ruang terbuka. Dah la Tiara Sendayan nie memang banyak menyediakan kemudahan bersukan - padang futsal, bola keranjang, trek berbasikal dan laluan refleksologi. Dan ada gym gak! 
• Projek ini boleh diakses menerusi Lebuh Raya Utara Selatan, Lebuh Raya Seremban - Port Dickson dan KLIA Linkage. Maknanya - senang aku nak ke Utara, Selatan, Timur dan Barat. Malah parents aku turun KLIA je senang nak sampai area nie. 
• Pastu aku sibuk nak semak statistik pembelian dan rekod jualan pemaju plak. Terkejut tengok Presint 1 sehingga Presint 6 dia terjual dengan sangat pantas. Ada yang sold-out pada hari cabut undi rumah yang diadakan selama 2 jam sahaja! Bayangkan betapa pembeli memang berkenan dengan projek perumahan Tiara Sendayan nie. Kalau dah sampai 6 fasa perumahan pun masih terjual dengan pantas (kurang dari 2 tahun terjual 100%), maknanya perincian kawasan dan hasil binaan adalah menepati kehendak ramai dan berkualiti. 
• Ada sekolah berdekatan - SJK (C) Bandar Sri Sendayan, SMK Bandar Sri Sendayan, SK Sendayan, SMK Taman Nusari dan ada beberapa lagi - so senang aku nak fikir mana nak hantar anak-anak kelak kan. 

Kediaman dibina 254 unit rumah double storey link dengan luas binaan dari 2,156 kaki persegi.  Sudah semestinya menjadi idaman aku dengan laman nie untuk rumah corner lot. Dah berangan dah ada air terjun mini dan taman kecil. 

Bila aku intai lukisan pelan dia, ewah! Memang mewah ye. Dengan 4 bilik tidur dan 3 bilik air, memang menepati kriteria yang mak aku pesan la nie. Ruang pun disusun dengan teratur menjadikan ada ruangan luas untuk family and friends gathering. Ini pentingnya laman - senang aku nak jamu kengkawan datang kalau weekend kan. 

Tadi aku sebut pasal kemudahan kat Tiara Sendayan kan. Nie paling berbaloi aku rasa - keahlian percuma di d'Tempat Country Club selama 5 penggal! Ko ghase tak berbaloi ke tu? Kalau dah country club memang sah banyak kemudahan yang aku boleh pakai disamping Central Park seluas 12 ekar tu. 

Harganya plak? Bermula dari RM485,999 yakni memang dalam kelayakan aku. Apakah ini satu jodoh?

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The Mortuary Collection [Movie Review] | It has been quite some time since I last reviewed a scary/ horror movie. 

Actually there were some scary movies available online but I don't feel like reviewing them as it was not that ...scary. As for this one, I have been wanting to watch and review it - I was waiting for it to be in HD for me to watch it, online. 

By the way, it has yet to arrive on Netflix, so, you'll have to find your own resources to watch this one ok. 

SYNOPSIS

• Directed by: Ryan Spindell

• Produced by: Aliison Friedman, T. Justin Ross

• Production companies: Trapdoor Pictures, Glass Eye Pix

• Release date: September 22, 2019

• Running time: 108 minutes

• The mortuary is actually the Flavel House Museum in Astoria, Oregon. 

• Clancy Brown's make up took 2.5 hours to apply and one hour to remove.
• The doctor's office was filmed in the kitchen of the house from the babysitter story. 
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Tomatometer: 95%
• Metascore: 67

• IMDb: 6.5/10

The story begins with a little boy being nosy and wanting to capture a picture of a mortuary house. His plan failed when the door suddenly opens and he runs off, leaving his camera behind. Montgomery, the mortician picks up the camera and carries on with his day. 

After a mortuary service, a young woman, Sam, comes in and applies for job as a mortuary assistant. While touring the house, Sam was intrigued about a child-size coffin and asks about the story behind the child's death. Montgomery agrees to tell Sam a series of stories about death cases in the house, just to see how Sam deals with such stories and whether she qualifies for the job. 

The first story was about a nosy woman who pickpocketed a fellow party-goer. She went into the bathroom to check her raid but got intrigued by the locked bathroom medicine cabinet. When she finally able to pick the lock, she was surprised to see a tentacled monster inside it, which finally managed to grab and drag her into the cabinet. 

Sam was not surprised nor scared about the story - too common she says. 

So Montgomery tells another story about a young man, Jake who fights and preaches about sexual liberation on campus by giving out condoms to young women. It was his way to get he women into bed with him and his frat members. During a frat party, he brings Sandra, a girl who attended the party into his room and have sex with her. He purposely pulls out his condom and have intercourse with Sandra, condom-less. 

He wakes up in the morning with severe rash. When he goes to see the campus Doctor, both of them discovers that he is 'pregnant'. Not wanting to accept the horrible truth, he seeks Sandra and able to locate her at her family's house. Apparently, Jake was not the first man git 'impregnated' by Sandra - all because they had sex with no protection. Jake died while 'delivering' the 'child' (the baby will come out the same way it comes in - says the mother - so I leave that to your imagination).

Again, Sam was not impressed with the story. So, Montgomery showed her a lady corpse - seems so perfect but there was a menacing story behind her death. 

Wendell marries his wife Carol with a joyous celebration. Not long after, he has to nurse her catatonic wife and at one point, he thinks that he has had enough. The physician, Dr Kubler told him that nobody will notice if he accidentally 'overdose' Carol using the painkillers. Wendell tries that and while waiting for the drug to take effect, suddenly Carol grabs his hand and chokes on the drug. Wendell tries to help her throw up the drug, only to accidentally throws his wife's head upon a statue and kills her. Dr Kubler advises him to rid off the body, and Wendell agrees by cutting his wife into parts and fit her into a trunk. While transferring the trunk, it seems that Carol comes to life and tortures him. When the police finds him with the trunk inside the elevator, Wendell was reciting his wedding vows over and over again.

When Montgomery shows her a child-size coffin, Sam tells her own story.

Sam was babysitting Logan when a news about an escaped patient from the local asylum was on TV. She missed the news. When she finds a man, bleeding from his head in the house, Sam do not know what to do until she hears the answering machine from Logan's parents informing her about the escaped lunatic. The fight starts between the two, with Sam finally managed to throw the man down the stairs and drops a TV on his head. 

When the parents arrive home, they found the dead man and instantly recognises him as Sam - not the girl. The girl is actually the escaped lunatic, called Tooth Fairy Killer who kills children and cannibalises the children. The parents found Logan in the oven.

At this point, Montgomery kinda know that Sam is harmful. Sam takes a tooth from Logan's body in the coffin and stabs Montgomery in the stomach. 

Will Sam be able to escape with her crimes?

MY REVIEW

Plot: 4.8/ 5.0 I like that it has several stories inside it. Just like the Thai scary movies (3 A.M and more). So, it keeps me interested to know more and the fact that the last story is about Sam herself was very brilliantly planned. 

Horrific? Not so but there ware many gory scenes so please keep your kids (or yourself) alert about those scenes ok. 

Cast: 4.6/ 5.0 Nicely delivered. No complaint about the actors here. 

Will I watch it again: Yes, I would. 

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Honest Thief [Movie Review] | The movie's tagline was the thing that attracted my interest to watch the movie 'Never Steal A Man's Second Chance'.

This is another movie that I watched online as it still yet to be available on Netflix. 

SYNOPSIS

• Directed by: Mark Williams

• Produced by: Mark Williams, Myles Nestel, Tai Duncan, Craig Chapman

• Production companies: The Solution Entertainment Group, Zero Gravity Management, Samuel Marshall Films, Ingenious

• Distributed by: Open Road Films, Briarcliff Entertainment

• Running time: 99 minutes
• Release Date: Oct. 16, 2020
• Box Office: US 29.5 million

• Rating: PG13 (For strong violence, crude references an brief strong language)

• The movie follows Cold Pursuit (2019) for which Liam previously declared would be his last action movie role. But apparently not.
• Some scenes were filmed in 2018. 
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Tomatometer: 40%
• Metascore: 46

• IMDb: 6.0/10

Tom was nicknamed 'In and Out Bandit' for his crimes of robbing banks over the years with his raids amounting to US 9 million. Then he met Annie, who mans a storage unit facility while he was looking for a place to store the money. And he falls in love with Annie.

A year later, he decides to turn over a new leaf and wants to be clean about his past with Annie. So, he calls up FBI and attempts to turn himself over. FBI Agent Sam brushes him off as another wannabe and sends his subordinates, Agent Nivens and Agent Hall to interview Tom. 

Days later, the two walks in into Tom's room and takes Tom's keys to the storage unit. Agent NIvens quickly wants to take the money to himself and successfully persuades Agent Hall to collaborate in his attempt to discredit Tom about the money. They took the money and hid it inside one of the FBI's safe-houses before returning to see Tom - intending to kill him and frame him afterwards. 

Agent Baker arrives at Tom's hotel room unexpectedly and was shot point-blank by Agent Nivens. A fight ensues and as Tom runs from the hotel, he takes Annie with him when Annies also arrives at the hotel. 

Now, as a fugitive, Agent Nivens and Agent Hall have the higher hands in the matter. They told the FBI that Tom was the one who shot Agent Baker when questioned about the money. 

Tom told Annie about his past and told Annie to stay as far as possible from him and hide somewhere for a while. Annie returns to the storage unit to get the security camera evidence that shows the two agents stealing the money from Tom's unit. Agent Nivens arrives and knocks Annie unconscious. Failed to find the evidence, both agents fled the scene seconds before Tom arrives and brings Annie to the nearby hospital. 

And now, it's getting personal to Tom. He devises plans to outwit the agents to pay for their crimes, before he pays his.

Who will win this game of cat and mouse?

MY REVIEW

Plot: 3.5/ 5.0. What can I say? It's predictable - just like Taken trilogy and his other action movies. Nothing new or worth mentioning here. 

Just an old thief who wants to turn over a new leaf after meeting the love of his life. 

Cast: 4.4/ 5.0 Pretty strong cast here and everyone delivers. 

Will I watch it again: Perhaps yes, especially when I want to watch the Taken trilogy. 

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