Mamak Mee-Ah! The Musical Spoof!

After seeing the musical Mamma Mia! myself, the name Mamak Mee-Ah! surely caught my attention.

The blurb from the poster sounds funny too.

“From the team that created and presented the hugely successful Broadway Parodies Lah! and award wining Broadway Parodies Lagi Lah!“

This local musical production is written by Brian McIntyre MM2H, an Ang Moh (Mat Salleh) who has been living in Malaysia for 20 years.

The musical will be showing some familiar tunes with some spoofed lyrics mixed with Malaysian culture, characters and icons, rojakally.

Sounds fun right? I’m so tempted to go.

So I suppose I have to go to the Box Office and order “Boss! Mamak Mee-Ah satu!”.

Ok lah lame joke I know.

Show Info

Presenter: The Actors Studio Teater Rakyat
Date & Time: 8–10 & 13–17 April @ 8.30pm | 11 & 18 April @ 3pm
Venue: The Actors Studio @ Lot 10
Ticket Price: RM50, RM40, RM30 (students, sr. citizens & the disabled)

More information can be found on The Actors Studio’s website.

One fine day, my friends and I planned for a trip to Pulau Ketam (Crab Island) for walk walk shoot shoot.

The island is a small fishing village located not far away from Klang.

We drove to Port Klang, took a RM7 (one way) ferry at the jetty, and after 30 minutes, we were already on the island.

The main street of Pulau Ketam.

Pulau Ketam is very similar to my mother’s hometown — Pantai Remis — in many ways. So it was nothing new to me.

There was really nothing much on the island. We walked from one end to the other and back in less than an hour.

We got bored and started to take some portraits.

After that, we settled down on a restaurant and ordered, what else, crabs!

Fried lala omelette and fried crabs.

Although the lala’s in the omelette were small, but the food was really nice. Loved the crabs so much. They were so fresh and full of meat. They really live up to the island’s name.

After meal, we took the last ferry at 6 PM to come back to Port Klang. Since there was still enough time for us to catch the sunset, we head on to Tanjung Harapan.

Tanjung Harapan

Tanjung Harapan is near the North Port. It took us a while before we found the way.

Ted on action.

Tanjung Harapan is a nice place for sunset shooting. But too bad that day was too cloudy for us to catch a nice sunset.

Sophea on action.

After sunset, we call it a day and drove back to KL.

Oh I miss the crabs on the Crab Island so much. Slurpsss…

Thean Hou Temple is decorated with lots of red lanterns.

It was my first time being there. Thean Hou Temple is indeed a very beautiful temple.

Carvings of dragon and pheonix on the temple's roof.

To my surprise, there were so many photographers that day. Almost half of the visitors were holding DSLR.

Lion dance at the entrance of Thean Hou Temple.

And what’s more surprising was, there were so many Malay and Indian photographers as well. I mean, isn’t that nice? Different races gathered with no political or religious conflicts doing what they like to do — photography.

Sophea on the left, and Guanyin statue on the right.

The main reason photographers went there is of course, to shoot the lanterns. Sophea and I reached there at 5 PM and waited until around 7 PM when the lights of the lanterns were turned on.

Panorama of Thean Hou Temple's lanterns at night.

Lanterns on one of the towers.

Lanterns on the highest tower.

Every year, we go back to Pantai Remis on the second day of Chinese New Year.

This time, I had my DSLR with me so I went out for some sunset shots.

Beautiful sunset and fishing boat with blue and purple sky.

A jetty where they park the boats and unload the fishes.

This is the bridge/jetty where I shot all the pictures.

On the left, golden sunset with a bird's shilluette, and on the right, my youngest brother who got that hair from National Service.

Pasta Zanmai's menu cover and green tea.

They have a special promotion for Chinese New Year — the Chinese New Year Prosperity Course Menu. It comes with 5 dishes and costs RM99 for 3-4 pax. It was just nice for 3 of us.

Pasta Zanmai Chinese New Year Prosperity Course Menu.

I didn’t like Yee Sang much before this because none of the Yee Sang I had tastes anywhere near good. They were either too sour or the Salmon Sashimi was so thin it dissolved once you finish mixing.

Yee Sang with thick Salmon Sashimi. Huat ah!!!

But Pasta Zanmai’s Yee Sang was so good that we finished the whole plate not long after it arrived.

The Salmon Sashimi was fresh and thick. The different ingredients topped with the special dressing made it the best Yee Sang I’ve ever had.

Grilled lamb leg with black pepper sauce and Hotate scallop pizza.

The medium done grilled lamb leg was fantastic. It was nicely grilled on the outside and half raw on the inside. Juicy, tender and fresh.

We requested to change the avocado pizza to hotate pizza which I ordered every time I visit Pasta Zanmai.

The hotate pizza never fail me. Scallop, mushroom, tomato sauce and mayonnaise make a perfect combination to give your taste buds a roller coaster ride.

Prawn and pumpkin pasta with cream sauce and fruit tart.

The pumpkin pasta tasted rather normal. I didn’t really like it. If I knew this earlier, I will probably try to request them to change it to another pasta instead.

Lastly, the fruit tart was okay okay only. Crispy pastry topped with lots of fruits and not-too-sweet-custard. But RM13 for this thing alone? Are you kidding me?

I know it might be too late to say this, but if you happen to read this before 28th February 2010, do go and give it a try.

4 more days until Chinese New Year celebration is over. I wish everyone a prosperous year ahead and Gong Xi Fa Chai! Huat ah!!!

Bread and Olive Cafe at Ampang Look Out Point. The background is Gasoline Cafe though.

KL skyline in black and white with ray of light.

The sun appeared for a few seconds before it fully disappeared.

Heavy cloud sunset and KL skyline.

Emo Kevin over a setting sun in the background.

Sophea and her Nikon camera.

City as the background, mountain as the foreground.

The famous night scene of KL skyline as seen from Ampang Look Out Point.

A closer look, KL Tower on the left and KLCC on the right.

A lightning strikes some where in KL.

Sekinchan is huge and flat covered with long stretch of padi fields. Too bad most of them are harvested.

Harvested padi field.

Wild flowers and padi.

Lalang is everywhere around padi field.

Alex and Amanda.

Kuala Selangor

In the evening, we continued our journey to Bukit Malawati at Kuala Selangor.

Bukit Malawati is a historical hill. The fortress on this hill was built in late 18th century to defend Selangor from the attack of the enemies from the Straits of Malacca.

Bukit Malawati Kuala Selangor.

There’s really nothing much to see up there. Everything you saw in the picture above is actually everything you can find up the hill.

Other than sight seeing, another tourist attraction is the black monkeys.

Monkeys sitting on a canon at Bukit Malawati Kuala Selangor.

They are friendly, tame and they don’t bite as long as you keep feeding them with peanuts and long beans. Interestingly, their babies are gold in colour, literally.

Me with a monkey and lighthouse.

After a tiring day of shooting, we head off to River View Seafood Restaurant for dinner.

River View Seafood Restaurant.

I was so hungry and the food was so nice I forgot to take any picture of the food. I took the picture above before we left.

The seafood was really fresh and nice. I mean like really really nice, seriously. Besides, the price was not very expensive also.

Although this time I didn’t managed to take many pictures due to time constrain, but it was definitely a good trip.

P/S: More pictures on my Facebook album.

Kampachi is located on the 6th floor of Pavilion Kuala Lumpur.

The interior is spacious and comfortable.

Kampachi's menu and wall decoration.

I must say that the food was really really nice.

Mix mushroom salad and fried salmon skin salad.

Beef udon and curry chicken rice.

Nigiri sushi plate.

Tempura udon set and unagi set.

Assorted sushi rolls.

I forgot to take a picture of the cawamushi. It was some really awesome cawamushi with its silky smooth texture and aromatic steam egg. A must try.

However, when it comes to dessert, you can safely skip the ice-creams because they taste just normal to me.

Green tea ice-creams and tempura ice-cream.

But one thing must try is the mochi. It was the nicest mochi I’ve ever ate.

The soft and warm mochi covered with a thick layer of peanuts will turn this face -_- into this face O_O once you had your first bite. Seriously.

Mochi and Mango.

Lastly, if you are not living in some far far away land where mango is traded as gold, you should definitely skip this RM15 RM16 dessert.

Overall, food quality is great and the price is above average. It would be one of my top choices when I crave for some nice Japanese food.

When it comes to my hometown Taiping, it must be Heo Pia.

The name Heo Pia (Xiang Bing in Mandarin or Heong Peng in Cantonese) literally means “aromatic biscuit”.

It’s crispy on the outside with lots of sesame, and it has a layer of sticky and sweet caramel on the inside.

There are many famous Heo Pia in Taiping but I particularly like the one from Aulong (another small town in Taiping) because it’s not too sweet.

The owner made a garage beside the house to bake and sell biscuits.

Beside Heo Pia, there are all kinds of biscuits priced around RM2–RM3 per pack.

Once you go in, it’s very difficult to come out with empty hands because they are cheap and they look tasty.

That day when I wanted to bring my colleagues there, I couldn’t find the place and I tried Google but with no luck. I have to ask around before reaching the destination.

So I thought it’s good to write this post for others to find it easily.

The following Google Maps is just an approximate location because that road is not labeled in Google Maps. Find the exact address below.

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The shop house has only one small sign board that reads “Heo Pia sold here”.

Address: No. 768 Lorong 29, Aulong Baru, 34000 Taiping, Perak.
Telephone: +605-808-7608