Steam boat at Fong Lye

Some time back we had a steam boat makan-makan at Fong Lye's upper end offer at Midvalley. The set menu was quite copious otherwise the usual steam boat affairs was offered. The difference lies in the soup base which was their forte.

Generally, the meal was quite well received by everyone but the service will need to include a little more servers who can communicate with customers - not foreign workers who can hardly guess what we were trying to tell them...

Blast from the Past (3 - 2): adventures in the port city of La Rochelle on the French Atlantic Coasts

The protected harbour turned into a mirror on the morning after the snow shower - first time in 11 years according to the locals.

Persisting snow on the grass patch...

Blast from the Past (3 - 1): adventures in the port city of La Rochelle on the French Atlantic Coasts

My first experience of France, not counting stepping foot out of the airport through Paris to the next destination, was in the windy port city of La Rochelle. We arrived at the beginning of autumn and it was an unexpected adventure for me, first time in a temperate country. La Rochelle is an old port city on the western coasts (Atlantic Coast) of France and is part of the region called Poitou-Charentes which is basically an agricultural region. La Rochelle is situated on the department of Charente-Maritime and is a principal holiday destination for French tourist escaping Paris in summer.

The old port of La Rochelle, once flourished as an important trading post in France during the age of colonialisation is now a leasure boat marina...

The two towers served as sentry points and entrance into the old port of La Rochelle

Well, Indonesia was figured in a shop along the old port...

The city was in the past a Protestant stronghold in a Catholic country and had seen very bloody history during the reign of Louis XIII under the then Cardinal Richelieu. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_La_Rochelle