by Bowie Cheong

U.S. Potato Culinary Festival Menu @ Anne Elizabeth

July 17, 2018

If you always hang around in the Cheras area, you might always spot the long queue in front of Anne Elizabeth restaurant in the evening. Tucked in the most happening street nearby Leisure Mall, Anne Elizabeth is a deli-restaurant with the concept of “You Choose, You Pair, We Cook, We Serve”.

According to the concept, they don't have a menu, diner can mix and match their preferred proteins from the display fridge, pair it with some sides and let the chef cook it.

In conjunction with U.S. Potato Culinary Festival 2018, I am here to try out the exclusive limited-time menu featuring U.S. fresh and frozen potatoes. Many people believe they should limit potato intake because potatoes are commonly associated with unhealthy fried and processed foods. In fact, U.S. potatoes has just 110 calories only per serving, it is rich in Vitamin C, Vitamin B6 and Potassium which more than a banana, also free from fat, sodium and cholesterol.

This year, U.S. Potato Board collaborates with 14 restaurants in Klang Valley to serves up a wide creation of U.S. Potatoes until 30 of July 2018.

Featuring the freshest ingredients from premium U.S. potatoes, there are two tantalizing dishes handpicked by Anne Elizabeth : Traditional Crispy U.S. Fresh Potato Cubes and Jacket U.S. Potatoes with Sour Cream, Bacon Bites, Parmesan Cheese & Spring Onion.

Jacket U.S. Potatoes with Sour Cream, Bacon Bites, Parmesan Cheese & Spring Onion

RM 8.90

I am a potato lover, jacket potatoes are the ultimate convenience food for me. It is is made with a U.S. russet potato with a thick, papery skin. Anne Elizabeth's Jacket U.S. Potatoes have a delectably snowy fluffy inside and a crispy crunchy shell, topping with Sour Cream, Bacon Bites, Parmesan Cheese & Spring Onion that gives me a hint of cheesiness. This fully loaded baked potato is simple yet hearty, filling, and flavorful.

Traditional Crispy U.S. Fresh Potato Cubes

RM 7.90

Crispy U.S. Fresh Potato Cubes is a snack or side dish that usually beloved by children and adults alike. With a crispy, beautifully burnished crust, is there anything better than a hearty snack of Traditional Crispy U.S. Fresh Potato Cubes?

During the U.S. Potato Culinary Festival, you can enjoy the delicious U.S. potato featured dishes and win awesome iPad 9.7 inch!

| How to win? |

#MYPotatoesUSA Most Creative Photo Contest Kuala Lumpur

1. Order one U.S. Potato Culinary Festival dish from one of the participating outlets

2. Follow MY Potatoes USA Facebook Page

3. Post a creative caption and photo of the U.S. Potatoes dish with hashtag #MYPotatoesUSA and “Check In” to the participating outlet

4. Remember to set post or profile to Public

Judges will select the MOST creative post, there are 5 Weekly Prizes and 3 Grand Prizes of iPad 9.7 inch 32GB WiFi for grabs!

Contest period: 15 June till 30 July 2018

Participating Outlets :
☻ Fuego, Troika Sky Dining
☻ The Three Stooges
☻ Kingstreet Café
☻ Anne Elizabeth
☻ Brasserie Fritz
☻ Michelangelo
☻ Jibby and Co
☻ Brew House
☻ Coffee Club
☻ Delicious
☻ Macaroni
☻ Piccolino
☻ Roulette
☻ Pietro

Visit MY Potatoes USA Facebook Page for more information.

Apart from U.S. potato featured dishes, we are delighted with the variety of dishes, i will blog about that soon, stay tuned!

Anne Elizabeth The Deli Restaurant

No.1, Jalan Manis 4,

Taman Segar, 56100 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 603 – 9130 0319

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/AnneElizabethTheDeliRestaurant/

beauty event

Pure Beauty Illuminating Urban Shield skincare

July 13, 2018

Air pollution is one of the single most toxic substances for the skin, making it almost impossible to have perfect skin especially for those living and working in urban areas. Because of air pollution contains free radicals, it will leave a direct and negative impact on the skin's health and left skin complexion become dull and tired. When the skin is exposed to more free radicals, the skin will become more susceptible to wrinkles, less hydrated, less supple and less firm.

To solve this problem and save us from exposed to these damaging environments, Pure Beauty which is a leading beauty brand from Korea has launched illuminating protective skin care range that shields skin against air pollution.

Pure Beauty Illuminating Urban Shield skincare has been formulated with the latest technology Nerolight and derived from Organic Star Lily, to enrich the skin's natural glow, while protecting it from daily pollution. The formulation also lessens the effects of dirt and dust and invigorate the skin, giving your skin a natural, confident glow throughout the day!

Pure Beauty is based on its 4Ps philosophy of "Intensive Brightening Power", which consists :-

1P : Preparation of using the willow bark extracts to enhance healthy skin.

2P : Preservation where Neurolight derived from the certified Natural Star Lily, decreases dark spot.

3P : Protection where Ceramide 123 strengthens the skin's barrier, shielding it from harmful elements in the environment.

4P : Prevention of the exposure to pollution with EPS White helping to reduce dark spots.

During the event, there is a demonstration workshop by Shazreeyana Shukri to show how to using the Pure Beauty Illuminating Urban Shield skincare range.

with my pretty blogger friends.

There is a total of 5 products from the range of Pure Beauty Illuminating Urban Shield skincare: Serum, Capsule Essence, Water Gel, Radiance Cream and Sun Protector with SPF 50+ PA++++.

Illuminating Urban Shield Radiance Serum RM 59.90

- This serum reduces dark spots and evens your skin tone.

- Its nutrients repair damaged skin and defend it against the pollutants.

90% of users tested were satisfied and felt instant skin suppleness and abundant moisture.

Illuminating Urban Shield Water Gel

RM 55.90

Dryness to the skin accelerates the anti-aging process and defending your skin against dryness is very important! This water gel hydrates and moisturises, your skin stays refreshed and clear. It is easy to absorb because of lightweight texture.

Illuminating Urban Shield Capsule Essence RM 69.90

- Specially formulated to make your skin look more luminous and brings out a natural shine.

- The pearlised capsules helps to diminish uneven skin tone and illuminates your skin, giving it a smoother and brighter look.

Apply on perfectly cleansed face and gently message into skin. Use twice daily, in the morning and evening. This essence has a lighter weight than a serum, lightweight texture enhances the nutrient absorption deep into skin, supply my skin with plumping, smoothing moisture.

Illuminating Urban Shield Radiance Cream RM 59.90

- Keep your skin radiant white, helps to preserves it against environmental aggressors.

The radiance cream has a soft and smooth texture, it works to brighten and nurture the skin preserving it against environmental aggressors. Also, it can improve skin's radiance, adding translucency, feeling more suppleness and hydration after use.

Illuminating Urban Shield Sun Protector SPF 50+ PA++++
RM 49.90

- Shielding the skin from exposure to harmful UV rays.

- It keeps the skin moistened throughout the day.

We all know that that wearing sunscreen daily is a must in beauty routine, it is the best way to defend our skin against the dark spots, premature aging caused by UV rays. This sunscreen has the texture and lightweight consistency of a serum with SPF 50 PA++++.

Pure Beauty Illuminating Urban Shield skincare range is dermatologically tested and suitable for all skin types. Affordably priced, the Pure Beauty Illuminating Urban Shield skincare is available exclusively at all Watsons stores nationwide and at the Watsons online shop as well.

For more information on Pure Beauty Illuminating Urban Shield or any of Pure Beauty products, check out their Facebook and Instagram.

Fashion event

Vintage Collection International, a evening gowns designer brand at Sunway Giza

July 08, 2018

There is a new place for you to shop those evening gowns, Vintage Collection International which is an elegant international evening gowns designer brand is officially launched at Sunway Giza Shopping Mall on early of June. When you need a stunning dress for a wedding or other special occasion, first question comes to the mind is where to buy or rent gown, am i right? Finding the perfect evening gown is no easy task!

Vintage Collection International is established in the year 1996 and is known to be tailor-made its unique style of evening gowns for executives and socialites.

Each piece of evening gown is carefully matched by Anna, the fashion designer, and the materials and every piece of diamond ornaments or handcrafts are selected with high quality. This brand’s general designs of elegant evening gown will be launched to the market with one design in a vast array of colors, primarily cater to socialites who have different color preferences.

Meanwhile, boutiques will display limited edition of famous designers’ bags, foot apparels or precious jewelry from time to time. These services are specially catered for socialites and confidants who enjoy life.

In the opening ceremony, there is a runway for models to dress up in Vintage Collection International’s evening gowns and have a glamorous catwalk.

The most alluring curvy figures of women are displayed through this new fall evening gowns collection series.

Anna stated: “As the upcoming arrival fall season and mid-year holiday fashion festival, Vintage Collection International brand that fashion industry pursues live up to the expectation of audience and releases new fall and holiday collection series. Each design will absolutely deliver you a contemporary feeling, and wearing it allows you to become a focal point of a banquet in town with effortless.”

Look at the gorgeous pieces, definitely is my favourite style!

Apart from the sale of evening gowns, Vintage Collection International provides gorgeous evening gowns rental services to the masses. They also provide women dress up essentials such as makeup and hairstylists, and professional photographers for various types of album or photo or film shooting.

For those who are interested in fitting on this series of evening gowns, kindly make an appointment before you visit for fashion consultant to provide a perfect experience of gowns selection.

Please contact Ms. Samantha (marketing manager) at +6012-221 9138 for more details of this series or service of Vintage Collection International.

Vintage Collection International's Exhibition hall/ boutique

C05-01, Block C, Sunway Giza Shopping Mall, PJU 5,

Kota Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya,

Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.

Tel : +603-6151 9133

Operation Hours: 10am – 6pm

(Every Monday to Friday), weekends and public holidays accept only reservation.

Busan

#BowieTravel | Busan and Seoul 2018

July 05, 2018

Hey all! The weather is so weird recently, gloomy everyday or suddenly change to very hot day. So, I so damn lazy to start my travel blog *wtf excuse? LOL!*

This travel blog probably is my shortest post because i spent 1 hour on editing these photos ONLY, yay! i always spent more than 1 day to edit my travel photos. Alright, i have to saying the same thing over and over. If you follow my Instagram, you knew how bad luck i am during the Korea trip. If you don't, please feel free to follow follow at here ya (advertisement time).

I don't like to share my things via Facebook but you can get to know the latest update of my lifestyle on Instagram.

Continue from my previous post- EXPLORE THE MAGNIFICENT SIGHTS OF SEOUL WITH HANBOK , this is a summary of my trip to Busan and Seoul. I have always wanted to visit South Korea when i saw many beautiful cafe and limited products from Instagram, however nobody want to go with me, the sadness of being single haiz T_T

Hence, I did a lot of research on their amazing local food, long-list of instagrammable cafes, and shopping. I am super stupid when comes to using map, my sense of direction is really worst, so i screenshot the map, read a lot of review, make sure my pocket wifi is work and bring the hell heavy power bank. However, the bad things still happened to me. Make it short and quick, here is my bad luck list happened in South Korea :

1. My flight delayed for 1 hour. When i arrived at Incheon airport, rush all the way to KTX airport station, the staff told me that it closed for temporary. Then, we need to spent another 1 hour to Seoul station, and check the train seats availability, i was told from the counter that the only available seat at 8pm (we reached at Seoul station at 6pm).

2. The KTX to Busan took 2 hours and 40 minutes, reached Busan KTX station at almost 11pm, change to subway to my hotel area. Opened my google map and try to find where is my hotel, the google map is NOT WORKING AT ALL!!! Can't find the location with my screenshot map, try asked 3 Taxi but all of them don't know where is it, called hotel and pass to Korean as we hope they can communicate well, after my expensive international call, the Korean told me he don't know, can't you believe it?!! End up, my brother found the hotel at just 10 mins walking distance WTF.

3. The weather is not good, almost raining everyday.

4. Can't rely on google map (due to legal security reason, South Korea ruled that Google can't use and servers external to the country), we waste a lot of time to find location.

* Important : must download Korea map apps!

Apart from the bad things, the rest of the itinerary was good LOL! It was a great time to travel with my family, even though cannot achieve my long bucket list.

Busan Hotel : Hound Hotel

Address : 10, Jungang-daero 691beonga-gil, Busanjin-Gu, 47287 Busan.

We love this hotel because the room is so spacious for 3 of us and felt homey, location is great as it located at the most happening street. The rate is not expensive too.

Gamcheon Culture Village

Gamcheon Culture Village is the former slum with mishmash of pastel-colored Lego-like houses, it became a must-visit at Busan.

| How to get there |

via public transportation : take the subway to Toseong Station (Line 1). From exit six, walk straight and turn right until see a small bus station board in front of the Pusan National University Hospital building. Hop on the market village bus route to Gamcheon Culture Village.

We took subway to Toseong Station and change to cab, it's not that expensive as you think.

Jagalchi Market

* Closed First and third Tuesday of every month

| How to get there |

via public transportation : take the subway to Jagalchi Station (Busan subway line 1), Exit 10. Turn right onto Jagalchi 3(sam)-gil Street, walk for 5min, then turn left to arrive at Jagalchi Market.

It is Korea's largest seafood market, selling both live and dried fish. A must-visit place if you want to eat fresh raw fish, mackerel, sea squirts (ascidians) and whale meat.

BIFF Square

A complex area, featuring shops and leisure facilities, also the street foods. 5-10 mins walk from Jagalchi Market.

Must Try!

Ssiat Hotteok known as seed stuffed hotteok, it is famous among the locals.

Looks like a pancake but stuffed with various of seeds such as sunflower and pumpkin seeds, mixed with cinnamon and brown sugar. The taste is heavenly good especially eat it when piping hot!

Seoul Hotel : Nine Tree Premier Hotel Myeongdong 2

Address : Marennae-ro 28, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea (zip: 04555)

Compare to my previous stay at Skypark Hotel Myeongdong 2, this hotel is located further far away from Myeongdong shopping district, about 15 minutes walk from hotel. But, the room is much spacious than Skypark and the facilities are similar to 4 stars hotel.

Tosokchon Samgyetang

| How to get there |

via public transportation : take the subway to Gyeongbokgung Station (Seoul Subway Line 3), Exit 2. Go straight about 170m and turn left onto Jahamun-ro 5-gil Road. Tosokchon (토속촌) is located 10m ahead on the left.

Famous with their ginseng chicken using Tojongdak (Korean chicken).

Gyeongbokgung Palace

Bukchon Hanok Village

Met my old friend at Seoul, she bring me go to the famous Hongdae Piggy Bank Stone Grill Korean BBQ Restaurant ( 홍대 돼지저금통 ) which also became one of our favourite Korean barbecue restaurants in Seoul Korea!

Address : 331-1 Seokyo-Dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea.

Known for their meat grilled on a layer of black colour stones, over charcoal fire.

Apart from juicy meats, Naeng Myeon ( Cold Buckwheat Noodles) is my another favourite.

Gyeongdong Market

My mother want to buy ginseng and this Gyeongdong market is highly recommended by my friend. It is traditional local markets that selling oriental medicine ingredients, dried seafood and Ginseng. You can see ton of Ginseng selling here and the price is cheap!

Address : 147, Wangsan-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul

| How to get there |

via public transportation : take the subway to Jegi-dong Station (Seoul Subway Line 1), Exit 2. The market is directly accessible from the exit.

Stylenanda Pink Hotel, Myeongdong.

Line Friends Store, Myeongdong.

Beansbins coffee, Ewha.

Café Dior by Pierre Hermé

Located in the world's biggest Dior flagship store at Apgujeong, Seoul.

A must-visit if you want to enjoy a luxury tea time. We ordered a dessert, one hazelnut latte and a pot of tea, total cost me MYR300.

What to do in hotel every night?

Order fried chicken from your hotel, and wait for the delivery within 1 hour! Most of the hotel provided fried chicken and food delivery, so you don't need to go the shop and take away.