Dinner & Outing with Wai Yu & Jia-mei before CNY 2018

My third son Wai Yu and his wife Jia-mei flew back to Malaysia from Taiwan to celebrate this coming Chinese New Year (CNY) early morning (reaching home at 6.15am) on Sunday, 11/02/2018.

We had a Pre-CNY reunion dinner with my youngest brother Patrick and youngest sister Winnie and her husband, and all my four children and Jia-mei at Legend Seafood Restaurant (品味海鲜饭店), Bandar Mahkota Cheras at 6.15pm of 11/02/2018.  The dishes included tilapia Nyonya-style (金凤鱼, RM62), chicken (捞鸡, RM76), pork chops (两味猪扒, RM40), two-flavoured beancurd (两味豆腐, RM30), prawn taufu (虾松柱豆腐, RM30), omelet (虾仁蛋, RM18), together with steamed rice and drinks totaling exactly RM300.  After dinner, we adjourned to our house for chit-chat.

A group photo at my house after dinner

Dinner at BMC.  Pic from left: Wai Kei, Wai Jen, Wai Yu and Jia-mei

Pic from left: Winnie, Sxe Wah, Patrick, Wai Yu and Jia-mei

As Wai Yu needed to renew his driving license which has expired in July last year and I also wanted to extend mine, we decided to go to JPJ at UTC, Puduraya in the morning of Monday, 12/02/2018.

After breakfast at a coffee shop near Garden Park Apartment of BSL, Soh Ai, Wai Yu, Jia-mei and I left home at 9.10 am to board a MRT shuttle bus at 9.20am to Bukit Dukung MRT station.  We took a MRT train at 9.40am reaching Pasar Seni MRT station at 10.20am.

We walked to UTC, Puduraya and arrived at JPJ office on the 2^nd floor at 10.45am.  There were only a couple of customers and 3 counters were opened.  Both Wai Yu and I got our driving licenses renewed 5 and 3 years respectively and collected our new licenses within 10 minutes!

We then proceeded to Jalan Sultan where I bought from Miniso (Japan) a digital tempered glass scale (RM50) for myself, shoulder bag (RM39.90), women’s handbag (RM29.90) and lip balm sphere (RM10) as my CNY gifts for Jia-mei.    

After window-shopping at Jalan Petaling, we took a refreshment of iced mocha and iced chocolate (each RM7.70) at McCafe of McDonald’s at Jalan Silang at 12.00pm noon, before taking a RapidKL bus home at 12.35pm.  The bus ride took a longer time than MRT as it traveled a longer route, dropping and picking up passengers at many places and getting stuck in the usual road traffic jam.  We returned home at 2.10pm.

On board of MRT shuttle bus

Bukit Dukung MRT station

Soh Ai and Jia-mei for a pose at MRT station

Taking a MRT ride from Bukit Dukung to Pasar Seni

City view on a Monday morning

JPJ at UTC, Puduraya

Waiting for the issuance of renewed driving license

Very few customers in JPJ this morning

Freshly squeezed orange juice machine (RM5 each cup of 3 fresh oranges)

Wai Yu and Jia-mei in front of a shop at Jln Sultan

A glimpse of Chinatown

Jalan Petaling

Jalan Petaling

A Korean shop at Jln. Petaling

Very few foreign tourists in sight at Jln. Petaling

McCafe at McDonald's at Jln. Silang

Inside McDonald's restaurant

In the evening, as my eldest son Bryan wanted to treat us to a dinner at Restaurant Ming Chu (名厨), Sri Petaling after he finished work, and my second son Wai Jen and youngest Wai Kei would go to the restaurant separately, Soh Ai, Wai Yu, Jia-me and I took a Grab taxi from home to go to Sri Petaling.  A Malay lady Grab driver came to pick up at 6.45pm (after I cancelled an initial booking of a Chinese Grab driver who took too long a time) and she took a longer route passing through Sri Kembangan and Salak Selatan and kept apologizing after we reached our destination at 7.35pm.  

One of the dishes we had at Ming Chu known as “奇怪煲” (seafood soup) was quite special and tasty.  I was told the 3 dishes cost a total of RM250.  We returned home in separate cars after the delicious dinner.

Dinner thrown by Bryan at Sri Petaling