Addiction, again...

… continued here…

And since I thought about my addiction to sichuan food, as my addiction to japanese food, especially japanese sashimi…

I thought about the word, "addiction"…

Of course, I'm simply exaggerating… kekekeke…

However… yes, I suddenly thought about it… deeply… ie. in deep thought… again, ended up - sleepless…

Addiction to drugs… since I've been reading a lot of entertainment news, be it hollywood, or taiwan… DRUG IS the topic that comes up frequently in the headlines…

And a lot of them, simply find it hard to kick…

If you're in hollywood, people will just talk about it, drink a cup of tea, and walk away…

But if you're in taiwan… yo~~~ you'll be scrutinized like mad… branded as bad girl and so on…

Anyway, I'm not going to discuss about those stars being addicted to drugs, or sex, or whatever…

My point is…

I do admire those to manage to get themselves out of any negative addiction…

If you wiki, you'll find, there're negative, positive, and neutral addiction, of course, positives are those like exercise in gym, eat healthily (ya, it can be addiction too, I'm nearly there!!)…

Neutral… basically is those "in between"…

Yes, I do admire, and I really do want to know how and how… again…

Cos… I imagine myself in their shoes…

Addiction… is really something that you can't get yourself out of it..

Yes, you may be able to kick the bad habit (ya, it started from being A habit) for a short while… but when temptation comes… will you pick it up again??

Of course, I'm not in any severe "problem" with addiction… (oh, maybe fb? Maybe twitter? I did kick, in a way… (well.. At least, I'm now blogging, and have my fb/twitter page closed!! Closed!! Ok?? That's a big deal man!)

But then… I could imagine the "pain" that one has to go through, maybe for years, if not for months, to get rid of them…

And when the temptation is right in front of you again??

Now, I suddenly remember when I watched "love blossoms" (mediacorp show, that I've mentioned before)…

Zi Jing 紫荊 was trying VERY HARD to kick her gambling addiction… to start off… those experts basically were telling her, not to be near any temptation… yep, to stop being tempted is the key point!

In the end… of that duration of time, she didn't manage to kick the addiction…

Simply she couldn't find any other "replacement" to fulfill her needs…

Yep, finding "replacement", and a healthy, good one, is another key point!

Oops… I shouldn't talk about addiction into too details too…

I'm just simply wondering…

CAN ANYBODY REALLY GET THEMSELVES OUT OF ANY ADDICTION, THAT THEY WERE ONCE… SO DEEPLY FALLEN INTO…??

"… do not bring us to the test, but deliver us from evil, AMEN!"

Addiction!!

Happiness is the longing for repetition. - Milan Kundera

Haha… yep, lately, I, if not US, have been in addiction to SiChuan's oily fish, or, "water-cooked" fish!!! 沸騰魚，水煮魚。

After so many round of "suggestion" to him, we've finally step foot in Jin Shan Cheng, 金山城 @ Sunway Mentari… that's for last weekend…

Verdict? Not bad, though of course, you can't compare it with Shanghai's Tony, 上海多利川菜!!

But the kick of sichuan pepper 花椒, was simply… sweet and amazing… kakakaaka…

However, for their 沸騰魚，it was lack of 花椒， the chinese pepper…

Then, today… we're craving for another round of 花椒dose… well… happened that, both of us were having sichuan food in mind… kekekeke… just like any husband and wife right??

So, this time, we went to the new outlet, ie. the second branch of 粗茶淡飯，just a few doors away from BellyGood, 1st floor, also in Sunway Mentari…

Verdict??

Well… overall… I prefer 金山城's food, cos, they're more generous with 花椒，

If I were to go for another round, I'll go back to 金山城，though it's looooooooooong waiting for your food to come, cos, their priority is to serve steamboat… as vs. to 粗茶淡飯，which doesn't serve steamboat… and the latter also has a slightly shorter food menu…

And if I were go to back to 金山城，this time, we'll ask them to top up a lot a lot of 花椒 on top of the whatever fish!!! Kekekeke……

Not that I've fallen so much in love with 花椒 as he does… I'll actually "yeek", "yuck", if I accidentally chew on one of this pepper bits…

But then… if you don't get the 'numbness' sensation in your mouth and tongue, as a result of eating 花椒，I don't see the point why you want to go for any sichuan food…

Similarly, I don't know (and I've voiced out to him, while having dinner just now) why Dragon-I actually dares to have a dish called 辣子雞, (mandarin: La Zi Ji, cantonese: La Chee Kai)

Cos, there's no sign of 花椒 in there, AT ALL… it's in a way, nice though… but I still think that, it shouldn't be called 辣子雞，at least, maybe they should have the courtesy of putting a "KL version" of La Zi Ji, ie. K版辣子雞，or, to simplified, K子雞, hahahaha…

Ps: if happens that, I'm using hanyu pinyin to type, and K子雞ends up as K自己，ie. beat yourself up!!! Oops…

Shanghai not Shanghai

While we're having our first sichuan food in klang valley @ Jin Shan Cheng @ Sunway Mentari,

We're chitchatting away, waiting for the food to come…

Most people went there for the "ma la" steamboat, ie. sichuan spicy steamboat, but we went there to try out the sichuan style "fish in the big basin", which I've been longing for, ever since we left Shanghai 4 years ago!! (sob sob!!)

And of course our chitchat is nothing more than just plain talk…

That's what we talk most of the time… we do wonder what other couples talk when they're together… (haha!! Busybody right?? But we seriously do wonder, sometimes, we could spot couple, not even married couple, probably just dating couple, they could just sit at the table, while waiting for their food, silence! And if you do talk, normally what's your topic?? Mind to share??)

He asked when will we plan to go to shanghai again, I mentioned that I wanted to, but he's not interested, (and yes, now he asks!!)

Nevermind…

So, he asked, if we're back in shanghai, what do we want to eat,

I immediately listed down all my "dream" food!!! (see!! They've been in my mind ALL THESE WHILE!)

1.   Of course, "Duo Li" (I think, they use an english name, TONY) sichuan spicy fish in the basin!! (no need go to go "Yu Xing", just "Duo Li" will do!!)

2.   Quan Ju De's Peking Duck!!! Damn sure, peking duck peking duck, they cut their duck in a way where there're more meat "attached" to the skin, as compared to most of the peking duck "provider", where normally what ended up in your piece of pancake's just plain duck skin, and I missed the dishes that come after, ie. the dish they cook, (I think it's for free) with the "leftover"…

3.   Somewhere in Pudong, the branch, Hangzhou's Zhang Sheng Ji's "Lao Ya Bao", ie. Old Duck Pot!!

Yummy yummy yummy!!!!

Ya, afterall… none of them is shanghainese food, kekekeke!!!