This is waaay overdue, but it’s something I gota share with y’all before the first week of May comes our way!

(Which incidentally, my company’s declared Monday off *celebrates*. Yes, Labour Day is sacred. Even Saturday cannot escape! And therefore I’m off tomorrow..just because I brought it up during last Friday’s meeting…ow!)

Craft Brews is probably no stranger to most of the people in the blog world. It’s been blogged, tweeted, photographed, reviewed, retweeted to its last piece of malt.

In other words, I’m one of the slowest people to be invited for a review lah. Haha. Jen @Serpentinegal, thanks for being so sexy to extend me the invite last week..much appreciated

Now this is a very typical picture that you will find on ALL blog reviews that it feels almost impossible to not have been planned beforehand.

Four Beers of four colours lined up in a row. You’ll find this same thing on BangsarBabe’s blog, Rebecca Saw’s blog, ChrisTock’s blog. And a whole lot more I assure you. It’s almost like a signature photo of Craft Brews lol.

If you’re like me, or most of us, the first thing that will come to mind is : ‘That green beer can drink one meh??’ We’re ignorant, that’s for sure!

A very accommodating Ben Chong, the man in charge of Craft Brews food reviews, explains patiently that Craft Brews is brought here from Red Dot of Singapore, and goes on in great detail on how these Brews are Crafted (hence the name), with careful attention given to the taste and ‘body’ of the beer. Contrary to popular belief, the best taste of beer comes when it’s NOT ice-cold so that its flavour can actually be appreciated. So when other brands say that beers should be ice-cold, don’t buy that. Unless you drink it just cos you wana get high.

Ben & Psychkin.

Now, I suck at describing taste, and I won’t deny it. If someone hands me an Abalone, I will usually describe it in one of these two ways:

1. Nais abalone.

2. Not nais abalone.

What lah, I’m not a food blogger ma. HAHAHAHAHAHA. I get lost in Wonderland when someone talks about how ‘tangy’, ‘full body’, ‘acrid’, ‘astringent’, ‘toothsome’, ‘zesty’ a piece of food can be. The only extra word I know (and overly used) is ‘Orgasmic’, but I can’t quite agree…orgasms are incomparable to food wei.

And so, I shall take an excerpt from Bangsar Babe’s post for the beers description. She takes the words right out of my mouth

Bangsar Babe verdict : ‘The Monster Green Lager’s green comes from the addition of spirulina in the brewing process. This is a mild beer with grassy notes; very easy to drink.’

My verdict : Nais beer.

Bangsar Babe’s verdict : ‘The English Ale was more of my kind of beer — full bodied and faintly spicy with a smooth and bitter aftertaste.’

My verdict : This one Okay lah. A bit Kao.

Bangsar Babe has no verdict on this, but I personally (faintly) remember it being ‘between the kao-ness of Carlsberg and Monster Green Lager..erm..tasty?’

Similarly, Bangsar Babe has no comment on this, so I shall try : ‘Medium-bodied, fruity, easy to go down’. Che che che.

My date for the night. Apparently, hot dates and hot beers don’t mix that well. Doesn’t mean I said ‘not ice cold’ that you should let your beer sit out too long and warm up..

Dinner starts with a complimentary chef’s soup, that’s a cross between Tomato and Minestrone. Great to start off your appetite, with a slightly sour aftertaste. I believe Craft Brews is still working on a name for it :3

Caramelized Roast Pork (about RM 16) is close to charsiew, but thicker, chunkier, and the sauce tastes fuller, and spicy. Just make sure you don’t mistake the Chili Padi for a piece of pork. It is Power.

The Spiced Sausages in bacon skin was….’Nais’! haha. Although I felt that the bacon was a little burnt, the juicy sausages helped to balance that out..it was well packed with nicely seasoned meat.

(Fuh. Blogging about food is tiring. I’m running out of food words already. Let’s just go layman, ok?)

Bacon and Batter : Nais, crunchy, fun.

The Pork Burger : Delightful, home-made patty, of a combination of minced pork & mushroom. It’s layered with a pineapple slice, cheese, egg and tomatoes. Umm ummmm.

This is one of the most highly anticipated dishes : The Tex-Mex Hickory BBQ Back Ribs and Honey Mustard Back Ribs. 

These baby back ribs are juicy, succulent, smoky. The Tex Mex BBQ leaves a nice spicy taste, while the Honey Mustard gives it a sweet and tangy character. Very palatable.

I’ll admit : This was the most I’ve ever been served during a food review.. Craft Brews excels at customer’s happiness compared to another pork restaurant whose name sounds like ‘verygood’ *coughs*

Craft Brews employs a classy, comfy interior with gentle, not overly dim lighting. And high ceilings are always welcome.

Also brought in along with the 4 brews above are the Flying Dog and Rogue range of young, funky beers of which some go pretty well with some of the served dishes.

The beauty about Craft Brews is that new beers are constantly brought in, and new dishes are constantly concocted to whet our appetites. Thanks for the invite CB, am looking forward to the next session!

And by then, I hope I would have learnt more fancy food-talk. ‘Nais’, ‘Not nais’ and ‘Orgasmic’ cannot make it for food reviews. @.@

Credit to http://bangsar-babe.blogspot.com for her writeups and pics

Find Craft Brews here:

G3 Podium, Ground Floor, Menara Batu Kawan,
No.1 Jalan PJU 7/6,
Mutiara Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Tel : 03-77223000

Cheers!
EVo

 

 

Heya all!

 

It’s been awhile since my last post, and I’m sorry! I said before I’ll post more often, but guess I messed up….again.hehe.

 

As you can see, I’ve changed my blog layout. If you haven’t been here for weeks, you’ll probably only notice one change. From the old one, to the current one.

 

If you’ve come here regularly (you are amazing), you might have noticed about ahem..2-3 different themes DAILY, for about 4-5 days. I had sleepless nights, playing with different themes in the AM until i was yawning blood instead of tears.

 

I tried magazine style themes.

I tried portfolio style themes.

  

 

At that point, my mind was so saturated with themes that even Hello Kitty seemed to be a pretty good theme to use.

 

Was there not even one theme that I could use?

 

Was there not a single theme designer in this world that was able to satisfy me without me having to use any form of external aid?

 

Eventually I decided that I had to Strip It Down to a Clean, Bare Theme.

 

So, this is it. The Sliding Door theme.

 

 

A clean, simple template which is partially inspired by www.joshuachay.com. This dude reduced his blog to a One-column layout. ONE. He’s crazy, but it takes some balls to have a layout that needs me to put my Twitter, blogroll, etc at the BOTTOM of the page. Nah I don’t have THAT kind of balls.

 

I’ve got just enough balls to strip my layout free of color. And let the words in my post color your life chehwah.

 

And more importantly, keep the posts short and simple to avoid Flooding of pictures. No, not Flooding, SWAMPING. My blog was suspended for 3 days last month because the overload of pics caused my blog to overshoot its bandwidth. Craziness. And that was even after upgrading the host to a higher bandwidth wei.

It may seem like an attempt to say that I have super-traffic, but no it’s not. It’s the pics haha. T_T

 

Ok now try swooshing your mouse over the top navigation panel. Those are snippets of pics in different categories. Now if you will, click on them and check it out. Reading posts on euveng.com has been proven to be good for your health.

 

So before more stuff are posted here, I wana wish all my friends and readers Happy Chinese New Year. Check out these shots of us and bloggers at House of Tang Lou Sang Party #1!

 

  

There was also a peanut throwing competition going on between Ah Chay and Botakhai..

Now is that peanut ENTERING Botakai’s mouth, or BOUNCING OFF his face? Hmm.

 

Here’s hoping for more angpau, more booze, more chicks and more sex love!

 

Cheers!
EVo

Last Friday, I discovered a place that has….

1. Rock Climbing

2. Watersports

3. A Shopping Complex

4. A GSC Cinema

5. A 5 star hotel

with 5 star service (not the type that you’re thinking)

6. And the best part is, this place gives away a Free Trip to Bali for 5D / 4N at a 4-Star hotel.

That’s right people, this place is no other than Alamanda Putrajaya!

I had a smashing time wei!

Surprised? I was no less taken aback myself when I was invited by Advertlets, courtesy of Alamanda, that there would be a special blogger outing, From 8am morning to 10pm some more. Alamanda so many things to do meh?

Turns out, there really was THAT much to do.

But given that Psychkin and I live just 15 minutes from Putrajaya, we had no choice but to sleep an EXTRA HOUR while the other bloggers gathered at 1 Utama at 8am. Only at 9am did I leave my house..and we was still earlier than the rest. Buahaha,

Breakfast at Oldtown with Coffee was a very welcome sight. Especially for those who had to wake up extra early to catch the 1 Utama bus i.e. almost everyone.

Rames playing with his new 30mm F1.4mm lens and some tea-dripping action. You should’ve seen his face when he caught the tea falling off the spoon. Almost like he struck lottery lol.

And this is probably the bestest best deal of all. A teaser of what we would receive at the end of the day.

And to qualify for this, we had to work hard to Play, Rock Climb, Camho, Wakeboard and Watch Movie. Not something I would complain about, really.

Some goodie bags to start off the day. Dunkin Donuts and Cold Storage are cool people.

Bboyrice, Jason Mynjayz, Rames and Psychkin can’t wait to Camho.

And so does Bimbo Shopaholic Smashpop.

I came to Alamanda before about 3 years back, and to be honest, I had low regards for the place. It felt congested, underutilized, unorganized.

Much to my surprise, a whole lot has changed. Brands like Valentino, Nose, Clarks, and surf brands like Quiksilver and Billabong pretty much fill up the lots of the complex.

8TV host Belinda checks out Quiksilver…

…while I check out a mannequin’s boobies at Billabong. Nice…suit.

New Camho Face, designed by Howard U. I cannot make it laaaaaa

Pandaaaa* on the way to Putrajaya Challenge Park for Rock Climbing. This girl couldn’t wait to get her hands dirty!

And she got pretty much what she wanted with a piece of her shoulder taken off during the climbing process. Failllll ahahahahaha.

There’s always one thing about rock climbing that is very important The Crotch-Adjustment session.

This is Mr Trainer checking to see if my crotch is safe and well protected.

Securing crotch for Leowazza and Superwilson.

Serious face of the day. Rames deep in thought on how to scale those walls.

And while Bel, me and Psychkin do our share of climbing…

….Rames and Leowazza decided to have their private agenda that involves hands-on and some pushing action. Aiyer so Bromantic leh.

We played and played until we were very happy.

And when we got hungry, lunch was served at their P’s Cafe! Shiok.

It was one of those moments when I suddenly feel like dropping to my knees on the ground and dedicate to the sky: ‘Thank you for making me a Blogger!’ Even my chargeable Orange Jus became FOC on my request. Tumpang glamer.

Group Shot! of 1/2 JonYKT, SimonSo, RebeccaSaw, Jason Smashpop, Josh.my, BryanLyt, BangsarBabe, me, FatJason lol.

It’s me and the Pandaaa*

…and Pandaaa*s kicks. Caught my eye instantly.

Hotel Pullman was a (surprisingly) busy hotel, with also surprisingly affordable rates for a 5-star hotel.

Surprised yet? There’s really this kind of bustling activity at Putrajaya!

This is one of the hotel rooms which they opened for our tour. I know it looks a bit like a porn-film set-up, but it’s not lah. I just wanted to know how many people could cram into this room. Quite big lol.

The gym comes complete with posers as well.

But the best was yet to come.

This was the training session before…

…Wakeboarding! Where everyone has to pass the Ultimate test: The Pangsai Test.

Whose style do you like the best?

Okay lah. It’s the mini-training session on how to work the wakeboard. Haha.

Sad lor, many ppl including myself didn’t get to try it due to time shortage and looming clouds. But Psychkin and me and one girl in between us got to try out the Tube-thingy. Oh yeah we got wet pretty much. Compared to some other bloggers hiding in the shade *ahemSmashpopRamesBboyriceJasonOngJonYktBryanLytahem*

And just when everyone was hungry, Manhattan Fish Market had some stuff for our munching-ness.

A whole plate LOADED with Calamari Rings. My all time fav nom nom nom.

With a whole lot of vouchers from Focus Point and Chakri Xpress. Wah overload leh.

It’s me and the Hogan!

The perfect ending to a physically-draining day would be no other than…

A free movie! Ow!

And not of any show, but of Avatar.

I have a great many things to say about this show, but I’ll put it in two words:

EPIC AWESOMENESS.

Storyline is completely smashing, and something in its own beautiful dimensional word, made me watch it over, and over again. The 2D version twice, and last night, the 3D version.

The CG and FX of this show are totally realistic in its own fictional way. The character modelling, physical movements, expressions, gravitational effects are so effin good that if the Na-vi weren’t blue, they would pass as real humans.

Because of this show, Sam Worthington would probably be the next big thing around. In Terminator Salvation, he as Marcus Wright already was the hero, outshining our Christian Bale (again, he was outshone by the Joker in The Dark Knight).

And Michelle Rodriguez, was so, so hot, as usual. Loves.

Group pic after movie!

I know this has been pretty much to read already, but this is what happens when you have fun the whole day LOL.

Because this part, you shouldn’t miss!

Josh.my handing out travel vouchers to bloggers for the Bali / Phuket vacation after the whole day of impatient waiting and doing other unnecessary stuff to very very happy bloggers. Oh yeaaaaaaaah.

And the best part for everyone is that this ain’t something special for bloggers. ANYONE who shops a minimum of RM800 at Alamanda will get this Holiday Voucher. Guaranteed.

So those of you who got married this month, like those who made me less by a couple of hundred bucks for angpau, are thinking of where to go for your honeymoon. This could be it.

Go check out Alamanda today. It’s worth it.

And here’s a little bit of good news.

I discovered only today when I unpacked my goodie bags, this bundle in a plastic bag. In wake of my excitement after the Alamanda day (about 6 days ago), I forgot to take out my very Very Wet Alamanda T-Shirt which I used to dry myself after Wakeboarding.

Since it’s the Xmas season, I’m giving this away to the lucky selected blogger who leaves a comment here. It’s a little smelly, but hey, it smells like me and that’s really cool.

Any takers?Limited edition okaaaay