MMU Open House

Right after Aidilfitri break, most of us in Corporate Communication Unit (CCU) started working for MMU Raya Open House already. Most of major events in MMU will be organized by CCU including this Open House. We had set up a small committee for this event. So most of the arrangement has been made before we leave for Raya.

Sadly, the event gurl; Ms Fiza will be not be with us during the day. She has other commitment. Jo-anne; the new event gurl will take over to organize this event. The day came and we've been running around like headless chicken. I'm the emcee for the event (should be better than sarimah in not time huhuh). The event went smoothly even though there's few things that we've missed. Most of us in CCU are really new, me for example barely a month in CCU, Jo-anne, 10 days. So most of us don't really know the protocol that we really need to understand and memorize especially is we have a big crowd (almost 800 guests) and super duper VIP like Tun Mahathir and Tun CT Hasmah aka Tun M and Tun C. We have Datuk Zamzamzairani and Tan Sri Radzi too from TM Group.

Lesson to be learned; always always always make sure your supplier understood the importantness of VVIP and you yourself should always have plan B. Hahaha. Even though some people complain (who never did?) about what had happened on the day. I still think we manage to pull off quite a successful event. Don't you think?

Saba'

Swish Tawouf.. if I am not mistaken. That's the name of the dish of the above. It comes with special rice (very different from our local rice). The texture much longer than local produced rice. Other than the texture, it taste a bit different. I think its all the spices that being cooked together with the rice. You can eat the rice on its own, without any other dish. Its taste so good! The rice being served with tandoori chicken, lemon, salad, and onions. The salad comes with special sauce. I think its because Malaysian loves something spicy so the chef had to invent his own sauce recipe so we won;t spoil the taste by using western chillie & ketchup sauce. :P

As for the drink, please order lemonade for your drink as it goes much better with the food compared to any other drinks.

Oh ya! The restaurant served non-alcoholic beer. (Malta based drinks) It comes with few choices of flavor. It doesn't taste much like malta based drinks, more to sparkling juice thingy. I'm a bit dissapointed, honestly taste like sparkling drinks.

If you are familiar with Cyberjaya area, the restaurant located at the same building as Multimedia College (opposite Street Mall). You can spot it from the main road. Saba' restaurant serves foods from mid-east specializing in Iranian food. Too much of mid east food lately - well, i'll post new dish sometime within this week. Should be open house dishes..

Overall, the food was just average. I think my father cooked Nasi Bukhara much better than the restaurant did. See ya guys soon. Daaaaa!!

Sawarabina

Huhuhu.. We are in the second week of Syawal. Missed my frens sooo much. Hope none of them bloated with all the rendangs, puluts and ketupats during raya.

So, last nite Shara, Lydia and me went out for dinner. We've tried a new dish called chick peas; originated from Syria. It's an appetizer comes with bread which looks like chapati (but taste much better than chapati) a special sauce from Syria which contain olive oil and diced tomatoes in it. The owner gives us a chance to try arab chilli sauce. It taste very different from the sauce that we've always eat before. The arab chilli sauce is not spicy at all, the chef did put garlic sauce together with the arab chilli sauce. For those who eat it, please standby a mint chewing gum extra strong or you date will ran away!

How to eat the food? Well, i'm not sure how to really eat it but who cares? i really enjoy the meal. Hope you would try it too!

Owh! forgot to mention the location. its called SAWARABINA restaurant, and the one that we went located at Hartamas Square (google it).

Gonna go food hunting! Daaaaaaa