Place in Beijing for testing health supplements

Hello Kitty lingerie for teenagers

Hello Kitty has been around since the 70s'. It has a big following in Japan and China.

Now they even have a Bra Shop for teenagers! I saw this shop in Beijing.

Taking the Guangzhou-Hong Kong express train

It was first time taking a direct train from Guangzhou to Hong Kong. It was a very comfortable ride 1.5 hour ride.

Citic Plaza, Guangzhou

The Malaysian Consulate is on the 19th floor.

My office is on the 22nd floor. At least if anything happens, all I need is to go down 3 floors to get help :-).

Dinner at Nan Yuan Rest in Guangzhou with Dato' Colin Lee

Pic: Us outside the restaurant

Pic: Inside the restaurant - look at the landscaping

Pic: The bill came to exactly Yuan 1,168. What an auspicious number!

2 lovely desserts in Tianjin

Pic: a pumpkin pastry

Pic: water chestnut cake

Food keychains in TIANJIN

Drinking tea in Beijing (3)

Look at this tea leaf.

3-in-1 (top layer is chrysanthemum - lily - ?green tea. They must have tied it together!

Drinking tea in Beijing (2)

Pic: The smaller cup represents earth, while the longer cup represents heaven.

Pic: Note the cups come either in porcelain or clay

The tea is poured into the longer cup (heaven) and covered with the small cup (earth) and flipped over... so you end up drinking tea from heaven

Lift the linger cup and rolled it in your palms to stimulate blood flow through the body.

Then roll it on your face...to enhance your complexion

Then skim it around the eye socket to enhance blood flow...

Then finally you drink the tea...

Guys have to hold the cup as such whereby the bottom three fingers support the base (3 dragons supporting the ceiling).

For women, you are meant to hold it as such and it represents a sort of flower. 

Tea Drinking in Beijing

Pic: Pouring the tea through the filter

Pic: But first select your tea 

Pic: Putting the tea leaves into the small pot

Pic: the tea leaves

Pic: green tea pumpkin seed. Rather nice!

Eating Steamboat in Tianjin

Pic: In China cucumber is a common dish and prepared in many ways. Here it is dipped in a sauce. Other places it is slightly pan fried.



Pic: The temperature outside was minus 6 degrees so it was good to have hot hot steamboat. The right side is a hot soup base. I normally prefer the spicy soup but here the clear soup is very nice as in Malaysia it is just a soup of chicken stock but here it is boiled fragrantly with many Chinese herbs.


Pic: Sliced lamb
Pic: Sliced pork
Pic: Sliced Lamb
Pic: Sliced beef

Guess where I am?

StemTech in Kota Damansara

Pic: Myself with Michael Chuah the CEO of StemTech.

Stem Tech is a stem cell bank located in Malaysia and is the only one in Asia-Pac with a Class 100 clean room.

There is cord blood banking for your new born baby and also adult stem cell banking (lymphoid cells only for now, and mesynchmal  cells later).

Little snacks that I had recently

Pic: Australian dessert "Pavlova" - made from beating egg white and sugar (Melbourne)

Pic: Banana and caramel slice (Auckland)

Pic: Sweet glutinous rice with kaya (KL)

Pic: a huge Curry Puff (KL)

Pic: Lamington cake (Melbourne)

Pic: an Aussie meat pie (Melbourne)