Food Hunt: Kim Gary Restaurant, The Curve Shopping Mall

Hi All,

Welcome back to yet another edition of Food Hunt as we continue to hunt for great food. Since we are at The Curve today, we got a lot of choices to choose from for food. Kimmy and ME had chosen Chinese cuisine for today's dinner and of course Kim Gary comes into our mind and without any hesitation, we went there to try out the food.

We arrived at the restaurant at about 7.00pm and the restaurant is actually not full. Only half of the restaurant were occupied. We were served immedietely by the waitress over there and the service was good. After we sat down, the waitress bring us the menu and it took us about 15 minutes to decide what to eat. I've ordered Cheese Baked Rice with Pork Chop (Italian Sauce) (RM13.90) while Kimmy ordered Cheese Baked Rice with Fish Fillet (Italian Sauce) (RM13.90). For drinks, I've ordered Lemon Coke (RM3.90) and Kimmy ordered Hot Honey Lemon (RM3.90). After we finished our main course, we did ordered Red Pepper French Fries (RM5.90) as well.

Let's go to the food comments. My Cheese Baked Rice with Pork Chop was nice. But I still prefer the Cheese Baked Rice from Wong Kok Restaurant as it's much more tastier compared to Kim Gary. But, I would still give good marks to the Cheese Baked Rice from Kim Gary as it had a different taste. The taste is a little bit mild but I can still taste the flavour. It was still nice and not very nice. For Kimmy's Cheese Baked Rice with Fish Fillet, it was very good indeed. The fish slice was very fresh and soft indeed. When you put into your mouth, it was really nice and it can be digest directly with the rice and cheese. This makes the dish very mouth watering as well.

For our drinks, let's not comment about my Lemon Coke because it's a very common drink where they just provide a can of Coca-Cola served with a glass of ice and 3 slices of Lemon. You can opt for this drink too if you are thirsty because it can help you to kill your thirst. For Kimmy's Hot Honey Lemon, Kimmy claimed that it was not sweet enough but when I give it a try, it was just nice and sweet too. Haha! It depends on individuals actually. If you felt it's not sweet, you can always consult the waiter or waitress over there to add honey for you. Last but not least, we've also try out the Ireland Crispy Red Pepper French Fries as our dessert. The taste was very nice and I guess it's easy to make it. Just pour some pepper flakes into the french fries and bake in oven for about 5 minutes and it's ready to eat. For your information, the french fries serve is not fried and just bake only. Once you eat it, you cannot feel the crunchy of the friends but instead of just normal bite on the mouth. But, don't underestimate it as it was nice as well as nice to bite. Recommended to try it out also.

The price was a bit expensive but if the food is nice, it's still value for money as well. The bill came including tax is about RM50.05. I would recommend you to try out every single food that we've ordered as it's nice. We never regret at all when eating the food today. If you have a chance, do come with your friends or bring your family along to try out the food in Kim Gary. Terms Cash only ya! Enjoy! :) MY RATING: 4.5 /5 ; KIMMY RATING: 4.5/5

*Food rating is based on the food we've ordered and not overall food.

Address:

Lot 140, First Floor,

The Curve,

6 Jalan PJU 7/3,

Mutiara Damansara, 47800 Petaling Jaya

Telephone: 03-7727-8408
Business Hours: 10.00am - 10.00pm

Cinema Movie: Happy Go Lucky (福星到)

Release Date: 27 May 2010

Language: Mandarin

Genre: Comedy

Running Time: 1 hour 43 minutes

Director: Harry Yap

Cast: Fann Wong, Lau Leng Leng, Patricia Low, Richard Low.

Synopsis: "Happy Go Lucky" seeks to tackle the issue of gambling in a light-hearted yet touching manner. Hardcore gambler, Hock Lee Poh (Richard Low) is an ardent believer of Feng Shui, but is always down on his luck. His eldest daughter Donna (Patricia Mok), though petty and calculative, spends all her time and money on lavish nightlife and hunky social escorts - till she loses everything in the end. Fu Xin (Fann Wong), Poh's illegitimate second daughter is born at an extremely inauspicious hour and thus labeled as the "jinx" of the family. However, Fu Xin actually is a surreptitious 'Lucky Star' who always manages to turn unfavourable conditions into favourable ones. Fu Xin sacrifices a lot for the family. And in a twist of fate and luck, she unexpectedly helps Poh to win a hefty sum of money. Meanwhile, Poh and Donna find themselves stranded along the streets of Cambodia in a failed attempt to recoup their losses at the gambling tables. ________________________________________________________ My Comments: Today ME & Kimmy had decided to go for yet another movie day. We have chosen this cinema as our destination this week as it has been a very long time since both of us visited the cinema. Of course, Cathay Cineplexes (e @ Curve) is our perfect choice this weekend to catch the movie. We've chosen Happy Go Lucky as our movie and we hope that we would have yet another great laugh in cinemas. Let's go straight to the movie comments. Fann Wong once again starred in this movie and overall this movie is just moderate. It talks about gambling where it involved a father / daughter relationship which was damaged by gambling. As you know, gambling is not healthy for everyone and must strictly prohibated from doing it. Once you gamble, you must accept the fate that you might loss everything including your family. Fann Wong did a very good job in this movie where she tried to save her father from continuing to gamble. We did expect many jokes in this movie but it turned out to be otherwise. The jokes were pretty dull and doesn't impress at all. I must say the jokes are pretty lame as well. The storyline meanwhile was still acceptable where it still shows is some moral on the story and it's easy to understand and for those gamblers, you can learned from this movie on what is the caused thereafter gambling and so on. Only Fann Wong impress me pretty much on this movie. I would not so recommend you to watch this movie unless you are pretty bored and got nothing to do. Perhaps I would say previous Singaporean movie Being Human is much more better than this one. You judge yourself! MY RATING: 3/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 3/5

TVB Variety Show: Fun With Liz and Gods (荃加福祿壽)

Running Time: 45 Minutes

Genre: Variety

Language: Cantonese

Episodes: 18 (Subject to Change)

Airing Time: Sunday 9.00pm (Astro Wah Lai Toi CH 311)

Hosts: Liza Wang (汪明荃), Wong Cho Lam (王祖蓝), Yuen Siu Cheung (阮兆祥), Lei Si Jit (李思捷)

Synopsis / My Comments:

This is a new variety show from TVB and you will definately love it. Overall this is an acting show where the casts will be acting different post, different people, different voice for our pleasure. There are many segment is this variety show including The Gagfather, Sat In The City, Kids In The City, Entertainment News and many more. The most impressive hosts in this variety show is Wong Cho Lam as he always act as a woman in this variety show. Don't miss it. For Lei Si Jit, his voice impresses the audience where he can came out with many different voices to entertain you. If you still haven't watch it, ASTRO Wah Lai Toi is airing this programme every week from 9.00pm on Sunday and don't forget to watch it. Not only adults can watch it, even kids will enjoy it too. Enjoy your good laughs! MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 5/5

Food Hunt: Restoran Ipoh Ma-Lee, Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya

Hi All,

Welcome back to yet another edition of Food Hunt where today finally ME & Alan had managed to visit Ipoh Ma-Lee restoran located at Bandar Sunway. I wanted to try this restaurant but did not manage to because it only open on alternate Saturdays and that's the time where ME & Alan can come to try it out.

We reach there around 12.00 noon and we were welcomed by the Ipoh Ma-Lee chef cum manager Mr. Derrick Lee. The restoran was not packed at that time and after 1.00pm, the cowrd starting to pick up at the restaurant. The customer service was perfect and after we sit down, Mr Derrick introduced to us some great and their signature food over there. Their signature food would be the 'Chee Cheong Fun', Yam Cake, Ipoh Chicken 'Sar Hor' Noodle and as for their drinks, their signature drinks are Kopi O and Kopi.

I've ordered Ipoh Chicken 'Sar Hor' noodle and a glass of Kopi O Ais. while Alan ordered Ipoh Chee Cheong Fun and a glass of Kopi Ais. We've also ordered the Yam Cake as our dessert as well. Please be reminded that all the dishes above were 100% HOME MADE and they said "We Will Never Put Food Into Your Mouth Before Ours". The Ipoh Chicken 'Sar Hor' Noodle meanwhile was very nice indeed with no added preservatives into it. Once you put into your mouth, you can feel that it's not oily and no ajinamoto inside the soup and it was very nice indeed. Thumb up for that one. The Kopi O Ais meanwhile was fantastic. It was totally different when I drink this one as Mr. Derrick did explained to me that its their own style of creating this type of coffee and you could not find outside. It was indeed true as the taste was different. It was some kind of Hazelnut Kopi O where there are some bitter sweet taste into it. Mr. Derrick, your Kopi O was fantastic yo! You guys should have a try when you visit this restaurant.

Alan have ordered Ipoh 'Chee Cheong Fun' and the taste was very nice indeed. The Chee Cheong Fun contains a lot of Mushrooms and the 'kicap' sauce was very nice too. Alan give a thumbs up to this and said you guys should try it as well. Since ME & Alan came from Ipoh, we can taste the difference between this restaurant and the overall food in Ipoh. This restaurant serves one of the best Ipoh Food in Sunway and PJ town. Meanwhile, Alan ordered Kopi Ais and taste was very good also. Last but not least, we've also ordered the Yam Cake as our dessert as well. What I can tell you is that the Yam Cake was another fantastic item that you should try. The Yam taste was heavy and it was absolutely tasty and once you put into your mouth, you 'll love it very much.

I would like to say congratulations to you, Mr. Derrick Lee for setting up such as lovely and nice restaurant and the food was perfect as well. What can I say is keep up the good work and invent more dishes for us to try in near future. I know you are improving yourselves at the moment and just keep it up. Besides, Mr. Derrick was also a nice going guy which loves to chat and friendly to its customers as we can get together very well indeed. I would also recommended all of my blogger friends and visitors on alexleow-kimmy.com to go this restaurant and try out the Ipoh Cuisine at this restaurant. No matter where you are, just come and support him as no regret on trying the food. I can guarantee you the food mentioned and introduced above is very nice and it's worth every penny you pay for it. The price meanwhile is not expensive and reasonable as well. The bill came and it's RM20.30 for the amount of food we eat as ME & Alan was very satisfy with the food that we get. Remember to drop by at Restoran Ipoh Ma-Lee as well ya. MY RATING: 5/5 ; ALAN RATING: 5/5


*Food rating is based on the food we've ordered and not overall food.


Address (see pictures on printed name card & map attached)

Malaysia News: BN, PR say subsidy cuts political suicide for Najib

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal and Boo Su-Lyn

May 28, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 — Lawmakers from both Barisan Nasional (BN) and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) have agreed that an immediate implementation of any subsidy cuts would spell political suicide for the Najib administration with the next general elections within the next 34 months.

They believe that subsidy cuts will likely be implemented in stages, and that a full-fledged slashing would only be exercised in the future, or at least after the next general election. The last general election was in March 2008 where BN lost its two-thirds parliamentary majority. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala had disclosed proposed cuts that can save the government up to RM103 billion in the next five years but most critics say Datuk Seri Najib Razak must weed out corruption and leakages within his administration. “With the elections coming soon, I don’t see the government cutting subsidies anytime soon. They are not going to implement it immediately,” said Selangor opposition leader Datuk Seri Dr. Mohamed Khir Toyo.

Khir told The Malaysian Insider that the the government will not risk angering the public by cutting off all subsidies. “The word ‘cutting’ is in itself a negative connotation...The government is doing their best to get feedback from the public.” The Umno man argued that instead of cutting subsidies the BN government should find alternative ways to “increase the country’s income”. “For instance, education is important, (the government) must study carefully. They need to see implications of restructuring subsidy, not everyone will like this. The subsidies must go to target groups.

“Take fuel for instance. The government can cut off subsidies for RON97, but subsidise RON95,” said Khir. Former Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Shahrir Abdul Samad echoed his Umno colleague’s points, and said that any implementation has to be in stages to be “political acceptable”. “Even if it were to be implemented before the next general elections, it would be done in stages, It will be quite selective to be politically acceptable. I don’t think it will be implemented in total yet, there will be amendments,” he told The Malaysian Insider in a telephone interview. The Johor Baru MP claimed that any immediate implementation would have no “redeeming feature” that would make it acceptable to Malaysians. “If you were to implement it now, there will be no redeeming feature. It will still need some fine-tuning. That is why the government is still open on the issue. I don’t think the government will do it.”

He said that what was lacking right now was a comprehensive database to determine target groups who needed financial assistance. “We must have a comprehensive database in order to determine targeted groups. There has to be a proper database which takes into consideration people’s income tax levels, KWSP (Employees’ Provident Fund), Welfare department and JPJ (Road Transport Department). “As far as I know, we do not have a database which is compiled on income levels, that is comprehensive,” said Shahrir.

He stressed that slashing of subsidies would need to be done in many levels of restructuring, citing for example how the public transport system would need to be restructured so that the hardcore poor would be able to benefit from it. The Umno MP agreed that wastage of money was also a reason why the country’s debts were at an all-time high, but claimed that the cost of subsidies were higher than wastage by the government. “The RM28 billion figure, it was not announced in the Auditor-General’s report. While I do not deny that there is wastage of projects, the RM28 billion figure is not true. That figure was first reported in The Star newspaper some time ago,” he said.

Pulai MP Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said that ultimately it was up to Malaysians to decide on whether they were ready for subsidy cuts, as it was merely on a proposal stage. “It is up to the people to decide. The lab was done in order to get feedback. If they are acceptable to slashing of subsidies, then the government will go ahead . If they are not agreeable, then the government won’t go ahead with it,” said Nur Jazlan. Meanwhile, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders have agreed with their BN rivals that full-fledged subsidy cuts will not be executed anytime soon. “Politically, I think it is suicidal for them,” PAS treasurer Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli told The Malaysian Insider today.

“If they do it (cut subsidies) in a hasty manner and in an amount that will not be tolerated by the people...people will be angry,” Dr Hatta added. DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua agreed, saying that BN’s slim win of the Hulu Selangor by-election and their failure to retain the Sibu seat would likely stop the federal government from going all out in slashing subsidies. “Because they only won marginally in Selangor and they lost Sibu, I think they may not cut as extensively as they would have liked,” said the first-term Petaling Jaya Utara MP

“I think there is no question that the vote bank of Barisan Nasional will be severely affected,” he answered when asked how subsidy cuts would affect public sentiment. On whether BN would implement the drastic move before the next general elections are called, which may be held as early as next year, Kuala Selangor MP Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad said that Najib would not risk going against public opinion. “I don’t think he will dare go against (the) rakyat’s opinion...especially after Sibu,” said Dzulkefly. “What they are doing now is public consultation to get feedback. Based on that, they will make their decision,” he added.

Najib had said that it is the public who will ultimately decides if expensive government subsidies should be cut after Idris revealed government proposals to cut subsidies for fuel, electricity and food or risk bankruptcy in the next nine years. Idris, the CEO of Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu), had said that 61 per cent out of nearly 200,000 Malaysians in the think tank’s SMS poll favoured subsidy reductions and supported the government implementing it within the next three to five years. However, Pua disputed the validity of the results, pointing out that Pemandu’s poll question was a loaded one. “That question is loaded –not properly contextualised,” he said. “It is like asking the question should the government cut subsidies first or corruption first,” he added. “It is not reflective of what people are thinking.”

Pemandu’s poll text message had said that subsidising various consumer goods resulted in an annual expenditure of RM 74 billion. The poll then asked whether the respondent agrees subsidies reductions. Areas which have been identified include fuel, food and infrastructure as well as tolls. Source: The Malaysian Insider 28/5/10

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My Comments: No doubt, the Barisan Nasional government wanted to commit suicide for themselves. If they want to do it, we would welcome them and I am glad to welcome Pakatan Rakyat as our new government in the next general election. Najib's administration had never learned of what people want and just keep on setting up the things that angered the community. There are a few things that need to take massive measures if they wanted to cut on subsidies. Firstly is about the corruption. Barisan Nasional government need to wipe out corruption first before implementing the subsidies cut because of the ministers that corrupt a lot that makes this country in debt. Secondly, they need to save money and not just spend millions and millions of ringgit on those unnessasary projects as well as spending a few millions just to win the by-elections if any. Do not think the people are stupid enough to listen to the Barisan Nasional government if they don't change first. I strictly condemn the Barisan Nasional government to apply the subsidies cut unless they change themselves first in the beginning. Do not persuade the people to understand or show kindness if BN do not change their attitude first. BE AWARE BARISAN NASIONAL!

DVD Movie: 14 Blades (錦衣衛)

Release Date: 11 February 2010

Language: Cantonese

Genre: Action, Thriller

Running Time: 1 hour 54 minutes

Director: Daniel Lee

Cast: Donnie Yen, Zhao Wei, Kate Tsui, Wu Chun.

Synopsis:

During the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor of China possessed one weapon greater than all others, the Imperial Guards, an elite force of assassins recruited from street orphans. Trained in clandestine combat from childhood, the Imperial Guards were masters of the 14 Blades, eight being for torture, five for killing, and the last blade reserved for suicide when a mission failed. Above the law, with a license to kill, the Imperial Guards devoted their lives and lethal prowess to the service of the Emperor alone.

When the Imperial Court is taken over by evil eunuch Jia, the best of the Imperial Guards, Green Dragon (Yen) and Xuanwu, are assigned to steal a list identifying those still loyal to the Emperor. However unbeknownst to Green Dragon, the Imperial Guards have fallen under the control of Jia, and during the mission Green Dragon is betrayed by Xuanwu and barely escapes with his life. Now as the most wanted man in the land Green Dragon must seek out and rally the loyalists to rise against Jia and restore the Emperor to power. In his way are the deadliest assassins in the land, his former brethren, the Imperial Guards.

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My Comments: I was at home throughout the day today and nothing to do on a public holiday. So I would like to say thanks to my brother Alan who borrow me a DVD movie to watch at least to kill off my time today since Kimmy is working today. He borrowed me 14 Blades and the movie was overall good. Donnie Yen and Kate Tsui did very impressive in this movie as their chracteristics was very dynamic and tough. This movie is actually based on the old chinese times during the Ming Dynasty. This movie includes everything you want including action, thriller, love story and sad scenes which gives its audience mixed feelings while watching this movie. A great combination of artists makes this movie pretty good and entertaining as well with the martial arts shown by Donnie Yen, Wu Chun and Kate Tsui. If you like martial arts, this is the movie you've been waiting for and I bet you will love it from the start till the end. The storyline meanwhile was good and kind of difficult to understand as well in the start but it started to picking up during the half way of the movie. If you haven't watch it, get yourself an original DVD and watch it as I would totally recommend to you. MY RATING: 5/5

Festival: Happy Wesak Day

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Announcement: Happy Birthday to alexleow-kimmy.com

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Thank You to everyone for visiting my blog who turned 1 year old today 24th May 2010. It has been a year that my blog had been operating and I would like to thank all of you who always visited this blog to look out for the best options for Food and Movies.

I did received some feedback from our fellow friends who said that this blog had been doing very well especially in introducing the food to all of you. I would personally say thanks to all of you for supporting me all this while and I am proud to serve all of you. I would love to hunt for food and whatever food which is nice, I will definately introduce to you no matter how. Also, do check out my facebook pictures where I will update some food photos which was not being introduced on this blog.

The poll shows that Food was the most famous topic that was viewed by those who visited my blog. They even comment to me when they see me in person and asking me in details about the food and place that I've visited. For movie, it came in second where visitors did also came in this blog where they personally e-mail to me asking for more details on this movie. In the same time, they also said that after seeing my comments regarding the movie, when they go and watch the movie, the comments were really similiar to the ones I commented on my blog.

For the Food and Movie segment, I will continue to improve and bring you more intensive updates on it and thanks for you precious support towards my blog. For other topics, I hope you will continue to view it and give more comments to me on how to improve the topics. Thank You very much and gambatehhh!! :)

Cinema Movie: Shrek Forever After

Release Date: 20 May 2010

Language: English

Subtitle: Malay, Chinese

Genre: Comedy, Animation

Running Time: 1 hour 33 minutes

Director: Mike Mitchell

Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, John Lithgow, John McCartney.

Synopsis: After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws kingdom, what's an ogre to do? Well, if you're Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitch forks. Longing for the days when he felt like a real ogre, Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met. Now, it's up to Shrek to undo all he's done in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one True Love. ______________________________________________________ My Comments: Welcome back to yet another movie world. It has been a while since I watch movie in cinemas because we are not free. Today, ME & Kimmy would start back the movie marathon where we have selected Shrek Forever After as our movie of the choice and we also have chosen GSC 1 Utama as our choice. Let's go straight to the movie comments. This movie has a lot of stars but only appeared on voices including Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, John Lithgow & John McCartney. And in the same time, this movie did a very good job. In the first 30 minutes, the movie was slow to catch up and a little bit boring but after that, the action begins. The storyline meanwhile is good and did not dissapoint us as well. This movie is mainly for kids and for the whole family to watch. It carries some jokes, love story and how to cherish a relationship mainly. The combination of this movie is pretty good from the half of the movie till the end. I would recommend you to watch this one but don't expect too much where u will get less action but more into kids adventure (you get what I mean). You may enjoy this movie and it will lighten up your day. Enjoy! MY RATING: 4/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 4.5 /5

Food Hunt: Sakae Sushi, 1 Utama (Part 3)

Hello folks,

Welcome back to yet another edition of Food Hunt again. This time, we are at One Utama Shopping Complex to go for shopping and of course watching movie again. Then, during dinner time, we went for another food hunt where we have chosen Sakae Sushi yet again for our dinner. This is my third time blogging on Sakae Sushi but today it will be a different food to introduce to you guys.

Today as usual we arrived at the restaurant at about 7.45pm and the place was totally crowded with people. But we did not need to wait long where we got a place for ourselves after we arrived at the restaurant as there were people leaving the restaurant as well after their food. I've ordered Chicken Shiogayaki Don (Rice) while Kimmy ordered Potato Salad as our main dish for today. We've also ordered some plates of sushi as our dessert as well. Green Tea (Genmai) is our choice as well.

The Chicken Shiogayaki Don is very nice indeed. The fragrance of the rice was lovely and the Chicken Shiogayaki Don consists of Chicken, Onion and some Ginger taste. It was a tasty dish if you love onions with chicken. It's not oily and it just suits the taste of mine and I would totally recommend you to try out this dish when you are at Sakae Sushi. Kimmy's Potato Salad meanwhile was also brilliant. The potato was cold served and as you eat the potato, you can feel the juicy taste coming out from the potato and it was nice. We have the right choice in choosing our dish tonight. Please see photos for more information.

The price meanwhile was not rather expensive. The Chicken Shiogayaki Don costs about RM12.90 while the Potato Salad costs about RM3.90 only. Plus the plates of sushi's, the bill came around RM50.95. Enjoy! MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 5/5

*Food is based on the food we've ordered and not overall food.

For address information, please check out my previous post blog at http://www.alexleow-kimmy.com/2010/01/food-hunt-sakae-sushi-1-utama-part-2.html

Soccer: UEFA Champions League: Milito's magic gives Inter the Treble (Inter Milan 2 Bayern Munich 0)

Diego Milito scored both goals as Inter Milan sealed an historic treble and ended a 45-year wait to be crowned kings of Europe after defeating Bayern Munich in the Champions League final in Madrid. Milito struck in the 34th and 70th minutes as Inter became the first Italian team to win the treble of league, cup and European Cup in the same season, whilst ending German double-winners Bayern's hopes of doing likewise.

The victory was the third time Inter have won the trophy, following their successes in 1964 and 1965, and could also have marked a winning farewell for coach Jose Mourinho. The Portuguese, who becomes only the third coach to win the European Cup with different clubs, has been the subject of intense speculation linking him with a summer move to Real Madrid. Mourinho left Porto for Chelsea soon after leading them to the 2004 Champions League title.

For Bayern coach Louis Van Gaal, the defeat ended his chance to conquer Europe with two separate clubs having won the title with Ajax in 1995. The match was billed as a clash of contrasting styles between the attacking philosophy of Van Gaal and the defensive proclivity of Mourinho, but there was little to separate the two sides early on. The biggest threats came from two players who were returning to the Bernabeu having last summer been jettisoned by Real Madrid in the wake of the Spanish giants' 250million euro spending spree.

For Bayern, winger Arjen Robben was proving a persistent menace down the right, while for Inter, playmaker Wesley Sneijder was superb throughout. And it was the Nerazzurri playmaker who came closest to breaking the stalemate during an evenly-fought opening 30 minutes. The dead-ball specialist tried his luck from a free-kick 35 yards out, and Bayern goalkeeper Hans-Jorg Butt needed to dive to his left to parry the ball away after it had taken a slight deflection off his team-mate Hamit Altintop.

Sneijder, who was one of four former Madrid players in an Inter side without a single Italian, was involved in most of his side's attacks and it was no surprise to see him play a key role in the opening goal of the game. Julio Cesar's long punt forward was headed down by Milito to Sneijder, who immediately set his team-mate through the heart of the Bayern defence. The 30-year-old Argentinian powered into the area before leaving Butt with no chance to save with a rising shot. Bayern, who were without suspended French star Franck Ribery, tried to respond quickly but, after long-range efforts from Altintop and Robben had failed to worry Julio Cesar, they almost found themselves trailing 2-0 just before the break.

Once again it was Milito and Sneijder involved, but with the roles reversed this time. Milito picked out Sneijder running into the box and it needed a good block by Butt to keep out the former Ajax man's left-footed shot. Bayern, who were out much quicker than Inter following half-time, had created little to test Julio Cesar in the first half but they almost fashioned an equaliser 25 seconds after the restart. Ivica Olic's clever flick found Altintop in space and the Turkish international then fed the unmarked Thomas Muller on the edge of the Inter area, but the 20-year-old was denied by the feet of Julio Cesar.

Moments after that Inter launched a breakaway that almost resulted in a second goal, Goran Pandev's shot being superbly tipped over one-handed by Butt. That was a thrilling start to the second period and Bayern were enjoying plenty of possession as they sought an equaliser. However, the Inter defence, like it was in the semi-final second leg against last season's European champions Barcelona, was proving tough to break down. Robben almost managed it with a curling 20-yard effort that brought a brilliant save out of Julio Cesar, while Muller saw a goal-bound effort blocked by the head of Esteban Cambiasso.

Bayern were dominating possession but they were hit with the ultimate sucker punch in the 70th minute as Inter broke away to double their lead. Milito still had plenty of work to do when he picked up Samuel Eto'o's pass 35 yards out but he superbly turned Daniel van Buyten inside out before coolly finishing past Butt. There was no way back for Bayern after that as Inter held on to end their long wait for European football's top trophy and perhaps give Mourinho a winning send-off. Source: ESPN Soccernet.com 22/05/10

Food Hunt: Fish King Pizza, Pizza Hut

Hi All,

Welcome back to yet another edition of Food Hunt. Today ME & Kimmy had decided to go for Pizza Hut as we would like to try the Fish King Pizza as introduced by Pizza Hut on advertistment. I've also got some feedback from my friend stated that this pizza is very tasty. So, without any hesitation, ME & Kimmy had gone to try out this brand new pizza from them.

We arrived at Pizza Hut Kepong at about 7.30pm and the place was pretty crowded already. As I can see, many tables ordered the brand new Fish King Pizza because they would like to try out the new flavour as well. As soon as we arrived, the waiter there served us and we got a table for ourselves too. I did looked at the menu and mainly I am interested into the Fish King Pizza menu where they've also offered set for this one. The price is RM28.00 (not including tax) and about RM32.20 (after tax) for the set which includes 2 glasses of 7-Up Revive, Garlic Bread, 2 Mushroom Soups and a Regular Pizza. The price meanwhile is just reasonable as it's not expensive too.

Once the Fish King Pizza arrived, the smell was very nice and once we look at it, we would like to taste it straight away. The comments given by my friends were all true where the pizza is really nice especially the Fish Sticks which is attached at the top of the pizzas. It was very fresh and you can feel the juicy juice coming out from the sticks and the aroma was fantastic. The pizza itself meanwhile was very nice too and the combination matches with the Fish Sticks. I would fully recommend you to try out this Fish King Pizza as it was the best pizzas so far introduced by Pizza Hut. No regret for you to try this one. Check out http://www.pizzahut.com.my/ for more information on their outlet. MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 5/5