148 years Chingay 2012 Johor bahru Finally declared a cultural heritage

It has been 148 years since Johor tionghua association has hold this yearly cultural event that is assisted by 5 chinese clan Hokkien, Cantonese, Hakka, Hainanese And Teochew. 2011 has attracted 300,000 spectator.
This year, this event will be hold on 12/2/2012 is expected to exceed previous year spectator as it has been declared by our PM as cultural heritage this year! It is a great great news to us as it will definitely boost our tourism in the state!
As per my knowledge that PM ah jib gor, Johor sultan - Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, TMJ Tunku Ismail, Johor MB Abdul Ghani will be among the VVIPs. 988FM will once again attend this year event.
What will be the thing to watch for this year is the dragon that will be presented during the procession as this year is a dragon year! According to the local. This time will have 99 dragon for exhibition.

My related post last year link is this http://spicyjohor.blogspot.com/2011/03/video-and-photo-johor-bahru-chingay.html
Enjoy!
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25 years Kam Long serve one of the BEST Curry Fish Head in JB! 金龙加哩鱼头

25 years of business. It has now passes his business to second generation. But they are still doing very fine now.
What is so special for 'curry fish head' in this restaurant?
I believe that it is very well known among the food lover in JB and Singaporean that it is one of the BEST in town.
In this restaurant they only serve curry fish head with white rice.
They serve the dish with 2 types of fish.
1) 红鸡鱼 - Red snapper - you should opt for this fish if your want to eat it for its meat
2) 红斑鱼 - red spot grouper - this fish is more pricier compare to the 1st option, this fish meat is lesser but it taste more sweet.
So both option is easy for you to choose.

It's curry is made up of spices, lot types of curry spices which cooked to perfection. It is not as sweet as others type of curry fish gravy (those is cooked in using lots of coconut gravy). Thus you won't feel sick of the curry is you drink too much. For example this pot is finished by me and my wife.

They are now has a few outlets in town. They sell their gravy to them as a form of franchise. I was hoping that someday they will come out with packaging and sell it in the supermarket so that i can have it every week.
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Location:No 7, Jalan Wong Ah Fook Johor bahru.

A special rain on Friday

Friday 20th January 2012.


A sudden heavy rain started in Johor Bahru without any warning in the afternoon. It has caught the busy johorean by surprise on this day as most of the people is either rushing to finish their jobs in order welcome a long holiday or preparing tons of thing for the Chinese New Year celebration. I am one of those rushing people in this day. Suppose to send my car to one of the hundreds car wash centre so that my lovely car could show off it's skin in eye glittering way.
This rain however, instead of causing frustration, I feels like more welcome of the rain. Though it is a heavy rain that comes with loud lightning but soon afterward the lightning stop. In order to get in my car, I have to run without umbrella and get myself wet. While I am wiping myself dry I have this special feeling of wiping myself 'clean'...

On this very last day of my works for the year of rabbits, I felt like the rain has washed away all my exhaustion, frustration, negative energy that has been lingering on me for the past 12 month. After today (Friday), the next time I working will be the year of dragon! By then it will be a totally New Year, it mean a lots for me and a lots of Chinese. so when most of the people are doing their new year resolution on the 1st of the January(which I normally do), this year I will do it during the Chinese new year! Thanks for this 'special rain' that has cleansed me and had given me a new positive energy to embrace the challenge for the coming 2012. Come on 2012 bring it on!!

Also would like to take this chance to wish all the Chinese a Happy Chinese New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai!
And all the Malaysian a Happy Holiday and safe journey!

Cheers!


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Launching of new Malaysia notes

Today got an unusual crowd in Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) in JB branch.
People are queuing up to purchase the new RM notes in today's launching date for collection purposes.

New launch notes are RM 1, 5, ,10 and 20 and 100 (50 got no new design. Stick to old design).
Most special one is the new RM 20 notes as it has been many years that the RM 20 notes is already missing from market.

Available package for collection is 3 package. But I only know 2 of the 3 package comes with
1) RM 1 & 5 sell at RM 15.
2) RM 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 & 100 packed in a box selling at RM 300
That's all I can share in my knowledge.

Go get a bits should you are a currency collector.

Enjoy and cheers!

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Location:Bank Negara Malaysia Johor bahru