New Kid On The Blog

This weekend, we took a trip to Northampton, which is about an hour's train ride from London. SM's friend SK has been staying there for a few years and he kept telling us that it was a small town and there was nothing much to see. Nevertheless, we had a scrumptious lunch which SK's wife, ML cooked. There were chicken cooked in ginger brown sauce, ikan bilis with leek and traditional Chinese herb soup. We haven't had ikan bilis and Chinese herbs for a long time and the dishes were especially delicious when you've been deprived of them for so long. We recently bought ikan bilis from China Town but it was for Dominic. A very small packet costed us £1.25. When you think about it, that's about RM8 and you probably could buy a whole sack of ikan bilis in Malaysia with RM8.

SK and ML's house was a double-storey semi-D with a huge garden at the rear. If they were to build an extension at the rear (like how almost everyone in Malaysia did), they could have had another house which is bigger than their current one. Yes, that's how big the garden was.

After lunch, we took a stroll near a lake. It was a cool, windy day but nice. We didn't do much except walked and talked. After that, we were hungry again so we grabbed a bite at KFC. The KFC here was sadly not as good as the ones in Malaysia. It was extra salty and there was no such thing as 'Hot & Spicy'. KFC is probably not a big hit here because SM and I had been wanting to eat it for some time and we could hardly find any KFC outlets in London. And their website ... my God, don't ever go there. Seriously lack of information, full of useless information, poor usability, bad design.... It was one of the worst websites I've seen. Still .. if you'd like to see how bad it is: http://www.kfc.co.uk.

While we had our KFC, Dominic had his yoghurt and milk. Of course, he was more interested in our food, so we gave him a bit of our burger bun.