mall of america, mn

well, our trip started on saturday and we came back the following saturday. sean gi conference jer, the girls and i left for the mall. it is huge..2 days we spent there, i can tell you i only covered the whole of the first floor and a bit of the second. the rest tak jejak pun. too many shops and i am not much of a shopper.

welcome to the mall of america

excited betul nak gi theme park :)

anyway, first day, bawak the kids go to the theme park. they had fun, except that sarah is a wuss lah..hehe. naik ni taku, naik tu takut..yang dia tak takut cuma a couple of rides jer. the last ride for that day was this ghost blaster nyer bit..alah masuk dark tunnel in a motorised car..then tembak tembak tu jer...keluar jer that place..wahhhh..she was yelling at the top of her lungs ' get me out of here'..sampai i kena tutup mulut dia seh..so amat2 memaluken..hehe. anyway, second day, sarina nak ride this log ride, kesian kakak. ikut cakap adik kan...can only ride the safe ones. except for one ride that she got on herself :)

itu ezpression antara nak nangis and nak ketawa..hehe

sarah..let me out...hahaha

anyway, ada gambar log ride, but that one kena scan sebab the park camera took our picture..hahaha. sarah nyer muka lagi priceless. second day pergi auqarium and after that..i dah lah..had enough of the mall. evening pulak, sean drove us around. sometimes, mmg boring jugak when he does this, kira his recon mission..so we drove around to explore but tak stop to take pictures. bila dia stop, my camera pulak battery low .. dah tak leh amik gambar. sib baik brought the charger along. lawa jugak lah minnesota. i love the greenery.

our favourite food :)

biasalah..

food wise, we had good food until the last day there...that's the only day that marred our food exprience. first day, lunch we went to the food court. i had fish sandwich and sarina had sushi..hehe. murah and boleh tahan jugak lah sedap. dinner we went to the first ever singapore food place :) i had mee rebus ( a bit different lah, not as sweet and masam sikit, but pedas, best :) sean had nasi lemak and sarah and sarina had mee goreng. too bad we do not live there. i think the owners are malaysians.

one of the strangest looking fish i have ever seen..

masuk jer nampak koi pond..ikan ni macam jinak tau..dekat jer they all macam serbu to the top

second day, apa lagi, sean takder kan..the girls and i breakfasted at long john silver's..hahaha. best makan fast food :) sampai the next day, they requested again..bilang kat diorang..sorry hor..no time :) then lunch met up with sean and another dentist, and had lunch at the italian place...not bad. good tomato sauce. sedap. malam was the best part of all. we found the restaurant guide and saw a couple of afghani restaurant. we went there to have dinner and i have to say, the food is different yet familiar. it was so delicious. the girls and i and the father finished all our food. well the girls shared with me lah :) the rice alone was so lemak and yummy. different from the indian biryani tau. after that we drove around and went to wisconsin. this town called hudson. saw a small cafe there and saw all the desserts on diaplay. apa lagi...makan time lagi lah...hehe.

this jellyfish was so beautiful..

kesian nengok kuda laut ni..so sparse the tank tau..

i had harbenero chocolate cake..very rich and spicy too :) sean had the turtle cheesecake while the girls i terorder salah..they had the tres leche cake, or three milk cake. very dense and very rich. the wanted the chocolate torte, but itu ada kahlua lah..so cannot order. the last day, we went to this asian market place. saw the write up in a local paper. was so surprised to see what i had found. sebiji macam pasar kat malaysia. carpark pun macam car park malaysia. it has 4 separate buildings, but we went to only one jer, sebab sean dah boring.

it was so gorgeous..itu udang very the colourful lah..

i bought one..makan dalam kereta habis melekit2

we had lunch there, which was disappointing. write up said that the food was good, but maybe tekak masing2 lah. anyway, rupa2 nyer minnesota ni banyak asian transplants. especially the hmong community. so that was what this place was all about. saw a semi-wet market for the first time in US. tau ajer lah kan how very regulated this place is. anyway, we sat at this kopi tiam like place and ordered vegetarian fried rice, which was good, but it was cold. then ordered grilled fish, and i saw they served it with kicap potong bawang and lada. ingatkan they will give us a freshly grilled nyer..but they gave us the one that was already done, which is okay, but panaskan lah eh..nope...then i ordered curry noodles for the girls and they did not want to touch it at all.

geram betul nengok the fresh produce tau..

ni lah muka2 orang yang tengah lapar..termasuk yang tukang amik gambar :)

apa tidak, the smell was already off putting. i am wondering if it's the rebung that gave it that off taste or the smell. now, my mom used to eat rebung, but smell wise not so bad lah..this one it tasted like ada bende fermented , like our belacan but it doesn't taste like it too. it was not good eats. food wise it is different from the vietnamese or even thai food. so tu lah yang buat sean boring. but i had to point it out to him that at least it was cheap. dah tu, he tak nak explore the rest of the market..he said, let's get going to canada. so off we went there...hehehe. anyway, biasalah..more pics here :)

thunder bay, Ontario Canada...wahh..sean posing maut tu ..hahaa