If you would like to have a gathering with a bunch of people that can’t make up their mind what to eat. Then I would suggest you a restaurant called Marché. It's located at The Street in The Curve. It offers a wide range of food selection inside. There is actually a small market included the restaurant. Marché (pronounced Mar-shay), means “market” in French, is a restaurant concept developed by the Swiss-based Mövenpick Group. It is totally a fresh concept in dining pioneered. Customers are given a “ market passport” upon entry, and each and every food item ordered will be stamped on the passport and the bill will be counted based on the stamps in the end. The food purchased will be cooked right on the spot by the chef and served immediately! A warm reminder for you here: Lost of passport will cost RM200.00 so be careful!! Some photos for you =)
Days before, I've dug out some photos in my phone and they made me recalled those yummy memories which is still vivid in my mind. And so I've decided to share with all of you here! =) It was the time that I had my lunch after doing some shopping in a western restaurant called Frames. It is located in Sunway Pyramid shopping complex, it is on your left if The Opera club is on your right. As how it is named, the restaurants has been decorated with all sorts of photo frames hung on the wall.
What I would like to share is that normally these type of restaurant will give me kind of impression like they'll serve fine nicely decorated food in 'tiny' portion which couldn't really fill up one's stomach with 'so so' taste rating and yet still can cost you a pretty penny. But Frames is just so outstanding in every aspect, from its dining environment to foods and drinks. To my surprise, I was wrong! The foods were surprisingly delicious and I could even tasted and felt the chef's sincerity and passion in preparing the foods for his customers. And the portion was just nice for me. The chef was really considerate and warming to keep an eye on what customers needs and if we had any suggestion or opinion for the foods. The prices are average. Frames just proved my thoughts wrong! ^.~ I rated it 4 stars out of 5 after all! ****
I had Oglio-Oglio Smoked Duck while my friend had a tempting beef burger. Have a look? Here you go:
Last month Family and I have been to a very unique Bar and Restaurant after our dinner to have a look at its environment. V1 concept bar and restaurant is the first sports car themed restaurant in Malaysia which located in Bandar Puteri Puchong. It provides a very special dining atmosphere to customers.
There is a car display in the restaurant, a red Ferrari! Customers can experience sitting in a sports car because instead of using ordinary chair, this restaurant adopts semi-bucket seat!
What’s really cool about this restaurant? It uses Ipad as menu! By ordering with Ipad, customers need not to raise hand and wait for waiter, how convenient is it?!
I was so surprised when I stepped into toilet because of its design! What do you expect to see in a toilet?
Steering and brake pedal! By turning the steering, you can get water. How about the pedal? Soap! =D
Although the ambience is good, food that it serves is a bit disappointing. It charges above average, perhaps people pay for its dining atmosphere instead of food!
Anyhow, it was still a great outing with the dearest! Look how satisfied my cousin was :P
I was recommended to this Japanese restaurant by a long known friend. This restaurant is a bit hard to find as it is stucked right in the middle of a mini industrial area/office lot. Parking is a problem during the day as the offices are opened for business and the lots are occupied by either cars or vans.MAIU Japanese Restaurant serves fusion japanese food to cater local taste buds. Its branches are located at Damansara Perdana and Seri Petaling, both open for lunch until 2.30pm and resumes back at 6.00pm to 10.30pm for dinner. The buffet promotion which cost only RM38.80 per person for adult and RM 19.90 for children. One thing that I like about their buffet is that, they only cook and prepare when you ordered. So all the foods are freshly served!! Their foods are of wide variation and are really delicious! What I love the most was their handrolls! The handrolls there are unique in sense that they have fried bits and pieces in them which brought wonderful mouthfeel and taste! Besides, their Sashimi were really fresh and you can have them unlimited all night long before you call for the bill. Frankly it is really worthwhile to enjoy such yummy and fresh japanese foods at such a reasonable, erm perhaps I should say CHEAP price! Here are some of the foods they served:
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Weeks ago, BF Wedding, the wedding of Taiwanese stars - Blackie & Fan Fan (Christine Fan) has been everyone's chit chatting topic. For me, not only being the dream wedding of everyone, both of them own the dream relationship of every single couple along the love journey! They have been together for 10 years and yet the temperature of their love has never dropped! Both of them has just held a warm, natural and sweet wedding in Taipei. One of the "What's so special" of their wedding was that they did not have elegant Bally shoes and gorgeous high heels but lovely sport shoes for both bridegroom and bridge made specially by Nike with the wedding date printed on the shoes! Moreover, both of them have written the marriage vows for each other by themselves. It was really touching to hear them spoke the marriage vows out in the church! Best wishes for both of them! God bless so that they'll live happily ever after like prince and princess! ^^
I'm sharing a video of their wedding here. Wish you guys enjoy watching and I'm pretty sure that you'll be touched! =)
~ post at 9:21 PM ~
Friday, August 7, 2009Y
Bleaching Agents
My Mother ^^
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When i was at younger age, my mother used to be very angry when i was home from primary school with my "yellowish brown" school uniform which was actually in sharp and clean whitebefore setting off to school in the morning! She was really sick and tired of washing my school uniform as it will be dirty again very soon :) i could often see her black face especially when the dirty shirt was again with some stubborn stains. Do you have the experience like mine? :)
However, i did not get an black eye everytime because of their existences :
Yea~ bleaching agents!
As we know, bleaching agents are bottlled of solution which used to lighten or remove stains or colours. Chemically speaking, bleaching agents contain certain composition of active chemical compounds or molecules that react with various type of substratessuch as stains, dyes to remove or decolourize them on textiles or fabrics. As what you've seen , There are two main types of common household bleaching agents which are 'chlorine' bleaches and 'oxygen' bleaches. Although of the different manufacturing ingredients, both of them function in the same way - decolourisingsubstances through oxidation process.
Oxygen bleaches is one of a common strong bleaching agentthat contains the chemical compound of hydrogen peroxide(H2O2) or other peroxide releasing compounds as the main ingredient. Hydrogen peroxide is a pale blue weak acidwhich has strong oxidising properties. The commercial brand "Vanish O²" on the market is one of the example of oxydative bleaches.
Structural formula of Hydrogen peroxide:
However, we'll only focus on CHLORINEbleach here and now ...o.O
"Chlorox", the commercial bleaching agent which most of us will have it at home is in fact falls into the category of "Chlorine" bleaches as it involves chlorine molecules in its process of manufacturing which then finally produces a chemical compound known as Sodium Hypochlorite(NaOCl)- the active ingredient of all Chlorine bleaching agents.
Structural formula of Sodium hypochlorite
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Molecular formula = NaOCl
Sodium hypochlorite, also known as Sodium chlorate(I) is a chemical compound consists of Sodium, Chlorine and Oxygen which has been used for bleaching and disnfecting purposes for centuries.
How is it produced?
Earlier in 1789, Hypochlorite had been produced by passing chlorine gas through a solution of sodium carbonate in Javel, France, due to that the product which is a weak acid solution of Sodium hypochlorite was known as "Javel water" Or "Eau de Javel".This less efficient method of production is then replaced by another alternative method of E.S.Smith later in the end of 19th century.
In this method, Chlorine gas and caustic soda is first obtained through the hydrolysis of brine solution before the chlorination process, that is to mix both products to form Sodium hypochlorite. Nowadays, the method has been improved and so called the Hooker process. This process is now the large scale industrial method in the production of commercial bottled Sodium hypochloride solution in various trademarks. Throughout the process, Chlorine gas is to react with cool and diluted aqueous Sodium hydroxide to yield Sodium hypochloride, Sodium Chloride and water as the by-products. Electrolysis process is involved in the separation of charges in cathode and anode.
Commercial household bleach usually contain 3 - 6 %of Sodium hypoclorite. Different formulation certainly will have products of different strength but the strength of the solution might be gradually decreased due to long storage too!
Why do substances havecolours?
Well~ We'll start with a little Physic +Chemistry :D A substance has a colour because it containsChromophore! A Chromophore is the a group of atoms make up a dye moleculewith different functional group of that is largely responsible for its colour or pigmentation. It is the region where there is a difference of energy level falls in a range of visible spectrum between two different molecular orbitals created by a series of single and double bond alternately. A molecule has a colour when it absorbs and reflects others with certain wavelengths of visible light as the light can hit the chromophore and being absorbed throuugh exciting an electron from its ground state!
Fabric dyes, also known as Azo compounds, food coloring, flower pigmentations and many more substances contains chromophores!
Chromophores contain unsaturated groups like C=O and -N=N- extended from arene rings. Within the structure, the unsaturated group often appears in a system of electron delocarization. All Azo Compounds, with the colur of the shirts you're wearing inclusive, have the general equation of R-N=N-R' arrangement! ^^
Here are a few examples of Azo dyes' structural formula:
Yellow Azo dye looks like this!
Basic Chrysoidine Dye (orange)
An Advance Red Dye ^^
Do you know how the stain on your shirt is being removed? Get to know~*The mechanism of bleaching*~
Substances can be decolourised through either oxidation or reduction process. For reducing agents, sodium dithionite can be one of the examples while most commercial bleaches today are oxidising agents with chlorine and oxydative bleaches inclusive. Sodium hypochloride ishighly reactive and unstable when it's pure thus we often buy it in the form of diluted aqueous solution. When it is being mixing with water, hypochlorite will decomposeto form Hydrogen ions, Chloride ions and a powerful oxidising agent known as Hypochloric acid(HClO) which has a excellent bleaching and disinfecting effect. The equation of the process is as the following :
Hypochlorous acid is then partially dissociates in aqueous solution and forms the anion known as Hypochlorite (ClO-) :
HClO(aq) ----------------> ClO- + H+
Next, Hypochlorite tends todecompose into chloride and oxygen :
ClO- -------------------> Cl- + O
The oxygen is in highly reactive formwhich then leads to bleaching and anti-bacteria effects when reacting with other organic substances.
As oxidising agents, Chlorine and oxydative bleaches cause the substance it reacting with to be oxidised while itself being reducedin the bleaching process. Recall that oxidation is losing one or more electrons whereas reduction is gaining of one or more electrons. During the process, the bleaching agent undergoes reduction by gaining activated electrons which can absorb visible lights from the substances and hold them to itself. The oxidation and reduction process occur simultaneously . In other words, the bleaching process is actually aredox reaction! You may have a look at the following simplified diagram to help in illustrating the process :
The hypochlorite ion (OCl-) is reduced to chloride ions and hydroxide ions during reduction. It is then forms a basic solution as it receives electrons from the coloured material. Equation :
OCl- + 2e- + HOH -------------------> Cl- + 2OH
Besides that, Chlorine and oxydative bleaches works bybreaking the series of alternating chemical bonds of thechromophores so that the molecules are changed into a different form and thus destroy the abilityof the chromophores in absorption of visible light causing the substance to be gradually decolorised. By destroying chemical bonds, large stain molecules can be broken down to smaller and water-soluble fragments which eventually to be removed much easily by detergent during washing process.
Some pictures for you :)
Stain molecules has it colour's origin in the double bond connections.
Bleach molecules breaking up the double bond connections!
Double bond connections have been broken! AND~
Stain has been decolourised!!
In addition, besides chemicals in bleaching agents, high energy such as photons in sunlight can also distrupt chemical bonds in chromophores for decolourising effects. This is what was done by many of the people in the past to bleach out colours from substances!
Apart from being household and laundry products, bleaching agents are very useful in many industries such as bleaching of wood pulps, beeswax, flour, tissue papers, skin,cellulose, disinfectant for swimming pool and a number of other industries!
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Basic Chrysoidine Dye (orange)
Bleach molecules breaking up the double bond connections!
