Soft Launching of Milkcow in Ipoh

Another new dessert place has opened despite all the Cafes flooding old town. This place is a healthy option for those with a sweet tooth.

Milkcow specializes in soft-serve ice cream with various toppings, with ingredients sourced from organic farms. It is originally from Korea and is a big hit in many foreign countries worldwide. 

The 6th outlet of Milkcow has opened in old town Ipoh yesterday, 24th August 2015, at Jalan Panglima. It is impossible to miss the shop as you pass by the main road.

Milkcow's tagline is "All about Desserts". It's best sellers are Cookie & Cream, Black Pearl and Milky Cube. The Cookie & Cream is for the Oreo lovers. The Black Pearl is for the chocoholics, for it is made out of chocolate sauce, organic salt and Cocoball topping.The Milky Cube is for the sweetest tooth of all, as it is topped up with honeycomb.

There are many other options such as the original Milky Way, Milky Honey, Macao Dream, Golden Angel, Sweet RedBean, Green Light, Milky Shot and Milky Pop. The most interesting of all would be the Snow Drop, which consists of organic cotton candy, organic salt and jelly beans toppings.

Price ranges from RM8.50 to RM13.50. Extra toppings and side dishes can be ordered with an additional charge of RM1.50 to RM4.50. Cakes are also offered at the shop at RM13.50 each. They also serve caffeinated drinks, milkshakes, sodas and waffles.

  

 

Here's the handsome hunk and pretty ladies behind the counter!!!

Oh, did you know that there is a promotion of buy 10 free 1 going on? Just collect 10 stamps, 1 stamp for every purchase of an ice-cream and get 1 free ice cream!!! Terms and conditions apply. Hurry and go over to collect those stamps now!!!

Now, this wouldn't exactly be a blog post without my selfies now would it? HAHA!!!

For more information:

05-241 4742 

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Milkcow

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Ipoh Perak

My journey with Uber

This is not a sponsored post. This is just merely a post I randomly thought of blogging on since I have not been updating my blog frequent enough. This blog post has been written without any research online but based on experience and what I have understood from it.

Uber, a service worldwide which operates like a taxi, has been a very good "friend" of mine since the first time I got on it. I came about Uber at an event a year ago, 22nd March 2014 to be exact. I still didn't have much of an idea what it was all about. I just followed instructions of downloading the app, applying the promotional code of RM100 and got a FREE driver for me and my friend to the event since Uber was one of the sponsors of the event I attended.

It didn't take a Uber driver long to reach my doorstep. I had my first experience in a Nissan Teana with a humble driver. He had very good service and also treated us just like loyalty. He even offered us 2 bottles of complimentary water. I took another Nissan Teana back home safely without the hassle of driving.

Back then, we had not much of a choice for cars and services from Uber. We only had Uber Black to choose from. Right now, we have more options. There are Uber Black, Uber SUV, Uber LUX, Uber Taxi and Uber X. The difference in all these Ubers are the pricing and car options available. Although you do not get to choose the driver or car model which you desire, you get an alternative which is in the same category as your expectations.

For me, I personally love to take the Uber X because it is actually cheapest and could be even cheaper than local taxis. They are also reliable as you can detect where they are via GPS on the application. As soon as you have made a booking on the app, you can see the car model, car plate number, driver name, driver picture and where he is at the moment. You could even share the information to your friends for safety reasons. 

What I dislike about the local taxis nowadays is that they overcharge customers by not using the meter whenever they like and even reject you when you call out for them. Some reject you after knowing the short distance that you require to go, knowing they won't earn much from it.

However, at Uber, drivers have told me that it is not a problem for them to travel short distances as they are being paid by trips and do not have an option of picking customers based on their distance. The driver will never know where the customer is heading to until he/she boards the vehicle. I think this is a very good idea.

Uber drivers are very humble. I have not encountered any unfortunate events with Uber so far. They were all friendly and being the talkative person that I am, I make the most out of my journey with the drivers, knowing more about Uber and also about the world. Funny how much you can learn from strangers.

Every time you end a trip with Uber, they would ask you to rate the drivers. From what I heard, based on your ratings, the management would actually enable the driver to drive a more luxurious car in the future. I personally think it is very important to rate and also leave a comment so they could provide us with good and reliable services.

What about cancelling trips? You could cancel a driver before he arrives your doorstep. For the first time, you will not be charged for it. Chances only come once. After that, you would be charged a small sum to make it up to Uber. I think it is only fair to do so. Drivers have told me that there were people who were selective of drivers based on race, car model, etc. Why be so choosy when you can get a driver at a cheap price? If you are to be that choosy, buy a car and drive yourself. For me, the importance of using Uber or any other taxis is only to get me from point A to point B safely and in one piece without me being stuck in jam behind the wheel and without having to navigate myself to a designated location.

There are promotions once in a while with Uber. Your trip could be free if you depart or alight from a selected area. In January, I had a few weeks of priviledge for having free rides since I stayed in Bandar Utama and worked in Sunway Giza. I always travelled in that area and using the promotional code given and got to my destinations free!!! I was glad to see an improvement in Uber in the sense of them having more cars in my area compared to when they just started. I no longer have to wait more than half an hour for a driver.

There was also another charity drive few months back by celebrities. RM20 was donated to charity if you get to be driven around by local artistes and also Youtubers/Radio DJs. Some famous models were also featured in the event. They drove a VW Beetle around and I was not lucky enough to get any of them. 

With Uber, you can always ensure your safety and also comfort of sitting in the car with a driver.Looking for a promotion? You can put in my promotion code "3JGZ4" or "susanh1092" to get RM30 off your first ride!!! Just remember to put in the promotion code before you get into the ride. 

You could also track your old rides and history of rides on the app and website!!! Here's mine!!!

I hope you will enjoy Uber as much as I am. What I hope to see in Uber? A SERVICE TO BE AVAILABLE IN IPOH TOO!!! We Ipoh-ites need a reliable transportation. Please, Uber!!! Come and have some old town white coffee?

For more information on Uber, download their app or go on to https://www.uber.com/ !!!

NNFood Fest and Happy 2nd Blog-niversary!!!

Oh WOW!!! I just realized that it is my blog's 2nd anniversary!!! It seemed just like last year or something that I created this blog! Come to think of it, I have been single way before this blog was created so what's 2 years? However, 2 years is pretty long for me to keep a blog alive. I used to have blogs after blogs for so long. I remember blogging since my teenage days. YAY to 2 years and hope that there are more years to come!!!

I have kept this blogging up and running although there were not much frequent updates all thanks to Nuffnang! If it weren't for Nuffnang, I guess my blog will be all about my rants and end up like the blogs I used to run. Nuffnang has been offering tonnes of events, contests and outings. I have tried my best to enter most of it, trying to win passes for events and meeting interesting people too! I can say I had a lot of fun being a part of the Nuffnang blogging commuity. If you aren't in Nuffnang yet, WHY AREN'T YOU???

Coincidentally, Nuffnang had an event going on today too! It is the Nuffnang Food Fest, which was the hash-tagging trend of the day, #NNFoodFest. So it appears that many people were "celebrating" my blog-niversary with me after all. *Perasan case*

I drove there from work, arriving only about 4.30pm. I was lucky to have a parking right at the entrance as I arrived! Up side after the half an hour jam. Walked over to the Blue Atrium and saw tents everywhere. I felt very confused as I didn't exactly read the map carefully the night before and all I see was tents. Since I was so confused, I ended up just walking around, surveying and seeing if I could bump into anyone I knew. The first thing I realized as I walked? I heard Dan's voice. WOW! And I was wearing Dan's tee. *proud moment* HAHA! 

Since I didn't know where to start, it was a good idea to get to the registration booth first, wishing to bump into any bloggers I know... At the registration booth, I was given a Churp Out sticker, some pamphlets, Sunway Pyramid card, a cook book and a free Macaroon!

After a while, Steph came to join me. Darren asked us to sit at the stage for a Canon Photography talk on food blogging. We both didn't have a big camera and so unfortunately, we didn't really focus much on the talk. Here's a picture of the emcees of the day (Matthew and Kevin) and of the workshop.

Steph and I couldn't hold on any longer and had to find ourselves some food!!! After all, I only had cup noodles for lunch. Did you know, the food for the day is all FREE!!! How? All we needed to do was to either scan the bar code, then Tweet/Instagram/Facebook with the hashtags #NNFoodFest and also the shop name and get a sample for free! At first, we thought samples will never get us full enough to last the day. HOHOHO!!! You are so wrong, mister! Here's us, the foodies, with our food!!!!!
 
I have never had Crazy Potato before. I have always passed by the shop but never thought of having it. As a potato fan, I can say I would go all out for anything that has to do with potatoes. Although there was a long queue at that moment, I just went ahead and queued up for my share of Crazy Potato. It was worth the queue. I never liked cheese, nor have I tried cheese with fries but this was GOOD!!!

Next, we tried out what seemed to be a Popiah wrap with Nasi Lemak in it. It's from ZUO and it tasted so special. It was nothing I have tried before. I remember ZUO being a very nice place to have dinner. It's located at Publika and Prakash was the one who introduced it to me a year ago. I will definitely go back again for more one day.

Since we were craving for something sweet, we saw a booth with Masterchef's banner on it. We just had to try it out. There were Macaroons and cupcakes. Who could say no to Macaroons??? Look at the beautiful decorations even!!!

After all that snacks, we moved on to our main course, BURGERS!!! It was burgers after burgers for us. What do I mean? HAHA... You have no idea. We had Ninja Joe's, BBQ Beef Burgers and MYBURGERLAB!!! YES!!! MyBurgerLab was there serving their burgers too!!! Of course, there was a queue. They were also giving out 10% and 15% vouchers but since I am already entitled to that with my VIP discount card, I didn't bother taking the vouchers from them. I finally got to try Jamming with Elvis. It is so good I definitely am going to have that the next time I go to MyBurgerLab instead of the usual Hangover Burger...

There was a Maggi Booth which I never entered because of my cup noodle lunch. It's something I have been having for the past few months and so, PHOBIA! Bumped into Huai Bin and apparently he joined the cookoff, which I missed because I was too busy looking for food.

After a bloated snacking meal, we decided to have a break and claim my free drinks from Nuffnang. I won 6 drinks from Nuffnang previously for the "For the Love of Beer" blog contest. Free drinks in October! Happy Oktoberfest, Blog-niversary month and Birthday month to me! 2 beers for each occasion. Not bad huh?

As we were drinking, a few ladies dressed in their Oktoberfest outfits approached us to have our pictures taken with the big polaroid. It was free. Sorry for not taking pictures of them. We were too happy taking pictures and drinking up our beer...

I was hoping to get a chance at having more Crazy Potato so I walked out the bar alone, disappointed in the end because it was already 9.30pm and stalls were closing, obviously so was Crazy Potato. The only stall I saw open was the Masterchef one and grabbed the opportunity to get some snacks to have with our beer. Instead of asking for 4 pieces, look what I got?

Yeah, I ended up shocking Steph, Jian (who joined us an hour before Foodfest ended) and Lionel (Serge).

The day was very fun! I got to meet so many people, bump into people and eat so much!!! I will definitely be at ChurpOut! I hope I can get a transportation then. It's gonna be at Shah Alam!!! Anyways, let me end my post with pictures of the foodies that were at the FoodFest...

Darren Low, the guy who is at every event, no matter if it is Nuffnang related or not. He's happening that way!

Audrey, a.k.a fourfeetnine, Fighter's mom who is the wife of Nuffnang Founder Timothy. Tim was too busy walking around, so I didn't get to take a picture with him. They were both so busy taking pictures with fans just like superstars and celebrities of Hollywood! I'm glad to have a second picture with Audrey after being in a blogmosphere for so long.

Here's Jeremy Choy and Dan Khoo. Nothing much to say since you guys should know who these two photo/videographers and youtubers are by now. If you don't, you are not from Malaysia and you are not from this century.

Here's a group photo of Luke, his sister, Steph, Lionel and I at the bar! We all just bumped into each other today and had a drink together.

And lastly, here are some instant photos and polaroid collections of the day! Everyone says I should get some sponsorship for polaroid refills since I have mastered the skills of camwhoring with a polaroid. What say you? SPONSOR ME LARH!!!

To end this post with a blast, here's a crazy picture of me turning into a crazy potato after consuming Crazy Potato. They should be giving me a prize. No? *totally asian and awkward moment...*