Makanan Halal Hong Kong

ok.. so kitaorang pergi lagi Hong Kong setelah 4 tahun.. sebab malas nak gi jauh2 dengan anak yang bawah 2 tahun yang tak tahu duduk diam dalam kapal terbang ni.. husband tanya nak duduk mana kali ni? Cos last time kita duduk kat Grand Harbour Kowloon sebab bilik dia besar boleh accommodate 2 adults and 2 kids..  cuma leceh sikit lah nak travel pada I.. kalau malam2 tu jalan2 kat TST area pastu nak balik naik taxi banyak taxi driver tak nak amik.. kena tunggu jugak shuttle yang dia provide nearby sheraton tu.. I tak tahu pulak yang Harbour Grand Kowloon ni dah dapat halal certification for their kitchen masa tu.. sigh.. kalau tahu agaknye duduk jugak kat situ lagi 😂 I just told my husband.. takpelah kita orang duduk je mana2 hotel yang dekat dengan Chung King Mansion since banyak kedai makan halal kat situ buka dari pagi (730 dah buka dah) so breakfast senang lah.. 

Sampai je hotel, kita orang letak barang then terus gi Chung King Mansion nak cari late lunch.. hajat di hati nak cari one indian restaurant yang kita pernah pergi last  time.. butter chicken dia punya lah power.. tapi both husband and wife dah lupa dah nama kedai and lif mana yang kena naik.. dan kebanyakan indian restaurant yang tingkat atas2 tu buka for dinner.. awal dari jam 6 petang dia tutup.. yang buka dari pagi tu yang kat tingkat 1 dan tingkat 2 yang naik tangga je takyah naik lif.. 

so kita makan je lah kat kedai mana2 yang tingkat 1 tu.. lepas tu rounding2 amik brochure dan tanya2 restaurant halal yang mana buka awal untuk sarapan and boleh delivery to hotel. Ada dua restaurant yang kita tanya, satu tu Bismillah Fried Chicken dan lagi satu kedai india tak ingat dah nama dia.. yang india tu makanan dia sedap, teh masala dia pun sedap yang Bismillah tu prata dia tawar, tapi anak2 i suka nasi goreng dia.. even though pada I macam berminyak dan terlampau banyak sangat ayam dan sayuran (mungkin nak kasi berbaloi harga yang mahal tu :p )

Halal Food at Chung King Mansion - Hong Kong

Yang ni gambar one of the days kita breakfast kat situ...selalunya dia hantar je kat lobby haha senang kerja..

Setelah beberapa hari makan nasi goreng untuk sarapan, husband I cakap kita try pulak lah Syed Bukhara Restaurant - kata Malaysian food.. ada nasi lemak.. ok so kita pun try lah makan kat situ.. resaturant ni kecik je, bertentangan dengan Hung's Chinese Restaurant.. tapi Malaysian pun Indian Malaysian lah jugak... so nasi lemak ada, yang lain samalah prata, tapi ada tosai dan mee goreng mama.. gambar mee goreng mama tak sempat nak snap.. cuma tak rasa macam mee goreng mama ye.. rasa manis2 macam mee cina je pada I.. yang tosai tu cerita kelakar.. I mintak "Egg Toast" sekali datang "Egg Dosai" lah hahaha I dengan suami tengok je lah each other.. tak pernah umur makan tosai telur..

Nasi Lemak dan Tosai Telur @ Chung King Mansion

Gambar restaurant tak ambil.. anak sibuk nak susu..  makanan ok2 je..

Hung's Chinese Restaurant (Halal) at Chung King Mansion

What's the use of staying near Chung King Mansion if you don't eat there kaaaaan? So.. salah satu petang tu.. kita makan di Hung's Chinese Restaurant.. husband order macam untuk 10 orang.. malu lah pulak dengan orang kat meja sebelah.. tak habis pun.. terpaksa taupau.. makanan kat sini sedap.. kita order udang goreng tepung, sayur dua macam dan ayam goreng.. sedap tapi mahaaaal... makan sekali je kat sini..

Another time kita orang nak gi dinner tapi nak jalan gi Chung King macam jauh sebab kita jalan2 kat Toys R Us Harbour City.. so on the way balik hotel tu (jalan kaki) kita orang jumpa Haiphong Mansion dulu jadi kita singgah lah ke Mr Kebab.. (wah tempat ni dah popular tau.. dulu kita pergi baru buka tak ramai orang.. and the waitress yang serve kita 4 tahun lepas masih ada pulak tu haha)

Late lunch @ Mr Kebab - Haiphong Mansion (Halal Food in Hong Kong)

Haiphong Mansion ni dia dekat dengan Kowloon Mosque. Kita order hummus , mandi lamb (untuk husband) 'adas (sup kacang tu) untuk baby i - suka sangat dia.. kebab, fried chicken dan spaghetti untuk anak yang lagi dua yang dah besar tu.. budak2 tak berapa suka spaghetti dia, tapi ayam dengan kebab dia orang ok je.. lamb mandy tu tak ingat dah rasa macam mana.. ke.. i tak merasa sebab sibuk melayan si kecik 🤔 tak ingat dah..

then.. the day before kita balik kaaaaaan... i ni boring lah tak merasa bershopping sebab ada anak kecik susah sangat nak bershopping dengan dia yang suka berlari ke sana sini..sedangkan husband i syiok je keluar gi tailor baju kaaaaaannnnnn.. abih asyik keluar gi fitting tak habis2.. i kena duduk hotel jaga budak2.. so.. one of the evening, I cakap I nak keluar gi beli Long Champ hahah.. sebab I baca2 Long Champ ni murah jugak at Hong Kong..so.. I pergi lah K11 Mall yang dekat dengan Hyatt Hotel, lepas tu ternampak papan tanda Kohinoor Halal Restaurant oposite Hyatt

Kohinoor Indian Restaurant in front of Hyatt Hotel TST

Tapi esok nya dah nak  balik dah.. so tak dapat lah nak cuba makan kat sini..

Nak kata next time.. tak rasa nak pergi Hong Kong lagi lain kali 😝

Oh.. by the way.. for a list of hotels that has halal kitchen , you can check out this link


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Hong Kong Part 2

Potato Battery Experiment - Why is mine not working???

So, the topic this term is still "Foodnimals" and Mikail was given an experiment last two weeks as homework. It was the potato battery experiment..The instructions didn't come with pictures so the parents were pretty much guessing how to do it and most of us turned to Google of course. 

I am not going to explain the science behind the potato battery here as I'm sure you can find that all over the internet. The basic thing that you need to know is that - the two main elements that are producing the energy are the copper (positive electrode ) and the zinc (negative electrode) the acids in potato just causes the reaction between the two to produce power. With that in mind.. your battery is not going to work if you don't have the two elements together. 

Things that you will need are:

For those who are clueless (like me) what kind of nails should you buy and what are alligator clips:

I bought the nails above and alligator clips from ACE hardware. The alligator clips are like this:

The experiment pretty much works on all citrus fruits I think cos we tried oranges and lemons but using potatoes produces more power. I read somewhere that cooked potatoes works even better but nah we were too lazy to cook them. 

All you need to do is:

1) stick 1 nail and 1 coin on each fruit / potato (not too near)

2) connect the nail from 1 fruit to the coin in the other with the alligator clip (please buy one with the wire attached and not just the head)

3) then take the second alligator clip and connect the nail to the - side of the battery slot of the timer.

4) lastly take the third alligator clip and connect the coin to the + side of the battery slot.

Like this (tadaaa!)

LED timer on lemon battery and potato battery (pic is of 4 potatoes because I was trying to power up an LED light bulb earlier and I was too lazy to take away two potatoes)

Remember to buy a timer that runs on 1 AAA battery. I bought my first one (the white one from Daiso but it runs on the small LR44 battery which was why I couldn't use the alligator clip cos the + and - slots are tricky to find. So I had to use copper wires instead to try and find the + and - points. The second LED clock (red color) I found at Mr DIY and costed me RM8.60 (if I am not mistaken)

Now, you will read somewhere also that you can do this with a LED bulb and you might go like me and say.. hmm.. LED bulb is waaay easier  to find in hardware stores than a LED timer or clock.. yes easier to find BUT if you want to use a bulb instead, you need to buy exposed ones like these:

LED bulbs for potato battery experiment (found in ACE Hardware store)

So, some parents like me tried the LED bulbs and then hmm.. theirs didn't work.. the bulb just won't light up.. why??? that's because the LED bulbs uses more power than the LED timer or clock.. so using two oranges or two lemons won't work.. heck even 4 potatoes connected with alligator clips didn't work with those bulbs up there.. I had to use 4 potatoes connected with copper wires.. then the bulb lighted up.. and mind you I was only trying to power up one LED bulb.. 

So.. if you are feeling adventurous and wants to do the light bulb.. you might need these as well:

Pliers to cut the wire, copper wire and electrical tape to connect the wire to the bulb)

So, you just cut the copper wire using the pliers to desired length and wrap the wire one end around the coin and the other end around the nail. (repeat till all nails and coins are connected to each other) and then connect the last coin to one end of the bulb and connect the last nail to the other end of the light bulb (hard to tell which is which so if it does not work, change the side of the bulb that you connect the coin/ nail to) like this:

This is the LED light bulb bought from ACE.. it requires 4 potatoes connected with copper wires to light up. 

I tried to light up the LED bulb from ACE once by using two oranges and again by using 4 potatoes but it didn't work.. then I went to find a smaller light bulb (lower voltage) and the 4 potatoes worked but the light bulb is not very bright as picture before. 

All this got me curious.. so I went to the hardware store again and bought a multimeter haha and tried various things:

So.. as we can see.. two oranges produces the least power.. 2 lemons are much better and the 2 potatoes win by a slight margin..

4 potatoes connected using alligator clips produces lesser power than 4 potatoes connected using copper wires.

And then we tried a different approach.. will moving the nail and coin closer to each other produce a higher voltage or lower? apparently moving them closer (nails and copper coins not the oranges yeah) produces higher voltage... then I thought since the source of electrons are the copper and zinc elements.. what if I put in two coins and two nails in 1 orange? what will happen then? and you can see from the picture on the far right above.. the voltage went down :p 

Waahhh.. ok.. the geek in me is now satisfied haha.. the mommy gets more excited than the son 😬

Hope your experiment works!