Nivea Body Lotion

Recently I finished a bottle of Nivea Body Milk. And I do have a standby, and when arranged side by side, I noticed that the packaging is a bit different. The "intensive moisture body mils (48h)" still the same, but the vitamin E and avocado oil sequence is changed. 

Nivea Body Milk (left is finished, right is newer)

The most important is behind of the bottle, the newer one is 20ml lesser. Shrinkflation here. I bought these for more than 10 years I think, last time I could buy 2 bottles for RM30 in Guardian Pharmacy. Now, normally one bottle would be above RM20. Inflation and shrinkflation, Haiz!

the older is 400ml, the newer is 380ml

packaging behind the older version

The behind of the newer version is cleaner, not too busy. 

packaging on newer version

It's still made in Thailand though, and going through the ingredients list, still the same. And for the newer version, there's an asterisk and mentioned that "test on 33 volunteers by Skin Investigation and Technology, October 2017". I think this is to say I don't use animal testing, maybe?

older version ingredients

newer version ingredients

I had this bad habit of stocking up. Due to the packaging is different, I somehow checked the expiry date for the older bottle, LOL, it expired on 2024, I think I bought too much few years ago. Luckily, my skin can tolerate this. 

expired on 2024, and only finished on March 2026

I think will going to use Nivea Body Lotion for years to come. Unless there's another affordable and ok on my skin body lotion comes out. 

Mushroom Seapro 4 in 1 in Instant Noodle

I am quite picky on fish balls, I don't really take fish balls during the steamboat buffets because normally the fish balls in the buffet were made mostly with wheat? Of course those higher price range buffet provides actual "fish" fish balls, however, most were not really fishy fish balls. I actually spitted out the fish ball I have eaten in a barbeque shop in Tianjin, China, it was so soft, not the hard type we normally have in Malaysia. Anyway, my friends were ok with the soft fish balls, so I just gave all my fish balls to my friend. 

Anyway, today not talking about fish balls, but rather fish produce. Normally, my mom would buy this "Mushroom" brand for fish balls. It's quite good actually. And this year Lunar New Year snack, for the fried crab stick, my mom read in Facebook that "Mushroom" crab stick tasted better than other brands. So, she asked me to search for this in supermarket. Well, for the sake of comparing, I bought few packets of crab stick from "Mushroom", another 1 pack from another brand. In the frozen food shelves, for crabstick, only 2 brands are made in Malaysia, others are cheaper and Made in China. I felt for the Malaysian producers, China brands are everywhere and cheaper. Conclusion, the "Mushroom" crabstick is easier to make this snacks, it is easier to be separated by hand, for the other brand, we have to use a knife to cut it into slices. 

fried crab stick snacks

I saw this Seapro 4 in 1 (Mushroom) when I was in 99 Mart to buy bread for next morning breakfast. When I saw it, I was like, long time no eat fish balls, I don't know what I was thinking, the packaging clearly showed non fish ball items. I bought one. 

Seapro 4 in 1 (厨房四宝)

Well, finally I used this for my plain instant noodle. 

4 types of seafood processed food

I has one packet of Mamee vegetarian flavour instant noodle left that is going to expire soon. So I decided to finish this. 

Mamee vegetarian instant noodle

I defeated the purpose of the vegetarian themed instant noodle. I add the seafood processed items. Hahaha! The Seapro 4 in 1 is for steamboat. So I just added few pieces of the items into the pot and add the instant noodle with the flavouring directly, and boiled it. 

Other than fish balls, I am not really a fan of fish cakes or crabstick, to my surprise, this combination is quite nice, especially the round one with egg at the center. And the brown long fish cake is also not bad, initially i worried that it would be too oily. So, I had instant noodle, orange and instant oat for dinner. The downside is I didn't have vegetables, I hope that the orange make up for the lack of fiber. 

my dinner

Happy eating!

Gardenage Kota Kemuning

Happy Lunar New Year! It's coming to an end though. My friends were quite busy at the start of the new year, so we waited until 12th day to meet up. This time around, we choose a cafe named Gardenage in Kota Kemuning, it's the first for me, while my friends went there before. All mentioned the place environment was very good. 

As per the restaurant name, it is so green. The front part of the restaurant was filled with plants, there's a hanging wisteria like plant (albeit it is green), I couldn't resist the urge to touch it to know whether it's a fake plant or not, well, it feels like true leaves. The plants are so beautiful.

The environment inside the restaurant is very cozy too. We had our lunch besides an aquarium. So calming. 

inside the restaurant

I ordered salted egg pasta, my friend got spaghetti and risotto. All tasted good. I saw kombucha in the menu too, I ordered kombucha pink guava.  

food we ordered

Below is the salted egg pasta with karaage. I like karaage, although it's difficult to get fried chicken that is not tasty in Malaysia, karaage type still one of my favourites. 

salted egg pasta with karaage

I have wanted to try kombucha for a long time. However, not many restaurants carried this and when it's available, normally it's for dinner. I would have sleepless night if I drink tea at night. Kombucha is still tea after all, although it's fermented. Well, I couldn't taste the tea though, not a bad drink, but not so like tea as I had imagined. 

kombucha with pink guava

Well, I could sleep after this kombucha drink at noon, ok, I think the caffeine is fermented away? Maybe, I don't know. Only one of us had caffeine drink. Not so young anymore, cannot drink caffeinated drinks like we are in our 20s. 

latte art

My and my friends had a very nice chats, although we stayed near to each other. With own commitments, it's difficult to meet up. I really appreciate all the meet ups.