FEIFAN HOTPOT, SS15 COURTYARD, SUBANG JAYA

I wasn't a hotpot fan till recent years because there are so many hotpot lovers surrounding me and influencing me that I slowly understand the beauty of hotpot dining experience. Hotpot is like an addiction, I'll crave for it once in awhile, and hope there will be people sharing the same craving as I do then we can eat hotpot together as our outing itinerary. lol.

It's true happiness when you found people to eat hotpot together with. Really. 

My latest hotpot dining experience will be at Feifan Hotpot, located inside SS15 Courtyard (previously known as First Subang). The place has changed so much since my last visit years ago and there are so many shops inside SS15 Courtyard now. Feifan Hotpot is one of the shops. It's a Hong Kong buffet hotpot dining concept, so you can eat all you want for a VERY affordable price!

Located at Ground Floor, with its eye-catching logo

We arrived slightly earlier that day, before lunch time and get to enjoy the quiet environment a bit and snap a few good photos before the lunch crowd comes in. The environment is spacious, good air-ventilation and bright lighting because there are french windows to let in natural light. Not to mention there are both indoor and outdoor dining areas too.

More than 40 types of fresh daily prepared ingredients, Feifan Hotpot strive to deliver the best quality in terms of food to their customers. The chefs will prepare their signature homemade meatballs, homemade noodles and udon noodles as well and specialty noodles like the fish noodles. And those who like to eat pork innards, this restaurant serve them too! 

Aside from fresh hotpot ingredients, what makes a hotpot delicious is the hotpot broth. Lucky us we get to try all 4 types of broths prepared by the restaurant:

Signature Pork Bone Soup x Spicy Szechuan Ma La Soup

Tomato Soup x Pepper Pig's Stomach Soup

All the broth came in taste slightly mild (except the tangy tomato soup) because they know as the eating goes on, the flavour will become richer and richer. Its better start off with mild tasting broth to get the best taste from the freshly prepared ingredients. If you're interested in adding some Chinese Wine in your pork bone broth, they are selling 2 different types of Hua Diao Jiu Chinese Wine. 10 years RM120 per bottle and 3 years RM46/bottle. We are dining with pregnant lady, me and Fei are pretty much alcohol intolerant so we gave this option a skip.

Chinese Wine
Green jar (10 years)
Brown jar (3 years)

 We keep on adding the handmade meatballs and beef slices because they are so delicious. As I mentioned above, the ingredients are prepared daily so there are no single weird frozen food taste, each and every meatballs and meat slices are tender to bits.



Aside from the main ingredients, there are also buffet line that serve various of mushrooms, vegetables and wide selection of side dishes:

buffet line ingredients will change from time to time so there's always something new during their next visit

 And when it comes to hotpot, don't forget about sauces too! Feifan Hotpot does have their signature sauces as well and I love it!

You can make your own sauces too!

Since it's a Hong Kong buffet style, there are few types of free flow beverages selections for the customers. Lemon and mint sky juice, peach juice and Ribena! Ribena is my favourite!!! Later on after Ribena finished (everybody loves Ribena and keep taking Ribena only lol), they replace it with orange juice. You'll never get bored of what Feifan Hotpot have to offer.

Aside from these free flow drinks, the restaurant serve also add-on beverage options such as Chinese tea in pot (RM6 per pot), Coca-Cola and Sprite (RM3 per can) as well as Tiger Beer (RM15 per bottle).

Last but not least:

DESSERTS

Chocolate ice cream, vanilla ice cream and mix!

The perfect ending of a hearty meal

Here's the pricing for Feifan Hotpot:

Lunch 11am-5pm: Adult RM35.90+, Children (90-130cm) 50%, 90cm below free

Dinner 5pm-11pm: Adult RM45.90+, Children as above

120mins per session

Pricing are subject to 10% service charge

On-going promotions are:

• 20% student discount for lunch session (Monday-Friday except Public Holidays)
• FREE Buffet for Birthday Guest with 3 paying adults (valid on 3 days before/after and on actual day itself, ID card for authentication procedure needed)

For more information:

Feifan Hotpot Official Facebook Page

Contact number: +603-7496 6438

Lot G-10, SS15 Courtyard, Jalan SS15/4G
47500 Subang Jaya

50GRAM x SWANICOCO: SHOW THE VELVET LIPSTICK

We all know about positive quotes about woman and her lipstick, such as " Give a woman the right lipstick she can conquer the world" or "If you're sad add more lipstick and attack" etc. Since when I'm a little girl, the very first thing that I stole from my mum's makeup table and apply it on my face is a stick of lipstick. I personally think that lipstick has this mysterious attraction to all the women and we just wanna collect every colour, every design.

In year 2018, THE lipstick that you shouldn't miss collecting is the 50GRAM x Swanicoco Show The Velvet Lipstick. Swanicoco is the hottest brand in Korea this year and they are famous for producing natural cosmetics products with their natural biotechnology research. The name Swanicoco represents elegance (Swan) and natural ingredients (Coco), the brand's cosmetics products with Bio-Fermentation process received a huge hit. With more than 80% fermented extracts from natural source such as grains, fruits, vegetables and Korean medicinal herbs, Swanicoco's eco-friendly products helps improve skin conditions.

Back to the lipstick, Swanicoco's Show The Velvet Lipstick series come in 3 shades: #PinkBlossom, #ShineOrange and #JulietRed. The shade that 50GRAM is bringing into Malaysia will be the #JulietRed and it's a limited edition colour as there will be no restock for this lipstick once it's sold out! I was wearing this lipstick when I went to tai tai afternoon tea session with my girls last week and its colour made my whole look popped!* 

50GRAM x SWANICOCO
SHOW THE VELVET LIPSTICK
in
JULIET RED

I like the sturdy packaging of the lipstick, plastic with matte finishing outlook does add on some classy touch. I was surprised by their twist-to-open lipstick cap because I love cap like this! Although it may causes some slight inconveniences (touch up with one hand with mirror in another hand perhaps?) but I wouldn't find the lipstick cap fly off inside my bag and all my stuff were smudged by lipstick. I don't have to tell you how many times I had to clean my bag and stuff because of a loose lipstick cap. Definitely a yes to a secure lipstick cap like Swanicoco's!

This fiery bold red with a hint of orange lipstick is perfect for the summer ( yays to Malaysian for having summer all year long!) and also for those who wanted their skin to look few shades fairer. The colour does compliments certain skin tones to make whole appearance looked brighter and cheerful! Not to mention the lipstick colour is super vibrant even I apply only a layer on my lips!

One layer and my lips looking so kissable!

swatch it on my hand

This lipstick gave my lips a velvet finish with tons of moisturising ingredients such as carnauba wax and castor oil to protect my lips. I can feel that my lips are as in covered in velvety duvet, lips looking more supple because powdery finishing lips shows lesser fine lines too. This aside, it's a super long lasting lipstick as well because I remember I don't even have to do any touch up after the high tea session! Perfect lipstick for a lazy girl like me lololololololol.

So if you would like to achieve some K-Beauty makeup looks, just apply the lipstick at the inner of your lips and smudge them! (will try to do makeup video using this lipstick soon!) As someone who loves playing with colours when it comes to makeup, Swanicoco's Show The Velvet Lipstick is definitely worth the value! And thanks to 50GRAM, I don't have to fly all the way to Korea to get this lipstick, and you can own this beauty at just RM88.85 deliver to your doorstep (nationwide delivery!)

Let's be an effortless beautiful girl! (speaking from my lazy but still wanna look pretty persona hahaha)

Buy them HERE!



For more information:

50GRAM Official Website

50GRAM Official Facebook Page

Swanicoco Official Website

You Are Wearing A Wrong Bra

Well, unless you recently got yourself fitted by an experienced sales assistant who knows well about their products and body sizes.

It is not exactly a taboo to talk about bras but I bet there are a lot Malaysian women who don't understand their body/cup sizes and they are not equipped with bra knowledges. Mainly because our mum generation think it's sinful to waste such money on something that people can't see/it wasn't a crucial clothing items. Hence the next generation don't understand the importance of fitted bra on our body. 

Thanks to Neubodi, the leading bra specialist in Malaysia invited a few of us bloggers to join a private workshop session last month. Sometimes I feel so blessed as a blogger because I get to know first hand news as well as extra knowledges from various brands/industries like this time - I learned so much about bras and how it affects our body shape, well being as well as mentally too.

"When I say that you most probably are wearing a wrong bra, it wasn't a joke you know? 8 out of 10 women wears the wrong bra everyday and worst of all, they don't know about it." says Bra Specialist who gave us a small presentation during the workshop.

"But you still have chance to make things the right way by changing to a right bra." Started in year 2008, Neubodi has become the leading brand in women's innerwear industry who offers perfect fit to all women. Consist of 600 sizes, colours and designs, Neubodi's bra are available from cup size 65A to 100I. 

That's right, 65A at the left, 100I at the right.

While we are baffled by the wide range of bra sizes, bra specialist of Neubodi told us that a good bra has over 60 parts of materials to make it into an impeccable fit. Which means, if your bra doesn't have a center piece, soft boning structure at the side as well as good ol' 3 hooks, that means you really have to kiss your bra goodbye. 

While I was trying to hunch my back to hide that I'm wearing the wrong/faulty bra, this was shown to us:

Not just that, my confidence just slipped away from me when I found out that I wore a faulty bra too. How bad is this right? During an ongoing presentation/workshop, my confidence just got low because I'm feeling uncomfortable about my bra which doesn't fit me. I bet most of us ignored these little details which formed a part of us and we are letting all these "bra mistakes" get the better of us. 

Our slacked posture, some even hunch their backs due to loose bra straps and feeling diffident. Slowly all these little things become a part of us, and it changed our life. No joke, imagine feeling diffident for 1 day, 1 month, 1 year, 10 years and so. Such a huge cost we're paying for a freaking faulty bra. Imagine that!

At Neubodi, I experienced a "no measure tape" holistic fitting method. The bra specialist and consultants of Neubodi knew exactly what cup size you are (yes, they scan you with their eyes and knew your cup size at first sight lololol) before they place their hands on your lower chest to "confirm" their guesses. 

This holistic fitting method is so unique I felt the connection between me and the bra specialist, placing my trust on her knowledge to find my perfect bra. Unlike measuring using measure tape, by feeling with their hands, they know exactly my body shape and size and managed to find a bra that I like with my favourite colour too!

Guess which is mine? :P

Isn't this a wonderful experience? And best of all, each and every women can walk into any Neubodi branch to experience this Holistic Fitting method for free! Experienced bra specialists who trained well will help you find your perfect bra because they believer every women deserves the right bra. 

Another bra-caring tips - how to wash your bra:

Although it's not wrong to stuff your bra into a net and throw them in a washing machine (always set "delicate washing" type please), but by washing your bra with your hands will make your bra last longer as it is more gentle and force is measurable too. 

Soaking them in warm water with detergent (not hot) for 10-15 mins, work your bras with your hands without twisting or squeezing too hard until the detergent is all gone. Then gingerly remove excessive water and hang the bra and air dry.

"this, is how you should hang your bra, not by your bra straps."

Make sure your bra is thoroughly dry before you wear them, and DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT dry your bras under scorching hot sun as the structure of your bra will ruined by the heat of the sun. As for those who likes to go extra mile in taking care of their bras, Neubodi has this Delicate Laundry Wash which uses 100% natural ingredients that removes unpleasant odour and stains while maintaining the vibrancy of colour.

It was such a eventful afternoon with Neubodi that I felt reborn as a women who knew herself better than before. I apologize to myself for neglecting the needs of my body all these years and made a promise to myself that I will take care of my body and treat it as a temple as how I should all these years. 

Thank you Neubodi for the precious experience.

Now I'm feeling so confident, I do think I should do a mini photoshoot of me and my Neubodi bra during my getaway soon. Stay tuned on my Instagram!

For more information:

Neubodi Official Website

Neubodi Official Facebook Page