MY HOMETOWN GASTRONOMIC ADVENTURE - TIFFIN LUNCH AFTER SCHOOL

14TH NOVEMBER 2019 ~ Someone who paid a formal visit to school and I had to entertain her for lunch after that. Lucky enough that someone happened to a friend of mine so a lunch date was set with other husband and wife friends right after.

This time we had lunch which was specially served in tiffin containers in a restaurant at Puteri Pan Pacific Hotel. It was a decent meal of rice, two dishes of vegetables and meat/chicken each, plus dessert.

By the way, if you are not sure what tiffin is, it is actually food containers made mainly of tin and stacked on top of one another, usually in 3 or 4 tiers.

If you think this lunch was expensive because it was at Puteri Pan, then you are wrong. Surprisingly the price was very reasonable indeed, or I could say quite cheap for that kind of lunch variety. Thanks Puan Mazelina Mahmood for suggesting the tiffin lunch at this place, for a change, instead of all the usual eating places we have been to.

TEACHER'S DAY HI-TEA AT PUTERI PACIFIC HOTEL

28th APRIL 2019 ~ The Teacher's Day was celebrated earlier as the original date will be in the fasting month. I could only attend the morning session of the event in school as there was a meeting to attend outside. However, the meeting ended early so I still managed to attend the hi-tea/luncheon at Puteri Pacific Hotel at 2.00 p.m.

We were here too back in 2017 for the same reason.

There was no agenda for the get-together except to get together and eat as much as we could enjoy the buffet spread after school. And many teachers/staff of SMK Dato Jaafar still turned up even we had to pay slightly more for the meal. Teacher's Day is only celebrated once a year so this should be time to enjoy life once in a while.

A HI-TEA SESSION IN CONJUNCTIONS WITH TEACHER'S DAY

The teachers of SMK Dato' Jaafar decided to throw a hi-tea party for ourselves in conjunctions with Teacher's Day celebration which should be yesterday. Shouldn't we reward ourselves for all the hard work done so far (with food)? We paid a small amount of money to eat all-we-can from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. at Puteri Pan Pacific Hotel located at the heart of Johor Bahru city, which was my first time having a hi-tea there.

I left my camera at home and that should explain the low quality photos taken by my (ancient) Samsung tab. I desperately need to buy a new gadget. However, there would always be many other people who posted the photos on the school's Whatsapp/Telegram groups so I needed not to worry much.

Unlike the usual staff meeting, this should be one kind of session people did not mind staying back after school.