Monday, March 31, 2014

Black & White @ KL Chow Kit Market

31.03.2014 Camera Times
@ Chow Kit (click here to Google Map)
Camera: Olympus OMD EM5
Lens: m.zuiko 45mm f1.8
Thoughts: Turning the EM5 into Black & White mode, 以黑白写实题材用心去拍照! I was satisfied with the 45mm lens, even at tougher lighting conditions, it was able to deliver some good shots. 

试试每天都在做这个 Try doing this everyday
看报看档 Business as usual
菜市的人都叫他‘矮仔’,在这里做了几十年了 People in the Market calls him 'Shorty', has been working here for few decades
有生意做总是好事 It's a good thing there is still business
年纪大了 (2) Age catching up
不用焦,是正当生意 Don't worry, it's legitimate business
冲冲走过 Rushing through
(粤话) “数还数,路还路” Doing things right
他说是非洲美食 He told me it is an African cuisine
年纪大了 (3) Age catching up
街檔主心聲无人知 How difficult it must be
想起黑羊和白羊的故事 Patience is a virtue
老当益壮 A healthy elderly
卖鸡佬的办公室 Outdoor office
好像在拍戏 Looks like a scene
全蛋面机 Wan Ton Mee machine

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

叉烧云吞面 Chasiew WanTon Mee @ 莲姐云吞面 at 吉隆坡燕美巴刹 KL Imbi Old Market

24.08.2018 Breakfast
莲姐云吞面 at 吉隆坡燕美巴刹 KL Imbi Old Market (click here to Google Map)
12, Jalan Kampung, Pudu, 55100 Kuala Lumpur
GPS Location: 3°08'37.2"N 101°43'01.7"E
叉烧云吞面 Chasiew WanTon Mee rm$6 👍👍😋😋
Budget: MYR$10
Cuisine: Malaysian Chinese Wan Ton Mee
Highlights: Excellent Dumpling
Parking: Free
Thoughts: It may not be as "clean" and a little bit of smell too from the wet market. The old Imbi market is a place I have been for morning breakfast for such a long time (maybe 15 or is it 20 years or more). There are so much memories of faces I see (the hawkers and vendors in the market) and none of them I really know. A few I know as the tea/coffee they brew and eat the breakfast they cook. 
莲姐云吞面 Lin Jie Wan Ton Mee offers a good noodle base with excellent add-ons especially which I like is Lin Jie's 鸡脚 chicken feet and 水饺 dumpling. With the pork section opens as early as 6am, 2 stalls offers the freshes Roasted Pork still warm and crunchy. I often get a rm$5 to go along with the Wan Ton Mee. 
(update: the Old Imbi Market is now permanently closed, moving to the new ICC Pudu, this new location is "without soul", no more street food feeling and Lin Jie together with other vendors are forced to move to this new location. Eating Lin Jie's Wan Ton Mee is no longer the same feeling as before in the Old Market environment.)
Rating: 7/ 10 👍👍😋😋
Operating hours: 06:30am–12:00noon


My breakfast this morning (我的早餐) ...
How she cooked my Noodles this morning ...

莲姐的水饺和鸡脚云吞面, 我最喜欢 The Dumpling and Chicken Leg Wan Ton Mee are my favorites here
莲姐云吞面,应该试一试 Wan Ton Mee here, should try
做的都是街坊生意 Regular customers
终于遇到对手 A worthy opponent
吉隆坡燕美市场大排档 KL Hawkers
一切如常 As usual
Old IMbi MaRket

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

m.zuiko 9mm fish-eye @ KL Streets

11.03.2014 Camera Time
@ m.zuiko 9mm fish-eye at KL Streets  
Camera: Olympus OMD EM5 
Lens: m.zuiko 9mm fish-eye
Thoughts: Works really well under good sunlight, but because its so light on the EM5; even indoors aren't too bad but the EM5's ISO 2000 held up quite well as well. Bougth the lens 2nd hand at rm$100!

同事说, 去了人物, 会有点纽约的感觉 New York feel (without the humans)
有时候拍这种街头照,偶然路过的人会觉得很有问题, 这就是我要拍的情景 I was really just trying a catch a curious passeby when photographing this scene
感觉好鬼鼠 snicky me
渺小的大树在都市建築丛林中挣扎  Green struggle in the city amongst the concrete towers
拍的时候,有一种想法,如果7mm就好了,贪心 Greedy to want wider when shooting this one
好像走了一圈又一圈 It is like going around in circles
这小小的鱼眼镜头, 室内这样的效果很不错啦 Small fish-eye lens, getting such interior results not bad
路的确是人走出来的 Human paths
喜欢那渐晕效应 Like the vignetting
四个星期没拍照了,终于放下心情带着相机吉隆坡铁塔周边走走 A morning walk with the OMD & Note 3 around KLCC
沐浴在早晨的阳光中 Bathing in the morning virgin sunlight
听说吉隆坡双峰塔周边这些豪华公寓炒的很厉害 Luxurious Condomiums on the rise around KLCC
午休, 新玩具 Having fun with new toy
摄影低潮期, 买个新玩具(鱼眼镜头)来冲喜下 Bought a new toy (I mean the fish-eye cap lens) to try to lift my state of 'low mood' on photography