THE DINNER SESSION AT DOTTY'S IOI CITY MALL

10th NOVEMBER 2023 ~ A dinner date was set with a few of my TESL friends when I was in KL/Selangor. The chosen venue was IOI City Mall and to get there, I took the train [LRT/MRT] from Taipan Station to Putra Heights then to Sungai Besi, and finally arrived at Putrajaya Central. From there, Dr. Hayati Ismail was kind enough to fetch and drive me to the mall.

We waited at Dotty's and finally by 8:00 p.m. approximately, six people and someone's daughter were there for another catching up session.

The food was good but the company of friends was the best thing that could ever happen. We had to leave by 9:30 p.m. and this time, Puan Siti Rohani Awang was chauffeuring me straight to the hotel, in the very heavy rain. We would be meeting again in the wedding reception the next day.

FOOTNOTE: I met two ex-students of SMK Taman Universiti and their father at the mall before going for dinner. The other family members were also there but they were somewhere else.

As they say: you can run but you cannot hide.

MY KL GASTRONOMIC ADVENTURE - BREAKFAST AT DOTTY'S

25th AUGUST 2018 ~ This was not a place for people to get the usual "nasi lemak", "roti canai" or "teh tarik" for their breakfast. I went western on that day, accompanied by three ladies of UPM TESL class of 1993: Puan Hazlina Aziz, Puan Hanna Sheikh Mokhtar and Puan Zanariah Abdul Shukor.

This place could be a haven for pastries. I wanted to just have the doughnut that morning but was asked to choose something more sophisticated. I ended eating egg and cheese sandwich as I really was not sure of what to pick.

The outlet I visited is located at Taman Tun Dr. Ismail. I was told there is always a long queue outside every Saturday and Sunday morning.

I should thank all my three friends again for the luxurious food as well as the company for breakfast. The Irish proverb is true after all: laughter is brightest in the place where the food is. Hopefully there will be more meetings over breakfast like this in the future. And I don't mind going back to Dotty's again.