KL Bucket List #12 - Night Out at Changkat

Boy oh boy, this was a big one! I was touched by the turnout and had a huge one, finishing about 1am at Gypsy.

John and Anna, Jason and Heather, Brian and Ailish (plus friends), Kosta, plus Matt, his wife and myself all crowded into Healy Macs Changkat Bukit Bintang for farewell drinks for me. Sadly my wife could not attend, such is the price of having a newborn in the house, not to mention two other kids! Here is the crowd below:

Changkat (as we call it) has always been the nightspot of choice for our group. My first night out here was way back in 2009 after I split up with my ex, and during my single months, spent many a night here. Actually, once I was with my wife (girlfriend at the time) we also spent many a night here, at least until my little angel appeared in 2012. Since then there have still been numerous gatherings, but nowhere near as many for me as the rest of the group, who still frequent the area as much now as they did then. Here's me with John and Jason:

Clearly I was well on my way by this time. Another shot with Brian below.

Those three guys represent the remaining core group of Avocet guys from the old Penjom days, and I will sorely miss all of them, especially Brian, with whom I share a lot in common. He plans to relocate to Europe at some point, so I am not sure how often I will see him in future, but I hope it is reasonably regularly. Certainly a lot of good memories of fun times shared and great conversations. Same with JR, we have had some great mornings, afternoons and evenings out over the years!

Not a great photo above, but it gives an idea if just what a hotspot Changkat is, especially late at night. There are a few places people go to eat and drink in KL, but Changkat is definitely #1. My life has changed in recent years - for the better too - so I don't get out here as much as I used to, but nevertheless, I will retain fond memories (blurred somewhat!) of the many nights out in this neck of the woods. From AFL games on Saturday afternoons to Ashes tests on any given morning, to 2am hazy drinking sessions at HM's, Gypsy, or the Whiskey Bar, a lot of water has passed under the bridge here, and a lot of tall stories told.

Thank-you my friends, for making this last night out at Changkat so memorable!

KL Bucket List - Honourable Mention #4

Today I thought I'd throw in a quadrella of food items that didn't make the bucket list, but are bloody good, and things I rarely if ever encounter elsewhere.

#1 Chicken Rice

This one is chicken mixed with siew yoke (roast pork). I love the chicken broth cooked rice this comes with, as well as the succulent juicy roast chicken. Oh boy it's so tasty! Plus they usually serve it with this ginger-infused chili sauce, which is just divine. I devoured this portion in just a couple of minutes!

#2 Wonton Mee

Another breakfast staple from Shangri La coffee shop, this is a tasty dish and an often favourite of the kids. It is essentially mee soaked in a soy sauce mixture, served with some wontons and in this case, roast duck. It is a rich, delectable dish, and while not one I crave often, one I certainly enjoy whenever we get some.

#3 Tiger Beer

The local beer of choice, and one I have a love-hate relationship with. It is a unique flavour, quite intense on the palate, and sometimes, too much for me. But on a hot day it is hard to go past an icy cold pint of this beer! I will miss it for sure, and if I ever see it in Australian stores, will be sure to pick up a 6-pack. More about my adventures with Tiger in another post - the good old days at the Wesly.

#4 Melon Milk

Frankly I haven't really had much of this drink of late - only once in the last year or so really. But it is a unique and lovely flavour - honeydew melon flavoured milk, as only the Japanese can recreate. The serving size is just perfect - any more would be too much - and it is just the right level of sweetness. I imagine it exists in many other places but have seen it nowhere else. I'll keep an eye out in Australian Asian stores for sure!

Ok, so that's another four honourable mentions for the bucket list of things I will miss about life in KL. Plenty more to come!

KL Bucket List #11 - Beef Noodle

Well, this was one goal I thought I was going to have to send to the scrap heap - only a week to go and all the decent beef noodle places are on the other side of KL, plus not easy to go to with three small kids.

But lo and behold, my wife's dad Richard arrived yesterday to take some of our stuff to his place (which is where we will spend our last week) and informed me he was going to take me to beef noodle brunch this morning. I was most impressed!

Beef noodle, when done properly, is simply mouth-watering. It is usually cuts of beef that need serious cooking, and the meat is boiled until it is melt-in-your-mouth tender. Plus they includes all kinds of offal, which is unappetizing to some, but simply delicious to me. Put that all together in a noodle soup dish and I am hooked, each and every time.

Today we went to Pudu. I have spent little time in this area, so it was an eye-opening experience, and a pleasure to see a new part of KL, even in the twilight of my stay here. Photos below show the typical street scenes, old Chinese shop houses, etc...

Luckily I was with Richard, or else I would never have found the place! It was a typical Chinese coffee shop, although it appeared to only have one or two stalls.

The noodles themselves were pretty good, although it was not the kind of beef broth soup I was expecting - more the bah kut teh herbal variety. Nevertheless, it was still damn tasty! We were too early for tendons, but the tripe, belly and beef balls were all present. All in all, a great dish, and I was very happy to be able to tick this one off the list. Richard and I brought my eldest two kids with us, but I think they were a bit shy in this kind of environment and refused to eat. Oh well, we soon devoured their share!

KL Bucket List #10 - Card Night

Thank-you my beautiful and loving wife, for letting me go out last night!

We have had a challenging week, with our eldest suffering from hand, foot and mouth disease, and our middle boy also showing symptoms - although he hasn't been debilitated by it as yet. So with all kids at home and lots and lots to do, it has been a tough and very busy week.

So even though my mates had arranged a going-away card night for me, I wasn't expecting to be able to go. Luckily though, we got dinner, bath and teeth out of the way pretty early, and my wife was happy to keep an eye on the older two as long as they were in bed, which they were. So off I went!

We held the card night at Suria Stonor this time around, after many in a row at Kosta's place at Park 7. All these condos have memories for me, as I have known a number of people who have stayed in KLCC over the years - specifically Russ in Park 7 and Brian in Suria Stonor. Russ is now in Jakarta and Brian down at Dua, but I remember the places well. Anyway, Jason was hosting this time, and he lives in Suria Stonor, thus the choice of venue. We held it in the meeting room by the pool.

We also had a visit from Christina and Todd in the afternoon, so I had had a few beers before going out. So despite my resolve to play maturely again, I was probably a little gung-ho, as well as unlucky with my cards. It took me a long while and three buy-ins before I won a hand, but I won a few more after that, and finished probably about RM150 down. Not too bad.

There were eight of us in total, which is a large number for cards, but makes it good fun. Plenty of banter to be had! We had three friends of friends as I call them, as they were not my friends, but nice enough blokes. Damien and Kosta are also friends of friends, but as I have known them a long time now, I call them my friends too. Both great blokes.

My old Sons of Gwalia mate JR was there as always, and Jason, who I know from Avocet days, both of these guys are still KL-based. Photo below is close to the end of the night! FoF on left, on right from top to bottom are Damien, JR, Kosta and Jason:

This is one of the things I will miss the most about KL, my friends. I don't get out and socialise anywhere near as much as these guys do, but I do enjoy their company whenever I do get out. We finished cards about 11.30 and then I went with Jason to the new nightlife area Trec, which looked pretty cool, but I was buggered, so bailed soon after arriving and having a look around.

Hopefully I can make some new mates in Barooga and have a few card nights there! I believe pubs still occassionally host poker events, so will get into that once in a while if I can. But I will miss these card night the most - trusty old Texas Hold 'Em of course, and the two games Kosta introduced me to: Southern Cross, where everyone gets four cards, and four cards are placed in a cross in the centre of the table. These are then turned face up one by one with each round of betting. You can make a five card poker hand using two or three from your hand and the rest from the table. You can only use the table though on one limb of the cross, so it is a lot of fun!

The other game Kosta introduced, and is his personal favourite, is Omaha, where again you get four cards, but a usual flop, turn and river card in the centre. This time you can only use two from your hand, and three on the table. So sometimes you can get an awesome hand, but can't do anything with it!

Thanks for the memories my old mates.... :)

Finished!

THANK GOD.

Data input for my punting analysis has finally finished. I must NEVER allow myself to get four months behind again as it was a painfully long process to catch up. Nevertheless, it is now done. 2,886 records input, covering both my Lucky and Hot systems. Here is a summary of where the base data sits:

		# Bets	Total Div	%	SR
Lucky	Win	1374	1,236.45	-10%	19%
	Place	1374	1,404.99	2%	48%
Hot	Win	1414	1,459.31	3%	20%
	Place	1414	1,444.80	2%	46%
Both	Win	98	70.35	-28%	22%
	Place	98	78.35	-20%	44%

It's actually better than I thought it would be. Three out of four categories are in (small) profit, prior to analysis and adjustment of rules. Of course these numbers are swayed somewhat by the $126 Hot winner I had recently, so I will need to put in a top-cut as part of my statistical work. Still, it looks promising. Interesting though, that when a horse qualified for both systems at once, the results were significantly poorer. Still, much less data to go on there, which I am pretty sure is the main reason behind that result.

Apart from top-cut, the other thing I want to focus on, and actually my main focus, will be strike rate. If I can achieve a 50% SR in place betting, I would need an average dividend of 2.10 to make a 5% profit. That is certainly achieveable, but I would be far happier if my required average dividend was below $2. In order to reach that goal, I need to improve my strike rate.

Same for win bets. I think a SR of 30% should do the trick, that would require an average dividend of $3.50 to make 5% profit. I feel fare more comfortable about that dividend, but getting a 30% SR will be no easy task.

Plus I also need to strike a balance in terms of volume. I don't want to have 100 bets per week, nor do I want to have 2. I am hoping to have enough turnover to strike my predicted outcomes on a monthly or at worst quarterly basis, but at this stage I have no idea. Anyway, time to clean the data, finish inputting the tracks, and then get down to some stats!

KL Bucket List on Standby

Sadly my beautiful little girl Sophie has come down with an acute case of hand, foot and mouth disease, so is home under quarrantine. We are desperately hoping that our newborn son Alexander doesn't get it, as well as little Daniel.

So I am helping my lovely wife hold the fort at home at the moment, so not much time for indulging in my own bucket list interests! I have however, been able to do some work on my punting database.

Anyway, more to follow. Hoping my little girl can have a restful sleep tonight and feels like eating something tomorrow...

KL Bucket List #9 - Rojak

So I ticked another item off the list today - Rojak.

Rojak is a local snacky food, with fried bread, boiled eggs, squid sambal, and shredded veggies, all smothered in satay sauce. It really is a tasty and very hearty snack, and cheap too.

We have a guy who sets up his truck on the roadside close to our place, so have indulged quite a few times in the two years we have lived in this house.

Haha, it doesn't look very appealing in the photo I know, but trust me it is yummy! Bloody filling too. It's not a dish I crave more often than once every couple of months, but I always enjoy it when we do get some. Definitely a unique dish to this part of the world and one that will not be easy to recreate!

KL Bucket List #8 - Big Walk to Jaya One

So today I did another walk, to a place I have wanted to go for a while now - Jaya One.

It wasn't a huge walk, just a bit over 6.5km, but with the heat as it is at the moment, it was not an easy one. Plus I miscalculated and ended up doing almost half of it walking directly on the bloody highway, which is never fun.

But I made it, here is the map below:

Jaya One itself didn't do a lot for me. I don't know if I was just too tired, but I doubt it, as I have done far longer walks before and still found somewhere to kick back and have a couple. But after a quick 7-11 stop and a short walk around, I decided against staying, and taxied home.

Perhaps it was the layout, it is a weird place, kind of all over the shop and not laid out in a very user-friendly manner, or so it seemed to me. There were a few bars and restaurants though, so it might be worth checking out for some. Just not me, not today.

I enjoyed the walk though :) Will have beers at home today!

KL Bucket List - Honourable Mention #3 - Pavilion

So today I had a bit of an outing, meeting an old friend to tick off an item from the bucket list, another in a shop, and an honourable mention along the way. Pavilion shopping mall, in the heart of Bukit Bintang.

Mall shopping and hanging out is a way of life here in Malaysia. Seriously, there must be over 100 major malls in this city - far more than any other city I have ever been to. To be a good mall you need to have it all - shopping, food, hang-out spots, plenty of places to wander around or loiter. Pavilion doesn't have the sheer quantity of some places, such as Midvalley Mega Mall, but it does it in style. Of all the malls in KL, it's my favourite, and has been my go-to mall for a long long time now.

The photos above show the main entrance (looking up Jalan Bukit Bintang) and the open plaza area, where they have displays and such. The following photos are a sample of the rest of the mall.

The first photo above shows one of my favourite spots in KL to hang out - the outside area adjacent to Pavilion, full of coffee shops, bars and eateries. Awesome spot for people spotting, and generally just hanging out. We have had many a good session here - usually with my mate JR, but also with a number of others. It's not cheap by any means, but it's a damn good spot. The photos below are a couple of places along this avenue.

Another great part of Pavilion is the food court. Like most in KL it is halal, but that's ok, there are plenty of porky options elsewhere, and what is on offer here is pretty damn good. In fact you can get a version of most of the country's delicacies here.

What a range of choices! As indicated in the second photo, there are also a number of restaurants ringing the food court, one of which is our favourite Japanese place in KL, wonderful sashimi and sushi! Not sure if we will get a chance to try it before we go, but we've had many a good meal here over the years.

Lastly, I wanted to nod my hat to one of the reasons Pavilion became my favoured hang-out spot to begin with:

Just across the road is the Westin. I haven't set foot in there this time around (2013-2016) but in the early years, it was our hotel of choice, and a fantastic place to stay. Being just across the road from Pavilion made it easy to hang out here too.

I will have a lot of good memories of this place - from the day John and I witnessed a mini hurricane, to the karaoke night with my wife's friends, and many many others in-between. There is one other bucket list visit to occur here, which will no doubt happen, so more to come!

KL Bucket List #7 - Cathy's

Time for another boozy entry! This time it's the oldest pub that we have been visiting in our group over the years - Cathy's.

Cathy's has been around since the 80's, in Wisma Cosway, one of the older malls in KL, which is across the road from Pavilion. It has not changed one iota in that time, even with the same owner, Michael. Alas he was not around today, apparently he hit it pretty hard last night. I met my mate JR here, who has been coming here since those old days.

Our group generally chooses Changkat Bukit Bintang as our nightspot, but for daytime drinks we go to a whole lot of different plances, particularly me, in my exploration of various parts of KL. But Cathy's has been on the list longer than most places, and we still meet up here for a few very cold and well-priced beers, on a fairly frequent basis.

Michael likes to decorate his walls with a myriad of different old pub artifacts, jokes, and various booze-related items. Most have been there as long as the pub itself, and the longevity and consistency of the place is comforting. In a city like KL, many things have come and gone over the eight years I have been here, but this is one thing that has not changed.

Here is a photo of my mate JR and I enjoying a cold one or two.

I will miss my mates more than I will miss the places we hung out together, but whilst I will almost certainly catch up with John and his family elsewhere, I have a feeling Cathy's won't be around for too much longer, and that I will probably not be back, so it's a bit of an end of an era for me drinking here. Farewell Cathy's, and best of luck to you Michael! Thanks for the beers and memories!

Oh and the chicken wings, they were damn good too...

KL Bucket List #6 - Chinese Jerky

Yet another food goal to tick off the list! This one is definitely unique to Asia and is unlikely to be found in Australia in a decent form, nor cooked at home easily.

I don't know what the Chinese name is, but we call it Chinese jerky. It kind of is like beef jerky, except it's pork, and while you can get it in strips of cured meat, we prefer the version that is made from mince, as shown in photo.

Just as it appears, it is juicy, bursting with flavour, and simply delicious! What you can see is the version we got this time, made from mince, and to the right is the version made from whole meat. It is kind of a bbq flavour, and it is a little sweet, but it is simple divine to eat. I even have it on a sandwich with cheese (although my wife thinks I am a maniac for doing so!).

The place we prefer to but this treat is a shop in Pavilion, which also has an outlet at Midvalley:

Yummy! No doubt this will only last a couple of days at home, even though I bought quite a lot of it, as the kids love to snack on it too.

Lego Idea - Forest

So one of these days I plan to build a big Lego landscape, hopefully in such a way that it can accomodate most of our sets and themes. I am thinking something with some ocean, beach, rocks/mountains, a forest, and then eventually a town. Sounds big I know, but I think it can be done in a reasonable size.

Anyhow, one of the key things for this project is experimenting with building trees. So today I looked up a few sites, and found this magnificent photo! Check this out...

It is absolutley magnificent! The owner of the photo is Cyndi Bourne, and the link to her Flickr is  https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyndibourne/ I don't get on those kind of sites, but will look her up from time to time to see what she is up to as she is clearly very gifted. I love this forest!

One of the great things about this is that is gives me an idea of just how many pieces of different kinds I will need to build my own forest. Not too daunting, but it is about 1000 or so.

Punting Results - Saturday 7th May 2016

Just a quick summary of yesterday's action from my two base systems. As previously stated, I am going to analyse my data soon and see if I can tweak my overall results. As such, this is my last day of analysis using the current systems - I am going to use my spare time for the next month or two analysing my data and seeing if I can improve things. There will be a lot of info on the blog though, regarding this process, although I am not sure yet if I will share my findings :P

Anyway, onto yesterday's results:

Hot System

Bets: 32

Wins: 2 or 6% strike rate

Return: $10.20 or a 68.3% loss

Places: 11 or 34% strike rate

Return: $25.05 or 21.8% loss


Lucky System

Bets: 27

Wins: 4 or 15% strike rate

Return: $15.5 or 42.6% loss

Places: 14 or 52% strike rate

Return: $31.05 or 15% profit

So, mixed results again, but particularly poor for the Hot system. Lucky did very well with place betting, and at this stage, looks like a good thing going forward. But as previously stated, if I can wrangle my strike rates for winning up to about 30%, then win betting presents a better chance for higher dividends. I think.

Anyway, keep an eye out for the next series of posts on my analyses!

KL Bucket List - Honourable Mention #2

So on my walk to DSH the other day, I thought I'd try and tick another item off the bucket list, and tapau beef noodle home for the family. Alas I couldn't find anywhere that looked good, but I did happen to walk past the old hawker centre that Ifer and I breakfasted at the morning before Sophie was born! And they had a huge mixed rice thing going. And it looked good....

This is the restaurant, the mixed rice stall is visible just inside on the right. It is basically an open air buffet, with about 30 different dishes to choose from. You get a container of rice, and then pile on whatever you want!

I got a couple of containers for my wife and I, and one of fried noodles with some egg and meat for the kids. I sampled a variety of dishes including steamed fish, sweet and sour pork, tofu, egg, you name it. Damn good too it was.

KL Bucket List #5 Big Walk to Desa Sri Hartamas

So today I had a gutful of being indoors, and went for my first big walk since baby Alex came along in late March. Prior to that I had been doing two per week and feeling damn good for it. Since then it hasn't been so easy, with looking after kids, doing all the shopping, a fair amount of housework, etc, and to top it all off, the frigging heatwave that has hit KL these past two months or so!

But today I said bugger it and went. I almost didn't make it far as it was stinking hot, but I persisted. My destination today was Desa Sri Hartamas. I decided to take the same route as when I went to TTDI, and walk around Beringin, to the Kerinchi Link highway:

Apart from the heat it was a lovely walk. I enjoy Jalan Beringin, as it is a tree-lined road, a circuit road (so it's easy to just do a loop and go home again), and there is plenty of sidewalk. Plus being a hilly area, there are some awesome mansions sitting on the sides of the hills to gawk at. I particularly find interesting the various ways in which the builders have made use of the slope areas:

Once at the Kerinchi Link, it's just a couple more km's down to the Desa Sri Hartamas township:

My destination today was a bar called Chapter One. It is the old Finnegan's bar, which was at that location when I lived close-by in 2011/12. Actually Finnegan's is a bit of a vanished institution in KL - when I first arrived in 2008 there were three of them (that I knew of); one in Changkat BB, one on Jalan Sultan Ismail, and this one at DSH. I think I only got to the one on JSI once, before it was knocked down. I believe that site hosts a skyscraper now, such is the price of development. The one in CBB was next, and is now Front Page - a half decent sports bar, but a bit aged all the same, and frankly not my pub of choice in Changkat.

The Finnegan's at DSH though, was always a great choice, as in those days, there were few western-style bars in this area, so I frequented the place regularly. I remember a big day for the 2011 rugby world cup there as likely the last hurrah for me before I left the first time, and then Finnegan's disappeared once and for all.

DSH itself though, hasn't changed much, although like Finnegan's, many places have come and go in the years that I have known the place. it is one of those standard post-war developments, with 2 and 3 storey shop-lots and narrow streets, as shown below:

But they maintain the sidewalk well enough, so it's easy enough to walk around, even if it sucks to drive in the place. Mainly of course, because of rude local drivers who believe they have the right to park wherever the hell they please.

Anyway, 8km and a couple of cool drink stops later, I found Chapter One, at the site of the old Finnegan's. They haven't changed the decor of the place much at all - even the old bookshelves are still the same, with the same contents on the shelves. In some ways that was kind of nice though, from a nostalgic perspective. I didn't even look at the food menu, but had yet another cold drink, followed by 2 x RM22 pints of Asahi. Not bad for non-happy hour prices really! Some photos of the old place below:

8km is not a huge walk for me, but after a good month off, it was not a bad start. Looking forward to the next one!

BrickLink Lesson

In a post last week I espoused the virtues of BrickLink, but also warned of the dangers.

I realised that in my UCS project, I had likely been too hasty in my belief that if one store had all of one part I needed, that would be better than buying it in multiple lots from various stores and thus incurring all that extra postage.

Compounding this was the fact that once I found a store that could supply all of one part number that I needed, I also went through the rest of the UCS part list and bought everything else that store had in the same package. Sound logic only from the point of view of saving postage. This study will show that my logic was in fact, severely flawed....

Project: 10030 Imperial Star Destroyer UCS Set

Part #: 4599 in Light Gray. Need 144 for the set, of which 118 are still outstanding.

So I go to BrickLink and search...

There are three stores that can provide the full 118 pieces, the cheapest of which is RM1.51 pp (working in Malaysian currency while I'm still here). This works out to RM 178.18 for the lot, which is almost $60 Australian, which is a lot of money for 118 very small pieces.

So then I go to the cheapest stores that have at least reasonable stocks of the part (ie more than 1 or 2) and see how that compares:

One has 60 x RM 0.55 = RM 33
The other has 58 x RM 0.83 = RM 48.14

So we have a total of RM 81.14

If we assume RM30 postage per order, which even for the full 118 pieces is likely over-estimating it, we get:

RM 208.18 for the one store, or
RM 141.14 for two stores.

RM67.04 or 32% difference, is one big damn difference, and well worth the effort of buying from multiple stores.

Maybe I need to work on this further and graph it...

But what this points out without a doubt is that I have overspent on the UCS set.

Dammit.

KL Bucket List #4 Pork Noodle

This is a big one.

Out of all the various food items on my KL bucket list, this one probably has the most feeling attached to it. My wife introduced me to pork noodle soon after we met in 2010, and it has been one of my favourite breakfast dishes ever since.

It is a beautiful fragrant broth, with both pork mince and fillet, and often with liver and intestine aswell, plus crispy pork lard croutons, and a variety of other bits and pieces, depending on the stall you buy it from.

My goto place these days is at Batai, and the Shangri-La hawker stalls. They are expensive by KL standards, but given the area and the place it's located, I think they're ok. It is certainly popular among the locals! The photo below is the hawker centre, looking much like they usually do - most people sit outside.

The photo below shows the stall I get my pork noodle from:

Hard to see the menu, but what sets this guy apart is the variety of goodies he puts in - as well as what I mentioned above (minus intestine, alas he doesn't have that), he includes two kinds of pork balls, tofu skin, Chinese cabbage, and an egg. I don't even get all the extras, he has several others too!

It is not a cheap dish, at RM12 for the bowl, but to me is well and truly worth it, and one of the food items I will miss the most when we leave. I love the way the locals package food too, as shown here:

And then of course, once home, the final, plated dish:

Eaten with cut chili and soy on the side, and it is just wonderful, mmmmm........

KL Bucket List #3 Nasi Lemak

The food theme for ticking items off the bucket list continues, with a local stalwart - nasi lemak - being had for breakfast this morning. This dish is basically rice cooked in coconut milk, served with sambal, ikan bilis, peanuts, boiled egg, and cucumber. That verion is called biasa, or basic. Today I had one of my staples, which is with ayam masak mera, a spicy chicken dish.

Of all the local (specifically Malay) foods, this one is perhaps the most prevalent. You can get it at classy restaurants, fast food shop, cafe's, 7-11, supermarkets, and pretty much any other place that sells food. My preference though, is shown below:

Yes I find it hard to go past the good old NL lady up the road from our house. There must be a dozen of these within 5 minutes of our place, so who knows how many in KL, 1000's no doubt! For my wife and I, with the extra dish, plus a fried egg each, it was only RM10.50, about A$3.50. Awesome value!

It comes wrapped in grease-proof paper, and is shown below. Looks a bit messy I admit, but oh boy does it taste good!