Rosetti Bar and Diner at Johor Bahru.

Rosetti Bar and Diner (N1.46056 E103.73731) (formally known as Rhino Terrace Bar and Grille) is located next to Straits View Hotel along Jalan Skudai of Johor Bahru. It's still manage by the friendly Boss - Mr Fann.

Rosetti Bar and Diner

The Bar is well decorated with a English Theme and provide A cozy and relaxing environment. I like the outdoor area very much! But it's a bit warm especially at the dry evening...
It will be Perfect if it's seaview...:)

The ourdoor area of Rosetti Bar

If you company few friends with discussion, you can choose the sofa stting area which at the corner of the Bar...it's comfort and has a little privacy...

The indoor area...

I like to enjoy my beer at the bar counter area together with the soft music, my favorite corner!

The Bar counter of Rosetti Bar

The other side of the Bar...

Draft Carlsberg

Every time I visit the bar, I will definitely take a look of the 'mini bar counter' which decorated at the other corner of the bar. It has a special compartment for wine...and I just can't stop looking at it! Like it very much!

My favorite mini bar counter

There are some lightings in the bar are attractive and unique which I don't see it elsewhere...

Some lightings at Rosetti Bar

Beside the local beers, Rosetti Bar is the First & Only Bar at the moment in Johor Bahru which serve Draft Germen Franziskaner! Yes, on the tap! Have you try it?

Franziskaner on the Tap

If you are the Fans of Rhino Bar previously, please continue your enjoyment at Rosetti Bar, and if you are not, do drop by if you happen at the area, Feel The Different!

Rosetti Bar & Diner

Straits View Hotel 1D,

Jalan Skudai,

80200 Johor Bahru.

Tel : +607-2219228

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Berlin -- Jewish Museum turns 10

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

Quick reposting of an article on the Jewish Museum in Berlin -- which last month celebrated its 10th anniversary.

I well remember how, as the article puts it

Even in the late 1990s, people would wait for months to get a tour of the bare frame of the building with its dark stairwells, empty spaces and crooked walls. Paths and corridors branch off to symbolic destinations - to the outside, to freedom, to a 'Garden of Exile,' or to a dead end.

Care Haven Children's Home at Taman Bukit Rinting, Masai - Johor.

Care Haven Children's Home (N1 29.701 E103 51.597) is located at 2, Jalan Tembusu 20, Tmn Bukit Rinting, Masai - Johor. We were invited for the Mooncake Festival on September 2011. This was my first time celebrate Mid-Autumn party with all the orphan and single parent's children.

Care Haven Children's Home (established since 2003) (Orphanage)

It was corwded when we were there...especially the 'Lok-lok' food truck. Beside that, there were also buffet dinner for everyone.

The 'Lok-lok' food truck which always full of peoples!

All the delicious foods on the table...

The Wall Street Bar also sponsored the curry chicken for the night which was Very Tasty! I had it double! :) I saw some helpful guys carried the donated rice and foods into the centre during that night, peoples are continue support the Orphanage by doing some charites and donations.
Great!

I had a chat with one of the Principle - Mr Tham about the centre...there are total of 76 children at the centre for the moment. Age from 3 to 17 years old. And most of them are orphan and portion of the children are abandoned by their single parent.
The centre also has A Secondary school at Taman Setia Indah (Johor Bahru) for the children, but it's all depend on the kids decision. The Principles will let the children to decide their own school.

The Principles (Mr Tham and Miss Sim) sacrified thier own time and willing to take care for the unfortunate children, arrange their eduction and responsible for them.

I salute their 'Spirit'!

There was a Magic Show on that night which performed by the Magician - Mr Jason Hoon. Everyone like him very much because he really mixed with all the children!

Every children got their best spot and ready for the Magic Show of the night...

The Magician - Jason Hoon

And the Show began...

Every children were so concentrate with the Magic Show, and it was a good time for us to snapped some innocent kids portrait photos...

One of the Cute Littler girl among the children...

Surprised!

I'm wondering why she was so angry?!

Concentrating...

Mr Jason Hoon (Magician) interacting with the children...

Now you see...now you don't...

The Cute little girl again...

I said 'Two'...

Yeah...I said 'Two' too...

Pondering...how he did that?!

Smile...

At last part of the show was the Best moment, where Mr Jason made the whole room 'snowing' by his tissue paper trick!

Snowing in the room...

All the children were soooo happy to see the 'snow'! (even it was fake snow)

Jason did some explained to the children...

In the appreciation from the Principle (Ms Sim) to Mr Jason

After the show, all the children were out from the room and I was surprised to see some of them continued to learned from the notes hanging on the grill...

During that time, the 'Lok-lok' truck was totally empty! Not even a single stick left!

Empty plates on the Lok-lok truck...

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I met the young boy who only 4 years old and infected by some rare disease which cannot be cure (report from Hospital)...all the children are praying for him frequently...and he is well take care by the centre at the moment...
We are very fortunate to have our parents and family beside us, but not every children are! Just like the children at Care Haven...they are depend on the donations from the public which help them to continue their life journey...

The purpose of this blog post is to let everyone know the Care Haven Children's Home and it might just another few steps away from your house. Do our part as much as we can to help the unfortunate children, they need our help!

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Pusat Kebajikan Care Haven
2, Jalan Tembusu 20, Taman Bukit Rinting
81750 Masai, Johor
Tel : 07-3862394 H/P: 012-7244432 / 7534386
E-mail : c_haven@streamyx.com
Web-site: www.carehaven.org.my

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Rudi Klein Speaking in DC next week on his new book

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

I encourage anyone in the DC area to go hear my good friend Rudi Klein discuss his magnum opus, Synagogues in Hungary 1782-1918, at a talk at the Library of Congress on Monday. it's a fascinating subject and Rudi gives a lively talk! I posted about the book HERE when it came out.

Here's the press release for the talk:

“Synagogues in Hungary 1782-1918” Is Subject of Book Talk on Oct. 24

Architectural historian Rudolf Klein will discuss his new book, "Synagogues in Hungary 1782-1918" at noon on Monday, Oct. 24 in the European Division, Room LJ-250 of the Thomas Jefferson Building at 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C. The event, which is sponsored jointly by the European Division and the Hebrew Language Table, is free and open to the public; tickets are not required but seating is limited.

The focus of Klein’s book is the synagogues of Hapsburg Hungary and their transformation from 1782 through World War I. While the book is primarily architectural, it illuminates how synagogues served as vehicles for conveying values, identity and dreams that were at the core of Jewish existence in the Diaspora. The author deconstructs the traditional idea of synagogue style and introduces a matrix of formal and functional elements that constitute a synagogue.

Klein is a professor of modern architectural history at Szent Istvan University in Budapest. From 1996-2006, he was a professor of architectural history at Israel’s Tel Aviv University. The author of many books on Jewish architecture, Klein has focused on the diverse cultural heritage of the Jews of Hungary.

Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution. The Library seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions. Many of the Library’s rich resources can be accessed through its website at www.loc.gov and via interactive exhibitions on a personalized website at myLOC.gov.

Austria -- Vienna Jewish Museum Reopening

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

Just a brief note -- the Jewish Museum in Vienna re-opened Tuesday after being closed for about a year for a fullscale -- and controversial -- restoration and revamping of its exhibition. I have yet to see it, but the next time I go to Vienna (probably in early December) I will make sure to give a full report, as I am very curious to see the new facility. The opening (temporary) exhibition is a sure-fire crowd pleaser on 100 years of Jewish experience in Hollywood...

Here's a video of the opening ceremony:

The Jewish Museum Vienna is now open - Welcome back! from Jewish Museum Vienna on Vimeo.



As for now, according to one brief (and dry) article:

Not only the technical infrastructure and visitor facilities were renovated, but visitors will also be offered new and exciting insights into the collections − of Jewish past and present − as well as a new atelier for children and several other services.

Visitors will get to know whom the Jewish Museum Vienna has to thank for its collections and take a virtual tour through the synagogues that existed in Vienna before 1938. They will also be invited to view the new permanent exhibition, but also to Hollywood − the location where the first temporary exhibition will take place. This will be an introduction to the founding fathers of the film metropolis, the men who left their shtetl in Galicia and Ukraine to invent the American dream in Hollywood. This journey will take one across 100 years of Hollywood and trace this Jewish experience as far as the present."

I posted here earlier this year about the controversy over the museum renovation, in the process of which the holograms that had formed part of the museum's historic exhibition, mounted in 1994, were destroyed during their removal.

Poland - art and memory. Page of History Foundation

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

I have to admit that I had never heard of the Page of History Foundation and its interesting project linking art and commemoration  until I read a recent  article in the Jewish Chronicle about an art work it just unveiled in the town of Gora Kalwaria (Yiddish Ger) south of Warsaw -- a sculpture depicting Adam and Eve by the Polish artist Bronislaw Krzysztof.

The year was 1990, Communism had just collapsed in Poland and John Pomian, a Pole living in the UK, was on a return visit to his country of origin with a Jewish friend, Casimir Stamirski.

As the pair passed through the town of Mogielnica, Mr Pomian, who served in the RAF during the war, was invited by Mr Stamirski to stop off in the town to see they could find any traces of the Jewish community that once thrived there.

There was nothing to be found. As they returned to their car, they spotted a large boulder bearing the names of locals who died during the Second World War. There were no Jewish names among them.

On his return to London, Mr Pomian decided something had to be done to commemorate the presence of Jews in Poland, who, he says, "have shared our history for centuries". In 1991, Mr Pomian set up the Page of History Foundation, which aimed to install works of art in towns where Jews once lived as gestures of remembrance "from Poles towards Polish Jews".

 Read full article HERE

The foundation's web site describes its purpose as commemorating the Jewish presence in Poland "through funding works of art authored by recognized artists and making these available to a wider public."

It states that the Foundation's four basic principles are:

--  this is to be a Polish gesture towards the Jews, who shared our history for centuries and made their contribution to the development of Polish culture and commercial life.

--  this is to be a completely private undertaking and we will not be seeking any money from public funds.

--  we will commemorate Polish Jews through works of art of the highest and lasting aesthetic merit.

-- the inspiration for these works will be the Old Testament, which is the sacred scripture of both Christians and Jews.

Besides in Gora Kalwaria, works of art have been put up since 1995 in Warsaw, Szydlow, Lodz and Zamosc.

Famous Soon Lai Kuey Chap at Batu Pahat, Johor.

Soon Lai 'Kuey Chap' (顺来) (N1.84924 E102.92769) is located at at the junction of Jalan Mohd Salleh and Jalan Fatimah of Batu Pahat, Johor. It's just next to Silver Inn Hotel and diagonally opposite the Famous Tian Hao Gong Temple (the locals called 'Mah-Coh Keng') at Batu Pahat.

We were recommended by my buddy from B.Pahat and he said this is the must try food when visit the Batu Pahat small town. The shop start business from morning till early evening. We were lucky enough they still open when we were there at 3pm...

The Famous Tian Hao Gong Temple of Batu Pahat, Johor.

It was a simple and traditional type of coffee shop and not crowded during that time, we placed our order immediately!

The shop environment

The boss was busy preparing the meal...

It's basically a pork intestine mixed with some tau-fu and stewed egg. The Kuey Tiaw (Rice noodle) served was not the ordinary type but in bigger pieces...(photo below)

Soon Lai Kuey Chap

The special type of rice noodles with some dry garlic

Well, the Kuey Chap was Delicious! The pork intestines were well stewed and tender, tasty and Nice! Furthermore, you won't feel thirsty after it...less MSG. All of us enjoy the meal very much especially with the Very Reasonable price!

The business is operating for more than a decade till today, before they move into the shop, they were selling the Kuey Chap business by the hawker stall along the street...it's run by all family members, and the boss is their father, he was friendly and allow me to snap one of his handsome photo. :)

The owner of the shop

Do drop by if you happen at Batu Pahat, try the Unique food of Batu Pahat and I believe you will like it! :)

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