Pizza at Bella Italia, Belissa Row.

Pizza anyone ?

Going to Pizza hut for pizza seems nothing new. In fact, kind of boring. I personally don't really like the base of the pizza made by Pizza hut. I feel that it is either too thick for the normal crust or too thin for the pan pizza. Don't they have something very similar to the Real Italian Pizza ?

I was craving for one true Italian Pizza. Since we were at Penang and Ern chosen to go for pizza, we came to this restaurant, Bella Italia. :-) This was my 2nd time to this restaurant. The first was few years back (it does not mean that it is not nice. Just that it is far from home).


We arrived late and we were starving. So we got outselves a mushroom soup and some garlic bread first while waiting for our main course.


What to order ?
There are varieties of pastas. To name a few, Fettucine, Penne, Ravioli, Penne, the famous and common spagetthi and also lasagna.


Apart from the pastas, there is of course our delighted Italian pizza.
Pizza Margherita-only tomato, cheese and basil as toppings. It's for people whom likes mild taste and plain type.
We ordered Pizza Quattro Stagioni. We can't eat much but wanted to try different flavour. This quattro stagioni comes in 4 different taste in 1 pizza.


While waiting for the main dish to be served... we had garlic bread w mushroom soup. We waited for long for the main course to be served. The kids were already making noise. So, the manager offered us more garlic bread at no cost. :-D



The restaurant was full. We were seated outside the restaurant. Thus, mosquitoes everywhere...especially on the head area

While waiting.... Too boring nothing to do...
I like these oil bottles very much.


At last, our Ravioli came. Ravioli are pasta that wrapped with cheese inside and is served with cream sauce. This is also one of my favorite menu. Recommended. ;-)


Our pizza only came in 45mins after we ordered and after we had finished everything. Thus, I could only managed to snap this quarter left pizza. :-D
As soon as it was served on the table, it was grabbed and taken all by the 3 boys.
Take a look at the pasta. It is very thin and soft. Not crispy like Pizza hut's. It is bake in very low heat at charcoal fire place. The pizza were still very juicy. Recommended. This is a must try menu.

Very cheezy.... very delicious ! nmm.... yummy.

Our bill came to about RM 70+. It's abit too expensive but still affordable once awhile.

Bella Italia provides genuine Italian tastes food. A restaurant you must not miss. ;-)

Our Beautiful Adeniums

This is one of our Adenium plant given by MIL when we moved to our new house. MIL said, these few were her most beautifully grown ones.

4 months later after we moved, the flower blossom so much. So Much. Unbelievable. It was so beautiful.. so, I thought of snapping a few shots and keep as rememberance.


Every branch that has leave, will bloom few flowers ever at the very short trunk.

Amazingly nice.




Now my house has 11 pots and all of them bloom beautifully. My neighbors too grow Adenium at their house, but is still waiting for it to bloom. Maybe, they take too much care of it. :-D

Beautiful Caterpillar

Have you ever seen a real caterpillar before it turns out to be a beautiful butterfly ? Frankly speaking, I've never in my life and this was my first time ever and it was so close.... just at my garden :-) Yes, it's this little creature on my plant.

On Sunday evening, I found my porch tiles had lots of black dots. I wondered what it was.. and my neighbor said that it's worm. I thought to myself, worm ? What worm? No legs, only black dots. I tried looking everywhere at my plant but couldn't find anything. So, I ignored.


On Monday after I get back from work, I felt something different to my Adenium plant. Seems so bright. Then only I realized that it is bold ! (below pic!) The used to be beautiful full with green leaves and flowers now became Clear ! Left only it's trunk. I was soooooO shocked.


I slowly walked to the plant and carefully examine it. I can't really go too near as the floor was scattered with black dots. (which my neighbor earlier said it was worm's poo-poo). Then I saw it. Hiding behind on of the trunk.


As soon as I saw this wriggly thing, my whole body shivered and I stood very still not knowing what to do. I continuosly shivered for about 5 mins. (Even when I'm writing this post now !) It's really eery...

I was alone and in a rush to prepare dinner before I go fetch my kids. At the same time, I'm afraid that this thing will disappear. I called Mrs. Rain for help. I know there's nothing she can do, but just to provide a listening ear. (Hoping that my goose bump will be transfered to her. LOL. :-D )
As it is so difficult to describe how big it is, I decided to snap photos to show her.

Then, I found that it's actually very beautiful. It has a glowing body.

It's body is as green as the leaves and it has some yellow spots.


Not long after, I found that my time had passed and I already had to go fetch my kids home.
Not with any surprise, Ed was not afraid. Instead adore it so much. Ern was a little hesitated, just like me. :-)


He was trying to say that the caterpillar was big.


About 7:05pm, this caterpillar is getting sleepy. :-D Drowsy eyes..


We waited for hubby's return to remove it. It's body was really soft. Must wait for it to crawl on the stick by itself.


We did not want to kill it. So, hubby took it out from the house and wanted to throw to the drain. Not sure if it will still climb back to our plants. Before hubby could do anything to it, Ed had already began begging his dad not to throw it. He wanted to have it until it turns into a butterfly.

After much begging, he won. I found him a plastic container and we kept it in.

It's body was really beautiful. The dots were neon green yellow.

Is he hungry ?

Very tame insect. The more I look at it, the more I like it. But I can't have it in my garden. It ate up my whole plant in 24Hrs !

I used a dish wrapper and cover it. I poked many holes for it to breathe. The next morning, I found it hide inside the leave and I saw many webs.. it's a bit like cocoon.. but I think it's dead. Felt sorry and sad. But I really do not know what to do with it.

Is this really a caterpillar that will turn into a beautiful butterfly ?