Tuesday 9 August 2022

Nasi Lemak, Chinese Crullers, Chempedak & Mini Mooncakes

On this particular morning, at our regular coffee shop, we saw packets of nasi lemak for sale on the counter. Someone is supplying pre-packed nasi lemak to the shop.

Hubby ordered a packet of nasi lemak (RM2) and a glass of hot Chinese tea (70 cents).
Some fried anchovies, peanuts, a quarter hard boiled egg, sambal and rice with coconut milk.
I ordered unsweetened black coffee and some Chinese cruller, ma keok and hum chim peng (Chinese doughnuts) which I bought from another shop on our morning walk. These are selling at RM1.20 per piece. Another stall is selling RM1.30 per piece.
Walking home after breakfast at about 8:05am.
8:10am.
For lunch, we had chempedak fruit. It is a seasonal local fruit and has a strong smell when ripen. Hubby bought 3 fruits at RM7 per kilo and they all ripen at almost the same time.
The flesh is thick with small seeds and very sweet. We ate it fresh. Some prefer to fry it with flour batter.
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Mooncake or Mid-autumn festival falls on the 10th September, in about a month's time.
We received a gift box of cute mini sized mooncakes.
2 boxes inside the red box.
The mini mooncakes were separately packed.
4 different types: white lotus snow skin mooncake, pandan lotus spiral mooncake, lotus traditional mooncake and red bean Shanghai mooncake.
Since we have tasted these mooncakes, there is no need to buy mooncakes.
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Heritage treasures from Penang.
An old building on the right and a modern high rise building on the left.
I didn't go near to take a closer look but it looks like it is still occupied and not abandoned. I can see 2 air-conditioner units and plants well taken care of.


We are pressed on every side by troubles, but not crushed and broken.
We are perplexed because we don't know why things happen as they do,
but we don't give up and quit. We are hunted down,
but God never abandon us. We get knocked down,
but we get up again and keep going.
(2 Corinthians 4:8-9, The Living Bible-TLB)

36 comments:

  1. The mooncakes look delish. Does chempedak taste like jackfruit? They look similar.
    xoxo
    Lovely
    www.mynameislovely.com

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    1. Thank you, Lovely. Jackfruit is on the crunchy side whereas chempedak is on the soft side.

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  2. So fast you have already received mooncakes. LOL! They are very cute!

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    1. Thank you, PH. These cute mooncakes makes a cute gift.

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  3. RM2 is cheap! Very generous with the sambal too. Here, for a RM2 nasi lemak bungkus, we cannot see the peanuts and ikan bilis...and no egg!!!

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  4. wow it's almost mooncake time again...time really flies. Wish I could taste some of your chempedak fruit!

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    1. Thank you, Angie. Mooncake festival is exactly 1 month from now.

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  5. Yummy, interesting food again!
    Oh, we should have a festival for Autumn, too. Might brighten a (here) dull day!
    The house... hmmm. Interesting! If I was brave, I´d knocked to have a look.

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    1. Thank you, Iris. I was on the other side of the road. Thinking back I should have cross over to take a closer look.

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  6. ...Nancy, I wonder how long it will be before the old building will become a modern highrise? Have a wonderful day.

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    1. Thank you, Tom. I am sure many are keen to develop this place.

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  7. The nasi lemak certainly looks like it would wake me up! I love seeing your country. thank you.

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  8. Nancy how people live in that leaning building. Was there an earthquake at some point?

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    1. There was no earthquake. It is just a very old building.

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  9. These are all strange and unusual foods to me. But I do know the Moon Cakes!! I am so curious about this house! The plants look better taken care of than the house!

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    1. Thank you, Ginny. I too think so about the plants.

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  10. Yummy food. I would love to spend the day with you and eat all the fabulous food you and your hubby eat.

    Thank you for joining the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday, Nancy. ♥

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  11. Mooncakes and exotic (at least to me) fruit and delightful donuts, how i hope to taste some of these delights someday.

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  12. The mooncakes look quite delicious!
    Everywhere the same picture. Old houses are going to be demolished, high towers erected in their place.

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    1. Thank you, Duta. The old has to give way to development.

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  13. Thank you Nancy for showing us the contrasting new building and old building. Prepacked Nasi Lemak at MYR 2 has a lot of sambal when compared to the rice, almost one third. Chinese Crullers are snacks that I love to eat. Your Chempedak looks so much like nangka. Did you give away some Chempedak? Cos 3 Chempedak will have many seeds. The Mini Mooncakes look very expensive. Good that you don't need to buy any mooncakes now.

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    1. Thank you, Mun. We finished the chempedak within 2 days.

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  14. I always cannot resist nasi lemak bungkus, especially wrapped in banana leaf!

    Pretty mooncakes... can't identify the green one though.

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    1. Thank you, Stacy. The green one is the snow skin.

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    2. Ah ok. Through the cover it looks like a spiral type.

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    3. Sorry, if you are referring to the 1st one, then it is snow skin. If the 2nd one, then it is the spiral, flaky skin.

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  15. What an interesting fruit - chempedak - I'd never heard of it.
    Thank you for sharing at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-visit-to-cedar-creek-galleries.html

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