Chinese Rice Wine And Chicken Soup For Dinner

One rainy evening, I cooked drunken chicken soup with Chinese rice wine which I bought from the nearby grocery shop. The craving for this soup started after my elder son sent me a picture of the drunken chicken soup he cooked using the Chinese rice wine a colleague gave to me. There was no home made rice wine in the house, so I went to buy a bottle from the shop.

I chopped 4 chicken legs into bite sizes, julienned old ginger and soaked wood fungus. First, I heat up some sesame oil in the pot, stir fried ginger and wood fungus over medium low heat. Then add in the chicken and stir to mix until chicken turned colour. Then I poured in the whole bottle of rice wine and add a bottle of plain water. Let it simmer until cooked and add salt to taste.

A plate of sauteed winged beans with garlic and salt and the drunken chicken soup for dinner.

After cooking, I sent a bowl of drunken chicken soup to our friend.

Since we didn't want any rice or noodle, we were able to finish the drunken chicken soup.

White and purple Periwinkles in front of my house.

Love the pure white with yellow centres Periwinkles.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

My advice to you is to buy pure gold from me,

gold purified by fire - only then will you truly be rich.

And to purchase from me white garments, clean and pure,

so you won't be naked and ashamed;

and to get medicine from me to heal your eyes

and give you back your sight.

(Revelation 3:18, The Living Bible-TLB)

Wonton Noodle Breakfast & Home Cooked Dinner

Wednesday morning (147th day MCO), we did our early morning walking rounds and went home and took the car out to town.

Sunrise at 6:52 am.

7:00 am.

7:08 am.

7:25 am.

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Breakfast at Restoran Memorable Good Taste, Jalan Theater, Ipoh.

We have to queue and wait for our turn to be seated. Once in a while, I don't mind waiting because to us, the food is worth it.

We ordered 2 set of the above breakfast consisting of 1 plate of wonton noodle, stewed sweet sour pork rib, 4 pieces of wonton dumplings and 1 sui kao. We also ordered 2 bowls of herbal tea without the egg. Total cost of breakfast for 2 people is less than RM 16.00

Sui kao and wonton dumplings in tasty soup.

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Home cooked dinner

My neighbour gave me some winged beans.

I used the winged beans to cook with dried prawns and sambal belacan.

Fried 2 fishes.

Boiled soup with pickled mustard root or Sichuan vegetable (char choy in Cantonese), carrot, tomatoes, napa cabbage and pork. An appetizing soup for a warm evening.

This was our home cooked dinner. I cooked noodle for hubby to eat with soup. No noodle for me because I needed to finish the fish. There were leftover soup and winged beans which I kept in the fridge for next day's lunch.

I had this beautiful plant in my garden and then it just disappeared. I miss the beautiful batik designed leaves in pink and green colours. Maybe I should go and buy one from the nursery one of these days.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

For you have rescued me from death;

you have kept my feet from slipping.

So now I can walk in your presence,

O God, in your life-giving light.

(Psalm 56:13, New Living Translation-NLT)

Wine Chicken Noodle & Home Cooked Home Grown Edibles

Even though the weather is warm, it did not deter people from coming out for their daily exercises in the early morning.

Morning sky at 7:30 am

This group gathers twice a week for their Praise Dance exercise.

Here is another group carrying out their exercise.

We met some friends at the recreational park and from there, we continued with our fellowship by having breakfast together. The chosen venue for breakfast that morning was Restoran Hao Hao in Menglembu.

Wine Chicken Noodle with egg and wood fungus.

This is my favourite choice whenever I am at Restoran Hao Hao.

My hearty breakfast completed with a cup of coffee.

On the way home we bought 2 big sized curry puffs to keep for lunch.

These two pale green coloured bitter gourds will turn to pearl white bitter gourds just like the one shown in the next picture.

This white bitter gourd has a more crunchier texture than the common green bitter gourd.

This was what I harvested that morning.

White bitter gourds, purple eggplant, white eggplants, some chilies, and some long beans.

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Since the weather has been very warm for the past few weeks, here are some of my simple home cooked dishes using vegetables harvested from my garden. With plentiful harvest, I have no excuse not to cook.

Lightly steamed red and green okras drizzled with roasted sesame dressing.

White bitter gourd cooked with beef slices.

Angled luffa cooked with chopped garlic, 1 salted egg and 1 fresh egg.

White bitter gourd cooked with chopped garlic, dried prawns and salted black beans.

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Some treasures (with information) found at the National Museum.

Model of the Portuguese ship "Flor De La Mar".

The "Flor De La Mar" was a ship of the Portuguese armada that led the attack of Malacca in 1511. It was loaded to the brim with looted treasures from Malacca along with three other ships, namely the Enxobregas, Trinidade and Jong Jawa left Malacca, was on its way back to Goa. It was part of a fleet of ships set sail for Portugal under Alfonso de Albuquerque on 20th January 1512 after he conquered the Malaccan city as part of the Portuguese Empire. After 6 days at sea, however, the Flor De La Mar was struck by disaster and sank in the Aru Straits, taking down with it the riches of the Malaccan Empire. Till today the existence of its treasure remains a mystery.

Malacca was administered by a captain of the Fort who reported to the Viceroy of Goa who, in turn, reported to the King of Portugal. The Captain of the Fort was assisted by the Captain General, Chief Justice, Mayor and Bishop who together managed public affairs, financial and religious matters. The Bendahara, Temenggong and Shahbandar managed all matters related to local population head of head of various communities, or captains, managed matters related to their respective community.

Linking to Happy Tuesday, Image-in-ing & Tuesday's Treasures.

Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others.

Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself.

Don't just think about your own affairs, 

but be interested in others, too, and in what they are doing.

(Philippians 2:3-4, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Cooked Meals With Winged Beans & Red Okra.

When I first planted winged beans or the four angled beans in my garden, it took quite a while for the plants to produce beans. They started blooming flowers but most of the flowers dropped off probably due to the heavy downpour. After a while, the beans started to appear and every morning I get to harvest a handful of beans. The freshly plucked tender beans taste good and they can be raw as salad (ulam) eaten with spicy prawn paste (sambal belacan).

I missed the rendang dish which I used to enjoy eating before my retirement. So one day, I decided to cook my own beef rendang dish. A rendang dish is meat cooked in coconut milk and spices. It is a dry curried meat dish cooked until the meat is tender and have absorbed all the flavour of the spices. 

Yummy beef rendang dish and blanched winged beans.

My beef rendang dish recipe is a very simple one. If you are interested, there are many simple rendang recipes on youtube, Rendang can be eaten with bread, plain white rice or rice cooked in coconut milk (nasi lemak), etc.

Winged beans can be eaten raw (ulam) but hubby prefer cooked beans. These beans were blanched in hot boiling water with salt added and eaten plain with the rendang dish.

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We couldn't finish the rendang dish and the left over was kept for the next day's dinner. Left over rendang taste better than freshly cooked rendang.

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Freshly harvested tender and crunchy winged beans and red okra, ready for another day's dinner.

Winged beans and red okra from my garden.

Blanched winged beans and red okra (turned pale green when cooked). This dish was served with crunchy fried garlic and garlic oil and oyster sauce drizzled over the dish.

Fried a few fishes for dinner.

My son brought back a whole tub of fresh fishes from his fishing trip.

One morning we saw black chicken sold in the mini market. I haven't cooked black chicken soup for a long, long time. I bought one black chicken to boil a simple soup with goji berries (kei chee) and red dates.

This morning I managed to snap some clear pictures of the winged bean flowers.

Once the sun is up, the pictures won't turn out nicely.

If we take time to notice, every flower has its own beauty.

Linking to Wednesday Around The World (WATW) & Wordless Wednesday.

Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation:

seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it,

according to their various kinds."

And it was so. The land produced vegetation:

plants bearing seed according to their kinds and

trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.

And God saw that it was good.

(Genesis 1:11-12, New International Version-NIV)

Planting, Harvesting & Cooking Purple Brinjals.

We called this fruit or vegetable brinjal but in some countries it is known as eggplant. I have grown green or yellow brinjals (click here) and white brinjals (click here) in my garden. Now I am growing the long purple brinjals in my garden.

These are the common long purple brinjals that we can easily find in our local markets.

I bought a packet of long purple brinjal seeds from the plant nursery and sowed them in small containers.

Then I transferred them into bigger pots, putting 2 plants in one pot.

Altogether I have 6 plants in 3 pots.

Some tend to grow faster than the others.

The flower for all the coloured brinjals is the same.

Finally, the first purple brinjal from one of the brinjal plants.

Then the other plants started to show off their fruits.

Both the purple and white brinjal plants growing side by side.

Purple brinjals from my garden.

Those that I missed grew yellow and not suitable to be eaten.
The yellow brinjal will be kept for its seeds.

One of the day's harvest for our dinner.

From the garden to the dining table as a spicy and appetizing dish.

 On another evening, I used these to cook for dinner.

 Without the skin, both the white and purple brinjals look alike.

Steamed brinjals and a winged bean for our dinner.
Topped with garlic oil and dried scallop sauce (instead of oyster sauce).

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The above pictures with my garden fence and the brightly coloured fence (below) are for joining Good Fences.

Linking to Good Fences.

My son, honey whets the appetite and so does wisdom!

When you enjoy becoming wise, there is hope for you!

A bright future lies ahead!

(Proverbs 24:13-14, The Living Bible-TLB)