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.

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

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)

Curry Noodle & Hakka Noodle For Breakfast At Lee Kitchen, Ipoh.

We haven't been to Lee Kitchen for 3 whole years. Recently a friend went there for breakfast and gave good review of the curry noodle that they have tasted. One morning we couldn't go for morning walk because it was drizzling, so we went to Lee Kitchen for breakfast.

It was early so the tables were not fully occupied.

We ordered a cup of unsweetened coffee.

While waiting for our orders, I bought 2 pieces of chai kuih (yam bean dumplings).

2 pieces of Chinese doughnuts (you tiao) for takeaway.

A bowl of curry noodle with flat rice noodle (koay teow).

For RM7, there is a lot of ingredients in this bowl of curry noodle (bbq pork, roast pork, tofu puff, a fish ball, a meat ball, pig's skin and etc.)

Hakka noodle with minced pork.

Meat balls and pork tendon ball.

Fried stuffed bean curd sheet items.

I think this is about RM6+.

By the time we finished our breakfast and was about to leave, all the tables were occupied.

There are many other stalls waiting for us to try.

Photo credited to my friend, Marie.

Thanks for sharing a snapshot of the above beautiful moth

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

For if we are faithful to the end,

trusting God just as we did when we first became Christians,

we will share in all that belongs to Christ.

(Hebrews 3:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Grilled Stingray For Dinner

The rainy season is here and we have been having rain almost daily. Moderate rain is good for my plants and it helps cut down on electricity bill.

Morning sky at 7:06am.

On the reverse side, misty hills.

Simple breakfast consisting of Chinese crullers, ma keok and black coffee.

These angled luffas were harvested from my garden 2 days earlier and I gave some to my sister and a friend. 2 luffas is enough to cook a dish for 2 people.

2 days later, I harvested the remaining luffas from the garden before I removed the vines.

The final harvest of angled luffas.

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Rice and peanut porridge for lunch.

I almost forgot about the last few small taros in the fridge. They were still good and can be eaten. I boiled the small taros and removed the skin. Then I poured the leftover gravy from a dish over the taro. Boiled all 3 salted eggs because they have been sitting in the fridge for a long time.

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Dine-in dinner in a food court.

It was only 5:20pm and not many people around.

I thought of ordering the pandan rice but there were people queuing up. Hubby ordered curry noodle (no photo to show).

Hubby ordered grilled stingray so I decided not to order any food for myself. I made a cup of milo for myself before I went to bed.

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 The following photo was taken at the Antong Coffee Mill in Taiping.

Old fashioned grinding stones or pounding stones. Many of these are still in use. These were made from granite stones.

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

You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,

even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.

(Proverbs 27:22, New Living Translation-NLT)

Roast Pork + BBQ Sausage Rice & Instant Kampua Mee Noodle

This was one of those mornings with clear sky and white clouds.

View of Kledang Hill at 7:15am

Kledang Hill at 7:28am

7:28am

7:30am

7:45am

7:50am

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We walked over to the shops to buy breakfast.

We have tried the yam bean dumplings or chai kuih (right) and we like it, so we bought 3 sets. Kept 1 set for ourselves and 2 sets for our neighbour. We chose the set consisting of stuffed green chili, tofu, brinjal and bitter gourd. 4 sets for RM10.

Hubby walked over to the next door coffee shop to buy 1 packet of nasi lemak, 1 you tiao and 2 ma keok. Whatever we couldn't finish were kept for tea or lunch.

This nasi lemak is only RM1.50, cheap and tasty.

Deep red Caladium from my garden.

It is now growing well under semi shade.

Hubby went out to buy roast pork and bbq sausage rice. I taxed 2 spoonful and ate whatever was left from breakfast.

A friend dropped by to collect something from me and gave me 3 tuna buns. I ate one and then only remember to take a snapshot. These 2 were kept for afternoon tea.

These plants died a few times and I thought I lost them for good but after a while, surprisingly they reappeared. They seem to like this new place under semi shade, so I won't move them anywhere else.

For dinner, I cooked instant Sibu Kampua noodle (gift from a friend) to eat with fried chicken (from our neighbour) and home cooked sambal stinky bean with minced pork.

A big rainwater droplet collected on the leaf.

This is one of my favourite caladiums.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

And remember that your heavenly Father to whom

you pray has no favorites when he judges.

He will judge you with perfect justice for everything you do;

so act in reverent fear of him from now on until you get to heaven.

(1 Peter 1:17, The Living Bible-TLB)