Nyonya Kuih & Pork Noodle For Breakfast

As we started our morning walk, I asked hubby where he wanted to go for breakfast.

6:53am

 After a moment of silence, he answered "Sin Choi Yuen", one of our regular coffee shop in our area.

7:00am

Then we continued with our morning walk until we finished our rounds and walked to the coffee shop.

Hubby ordered pork noodle with minced pork, pork slices and napa cabbage.

I ordered 4 pieces of angku kuih and chai kuih from a stall manned by an elderly couple. The kuih are quite small in size.

Vegetable dumpling (chai kuih) with yam bean and dried shrimp filling.

Nyonya kuih (angku) with white lotus mung bean filling. This time the filling were a bit dry and not as nice as the last we bought. I suppose there is less oil added but should be healthier. Anyway, I still enjoyed the kuih because the skin is soft and filling not very sweet.

We shared the above breakfast.

After breakfast, we walked home.

Saw this motorcycle parked in front of a motorcycle repair shop on our morning walk.

Snapshot of the same motorcycle taken from a different angle.

Yellow hibiscus, multi petals.

This was grown from a cutting given by a friend.

This hibiscus has been with us for about 8 years, since 2014.

And I have blessed many with cuttings from this plant.

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

Blessed is the man who reveres God,

but the man who doesn't care is headed for serious trouble.

(Proverbs 28:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Fish Balls Noodle Soup, Roast Chicken Wings & Home Grown Vegetable

We set out on our morning walk late because we overslept. 

Morning sky at 7:10am.

When we have walked enough, we stopped to buy the above Nyonya kuih. Tapioca cake on the left and glutinous rice with sambal shrimp and grated coconut wrapped in banana leaf on the right.

Then we walked to Bai Nong White Coffee for breakfast. We ordered a bowl of rice vermicelli in clear soup, fish balls and 2 stuffed bitter gourd for sharing.

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Back home in our garden.

This is hubby's project. After watching some youtube videos, hubby came up with this idea of planting vegetables. As we don't have much space in our side garden, this vertical method will help us save space if the project is successful. He filled the pvc pipe with garden soil and took some of my vegetable seeds to sow in these openings that he made in the pipe.

Since hubby didn't install the self-watering system, he has to water the plants manually.

This is how it looks like now. These are green amaranth (yeen choy). Very encouraging to see the vegetables growing well. Thanks to the success of hubby's project, we can now grow more and different types of vegetables for our own consumption.

This is also green amaranth (yeen choy) which are planted in the ground in front of my house. Some of these are due for harvest and I cut enough for dinner.

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Home cooked dinner.

Plain blanched green amaranth (yeen choy). I was lazy to make garlic oil so I didn't use any.

I roasted 10 pieces of chicken wings.

The chicken wings were marinated with soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey and some sugar.

I cooked dried noodles. Since there is no garlic oil available, I used chili oil and soy sauce to mix the noodle.

This was our dinner. For appetizer, we had some pickled ginger from the fridge.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God.

He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.

(Matthew 5:6, The Message-MSG)

Lunch At Dong Tai Kopitiam,

We managed to get 4 ex-colleagues (retirees) together for lunch.

We went in one car and I was the driver for that day.

We were supposed to have Western lunch but found the place closed. Then someone suggested another place, found that place closed too but we found one kopitiam just opposite which was open.

Dong Tai Kopitiam

46 (Grd Flr) Jalan Foo Eng Lin, Jalan Pasir Puteh, Ipoh.

There is free parking available in front of the kopitiam. We were just in time to get a table for 4 people. Those that came after us have to wait to be seated because it was peak lunch hour.

Iced coffee O for a coffee lover. No, not me.

Milo

Ginkgo and barley sweet drink - 2 bowls.

Not too sweet, just nice for us.

We ordered 5 types of food for sharing.

Salted fish fried bihun.

Homemade dry noodle with fried pork lard.

Nasi Kukus Ayam Berempah.

Steamed rice + fried chicken with spices.

Kaya + butter toast

Nyonya kuih - you will have to pick your choices at the counter.

Total cost for all the above food is RM63.

Thanks ladies. Looking forward to our next food outing.

No, dear brothers, I am still not all I should be,

but I am bringing all my energies to bear on this one thing:

Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,

I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize

for which God is calling us up to heaven

because of what Christ Jesus did for us.

(Philippians 3:13-14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Dinner At Sun Hung Ting Restaurant, Ipoh

After our early morning walk, we had breakfast appointment with friends at Kedai Kopi Tasek Indra in Bercham, Ipoh. It was a Saturday morning but we were early (about 7:30am) so there was no problem getting a table for 6 people.

Hubby had kai si hor fun or shredded chicken flat rice noodle with smoked duck.

I had fish noodle (thick rice vermicelli).

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For lunch, hubby and I together with a friend went to Restoran Kar Heng for rice porridge.

While waiting for the porridge to be served, our friend walked over to Restoran Embassy to buy the above sweet cake or Nyonya kuih.

2 bowls of plain rice porridge.

I was not hungry so hubby and I shared a bowl of porridge.

A plate of fried fresh water fish for sharing.

Just a light lunch because we were looking forward to dinner with friends.

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We already called Restoran Sun Hung Ting to reserve a table for 8 people.

Even though it was raining heavily that evening, all tables were taken.

We ordered the following dishes.

Signature tofu: fried tofu with topping.

3 flavoured fried (fall off the bone) pork rib.

Tilapia fish (oil soaked style)

Assorted vegetables curry.

We wanted to order grouper fish slices in wine soup but that evening they do not have grouper slices so we ordered free range chicken in wine soup.

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Pink Mexican Petunias or Pink Showers from my garden.

I have both pink and purple Mexican Petunias in my garden.

The seeds self disperse and self propagate all over my garden.

Some can be found sharing pots with other plants.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday, My Corner of the World & Garden Affair.

Our earthly fathers trained us for a few brief years,

doing the best for us that they knew how,

but God's correction is always right and for our best good,

that we may share his holiness.

(Hebrews 12:10, The Living Bible-TLB)