Breakfasts And Snacks

I like food that are spicy, sweet and sour because I find them appetizing. Here are some of the food that I have eaten recently.

 Vietnamese noodle.

 Assam Laksa

I can take this for breakfast, lunch or dinner. 

I can eat these curry puffs any time of the day. These are Doris curry puffs, now selling from a stall inside Restoran Yummy Food Garden, Hala Perusahaan Menglembu 3, Ipoh.

Rojak (fruit salad) with peanut sauce is another favourite snack of mine.

 First time tasting this rojak or fruit salad sold from this truck by the roadside, at the Kilat Club Pasir Puteh, Ipoh.

This truck is selling drinks.

There is a table and stools for us to sit under the shade.

I love Chendul but only those with thick palm syrup and coconut milk.

Where to go if you find yourself craving for Chendul in the late evening?

 You can find Penang Road Famous Teochew Chendul in Ipoh Parade Mall without having to travel all the way to Penang for the Chendul.

Don't be impatient for the Lord to act!

Keep travelling steadily along his pathway and

in due season he will honor you with every blessing,

and you will see the wicked destroyed.

(Psalm 37:34, The Living Bible-TLB)

Linking to Wordless Wedesnday & Wednesday Around The World.

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)

Beef Soup With White Radish (Ngau Lam Tong)

Hubby and I love beef soup (ngau lam soup). There are 2 or 3 places where we go for some nice beef soup in Ipoh. Recently, a friend taught me how to make beef soup. After getting all the necessary ingredients, I made beef soup for dinner for 2 people. The soup was enough for 2 days' dinner.

Beef soup and stuffed white bitter gourd for our dinner.

Went to Ipoh wet market. Bought these from the uncle at the beef stall.

These were then blanched in hot boiling water.

When these were cooked and soft enough, I dished them out from the soup and cut them into bite pieces.

Hubby's bowl of beef soup garnished with spring onion. He didn't like the strong smell of cilantro. My bowl was garnished with cilantro.

Ingredients for cooking beef soup: beef, beef tripe, white radish, star anise, cinnamon stick, ginger, goji berries, red dates, peppercorns, and etc.

The second round I make beef soup was without goji berries and red dates, so the colour of the soup was pale especially with any garnishing.

Japanese roses from my garden.

Saw this in a lawyer's office.

We accompanied a friend who had to sign some papers at the lawyer's office.

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

For the Lord's sake, obey every law of your government;

those of the king as head of the state, and those of the king's officers,

for he has sent them to punish all who do wrong,

and to honor those who do right.

(1 Peter 2:13-14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Lunch At Restoran Nam Hing Loong, Temoh.

From Gopeng, we drove straight to Temoh because my friends were looking forward to have lunch at Restoran Nam Hing Loong. We reached our destination but found the shop close. Maybe we were early, so drove around to check out the little town. After a while, we turned back and saw workers opening up the restaurant. The time was between 12 to 12.30 pm. We were the first customers to step inside the restaurant and very soon followed by others.

 Our friends wanted to taste the pork knuckle that we ordered on our previous visit. We enjoyed the pork knuckle with the basil and milk dipping sauce. 

 Sambal belacan paku pakis (wild fern).

We order "sang yu" (snakehead fish). The meaty part used for stir fried with ginger slices and spring onions. 

\The remaining bony parts used for boiling preserved salted vegetables (hum choy) with tofu. Total cost of lunch for 4 people - RM 92.60

 Restoran Nam Hing Loong, Temoh.

After lunch, we crossed over to the coffee shop selling steamed buns to pack some home for next day's breakfast. 

 On our way to Temoh we saw durian stalls on both sides of the road after Gopeng. We planned to stop for durian on our way back to Ipoh. It was raining on the way back but we still stopped for some durians to satisfy our taste buds.

Blue Plumbago & Cleome Spider Flowers from my garden.

Have A Wonderful & Thankful Wednesday!

Linking to Wednesday Around The World (WATW)

Remember what Christ taught,

and let his words enrich your lives and make you wise;

teach them to each other and sing them out in psalms

and hymns and spiritual songs,

singing to the Lord with thankful hearts.

(Colossians 3:16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Dinner At Pick Yi Up Cafe, Pusat Perdagangan Greentown, Ipoh.

This was a dinner treat by a friend at a new place, "Pick Yi Up Cafe" which serves halal food. The menu looks good.

 Dinner set for 4 people, including 4 white rice.

 Tofu with generous topping of crispy fried garlic.

 Sweet sour vegetable.

I finished all the vegetables even though the dish had too much dried chilies.

 Sweet sour fish

 Appetizing dish

 Roast duck

 We were one of the early customers on a rainy evening.

 Decorations on the wall.

 Can you see the pieces of rope?

 Great wall of China decoration on the wall.

 Pick Yi Up Cafe

Window shopping after dinner.

Christmas decoration at Parkson shopping mall.

Merry go round or carousel.

Neat fence to join Good Fences.

 Walking off the calories at the mall. 

Someone with sweet tooth craving for a piece of cake.

Ended up ordering this cake to share and 2 cups of coffee.

Linking to Good Fences & Wednesday Around The World (WATW)

The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry,

but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

(Proverbs 10:3, New International Version-NIV)