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)

Dim Sum Breakfast & Chempedak Fruit

This was a Saturday morning with cloudy sky.

Sunrise blocked by clouds 7:40am

7:45am

After morning walk, we walked over to the Dim Sum Restaurant to buy breakfast.

Yam puff (top) and century egg + pickled ginger roll.

2 fish balls and 2 steamed buns (sang yuk pau).

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In the afternoon, hubby came to know of an elderly friend who was stuck at home. She is staying alone with her grandson and they don't have transport to go out to buy foodstuffs.

The nearby shops where she used to get her foodstuffs have covid cases and she is afraid to go out.

So, off we went to get some foodstuffs for her.

Half way, we stopped at a durian stall to get some durians for her because she loves durians.

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(The image below is from the internet and is for illustration purpose only)

I forgot to snap photos of the durians and chempedak.

The durians were for the elderly friend and this chempedak was for us.

These were the fruits from inside the chempedak.

The flesh was thick and sweet.

This was our home cooked dinner for 2 people.

I cooked steamed minced pork with egg, fried 2 pieces of fish and blanched one green vegetable.

My Chinese chives are flowering again.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

He is like a father to us,

tender and sympathetic to those who reverence him.

For he knows we are but dust and that our days are few and brief,

like grass, like flowers, blown by the wind and gone forever.

(Psalm 103:13-16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Glutinous Rice Dumplings & ABC Soup

The weather seems to be getting warmer. Yesterday morning, 51st day MCO, I woke up early and did about 30 minutes walking exercise in front of my PC. After I have finished exercising, I went out to check the sky. It was still dark outside.

 Morning sky at 6:42 am.

The sky behind the opposite row of houses was lighted up at 6:55 am.

 Sunrise at 6:57 am.

 6;59 am.

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Breakfast

 I took out 2 glutinous rice dumplings (bak chang) from the fridge to steam for breakfast. I have 2 more bak chang in the freezer.

 I don't mind eating bak chang once or twice a week if the bak chang is as tasty as this one.

 It would have been perfect if it has Chinese chestnut in it.

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Lunch

We were supposed to have only ABC soup for lunch but our friend ordered an extra packet of chicken rice for us. Hubby went to collect from her stall.

 Indonesian chicken rice from our friend.

The chicken rice is very flavourful and tasty, consisting of flavoured rice, fried potatoes and prawns, fried chicken, blanched long beans, half a boiled eye, cucumber slices and onion crisps.

Home cooked ABC soup without tomatoes.

I have to throw the tomatoes away because they had gone bad.

 Lunch for 2 people

The cut Chinese cruller was from the previous day's lunch.

I soaked the cruller pieces in my bowl of soup.

Sweet and healthy snack. 

A friend sent this box of fruit called "chempedak".

(belongs to the family of jackfruit)

Home grown vegetables from my garden.

Red okra, dwarf long beans and 2 purple/black eggplants.

I cooked all the red okras and long beans.

When cooked, the red okras turned to pale green colour.

I kept the purple/black eggplants back in the fridge.

The same ABC soup that I cooked for lunch and dinner.

Condiment: Spicy bird's eye chilies in soy sauce. 

 No rice dinner for 2 people.

Sweet papaya for dessert.

Found this small mushroom colony growing in my garden.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him.

See that you go on growing in the Lord,

and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught.

Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done.

(Colossians 2:7, The Living Bible-TLB)

Recording Sweet Memories Of Past Weeks

Today's post is a collection of a few events that I have put together to be recorded as sweet memories of the past weeks while I was busy posting about my holidays in Hong Kong, Sekinchan and Semenyih.

After coming back from our holidays, and especially having started the durian feast (supper) at Cheras, our craze for durian started!

We went looking for durians after dinner one night. Came to this place with so many durians for sale. The durians were quite good and the price quite reasonable, so we went back to the same stall the next afternoon.

The vendor opening the fruit with a special knife. Imagine him holding the thorny fruit with his bare hand!

I love to eat the kampung durians of different taste and flavour. There was one section eaten by worms. Even the worms love durians.

This is a close-up view of a durian worm. A friend once told me that his grandpa loved to eat durian worms! Yucks!!! Why? The reason is the worm is full of protein and nutrients especially when it feeds on the highly nutritious durian. No, thank you!
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A retirement lunch for an ex-colleague at Mun Choong Restaurant.

This photo was taken while waiting for the rest to arrive.

A photo to remember the event. Who was the new retiree to join the pensioner's club? The only gentleman among all the ladies!
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A special gift with special delivery.

A dear friend from Petaling Jaya sent these yummies through her hubby, especially for me. She love baking and these were made with love!

Thank you, Karen for these yummies. They melt in the mouth! Look also at the golden gem inside. I love salted egg yolks ... yummy!
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A Retirees' foodie outing

A roasted duck lunch at Restoran Old Friend, Chemor.

We heard so much about the delicious fish noodles served here. We ordered only a bowl of soup to be shared among us just after the duck lunch.

Next we walked to the other end of the row of shops. My sifu enjoying the rich aroma of durian.

Next, another sweet and fleshy tropical fruit - Chempedak. And we drank some coconut water to take away the heatiness of durian.

We continued with our sweet dessert at this stall under the shady tree.

A bowl of silky smooth tofu fa swimming in soya milk.

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A week later, another retirees' outing looking for special durian "5 fingers fruit".

The midday sun was hot. Came to this house selling durians.

A nice surprise, met two ex-colleagues during their lunch break.

Look at the size of the durians! These are the "5 fingers fruits",
(ng chee kor in Cantonese)

Bought 2 fruits to try since I heard so much about this fruit.

On the way home, stopped for black glutinous rice sweet dessert. One with coconut milk, the other without - that's our lunch.

One "5 fingers fruit" yellow flesh, very fleshy and tasted bitter sweet.

Another fruit with light beige flesh, creamy and fleshy, and tasted bitter sweet. The durian season is almost coming to an end. No worries. I still have ample supply of durian in the freezer for me to enjoy as ice-cream!

Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food
will also supply and increase your store of seed
and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous
on every occasion, and through us your generosity
will result in thanksgiving to God.
(2 Corinthians 9:10-11, New International Version-NIV)