Rolled Rice Noodle, Assam Laksa & Cockscomb Flowers

This was one morning, end of January this year. We had our morning walk, making a big round and ended up at one coffee shop on the way. 

Whenever we are at this coffee shop for breakfast, hubby will order his favourite rolled rice noodle or chee cheong fun with yam bean filling. He added 2 pieces of fish cakes and asked for curry gravy.

I was curious about this assam laksa stall and I decided to order a bowl to try. It tasted quite nice with the crispy rolled bean curd sheet.

Warm water for me and Chinese tea for hubby.

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From my garden.

Last year we had lots of Cockscomb flowers growing in our front garden.

They were all self-propagated and they grew well on their own.

I only had to add soil to help support the plants because their roots were shallow.

We got to enjoy these beautiful blooms for a few months.

Some of the Cockscomb grew heavy and the plants needed some support to keep them upright.

After removing the old and wilted plants, the self-propagated Balsam plants started to sprout out from the ground.

At present, only the Balsam plants are growing and flowering. So far, no sign of Cockscomb plant growing. Hope they will decide to appear soon after the Balsam plants wilted away.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

O God, I beg two favors from you before I die:

First, help me never to tell a lie.

Second, give me neither poverty nor riches!

Give me just enough to satisfy my needs!

For if I grow rich, I may become content without God.

And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God's holy name.

(Proverbs 30:7-9, The Living Bible-TLB)

Cockscomb Flowers & Golden Sunset

This was about a week ago. While hubby went out to buy fried noodle (koay teow & yellow noodle), I stayed home to make coffee.

Fried noodle with egg and prawns for hubby while I ate toast with marmalade.

That morning, the fried noodle boss was in good mood. He put in 6 big prawns for hubby and charged him RM5.50 only.

Cockscomb flowers in front of my house.

These are all self-propagated.

When the flowers get big and heavy, I have to find ways to support the plants from bending over.

Some of the seeds have started to fall and small seedlings are already growing under these big plants.

I went out to buy some grocery and went to this stall to buy 4 pieces of yam bean fritters for lunch.

Saw a stall selling longkong, duku, etc. Couldn't resist, went to check.

Longkong sold for RM7 per kg.

The above is RM10. There were fresh and not so sweet.

After keeping for 1 day, they tasted so much sweeter.

For dinner, I heated up another portion of stewed duck with lotus root. I cooked home grown angled luffa and okra with dried shrimp and egg. By the time I washed up after dinner, it was about 7pm.

Golden sunset at 7:05pm

Very seldom we get to see such beautiful golden sunset.

We even have golden clouds.

The reverse side was totally different.

Looks like it might rain later in the night.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

Praise the Lord, O heavens! Praise him from the skies!

Praise him, all his angels, all the armies of heaven.

Praise him, sun and moon and all you twinkling stars.

Praise him, skies above. Praise him, vapors high above the clouds.

Let everything he has made give praise to him.

For he issued his command, and they came into being;

he established them forever and forever.

His orders will never be revoked.

(Psalm 148:1-6, The Living Bible-TLB)

Curry Noodle, Rolled Noodle, Pig's Stomach Soup

It looks like the rainy season is back. The weather is cooler now due to the heavy downpour but it also causes floods in the northern states. Recent report stated that 3 lives were lost and 3 more missing in the floods.

We waited till 7:15am for the drizzling to stop before setting out on our morning walk.

Sunrise at 7:17am

Birds flying in flocks.

We had clouding sky the whole day.

This is the first time since the full lockdown we ventured out to buy our favourite curry noodle in town. We love the thick creamy and tasty curry gravy. After buying the curry noodles, we stopped at the nearby market to buy some local fruits.

We bought 1 kilo of dokong for RM6.

Mangosteen was selling for RM4 per kilo, so I bought 4 kilos.

For lunch, hubby bought steamed rolled noodle with yam bean filling with curry gravy. He added fish balls and fish cake. My lunch consisted of little bits of this and that, just to clear the almost empty containers, have them washed and kept away.

For dinner, I boiled pig's stomach soup with raw ginkgo nuts, white peppercorns and onions. It was a no rice dinner, so we had 1 egg in each bowl. Actually, I wanted to use the last 2 eggs from the old stock before I buy more eggs to keep in the fridge.

These are pink balsam flowers and pink cockscomb flowers in front of my house. These are all self-propagated plants.

If you stay away from sin you will be like one of these dishes

made of purest gold - the very best in the house - so that

Christ himself can use you for his highest purposes.

(2 Timothy 2:21, The Living Bible-TLB)

Pre-Merdeka Day Celebration With Home Cooked Dinner

We woke up early last Sunday morning and we went for our early morning walk. After a light breakfast, we walked back home. Then I swept the porch area, fed my guppies and watered the plants.

Cockscomb flowers in front of my house.

I noticed many baby plants around these plants. Will be expecting a lot of cockscomb flowers when they started to grow and flower.

Harvested 2 bitter gourds from my garden.

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Home cooked dinner on eve of Merdeka Day (Independence Day).

We celebrate Independence Day on the 31st August.

Pan fried soy sauce prawns.

I used one of the home grown bitter for stuffing with fish paste and minced pork.

I cooked 2 home grown angled luffa with prawns and egg.

Pre-Merdeka Day / Independence Day celebration with a simple home cooked dinner.

Linking to Garden Affair.

So let us celebrate the festival,

not with the old bread of wickedness and evil,

but with the new bread of sincerity and truth.

(1 Corinthians 5:8, New Living Translation-NLT)

Chee Cheong Fun Breakfast & Indian Food For Dinner

For the past weeks, we have been having breakfast at the nearby shops. We usually walk, stop to have breakfast at one of the regular coffee shops, and than walk back home. But for this particular morning, hubby decided to go elsewhere for breakfast.

7:40 am - on the way to Canning Garden.

While hubby drove, I took snapshots.

Taking snapshots from a moving car is not easy. Most of the times, the pictures turned out blurry and have to be discarded.

Observing the SOP of MCO such as registering of names, contact numbers or scanning of QR code, and keeping our physical distancing from one another.

2 plates of ccf & 2 glasses of Chinese tea.

I had small portion while hubby had the big portion of ccf.

Waiting for the crunchy bean curd sheet to be brought to our table.

My breakfast: A plate of chee cheong fun (ccf) served with garlic oil, soy sauce, sesame seeds and crispy fried onion plus 1 piece of crunchy deep fried bean curd sheet.

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Cockscomb flowers from my garden.

These are self-propagating plants.

I only planted cockscomb once. When the plant is old, I pulled out the old plant. At its own timing, many tiny plants will appear at and around the same spot.

A few generations of Cockscomb has come and go.

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Simple eat out dinner.

We were still full from the Indian curry rice lunch we shared. So instead of cooking, we eat out at our regular coffee shop.

Hubby had a piece of chapati with chicken curry and a glass of Chinese tea.

I had a piece of vadai with chutney and a glass of Chinese tea.

Found this butterfly fluttering under our porch area. These are the best that I can managed because it was never still for long.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow,

an undeserved curse will not land on its intended victim.

(Proverbs 26:2, New Living Translation-NLT)