Siamese Laksa & Herbal Chicken Soup Noodle

We were out of the house by 7:00am for our morning walk.

Morning sky at 7:05

After more than a week of hot and humid weather, we finally had rain for 2 days and the weather is now much cooler.

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We drove to Ipoh Garden for breakfast but found the coffee shop closed after the week long holiday. Since we have parked the car, we went to the opposite coffee shop for our breakfast.

I didn't know what I wanted to eat. I looked around and saw a stall selling Siamese Laksa. I haven't eaten Siamese Laksa for a long time, so I ordered a plate.

This was a bit different from what I had before because it has shredded chicken meat. Tastewise was alright. I finished the whole plate.

Hubby ordered a cup of hot coffee and a bowl of herbal chicken soup noodle. No complain about the food. The coffee here is RM2.40, which is 20 cents more than most places. Taste wise, the coffee here lose to those cheaper ones.

Hubby enjoyed his breakfast. The soup is tasty.

I was drawn to another stall and came back with the above items. 2 pieces of tapioca cake and 2 pieces of yam bean dumplings (chai kuih).

How many of you can remember these biscuits? We used to call these "belly button or navel" biscuits. We love to eat these when we were kids. I saw these in the biscuit tin when I stopped to buy some biscuits at the roadside stall.

As a kid, I used to bite off the hard coloured sweet icing and munched on the biscuit after I ate the sweet icing.

Vintage fire extinguishers at the Antong Coffee Mill museum, Taiping.

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

Before anything else existed, there was Christ, with God.

He has always been alive and is himself God.

He created everything there is - nothing exists that he didn't make.

Eternal life is in him, and this life gives light to all mankind.

His life is the light that shines through the darkness -

and the darkness can never extinguish it.

(John 1:1-5, The Living Bible-TLB)

Herbal Chicken Noodle & Pan Mee Dry Version For Breakfast

Today is the eve of Chinese New Year 2020. Woke up early this morning but we didn't go for our morning walk. Instead, I went to the mini market to buy some vegetables to stock up in the fridge for my convenience. After that, we went to our regular coffee shop for a simple breakfast.

Today, I cooked lunch for my family because my sons are back for the festival. I was too busy to take photos of our lunch. It is now 5:30 pm and very soon, I will be cooking our Chinese New Year Eve or Reunion Dinner. Hopefully, I remember and have the time to snap photos of our dinner. For today's post, I am sharing photos of our dinner we had last week at the nearby GP foodcourt.

Hubby ordered this Herbal Chicken Soup with noodle.

Ahh...now you can see the noodle (wonton noodle)

I took a spoonful of soup. I found the herbal soup too mild and sweet for my taste.

I ordered braised pork with noodle (dry version)

I love the dry chili paste with shallot crips.

Sunset at 7 pm

It is not often that I come across sunset like this.

My fiery orange-red Bauhinia Kockiana.

Happy and Blessed Chinese New Year 2020.

May God's love always surround you.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

And I pray that Christ will be more

and more at home in your hearts,

living within you as you trust in him.

(Ephesians 3:17, The Living Bible-TLB)

Simple Valentine Dinner At Something Special Cafe, Ipoh New Town

February 14th, 2014 was a Saturday and we didn't know that it was Valentin's Day. It was like any other normal Saturday to us. I only knew about it very much later in the night when I logged into Facebook and saw all the Valentine's greetings.

Anyway, that evening we were getting ready to attend the evening Church Service. Since my hubby has not been to Something Special Cafe, I suggested that we have our dinner there before going to Church. It was a surprised blessing to find an empty parking space in front of the cafe, a space just behind the one that I parked previously when I was there with my friends.

It was about 7 pm when we stepped into the cafe. There were 2 empty tables, one right at the front just after the glass door and one right at the back near the kitchen door. We took the one in front. Very promptly, the waitress came to take our orders. We looked through the menu and finally, we decided on our orders. Earlier, I thought I wanted to try the Chicken Chop set but after glancing through the menu, I changed my mind to order something else. What a fickle minded person I am!

Tonight, we both opted for noodle set dinner. The waitress claimed the noodle is their signature Homemade Oatmeal Noodle.

Hubby's dinner set - a bowl of Ginger Herbal Soup Noodle with chicken, wood fungus and wine, etc. An apple pie and a glass of cold blended sweet potato drink made up the set. I took a sip of the ginger soup and I like the taste because there was the taste of generous amount of wine in it and it was very flavourful. This set cost MYR 7.50 (approx. 2.06 USD).

My dinner set - Special Curry Noodle with an apple pie and a glass of cold blended sweet potato drink. The special curry noodle's ingredients - a few pieces of deep fried chicken meat, long beans, egg plant, tofu puff (tofu pok), etc. I have no complain about the curry, noodle or the veggie in the curry but I do not like the chicken because it was the deep fried chicken. I would prefer to eat the deep fried chicken separately, but not soaked in the curry soup. This set costs MYR 7.00 (approx. 1.92 USD).

My hubby took a bite and pushed the apple pie to me. Anything that is sourish, he will reject. He he he...I willingly consumed it in addition to my own share. I like this simple apple pie because of its slight sourish taste. Dinner for 2 person MYR 14.50 (approx. 3.98 USD).

Okay, I reminded myself that for the next visit, I must order the Chicken Chop because I was not feeling satisfied with the Special Curry Noodle. Hopefully, next time I won't change my mind at the last minute.

Something Special Cafe, No. 170, Jalan Sultan Iskandar (Hugh Low Street),

30300 Ipoh. Tel: 05-241 4346, 016-542 9785 (Yee Siew Loon)

(a few shop lots from the traffic lights near the new town police station)

When I planned this, did I do it lightly?

Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the

same breath I say, "Yes, yes" and "No, no"?

(2 Corinthians 1:17, New International Version-NIV)