Shredded Chicken & Curry Noodle, Bak Kut Teh And Fruits

Hubby and I have our own favourites when it comes to eating out for breakfast.

Shredded chicken with flat rice noodle or kai si hor fun is one of hubby's favourite noodles. The seller will add in the chicken liver for hubby and sometimes when he scoops the soup onto the noodle, hubby gets a few pieces of dried scallops too. The seller uses dried scallops as one of the ingredients for boiling the soup. I like this noodle but I do not eat it as often as hubby does.

One of my favourite noodle is curry noodle. There are a few places that serves good curry noodles. I like the soup version while hubby likes the dry version. I will only order the dry version when we eat at Yee Fatt Tea House, Kampar Road, Ipoh which is famous for their Yee Fatt Dry Curry Noodles.

We love local fruits such as the above Jackfruit. Once in a while, we get blessed with Jackfruit from our friend's garden but most of the times, we buy from a roadside stall in our area.

I was blessed with 2 home grown avocado from a friend. I was told to keep the fruits for about a week before consuming them.

About a week later, one of the avocado turned to this colour.

I cut it open and dug out the big seed.

I scooped out the flesh and spread some on a cream cracker.

It was nice with the cracker but I prefer eating it as it is, on its own.

For dinner, I boiled Bak Kut Teh or Meat Bone Herbal Tea.

Ingredients used: 1 big packet of Chinese herbs bought from the Chinese medical shop, 1 pig stomach, pork ribs, Shiitake mushrooms, and tofu puffs bought from Bentong.

We had steamed rice with the bak kut teh and home made pickled ginger and pickled belimbing buluh.

One morning while walking home from our morning walk, I saw something that gave me a scare. When I saw this from afar, it looked like someone was hanging from the branch of this tree. As we got nearer, we saw that it was a shirt used to wrap a Jackfruit. Good thing, I saw this in broad daylight and not when it was dark.

Photos credited to Shirley who shared these 2 photos with me. At first glance I thought it was a feather or a dried flower. I used Google Lens to identify this funny looking insect. The nearest I could find is the Arctornis l-nigrum moth. Please let me know if it is something else.

This one looks really cute. It looks like an old man with yellow face, 2 eyes, long hairy pointed ears and long white beard. I have not come across such funny looking insect before. Through the sharing of photos, we get to see and learn new things.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Yes, if you want better insight and discernment, and are

searching for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure,

then wisdom will be given you and knowledge of God himself;

you will soon learn the importance of reverence

for the Lord and of trusting him.

(Proverbs 2:3-5, The Living Bible-TLB)

Thankful For The Food And Fruits Gifts

Since we can only start our morning walk at 7am, I tried to sleep and wake up later but it seems that my biological clock has been set and cannot be reset. To pass the time while waiting, I will read news and check messages on my hand phone. If it is still early, I will sweep the porch area and take snapshots of the morning sky.

Pink sunrise at 6:58am.

Sunrise partially hidden by dark cloud at 7:30am.

No more dark cloud at 7:33am.

Golden sunrise at 7:37am.

Starting of a warm day.

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Breakfast at home.

A friend gave us 4 home made glutinous rice dumplings (bak chang). I took out 2 from the fridge to steam for breakfast.

These 2 were peanuts and red beans "chang" or vegetarian dumplings.

Very yummy dumplings.

We had Chinese tea with the dumplings.

Bigger than palm size hibiscus from my garden.

Received the above gifts from our neighbour.

4 cup cakes individually wrapped in plastic bag.

Ready cooked sweet sour black pomfret in plastic container, kept for dinner.

Ready cooked stewed preserved vegetable with pork belly in plastic container, kept for dinner.

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Lunch

Cup cake with "tong sui"

I cooked sweet drink (tong sui) consisting of peach gum, dried longan, honey dates, red dates, goji berries, rock sugar and pandan leaves.

My portion of healthy snack to be eaten as I blog hopped.

Sweet Jackfruit from a friend's garden.

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Later in the afternoon, a friend who was shopping for essentials stopped in front of my house on her way home to bless us with the following:

From left to right: 2 green guavas, 2 mangoes, 5 apples, and some Jackfruits. So thoughtful and generous of our friend. This is more than a week's supply of fruits for us.

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Dinner

All I have to do was to heat up what my neighbour bought for us.

Sweet sour black pomfret.

Preserved vegetable (mui choy) with pork.

I just did a quick stir fry the beansprout and chives with garlic and salt to taste.

There was a little bit of this and that left behind. Not wanting to throw away food, the municipal trash bin (me) cleared up everything to avoid any leftover for the next day.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven!

What joys when sins are covered over!

What relief for those who have confessed their sins

and God has cleared their record.

(Psalm 32:1-2, The Living Bible-TLB)

Lockdown To Me Is Stay Home, Stay Safe & Grow Fat

I have decided not to step on the weighing scale because I know I wouldn't like to see what it will show me. I haven't been out for morning walk for more than a week and am too lazy to do indoor exercises. The only exercise I did is eating and more eating. I don't know about others but it looks like lockdown for me means stay home, stay safe and grow fat!

Breakfast bought from roadside stall.

Nasi lemak with fried egg (RM3) for hubby.

Economy fried rice vermicelli with sambal (RM2) for me.

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Lunch

Hubby bought the above for his lunch, the sauce packed separately.

Looks yummy with the sauce.

I had some over ripe bananas so I used them to make banana pancakes for my lunch.

For dessert, we had Jackfruits.

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Dinner

Sambal stinky beans with minced pork for hubby (his favourite).

Sambal anchovies (ikan bilis) for me.

We each had our own favourite dish.

Best eaten with steamed rice.

I took only a few spoonfuls of rice because I wanted to finish the bread later.

After an early dinner, I finished the last 2 pieces of bread with sambal anchovies for supper.

He personally carried the load of our sins in his own body

when he died on the cross so that we can be finished with sin

and live a good life from now on. For his wounds have healed ours!

(1 Peter 2:24, The Living Bible-TLB)

Jack Fruit, Roti Canai & Home Cooked Dinner

This was a Monday, 4th day of Lunar New Year. I didn't take snapshots of our breakfast and by now I have forgotten what we ate for breakfast that morning. That morning our friend gave us some Jack fruits which she bought when she was at the wet market.

I washed and removed the seeds and we ate as mid morning snack.

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Roti Canai for lunch.

Our friend also bought for us 3 pieces of roti canai from the same wet market.

I warmed up the roti canai in a non stick pan. There were 3 pieces which were not very big. I cut it up and placed it in 2 plates.

2 types of curry gravies were given which I also warmed up separately.

Monk fruit or loh han kor boiled with red dates and goji berries.

Simple and filling lunch for 2 people.

Afternoon sky at 4:30pm.

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Simple home cooked dinner.

Since the weather is hot, I boiled soup with lotus root, carrot, red dates, goji berries and pork rib. I blanched some home grown sweet potato leaves and drizzled with the remaining garlic oil without the garlic crisp. I will have to prepare a new batch of garlic oil.

After washing up after dinner, I took the garbage out. I quickly washed my hands and took out my smartphone to take this snapshot of this sunset sky.

In a wealthy home there are dishes made of gold and

silver as well as some made from wood and clay.

The expensive dishes are used for guests,

and the cheap ones are used in the kitchen or to put garbage in.

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 2:20-21, The Living Bible-TLB)

Indian Cuisine For Breakfast, Glutinous Chicken Rice For Dinner.

We have been passing by this roadside stall whenever we go on our morning walk. There will customers waiting in line to take away their breakfast. So yesterday the 78th day MCO, we crossed over to the other side of the road to see what the Indian lady and her daughter are selling. They sells nasi lemak, fried rice vermicelli, and idli (rice cake). Since this is the first time, we bought the following items to try.

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Breakfast

Fried vermicelli Indian style with spicy sambal.

Hubby's breakfast with Nescafe.

My breakfast with Nescafe.

2 idli (rice cake) with coconut chutney and dhal curry. I asked for 1 idli but I was told that I had to take 2 idli instead.

Mid morning: Hubby and I went shopping at Aeon Big Falim. Among the items I bought were the above ice-creams and some potato crisps (not in the picture).

A friend sent some of their home grown Jack fruits to us.

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Lunch

Herbal chicken soup with croissants bought from Aeon Big Falim.

Remaining portion of the herbal chicken soup from the previous day.

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Dinner

2 pax of glutinous rice with chicken (lor mai kai) from a friend.

I rather they do not use these aluminium foil.

To warm up, I steamed the lor mai kai.

Onion and egg omelette - special request from hubby.

Blanched baby kai lan (Chinese broccoli) drizzled with garlic oil and soy sauce.

Strange combination for a satisfying dinner for 2 people.

Dear friends, don't be bewildered or surprised

when you go through the fiery trials ahead, for this is no strange,

unusual thing that is going to happen to you.

Instead, be really glad - because these trials will make you partners

with Christ in his suffering, and afterwards you will have the

wonderful joy if sharing his glory in that coming day

when it will be displayed.

(1 Peter 4:12-13, The Living Bible-TLB)