A Surprise Gift From An Unknown Person

Glad that we could go for our walking exercise on this particular morning. We have been skipping morning walk because it has been raining or drizzling most mornings.

I am sharing this morning sky from June, 2022.

These days, most of the morning sky are gloomy.

Garlic vine flowers by the roadside on our morning walk.

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We had breakfast at Restoran Double Three, Menglembu new township.

Hubby ordered dry curry noodle with 2 fried dumplings and... 

3 pieces of fried fish cakes in clear soup.

I ordered toast with butter and kaya.

Breakfast for 2 people.

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Later in the morning, I received a call from an unlisted caller. It was from a florist making a delivery and was waiting outside our house. Hubby went out to attend to the person.

A few minutes later, hubby came into the house with the above. We checked the card and instead of a name, it was written as "Guess ???". Who could it be? It took a while for hubby to guess. The sender is a friend who has settled down overseas and wanted to spring a surprise on us. Thank you, friend for your lovely gift.

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We had a lunch appointment with a friend who was back from Kuala Lumpur for a 2 weeks holidays. We went to a food court near her house.

I ordered a pot of briyani rice to share with hubby.

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After a heavy lunch, we only wanted something light for dinner.

Hubby and I shared this big plate of blanched beansprouts with scrambled eggs, drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

Linking to Skywatch Friday.

And I pray that as you share your faith with others

it will grip their lives too,

as they see the wealth of good things in you

that come from Christ Jesus.

(Philemon 1:6, The Living Bible-TLB)

Curry Noodle & Pusing Noodle At Restoran Blue Sky, Ipoh

Time seems to fly by so fast. We are now in August, more than half a year has gone by.

Sunrise at 6:40am.

We were up early, so we started our morning walk early.

Sunrise at 6:45am.

6:48am

6:50am.

Sunrise at 6:57am

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Hubby's friend asked about the curry noodle at Restoran Blue sky. Since we haven't been here for a long time, we decided to revisit this place for breakfast.

Restoran Blue Sky.

They have started serving curry noodle in giant bowls which is the latest craze.

They also serve seafood noodles.

The youtiau and the Pusing noodle stall.

The interior of the restaurant.

Hubby ordered the Pusing home made noodle with minced pork and wood fungus topping. 

He also ordered a few pieces of yong tau foo such as stuffed brinjal, stuffed chili, and etc.

The portion is big. He requested for curry gravy to be added to the noodle (dry version with soy sauce and black sauce).

I ordered the regular size curry noodle with bbq pork, roast pork and shredded chicken. The curry tastes good.

Hubby took a snapshot of the ingredients for the giant bowl curry noodle. The giant bowl can serves up to 3 people or more.

Orange firecracker flowers from my garden.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

Silver and gold are purified by fire,

but God purifies hearts.

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

Fish Balls Noodle Soup, Roast Chicken Wings & Home Grown Vegetable

We set out on our morning walk late because we overslept. 

Morning sky at 7:10am.

When we have walked enough, we stopped to buy the above Nyonya kuih. Tapioca cake on the left and glutinous rice with sambal shrimp and grated coconut wrapped in banana leaf on the right.

Then we walked to Bai Nong White Coffee for breakfast. We ordered a bowl of rice vermicelli in clear soup, fish balls and 2 stuffed bitter gourd for sharing.

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Back home in our garden.

This is hubby's project. After watching some youtube videos, hubby came up with this idea of planting vegetables. As we don't have much space in our side garden, this vertical method will help us save space if the project is successful. He filled the pvc pipe with garden soil and took some of my vegetable seeds to sow in these openings that he made in the pipe.

Since hubby didn't install the self-watering system, he has to water the plants manually.

This is how it looks like now. These are green amaranth (yeen choy). Very encouraging to see the vegetables growing well. Thanks to the success of hubby's project, we can now grow more and different types of vegetables for our own consumption.

This is also green amaranth (yeen choy) which are planted in the ground in front of my house. Some of these are due for harvest and I cut enough for dinner.

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Home cooked dinner.

Plain blanched green amaranth (yeen choy). I was lazy to make garlic oil so I didn't use any.

I roasted 10 pieces of chicken wings.

The chicken wings were marinated with soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey and some sugar.

I cooked dried noodles. Since there is no garlic oil available, I used chili oil and soy sauce to mix the noodle.

This was our dinner. For appetizer, we had some pickled ginger from the fridge.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God.

He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.

(Matthew 5:6, The Message-MSG)

Buntong Beef Noodle At Kedai Makanan & Minuman Sri Mahkota, Ipoh

This was on a Saturday. The sky was gloomy and hazy. There was hardly any rain for the past week or more.

Dark, gloomy morning at 8:20am.

For this particular morning, we had breakfast at home because I need to clear the bread and fresh mushrooms. I made my own version of French toast using the remaining fresh mushrooms and eggs.

This tasted okay to me but to hubby it tasted weird because of the fresh mushrooms. He still prefers his noodles.

This morning, I finally finished the bottle of jam. So, no more buying bread or jam for the time being.

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I was tired after cleaning house so we went out for dinner at Kedai Makanan and Minuman Sri Mahkota, also known as the Buntong Beef Noodle.

I picked 6 pieces of fried items.

Ordered 2 bowls of beef noodles.

Rice vermicelli + yellow noodle for hubby.

Add 1 fish ball and 1 meat ball to each bowl.

Flat rice noodle or koay teow for me.

This was our dinner. Nice dinner and filling too.

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One day, we were in Bercham and happened to pass by this shop

that sells soya bean milk and soya bean curd. The shop was closed.

I have not been here before.

There are murals on the side walls.

Hubby has to stop for me to take these snapshots.

I like this big mural that was painted on this side wall. The mural shows the steps of making the soya bean milk and tau fu fah.

Linking to Monday Mural.

Since the Lord is directing our steps,

why try to understand everything that happens along the way?

(Proverbs 20:24, The Living Bible-TLB)

Chee Cheong Fun & Pan Mee For Breakfast

We were away for a 2 days and 1 night trip in Penang. I will need some time to sort out the photos, so today I will do a simple post about one of our breakfast that we had in one of the nearby coffee shops.

Hubby ordered the above plate of rolled steamed rice flour noodle (chee cheong fun) with yam bean strips filling. He asked for curry gravy with sprinkling of toasted sesame seeds and crispy shallots.

Add on a few pieces of fried stuff (aka liew to us), consisting of fried fish cakes, fried bean curd sheets and stuffed bean curd sheet with yam bean or "sar kok fu pei".

Hubby's breakfast and I helped to eat some of the fried stuff.

I ordered handmade pan mee in soup. A friend paid for this noodle and before he left, he came to inform us. Thanks to him for the free bowl of noodle.

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One one of our morning walks, I saw this cat climbing up the fence in a slow motion.

When I stopped and pointed my hand phone camera at the cat, it stopped and stayed motionless for some time just watching me.

Then it slowly made its way to the top of the concrete pillar and crouched there with its face turned away from me. After this shot, we continued on with our walk.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?

But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door;

it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.

(Genesis 4:7, New International Version-NIV)