Grilled Stingray For Dinner

The rainy season is here and we have been having rain almost daily. Moderate rain is good for my plants and it helps cut down on electricity bill.

Morning sky at 7:06am.

On the reverse side, misty hills.

Simple breakfast consisting of Chinese crullers, ma keok and black coffee.

These angled luffas were harvested from my garden 2 days earlier and I gave some to my sister and a friend. 2 luffas is enough to cook a dish for 2 people.

2 days later, I harvested the remaining luffas from the garden before I removed the vines.

The final harvest of angled luffas.

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Rice and peanut porridge for lunch.

I almost forgot about the last few small taros in the fridge. They were still good and can be eaten. I boiled the small taros and removed the skin. Then I poured the leftover gravy from a dish over the taro. Boiled all 3 salted eggs because they have been sitting in the fridge for a long time.

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Dine-in dinner in a food court.

It was only 5:20pm and not many people around.

I thought of ordering the pandan rice but there were people queuing up. Hubby ordered curry noodle (no photo to show).

Hubby ordered grilled stingray so I decided not to order any food for myself. I made a cup of milo for myself before I went to bed.

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 The following photo was taken at the Antong Coffee Mill in Taiping.

Old fashioned grinding stones or pounding stones. Many of these are still in use. These were made from granite stones.

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

You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,

even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.

(Proverbs 27:22, New Living Translation-NLT)

Sichuan Salted Vegetable Soup & Steamed Chinese Sausage

This was a Thursday. No rain, nice weather, and we can go for our morning walk. Yay!

Morning sky 7:17

Sunrise at 7:25am.

Sunrise partially blocking the sunrise - 7:35am.

Simple and cheap breakfast.

Nasi lemak RM1.50.

2 pieces of fried dough (ma keok), RM1.10 per piece.

2 pieces of toast with coconut jam (kaya).

Chinese art mural on the wall of a Chinese school.

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Home cooked dinner

Sichuan salted vegetable soup with carrot, tomatoes and pork rib.

Sauteed cabbage + home grown ladies fingers with garlic and salt.

Steamed Chinese sausages.

I totally forgotten that I have a packet of Chinese sausage in my fridge. It was a Chinese New Year gift from our neighbour. These sausages come in handy when I can't think of what to cook.

Linking to Monday Mural.

For the free gift of eternal salvation is now being offered

to everyone; and along with this gift comes the realization that

God wants us to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures

and to live good, God-fearing lives day after day,

looking forward to that wonderful time we've been expecting,

when his glory shall be seen - the glory of

our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.

(Titus 2:11-13, The Living Bible-TLB)

Vegetable Dumplings, Chinese Crullers & Peanut Pancake

This was a Friday. The day started with a golden sunrise.

When I took this snapshot, I didn't notice that the lamp post was right in right of the sun.

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I bought the following items for our breakfast and lunch.

For breakfast, I bought 2 sets of vegetable dumplings (yam bean filling) , 1 set of vegetable dumplings (Chinese chives filling) and 1 set of fried savoury kuih. I can choose any 4 sets from the table for RM10 or pay RM3 for 1 set. 

These are sold for RM1.10 per piece.

2 Chinese crullers and 2 "horse shoe" (ma keok).

These 2 are my favourites.

2 pieces of peanut pancakes.

I think this is RM1 per piece.

Crushed peanuts, sugar and margarine as filling.

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Noodle for dinner.

Instant noodle with stewed chicken feet (extra from the previous day's dinner).

This is hubby's favourite.

Steamed sponge cake (ma lai gao) from our neighbour.

Cleome spider flower from my garden.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

And if God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today

and thrown into the fire tomorrow,

he will certainly care for you.

Why do you have so little faith?

(Luke 12:28, New Living Translation-NLT)

Breakfast On The First Day Of Chinese New Year 2015

We woke up late on the first morning of Chinese New Year. Our sons wanted to sleep late so we didn't wake them up. Hubby and I went out looking for breakfast in our area and found that most of the shops were closed. We came to this coffee shop, Kedai Kopi Sin Choi Yuen, First Garden, Ipoh and saw that it was opened for business. Surprisingly, we found that the place was not as packed as the previous years. This time we could easily get a table to ourselves.

As I walked in, I passed by a few tables and I saw that quite a number of the customers ordered curry noodle. I have not tried this curry noodle, so this morning I decided to give it a try. I was told that it was curry without coconut milk.

The curry soup without coconut milk. Lime juice in the spoon.

Total cost MYR 5 (approx 1.37 USD)

I poured the lime juice into the curry and brought up the ingredients to the surface. Curry soup with flat rice noodle, prawns, chicken meat, bbq pork, bean sprouts and mint leaves. I quite like this curry without coconut milk.

Hubby's fried flat rice noodle with prawns, egg and bean sprout. This noodle came much later, even after I have finished my bowl of curry noodle. The cook was frying non-stop to meet the orders. This morning, I noticed that the plate was not lined with banana leaf. Cost MYR 3.50 (approx. 0.96 USD).

Whenever we order hot black coffee, we will want to eat Chinese crullers (yau char kwai) with our coffee. Selling at MYR 0.80 per piece (approx. 0.22 USD).

1 piece of Chinese cruller (yau char kwai) and 1 piece of "mah keok" (horse foot - literal translation). The long one is the Chinese cruller and the short one with sesame seeds if the horse foot. The main ingredient is flour. Cost for 2 pieces MYR 1.60 (approx. 0.44 USD).

Since I have finished my curry noodle much earlier and waiting for hubby to finish his fried noodle, I took some snapshots from where I was seated. On the left is the Chinese cruller stall, on the right is the wanton noodle stall.

On the left is the curry noodle stall and on the right is the fried noodle stall.
The 2 pictures below were taken from our previous breakfast on an earlier date.

On normal days, the fried noodle will be placed on a banana leaf lined plate.

This is Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun. Ingredients - steamed flour rolls with diced bbq pork and prawns filling, served with spicy dried shrimp belacan paste. I can remember the price. The stall was not opened today.

Sin Choi Yuen Coffee Shop, Lebuh Taman Pertama, Taman Pertama, Ipoh.

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
for His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
(Lamentation 3:22-23, New International Version-NIV)