Chicken Rendang With Mantou For Dinner

We started our morning walk early on this particular day. 

6:39am

Pink sunrise at 6:40am.

Hardly any traffic on the road on the right side.

Since we started out early, we finished our morning walk early.

We drove to Menglembu to buy breakfast. Our preferred coffee shop was closed, so we went to another coffee shop to buy takeaway curry noodles. Curry noodle with bbq pork and pig skin (dry version) for hubby. Curry noodle (soup version) with 3 pieces of yong tau foo for me.

2 angled luffa harvested from my garden for dinner.

Cut pear and gold kiwi fruit for lunch.

Late afternoon: Received a call from our neighbour telling me not to cook dinner. They have ordered 2 sets of chicken rendang and mantou from a Chinese restaurant for us. 

I only cooked this angled luffa + green okra dish with dried shrimp and egg.

This critter was fluttering here and there in my garden. It stopped and I quickly took out my handphone and took a snapshot from a distance. I had to zoom in because if I get too near, it will fly off again.

After the 1st shot, it fluttered off again and landed on this plant behind some flower pots. This is the best I managed. Not sure if this critter is a moth or a butterfly.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow,

an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

(Proverbs 26:2, The Living Bible-TLB)

Farewell Lunch At Restaurant Pusing Public, Ipoh

We have been looking forward to this farewell lunch because one of our friends had retired. It could also be called a welcome lunch as half of us present are retirees. In a way, we are also welcoming another member into our pensioners' club or retirees' club! We waited for everyone to be available and the lunch was finally held last Friday in Restaurant Pusing Public in Ipoh new town.

That Friday started with a lovely sunrise - 6:50 am.

7:00 am

Sunrise reflected on the pond.

Hubby and I shared this plate of fried flat rice noodle (char koay teow). I only took a few mouthfuls because of the farewell/welcome lunch.

While I was watering the plants in my garden, I noticed this ginger flower.

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Those of us who are retirees reached the restaurant early.

Someone brought some fruits for us to enjoy while waiting for the others.

The above is what is left from a full plate of fried crackers served by the restaurants.

First dish served - Ice or crystal vegetables salad as appetizers.

Deep fried cod fish.

Free range chicken steamed with blended ginger sauce.

Taro or yam cooked with kai lan vegetable.

Deep fried pork knuckle

There is no photo of the mantou (plain bun) accompanying the pork knuckle.

The pork knuckle and steamed bun (mantou) can be eaten with this sauce.

Steamed stuffed tofu with fish paste.

We had a great time enjoying the dishes and exchanging updates with one another around the table.

From these empty plates, you can see that we ladies have good appetite.

 Took some snapshots of the early birds while waiting for the others.

One more for the album for the year 2019.
Looking forward to the next meet up to celebrate the new year 2020.

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After lunch, some of us went for a walk at one of  the shopping mall. We need to walk off some calories because we had a dinner date in the evening. We wanted something light and decided on a hot pot dinner to enjoy the coconut chicken soup at Top Grade Hot Pot Restaurant at Festival Walk, Ipoh.

Free flow ice-cream potong.

Hubby took one and it was too frozen hard to bite.

He requested for the ice cream to be cut into smaller pieces.

The pot of hot soup brought to the table, placed on a stove and waited for it to boil. First, we enjoy the soup, the chicken and coconut flesh before requesting for more soup to be added.

These are some add on: 2 types of green vegetables, tofu, taro or yam and rice vermicelli.

These should be enough for 6 people since we only wanted a light dinner.

I love this very tasty coconut chicken soup base.

Our dinner for 6 people costs us about about RM 123.

Simple Christmas decorations at the Aeon Kinta City shopping mall.

For Christ didn't send me to baptize, but to preach the Gospel;

and even my preaching sounds poor,

for I do not fill my sermons with profound words

and high-sounding ideas, for fear of diluting the mighty power

there is in the simple message of the cross of Christ.

(1 Corinthians 1:17, The Living Bible-TLB)

Dinner At Restoran Mun Ji (New Location), Menglembu.

It was a Sunday. When I unlocked the gate to go out for breakfast and church, I had to take out my smartphone to snap some sunrise shots.  

 #1 - Sunrise at 7:23 am.

 #2 at 7:27 am.

 #3 - The sun rising from behind the cloud

 #4 - 7:31 am.

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Hubby wanted to eat fish head curry at Restoran Mun Ji in Menglembu. Reached there to find the shop closed. Disappointed, we have to go to another place. As we slowed down at the road juction, I happened to glance left and I saw the familiar "Mun Ji" on a signboard a short distance away.

To our delight this is the same Restoran Mun Ji which has recently shifted into this premise.

Customers can now enjoy their dinner in this air-con place.

This new place is smaller compared to the previous one.

We ordered the following dishes for our dinner.

Fish head curry in a clay pot.

Green Amaranth veggie cooked in superior soup with 3 types of eggs.

(salted egg, century egg & fresh chicken eggs)

Dong Po Yoke (braised pork belly)

Fried mantou (buns).

There were 4 of us, 1 person got to eat 1 mantau.

These were served together.

Nice to dip the mantau into the grave before eating.

This was a very satisfying dinner for 4 people.

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The following pictures are for joining Saturday's Critters.

Rooster

These are free range chickens found at one corner of the park.

Male and female

Stretching out his wings.

Another pair of chickens.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

With him were all the various kinds of animals

- those for eating and sacrifice,

and those that were not, and the birds and reptiles.

They came into the boat in pairs, male and female,

Just as God commanded Noah.

(Genesis 7:8-9, The Living Bible-TLB)