Dinner At Kok Thai Restaurant, Jalan Gopeng, Ipoh

It was another hot and humid day for us.

Sunrise at about 7:08am.

Setting out on our morning walk.

That morning, I had breakfast with 2 ex-colleagues/friends.

The rest of the day, I stayed home with the fan on full blast. I was in lazy mode and was glad that I need not have to cook dinner that evening because we had dinner with friends at Kok Thai restaurant. There were 8 of us and we had the following dishes for dinner.

Stir fried assorted vegetables with macadamia nuts and ginkgo nuts.

Braised pork tendon, shiitake mushrooms, tofu, etc. in claypot.

Pork belly slices in soy sauce.

Poached chicken, somewhat salty to be eaten wrapped with the lettuce leaves.

Lettuce leaves with blended ginger.

Sweet potato leaves in claypot.

Steamed tilapia with special spicy sour sauce.

The dinner came to RM243.40 (incl. 6% service tax) for 8 people.

It was a weekday so the place was not crowded.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

After this,

I heard what sounded like a vast crowd in heaven shouting,

"Praise the LORD!

Salvation and glory and power belong to our God.

(Revelation 19:1, New Living Translation-NLT)

Pumpkin With Dried Shrimp & Mixed Treasures Stew

The morning sky was dark and looked like it was going to rain any time.

This was just before 8am.

Sunlight shining down through the dark cloud.

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Dinner for 2.

I bought 1 whole small size pumpkin just before the Chinese New Year. One and half months later, the pumpkin was still good.

Pumpkin cooked with chopped garlic and dried shrimps. I don't have spring onions, so I cut some Chinese chives from my garden and added to the pumpkin. I love this dish and I alone ate more than half the amount.

There were some items which I didn't finish using and were kept in the fridge, so I gathered them together to cook the above mixed treasures stew. The treasures in the dish: some arrowheads (ngaku), bony parts of a duck, some pork tendon, carrot, wood fungus, bean curd sticks, and a small can of abalone. There was more than enough to share with my neighbour.

Our yummy dinner with steamed brown rice for 2 people.

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From my garden.

I am still waiting for this pineapple to ripen.

This tiny pineapple seems to be taking a long time to ripen and there are some baby shoots coming out from the base of the pineapple.

An antique screen found at the Antong Coffee Mill museum.

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

And I found that though God has made men upright,

each has turned away to follow his own downward road.

(Ecclesiastes 7:29, The Living Bible-TLB)

Siamese Laksa & Lobak (Ngoh Hiang)

This was last day of September. We were ready to start our morning walk, but first I want to take some snapshots of the sunrise.

Sunrise at 6:59am

7:05am

This was our breakfast.

Nasi lemak from the Mamak coffee shop at RM1.50

I ate the quarter portion of hard boiled egg because hubby doesn't like hard boiled egg.

This was my breakfast. A bit of this and that consisting of 1 siew bao, 1 piece of chempedak cake and 3 pieces of cream crackers to dip into my Bru coffee.

While I was in my garden, I noticed this cucumber leaf with rain droplets arranged nicely around the edge of the leaf. The rest of the leaf was dry. Isn't it amazing?

Then I saw another leaf with the same arrangement.

The other leaves were all dry, without any water droplet on them.

The day before, I placed order for 2 packets of Siamese Laksa and a box of lobak or ngoh hiang for our lunch. I have been craving for both Siamese Laksa and Assam Laksa for a long time. This husband and wife team had a stall but have since stopped operating the stall. Now, they are cooking for takeaway once a week, only available for Thursdays and Fridays.

On this particular week, they had Siamese Laksa @ RM7 per packet.

Assam Laksa will be available next week.

I joined their whatsapp list in order receive notifications from them.

6 pieces of Lobak or Ngoh Hiang in a box at RM15.

I sliced 2 pieces to eat with the Siamese Laksa and kept the rest in the fridge.

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Lobak for Dinner.

To heat up the lobak, I pan fried them while I steamed the rice.

Home grown purple and green brinjals and long green okra stir fried with sambal dried shrimp.

I sliced the 4 remaining lobak and we were ready to enjoy our dinner.

Evening sky and sunset at 7:23pm.

It is good to say thank you to the Lord,

to sing praises to the God who is above all gods.

Every morning tell him, "Thank you for your kindness,"

and every evening rejoice in all his faithfulness.

(Psalm 92:1-2, The Living Bible-TLB)

Cockscomb Flowers & Golden Sunset

This was about a week ago. While hubby went out to buy fried noodle (koay teow & yellow noodle), I stayed home to make coffee.

Fried noodle with egg and prawns for hubby while I ate toast with marmalade.

That morning, the fried noodle boss was in good mood. He put in 6 big prawns for hubby and charged him RM5.50 only.

Cockscomb flowers in front of my house.

These are all self-propagated.

When the flowers get big and heavy, I have to find ways to support the plants from bending over.

Some of the seeds have started to fall and small seedlings are already growing under these big plants.

I went out to buy some grocery and went to this stall to buy 4 pieces of yam bean fritters for lunch.

Saw a stall selling longkong, duku, etc. Couldn't resist, went to check.

Longkong sold for RM7 per kg.

The above is RM10. There were fresh and not so sweet.

After keeping for 1 day, they tasted so much sweeter.

For dinner, I heated up another portion of stewed duck with lotus root. I cooked home grown angled luffa and okra with dried shrimp and egg. By the time I washed up after dinner, it was about 7pm.

Golden sunset at 7:05pm

Very seldom we get to see such beautiful golden sunset.

We even have golden clouds.

The reverse side was totally different.

Looks like it might rain later in the night.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

Praise the Lord, O heavens! Praise him from the skies!

Praise him, all his angels, all the armies of heaven.

Praise him, sun and moon and all you twinkling stars.

Praise him, skies above. Praise him, vapors high above the clouds.

Let everything he has made give praise to him.

For he issued his command, and they came into being;

he established them forever and forever.

His orders will never be revoked.

(Psalm 148:1-6, The Living Bible-TLB)

Chinese Herbal Soup & Stewed Pork Shoulder

I am sharing 2 days' short posts in this post.

DAY #1

Sunrise at 7:22am.

Morning sky at 7:23am.

Sunrise at 7:33am.

Green brinjals (eggplants) and ladies fingers (okra) from my garden.

I steamed all the green brinjals and ladies finger for dinner.

Drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce. 

Boiled Chinese Herbal Soup with pork soft bones.

Passed a portion of the soup over the fence to our neighbour.

This was a no rice dinner.

DAY #2

Sunrise shot on our morning walk.

Buttercake from a dear friend.

Only remember to snap photo after making the cut on the cake.

Stewed pork shoulder with potatoes, carrots and tomatoes.

Home grown angled luffa cooked with dried shrimps and egg.

Steamed rice for hubby.

For me, I ate toast with the stew.

Yums! I really enjoyed my dinner.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Everyone enjoys giving good advice, and how wonderful

it is to be able to say the right thing at the right time.

(Proverbs 15:23, The Living Bible-TLB)