Hyacinth Bean Soup & Steamed Pork Rib With Cauliflower

This was 2 Tuesdays ago. This was another one of the hot and humid days we are having here.

Beautiful sunrise at 7:06am.

Golden sunrise at 7:26am.

Morning sky at 7:27am.

Clear blue sky and white cloud.

Simple home prepared breakfast.

We had half boiled eggs, toast and jam.

Milo kosong for hubby and Bru coffee with nestum for me

For lunch, we had glutinous rice dumplings (bak chang).

These are the smaller bak chang and just nice for a not so heavy lunch.

The bak chang filling consist of mung beans, salted egg yolk and pork. We have been buying these at RM11 for 3 bak changs. We were informed that very likely they will have to increase the price due to the increasing prices of raw materials.

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When the weather is hot and humid, my kitchen becomes like an sauna room. I have a mini fan in the kitchen but it doesn't help much. I will be sweating away and my t-shirt will be all wet. So, to spend less time in the kitchen, I tried to cook dishes with less preparation time.

Steamed pork rib with salted black beans with the cauliflower as base in a metal plate.

Soup:  Green hyacinth beans (pang pei dau), carrot, red dates, goji berries, and chicken bones. Cooking soup is easy. I just dump everything into a pressure cooker. Once it reached high pressure, I let it slow cook for 25 to 30 minutes over low fire. In this way, it taste like authentic soup cooked the traditional way and it also helps to save gas.

This steamed pork rib dish and the soup is an appetizing combination for a warm and sweaty evening.

My bauhinia kockiana clusters in different shades of yellow and orange.

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I received the following photos from my friend.

She saw this monitor lizard in the drain outside her house.

Photos credited to Shirley T.

If I see this, I don't know whether I have the courage to take these snapshots.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Don't be impatient.

Wait for the Lord, and he will come and save you!

Be brave, stouthearted and courageous.

Yes, wait and he will help you.

(Psalm 27:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Pan Mee & Sui Kao For Breakfast At Restoran Xin Xiang Er Nong

On Wednesday, we had a breakfast date with our friend and her husband. We drove to her house to pick them and drove to Restoran Xin Xiang Er Nong at Jalan Tokong, Ipoh. Most of the tables can only sit 2 people. Fortunately, as I walked further in, I found 2 small tables joined together to accommodate 4 people.

We ordered 4 bowls of pan mee (handmade noodles).

We requested for 1 sui kao (dumpling) to be added to each bowl.

I saw some Nyonya kuih displayed next to the cash counter near to where I was seated. The kuih all look good and delicious so I bought 2 sets of kuih talam + kuih bingka. I gave 1 set of kuih to my friend.

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On Monday, after our visit to Papan Village which I have posted here, we drove further in to check out the waterfall. We didn't even know that there is a waterfall here in Papan until a tourist mentioned it to us. 

We drove until this part to watch the water cascades and met someone who works at the Papan Herbal Garden which is further upstream where the Natural Waterfall is. God willing, we may return again to visit the Herbal Garden and Natural Waterfall.

Very quiet and peaceful except for the sound of water cascades.

Enjoyed the cool, fresh air.

We stay long enough to take some snapshots and make our way back to Ipoh.

On our way out, we stopped to watch this monitor lizard taking its own sweet time to cross the road.

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Simple home cooked dinner.

I had 1 home grown bitter gourd and spring onion. I decided to cook the bitter gourd with 2 home made salted eggs.

Our simple dinner consists of rice+oat porridge and the bitter gourd salted egg dish.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Look after each other so that not one of you will fail

to find God's best blessings.

Watch out that no bitterness takes root among you,

for as it springs up it causes deep trouble,

hurting many in their spiritual lives.

(Hebrews 12:15, The Living Bible-TLB)