Yummy Snacks For Lunch

This was on a Thursday about 2 weeks ago. We received a call from our friend inviting us out for lunch. A few places were suggested. Finally, we settled on Kedai Minuman Dan Makanan Taman Timur which we have not been for a long time. Whenever I visit this eatery, I will order my favourite snacks. In fact, we all love and enjoy these snacks.

I ordered 2 plates of pie tees to share. Pie tees is one of my favourite snacks. I have the pie tee mould but I am lazy to make the pie tee shells.

Crispy fried batter with rojak sauce and sprinkling of crushed peanuts.

Thin crispy pancakes with peanuts and canned corn filling.

Hubby ordered this unsweetened black coffee.

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For dinner, we met up with the same friends at the Perak Stadium food court. On that evening, only a few stalls were open for business.

Hubby ended up ordering this yee mee with chicken and wine in a claypot. I took a few mouthfuls and it was tasty and flavourful.

I had a hard time deciding and finally ended up ordering this plate of yee mee. It looked good but it was disappointing because it had a weird taste. After hubby finished his noodle, I transferred the noodle from my plate into the claypot. The remaining soup took away the weird taste for me to finish the noodle. Someone was not willing to go home after dinner, so we ended up at Restoran Kam Wan Aneka Selera.

We ordered bbq fish (half a stingray) to share.

After this, everyone was satisfied and happy to go home.

White bougainvillea with variegated leaves from my garden.

Pink Mexican petunia blooms from my garden.

A friend blessed me with some cuttings and now I have plenty of cuttings to share with others.

Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord! How good you are!

Your love for us continues on forever.

Who can ever list the glorious miracles of God?

Who can ever praise him half enough?

Happiness comes to those who are fair to others

and are always just and good. Remember me too, O Lord,

while you are blessing and saving your people.

Let me share in your chosen ones' prosperity and

rejoice in all their joys, and receive the glory you give to them.

(Psalm 106:1-5, The Living Bible-TLB)

Lunch With Friends At Aroma Nyonya Cafe, Ipoh

We set out for our morning walk at about 6:20 am. Sometimes, a lone jogger will pass us by.

Looking up, I saw that the moon was obstructed by clouds at 6:21 am.

A full moon and blue sky at 6:45 am.

6:55 am

Sunrise at 7:53 am. View of the backlane.

Sunrise at 7:44 am.

7:55 am.

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Lunch with my friends at Aroma Nyonya Cafe, Ipoh.

Menu

Menu

For drink, we ordered 2 glasses Pandan Serai (Screwpine leaves + Lemon grass) @ RM3.00 each and 2 glasses of barley @ RM2.00. For food, we ordered the following for sharing.

1. Nyonya Babi Ponteh @ RM12.90.

Nyonya Babi Ponteh served with blue + white rice.

Babi Ponteh (4 pieces of pork & 1 egg) and a bowl of plain soup.

2. Nyonya Kerabu Beehoon @ RM6.90

3. Nyonya Laksa @ RM7.90

4. Assam Laksa @ RM7.90

5. Nyonya kuih talam (set of 3 pieces) @ RM4.50

6. Nyonya angku kuih (set of 3 pieces) @ RM4.50 (no pic).

After cutting the kuih into smaller pieces only remember to snap photo.

6. Pie Tee (set of 4 pieces) @ RM8.50

7. Bubur Cha Cha @ RM3.50 x 4 = RM14.00

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Miniature Hibiscus from my garden.

Something has been making holes on the hibiscus leaves.

And also biting on the hibiscus petals.

Pretty pink hibiscus flower.

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

Smooth words may hide a wicked heart,

just as a pretty glaze covers a clay pot.

(Proverbs 26:23, New Living Translation-NLT)

Sharing A Home Cooked Dinner With Our Friends.

After I have cleared my fridge and kitchen of all the unwanted and expired items, I replenished whatever is necessary. Since the Chinese new year, my kitchen has stayed opened till today with one or two days off in between. My sons have gone back to work in the city and there are still meat in the freezer and vegetables in the fridge waiting to be cooked.

So, instead of going out with our friends for dinner on the 7th day of Chinese New Year, I decided to have them over for a simple home cooked dinner. In a way, it was to avoid the festival crowd in the restaurants. We can eat in the comfort of our own home without having to rush through our food, especially with people standing behind us waiting for our table. My home cooked dishes.....

Sweet sour Pork Rib in Plum Sauce.

It looks better with some sprinkling of spring onions.

Yam (taro) with Lai Pak veggie (Chinese White Cabbage)

Soup = fresh wai san (also called Chinese yam), corn, carrot, chicken feet and pork rib.

This special sweet corn was very tender and sweet. The remaining 3 cobs of corn were steamed for our lunch the next day.

Chilled Drunken Chicken - I tried my hand at making this with a boneless drumstick and wing. It was good but hubby is not a fan of chilled dishes. So I guess I won't be making this again.

I cooked a fresh batch of yam bean dish for the Top Hats or Pie Tee shells for our friends to enjoy. This was the "Yan Yat" dinner (7th day) of the CNY celebration shared with friends.

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Some lanterns decoration to share before the CNY celebration is over.

Entrance of Ibis Hotel, Ipoh.

Lanterns hanging in the Lobby.

We were at the hotel to meet up with my sister-in-law.

Today 11th February is the 15th day or the last day (Chap Goh Mei) of the Chinese New Year celebration and after today, everything will be back to normal again.

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The following critter photos were taken in my garden.

I googled and identified this critter as the Squash Bug, a deadly garden pest.

It was found feeding on the damaged chili plant.

This is an enemy that causes great damage to my plants.

 It pierces and sucks out the sap from the plant.

The leaves will wilt, drop off and the plant will dry up and die.

Now I will have to be on constant lookout for these pests.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

"Keep a sharp lookout! For you do not know when I will come,

at evening, at midnight, early dawn or late daybreak.

Don't let me find you sleeping. Watch for my return!

This is my message to you and everyone else."

(Mark 13:35-37, The Living Bible-TLB)

Our Reunion Dinner For Year 2017.

I praise God for the rainy season and cool weather. For the past years, Chinese New Year season has been hot and stuffy and I will be sweating profusely as I prepared and cooked the meals for my family. But this year is very different. I didn't even need to use the small table fan in my kitchen. The cool weather makes my cooking so much easier.

The eve of Chinese New Year 2017 was on Friday, the day we all celebrated the reunion dinner as a family. On that day, for lunch I cooked this Jicama dish (Sengkuang or Yam bean dish) as filling for the Top Hats or Pie Tee shells. It is a very simple version. I only used shredded jicama, shredded carrot, minced meat and diced prawns and some garlic for cooking.

Place the Top Hats or Pie Tee shells on a plate. Use a spoon to scoop the filling into the shells.

This Pie Tee snacks plus all the other CNY snacks will be our lunch until our reunion dinner which will be about 6.30 pm

At about 3.00 pm, we stopped at Restoran Rainbow in Menglembu to buy a set of Chinese New Year salad dish @ MYR 68. This is a must because everyone including me loves this salad dish.

Then we went to collect the Braised Stuffed Chickens that we have ordered from Pete Corner with this casserole.

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Our family's reunion dinner begins.

This is before adding the peanuts, sesame seeds and sauce.

The colourful combination consist of Salmon slices, 2 halves of lime to squeeze onto the fish slices, shredded vegetables (daikon, carrots, red capsicum, turnip, red pickled ginger, pomelo, lime leaves, Chinese parsley, etc.), jelly fish, chopped toasted peanuts, toasted sesame seeds, crunchy crackers, 5 spices powder and sweet tangy plum sauce.

After topping the salad with the chopped peanuts, sesame seeds and crunchy crackers and plum sauce, it is time to stir the salad until well mixed. The above is my 1st portion of ready mixed salad. 

 This is the Braised Stuffed Chicken we ordered for our reunion dinner. We used a kitchen scissors to cut the chicken into smaller pieces. We couldn't finish this whole dish, the left over was kept for the next day's lunch.

Blanched Broccoli drizzled with garlic oil and oyster sauce.

And a Steamed Fish.

Here's our reunion dinner for 4 people for 2017.

Thank God for another brand new year!

Jehovah God is our light. I present to him my sacrifice upon the altar,

for you are my God, and I shall give you this thanks and this praise.

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for he is so good!

For his loving kindness is forever.

(Psalm 118:27-28, The Living Bible-TLB)

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The following photos are for joining Saturday's Critters.

The photos were snapped at a Pets Fiesta about 5 months ago.

 This is a Sugar Glider.

 It is very active. Not easy to take a snap shot of this Sugar Glider.

Just look at the big round eyes.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.