Wat Tan Hor, Assam Laksa & Fried Fish With Nyonya Assam Paste

The day started with a nice sunrise.

Finished our morning walk early at about 7:30am.

Drove out to Yummy Food Garden in Menglembu Industrial area for breakfast.

Hubby ordered flat rice noodle with egg gravy (wat tan hor).

I ordered assam laksa. I have no problem eating assam laksa for breakfast.

Love the generous amount of fish meat in the laksa.

When I can't have the Penang assam laksa, this one will do for me.

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Home cooked dinner.

Fried grouper fish meat and topped with Nyonya assam paste.

Beansprout sauteed with home grown Chinese chives, chopped garlic and salt.

2 salted eggs.

We ate brown rice porridge with the above dishes.

Simple, satisfying and filling.

Feed the hungry! Help those in trouble!

Then your light will shine out from the darkness,

and the darkness around you shall be as bright as day.

And the Lord will guide you continually,

and satisfy you with all good things, and keep you healthy too;

and you will be like a well-watered garden,

like an ever-flowing spring.

(Isaiah 58:10-11, The Living Bible-TLB)

Prawn Noodle, Wild Boar Rendang, Porridge With Fried Dace & Salted Egg

I had a packet of Hokkien Prawn Noodle ready made paste that was near expiry date. 

I used the paste to cook Hokkien Prawn Noodle for lunch.

Ingredients used: big prawns, chicken drumstick meat cut into cubes, beansprouts and home grown chives. I kept the remaining soup for next day's breakfast.

For dinner, hubby went out to buy wild boar rendang (RM10) from a nearby Indian stall.

I had bread with the wild boar rendang while hubby had instant noodle with the wild boar rendang. He is not a fan of bread.

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The next morning's breakfast.

After returning from our morning walk, I heated up the prawn soup.

We had Hokkien prawn noodle with hot milo for breakfast.

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Simple dinner for 2 people.

I boiled plain brown rice porridge.

Opened a can of fried dace with salted black beans.

There were 2 fried dace with the black beans.

I actually like the black beans than the fried dace.

I boiled 2 salted duck eggs. I am too lazy to pickle the eggs. Nowadays it is more convenient to buy from the store.

Hubby likes to eat porridge with the above fermented white bean curd (fu yue). He likes the one with sesame oil and chili added.

This time I managed to take a snapshot of the black bird that comes to shred my banana leaves and flies off with the banana leaf shreds. I do not know the identity of the bird. The picture is not clear so I don't know if anyone can help to identify this bird.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

A friendly discussion is as stimulating

as the sparks that fly when iron strikes iron.

(Proverbs 27:17, The Living Bible-TLB)

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)

Beef Noodle And Agar-agar Mooncakes

This was another cloudy day. 

Dawn at 7am.

Sunrise at 7:08am.

Sunrise at 7:10am.

Sunrise at 7:16am, partially blocked by the double storey building.

Sunrise at 7:24, partially blocked by clouds.

Cloudy morning at 7:50am.

Instead of the usual spicy fried beehoon, hubby bought spicy fried yellow noodle at RM2.

I chose to have oat porridge with Bru coffee.

Oat porridge with Brazilian spinach, almond slices & dried cranberry.

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Lunch

Our neighbour went out to buy lunch and they bought beef noodle for us. They bought 2 portions of beef soup and 1 portion of noodle for us to share.

Flat rice noodle (koay teow) with beef and daikon.

Even with each of us eating half a portion of noodle, it was a very filling lunch.

The same neighbour blessed us with these agar-agar mooncakes.

We enjoyed these as our dessert.

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Home cooked dinner

Chicken with fresh oyster mushrooms.

Ingredients used: Cubed boneless chicken thigh, fresh oyster mushrooms teared into pieces, ginger slices, garlic, sesame oil, oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt and sugar to taste, spring onion.

Sauteed home grown angled luffa with dried shrimps and garlic.

Boiled salted eggs.

Our dinner with white rice porridge.

Come, let's talk this over, says the Lord;

no matter how deep the stain of your sins, I can take it out

and make you as clean as freshly fallen snow.

Even if you are stained as red as crimson,

I can make you white as wool!

(Isaiah 1:18, The Living Bible-TLB)

Sambal Prawns + Potato, Steamed Corn With Butter + Salt

It was another warm and humid day. We started out on our morning walk.

Facing the Kledang Hill. Looks hazy.

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We stopped to buy breakfast from the usual roadside stall. We have tried the sambal chicken drumstick, so this time we tried the sambal prawns.

Nasi lemak with sambal prawns and potato for hubby.

Economy noodle with sambal prawns + potato for me.

RM6 per set (3 prawns + 2 to 3 pieces of potato)

We bought some fresh corn. I removed the kernel from the cobs.

After steaming, I stirred in some butter and salt to taste.

Steamed corn kernel for lunch.

Green brinjals and snake beans harvested from my garden to cook for dinner.

Green brinjals and snake beans cooked with sambal belacan dried shrimp.

Received some black vinegar pork trotter from neighbour. I boiled 1 salted egg and placed it on the pork trotter to avoid washing an extra plate. Lazy me!

Simple yet enjoyable dinner with steamed rice.

A friend was looking for Chinese chives.

I had 4 pots in my garden so I blessed her with 1 pot. 

Your throne is founded on two strong pillars -

the one is Justice and the other Righteousness.

Mercy and Truth walk before you as your attendants.

Blessed are those who hear the joyful blast of the trumpet,

for they shall walk in the light of your presence.

(Psalm 89:14-15, The Living Bible-TLB)