Seafood Lunch At Restoran Thong Lok, Tanjung Tualang

It was a Monday and our day started early as usual with our morning walk.

Morning sky at 7:05am

After I have swept my porch area and watered my plants, we got ready and waited for our friends. We were to gather at my house at about 10am.

We stopped at Pusing town to buy these pillow shaped bak chang or glutinous rice dumplings. It was RM7 and now selling at RM8 and the dumplings were not as tasty as before.

We reached Tg Tualang at about 11:40am. This is part of the small town.

Friends at the fruit stall.

This is Pisang Tanduk or Banana Horn. The hand is to show the size of the bananas. Pisang Tanduk is usually used for cooking e.g. making banana chips.

Opposite the fruit stall is the market.

A few restaurants were closed on Monday so we came to Restoran Thong Lok for lunch.

A worker plucking the paku pakis (wild ferns) in front of the restaurant.

Live fresh water prawns swimming in the aquarium.

Tourists come to Tg Tualang for its fresh water prawns, reared in fresh water ponds or rivers.

A friend ordering the dishes and we had the following dishes for 7 people.

Paku pakis salad with tiny dried shrimps topping.

Fried tofu.

Fried fresh water prawns.

Steamed fresh water prawns.

Fried clams or lala.

Steamed fish (from the cat fish family).

Steamed free range chicken with blended ginger sauce.

Total cost of lunch for 7 people = RM272

(incl. 4 small portion rice and Chinese tea)

Pink/Purple Spider Lilies.

Saw this at the Prawn Village when we visited after lunch at Restoran Thong Lok to snap some photos. Initially, we wanted to have lunch here since we haven't been here before but was told they only open at 3pm on weekdays.

The colour of the lilies looks like purplish pink

Linking to Friday Bliss & Skywatch Friday.

Look at the lilies! They don't toil and spin,

and yet Solomon in all his glory was not robed as well as they are.

And if God provides clothing for the flowers that are here today

and gone tomorrow, don't you suppose that he will

provide clothing for you, you doubters?

(Luke 12:27-28, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Cooked Steamed Prawns & Fried Clams For Dinner

The weather is getting warmer now. That means we will be sweating and the air conditioner will be on for most of the nights. We still have intermittent rain and occasional thunderstorm.

On this particular morning, we started our morning walk at about 7:05am.

Returning from our morning walk at about 7:45am.

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Dinner at our friend's house for 4 people.

She bought some fresh prawns and clams (lala).

Steamed prawns.

Stir fried clams (lala) with sour lime sauce, ginger, garlic, and basil leaves.

She knows my hubby doesn't like the smell of basil leaves, so she separately stir fried a plate of clams without the basil leaves for hubby.

I contributed this pot of stewed pork rib with blanched broccoli.

This was our early dinner ( and some of us took a bit of rice to go with the above dishes. After dinner, we watched TV and chit chatted and then it was time for supper. We then drove to the Perak Stadium food stalls looking for Chinese rojak.

Our friend ordered this plate of fruit rojak for sharing.

She also ordered the above crispy flour crackers, drizzled with rojak sauce and crushed peanuts. It comes in a set of 3 pieces.

I ordered this plate of blanched paku pakis (salad style).

This wasn't as nice and tender as before.

As you can see the thick fibrous stalks was very obvious.

For drink, we order this bean curd sheet boiled with barley.

The above items were displayed at the Antong Coffee Mill mini museum. The enamel items consisting of tiffin (food) carrier, a pot and 2 mugs.

A close up of the Purple Heart flower from my garden.

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

But you have received the Holy Spirit,

and he lives within you, in your hearts,

so that you don't need anyone to teach you what is right.

For he teaches you all things, and he is the Truth, and no liar;

and so, just as he has said, you must live in Christ,

never to depart from him.

(1 John 2:27, The Living Bible-TLB)

Prawn Noodles, Steamed Prawns & Steamed Brinjals

Our day started early with a snapshot of the sky before our morning walk.

Sunrise at 6:48am

Sunrise at 7am

Sunrise at 7:03am

7:06am

7:08am

7:15am

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Breakfast at Restoran Lou Fa Fa Lou (Restaurant 6886),

Bandar Baru Menglembu.

2 bowls of prawn noodles.

We asked for wonton noodle instead of yellow noodle.

Prawn noodle with 2 prawns, fish cake slices and half boiled egg. The extra half egg was from hubby's bowl and we added some fried beancurd sheet.

Fish crackers.

We also bought some fried snacks from this shop.

Fried crunchy bean curd sheet.

This is worth buying again on our next trip.

Green brinjal from my garden.

Dark purple brinjal from my garden.

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Home cooked dinner.

I used both the green and purple brinjals for steaming. After steaming, I sprinkled garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce over the brinjals.

Steamed prawns with ginger strips, goji berries and raisin wine.

Steamed rice with steamed prawns and steamed brinjals.

Steaming is simple and easy and healthier.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

Instead, we will lovingly follow the truth at all times - speaking truly,

dealing truly, living truly - and so become more and more

in every way like Christ who is the Head of his body, the Church.

Under his direction, the whole body is fitted together perfectly,

and each part in its own special way helps the other parts,

so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.

(Ephesians 4:15-16, The Living Bible-TLB)

Steamed Prawns With Raisin Wine For Dinner

A start to a cloudy day. Nice and cool for our morning walk.

Start of morning walk at 7:05am

Sunrise at 7:55am, end of morning walk.

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We were supposed to buy breakfast but saw that dine-in is allowed.

It was my turn to order mee jawa. The lady boss is an Indonesian married to a local and can speak very good Cantonese.

Hubby ordered wonton noodle with 2 sui kao.

Wonton noodle served with chicken and mushroom.

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Home cooked dinner.

Steamed prawns with ginger strips, red dates, goji berries and home made raisin wine.

Stir fried French beans with dried shrimp. I added an egg, cleared the last one so that I can buy a new batch of eggs.

An old uncle with a cup of white coffee mural in Ipoh old town painted by Ernest Zacharevic. This mural is painted on the side wall of the Old Town White Coffee cafe, in front of Ipoh Padang.

Linking to Monday Mural.

I will give them - in my house,

within my walls - a name far greater than the honor

they would receive from having sons and daughters.

For the name that I will give them is an everlasting one;

it will never disappear.

(Isaiah 56:5, New Living Translation - NLT)