Braised Black Pomfret With Pickled Veggie & Stewed "Kow Chai" Duck

It was a nice cloudy morning for our early morning walk.

7:08am

That morning, I needed to go to the bank. So we drove out to town for breakfast at Restoran Memorable Good Taste.

We ordered 2 "usual" breakfast sets for us (as above).

We only need to mention "the usual" to the boss and he knows what we want.

1 portion of wonton noodle with the following accompaniments.

This wonton noodle is thinner than the usual wonton and the portion is small.

A bowl of soup with 5 pieces of wonton dumplings and 1 piece of sui kao (big dumpling).

A bowl of stewed savoury pork ribs about 4 to 5 pieces, depending on the size.

The generous lady boss gave each of us a bowl of pickled green chilies. This seldom happens at most wanton noodle stalls.

This breakfast costs us between RM12 to RM13 for 2 people.

We pass by here on our morning walk on most mornings.

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Our dine-out evening with friends at Restoran Wong Sheng, Ipoh.

Blanched pak choy with slices of canned bailing mushroom.

Stewed duck or "kao chai" duck.

"Kao chai" means puppy in Cantonese. It is just a name given to the dish.

Fried black pomfret topped with pickled vegetables, meat slices, tofu, tomatoes, and etc. It was a nice and satisfying dinner for 4 of us. Dinner including rice and hot water for Chinese tea = RM106.

A mural of a bull pulling a cart.

I found this mural on the wall of a school in Tanjung Tualang, Perak when we were there for a seafood lunch and a short visit.

Linking to Monday Mural.

The Lord is my fort where I can enter and be safe;

no one can follow me in and slay me.

H is a rugged mountain where I hid; he is my Savior,

a rock where none can reach me, and a tower of safety.

H is my shield. He is like the strong horn of a mighty fighting bull.

(Psalm 18:2, The Living Bible-TLB)

Home Grown Vegetables, Tai Pau Or Steamed Big Bun

On one morning last week, I harvested the following from my garden.

A cucumber and a tomato.

4 small white bitter gourds.

The last batch of long beans from the dwarf long bean plants. I have pulled up the aging plants to free the pot for some other plants.

Home grown from my garden.

Can you see the spots on the small tomato? When I cut the tomato, there will tiny worms inside the tomato. I hope that by wrapping the remaining tomatoes with recycled plastic bags will save the tomatoes from worms.

My neighbour gave us 2 big buns (tai bao) which I re-steamed to heat up for our lunch.

Inside the steamed big bun.

Update on the arrowhead shoots.

Sad to say that the arrowheads have turned yellow and it was a failed project.

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Simple home cooked dinner.

I added 2 white bitter gourds to the remaining portion of stewed duck.

1 dish dinner with steamed brown for hubby and I.

I forgot where I saw this cat. It was sunbathing on the tar road and not disturbed by my presence.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

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)

Fried Fish With Ginger Strips & Stewed Duck

My plants are well watered by the daily rain. It rains usually in the evening. Even at this moment, the sky is gloomy and rain is expected anytime.

Some photos from my garden.

Flower buds from the long green okra or ladies fingers in my garden.

Time to harvest this very long green okra.

Wow! It is about 14 inches long.

This is one of the longest okras from my garden.

I missed this one. It is too old and no longer edible. So when it is dried up, I will use the seeds for future sowing.

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Home cooking to be continued in order to clear the stock from the fridge.

Deep fried Grouper fish slice with lots of ginger strips.

Stewed duck with ginger.

We bought a pack of ready cooked stewed duck.

Took out half the portion and steamed for dinner.

Sauteed mixed vegetables with garlic and salt.

All were picked from my garden. Combination of small white bitter gourd, long beans, green brinjals (eggplants) and ladies fingers (okras).

This was our dinner for 2 people on a cool, rainy evening.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

He waters the furrows with abundant rain.

Showers soften the earth, melting the clods and

causing seeds to sprout across the land.

Then he crowns it all with green, lush pastures in the wilderness;

hillsides blossom with joy.

(Psalm 65:10-12, The Living Bible-TLB)

Stewed Duck, Steamed Tilapia & Stinky Bean With Minced Meat

This was another hot and humid day. We woke up late, an excuse to cancel morning walk.

We need to support our regular noodle stall.

We bought fish noodle for breakfast.

Cockscomb flowers from our front garden.

These are self-propagating and doesn't need much care except to water them.

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Dine-in dinner.

We reached the restaurant and chose an open air table. The tables were spaciously placed apart from each other. We were early and there was only 2 tables with customers.

Soup in individual bowls.

We ordered veggie (pak choy) in superior soup.

Sambal stinky beans with minced meat.

Stewed duck.

For the above 3 dishes, we requested for small portion.

Steamed black Tilapia with spicy bean sauce.

Total cost of dinner was RM110, including 4 small rice

and hot water, we brought our own Chinese tea.

Sunset at 7:40pm.

Once we finished our dinner, there was no chit chatting.

We put back our face mask, checked out from the place and got into the car.

We reached home early, in time to take these sunset shots.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers -

the moon and the stars you set in place -

what are mere mortals that you should think about them,

human beings that you should care for them?

Yet you made them only a little lower than God

and crowned them with glory and honor.

You gave them charge of everything you made,

putting all things under their authority -

the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals,

the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,

and everything that swims the ocean currents.

(Psalm 8:3-8, New Living Translation-NLT)

Pork Noodle, Heong Peah, Claypot Chicken Rice

This was last Thursday. We had some things to do in town. After our morning walk, we got into the car and drove out to town.

Morning sky at 7:55am.

After having settled everything, we stopped at one coffee shop to buy breakfast.

We bought 2 portions of pork noodles. I ordered noodles with minced pork and sliced pork, without the innards. Mee sua for me and bihun+mee for hubby.

We received 2 packets of biscuits from my sister.

One packet is the fragrant biscuits (heong peah). The skin is flaky, crumbly pastry with sticky malt and shallot filling.

Heong Peah is best eaten when freshly baked.

The 2nd packet is the sesame puffs or sesame biscuits.

After hubby had finished setting up a bricks boundary for my vegetable patch, he went out to the nearby food court to buy ice kacang with extra ice shaving.

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The cook was lazy and not in the mood to cook.

Hubby went out to buy claypot chicken rice and stewed duck.

We didn't finish the stewed duck. The leftover was kept in the fridge and used to served with instant noodle for hubby's next day lunch.

Jesus told them,

"In this world the kings and great men order their slaves around,

and the slaves have no choice but to like it!

But among you, the one who serves you best will be your leader.

(Luke 22:P25-26, 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)