Crab Glass Noodle, Tom Yam Soup & Thai Chicken Feet Salad

After morning walk, we stopped at one of our regular coffee shop for breakfast.

Our favourite shredded chicken noodle (kai si hor fun).

Can you see the bits of dried scallops used for boiling the soup?

While having breakfast, 4 Common Myna birds were playing or fighting on the road. They were making a lot of noise.

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I had lunch with 2 sisters at 

Different Taste, #72, Persiaran Bercham Selatan 2, Bercham.

My sister was looking forward to enjoy the above: Crab with glass noodle. The cook weighed a crab and informed us the price: RM99. So the above dish cost RM99 (approx. 22usd). I should have push the glass noodle aside to take a good snapshot of the size of the crab.

Next, we ordered Thai chicken feet salad @ RM16.

Grouper fish chunks in clear Tom Yam soup @ RM45.

Total cost of lunch: RM161.50. The lady boss waived the 50 cents.

Thanks to my sis for this delicious treat.

Aloe vera flower from my garden.

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No home cooked dinner for us.

Hubby bought 20 skewers of chicken satay (grilled chicken on skewers) from a nearby kampung. The satay costs 0.70 cents per skewers.

The seller is generous with the peanut sauce. There is some leftover sauce which I kept in the fridge to dip with our home grown cucumbers.

Hubby bought some boiled compressed rice (nasi impit), The cucumber and onions are given free.

Dinner for 2 @ RM14 (approx 3usd)

Cockscomb flower from self-propagation. It was found sharing a pot with a yellow Croton plant in front of my house.

And these men of faith, though they trusted God and

won his approval, none of them received all

that God had promised them; for God wanted them to wait and

share the even better rewards that were prepared for us.

(Hebrews 11:39-40, The Living Bible-TLB)

Dinner At Restoran Sawasdee Thai Cuisine, Ipoh.

Once again the haze is upon us. With the hot weather and haze, many of us are staying at home especially in the afternoon.

This was our morning sky. No more clear blue sky.

The sunrise was only a dull orange glow in the sky.

This was the type of sunrise we had last few days.

Can't even see the round orange sun.

Watching the gloomy sky.....

(Psalm 43:3-5, TLB)

O my soul, why be so gloomy and discouraged? Trust in God!

I shall again praise him for his wondrous help;

he will make me smile again, for he is my God!

I had a craving for Thai food and I googled the location of this place recommended by a friend and suggested to hubby. He agreed and together with a friend, we were here just before 6 pm and I think we were the first customers.

Mango salad with deep fried anchovies and onion rings.

Sweet sour and very appetizing.

Kai Lan green veggie stir fried with salted fish cubes.

Blanched or glass chicken claws salad - also very appetizing.

We started off first with these 3 dishes.

Finally, last dish - steamed "siakap yu" with tom yam soup.

It is Barramundi fish or Asian Seabass.

Cost of fish MYR 52 (approx. 13.27 USD).

Tom yam soup for the steamed fish served in a separate bowl.

The dish was sweet, sour and hot with lots of chili padi.

The steamed fish was kept warm over the charcoal heater.

Total cost of dinner for 3 people inclusive of rice and drinks

MYR 90.80 (approx. 23.18 USD)

A "black and white" guest came to visit my garden.

Thank you, Eileen for hosting Saturday's Critters.

It came for my Water Jasmine flowers.

It wouldn't stay still for me....

It was fluttering here and there.

It posed upside down for me...

Then it shifted a bit for me....

One last shot before it flew off to another location.

Happy weekend!

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

Enjoying Thai Food @ Tops Thai Tom Yam Coffee House, Taiping

Last Friday, my sister and I took a ride in our friend's car to Taiping. Our friend needed to send her mother back to Taiping after her mother came to visit her in Ipoh. It was a rare opportunity for close fellowship so we were happy to keep her company especially on her way back to Ipoh.

We started our journey around 11 am. I sat in front with our friend as the driver  and my sister sat at the back with auntie (our friend's mother). In the car, my sister was having the conversation with auntie in the Hokkien dialect. My command of the Hokkien dialect was very limited, and I couldn't hold a proper conversation in Hokkien, my conversation will be like "rojak", mixed with a little Cantonese, Hokkien, English and Malay. My sister was doing quite well and only interrupted here and there when she was struggling with certain words. All the time, we were making fun and laughing at our own mistakes and keeping auntie amused. She ended up being our Hokkien tutor. 

Since I was seated in the front passenger seat, I was free to take pictures of whatever I found interesting. We have just entered the tunnel between Ipoh and Taiping. It was not a very long tunnel and very soon we were out on the other side.

There was a stretch of the road where the traffic slowed down. We found out later down the road that there was some repair work that caused the slowdown of traffic. We passed by this long carrier and saw this nice golden car.

Upon reaching Taiping, mother and daughter were discussing where to go for lunch. My sister asked for something light and a place where we can get different variety of food to choose from. My friend's mother suggested we can try this food court in Taiping Lake Garden. We went in and found most of the stalls closed and only opened for business in the evening. We got into the car and drove back to town looking for food.

Auntie suggested we go for Thai food, and our friend said that she hasn't been there, so here we were at Tops Thai Tom Yam Coffee House.

From afar, it looked like it was closed. It was only as we walked closer, we were able to see the "OPEN" sign on the glass door.

From the menu on the wall, everything looked nice and delicious. All of a sudden, I felt my hunger pang. A waitress brought the menu and helped us with out order.

I was busy talking and forgot to take picture of tom yam soup before our friend started to scoop the soup into individual bowls. So I ended up taking picture of tom yam soup in small bowl. I think this is the White Tom Yam Soup.

We guessed there is coconut milk in the tom yam. Hmmm....slurpss...Very appetizing. Thumbs up for this tom yam soup.

Fern Spikes (Paku Pakis) salad dish. Very tasty and different from the usual salad. This is good too.

Fried Pineapple Rice, a great disappointment. Tasted like some curry powder has been used, so different from the pineapple rice that I have tasted. We didn't leave any behind as we do not like to waste food. Each one took a share and finished it.

Fried Rice Vermicelli, a bit bland and oily. We did the same with this too, no wasting of food.

Fried Transparent/Glass Noodle (Tang Hoon in Hokkien). Ahh! This is the best compared to the fried pineapple rice and fried rice vermicelli. Can thumbs up for this.

Grilled Fish Cake (Otak Otak), I prefer the Penang Otak Otak. Given opportunity, we may come back but we will order different dishes. Lunch was a treat from auntie and I think it is about MYR 70+ (approx. 20 USD).

Address: Tops Thai Tom Yam Coffee House,

*  100, Jalan Taming Sari, Taiping.

*  94, Jalan Kota, Taiping.

After lunch, our friend took us to Aeon Shopping Mall in Kamunting. All the walking and shopping made us tired and thirsty. Our friend wanted to buy some kueh back for her family in Ipoh and we decided to have some ice kacang at the Taiping town food court.

We ordered 4 bowls of ice kacang, MYR 1.80 per bowl (approx. 0.50 USD). Ipoh ice kacang costs about twice the amount, but with more ingredients. After finishing our ice kacang, our friend sent her mother back to her house. After unloading auntie's luggage, we started our journey back to Ipoh. We reached Ipoh about 6.30 pm and that ended our half day trip.

Honor your father and your mother,

as the LORD your God has commanded you,

so that you may live long and that it may go well with you

in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

(Deuteronomy 5:16, New International Version-NIV)