Attractive White Flower Of Bottle Gourd

I finally get to see the white flower of the bottle gourd plant and get to take some snap shots of the attractive white flower.

Fan like green leaves of the bottle gourd plants.

Bud of the bottle gourd plant.

Usually the flowers are facing upwards above my head so I couldn't see or take good photos of the flowers. This flower happened to be at the edge of the trellis where I can see it clearly.

Attractive delicate white flower of the bottle gourd.

These are some of the bottle gourds harvested from my garden.

This is still growing well even in this rainy season.

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Breakfast at Kedai Kopi Ah Chow, Ipoh old town on a Thursday morning, 2 days before General Election (GE15). Elder son reached home in the wee hours of the morning and he wanted to catch up on his sleep.

Dry curry noodle for hubby.

Tom yam noodle for me.

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Home cooked dinner 

Pork tenderloin cooked with Sichuan pickled mustard.

Steamed 3 types of eggs (chicken eggs, century egg & salted egg).

Blanched home grown nai pak choy.

Home cooked dinner for 3 people.

Mural found on the back wall of a row of shops in Ipoh new town.

Linking to Monday Mural.

What a God he is! How perfect in every way!

All his promises prove true.

He is a shield for everyone who hides behind him.

(Psalm 18:30, The Living Bible-TLB)

Seafood Tom Yam Noodle & Savoury Long Bean Rice

This was a public holiday. Started our morning walk late because we woke up late.

Morning sky at 7:15am.

7:20am

After morning walk, we stopped at Kedai Kopi Sin Choi Yuen for breakfast.

I ordered the above Seafood Tom Yam noodle (RM10).

Hubby ordered his usual fried noodle (RM6). No photo to show.

There were clams (lala), fish paste, 3 big prawns, tomato, green vegetable and rice vermicelli. An appetizing bowl of noodle to start off the day.

Walking home after breakfast at 8:10am.

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Since it was a public holiday, our neighbours did some shopping and bought the following 2 items for us.

2 tubs of tofu fa.

One with ginger syrup and one with palm sugar.

And Chinese fruit rojak.

Very nice with lots of crushed peanuts.

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Home cooked dinner.

Hubby went to visit his friend who recently had a knee surgery and the friend's wife gave him a bundle of home grown long beans.

I used two thirds of the long beans to cook steamed savoury rice.

Ingredients used: chopped garlic, diced shiitake mushroom, diced roast pork, diced cuttlefish, oyster sauce, soy sauce, black sauce, cooking oil, sesame oil, long beans and brown rice. I stir-fried the ingredients till fragrant before transferring to the above pot, add water and steamed till the rice is cooked.

Sambal belacan with lime juice as condiment.

It was a delicious dinner and I couldn't resist having 2 helpings of the rice.

There was enough leftover for the next day's lunch.

I tried to but I couldn't remember when I found this mural.

Hornbills painted on the sealed windows looks like framed paintings of hornbills.

Linking to Monday Mural.

Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so that

there will be food enough in my Temple;

if you do, I will open up the windows of heaven for you

and pour out a blessing so great you won't have room

enough to take it in! "Try it! Let me prove it to you!

(Malachi 3:10, The Living Bible-TLB)

Dinner At Sabay Thai Food, Bercham

I woke up very early, looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was 5 am. It was too early and too dark to go for our morning walk. I went back to bed and slept for another hour. The alarm woke me up at 6 am.

Sunrise at the park - 7:05 am.

The new spotlights lighting up certain parts of the park.

This park attracts residents and their furry friends from surrounding areas.

This one is a regular at the park.

This dog accompanies his master to the park and he doesn't gets into fight with other dogs. He is a loner.

A flower from my long beans plant.

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That evening we had dinner with friends.

The venue was Sabay Thai Food Restaurant in Bercham.

Someone wanted noodle, so a tom yam noodle was ordered.

Egg omelette with Thai veggie

Sambal petai (stinky beans) with minced pork.

Mango salad with deep fried anchovies (Mango kerabu).

Thai style steamed fish.

I love the sweet, salty, sour, and spicy taste of Thai food.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

You will never be able to eat solid spiritual food and

understand the deeper things of God's Word

until you become better Christians and

learn right from wrong by practicing doing right.

(Hebrews 5:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

Breakfast Again At Kopitiam Poh Poh Place.

Breakfast on a Saturday morning for 5 people. This is my 2nd visit to Kopitiam Poh Poh Place, Laluan Perajurit 1, Taman Ipoh Timur, Ipoh. Our first visit was last month, on 2nd November. I enjoyed the Yuet Por Fun very much on the first visit. Yuet Por means women who are in confinement usually for 30 days after giving birth to their baby. The dishes they eat will be full of ginger and wine to take away the wind and bring back warmth to strengthen their health. This visit, I wanted to try the Tom Yam noodle.

Fried fish noodle for friend A.

1 big piece of fried fish, tofu, assorted veggie.

\Mixed pork and offal noodle for friend B

Yuet Por Fun for friend C.

She enjoyed every mouthful of this bowl of noodle.

Hubby also ordered the Yuet Por Fun.

Those who love some wine in the soup for extra oomph will love this.

I was adventurous, so I tried the tom yam noodle.

This tom yam version was not what I expected.

So for future visit, I better stick to the Yuet Por Fun.

Instructions to customers.

1. Please take your number

2. And take your seat

3. Waiter will come and take your order.

Opens from 7.30 to 2 pm, closed on Thursdays.

Fence #1

Fence #2

We call these flowers Japanese roses. These are known as Portulaca. Other names are moss rose, Mexican rose, sun rose, moss rose purslane.

Fence #3

My Japanese roses or moss roses in full bloom.

Linking to Good Fences.

So let it grow, and don't try to squirm out of your problems.

For when your patience is finally in full bloom,

then you will be ready for anything,

strong in character, full and complete.

(James 1:4, The Living Bible-TLB)

Herbal Soup Noodle & Tom Yam Noodle For Dinner.

After having a good night's sleep, I woke up fresh and chirpy this particular morning and I was ready for the early morning walk earlier than usual.

 Morning sky over the park at 6.45 am,

We finished our walking exercise early and we drove to town for breakfast. Our breakfast venue was at Restoran Big Oriental at Persiaran Greenhill, Kampung Jawa, Ipoh.

 My breakfast was Herbal Soup noodle (mee sua) from a new stall. It is a kind of thin and soft salted wheat flour noodle. A thin layer of minced pork and egg patty cooked in herbal soup. Most of the noodle was hidden under the pork patty.

 My unsweetened kopi C.

Hubby took the usual wonton noodle, so no photos to show.

 Sky view at 11.45 am on a Sunday morning.

Simple home fried tom yam rice vermicelli.

 We were not in the mood to go out for dinner. So I cooked a simple dinner from whatever was available in the fridge. Cabbage and dried shrimp, tom yam paste and rice vermicelli.

 There were some home grown spiky bitter gourds and green eggplants (brinjals) in the fridge. Used them for deep fried Indian style with curry powder, salt and cornflour. It was a simple and yummy dinner which we enjoyed very much.

 Sunset over Ipoh city at 7.25 pm.

Linking to Skywatch Friday.

The sun will no more be your light by day,

nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you,

for the LORD will be your everlasting light,

and your God will be your glory.

Your sun will never set again,

and your moon will wane no more;

the LORD will be your everlasting light,

and your days of sorrow will end.

(Isaiah 60:19-20, New International Version-NIV)