Garlic Ginger Prawns & Dong Po Yoke For Dinner

This was Friday 28th January. These few days, many will be busy marketing getting ready for the Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year. Those not celebrating also need to buy to stock up because most of the shops will be closed for a few days.

We passed by this seafood stall which is only available on Fridays. Just as expected, the prices of prawns and fishes have shot up. Good thing, I listened to the seller and bought the week earlier at a much lower price than these.

I went to collect my order from the pork seller and saw 2 chopping/cutting boards selling for RM88 per piece. My old chopping board has been with me for many, many years and it is time to replace it with a new one. I treated it by rubbing new cooking oil all over it a few times and let it rest for 2 days before I started to use it.

~~~~~

That afternoon, hubby and I had to go to town.

We stopped at the Stadium food court for lunch.

I ordered a small plate of cuttlefish with kangkong for RM10.

The next day at the food court near our house, hubby ordered a small plate cuttlefish without the kangkong for RM10. Both have their own special peanut sauce.

~~~~~

Home cooked dinner for 4 people on Saturday.

Both our sons are now back home for the holidays.

Home cooked Dong Po Yoke (braised pork belly)

Ginger slices & spring onions for lining the pot.

Seasoning Ingredients: Bay leaves, cinnamon, star anise, cloves, peppercorn, rock sugar, dark sauce, cooking wine, & light soy sauce.

Garlic Ginger Prawns.

Ingredients used: chopped garlic, ginger slices, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, & tomato sauce.

Blanched "Yau mak" or fragrant Chinese lettuce, drizzed with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

Saw this wall mural on the back wall of a corner shop.

It is a Mama tiger with its 3 baby cubs.

According to the Chinese calendar, year 2022 is a Tiger year.

HAPPY & PROSPEROUS CHINESE NEW YEAR 2022

& HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Linking to Monday Mural.

Yet you brought me safely from my mother's womb

and led me to trust you at my mother's breast.

(Psalm 22:9, New Living Translation-NLT)

Dinner At Restoran Peng Yew In Lawan Kuda, Gopeng

Last week, out of the blue we received news that our friends from Ireland are planning their trip back to Ipoh for a holiday and at the same time to visit their siblings and family. The moment the news was out, the siblings and all close friends were very excited and were all looking forward to welcome them (brother and sister). I will refer to the brother as N and the sister as S.

The whole group teamed up to organize a series of food outings and tours to entertain both N & S. Since most of the group members are working, we usually meet up in the evening to be with N & S. Whereas, those who are free in the day time, took their turn to accompany them for breakfast or lunch as and whenever possible.

On Thursday evening, eight of us in two cars drove to Lawan Kuda which is about 27 km away in search of good food. The place that we wanted to go to is currently under renovation so we opted for Restoran Peng Yew (Peng Yew means friends in Mandarin language) which has shifted from Lawan Kuda main road to the current location which is further inside the village. An appropriate place to bring our friends to Restoran Peng Yew (Friends Restaurant).

Lawan Kuda is famous for snakehead fish dishes (ikan haruan in Malay or san yu in Cantonese). As usual, we order a snakehead fish to be cooked in 2 types of dishes. The boneless meaty part to be stir-fried with young ginger slices and spring onions.

The remaining part of the fish after the meaty part has been removed was used to cook in soup - drunken wine fish soup - very, very tasty!

I can't remember the name of this dish. It is ostrich meat cooked with savoury sauce, full of flavour and very tender.

This is a type of turtle or terrapin meat cooked in clay pot with ginger, black wood fungus, ginger slices and sweet peas. I only took a spoonful to taste because I am not used to eating turtle meat. It is very flavourful.

I am not sure but after asking some of my friends I think this is the fallopian tubes or small intestines of a pig, cooked with dried chili, dried shrimp and bird's eye chili or chili padi. This too I took a spoonful to taste, not used to eating entrails of animals, but the taste is also good and flavourful. I know some of you not used to Chinese or Asian food will think this is a gross or weird food post but I think this is an exotic food post.

Green vegetable stir-fried with fermented bean curd.

This was our dinner with bro N & sis S, total 8 people. I can't remember the cost but everyone present said it was very reasonable. Not only the food was good but our time spent in fellowship with one another was also very meaningful and precious as our friends do not come back to Ipoh often. This will be the first of a series of post on the time spent with our dear friends.

I myself have gained much joy and comfort from your love,
my brother, because your kindness has so often
refreshed the hearts of God's people.
(Philemon 1:7, The Living Bible-TLB)