Dinner On 5th Day Of Chinese New Year 2015 At Restoran Yan Ming, First Garden, Ipoh

Since the eve of Chinese New Year 2015, I have been doing a lot of cooking for my own family. My eldest son has already left for the city after lunch to avoid any massive traffic jam. My younger son decided to delay his journey till late night.

My plan for dinner was to just warm up all the left over food, after all there were only 3 of us and I was really tired of cooking. But the 2 men in the house decided to eat out. I was delighted and quickly agreed with their decision because frankly, my lazy bones have taken hold of me.

We went to Restoran Yan Ming which has just reopened for business. Business was good and the tables in the restaurant were all taken. We were seated under the tent which was put up outside, in front of the restaurant. We waited and waited and my son commented that maybe they have forgotten about us.

After about 10 minutes later, a waitress came and placed this dish on our table. Finally, our food has arrived! This time, mama blogger remembered and quickly took a picture of the dish. Suddenly, it dawned on mama blogger that we didn't ordered this dish.

Sweet Sour Pork (Koh Loh Yoke)

The lady boss and a waitress quickly came to our table to apologize for their mistake and took the dish away. It was a good thing only my camera fed on it. Immediately after this, our food started to arrived on our table.

Silky, smooth steamed egg (mixture of 3 types of eggs - normal chicken egg, salted egg and black preserved century egg). This was cooked just right. Thumbs up for this dish.

Crispy skin tofu with chopped preserved raddish.

First time tasted this dish and we all like it.

Steamed Red Tilapia Fish in clay pot.
This is the second time we had tasted this dish.

Braised Pork Belly (Tong Po Yoke) - tasted good but on the fat side.
Dinner for 3 people costs MYR 66.80 (approx. 18.42 USD)

But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock.
The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering.
(Genesis 4:4, New International Version-NIV)

Simple Valentine Dinner At Something Special Cafe, Ipoh New Town

February 14th, 2014 was a Saturday and we didn't know that it was Valentin's Day. It was like any other normal Saturday to us. I only knew about it very much later in the night when I logged into Facebook and saw all the Valentine's greetings.

Anyway, that evening we were getting ready to attend the evening Church Service. Since my hubby has not been to Something Special Cafe, I suggested that we have our dinner there before going to Church. It was a surprised blessing to find an empty parking space in front of the cafe, a space just behind the one that I parked previously when I was there with my friends.

It was about 7 pm when we stepped into the cafe. There were 2 empty tables, one right at the front just after the glass door and one right at the back near the kitchen door. We took the one in front. Very promptly, the waitress came to take our orders. We looked through the menu and finally, we decided on our orders. Earlier, I thought I wanted to try the Chicken Chop set but after glancing through the menu, I changed my mind to order something else. What a fickle minded person I am!

Tonight, we both opted for noodle set dinner. The waitress claimed the noodle is their signature Homemade Oatmeal Noodle.

Hubby's dinner set - a bowl of Ginger Herbal Soup Noodle with chicken, wood fungus and wine, etc. An apple pie and a glass of cold blended sweet potato drink made up the set. I took a sip of the ginger soup and I like the taste because there was the taste of generous amount of wine in it and it was very flavourful. This set cost MYR 7.50 (approx. 2.06 USD).

My dinner set - Special Curry Noodle with an apple pie and a glass of cold blended sweet potato drink. The special curry noodle's ingredients - a few pieces of deep fried chicken meat, long beans, egg plant, tofu puff (tofu pok), etc. I have no complain about the curry, noodle or the veggie in the curry but I do not like the chicken because it was the deep fried chicken. I would prefer to eat the deep fried chicken separately, but not soaked in the curry soup. This set costs MYR 7.00 (approx. 1.92 USD).

My hubby took a bite and pushed the apple pie to me. Anything that is sourish, he will reject. He he he...I willingly consumed it in addition to my own share. I like this simple apple pie because of its slight sourish taste. Dinner for 2 person MYR 14.50 (approx. 3.98 USD).

Okay, I reminded myself that for the next visit, I must order the Chicken Chop because I was not feeling satisfied with the Special Curry Noodle. Hopefully, next time I won't change my mind at the last minute.

Something Special Cafe, No. 170, Jalan Sultan Iskandar (Hugh Low Street),

30300 Ipoh. Tel: 05-241 4346, 016-542 9785 (Yee Siew Loon)

(a few shop lots from the traffic lights near the new town police station)

When I planned this, did I do it lightly?

Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the

same breath I say, "Yes, yes" and "No, no"?

(2 Corinthians 1:17, New International Version-NIV)

Chicken Rice For Lunch At Restoran Winner, First Garden, Ipoh

This post should have been posted earlier but somehow it was given the miss until now. On this particular day, we had a very early breakfast and by lunch time, we were feeling very hungry. We wanted to eat Indian fried noodle (mee goreng) but the stall was closed. There were only two stalls opened. One was the prawn noodle and the other was the chicken rice. We had just taken prawn noodle for breakfast, so there was no choice but to order from the chicken rice stall.

We could see that the chicken rice stall was very bush with their orders and there were also a handful of customers waiting to pack and take away their orders. As we looked around, most of the customers in the place were eating chicken rice.

One of the young lady helper took our orders and our food arrived in a short while.

Hubby's set was a portion of oiled rice (yau fun in Cantonese), a fried chicken wing and sambal belacan wing bean and served with a few slices of raw cucumber.

It has been a long while since I have last eaten Sesame BBQ Chicken Drumstick. I ordered a sesame bbq chicken drumstick, wing bean stir fried with chili prawn paste (sambal belacan kacang botol in Malay) and 1 portion oiled rice.

Everything tasted good except that I found the chicken drumstick a bit too sweet. The chicken drumstick meat was very tender and the wing bean crunchy. The total cost of both sets was MYR 9.90 (approx. 2.71 USD).

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty.

I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation,

whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

(Philippians 4:12, New International Version-NIV)