New Year Eve Dinner At Kafe Best Hillview, Ipoh

Happy New Year 2021 to all!

It was New Year Eve, the last day of year 2020 and to us, it was just like any other ordinary day. As usual, we got up for our early morning walk.

These days, we walk around this area where the shops are. The streets are lighted up and there is no need to worry about social distancing.

Morning sky at 7:50am - view of Kledang Hill.

Sunrise at about 7:50am.

Can you see the silver lining on the clouds?

We went to a nearby supermarket to buy some essential and bought the above 3 Susu Mangoes for RM5.90.

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We had New Year Eve Dinner with our friends at Kafe Best Hillview. We prefer a place where we can enjoy varieties of hawker food at reasonable price.

We ordered 2 pieces of popiah (fresh spring rolls)

Mee Goreng (fried noodle Mamak style).

Ikan panggang (bbq stingray with spicy sauce).

Ayam satay (chicken satay with peanut sauce).

The chicken meat is cooked just nice, not overcooked.

Chinese rojak for dessert.

Since there is no plan for countdown for the New Year, we went straight home after dinner.

Bleeding Heart flowers by the roadside, in front of a house.

Linking to Friday Bliss, Skywatch Friday & Garden Affair.

Lord, you know the hopes of humble people.

Surely you will hear their cries and

comfort their hearts by helping them.

(Psalm 10:17, The Living Bible-TLB)

Lunch At Rajes Restaurant, Ipoh

Today is the last day of year 2020.

As we usher in the new year, here is wishing all my blogging friends and readers,

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021!

Last Sunday, we started off with a free breakfast. I received an early morning call informing us that breakfast was waiting for us at our regular coffee shop. After we have had our walk, we went to enjoy our breakfast.

Our friend bought us each a packet of steamed glutinous rice with diced pork. And she also bought some Chinese donuts for us.

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First time having lunch at Rajes Restaurant at Jalan Tun Perak, Conally Road, Ipoh. A friend sent through Whatsapp some images of delicious looking food served in a restaurant. According to her hubby who has eaten there, the food is good. So, after a few days, hubby and I went there for lunch.

Picture on the wall.

Picture on the wall.

The following are pictures are some of the cooked food on the counter top. There are so many delicious choices to choose from. So, let me and my camera feast on the food first before I decide on what to order.

Fried fish and chicken on trays lined with banana leaves.

Seafood curries - squid and crab curries.

Clay pot chicken curry @ RM12.

Mutton and chicken curries.

Different types of mutton curries.

Different types of curries, sambal and cutlets.

This is one of my favourite - chicken varuval.

Finally, we order white rice, chicken varuval, mutton kurma and cabbage to share. For drinks, we ordered a glass of iced lime juice and a glass of plain water. Total cost of lunch came to about RM20 plus.

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No cooking for dinner because we were still feeling full from the lunch.

So, we had a late dinner with boiled sweet potato in sugar water (tong sui) which I boiled earlier in the morning.

And ate some of the above cheese bread given by our neighbour.

If you love your neighbor as much as you love yourself

you will not want to harm or cheat him, or kill him or steal from him.

And you won't sin with his wife or want what is his,

or do anything else the Ten Commandments say is wrong.

All ten are wrapped up in this one,

to love your neighbor as you love yourself.

(Romans 13:9, The Living Bible-TLB)

Post Christmas Day: Lunch, Snack & Dinner

We didn't go for morning walk the day after Christmas. Instead, we drove out to town for breakfast.

Sunrise at 7:20am

Morning sky at 7:45am.

From the look of the sky, rain was expected later in the morning.

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We had leftover for lunch.

I steamed 4 baby corns (1 eaten by hubby before I took the snapshot), and I reheated the yam puffs (given by a friend) and 2 croissants (bought from Aeon Big Falim) for lunch. Happy to clear all the above items from my fridge.

I made Konnyaku jelly with cut orange because I couldn't find other fruits in my fridge.

My neighbour gave me a big papaya, cut half and kept the other half in the fridge. We had the above sweet treats for our afternoon snack.

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I had a packet of stinky beans and some remaining sambal dried prawns which I need to clear from my fridge.

I cooked a plate of stinky beans with sambal dried prawns (bought from Penang). This time I cut the big stinky beans into quarters which makes it easier for us to bite.

Dinner for 2 people: Stinky beans with steamed rice.

I reheated the leftover beef with ginger and spring onions which I almost forgot about it.

We used to pass by this corner house on our morning walk. We are attracted to these round shaped cockscomb flowers planted by the roadside. I had to stop to take a snapshot of the flowers before continuing our walk home.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

And when the green shoot comes up out of the seed,

it is very different from the seed you first planted.

For all you put into the ground is a dry little seed of wheat

or whatever it is you are planting,

then God gives it a beautiful new body-

just the kind he wants it to have;

a different kind of plant grows from each kind of seed.

(1 Corinthians 15:37-38, The Living Bible-TLB)