Home Grown Ginger & Lobak With Instant Noodle

This was the 9th day of Chinese New Year. Our sons have gone back to work.

Morning sky at 7:40am.

That morning, I harvested ginger from one of the 2 pots. I also harvested 2 green brinjals (eggplants) and 1 long ladies finger (okra).

All these ginger were from 1 single pot.

I washed the ginger, wrapped with kitchen paper tissue, place in a plastic bag and kept in the fridge until I want to use them for cooking.

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For dinner, I took out the frozen ngoh hiang (lobak) to thaw before I reheated them in the oven.

I cooked plain instant noodle for 2 people.

I also added blanched napa cabbage and some long beans (from my garden). I seasoned the plain instant noodle with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

Ngoh hiang, napa cabbage and instant noodle for our dinner.

That morning we went out to the bank in Ipoh old town. This is the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation's (OCBC) main branch.

The Straits Trading Building has been listed as one of the Heritage buildings in Ipoh.

 Information concerning the Straits Trading Building is carved on the above marble plaque.

OCBC's main branch occupies the Straits Trading Building.

Linking to Happy Tuesday, Image-in-ing & Tuesday's Treasures.

Do your planning and prepare your fields

before building your house.

(Proverbs 24:27, New Living Translation-NLT)

Butter Coffee + Toast, Fried Rice + Salted Egg Yolk Vegetables

This was in the last week of January. The sky was gloomy due to the rainy season.

7:14am, before we started on our morning walk.

After morning walk, we drove to Restoran Meng Meng Kee, Menglembu for breakfast.

We ordered unsweetened coffee (kopi-o kosong) and Chinese tea.

Ordered toast. Requested for butter and kaya to be served separately.

The reason: We wanted to use some of the butter to add to the coffee. Just a little bit, won't taste good if too much butter is added.

Hubby ordered hor hee with mung bean noodle.

I ordered 4 pieces of stuffed items without noodle.

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For lunch, we went to Restoran Wong Sheng because we happened to be in the same vicinity.

We ordered fried rice (small portion) to share.

And salted egg yolk assorted vegetable to go with the fried rice.

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Since we had a late lunch, we had a simple late dinner.

I cooked some instant noodle and mixed it with the chili oil which my friend gave me. Plain but yummy.

This mural is behind a row of shop houses in Ipoh new town. It was painted in February, 2021 by local artist Eric Lai (Perak Kuchai Culture & Arts Association).

Linking to Monday Mural.

The person who has been born into God's family does not make

a practice of sinning because now God's life is in him;

so he can't keep on sinning, for this new life has been

born into him and controls him - he has been born again.

(1 John 3:9, The Living Bible-TLB)

Prawn Noodle, Wild Boar Rendang, Porridge With Fried Dace & Salted Egg

I had a packet of Hokkien Prawn Noodle ready made paste that was near expiry date. 

I used the paste to cook Hokkien Prawn Noodle for lunch.

Ingredients used: big prawns, chicken drumstick meat cut into cubes, beansprouts and home grown chives. I kept the remaining soup for next day's breakfast.

For dinner, hubby went out to buy wild boar rendang (RM10) from a nearby Indian stall.

I had bread with the wild boar rendang while hubby had instant noodle with the wild boar rendang. He is not a fan of bread.

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The next morning's breakfast.

After returning from our morning walk, I heated up the prawn soup.

We had Hokkien prawn noodle with hot milo for breakfast.

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Simple dinner for 2 people.

I boiled plain brown rice porridge.

Opened a can of fried dace with salted black beans.

There were 2 fried dace with the black beans.

I actually like the black beans than the fried dace.

I boiled 2 salted duck eggs. I am too lazy to pickle the eggs. Nowadays it is more convenient to buy from the store.

Hubby likes to eat porridge with the above fermented white bean curd (fu yue). He likes the one with sesame oil and chili added.

This time I managed to take a snapshot of the black bird that comes to shred my banana leaves and flies off with the banana leaf shreds. I do not know the identity of the bird. The picture is not clear so I don't know if anyone can help to identify this bird.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

A friendly discussion is as stimulating

as the sparks that fly when iron strikes iron.

(Proverbs 27:17, The Living Bible-TLB)