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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 |
My paternal grandma’s birthday is always celebrate in our family whereby we will have a nice dinner with her. Since she was born around the lunar New Year, every new year without fail all of us will celebrate with her.
Strictly speaking, this is a gastric inducing dinner for me. The wait was so long that I actually took pictures of, errr, pickled green chilli, and clutched my stomach to sleep later in the night.
Thank goodness the food was up to the par. Makes waiting more worthwhile. The dish above was the must have birthday noodles, which were egg noodles in thick gravy. The specialty of this noodle is that, the strands are all very long, and it symbolizes longevity. The combination of long strands of noodles and dark coloured sauce has been unkind to my light coloured outfit that day. 
This is the pork knuckles with hou see and fatt choy. The pork knuckles are cooked in whole, unlike my version, which was all cut up.
The chicken dish. Fish paste were stuffed in between the chicken skin and flesh before deep frying, and those strands on top were deep fried Dahfa (lightweight fish flavoured strips)
Stirfried assorted mushrooms.
Mango kerabu fish. Seriously, this is the signature dish of the restaurant! Very nicely done.
Sambal asparagus. By this time I was stuffed full. Argh, I don’t want to mull over the bad of being so hungry and so full in a short period of time!
Overall, it was a great dinner. The food was good and most of them were my favourite dish, especially the pork and the fish!
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007 |
Yeah, I know vegetables are best eaten steamed. I am lazy and steaming vegetables involves more utensils that I already have, so blanched it is then. Hey, all is not lost, because I used the blanched water to cook vegetable stock by adding other vegetables and turned them into soup. 
I used one head of broccoli, some olive oil as dressing, a dash of vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. Boil sufficient water in a pot, and when the water is boiled, dump in the broccoli and get them out as soon as they turn vivid green. Don’t overcook the vege because you are going to destroy the nutrients.
Give those miniature green trees a toss with the olive oil dressing, vinegar, salt and pepper and you are good to go!
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007 |
As much as I love pasta, having a good meal of pasta outside the kitchen will cost so much that I could very well make a few rounds of pastas at home. Therefore, when I am hardworking enough, I will whip up my own pasta. Its very satisfying.
Two weeks back I was craving for some good ol’ pasta so, I foraged the fridge for whatever I have and try to finish using my raw ingredients before they expire. (Well, yeah most of the time I am like that. 
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This is what I used:
spaghetti, cook al dente and drained
white button mushrooms (sliced)
green onions (chopped)
beef slices (seasoned with salt, pepper and some cooking wine)
asparagus
Method:
In a pot, boil water enough for cooking spaghetti. When the water is boiling, dump in the cleaned and trimmed asparagus into the water for a minute or so. Dish it up, leave it aside and put the spaghetti into the boiling water that you’ve cooked the asparagus in. Let the asparagus cool and dress it up with some olive oil or French salad dressing if you like. Alternatively, you could have them as it is.
In the meantime, heat two tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet. Quickly fry both sides of the beef slices. Do not overcook them. Dish and arrange on a platter. In the same skillet you fry the beef, add in the onion and saute until fragrant. Add in the sliced white button mushrooms and cook until soft. Remember to add salt, pepper, coking oil and some herbs to your liking.
Now that everything’s done, dish them all up and dig in while its hot. In front of the computer, like me.
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007 |
My first trip to Kluang, and it is actually to this place, OMG! I didn’t know that I am so into organic that I have to visit this ZenXin Organic Park after reading about the food and the steamboat from sloppy chic.
I supposed the trip does a lot of good after all, because, for one I get to explore a wee bit on Johor with a starting point in Muar, and the feel good aura from all the greenery is good for unwinding all the study stress (cheewah! like I study a lot, kihkihkihkih!)
Actually, I was so curious about the dragonfruit that I MUST go and take a look at it. Suaku me.
Ok, erm. I saw! This is the dragonfruit flower buds, which I was told that they only bloom at night.
When there’s flower, theres fruit! Saw the unripe, green dragon fruit?
Ripening dragonfruit (or dragon fruit?) is always wrapped to protect the fruit from insects and preys.
Peekaboo! Nice pink dragonfruit hidden behind plastic!
That’s all for now.Will blog about the rest later!
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 |
By now I guess bored you with a lot of foodie posts of Cameron Highland, but don’t worry, because this is the last post, since this is our last stop before going back home.
Look at the terrains loaded with greeneries. Nice, isn’t it? Soothing to the eyes.
Yup, those are watercress. A whole farm planted with watercress.
The views are good isn’t it? Now, would you like to cook some sliced meat and vegetables in a hotpot while enjoying the green green views and cold weather?
If the answer is yes, then this place is a must drop by! Self explanatory signboard. This is our last pit stop before we went downhill, and boy, the temperature is decreasing very rapidly, I must say!
The teas in the teacups got all cold a minute after they are being poured out of the teapot. Brrr! I will have to disappoint you if you are looking for steamboat pictures, because we hadn’t had any due to time constraints.
We decided on some ala carte dishes so that we could have dinner quick and start our journey. We ordered a bowl of sui kaw, or meat dumplings in watercress soup. The soup is clear, refreshing and had a pleasant hint of watercress.
Sambal belacan watercress, or stir fried watercress with shrimp paste. This is the first time I eat stir fried watercress, because most of the time it was watercress soup for me. This is a great watercress dish! Totally tasty and unexpected. We had the two dishes pictured, and a fried rice, which is normal.
Apart from sambal belacan stir fry, the place also serves watercress stir fried in numerous ways, curry dishes and fried rice, noodles and the likes, along with their steamboat. Their steamboat is the type where could choose what you want from a fridge and they will keep a tab on what you took.
Its a pity that I didn’t get to sample their charcoal fire steamboat, so I must have by the next trip! By the time we finished our dinner, the sky was blanketed with fog. It was so cold that I was shivering nonstop. The drive downhill was a a bit on the scary side due to the fog, so if you are planning a one day trip, don’t go back too late, or you will end up like us.
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