4 Days 3 Nights : FOOD

Last week I was having some holidays in Penang + Ipoh. There were only bro+wife, sister and me. Papa-M & Bb-G were left at home…

(Side track: Well, initially I had asked Papa-M to go with me, but he said he was busy and tight up with work, he couldn’t spare aaanyyyy free time to bring me for aaanyyyyy holidays. If I were so desperate to bercuti-cuti, I could go with my bro & sis. Okie lor, since he said so, I just carried on with my holiday plan without him. When I told Papa-M I would be away and he had to take care of Bb-G , this old man planned a holiday pulak on his own to Sabah,  just few days before my trip! Wah,  我作初一，他作十五 huh )


Anyway.....
Bro was the driver for the entire trip. It was a relaxing vacation with no tight schedules. We managed to go to most of  the places we wanted with the help of GPS. Places that we went shall come later. This post is all about food that we had during the trip ...YUMMMM...

We had this for breakfast before we hit the north-south highway.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
My Subway sandwich – very healthy to start the day, full of vegs, I can’t even taste the ham & eggs














Lunch in Bukit Mertajam. We took yam rice, complement with braised pork in dark soy sauce and the "kiam chai" soup.

Oh, I love this kiam chai soup very much. The pork balls were super delicious! Sister-in-law said the pork balls were mixed with cuttlefish bits , hence they were flavourful.

We had our dinner for 2 days in Gurney Drive. They were good.....

Char Kueh Tiaw



Fried Oyster, Or-jien

Yam Cake

Otak-Otak

Bb-Q Chicken . Very well marinated

Assorted fried food 

Fish Ball Noodles. I like the soup, but the fish balls were not nice (too soft). I still prefer the fish balls' springy texture from Singapore hawker centres,

Asam Laksa



We took some sweet desserts at a cafe. Can't remember where but it was located at those pre-war building.

Sesame paste filling (white) & red bean paste filling (pink)  tang yuen in warm milk with rose petals. Interesting combination

Same tang yuen but in peanut cream

Sweet Potato tang yuen in gula melaka syrup

Snow fungus in soy bean milk

 

Before we left to Ipoh, we ate our lunch in Bukit Tambun . Maybe we went to the wrong restaurant, the food did not meet our expectations.

Sizzling hotplate tofu, normal

Stirfy sweet potato leaves, plain

Kong Pou style prawn mantis, not good, basically we were eating flour...

Salted egg yolk crabs , very dissapointing..Too much egg yolks and could not bring out the crab taste

The first food I had in Ipoh, sizzling plate noodles from a foodcourt in a hypermarket. It was raining at night in Ipoh that day, hence we just settled our tummy in a very simple way.

Morning dimsum in Ipoh , in a famous restaurant. Hmmm.. famous for the name, but food so-so only ler..

Meat crystal dumpling with black fungus

Dumpling soup

Water chesnut kuih

Pork and century egg porridge

Fried dumpling

Prawn chee cheong fun

Not sure of the name, but fried type, with meat floss and some meat as filling, top up with mayonaise. Taste ok.

This was another fried dimsum, with custard as the filling.

On the way back to KL, feeling dissatisfied with the seafood we had in Bukit Tambun, we went to Kuala Selangor for another round of seafood lunch. Luckily we made the right decision and went to the right restaurant. Food there were splendid. A fulfilling meal to end our holidays

Fried sotong. Yummy yummy. Outside crunchy, inside tender

Lala fried mihun. Very tasty. When the dish was served, it brought back my childhood memories, my mom used to cook this type of mini lala dishes when I was young.

Butter crab. The chef had added some curry powder into the butter cream. It was so delicious

Fried mantou to dip with the butter cream from the crab. Mantou was crispy and soft at the same time

We actually wanted the salt-baked prawn mantis, but this restaurant used another method in their cooking - deep fried with salt. It has actually ruined the freshness of the prawn. Taste was ok though...

A plate of stirfry lettuce , crunchy

Coconut juice to cool down our body

Kimchi

I always go to the supermarket cum medical hall nearby the house to buy Bb-G’s milk powder. Months ago, another mini-market look-alike shop was opened few stores away from the medical hall. From outside, this new shop looks like 7-11. So I never went in,  thinking that I can get my groceries from the usual supermarket/medical hall I always patron.



But 2 days ago, when I drove to the medical hall again to grab Bb-G’s milk powder, my mind had spontaneously directed me to the new shop. Once I opened the glass door, I was surprised and amazed. I had always thought that it is just an ordinary mini-market, but it turns up to be a mini “Jaya Jusco”… ! Well, I know it is a bit exaggerated here, but it indeed sell something which I never think of.


The shop has varieties of imported food. And there is a corner for butchery at the back part of the shop, while a mini kiosk was placed in front of the shop to sell BBQ pork (bak gua). Besides they have a section selling Taiwanese imported frozen food – dumplings and sausages. Another section selling Korean imported packed food – kimchi, sticky rice cake and sauces. Local items are included too. In addition, it has fresh vegetables, poultry, dairy products, rice, cooking oil, instant noodles (imported too) and snacks (local & imported), etc...


Because I was in a hurry, I only spent a very short time in the shop. I bought pack of kimchi and seaweed. When I paid at the counter, the cashier even gave me a can of baked beans as free gift. Not bad huh…


After knowing MNHL went to Korea and came back feeling very happy, liked the food and full of satisfaction, she had made me yearn for Korean food. So last night, I made my dinner “Korean stylo” abit ^_^

I pan fried some chicken fillets (previously marinated). I tried to grill them on the non-stick pan just like the Chicken Bulgogi Korean BBQ. Put the chicken fillets on top of this dish-away-plate that is meant to drain away excess oil.

















I cooked a small portion of white rice with my mini rice cooker. Once the cooking time left about 10 minutes, I put some kimchi into the rice and then let cook together. Once the rice was fully cook, sprinkled a little bit of salt, added some soy sauce and the seaweed flakes. Mixed well. I was trying to make my own Korean Bibimbap.

The dinner I had for last night. It came with a bull eye egg too.

I dust some pre-toasted sesame seeds on my chicken fillets.
















Bb-G liked to rice very much. Initially she told me it was spicy (due to the kimchi), but after a while she loved the taste so much and asked for more. Luckily I had the enough rice to share with her…


(MNHL, did I make you drool and crave for some Korean food too? heheheheheh)

After that, I had a bowl of green bean soup for dessert. It was packed during my lunch time. I just reheated and added some sweet potato cubes.

Habit

To me, doing toilet business is a way to detox. It should be done early in the morning to get rid of the body toxins. Unless I have constipation (where I never get enough fibre from food, or ate too much heaty stuffs) , the process should be fast and quick. I never had the habit to stay in the toilet/sit on the toilet bowl. I like to settle it as fast as possible, and I like the feeling of “emptying” my bowel.


Sometimes I cannot imagine why some people just enjoy reading while doing their toilet business. I remember my dad used to do it, not sure if he is still doing it now. Isn’t that smelly…..since the air ventilation is usually poor in the toilet…..Luckily Papa-M does not have this habit.

Eversince Bb-G is fully toilet trained, her potty is just placed outside the toilet. Whenever she has any urge , be it pee pee or poo poo, she will settle on her own, without me helping her. I only need to wash her butts after she did her big business. She always finished her job fast when she poop (unless it was a constipation). However recently she has a habit , and I feel that is a bad one ..

Instead of doing her big business at the usual place (outside the toilet) ................

Take her potty out to the living hall, in front of the tv (switched on). Put her mini chair in front of the potty. Place a book on the chair. Read & watch TV while PAAAAANG SAAAAAI !!

Imagine I was just next to her, and the air was not good…. I even told her to settle asap, once finished shitting, straight to the bathroom and I washed her up, but she just refused! She even told me she wanted to shit somemore (but nothing more has to come out).

OMG, I wonder where she learned this from?? Definitely not from me nor Papa-M…. the genes come from my DAD????!!!

Cough

After my bad throat and flu recovered, I started to cough. And it continued for almost 2 weeks.
I had phlegm and this made my throat itched. I cough mostly at day time in the office. I didn't take the cough syrup doctor gave because it was very strong and made me drowsy. So I drank warm water to sooth my throat.
But my cough was better at night. I did cough a little, but it was mild...

I bought a non-drowsy cough syrup from the pharmacy, but it does not seem to work.

The cough was very irritating until I tried some alternatives. I took warm lemon+honey. It worked for about few hours before the cough relapsed. Colg asked me to drink some warm vinegar, I tried that too. It helped a while. Then, I remember there was an email sent to me long time ago. Someone said that baking an orange and eat it warm can help to stop cough. I googled, then followed the instruction and I tried at home.









Oh well.... the orange really tasted good when it was baked. It had a very nice citrusy aroma when I took out from the oven. And the warm orange tasted good too. It was advisable to dip the orange with some salt, so I did follow. Bb-G also like it too. I am not sure what is the secret behind this baked warm orange that can cure the cough, and I don't think it was the Vit C that helped, since Vit C evaporated in hot temperature. Bout the salt thingy, maybe it has anti-viral property. Hmm..anyway no harm trying… Indeed, my cough became milder. I still coughed at the day time in the office but controllable.


Then….one day after I took the warm orange, my Malay colg packed Nasi Bryani for her lunch from a nearby stall and she ate in the office. It was very fragrant and the chicken made me drooled. I had the bryani on the next day. I was thinking to eat the nasi bryani with chicken, but I always heard some hints that chicken will induce cough, so I took mutton bryani. Oooooo it was so good, the curry mutton tasted just right. Some people may not like mutton due to the smell, but I particularly love the mutton smell… heheheh

Guess what ~ After I had the mutton, my cough suddenly stop! It happened so quick like miracles!

So now… I am not sure if the baked orange had helped me, or the mutton curry took the credit. I had both of them within 2 days, and I don’t cough anymore (a bit of phlegm left but it was not disturbing).

Well, guess I am fully prepared for my next week gateway for food & relaxation!

Ashasha

Bb-G has 2 best friends, Meh Meh (a lamb) and Ashasha (a dragon). Whenever she goes out, she will always remember to bring Meh Meh, and leaves Ashasha at home.

But when it comes to photo taking or other home activities, she will forget about Meh Meh and only remembers Ashasha.  Hahaha...

Yup, she named her dragon on her own. I wonder where she've got this name from. Papa-M told me it was from Barney, but I thought Barney only has 2 friends, Baby Bop and BJ.... hmmmm...weird though..

After drinking her own milk, Bb-G will never forget to feed Ashasha ..........(with empty toy milk bottle)

Poor Meh Meh, was abandoned on the cushion..........................



Both Hands!!

It happened this morning...

Bb-G : Both hands...
Me : (quiet..)
Bb-G : Both hands ...
Me : (Still quiet)...
Bb-G: Both hands ar....
Me : HUh??
Bb-G: I say BOTH HANDS ARRRRR!!

Want to know what's going on? I was driving Bb-G to nanny's place. I used one hand to drive the steerling wheel, and the other hand was resting on my gear stick. Miss Bb-G COMMANDED me to use both of my hands to drive the car! Arrrrrggggg!! I have a controller child !

mummy....I'll make your life suffer man....heh heh heh....

Bb-G, 2 years - 6 months - 20 days old.