Attempting to dine-out once again knowing that this huge place is well-ventilated, and I had checked the other day that not many people were here. True enough, today, it is rather empty too. Most people prefer to pack their food and eat at home or office. The sad case is some of the stalls are permanently closed. It used to have around 35-40 stalls, now left around 20-25 stalls. Here is my favourite dish - fried chicken thigh with rice. Very yummy! The chicken is nicely…
Enjoying this little thing for dinner with a cup of hot chocolate. Lamb curry puffs by De' Chef Wan. Perfectly made crispy puffs with high quality Australian minced lamb, sweet potatoes, spices and curry leaves. They asked us to enjoy every bite with a piece of mint leaf. And indeed, it is incredibly tasty. The mint leaf pairs well with the taste of the lamb. Yum yum in my tum tum. 😍👍 What do you have for dinner?
Some desserts given by sister-in-law, @happycrazycon, because she got a lot for her birthday and it spilled to us too. So happy! Sharing is caring. ❤️ Desserts aka food loaded with sweetness is understood to play some trick to our brain in terms of regulating the cortisol hormone, they called it the stress hormone. Then, it is sais that it would cause some hormonal haywire in long run. I am not sure. But, I personally think once a while, some dessert treat IS OKAYYYYY!!!…
Finally, the dried fruit cereal I had been looking for is restocked. I personally think HONLife healthy cereal is the best, H=Healthy, O=Original, N=Nice. Inside there are really more dried fruits, as real as its packaging, unlike other brands where the packaging looks so good but inside only around 5 dried fruits. HONlife cereal has different flavours but I love the strawberry one the most. The children love it too, they love to mix with their Koko Krunch cereal. And I love…
OUCH! Two days ago, my youngest son slipped and fell down in the bathroom, landed his head on the door floor railing. We didn't hear any 'bump' sound and he was walking frail with soft cry towards me at the dining table. So, we didn't expect anything bad. What shocked us was when we saw trail of blood drips on his walking pathway. Plus one chunk of hair fell off. He was shocked and couldn't talk, we were equally shocked as we tried to search where to blood came from, as in…
Respiratory appointment today for Jansen at Pediatric Respi Department. Thank God it is not crowded at all, I am sure they reduce the amount of patients per slot of time. This is always the time we will meet children of all sorts of disabilities or other illnesses. We have come to know a few of them whose children are born with Syndrome Down, and we love to learn from them, how strong they are, and how they see life as beautiful, if not more beautiful. Beautiful souls. Bless…
Therapeutic to the mind and soul. ❤️ We especially love to sit at this spot outside the hospital building, away from people, away from the sound of machines, to wind down, to pray to the Almighty, to find calmness within, and to regain sanity. When my youngest son was ill at ICU 7 years ago, my husband and I often sat here, no communication, but our hearts were in oneness seeking strength from God while holding on to hope. Today, this youngest son who beat all odds loves to…
Happy Saturday, everyone. Hope you are fine and well. We are indulging ourselves with a taste of medan. Literally, we ordered food from a restaurant called Taste of Medan. Aside from the awesome food, their service is always tiptop, very friendly boss and workers there. Here are : Nasi lemak ayam berempah, sambal petai prawn and sambal sotong (in our language Bahasa Melayu). Every mouthful is heavenly. Yums! Have a great weekend. 🙌
Happy Sunday, people of Noise.Cash. I super love this set of mixed vegetables rice from Taste of Medan, really authentic taste from Medan, Indonesia. There is stir fry french beans, stew potatoes, fried fermented soy beans slices, fried sweet potatoes chips with peanuts and a side dish of 'lontong radish' gravy. Of course, it has hard-boiled egg and eggs slices too. This makes the whole dish so flavourful, appetizing, and I felt happy eating this. What do you have today?
Hello awesome peeps, hope your day is great! Here I am indulging in curry puffs made by my friend. We become friends because of the curry puffs. A young mother with two daughters, working hard to support his husband to provide for the family. She doesn't sell curry puffs every week, some weeks she sell butter cake or other pastries. Whenever I buy from her, I will buy two sets, another set to be given away to one lucky neighbour, also a way to help her advertise her curry…
When husband cooked, it would be Western food. We all loved it. He just seasoned the chicken with some herbs, salt and pepper, and some sort of sweet sauce. The potato cubes were boiled, seasoned with butter and salt. The veggies were boiled with some brown sugar then grilled abit with garlic oil. Very yummy sumptuous meal. Something different from my usual Chinese cook. Hope you guys are well wherever you are. 😍
Another Musang King Durian Snowy Mooncakes. These are from my parents-in-law. They are made from 100% durian and the skin made from rice flour and some vegetable carbon. Because they are the snowy type, you have to keep them frozen. Once taken out from fridge, they have to be consumed within the 20 minutes time, or else they will start to become soft and not so nice. We all are durian lovers, so we really enjoyed each bite. Going to be some days of eating mooncakes. 😉 Do you…
Today, I learned that stink bean is also known as parkia speciosa. Such a grand name. But we call it 'petai' in our language. Today, we are blessed to have another round of 'petai', specifically 'sambal petai prawn', bought by my friend's mother and sent to my house. 'Sambal petai prawns' means the stink beans cooked with chilli paste and prawns. It is delicious to just eat this with a plate of rice. I love 'sambal' and prawns. But when 'sambal' + 'petai' + prawns together,…
Happy Sunday everyone. It is always good to unwind, to relax, or to do something else which you don't get to do on other days, or to so something you like, or to declutter your house or phone. Or to do some art, dance, reading. Or maybe just take the time to sip the drink slower, to chew the eat properly before swallow. 😁 May your day be blessed with peace and joy, with health and wealth, with strength and power. ❤️
Happy Mid-autumn festival aka Happy Mooncake Festival to all who celebrate. So how many mooncakes have you been devouring? Nowadays, they are all sorts of mooncakes from the traditional lotus paste mooncakes to red bean to Shanghai mooncakes to durian to jelly to ice cream!!! People are so creative to come out with all sorts to suit the taste buds of many. Hope you and family are safe, healthy and most of all, happy and peaceful. ❤️
A simple dinner to call it a night. We bought some beef keema from our favourite shop, and then came home to an idea of a wrap-it-night. The sons had the wrap with the beef, cheese and cucumber. As for the man, I cooked for him egg with cheese, and wrapped it all up for him. We also had some cutesie beef puffs bought by mum earlier in the day. Grateful for simple dinner and we hope everyday is a better day for everyone. ❤️That's a wrap for today!
Last weekend, we were blessed by our friend a hearty meal of Hainanese Chicken Rice. It isn't an easy meal to cook so we were glad for this blessing. The chicken is usually rubbed with salt all over, poached and then imerged into an ice-bath to maintain its juiciness and springyness. The chicken is eaten with very fragrant well-seasoned rice and with dipping sauces like chilli sauce, ginger-garlic paste sauce and soy-sesameoil sauce. This set also came with some…
Time for dinner! With the leftover chickens from Hainanese Chicken Rice, what else to cook except this dish called 'Leftover Vegetables', we called it "Chai Buey" in Hokkien language means 'chai'=vegetables and 'buey'=ending/tail/leftover. We cook this dish with mustard leaves, dry tamarind, dried chillies and lemongrass (optional). But in order to make it children friendly, I omit the dried chillies and lemongrass. So lesser kicks for the adults. Very easy to cook, just put…
Today, I don't feel like eating meat. Sometimes the body will signal you and you feel like eating vegetables only. But besides vegetables, I also packed this for myself. This is braised tofu skin with black fungus, one of my favourite food since young. I could just eat this dish with rice alone when I was young. Or with a fried egg. And it is easy to cook too, although I didn't cook today for lunch as I was on teaching duty in the morning. Just a simple basic stir fry will…
What's the food today? The question the children ask everyday. I told them I cook dump-all-in soup. Lol... It's a one-pot soup dish called lotus root soup with pork, a very famous soup in the Chinese restaurants. I will cook this soup once every few months or once a month. This time, I add in dried cuttlefish, some dried scallops, red dates, dried longan, cordiseps and carrots. Very flavourful even without any seasonings. We all love a little bit more salty so I added half…
After having interest for one year and then putting into the cart, waiting for the time to buy it, finally I bought it >>> Giselle's brand Ceramic Cooker. I prefer ceramic cooker because I can use whatever pots and pans I have at home. So we declare a steamboat night. Some pork slices, cabbage, lettuce, mushrooms, seafood tofu, tofu skin, beancurd roll, ham, some fish, eggs and glass noodle. The boys really enjoyed the process of putting stuff into the pot for cooking and…
I went visiting my aunt who stayed nearby, at the same time having lunch too. Always look forward seeing her, and I know she is too. She stays alone and once a week she gets to talk and talk and talk. 😁 Today, she cooked honey-glazed baked chickens, steamed minced pork, mint leaves omelette and mixed vegetables. Another yummy in my tummy, and I ate so much I was gonna burst. Glad that she is healthy and happy always.
When I found out my cream cheese is expired by one week and I did not feel like throwing, I made brownie top with cream cheese. No worries. I had tested the cream cheese, it still tasted great, not spoiled yet. Now the whole house is so fragrant. Gotto wait for this baby to cool down before we can cut and munch. Although, I am not a dessert person, but I can't resist brownie or some type of dessert. Happy weekend, Noisers.
I got my cravings satisfied the other day. When I have cravings, usually it tied with my missing-home-feeling. I miss my mum. 😭 Putting that aside, I love this noodle dish popularly called 'pan mee'. I grew up associating this dish with different name. My mum who speaks Hakka called it 'men-foon-char-gok'. My dad who speaks Hokkien called it 'mee hoon kuey'. Now, most people called it 'pan mee', made from flat egg noodles, with its flavourful anchovies broth, ingredients are…
Sometimes, I just didn't feel like having a proper dinner as in eating those carbohydrates, protein and vegetables. More like wanting to munch some snacks like cream crackers with a cup of hot chocolate. Coincidentally, husband bought coffee cream puffs for me from a local baker. And they were absolutely lovely. The filling wasn't too sweet and it was to my liking because it was coffee. Very fluffy puffs, paired well with the coffee cream. Let's just have simple dinner like…
How do we expect our children to behave all the time when I, as their mother also can't behave all the time? As in, today I woke up feeling really laid back and sloppy after few days of not sleeping well. Not motivated to do anything. If can, I just want to stick to the sofa whole day. I told my youngest son that we won't do any books today but play board game or smart game. The eldest son was having his online class with his teacher, not sure did he admire us, lol. But yup,…
Good day to all Noisers. I woke up feeling slightly nervous because I was going to perform covid19 rapid test at home. At the same time, I am feeling excited that my parents are flying here soon, stay for two nights before flying to my sister's side to meet their new granddaughter. I was glad that the result came out negative. This is to ensure I am clear of Covid19 before I meet my parents. They did theirs too and all of us were clear. So happy to meet them soon, even just…
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