Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020!

Yup! 2019 is ended, 2020 has begun.

I went back to my hometown for almost two weeks. I spent my semester break there. Far away from electromagnetic wave. 😏😏😏😏

Did lot of things there, Christmas was well, new year was well spent too. Aaaa, I didn't take photos that much this year. We held Christmas prayer in our tiny home for the first time too.
It's the fruit season now there at my village. Sadly, I don't eat durian. So I skipped that, rambutan and langsat too, many many fruits this year. I mean 2019, until today in 2020. Some hasn't ripen yet. Anytime from now. Durian, rambutan, langsat, they are everywhere now.

These were few things I did during break. Let me show you some.

If you have never seen coffee bean before, here you go. This is fresh coffee bean. Is it? or coffee fruit? How do you call it?. Our grandpa planted one tree at the backyard. The fruits are ripen by now. It tastes sweet. I mean, you can just eat it like that and take out the seed inside. Dried it, then roast it, then blend it to get the coffee powder. 

I remember when there was no road to our village where we had to walk for about 3 to 4 hours to our village from the nearest small town. Coffee plants were everywhere. But now, it's rare. And we only have two trees at the backyard. 

And I made these for my nephews and nieces. And everyone had a taste of it. 

old time ice-cream. I wasn't sure how many times I did this. twice? Thrice? We used to make these when we were still kids. I made few flavors which were gula apong (mixed gula apong with coconut milk and warm water), F&N Cordial flavor grenadine (Sun Valley Grenadine cordial is just legend), air bandung (mixed Grenadine cordial and evaporated milk) and also carbonated soft drink Fruitade flavor by F&N too. I think F&N should send me gifts of all these products for Gawai this year. 

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And the last photos I have. I cooked ikan sultan masak lemak cili api. What do they call it in English? Searched for it. So I got something like sultan fish, mad bard and hoven's carp. 

So it's basically sultan fish cooked in coconut milk gravy with bird's eye chili. 

Ingredients

Sultan fish ( I used two, cut them into four pieces)

Coconut milk (used one small box or 200ml)

Turmeric powder (half tablespoon or depends on how yellowish you want the gravy to look like. But not too much. Half tablespoon is just enough)

Bird's eye chili (depend on how hot you want the gravy to be)

Lemongrass ( I used two)

Asam jawa @ tamarind (just one spoon to clean the fish and just a little bit to use for cooking the fish)

Salt and Ajinomoto 😋😋😋😋

Ways to cook

1. Clean the fish, take away all the stomach and everything. I told the people at the fish market to clean for me. If you take out the stomach in wrong way, the fish will turn bitter. Seriously bitter. And cut them into four pieces. 

2. Then I just mixed the fish with tamarind and soaked with water for 5 minutes. Just to get rid of the fishy smell. Then rinse off.

3. Grind or crush down the chili and lemongrass. I use mortar and pestle. 

4. Take out whatever you want to use cooking pot or just a kuali pun boleh. 

5. Pour in the 200ml coconut milk and 300ml warm water into the pot. The mixed well with the chili and lemongrass, turmeric powder and a little bit of tamarind. Put in two tea spoon of salt and one tea spoon of Ajinomoto. If you taste it less salt, you can put in later. Mix them well. 

6. After that, put in the fish into the same pot, mix well. Then put the pot on the fire. 

불타오르네? 

Bultaoreune?

Fireeeee fireeeee.. 

Then you can continue sing Fire by BTS while waiting for the fish to cook up. 

Your end product should look like this. Serve with warm or hot rice. 

Daebak!

Done! That's all for now.