Showing posts with label Be like this. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Be like this. Show all posts

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. 
πŸ˜„πŸ˜„πŸ˜„πŸ˜„πŸ˜„

You may want to check out other products produce by them here.




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 πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹

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. 
λΆˆνƒ€μ˜€λ₯΄λ„€? 
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. 



Bukit Mata Seafood TopSpot

We went to have dinner here last night. On the way to the restaurant, I was like am gonna take photos later on so that I have something to post on my blog. That was what I told my cousin. And ended up I didn't take any photos of the foods and even our photos also I didn't take. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

I only managed to take these photos before I totally forgot everything. I guess the food last night were more powerful than anything else.

The evening view from inside of the car





Favorite restaurant. No.25, Bukit Mata Seafood TopSpot.
Lemon chicken last night tasted yummy. And so the gravy butter salted egg yolk for the crab. I only aimed for the gravy, not the crab. Hahahaha





Huh this one was taken from Saturday night. 
The moment I reached the city from my hometown I directly went to the laundry. 
It was around 10pm that night. 
I sent this to the Discussion group on The Tablo Podcast Discord. 
Owh owh, I sent the photo of the restaurant too there.
Hahahaha
The Tablo Podcast is a must-listen-to podcast. 
Search for him on Spotify. I normally listen to him on that platform. 
Like seriously guys. 



Thank you

Thank you, cousin's wife, for the dinner. 
Finally I ate proper meal for the first time after many weeks missing due to work and time. 

From left to right
Fried ikan terubuk, tempoyak goreng, petai goreng sambal, sambal kicap pedas.
Am too lazy to translate. So, use Google to translate if you need it. 


Holiday

I went back to my kampung during my leave last two weeks. Not much to do, just spent times with my cousins and relatives. We had blessing prayer for our grandpa who had just discharged from the hospital. From a healthy old man, he is now bedridden. So here are the photos that I managed to snap.

My cousin asked me, do you want to drink coconut water? And I said yes. So she did this for me. Hehehe
Thank you, cuzzy! Saranghae!




And the next thing I did was throwing few bananas into the wood fire. Is that what we called wood fire or fire wood? Or none of these makes any sense at all? 
Hahahaha. Damnit my English. This is my favorite dessert all time.




The outcome. Hot burnt banana. There are many ways of eating this. I love eating it with sugar. If I manage to open up my own coffee shop one day, this would definitely stated on the menu. 
With different toppings that you can choose from, of course. 


See this. The sugar melt.. Very nice!


And photo time!


And we had our mini cousins' evening gathering at the front yard. Hahahaha. 




My nephew and his milk bottle


And the night after the prayer. 
My nephews.



Ok. That's all.
Oh, by the way, am back to work now. 
Duhhhh

Gula apong milkshake

This was my second try of having this milkshake. taste good. They have smoothies too. For this second time, I ended up having the same drink I had on my first time buying from this kiosk. 
Located at Food Haven, The Hills, Kuching. 
Find the kiosk station named THIRST.


Ordered these cookies for my niece's 11th birthday. 
They did so well with the printed cream topping of the cookies. 

APOC 13

*Late post*













And finally before leaving the venue, bought these two little babies.