Friday food on Lent

Happy belated Easter, everyone!

I don't know how to describe my Lent.
I noticed that I was still lacking on certain parts especially when it comes to pray. That's so me.
Gosh, tried to add emoji, but the emojis won't upload because my internet connection is weak.
Life is good. Hopefully it will be good all the way till the end of 2020.
There are flaws too, I just couldn't deny. And I don't want to talk about it.
But, mmm, we'll get thru it. I'll get thru it eventually. I hope it goes the same with you too.
Optimism booster is at the max.

My anak tekak meminta kopi dari tadik. I already have 500ml iced coffee this morning. Am in the midst of trying to reduce my coffee intake, but it doesn't seem to work.
I tried, I failed. Repeat. Now, am giving it a try. Again.

Today, am gonna upload all my Friday menu during Lent. Abstinence and fasting. Except for I didn't take any photos of my food that I had during Ash Wednesday. I didn't eat anything. Just had water all the way.

Let's start!

This time I won't be translating the dish menu. Google if you want to know their names in English. If you need the recipe, email me.

First Friday

Fried bean curd, tempoyak goreng and sayur cangkuk manis goreng telur

Second Friday

Sayur sawi pahit goreng ikan bilis and fried chili fish

Third Friday

Sayur midin goreng belacan, sayur paku uban rebus halia and fried fish

Fourth Friday

Kasam daun ensabi (local kimchi), ikan bilis goreng kicap, sayur timun masak manis, sambal belimbing tunjuk, daun bandung goreng, and fried chicken for the family (since the rest of family members are Muslims, am the only Catholic here. Hehehe)

Fifth Friday

Iced coffee and rice with kari ikan pari

Owh no vegetables since the kari already contain vegetables (eggplants and carrots)

Dinner on fifth Friday

French toast

Sixth Friday

Rice with kicap pedas Mahsuri, fried egg and mixed vegetables

Good Friday!

Yeay!

This time, I didn't cook. These were all ordered foods from my favorite restaurant.

Thank you, After 4 Four Kopitiam!

After Four bean curd special, sayur cangkuk manis goreng telur, sweet and sour fish fillet, and Thai fried chicken fillet for the rest of family members

During Fridays on Lent I normally had one full meal with no meats. It would be lunch or dinner. Then, the rest of the day, I just took lots of water and had something light.
Well, this year Lent was tough. The celebration also was so different than last year.
Covid-19 has changed everything including our lifestyle, our norms. Literally everything.
Hopefully things will get better soon. Pray for everyone safety.

Owh, extra extra. I only managed to make these two during Lent.

Sweet corn castard

Mee pok goreng kerang

Ok. Bye!

Craving for tempoyak

Today I ada rajin sikit. Got to spend my Saturday in a proper way. Just doing nothing and spent time watching tv. Since I couldn't decide what to have for lunch, I just ate mi sedap and had iced coffee. Then watched VIP. Tonight they gonna play Parasite on tvN Movies channel. And I cooked for dinner. This is a wrapped up for today.

I was craving for tempoyak since the past two days. Only today got to cook it. I don't eat durian but am so in love with tempoyak. 

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Ingredients : Tempoyak, chilli, turmeric powder, anchovies, sugar, oil (for cooking)

Can I not explain anything and just post the photos? Sorry not so sorry, forever in this life, my photo taking skill won't upgrade.

Mix well the tempoyak with chilli, turmeric powder, and sugar. 

Fry the anchovies till slightly brown. 

How do you say it? Is it crispy or crunchy? 

Set aside. Owh by the way, I did this because I want the taste of the anchovies blend well with the tempoyak. And to keep the anchovies crispy when add them into the tempoyak later on. 

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Fry the tempoyak till it turns brown. When it turns brown, it means that the sugar is melting. It starts to caramelised. Then add on the fried anchovies. Fry well. 

The outcome will look like this

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Taaaa-daaaa

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Moving onto the next one. I have no ideas how to call this dish. Ayam masak kicap? Not really. I've decided to call it Any Chicken Dish. 

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Ingredients: Chicken meat (any parts ikut suka hati kamu), ginger, garlic, lemongrass (all these 3, just slice them thinly), dried chilli (soak into hot water and cut them into two to three parts, drain them), 2 asam keping (I have no ideas how to say it in English. Kalau engkau rajin, engkau Google kan.), oyster sauce and thick soy sauce (ikut suka hati dirik empun), and oil for cooking.

Now photo time!

Do it like this👇👇👇👇

After you mixed everything, close them like this. To keep the moist

 of the chicken meats lock inside the meat. So that the meat juice doesn't vaporate into the air. Sayang jus ayam ya hilang.. Let the chicken meat cook first, then add oyster sauce and thick soy sauce. Salt and ajinomoto. Hahaha. Ajinomoto. Whatever. 

Mix well

And it will look like this

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Nay nay. Don't add sugar into this dish. I miss out one ingredient. It is a must add on. I wanted to add on but I found out it is already expired. Secret ingredient? Ha-ah.

"SESAME OIL"

This dish is not complete without sesame oil. You should add on a little bit.

Ok ok. Let's move on to the next one. The last dish for dinner tonight. Hi-ih. 

The most easiest dish. Tauge goreng. 😂😂😂

Ingredients : Tauge (bean sprouts), tauhu (bean curds), garlic, chilli (these 2 slice them thinly), salt and ajinomoto. Ajinomoto lagi. Seasoning is the greatest when it comes to cooking. 

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Owh, oil for cooking. 

Photo time

Macam ini👇👇👇👇

Then goreng goreng macam ini. Malas aku mok explain, eh. Hati jak teringin nak upload, nak explain it's a no-no.

And at last!

Taaa-daaaa

Saja jak nak ngasak hati kitak orang. 

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Don't mind on the look of the kuali. It's antic, ok. Kuali itu sangat berharga despite of how it looks. 

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That were all for dinner tonight. Four minutes passed midnight now. Well spent Saturday. I thought of not going out from home today but in the end I did go out. Just because I need to buy our cats foods. 🐱🐱🐱🐱

Hanya kucing yang bisa mengalahkan aku. 

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

Click on this link: https://www.fn.com.my/brand/fn-fun-flavours/

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. 

Tuk Tuk Thai Boat Noodle, Plaza Merdeka, Kuching

Last weekend we went to Plaza Merdeka. My cousin called me asking whether I had any plans on the evening. I was watching VIP 2 (VELAIILLA PATTADHARI) when she called. So I told her no, but if you want to go out, maybe around 5.30 pm. I wanted to finish the part 2 since I missed out the part 1 the day before. So later that evening, me, my cousins and my auntie went there.

Went to Borneo Time to fix our wrist watches. Gosh, I had this wrist watch for the past years ( I couldn't remember how many years), only to start wearing the watch since last Saturday (noted that today is Wednesday, October 30th 2019). Oh gosh, I just noticed that the watch is the Men's Edition. Hahahaha. WTH. But then it was a gift. So I just wear it. It looks nice on my wrist tho...

The design doesn't look manly since the color suits the lady more. 

Oh back to the makan-makan thing. We were looking for a place to eat and decided to try Tuk Tuk Thai Boat Noodle, since there were not many people there during the hours we were there (it located at an open space, the same level with the food court). Not quite sure what to expect, of course we were like will they taste as good as the one we had at D'Airiz Cafe or even Mango Tree.

These were the food that we ordered.

 Mango Salad

Steamed Fish Lemon Soup and Tomyam Mixed Seafood

Kangkong Thai Style

Thai Chicken Wing

And we had white rice. I ordered iced coffee for myself, my cousins Coca-Cola and orange juice while my auntie ordered iced lemon tea. And the food, boleh tahan. I like the steamed fish lemon soup because the fish didn't have any smells at all and it didn't taste sandy? They used tilapia fish. And you know this fish, if the fish was the one that they breed in the man made fish pool, it would smell and taste sandy. But this one so far, it didn't smell. Just like the eco fish set by Sugar Bun.

The rest of the food, they were ok. Everything tasted sour. Hahahaha. The base of Thai cooking of course you just could not leave out  the lime and lemon. That's the strength of their foods. Lime and lemon give that kind of fragrance in the food. That good and fresh smell.

Oh ya, and also peanuts add on to almost every vegetables. The crunchiness of the peanuts add more action to every bites. Hahahaha. Nice tho.

Done? Done!

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. 

Lock Ann Cafe, Kuching

Went to fetch my auntie's friend at the airport. Then we went to  Lock Ann Cafe. Seriously. Am afraid to try meehoon belacan at any eateries. I only eat the one that my auntie's cooked. Meehoon belacan doesn't taste good when you eat at the eateries since people tend to reduce the ingredients or they just don't know how to make a proper one. 

But different case with Lock Ann Cafe. I approved their meehoon belacan. It was like sedappppppppppppppppppp!!!!! Oh my gosh. Why do I feel so overwhelmed typing this... I can still taste the taste in my mouth. Definitely the best I could found outside from home. And definitely would come to have this again next time when am craving for it. 

Hope they will maintain the taste and everything. I don't mind paying money on good food. 

ABC a.k.a Ais Batu Campo

Shave ice with whatever toppings they put in there. They had jellies in it, sweet corn, red beans, milk/coconut milk, gula apong, cendol (the green thing)... 

So nice

Meehoon belacan

How to translate into English?

Meehoon with shrimp paste gravy?

The gravy is made from shrimp paste. Here's the trick. If you have good quality of shrimp paste, the gravy will turn out great. If you use whatever shrimp paste without considering the quality, the gravy can smell fishy and the taste would be bitter. 

The gravy is made of shrimp paste, grind dried chili, dried shrimp, gula apong. Blend all together.

Then, meehoon (vermicelli), shredded cucumber, chili paste, lime, squid, century egg. 

Ok. Done.

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. 

Keringkam Cafe, Kuching

Gonna update later. For now, just photos. Not even marked them.

Outside the cafe

This is what you see when you first enter the cafe

Interior 1

Interior 2

Do visit their Facebook page at Keringkam Cafe for more information.

All I can say, the foods were pretty good especially the satay and also the kuah kacang. Even the lauk-pauk were nice. But I didn't manage to take any photos of the foods.

Dining in Thai style

We went to celebrate birthday last Saturday. This time, we went for Set 7, a little bit different from the last set we had few months ago. And the place still the same, MANGO TREE KUCHING. It's a restaurant serves Thai style cuisines. And this time, the foods tasted even better.

Nothing much to type in. Lazy disease.

Check out the photos below. Sorry if the photos weren't come to your expectation.

Ok. That's all. The pineapple rice we changed it into white rice. But I didn't take photo of it.