Ayam Masak Kunyit

Wifey decided to cook Ayam Masak Kunyit today. Helped her to pound all the ingredients. This dish is one of the Malays' cuisine, a delicacy that one must try when in Malaysia. Enjoyed the dish very much although I must say that if it is blended with Chili Padi, it would make it even better.


Bon apetite

A big batch of chicken salad

Guest post written by Betty Slagle

I have a really big lunch that the women in missions at church is hosting for members after church on Sunday morning. That means that I need to take at least one dish with me to it, so I've been going through some of my cookbooks looking for stuff. But when it comes to those lunches, anything that's supposed to be hot kind of gets lukewarm by the time that people actually eat it.

So I thought that for once I would actually fix something that keeps cold instead. I went online to figure something out to fix and when I was doing that I came across some info about satellite internet packages and after I read a little more info I decided to sign up for one of them for my home service.

I decided to make a big batch of homemade chicken salad to keep in the fridge during teh church service and a platter of different kinds of bread and crackers so that people can get stuff to put their chicken salad on.

Eating crab

In Sabah where the price of crab is very cheap. Cheap as in RM6 per kilo compared to about RM25 per kilo in Melaka. Cheap as in the same price as the small, not so fresh fish that you buy in Melaka. Our host bought for us the crab for our meal and it was delicious. Mind you, the cooks are secondary students staying in the same house. And I thoroughly enjoyed it very much.

Johny's for lunch

Wifey requested to go for Johny steamboat for lunch tomorrow. Or is it for dinner? Well, since MIL paid the money for the 3 bars of Eumora soap, wifey wants to use the money to have a treat for our family. It's been a while since we ate at Johny's.

Hmm... I remembered that there are something that we should not order in Johny's but can't remember what it is. Of course we will definitely order the red colored water chestnut in coconut milk. That is one of their delicacy which I can't seem to find in other restaurants. I know the Thai restaurants do have that but there's no Thai restaurant in Melaka (or not that I know of lah).

So, after church tomorrow, we will go to Johny's Restaurant.

Mini Lobsters - Don't Eat

Received an email from my brother about MINI LOBSTERS. It seems that these mini lobsters are being served in many restaurants especially Chinese restaurants.

Do not eat these mini lobsters.

These mini crustaceans are literally the garbage cleaners in the sewage treatment plants.

The 'dirtier' the water, the fatter these mini lobsters
become.

Their lungs are full of worms and their flesh saturated with poisonous metals.

Unscrupulous merchants somehow found a way to get these marketed to eateries.

Do not order this dish.
Pass this to those friends who may want to try these mini 'lobsters'.
FYI, lobsters are categorised as "unclean food" in the Bible.

Wah...I'm blessed

After weeks of mooting the idea for her to cook flower crab dish, she finally did it today. I'm blessed by it.

Though she claimed that it(the dish) is a disaster as the gravy is burnt, I still enjoyed eating it. No lah, it is not really burnt and if it is not mentioned I would not notice also. Anyway, it is delicious.

Thank you dear for the treat. Love you.

My favorite food now

My favorite food now has changed from Sambal to Tomyam noodle. I love to go to Ban Loong Chinese & Western Cuisine in Pulau Gadong and eat the Bihun Tomyam.

The gravy is thick and you can really taste the sour taste of the TomYam. If you are in Melaka and wants to try out the Tomyam, let me know.

Chicken Golek

My wife loves to eat Ayam Golek or literally translated as "Chicken Rolled". It is cooked differently from roast chicken, though it looks almost the same. The taste is nice and the price is nice too, almost equivalent to the price of KFC value meal. I think my wife should learn more about chicken recipes especially on how to prepare and cook Ayam Golek. Then we need not go out frequently and can still enjoy nice and tasty Ayam Golek.

Got Somemore Ketupat?

What do they serve on 10^th Day Raya? Definitely not ketupat and rendang lah. Definitely not lemang lah. But there are some left-over “kuih-muih” or more like titbits. No, I don’t feel disappointed with it. In fact, I felt sorry for Hanif’s family. His mother had to cook fried mee for us (Michelle, Annabelle, Clarissa and myself). Only Michelle and myself can eat the fried mee as it is cooked spicy and my two daughters can’t eat spicy food yet. There are lots of leftover fried mee when we left. But Hanif got lots of brothers and sisters so that should not be a problem.

Supper Again

It’s been a few days since Michelle and I went out for supper. As usual, one of the favorite supper food is Roti Canai. We went to a stall near Michelle’s working place. As usual, Michelle would be ordering Roti Canai with Planta and I will order my normal 2 pieces Roti Canai Kosong. The gravy is nice and the roti canai is quite crispy. Michelle wanted to take pictures of it but then she feels shy since there are a lot of kampong people eating there. Wonder what they will think of us…maybe like big city people who never seen roti canai before.