Brownrice's Wanton Mee

Having the last piece of supposedly meant for my char siew making, I decided to give the last shot for this piece of meat which the pork seller introduce me as a best part for char siew. Next time, I will definitely buy pork belly for char siew (pork seller keep insisting this is the best part! L). Anyway, I find it a tad too meaty and no fats as I wish my char siew to be.

I decided to make Wanton Mee (dried version) for Saturday lunch. I seasoned the char siew 2 days ago and took it out on Saturday morning for grilling. Went to the wet market to buy more ingredients like vege and egg noodles. The egg noodles for 4 large rolls only costs me $1.60. Very very reasonable!

Here’s my version of Wanton mee. The sauce is the main “S” factor that makes the whole meal kick. Most probably in future, I will use pork lards oil to make it more fragrant..hah…

With my own version of sauce:-

1. Dark soya sauce
2. Sesame/Garlic oil ( I will substitute this with pork lard oil in future)
3. Dash of pepper
4. Mirin

Mussel baked with cheese and garlic

This is quite an outdated post. One of the weekends, I decided to baked mussel with cheese and garlic for dinner. The mussel was for one of the BBQ we had in Mar09 but there were abundant of foods on the table, my mussel were left unopened.
With my own recipe and agak agak of ingredients to put in, here’s what I whip out from my kitchen:-

Making the sauce for 450g of mussels:
1) Chopped garlic (the more the better)
2) Salted butter (500g)
3) Basil leaves (1/2 tbsp)
4) Pepper (1/2 tpsn)
5) White wine/Chinese wine (1/2 tspn)
6) Grated mozzarella and cheddar cheese (to your likings)

Add chopped garlic, salted butter, basil leaves and pepper in a bowl till you get a smooth texture.
Line the mussel on a aluminum foil on top of the baking pan. Scoop the mixture onto the mussel and add in the grated mozzarella and cheddar cheese. Cover more generously than the one I had in the picture.
Baked it in the oven at 200 degree for 15 minutes. Watch the mussel to avoid any over burnt. Adjust the temperature according to your oven (some oven works differently).

Ta-Da! Here’s my Baked Cheese Mussel. Taste good and we finish all of them within 5 mins!

Birthday Arrives Early for me!

Birthday certainly arrives early for me! Just receive this tonight from M1. My lovely hubby got this for my birthday. One thing, I'm an avid fan of Nokia. After using Samsung, I still prefer Nokia.

NOKIA E71

Nice and sleek E71. I had a tough time choose Red or Grey Steel. In the end, I chose grey steel for the sleek look. Seems like the red is not the Ferrari red which I wanted.

Can't wait to play around with this new baby. Love this to bits! But, I'm a little sad to change my dear N73 to this new one. Lotsa memories and it has lasted me for 2years? It has serve me well and go through with me filming Zach's birth and having so much of fond memories.

Nevertheless, Hubby is taking over my old phone. So sweet of him :).

Why do I decided to get this phone? After some survey, I wanted a mobile email phone. I was considering the E63 and E71 (lately there's another new launch on E73). The only difference about E63 is the plastic casing, 2 megapixel camera and a little bulky than E73.

So, here's E71 has:-

1) 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera

2) 3G, WLAN, A-GPS, e-mail (one-touch to access email)

3) 2GB microSD memory card

4) pocket sized QWERTY design

Ok guys, loging off to play with my new toy now...!

Hip Hip Hooray!

Today’s paper caught my eyes again. Jetstar and Air Asia is flying to Penang! Air Asia has 2 new flights which are Penang and Langkawi…Woooooooo!

Getting heated up

Yesterday was another freaking hot day! All 3 of us were hiding in the room with air conditioned and fan blasting. It was just too hot and I told hubby that I just wish that I had a pool in front of me to dip!

With this idea, we decided to head off to Sengkang Swimming Complex. It was newly built sometime early this year and heard some good review on this place. In total, the complex house 2 adults pool, 1 children's pool and 8 slides. I noticed this place is very wheel chair friendly as they are rams everywhere including the pool.

Considering the entrance fee for weekend, $2.00 for adult and $1.00 for children, it's definitely worth going. This complex has a 24hours McDonald and 7-Eleven.

When we reached the complex, I was swarmed by the many cars parking illegally by the road side. This tells me, it's going to be real crowded inside there as many people sharing the same thoughts.

As you can see, here's the children's pool, super crowded. Zach was elated to see the slides and playground and he wanted to climb up into one of the slides. Maybe next time, mummy will bring you down together.

Children's pool

Zach enjoying floating around in his float (tsk, please don't get too excited of the hunk beside my boy)

Slides! No guts to try now. Afraid my bikini will MIA halfway thru :p

View of the children's pool when dusk sets in

This is what I mean about the jacuzzi. What do you think? Feel like I'm a koi fish blends in together with the landscape.

Indoor pool with ram, friendly for wheelchair.

We swam for about an hour an half and decided to have a shower and head out for dinner.

One reason which makes me consider to come back to this place is the water pressure is BAD! I can bet you that Zach's pee is faster and bigger than the one I had in the shower room. Water were merely trickling down and I'm having a hard time choosing which body part to go first. I was so frustrated with the water pressure and I decided to go without a bath. I change into my clothing with the cholorine smell sticking to my skin.

We had Boon Tong Kee's chicken rice for dinner and we did some grocerries shopping in Giant before calling a day. Oh, another thing after 2 years of missing swimming my body was aching all over.. *ouch* (only 2 laps and that's it!)

Malacca Day 2

Sometimes, when I’m in Malacca I always have this guilt feel of not visiting the historical site despite they are easily accessible. Food is always the pull factor to me and I am more fascinated with food than the historical site. To be frank, I’m not a sentimental person where I’ll appreciate the history.

Day 2, waking up at 8:15am and brought Zach down for the hotel breakfast. Nothing to shout at. The typical hotel breakfast and is good to warm my stomach. After breakfast, we head off to Mahkota Parade for shopping and to kill time while getting our breakfast digest before we head off to Hoe Kee for lunch. Dad, sis and Stella met us there and kind enough to queue and order the food. The next door chicken rice ball, Chung Wah is as good as this but I still prefer Hoe Kee in terms of the comfortable sitting area which also comes with air conditioned. We ordered Asam Fish, steam chicken, and lotsa rice balls to go with the dishes. The Asam fish is good. Fish is fresh, big and meaty. Sour and spicy to our taste bud. Zach had his share of the chicken rice ball too. However, towards the end the ball was mashed by him. Messy!

The bill came and we paid RM156 for 2 tables of 10 pax having the same dishes (incl drinks).

Chicken Rice Ball

Half steam chicken with gizzards

Yummy Asam FishWalking down the Jonker St, we saw this lady selling homemade nyonya kuih by the road side. There's a small little crowd and I wonder if she's one of the famous seller there. Looks interesting and yummy. I bought 1 packet of Soon Kueh (RM2) and I find it so-so only.

Menu posted on the side walk wall. Wanted to try her onde onde which is selling fast. Wonder it will be the same fate as the Soon Kueh.

After a good lunch, we walk towards the Dutch building and clock tower. The usual bright and colorful rickshaw caught many attention and also not forgetting the albino snake and iguana too. I’m not the adventurous person in having the snake sitting on my shoulder. Dangle a thousand infront of me, I will not too! Though I’m consider in the same “clan” but sorry, I’m not the friendly and the odd balls out of the clan! After some photo takings and bidding goodbye to our “friend”, we decided to head for chendol!

Stadhuys

The famous landmark clock tower

Beautifully decorated rickshaw

Christ Church as a backdrop

The famous snake man attracted the locals and tourist

The "celebrities" of Malacca. Zach had a chance rubbing shoulder with the slithery one.

We head off to Lily and Donald, just a few walk away. If you go down from the OCBC bank you will see Hereen House on your right. Walk further down from the Hereen House and along the Malacca river till you see a shotlot row on your right. Turn right and about 50m down the road, Donald and Lily corner is right at the end of the junction.

While walking down the Malacca river under the sweltering sun, I spotted a man in the river. He seems like looking for some treasures which I stood there for a while to see if he has found any treasure. Dad was curious too and he ask if he's looking for something. The man replied that he's looking for coins. Initially, I thought he was panning for diamond.. :p (in Malacca river?). Never heard off!

Malacca River

Donald & Lily Corner

Glory chendol!

I prefer the chendol here as the gula Melaka trickles down the shave ice and fresh coconut juice comes with the right combination. The different about this chendol and 88 Jonker is the gula Melaka texture. Donald & Lily is more runny and fragrance where else 88 Jonker is thicker, sticky like glue and fragrance enough. Depending on individual preference.

After chendol, we head back to hotel to rest and chill out by the pool. This time, I brought Zach to the adult pool with supervision from both Stella and I. Great move! He love it!

For dinner, we head of to Banyonya. Read in internet with some good reviews on the Ikan Masak Lemak Nenas, Fried Asam Prawns and Cincaluk omelette. I ordered all three with additional of kangkung fried w/garlic and Ayam Pongteh.

Now, to digest all the good food we head to Jonker St. night market. It was as crowded as usual. The place is vibrant and lively. On the other end of Jonker walk (we started off near to the Hoe Kee chicken rice), there’s a stage set up and you can watch people dancing line dance and a choir is going on from the Teo Chew Huay Kuan. This is my 3rd visit to Jonker Walk and I guess in my next visit to Malacca, I shall skip this pasar malam.

The weather is just too hot to enjoy the walk and I was carrying Zach in a sarong and didn't have chance in taking photos.

No Limits...

A friend of mine forwarded this meaningful story to me. In today’s world, we are so busy with our career and chasing to build a comfortable life for our own or family. With all these, we have directly or indirectly build a materialistic world surrounding us and we tends to forget about the simplest things in life that all of us should step back and slow down.

Read on and with this simple message to all of you who reads this, think back and evaluate what’s happening in your life today…

While a man was polishing his new car, his 4 yr old son picked stone & scratched lines on the side of the car. In anger, the man took the child's hand & hit it many times, not realizing he was using a wrench. At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple fractures. When the child saw his father..... With painful eyes he asked 'Dad when will my fingers grow back?' Man was so hurt and speechless. He went back to car and kicked it a lot of times.

Devastated by his own actions..... . sitting in front of that car he looked at the scratches, child had written 'LOVE YOU DAD'. The next day that man committed suicide. . .

Anger and Love have NO LIMITS; choose the later to have a beautiful & lovely life....

Things are to be used and people are to be loved,
But the irony in today's world is that,
People are used and things are loved...