8 dishes altogether and it was so yummy!

I was invited to Sam's house for dinner last weekend, together with other friends. Sam wanted to thank us for the birthday gift we bought for him. Well, of cause, an expensive one and he loved it! I've heard a lot about his mum, she is really a good cook and I am really thrilled when he invited us over because finally I have the chance to taste the food cooked by his mum.

When we arrived there at 7pm, there were already 7 dishes on the dining table and guess what? His mum was still in the kitchen cooking the last dish, soy sauce chicken! Oh, one of my favorite! Immediately I decided to go into the kitchen to see what can I help (wanted to learn how to cook as well).

When I saw his mum adding monosodium glutamate a.k.a MSG, I was a bit shocked. Sam's mum told me it is actually safe to use and by adding a little bit of it, brings out the flavor of the dish. She told me to try the before and after adding MSG and yes, it really brings out the flavor. A LOT!!

There were altogether 8 dishes and we all enjoyed the meal very much. It was really a yummy and satisfying meal. His mum is really a good cook, much better than a lot of restaurants out there!

Before we left Sam's house, I even asked for the recipes from his mum. Well, hopefully by following the recipes, I am able to cook to replicate these dishes.

So yummy!!

How to get rid of rice bug ('kuk ngao') ~ Part 2

I'm always having problems with rice bugs. There's only 2 person in the house, I do cook, but not often, then we don't eat much rice. I've tried to buy small packet of rice (1kg/2kg) but it still ends up with a lot rice bug!!

Last month when I was at The Curve, I saw there's a newly open RM 5 shop which sells all kinds of things from Japan (on the 3rd floor). There's all kinds of things there, kitchen stuff, stationary and etc. Then I found this!!

See those english words?
"Prevent insects from entering your rice"
hehe, so i think i can use this to prevent rice bug gua..

inside the box, there's this..

and then this.. the front

and the back

Buried it with rice
Not sure whether it works or not, ~sigh.. i hope it works..

Cook with all the left overs in your fridge.

If you asked me what am I going to cook tonight, my answer to you will be, I don't know. How come? Well, I have to go back home, open up my fridge, see what are the left overs, then only decide what to cook. You know this vege can't keep for long, you know you have bought this for quite some time, so how? Cook it all lar. The easiest way is to fry rice, cut everything into small pieces, and throw everything inside. wuahahahahahahaa..

It taste good and you don't need to waste any food. Good idea rite? :p

Half bowl of rice?

The whole world is having shortage for rice. This morning I heard this from the radio, they said actually we only required to eat half bowl of rice every meal. This half bowl of rice consists everything we need.

Well, for gals i guess half bowl of rice is not a problem but for guys? Guys need to eat a lot especially those who need to spend a lot of energy during work. You ask them to eat half bowl of rice? besides feeling hungry, they probably feel energy-less too!

Is this a solution for us to solve this rice shortage problem? ~sigh.. Might as well asked us not to eat rice lar, eat something else instead..

Birds eat nan fei leaves too!

Previously I have 3 plants at my balcony. One is the leaf which can cure flu (which can reduce cholestrol as well, not sure what's the name of the leaf), another one is pandan leaves and the other one is some plant (canot eat one, decorative purpose only). So one day, some birds came and start eating my flu plant. Everyday you will see one leaf gone and few weeks later, my flu plant becomes botak.

When I went back to my hometown, my aunt gave me the flu plant again together with the nan fei plant. And guess what, the birds are back, but this time they stopped eating my flu plant, they started to eat my nan fei leaf!!!!

see, birds also know nan fei leaves are good..

hmmm.. smells nice!!

I was at my front door, trying to unlock my grills. I smell something nice, no no, not coming from my neighbors, it's coming from my house! hmm.. then only i remember i boiled the old cucumber soup this morning using the slow cooker before i go to work.

It's really nice having this kind of smell, it's like someone inside the house, cooking dinner and waiting for you to come back from work. of cos, there's nobody inside my house except my slow cooker and my old cucumber soup lar..

Shark fin, bad for health?

Shark fin soup is very popular among Chinese. Every time, when there's any celebration especially wedding dinner, shark fin soup is a must. But do you know too much shark fin is not good for your health?

Heard from the news just now, shark fin soup contains mercury poison. Yes, mercury poison and if you eat too much of shark fin, it's not good for your health. Pregnant lady and kids are not advisable to eat too much shark fin.

So if you are a shark fin soup lover, beware... don't eat too much ya..

Looks nice but does it taste good too?

I was chatting with my friend the other day on msn and she told me she was watching a tv programs that introduce nice food from local restaurants. All the food shows on that program looks soooo nice and tempting. One day, she decided to go to one of the restaurant introduce by the tv program. The restaurant looks nice, the food looks very good too. And does is taste good? Oh hell NO!! She claimed that she can cooked better!

Well, it's true, the food looks nice doesn't mean it taste good. Have you ever encountered this before? I have, plenty of times! especially when I go for those buffet dinner. Their food all looks very nice and tempting, especially the desserts. But when you taste it, it doesn't taste as nice as it looks.

Therefore, don't judge a book by it's cover and don't judge food by it looks! haha!!

Sweet Potato Donut (Kuih Keria)

I don't really like donut but i love this sweet potato donut, kuih keria. It's a kind of malay kuih which you can often see it at those malay stalls that sells nasi lemak in the morning. How this kuih keria looks like? It's like a much smaller version of donut and it's in dark brown color coated with sugar.

It seems easy to prepare, we only need sweet potato, flour, oil and sugar. Maybe I should try to make it myself since i like it that much!

Is there any non spicy food for Malay?

9 out of 10 malay dishes are spicy. Sometimes i wonder, is there any malay that can't take spicy food? If yes, then how ar? Since almost all their food are spicy, curry lar, sambal lar, even vege they also fry with cili padi. hehe..

We chinese, when we are heaty or having sore throat, we will choose to eat something soupy, or porriage, but if malay ar, their sup (sup ekor and etc) all also spicy one wor, how ar? By the way, I think i never see got any malay stall that sells porriage, does that means malay don't eat porriage?

Buffet @ One World's Hotel, Cinnamon Coffee House

Any one of you tried the buffet at One World's Hotel, Cinnamon Coffee House? I heard quite a lot of good comments from friend's friends that tried before. I tried to google about the buffet but can't seems to find much about it.

After a few search, found a forum which talks a little bit about it. Basically said the food are nice and the price is about RM 90 per person (wow, expensive right?).

Interested to go try? Go try lar, if nice let me know. hehe, then only i go. :p

KL Rakuzen Japanese Restaurant

IKE KEGANI SUGATAMORI (Steamed Live Horsehair Crab)

Come and try the appealingly mouth-watering Uni and Homaguro Otoro Sashimi.

Enjoy All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Every Sunday
Adults: RM 55.00++
Children: RM 28.00++

All-You-Can-Eat Buffet is Available from 12:00pm - 3:00pm Every Sunday

Actually I never heard about this Rakuzen Japanese Restaurant before OL told me about it. She said so far this restaurant serves the best japanese food she ever had. Wow, serious ar? Then must try try.. Seems like now they having a promotion, until end of this week. So if you like Japanese food, can go try it out!

Oh ya, there's one at Subang Jaya too, but not sure got this buffet promotion or not.

RAKUZEN JAPANESE RESTAURANT @ SUBANG JAYA
No. 13, Jalan SS15/5A, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

A conversation about high uric acid and high cholestrol

A conversation between me and my friend about high uric acid and high cholestrol.

J: how's your blood test result?
F: hmm, uric acid high, and also high cholestrol lor..
J: oo, seems like most of the young ppl also kena that. have to becareful of what we eat i guess.
F: yalor..
J: so uric acid high, cannot eat what?
F: err, meat lor, eat less meat lor..
J: oo, wat about others?
F: all kinds of meats lor..
J: okie, what about high cholestrol?
F: meat lor..
J: besides meat and seafood?
F: all kinds of meats lor..
J: ^#$#@$#$#*&*(#&(*$@&#*($

The top and the bottom of the fried rice

Me and my colleagues went out for lunch at a mamak near our office, raining mar, so find a place which is near to the office. I ordered nasi goreng and it looks nice. Nicely arrrange, the rice they make it round round on the plate. I tried and it taste good too. Not bad not bad...slowly, one spoon, 2nd spoon...and I found out something.. it seems like the surface of the rice taste good, inside one all tasteless!!

Wow, the cook must be very skillful lar.. I never tried something like this before, surface nice, inside not nice, some more its fried rice! I wonder how he fried. My colleagues said maybe he knows kung fu lar, else how to fry with layers, top layer got taste, bottom layer no taste...

So end up how? I kacau kacau all and eat lar. wat to do...

How to get rid of rice bug ('kuk ngao')? ~ Part 2

Besides putting the rice in the freezer to get rid of the rice bug ('kuk ngao'), FL got another tips from his colleague, a tip which is easier and faster BUT i don't know whether it work or not. How come?

Well well, apparently FL wasn't sure is to put garlic or onion. ~sigh.. Anyway, I think 90% is garlic lar. hehe... So how to get rid of the rice bug with garlic (or onion??)

very easy only, just put the garlic inside will do wor..
let's see, whether it really works or not lar..

How to get rid of rice bug ('kuk ngao')?

Do you always buy a big packet of rice? 5kg? 10kg? If you cook everyday, you probably won't have this problem. But for ppl like me that does not cook everyday, or even cook also cook a little bit of rice, 5kg of rice i can eat for a few months or even one whole year!! You might say, buy less lar, yes yes, there's one time i bought 1kg of brown rice and 1kg of red rice to mix, end up still eat for a very long time. When the rice put too long, the rice bug ('kuk ngao') will come. If you ignore it and leave it for a few weeks, it probably will end up the rice bug more than the rice!! Yes TRUST me, don't under estimate these rice bug!!

How to prevent this to happen? My aunt taught me this, let say you buy 5kg of rice, you know you will take a long time to finish it. Split the 5kg into 5 small packets and put into the fridge. When you finished 1kg, you take another packet out. and before you take the packet of rice out from the fridge, put the rice into the freezer for an hour. She said this will kill all the germs in the rice wor.. so that it won't easily got rice bug. Then after that you only put it outside.

I haven't try this myself, but will try it. If you are like me always fighting with the rice bug, no harm trying lar!!

Fish Head Meehun? Where to find?

Few yrs back when I was still studying in college, I always go to this chinese coffee shop at Uptown there (now becomes star buck, opposite is OCBC Bank) and eat the Fish Head Meehun. So far that's the best fish head meehun I've ever had. The fish is very fresh, the soup is very nice and the best thing is, you can have the option to choose 'chou mai fun' (thick mee hun). It was sooooooooo nice and I can never forget the taste!

When I started working, I didn't have time to go there for a few months. Then when i went there one day, the shop dissapeared and since then I don't know where to eat this fish head meehun anymore. Any of you tried the stall that i mentioned? Any idea where the auntie go? Or got any nice fish head meehun stall to intro to me?

Charcoal Roasted Coffee

I only recently found out that the charcoal roasted coffee really smells a lot nicer and taste a lot nicer than normal coffee. Few months ago, I tasted the NanYang 2 in 1 Charcoal Roasted Coffee at my aunts place. It smells and taste soooo good! I went out to seek for it and found it. After i finished the packet that i bought, I went to hunt for it again. This time, I bought the wrong packet, everything is the same except one with charcoal roasted, one without. The one without charcoal roasted one really cannot fight with the roasted one lar..Since then I know if want to buy these 2 in 1 or 3 in 1 coffee, must look for charcoal roasted one. Trust me, it's really a lot nicer!!

What's in your drawer?

A colleague of mine asked me is there anything for him to munch as he's feeling very bored. I open my drawer beside and realized i really got a lot of things to eat wor.. What i have? Well, I have sweets, sour plum, sweet and sour stuff, biscuits, crackers, keropok, mushroom soup, milo cereal, chewing gum, vitamin c.... wuahahahahahhaa...so scary lar... so many things to eat inside my small little drawer!!

What about you? What's in your drawer?

Marche's Crazy Tuesday ~ It's not like what you think it is!!!

Remember I posted about the Marche's Crazy Tuesday ~ All you can eat? According to my friend, it's not like what i said earlier lar, can order as much as we can. His friend went to try this buffet and found out that, all you can eat does not means you can go out order EVERYTHING out there.

For this buffet, Marche will prepare a corner with tables and with food on it, so if u interested in the buffet, you can eat all you can from THAT corner only lar.. You cannot go out there and order the food you like...

OO, like that ar.. yalar, else everyone will go eat lar, if can order like normal for the price of RM38!!!