When the maid was around to wash the dishes, I took the liberty to cook up a meal at home for the first time after 10 years of eating outside. I bought chicken drumstick, chicken breast to be chopped into meatballs, carrots, big onions, black Shitake mushrooms and scallops with red dates. I boiled the soup and stir-fried eggs with mushrooms, onions, and carrots. It turned out pretty well and the soup was tasty. Even my remaining parent, my mum, drank up all the soup. I hope she appreciates my effort to pleased the family by cooking at home with tender love and labor. From the Instagram pictures above, you can click on the right button to scroll to the left for more pictures. In the meantime, enjoy this humble photos of mine.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Delicious home-cooked food
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Dinner at Xuan Xin
Personally, the food was good but the waiter and waitress services were horrendous! Here, we shall focus on the food. The broccoli florets were cooked or stir-fried until soft by the heat of the wok. The gravy of egg white with crab meat makes it sumptuous with a burst of seafood and egg flavors. That was my dinner for today plus a glass of watermelon juice without sugar. My spouse had fried rice with big prawns, served in a blue floral plate. Just swipe to the left to see the picture. He also had iced coffee in a metal steel straw, since plastic straws were banned in Penang sometime back. Hope you enjoy the foods and pictures here.
Friday, August 16, 2019
Mini Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Soup
I had the above mini Buddha jumps over the wall soup recently including stir-fried broccoli florets with sliced mushrooms and carrots. This is a new Singapore establishment in Gurney Plaza, owned by a Singaporean. For $45 a bowl, you can get another free helping of soup for 1 time, of which we took away for mum. The taste was superb with oysters inside and chicken stock with drumstick and other pieces of chicken. Inside the soup, there were also black Shitake mushrooms and fish maw. It was infused with a burst of flavors and this restaurant only specializes in soups like ABC soup, watercress soup and many more. Well, this won't be the last time I dine in this eatery, but will come and taste the other soups as well. The ambience was nice too with many red lanterns adorn the ceiling.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Chicken Chop at Tesco
Just the other day, I ordered chicken chop at Tesco food court in Tanjung Tokong. The chicken meat was rather small and thin to maximize profit over there. Well, I guess, most of the foods were costly and it was $10 for the meal excluding drinks. The gravy was lovely as ubiquitous of all chicken chop meals. I guess the cook put some tomato sauce mixed with vinegar for that 'oomph' burst of flavor. Hungry as I was, I finished it in no time in my hunt for different food instead of the usual Nonya dishes at the same place. For drinks, I had iced orange juice which was rather diluted. Well, I think this is the effect of inflation where the power of money diminishes while the quantity of food becomes less with higher price.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Beautiful Rolled Fondant Cakes
Above are pictures of 4 design types of rolled fondant cakes that I snapped at Bread History in Tesco at Tanjung Tokong. They are too beautiful to eat and all the hours of painstaking work to create edible art is to be preserved, in my humble opinion. But humans are spoiled for choice and they want to eat the best design and most colorful fondant cake. These are my own Instagram pictures that I posted for posterity. I also submitted the picture to a survey called Toluna where I participate for points to be converted to cash. So far, I had earned $600 in 1 year's time on a part-time basis. On good months, I can get up to $60 a month! Well, I guess that was the best I could achieve. Anyway, hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I do and happy reading.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Mum Fell Down
After x-ray, MRI scan, the orthopedic surgeon diagnosed mum as having multiple compression of the spine, slipped disc and bone spurs. Now, mum is using Forteo to inject herself every night at 9:45pm at the same time nightly. The medicine is paid by dad's pension that mum inherited. It costs $1,600 a tube that lasts about 10 times. Mum also has to take a painkiller, muscle relaxant, and calcium. She is very lucky to be staying in a very private condo to recuperate with the help of a maid and catering of food. Both youngest one and I with my spouse help mum, taking turns to see to her needs like getting her mixture potassium citrate from the pharmacist for gastric pains. I can only do my best as one parent is left and another had gone to heaven.
Friday, June 7, 2019
Sumptuous Dinner Meal at CRC
The tagline Good Food certainly equals to Good Mood. Food is cathartic and helps reduces stress at work, with people, etc. Just click on the right button to scroll to the left the delicious pictures of food taken recently at Chinese Recreation Club of my Instagram account. The main dish was stir-fried dried scallops with lots of crabmeat and egg, that was paired with lettuce as the wrapper. Next, we had seaweed with home-made fishballs soup and finally beancurd topped with minced meat with salted fish and prawns in dark soya sauce. It was simply ambrosia and Chinese Recreation Club is well known for its food amongst diners and member who get to enjoy 10% discount with a member card.
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