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Fruit Loops
05.20.09 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

Full week of late night meetings and I am having fruit loops for supper, instead of breakfast. I always like to eat fruit loops. Yeah I know it is all coloring. I have to eat it with milk. I was afraid of my children were sensitive to the coloring that makes me hold back on purchasing a box of fruit loops.

In the end, I could not resist any longer. Fortunate for me, they ate some but didn’t have any problem. Yeah for me!!

And here is my supper….

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Pig Out Session
03.06.09 |Food, Work| Permalink | Comments Off

I had another great departmental dinner today because my big boss visited us. Of coz when he comes, we usually ask him to treat us a good meal. It is a good to build relationship among the team. He is a great joker because he tells great stories that made us laugh. It was a very good dinner indeed.

At least we have fun despite all the sad news about economy crisis, retrenchment and pay cut. Free dinner is always a good way to help boost up the morale.

We went to Spice Market Rasa Sayang for buffet dinner.

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Roti Tisu
02.21.09 |Food, Penang| Permalink | Comments Off

I just discovered this in one of the mamak store in Penang called Roti Tisu aka Tissue Bread. It is made from the same dough as Roti Canai but finer. Roti Tisu is crispy with hot margarine and sugar coated on it. It is usually served in a con shape.

Have you seen such a big roti tisu? Oh my children love this! You have to try it if you are at the mamak store. Simply delicious.

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What Is This Fruit?
02.05.09 |Food| Permalink | 2 Comments

Yesteday I saw this fruit at the fruit store. Out of curiosity, I bought it to try. It can be eaten just like that with 1 seed in the core. It taste a little like jambu but it has a fragrant in it. I believed it can go well with the rojak sauce. If anyone of you knows the name of the fruit, do tell me.

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Beef Tripe Noodle
01.26.09 |Food, Travel| Permalink | Comments Off

I miss this! If you are in Hong Kong, you must try the Beef Tripe Noodle. It is very tasty and the noodle is superb. It is very different from the Vietnamese style. The soup is made tasty with boiling the beef tripe or brisket in it. It is almost like a beef stew.

One thing that is missing is that the shop does not provide a good chili sauce to go with it. It will be absolutely perfect with chili sauce. I wonder when I can have it again.

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Miss This
01.19.09 |Food| Permalink | 2 Comments

I missed the KL “G Cheong Fun”. The way Penang does they “G Cheong Fun” is so different. It took me a long time to get used to the dark prawn paste with the “G Cheong Fun”. The KL style is very different with fish ball, lady finger, brinjal and fried bean curd. Yummy!!!

I ate that for breakfast almost every week in school. I remember that the store owner always give me extra fish ball. She is a very kind lady. I remembered once I forgot to bring money, she told me to pay her tomorrow. After finishing the “G Cheong Fun”, with the left over sauce, she puts soup on the plate for me. I love sipping the soup. Simply delicious!!!

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Melamine Food Products

10.27.08 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

After the big sad tragic incident on China milk powder that contain the chemical substance of melamine that cause many children in China sick, now everyone is very concern about their food intake. I am very worried because I heard more products now contain melamine that is harmful to us. How can the food company be so irresponsible and not have the food tested for toxic substances? Even as we speak, there are biscuits that are not melamine free. Worst is government just ban the foods produce but not close down the company.

I went to the fsq.moh.gov.my and downloaded the spreadsheet which has a list of products that has melamine that is over the acceptable level. In another words, these product can make you sick or put stone in your kidney.

Here are they, please don’t buy any of these foods. By the way, there is another list in fsq.moh.gov.my that has food list :
http://fsq.moh.gov.my/uploads/produkmematuhi251008.pdf,
that is not melamine free but on an acceptable level. Whatever level, I do not want to eat food with melamine in it. I hope government will enforce the food company to label the melamine ingredient in all products.

Ego White Rabbit Creamy Candy 135 ppm	Vigour 888 Filling Roll 4.71 ppm	Taro Biscuits (Bairong) 75 ppm	Biskut Creamy Chocolate (Dikilangkan oleh Khian Guan 3.66 ppm
Biskut Lemon Pof 3.7 ppm	Biskut Square Puff 4.36 ppm	Biskut Cocoa Puff 4.91 ppm	Biskut Jagung Puff 6.46 ppm
Potato Cracker 17 ppm	Biskut Ais Jem 3.33 ppm	Biskut Marie Besar 6.64 ppm	Biskut Campuran 7.99 ppm
Biskut Family Crackers 7.6 ppm	Tasty Cracker 2.57 ppm	Biskut ABC 12.6 ppm	Zoological Biscuit 5.16 ppm
Supercrown Cracker 9.11 ppm	Healthy Puff 8.85 ppm	Biskut Sandwich Oren 5.05 ppm	Biskut Mini Puff 22 ppm

*Note :
Action Level
• Makanan Bayi / Baby Food : 1.00 ppm
• Makanan Lain / Other Food : 2.5 ppm
ppm= parts per million (mg/kg)

Stay away from the food above!

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Difficult Fruit To Eat
10.19.08 |Food| Permalink | 3 Comments

Do you know what fruit is the most difficult to eat? It is this one:

Yeap, it is the pomegranate. If you are not careful the juice can stain your shirt or clothes. How do you eat a fruit filled with seed? If you bite onto eat and you probably will get the skin which is bitter. Let me share this method which I discovered.

First you need to cut the fruit into 2 halves. Take a big bowl so that the seed will not fall all over the place. Take 1 half and use your fingers and break the skin so that the seed fall out onto the bowl. Slowly break the skin and the seed will just fall nicely on the bowl. Do not use a spoon to scoop as the juice will squirt all over.

When you have all the seed removed, look into the bowl for unwanted skin. You don’t want to chew on those skins as it is bitter. Wash those seeds and you can add a little sugar. Now you can scoop it with your spoon and suck the juice out. Spit out the seed into the garbage can. Need?

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Häagen Dazs Mooncake
10.12.08 |Food| Permalink | Comments Off

I wanted to review the Häagen Dazs Mooncake but I forgot about it until I saw those pictures in my hard drive. Yeap, I got 2 mooncakes from Häagen Dazs, all because I have vouchers for it. It is very costly too.

Anyway, I like the chocolate coating plus the creamy ice-cream inside. I didn’t like the mango sorbet that was supposed to be the egg of the mooncake. Somehow they sorbet doesn’t mixed well with the sorbet ice cream. Overall, it was okay but I really wouldn’t get it if it is not free. No doubt the quality of the ice-cream is there.

If I have more Häagen Dazs vouchers, I probably would try the cake next. Are they good, anyone wished to comment?

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Big Apple Donut Is Here In Penang
09.27.08 |Food| Permalink | Comments Off

Finally Big Apple is here in Penang at Gurney Plaza. However most of the donut offered today were too choc-ky . And my peanut butter donut is nowhere to be found.

Well, let’s see whether it will survive in Penang. I didn’t see any queue on a Saturday. Maybe they didn’t do much publicity and I only found out about it when shopping there.

Now will J.CO come over here too? We will see.

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Domino’s Pizza Is Here
09.22.08 |Food| Permalink | 2 Comments

Finally a Domino outlet is opened near my area. Now they delivered to my home. Frankly I never tasted Domino’s before. I always wanted to get my teeth on it but the only outlet was in town. If I go down town, I probably will not go for pizza.

Anyway, I decided to have Domino’s Pizza on Saturday. I tried to register myself online and I failed. They probably didn’t update the database. It kept saying that it didn’t deliver to my area. A bug in the website search engine too.

So I picked up the phone to order. The staff that took my order had me repeating my info a few times and worse he mispronounced my name, even though I told him what it was! That is why I preferred to order online. Sigh.

The pizza came. I regretted ordering the thin crust because it is real thin. It was cheesy compare to Pizza Hut. However I found that the toppings weren’t sufficient. I like the breadstix, it was delicious. I preferred the chicken wings from Pizza Hut because Domino’s wings have too much BBQ sauce.

Ooh…they even provide chili flakes for the pizza. I like that. I really should have order Classic Crust!

Here is my meal….

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Mango Dessert
09.09.08 |Food| Permalink | 2 Comments

I love all kind of mango. I got a bunch of green mango from the tree in my church. Thanks to my church friend who use a long stick to whack the fruit down.

This type of mango cannot be eaten just like that because it is very sour. It is good for making preserved mango or eaten with rojak sauce. Some home I love smelling this mango because it is very fragrant. They should make a perfume from this fruit.

Here is the simple recipe to make delicious preserved mango.
1. Remove the skin and the seed in the middle.
2. Slice it to pieces.
3. Add 1 teaspoon of salt and mix it. Let it set for 5 min.
4. Add 10 tablespoon of sugar. If you like it sweet, you can add more. If you like it spicy, you can cut and add some cili padi.
5. Put it in a container with the sugar juice and let it set in the fridge

Yummy…simply delicious. However I cannot take a lot of this because my teeth will be painful.

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Lemang
09.05.08 |Food| Permalink | Comments Off

It is one of my favorite foods. It is cooked glutinous rice in a long big bamboo stick. The bamboo stick is placed on an open fire like bbq. It is good to eat with Rendang beef or chicken. You may only get Lemang during Ramadan or Raya season.

Often Lemang is sold by the road side. Whenever you see people burning bamboo stick, you be sure there is Lemang to be sold. I am glad that I can find it near Bayan Baru Market or Mosque. At this month of Ramadan, there are stores set up at the open area to sell all kind of malay food in the evening. Besides Lemang, you can find ayam percik, kebab, laksa, murtabak, daging soup, malay kuih and lots of food.

Simply delicious…..burppp…opps.

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Full Tummy
08.24.08 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

I had another pig out session at Kampachi Hotel Equatorial for a Japanese buffet. For RM 86++ per person, it was not that great. I didn’t see much variety. Oh well, it is a Japanese buffet, what can I expect. I am impressed that they have oysters and mini lobster or they called it crayfish. Those were great, I had more than a dozen oyster and a dozen crayfish to get my money worth.

Other stuff would be sashimi, sushi, hand rolls, tempura, sukiyaki and Japanese dishes. It’s what Japanese places would served. The sukiyaki was too salty.
Last, it was some western desserts. I was expecting mochi but didn’t get any. The crème bulle and tiramisu was too sweet. At the end of the day, I got a full tummy with no perspective about the buffet. I think they can do better with the amount they charged. Fortunately for me, it is free for me and my family.

They charged RM46++ for children above 4. How much can a child eat at age of 4-6? Not much. Verdict, it is not worth bringing children below 6. They should bring up the age to 6.

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Häagen-Dazs® Ice Cream
07.15.08 |Food| Permalink | 4 Comments

I was given a stack of Haagen Dazs ice-cream vouchers so I thought I might else well get a tub to try. I got Tiramisu flavor. It was indeed very sweet to begin with. On top of it, it was nothing out of the extraordinary. My children tried the toffee and mango flavor on the cone. I like the crispy cone but the ice cream were very sweet, even without toppings. For RM12 per cone, I will not buy it on my own.

I have some more vouchers, so tell me what other good flavor to pick so that I will not be disappointed again. With the vouchers I have, I can go for another 5-6 more tubs.

Anyway, I still love the world class choc from Baskin Robins.

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Journey of Big Apple Donut
06.04.08 |Food| Permalink | Comments Off

I first discovered the Big Apple Donut when it landed in the Curve KL. Now it has makes its way to Jusco in Ipoh. I am waiting it to come to Penang. Let’s see who make it here first, JCO or Big Apple. I wonder how much the franchise is.

Once in a while, I will be craving for donuts and it is still 2 hours drive to get to it. I was happy when I return from Cameron Highlands, I am able to drop by Jusco in Ipoh to get a bite of those donuts.

It goes well with my cuppa of Cameron tea. Simply delicious….

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Chinese Dessert
05.28.08 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

I love Chinese dessert especially “tong sui” meaning sweet soup dessert. We have red bean soup, green bean soup, almond soup, bubur cha cha, herbal egg, peanut soup, black pulut soup, sweet potatoes soup and sweet sago dessert. It makes me drool just thinking about it.

There is this eating place in I-Avenue Bayan Baru Penang call Chopstick. They served mini bowls of red bean, black pulut and peanut soup. All 3 are my favorite soup. I like the way they served it in small portion so that I will be able to taste all 3 soups. They should prepared more variety and I think it can sell well.

Last time when I was small, there is this “tong sui” seller who comes around our house. We used to line up to buy his desserts. We drink them for supper. Yeap, we Cantonese like soups a lot!

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Delicious Double Boiled Soup
05.19.08 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

My mom taught me how to make good double boiled soup. She gave me some Cordyceps Sinensis which she gets from the local Chinese medical shop. Cordyceps used to be very affordable but lately it is getting expensive. I heard one piece costs RM70. Fortunately for me, my mom gave me whole packets years ago.

Cordyceps are a type of fungi. It looks like a worm but it is not. The Chinese called it “Dong Choong Cao” It is said that cordyceps strengthens body immunity, improve respiratory conditions, improved fatigue and stress resistance.

It is simple to make delicious soup with cordyceps. All you need is a chicken, water and cordyceps. For my family, I usually just use a chicken drumstick. Put them all into a double boiled pot and boiled for 8 hours or more. After it is done, you can put a pinch of salt to taste. Believed me it taste delicious and it is nutritious. You try it.

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Branded Durian
05.16.08 |Food, Penang| Permalink | 2 Comments

Durian season is here and it is every where in Penang. Some are cheap and some are branded. My hubby and I went on a hunt for branded durian. We do not know the price of branded durian. We went to this “Durian Cap Kaki”. We asked for a few of the branded and good ones. I believed he said one of it is Ang Heh and 3 other different kinds. One guy, I believe is the boss, wearing gold chain and rings stood there. I guess you can strike rich just by selling durian.

The ah pek (aka uncle) charged us RM30 each. For those durian lovers, is it overpriced? My hubby said that previously he can get 5 for RM20. I believed that the price was expensive because it was branded. Next time I probably will do a market research on where I can get good cheap branded durian.

Night came, invited my FIL and have a durian feast. I love the Ang Heh, it is creamy and sweet. The rest of them were creamy too and fleshy but bitter. The aroma of the durian filled the entire house even before we open the durian. I guess this is the difference between branded and non branded durian.

It was simply satisfying. Next mission to hunt for cheaper ang heh. Tell me what brand of durian is the pic below:

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What A Fish!
05.13.08 |Food| Permalink | 2 Comments

I ordered fish and chips and this was what I got.

What a big fish on my plate. Frankly speaking this is the first time I see a chef served the whole fish on the plate for fish and chip. I can understand if it was a shared dinner. However the fish was really fresh and delicious. It was a trout. Cost RM14.90. It has some steam vegetables and a slice of bread with butter.

My children were going for my chips, no matter how I protect it. It ends up on their plate.

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