Kiddy Menu: Omelette

It has been a long while since I last shown my boiboi's face, so here's how he looked like now... Cheeky lil fella I have there, a bit fussy on the food he eats at times, hence I have to wave my wand to do some magic. Luckily it's pretty easy to please him since I have some tricks up my sleeves.

Since he doesn't like his meat in pieces, we feed him minced meat instead. In all sorts of way... in bolognaise sauce, meat patties, dumplings, pie, etc and recently I discovered a fantastic and easy way to feed him.

He's kinda funny cos doesn't like eggs in hard boiled or fried form. I think he find egg white icky. It is only recently he took on half boiled eggs. Even that he will only eat the eggs when he dip bread in them or break pieces of bread to soak in the eggs. He only likes omelette in terms of fried form. So that's where I got creative. Hid vegetables like carrots, long beans, french beans and onions in there; as for meat, minced meat or chopped prawns. He loves them with tomato ketchup.

This one is a simple carrot and french beans strips omelette. Easy peasy... just fry carrots and beans in oil. Season with salt and pepper before pouring beaten eggs over. Let set before flipping over.

An old time childhood favourite of prawns and onions omelette where I chopped up the prawns.

Technorati Tags: malaysian food + omelette

Review: Koon Kee's Wantan Noodles

**Non-Halal**

Edited 27 Oct 2007

Goshhh I was hankering for a good plate of wantan meen (noodles) for more than a week. The one I had last week, did not manage to satisfy my craving, in fact it was a total disappointment.

In my book, a good wantan noodles would mean... a plate of fresh noodles done kon low (dry) style where the sauce concoction have a hint of sweetness to it and not overly salty; the fresh noodles ought to be cooked al dente in order to have a springy texture; and must topped with slightly charred char siu (barbeque pork) slices with slight fatty streaks and a coating of sweetish and sticky caramel!!! The wantans (dumplings) that come with ikan bilis (anchovies) broth are secondary to me, darn, I wonder if they serve only char siu meen rather than char siu wantan meen that would come out of my mouth automatically?!!?

Thank goodness I managed to cure my cravings just now! Woottt!!! I had my fix at Koon Kee. Well, it's not as good as before but at least they met those points in my book of wantan meen. Boy, I was so glad and I'm still reeling in the happiness heh!

Koon Kee is located just beside Hon Kee Porridge along Jalan Hang Lekir (right smack in the middle of Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown). Alternatively, they have a stall at Chinatown Hawker Center which is just opposite of their hole-in-the-wall shop. I think their opening hours are from late morning till late afternoon.


Koon Kee Wantan Meen
95 Jalan Hang Lekir
50000 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: (603) 2078 6554
Opening Hours: 10:00am - 10:00pm


Technorati Tags: malaysian food + wantan noodles + char siu

Review: Restoran Green View

**Non-Halal**

As a comparison with the fresh water prawn noodles at Soo Kee, let's check this favourite place of ours to have the same type of noodles but tastes tonnes better. This place, Restoran Green View, does not need much introduction as it's very popular indeed in Petaling Jaya. Located near the famous Rothman's roundabout, it's very easy to access. Parking in the evening is a breeze... psssttt you can park at Menara Merais for free!

As we have this dinner sometime back, it's hard to recall what is the name of this pork ribs dish (RM23.00). It came whole but luckily it was stewed until so tender that the meat literally falls off its bones. Tasted good and we lapped up the gravy with deep fried mantous (dumplings, RM4.00 a loaf and we have 2).

Next came a mediocre stir-fried fish slices with ginger and spring onion (RM25.00) that is nothing much to shout about.

We liked the stir-fried romaine lettuce with preserved beancurd (foo yue RM15.00) though with enough wok hei (breath of a wok) to play around with the tasty foo yue that thickly coats the vegetables.

Then came the 'piece de resistance' - fresh water prawns noodles (sang har meen RM70.00). If not mistaken we asked for 3 large prawns to be shared by 5 adults. Someone was lucky enough to have one whole prawn haha... well everyone was worried about their cholesterol level! Mei Yen, see these prawns... huge or not??? :p

The eggy gravy enveloped the crispy deep fried fresh noodles, not too starchy... just right I would say. Ohhh taste sooooo soooo good! We also like their Kong Nam Meen, also in similar eggy gravy but have loads of vegetables on it. Yum yum!

All the dishes above for 5 adults without any rice, a pot of Chinese tea (RM7.20), bucket of ice (RM1.50) costed RM157.19 inclusive of 5% Government Tax.


Restoran Green View
No. 6 & 8 Jalan 19/3
46300 Petaling Jaya
Selangor
Tel: (603) 7958 1076 or 7954 9263
Opening Hours: 11.00am - 11.00pm

Technorati Tags: malaysian food

Mid-Week Updates

After taking the double-boiled pear concoction the second time round, it seems like I'm coughing less but not for XXL. He said he's having chesty cough. After dinner last night in Pudu, we spotted a couple of those leung char (cooling drinks??) stalls that serves wong lo kut (a type of super bitter leung char) which my parents have been urging XXL to visit one since he started coughing. XXL, as usual resisted as he liken them to saw dust! Nevertheless, he downed one bowl last night, hoping that it will bloody cure his irritating cough.

Now the original wong lo kut doesn't taste like saw dust, it only tasted so after various powders or rather herbs are added to the bowl! If one is feeling heaty, feverish or just under the weather... find one of these leung char stall and tell them your problem/ailment and the seller will mix in the types of herbs that will supposedly cure you. After drinking a bowl of these, they will give you some sweet leung char to counter the bitterness.

PabloPabla of HoChiak! sent me a tip via email of just double-boiling fuji apple with rock sugar without any water. Since I do not have any fuji apple, can only try later but thanks PabloPabla for the tip. Whilst he was at it, he informed me that he couldn't load my Comment pop-up box completely. Hence, he can't leave me any comments. I wonder who else is encountering this... If you do, could you please drop me a line. Thanks.

I know, I haven't fix everything on my template especially some of my links and labels cos I've tried everything and it's still not working. Dang weird. Will try again when I'm absolutely in the mood or when I can find a better template. *Ahem* Any volunteer out there would like to design me one in exchange for some cakes?

Silken Tofu Topped with Minced Meat & Prawn

This is an easy peasy dish but a firm favourite with the young. Silken tofu is a very versatile ingredient but it is mostly used in soup or simply just being drizzled with dark soy sauce and shallot oil. I normally make a minced meat sauce and pour all over lighlty steamed silken tofu.

Making the minced meat sauce is very simple indeed. One can use either minced chicken or pork meat and some cubed prawns (my boiboi don't take whole prawns, so I have to hide them this way). In hot oil, sweat some chopped onions. Next stir in the minced meat. Cook the meat till lightly browned before adding the prawns. Add some chopped garlic next. Keep stirring. Pour in some water and add in seasonings like oyster sauce, wee bit of dark soy sauce, little bit of sugar to balance out and pepper to taste. No salt is necessary since oyster sauce would be enough. Cover with a lid and simmer for a while to let the meat tenderise. Once the sauce is reduced to the amount you would prefer, thicken the sauce with cornstarch solution by pouring some cornflour mixed with water and keep on stirring the sauce. Remove from fire and pour sauce all over lightly steamed silken tofu. Top with some chopped spring onions (not shown in pic) and serve with rice.

Note: After steaming the tofu, remember to pour away the water collected on the plate. It's actually liquid that seeps out of the tofu.


Technorati Tags: malaysian food + tofu

Meme: 5 Things

Fishman paged me last week and told me I got tagged. It took me almost a week before I scoot over to his diary to see which meme was this. Gosh... it's the 5 Things meme which isn't this has been in the blogsphere aeons ago but then it seems to have resurfaced recently seeing them in various blogs I've been visiting. Yeah I know I've mentioned earlier that I'm off memes and the last being A-Z About Me but since it was Fishman's virginal meme... I have to kasi support a bit.

So here goes...

5 things found in my room:
1) Wardrobes
2) A huge teak bed
3) Magazines, recipe print outs & cook books
4) Hand & body lotion
5) My bedmate

5 things I’ve always wanted to do:
1) Visit the long list of makan places that I've yet to go!!!
2) Experiment with Guiness in a cake and ice cream
3) Find time to sleep
4) Spend more time with my boiboi doing more useful stuff
5) Marry a rich man and become a tai tai! *evil grin* but alas...

5 things found in my bag:
1) Notepad with my makan list
2) Mobile phone
3) Purse
4) A cosmetic pouch that have everything imaginable in it, it's like a magic hat especially during kiddies emergencies
5) Keys

5 things found in my wallet:
1) Tengkee and driving licence
2) Credit Cards
3) Money and coins
4) Departmental stores/book shops/restaurant membership cards... you name it, I most prolly have it! Arrghhh...
5) Receipts

5 things I’m currently into:
1) Bread making & perfecting my bagels
2) Find creative stuff to do with my boiboi
3) Yoga
4) Making Arab Cookies colourful
5) Trying to cure our coughs

5 beautiful parent/s to tag:
As usual, no tagging but if you feel like doing this, please help yourself.

Double-boiled Pear With Chinese Almonds

The Three Musketeers at home have been sick! XS had been coughing on and off for 3 weeks, at times with phelgm... been on and off cough syrup until doc prescribed white, pink, red and blue pills for cough, cold, lungs etc last week. His pead said he could be allergic to the dusty environment! Thank goodness he had finally stopped coughing at least for these 2 days.

XXL have been down with high fever, cough with lots of phelgm and cold (full package!) since raya. Bed-ridden for 2 whole days with self prescribed meds. Not getting any better, XXL went to the clinic (finally) when he got back to work but how sad, no rest days were given to recuperate even with drowsy meds precribed. Boss worked him to the max too thinking he's on 2 weeks study break @$#*@. To date, still coughing and the flu bug is till hanging on!

XL finally joined the bandwagon, not sure who infected her! Other than sniffles and cough, she had gotten sore throat which made her lost her voice last Friday and luckily got a day off to sleep in. The meds made her feeling weak but had to skipped certain meds in order to watch over XXL and XS. Still coughing... *cough cough*

Come Sunday, staring at the about-to-rot pears in the fridge. We can't eat them since they're considered cooling stuff, believed could worsen a cough... Recalling somewhere I've read about double-boiling them with Chinese almonds, so I got on to make them. I do not have the actual recipe, so I don't really know if they work or not but nevermind lah, eat first, think later (sounds familiar?)! So please DO NOT TRY THIS as I'm only experimenting!!!!

BTW, Chinese almonds are actually apricot kernels and they come in 2 types, nam hung which come from Southern China which is considered the sweet type; and buk hung, the bitter one from Northen China. These almonds are supposedly meant to cure coughs. I have a bag of these in my fridge, funnily which I have no idea why?!??

Anyway, I've skinned, deseeded and quartered one and a half brown skinned pear (I think from Korea); and placed them in a glazed-clay double-boiler. Poured in 2 and a half bowl of water plus a handful of nam hung and buk hung. Double-boiled concoction for 3 hours on low heat. XXL and XL drank them warm whilst XS refused any as expected.

One day gone but still can't really tell any improvement, last night with the slow cooker free, I made another dosage with a yellow skinned pear instead. Cooked them overnight with the timer on for about 5 hours and we both have them before we left home. Let's just see if it will make us any better later today. *keep fingers crossed*