All about Food & Recipes

Pasta meals

2012-01-20T16:57:00.000+08:00

lasagne

Seafood pasta

spaghetti bolognese

Dishes at Kitchen Boulevard Restaurant & Bar at The 88 Market Place, Jalan Pintas, Kota KInabalu, Sabah.

One of my favourite Fish cooking/ soup

2011-11-30T21:42:00.006+08:00

This is one of my favourite fish soup with meehoon (rice vermicelli). I have strong crave for one when I was into my third day of Detoxification & Rejuvenation Program (DRP) which I chose to complete in 5 days.

I love the sourly taste of this fish recipe, yummylicious if dip in the mixture of calamansi juice (limau kasturi), light soy sauce and chillie padi.

You could find this at Bandaran Berjaya, Kota Kinabalu, for RM6-RM9.00 per bowl (USD2.00 - USD3.00).

More story here : Fish Soup with Rice Vermicelli to satisfy my crave

Bornion's Roasted Pork and chicken Rice

2011-11-28T13:54:00.002+08:00

This is one of my favourite Roasted Pork and Chicken Rice at the Back of Bornion Centre in Foh Sang, Kota Kinabalu. The shop is so small that no many could notice it, it has only got 3 tables inside the shop, even so, it is selling well, many will come to order take away, just like what we do most of the them.

Food at Sim Sim Seafood Restaurant, Sandakan

2011-06-09T00:04:00.006+08:00

At our recent trip to Sandakan, we made a point to have a taste of fresh seafood at the popular Sim Sim seafood restaurant. The cooking are ordinary but the seafood are really fresh from the sea that is the plus over other seafood restaurants in Kota Kinabalu.

Long Beans with Pork

2011-04-24T19:40:00.002+08:00

One of my kids favourite - The long beans

Vegetable & Chicken Mee soup

2011-04-23T23:57:00.002+08:00

3 colours cotton sponge cake

2010-11-27T12:56:00.003+08:00

There are many ways of presenting a cotton sponge cake. I used the same recipe in my earlier post on The best Cotton Sponge Cake I have ever made. The methods of making the cake is also the same, the 2 differences that I made between the 2 were the colors and the waterbath method.

I separated the mixed batter into 3 portions. Added 2 different colors into 2 of the batters separately, leaving one portion as plain.

I put the water into the baking tray during preheating of the oven instead of putting it together with the batter pan just before baking. The water is half boiling by the time the batter is ready to be put into the oven. This made the bottom texture of the cake a bit heavy, thus the cake doesn’t raise much. The cake is very chewy as a result not as fluffy as the earlier Cotton Sponge Cake that I made.

If you like the cake to be heavy and chewy, this baking method is for you.

Chicken & Pasta Meal at Kenny Roger's Roasters

2010-11-27T09:49:00.002+08:00

Steam boat and buffet at Bamboo Palace

2010-11-27T09:39:00.002+08:00

Cotton cake

2010-11-27T01:05:00.001+08:00

Click here for the easy to follow recipe

My Cup cakes

2010-11-27T01:00:00.002+08:00

These cupcakes are made for my nephew, Ensond's 2nd birthday

home cooked dishes

2010-11-11T23:03:00.003+08:00

Clet's cooking - plain soy sauce chicken

My cooking - green vegetable & carrot

Mum's cooking

Clet's recipe - sweet & sour pork

Chicken pumpkin & carrot soup

2010-11-07T22:16:00.004+08:00

This is 100% home cooked Chicken pumpkin & carrot soup. It is much easier to get my kids to eat their meals with soup, they like plain soup like this one.

My husband brought back 1 big pumpkin after he visited his friend's farm in Sandakan last week. Besides making a pumpkin cake, I also used part of the pumpkin to make soup.

The ingredient and methods of preparing this soup is here for me to share !!

Pumpkin cake

2010-11-07T22:10:00.001+08:00

The recipe of this baked pumpkin cake can be viewed here.

PizzaHut's Extreme Cheesy 6

2010-11-07T00:08:00.006+08:00

Extreme cheesy 6 pizza

After watching so many times of the TV commercial and much talked about PizzaHut's Extreme Cheesy 6, we finally have a taste of it. Like the name says it is Extremely cheeeeesy. We ordered the plain one just to have a feel of the total cheesy taste.

The topping consists of 6 major types of cheese, 1) Cheddar 2) Parmesan 3) Provolone 4) Mozzarella 5) Romano 6) Monterey Jack.

Some of these cheese I have never heard of before but the combination are perfect, not as salty as I first thought it would be. We ordered the large set meals among other side orders for the five of us (3 kids), the portion is simply huge and filled with cheese, we continue our cheesy party at home and polished all up later in the night.

The cheese layers is superbly thick and yummy

This slice of Extreme cheesy is mine, hmmm...yum..:Q

Cheese lovers should not miss this Extreme Cheesy 6 pizza. I Can't wait to try the other 2 types of Extreme Cheesy 6 topping pizzas in the menu. Gonna to head over to Pizza Hut again this weekend, because I’m crazy about Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese!

Filipino Cuisine at Masarap Restaurant

2010-11-05T19:59:00.006+08:00

A special treat on BIL's wedding anniversar y, we had a Filipino meal at Masarap Restaurant, in Lintas.

the 1st floor restaurant

A mango cake, The Philippines is famous with its mangoes

Korean Butter Coconut Biscuits

2010-11-05T17:04:00.003+08:00

Great that there is a Korean mini market just at the ground floor of the place I work. I love Korean biscuits, they are somewhat unique and more delicious.

Since it is an authentic Korean produced biscuit, majority of the products labeling are in Korean words, the box, the ingredients and nutritional labeling alike, I can't read a single word of it, some with a line or two of English, like this one. I usually ask the shop keeper what's the contents of the products if I can't find any descriptions that I can read. Unlike Japanese products, I still can see some Chinese characters to figure out what it is.

After picked and chose, I bought this Butter Coconut biscuits (with a coat of honey on top I suppose). There are 2 individually packs of biscuits inside. Great for my afternoon tea in the office. As you know imported products are generally pricey. This box of biscuit cost me about RM5.00. Would I buy it again? 80% yes.

Simply Vegetable Soup

2010-10-18T08:05:00.003+08:00

During the week on my 7-Days detoxification and Rejuvenation Program (DRP), I was merely on fruits and vegetable diet. These was one of the main meals that I had for dinner, it was boiled without salt and other seasoning.

Kampung Chicken soup

2010-10-06T21:52:00.004+08:00

Kampung chicken soup was cooked in a slow cooker for more than 8 hours under low heat. The ingredient is simply, half kampung chicken, 8-10 red dates and some Chinese Herbs.

Mid-Autumn / Mooncake Festival dinner

2010-09-22T20:41:00.003+08:00

These are all home cooked food from my mum. She managed to cook all these for us at the interval of taking care of my 9 months old hyperactive nephew. She has to prepare and cook while he is having his naps. The older generation like my mum has to have some sort of gathering during any Chinese festivities, without which they will feel something amiss on these days.

Home cooking

2010-09-20T07:30:00.001+08:00

spice beef bone soup, steamed fish & chun ken

Cucumber, miixed vegetable with Alfredo macaroni

2010-09-19T00:50:00.002+08:00

A plate of cucumber, mixed vegetable serve with Alfredo macaroni and raisin buns (dressing flax seed oil & Alfredo sauce)

A Barbie's edible image and doll Birthday cake

2010-09-19T00:18:00.009+08:00

All of the 3 cakes are for Pearl's 5th birthday

Asam pedas seafood, cheesy chicken drumstick noodle, hainanese noodle

2010-09-11T00:20:00.001+08:00

Asam pedas seafood with rice

Cheesy chicken drumstick with noodle

Hainanese Noodle

Breakfast at Jalan Gaya

2010-08-31T07:38:00.003+08:00

Meehoon soup

Fried meehoon

Home make Cottage Pie

2010-08-29T23:10:00.004+08:00

The main ingredients that I used are minced beef, carrot, onion, tomatoes, mashed potatoes, butter and milk. Minced beef as base thus a Cottage Pie.

It would be ideal to use a smaller and deeper pan to get a thicker layer of the beef mixture and mashed potatoes for better presentation next time.

Japanese Set Meal

2010-07-15T22:32:00.001+08:00

Japanese set platter at Wagamama Japanese Restaurant

Fresh cream birthday cake decorated with fondant roses

2010-07-15T22:18:00.003+08:00

Birthday cake

9" sponge cake, Fresh Cream, fondant roses

How to make fondant or sugar paste for cakes

2010-07-09T23:39:00.004+08:00

After attended fondant or sugar paste making class for about a month, I finally found the time to make my own fondant or sugar paste at home for the first time. Now I have got ready made fondant ready to decorate my cake anytime I want.

If you would like to make your own fondant, just click here for the recipe.

It is recommended to store Fondant in sealed plastic bags in an air tight container; do not refrigerate or freeze.

Rojak Buah or Fruits Rojak

2010-06-29T23:22:00.004+08:00

Me and Clet enjoyed this plate of Rojak Buah or Fruits Rojak at the food court of Suria Sabah on Sunday while waiting for our girls enjoying themselves at the indoor play ground just opposite the food court. It is RM6.00 for this plate of special rojak buah.

Butter cream mango cake

2010-06-29T23:13:00.003+08:00

I tried on this butter cream mango cake on weekend. Baked the cake the night before and did the icing the next day morning. I seldom use butter cream for reasons being that it is not healthy and secondly, the grease from the butter is hard to clean up, unless there is hot tap water available.

Rich home baked Cheese Cake

2010-06-29T23:01:00.004+08:00

This is one of the super rich home made cheese cake I have ever tasted so far. The whole cake is literally sandwiched and covered with cheese and more cheese, great for cheese lovers. I think one could hardly find this kind of cheese cake sold in the the shop because it is home baked. SIL ordered it from her colleague for her daughter's 12th birthday.

here is a slice of the cheese cake

Brocolli, Carrot and Salted Fish Porridge

2010-06-20T23:52:00.000+08:00

Famous Papar Fried Noodles

2010-06-20T23:49:00.000+08:00

The famous Papar Chow Mien / fried noodles

from this coffee shop at Papar, Sabah.

Meal at Borneo Wild Treasure Restaurant

2010-06-02T22:27:00.001+08:00

We were at Borneo Wild Treasure Restaurant at Bundusan Square, Penampang having our dinner a couple of weeks ago. The speciality of this restaurant is its crocodile meat dishes. Crocodile meat is said to be good for relieving asthma.

I am not fond of crocodile meat and also not ready to introduce it to my little girls, hence did not order any. We ordered the deer meat instead.

they serve local seaweed as starter, and Qui Ling Guo as dessert (not in the picture)

deer meat with ginger and spring onion. Turned out to be the favourite dish for our girls

green vegetable with garlic

Claypot chicken is a bit spicy for young children

winter melon with chicken crawl soup

We seated just beside an aquarium with little crocodiles inside, children are fascinated seeing the little crocodiles.

We went back there for morning dim sum and the restaurant is crowded with customers. I highly recommend this restaurant as the food is tasty and more importantly the pricing is very reasonable.

My favourite Seafood Meehoon Soup

2010-06-01T23:45:00.000+08:00

This is my favourite seafood meehoon soup best to eat with belacan chili sauce

Puff Pastry Egg Tart

2010-05-22T23:05:00.000+08:00

Many of us prefer the puff pastry egg tart. Only if we could make some thing similar like these egg tart, we are well on our way to a start an egg tart business.

Cakes on display

2010-05-17T21:09:00.000+08:00

Can't help but to take photos on these cakes on display at City Mall Shopping Complex. They are so very nicely decorated, not only kids but adult alike will definitely stop to have a nice look at them.

a big cake featuring Kitty Cat

another big cake featuring football field

a cake filled with roses

a cat

Winnie the Pooh

The barbie dolls cake, little girls favourite

Banana Cake from Lembah Impian Country Homes

2010-05-11T23:19:00.000+08:00

A Banana Cake supposedly the best and special from the kitchen of Lembah Impian Country Homes here at Jalan Putatan, Penampang, Sabah. It's is not far from where I live but I have never been there. Will plan a trip there soon, the resort looks impression from the brochure.

Back to this Banana cake. It is sold at RM6.00 per loaf at their booth during their resort promotion at City Mall during the weekend. The taste is somewhat different from what I made (of course home made is different right!), and it is a bit too sweet and less of the real banana taste.

Curry Laksa & Fish Meehoon soup

2010-05-11T22:47:00.003+08:00

A bowl of seafood curry laksa from one of the famous coffee shop at Sinsuran, Kota Kinabalu. I never bother to remember the name of the shop. This shop is famous for its Tom Yam but both of us did not Tom Yam this time instead we tried this seafood curry laksa and meehoon soup from the other stall.

Marble sponge Cake

2010-05-05T20:59:00.004+08:00

A marble sponge cake made from sponge cake premix. The marble effect is made by combining the original batter and 3 different food colourings in the other three portions of batter mixture. Pour in the coloured batter one by one into the baking pan and bake in the oven like usual.

3 food colourings are used, these are purple, green and orange. I made this marble sponge cake on Saturday. I tried mixing 3 food colourings and the original batter for fun just to see how it turns out. I did not follow any of my cake recipe for this cake, just try my instinct to add in what are the necessary ingredients and the usual method, surprisingly it is spongier and softer than I thought.

The only mistake I made was too much sugar added making the cake too sweet, because I didn't realise that the sponge cake mix is sugar added.

Fresh fruit juice

2010-05-02T21:45:00.003+08:00

This is a glass of fruits and vegetable juice which I usually make for myself, hubby and my two girls. I like more green in my juices while my girls prefer pure apple juices. I mix some carrots juice in theirs too so that they can have the vitamins from the carrots too.

Kuching Laksa

2010-04-04T01:23:00.004+08:00

A bowl of Kuching Laksa that I ordered from Maxim Restaurant, Bandaran Berjaya in Kota Kinabalu, as breakfast this morning. I have no complaint on the taste, the prawns are fresh and tender. This is the first time we patronize this restaurant, it is a very comfortable place to have meals there.

If I am not mistaken this restaurant is also managed by the hotel operator at the same building thus the set up are of certain standard, the toilets are very clean too.

We also ordered this kon lou mein with seafood, stuffed chillie and eggplant, there are many others to choose from. The food pricing are reasonably.

The only lacking is this restaurant is, it does not sell can drinks like soya milk and chrysanthemum tea. Will sure come back to try on other food from this restaurant again!

Weekend snack - butter cake

2010-01-25T14:48:00.006+08:00

a loaf of 11 slices of butter cake, not enough for my family to share, have to make 2 loaves next time.

the texture of the butter cake is not as moist, need to make changes on the recipe.

Moist Chocolate cake

2010-01-23T23:18:00.004+08:00

Green Tea Chiffon Cake

2010-01-16T21:29:00.002+08:00

It's weekend again. Only weekends or public holiday I have got the chance to do some baking. I decided to try on the green tea powder (matcha) that I bought from Cosway a couple of weeks ago.

I reduced the use of green tea powder to 1/3 from the recipe that I found from the internet simply for my kids, they are not used to having tea, by having the full dose of 3 Tbsp of green tea powder would be too much for them to enjoy this cake.

The cake turned out to be brownish in colour rather than green as expected. But I am satisfied with its texture, moist and spongy, with mild green tea flavour. I love it.

Hop over here for the Green Tea Chiffon Recipe.

Chicken in herbs soup, vegetable pickles

2010-01-03T23:39:00.003+08:00

Chicken in herbs soup

Green vegetable in herbs soup (using the above soup base to boil the vegetable)

Vegetable pickles (cucumber, carrot and pumpkin in apple cider vinegar)

home baked cakes

2010-01-02T23:33:00.003+08:00

Fruitti cheese cake slice

premix dark chocolate birthday cake

New Year's Eve supper

2010-01-02T23:26:00.005+08:00

We were over fed during Christmas and decided to have a lighter supper on New Year's Eve. Simple but sufficient as supper.

Christmas fruit cake

Beef Rendang

Sweet Corns Pudding

Chicken curry

Fried chicken

Pasta salad

and Mee Basah

Meal at Tenom Coffee Restaurant, City Mall

2009-12-20T17:17:00.004+08:00

Beef Rendang with rice

fish & chips

Fish Curry Laksa serve with..

Rice (the rice is dried & hard, taste like overnight rice)

Noodle soup

Christmas Special - Mixed Fruit Cake

2009-12-20T16:30:00.003+08:00

Christmas Special - Chochips cookies

2009-12-20T14:35:00.002+08:00

Chochips cookies

Products from Japan

2009-12-12T23:03:00.004+08:00

Fruits gummy & white chocolate candies

The packaging of the Tokyo BananaThe sponge cake is baked in a banana shape filled with banana custard. Very soft and sponge, and sweet.

Goodies given by Wong's family from their recent visit to Japan. Thanks!

My birthday dinner

2009-12-11T10:03:00.011+08:00

Hot and spicy soup from the lamb set dinner, very spicy, made me cough with my first sip. (couldn't rotate this photo but I posted it anyway :D)

Lamb with mashed potatoes

chicken and veggie dishes (I forgot the name of this dish)

the salad come with the lamb

Spaghetti bolognese for the kids but they do not like it because they said got curry taste, the cook must have added some curry powder in preparing the sauce.

Fish & chips for the kids. The fish is a bit tough and dry.

The dessert, Cheese cake, which is part of the lamb set dinner.

This is taken from the Atmosphere Revolving Restaurant, a meal for my birthday.

Snack products from Sarawak

2009-11-26T22:51:00.006+08:00

Sarawak local produce

Sweet - Bird's nest with rock sugar

Keropok banana

Crispy rice bar - assorted

Biskut Telinga (Ear biscuit)

Vegetarian goose meat (dry and hard)

Peng Piang

Produce of Philippines

2009-11-15T20:50:00.004+08:00

chocolate brownies from Goldilocks

Butter Macaroons from Goldilocks

8 course meal wedding dinner

2009-11-15T18:48:00.005+08:00

Corn chicken

Rice with abalone

Sweet & sour prawns

steamed fish

Meat ball vegetable soup

2009-11-11T06:56:00.004+08:00

Home cooked Meat ball vegetable soup

Taiwanese mix Malaysian style food

2009-11-11T06:53:00.005+08:00

Tung Fun meat ball soup

Rice with fried fish

Kon Lou mein

Dumplings

Big apple Donuts

2009-10-21T19:43:00.003+08:00

A box of 12 pieces of donuts. Durian filling is my favourites

Secret Recipe's meal

2009-10-21T19:39:00.002+08:00

Fish & chips with lobster sauce

Chicken Gordon Bleu

Chocolate cake and Carrot cake

2009-10-18T22:43:00.003+08:00

Have a light tea at Yan Ai shop yesterday, we ordered two pieces of cakes, each cost us RM6.00.

This piece of chocolate cake is rich and yummy

This piece of carrot cake look OK but it's too dry for our liking

Castella Cake or the Japanese Cotton Sponge Cake

2009-10-15T22:17:00.003+08:00

This is a hard to find fats free sponge cake. My definition of fats free in this context means no oil, butter and margarine added to the recipe. The recipe that I followed in making the Castella cake or famously known as Japanese cotton sponge cake is here. It is worth all the effort to make this sponge cake.

A meal At The Hut restuarant City Mall

2009-10-03T02:29:00.002+08:00

Beef rendang rice

Wantan Ho

Fish head meehoon soup

chicken porridge

Cream of mushroom & chicken puff

2009-09-27T01:28:00.003+08:00

I used the ready made puff pastry for making this cream of mushroom & chicken puff. To my surprise the puff texture are fantastic, with the cream of mushroom and chicken fillings, it made the perfect puff for any occasion and tea time. I have posted the recipe here. Try it out, you will love it.

Choux pastry, Cream puffs and enclairs

2009-09-23T23:40:00.005+08:00

I did some baking over the Raya holidays. Cream puffs and enclairs were among some of them. I did not realise that my family love cream puff too, even without any filling on them. The puffs were all gone giving me no time to make any fillings to fill them up, hence you could only see the puffs without any cream on them. :D

This was my second attempt to make cream puffs. The first time was a disaster, it turned out to be more like biscuits than puff.

This time I got it right with this recipe. To my surprise it is fairly easy to make. You can find the recipe and more photos here.

Chillie Hot Kimchi

2009-09-22T22:53:00.005+08:00

The popular Korean side dish, Kimchi, is one of my favourite, my mum love it too. It is very appetizing and I can eat kimchi and rice just like that.

There are many varieties of kimchi. It can be categorised into the ingredient used, the region, and seasons, however, the most common types sold in my area here are the baechu and Kakkdugi, both give you a hot chillie sensation.

The Baechu is made with Chinese Cabbage or wong nga pak while the Kakkdugi is made with cubed radish.

The nutrition facts on kimchi contains vitamin A, vitamin B1, B2, calcium, iron. It is also named as the top five "world's healthiest food" in the magazine 'Health'.

Golden pumpkin with dried shrimps

2009-09-21T13:22:00.004+08:00

A simple and easy pumpkin with dried shrimps recipe from my parents. A blend of sweet and salty taste as a dish for our meal.

Japanese Cotton Sponge Cake

2009-09-20T20:29:00.002+08:00

I just finished baking a sponge cake using a sponge cake mix when my SIL, Catherine, came over to my house. After tasted the freshly baked sponge cake, we both find it to be a bit dry. I told her that I was desperately looking for a recipe that would give me the kind of sponge cake which is moist, spongy and fluffy. The one that we usually buy from the shop. "That is Japanese cotton sponge cake" she said. And I quickly checked the recipe from the internet and tried it out. The texture turned out to be very well. Check out the recipe here.

Marble egg sponge cake

2009-09-13T22:30:00.001+08:00

This weekend, my daughters requested me to bake cake again. They just love baking cakes.

I tried the Consfood sponge cake mix this time. I made it into a marble sponge cake by adding a drop of purple colouring in the batter.

This cake is very easy to make. You can find the recipe here.

Japanese cuisine/food

2009-09-06T00:07:00.003+08:00

Japanese fried rice

Plain udon/raman

Chicken chop Udon/ramen

Japanese set meal

Meal at Sugar Bun

2009-08-18T13:02:00.001+08:00

This is a set meal at the Sugar Bun outlet at Jalan Pantai. Is a serving for 2 persons. Consist of two glasses of milk tea, 2 plates of white rice, a serving of tauke, a claypot of chicken mushrooms soup, french fries, and a fried fish with cucumber and pineapple pickles.

A bowl of beef ball meehoon soup is an extra order.

Seaweed soup

2009-08-17T13:00:00.000+08:00

Pork bones seaweed soup with tomato and celery

Simple brinjal

2009-08-16T16:30:00.004+08:00

Brinjal or eggplant, also called aubergine, is usually one of the ingredient in cooking curry. Here, we pan fried it on its own. It is the way it was cooked by my late MIL according to my husband, hence, the pan fried brinjal has become a favourite dish for him.

Simply slice the brinjal thinly, sprinkle with some salt and fried in a pan.

Pan frying the brinjal

Simply brinjal

Kon Lou Mein and tomyam

2009-08-12T21:40:00.005+08:00

Kon Lou Mein is one of our favourite when we dine out. We ordered this at the Siang Siang Pan Mein coffee shop at Lintas. It is served with minced pork and fried wanton, together with a bowl of plain soup with some green vegetable and meat balls.

I ordered a bowl of tomyam meehoon. The presentation is too plain, no garnishes at all. I also noticed that they put the same fillings as the kon lou mein, that's minced pork, meat balls and fried wanton . I expect to have some prawns and tauke, but none. The chef or cook should consider garnishing it with parsley or coriander which I reckon that is the basic essential for serving tomyam in a restaurant. The only green I could find is the curry leaves. Luckily the taste of the tomyam soup was not bad.

Not long after having this bowl of tomyam meehoon, I was so thirsty for the whole evening that I drank about 6 glasses of plain water. I hope they did not put too much of ajinomoto in it.

Lady's fingers with oyster sauce

2009-08-11T01:37:00.000+08:00

Ingredients:

10 lady's fingers
2 gloves garlic (diced)
2 small red anions (diced)
2 tbs oyster sauce
water

Methods:

Put the lady's finger into a soup pot cover with water and bring to boil till the lady's finger just cooked. Arrange on a plate. Set aside.
In a frying pan, heat the oil and fry the garlic and red onions till fragrant and slightly brown. Pour on top of the cooked lady's fingers.
Lastly, pour the oyster sauce on top. Serve.

Tip : Do not cut the lady's finger up for cooking. The sweetness will be retained this way.

Bitter Gourd with Chinese Sausage

2009-08-10T01:07:00.001+08:00

We enjoyed this dishes very much. I would say the sweet and saltiness of the Chinese sausage blend very well with the bitterness of bitter gourd. :D

Pork with mixed vegetable soup

2009-08-09T00:46:00.003+08:00

This is one of my soup recipe.

Pork with mixed vegetable soup. You could find carrot, tomatoes, celery, potatoes and Taiwanese pak choy in this bowl of soup.

There is no specific measurement on how much of each ingredient I used. So feel free to try, you will love it!

Crunchy green pepper with minced beef

2009-08-03T21:27:00.002+08:00

I love to eat raw green pepper with other vegetable as salad, I also like it slightly cooked to maintain it crunchiness just like this one I cooked with minced beef and onions. I purposely made a lot of sauce with it so that my girls can mix the sauce with rice as I did not boil any soup for their meals that day.

Chinese Long Beans with eggs

2009-08-02T00:10:00.002+08:00

Chinese long beans also known as yardlong bean. It is a widely grown plant in the warmer part of the South East Asia countries and Southern China.

I bought 300g of the organic Chinese long beans at RM9.00 per kilo, enough to make a dish for dinner.

I diced the beans into smaller pieces, fried with some garlic and eggs. One of the simplest dishes that I cook.

Porridge with Goji berry and dried Scallop

2009-07-27T13:24:00.003+08:00

Ingredients (5-6 servings):

2 cups rice
a handful of dried goji berries or wolfberries
2 pieces of dried scallops
sufficient amount of water
salt, seasoning & sesame oil to taste

Methods

Wash the rice;
put all ingredients into the soup pot;
add sufficient water (more water is required to cook porridge and water can be added on from time to time as required);
bring to boil and turn the fire to the lowest;
continue to cook till all ingredients are soften, add in salt and seasoning to taste;
add in some sesame oil just before serving

Tip : leave the pot uncovered while cooking using gas or electrical stove to avoid overflow when it is being boiled.

China Garden Restaurant dishes on Chloe's 1st birthday

2009-07-26T16:10:00.007+08:00

These are the selection of dishes that my brother picked for Chloe's 1st birthday at the China Garden Restaurant at Bukit Padang last weekend.

Cucumber pickles, the appetizer

the birthday eggs wrapped with red coloured plastic paper

battered prawns

the long life noodles, there supposed to be sauces on top of it but the waiters served the noodles too fast before the kitchen add on the sauces. It a bit dry and hard as result.

the fried chicken

the tau fu

the lamb

the fish

the vegetable and dried bean curd

Sweet & spicy sambal fish with eggs

2009-07-24T19:44:00.006+08:00

This is one of the favourite Malay dishes in Malaysia, sweet & spicy sambal fish with eggs. It is best to be served with turmeric rice. Sister in law cooked both the fish and rice and share with us last weekend. This week she is going to cook fresh crabs and fishes which my brother bought from Kudat this morning. Very look forward to..

Amaranth Greens or Chinese Spinach soup

2009-07-21T21:11:00.003+08:00

One of my favourite soup, the Amaranth greens or Chinese Spinach or Bayam (Malay) soup. I boiled the chicken meat or bones as soup base and added on tomatoes, a slice of ginger and amaranth greens, and some salt and seasoning to taste.

Buffet at Promenade Hotel

2009-07-19T01:30:00.003+08:00

Buffet dinner that we had on Clet's birthday, I thought I should post them here too...

Hippocrates' soup

2009-07-18T07:39:00.005+08:00

This is the Hippocrates' soup that is recommended in the detox and rejuvenation programme that I underwent last week. It is supposed to be boiled (simmer) for few hours until all ingredients are very soft.

The ingredients are (for up to 8 servings):

Tomato (1 cup)
Onion ( 1 large one)
Garlic (3 cloves)
Celery (1 cup)
Carrot ((1 cup)
Potatoes (5)
Pumpkin (1 cup)
Leeks (1 cup)
Distilled water

Preparing directions:

Cut all the above into cube and put them into slow cooker with distilled water just enough to cover the all the ingredients. Simmer for few hours until all the ingredients are very soft.

Do not put any salt and seasonings.

Italian Long Life Non Stick Frying Pan

2009-07-05T00:42:00.001+08:00

After throwing away the scratched non stick pan, I was struggling to cook with the stainless steel and other frying pan, they stick and very difficult to clean up, an easy and simple cooking like making pancakes became disasters by using a stainless steel and other frying pans that I have. I was told that stainless steel pans will not stick at a certain temperature, well......I just couldn't get the right temperature.

Without doubt that stainless steel is a much healthier choice when comes to cooking utensils and cook wares but I am just not good at handling the frying pan so I bought an Italian made (it says on the label) Long Life Non Stick Frying Pan at a restaurant and kitchen utensils and cookwares specialised shop just outside my house.

With a new non stick frying pan, making pancakes and other cooking have been so much easier, besides saving on cooking oil, it also saves me time to wash it up too.

Delicious Korean Cuisine

2009-06-28T22:18:00.006+08:00

These were the dishes that we enjoyed so much at Hi Seoul, Korean restaurant last night. A birthday treat for SIL. This post is linked here too!

Steamed rice with mised vegetable

ginseng chicken soup

Spicy steamed rice with mixed vegetable

very appetizing vegetable salad

Kimchi

Stewed pork

Potato noodles

Stuffed Taufu Pok

2009-06-20T22:54:00.004+08:00

Taufu Pok stuffed with minced pork with sauce. A dish from my mum.

Meals at Kenny Rogers

2009-06-20T10:28:00.000+08:00

Vanilla muffin, the dessert. There are 3 flavours, Vanilla, Chocolate and banana.

Spaghetti Bolognese.

Quarter chicken with mash potato, potato salad and rice as side dishes

Half eaten macaroni cheese and chicken, can't wait for a photo to be taken. My girls love the macaroni cheese very much, we have to ordered a separate serving after they finished the three portions of macaroni cheese we ordered earlier.

Malaysian Nasi Lemak with double egg yolks

2009-06-19T16:27:00.004+08:00

I had this serving of plain nasi lemak for lunch last week. It cost me RM3.50. It is pretty expensive considering there is no fish or chicken to come with it. I usually buy a similar serving of nasi lemak for only RM2.50 the most from a stall a minute walk away, since my colleague recommended this shop so I gave it a try.

But one thing special about this nasi lemak is the double egg yolk, it is hard to come by. I shared the other half of this egg with my colleague as we ordered the same take away for lunch.

Chicken with carrot, tomato and cucumber soup

2009-06-18T14:53:00.003+08:00

Chicken with carrot, tomato and cucumber make a delicious soup for the whole family, yet another easy and nutritious soup idea for busy people.

Cantonese Style Seafood Wanton Hor

2009-06-07T08:20:00.001+08:00

This is one of our favourite order when we eat out. The Cantonese style seafood wanton hor.

Deep Fried Chicken

2009-06-06T09:18:00.000+08:00

Deep fried spring chicken to sprinkle with limau Kasturi or known as Citrus Microcarpa in English.

Bakers Street Premium Chicken Pie

2009-06-05T23:14:00.000+08:00

We tried out a frozen chicken pie, a product from Bakers Street that day. There are 4 pieces of premium chicken pie in a packet. The pie was put straight into oven from the freezer for 15 minutes and they are done. Surprisingly Crystal likes it, and I find the quality is better than I expected. Crystal like it probably because it is cheesy and creamy in texture; but I can not find the peas and carrots as shown in the packet. though. A pie good for afternoon tea and breakfast. Recommended.

Chocolate Chips Almond Cake

2009-06-04T05:26:00.000+08:00

A finely baked chocolate chips almond cake by Chef Kim, a former chef at Edgar's Pub & Bar Lodge Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

She has vast experience in fine dining. She bakes varieties of cakes, muffins, pizzas, cookies, you name it. Open for ordering and delivery is available. Tel:0168482825.

Recipe : Cucumber with Salted Soya Bean sauce

2009-06-03T01:05:00.000+08:00

This home cooked cucumber with salted soya bean sauce is super easy to prepare. I usually eat raw cucumber. Yesterday, I prepared this dish for my age-old parents who no longer have strong teeth to chew the crunchy raw cucumber.

Ingredients:

1-2 cucumber (chopped)
1 tablespoon salted soya bean
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
1 teaspoon black soy sauce
1 teaspoon corn starch
4 tablespoons water

Method:

Heat the oil in a wok and fry the chopped garlic till fragrant;
Put in the salted soya bean, fry for 30 seconds;
Pour in the water and cooked till the mixture is boiled;
Put in the cucumber, cook for 1 minute, add in the black soy sauce;
Cover the wok and cook for another 2 minutes till the cucumber is soften (cook for another 1 minute only if you prefer the cucumber to remain crunchy);
Pour in the corn starch with water mixture and cook till it boiled.
Dish out and serve with rice.

Recipe - Minced Beef with Potatoes

2009-06-02T01:40:00.002+08:00

Potato is one of my dad's favourite vegetable. Crystal loves it too...

Potato has got the sweetness on it own so I did not put any seasoning or salt in cooking it. It will taste nice when eat together with the minced beef. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients

500 gm minced beef
5 large potatoes (peeled and diced)
2 tablespoons cooking oil
1 big red onion
seasoning - 1 teaspoon black soy sauce
seasoning - 1 teaspoon all natural bragg liquid aminos (or 1 teaspoon light soy sauce)
seasoning - a pinch of salt
2 tablespoons water

Method

Preheat the oven at 200C.
Heat the cooking oil in a wok, cook the potatoes for 2 minutes; take out and spread out on the oven pan, bake for 10 minutes till thorough cooked.
Reheat the wok. Cook the minced beef for 1 minutes and put in the onion.
Put in all the seasonings and water. Keep stirring until the beef is thoroughly cooked.
Dish out and mix together with the baked potatoes. Serve.

Steamed White Stuffed Taufu or Tofu

2009-06-01T01:01:00.001+08:00

Another method of cooking white stuffed taufu/tofu is to steam it. The white taufu/tofu is more delicate than the fried one so it has to be handled with care during the stuffing and cooking process.

The taufu/tofu were stuffed with seasoned minced pork and corn starch dissolved in water was poured onto the taufu/tofu half way through the steaming.

This dish was prepared by my mum to serve her in laws who came to visit from Lahad Datu on Saturday.

Meals on Dragon Boat Festival

2009-05-30T16:11:00.000+08:00

We had a simple meals prepared just for the Duan Wu or Dragon Boat Festival on 28th May, also the 5th day in the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. The dishes were prepared by my brother's maid under the supervision of my mum. I have had only a zongzi for lunch so I was pretty hungry and all ready for the dinner.

Fish with sweet and sour sauce but it was a bit overcooked on the black part.

boiled chicken (from the soup)

Bitter gourd with eggs. Good for lowering blood sugar and with cooling properties. I love bitter gourd, the bitter the better.

Mixed vegetable (green pepper, button mushroom, brocolli, and baby corns). My mum forgot to sprinkle the cashew nuts on top to add flavour to this dish. We had the cashew nut as dessert instead.

Fried chopped garlic in soy suace for dipping of boiled chicken.