One of the popular breakfast, lunch, tea break, dinner and supper here is Roti Kahwin served with teh C or one might choose Tenom coffee or Teh Tarik (milk tea).
There is a sweetness in patola itself, I simply add some sliced carrots and sauteed with garlic, add some water to bring out the juice from the patula. Add some salt and light soy sauce to taste. A juicy dish for the day.
Bayam / spinach soup can be ready in minutes unlike many other soups that need more times or some up to hours to slow boil. Since Bayam is the main vegetable here, you could replace vegetable balls with other ingredients like meat balls, fish ball, pork, chicken or beef.
Please watch below slides for the steps to preparing my version of Bayam soup.
Making a bread is a long process..buying one from the shop is so much easier. But making own bread is fun though the waiting time is long. But I tend to get very disappointed when my bread did not turn out to have the texture you want it to be. I am very fussy on the texture...I am still looking for soft and fluffy bread recipe.
I made some glutinous rice balls soup on winter solstice last year..I get my 2 daughters involved to getting the glutinous rice balls done. They helped and played with the dough at the same time..No one bother about the sizes of the rice balls any way.
It is the Chinese tradition to eat sweet tang yuen soup to celebrate the Winter Solstice. Doing so at home it's a reminder for my daughters to observe the Chinese tradition too.