Instand Noodle & Durians

That was a night… and I was so wanted to cook my dinner.
But friends call and they wanted to have an Extreme Fear Factor Action that night… Go for DURIAN!!!

I am not a Durian lover, but still without cutting off their mode, I decided to go enjoy “the scene” with them too. Panda loves durians some times, but we were just had it a week before, so his urge was not so strong…

I prepared my stomach to fill with something before the Durian session, because the rest of our friends going to have Durians as their Dinner that night. I was so confused and didn’t know what to have as easy and light food… Then my brother came home and he cooked his instant noodle nicely, sitting at the sofa and serving with a cup of Milo. He is a BIG BIG EATER. Usually before my dinner done, he will just have a pack of instant noodle to full fill his urge while waiting for my cooking.

Then remind me also my mom always cook the instant noodles and added a lot of extra vege, eggs or meat to serve with. I always love it when I was at home last time… Instant Noodles but it is just More Than normal instant noodle!

I marinated the Beef with Shao Hsing Wine, and fried some chopped garlic with sesame oil. Then have the fresh vegetables. Ohhh… I swear you will love to have the Instant Noodles in this way!


* I swear ~ u will love this!

The King of Fruits~
Go with them for Duriansss… I found out that they are the greatest Durian Eater I ever found in town now!
*You ever see ppl standing there and eating non-stop until their face changed color!? Hahahahaa ~

This Durian Stalls is located at Ampang area, some where between Kosas and Bkt. Indah. Is a small internal Village belongs to Ampang area.

Service is Extremely Good! The boss is from North Malaysia and now staying in K.L. Very kind and honest! We normally have to call and ask him to reserve. So he will have his greatest stocks there to wait for us…

Here the DURIANssss!

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Glutinous Rice Wine

Can imagine how busy I were for the pass 1 week, I have tons of pictures of my cooking, but no time to “decorate” them. So sad ~

So keen and wanted to share with you all about my cook books!!! Still every time I turn on the computer… Start with going up to blogger friends’ comment box, when I got those comments done nicely, that would be about time for me to rest already!

2 weeks ago, 1 of my ever good friend called me up and told me about her mom was making their own Home Made - Glutinous Rice Wine, and she reserved a bottle for me! Before I got the Wine home, again… the “CLOUDsss” came out from my mind, picturing myself in the kitchen again…cooking Chicken, Beef and etc with the Glutinous Rice Wine…
*This remind me of my mom, she always do that whenever she is free and start to chit chat with me about dishes and cooking at home.

Mom is a very sincere Buddhist, she never take Beef cos of the religion. Remember Mom’s Cook Book, and she has a lot of way to cook Pork and Chicken with the Glutinous Wine. But just not beef…

I’m bit different from mom, my family giving us 100% freedom to choose on our religion. Since very young, parents sent me to a Kindergarten under a Church in Sabah (my home town). That was the reason I became a Christian since that. I respect her as I don’t take Beef at home, but outside home… I have my 100% freedom to choose on whatever I wanted to have. Hehehee…

Learn from my Mom’s Cook Book, I’m going to try my BigFish Cook Book cooking the Beef with Glutinous Rice Wine.

Surprisingly, result was unexpected too GOOD…

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Beef with Glutinous Rice Wine

Ingredients:
1. 200g Lean Beef (sliced)
2. Carrot (sliced)
3. A few pcs Curry Leafs
4. 1 stalk Spring Onion (cut 1 inch)
5. 1 stalk Parsley (chopped)
6. 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine
7. 4 cloves Garlic (minced)

Marinate the Beef~
1 little pinch of Salt, Pepper and Brown Sugar.
1 tbsp of Glutinous Rice Wine, Chopped Parsley and 1 tsp Sesame oil.
* At least 20min.

Methods:
1. Heat up frying pan with medium heat, and pour in 2 tbsps cooking oil.
2. Pour in Minced Garlic and curry leaves fry until fragrant.
3. Add in Marinated Beef and Sliced Carrot stir fry until cooked.
4. Mix 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine and mix with 2 rice bowl of water.
5. Add in Spring Onion, use medium heat to cook for 10 min.

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Chicken with Glutinous Rice Wine

Ingredients:
1. 1 whole chicken tight (sectioned)
2. 50g Ginger (fine sliced)
3. 1 stalk Spring Onion (cut 1 inch)
4. 1 stalk Parsley (garted)
5. 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine
6. 4 cloves Garlic (minced)

Marinate the Chicken~
1 tbsp of Oyster Sauce, 1 little pinch of Salt and Pepper.
1 tbsp of Glutinous Rice Wine, Grated Parsley and 1 tsp Sesame oil.
* At least 20min.

Methods:
1. Heat up frying pan with medium heat, and pour in 2 tbsps cooking oil.
2. Pour in Minced Garlic fry until fragrant.
3. Add in Marinated Chicken and Grated Parsley stir fry until cooked.
4. Mix 3 tbsps Glutinous Rice Wine and mix with 2 rice bowl of water.
5. Add in Spring Onion, use medium heat to cook for 10 min.

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~Parsley is not only for Decoration~
You will love it to cook the Beef and Chicken together with Parsley. Chinese rarely use Parsley as cooking ingredient. Most of the time, we use Parsley only for decorating and make the dishes look nicer.

I got this idea from a guy friend who loves cooking and his wife doesn’t know how to cook at all. He used Parsley to cook Fish with Star Fruit. Then he told me Parsley smell lovely after grated and cook with anything.

2008 Year of RAT

Chinese New Year is now right at the corner…
This coming Chinese New Year is the Year of RAT. According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, Year 2008 is a Chinese Brown Earth (Soil) Rat Year.

Here come our Chinese Friends… I know some start doing home decoration soon. I’m sure there are things that we will have to be sticking on the wall of our home like Spring Calligraphy, Couplet, Chinese Lime Trees and etc…

In the markets out there… sure there are people start selling Mandarin Oranges and Year Cakes (Nian Gao). Some of my friend’s parents even making their own Chinese New Year Cake. This is a type of food prepared from glutinous rice and consumed in Chinese Cuisine. It is traditionally most popular during celebrating the Chinese New Year. It is considered Good Luck to eat Nian Gao, it symbolized “Climbing Higher this coming Good Year”.

In Lam Garden, Panda’s parents are now preparing all the stocks for Chinese New Year shoppers too. Plants like Green Bamboo, Mei Hua, Money Trees and Wealthy Trees are all symbolized Wealth and Health.
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Sambal Shrimp Paste

Ingredients:
1. 20 Fresh Chilies
2. 10 Dried Chilies
3. 6 Medium Shallots
4. 4 Garlic (Big)
5. 60g / 80g Shrimp Paste (Belacan)
6. 1 Chinese Rice Bowl Dried Shrimps
7. 3 tbsps of Brown Sugar

* Heat up Frying-pan with medium heat, fry shrimp paste until fragrant without oil.
Pound or grind Shrimp Paste with a little bit water.
* Clean and Soak Dried Shrimps until soft.
* Blended – a) Fresh Chilies
b) Dried Chilies
c) Medium Shallots
d) Garlic
e) Dried Shrimps

Methods:
1. Heat up Frying-pan with 5 tbsps full cooking oil.
2. Fry Blended Ingredients a-d until fragrant. (at least 20min)
3. Add smashed Shrimp paste and fry for another 10min.
4. Add Blended Dried Shrimps and fry until mixed well with all ingredients.
5. Pour in another 2 tbsps cooking oil, stif fry for another 10min.
6. Add 3 tbsps Brown Sugar, stir fry.

** If you want spicier, can add few Bird Eye Chilies to blend with ingredients a-d.

Spicy Sambal Shrimps

That was the eve of 2007 Christmas Eve, I felt something wrong with myself … I have tons of ingredients came out in my mind like slide pictures ~ a lot of ingredients popping up: Chilies, Onion, Garlic, Shrimp paste, Shallots… etc…

Oooorrrggghh… again ~ again… I hate this feeling, because I know… I know… I can’t control again! I have to make a move to Tesco, and get all those things, and this mode was driving me that I have to make my own Shrimp’s Sambal Paste done tonight.

I’m lucky cos Panda always very supportive and he give his tongue to become the most sincerely dishes tester for me all the time. I told him, I want to have my Shrimp’s Sambal done. Then the first thing come across in his mind is that I always have to chop so many ingredients hardly with using the knife. Then he decided to buy me a new blender to make my cooking preparation easier. Hahahaaa… I treat this as my Christmas Present for 2007. Surprisingly, I was so satisfy with getting the new blender!

Told my friend about my Christmas Present and they laughed at me crazily…
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That night, he went out for a friend’s wedding dinner and I stayed home. I was so keen that I have to make my Mission Complete! Straight after dinner, I start my preparation…
Called my mom at first place, to make sure I have all the ingredients prepared correctly. Oh well, here I have to praise my mom about her cooking … she is just too gorgeous with her lovely hands. I never seen her failed with any dishes with “My MOM’s COOK BOOK!!!” Any dishes cook by mom are all lovely ~

I started from 9.30pm to clean all the ingredients. First thing, rinse and drain the Dried and Fresh Chilies. 30 Chilies … have to clean all the seeds! Orrrghhh… I was so regret for cleaning the seeds without wearing GLOVE! My hand was so HOT and SPICY … it last me for at least 5 hrs!!!

*Warning ~ Pls clean the Chilies Seeds with GLOVE!
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*Warning ~ Pls clean the Chilies Seeds with GLOVE!

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* My 1st Sambal Shrimps DONE~

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Methods … to be continue ~

3 Dishes 1 Soup (Dinner)

Life is busy some times, but still I will try to get some times out in few times a week to have my Big Fish Cook Book mission completed. Simple and yummy dinner will do…

*Chinese always like “3 Dishes and 1 soup” ~
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Fried Bitter Gourd with Eggs

Ingredients:
1. 1 bitter gourd (sliced)
2. 2 eggs (stir)
3. 4 cloves garlic (chopped)

Methods:
1. Rinse Bitter Gourd and cut into slices
2. Heat 2 tbsp of cooking oil, fry Chopped Garlic and fry until golden brown.
3. Add in Sliced Bitter Gourd and stir fry for 5min.
4. Pour over the stir eggs on top of the fried bitter gourd.
5. Fry with medium heat for 5min.

Sambal Onion Squids

Ingredients:
1. 5 medium squids (shallow criss-cross)
2. 1 Red Onion (shred)
3. 1 Tomato (cubed)
4. 1 Big garlic (chopped)
5. 1 Torch Ginger (Chopped)

Chili paste seasoning:
* 1 Big garlic, 5 shallots, 5 red chilies, 3 dried chilies – Blended

Method:
1. Make shallow criss-cross cuts on body of squids.
(marinate with chopped torch ginger and sufficient salt)
2. Heat 2 tbsps oil and Chili paste seasoning, stir fry until fragrant.
3. Add Onions, and squids. Add ½ of water, stir-fry until cooked.
4. Dish up and Serve!

Fried Assorted Vege

Ingredients:
1. 150g Pork (slices)
2. 20 slices carrot (slices, flowers’ shape)
3. Red dates ~ Hung Zau (cut ½)
4. 10g Mushrooms
5. 4 cloves Garlic (minced)
6. 12 Bean Peas

Seasoning:
~ 2/3 rice bowl of water mixed with 1 tsp Oyster Sauce and 1 tsp Corn Flour.
~ Mix well with sufficient salt and 1 tbsp of Shao Hsing Wine.
(Marinate for at least 20min)

Methods:
1. Rinse Pork, cut into slices. Rinse Bean Peas, and mushrooms.
Rinse carrot cut into florests, rinse Red Dates cut into half.
2. Heat up 2 tbsps of oil, fry minced Garlic until fragrant.
3. Pour in Sliced Pork and stir fry till cooked.
4. Add in Sliced Carrots, Red Dates, Mushrooms and Bean Peas.
*Stir fry for 2 min.
5. Add in seasoning, fry over till fairly dry.

2008's Lucky Ring

A Gift for us ~ End of year of 2007 & Beginning of 2008.

If you loved to have surprise, then you’re going to love my latest short story which was happened recently.

That was 30th December 2007, a really Lucky Day for me and Panda. We went to Tesco again to do our house hold and glossaries shopping. I bought a lot of prawns, vegetables and herbs… wanted to ready for the New Year Eve party in my friend’s house.

We walked out from Tesco Hypermarket, there are so many stalls selling ladies hand bags and jewelries. The very last stalls we were passing through, it was a Jewelries Stall which is selling all the Fake Gold Jewelries. This is the time… Panda shouted and ask me to “Watch Out! Why are you stepping on a Necklace? I think they dropped it”. The next step we did was we picked up the Necklace and pass to the sales girl there…

Who knows… they told us that Necklace was not belongs to them, and they passed it back to us. We holding it, and looked at it very seriously. I told Panda, this Necklace look so fake, because the design was old fashion and with the size, we both have the same thought ~ it shouldn’t be so light. But look into the Necklace clearly, there was a little number written there “916”. Huh… according to common sense “916” means gold, but on the other hand our thoughts were perfectly matches. ‘Weight too light’… since none of us can decide whether is real or it is not, then we decided to bring it over to Poh Kong Jewelry Shop near our house to find out the truth.

My God, Poh Kong’s sales person told us that this Necklace worth RM470, if it comes with a receipt, it worth even more than RM500!
Gooosssh… I felt so luckily that we didn’t throw it away just now ~

The whole 31st December, the last day of 2007, I was so busy getting preparing some dishes, we both put the Necklace aside and went to friend’s house.

Then 1st January 2008, we woke up late and Panda said, lets bring the Necklace out and we sell it off to the Jewelry Shop, so we go for Good Lucky Dinner tonight. Wow… then I was so happy and agreed with what Panda suggested! Since it looks so old fashion and none of us like the design. And the most important point is, we both felt like not good with wearing it.

Went to Poh Kong, and they told us if want to sell of the Necklace without receipt, they are going to deduct 25% due to depreciation. They have 1st option for us, with changing it to cash, but the value went even lower. The 2nd option they gave is exchange with other Jewelry in the shop, so we choose accordingly to the price they judged on the Necklace. We both felt like not so satisfy, and then walked in another Jewelry Shop (Wa Chan) which is just opposite to Poh Kong. Lovely ~ Wa Chan give us better deal! And they suggested we can pick from any Jewelries from Wa Chan which was a bit lower than the actual value.

Orrrggghh… Panda agreed and we started our Jewelry Exchange Shopping!!!
* Here it is… Lucky Gift for 1st January 2008.

A nice beautiful Gold Ring...

~pictures taken by Panda