Food at Yong Peng

After cousin sister's wedding and since my in-laws came to visit, I took my parents down to Singapore for a visit. On the way, we stopped by Yong Peng since it is pretty near the exit of North South Highway. After searching through the internet, found that Yong Peng is pretty popular with Fuchow food. There were two restaurants mentioned quite often by bloggers and we dropped by this one.

Soursop drink.

The fry Fuchow or Hock Chiew noddles...quite nice BUT very oily...I guess without oil, food will not taste so nice, right?

..then the usual red ginger wine chicken...alot of people love this but for me, since I dont really like the taste of alcohol, it was just so-so for me. And I like red on my clothes...not on my chicken..hehe....

...Fu Chow meat balls...

..very unique..inside got meat....very yummy...

..The restaurant....on the main road. Very easy to find since Yong Peng is just one main road...but a very long and busy main road though! ...The shop is nearby the balai polis though. One thing about the bill is that the drink is pretty expensive...ok! Dont order that. Cost us Rm8 per cup. It seemed that the tree used to grow wild and widely available during the childhood time of my parents...but NOW...it is rare and expensive!

...Nearby there is this shop which sell the Hock Chew mee...not too bad....

Dinner at Porky Place in Sunway Mas

Thought that we will do something different yesterday night and we went out for dinner. It will be our first test out at a formal place with Ben...Phew, he passed with flying colours.

Would you believe it that Ben took both of these photos of his Daddy??!! Yes, he did. Nowadays he loves to imitate us and he has been trying his hand at photography. Really cool, right? After getting bored with the camera - he played with his Thomas Story Reader. Got it pretty cheap at MPH Book Sale a few months ago. It asked questions and Ben will need to press one of the buttons to give an answer. He just loves it. Of course, the Book Reader will reward him with a "Excellent", "Well Done" or "Good Job"......Food arrive - quite fast since we were the only customer. I think partly it is because we were early as well and it was mid of the week. Daddy order this curried pork ribs - we thought it was pork ribs with curry powder and then grill - but we were wrong! It was actually curry pork ribs. Never mind - it came with rice which we need for Ben. Mine - 2 pork sausages which was yummy.
And the lady of the shop recommended this ice-cream on brownies. Yummy! Perfect ending to a perfect day! :)...Next time, we can bring Ben to more posh dining area as well since he can behave himself. We usually keep to "chap fan" place! Haha....

Yam Cake

Friend C was asking how come so long did not see Ben on the blog. So here is my active toddler.

As you can see, the current "in" thing for him is a set of spoon, fork and knife which he takes with him to sleep as well! No more Thomas the train. The set of cutlery came along with a mini kitchen/shop from Tesco. Cost me only RM60 compared to some other brands which cost a few hundred RM! Of course, the other brands had more variety...but this Tesco one would do and keeps him somewhat busy. Why kitchen, you might ask......I did noticed that he loves to do "masak-masak" so this would be a better investment. He does not really like Legos though and instead he loves to kicks and throws the structures (which I build!) instead - the destroyer. However he does like setting up tracks and loves puzzles - must take photos of the kitchen and puzzles one day.

Relaxing on the chair....oh yah, just a note of my little guy - he speaks pretty well, he can tell what he wants, etc...but of course, this does not mean we give in to all his wants! Haha.....only thing is that I have yet to teach him Hokien and Mandarin. He can tell us when he is sad. He will put down his head, almost touching his chest and tell us, Ben sad...Ben sad....

He is almost potty-trained (phew!) - except when he is sleeping. He sings pretty well and can remember nursery rhymes (to my surprise!)....

...unfortunately I have not been successful in weaning him off the bottle ....so his tooth decay is pretty bad...sigh.

Ok, to make this entry more interesting, thought that I will blog about my yam cake which I made today. You start off with rice flour - 3 cups.

...and one tablespoon of minced garlic, a bit of dry prawns (according to kuali, it is supposed to be 150gm - quite a lot!) and one yam cubed or sliced......

Put everything in the wok and fry it for about 15 minutes or when it starts to smell nice.....Back to the rice flour, add 6 cups of water into the flour. A pinch of 5-spice powder and salt, stir and then add all the stuff that was stir-fry.......All done - just need to steam for about an hour.
Final ingredient - the green spring onion on top and voila! Yam cake. Easy right?

Nasi Lemak Yum Yum

Suffice to say that he takes after his parents...we love nasi lemak! Ha ha...plus this one is really like the traditional ones which has the sambal on another piece of banana leave. The whole nasi lemak is then wrapped in banana leave. Hard to find this nowadays. Yum Yum.

Dinner at Elcerdo - Nose to Tail Eating

Ex-colleague was leaving and we had a farewell dinner at Elcerdo in KL. Nice and cosy but a lot of people! You would not be able to get a place unless you made reservations....hmm...isn't the economy out there not doing well????

Anyway the food:-

the Paikut.....


The infamous porky from nose to that tail - actually like our chinese piglet.








Make a wish (money or love?) and then use white plate to cut the porky.



Throw plate into pail after that......Nope the sexy body there is not mine unfortunately....
End result.



And this is what I come back to - my precious little porky at home!

Eating Mango

This is my cutey pie eating mango. He really loves to eat what we are having....not what he is supposed to eat. That means we have to be eat more healthy food!