In my younger days, whenever the family gathered at my grandma’s kampung (village) house for linut (a glue-like delicacy made from sago starch), there would be no less than three kinds of sambal (dip). One would be watery…made from belacan (dried fermented prawn paste), ginger, chillies and asam paya and I don’t know what else, [...]
Somebody told me once that there is a difference between char kway teow (fried flat rice noodles) in KL and the ones in Penang. Those in KL are blacker/darker (khak or) while Penang char kway teow is lighter/whiter (khak pek). There is probably some truth in this as I had this plate of char kway [...]
Something came in the mail the other day… …and when I looked at the postmark, I saw that it came from Selangor. Yes! The bookmark that Mommy Ling of Ling in De House said she was going to send me had finally arrived… Thanks a lot, my blogger-friend. It is indeed a really sweet gesture [...]
It’s the fasting month of Ramadhan and I see a lot of bloggers posting on the buka puasa buffets here, there and everywhere. I used to love those…a lot! And the best thing was that before I retired, I used to have week-long meetings that coincided with the puasa (fasting) month and our packages would [...]
I have been cooking my own version of meat, usually beef, with satay/sate sauce for a long long time now, probably since the late 70s or 80s, ever since we discovered wee’s sate sauce… This is actually the peanut sauce for people to dip their satay in while eating those pieces of meat on skewers [...]
“Have you got your summons?” “Yes, I have. Sigh! Now I will have to fork out the money to pay the fine!” LOL!!! That’s simply a figure of speech – when people receive wedding invitations from family or friends. In the past, the invitation cards were simple. In fact, some restaurants would even include them [...]
Bak kut teh literally means meat bone tea but in actual fact, it is herbal pork/pork bones soup. I think the tea in the name actually comes from the Chinese tea that I often see people drinking when eating bak kut teh, probably to neutralise all that fat in the meat. It was sometime in [...]
I was in Penang last year around this time and my niece took me and my daughter to this place called New World…and we had the steamed yam cake (or koi) there. I could remember that it was served with some hay-kor (prawn paste) along with the chilli sauce. It certainly seems that Penangites do [...]
Last Thursday, Annie-Q smsed me to tell me that her mum had cooked something and asked me to drop by the house to collect. So, that afternoon, I did just that. Annie said that she had cooked some rose chicken…and I thought she meant roast chicken…and had typed it wrongly on the key pad of [...]
I keep going back to this place even though, if you may recall from my posts here and here, the food is not that great – definitely not something that would get me going back there for more. So why do I keep dropping by then, you may ask? Well, for one thing, the location [...]
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