Yes, Sophia was right! The A1 Mountain Globe instant curry mix now comes in a new packaging, no longer the old not-very-impressive-looking plastic bag with orange and yellow print. However, there are a lot of other brands that look quite similar and all of them profess to be A1, so now, one will have to be very careful when buying and has to look for the specific brand.
Well, as I have mentioned in my previous post, my friend, Jimmy, was in town and I decided to call a couple of friends to get together for a simple lunch at my place. For the main dish, I thought I would just give the instant rendang mix a try, so I got a packet and cooked some chicken with it…
It was very nice and pretty similar to the curry chicken cooked using the A1 Mountain Globe instant curry mix. Maybe there is a slight difference…and in my opinion, the chicken curry is a teeny-weeny bit nicer. Anyway, to go with that, I also cooked some yellow rice…
I think they call this nasi kunyit (tumeric rice) or nasi minyak (oil/ghee rice) or nasi kuning (yellow rice). If you are interested, I will be posting on how to cook it in my next post. I also fried a simple dish of thinly-sliced cabbage with eggs…
They loved it very much and almost finished it all…and I was actually thinking of just cooking half a cabbage. Luckily, I decided against it and cooked the whole thing. My friends said they had never eaten cabbage cut into such thin fine strips before. Gee! That’s how I’ve had my cabbage my whole life through! Actually, it was a bit coarse already as I was running out of time and had to do it quickly. And just in case, they did not have enough to eat, I threw in a bit of this sambal petai from 3Q-Takeaway for good measure…
Don’t worry, I poured away the oil before serving. And by the way, I heard that 3Q-Takeway will be wrapping up its business at the end of this month…as the Q-in-charge is unable to cope single-handedly. Oh dear! No more kacang-ma !!
So that was the lunch that I had with my friends the other day. Anybody else interested in dropping by? LOL!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 