So hot…

This was sometime ago when the weather here was so unbearably hot and that was why we went out and bought these…

…for a little bit of welcome relief!

From the comments I saw on Facebook, it seemed that many were in favour of the classic and there were a few in that box of minis with the new honeycomb crunch…

I tried the latter…

…and thought it was all right though I can’t say I was all that fond of the hard bits of “honeycomb” in the chocolate coating…

I was o.k. with the classic too and as for the Gold…

I loved the ice cream and the seasalt caramel sauce inside – it reminded me of their Romero that I used to buy for my girl when she was little and we sure loved that very much. Unfortunately, for some reason or other, they saw it fitting to discontinue that line of their ice cream products. I was not as fond of this one though because the golden chocolate outside was way too sweet for my liking. Incidentally, I wonder if anyone can explain the question and exclamation marks after the word “gold” on the box? And just look at the ice cream melting even though I only took a little while to snap the photograph – that would give you an idea as to how hot it was at the time.

I still think their chocolate strawberry that I bought earlier in the year was really good, my favourite but somehow or other, I do not seem to see it in the supermarkets anymore either lately. Don’t tell me they have decided not to come out with that as well. Tsk! Tsk!

And talking about what’s available at the supermarkets, I got these…

…from my cousin in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah via courier service, thank you so very much to him for going through all that trouble. I understand the chef in question, Chef Ricky, is a celebrity in his own right with a string of recipe books to his name but at this point in time, one can’t buy his instant pastes off the shelves at the supermarkets in East Malaysia yet.

My missus wasted no time and grabbed the middle pack to cook chicken curry…

…and yes, it was very very nice, just like the curry we used to cook when we did it from scratch but she said it was so hot, very very spicy so she added more water. That was why it looked rather watery, not the usual thick, rich and creamy gravy that we would have in our curry these days when using one of the other instant pastes. I guess she also added some chopped onion, serai (lemon grass) and curry leaves as usual – she would do that all the time whenever cooking using these pastes and she also added some potatoes and brinjal as well. She cooked one kuali full and we had that for lunch before we sent our girl and her housemate/colleague back to their school and we had some more for dinner…and at the end of the day, this was all that was left…

Just about shows how good it was, eh?

As for the other two, you will have to wait till we’ve used them to cook something. Stick around!!!