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An old friend of mine who had migrated overseas a long long time ago was in town for a night. She managed to contact me but she said that they would be going to the sunset service at the cathedral so I told her that perhaps, after that, we could get to meet here as it was right behind the hotel where they were staying – I would be going for the service too but not at the same place.

We all went – my girl, the mum and I, and got there way past 8.00 p.m. but unfortunately, she did not show up. She was here with her hubby and others so my guess was that they had other plans and went some place else. We had had an early dinner before leaving the house to go for the service and we did not want to eat anything heavy while we waited so I just ordered their garlic bread with chicken sauce…

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…and mushroom roll…

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…and also their mashed potatoes…

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…along with our drinks. I had their chocolate milk shake and boy, it was very very nice – my missus had the durian milk shake while my girl had a hot Milo.

Well, it so happened that the boss, Peter, was going to call me to ask me to drop by. He said that some people came to eat at his place sometime ago and they invited him to take part in the fund-raising food fair here and he did…that morning! His chicken/beef spaghetti and Payung rojak…

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…were all sold out and he also made this fresh pek koi (rice cakes)…

…for sale and there were a few tubs left and he gave me two.

I tried cooking one of the two and cut the pek koi into very thin slices…

…after which I added dark soy sauce, a sprinkling of sugar and some pepper and mixed everything together well…

I prepared all the other ingredients that I would want to use…

– sliced shallots, chopped garlic, spring onion and chili plus one black pepper-flavoured sausage, sliced.

To cook, I fried the shallots and the garlic in a bit of oil till golden brown before adding the chili and the sausage, followed by the pek koi, pre-tossed with the aforementioned ingredients. Once done, I broke a few eggs into the wok, fried them together well and finally, I added the spring onion, mixing that well with everything else before dishing it all out…

I thought it was really very nice – the pek koi was nice and soft, not hard and chewy and rubbery like those sold in packets at the shops and supermarkets, no matter how one soaks it, and it was a whole lot nicer than the local freshly-made ones sold at the wet markets here as well.

My girl and the mum enjoyed it…

…very much too and at the time of writing, I still have another tub left – perhaps I would want to cook it a little differently and I may or may not blog about it. We’ll see…