I couldn’t believe…

I bought these huge prawns sometime ago, before the RMCO, if I am not mistaken, but we never got round to cooking them…

No, they did not come cheap – RM55.00 a kilo. I think pre-COVID-19, we could get them this big for much less, RM45.00 a kilo. These are hard times, people do not have much money and the irony is the prices of everything are shooting up even though many can ill-afford them.

Anyway, I decided to take them out of the freezer that morning and cook and I was wondering what we could do with them. We had curry prawns not too long ago, tom yam goong prawns…and prawns with pineapples so we would like something different. I remember how my girl loved the claypot fish with yam at the restaurants…

…and I felt we could cook our own nicer version of it with the prawns instead of the cheap fish fillet…and a whole lot of yam.

That was why I went in search of some yam that morning and found a lady selling these pi nang variety…

…supposedly of a better quality when it comes to the tuber. She said it was RM12.00 a kilo so I asked for two. She weighed them and calculated how much that was and when she told me it was over RM18.00 but she would let me have them for RM18.00, I almost fainted. I couldn’t believe those two could be so heavy and indeed, they were! Well, my mind was made up so I bought them, anyway and I also grabbed some tofu puffs, a bit of leek and daun sup (Chinese celery) and headed on home.

I told my missus that we had some canned mushrooms in the pantry but she said she did buy some fresh ones that she could use. She also added a couple of potatoes and some carrot and this…

…was what we had for our lunch and dinner that day, our one-pot meal of claypot prawns with pi nang yam.

My missus said that one would have been enough, two would be too much so she used one for the above dish and cooked bubur cacar…

…with the other one and there was still enough left over for some yam fritters. Come to think of it, it wasn’t all that expensive actually.