A simple life…

I did mention this…

…in passing not long ago in my post on canned sardines – the Korean-made canned mackerel pike and that was back in January this year. For no particular reason, we did not open it to eat, possibly because we could get fresh fish quite easily these days and there is no reason for us to resort to eating canned ones.

Well, the other day, I was thinking that we had had it long enough and it was about time we ate it and be done with it. If there was an expiry date on the can, we probably would not know how to decipher it as everything was in Korean except for what was on the white sticker stuck to it, and we could not jolly well make out the meaning of all those glyphs.

My missus cooked it with sliced Bombay onion and chili…

…and yes, I would say that we liked it a lot, a lovely change from the somewhat diluted tomato sauce in our can of sardines. When we have that, we would always add some more tomato sauce to get the right concentration and taste. There is no need to do that with this one…

…as it was just nice as it was which got me wondering as to why they do not produce canned sardines or mackerel here in Malaysia like this, minus the tomato sauce. Well, if they do, I certainly have not seen it in the shops!

For our vegetable dish that day, we had fried long beans with sambal hay bee (dried prawns)…

…the way we like them doing it here. I do enjoy it this way and that was it for our simple lunch AND dinner that day. We are simple folks, leading simple lives so usually, we would have simple meals, nothing fancy, except perhaps, on some special occasion.