Breakfast : Black Sesame Bread

This black sesame bread was a sample bread from a bakery. It was not in the market yet.

How did I get this ? It was given by a friend.

How was the taste ? It didn't taste any sesame aroma and it was more salty than the usual bread.

Breakfast Menu :

1. A Piece of  Black Sesame Bread with Butter and Nutella.

1. A Mug of Coffee with Milk

Photography of the day : Plants from backyard.

3 Seeds Capsicum

I bought 7 green capsicums .

So, I have to keep eating capsicums for a few days continuously.

This capsicums has only 3 seeds.


Lunch Menu :

1. Green Capsicums - no salt.

2. Braised Pork Trotter with Chinese Mushrooms 

3. Fruit - Mandarin Oranges 

A Light Breakfast But A Heavy Lunch

A Light Breakfast Menu：

1.Beehoon Soup ( Rice vermicelli Soup )

 - with only few pieces of lean meat and half of a hard boil egg. 

- This breakfast is low fat and it can be the weight loss idea for a light and healthy breakfast .

- I added in some salted black bean and fermented bean paste with chilli to enhance the taste of the soup.
2. Coffee - no sugar

But ,.............

A Heavy Lunch Menu ( RM4.50, from the restaurant )：

1. Roast Duck

2. Char Siew

3. Chicken Liver

4. Slices of Cucumber - from my fridge  

And a lot of chilli sauce

Set Lunch Of ICCClub

Lunch at ICC Club , Ipoh.

3 of us ordered the " Special Set Meal B-1", RM35 .

We ordered another Lemon Chicken which was not lemony enough although the chicken skin was crispy.

Set Lunch Menu :

1. Thai Hot and Spicy Tom Yam Soup - Only has tom yam taste but not "tom yam" enough in the ingredient. 

2. Stir Fried Kailan (Kale) with Salted Fish.

3.   Deep Fried Dory Fish with San Mei Sauce - but the sauce taste "oyster" for me.

4. Egg FooYong - No char siew but with prawn , julienne of carrot and slices of onion.

5. Where is the coffee and tea ? - They only provided Chinese Tea.

6. No dessert ? Yes .No Dessert at all !

Lemon Chicken was not included in the set lunch menu.

A simple printed menu.

Sour and Spicy Vegetable Soup

I like sour and spicy food very much , the hotter the better. 

That's the only vegetable soup for dinner and no other dishes at all.

One Dish Dinner Menu  :

1. A bowl of Sour and Spicy Vegetable Soup.

2. Dessert : Fried arrowhead root and peanut biscuits - from my neighbour.

Sour and Spicy Vegetable Soup :
Ingredient :

1 Onion
2 cloves of garlic
3 Lemongrass
1 Galangal
Slices of ginger
1 tbsp of tamarind ( assam Jawa)
3 chilli padi ( small  red chilli)

seasoning  : salt and pepper

Vegetables:
4 pieces Chinese Cabbage
3 small tomatoes
2 lady fingers

Method :
1. Fry garlic and onion until fragrant + lemongrass + galangal + ginger + chilli padi  .
2. Add in tamarind + water ( depends on how much soup you would like to have) and let the water boil.
3. + vegetables ,cook until vegetable soft.
4. + salt and pepper.

Stir Fried Black Pepper Pork Slices

Dinner at 9pm.

There were 2 types of vegetables but I fried them in the same frying pan as I was too hungry to separate both of them.

Dinner Menu :

1. Saute French Beans and Capsicum - no salt.

2. Stir Fried Black Pepper Pork Slices.

Stir Fried Black Pepper Pork Slices:

Slices of pork tenderloin *

fish sauce

black pepper

sugar 

dark soy sauce 黑酱油 

Method :

1. Marinate pork slices with fish sauce + sugar + black pepper + dark sauce.

2. Heat oil in a non-stick frying pan  + garlic + pork . Stir fried  for 2 mins .

3. + 1/10 cup of water , cover.  Fried again for another 2 mins until the water dry up.


* The important thing to remember when cooking pork tenderloin is not to overcook the meat or it will become dry out and toughen.

Tea Break : Cookies and Vietnamese Coffee

There are still some cookies left over although Chinese New Year was over.

They will become my afternoon snack these days.

Tea Break  Menu : 

1. 5 pieces of  Chinese New Year Cookies ( flavour  ?  Not sure. ) 

2. A mug of Vietnamese Coffee.

Chicken Curry and Vegetables

I have been cooking too much green capsicums.

You can almost see them in every of my meal recently.

Don't I get bored of eating it ?

Yes , almost.

Dinner Menu :

1. Chicken Curry 

2. Stir fried Chinese Cabbage and Green Capsicum with Fermented Salted Beans ( 豆瓣酱）

Steamed Chicken with Salted Fish and Lap Cheong/ Chinese Sausage

This Steamed Chicken with Salted Fish and Lap Cheong / Chinese Sausage  (腊肠咸鱼蒸鸡） is the all time favourite dish on the dining table.

I shot this at Claire's kitchen before going out for the buffet dinner.

She told me that I bought her the cookbook as a present when she got married few years ago. Did I ? ( I 've forgotten about it  ! )

Claire's Dinner Menu:

1. Steamed Chicken with Salted Fish and Lap Cheong :

Seasoning : dark soy sauce, sugar , shao xing wine ( 绍兴酒), julienne ginger.

Garnished : spring onion and red chilli.

2. Stir Fried Broccoli and Cauliflower - I had left before the dish was done. So , I only got to shoot the raw one :) ! 

3 Women And Their Breakfast

These breakfast were ordered by 3 women.

I am the one who always hesitate what to eat when I go to a new eatery .

My friend strongly recommended prawn mee ( prawn noodle). 

It proved that she was right !

< Breakfast Menu for 3 Women >

1. Prawn Mee （虾面）- with big prawns , 1/2 hard boiled egg,vegetable and topped with some crackers. 

2. Shredded Chicken Hor Fun（ 鸡丝河粉 ) - served with prawns, pork slices and chives.

3. Extra Hot and Spicy Ban Mian ( 麻辣板面）-pork , vegetable and fried anchovies.

Spicy Lemongrass Pork

I like the taste of lemongrass.

That is the first time adding lemongrass to pork.
It was quite a pleasant dinner with a bowl of barley water after having spicy food.

Dinner Menu :

1. Spicy Lemongrass Pork 

2.Green Capsicum - boiled in water ,without salt and oil

2.French Bean - boiled in water , without salt and oil

4. Dessert - Barley and ginkgo nuts water - from neighbour

Spicy Lemongrass Pork :

Spicy lemongrass paste :(Ingredients pound with mortar and pestle, and fry until fragrant later.)

2 stalks of lemongrass
5 dried chilli
5 cloves of garlic
1 onion

a sprig of curry leaves

Method :
1. Marinta pork with cornflour + salt + black soy sauce + sugar.
2. + spicy lemongrass paste + curry leaves ---- fry for 1 mins + 30 ml water( depends on how much meat you use) . Cover and cook until the pork almost dry up.

Breakfast : Blueberry Jam and Cheese on Toast

Eating bread is the most convenient way for me in the morning.

I needn't to spend time going out to eat those local breakfast items (such as fried beehoon or nasi lemak  although I like them very much ). They are too oily and high sodium food.

I only take local breakfast once in the blue moon.

Breakfast Menu：

1. Blueberry Jam and Cheese on Toast

1. A mug of Sumatra coffee

Photography of the day : Little Green leaves on moss