Sambal Petai

I myself usually don't cook such petai in my meal.
This Sambal Petai was given by a friend.
It's pungent, hot and spicy.
The after eating effect is even worse than what you can imagine !

Lunch Menu :
1. Sambal Petai
2. Stir-fried Four Season Beans with Preserved Radish （榨菜）and Mince Meat.

Cassava Sweet Soup ( Tongshui) and Soup Beehoon

A friend of mine gave me this cassava tongshui ( 木薯糖水, ubi kayu ）after my dinner.

I seldom cook cassava by myself because I need to buy one whole big piece of cassava and I think it is quite difficult for me to handle it.

The colour of the dusk outside my house - Ipoh.

My lunch the next day.

1. Soup beehoon with tofu and chives omelette.

2. Still the same cassava tongshui. 

Late Lunch at 4 p.m.

I actually didn't cook the meal here.

The soup was given by my neighbour , Yu-J( 玉姐).

The other dish was a leftover from the restaurant, I only add in some dried chilli.

Late Lunch Menu at 4pm:

1.  Chinese Herbal Soup - with Rhizoma Polygnati Odorati 玉竹, wolfberry ( 枸杞子，lycium barbarum ), red dates （红枣）,dried squids and pork ribs. 

But the soup had too much oil , I would scoop out the oil floated on the surface. 

2. Mixed Vegetables - Japanese tofu , minced meat, capsicum, carrot slices and Chinese cabbage.

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 

Potato Curry and Pickled Cucumber

I was too lazy to go out to buy the meat.

Because of laziness and it made me to be a vegetarian for this meal.
The design of a bowl of hot  & spicy food and a sweet and sour cucumber.

Menu of a Lazy Day :

1. Potato Curry with Diced Carrot. 

Curry paste was pre-cooked and it was kept in the freezer.

2. Pickled Cucumber and Shredded Onion + Red chilli Padi.
3.  Dessert : Durian ( Translate as a thorny fruit). 

Also, show you how to open a durian since it was round and running around.

And , it was a creamy and yummy durian !

Voila !

Lady Fingers and White Flat Bean Soup

These insects on lady fingers and "White Flat Beans"(白扁豆）were shot at the backyard of a row of terrace house where the residents grow them for their own consumption.

Chinese likes to make soup by using this' White Flat Beans " with pork ribs. 
The Chinese believes that the bean is rich in protein, carbohydrate, fat, calcium, phosphorus, fiber, Vitamin A , Vitamin B1, B2 and Vitamin C. 

Insects on lady fingers' leaves

Lunch Menu :

1. Lady fingers with fried garlic and onion oil + soy sauce.

2. White Flat Beans and Pork Rib Soup - The soup was given by my neighbour , Fang- J.

3. Halved of Homemade Salted Egg - You will be seeing this every now and then because I still have some in my fridge.
4. Dessert : Mango grown by Fang-J.
5. Coffee

White Flat Beans and their flowers.

Photography of the Day : Using different white balance.

Colourful Lunch Menu - Chicken, Potatoes, Broccoli and Carrot

It 's lunch time again.

I thought of eating broccoli and carrot only.

Suddenly my neighbour said that she wanted to give me some braised chicken and potatoes :) !

Colourful Lunch Menu:

1. Braised chicken and potatoes. 
I sprinkled some green chilli that I cut from my backyard.

2. Boiled Broccoli and carrot slices with water , without oil and salt.
You may use the broccoli stem to make soup.

Lunch at Home

Although I have more time in preparing lunch , I still try to be spending less time in the kitchen , thus the simple menu is created.
For these 3 dishes here , I only cooked green capsicum and made the mango pickle :)

Menu of the Day :

1. Braised pork with fermented beancurd Nam Yu（南乳） and black fungus（黑木耳）. I actually bought it from a nearby restaurant.

2. Poach Green capsicum in water - with no oil and salt is added.

3. Mango pickle with lemon juice , salt , sugar , chilli padi and fish sauce.

Mango pickle - （before）which was prepared in 12.30pm.

Mango pickle -  after  two and a half hour later ( 3pm)