: : Starfruits : :

Had a wonderful dinner at Auntie Mimi’s place. What did we have? Home cook gourmet food. I didn’t take any pictures as was too tired and was too hungry to stop and take the pictures. A run-down of the dinner menu :

Appetizers was just lettuce and some stir-fried prawn with

Stir-fried baby corn, broccoli, carrots, red pepper, lotus pods with oyster sauce.

Langkuas chicken from a Chinese Restaurant

Oyster omellete that was completely smothered with oysters. Wah!

Beggar’s chicken that was deboned before hand and baked with pork stuffing

Homemade durian flavoured ice-cream

Fresh starfruits from my Uncle’s garden

Uncle was very kind to pass me 5 starfruits to bring back to enjoy with Granny. It was very sweet and juicy. A great thirst quencher on a very hot and sunny day.

Here is a picture of the starfruits. It’s not quite ripe yet as it’s still slightly green.

Now this was one is ripe, ready to be cut. You can see the shape of the starfruit at the end of the fruit.

Granny removed the green ridges/edges of the starfruit and then started cutting it so that the star-shape could be seen.

A plate full of delicious starfruit that is popped into the kitchen to be chilled. To be eaten in an hour’s time.

I remember a Lat cartoon showing people having headaches and stretching for a piece of starfruit that is supposed to cure headaches and migraines. Trying to find more information about it online, it was a long search but can’t seem to find the correct page. The ones that I did managed to find were (you need to press CTRL+F, type in Starfruit and press Enter) :

Quench the thirst and increase the flow of urine. Increasing the urine flow? Errr… I don’t even want to go there.

Something about eating food for trace elements in a toxic world? The article was about dealing with environmental illness/multiple chemical sensitivity (EI/MCS) and that eating starfruit was good for the health.

Getting rid of phlegm in the lung.

Well, had a headache this morning so took some starfruits. It immediately went away for a short while but came back again. Oh well.

: : Anchor House Restaurant : :

For muslims, you might want to skip this posting as it’s on non-halal food.

Had dinner today with my parents, cousins, nephews and Uncle. We went to a restaurant called Anchor House along Jalan Nenas @ Pineapple Road. It’s a very old restaurant that is famous for it’s suckling pig.

We started off with some clear vegetable soup mixed with fish. Very nice but they did not use enough chicken stock. So, the taste wasn’t quite there but it was alright.

Then, the victim star of the show came out. Yep, the sucking piglet! Looks great, doesn’t it? We all ate the skin first and after that, the dish was taken back into the kitchen to be cut into smaller pieces.

These are the cut up pieces of the meat. It’s common in Sarawak to eat this part. In West Malaysia, only the skin is eaten and the rest of the meat thrown away. What a waste of a good piglet! The meat is one of the best park and it’s extremely sweet. Also ordered some stir-fried Chinese cabbage but it look so unappetizing that decided not to take a picture.

We also ordered some adult kailan @ chinese broccoli to eat. It’s crunchy and not bitter at all. Cooked with oyster sauce. A bit stingy with the black mushrooms though. Supposed to have a lot of mushrooms everywhere! Cheh!

Also ordered some oyster omelette. Dad mentioned that it wasn’t real oysters but rather, banacles. Oh well. Didn’t take alot but everyone else did.

This is steam ikan kurau @ Threadfin or Mullet. Hmm… the fish seems a bit too tough to be steamed. Grilling it would have been better. But, they did cook it with Chinese wine. Wah!

After having dessert (honey dew and oranges), Dad called for some kayu balak @ timber wood, nickname for toothpicks. Intriguing holder : a miniature Guinness Stout can! Hahaha!!

Tomorrow is dinner’s at my auntie’s although a bit malu to take the picture.

Cheerio!

: : Anchor House Restaurant : :

For muslims, you might want to skip this posting as it’s on non-halal food.

Had dinner today with my parents, cousins, nephews and Uncle. We went to a restaurant called Anchor House along Jalan Nenas @ Pineapple Road. It’s a very old restaurant that is famous for it’s suckling pig.

We started off with some clear vegetable soup mixed with fish. Very nice but they did not use enough chicken stock. So, the taste wasn’t quite there but it was alright.

Then, the victim star of the show came out. Yep, the sucking piglet! Looks great, doesn’t it? We all ate the skin first and after that, the dish was taken back into the kitchen to be cut into smaller pieces.

These are the cut up pieces of the meat. It’s common in Sarawak to eat this part. In West Malaysia, only the skin is eaten and the rest of the meat thrown away. What a waste of a good piglet! The meat is one of the best park and it’s extremely sweet. Also ordered some stir-fried Chinese cabbage but it look so unappetizing that decided not to take a picture.

We also ordered some adult kailan @ chinese broccoli to eat. It’s crunchy and not bitter at all. Cooked with oyster sauce. A bit stingy with the black mushrooms though. Supposed to have a lot of mushrooms everywhere! Cheh!

Also ordered some oyster omelette. Dad mentioned that it wasn’t real oysters but rather, banacles. Oh well. Didn’t take alot but everyone else did.

This is steam ikan kurau @ Threadfin or Mullet. Hmm… the fish seems a bit too tough to be steamed. Grilling it would have been better. But, they did cook it with Chinese wine. Wah!

After having dessert (honey dew and oranges), Dad called for some kayu balak @ timber wood, nickname for toothpicks. Intriguing holder : a miniature Guinness Stout can! Hahaha!!

Tomorrow is dinner’s at my auntie’s although a bit malu to take the picture.

Cheerio!

: : Moi : :

Me and my smile. Hmm… it’s a Mona Lisa thing, you know?

: : Linking : :

Decided to re-edit my description on usage of Pictures.

Rule 1

Stealing pictures are a big no-no. Check with me first. Drop me an email.

Rule 2

Putting a link on your website to this blog is acceptable. Putting a link TO THE PICTURE is not acceptable. Wasting bandwidth if you did that.

Cheerio.

: : Bazaar Ramadhan ~ Part V : :

Well, I just came back from a nice dinner at my cousin’s place where my parents are staying. Garnet is a great cook. Dinner was a beautiful stewed lamb in tomato sauce, carrots and onions until the meat was so soft and tender, a marvelous avocado salad with fruits, an interesting creme soup whereby the cream was substituted with milk with chopped carrots, fish and prawn and finally, a spectacular fried ikan kurau @ fish that was seasoned with pepper and some syrup. Yum! No pics as I was eating the dinner leftovers. Yeah, arrived late.

So, we have to make do with pictures taken from the Bazaar Ramadhan :

What you see is the fame ikan terubok whereby the flesh is very sweet and juicy but very bony. An expensive fish in Sarawak. Unfortunately, it cannot be grown in a farm so due to high demand in restaurant, this fish is imported from Bangladesh where it can still be fished. In Sarawak, there isn’t enough of this particular fish to go around. Still, it’s very nice to eat if one has the patience to pick out all the bones. It needs to be eaten with rice so that the fine fish bones will stick to the rice and not stick to your throat. A word of caution when buying this fish, better bake it in the oven for about 15-30 minutes to make sure it’s properly cooked.

Biskut batik @ batik biscuit is a favourite amongst the Malays and it’s pretty easy to do. No baking involved. Break up some marie biscuits and pour melted chocolate all over it. Let the chocolate harden and voila! Nice and tasty biscuits. It’s great with DARK CHOCOLATE!! Divine…..sigh… 🙂

Apologies for the blurred picture. Took it too close and I think I forgot to put on the macro settings. Anyway, this sweet was made from dried up jelly and then rolled up. Thought it was pretty colourful so I bought one.

Well, that’s it for now. Cheerio!