: : 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!

: : Invitation to eat Steamboat in Pending : :

A friend of mine just mentioned that her friend owns a steamboat restaurant and is keen to be featured in mum-mum.

Anyone keen to go for steamboat? Joyce? Gette? Sheebs? Maylin? Melvin? Bev? Anybody else? Thinking of going this weekend.

If you’re interested, leave an email in the comment page. Ciao.

: : Invitation to eat Steamboat in Pending : :

A friend of mine just mentioned that her friend owns a steamboat restaurant and is keen to be featured in mum-mum.

Anyone keen to go for steamboat? Joyce? Gette? Sheebs? Maylin? Melvin? Bev? Anybody else? Thinking of going this weekend.

If you’re interested, leave an email in the comment page. Ciao.

: : Bazaar Ramadhan ~ Part IV : :

Right, what pictures do we have today? Thought we’d go and check out foods that are different and interesting.

I saw this and tried it out. It was a very interesting dish. The veggie is known as pegaga which I’ve never tried before. It was extremely tasty but wasn’t bitter. The amount in the bowl is worth RM1 @ USD0.26 . Enough for me and Granny. Did a Google on pegaga and found out it was a herb used for medicinal benefits. It is not a bitter veggie and it went down well with the crushed peanuts. Some more information about the nutritional value of pegaga.

Thought that the packaging was quite cute. This is the gula apong @ some sort of brown sugar. It’s something similar to gula melaka @ brown sugar from melaka with a faint liquorice after taste. Anyway, gula apong is apparently made from the stalk of a nipah plant. Click here to read about it (you’ll need to press CTRL+F to find the words ‘gula apong’. it’s somewhere in the middle of the page.)

Now this was something I did not expect to see : bubur durian @ durian porridge. It’s not a real porridge with rice but rather similar to bubur chacha @ a dessert that contains coconut milk, sago pearls, yam (sometimes) and sweet potatoe. Hmmm… didn’t dare try it in case the durian as off.

This is a local native fruit called dabai. To eat it, one has to blanched it in hot water to soften the skin. Then peel off the skin and eat the yellow flesh inside. Sort of like a local version of avocado. Here is another picture of dabai (you will need to scroll down a bit). Also, with some nutritional value.

I’m feeling better today and so is Granny. I hope she’ll start to feel better for the next few days. Her bout of flu was a lot worst than mine. It’s hard to get her to slow down and rest for awhile.

: : Bazaar Ramadhan ~ Part IV : :

Right, what pictures do we have today? Thought we’d go and check out foods that are different and interesting.

I saw this and tried it out. It was a very interesting dish. The veggie is known as pegaga which I’ve never tried before. It was extremely tasty but wasn’t bitter. The amount in the bowl is worth RM1 @ USD0.26 . Enough for me and Granny. Did a Google on pegaga and found out it was a herb used for medicinal benefits. It is not a bitter veggie and it went down well with the crushed peanuts. Some more information about the nutritional value of pegaga.

Thought that the packaging was quite cute. This is the gula apong @ some sort of brown sugar. It’s something similar to gula melaka @ brown sugar from melaka with a faint liquorice after taste. Anyway, gula apong is apparently made from the stalk of a nipah plant. Click here to read about it (you’ll need to press CTRL+F to find the words ‘gula apong’. it’s somewhere in the middle of the page.)

Now this was something I did not expect to see : bubur durian @ durian porridge. It’s not a real porridge with rice but rather similar to bubur chacha @ a dessert that contains coconut milk, sago pearls, yam (sometimes) and sweet potatoe. Hmmm… didn’t dare try it in case the durian as off.

This is a local native fruit called dabai. To eat it, one has to blanched it in hot water to soften the skin. Then peel off the skin and eat the yellow flesh inside. Sort of like a local version of avocado. Here is another picture of dabai (you will need to scroll down a bit). Also, with some nutritional value.

I’m feeling better today and so is Granny. I hope she’ll start to feel better for the next few days. Her bout of flu was a lot worst than mine. It’s hard to get her to slow down and rest for awhile.

: : Shiewie’s Food Blog : :

Now this is a first : a food blog in a forum, namely eGullet.

Shiewie is a Malaysian Chinese living in Kuala Lumpur. So far, she’s detailing her meals in this thread wor.

Wah! Kewl idea! Woman, all you need now are pictures!