: : Asian Online Recipes & Kuching Outer-Court : :

A typical Sunday spent surfing the net and bringing Granny out to get some last minute groceries for CNY.

Granny : We MUST get some GREEN VEGGIES LAH! Next week, no shop buka (open)!!

Granny : Can buy some more! Make BIG BIG pot and eat for 3 days!

Well, after the shopping spree, it was me back online surfing the net again when I found this site : Asian Online Recipes. Found it at EatonWeb and it’s actually located here in Malaysia. It details a lot of Chinese cuisine with step by step instructions. Not a lot of pictures though but it’s the recipes that are important! There’s even a free e-zine titled ‘The Practical Guide for Asian Recipes’.

On another note, Philipp has put up some of my pics on his site about Kuching. You can view it here. Suddenly, the food just jumps out at you!

: : Asian Online Recipes & Kuching Outer-Court : :

A typical Sunday spent surfing the net and bringing Granny out to get some last minute groceries for CNY.

Granny : We MUST get some GREEN VEGGIES LAH! Next week, no shop buka (open)!!

Granny : Can buy some more! Make BIG BIG pot and eat for 3 days!

Well, after the shopping spree, it was me back online surfing the net again when I found this site : Asian Online Recipes. Found it at EatonWeb and it’s actually located here in Malaysia. It details a lot of Chinese cuisine with step by step instructions. Not a lot of pictures though but it’s the recipes that are important! There’s even a free e-zine titled ‘The Practical Guide for Asian Recipes’.

On another note, Philipp has put up some of my pics on his site about Kuching. You can view it here. Suddenly, the food just jumps out at you!

: : Lolly’s Collage : :

My cousin Lolly has been a busy bee the past 2 nights. She made this collage of nearly EVERYONE at the two weddings during the last week of 2003. Nearly all my Kelabit family is in the picture. Well, nearly everyone.

Guess which one is Wena!

: : Perceptions & Misconceptions : :

I actually wrote a short note about perceptions and misconceptions but lost the original posting. Argh! Oh well. It went along the lines of how one’s perceptions can also be the same person’s misconceptions. We observe what is happening around us and immediately apply the same generalization to people of the same similarity. Not good at all. Judging the book by it’s cover.

To the person involve, I can only offer you my small apologies as the words were already out and like a double-edget sword, it cuts and wounds. These wounds are invisible which I don’t know if these simple words can heal. I’m sorry. If you like, we can have a cuppa tea and scones together one day and thrash out the misconceptions of the world and have a good laugh. One day, that is. My treat, of course.

: : Perceptions & Misconceptions : :

I actually wrote a short note about perceptions and misconceptions but lost the original posting. Argh! Oh well. It went along the lines of how one’s perceptions can also be the same person’s misconceptions. We observe what is happening around us and immediately apply the same generalization to people of the same similarity. Not good at all. Judging the book by it’s cover.

To the person involve, I can only offer you my small apologies as the words were already out and like a double-edget sword, it cuts and wounds. These wounds are invisible which I don’t know if these simple words can heal. I’m sorry. If you like, we can have a cuppa tea and scones together one day and thrash out the misconceptions of the world and have a good laugh. One day, that is. My treat, of course.

: : Corned Beef : :

It all started from Josh’s posting on his new panini grill. It got me thinking of the tinned corned beef which I haven’t had in a LONG LONG LONG time. Come to think about it, it’s been months since I last had it. Well, Uncle Cyril, surprisingly, bought a tin of it today so ask Granny if we can have it for lunch.

This is the corned beef that is eaten widely by children, students and young people living on their own who do not really like cooking but who have to eat! I don’t particularly like the other tinned corned beef found in supermarket shelves. They just don’t taste the same as this one from China.

Hmmm…not exactly nutritious ingredients in there, especially with the sodium nitrate. Wow! Packed under Government Inspection in China. Hmm… wonder what that means?

The tin nor the packaging has not changed for the last 27 yrs that I’ve known it. Opening it is still the old-fashioned way of winding it with the key. Opening up the tin, I found the meat to be much softer than it used to be. Hmmm…

The finished product. Granny stir-fried it with a big onion and an egg. She regretted not putting in more onion to make it sweeter. Ah well, I’m not complaining. Went very well with rice and bread.