: : Buffet Dinner Merdeka Palace : :
Having a dinner meet up at Merdeka Palace tomorrow at 7 p.m. to enjoy the Pizza and Pasta Buffet at Ristorante Beccari.
So far, the list of attendees :
Melvin
May Lin
Beverly
Jackson
Christina
Anybody else wants to join us? We will be at the restaurant by 7 p.m. Or you can drop me a line in the comment section.
: : Steamboat : :
Note about steamboat : not this weekend. Have to attend my paternal granny’s birthday.
Ciao.
: : 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.
: : 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!