: : Life Cafe : :

It’s been 4 days since my last posting. Busy busy busy. For those who were waiting to be tempted, guess you were all disappointed eh? :p

Yesterday, went to dinner at Life Cafe with some friends from KL. One of them saw this interesting soup in the menu so decided to try it :

CROCODILE MEAT WITH GINSENG!!!

Anyway, the soup was very very heatty. Strong ginseng taste as well. Not too sure what was the crocodile meat. Looks kinda like kampung chicken but I was the chicken that night. Didn’t want to eat the thing. My friend ate it and said he was no longer feeling cold! (It was raining and the nite was pretty chilly).

Pictures aren’t that great I know. Ah well. This is a no-frills site, remember? :p

: : Secret to Sarawak Kolo-mee : :

Okay, I’m letting you into how the famous Sarawak Kolo Mee is made. Via Granny, of course.

Yep, you got it. Garlic. The stuff that makes you burp. The stuff that chases away vampires. The stuff which is so pungent. The stuff that makes vegetables edible. :p Well, not quite. It’s actually onion oil that goes into Sarawak Kolo-Mee but the method to prepare it is the same way as the garlic oil is prepared.

First of all, separate out the cloves. Then, give it a big whack with the cleaver. BAM! Helps to bring out the flavour as well as making skin removal a lot easier.

Removing the skin.

Then, start chopping up the garlice into smaller pieces. Using a cleaver makes it a lot easier than the normal chef knife.

Heat up some vegetable oil and stir fry the garlic on a slow fire. Continue to stir the garlic bits until it browns slightly. And I do mean slightly!

Once you’re able to smell the fragrance, close the fire and scoop out everything (including the oil) into a bowl to cool down. You now have made some garlic oil which can be added to soup or other dishes.

For the Sarawak Kolo Mee, just use onion instead of garlic to make oil. Mix the oil together with the noodles. Add a touch of vinegar (less than 1/2 a teaspoon or up to your tastebuds) and presto! That’s how one makes Sarawak Kolo Mee.

: : QuickLAH : :

Am now an official contributor of QuickLAH a.k.a. VideoBlog or rather VoG.

Looking through my account, realised that I posted 30 videos up. Some food related ones but mostly non-food related. Amateurish shots. In the process of cataloging them.

Still, check out the site. An interesting read with other contributors.

No food postings up tonite dearies. I do have a 32MB video of Granny doing some cooking with Norah Jones in the background but not posting it online. Think it’ll be too much for everyone just waiting for it to download.

Cheerio.

: : Mukah Seafood : :

Took an old collegemate who is down from Penang for work. She wanted to eat some of the local dishes so decided to take her to Mukah Seafood, Ban Hock Road.

We started off with some appetizers, namely keropok a.k.a. prawn crackers. These were made in Mukah and was actually quite tasty. Not too much flour in it.

We also ordered some midin but as there was already another post up, I decided not to take a picture. You can view the postings here of the cooked and uncooked version.

This is a Melanau dish called umai made from raw fish. The waitress didn’t know what was the name of the fish in English but it’s called ikan bulan (moon fish) in Malay. The fish is cut into slices and mixed with lime juice, blended chillis, purple shallots and some sugar, salt and pepper to taste. On the right hand side of the picture, is a small sauce dish filled with uncooked sago pearls. Yes, it actually looks like that after getting it from the sago tree bark.

This is a yam dish cooked with red snapper and other vegetables. Some yam is blended first to make the soup but pieces of it are cooked with the fish. YH ate quite a lot of this.

Details of Restaurant

Mukah Seafood Centre

S/Lot 4, Grd Flr, Sect. 47,

Ban Hock Road,

93100 Kuching, Sarawak.

Tel : +6082-417486

Cheerio!

: : Other Food Links : :

Popping by the Food Section, found that Josh had some interesting links posted up. I’m not going to put the links here as it’s all in his posting. So, go there to find the link. Yep, I’m playing treasure hunt here.

The last blackout food story.

It’s amazing how catastrophe bring people together. Then again, it also brings to mind how we all take our neighbours for granted and never get to know them better.

“Chocolate is no longer chocolate.”

I can hear all the *gasps* and *choke* online right now. Then again, is there a real difference in French Chocolate compared to British Chocolate? Can’t tell the differene. Then again, I’m not much of a chocolate lover. Resultant of a childhood whereby all chocolate consumption was regulated by parental authority.

Homemade Hisbiscus Flower Margahritas.

I will never look at our National Flower in the same way again. Wonder if it will ever be a fad thing during National Day?

Coffee on Film

Yo Fang! We gotta try and do this with tea! Hahaha!

“Famous chefs naked with their blender”

The lady looks great but not sure about the men. How come we never have such things in Malaysia? Do it for charity mah!

: : Mooncake Festival Part V : :

Well, more postings on the Mooncake Festival.

An evening picture of Carpenter Street.

Of course, balloons sold during the festival. But it’s a pity that they haven’t caught on with the idea of balloon hats. Now that would be a tremendous sell-out.

I was not allowed to leave until Granny saw some bonsai. Finally found them at the Old Courthouse. Very impressive.

We also tried free samples of Boh’s Iced Tea. Tasted good but will take me and Granny forever to finish the big packet.

Granny : Cheh! Why got two boys cutting hair ah? Better to have old man lah! Not same lah!

Wena : Haiya! Old man die liaw! But still got lot of people leh!

Famous Kuching Siew Pau for sale. Tasted really good and no pork. 🙂 Amazing isn’t it?

Frying of keropok with peanuts in them. Can’t remember the proper name so just made do with the word keropok. What that? Crackers. 🙂 Deep fried, of course.

What can I say? The pictures speak for themselves. Too burnt for me. :p

Hee hee… Managed to persuade Granny to hold the ice-cream goyang-goyang (shaky-shaky) so that I can take a picture. Hee hee! Great Colgate advertisement.

That’s all. Nite nite, or rather, morning!