Sabsuka

Sunday is visit your mom's day.  And I did not come empty-handed.  I volunteered to cook for the family.   My brothers will be home.  So I hope to finish cooking early and head to ibu's house.  

Off all the 4 days of fasting, I think sunday I ate the most.  Apart from the sabsuka, there's sardine puff from Shakilah's family, ibu fried some chicken drumlets and chicken seaweed.  There's kuihs and I manage to make cincau drink.  So rajin right.  Not all the time hor.

Anyway sabsuka is a repeated recipe.  I have cooked this so many time and each time I will improvise according to my guest.

The naked sabsuka

.... garnish with fried shallots...

... sprinkle chopped coriander leaves...

... and drizzle olive oil ..... or melted ghee...

Ingredients:
1/2 kg minced meat
1 cinnamon stick
1 large onion (diced)
1 large onion (blended)
2 cloves garlic (blended)
1/4 thumb ginger (blended)
1 bowl of chili paste
2 tbsp ground cumin
1/2 bowl tomato sauce
2 tbsp sugar
1 bowl tomato paste
2 tbsp chili sauce
2 tomatoes (diced)
2 cups water
1 tbsp Ghee (i used EVOO)
Black pepper powder
Coriander leaves
 fried shallot

Method:

Mix the onion, ginger, garlic and black pepper powder to your minced meat leave it to rest.
Heat cooking pot and fried the chilli paste and cinnamon stick. About 5-10 mins add in your minced meat.
Add in diced onions, tomato paste, chili and tomato sauce, cumin powder and water
Once the minced meat half-cooked, add Ghee (i added EVOO). For garnishing add in fried shallot and coriander leaves.
Serve fried egg with Sabsuka or either mix it in the Sabsuka (individual preference)

Selamat mencuba | Happy trying.

Bistik Daging

Cooking we must ~Yoda

It's the first weekend of the fasting month. And MIL was at home so we break fast at home lah. Since the other days we broke fast at the mosque nearby.  

Ask the Mister what he wants to eat and he said anything to eat with bread.  How simple! Woke up early to prep and started cooking after asar.  The taste was quite mile no kick.  Maklumlah puasa tak boleh rasa =p.

But can better if can taste while cooking I would have alter the flavour lah.  I did some Google-ing and I like Tiffinbiru's recipes. Easy and hassle free though I made some changes to the recipe to suit may laziness hahaha.

Ingredients:

500g minced meat or sliced meat
5 potatoes
Black pepper
1 cinnamon stick
Blended dry chilli
Salt and sugar to taste
Peas
Water
Tomato sauce
Tomato paste
Beef stock

Blended ingredients:
                                  1 onion
                                  6 red onions
                                  3 cloves garlic
Oil for frying

Method:

Season the meat with black pepper and salt and put aside.
Heat oil. Throw in the cinnamon stick and the blended ingredients.
Add the potatoes and mix well.  Add water cook the potatoes till half cook.
Add in the meat and tomato sauce, blended chilli, tomato paste, and beef stock.
Mix well and cover the pot with low heat till the meat and potatoes are cook.
Season with salt and sugar cook till gravy thickens.
Garnish it with peas, fried shallots and chopped coriander leaves with sliced French loaf.

Took reference from Tiffinbiru

Kolumpo

May Day! May Day! 

The Relek One Koner KL trip.  We took a coach this time round recommended by Nurul.  The journey was pleasant thou there's unavoidable jam.   But still it was pleasant.

The guide was kind enough to drop us at the hotel we stayed thou its not the drop off point.  So we are so going to use that company again if we ever take a coach. 

As usual when we come to KL we must have the Nasi Ayam Chee Meng. There's 2 of us and we ordered 3 paxes and extra chicken, Kailan with Oyster Sauce and Kerabu Mangga.

Nasi Ayam Chee Meng is located at: 50, Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Since it's ROC weekend we decided to spend more time in the room then out.  So this time we stayed in Westin.  The room was awesome!.

Westin KL located at: 199, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The heavenly bed ... yes it was heavenly and well rested sleep ...  tak caya cuber lah (don't believe try lor)

why they have bathrobes cos the towel abit small.

After testing the bed, we decided to make our way to Mid Valley MegaMall.  Why is it a Megamall? Cos there's 430 shops on 5 levels. 

Mid Valley MegaMall located at: 2, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia

Why are we here? Cos the husband wanted to go The Cap City

Its located at L3 near the Cinema at Mid Valley.

Magnum KL

So much excitement I ordered a vanilla with Fruit Loops + Grape Gummies - RM9.90

For someone who does not fancy dessert, he ordered Red Velvet Something Something ... Fwaaaaaahhh ..... RM32 ps: I like his better

We are getting old.  After all that we decided to have dinner back in the room.

Can't decide to use the shower or the tub ... We were looking forward to breakfast! Pretty excited for me at least.  I've been watching Best in World on AFC. One of the episodes was Westin's breakfast. 

That small white thingy in the center was hummus.  Sedap!

Nasi Dagang and Ikan Tongkol and Teriyaki Salmon

*Salmon was dry and tough

Triple Deck Sandwich

Shots ... Must try.

Orange: Orange, Carrot, Tumeric, Ginger (Yum)

Green, Celery, Cucumber ... and something2 (Not nice)

There's all kinds of bread, waffles, pancakes, cereals and the list goes on ... 

Open face sandwich, normal .... no face ... everything and anything ... ya you get it right ... heavy breakfast so we went back to the room to sleep it off  ... PBG ... Yes very much.

Movie is also a must since its way cheaper here.  Avengers rawks!  I love you Thor!!! ehem

Something small for our friends.  Sorry but I don't like tea leaves smell.

Dheepan brought us to Boat Noodle at Publika

Publika is located at: Jalan Dutamas 1, Hartamas Heights, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Pinky sunset after the rain.

So here's the order 

8 bowls of Pathumthani Beef Thai Rice Noodles

8 bowls of Ayuthaya Beef Thai Rice Noodles

8 bowls of Pathumthani Chicken Thai Rice Noodles

8 bowls of Ayuthaya Chicken Thai Rice Noodles

4 bowls of Chicken Wings

3 Thai Iced Tea

BURRRRRP! ok let's go for fancy kopi ...

Coffee Stain by Joseph

FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/CoffeeStainByjoseph

Nice multiple hearts kopi art for Dheepan and the husband tried something fancy

He ordered Xplorespresso: Choice of 2 flavors, he chose orange and rose, 1 test tube of espresso and a breaker of soda water with ice.  Surprisingly nice.

Good nite KL ... Do not ask your husband to close the curtain .... cos you end up with morning sunlight leak

Lite breakfast before nap

After nap look for food at Pavillion.

I had Kurtos Spiroll for lunch ... erm oklah don't quite like it.

Waiting for bus back at Pudu Sentral 

being annoying ... as usual.

 Had a great trip ... only the return part abit sucky ... but partly it's my fault on the logistic part.

Note to myself: Do not book last min trip, Do not take bus at Pudu Sentral even if I'm desperate.

Ayam Masak Merah

I cook today. Yey! ... It's been a while since I stepped in the kitchen heh... Since I'm on mc, I will slowly cook for myself and the husband.

Today Ayam masak Merah was a success.  I don't normally follow 1 recipe but a few so I can try and decide which one I will keep.  I have been following Mat Gebu for a few years now.  His recipes are nice and traditional for most. I like to take reference from his blog as the ingredients are easy too find and not so complicate. I refer to some other sites too lah... Slamat mencuba. Fuuuuuh I've always wanted to say that.

Recipe taken from:  Tiffinbiru (I alter the ingredients abit)

Ingredients

*Mix of breast meat and wings
*1 tbsp blended dried chili
*1 tsp turmeric powder
*1/2 tsp salt
*1/2 tsp pepper

* Mix and marinate the item above for 15mins or more

1 big onion (sliced)
3 tbsp blended dried chili (put more if you want to)
1/2 bottle of tomato sauce
2 sticks of lemongrass (bashed)
A few sprig of curry leaves
1 cinnamon stick
1 pc star anise
1/2 cup water
Salt to taste

Ingredients to blend
1 big onion
3 cloves garlic
1 inch ginger

Method

• Fry the marinated chicken. Half cooked and take it out and drain the oil.
• Pour out the excess oil.  Oil enough for sautee. 
• Add lemongrass, sliced onion, curry leaves, cinnamon stick and star anise.  Stir for a few mins till the aroma rises
• Add the blended ingredients and add a spoon or 2 of the blended chili. Cook it will for 10-15 mins with stirring.
• Add tomato sauce and salt cook till the sauce thickens and add in the fried chicken and mix well.
• Stir and leave it for 5mins and off the heat.
• Ready to be eaten.  Garnish with fried shallots and chop corriander

Family Trip to Batam

I can't remember when was the last trip, I'm glad this trip happen. We were supposed to take the the 1st ferry to Batam but there's a bit of a hiccup.  FYI. Wave Master no longer operating so for future travels, please use other agents.  Since our next ferry is in the afternoon ... the kids were getting restless ... the adults were bored and I just stoned away. Decided to walk around vivo bearing in mind not to purchase anything.

Finally the ferry arrived.  We took Sindo. And it took a longer route to Batam.  We reached 1.5hr later. The driver and tour guide were waiting for us.  Yes tour guide.  I've been to batam countless of time and this was the first time we had a tour guide and it was a good thing. That countless trips to Batam with the intention of mainly grocery shopping, watch movie, eat and spa.  This time round I just follow the crowd with NO intention of getting anything. (nie macam yaya oni lah)

1st stop was lunch at Pak Datuk.  They serve Padang food and they were delish. Look at that spread it was from one end to another end of the table.  There were 14 of us.  Our tummy were happy!

Pak Datuk is located at Jl. Jend. A. Yani, Ruko Mahkota Raya Blok C No.1&2, Kepulauan Riau 29432, Indonesia

The tour guide was entertaining.  He managed to lift up the moods of our cranky mothers (that's very important) and also share stories and history of the places.

With that full belly they sent us to check in hotel. So we can do our prayers and relax for awhile before we head down to the mall. We stayed at Swiss-Belhotel Harbour Bay. A very decent hotel which I fell in love with. Very cosy bed, Strong free wifi and well-equipped toilet. There's swimming pool, sauna and gym ... not that I use the facilities but quite motivated to exercise just by looking at it.  Plus point they have their own mall and the harbour terminal is just across the road.

Hotel located at Jl. Duyung, Sei Jodoh, Batu Ampar, Kepulauan Riau 29432, Indonesia

I managed to nap. We went DC Mall (Diamond City Mall).  Of cos it is the makciks haven.  It was like a race cos we only have 1.5hr to shop ... ONLY.  I bought 4 instant shawls, 1 prayer mat, keropok kerapak and bubble tea in 30mins. We relax one corner and wait for the rest to finish shopping.

DC Mall located at Jalan Duyung, Batam, Kepulauan Riau, Indonesia

I did not buy from the shop below cos they sell cook turtle eggs!!!! I want to cry ok. How can they do that. Turtles are endangered species ok. I was very emo when a guy came up to me to sell his turtle eggs.

After DC Mall, we went Nagoya Hill.  I normally come here for my massage and A&W. Here we also had 1.5hrs to shop.  I went to hypermart to get titbits and fresh care. Took me less than 30mins and we parked ourselves in front of Jco.  The hubby dozed off. 

Nagoya Hill is located at Jl. Teuku Umar Nagoya, Komplek Nagoya Hill Superblock, Batam, Kepulauan Riau, Indonesia

After all that shopping, its time for dinner.  Majority love seafood so we had dinner at Golden Prawn 933. When we arrived, there was loud music and karaoking going on.  It was a birthday celebration.  Very entertaining to see all the drunk faces dancing and singing the night away. 

Golden Prawn 933 is located at Jalan Bengkong Laut, Kepulauan Riau 29432, Indonesia

Do note there's no price on the menu.  Please clarify.  We were in for a rude shock went we got the bill.  With the quality of food, I don't think I want to pay that much.

PS: Its cheaper to eat at Senibong lol.

So ... huge dinner ... is there room for Pisang Keju (Cheese Banana)?! This Pisang Keju is the new craze in Spore, Msia and Indo ... but it's not so new lah ... probably started 3rd quarter of last year.

This one here was a thinly sliced banana, thinly coated with batter and deep fry. Sprinkle with shredded cheese and chocolate powder (some use chocolate rice or chocolate sauce)

We got ours here! No address cos it's at the road side and I was not listening properly but I think it's Pisang Keju Terowongan 77 

Even with full belly, hubby and me managed to finish it.  It was so yummy!!!

Breakfast at the hotel had a decent spread.  I was so excited when I saw shepherd's pie ... I took my plate and open the lid ... It was steamed rice -_____-'' how in the world I read it as shepherd's pie haiz.  After breakfast we went to find money changer ... yes money changer as dinner puts a hole on our pocket hahahah.  After that I when back to the hotel and sleep.  The hubby went to the pool ehem.

12nb time to check out and I'm stuck to bed.  Lucky yesterday I decided to pack my bag.  Haiz back to reality soon.  Last stop was the Mega Mall.  

Here own time own target. All of us split up.  Hubby, me and his 2 nephews went to watch Fast and Furious 7 for $4ea AWESOME! It was a great movie... to me at least.

We had Bakso for lunch. It was fast and furious too if we do not want to miss the ferry hahahah ....

Nap in ferry on the way back to home gound.

Here's the damage when the person say she has nothing and no intention to shop ... Win oleidie lar ... And we bought 10 boxes of Pisang Keju to bring home... 10 boxes!!!!