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Meme: Interview Me
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肉骨茶 (Bak-Kut-Teh)
I'm a sucker for Bah-Kut-Teh (肉骨茶) which is translated as "Pork Ribs Soup" (or literally, "Pork Bone Tea"). If any dish is going to be my undoing, it's this dish. This is a Chinese soup made mainly with pork ribs, Chinese medicinal herbs, spices and garlic. The mix of Chinese medicinal herbs and spices used to make this soup varies from vendor ( Read more... ) -
More pictures of tai chow dishes
Here are some photos from last week's dinner to whet some appetites. Last week's dinner was again at one of the tai chows in the neighbourhood. Had a rice-based dinner instead of noodles and ordered three dishes to go with the rice - the ubiquitous sweet and sour pork, a simple stir-fried baby kai-lan, and steamed red snapper Teochew-style .
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Animated Movie Nostalgia: The Flight of Dragons (1982)
Occasionally my feelings of nostalgia get triggered by something related. This time it came about as I rewatched "The Last Unicorn" on DVD. I was reminded of another Rankin/Bass production of similar vintage - "The Flight of Dragons".
Between the 2 of them, I enjoyed "The Flight of Dragons" a bit more. The edge came from how this animated movie did ( Read more... ) -
"Chee Yuk Fun" (Pork Mee) @ Ipoh Garden South
There's a pork mee shop near where I live that has been packing in the breakfast/lunch crowd. I have often passed by the shop and had not given it a try. Last Saturday morning was an opportune time as I had to meet up with the kitchen designer/contractor for my new house to finalise the work order and whose shop was near my "quarry". My mother ( Read more... ) -
Short work trip to Gurun and the food encountered (Part 3)
The next day, we worked through lunch and ended up missing lunch altogether. At the end day, we left Gurun just before 8pm and was on our back on the PLUS highway, the North-South main west coast highway that is the key highway artery of Peninsular Malaysia. PLUS stands for Projek Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan = The North-South Highway Project. This ( Read more... ) -
Short work trip to Gurun and the food encountered (Part 2)
At the end of the first day of work in Gurun, my colleagues and I left for a hotel in Sungai Petani (still in the northern Malaysian state of Kedah) to stay for the night. Sungai Petani is a significantly larger town about 25km from Gurun. It was about 9pm when we reached Sungai Petani and was famished. We just went to a fairly new commercial ( Read more... ) -
Short work trip to Gurun and the food encountered (Part 1)
Recently I was in Gurun, Kedah (town/city, state) for a couple of days for work. Gurun is a small little town that has an infamous-in-Malaysia steel factory, a motorcycle assembly plant and a motorcar assembly plant nearby. Kedah is a state situated north of the Malaysian peninsula. It's known as the rice bowl of Malaysia due to most of the ( Read more... ) -
Tonight's late dinner
Went out for a late dinner with my parents. In Malaysia, it's very common for people to go out for dinner during weekends. A decent filling dinner in Malaysia can be had for approx. RM5-15/head (approx. USD2.00-5.00/head).
Went to one of the nearby tai chow (literal translation of cantonese: "big fry" =D) restaurants for dinner. Tai chow are ( Read more... )