Speedy Freeway Meal – Jalan Kuching Mamak Rojak on the Run

Fancy having a meal of Mamak Rojak (Pasembur) along busy Jalan Kuching Highway? If you pass through this area from KL town centre heading towards Rawang, just before the MRR2 junction, you will see many Mamak Rojak (RM3.50) food stalls along the road side. There are also an uncle selling beggar chicken and numerous vendors selling live crabs. Actually it is rather dangerous to stop the car by the road side of this busy highway. You have to make sure that there are no cars coming too fast behind and don’t slow down abruptly to turn in to the dirt road. Well, sometime I would stop by these food stalls to eat when I need to have a quick meal and are rushing for my next appointment. It just takes me 5 to 10 minutes and I am on the road again. If I got more time, then I would order Chendol dessert (Coconut milk with brown sugar). After a nice meal of Rojak, I would check out the Beggar Chicken stall and buy one for dinner! LOL! Map of Jalan Kuching Mamak Rojak Stalls

A Small Family Gathering to Celebrate My Daugther's Birthday

My daughter celebrated her 10th birthday a few weeks ago and she wanted me to throw a party for the occasion. Well, since I was quite tied up with some work and projects, we just had a small family gathering at home. I cooked all her favourite food............. Rosemary Chicken and Capsicum, Carrot & Pineapple salad with Croutons. Instead of having the usual birthday party type of food, I prepared Penang Hokkien Mee (Prawn Noodles) and Penang Lor Mee (Thick Gravy Noodles). Both are her favorite food too. I like to mix the Hokkien Mee soup with the Lor Mee soup aka in Hokkien Dialect "Lor Cham Theng"...fantastic taste! Then, her doting 3 Kor (Third Auntie) bought her a huge Barbie doll cake. Kids are so lucky nowadays!You can see from the photo, my little two and a half year old toddler hands reaching out to touch the cake. He managed to put his hand in to the box and scooped out some of the icing. Then he happily licked the icing off his hands!

When the actual day came, my daughter wanted the same Mee Suah (wheat flour vermicelli) like the one that I cooked for my wife on her birthday! So, daddy have to hit the kitchen to prepare the mi sua for her!

After eating her Mi Sua, she told me that next year she also wants to have the same Car Shaped Cake like the one that I baked for my wife........

Aiyo, already order in advanced lorrr!

Simple Lemon Sauce Chicken Recipe

This is one of a favourite must have dish for my kids whenever we eat out. Everyone loves the fresh lemon sauce on crispy fried chicken. You can use any fried chicken flour that you can buy off the shelf to save all the hassle of mixing your own flour for deep frying the chicken. In order to get the sauce right, you will have to balance to sweetness, saltiness and sour taste using your taste buds! LOL!

Ingredients
Chicken, ½ chicken (you can de bone it if you want to), cut into bite size
Premixed flour for deep frying, ¾ cup

Sauce
Lemon Juice, from half lemon
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste
Corn flour and water mixture

Coat the chicken with premixed flour and deep fry in hot oil until golden brown. Drain away excess oil and put it aside. Put a little water in a frying pan and add in the lemon juice. Add salt and sugar to taste. Bring to a boil and pour in the corn flour water mixture to thicken the sauce. Pour the sauce on the deep fried chicken. Garnish with cilantro or Chinese parsley and serve while still hot. Taste good if eaten with steamed rice.

Give me two male nipples please!

Imagine walking into a shop and asking for 2 male nipples! I am still laughing at this incident at the hardware shop. No, I don’t need new ‘nipples’. Mine are still intact! Ha ha ha! Actually in engineering or more specific in piping, male nipples refer to treaded connectors which are supposed to be screwed into female adaptors which in this case happens to be located on the filter cover. It might sound a little bit obscene but this is how the terms that are used whenever we refer to piping parts. After a busy father’s day repairing the toilet tank, installing new water faucet (tap) and installing a new shower, I had to repair the water filter. As most of you know, I like to repair things around my house and I bought these nipples for the water filter so that I can connect to the inlet and outlet pipes which are ½ inch in size. The nipples two fitted perfectly…..no more leaky connections! Piping nipples also come in different shapes and sizes! LOL!

Kung Po Paddy Field Frogs (Thin Kai, Chui Kay) Recipe

If you remember the five frogs that I bought from the wet market and fried the legs with flour (aka KFF Frog Recipe), I cooked Kung Po with the rest of the parts. Some restaurant deep fried the frogs before cooking it with Kung Po sauce and I found that they always over fried them resulting in the meat turning tough. I did not deep fry the frogs but you can if you want to but don’t fry them too long. You can vary the dried chillies amount according to the level of spiciness you prefer.

Ingredients
Frogs, 5, cut into bite sizes
Ginger, 5 slices
Garlic, 5 pips, smashed
Onions, 1 pc, cut into four
Dried Chillies, 5 pcs, soak in water to remove seeds
Dark Soya Sauce, 1 teaspoon
Oyster Sauce, 1 tablespoon
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste
Spring Onions
Cashew nuts, ½ cup, (optional)
Corn flour and water mixture

Heat up wok and pour in around 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Sauté ginger, garlic, onions and dried chillies until fragrant. Add in the frogs and fry until they are cooked thoroughly. Add a little water. Put in the dark soya sauce, oyster sauce, cashew nuts, salt and sugar to taste. Pour a little corn flour water mixture into the wok. Garnish with spring onions and serve.

Steamed Grouper Fish with Celery and Salted Vegetable Recipe

This is another super fast but tasty recipe that can be prepared in a ‘jiffy’. Grouper fish goes along well with salted vegetable and the soup is good till the last drop. I love to drink the spicy, sour and salty soup. I added some celery to give the dish extra greens and crunch. However it is ok to opt out if you don’t take celery.

Ingredients
Grouper fish, 1 table size
Celery, 2 stalks, cut into bite sizes
Salted Vegetable, 3 leaves, cut into strips
Pickled Sour Plum, 2 pcs, crushed
Carrot, 1 pc, cut into strips
Ginger, 5 slices, cut into strips
Garlic, 3 pips, chopped finely
Olive oil or any vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon

Put the fish in a steaming tray and arrange all the ingredients on top of it. Steam the fish at high heat for 25 minutes. Garnish with Chinese Parsley and serve while still hot.

Simple & Healthy Steamed Pomfret (Bawal Putih, Tau Tey) Fish with Soya Sauce Recipe

There are many types of pomfret(family Bramidae) and the meaty type that you used to see in Chinese Restaurant are call Tau Tey. I came across some nice locally caught Tau Tey (white pomfret) at the wet market and bought three small size ones. They were very fresh and would make a good steamed dish. The pomfret (tau tey) flesh is very fine and sweet. I decided not to add too much seasonings so that the natural fish flavours would be retained.

Ingredients
Pomfret, 3 fishes
Light Soya Sauce, 2 tablespoons
Ginger, 6 slices
Tomato, 1 pc, cut into bite sizes
Garlic, 3 pips, chopped finely and sautéed until golden brown
Carrot, 1/2 , cut into small strips
Olive oil, 1 tablespoon

Pour the soya sauce and olive oil on the fish. Arrange the ginger, tomato and carrot on top of the pomfret. Steam at high heat for 25 minutes or until the fish is cooked thoroughly. Garnish with fried garlic and serve.

Dinner at Restaurant Hao Hao Kee & Sen Kee Duck Satay

After I posted about Sen Kee Duck Satay at Restaurant Hao Hao Kee, Smallkucing when over there to try out the dishes. Smallkucing mama, Mamarazzi highly recommended the pig intestine fried with bird eye chilli and crispy har mai (dried shrimps). After reading Smallkucing post, I knew I have to go back there to try this dish. We ordered the duck satay, braised taukan, stir fried kailan vegetable, fried intestine as recommended by Mamarazzi and pork ribs curry which happens to be one of their signature dish. The total bill came up to be RM51.60 excluding the duck satay. As usual the owner of the satay stall was busying barbecuing away sticks and sticks of Sen Kee Duck Satay. We just ordered a few as starters. The duck satay has nice aroma but a little chewy compared to chicken satay.

The Braised Tau Kan was nice and my kids flooded their rice with the gravy. Tau Kan is a very good alternative to meat.

There is nothing to shout about the stir fry kailan but it was fresh and crunchy.

Then the dish that I was waiting for was served; the fried pig intestine with crispy har mai (dried shrimps) and chilly padi (bird eye chilli). I like the way they cut the pork intestine. It looks like Hira-shuriken, a type of Ninja weapon that is shaped like a star. Makes me want to throw it around.......Hiya....., ha ha ha! For those who like spicy stuff and fried crispy har mai, you are sure to like this dish!

The pork ribs curry was full of the natural sweetness from the pork ribs. The meat was very tender and I love the gravy on my steamed rice. Made me ate more! LOL!

Address and map to: Sen Kee Duck Satay @ Restaurant Hao Hao Kee 27, Jalan 13, Taman Desa Jaya, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur Handphone contact: 019 2187538, 019 2492572 Closed on Monday Google earth coordinate : 3.215984,101.62846