Happy Dragon Year!!!

Nice kan our CNY tree? Hehehe... this is the result of Christmas being so close with CNY. We just took down the Christmas deco and put up some CNY deco.

Happy Dragon year!!!

---according to the Chinese, this is a good year to have babies! Haha... selamat mencuba then! :) Abundant prosperity and most importantly great health be everyone!

Note: I super love this tree. It's just depan my table and I really love the beautiful summer blossoms on the tree!

Mango Fish

Just simply because I have not posted anything... gastronomical for ages, and also because I've took photos of these with a possible blog post in mind, I just have to do this entry :)

This is Mango Fish from our fav seafood place at TopSpot (I think the name of the stall is ABC?) - yes, fav but I don't know the actual name of the stall because we just call it as Ah Seng (the boss's name)

One sweet day, Noel (as usual, he's the culprit of me trying new things!) requested for me to cook this at home. Cracking my head (as usual), an image of a well known thai sauce appeared in my head (scary huh?). So I went hunting for the sauce and got it (albeit the bottle way too big for 1st trial!). Then got the fish and the mango. I just had to deep fry the fish (I used red talapia here). For the sauce, super easy. Slice thinly shallots and mango, fry 1/2 of the shallot, pour in the thai chilli sauce till boil, dump in mango and remainder shallots. Voila!

Despite the lack of green (as deco), the fish came almost near the benchmark of our fav spot! And it got Noel's seal of approval too :) Pay attention to the bottle of Thai Sauce - that's the secret to this dish!

Since there's still quite a lot of sauce, I decided to cook this for our CNY eve dinner as well. And though CNY has long gone, here's our CNY reunion dinner spread, just as a feast to our eyes at this point of time! :) And oh yes... all these were for 5 adults and 2 children only! Pigs! Haha! (don't worry, we still had leftovers, which we happily ate on the next few meals)

See the mango fish at bottom left? :) Yes, yes, we had 2 fishes for the dinner! One steamed, one mango. And we had steamboat and kangkung belacan (I had to wash the kangkung over and over and over, due to my phobia of this yummy vege!)

Our dining table is too small!... So we had to put the food at the side counter! Hahah... Grilled lamb, lamb shank stew (this was given by a church member to my dad), prawn and honeydew salad, grilled 3-layer pork, beef curry, sambal sotong, satay (and the condiments).

Give that mango fish dish a try... it's really worth yummy!

Happy Rabbit Year!!!

Bits and Bites

Praise God from whom all blessings flow

Praise Him all creatures here below

Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host

Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost

Amen

Between mom and I, we baked 3,100 pcs of cookies, 6kgs of seaweed and 20 cakes for CNY this year. Overwhelming indeed. Everytime when I needed to sit for hours and hours to bake those cookies (and I start to go OMIGOSH, when will these cookies get done???), the above Doxology Hymn enters my mind. That each and every single order is indeed a blessing from Him. The orders has been amazing... we've managed to deliver all by the dates that our customers wanted them. Mom actually had tears in her eyes when she was counting how many we actually baked! There was one day we actually had to deliver 9 cakes on a single day... PHEW! Now, I wish I had some customer who actually reads this blog so they can comment if the cookies / cakes were good or not!

As a result, I TOTALLY hybernated this CNY break. Slept and slept and slept! HOHOHO... Didn't even visited my colleagues this year (tsk tsk... sorry ya gengs!)

The break went too fast for my liking. But then, there's another one next Friday so stop complaining!! :)