That's literally translated from Loh Mai Kai :)

I can't take this anymore unfortunately. I was told to stay off glutinous rice for the rest of my life :( I bought this for my family, but this is one of my favourite loh mai kai The gravy is generous and the taste is beautiful! But the downside of this is that it's not cheap.

Loh Mai Kai

This loh mai kai is from a little dim sum coffeeshop in Taman Megah - Restoran Kee Hiong. Opposite the Ming Tien food court, same row as Secret Recipe. Oh how I miss this loh mai kai :(



Another thing I like from this dim sum place is the char siew pau. Again, the gravy is tasty LOL~ Of course it's nothing to be compared with those served in Ah Yat or somewhere so-very well-known for their dim sums, but it's my choice for a quick breakfast takeaway in the mornings :)

Char Siew Pau

Another type of pau that I heart is their tau sar pau (red bean bun). Their red bean texture is just nice, not too thick and not too watery. And the sweetness is also just right. But you've got to eat it hot ~lah. Sorry, no pixie for this :P

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This was from last weekend.

Fried luncheon meat. Nothing special but it was for the hubby. Not that I don't eat luncheon meat, but yadda-yadda-yadda again ... yes, need to cut down on too heavily processed food :P I'm suddenly turning into a health freak, a forced-one unfortunately :(

Fried luncheon meat

Then for vege, we had chi kua (hairy gourd, fuzzy gourd) with (yes, again!) minced meat and ginger. The ginger is optional (again good for the health :P) I <3 this dish.

Chi kua with minced meat

And for the healthier meat dish (although I won't say it's oh-so-healthy since it has fat :P), braised pork in dark soya sauce. My first time making this, and I'd say not too bad haha. At least it tasted right :P

Braised pork in dark soya sauce

Ooh-la-la, half meat half fat!

And lastly but not least, soup!!! I love soups. Honestly, I think most of the Chinese soups are easy to boil, it's just that it takes time. Maybe at least 3 hours. This one was I-forgot-the-pea-name soup boiled with pork ribs LOL~ The peas are white-pinkish when uncooked. I need to go check out the name LOL~

Soup of the night

There goes another simple dinner for the night :)

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Haha, yes I cooked. Honestly I'm not much of a cook person. But again, due to health reason, I'd try to cook during one of the days in the weekend.

I don't do fancy dishes :P Simple ones, preferably stir-fried or steamed. LOL~

First dish, chopped choi sum with minced meat. For this dish, the usual bigger choi sum works better than those Hong Kong or smaller ones.

I <3 potatoes. Especially mashed ones :) So next dish was mashed potato with minced meat. Why minced meat again? LOL, usually because the portion of meat I buy from the supermarket is too much for one dish alone, since I was only cooking for two, so I have to split them :P

And for the meat dish, steamed chicken meat with pickled lettuce. It's a very simple dish but tastes very appetizing because of the pickled lettuce :)

So there, 3 dishes for 2 on 1 night of dinner :)

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Yup, after all the hard work cooking from my mama ... I spent the family to a dinner at San Francisco Steakhouse @ Tropicana Mall.

How much do you <3 your beef?

The order for the night

Complimentary bread with garlic butter

The bread was nice. The escargot must have been awesome because my younger sister literally licked the plate clean off its garlic cream sauce as well. The mashed potato was delicious. The main courses? Well, let's just say most of them came undercooked. Especially the lambs. But service was good, we sent them back for a re-cook.

Escargot in garlic cream sauce

Mashed potato

Rib-eye steak

Grilled lamb leg

Grilled lamb rack

San Francisco Burger

As Big As Arm Hot Dog

I was happy with my mashed potato and lamb rack. I'm sure my younger sister was very happy with the escargot :) And my nephew's Fish & Chips was free :)

So, that about sums up the foodie marathon for my birthday. Oh, I also had a quiet dinner out with the hubby at Delicious, One Utama. But I didn't carry a camera, so um ... no pixies on that but the classic chocolate cake with ice-cream was awesome :)

Hazardous birthday foodie marathon. Paid the price during the week :( But still worth it all. I really had a great one this year :)

Happy (belated) birthday to me :)

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Haha, well ... I requested for this :)

Like I mentioned, it was a special birthday this year! So I wanted to cut a cake ... and honestly, I only dig ice-cream cakes from Haagen Daz. So I bugged the hubby to get one for me.











It's not cheap getting a small ice-cream cake from Haagen Daz 'tho :( But oh well, once in a blue moon for me!

Deliciously yummy ... again, worth all the health risk :)

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Celebrated my birthday a few weeks back :) It was a great one. Although just simple celebrations with my family, it was nonetheless a meaningful one for the year. Reason being? Well, let's just say I was celebrating it as two :)

So yes, more foodie pixies coming up! This time round, my mama's cooking. On my birthday night, my mum cooked for dinner as I wanted to celebrate it at home with all around.

The food? Here goes ...

Steamed chicken with wolfberries

Steamed cod fish

Birthday noodle

Vegetables

And my favourite, but hazardous, highlight of the night ... the sour vege (shuen-choi). But wth, it's been sooooo long since I last had this due to my health and since it was a special day ... I decided to risk it all :) One bite and mmm-mmmm ... it's non-stop >_<







Temptingly delicious, isn't it? Hehe.

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Sorry for the hiatus, my dear readers. I haven't been in the right mood to post lately. Yes, bad me! Bad me :( But there's a reason for the absence, which I'll share in a later post when I feel the time is right.

Anyhow, say if there are still any readers still lingering around, thanks for the support. I would be really delighted and happy. Again, sorry for the disappearance *blushes*

So here I am again, though I'm gonna have to say that I'm not going to be that active anymore ... but I'll try ok? And now ... what comeback post would be better than a foodie post? :)

I miss shooting food. Since having some health problems with my stomach and digestion early this year, I've been on a rather strict healthy diet few months back. Though it was hard to resist all those delicious outside food, having my health and most importantly my appetite back deemed it all worth it. I guess the saying "You are what you eat" does make some sense.

But I've been less stringent on myself nowadays. Not that my health is all good again, but for another reason :) I'll still be watching what I eat, but for now .. let's indulge a bit in some food that I've been missing out for such a while now.

I'm not sure if this is called apung balik or apam balik or just apung. I know there are a few versions of something similar, but this is the crispy one with crunchy peanuts for filling. There's another type, thick chewy type but also with crunchy peanut filling which also I adore.



This one costs 70sen per piece, and is from a stall outside the Sea View Restaurant coffeeshop in SEA Park, PJ. Hmmm, but something was amiss this time ... the corn. But oh well, this *crunch crunch* is good enough :)



Another indulgence I enjoyed recently since my health diet was cinnamon rolls from Saint Cinnamon. This one here, is the Choc Chip flavour. My favourite of all :)



That's all for this time. Hopefully I'll have more opportunity to take food :)

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It was Father's Day yesterday. We kinda ran out of ideas where to go for dinner. We were pretty sure everywhere would be packed. So we decided on Marché Mövenpick @ The Curve. Again :P

Marché passport. Each patron will be given one.

Yes, you just might guessed it. This is a foodie post. Not fantastic pics, just some snapshots taken with ol'trusty A620. Yeah, I was lazy to lug around the DSLR nowadays :P

To start it off, I'd usually order the mushroom soup. It's rich with loads of mushroom bits. Lovely!

Mushroom soup

Then I ordered for the ribeye steak. Quality not that good this time. Small serving for such a price, and it was a tad dry. Ordered it with a choice of the mushroom sauce.

Ribeye steak with mushroom sauce

Hubby ordered the roasted chicken. Not bad for the price of RM16.50. Came with 2 pieces of quarter chicken - drum and breast. Served with a choice of black pepper sauce.

Roasted chicken with black pepper sauce

MuffySis ordered the sauteed mushroom and lamb cutlet. I wonder why she likes the sauteed mushroom O_o The lamb cutlet was good nonetheless. Fair serving and cooked nicely.

Sauteed mushroom

Lamb cutlet

And lastly but not least, the must-have Rösti. Grated potatoes baked to perfection, and then pan-fried. Sweet soft potatoes, with a touch of crisp from the pan-fried. Simply fabulous! You can choose to add on sausages or cheese or something else (forgot what else was available).





Next time you go, remember to try the Rösti :)

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I'm off today from work ... on leave. Ponteng abit LOL~ Get a bit of rest :)

Made myself a simple lunch. Something I've not had in quite a long while :) Noodle in clear soup. This time, I used macaroni instead of the usual bihun/mee/kuey teow. I'm a simple person, I like simple food. Simple home-cooked food. Well, maybe I've been brought up that way.

Macaroni

Some vegetables

I used beef. But any other red meat will do - chicken, pork etc.

The soup. I used dried anchovies for the base.

The lunch.

How was it? Mmm-mmm ... simple but simply satisfying!

burp~~~

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