: : Granny’s Cooking : :

No videos today. :p Was posting videos of a fire that occured at the squatter colony next to the house. It’s up at …nA : nU : nA : nU…

Still, did enjoy Granny’s bak kut teh (spare rib tea) for dinner. Of course, she used a quick mix i.e. from a packet. Easier that way. Still tasted good and enjoyed it immensely. Better than what is available outside in hawker centres. Although, I’ve yet to try the famous Bak Kut Teh at Green Road.

For technoLAHgist, some Hainanese chilli sauce. A bit grubby looking because this was leftover from lunchtime. How to make it? Pound ginger, chilli, purple shallots with sugar and a little bit of salt. If you do not have a pestle and mortar, use a food blender but be forewarned that the chilli seeds will not be crushed. Also, be careful not to touch face with your hands. Will start to sting like mad. 🙂 Oh yeah! Don’t forget to add some garlic in! Note about preparing the ginger, you have to smash it with the flat part of the knife to bring out the taste before chopping it up into smaller parts.

: : Granny’s Cooking : :

As promised, the second part of stir-fried Chinese Mustard is here (13.7MB).

Also, Granny cooked stir-fried pork in soy sauce.

With videos as well. 🙂 Part I(6.5 MB) and Part II(18.5 MB).

: : What Flavour am I? : :

I taste like Beef.

I taste like beef. I’m probably made of beef. You are what you eat, they say, and if the title didn’t mean something else, I would be a beefeater. I think red meat is good for you. Puts hair on your chest.

(If you were not Beef you would be Alcohol.)

I tashte like Alcohol.

Heh. Heh. I taste like beer. I like beer. Buy me a beer. I’m not drunk, I can drink plenty without… What was I saying? Beer.

What Flavour Are You?

Ho Hum.

: : Granny’s Cooking : :

Was sick at home today with flu. But did managed to capture a video of Granny cooking some stuff.

Stir-fried Chinese Mustard

She cooked it with chopped garlic and pounded dried prawn. This mustard plant is not spicy at all. Very crunchy and not bitter at all, provided that it’s completely cook.

The video clip is here(Part I) but it’s a hefty file of 21.7 MB. Still, it came out well and you can hear Granny in the background speaking in hokkien. It’s a short clip about 40-50 seconds. Note that if you want to cook the dish, don’t forget to add the salt and pepper in! Part II will be up tomorrow. Takes too long to upload from a dial-up so will get a friend to do it tomorrow.

Influenced by technoLAHgist and his videoblog, QuickLAH.

: : Dodol : :

A box of dodol appeared on my desk this morning with a Post-It note on it. ‘Rowena, for Grandma. :).’ From my collegue, Bernadine.

This is the coconut flavoured dodol. What is dodol? Candy! Sweet sweet candy! Make from gula Melaka (Malacca sugar) and coconut milk. Gula melaka is very very thick brown sugar. Granny loves the coconut flavoured one. Can’t find dodol in Kuching as it’s not so popular here. Dodol also comes in durian flavour as well but that’s too strong for either one of us. Plus, your breath will start stinking for the whole day!

Bernadine bought the dodol from Melaka at a shop called Tan Kim Hock. I’ve posted some pictures from a trip there last May. There are a lot of other stuff inside the shop. Coconut and durian candy, dried food, other junk foods, etc. Should make a trip to the shop if you’re ever in Melaka.

: : Kuching Fest Part X – The Ending : :

Last day Kuching Fest 2003. Phew! 10 postings is enough to stretched one’s capabilities in describing the different food, taste, smells, aromas, visual inspections, trial and error purchases, etc. what have you.

Sio Bee

Granny : Wah! Got two stalls ah! Which one is good?

Granny : Not enough! Buy two each!

The picture is only showing 2 sticks of sio be from one stall. Unfortunatelly, Granny and I finished the other 2 sticks on the way back : long wait due to the long traffic jams on the way back. The very nice aroma was too tempting for us. The sio be is actually sweeter than siew mai and there is more filling inside one sio bee than one siew mai. Note that it is not halal as it’s make from pork. However, it can be substituted with chicken, fish or prawn instead. The skin of the sio be is similar to the wantan skin but is slightly harder when cooked. The sio be is steamed in a steamer or in a kuali (wok).

Life Cafe Dry Noodles

Granny : One spicy noodle and one dry noodle!

Hawker : Okay, Auntie.

Granny then spends the remaining 10 minutes of waiting chatting up the young chap manning the stall. I think she has a really good time chit-chatting with everyone and trying to get them to give her discounts. This is a saucy 70-year-old Chinese lady who is a gem. Living with her has been an interesting experience for the last 4 years.

Anyway, she didn’t like the noodles above. Although it wasn’t spicy, it was slightly sour and a bit bland after tasting Life Cafe’s Spicy Noodles. Which was also ordered and eatened completely. 🙂 Of course, we bought other stuff to eat as well but those were already posted in previous postings.

We also walked through some of the non-food theme exhibitions including the one selling the famous Giant Ginseng.

Granny : Wah! RM300 for this piece ah?

Granny : Wahseh! So expensive meh? Eh, if eat big one, muscleman can also die liaw! Cannot simply eat one!

She also ordered herself a new stove with 3 burners integrated with the high-tech centrifugal flame system (cooks faster, saves 30% of gas or so the salespeople told us. They crowded around Granny, as usual) and an Akira vacuum cleaner (dirt cheap at RM199. I hope that it will last one year). She likes household items. Always on the lookout for bargains whenever she goes out which isn’t often as she doesn’t like to walk for too long.

Well, the Kuching Fest is now over for another year. Seems like whole of Kuching was out tonight to get one last taste of the food there. As we were leaving, there were a lot of comings and goings and the traffic jams were horrendous! Everyone was double parked but the policemen seem to be very lenient, no parking tickets on yellow lines. Guess they’re all too busy enjoying the food fest as well! 🙂