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One fine day in 2003, I decided to start a food blog to tease my sister and my mother who were both living in the USA. Somehow, along the way, I ended up feeding a lot of people just via the food pictures that I put up everyday. In 2005, I decided to take a break from blogging and just take it easy. So there were sporadic posts from my travels in the US as well as Germany and England. Now in 2009, I'm trying to pick it up again and start chronicaling my journey towards a better lifestyle that is more healthy than what it currently is right now.
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: : JOJO Cafe : :

Yesterday, had lunch at JOJO Cafe. An affordable Chinese Family Restaurant which is air conditioned! After standing outside the roadside fruit stalls, Kon and I needed some cold air to cool ourselves down.

We ordered a small plate of kailan which costs RM6.80 (USD$1.79). Wanted the baby kailan but could only get the adult version. Kailan is Chinese Mustard broccoli and is very crunchy and slightly sweetish.

Update : A bit more on Kailan after reading Dad’s comments. After he pointed me to the right direction, I went off to the Cook’s Thesaurus and got more information on Chinese Broccoli. You’ll need to scroll down a bit until you find the Chinese Broccoli.

Both of us also had a plate of fried tanghoon @ glass noodles each. RM4.00 (USD$1.05) per plate. Although it look very pale, they cooked it with chilli padi so was extremely spicy! Accidently bit into the small pieces of cut chilli padi. BURNING!

Both gals felt extremely full afterwards. Too full. Sleepy the whole afternoon.

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: : I was a teenage murderer : :

I posted this up at …nA : nU : nA : nU… awhile back. Searching for a link in my blog when I remembered this posting. Thought it would make a good laff here.

Speaking of crabs, Dad taught me the important lesson of killing them for the meal. Imagine a 12 year old with her dad behind the house, by the sink, with 10 crabs and a big kitchen knife (not the cleaver!!)

Dad : Wena, this is how to kill the crab. I’ll show you how to do it for one crab and you do the rest.

Wena : Me?!?!?

Dad : Yep. Now, flip the crab over and push the knife through the belly.

Wena : Errr….. okay (looks extremely skeptical. Smokie the Cat was looking on throughout this conversation).

Dad : Here. You try it.

(Wena looking at the biiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggggg crab claws. Claws were tied up with string but crabs were frantically clawing and moving and… Definitely need tremendous courage.)

Wena : Do I have to do it all? (Starting to wonder where the heck is Jas and why she isn’t doing it).

Dad : Yep. Then we eat.

Wena : Hmmm… (picks up one crab and pushes the knife through. Cannot do it.) Dad, too tough lar!

Dad : Eh, push harder. I know you can do it.

Wena : Humpphh! (Pushes harder. Knife goes in. Crab goes into death throes.)

Dad : Great work! Now, only 8 more to go.

Wena : Sigh.

Hi Dad! 🙂

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: : Roadside Fruit Stalls : :

Went out of Kuching for awhile with a friend when we saw the fruit stalls at a busy road junction. Had to stop and buy some jackfruits. 🙂 The stalls had a cement base with permanent roofing, believe it or not

Gorgeous red rambutans for sale!

Yummy yellow jackfruits! Unfortunately, the actual fruit stinks like hell. Rather, the skin of the fruit reeks!

Wild tapioca leaves! Goes great with belachan. Boil in hot water until soften.

Cangkuk manis! There’s an interesting conversation regarding cangkuk manis in a forum somewhere. MudBug, do you have the link? Thanks.

Update : The link to the discusson on Cangkuk Manis at Asian Vegetables Garden Web Forum.

Pumpkins! Now thinking of creamy pumpkin soup cooked with curry powder. Wah!

Chilli padi! Hot stuff. Extremely hot hot hot!

Nite people!