Chinese New Year Feast

Chinese New Year festival in Malaysia is a joyous occasion for all Chinese. Loved ones and family
members from far and near get together once a year to 'catch up' on one another on this very
important day. A Reunion dinner is planned on the eve of Chinese New Year with lots of
sumptuous food meticulously prepared days before the eve of Chinese New Year.

Many household still prepare and cook the dinner at home, but nowadays many do eat out at
restaurants which serve set menus. Most of the set menus are expensive but the food served
are delicious and wonderfully pleasing to the eyes.

This year, my husband, son and I had our reunion dinner with my brothers, sisters, nephews,
nieces and grandchildren at Palace restaurant, Centro Building, Klang. Everyone enjoyed the
food and the karoake session where the boys sang their'hearts out'. Lets take a look at the
'mouth watering' dishes...



Yee Sang - this dish is a combination of finely shredded vegetables of cucumber, carrot, ginger,
pickled vegetables, pomeloes and raw salmon fish mixed with sweet plum sauce, five spice
powder, fried peanuts and sesame seeds. This dish is then toss as high as possible with chopsticks signifying good life and prosperity for everyone.

Braised Shark's Fin Soup with Crabmeat and Mushrooms- This delicious soup is very
rich and tasty. The shark's fin comes in pieces, with lots of crabmeat and mushrooms
which make the soup , indeed very tasty.

Roasted suckling pig and pig's trotters- The most enjoyable part is eating the crispy aromatic skin which is grilled to perfection. Very crunchy and nice, though a bit oily. The pig's trotter
is equally well done. It is thinly sliced and tasted a bit saltish.

Baked Tiger Prawns with Special Sauce- The tiger prawns are very fresh and seafood
lovers will enjoy this dish. It is sweet and flavorful.

Steamed Codfish- The codfish is very fresh and the meat is very tasty . The fish is steamed
to perfection and sprinkled with lots of red cut chillies and spring onion to make it colorful.
Very nice.

Braised Dried Scallop and Dried Oyster with Brown sauce - This dish is unique as the cook used
melon squash with a piece of dried scallop placed in the center of the cut melon. Dried oyster
and 'fatt choy' which is only used during Chinese New Year to signify prosperity are added to
to give it more flavor. Taste good.

Fried Glutinous Rice with Waxed Duck meat- This is indeed a very rich, tasty, aromatic and
delicious fried rice. Big pieces of waxed duck meat, mushrooms, chinese sausages add
flavor to this tasty rice.


Sweetened Sea Coconut Lily Pulp with Ginseng root - To end the course of this dinner with
cold sweet soup of sea coconut with longans. Everyone will have something sweet to
remember .

Chinese New Year is celebrated for 15 days and for the next 15 days , there will be food
and more food with more reunions with relatives and friends. It is the time of the year
where we indulge in lots of good food and food that you will find only serve once a year and
you wouldn't want to miss them.
Leave me a line, and share with me your Happy Chinese New Year.

Fried Dumplings

Klang Valley is never short of nice food. Hawker's stall, shops and shopping malls you can find food, and more nice food be it chinese , malay,nyonya, western, mamak a long list.... I was at Jusco shopping mall and I had lunch at Delicious Kitchen, yes it is delicious, the food there. They serve mainly chinese food and noodles. Take a look at the photos.





This the best fried dumpling I have ever tasted. The fillings of diced pork,kau choy and some
seasoning in the dumplings dipped in chilli sauce with young ginger are so delicious you don't feel the oil and the guilt... It's good and recommended.






Spicy Fried Cashew Nut Chicken is one dish you would also love to eat. It is aromatic and
flavorful with a tinge of spiciness.It goes very well with the soft white pau.

The stewed pork always come with the soft white pau. You dipped the pau into the black
sauce which is a bit sweet and salty and has an aromatic herbal taste. Not bad at all.


This baby french beans fried with diced pork and pickled vegetables is good too. It is soft ,
a bit crunchy and flavorful. With this dish , it makes a complete lunch .

I am going shopping after this to burn up the fats.

Leave me a line about your experience too.

Muruku

You will love this Indian crunchy snack known as "muruku". It is deep fried and it
tastes a bit spicy, aromatic taste of fried curry leaves and groundnuts.It is especially
popular during Deepavali (hindu festival) and more popular with drinkers in the
"pub" during happy hours. Take a look at the picture.


This is muruku. Have you tasted it before ? Share with me your experience of eating
this spicy crunchy snack.

Penang Nyonya Cuisine

I have been waiting for someone to set up a Nyonya restaurant in Klang Town until recently I
discover one in Centro Building called Ah Tuan EE Penang Nyonya restaurant. It is a shopping lot on the ground floor of the building decorated with simple decor and some photographs of baba and nyonya and their custumes.
The food served is authentic nyonya dishes and the dishes we chose are tasty , spicy and and
looked good for people who fancy spicy food. Lets take a look at the photos that I have taken.


This dish is called Perut Ikan which consists of 12 types of herbs like, serai, daun kesum,
daun kadok, daun perut, bunga kantan to name a few and vegetables such long beans, brinjal
and pineapple cooked for a long time in a spicy sweet and sourish soup with prawns and pickled
fish maw added. This dish turns out to be very tasty and aromatic because of the herbs. It is
good.


Green Chicken Curry - A spicy green aromatic curry. The green curry comes from green chillies blended with spices and cooked in coconut milk to give a rich gravy. The gravy is thick,
fragrant and tasty. You can eat it with rice or maybe bread.



This is Joo Hu Char or simply shreded turnips fried with shredded dried cuttlefish and shredded
mushrooms. We normally eat this vegetable dish wrapped with chinese lettuce leaves and a
little sambal added to give the 'oomph' or 'kick' literally. It is very interesting and you get to
use your fingers all messed up. Nice, very nice.


Here comes desert - Penang Rojak, simply, mixed fruits with prawn paste sauce. Fruits such as
turnip, pineapple, cucumber, star fruit, mango, guava, any fruits that you like can be used.
The sauce is sweet, saltish and aromatic and most Malaysians love this desert.

If you love spicy food and especially nyonya food, drop me a line to share your experience.

Japanese Cuisine

I learned to appreciate Japanese food some 2 years ago. As time goes by, I enjoy eating
raw salmon,tuna & cod fish with their famous wasabi. Even raw oysters, it takes a while
to learn to eat them with lots of lemon squeezed into it. It is so wonderfully adventurous
the first time I really swallowed the raw oyster.and then the same experience with sashimi.
The sushi, rice rolled with seed weed with ingredients like soft shelled crab, fried chicken meat, cucumber strips, crab stick and lots more as the center filling.
The tempura is merely deep fried battered prawns, brinjal, ladies' fingers, sweet potatoes
and any other vegetables and they are dipped with their sweet soya sauce.
My family and I went to this Sushi King in the Tesco Mall in Klang for out dinner. I find the
food served here is not so nice and lack variety. Anyway, lets take a look at some of the
sushi and bento served

Sushi

Sushi
Bento
This is the conveyor belt carrying the sushi around.

If you share the same interest, ie, food, leave me a line.

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Western Food

Western Food are mostly grilled or pan fried. The flavours are always black pepper, BBQ sauce,
mint sauce, tomato sauce and they also use a lot of butter. Western food is simple to prepare
and plain in taste except when served with sauces like BBQ sauce, Thousand Island sauce or
mayonaise.
This week my son requested for Western food and we went to Dennys & Partners Cafe in
Klang Town which serve quite tasty western food. They have quite a number of choices of appetisers, soups, chicken, lamb and steaks and wide selection of drinks from coffee, cappuchino
to fruit juices and ice creams.


Grilled Lamb with mint sauce and thousand island sauce.
This grilled lamb looks good and tastes good but the meat is too tough! It comes with mashed potatoes,lettuce leaves and slices of tomatoes.




French Gordon Blu Chicken with thousand island sauce.
This dish is actually chicken stuffed with ham, coated with bread crumbs and deep fried.
The chicken is aromatic and tastes good. It comes with mashed potatoes , lettuce leaves and slices of tomatoes.

BBQ Sauce Chicken Chop with thousand island sauce.
The BBQ sauce is a bit sweet and has a nice fragrance and it goes well with the fried chicken.

This outlet , though located in a quiet area behind Klang Parade, it attracts a lot of customers especially families and youngsters during the weekend mainly because the price is reasonable.

If you share the same interest as me, i.e. food, leave me a line.

Fruits Galore

I am back with more Malaysian local fruits to introduce to you. Imagine and enjoy how
colourful and tasty the fruits are....

Juicy...juicy mangoes
Mangoes are grown abundantly in Malaysia. There are so many varieties and each variety has its own unique taste. The flesh is smooth, juicy, sweet and very delicious.


Langsat- lots 0f them

The langsat come in bunches with thin yellow skin. The flesh is transparent with small seed inside it. It is sweet and sometimes a bit sour. It is nice and you will just continue eating non stop.

Pineapples

Malaysian pineapples are grown abundantly here. Most of the varieties are very sweet,
juicy and has a nice fragrance. Pineapple juice is just irresistible. Some are canned for export.


Pomeloes

This is a unique fruit with a thick green skin. The flesh inside looks like pinkish nodules
transparent and sweet . Some other varieties are sweet and sourish. Very juicy and the best
pomeloes are planted in Tambun, Ipoh, Malaysia. It is a favourite fruit for the chinese especially
during festive months.


Potusan





Potusan ...close up

This spiky red fruit is the original version of the rambutan family. The name itself is in hokkien
dialect. The flesh is similar to rambutan but the texture is smoother but as sweet as rambutan.

There are still a lot of other Malaysian fruits. When I do get pictures of them , I will share
them with you.
If you share the same interest with me, i.e. food, drop me a line.