Chill out

In a blink of an eye, it is December. And Christmas is falling upon us soon without you realising it. 

No, we didn't put up Christmas tree this year.  It has been 4 years since we set up the tree. Somehow as the kids grow bigger, they aren't so into those things anymore. 

So no harm for me to admire other Christmas trees when I see them. Just the other night, hubby and I went to this bistro in Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce called Anglers Bistro. We had a chill out there, relaxing and enjoying the atmosphere. The Christmas tree was pretty, giving that festive vibe in the bistro. 

I had mojito while hubby had his usual drink, beer. I prefer a lighter cocktail so this minty and refreshing cocktail is my favourite.

We also shared this fish n chip, where they used Cobia fish. Never tasted Cobia fish before but this fried fish nugget was delicious and went well with their homemade tartar sauce. Definitely will order this again. 

Peach gum

We received few hampers this year. On Chap Goh Mei, we unwrapped the hampers. One of the hampers had this peach gum in it. Oh wow!! Never cooked peach gum before so it is first time for me to do it.

Well packed in 6; handful of peach gum, few slices of red dates and few rock sugar cubes. Before I took one pack to cook, I googled for some information. Oh, need to soak first then can be used and cooked. 

It called for overnight soaking, so I did that. The next morning, I simply added the peach gum into a pot of boiling water, added the spiced date and rock sugar cubes. Let it simmer. Then ready to drink!!

Jan and I shared this bowl of peach gum tong sui, both of us liked it.  Will finish up the remaining peach gums and maybe will buy it from health shop. 

Chilled

It was a very warm morning last Friday. I was craving for something sweet and chilled that day so I thought of checking out this Lejoy Ice Tea shop which was about 2 minutes drive from my house only. 

Noticed that they were having drink promotion on weekdays so together with my partners-in-crime (Jan and Jay), we went over on Friday morning. Jan and Jay didn't go to school as the school was having its sports day for few days. 

Friday drink promotion are these 2 drinks. Original soya milk tea and white jelly milk tea. So we opted for one each!

While waiting, we took time to look around. Only us were there before few ladies came in to order their drink. 

Clean and decent place to enjoy chilled drinks and some snacks. But we didn't take any snacks. Just ordered our drink and took a seat while waiting.

We reached there before 11am as waited for Jay to finish his tuition at 1030am. 

First to come was white jelly milk tea (RM8.80). It was mild and refreshing. Jay loved it so much that he drank most of it.

Jan and I were more interested in the original soya milk tea (RM9.60). It took a while for our drink to be ready as they said earlier that it would take 15 minutes to cook the bubbles. We didn't mind the waiting since we were free that morning. 

It was nice, not too sweet and the bubbles were well cooked. Chewy and not tough. Soya powder on top of the milk tea. Stirred and mixed it before we took a sip. I enjoyed it especially on a warm Friday morning. 

Definitely will come back for its milk tea and other drinks when we feel like it. 

Hangout

A night out on 2nd night of CNY. Hubby took me out for a drink and gathering with his friends. I knew most of them and one is even my cousin. Somehow, few fishing trips put my cousin and hubby together and now they are buddies!

Sodu was our hangout place. A friend opened this bistro so we spent quite a lot time there. T has been a long time I had a good drink and went home the next day!! Lol. 

1 glass of beer and a tall glass of cocktail for me, and I was amazed I wasn't that drunk!! Lol. Alright, enough of my drinking episode. CNY has been relaxing this year. We didn't do much visiting. First day to my parents' house, then a friend's house in the evening, who served us abalone mee suah. 

On 2nd day, we visited 2 houses, both are hubby's relatives.  That was all the visiting we could have. 

Not much cooking at home especially breakfast. Now no worry of getting hungry and no eateries are opened during festive season. 

This Foochow stall opened on 3rd day of CNY. Both hubby and I enjoyed its Foochow fried noodle. So so good and delicious.

On another day, we went back to the same stall but I had the fried mee hoon with a fried egg on top!! Jan also liked its fried mee hoon.

When our other favourite coffee shop opened on the 5th, hubby and I walked all the way there. We didn't go for our morning walk much before CNY. Hope to get back to our walking routine soon.  

Kolo mee for us and takeaway for the kids and mil. 

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Stopped by the road

After our alluring shellout lunch in D'White Station, we went to the fisherman centre to check on their daily catches. We bought 2 white pomfrets, half kg of tiger prawns and 2 mangoes home. 

On the way home, we stopped by this roadside stall centre for its Serapi virgin coconut shake. We saw many people queued up on our previous visit so we were also curious to check the stall out. 

Well maintained and clean row of stalls. Not all stalls were opened during the mid-day. 

A little corner with simple decoration and set up. Anyone is welcome to take photos or selfies there. 

Back to my drink, I ordered 1 original coconut shake and one with gula apong from a young Malay girl from this stall. They also sell other drink shake, packed food and snacks. 

My verdict on the coconut shake?? I could tasted the blended coconut flesh in the shake. The original flavour was refreshing. Not too sweet. The one with gula apong was sweet to my liking. Guess what?? I mixed with some water and turn the drink into popsicles when got home!! Lol. 

White coconut shake (left) and Coconut shake with gula apong, RM5 each

A photo with the coconut shakes in front of the stall before we headed home. Our short trip to Telaga Air was fun. Mostly because of discovering new place, food and drink. There are still many places in Kuching or Sarawak in general that I have yet been to. 

Happy Sarawak's Day!! 

Stop for a moment

Together with Jan, we went to Aeon Mall last Monday. I had RM50 Aeon cash vouchers so before they expired, I better remember to utilise them.

We reached around 11am and a group of people was standing at the basement entrance busy scanning the QR code before going up to Ground Floor. They are using CovidTrace and MySejahtera codes. 

It was our first visit to the mall since MCO and everything was new. I had problem accessing my QR from my Huawei phone. Luckily Jan's Samsung phone able to access My Sejahtera. So after the scanning and temperature checking at Ground Floor, we were allowed to roam around the mall.

We used up the vouchers in the supermarket, bought lunch, some fresh products. And Ice-cream!!

Rm10 each. Few choices but we stayed safe, choose the regular flavours. One for her and one for me.  Guess which flavour I chose!? Hehe.

We spent a short time in Aeon supermarket. Not many crowds; rather quiet so we felt comfortable shopping and browsing through the aisles. 

Before we leave, we made a stop at this shop on the 2nd floor for a moment. To get my dose of bubble milk tea!! 

RM7.90 for this regular bubble milk tea from Ding Tea. I like milk tea but I try not to take it often. Otherwise gastric will come attacking me!! 

Temptation was too much that day so I just get a cup of its milk tea and enjoyed it at home. Jan wasn't interested in milk tea so she gave it a pass. I am not a frequent drinker myself, but I guess once in a while indulgence is alright. 

Do you like to drink bubble milk tea?? 

Cooling

Weather has been hot lately especially in the morning but we did have thunderstorm or heavy rain with gush of wind late afternoon towards the evening. 

Not long ago, I used up this can of sea coconut in honey syrup from our CNY happer. 

Ali Shan brand from Thailand!! I love sea coconut. I used to order that dessert when I ate at the Hock Hai hawker centre. But that was ages ago and I wonder whether that drink stall that sells the sea coconut dessert is still open or not. 

To accompany the sea coconut, I added longan and red dates. No sugar added since I used some of the honey syrup. 

Basically just drain the longan from a can of longan. Washed and deseed 2 red dates. In a pot, add in the sea coconut, half honey syrup, about 1 cup of water, longan and red dates. Boiled till sea coconut has soften. 

I liked it to be served chill. Cooling dessert on any warm day!! 

On the 1st

It was 1st of May. Labour's Day.

I woke up late that morning, so I prepared burgers for breakfast. Finished up the frozen patties that hubby bought from supermarket and paired with buns, our breakfast was good and simple.

For lunch, I cooked this sticky pork belly. Recipe was from this website. Easy pan fried pork belly for lunch.

Just pan fried the meat on a hot pan. About 4 minutes on each side. Add in sauce mixture of 2 tbsp honey, 2 tbsp light soy sauce, 1 tbsp oyster sauce and 1 tsp minced garlic. Coat the pork belly well with the sauce and cook till thicken. When it cools down, chopped to smaller pieces. 

Late afternoon, a delivery car arrived at our gate. Hubby ordered this beer delivery in the morning.  Beers were directly pumped out from the barrel in the car. We were the last stop and the seller was so good to iffer us 1 free cup of stout before he called it a day!!

6+1 draught beer and stout plus side dishes.

I prefer beer so I took half pint of draught beer that evening.

Kompia!! The meat-stuffed kompia was nice. We had them for dinner. 

Hubby and I finished them up for supper. Kids didn't touch the spicy chicken wings and meats. Too spicy for them. 

My man? A happy man at home as long as he has his drink. Lol.

Tea talk

Let's have a tea talk.

Teh-C

I drink tea. I am not a coffee lover. I usually drink tea in the morning. Not so much in the late afternoon and evening as if I drink tea at such hours, I would have insomnia. Tried it, been there, so I would not want to risk drinking in the afternoon and evening.

One shelf for our black tea

I drink black tea at home. My hubby loves tea so he mostly buy our tea supply at home. During our Hangzhou holiday last December, we bought 2 packs of Longjing tea (a type of green tea) home. Sometime we took few leaves and bite and eat them just like that. The leaves are crispy. Other day, we pour warm water onto few tea leaves and drink the tea.

Longjing tea

If I am to order drink outside, I would go for teh c (our local name for tea mixed with milk). Basically it is milk tea.  Depends on place, I would have our Kuching teh c peng special (3 layers tea consists of red tea, evaporated milk and gula Melaka syrup).

So on normal days, I would drink black tea, but take milk tea on weekends when having breakfast at coffee shops.

Sometime last month, I noticed this bubble or pearl milk tea truck parked at a bus stop in Green road. A new drink truck in Kuching!!

I was waiting for Jan to finish her school then. So to kill time, I decided to approach the tea truck and try the pearl milk tea or famously known as boba.

RM8 for big cup, RM6 for small cup. I decided for the latter one. Few choices and I went for milk tea. I still like pearls with milk tea than other flavours.

By the way, that day was the tea truck's first day of business on the road.  2 young men mending the truck. After few minutes, I got my cup of pearl milk tea.

Tastewise, the milk tea was not too sweet, quite fragrant. Unfortunately the tapioca pearls were hard. Not well cooked. I had to scoop them out when I reach home so I could enjoy the tea only. Lol.

And did I finish the drink that evening?? Of course, no. I had few sips in the car and keep the tea in the fridge for the next morning. Yes, milk tea without pearls to accompany my breakfast the next day. :)