The paper container business

All the food operators are requested to go eco-friendly and change their styrofoam container to paper food container. Indeed safer and environmental friendly but hardly practical. Next time I have to remind myself to bring my own container when tapau lunches.

My lunch today. Indonesian ayam penyet rice from Aloha cafe. Have wanted to try it long long time and finally I did try it today. Well, so-so. Nothing to shout about. At least satisfy my curiosity. *wink*

The price tag said RM6.00 but the aunt charged me RM6.20. For the container or there is price increase? Slap me for not clarify with her. Lol!

The sambal not bad. If only they added more ulam but with such small paper container, there isnt much space for more.

Snack up

Munching on this to go along with my cup of tea.  Bought few packets in Kuching last November and still left 1 big packet and before it is expiring, I better do something with it. And it means, I have excuses to eat it!  Lol!

This rice cracker is famous Kuching's produce and I enjoyed the rice cracker made from brown rice.  But some day I do not mind those rice crackers with groundnuts.  I do not eat a lot, usually 2 - 3 sticks at a time.  Most of the times, I would share with my boy since he loves sweet stuff.  And that is the result of letting him holding to the snack and he eats first.  Come back to me in pieces and crumps instead of nice rectangular shape.  *wink* 

But I still love to munch on pumpkin seeds. I can munch a lot of this snack while watching tv.

Got to start cooking dinner soon. After that I will take a quick bath and go out to pick my 2 older kids from tuition and Jamie from baby sitter. 

I have put Jay in tuition with the sister.  The tuition teacher is kind enough to help me teach Jay in his K1 study as I am running out of ideas to teach him myself.  He never listen to me.  I guess most mothers have the same problem when it comes to teaching their kids at home.  So far he is happy to go along and do some school works there.  He started on Monday afternoon and today is the 2nd time he goes there. At least he gets to finish his school works there instead of playing toys at home.  And I get to have a 2 hours peaceful moment in the afternoon too*wink*

The kids finish at 5pm and after that we will go to pick Jamie in Bukit Assek area. Hope the water in that area has subsided as for few days the water has overflown to the road and causing a mini pool there.  If you are caught in this road in Jalan Bukit Assek, you got to slow down and drive carefully.  Do you know know where is the road and where is the drain???

Not much to desire

Last weekend I helped my SIL taking care of her shop for 2 days as she went to KL for a short break. It been a year since I handled shop on my own. Forget that it was a tough job! *wink*

Anyway I closed earlier on Saturday as wanted to buy some stuff for the kids. But before we went for our shopping, we decided to stopped for quick dinner at this Sri Pelita. Heard from Mr Suituapui that it serves nice briyani and roti canai. But our luck was not good because not much choice that evening. Maybe they do not serve briyani in evening and all curries and dishes finished up. They only have fried dishes. We were lazy to go to other place so we just settle for its fried food.

The kids had roti telur and roti susu. Not bad and I like its curry. Hubby ordered dhall but they didnt have it.

I had its nasi goreng ayam. In my mind, I thought my fried rice would be served with fried chicken but ended up like this.....

Very big portion but I wonder the cook forgot to add salt as my fried rice was rather tasteless and I ate it with some curry gravy.

On other hand, hubby's Maggi mee goreng was too salty. Lol.

I still want to try its Briyani so maybe we will come again for lunch one day. 

Lovely gift and my novels

Thank you to Azura for the lovely gift! Received it in good condition yesterday.

Yes, I have a new mug for my morning tea! Sorry, I do not drink coffee but this mug fit my needs. Lol.

And the mug comes with 2 lovelies as well.

With kids going to schools and I had times in the morning, I am catching up on my novels that I bought last November. Currently half way on this book...

and can't wait to start on this..

Weekend Menu #54 : Stir fried Kailan Stem

It is that time of the year where we could find the big Kailan stems on sales in the wet market here!  I love its crunchiness when stir frying it.  Usually I would just stir fried with garlic and shallots and add some salt to my kailan stem, but this weekend I used the big dried prawns that we bought from Mukah last month.  Turned out great too.

RM6.00 per pack

Recipe:

1. Wash, soak and rinse the dried prawns.
2. Slice off the skin of the kailan stem.  Dispose the green part and leave the white flesh.  Slice the flesh thinly.
3. Heat up oil in the wok.  About 4 - 5 tbsp.  Once heat up, throw in minced garlic and sliced shallot.  When turn fragrant, toss in dried prawns.  Stir fried for about 30seconds
4.  Add in the kailan stem.  Fry for a minute then add some water, oyster sauce and salt to taste.  Dish out!

The old town of Betong

We stopped by this old town on our way back to Sibu on New Year.  We were attracted by the road sign that saying "Fort Lili" so we decided to check this town out.  Took us about half hour to reach the town from the main road.

Betong, one of the divisions in Sarawak, was formed in 2002.  Formerly part of Sri Aman division, it is the smallest adminitrative division in Sarawak. Majority is Iban with mix of Chinese and Malay.  So along the road to Betong town you would be seeing some Iban culture annex such as this....

The icon of Betong - a white rubber tree!!! Standing in the middle of the town

Some old shophouses there

We drove around the old town.  There is a new township which is on the left side before reaching this old town.  We did not drive to the new town because it would take few minutes to reach there. 

As for the Fort Lili, we were having a hard time finding it.  We drove around the old town twice and lost road sign after turning here and there. In the end we asked for a direction from a young Malay girl, and we finally spotted Fort Lili.  No wonder we could not find it.  It was barely visible, as hidden behind this Masjid Jamek.

The fort was not open that day so we did not get the chance to see it at close view.  I only able to take a shot from its locked gate.  The fort was build in 1885 and the famous Iban warrior, Rentap was said to have some actions with the White Rajah here.  Later the fort turned into police and administrative office.

Well, not much luck of viewing the Fort Lili from inside.  But from outside, it does look like Fort Slyvia Kapit.  Maybe when we gone back to Kapit for CNY this year, we can bring the kids to visit Fort Slyvia and its historical exhibition.

Miscellaneous Picture #12: The mighty green

We drove to Kuching on Christmas day last year.  An interesting road trip as we stopped by at the bottom of Hosanna hill along the way for the first time.  It took us almost 6 hours to reach Kuching although we encountered rain on and off.  The kids were pretty co-operative and my young chatterboxes enjoyed the little "guessing game" along the way.  *wink*

The Pan Borneo Highway is better compared to our very first road trip to Sibu.  Wider road and better road signs! 

And we stayed in Kuching for a week and drove back to Sibu on New Year!  So we spent most of our Christmas and New Year on roads!!!

Kuching was very cold and wet during our 1-week stay and only on 1 January morning that we were able to see some sunshine.  Sigh! But the weather in Kuching is always gloomy at this time leading to CNY. 

It was more tiring and stress driving back on 1 January because of the heavy downpour especially after passing Serian town because it started to rain then.  We spent almost 8 hours driving back but along the way we made a divertion to a town and that already took up 1 hour of the time.  Shall post about this town in the next post. 

Although it rained, we still able to enjoy the nice foggy views of our nature then.  Indeed Sarawak is blessed with greenery as we have vast rainforest, hills and mountains.  The inner part of Sarawak is very hilly and it seperated us from our neighbouring country in the South.

The hill in Serian - is this where the Limestone Ridge's cave is???

Another nice green mountain; this taken in Lachau

This one is taken in Pantu

Sri Aman town with a big arch welcoming everyone to the division.

We did not go to Sri Aman town which is straight up.  Turn right to Sibu

Along the way we would see the beautiful ranges that stretching on both side of the highway.  Hubby kept telling us that just over the other side of the range is our neighbour.  *wink*

This is taken on one of the steepest highway on top of the mountain (about 43km from Sri Aman town).  Nice or not?  My photos do not do justice to the beautiful ranges and mountains because they are simply beautiful with those white clouds that linger low that day due to rain.

Going down the mountain!!!  Pretty steep right?  Some more it rained, so the road was pretty slippery!

Beautiful ranges!!  If I am not mistaken, it is Tama Abu range which link to Crocker range in Sabah.

Hope you guys enjoy the views!  Because I did!  :)