Wasn't well

My man wasn't feeling well last weekend; he was down with fever and cough when he got back last Friday. Stayed at home whole day on Saturday. He slept through the day. 

In the morning, he ordered from Grab a pack of pork congee from his favourite congee shop. And took the congee the whole day.

By Sunday afternoon, he was much better. However, he wanted porridge again for dinner so I drove him to this nearby coffee shop to buy porridge.

He bought 2 big packs of pork porridge and 4 side dishes for RM19. 

I liked the porridge from this coffee shop. I would tapau and heat up the next day for breakfast. Unfortunately, my kids are not so fond of porridge so usually I ended up having to eat it for one whole day. So I seldom buy porridge nowadays. 

The side dishes that hubby bought were fried radish omelette, salted fish, salted egg and century egg. I don't take the century egg, never my favourite but my man definitely loves it.

My man only went to work on Tuesday. On Monday, he took his car to workshop to fix two new front tyres as the old one has worn off. Not safe for him to drive long distance. He went to see doctor on Wednesday when he wasn't fully recovered and after checking, the doctor prescribed him new medication. Hubby has infection in lung due to accumulated phlegm and cough. He is much better after taking this medicine for a couple of days. 

The noodles

It was the movie date on Deepavali. It wasn't a public holiday here so there wasn't a big crowd in Vivacity Megamall that Monday, which we liked. It was our first movie since MCO so it has been more than 2 years since our last outing, and our choice of movie was Black Adam. Actually it was more of Jamie's choice as he was the one who pestering us to go for the movie. 

I booked 1130am slot and it was over 2 hours show. By the time it ended, we were hungry so we went to this noodle eatery for our late lunch.

Go Noodle House which was opposite to Level Up Fitness on Level 3. Not so crowded then because my guess it was almost 2pm so can't expect many diners.

Hubby always wanted to try out this place but didn't get the chance. Seeing not many diners in the eatery, he guided us into this place.

This Qing dynasty inspired eatery, was clean and aptly decorated. Made me think of my time in China, dining in their restaurants. All ordering are online, so you need to scan their QR code to go to their online menu and do the ordering there. Of course, you make your payment after done at their cashier. 

Let check out on what we had.

Hubby's beef noodle came first. Beef slice and minced beef soup noodle with his noodle option of lamian while the girl went for the same set but with mihun in her noodle soup.

Jay went for this pork ball mi xian noodle set that included fried beancurd skin, fish nugget and a bottle of mineral water. 

Kid's meal for Jamie but the portion was pretty huge. It was called special dark sauce mi xian kid meal set. The boy was having hard time finishing his noodle but he ate 3/4 of it while the dad helped to clear the noodle off for him. Jan and I helped with some of his side dishes.

As for yours truly, this superior pan mee soup was just nice to satisfy the craving. How much I missed pan mee. 

When it came, I could immediately smell the wine in the soup. So fragrant!! I quite enjoyed it.

The portion was huge. Big bowls of noodle soup, no need to order any drink!! And I was still full when it was dinnertime that evening! 

Whatever you have

We were back at this food court for our breakfast as the girl wanted her Western breakfast. So the three of us went over to enjoy our breakfast while the boys were still in their slumberland. 

We seated in front of the Char Kueh stall and I have been wanting to taste its char kueh. Few flavours to choose from and my favourite has always been the salty one. So RM6 for this salty char kueh to share among the three of us.

It didn't take long for The Breakfast Factory to do our food as it came in a quick time. 

Jan's Champion breakfast (above) as it was called while I have whatever my man had.

A lovely breakfast as I enjoyed it although I seldom take this kind of breakfast. Once in a while, a change from usual kolo mee and Sarawak laksa is pretty enticing. 

Long weekend

It was a long weekend last week with kids having a school break yesterday due to Deepavali. Hubby is staying in Kuching till tomorrow as he is having a meeting in Kuching today. 

Rainy and cloudy Saturday we had so we spent most of our time at home. Other than breakfast and grocery shopping with hubby, we had a relaxing Saturday by catching on dramas at home. 

Kolo mee RM5 in Megabite Batu Kawa

On Sunday, the weather took a good turn. Nice day but hubby and I spent time at the self-service laundry and car wash in the morning. He washed his bedding while I took time with spin drying the big piles of laundry. At the same time, hubby sent his car to wash at the next door shop.

On Monday, we went for a movie. It has been more than 2 years since our last movie and Jamie has been requesting for a movie date since last week. So I booked the ticket online the day earlier and had our movie at TGV in Vivacity Mall.  Other than movie, we went to try a new eatery in the mall. Blog post is coming up on our lunch soon. 

How about you?? What did you do on the Deepavali weekend??

The bowl

My man shared his breakfast photo earlier this week. He was having dumplings (wanton) in an old coffee shop in Sri Aman. 

And wow, for RM5 per bowl, it sure was a big portion. Meaty dumplings. My man liked it but for me, I prefer the thinner skin more. 

Dumplings RM5

On another note, I like the bowl that they used to serve their customers. Nice and presentable.

Sarawak laksa RM6

Battery

I bought my current car back in 2019. Got it in January 2019, in time for the Chinese New Year. 

Then 2020 hit us hard with Covid-19 and I hardly drive for most of it and the trend continued to 2021 since kids were stuck at home with online classes. Till we slowly moved to endemic stage this year that I rely on my car heavily. Spend quite substantial amount of time on the road. 

So when it comes to car servicing, I tried not to miss it. The only time I delayed it was back in 2020 due to MCO. Since then, I tried to follow the schedule.  The next servicing was supposed to be last Saturday but I was busy as Jan had curriculum day in school. So I thought of sending my car this Saturday instead. But my car broke down on me on Tuesday!! Yes, right in front of tuition teacher's house when I went to pick Jamie up. 

Called it an intuition, felt my car wasn't in right condition lately. Maybe because mostly I am driving it so I will kind of knowing whether it is alright or not. Anyway, back to my story, I was unable to ignite the engine so first thought was the battery. It is time to change the battery. Thanks to the teacher who helped to send us home that evening and look after my car till I got the mechanic to change on Wednesday morning. I had my neighbour dropped me off at the teacher's house so I could wait for the mechanic. It took few minutes to change and my car was back!! And RM350 was the damage!!

One by one

It was a Monday, a public holiday last week. Followed my man to meet a customer in Jalan Chawan that morning and then we decided to buy lunch at Taiwan Siao Jou in Jalan Wan Alwi.

We were debating either to buy 5 packs with rice or just dishes and in the end, I won. We bought dishes and cooked own rice at home. 

It was almost lunch time, so the staff was rather busy preparing packed lunch, bento lunch set while serving walk-in customers. We waited patiently for our turn while 2 ladies in front of us ordering their food. When reached our turn, we took a good look and ordered our preferred dishes. A staff served and packed our dishes, one by one. Here was what we had. RM37 for all.

Our lunch

Ginger sliced pork, RM8

Soy sauce chicken, RM8

Creamy butter chicken, RM5

Chai poh omelette, RM4.50

Stir fried cangkuk Manis, RM5

Stir fried pak chai or bok choy, RM5

Hubby's sweet potato porridge, RM1.50