Fried vermicelli ala Chinese

I had some leftover pasta vermicelli at home, so I decided to finish them up before they spoilt. This time I cooked it in simple Chinese stir-fried style. The verdict?

Delicious, I have to admit myself! Of course the texture of vermicelli is different from the normal noodles we used in Chinese cooking. However it went well and I actually enjoyed my vermicelli this way. I used simple ingredients which normally found in Chinese noodles.

Hope you guys enjoy this fried pasta vermicelli.

Ingredients:
100g Pasta Vermicelli
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1/2 big onion, sliced
100g broccoli, cut in smaller florets and cooked in boiled water to soften
100g organic small tomatoes or cherry tomatoes, halved
Chicken meat, sliced

Marinade for chicken:
2 tbsp dark soy sauce, 1 tbsp Maggi chili sauce and pinch of salt

Methods:
1. Throw the vermicelli in a pot of boiled water, added with 1tsp corn cooking oil and pinch of salt. Cook for 5 minutes. Drain and set aside.
2. Marinate chicken for 30 minutes.
3. In a wok, add in 2 tbsp corn cooking oil. When heated up, add garlic and saute till fragrant. Add in onion and saute for 1 minute before add broccoli and tomatoes. Add pinch of salt to taste.
4. Add the marinated chicken and mix well. Cook till chicken is cooked and then add in the pasta. Mix well so pasta covered in the sauce.
5. Add salt to taste. Serve.

I like the salty with a bit of chili taste in my pasta. A plate of yum yum!

Liebster Award from Azura

Sorry Azura for taking so long to post this up. When the last time I receive an award?? It was back in August 2012. Yeap, almost 2 years ago.

This Liebster award is interesting in a sense you have to answer a set of 10 questions set by the person that nominated you. I don't mind doing the questions but I have to break the rules here. I am not going to pass on the award, nominate anyone or set new questions. Super lazy to crack my head thinking of new questions. Hehehe. 

So, here are the Q&A:

1. What is your latest addiction?

Currently hooked to my novel, The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo

2. What is your favorite pizza topping?

Pepperoni with lots of cheese!

3. Book that you read more than two times?

The Rake and His Lady. 

4. Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotel?

I don't but my hubby do. That includes tea, coffee, creamer and sugar packets! Lol. I still cannot get him to quit this habit.

5. Sing in the car?

Sometimes.  Depend on what the radio is playing...

6. Do you still watch cartoons?

Once a while with my kids

7. Do you have any pet peeves? 

Yes, the drivers who takes their sweet times to turn to a lane or never bother to signal before turning!

8. Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid?

I guess most kids would always wanted to be a teacher when they grow up.  I dreamt of being a teacher when I were younger. Next was an actress. ;)

9. When is the last time you updated your blog?

Yesterday!! Tried to update daily if possible. 

10. Last letter/piece of mail you received besides junk or a bill? 

A pleasant surprise from Sharon Das last Saturday

Thanks again Azura for the award and questions.  Now you know more about me, right? 

From the sea

I love fresh seafood. And I love fresh oysters too!

Had few fresh oysters over the weekend! 

Slurpy and delicious plate

I prefer my oysters go with just some lemon juice and a bit of fried shallot

This is Tong Fung Lo (sea snails) from Sabah. Just steam them and dip with some fu chu paste (preserved beancurd)

How the snail looks like 

Both oysters and snails from Hong Fu Seafood

Of course I do not indulge myself with all those expensive seafoods all the times. Once a while I like the simple hawker stall's seafood cooking such as this sambal belacan kangkung with cuttlefish! 

This plate of RM5 dish is available in Mu Cafe, same row with 100 Yen (behind Medan Mall)

A Sunday dim sum

Everyone woke up very early today; before 7am. Actually my girl woke us up with her coughs. All 3 kids have a bout of flu and cough this week, so I had a pretty tiring week looking after them.

It is another grocery shopping Sunday, as hubby is travelling tomorrow. So we went for a dim sum breakfast before shop in Medan mall. We just went to the nearby restaurant, HongFu for dim sum. Had a great dim sum during our first dining but this time, it did not turned out great!  Or maybe we were too early as not much choices. No har kau today!!

Let's have a look at what we had.

Yeap, that was a lot for us, I know.  But we ordered 3 different dim sum with same filling, ie char siew! Gosh! The paus, sio pau and yam puff! 

I quite like the char siew pau as the outer was soft and the filling was sweet

The one in Farley was better than this steamed rib

The char siew pau

A bit disappointed as expected a yam puff. The staff was not informative enough. If I knew it was char siew filling, I wouldn't have ordered at first place. Service was not good I have to say

Hubby ordered this. I only tasted one as I never a fan of chee cheong fun.

We could not finished this plate of fried noodle as we tried to finish up the dim sum.  In the end we tapau the leftover dim sum for my sil!

Okay, not going to come back here for breakfast. Will go to other place for dim sum next round. ;)

A thank you note

Thoughout the years of blogging, I have the opportunity to know some genuine and wonderful people from all parts of the world. Blog world is limitless and borderless with no regards on how you look or where you are from. 

I am happy to know you all. Learnt a lot from your blogs.

I would like to thank you all again for the friendships. We may have not met in person but it feels like we have done so.  Maybe one day, we will meet.

Thank you again for coming to my humble blog and for your comments and supports. And also not forgetting to thank you for your mails too.

Talking about mails, I would like to thank Sharon and Shirley for sending me these wonderful gifts. They are simply thoughtful, I like the gifts very much.

Thanks Sharon for the pasta and Transformer fridge magnet.

Lovely handmade earrings from Shirley

Don't impress me much

Last week, I brought my hubby to Bus Terminal to send a parcel.  It was in the afternoon so we went to Medan Food Court, which was opposite Bus Terminal for lunch. 

It was our first time to Medan Food Court.  Not a good place to have meal as it was rather filthy and nothing there really fancied me.  But hubby heard that the roasted meat rice was nice, so we decided to give it a try since we were in the vicinity.

Hubby ordered a plate of mixed meat.  RM12.00 per plate, enough for 3 persons.  I quite like the roasted pork belly as it was crispy.  The char siew was good too.

I do not mind to come for its roasted meat rice, but it would not be soon.  As it is out of the way and unless we needed to go to bus terminal for parcel delivery, this place is not our choice.

Few nights ago, we wanted to go to this Delish Kitchen & Payung Mahkota in Orchid Hotel for dinner but it was not open by time we were there. So we ended up at this new chicken rice place. Suituapui mentioned this Chen Kee Hainanese Chicken Rice recently, so
I told him I will give it a try.

Nothing impressive about the setting. It has open kitchen where you see them prepare the food and they used computerised system so they keyed in what you ordered on the spot.

We had half chicken (RM17) and 3 plates of rice. And how tall was their chicken rice pyramid! I could not finish my rice. Enough for 2 persons. The rice was alright but could do more with extra "oil" and seasoning. Chicken was rather bland for me. However the chili sauce was a savior here, so we had lots of its chili sauce to go with our rice and chicken.

Of course we had 2 side dishes to balance up our nutrition, so a plate of bean sprouts (RM5)

And a bowl of steamed tofu with minced chicken (RM6).  My sil commented my steamed tofu with minced meat tasted better than this. Lol!

It is a halal food outlet so no pork is served.

That's it. One of my very few not-so-impressive food experience that I recently had.

With full tummy

We have our dinners few times at Hong Fu Restaurant. Price is reasonable, quality of food is satisfactory and speed is fast. So we like to have our meals there on special occasions.

Last Sunday, hubby's uncle was back so we invited him and my sil and her hubby for dinner. It was around 630pm when we reached there so the place was still not packed.

Pardon my quality of photographs. Did not know that they were blur till I posted them out.

As usual we never missed out on ordering its deep fried pork trotter. My girl's favourite. She enjoyed the flavourish skin very much.

 This time we had its crabs with egg. Super delicious and the crabs were very meaty that night. I hate digging and chewing on those crabs without much meats in them.

 Luckily they have the seasonal bamboo clams that day so we ordered its bamboo clams in curry.  If only they cooked it slightly tender and peel half of the shell away then this dish would be perfect.

Love their signature taufu dish in mince gravy. Go well with rice.

 And of course we had a vegetable dish. Actually 2 that night; one was the midin in belacan but I forgot to take photo of that.

Overall a nice dinner. We went home with full tummies. The bill came up to RM130 with drinks.