Irresistible Kapitan Chicken Curry 甲必丹加哩鸡 ~ MFF Penang

I  realized this  Kapitan  Chicken Curry is originated from Penang only when many photos of the dish  posted on the Malaysian Food Fest facebook event  for the Penang month.  Prepared the dish earlier but did not make it to the blog  due to  my lousy photography.

With just a few day left before waive bye bye to June 2013, managed to dished out to mouth watering dish for this facebook event initiated by Wendy of Table for 2.... or more.

 Patient is need to cook the dish as the pounded ingredients need to cook under low fire and keep stirring till oil appeared.

Cornell Cooking Contest Grand Final ~ 25th May 2013

 Chanced upon Cornell Malaysia's "Your recipe with Love'  Facebook contest sometimes in November 12 and managed to submit my entries with 2 days before the submission closed.
Since then, there is no turning back although went through 2 rounds of stress to 'beg' for votes. 

Cornell Malaysia Sdn Bhd organized this  Cooking Competition with the theme - Your recipe With Recipe with Love II running for a period from September 2012 till January 2013.  This was a Cornell Facebook Programme where the participants competing in 4 rounds of food photos voting.  Finally,  9 finalists were chosen to battle on a live cooking competition helon 25th May 2013.  I was lucky to be among one of the finalists -  Pheewww!    Sweetttt.......
Our famous Celebrity Dato Chef Wan was the sole judge.   The Grand final of the Live Cooking Competition was held at Paradigm Mall, concourse Square, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

The finalist were to prepare two dishes  -  A salad as a starter  and another with the theme 'Mix Culture". 

Tadaaaaa!  And the Grand Prize winner is ..............

   Champion of the Day!

As a wife/mother of 3 grown up children,  Satisfaction and contended are the rewards knowing family member enjoyed the food I prepared.  It never crossed my mind, by doing so for years will bring me to another level in my culinary  journey with unexpected rewards!  I found no words  to describe the joy and excitement I am experiencing now.

Your Recipes with love II” Cornell Cooking Competition is the Final stage of Cornell Facebook program, total 4 Rounds of Games. 9 winners have successfully won out by the highest votes.  This program is for people to show up the unique cooking skills and an opportunity to meet their Idol Chef-Dato’ Chef Wan in person. Cornell is providing a platform for all the Cornell Fans to shine and glow on the stage, together with Dato’ Chef Wan. Dressed up with Traditional costumes and stand a chance to win the Best-Dressed King/Queen during the show, See you on 25th May’13 @ Paradigm Mall, Concourse Square, Level CC. - See more at: http://www.cornellappliances.com/your-recipes-with-love-ii-final-round/#sthash.iwPZHa6q.dpu

Appetizing Thai Style Steamed Fish 开胃泰式蒸鱼

A wholesome hearty meal  ~  Appetizing  Spicy, sweet and sour steamed fish in fragrant spicy sauce with  a touch of Thailand essence.

Recipe adapted from Famous Chef Amy Beh with some amendments.

Ingredients 

1 slice of grouper fish  石斑鱼  (2cm thick, about 250 gms)
1 stalk of  lemongrass, smashed.

Seasoning A
some salt
some pepper

Spicy Sauce

2 tbsp  Fish sauce
2 tbsp Asam jawa juice
2 tabsp Lime juice
3-4 shallots, chopped finely
1 tbsp finely chopped lemon grass
3 chilli padi, chopped
1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves and stalks
sugar to taste

Method

Lightly season fish with seasoning (A).  Place fish and lemon grass on a plate.
Steam over high heat for 8-10 minutes or until cooked.
3.  Throw away excess water from the fish
Combine fragrant sauce (B) in a bowl.  Pour sauce over the fish and serve immediately.

Red Yeast Cottony Ogura Cake #11

May is almost coming to a close, and this is my 3rd post of the month.  Felt left far behind and time really don't wait for me!  Long list of things to do,  and time is always  not enough. 

On the other hand, something to cheer me up is the pageview of my blog finally reached 100K and  with 80 followers though at the pace of a snail.   Yeah!  The journey has not been smooth sailing with lot of hiccups and set back.  I would like to take this opportunity to THANK YOU for following and supporting me.  Muakssss...

This round I am adding  red yeast powder to my Zebra Ogura Cake with the other portion I added few drops of peppermint to add the extra flavours and found that the combination is superb! 

   The texture is as soft as ever!  Love it!

 

Healthy Aloe Vera Coral Seaweed & White Fungus Drink - MFF Sabah - May 2013

Earlier post   on Coral Seaweed Kerabu had  a  brief introductory of the  benefit of coral seaweed.  There are many more information on the web on Coral seaweed.

A refreshing and nutrition drink.

 To be served warm or chilled.

On the other hand the plant Aloe vera is another amazing plants not only for consuming but  for external use  as well.  Aloe vera has incredible, natural skin care properties and is commonly used on  sunburns, cuts and even pimples.

I have googled and found there are Top 12 benifit of Aloe Vera.

1. Aloe Vera is high in Vitamins & Minerals
2. Aloe Vera is high in Amino Acids & Fatty Acids
3. Aloe vera is an adaptogen
4. Aloe helps with digestion
5. Aloe Helps in detoxification
6. Aloe alkalizes the body
7. Cardiovascular Health
8. Aloe helps boost the immune system
9. Aloe vera is great for the skin
10. Disinfectant, anti-biotic, anti-microbial, germicidal, Anti-bacterial, anti-septic, anti-fungal & anti-viral
11. Aloe Helps reduce inflammation
12. Weight Loss - A secondary effect.

For further details, click the link here.

 How to clean the Aloe Vera -

1. Cut the torn on both sides of the aloe vera
2. Cut the skin  on one side
3. Use a knife  to cut the aloe vera vertically  but do not cut through the skin at the bottom.
4. Use  a spoon to cut the aloe vera into cubes
5. Wash and Drain the crystal and transparent flesh of the aloe vera. 

Dried Coral Seaweed

 

 In the soaking process

Sharing the recipe of this nutrition beverage.

Ingredients

200gm Aloe vera
1000ml water
8 honey dates
4-5 leaves of pandan leaves - cleaned and knotted
10gm dried coral seaweed - cleaned, soaked over night (change 2-3 times water in between) drained
15gm white fungus - Soaked and cut into small pieces
Rock sugar to taste

Method

1. Wash and peel the aloe vera.  Cut into pieces
2. Pour water into a pot, add in honey  dates, white fuhngus and pandan leaves and bring to boil over high heat.  Lower the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes
3. Add in aloe vera and rock sugar and continue to cook for 5 minutes.
4. Lastly add in coral seaweed and rock sugar.  Remove from heat and serve.

 I am submitting this post to Malaysian Food Fest (Link to MFF Page), Sabah Month hosted by Mary of Pepper's Love

Appetizing Coral Swaweed Kerabu ~ MFF Sabah - May 2013

Coral Seaweed kerabu  ~  An appetizing dish for any occasion.  
I prepared this kerabu and  few other dishes namely ~  The clam and corn chowder, Garlic French Toast, Japanese Okonomiyaki  (お好み焼き) and Sesame Ogura Cake by the  theme of   Fusion Feast  for my buddies during our recent meet up session on a Sunday afternoon.

This Coral Seaweed Jelly is sometimes called  Sea Bird Nest.

Coral  seaweed is rich in enzyme nutrients, minerals, calcium, iron ,multitude fibers and jelly form proteins.  It is said to have  health and beauty benefits, cooling effects.

 Just a small handful of the dried coral seaweed washed and soak in water for overnight and triple the volume.

In the soaking process.

Fook Kee Seafood Restaurant 福記海鲜飯店 (醉猫)

Fook Kee Seafood Restaurant 福記海鲜飯店 (醉猫)

This is a lost and found  restaurant for almost 2 years.

My family used to patron this  authentic famous restaurant when it was originally located along Jalan Peel, Kuala Lumpur during the mid 90s.
As the development begins to flourish around this  part of Kuala Lumpur, this Restaurant has to make way.   First to Queens Park and later when Queens Park was torn down, they moved to Cheras and we parted ways because of the distance.   Even then we used to come back to patron it once a while. That was when we lost touch for more than two years.
Recently, we managed to track it down thru FB and the rest is history.

And I strongly believed there are many people used to patron this restaurant and lost touch with it like me.  Hope this post will help those to who are searching high and low for this popular restaurant for those staying around KL and Cheras area.  

This restaurant serve many delicious dishes.
Prices are reasonable. 
I give the restaurant a 8 out of 10 on my scale!

Spicy deer meat in hot wok 锅仔 鹿肉  This dish has the choice of prawns, squid. 

Steamed Fish

 

Bean cured with Preserved Veg ( choy poh)

Besides the above there are many other varieties of dishes to choose from:-

The chilli Steamed Fish is another signature dish.