Category Archives: vegetables

Cooking Indian on a cold, rainy day

It has rained for a long time today and the weather is so cold. So, I need something hot and warm for dinner. Going out is not an option because no one is keen to go out in the rain, hunting for foods.
So, I cooked this stir fried cauliflower, Indian style. Spices [...]

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Jantung pisang - Edible banana flower

Do you know that not only the prices increase but the local supermarkets and hypermarket has no stock of the cheaper rice? Meanwhile, they slaughter us who buy the Thai fragrant rice. It costs RM42 for 10kg now when previously, it was only RM25 when there is a sale.

So, we must go back to our kampungs, tanam pisang, tanam jagung, tanam ubi kayu to avoid starvation already. Damn, I am getting political on my food blog again. LOL.

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Exactly how healthy are vegetables?

I was rummaging through some old photos I took in Cameron Highland last year. They have a lot of these farms where they plant vegetables in these tiny little plastic bags. Now, vegetables aren’t supposed to grow this way, as far as I am concerned. They are supposed to thrive in the [...]

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Know your vegetables (photos of common vegetables)

Spring onion. Daun bawang. Hokkien calls it ‘chang’. It is a plant grown from onion, obviously.
In normal cooking, I usually do not like to use it. Be careful if you sprinkle spring onion on your foods because if the vegetables are moist, it will cause foods to go bad [...]

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Dragon beard veggie from Cameron Highlands

Many years back, I was introduced to the dragon beard veggie or in Mandarin, Long sou chye or long sou choy in Cantonese. It is a creeper plants growing in the wild and they have these tendrils that look really curly and cute. According to the guy who introduced us to dragon beard, [...]

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