Oh boy…..I must seriously buy a new point and shoot camera that takes great macro shots. I just hate my Fuji when it comes to taking macro shots. So, I have not been taking the camera out during makan time.
The other day, I was without a camera but had eaten python. Ular sawa. The huge big snake that can coil around you, break your bones and then, swallow you whole? You get which snake I am talking about?
LOL, the related videos brought up pythons as pets. I am sure those pet owners and snake lovers are going to kick up a fuss over this Chinese woman who ate python. If you listen carefully to the video, I asked my hubby if we can eat snake, if it is legal or is python an extinct species.
So, you may ask…where did I find python for consumption? Not telling…
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Have you people heard me speaking in BM before? No? Hmm….one of these days, I must do a Bahasa Malaysia vblog.
The above is just a quick job of video editing. I am currently really, really distracted, busy and tied down with a lot of things. I have classes three days of the week, some assignment to complete, two websites to maintain, plus my own host of blogs to prune. These days, I don’t even have time to eat out and I have to cook my dinner at 4-5 pm before I have some things to do in church in the evenings.
So, just to keep things alive, here is a short video of our visit to Salwa Mee Udang in Teluk Kumbar last Sunday. I have blogged about this place before so you can probably find the location in the related posts. I know the music is a bit too sad for the clip but heck, I was really doing a rush job. So pardon me.
I know, I know…I am not posting here much. But I am not starving myself either because I do go out and eat, cook and etc. Just that I am too lazy to take pictures because I hate the quality of my photos using the Fuji Finepix. It is not up to my ’standard’ so instead of producing bad photos, may as well don’t take photos at all. On the other hand, I am too lazy to bring my DSLR out because it is so huge and needs a bag on its own.
Recently, I have been to a few soup kitchens in Penang where they prepare meals for the homeless and poor people. Two of these centres are Hare Krsna and Kawan Centre.
I am going to embed the Hare Krsna free meals on wheels here. I will post another one on Kawan.
I really hope each of us can find some way to help these soup kitchens, whether to volunteer or to contribute stuffs to them. I have the details on my video like where to find them and how to contact them.
The foods cooked and served to the poor are really good. I need to convince you all in my next post on Kawan.
When playing mahjong, we usually urge the other players to ‘give new vege’ which means throw some other flowers other than the old ones that are laid on the mahjong table.
However this new vegetable is not mahjong related but something I found in the market not too long ago. Everyone is familiar with the dou miu or pea sprouts. This vegetable is almost like the dou miu but it is fatter, shorter and crunchier.
If I hear correctly, they call it the ‘feng miu’.
I found one bean still left on the sprout and took a picture of it. The bean is not red bean because it is larger but I have no idea what bean it is. My vegetable seller told me I can either stir fry it with garlic or I can make omelet with them. I had tried the omelet style. Just heat a bit of oil, stir fry the sprout on high heat and then, pour in beaten egg. It makes a good breakfast for me.
I didn’t quite like it stir fried with garlic because I find the sprout rather fibrous, smells ‘green’ and a bit turn off.
Anyone knows what is this vegetable and what beans they sprout from?
BTW, my blog posts have been slow because I have class three times a week and at the same time, my son has sport rehearsal in town. I couldn’t find any time to pop by the market and hence, had been eating out most of the times. I have also blogged about all those places so there is no ‘new vege’ to share on this blog for the time being until my class is over in July.
The other day, an Indian cashier at Tesco asked me if the sawi flower is edible. I told her, yes…it is more expensive than regular sawi because it is much tender. She said she has never eaten them before.
That got me thinking…..our different races in Malaysia cook the same type of ingredients differently. Sometimes, we lean towards one vegetables more than the other. Malays and Indians normally stir fry their greens with tumeric and other spices while Chinese fry it another way.
Certain greens are just blanched with boiling water and then, served with some garlic or shallot oil and a bit of oyster sauce. Otherwise, we Chinese normally give a quick stir fry with garlic, a dash of pepper, fish sauce (my must use item), Chinese cooking rice wine.
For this bunch of sawi flowers, normally I cut off the harder stems and then, peel off the outer layer which is rather fibrous. So, now you know sawi flowers are edible and not only used in flowers bouquets, eh?
Nowadays, sawi has lost its appeal as more and more newer vegetables are introduced into our markets. Long time ago, there were only sawi and bayam. Gee….do you know the name of sawi in English?
