Bits and Pieces ....

After taking number for Keropok Lekor Kampung Bukit Tok Beng, Papa decided to drive around.

Arrived to the "famous" Stadium Sultan Mizan Shah. Back in 2009, the stadium collapsed and we went to have a look.

They have rebuilt it. 

Another building nearby

That evening we had a simple dinner at Restaurant Ocean.

Simple fried rice.

Cantonese Fried Noodles

Some vegetables

sigh...no more ocean view. Looks like more development behind the restaurant.

Behind the China town they have built in some trees like those in i-City.

Looks like K.Trengganu is developing very fast now.

Sambal Empelam

During our trip back to home town, Mamarazzi found these young mangos in the market. She was very happy as it's hard to get these mangos in KL.

She bought 2kg of these fully intend to make pickled mango. She posted up the snap shot of these mango in her Facebook and Uncle Arthur commented that it would be great to make "Sambal Empelam".

Mamarazzi decided to try out the recipe from Uncle Arthur.

Ingredients consists of shredded Mango, cili(if you wish for a extra spicy, please add bird eyes cili), some belacan (shrimp paste) and optional dried shrimps or anchovies.

Pound the cili, dried shrimps and the belacan together till its mashed up. 

Then add the mango pound it a bit.

The end product. Add a bit of sugar to counter the sourness of the mango. Taste great. Mamarazzi ate two plates of rice with these.

For me, I said it's yucky. Surprising why she would wanna eat something that is spicy.

For me, I preferred my glass of Ice-Blended Durian drink.

It's durian season again. Mmmm....durian durian everywhere.

Uncle Arthur's Prediction is Coming true

Earlier of this year, Uncle Arthur commented in jest that he hope the teachers won't leave one by one when Mamarazzi posted about my first day of school.

Looks like his prediction is coming true. From January to May, I have had three class teachers.

The first teacher was "promoted" to teach older kids after a month of teaching me.

This was replaced by a young girl whom Mamarazzi noticed as very dedicated to her job.

 Found some comments and "star" in my work books.

 

On and off Mamarazzi would noticed that some of my work books have stickers like these stuck to them after being "marked" by the teacher.

Sometimes, the teacher stamped words of encouragement in my books "much better...keep it up".

In at least 3 occasion, I brought home "prize" from my class teacher. Not big or expensive prizes. It's small prize which kids would treasure.

For example. This small "top".

At first Mamarazzi thought I "curi"(stole) or took my friend's toy. But it was a prize from the teacher because I read loud enough.

The week after that I got another "top" for singing.

Mamarazzi don't know what was the reason for this bracelet prize coz I refused to tell her. I said "Cikgu" (teacher) gave.

My former class teacher is an Indian hence whenever we have Chinese classes, another teacher would take over  and Mamarazzi noted that that teacher would also stamp the work book .

Mamarazzi don't think money for all these small items is provided by the Kiddie. Most likely it's directly out of the teacher's pocket.

Please don't misunderstand. Mamarazzi is not "greedy" for all these small prizes but don't you feel  that these small things is sort of show that the teacher cares about the students and made an effort in encouraging students to work better?

This is one of the homework that I have done under the second teacher before she left for greener pasture in May.

Now compare this homework given by the new teacher. The new teacher had wrote all alphabet in the page  while previous teacher wrote one line and let the student did the rest.

All I have to do now is to trace the same letter over what the new teacher had written.

What puzzled Mamarazzi is that we are doing the letter A, B, C...all over again with this new teacher instead of continue on with where the previous teacher left off.

During one of my conversation with Mamarazzi which goes like this :

Me : Today teacher tell me to do up down up down. It's fun!

Mamarazzi : what up down up down?

Me : put hands on my ear and up down up down lah.

Mamarazzi : ....*ketuk-ketampi?*(ear squat- punishment )...why up down up down?

Me : Coz cannot read chinese lah

Another day, Mamarazzi asked me whether I got do "up down" in school again. I told her no. This time stand up on chair only. Not me but my best friend coz didn't do work.

Hmm....Mamarazzi is still not sure what to think of this new teacher. Is she being strict because she wants the students to be discipline and do their best in class? Or is this just another job for her which she wish the students get out of her hair soonest possible? 

Special Keropok Lekor B.T.B 2209 at Bukit Tok Beng, Kuala Trengganu

Each time "balik kampung"(go back home town) , Papa would look for one f his favourite snack. Keropok Lekor.

Keropok lekor is a kind of snack famous in Trengganu which is located in East Coast of Malaysia. It is made of mashed fish flesh, cornstarch and salt knead into rope like. Then boil in hot water.

Previously the most famous Keropok Lekor came from a place called Losong in Kuala Trengganu.

But in recently, Bukit Tok Beng had become a famous destination for Keropok Lekor.

 

The most famous shop in Bukit Tok Beng is Keropok Lekor B.T.B 2209.  The shop has so much business that you will need to take a number just to order the Keropok Lekor. 

Each number taken allows the customer to buy up to RM100 of Keropok Lekor only. Any extra, you will need to take new number.

It was Sunday when we went looking for the Keropok Lekor. In Trengganu, Sunday is a working day and not a weekend. However, it was school holidays. 

This is probably why when Papa went to take a number, Papa came back empty handed.

 Our number was 1171 and currently they were serving number 1015. That means there were 156 people ahead of us. 

Mamarazzi's friend laughed when she saw the message says "Please have a seat. You will be attended shortly".

While waiting for Papa to take a number..yup...have to queue up even to take number... Mamarazzi snapped some photos.

A lorry came in.

It was fully loaded with woods. Gosh! They really need a lot of wood to cook the Keropok Lekor.

All these waiting certainly tiring.

In the end, Papa decided not to wait. He ordered the Keropok Lekor and told the man that he will go and pick up the next day.

Meantime, Papa stop by a road side stall to buy some fried keropok lekor to satisfy his craving. Hmm...not nice. Can see from the look of it that its full of flour and very little fish.

 The next evening, we came back to the shop to pick up our order.

Apart from Keropok Lekor, they sells others related products like the sauce to dip the keropok lekor and various keropok(Crackers)

In the "kitchen", the keropok lekor were being vacuum packed. Cost extra 50sen for a pack of vacuum packed Keropok Lekor. It certainly makes it easier to store and carry.

Our two plastic full of Keropok Lekor. Ah Kung thought we were crazy to buy so much.

 Each packs have 10 pieces of keropok lekor. Papa bought 10 packs.

This is how the Vacuum packed Keropok lekor looked like. In the beginning Mamarazzi said it looked so "fake". But she certainly revised her opinion after eating it.

 Here is how you cut the keropok lekor.

Slice a bit in the middle so that when frying it would "open' more.

Fry the keropok lekor with a lot of oil. Must be very careful as if you happens to buy those Keropok lekor that is full of flour, it might "explode" and splash you with oil. Mamarazzi kena before.

Yummy..keropok lekor ready to be eaten.

Don't be deceived by the ugly look.  It taste very good.

Mamarazzi said taste especially good if dipped in this sweet and spicy sauce.

 But I like it better plain

You wanna try?

Here is the address (as printed on the plastic bag) of the stall should you wish to try the delicious Keropok Lekor.

Lot 8292, Kampung Bukit Tok Beng,

Seberang Takir

21300 Kuala Trengganu

Handset : 012-562 0748

019-913 0369

017-966 1209

E-mail :btbg2209@gmail.com

Warong Katana, Jalan Kuala Hiliran, Kuala Trengganu (Revisited)

 Tired....

Hungry ah....

 Fresh Orange Juice and Watermelon Juice. The Orange juice was supposed to be for me but the Mamarazzi remembered that I was coughing. Cannot drink Orange Juice.

Hmmm...got me Sirap pulak *sulk*

What is it? Not Ribena

 Nothing to drink so forced to drink this la.

I was famished and I wanted to have noodles. Papa ordered Lakna for me.

After some time, this large dish of "mixed Vegetable" came. Papa said it's for the Lakna. Then we waited some more. ....and waited....and wait....hmmm...is the guy going to bring me my noodle?

 Out of curiosity, Mamarazzi "dug" around the vegetable and discovered noodles under it.

Laaaaaaaaaa....all these time it was right under our noses and we didn't know it. The portion of noodle was a bit small. Probably coz Papa told the guy that it's for kid.

Excuse me, Mamarazzi. Not enough. I want some more.

 Papa ordered some more. Just the noodles only. Meanwhile, I finished up the noodles on my plate.

Here it comes.

Mmm,....the noodles was delicious. Chinese would say that it have enough "Wok Hei"(direct translated as heat from the Wok)

We also had RM2 of Keropok Lekor. Very fresh and fried to perfection.

 Once again, we had Soup Tulang. No more Soup Ekor.

Mamarazzi's favourite "Ikan Bakar" . Grilled Fish. Grilled to perfection.

Mamarazzi's plate of fried rice. She was so shocked to see that they were so generous with the Ikan Bilis. Not cheap leh the bilis nowadays.

Haiz....Mamarazzi told them them don't want Cili . Mamarazzi found this Bird eyes Chili in the fried rice. Hmmm....Lucky it was a whole piece hence it was not that spicy. But if chopped up then sure fire will come out from Mamarazzi's mouth.

Overall, it was nice to have makan here again.