Once Upon A Wedding In Slim River

 December sure many wedding leh. First was a relative in Slim River.

 

Door Gift very "canggih" leh . Errrr...please pardon the coming photos as some are very "pink" due to lighting

Arrived there early. The wedding was held in a temple. Walked around. 

 The arrival of wedding car were "announced" by the blooming sound for fire crackers. 

 Wah lau eh....manyak syok leh 

 Good thing about small town wedding is that the banquet starts promptly. Makan time!!!....Muhahaha....evil look from Mamarazzi and me.

Food that night was cater from Beng Kee Seafood Restaurant, No : PT4, Batu 6, Jalan Bernam, 45500 Tanjung Karang, Selangor.

Presentation may not be much but the dishes were superb.

 The evening starts off with "Mini Special Phun Chai" . It was sure special. The pot was fill to the top with goodies like Prawns, sea cucumber, scallops, oyster , pork and many more.

I love everything.Slurp....kiasu. Kept asking Mamarazzi if there are anything left . Scared not enough. But no worries leh. There were plenty to share.

 Next Came "Lobster 2 Special Combinations"....Menu says 3 but counter there were 4 leh....Typo error?

 Lantak aje la. I love the fried stuffs especially the wons which is wrapped in fried bihun. Very crunchy. 

 Eh .....surprisingly there were still plenty of meat in the lobster head leh. How we knew....coz we went and opened up the lobster head and divided among our table. All "Kaki lang"(relatives) , so no need to shy shy lo.

 what football is this???

jeng! Jeng! Braised Pork Limb with Sea-cucumber. 

 Mamarazzi said this is nice. The herbs scent not too overpowering. But I preferred to have the "man Tao"(bun) instead.

Am aiming for the next dish. 

 Yup...Roast Duck and Crispy Chicken Combination.

The Roast Duck skin was sure crispy.

Can't get enough of it

 Still chewing the delicious drumstick when the next dish arrived. 

 Steam Fresh Coral Trout. It was really fresh leh. No reddish frozen blood that usually found in frozen fish.

 Aha....this is something that is must have during Chinese wediing dinner....YUMMMMMMMMMM SENG!!

 The Bride and Groom with their immediate family greeting the guests with loud YUM SENG session

Yum seng liao...tummy super full liao la...still got some more dishes to come. 

 Next was Mixed Vegetables.  Yummy....They added water chestnut into this. Making the dish sweet and crunchy.

 Saw the Menu stated that this is Fried Rice with Anchovies.....but but.......git dried scallop and macadamia nuts too. Betul betul ho liao ah....

The last dish was Ice Coral Grass. By then....everyone full liao lo.....

And they really end the evening with a BANG!Happy Wedding to Don & Joyce!

Thong Yuen Making with NuStevia Simple Syrup

Mamarazzi wasn't planning to make any Thong Yuen last Winter Solstice celebration. But the Papa was hinting about Thong Yuen...even give Mamarazzi newspaper cutting about Thong Yuen that have peanuts filings.

Thong Yuen are Glutinous Rice Balls usually served in sweet syrup. Most frequently, eaten during Winter Solstice Festival.

Wokay la...that morning Mamarazzi followed the recipe lo. It was from The Star Newspaper but now Mamarazzi tried to find the recipe online....it's missing pulak. Again..."agak-agak" recipe syndrome lah:

Ingredients for the Dough

200g glutinous rice flour
1 tbsp wheat starch (tang mein fun)
100ml boiled water

Ingredients for the Filling :

 1/2 cup peanut
 50g sesame seeds
 50g butter
 50g of Gula Melaka

Ingredients for the Syrup :

1 1/2 tbsp of NuStevia Simple Syrup (or to taste)
20g dried chrysanthemum flowers
10g goji
300ml water

Method :

Dough:

Mixed the wheat starch and glutinous rice fliur together. Slowly add in to water and knead it till it become dough.

Divide the dough into how many colours you are planning to make. 

Leave it to "relax" for awhile. Meantime prepare the paste.  

Paste :

Roast the sesame seeds  in a pan. Then set aside.

Follow by roasting the peanut. Take away the skin and put the peanuts and gula melaka into the blender .

 

Mixed the peanuts, sesame seeds with the butter  and leave it to chill in the fridge for about half an hour. 

Syrup :

Boiled the water and when it;s boiling, add in the chrysanthemum flowers  and goji. Boil for about 10 mins. Turn off the fire and lastly add in NuStevia Simple syrup

All done...boil a pot of water. Meantime, pinch a bit of the dough make it into round flat disc. Put a teaspoon of the peanuts filing into the dough and pinch it shut. Make it into round balls and put it into boiling water. Once the "ball" float up, it is cooked. Can be serve with the Chrysanthemum syrup.

But how come mine look like turtle geh? Errrr...coz Mamarazzi experimenting again lor....she saw someone posted in FB making little fishes Thong Yuen . It was so pretty and cute. Can;t find her fish mould so hentam turtle jadinya lo..

Fat Man Lok Lok Truck - New Year Celebration.

Time for Mamarazzi to go nuts again. Last year end saw these Chinese arrowhead root(Ngaku) selling very cheap at Tesco. RM1.98/kg. Usually it's nearly RM5/kg leh.

Apalagi....operasi menggoreng lor. Fried nearly 15kg of these. Made into Chips.

 Now "expert" already lo. Can straight slice it into the wok. 

 

Only "accident" at the very last piece of "ngaku". No worries....just a free manicure. No blood involved. 

The Chips were super oily but lucky we kinda "won" a year supplies of New Scott® Calorie Light Premium Towel ....very useful at times like these.

It sure helped to soak up all the excess oil to make these chips healthier to eat. 

Managed to get 3 big containers. Brought one container to a friend's new year house party. The rest distributed . Kept a small container for ourselves.

Now we have a very good idea from friend leh. Inside of cooking half dead for house party, they ordered a truck of Lok Lok  from Fatman Lok Lok instead.

What is Lok Lok? Explanation from Google " variant of the steamboat/hotpot meal, except that the food served is skewered and the skewered food is dipped into a hot boiling pot of water to be cooked. This is then dipped into a variety of sauces provided for you."

 They even have a BBQ section where the truck driver and a helper will grill the lok lok for us. 

 Gosh....we were spoil ofor choice...so many types to choose from

 The price of Lok Lok but since friend ordered a whole truck, it was much cheaper. Not sure how much cheaper la.

Caution about ordering the food truck is that you must make sure you have enough people to eat all the Lok Lok coz there are no refund for the uneaten Lok Lok. It's considered sold.

 Plates were provided. 

 I was really blur one what to choose leh. So many choices. I think what I love the most is the fishballs. I had many sticks of that.

Next time house party, maybe can call this Fatman Lok Lok truck instead la. No need to headache cooking non-stop leh. Mamarazzi can relax and chat with guests instead. With so many choices. There are sure something there for everyone, right?

Papa loves the most is the satay gravy they had there. And I spied Mamarazzi been eating a lot of the BBQ stuffs. Maybe coz they have Roast pork there kot.

Buffet at Kitchen Art Brasserie, Empire Hotel Subang

 

Been eating a lot in the past month. Two weeks ago went to Kitchen Art Brasserie at Empire Hotel Subang for the buffet. Bought voucher from a discount company. Sort of a birthday cum Christmas cum New Year celebration with a friend. 

 

The place not that big. Kinda Cozy. They had a great outdoor view but Mamarazzi was worried if I run outside. ....later become "superboy" cham liao.

Was looking forward to the buffet lunch so I skipped breakfast. Guess what is the first thing I zoomed in when I arrived at the buffet? Nope....not noodle. Surprise surprise...it was rice. Change of makan habit again.

Mamarazzi pulak opposite of me. She zoomed in the fried noodles. Got her favourite Prawns cook with Sambal Petai(stinky beans).

Next ...dessert......quite a lot of sweet cakes and stuffs like that. Siapa cepat, dia dapat (The ones fastest, got it). 

Mamarazzi was slow with her food. Thought eat these sweet dessert later la. Mana tau when she went to look for some around 2pm, all these cute cakes gone already. Only puddings and some "Kuih" were left. Waited but tarak replenish. 

Papa said maybe they stopped replenishing after 2pm plus so that the food would not be wasted. No worries leh. If really want, can ask from them. But Mamarazzi paiseh to ask la.

I enjoyed taking bits of everything. Tu lah....I offered Mamarazzi some of mine earlier, she "jual mahal", didn't want. Now habis liao. But okay lah.....she spotted something else.

 

Yup....dunno where she found this. Banana Splits.....I also want la.Cari Cari cannot find. Asked her....oh .D.I.Y rupanya. They have ice cream there and they also have banana as fruits for the guests. Hence Mamarazzi just took a banana, some ice cream  and made it into Banana Splits loh

Selection of food wise, Mamarazzi said okay la. Not too much and not too little. Taste wise quite good. 

Only grouse was that they don't serve Coffee for the buffet. Asked the waiter. Said only have Teh Tarik(Pulled tea) and chrysanthemum drink. 

 

Eat so much...no coffee...sleepy leh... Tummy full liao...best go home and sleep. hehehehe

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans

Ever heard of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans? Those who are Potterheads will sure know about this. I didn't know what it is till Mamarazzi told me about this boy, Harry Potter. He is the hero in wizarding world and in his school they have these Every Flavour Beans.

 

A friend had just came back from Japan and surprise surprise......goodies for us. paiseh paiseh...Thank you very much, Manglish.

 Among the goodies was a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Bean.

 

 How colourful they are......sure to taste good, right?

For those who are in the dark, these are not normal Jelly Beans. Like what stated in the box, it's all flavour beans. That mean it does not only consist of sweet and nice tasting beans. There are also jelly beans that taste of vomit, dirt, rotten egg, black pepper, booger, earthworms, earwax, grass, sausage and soap

 Got a "guide" here but all written in Japanese .

After one black pepper and ginseng tasting beans, Mamarazzi google and found the English translation. Ohh....the ginseng one actually is "dirt". While the vegetable tasting one is actually "Grass".  Soap ones still bearable la. But the rotten eggs ones are super yucky.

 Dare to try one? This could be rotten egg or lemon.....take a guess.

I choose mostly bright colors ones. Those usually are safe....except for orange.....vomit taste........

Mamarazzi wonder if we have it here in Malaysia. Can buy and prank people.... *evil grinz*