restoran KM [dennis's kopitiam] at jln kuchai lama

those who go to FGA at kuchai lama, taman goodwood, old klang road know this is its best kept secret! dennis, the owner/chef has been cooking up a delicious meal every time for the last 20+ years! his corner shop is just outside FGA's basement entrance. gavin loves ordering his mee ganja, also known as ginger beef kueh teow, so named bcoz of its addictiveness. I love the black pepper kueh teow [above] with pork and I order it most of the time.
for today however they'd run out of beef so gav just had his usual kung fu chow kueh teow which was, as always, excellent! they also cook up a great spicy chicken rice, kung pao pork rice and kam hiong pork rice. but, they're not just good at cantonese dishes, I love the ham and egg sandwiches here too.

gingerbread people

I used this recipe and made heaps of these. then i made them all smile with glee at the prospect of getting eaten up by some kid!

baked chicken

do you have one of these? they're really nifty. small enough to bake/roast small amounts of food. like if you want to toast a croissant you don't want to fire up the big oven right? or like me i usually cook for two. for just 2 pieces of chicken, to heat up the big oven is just too much of a waste. I marinated the chicken in bottled teriyaki sauce overnight and put them in this nifty foil tray and put the whole thing on my small toaster oven for about 10 minutes.
the chicken tasted just like roasted chicken, succulent and juicy,and all without using any added oil! [there's fat on the chicken already] I'd definitely try this again.

herbal chicken soup

this is a review of uncle sun's chinese herbal chicken soup mix. it comes in 2 paper sachets that you boil along with the chicken and water.

it says to add 2 pieces of garlic but i added something like 6-7. you can't ever have too much garlic!
I used chicken ribs. the instructions didn't say how much chicken to use so it's up to guesstimation!
for fun and creativity's sake, I added more goji,ginseng slices, ginger and red dates and even threw in a few choy sum stalks. and salt of course. the packet said to boil only 20 mins but i did like a chinese auntie and boiled it 3 hours!

it tasted pretty good and flavourful except that I added too much ginseng so it became slightly bitter. if you don't like the bitter just don't add ginseng.

pumpkins!

my first pumpkin that i planted from seed!
pumpkins have male and female flowers, the ones with the "swelling" at the bottom are the female ones and of course, the swellings are the pumpkins!

kid's party food

this week is graduating week for most of my JMC classes [as in graduating to the next book] and we always mark it with a little concert and party. all my parties at subang parade invariably have big apple donuts, conveniently picked up at their stall downstairs. this round had only chocolate and nut flavours. perfectly fine with me! i love all their donuts.
of course sausages and fries are always a favourite too.

mango pudding

i love mango pudding. it's actually like jelly, but with a creamier consistency. but ultimately it's mango flavoured gelatin.
this one was bought at a little shop on the ground floor at wisma cosway in KL [we wandered in there coz it was just outside novotel] i thought wisma cosway was an office building but the lower floors are actually retail outlets. it's a very very old one, its shoplots are in compact little rectangles, right out of the 80's! one plus point though is that the things are are much cheaper than say, 1 utama! these containers mango puddings were RM1.50 each. yum. i'll try making them one day and see how it goes.