Orange basket

Bintangor orange.

Cut 2 wedges out of it.......

....... like so.

See the handle in the middle?

Scoop out all the segments and sacs.

Walau-yeah!  There you go, a basket make out of an orange.

Can use it as decoration during festivals to hold foods like raisins, kuaci (melon seeds), etc.......

Ngo Hiang (5 spices) meat roll

1/2 kg of fish "Ikan Tenggiri" - RM17 per kg.

De-bone the fish and scoop out the flesh with spoon.

Fish paste.

1 packet of Water chestnuts at RM3.

Water chestnuts - peeled.

Water chestnuts - chopped.

1/2 kg of minced pork at RM17 per kg.

2 big onions - chopped.

1/2 carrot - chopped.

Dump everything into a big mixing bowl together with 5 spices, salt, a little bit of sugar, three eggs,  Sarawak pepper and mix them all thoroughly.

This is the beancurd sheet - 1 packet costs RM1.50.  Open the beancurd sheet and wipe it with a clean damp cloth to get rid of excess saltiness.  Then cut it to your required length and width.  Trim off the edges if it is broken or crumbled up.

Put the mixture in a row along the edge.

Row the beancurd sheet to cover the mixture and at the same time, fold the edges in.  Once you have covered the mixture, cut the beancurd sheet.

Ta-da...... the finished product.

I made 8 rolls but these are unusually long meat rolls.

Steam them in a kuali for 20-30 minutes and they are ready for eating.

Enjoy!!!  Have fun making them!

Food in and around Wangsa Maju, KL

Upon arrival in Wangsa Maju, everybody dropped in at Pontian - an air-conditioned cafeteria.

Quite clean and everybody enjoyed the air-conditioning.

There's dessert and coffee.

There's dry noodle with dumplings.

There's noodles in soup with dumplings.

The food was alright but not fantastic.

Next, we visited the mamak stalls.  These started opening at 5:00 pm in the evening.

You order by queuing .......

.... and that's the famous kueh tiaw at RM5 per plate.  I remembered I didn't quite like it but my son loved it even though the taste was not what we are used to.

There's fried rice......(without fried chicken).

There's fried rice with fried chicken.

That's how long was the queue in order to get your food.  I took this photo at midnight and the queue was still a long queue.  How come people don't sleep in Wangsa Maju?

We visited the I LOVE YOO!

Another cafeteria with air-conditioning.

Its specialty is in providing snacks - that's (clockwise) soya bean milk with yew-cha kuih, porridge, yam and potato balls.

After so much eating, thought to try something healthy..... so ordered a drink at this place.....

...... where AFC's Jason visited previously.

Didn't realise herbal drink can be bitttttteeeer!!!

Next morning's breakfast at the coffee shop.  Here, people cook at stalls along the shop's corridor and patrons eat sitting at roadside tables right beside these moving vehicles.

This stall is operated by an old aged couple but the fuzhou meat balls are really nice.

But the coffee is the real black type and very thick and sticky.

That's the noodles in soup with fishballs at RM4 per bowl.  Taste good.

That's the fuzhou meat balls at RM4.50 per bowl.  Tastes better than the fishballs.

I came back to this stall three times during my trip.  That's how much I loved the fuzhou meat balls.

Salad chicken rice from another stall at RM5 per plate.

Our dinner at Wangsa Maju on the second night.

First dish arrived, dig in - kangkong with belacan and chilli.  See the mountain of rice on a plate?

Second dish arrived, dig in - buttered chicken.

Third dish arrived, dig in - bittergourd in eggs.

Fourth dish arrived, dig in - taugeh.

Four dishes and four plates of rice cost only RM20.20 - I thought it was unbelievably inexpensive.  No wonder there were so many students having their dinner there and we could hardly find an empty table.

This is where we had our dinner.  Tried to ask the cashier what's the name of this stall but I was told there's no name.  This stall actually is an illegal extension ( I think it's illegal) of a block of shophouses.  It opens from 12:00 noon till 12:00 midnight.  Three chefs handled all the cooking.  The strategy is to order small portion but more dishes so you get to taste a variety of dishes.  Lots of students during the early evening but after 7:00 pm, I noticed more families started arriving. 

This was our second meal at the same place. 

Sweet and sour fish, braised tauhu, mixed vegetables,  braised pork ribs and four hugh portion of rice costed only RM24.20.  Wow, this is value for your money, guys!

Oh, how to get to this place.  For us, we found it accidentally.  We were exploring and got attracted because there were hardly any empty table and it was only 6:00 pm in the evening.  Directions:  From the Wangsa Maju LRT station, take the left flight of stairs down, walk straight for a short distance till you come to the main road.  Here, turn left and walk along 4 or 5 rows of shophouses until you see the traffic light junction.  This stall is on the left before the traffic light junction.

Third morning breakfast at this noodle place.

Pan mein soup.

Pan mein - dry.

Pan mein with beef slices.