Lunch at Foodelicious was served at 1.30pm and the menu was :-
Thai Glass Noodle Kerabu - Some people call it tanghoon, some people call it soh hun.. but they are delicious eaten cold with all sorts of fragant herbs and vegetables flavored with the 5 taste of life. A little bit sweet, a little bit tangy, a little bit salty, a little bit spicy...
This is excellent in such hot and humid weather...
This is excellent in such hot and humid weather...
Otak - Otak.. It is a nyonya dish which apparently originated from bygone era european seamen. I was told that it was the Dutch seamen that introduced this dish. These seamen preserved their fish dish by flavoring with herbs and have it all wrapped up in cloth and steamed. As it was wrapped in cloth, it does not have the nice smooth surface but instead it looks like brain especially since it was white, soft and squishy. Hence the name. Of course, the innovative nyonyas added their signature into this dish by spicing it up! By the way, did you all know that this is a common dish amongst seafaring europeans of today such as the Scandinavian countries. Theirs is also slightly spicy as they acquired the spices from South Africa?
A big thank you to Chin See for enlightening us with this history...
Curry puff - A well known snack that is everybody's favorite! Of course, this wasnt so pretty as it should be for some reason. I blame it on the weather. It has been exceptionally hot and humid these past weeks and handling the oil based pastry was simply.. challenging is a mild way of putting it. The uniqueness of this pastry is that it has an oil and water based pastries.. combined and it will give you a very crispy and light pastry that will not go soft and chewy like rubberband. As for the filling, I made it with potatoes and chunks of chicken fillet. Please note it is chunks and not minced chicken meat. I dont like minced chicken meat in my curry puff or pies. It is just not happening. No style!! Anyway, I didnt flavour it too spicy as I wanted to entice the kids with this.
Jelly - An evergreen dessert that is refreshing and welcomed in this heat and humidity! This is coffee jelly that I fashioned into layers with milk. It is really no fun eating something that is just plain old sweet.. life must have some hint of bitterness to make it exciting!And of course, we had the ever famous popiah.. make ourselves popiah.. put whatever you like in your popiah or in Brandon's case, dont put anything but the sauce on the popiah (skin).. That was Brandon's style of popiah...
Here we have the condiments, the main star, the skin and sauce and final product..
And of course, the final product!!
The best part of it all was the company! I had great fun hosting this lunch. Thank you for making my Sunday fun..
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2 comments:
tanhoon kerabu was good, very refreshing. Is there any restaurant cook that dish?
Otak-otak was also good. That Chin See ate the most. I hope her "otak" is working fantastically this morning. I wonder why is it call otak-otak!
Karipa pastry was not thick and that makes the karipa crispy. Eugene ate quite a number of it.
Popiah...is for us to have fun and laugh at each others ways and sizes and messiness of folding. Brandon enjoyed that.
Sprite with mint and sour plump and lots of ice...help us to cool down our stomach and body to eat more!
next time pls tell me you're coooking a feast ok!!! :( sooo sad i missed it!
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