Dinner - Samy's Curry @ Dempsey

Went to Samy's Curry, here is the interior.. it looks like the old style retaurant cafe

A jug of lime juice

The food is served in banana leaf style, here is the papadum.

Naan is also served. There is a lot of types, like garlic, cheese, plain and another one, sweet one, I don't remember what is it called :p

Basmati briyani rice

Achar and spinach curry from the waiter that goes around to serve the banana leaf :)

Fried cauliflower

Chicken tikka. It's nice :)

Mutton curry

Sotong curry

Chicken curry

Chicken rendang I think :p

Fish head curry

Very very full dinner :)

Homecooked - White Fungus and Red Date Dessert @ Jakarta

On the CNY first day, have to eat something sweet, so we cooked this dessert the day before.. it is white fungus, with red date, wolfberry and dried longan. Rock sugar is added for flavor.

Good and sweet way to start the year :)

This year CNY coincide with Valentine's Day.. so Happy New Year and Valentine's Day! :)

Homecooked - CNY Reunion Dinner @ Jakarta

What is your favourite food during CNY someone asked me.. I think for a while and only one occurred to me.. the reunion dinner :) It is the time when everybody gather together to eat the abundance of food that will last for a few days and even though at different times of the year, I will see the food, it just taste good during the new year as the combination comes together... :p
Cooking the pig stomach soup with other ingredients. The soup is extremely packed with flavour :)

Curry chicken, cooking as well ... such a big pot hehe

The spread... The big table almost cannot fit in hahaha

The condiments, spring onions, parsley

Garlis oil, to be dipped to the soup for extra fragrance

Belachan to go with some of the dishes

Sliced abolone to go with the pig stomach soup. It is sliced and put separate to ease the distribution and finding it in such a big pot :)

The pig stomach soup.. with pig stomach, fish ball, fish maw, pork rib, chicken

Pineapple, the must have dish during CNY, coz it's Ong Lai.. auspicious dish.. so can become Ong (King) :P

Chinese leek, Suan Chai.. so can count money.. so more money comes your way.. another auspicious dish and a must have during CNY

Bamboo shoot, Shun.. so do everything can be smooth (shun).. Also must include during CNY

Fish, is another must have dish.. for nian nian you yi.. year of abundance and excess.. This is not done yet..

Here it is the finished result, sweet and sour fish.. looks reddish orangish.. suit the festive mood. Care must be taken when eating the fish... the bones cannot be broken and must have leftover to bring over to the first day of CNY.. Everybody is very careful not to break the bone, even thinking how best to flip the fish hehe

Pork trotter with sea cucumber.. I'm not sure if there is any significant meaning, so let me come out with one myself... pig trotter and sea cucumber known for the collagen content, so eating this will stay beautiful :p

Wine chicken with the special leaf. I'm not sure what leaf is that.. It is for health (I think since it contain wine, looks herbal). Taste a bit bitter and strong wine smell. :)

This is the sliced fried egg.. to be decorated on..

Qiang mee.. it is a white teochew noodle.. Eating noodle signify longetivity, another auspicious dish :) It is loaded with pork and prawn and leek :)

Rendang pork, new CNY dish :)

Curry chicken with potato and gizzard

Butter chicken, new dish to CNY as well. It taste like the butter frog version. Sweet and nice :)

Happy Chinese New Year! Hope that this will be a great year!

Dinner - The Manhattan Fish Market @ Iluma

This new restaurant have been popping out everywhere.. so decided to try.. this is the interior.. very vibrant design

The lighting and interior.. so crowded today :)

Our sofa seat

The promotion that's why we are here :p

Utensils and serviette

Plain water

Sauce, consisting of garlic, tar tar and chili sauce

Lobster platter.. looks small but actually it is very very filling

Total bill: ~$30+ (Due to the 1 for 1 promotion) :)

Lunch - Cedele Depot @ Suntec

Red and russet potato.. I like this one, the serving is quite small but just enough not to start feeling sick of the potato. A portion of vege will be prefered though :)

Chicken and tofu soup. It is very thick soup and very filling, with a slice of bread to dip

Grilled vegetables salad. I like this salad and the presentation in the box. With a bed of fresh vege, and grilled vege, consisting of grilled eggplant, pepper, mushroom, onion and pumpkin, topped with a slice of bread :)

Avocado grilled chicken salad, same presentation as the above but the fillings are grilled chicken and avocado. I prefer the chicken with more sauce though :)

Homecooked - Steamed Pork Cube Egg and Vege

Didn't plan to cook... so just grab whatever happen to be available.. sausage, vege and chili padi with garlic... it then becomes this stir fry dish :) Not bad, I like this :)

Steamed Egg with pork cube.. using rice cooker to cook.. is it faster than using steamer, not sure, maybe about the same length of time, but definitely less hassle as we don't have to prepare the steamer hehe :)

Homecooked - Arrowhead Chips

I bought this Arrowhead/Ngaku/Chiku to make chips.. I read blogs saying that it is easy to make and very nice and addictive, so I want to try.. Happen to see it in the market, so I quickly buy.. It cost me $4 per kg..

Its not the same as water chestnut, even though they look like... it is much bigger than chestnuts

There the comparison side by side :)

First, take one bulb

Using the peeler, peel the skin away, don't waste too much coz then, less chips for us :)

I don't have a slicer, so I used knife to slice as thinly as I can. It will be a breeze if there is slicer.. After it is peeled and sliced to chips thickness, soaked it in salt water

To avoid splashing during frying, I dry it on the newspaper/tissue backing

There you go, the end product :) It is nice and if want to make, better make in HUGE batches in one go to save the time from all the peeling and slicing.

Good snack! I will make again when there is chance :)