baby mantis 小螳螂

Baby mantis visit our garden when I was out rearrange my cotton plant in front of our house. The baby mantis was stick to my shirt, lucky I didn't smash him. I took some photos and wanted to show to my son when he finished his school in the evening. He like animals & insects especially babies.

yuen bao dumplings 元宝饺子

Today is rainy day, I make some pot sticker for our lunch to warm up our stomach. The filling is pork and cabbage, with anchovies - "ikan bilis" broth as soup.

homemade double cheese beef burger 双芝士牛肉汉堡

Yummy burger made from scratch! Filled with beef patties, fried egg, lettuce and mayo!

stir-fried bitter gourd with black beans 豆鼓炒苦瓜

Another bitter gourd dish in our list - stir-fried bitter gourd with black bean paste. It is a vegetarian dish, very simple and nice to eat. I also use our organic home grown bitter gourd to cook this dish.

stuffed bitter gourd 釀苦瓜

This is another way to cook bitter gourd - stuffed bitter gourd with pork & fish paste, serve with fermented soy bean paste as dipping sauce. Eat more bitter gourd is good for our body as bitter gourd can cool down our body especially when we ate a lot of fried food.

pickled olive with vegetables 橄榄菜炒蔬菜

This is a colourful dish also very delicious to serve with rice. Chinese describe it as 下饭菜 means you can eat few bowls of rice with this single dish. It was easy, just chop all the ingredients and stir-fry with this "pickle olive".

pan fried salmon with pasta 香煎三文鱼与意大利面

A simple garlic and herbs pasta with pan fried salmon on the table for our dinner. Own cook western food is more healthier and also very economical if compare with western food restaurant. We can enjoy with big portion of pasta and 2 pieces of salmon on the plate!!! Specially cook for my guy!

bitter gourd fried egg 苦瓜炒蛋

My bitter gourd fried egg is golden and yellow, looks yummy and also not bitter as usual. Just because I use our own grown bitter gourd at the backyard garden. When I cook bitter gourd, I will plant the seeds in our back yard. 

bitter gourd 苦瓜2

Home grown bitter gourd 2016

Sweet and sour crab 甜酸花螃蟹

It has been a long time I didn't cook crab because I feel lazy to eat with the shell on, difficult to clean and cut the crab. Actually I had no idea how to cut it, but just suddenly really craving to eat crab, so I decided to search for youtube on how to clean & cut crab. Wala! It is much more easier than I thought!

IKEA meatball & egg pizza 宜家牛肉丸和鸡蛋皮萨

IKEA meatball for Pizza? Yes, this is our dinner for the night. There were some leftover Ikea  meatball in the fridge, so I decided to make a big pizza for dinner! Additional egg at the center! Yummmmmmy....

stir-fried Di Huang Miao / Emperor Vegetables 清炒帝王苗

This is a super simple stir-fried vegetables, simply fried with garlic. It is one of our home grow vegetables in our small backyard garden. This plant call Basella alba or Malabar Spinach.

cute animal steamed buns for kids 可爱的动物馒头给孩子

Cute animal buns specially make for my son. It is a wholemeal buns, fiber is good and he had been eating a lot of fiber since young. Luckily he is not a choosy boy, he always enjoy his food in school or at home.

finger licking grilled saba fish 烤鲭鱼

Looks delicious and so "Japanese" flavor, this grilled saba fish (blue mackerel) was very famous dish in the Japanese restaurant. I thought is very hard to cook and must had some secret sauce to cook it. 

The truth is, it was so simple and quick to cook this delicious dish in your kitchen!

how to use your stovetop moka pot

I got a Italian espresso maker or moka pot from a friend as a gift to us. At the beginning, I have no idea how to use it but after I found out the way to make my coffee, I felt in love with it!

recycle old clothes to boy short pants 旧衣翻新-孩子短裤

I always like to sew something into other thing like this project, I use an old cloths to transform it into my boy's short pants. I like the grid fabric on this old cloths and also it was just nice to make a short pants for my son.

son's 7 years old birthday cake 儿子7岁的生日蛋糕

I bake this little cake, just 6" mini cake for my son, Brian's birthday. I surf online to get new idea for decorating the cake as I am not a good cake decorator. So I found this design, with minimum piping and coloured icing and it makes the cake so beautiful! My son love it so much!

Water spinach a.k.a. kangkung 蕹菜

Home grown water spinach.
Picked of the day... June 2016. Going to make garlic shallot stir-fried water spinach

salted steamed kembong fish 咸熟鱼

before steam  ----- >>> after steamed

Salted cooked mackerel or kembong in the market is pricing RM12-13/kg. Why don't I make my own?

rice dumpling festival "zongzi" 五月五 端午节吃粽子

My mom's "pillow" chinese dumplings!

Guess what I'm cooking... very delicious 猜猜看是什么？ 非常开胃的一道菜。。。

Look delicious, is sweet and sour chicken cubes???!!! Very colourful dishes, my family love it.

wild strawberries2 野草莓2

wild strawberries picked on May 23, 2016

Mangoes in the seasons! 家外的芒果树开满了！

Our Mango tree grows a lot of mangoes lately, especially seeing this bundle of mangoes hanging on the tree, I think is about 10 mangoes on this one!

son's 6th birthday cake - rainbow birthday cake 儿子的彩虹蛋糕

This is a rainbow chiffon cake purposely bake for my little boy for his 6th birthday and going to celebrate at his school. I baked it in a hurry for him as he complaint in that morning that he wanna a cake because he already informed his classmate that he will blow his birthday cake in school. Me as a mom don't want to disappoint my son. Although he already celebrated his birthday at his grandparents house earlier.

my little wild strawberries 我的野草莓

 

Love this wild strawberries at first sight, it was given by my aunt. She asked us if we want to try her own grown strawberries at her backyard. I was wonder how strawberry could survive in a hot weather as she was not staying in high hills like Cameron Highlands.

pumpkin steamed buns 南瓜小馒头

Our family favorites steamed buns again.... but this time is pumpkin steamed buns. Orangey-yellow colour, very nice and fluffy soft to eat. 

Mi Gu - fastest way to make a steamed buns at home 米糕/馒头

My son love this steamed bun called "Mi Gu". Actually it was a plain sweet steam bun similar to "Man Tou". He just like it as plain with no fillings inside, he just love it rather than bread. This post is my very first making of "Mi Gu", just play with it and it turn out nice.