Mamma's home cooked food@Taiping

My aging doggy always shows his excitement whenever any of us come home. He was all smiles here, while I tickled him. Haha. Crazy fella. I love him to bits.

Only during CNY time! Will we see this actively sold/ cooked. Mom sliced the 'kuih bakul' slices and dipped them in beaten eggs, before sending them into the deep fryer. Yummmss....

Father truly bless me with a great family. Mom always cooks the dishes we loved most whenever any of us are home. She knows I love to eat fish. Sweet and sour spicy fish. Better than so many restaurants here in KL.

This is what we call a real prawn fritter! Many restaurants serve real crappy small sized prawns, or fried with overly used oil. "Someone" always steals my fritters whenever I get fresh stocks from home!

A view from Maxwell Hill at midpoint. Even for someone like me who exercises quite often, I was panting hard and sweating all over hiking up hill using the hiker's way rather than the tar road. My heart was pumping real hard and all I could think of was to reach the end point asap. 30 minute hike.

CNY Eve Reunion Dinner@Demona's home in Taiping

 Apek Shandy greets Giong Hee Huat Chai! My dog will only raise his front paw when there's food dangling in front of him. Useless fella...

 Sometimes the best food come in the most humble way... Roast pork from Aulong market. Really, really good pork. All raw, jumbled and packed in plastic and wrapped with old newspaper. Unlike the nicely presented, well laid roast pork in chinese restaurants.

 

My house being the hub every CNY gathering. Relatives from all over drove up to Taiping. Not enough space to park in the compound.

 

 My cousin brothers getting all steamy and hot by the charcoal heated grill. Cousin sisters and aunts, sit back and watch while sipping icey cold drinks. And 'patiently' waited for the food.

 We had all kinds of grilled meat: Chicken wings, stingray, salmon, prawns, fishballs, meatballs, sausages, porkchop, burps!

 

Tender juicy fattened chicken wings. Yums! Meat marinater chef cousin brother of mine, brought his trademark herbs all the way from KL. Respecto!

 

 On top of marinating all those meat, he also made sangria. According to him, the key ingredient is the lemon slices. Pretty nice to drink, especially over spicy hot grilled food. As expected, I was one of the only few ones who enjoyed drinking. The rest of the boys went hardcore and followed my dad to bottoms up shots of hard liquor. Jameson and JW Black Label, finished in 1 -2 hours, leaving behind boys puking by the drain and some other happy high. Spirit of CNY!

Gigantic piece of pork chop... all for me and me only!

I collected all the bones and one dog became lucky this CNY, bones supply for 1 week. Lucky Hazel!

Good morning Taiping breakfast!@chinese kopitiam behind Bismillah

I was glad that the journey back to taiping started at 430am. Else, i would have spent 6 hours on my brakes, yawning, frustrated and having to hold my bladder.

The journey only took 3 hours, just in time to see the sunrise and driving past the thick misty, hilly areas along ipoh to taiping ( you can only encounter this around 630-7am). Almost like harry potter and the chamber of secrets, your car driving in the midst of the fluffly clouds.

Once i arrived at Taiping town, kopi satu! Warm, sweet, refreshing. With a kaya butter toast to dip in with.

Breakfast ain't complete without a roti canai. Tapao! From Bismillah next door. And in addition to that, puree and thosai from the old indian lady who runs the stall under the wing of this chinese kopitiam.

It's good to be back home!

Happy Chinese New Year to all! stay tuned for BBQ food picts for reunion dinner tonight :)

Wan Tan Mee@kampung boyan, taiping

A simple breakfast with my parents and granddad at this tiny zinx roof top place with a few hawker stalls.

The stalls here serve noodles cooked in all styles you can think of: from fried, to soup, to stirfry you name it.

As with all small town folks, we rarely remember road names but rather buildings and objects instead. This place is located right next to the huge chinese temple at Kampong Boyan.

I ordered the WTM, with tambah lauk 2 meatballs. RM3. Simple, humble, nice and gives a feel of homecooked. Chef threw in quite a lot of porklard too.

I saw how these people take care of the temple and how fervently they prayed. I felt ashamed and humbled for I had not followed His statutes well.

I gave a silent prayer for the people, and for my family, and for my breakfast WTM.

Amen!

Home cooked food from taiping.

One weekend in taiping, 2 days = 1 kg addition to body weight.

Needless to say, all food prep by mothers are always oh sooooo goooodddd.

Demona mama: responsible for pork curry, deliciously thinly sliced. Pork ribs, so so flavourful. Soy chicken, boneless and delicious.

Dogma mama: home made charsiew with the best meat and xo sauce. Home made yongtaufu of bittergourd and self planted brinjals. Sliced pork fried with soy sauce.

See you again on CNY!

Kaya kok@aulong, taiping

Ive blogged about this before and i guess ill never get tired of it.

Hidden in the old township area of Aulong, this lady and her family is busy baking all her golden kaya goodies.

I dont know the address but if im in the car with you, ill direct u there.

I may be biased, as many raved the greatness of Ipoh's mini kaya koks but i think my hometown's version is so much better, especially freshly baked!

The warmth, crunchiness and buttery smell.. With creamy semi solidified kaya.

Best of all. Rm0.70 a piece. Steal deal!

CNY @ Dogma's house

2010 CNY was a short trip back home, and a pretty quite one as the weather was excruciatingly hot and dogma fell ill half of the time.
the above, was what dogmama brewed for dogma, a doubleboiled american ginseng, for almost everynite in taiping

FanGrilled Pork, Marinated 24 hours in secret home sauce: Smokey, Sweet. This is one meat that satisfy even the Neanderthals

Smoked Duck Slices from Taiwan with chopped Chinese Celery: Saltish and Exotic,you dun get this at any mom and pop shop

MOm prepared a feast for one of the reunion dinner with relatives.

Home made prawn crackers@Demona's mama

Demona: No one makes better prawn crackers than me mama's! Anyone wants to take orders? haha. Actually I rather not. The process of making these lil' crackers right from scratch really roughen her hands and makes them sore. I'm sorry guys! Best-est prawn crackers ever! and only Chuah and Chuah clan alone can have this priviledge... and of course, occasionally others who are around me when me mama makes me some. *winks* Dogma, eh? I remembered you chomping down these lil' cracker jagger goodies :)

Mommy's crackers come in two flavours, original and spicy ones. I believe I've posted on this once a long, long while ago. But, who cares :) I never get bored of telling people about how great my mom and her culinary skills are!

Home made beef noodles@Dogma's mama

Yawning Hazel Guarding the entrance to the Kitchen..
ME... NEED>>> FOOOOOOOOOD says Zack
the Precursor --> Vege, meat ball Soup..Oriental Style
The Main: Thick, juicy beef soup complete with beef tendon, beef brisket and radish stewed to perfection.
Check it out again. The killer beef noodle in Taiping..
Mom always made the best beef noodle i'd ever eaten...period..
This time it was made even better by the perfect choice of white noodle coupled with the thick concentrated gravy.....
Doused it with a dash of chili oil, and you are on the staircase to heaven.

CNY Party Lunch@Dogma's home, Taiping

4 months ago it was CNY in Taiping....
4 months later it was CNY at Tummies Growl blog.....

Great picture is really worth the wait, don't you think so?

Above--> Dogma's faithful old guard, Zack De La Rocha of the Boxer Breed
Below--> Dogma's Generation X Fighter, Hazel the Black

Both of them are chilling outside the kitchen,,, waiting for any surprise bones and leftovers from our CNY lunch meal.

Aged Pu Er Tea with Ma Lao Mit ( Monkey picked tea leaves, where the tea tree grew on teh edges of the cliff)--- bitter and smooth..... oooooooo graciously gliding down your throat.
The aftermath-> Turkey Carcass ready to be devoured by Zack and Hazel
Home Made Achar and honey glazed chicken wings
Mandarin, the must haves for CNY but Dogma really dun dig this..he gave demona a big pack of this
DIG IT GUYS!
Peanut sauce COld Noodles: Northern China Cuisine..with a south asian twist.. the peanut paste was replaced by Skippy Peanut Butter Jam!
Pine Nuts Organic Salad...at Dogma's crib,, meals are always a concoction of east meet west,,,
TURKEYYYYYYY... annual event for the Dogma's family. I believe this is the second time demona had it at my place....per Turkey is RM100,,, that is RM200 i say! Check that lil mandarins beside teh turkey? Demona gobble them down the turkey fat infused Baby Mandarins,, This sounds like French Food!

Dogmama's kitchen
Turkey in a cage

Garlic charbroiled Lamb Rack.....
For the suppper!