Tong Garden and Fuyun Chestnuts

That day I peeled roast chestnuts for one hour and I am not doing that again so I bought these peeled chestnuts. The  Fuyun Gourmet Roasted Peeled Chestnut. 128 g costs MYR 4.70 nett from Aeon Supermarket and one big pack of Tong Garden chestnuts (300g) contains 5 packets of 60g chestnuts in it and the usual price is MYR 11.41 nett but the promo price is MYR 9.99 nett so I bought two big packs. The chestnuts are soft and sweet so they are good enough.

There are 5 packets of 60g peeled chestnuts in the big packet. 60g is about 11 peeled chestnuts.

The Fuyun Gourmet Roasted Peeled Chestnut - 128 g that costs MYR 4.70 nett from Aeon Supermarket has about 28 chestnuts in it. Compared to Tong Garden chestnuts, these chestnuts are drier and the texture is on the powdery side.

*** Tueday 28 July 2020 d133 *** 

 12.12 noon - not my lunch of curry cintan instant noodles with egg, vege and all the remaining siew yuk from 21 July 2020 d126 so it took us about one week to finish 670 g of the 1 kg siew yuk as we gave 330 g away. For this day, I ate nestum choc cereal, one mug cheese cake, cashew nuts, chestnuts, 2 texas chicken honey biscuits and drank some unsweetened soy packet drink throughout the whole day. He ate bread, peanut butter for breakfast, marigold peach jelly and cereal with unsweetened soy packet drink for dinner. I would say this day is a snack this and that day with no proper main meals.

Roasted Chestnuts

12 noon - Fried rice for the whole day on Friday 26 June 2020 d101 but I don't think anyone is counting the days anymore. Ingredients in this fried rice: Eggs, Roast chicken meat bought from Aeon on Thursday 25 June 2020 d100, 2 Dong Guan Waxed Sausages (bought on Friday 22 May 2020 d66), rice and frozen mixed vegetables bought from Giant supermarket.

This is the Kawan Frozen Mixed Vegetable 500g bought from Giant Supermarket because it is the only brand of Frozen Mixed Vegetable available in that supermarket.

I got a request to buy ready-to-eat chestnuts. I could have bought those ready-to-eat peeled chestnuts from supermarkets (which I did not see any but I did not go search in detail) but then I thought to buy from this kiosk in Aeon food court. Now while writing this, I found out that I have bought from them before back in 2014. 

The chestnuts are cooked in coffee beans I believe. I also bought two roasted sweet potatoes. Total price for chestnuts and roasted potatoes is about MYR 34 ish. Have to pay first and then only return with the receipt to collect the food.

Bought 280 g for MYR 18.50 nett. Back in 2014, 300 g costs MYR 14 nett only.

The chestnuts are quite small compared to those I bought and ate in Kyoto, Japan back in 2009. I did not count how many chestnuts there are for 280 g.

I peeled them for about 1 hour and got 25 nicely peeled whole ones. I think there are about 6 to 8 ones which I ate while peeling because I broke the chestnuts so might as well eat them.

The chestnuts are put in a paper bag.

They took the trouble to provide information about the chestnuts on their paper bag. These chestnuts are imported from Tien Jin, it seems.

This is the whole roast chicken I bought from Aeon food court which some of the meat were used in the fried rice.

They call it Ayam Golek fresh from oven, only MYR 11.70 nett per chicken by weight. More affordable than the fried chicken from the Colonel.

Bought Bee Cheng Hiang 4 slices of BBQ Minced Pork at MYR 150 per kg so for 4 slices it costs MYR 34.50 nett which works out to be MYR 8.625 nett per slice. If I am diligent, I must learn how to make this Bak Kwa from Nancy. She provided the recipe here in her article.

Bought this Safegg Pasteurized Eggs at MYR 14.50 nett.

Ate the banana cake bought from Aeon Food Court on Thursday and found it to be sweet and a bit on the dry side which is what we expected so confirmed that TK banana cake is better at MYR 7.80 nett compared to this banana cake at MYR 7 nett.

10.19 am - my breakfast of Milo cereal with Sprouted grains rainbow bread.

1.57 pm - my lunch of fried rice.

Chestnuts

I like to eat chestnuts so I bought this packet of chestnuts (roasted with coffee beans) 300g for MYR14. The table spoon in the photo above is to show the size of the chestnuts which is quite small. It is easy to peel as the chestnuts in my opinion have been roasted for far too long and the nuts have shrunk and do not stick to their skins anymore. They are sweet and tasty but I think I prefer to buy raw chestnuts and boil them to eat rather than to buy this again.