Stay Home Clear Food

We stayed home the whole of yesterday, Mon 24.may.21 without ordering any food delivery so that we can clear out the food in our fridge. 

12.17 noon - His lunch: Brown Basmathi Rice stir fried with mui choy pork belly bought from Teo Chew Lao Er on Wed, 19.may.21 which is 5 days ago. Added in a fried egg and some iceberg lettuce.

2.22 pm - I ate this slice of bread with butter and mixed berries spread that he prepared for me when he ate his breakfast at around 8 am as breakfast. I don't know what I was doing the whole morning.

3.10 pm - my lunch of brown basmathi rice cooked on Sat, 22.may.21 and the spicy salty mustard greens dish from Teo Chew Lao Er bought 5 days ago on Wed, 19.may.21 which I ate both direct from the fridge. Very nice cos I like the taste of the Kai choy with its slight bitterness.

5.10 pm - I ate all the remaining RT chocolate swiss roll with butter cream bought 12 days ago on Thu 13.may.21 so it is one more food cleared.

5.54 pm - both of us cleared this very flavour snack which has been left half eaten in the fridge. It left a sweet taste in my mouth.

The flavour is anchovy taste.

7 pm - pork mihun from Sepetang coffee shop bought on Sun, 23.may.21 for dinner.

7.13 pm - my portion of pork mihun.

So by staying at home, we managed to clear the 4 days food which lasted us for 6 days. Also cleared the RT chocolate swiss roll and the anchovy snack.

Choy Kee HK Roasted

 Yesterday, Sun 23.may.21 is quick dash grocery buying day.

0830 - saw this notice board outside the entrance of de Market supermarket in Taman Desa. Only customers with "low risk" or "casual contact" status can enter the supermarket.

Even before this supermarket opens at 8.30 am, there are about 10 customers queuing outside waiting to enter. Guess everyone wants to dash in, buy their goods and dash out. I dashed out at 9 am after dashing in at 8.32 am.

What does "casual contact" status mean? It just mean that the person has been to a place at a time when there was an infected person. They may not have even met so it is still low risk.

After going to Sepetang coffee shop to buy nasi lemak, we went to this nearby Choy Kee eatery in Taman Desa to buy roast duck rice because the roast duck rice is available very early at 9 am and we reached there at 9.32 am.

Opposite this eatery is a van selling coffee drinks with the name Pak Kopi. Maybe next Sunday, we would try their coffee if we see this van again.

My 

11.16 am - my nasi lemak from Sepetang with small rice MYR 7 nett.

5 pm - the duck breast meat rice from Choy Kee at MYR 9 nett.

*** Day 5 of 4 Days Food ***

5.30 pm - He kept two pieces of duck breast meat for my dinner and I put in the brown basmathi rice from Sat to eat with the duck meat.

He added more mustard greens aka Kai choy into the salty mustard greens dish from Teo Chew Lao Er bought on Wed 19.may.21 which is 5 days ago.

Close up.

The dried red chilies are quite hot spicy. I just love to eat the Kai choy and left some for the next day so we didn't clear anything from the fridge on Sun.

The Kai choy aka mustard greens bought from de Market costs MYR 4.60 nett for two small bunches. Will be staying home the whole day today as there is a call for self lockdown due to the many cases around. Stay safe everyone! 🙏😷

Basmathi Brown Rice

Lightly rinse 2 cups of 160 ml basmathi brown rice. Add 2 cups of 160 ml water and cover the casserole pot. Microwaved for 6 minutes on full power. Let it rest for 1 hour.

After 1 hour, remove the cover of the casserole pot and voila! Light fluffy basmathi brown rice is cooked perfectly.

The brown basmathi rice is light and fluffy but with more fibres. It has a nutty earthy taste so there may be people who are not used to this taste. I like it for its taste and also because it is so easy to cook.

This is the packet of basmathi brown rice.

 1 kg at a RRP of MYR 18.50 nett.

*** Day 4 of 4 Days Food ***

Sat 22.may.21 11.30 am - brunch of Mee hoon in ytf soup with one okra ytf and one tofu ytf shared by two pax.

2 pm - basmathi brown rice with a spoonful of items from the 8 treasures duck stew. Ate all the remaining 4 pieces of otak otak bought on wed 19.may.21 which is 4 days ago.

2.30 pm - kept this remaining 8 treasures duck stew in the fridge for dinner.

6 pm - scoop basmathi brown rice into the reheated remaining duck stew. The two of us shared this bowl of rice for dinner and finished off all the 8 treasure duck.

Therefore, on day 4 we finally ate all the remaining 8 treasure duck and otak otak. 2 items cleared. Yay!'🥳 still have sour mustard greens dish and mui choy pork belly to clear tomorrow.

Day 3 of 4 Days Food

Fri 21.may.21 11.30 am - Ate all the remaining half portion of Muk yee zhar yuk rice from Tue 18.may.21 by two pax. 

11.46 am - I cleared off the tofu, omelette with otak otak in it, the remaining Mee jawa gravy from Sun 16.may.21 with vit instant noodles.

12.15 noon - when I was 7 years old, I used to eat the chicken neck of the whole chicken used to cook chicken soup. Many years passed and I have not eaten chicken necks since. This is the neck of the 8 treasures duck. Do you eat the neck of chicken or duck?

12.34 noon - I ate the meat off the neck of the duck but didn't eat the skin on the neck since the skin has fallen off and seemed very fatty.

11.30 am - Bring to boil the remaining half 8 treasures duck in all the remaining given gravy and the duck just fell apart like it was supposed to do so.

12.45 noon - I scooped out all the duck bones with some duck meat still stuck to the bones to clean the bones.

Kept the remaining boneless meat in the gravy in the fridge for the next day. Looks like duck stew.

1.59 pm - after a little more than one hour, I managed to clean the duck bones. I will remember not to buy a whole duck again because I don't want to eat the meat cleanly off the bones again.

4.48 pm - His early dinner of ju chap juk aka mixed pork innards congee from Fatty Mok eatery. We bought it when we went out to buy groceries from Giant supermarket and deliver them to the elderlies. He said some innards which are not fried are quite smelly so I asked him to discard those parts because I am definitely not eating those smelly parts. He ate this bowl of congee with a piece of fried bean curd sheet, one fried bean curd roll, one fried popiah, one fried sui gao from the same shop and some mui choy pork belly from Teo Chew Lao Er bought on Wed 19.may.21 along with the duck.

Giant supermarket controlled the amount of shoppers in the supermarket so even at 3.40 pm on a weekday there was a queue of about 6 persons in front of me. Luckily I just need to wait for 3 minutes to enter the supermarket and spent a total of 35 minutes in the Supermarket. Fingers crossed that I didn't catch anything. Giant supermarket was chosen because the entrance of the supermarket is very close to the main road so it was a dash in and out trip if 35 minutes can be considered as dash in and out timing.

4.55 pm - I didn't eat any dinner because I was still full from my previous meal but I was extremely thirsty from the Mee jawa gravy so I bought cham ping aka iced coffee mixed with tea to quench my thirst which it did. This drink tastes more of tea and condensed milk than coffee.

So on Day 3, we cleared off 3 items which are the tofu, the otak otak omelette, and the Muk yee zhar yuk rice. Yay again! 🥳

Day 2 of 4 Days Food

We stayed at home for the whole of yesterday, Thu 20.may.21 and ate the food we bought from Two Chew Lao Er on Wed, the day before yesterday.

9.24 am - for breakfast, the halibut fish gravy was used as the broth for Mee hoon. It has been more than one year that I ate a fish dish cooked in this style.

The fish is deep fried and then braised in a sourish tangy gravy that has soy bean Taucu paste aka mean si in it with julienned gingers and wedges of tomatoes. It is very appetising and the fish meat is tender but firm so it is very tasty despite the fact we need to eat the fish carefully to remove the bones from inside our mouth. This is because we didn't remove the bones before putting the fish into our mouth so we need to spit out the bones. Not that many bones but not that few either. Need to pay special attention to the bones.

9.40 am - after he has eaten his share, I ate the remaining Mee hoon and the tail part of the fish. There were 3 pieces of fish for MYR 21 nett so on average it costs MYR 7 nett for a piece of fish. I ate two slices of otak otak with the fish Mee hoon.

11.23 am - I ate the remaining yam paste which I put in the freezer so I thawed it before digging in.

12.01 noon - I forgot to take a photo of our shared lunch which is all the remaining leeks dish and half of the zhar yuk Muk yee rice we bought on Tue 18.may.21 from Lucky Alley. This is my portion of the lunch with two cubes of tofu.

4.58 pm - I ate all the remaining Taro cake that I bought from RT Pastry, Taman Desa one week ago on Thu 13.may.21 and it was still very tasty and cold from the fridge. It is safer to eat it all on the day of purchase to ensure that the cake is still good to eat.

6.05 pm - our shared dinner of a quarter duck with added lettuce and vit instant noodles.

6.26 pm - my portion of duck, lettuce and noodles. Instant noodles go very well with the duck gravy. A perfect combination. The remaining duck is still enough for 3 meals but we will try to finish eating the duck in 2 meals.

So on Day 2, we have cleared off a total of 5 items where 3 items are from the 9 remaining items bought from Teo Chew Lao Er. Yay! 😋
 

Food For Four Days

 Ordered delivery from TeoChew Lao Er restaurant for the 2nd time.

Leeks and siew yuk stirfry.

8 treasure braised duck. Warning: they included the duck's head with a very long beak so I was a bit shock when I saw that. I removed the head before taking this photo.

Longan and white fungus tong sui. It even has slices of nutmeg in it.

Yam paste dessert.

Fried Egg with otak otak.

Otak otak - there are more pieces than shown in the photo. We have eaten around 4 pieces before taking this photo.

Tofu. We have eaten the raw onions provided with this dish.

spicy salty mustard green.

Mui choy with pork belly.

Halibut fish - two pieces of fish for two persons in sourish gravy.

Delivered by grab express in the rain at  about 2.20 pm.

Total bill is MYR 237.10 nett. The food should last us for 4 days so we can just stay at home without needing to go out to buy takeaway food.

This tempted me to buy all the above food. Can you spot the duck head and duck beak in this photo?

They are taking Pre order for Bak chang now.