Vege Tofu vs Jamaican Food

Day 4 Friday 5.feb.21 of eating vege meals from www.pbhall.org and I got all 3 meals.

Meal C: Nasi Lemak - basmati rice in coconut milk; tempeh and peanuts in the small container; tofu masak merah in tomato onion cinnamon gravy; acar jelatah - pickled cucumber, pineapple, onion, red chili, garlic; and stirfry turmeric cauliflower, long bean, baby corn, and red carrot. Both of us shared this dish for lunch at 1.10 pm.

Meal B: Basmati rice; red spinach with red Chili; and tofu with baby tomatoes in lentil gravy. Portion is huge so I just ate a bowl and kept the remaining tofu lentil gravy and basmati rice in the fridge for the next day.

Meal A: barley as rice; cucumber onion dill herb salad; and potato, bean, corn, pumpkin, red carrot stew. Portion again is huge so I ate a bowl and kept the remaining in the fridge for the next day.

12.30 noon - This small portion from meal A is enough for me. I like the taste and bouncy texture of the round and plump barley.

12.40 noon - my portion from meal B. Like the red chili with red spinach.

*** Thursday 28.Jan.21 Jamaican Food ***

Back in January 2021, I saw this Jamaican food being advertised on insta and decided to give it a try since I have not eaten Jamaican food.

I bought 6 Jamaican dishes to try. Delivery fees is MYR 15 using Grab Express since the seller is located quite far away from my place. I will show each dish one by one each day.

The half chicken is served in an aluminium container with Jollof rice, fried plantains aka large bananas, spinach callalo, and half beetroot pickled egg. Can you spot the half beetroot pickled egg? Huge portion for only MYR 28.90 Nett. I only nibbled on each item to test the taste and gave the remaining food away.

1.30 pm - kept the breast meat in the fridge for another day. He ate the chicken thigh and drumstick - smokey wood taste. Chicken tastes fresh. 

I ate only the wing portion and after all these rich flavourful meat dishes, I yearn to eat lighter vege meals. Thus ended up buying the 24 vege meals for 11 days. That is the background story. Not because of wanting to eat clean before CNY gorging.

Vege Tofu meals vs flavourful chicken meal? I say eat a bit of both as both portions are huge! Doesn't need to be exclusive unless wanting to live a devoted vegan life.

Luan Luan Eat

Luan Luan here is 亂 or 乱 in Chinese, meaning messy or disorganised. Luan Luan Eat is referring to mixing clean eating with fast food eating. I will eat what I like to eat so the result is this mixture as I like to eat plant based food but yet I like to eat fast food, ice cream, cakes, biscuits and desserts. I guess I just found out as I age, I don't like to eat pork and chicken anymore, cannot stand the smell of chicken and pork.

Day 3, Thu 4.feb.21 - Meal A from www.pbhall.org - the two dishes are tempeh, tofu, potatoes rendang and pucuk manis with sweet potatoes in coconut milk gravy. A tasty and wholesome plant based rendang. Good to eat with the soft and fluffy Basmati rice.

Meal B - The name of this meal is "Colourful Superfood Salad" with its red, green, yellow capsicums, beans, corns, purina leaves and pickled olives. The tub contains balsamic vinegar for the bottom left lettuce, onion, tomato salad.

Close up - quinoa underneath the Colourful toppings. Clean eating as this meal is not oily and taste refreshingly good.

I didn't order the meal below because I am not curious to find out how it tastes like.

I noticed the adverts below:

Too bad I can't stand spicy food so I won't be ordering the new mcd spicy chicken apple burger.

No to chocolate and pretzel bits mcFlurry because I still have many Wall's ice creams in my fridge.

Yes to the limited edition McD Orange Custard pie.

Yes also to KFC Chili Cheese Balls.

McD orange custard pie - both of us quite like the light pleasant taste of orange in this pie but I read that some customers feel that there is a medicine taste. The taste reminds me of Mandarin oranges. It is just sauce with no orange bits. The custard is negligible because I didn't notice its taste.

Taken with flash. Can see the translucent orange sauce next to the custard.

Without flash.

The orange sauce is not thick but not that thin either, just the right consistency in allowing it to flow and not be very sticky.

KFC Chili Cheese Balls - not too salty, is cheesy enough and creamy. The chili inside the cheese is not that hot so I can eat these balls.

Close up view. Tasty for people who loves to eat cheese.

Not wise to eat so much fast food after eating healthy food, eh? 😆 But I don't mind because I am eating what I like to eat, not eating for health purpose since I prefer to die around 60ish or earlier.

24 Plant-Only Meals

I bought 24 meals to be delivered over 11 days from www.pbhall.org aka Plant Based Health Alliance so the meals will only contain plants. Each meal costs MYR 21 Nett with a flat delivery fees of MYR 4 nett. Lunch and dinner will be delivered together during lunch time from 11 am to 12.30 noon. Everyday there are 3 choices: A, B, C except on special days, there is an additional choice of D. There are 28 unique meals appearing on a rotation basis.

Day 1 Tuesday 2.2.21 - Meal B - Nasi Impit aka compressed rice with blue colour from the Clitoria ternatea aka butterfly pea flower has a rich rice taste so I can eat them plain just like that. This is a plant only version of Gado Gado with tempeh, tofu, potatoes, blanched cabbage, raw tomatoes, cucumber, beansprouts, long beans, julienned red carrots, purple cabbage and peanut sauce. The peanut sauce has a tinge of spiciness.

Meal C - Light and fluffy Basmati rice with stir fried kailan. Brinjals, red bell peppers, okra, long bean, baby corn, broccoli, green chili and cucumber are mixed in a very tasty green curry gravy. 

Meal A - brown soba noodles with napa cabbages. Something is missing from this meal so they replaced it for me in the next day's Delivery as it is not environmental friendly to send a delivery person to my place again just to deliver the missing item. Can you guess what is the item that is missing?

Day 2 Wednesday 3.2.21 - Meal C is the replacement meal or rather compensation meal for the missing item on Day 1.  Basmati rice with cold cloud ear fungus mixed with vinegar which is a cold appetiser in Beijing. The slices of tofu looks good on top of french bean, red carrot, slices of ginger and capsicum. The small tub contains soy sauce.

Meal A - raw lettuce salad, purple sweet potatoes mash and a stew of 3 types of pulses, mung beans with skin,  carrot,  corn,  green peas, onion,  tomatoes cooked in tomato gravy. The small tub contains a mayo dip either for dip or for the salad dressings which I didn't try.

Meal B - stir fried spinach, tofu with brown rice. Bean sprouts, shiitake mushrooms, pickles, cucumber and red carrot is in the top left compartment. This meal is inspired by Bibimbap so the sauce is Gochujang which is spicy. I tried a bit of the sauce and found it to taste like Fu yu. I ate all the vegetables without mixing them up with the Gochujang sauce.

Close up photo of the lentils stew. I prefer the lentils to be softer.

Compostable containers are used. According to this online article:

https://www.livescience.com/63597-compost-trash-in-landfills.html

Compostable containers should be thrown into composting heaps and not as thrash which will end up in a landfill. A landfill doesn't have the right conditions for any compostable containers to break down.

The 3 Containers with the food are delivered like this for 11 days.

Pineapple Balls

On Thursday 7.1.21, I received this red paper bag with two containers of pineapple pastries.

Looks good. They are a treat from my brother. He bought them at MYR 38 per tub, 2 for MYR 70 Nett.

A view of the label on top of the cover.

Size comparison with a standard size teaspoon.

Overturn it. I gave one tub to my mother and they have eaten all the pineapple balls in that tub. I still have half a tub remaining in my fridge at this point in time of wed 3.1.21 which is 9 days away from CNY. Mco has been extended to 18.2.21 so everyone please celebrate CNY 12.2.21 online and stay safe at home!

The selling point of this pastry is the genuine fibrous pineapple jam fillings. The pastry is soft and taste very milky.

For this batch, the pastry is a bit too moist so it stuck to the paper. Feedback to seller and seller offers replacement but as they are fine to be eaten, we say there is no need for replacement.

The seller sent us the above photo to say that normal batches look like the above. Not overly moist.

From seller insta, the butter Tillamook is used.

Interested? Can contact seller via insta or fb.

Sourdough pizza

This is what I ate on Sat 23.1.21 when he ate Nasi Lemak and Sarawak laksa from Charlie's Cafe because he cannot stand the cheese on pizzas.

1.30 pm - received the pizza and cakes from Christine's Bakery via beepit. This bakery is located at Sunway Geo and has just opened another branch at Publika. Other than pizza, they sell cakes, plain bagels and bagel sandwiches too.

I ordered one pizza, one slice of cake and a chocolate Swiss roll that costs MYR 13.80+ 6% tax 0.83 with half a roll still in my fridge at this point in time of Mon 1.2.21 which means it has been in my fridge for 9 days.

My slice of burnt cheese cake, MYR 14.90 + 6% tax 0.89 that I ate the next day as breakfast on Sunday 24.1.21 before I went to do my weekly grocery shopping.

4.30 pm - the pizza is cut into 6 wedges and one wedge is enough for me but I stuff another two wedges into myself so that I only need to keep half in the fridge. The dough is like a focaccia - thick and chewy which I like a lot.

3.30 pm - there are slices of lamb on the pizza.

The lamb pizza looks a bit burnt but the toppings are very tasty. It has Montreal lamb, fetta cheese, grilled eggplant, grilled  zucchini, almond flake, langkawi mozzarella cheese, and kombu tomato concasse.

A standard size table spoon next to the pizza for size comparison. Price is MYR 36+ 6% tax MYR 2.16 which is a reasonable price considering the good quality of toppings. I ate the remaining half of this pizza on mon 25.1.21 which is 2 days after.

I know that the delivery charge is on the high side but I couldn't find any sourdough pizza near my place so it is worth paying for to get this.

It has caught my attention that there is another sourdough pizza worth trying and it is known as http://woppizzakl.com/

I must find time and stomach space to try it one day.

*** Mon 1.2.21 ***

On the first day of February, I managed to clear the mcd raspberry cheese pie that has been sitting in my fridge since Thursday 21.1.21 which means 11 days ago.

3.20 pm - finally allocated some time and stomach space to eat this mcd raspberry cheese pie from 11 days ago. Not too bad though very soft. I must not keep food for so long in the fridge anymore.

*** Do you need a handy tenant? ***

This tenant thought he is being helpful by unscrewing one of the small pole.

Oreo oreo

 Yesterday is the last day of the month, 31.1.21 Sunday and is also my weekly grocery buying at de market supermarket.

Saw these oreos at MYR 2.99 each so bought one each of the different flavours as I have never eaten oreo cookies, not that I can remember anyway.

12.46 noon, I ate at least one each to test the flavours of the fillings. The mini original oreo cookies are very cute. The cookies are delicious but the fillings of original white, chocolate, peanut butter & chocolate, and dark chocolate & white is a bit too sweet for me. All of them are made in Indonesia. 

For the red velvet oreo cookies, I couldn't taste the cheese in the fillings so I shall eat more of them on wed to identify its taste.

For the red velvet, I was surprised to read "Food additives are of plant and synthetic origins, except carmine (insect)."

I wonder what insect and google for the answer. The result shows this article:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-food-dye-cochineal-bugs_n_56fafd25e4b083f5c605f3dd

It seems that the red colour used for food is from an insect called cochineal. To think now only I know this info. So do you read the ingredients list of the food that you buy?

Then I went to Giant supermarket and bought Marie biscuits and chocolate biscuits under the tiger brand which has changed their packaging. I also bought a pack of mini oreo cookies at MYR 1 Nett.

Giant supermarket sells the MYR 2.99 oreo cookies at MYR 2.39 Nett. 60 cents lower. Since I have bought the oreo cookies at de market, I didn't buy them again at giant.

The oreo cookies original price is MYR 3.50 but de market supermarket sells them at MYR 2.99 Nett.