Local Fruit Box Eat Raw Sweet Corn

*** Friday 24 April 2020 d38 ***

Bought a local fruit box for MYR 30 nett to help out local farmers with delivery fees MYR 10 to help out public transporters so total cost is MYR 40 for one honey melon, two guavas, one papaya, two star fruits, two pineapples, 5 bananas in one bunch from Mr Banana farm, and 3 sweet corns.

As one of the pineapple is ripe, I spent some time to cut it up. Eat and cut, eat and cut or rather it is cut and eat, cut and eat and ended up with one container to store in the fridge. Like Libby says in her comment, buying whole fruits involved a lot of cutting.

It has been a long, long, long time since I last eat a star fruit. Both star fruits fit in one container to go into the fridge. Do you cut star fruit horizontally to show the star shape or vertically into strips? My mother used to feed us star fruits when we were young. Ah, the memories. Ate some while cutting, taste exactly the same as the star fruits that I ate when young.

Cut up one guava because it seems to be ripe into one container and into the fridge it goes. Tastes the same as the ones my mother used to feed us as children.

Three sweet corns on the cob. I removed the husk and the silk. Ate one raw corn on the cob - so very sweet and tender. Very tasty so it is good to be eaten raw because it is fresh. Left two to be eaten tomorrow.

So I have one honey melon, 3 bananas of 5 (we ate one each), one papaya, one guava and one pineapple uncut. Should last me for one week.

Instant noodles kosong with blanched cabbage and one piece of Texas Chicken tender (not in photo) for dinner at 6 pm.

Not-my-lunch of curry instant noodles, blanched cabbage and two Texas Chicken tenders at 1 pm.

My breakfast of instant oats with dried cranberries and almonds at 10 am with Royce Baton Cookies Coconut as dessert.

I did not know that it has chocolate underneath the cookie so I took it out from the fridge and the chocolate melted. There are strings of coconut (yay char) in the cookie. Amazing, such a very thin piece of cookie, they manage to put yay char inside.

Kim Wah Bak Chang Delivery

Before yesterday, I only buy food delivery via Grab or Food Panda but after I read that Claire would go through the Ipoh food delivery on fb to see what's new there before she goes to sleep, I thought to myself perhaps I should also do that, find food delivery around my area in fb and I did that yesterday (Saturday 25 April 2020 d39) and ended buying too much food. lolx!

When I read about the Bak Chang on TM's article, I did not think that MYR 6 nett for one is expensive because last year, when I bought Bak Chang in June 2019, the price is already MYR 7 nett but I wanted to eat Bak Chang but don't know where to get one delivered to me so when I saw this photo on fb, I immediately contacted the person to arrange to buy 10 and get them delivered directly to my doorstep. According to the fb post, these bak chang are sold at Golden Kim Wah, Damansara Kim. As I used Grab to pick up the dumplings and delivered them to me, the delivery fee is MYR 19 nett but it is worth it in my opinion.

For every purchase of 10 bak chang, the seller will give 1 nyonya dumpling foc. So I bought 6 salted egg bak chang (MYR 7.5 nett), 2 nyonya bak chang (MYR 7 nett) and 2 dried oysters bak chang (MYR 8 nett) and received 1 nyonya dumpling foc. I gave half away so I should have bought more because the bak chang is very tasty, not salty and with lean pork and a separate piece of pork fat which can be easily removed and the glutinous rice is not too soft.

Delivery 1: The above photo is copied from the seller's post. I did not take any photos of the 11 glutinous rice dumplings that I bought because I was too busy doing something else when one dumpling was being eaten and I took one bite to find that it is delicious. I will definitely buy again if stay-at-home is extended to end of May 2020.

Left: Crispy Apam - MYR 5 for 3 pieces. Very crispy with peanuts bits and sweet corns as fillings 

Right: Sweet Apam - MYR 10 for 8 pieces - very crispy too - taste like kuih kapit with coconut flakes as fillings. The coconut taste is very fragrant for this sweet apam.

Delivery 2: This seller will deliver Apam Balik to my area only on Saturday so when I read the fb post on late Friday night, it was too late to order so at 8 am yesterday morning, I quickly contacted the seller to ask if I could place a last minute order and luckily she agreed. So I was happy to received my 4 types of Apam Balik. The seller's father made these Apam Balik and he has a stall in a coffee shop in Pandan Perdana. I did not ask her what the coffee shop name is.

Thick Apam - MYR 2.50 per piece for peanut and sweet corns fillings, MYR 2.30 per piece for only peanut fillings.

My order which is 4 pieces thick apam peanut corn, 5 pieces thick apam peanut, crispy apam 6 pieces and sweet apam 8 pieces cost MYR 41.50 nett so delivery fees is waived for orders over MYR 40 nett. So tasty! So satisfying because I ate 3 crispy apam and 3 sweet apam at one go. Am going to give away the thick apam with peanut and corn fillings.

Delivery 3: I read about beepit in Stacy's article and then I saw IDC using beepit for order online and delivery and I saw Musang King ice cream so I bought over MYR 150 to get free delivery.

6 x 500 ml ice cream to last me till end of May 2020.

These are the flavours I selected: Musang King, Rum & Raisin (I have been looking for this flavour for a long, long time and Baskin Robbins, Hagen Daaz, Inside Scoop, Picolli Lotti - all of them do not have this flavour), Affogato, Triple Chocolate, Chocolate Salted Caramel Almond, Strawberry and Cream. Total price is MYR 163 nett. Indulgence! But I am giving away 3 of them.

Delivery 4: This lady is a home baker (Cakesbymiac) and the comments mentioned that her banana cakes are delicious. Since we love to eat banana cakes without any artificial flavours, I bought 2 loaves each - only banana at MYR 23 nett and banana with walnut and cranberries at MYR 28 nett for a total of MYR 102 nett so I get free delivery for my place is within 8 km of her place and I order more than 3 loaves of cakes. She has other items on her menu too. Next time I will order those items.
When I placed my orders, she was just baking this batch of banana loaves so I received my order in the evening when they are just fresh out of the oven. I am also giving away two loaves.

Looks so tasty!

So soft, no artificial flavours. Taste reminded us of the MalaiKo we love eating at Tim Ho Wan but with the lovely sweet fragrance of bananas. Will definitely order again from her.

Delivery 5: Kaya, Soft Buns, Hainanese Soft Bread and Kampung Eggs from this fb seller. Delivery above MYR 50 nett foc so I bought 6 x MYR 4.50 of Kaya (MYR 27 nett), 2 x MYR 3 of Soft Buns (MYR 6 nett), 2 loaves of Hainanese Soft Bread x MYR 5 = MYR 10 nett, and 1 tray of 30 Kampung Eggs = MYR 30 nett for a total of MYR 61 nett.  This fb seller is very dedicated, he delivered all the items to me in the drizzle. The kaya tastes so creamy, so coconut-ty, so pandan-ny, so egg-gy and so so sweet *gasp* and the big soft buns are so soft and fluffy - a far cry from those sprouted grain bread and wholemeal bread that I always eat. I am giving away half the kaya and bread.

Delivery 6: This is our shared lunch: 6 deep fried sui gao at MYR 7 nett and Siew Yoke dry Wanton noodles at MYR 9 nett. Foc delivery. This fb seller packed all the food in this convenient paper containers so it was easy to handle. The deep fried sui gao are still crispy when we received the meal.

I bought these food as well from the same fb seller during lunch to be eaten as dinner but ended up eating bak chang so they all went into the fridge: Dry curry chicken wanton mee (MYR 9 nett) and char siew rice (MYR 7 nett) so a total of MYR 32 nett.

I also ordered and paid for tomorrow's lunch from the same fb seller: Nasi Lemak Fried Chicken Thigh (10), Deep Fried Wanton (7), Siew Yuk Rice (9), and Dry chicken curry rice (9), total MYR 35 nett so I paid MYR 67 nett today via transfer because want to be contactless.

My portion of lunch.

I bought other food too that will be delivered the next day (Sunday 26 April 2020 d40):

Delivery 7: 12 pieces Pulut Tai Tai at MYR 10 nett and 2 bottles of Kaya at MYR 15 nett from this fb seller with MYR 5 delivery charges so the total is MYR 30 nett.

Delivery 8: 3 boxes of jelly at MYR 15 nett per box and 4 pieces of mini sausage puffs at MYR 5 nett from this fb seller with foc delivery for total amount above MYR 50 nett.

Delivery 9: Date of delivery is 4 May 2020. 500 g yam layered cake and 500 g pandan layered cake from the famous and original Regent Pandan Layer Cake House in Klang so it is MYR 32 x 2 = MYR 64 nett plus MYR 13 nett delivery fees for a total of MYR 77 nett. This group buy is posted here in fb - order has closed.

So when Yan is happily buying many clothes online, I just spent one day and bought too much food online. lolx! But I am giving away those that I won't be able to finish so it is ok to buy too much food to share.

Breakfast for two pax - 3 eggs omelette with mushrooms, corns, luncheon meat and spring onions. Topped with raw tomatoes slices.

My portion: I added one Cheddar Bay Biscuits, star fruits, guava and pineapple to the omelette. Very tasty!

Support Mama Cooking Restaurant

*** Wednesday 22 April 2020 d36 ***

So we bought Rice Wine Chicken (MYR 30 nett) from Mama Cooking Restaurant, Kuchai Lama via Grab on Tuesday 21 April 2020 d35 to support this eatery since we find their food quite tasty. So the next day, my spouse reheat the rice wine chicken and added Suhun, spring onions with a deep fried egg to it for lunch at 12.45 noon. Very aromatic rice wine, sweet and strong tasting even after a day in the fridge. Delicious!

My portion eaten at 1.30 pm - no chicken meat because I just ate one Texas Chicken Tender with 3 slices of bread at 11.30 am but I love deep fried eggs in rice wine - just so very tasty!

9.30 am - Not-My-Breakfast. The last two slabs of roast pork from Boon Signature Roast Pork bought on Tuesday 31 March 2020 (d14) with tomato, cucumber on two slices of sprouted Rainbow bread. So the roast pork has been in the fridge for 22 days but still taste good due to the thick fatty layer.

Added honey mustard (17 days in the fridge) from myBurgerLab popcorn chicken (bought on Sunday 5 April 2020 d19) on top of the roast pork.

11.30 - my brunch of one Texas Chicken Tender bought on Tuesday 21 April 2020 d35 with the last slice of gardenia whole meal bread and 2 slices of sprouted Rainbow bread. As can be seen, the tender is thicker than KFC's tender.

A cut cross section to show how thick the tender is so I prefer this to KFC's tender.

Eating Watermelon

 So I bought a 3kg red water melon on Saturday 18 April 2020 d32. Time to eat it. Ate it we did on Monday 20 April 2020 d34. Cut it in half vertically. I wanted to cut it horizontally but I was told then the top would be less sweet then the bottom so I should cut it vertically so that each one gets both top and bottom in one's half.

How do you cut a watermelon?

Scoop out all the red parts including some white parts too. The white parts can be used to boil soup like winter melons. Just substitute winter melons with the white parts of a water melon to boil the soup. We could not finish eating a half each so we scoop out the red parts into containers and store in the fridge to be eaten on another day.

*** Tuesday 21 April 2020 d35 ***

8 am. Not-my-breakfast of instant noodles, big bok choy and roast duck from SRK Noodle House bought on Saturday 18 April 2020 d32. The taste of this soup is like choy kon (dried vegetables) soup. I think the big bok choy mixed with roast duck taste makes the soup taste like choy kon soup which not-me likes a lot. I always prevent not-me from buying choy kon (dried vegetables) because I don't think it is healthy and because it has a lot of sand in the dried vegetables so he is very happy that the taste is the same when using fresh big bok choy.

11 am. My light breakfast of water melon and biscuits as it was near lunch time.

Checked Grab and found out that Mama Cooking has fish Nasi Lemak (MYR 18 nett) today so bought it for two to share for lunch (1 pm).

I also ordered other main dishes to keep in the fridge to be eaten for other meals on other days. One of it is Rice Wine Chicken (MYR 30 nett) which we have eaten at the restaurant before. Total price including delivery fee is MYR 91.30 nett.

The 3 main dishes are placed in containers and cling wrapped to ensure that the gravy and broth do not spill. The smaller container holds the braised pork (MYR 9.80 nett) and the other bigger container holds the pork trotter vinegar (MYR 26 nett).

Before that, I also ordered Texas Chicken via Grab and ate one tender with 3 slices of bread and one Honey-Butter Biscuit for dinner at 6.30 pm. Texas Chicken Original Tenders (MYR 7.60 nett for 3) is larger than KFC Tenders (MYR 12.80 nett for 6) and I prefer the taste of Texas Chicken Original Tenders because it is not spicy. KFC has only one type of Tenders and it is spicy. Teatime at 4.30 pm was to finish up the half container of Red Bean and Glutinous Rice Tong Sui bought from Decades Cafe on Saturday 18 April 2020 d32.

Texas Chicken from IKON Connaught.  Ordered at 11.50ish am and received at 12.20 pm via Grab Car instead of Grab Bike.

Mama Cooking, Kuchai Lama. Ordered at 12 noon and received at 12.30 ish pm via Grab Bike.

I gave my friend five 2AA-size red dragon fruits (half of what I bought) when she bought these 8 oranges and 1 loaf of sprouted rainbow bread for me from Aeon Supermarket in Midvalley Mall. Each customer is limited to one loaf of bread.

She was there on Tuesday 21 April 2020 d35 at 12.30 noon and since Aeon Big and Aeon supermarkets limit the number of customers entering the supermarkets, there was a very long queue at Aeon Big - about 40 people so she did not queue. She went to Aeon Supermarket where the queue was about 25 people. When she was paying for the things at the cashier, she saw that the entry queue at Aeon Supermarket has grown to about 50 people. Wow, this new normal is testing our patience with the long queues so I guess I won't be buying things there anyway since I don't drive.

Back to the oranges, the normal 10-a-bag Navel Oranges are out of stock. Only Valencia Oranges are available and also this Spain-late-oranges of 4-in-a-pack for MYR 7 nett so she bought 2 packs for me. So thankful to her. One of the orange has a Morondo brand sticker on it which I found is a brand from WingKee dot com. Oh well, does not matter where the oranges are from as long as they are edible.

*** Why sometimes can deliver, sometimes cannot  deliver ***

Yesterday Thursday 23 April 2020 (d37), it says cannot deliver so luckily I bought the cheddar bay biscuits on Sunday 19 April 2020 d33 when it can deliver.

After seeing PH's 12 Krispy Kreme donuts, I look for donuts but it says cannot deliver for Dunkin Donuts.

Krispy Kreme also says says cannot deliver though Din Tai Fung in Mid Valley can deliver. So how does it work? So weird.

Grab Nasi Lemak AMAH

On Monday 20 April 2020 d34, my hp battery decided to give up so I quickly went online to mi official store on a popular online platform L and bought a new one thinking it will take very long to receive it. Luckily there was an old hp in the house so I use that while waiting. To my surprise, I received the mi hp on Wednesday 22 April 2020 d36. So fast! I think only groceries online deliveries are swamped with orders but not the normal retail online shops.

*** Sunday 19 April 2020 d33 ***

Wanted to support the local eateries so thought of ordering nasi lemak fish from Mama Cooking again but nasi lemak is not available so since wanted to eat nasi lemak, Amah nasi lemak fried chicken it is at MYR 14.42 nett.

My portion eaten at 11.30 am. Can  feel the sambal burning in my tummy after this meal.

Total price is MYR 29.46 nett. Didn't feel like another dish so just another deep fried whole chicken leg to be eaten on another day.

Nicely packed in a brown paper bag. Ordered at 10.17 am, received at about 10.40 am.

*** Bye bye Tenders - Monday 20 April 2020 d34 ***

11.30 am Not-my-lunch of choy sum vegetables, tomatoes, egg, 3rd last strip of Boon Signature Roast Pork (20 days in the fridge) and 4 days old rice from Fatty Mok bought on Thursday 16 April 2020 d30.

11 am. My brunch of (Sunday) yesterday's half salmon and at least 17 pieces of wedges. Add raw cucumbers.

Then I remember I must finish the last KFC tender (6 of 6) so I ate that too after it has been in my fridge for 29 days since Sunday 22 March 2020 (d5). Too full to finish the wedges so kept for later.

Ate these 6 wedges with another segment of raw cucumber at 1 pm.

*** Open Your Heart 2 ***

In Open Your Heart,  I mention about local rescuers doing spay and neuter and how my brother helped me to take care of a little street kitten that we gave a home to off the street.

Recently a woman who is a feeder gave me a kitten because she does not have kitten food so I brought the kitten home to the shock of my spouse who supported me although it was a surprise to him. My plan was to foster the kitten and find him a good furever home with someone who will love him a lot, lot, lot. Thanks to my spouse who prepared a room for kitten.

 Kitten sleeping on Ikea POÄNG Footstool.

Kitten climbing up the tent. I find it difficult to take clear photos of him because you know why lah. *sweat* *laff*

I am not a touchy-feely person and I don't like cuddly soft toys or cuddly anything so if I can foster a kitten, anyone who does not abhor kittens would be able to do it too. There are many kittens looking for furever home so if you have a home, please share it with the less fortunate like how PH has done so with her lovely Ginger Girl, bless her kind heart.