Supper Comfort

I am one procrastinator who keep things update by when the milk has churned into butter. By the way, I have never thought of blogging about this, after patronizing the eatery since donkey years ago; not until the other day, when my brother was home for one week in conjunction of Deepavali hols (and is home again now for semester break) we were there for every one day interval for the whole week!. And, only during our last visit there, I have just discovered the name of the shop :P.

Our family had accustomed to unhealthy habit by taking heavy supper quiet regularly. One of our favorite supper spot is Kheng Hin Coffee Shop in Foh Sang. We used to patronized this eatery for at least once in a week without getting cloyed and the best part of it was it is in its midst of peak hour when we were there close to 10 or 11pm, the time we usually have our supper comfort. At least, we don’t witness empty tables all around, with kitchen helpers cleaning up and getting ready to call it a day of work and the roller shutter were pulled slightly down at such hour :)  This eatery is typically packed every evening/night up to wee hours in the morning.  

These are the repetitive food we ordered almost all the time without getting tired. Our all time claypot seafood porridge order. A steaming hot bowl of hot porridge boiled to a smooth and thick consistency with generous amount of seafood consisting a halved-sized crab, prawns, fish chunks, in addition of seaweeds topping and a handful of spring onions. Heavenly! :)  

A warm and tantalizing bowl of sau yuk (i.e roasted pork) or sang yuk (fresh pork tossed in thick sweet soy sauce gravy) kon lau mee are certainly a welcoming deal before calling it a day. A dash of sesame oil along with their signature chili helps adding flavor to it, certainly a perfect combination one cannot miss :).  

Look at the bowl of roasted pork kon lou mee. Such simple ingredients but absolutely divine! Just looking at it makes my mouth water :P 

Stuffed eggplant and tofu garnished and delished up by golden brown pork lard, very much to my papa’s tastebud :)

And, a plate of 10 pieces of fried dumplings are usually enough (on top of above) to make us satisfyingly full to the brim before hitting the sack and wrapping up the day :). 

Life is Just A Bowl of Cherries

Life is just a bowl of cherries; sometimes it’s afraid filled with worries. Don’t be afraid, when things go wrong, just be strong. When things seem up in the air, and everything is so unfair, and you stumble and fall, just pick up yourself and sing. If one day you lose your way, just remember one thing my friend. When you’re under a cloud, just visit music and sing. If one day you lose your way, just remember that I’m here to stay, don’t you give up and keepyour chin up. And be happy! (borrowed by the lyrics of a beautiful song, Happy by Mocca). This song has been and still one of my favorite and was once my phone’s ringtone for a long period of time :).

We have two cherry trees (i.e Commersonia bartramia) standing gracefully in our mini garden (or yard). For so many years down the road, I hardly recall the time when I last savored the fruits. One thing was that the soil covered by the canopy of the tree has aborted our turf from growing well and is a little sloppy especially after downpour, thus it was a little uncomfortable to be walked on. Second thing was also the main reason; there are a number of regular beautiful birds coming in pairs frolicking around the trees daily. They can literally finish up the whole tree all by themselves :)

My mom, as usual loves to spend her quality time on last Saturday morning (121111) in our  yard after marketing and came into the house with a handful of fully ripened cherries. Most of the time, we could only chance upon almost-ripen fruit, which are still in green with yellowish/pinkish hue yet edible and tasted as good (but not as sweet). I squirmed in delight the moment I saw a small bowl of cherries on the coffee table and unbelievingly asked her ‘Wao, how did you managed that?’  My mom answered, ‘the early birds get the worm’ (i.e cherries in this case), and added ‘to supersede the birds from getting the worm, you have to wake up surprisingly early!’ LOL

Perching on a Ladle

I have a thing for insect, but not all kind of insects. Cockroaches are definitely the first to be stroked out of the list.  I am always attracted to them but unfortunately, I know the name (in layman’s) only for some common ones. Here’s a grasshopper alighting on a ladle inside the utensil holder in our kitchen (081111). I just found out that there are 18,000 kinds of different grasshoppers in the world. So, this is certainly one of the 18k :) Many years back, when we have just moved into our current neighborhood, we can easily chanced upon rare and beautiful insects perching by inside the house. Prolly they were seeking refuge after the vast lush greenery had been chopped down for development.

I recollect vividly that I can easily catch up to 5 reasonably sized insects in one evening to be brought over to school the following day for Science subject when I was in my lower secondary. I was schooling in the afternoon session then, and I remembered of checking on them from time to time that morning at my nanny’s place. I was so pleased when they were still alive inside a plastic container with some breathing holes and few strands of grass inside the moment I reached the school. These days, we can still enjoy these little friends of God’s creation but no longer as often. The last time I saw one was penned down here :).