Yee Sang

On 3rd CNY, we have this Yee Sang at my mother in-law's house. My sister in-law bring 2 boxes of Yee Sang ingredients all the way from KL. To make it taste nicer, they added in some ingredient like pears, spring onions, carrot and canned abalone. All the ingredients were cut into small pieces and arranged in one big tray.

Look how colourful is it...this beautiful tray of Yee Sang was arranged by my brother in-law Ah Kien.
The final look of Yee Sang after the spring onion and canned abalone were add in.
They started to stir & toss the Yee Sang ~
Yeah,..the higher the better for a successful year of ox ahead.

May all our wishes comes true!
and now...it's makan time. Yummy!!! ~

Come on! ... Let's Lo Sang ~

AMY

Dinner at WinWin Lee Restaurant.

My sister in law's family came to visit us on the second day of the Lunar New Year and we bring them to have dinner at this restaurant located near Taman Setia Jaya. This restaurant are operated by a lovely couple of husband and wife - WinWin Lee Restaurant. Their signature dishes there are the "Curry fish head" & "Salted egg prawn". Both are my favourite too.

Deep fried "sotong"...very crispy & yummy!

Sweet & sour "heh kor bak" ~ yummy!!!
Curry fish head - it was cooked using milk instead of coconut milk ~ NICE!!!
Salted egg prawn ... yummy~

Vegetable in oyster sauce

Stir-fried "taukua" with dried squid... ^ ^

All the above dishes are very yummy. Don't miss it when you all visit Alor Star okay!


AMY

Vietnamese Food - "Bun Ca"

Again it's a backdated post on my Hanoi trip last December. Most of the best food in Hanoi can be only be found at their roadside stalls. The price are cheaper too when compare with the food sold at the restaurant. Let me introduce this "Bun Ca" (it was pronounce as "Boon Cha") to all of you. It was actually grilled pork in soup and to be eaten with their rice noodles. The soup taste a bit sweet and sour, mmm..it's really different with the soup we have in Malaysia.

This is "Bun Ca"
My son waiting for his noodles to be served.
This is how the "Bun Ca" pork was grilled outside the shop.
" Bun Ca" this is yummy. The grilled pork.

Add the rice noodles in the soup.

This is how the stall look like.

Besides Bun Ca, they also sell this noodles soup with fishcakes and this special vege.

My son enjoying the noodle soup.
My daughter ordered egg noodles soup

Her noodles is without vege one ^ ^

This is the chairs and tables there. The place are quite dirty...mmm, just closed one eye and eat...hahaha~~

AMY

Trip To Hadyai On Christmas Day

Since my sister in-law Alice came all the way from KL to sent us back to Alor Star after we came back from our trip to Hanoi. We take the opportunity to visit Hadyai on the Christmas Day. My father in-law sent us there before he went to play golf with his friends there. The main purpose for us to visit Hadyai is of course for their food and visiting the temples there. We did some shopping at Robinson Shopping Centre before we went home.

From Alor Star, it's just about 2hrs drive to Hadyai. But, it's a bit crowded at the border that day and we spent more than 30 minutes just lining up there to get our passport and border pass chopped.

Prawn Noodles - my breakfast in Alor Star before we started our journey to Hadyai by car.

Christmas Day ~ off day and everyone are visiting Hadyai. Pls look at the crowd~

There is several tourist bus there too. Very slow and long queue at the custom counter.

All my kids, my nephew & niece join the crowd to get their passport chopped.

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Upon we reached Hadyai, the first thing we do is to get our empty stomach filled first. We go to this famous Thai Food restaurant - Kan Eng to have our lunch. It's just 2 adult and 5 children, well...majority are children. We ordered most of the non-spicy food for the kids. Their TomYam are NICEEEE...

Kan Eng restaurant Menu ...
Fried Egg - I love Thai fried egg very much...
Stirred fried Kang-Kung with bean sauce
Kerabu Mango with Deep fried fish

Yummy fish cakes with peanut sauce

Fried fish meat with ginger & spring onion

Most people who visited Hadyai will know this restaurant and it's always crowded with many customers either the locals or the tourist. Most of the dishes there are very tasty and the most important is, their price are very reasonable. The dishes all come in small size which enable us to order more types of dishes to try. Must try all the dishes there when you all visit Hadyai okay!! ~ We stay there one night, our dinner is Thai Seafood ... yum, yum, YUMMY !!!~

Check out my next post ~ ^.^

AMY

Ha Noi Roadside "LAU"

On my one month stay in Ha Noi, I get to know that the land and house there are very expensive to compare with Malaysia. The expensive rental of the shophouse there cause the price of the food sells in restaurant expensive as well. It's cheaper if we just cook at home. Most of the local people there will just eat at home and they seldom eat outside at the restaurant.

On 1 December 08, my husband colleage Van Anh, Hai Anh & Linh bring us to try out their roadside "Lau". "Lau" in Malaysia we called it steamboat. Most Vietnamese will eat this on winter time. The price are cheaper to compare with the one we had at the restaurant. How many of got this experience sitting on the small tables and chairs at the busy roadside.

Some of the ingredients

Big "Lala" ~ anyone knows how to call this?

Tables & chairs was set up on the roadside..


Pot & Stove

My son

Mushrooms...

Add in the ingredients into the boiling soup.

The "Lau" are ready to be eaten ~

My baby

AMY

Cheese Strips

I want to recommend those who loves cheese to try out this cheese strips. It was sold in the packet like the picture below and I bought it in Big C shopping mall in Ha Noi.

It cost us about 70,000 dong ~ about RM14 one packet. They sold it according to the weight.
This is how it looks like when we untied it.... can be eaten straight away. My kids loves it~

AMY