Magic Moment Of Life

December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas !!!

May All Your Dreams Come True ~

It's Christmas Day again. Although I'm not Christian but I really love Christmas so much. It's a season that full of love and joy. I love to listen to the Christmas's songs played at every corner of the town. I can feel the kind of warmth and peace.

The other thing is, I just love the Christmas decorations. I always wish to own a big white Christmas tree and decorated the tree myself but I don't know where I can put it as my house are too small. Just leave it in my wish list first ... lol~ Can you see the cute snowman and Mr. Santa below?? I catch up with this 2 fellows when I was in Ha Noi Big 'C' shopping mall. Actually they are standing there to welcome customers for a furniture shop. Cute right??? eerrmmm...how can I have them ah?? hehe....

Cute cute snowman & Mr. Santa Clause *.*

My kids lining-up to take pictures with them . . . .

My son - Xen

Elder daughter - Jou

Youngest - Xin

I don't know if this Cute Snowman & Mr. Santa can understand english, because they are Vietnamese~lol. Here, I would like to wish all my friends, relatives, fellow bloggers and everyone who come upon to read this today a very great & joyous Christmas.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & Dreams Come True!!! Enjoy yourself with your loved one ...

Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell ROCK. .. ^^

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

December 24, 2008

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

December 23, 2008

Seri Janggus Seafood Restaurant, Alor Janggus

Tonight, Khen & Fen (my bro & sis in-law) treat us, Alice & me dinner. We went to a seafood restaurant at Alor Janggus about 15minutes drive from Alor Star. Since my mother cooked for us today. I only bring along my eldest son and Alice bring along her eldest daughter Jia Xin. The rest of the kids they already have their dinner at home.

Khen ordered fried rice, fried cuttlefish, prawn curry with milk, stir-fried bitter gourd with salted egg, fried "heh kor bak", stir-fried fish with ginger, spring onion & dried chilies and soft shelled crab.

Fried rice

Crispy cuttle-fish...yummy!!

Prawn curry cooked with milk with baby tomatoes....this is nice!

Glass Vermicelli & bean sprout (to be eaten with the prawn curry)*

Look at the prawn .... slurpppp~~

Bitter gourd with salted egg & meat

Fried "Heh Kor Bak" with salted egg...

Stir fried fish meat with ginger, spring onion & dried chilies...

Crispy soft-shelled crab

All the food are yummy and guess how much does it cost us???? 4 adult & 3 children. It only cost us RM80 plus drinks & 1 tiger beer. Cheap, right???

AMY

Steamed Fish with Preserved Vege...

On 7th December 08, my hubby's friend treated us dinner at a restaurant in Ha Noi. They ordered this Vietnamese style steamed fish. Vietnamese people love fish so much and they have various kind of fish dishes. They will eat the steamed fish with noodles to make them full.

Vietnamese style steam fish...

Vietnamese flat noodles to be eaten with the steamed fish soup

Passion fruit juice ~ I love this !

Tofu side dishes ...

AMY

December 22, 2008

Happy Winter Solistice ~ 冬至快乐.....!!!

This year we celebrate the Winter Solstice with my sister in law's Alice family in KL. We are having steamboat dinner together. My mother in law and my younger sister in law Aei Ween joined us too as they are in KL now. After having the steamboat, we have this rice dumplings as dessert.

In Chinese culture, this Winter Solistice celebration is the time for all of the family members getting together and eating the rice dumpling means we have grown another year older. I love the rice dumpling very much...

This is my bowl of rice dumplings...now they are all in my stomach already...hehe!!~

Pandan flavour rice dumplings ~

Ready made ~ Peanut fillings dumplings

The big white dumplings are Black Sesame filling dumplings and the small pink coloured dumplings are made by me...

The rice dumplings was first boiled in the hot water before it's added into the "gula melaka"(coconut sugar) syrup cooked with some ginger. It is nice when served hot. All my kids love it very much!

AMY

December 21, 2008

Dinner at Big C's Food Court

On our one month stay in Ha Noi. The only place we visited most of the time is this Big C shopping mall. Why??? yes, this is the only place we don't need to bargain for the better price. All the price are fixed for the food and etc.... After do some shopping there we try the food on the 3rd floor food court.