Asam pedas tetel

Assalam

During a week of school holiday, my hectic life becomes a little bit calmer. I didnt have to go out during lunch time to pickup my children from school and all. Every school holiday i send them to my baby sitter's house and pick them up in the evening.

But Monday comes, school opens, and life change again. Gotta think what to cook for breakfast and lunch. 

What i normally do, if i cook a heavy breakfast, i will skip cooking for lunch. Well, i simply don't have time for that. Otherwise, breakfast will be toast breads, biscuits or anything in between.

So, yesterday, since i already boil my meat to tender, (tetel actually. I dont know what to call it in english.) then i decided to cook this asam pedas for lunch.

A tender soury and spiciness of the meat is sooo yummy. My children eat like again and again and again.

Then there goes a story of my asam pedas. Being a working mother and a housewife really makes me crack my head everyday thinking what are the menus for lunch and dinner. All for the love of the family. Or maybe this is the way to spend wisely and get to gear up for the GST to come.

My brother's wedding

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In the previous entry i did mention about my brother's wedding. 

But I am so sorry for i cannot post the entry about his wedding started from his solemnization, wedding reception and a bridegroom side's reception. We call it "sambut menantu"(the receiving of the daughter in law) or some may call it "bertandang"( a ceremony where a bridegroom family welcomes the bride). This was all because my memory card DAMAGED! huhuuhuu..

So bad, i have lots of pics in it not only the wedding part, plus my personal pics too..all gone.

Btw, all i can share only pics from whatsapp and stored in my phone memory. Before it all gone again, let me just put them here.

The children were so happy and officiated the dais

 And double the happiness when they got to see their grandpa

ho ho balik kampung.. 

 Actually the chairs on the dais was our dining table chair. Ad hoc plan.

My mother (cream shawl) and the bride during the meet ups with the guests

Normally guests will see the "tuan rumah"or bride's mother/father and give some money as presents or give the actual presents too for the bride and bridegroom, either one. In return, the bride family will give the guests gifts as souvineer.

The bridegroom is my 4th brother. I am the eldest

The 3 of us girls in the family

Petite Little Girls

Assalam N Good day!

Hi everybody! *wave like a princess*

 Mummy asks me to smile..and she says i have to show my teeths 

Hi there, we are doing a modelling for our mummy's dress and i have a crown on my head. Do I look like a princess?

Hey, i have a bigger crown..maybe i 'll be like a cinderella

Oooppss! mummy catch a glimpse of me. I wanna run away. So tired of taking pictures

Gotcha! mummy asks us to behave for a little while. Oh mummy, we wanna go and play

Mummy says this one is her other design and i pair this lovely dress with my handbag and high heels. Tq mummy, i feel so pretty

Owh...forgot to tell ya, our names are Maryam Nuha and Kaseh Maryam and we are cousins. 

ok, if aunties like our dresses, don't forget to add @petitelittlegirls on mummy's instagram ya.

You will see a lot more dresses there now and then. bye..

A Happy Monday

Assalam n Good Day

Happy Monday and happy working everyone!

Hokkaido Seafood Restaurant

Assalam n Good Day

Last weekend, not knowing where to go, after seeing my hubby's friend at StarHype Fiesta at parking lot, Stadium Melawati, he just drove us around and that brought us to KL. We seldom go to KL unless we have something like visiting my in-laws or attending to something. Because my hubby works in KL so he prefers other area for outing.

Since it passed dinner time i was like damn hungry and decided to go to this seafood restaurant. It was my first time there. I read about this restaurant through other blogs and sound so delicious so we wanted to give it a try.Its not difficult to find the place for it is located really opposite Vistana Hotel. But the hardest part was searching for a parking space. OMG, since parking was full, and most of them were going to this restaurant, they resorted to park anywhere they wished. And that's even double park, triple park.

Me at first gave up to dine at this restaurant so hubby drove us around KL City but then he came back here hoping there's available parking space for us. hhmm...But i think maybe it was weekend so the place became crowded.

This was all i ordered. Enough for us because there were only 2 adults..us, parents.

Seafood tomyam in the middle. 

Chili fried escargot

 

Thai fry seabass (winner)

Butter Prawn

Like I said, it was my first time here so i was not at all knew what's good, what to order, their recommendation, and most importantly when we eat out, we want menu. How do we know their food list if they don't have a menu. And so did this restaurant. It did not have a menu. I didn't know what to order. When I told the waiter what to order since this was my first time, he asked me to go inside and looked at their seafood ranged from prawn fish crabs vegetables etc etc and looked up at their food/cook selections pasted on the wall roof. I forgot to snap some pics here but hopefully u all understand what i mean.

So, not hesitate i just said what i used to order at other seafood restaurants. For butter prawn i think the one at BB Seafood Restaurant at Subang Airport is better. The rest like tomyam was delicious, very tasteful with prawns, squids, escargots. Then come Deep fried seabass Thai style. owwhhh..this one was sinfully delicious. A thick chillied and i think shrimp pasted gravy, taste really like you eat sambal belacan but a gravy version. It left smell to my hands like u only hold a shrimp paste. But it was good, good and good especially with a fresh shredded onions and bird's eye chili topped on the deep fried fish. huhuu..i packed that home too because its not nice to bite fish till your last breath in front of others. Better do at home. hahhahahahah. Then I ordered escargot and i think it s just ok. I don't know if its normal like that but its quite chewy.

With rice and drinks of fresh orange and a jug of chinese tea that night, it cost us like 150++, which i think quite costly because with a same order at BB Seafood Subang i can get them maybe lesser than that. Anyway, Alhamdulillah for God's sustanance that able to feed me n my family. 

    

A malay wedding teaser

Assalam N Good day

Ok this will just be a teaser

A quick writeups.

It will only be a few days away of my little brother's wedding. He's not the youngest but can be considered the last wedding be held in my family.

I will in the next coming entry blogged about my brother's wedding but the key point here is i want to highlight the malay wedding ceremony which i personally think a bright and colourful  not only to the colour but to the family relationship itself.

Enjoy the pics from google before i upload a real one. Till then, have a bright day ahead everyone!

Kek Pisang and All

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Today is already end of week. huhu..what a relieve. I love friday, n i know everybody loves friday because usually working time on Friday feels so short. Get to go back and never worry what to wear tomorrow, to rush myself in the morning sending kids to school, free from the hassle of thinking what not especially packed breakfast for my kids. And the best will be waking up stress free. 

But for me, Saturday is a laundry day. Doesn't matter if i start a bit late but still i can dry up my laundry and if worst come to worst especially when laundry needs to be fold (worst here means a 2 or 3 hills of unfold clothes) then i will wake up very early and maybe at 7am i already started folding the clothes. Clothes for 7 persons in the house which sometimes it can cause me retarded. pheww.

hahaha..ok kidding, but really cause me back pain. And it normally lasts till 12 o clock. If that seriously hilly laundry, that's mean a 2 weeks free time for me. Lazy me. 

Ok, today i just wanna share pics of my cooking this week. If my rajin mood comes, then it will be a lot lah. Otherwise stall food. But now i think i must buy less stall food and DIY is better. Just one thing, lack of ideas and it will be same food every other day.

My kids packed breakfast with side like Jemput pisang and banana cake.

My Banana cake (Recipe taken from blog azie kitchen) 

Masak Lemak ikan masin nenas

Ok, I still don't have strength to do a bento style breakfast. I need time management for that.

And for banana cake, since i bought a whole bag (a lot of it) a reduce to clear banana, then i really have to finish it and vary my banana dishes. I am yet to do banana smoothies and fritters.

As for masak lemak ikan masin, it's just a simple dish, but it is so unexpected that my two little kids love it very much. Its like a 3 bowls of rice i feed them. and my Maryam can barely eat that salted fish. So unlike me.