Tuesday - Day 13

Stayed home.

After the day-long trip yesterday, I thought it might be appropriate to stay home today, and keep mom company. Apart for a short hike up the hill around 6PM, I was home all day.

For dinner, Seng and Ann cooked a home-cooked meal. For vegetable, Seng sliced up a "Mo Gua", a hairy squash we bought from Cactus Point in Cameron. When we visited Cactus Point yesterday, we asked the sales lady how to use the squash, and her advice was that we fried it up with salted dried shrimp. We later asked her how to cook up another vegetable, and her advise was "fried it up with salty dried shrimp." so we had a good laugh about it. Every thing is "fried it up with salted dried shrimp." Now Seng is really going to fry up the squash with salted dried shrimp, so we had another good laugh.

During the week, we have also talked about making "Smelly Pork." I told Seng and Ann I used to make smelly pork at home, and the children thought it was so smelly (hence the name), but liked the taste. I joked that whenever I make smelly pork, the neighbourhood cats will come to the door, and the dogs will howl, and neighbours will complain "who died?", so that inspired Ann to make smelly port. She used some ground pork, and mixed in a tablespoonful of salted shrimp paste, and steamed the pork. It came out beautifully. Seng mentioned that another version is to use sliced pork belly instead of using ground pork. I have made that version as well, and I like that too.


I sliced up a couple of onions, and Seng made Onion omelet. This was Sui Fun's first dish. She learned to cook with this. I remember, back in high school days, whenever Sui Fun made dinner, it will be rice and Onion Omelet. Occasionally, I will make that too. For my version, I like to use a lot more onions, and fry up the onion until they are caramelized. Then I whip up five eggs, and transfer the onions into the egg, give it a good whipping, before dumping it out onto the pan, to achieve more even distribution of the onions in the egg.

While we were eating, Ann also heated up some chicken legs that Sui Fun had made last weekend. I like using the chicken gravy on rice. In fact, I like almost any gravy on rice, so upon learning that, Ann said she will make some pork in gravy tomorrow.

Later in the night, we went out to Sunshine supermarket. I picked up a box of green tea, already brewed, in a carton, to try. Seng and Ann picked up some grocery items. Loong2 picked up a bottle of Coca Cola. From there, we went to Ballet school to pick up Theng2. By the time we reach there, it was ten minutes late. I reminded Seng that when we pick up Theng2 on Sunday, we were twenty minutes late, and she really gave us the business. "Late again!". Whenever Theng2 gets into the car (or room), it would be filled with noise. She is a noise maker. So we were expecting a noisy argument on the way home.

We stopped in front of the school, just as she emerged from the door. She did not see us, so when we came to the street, she was surprised to see the four of us in the car. She silently climbed into the back seat. Seng said "We waited ten minutes for you!" in jest. We all chimed in to say how we suffered waiting for her. Ha ha.

Theng2 said she was hungry, and she wanted Satay. So off we went, in search of Satay. We visited a couple of places that were closed for the day, and Theng2 suggested this Satay place that she sees on the way home everyday. When we drove by, the big compound was empty. No customer. That is a bad sign, so we took the sign and moved on.

We went to a place that is called "Remember to Eat", and ordered 20 chicken Satay sticks, and some beef, and mutton (my favourite.) Ann also ordered some ostrich sticks. I did not bring my camera, so I downloaded some pictures of Satay from the Internet.