Merajuk

Yesterday, Wan (my cousin) called nak ajak keluar. Kebetulan dia tak pegi keje sebab dia takde mood. Masa Wan called tu, dah petang, hubby cakap dia dah lapar. I thought dia lapar, boleh la makan roti ke apa dulu as alas perut. Then pukul 7.30pm (I was about to leave the kopitiam), dia sms cakap he's so hungry, dah gastric. I told him, dah on the way balik.

Alih-alih sampai rumah, dah merajuk. Aduhai! susah betul layan orang tua merajuk ni. Terpaksa la masak dalam masa 20 minit. Alhamdulillah semua sempat siap. Rasa geram jugak kat hubby, macam la tak boleh makan something else dulu untuk alas perut. Nak jugak tunggu orang masak. I cooked Sambal Tumis Udang, Soft Tofu with Minced Chicken and Mixed Veges, pastu sempat lagi buat Sambal Belacan campur Buah Kuini (As bagi buah kuini ni) with Lemon.

As came over and bagi buah kuini earlier. Buah kuini As memang sedap, langsung tak buruk. Ulat pun takde. Normally buah kuini yang aku ambik from pokok depan rumah my MIL, penuh dengan ulat. Kalau ambik yang muda, tak berulat but bergetah pulak. Susah nak cari buah kuini yang cantik macam pokok kat rumah As. Pastu As bagi one loaf of bread. Thank you so much As. Kenyang kita orang makan roti tu. Belum sempat aku letak kat dapur, hubby dah ngap sisi tepi roti tu. Ishk! cacat roti pemberian As tu.

Roti pemberian As. Nampak tak sisi roti tu yang cacat sikit? Tu bekas gigitan hubby.. =.=

Sambal Tumis Udang Express!

Sambal Belacan with Kuini. Ni aku letak dalam mortar kaca yang my Korean SIL bagi.

Kuih Melayu

Tiba-tiba, aku jadi kemaruk buat kuih melayu. Pagi-pagi lagi, aku dah gi kedai runcit tepi rumah mok, beli santan fresh sebab hari ni teringin nak makan Tepung Bokoh. Haa... I know, sure ramai yang tak tau apa kebendanya tepung bokoh ni. Aku pun baru belajar makan lepas kawin sebab after aku kawin, my parents moved to Terengganu. So masa tengah pregnantkan Iman, selalu la aku berulang alik balik Terenggu. Kat pasar Jertih ni, ada sorang makcik tua, maybe umur dah 70+ yang jual this tepung bokoh. Aku managed to makan kuih ni for few years but not anymore. Tak tau what happened to that makcik, maybe sakit ke apa.

Rasanya dah tua sangat agaknya, tak larat nak masak lagi dah. Hari ni aku teringat sangat2 kuih tu. Aku called mok, tanya mcm mana nak buat tepung bokoh. Mok pun tak pernah buat jugak, but she said, adunan lebih kurang lompat tikam, except letak air nisang. Pastu lapisan putih/santan tu kena lagi firm dari yg dibuat untuk lompat tikam.

Hasilnya.....

Tepung Bokoh

Rupa dia macam kuih talam, but lagi lembik. Kalau nak makan, kena scoop masuk dalam mangkuk. Kuih ni sangat sesuai untuk orang yang takde gigi sebab main telan je. Mok said it taste really good. Cuma yang frustnya since supply nisang aku dah dwindling, aku kena substitute guna gula melaka, which tak sedap sangat. Iffah managed to finished 1/2 talam. Aku buat 2 talam, by the time aku bangun tido (I slept after isyak tadi sebab too tired), tinggal lagi 1/2 talam je.

What will I cook tomorrow?? Erm... tengah pikir ni.... maybe I'll make Seri Muka.

Posto from Aussie

I had a pleasant suprise upon returning home from makan2 kat rumah mok, a parcel was waiting for me. Rupanya parcel from K.Sha yang duduk di Canberra. Actually aku yang kirim kat K.Sha to buy legging for Iman and Iffah sebab susahnya nak cari legging for them. Kalau beli adult size, besar sgt, but beli children size, kecik pulak. Even yg size 14 senteng dengan Iman. So last2, aku mintakkan K.Sha belikan. Kebetulan now ada summer sale, the leggings teramat la murahnya.

Nama atas parcel tu telah didelete atas sebab kesihatan.. ops! keselamatan.. hehe

One of the shirt yg k.sha belikan. I'm pretty sure Iman will adore this!

This shirt is definitely Iffah. But unfortunately it's too big for her. So kena la bagi kat Iman

Finally, something for Iffah. But she hates pink! (sorry aunty Nora)

Ada few lagi shirts and leggings, tapi malas nak ambik gambar. Lagipun lately ni takde mood betul nak ambik gambar, which is so unlike me. Hubby wanted to buy me a new dslr, this time nak upgrade to D90. I told him, pesal ler nak berabiskan duit. I'm not an avid photographer, kalau dia beli pun, it will be a gajah putih in my room. Men and gadgets, macam aur dgn tebing, tak boleh dipisahkan.

Yesterday, I put up in my fb status "orang mintak belikan BIJI ketumbar, dalam sms pun dah tulis BIJI ketumbar. Dia pegi beli DAUN ketumbar!! BIJI ketumbar and DAUN ketumbar sama ke?? ejaan pun dah lain!! GRRRR.... buat orang naik angin je!". Peh! punya la banyaknya comment dari kawan2. In general, aku boleh buat conclusion bahawasanya, lelaki, kalau kita suruh beli barang dapur, mesti silap beli punya. Yang kelakarnya, k.mini cakap, she asked her hubby untuk belikan peach, hubby dia belikan peas. hahahhaha.. macam mana la boleh tersilap? Pastu yang paling tak tahan, kalau kita suruh beli sawi for example, dia akan beli sawi sampai sekilo, pastu yg dah kuning2 pulak tu. Mamak kat kedai tu sure happy sebab sawi dia yg paling buruk, habis dijual. Grr... memang buat aku naik angin betul.

Tapi yang paling tak best, ada few male friends, yang buat comment berbaur sexist. Aku really hate typical malay men! Jenis yang tak reti nak buat apa2 sendiri. Pastu expect bini jadi macam hamba, buatkan segala-galanya untuk dia. Alhamdulillah hubby is not a typical malay man. Kalau tak, sure sakit jiwa aku dibuatnya.

Lompat Tikam

Aku cukup tak suka makan lompat tikam. 10 kali mok masak, tak sekali pun aku makan. But abah loves lompat tikam, thus mok selalu buat lompat tikam. Hubby pun suka lompat tikam, especially yang mok buat. So today, I decided to buat lompat tikam. Saje je nak tengok, jadi ke tak macam yang mok buat.

The verdict : Memang sedap!! hehehe.. Actually, lompat tikam yang menjadi tu adalah percubaan aku yg ke-3. The first and the second one yang aku buat before tu, ended up dalam tong sampah. Setelah 2 kali cuba, and masuk tong sampah, aku pun telepon mok, to find out, what I did wrong. Rupanya, aku lupa masukkan air kapur. No wonder tak jadi! Bila dah buat sendiri lompat tikam tu, baru la aku tau, betapa susahnya mok buat selama ni. Especially part yang kena berdiri tepi periuk and kacau non stop for 1/2 hour. Keluar habis segala peluh jantan betina aku... Aku decided to not to say NO to lompat tikam mok anymore. :)

Alhamdulillah, lompat tikam aku sold out!! hubby loves it so much. Dia sorang makan 1/2 talam. Jemput semua, silalah menjamu mata... hehe

Lompat Tikam

Lompat Tikam

Bahan2

A. untuk base hijau
250gm tepung beras
1/2 tbs kapur (bancuh dgn air sikit)
beberapa helai daun pandan - blend and tapis air
1.8 litre air + air daun pandan
2-3 titik warna hijau
cara2
1. campur semua bahan, kacau rata. adunan will be very watery
2. tuangkan adunan dalam periuk, slowkan api, kacau adunan sampai likat and nampak berminyak which will take about 1/2 jam or so. then remove it, masukkan dalam loyang, sejukkan for about 4-6 hours

B. Santan
1/2kg santan pekat
2 cups water
2 tbs tepung beras
2 tsp salt
cara2
1. masukkan semua bahan dalam periuk, kacau atas api yg perlahan sampai santan jadi pekat.
2. sejukkan jugak for about 4-6 hours.

C. Air Nisang
3-4 kerek nisang
daun pandan1 cup water
cara2
1. masukkan semua dalam periuk, biarkan mendidih for 5-8 minutes, then sejukkan.

Bubur Pulut Hitam

I'm home alone. Iman and Iffah ada kat rumah mok. They insisted going there sebab nak main dgn Dzia and Nuri. Hubby pulak keluar for a meeting. Setelah bosan melayan main Dinner Dash 5, baru teringat nak update blog. Yesterday tak sempat nak update sebab by the time balik rumah dah pukul 12mlm.

Semalam seharian keluar. Lepas hantar Iffah to school at about 1.30pm, I went to Bangsar, ambik K.Mei and Zulaikha. We were to meet To' Puan Rosita, the author of buku Kulit Manis kat rumah dia at Jalan Gurney. The appointment was supposed to be at 3pm, but we arrived there almost 4.30pm sebab kita orang detour. The truth is, I dont like to be late for appointment, but K.Mei wanted to eat dulu before pegi rumah To' Puan Rosita. Dah la masa berlepas from rumah K.Mei, it was already 2.30pm. I had to wait for K.Mei to siap dulu. *sigh*...

Lepas lunch kat Wangsa Maju, we went to Jalan Gurney. It was raining cats and dogs. I could hardly see the cars in front of me. Dah la tu, angin ribut kuat pulak tu. Alhamdulillah we arrived at To' Puan's house safe and sound. She served nasi himpit with sambal ikan, karipap ikan, Qasidah and Lompat Tikam. I prefer my mum's lompat tikam. I think my mum made the best lompat tikam ever! hehe.. and hubby also agrees to that. To' Puan Rosita is a very nice lady, sedara tu my hubby. As posted previously dalam one of my entry, her book is about Terengganu's heritage. Kalau tengok gambar cover buku tu, it featured gambar yang diambil oleh arwah Sultan Ismail about 50 years ago. Recipe2 dalam buku tu pun, recipe lama2. Some of the recipes were contributed by hubby's aunts, Che Hab (my mentor dalam belajar masakan istana) and Che Aroh.

Balik dari rumah To' Puan Rosita, we went back to Melawati dulu sebab Iffah wanted to play with Zulaikha. K.Mei stayed kat rumah aku sampai pukul 8.30pm, then I sent her home. Dah sampai rumah K.Mei, ingat nak duduk kejap je, tengok2, pukul 12mlm baru balik. Best duduk berborak dengan K.Mei, tak sedar masa berlalu. K.Mei told me that K.Ta, hubby's 3rd kakak, just bought a Beetle. huwaaaa... I want that too... Masa aku mintak hubby belikan my fossil handbag, dah rasa bersalah giler. K.Ta pulak mintak hubby dia belikan Beetle for her. *sigh*... hubby dia boleh afford it, ok la. Kalau aku mintak from my hubby, mau dia jegil bijik mata dia sampai terkeluar.. hahahahha..

Anyway, remember pulut hitam yang aku beli kat KK hari tu? Aku dah masak menjadi bubur pulut hitam..Sedap!! aku suka sangat pulut yg aku beli tu sebab dia gemuk2 dan gebu

Bubur Pulut Hitam

Sour Plum Tenggiri

Masa pegi KK baru ni, I bought 2 ekor tenggiri weighted about 10kg. Seksa jugak tengok hubby mengangkut kotak tu sebab AirAsia doesnt allow for seafood to be checked in sekali dengan baggage. Maka terpaksa la mengangkut 2 kotak seafood, satu ikan tenggiri, satu lagi penuh dengan udang. Every day, menu kat rumah adalah seafood sahaja. Anyway, aku pun memang dah tak lalu nak makan ayam.

This time, aku masa sour plum tenggiri. It's actually mix and match, campur2, pastu voila! jadilah sour plum tenggiri.

Sour Plum Tenggiri

Tadi aku ke Metrojaya Warehouse Sale again. Semalam dah pegi dengan my parents, today pegi lagi, dengan dear hubby pulak. Yesterday aku belikan hubby 2 helai seluar dockers, it's now selling at RM39 a pair. Pastu bila hubby tengok semlm, dia berkenan la pulak. He said he wants to buy some more. So today, lepas ambik je iman from school, terus kita orang ke Stadium Bukit Jalil. Since semalam dah pegi, today aku pandai la sikit cari parking. This time aku cari parking dekat dengan entrance keluar.

Semalam aku parking jauh giler dari exit warehouse sale tu. Pastu bila nak balik ke kete, dengan barang yang sarat kat tangan, rasa bercinta giler. Menyesal pun ada jugak. Ye  la, sapa suruh aku beli barang banyak2. The truth is, aku takde la beli barang banyak sangat, but parents aku yang sakan bershopping. Rebeh bahu aku angkut the blue bag untuk sumbat barang before bayar kat cashier. Hubby said that he wants to go again tomorrow. Wah! aku surrender, takmau dah pegi. Takpe la.. lagipun bukannya aku nak beli apa2 pun. I bought a T shirt semlm that says "Feel Free to Feel Me".. hahahha.. I like it very much. But definitely wouldnt wear it kat luar :D

Egg rolls

Egg rolls

My Korean sister in law, selalu buat eggrolls ni. Aku tried many times, tapi tak menjadi sebab selalunya akan pecah, nampak serabai. Then K.hani cakap dalam facebook, in order for the telur tak koyak, kena letak air sikit. I tried using k.hani's method, and it works! Thank you k.hani.

Ingredients

4 biji telur

daun sup - mince

cili besar - mince

chicken ham - mince (or boleh letak apa2 je, even seafood and cheese)

salt, pepper

4 tbs water

cara2

1. masukkan semua bahan dalam bowl, pukul sampai sebati.

2. panaskan skillet with a bit of oil, pastu tuang adunan telur dalam skillet, buat layer telur yang nipis, bila dah garing, slowly roll ke tepi, then add lagi adunan telur tu. jap ye, aku post maangchi's video, then u'll get the idea.

http://vimeo.com/1367122

alamak! takleh pulak nak embed the link.

Kota Kinabalu - 3rd Day

Malam second day kita orang kat Sabah, we had dinner kat Pine Resort. Lin managed to get breakfast and dinner for the 1 night stay for only RM160, which was a really good deal.  Alhamdulillah ayah Lin happens to be on board of Kinabalu Park trustee.. hehe.. menggunakan kuasa crony! hahahaha..

Iman and Malik kat gazebo, Pine Resort.

Dinner was not bad, suprisingly. Well, for orang semenanjung, the dishes sangat la tawar. But at least, the dishes served tak berenang dalam minyak. Phew! kalau tak, bertambah la fat content dalam badan aku ni. After dinner, we just lepak kat verandah, the kids pulak sibuk main nyorok2 mlm2 buta. Then I went to have coffee with Hubby and Faisal kat cafe at Pine Resort.  I cooked maggi for the kids that nite coz the kids were so hungry. Ye la, we had dinner early, by 9pm, the kids dah lapar balik. Oh ya! I bought coffee Tenom. Kan aku ada obsession towards coffee.. hehe. I love kopi Tenom sebab rasa dia mcm brazillian coffee, but minus the headache. Selalunya kalau aku minum instant coffee, aku akan sakit kepala. But this kopi tenom, memang tak menyakitkan kepala langsung! Macam iklan la pulak :D

mount kinabalu is playing hide and seek with us. tak nampak the peaks. :(

The girls, always together..

Pagi on the 3rd day tu, I woke up at 6am. Faisal cakap, usually, pukul 6am, boleh nampak mount kinabalu. I woke up the kids and hubby, untuk tunggu the clouds to clear up. Sadly, as yesterday, tunggu punya tunggu, sampai pukul 8am, cuma nampak peak sikit je. Huwaaa... takde rezeki betul aku nak tengok gunung. After breakfast, kita orang siap2 untuk check out. The first place that we visited pagi tu was Tagal Sungai Moroli, Kampung Luanti (yang ni FOC for us sebab ayah Lin .. hehehe) Kampung Luanti ni famous sangat for the fish spa. Dia orang guna ikan sungai, untuk massage kaki and badan orang. Ada charges untuk rendam kaki saje and rendam the whole body. Before kita orang enter the fish spa, we were given a brief introduction of what tagal is all about by En. Jeffri. A guide was provided to assist us on the do's and the dont's while using the fish spa. Aku rasa mcm nak pengsan kegelian bila ikan2 besar datang urut kaki aku. Tak sanggup aku nak tahan geli..Fuh! kalau ingat, rasa meremang bulu telinga!!! For some people, they really enjoy it. But this fish spa thing, is definitely NOT for me!

These four kids drove me nuts!

Singgah kejap kat Sabah Tea, tapi takde apa2 yang menarik. Frust je!

Tagal Sg. Moroli. En. Jeffri tengah bercerita..

Besar tak ikan2 kat fish spa ni?? menakutkan!

After the fish spa, we went to Poring Hot Spring, Ranau. Aku wasn't too excited about the hotspring sebab kat Kampung La, Jabi, lagi best. We didnt make a stop kat hot spring, instead we walk passed the butterfly farm to the canopy walk. We had to walk up steep steps about 400m to the stairs that lead to the canopy walk. Aku ni dah la penakut bila duduk tempat tinggi. All together, ada 4 bridges. The 1st one tu, aku dah ketar lutut. By the time aku jalan on the 4th one, aku dah menyesal tak sudah coz halfway across, tiba2 the bridge tu rasa mcm stark naked sebab kat bawah dah takde pokok2, cuma ada gaung yang about 50m high. Rasa mcm nak patah balik je. Memang aku takan go for the canopy walk ever again! Iffah nangis lepas turun dari canopy walk tu. She was dead scared! According to Lin, kat Maliau Basin, the canopy walk maybe triple the height of the ones kat Poring.

Poring!

Tengok, betapa jauhnya bat cave tu..

Beautiful kan?

Iffah and Malik.. a rare scene. Usually Iffah and Sophia, Malik and Iman.

Kat Poring ada bat cave and two waterfalls. Initially we wanted to go to the bat cave, tapi on the way to bat cave, kita orang singgah kat Kipungit Waterfall. It was so beautiful! Air kat situ bersih sangat and it was extremely cold. Mula-mula the kids takmau mandi, sebab too cold, tapi lepas dah berendam for few minutes, terus semua terjun mandi. We spent about 1 hour kat situ. Lepas dah puas mandi, the kids wanted to go to bat cave. Malik (anak Lin and Faisal) siap nangis lagi. Isk! aku memang takmau pegi coz the path looks dangerous for kids, takde railing. Menakutkan! Furthermore, kita orang pun dah lambat coz plannya nak balik before 6pm so that aku sempat masak dinner.

Kipungit Waterfall

Sophia and Iffah sunbathing..

On the way to waterfront.

Alhamdulillah we reached KK at 6.30pm. Aku drop the kids, terus pegi pasar kat waterfront with hubby and Faisal. This time aku beli udang, sotong and ayam. Since Malik tak makan seafood, kena la masak extra dish for him. The menu for dinner was Udang Goreng Tepung, Sambal Tumis Sotong, Ayam Goreng Berempah and Sayur Campur, cooked by me! hehe.. rasa nak tercabut tumit kaki aku. Dila came over with her hubby Rizal. Initially dia nak ajak pegi dinner, but since kita orang dah dinner, terus tak jadi keluar. Kita orang just lepas kat rumah Lin and Faisal.

will upload gambar in a short while

Kota Kinabalu - 2nd day (Part 2)

We arrived at Kinabalu Park at about 12noon. Initially we wanted to check in straight away at Pine Resort in Kundasang, but check in time is at 2pm. Huwaaa.. kena tunggu la pulak. So we spent our time kat Kinabalu Park. Entrance fee for the park cost us RM3 for adult, RM1 for children. Somehow Mount Kinabalu eluded us during our stay at the mountain base. Sedih giler.. Everytime tengok the mountain, aku cuma nampak clouds, clouds and more clouds. Lin showed us where she stayed during her honeymoon week. The cottage is breathtakingly beautiful. According to Lin, before the place is being managed by Sutera, the rental was dirt cheap. Now, it's too expensive to stay there. So tengok2 je la. Takyah nak berangan nak tido kat chalet kat situ.

Chalet at Kinabalu Park

Kita orang make a stop over kat Timpohon, eh! ke Tinpohon? Thank you pakcik Google! It's Timpohon. Sorry ye, makcik sangat2 la pelupanya. Bila aku baca signage kat Sabah, aku cam blur blur gitu. Cant remember a thing! Kat Timpohon tu, kita orang kena bayar lagi sekali entrance fee. That entrance is untuk orang yang nak panjat gunung kinabalu (starting point for aku and Sally in october).

Look! a squirrel decided to greet us upon our arrival at Timpohon entrance.

On less cloudy days, belakang tu dah boleh nampak the majestic mount kinabalu

We went down the stairs sampai Carson Waterfall (I think it's called Carson). Pastu Lin ajak panjat sikit lagi, kononnya nak experience la panjat kinabalu, walaupun just few metres. Kebetulan, masa nak naik tangga batu tu, ada climbers yang baru turun. Nampak muka dia orang, mcm nak pengsan tergolek2 je expression sorang2. I was mesra alam enuff (hahaha.. so unlike me) to tegur dia orang. Rupanya dia orang from Singapore. I though orang Malaysia. Dia orang cite la, they trained for 3 months, panjat tangga flats, panjat bukit, still not enuff untuk panjat gunung kinabalu. They managed to reached the peak, but they were dead tired and exhausted. Tu pun nyaris nak give up. Aku tanya dia orang, dia orang panjat bukit timah ke kat singapore. They were suprised that aku tau bukit timah. hahahha.. tak sangka geography aku still ok. Ye la, Singapore mana ada gunung, paling tinggi pun, peak bukit timah tu.

Haaa.. nama dia Carson Waterfall.

The Singaporeans - wa caya sama lu.

Tengok la abang ni, on that day alone, dia dah turun naik from Laban Rata - Timpohon more than 3 kali dah. Aku dengar nak terbeliak bijik mata. He said, earlier pun dia buang sampah jugak. Caya la!!

Turun from Kinabalu Park, we went to Kundasang to check in. The kids were hungry. Nasib baik bawak bekal. Aku memang takmau dah eat out, food tak sedap, and iman iffah pulak dah start sakit perut sebab tak biasa makan makanan kat sabah yg banyak msg and oily tu. Then Puan Maryam and her daughter visited us. Pastu we went to Kundasang War Memorial sama2. Bila baca kesah Australian soldiers and British soldiers yang mati, went missing during Japanese occupation, rasa kesian sangat2. The War Memorial is to commemorate the brave soldiers yang survive the death marches.

Pine Resort

Kundasang War Memorial - punya la susah aku nak suruh iffah posing

Nampak tak the boy yang tengah mengintai tu? haaa.. tu secret admirer iman.. hehe

Cant see the mountain, just a sneak peek of the peak.. sob sob..

Kota Kinabalu - 2nd day (part 1)

Malam first day we all kat KK, we went to pasar tepi Phillipine market. According to Lin, the market only starts at 5pm. Kalau pegi awal, the vendors takan jual ikan/seafood. We went there to catch sunset too beside mencari lauk untuk dimasak. I decided to cook sebab aku seriously takleh makan cooked food kat KK, tersangat la tak sedapnya. Dila joined us kat pasar tu. Dila habis keje around 5pm, terus turun ke waterfront jumpa kita orang. What did I cook?? Aku masak Udang Goreng Tepung (udang murah giler! RM13 perkg, udang laut yg besar2), pastu kari ikan Muduk (dunno how to spell the name), Kailan Ikan Masin. Aku beli udang 3kg! First time makan udang banyak macam tu. Dila pun dinner sama :)

breathtaking sunset at waterfront

On the second day of our stay in Kota Kinabalu, I woke up at 5.30am. Huwaaaaaaaaaa... that was the earliest aku pernah bangun ever! Err.. well! except masa zaman aku study dulu. Selalunya, pukul 6.30am baru bangun. Pukul 5.30am tu aku bangun, solat, then terus masak. Kita orang nak pegi Kinabalu Park where we booked a room kat Pine Resort, Kundasang. Aku masak pagi tu dengan mata yang half opened, or is it half closed? Sempat la goreng meehoon goreng singapore, pastu buat sausage rolls for the kids, then grilled corns.

After breakfast, kita orang pun bertolak ke Kinabalu Park. The journey took about 2 hours from Kota Kinabalu. We stopped over kat small town on the way to Kundasang. I cant remember the name.. huwaa.. sorry ye. Nama2 pekan kat Sabah memang susah nak ingat. Harap ampun ye.

mabuk aku tengok raga rotan yg lawa2 ni..

beras yang dijual. i bought the beras pulut, sedap! (aku masak bubur pulut hitam semlm)

Kota Kinabalu - Day 1

Penat betul on Friday tu. We started our day a bit late. Hubby slept at 5am, dok berborak sakan dengan his childhood friend, Faisal. After Zohor, kita orang keluar cari makan. We ate at a place call ApiWon. I hate the food there. It's almost tasteless. Iman and Iffah didnt like their lunch at all, thus, tak habis makan. Aku pulak dengan tonsillitis yang teruk, it was very hard to swallow. Dah la bangun pagi rasa nak demam. It wasnt a good day at all. Iffah and Iman were hungry before we reach Crocodile Farm. Rasa geram pun ada jugak. But I can understand, food kat Sabah is not something to look forward to. Kalau takat makan seafood, memang best la. Sabah is seafood heaven!

We arrived at Crocodile Farm before the show started. Everyday, they have crocodile show at 3pm and one more at an earlier time, which aku cant remember pukul brapa.Pening kepala aku dengan the kids yang tersangat excited with everything. They were running everywhere. Lin and Faisal, our host, ada 3 kids, Alisa is 17, Malik is 10 and Sofia is 9. Sofia and Malik is of same age with Iman and Iffah. So boleh imagine tak mcm mana havocnya dia orang berempat tu? Adoi! memang sakit kepala la..

The crocodile show kat farm tu memang superb. It's not like the one yang kat Melaka. This one more thrilling sebab dia org yang buat show tu memang berani giler. Kalau tengok buaya yang dia org guna, besar!. Aku yang tengok dari jauh pun rasa serun yang amat. Especially masa the trainers nak suruh buaya tu beraksi. But I think, the trainers hypnotised the crocodile before starting the show sebab the crocodiles nampak mcm blur. Hahahha.. macam la aku tahu kalau crocodile blur rupa mcm mana. Anyway, since aku dah peram entry ni quite a while, I'll publish this with gambar from crocodile farm :D

Safely arrived at KK airport after almost missed our flight due to AirAsia stupidity. The printed departure time was 4.20pm, but the actual departure time was at 4.05pm. We boarded airasia bus at 2.00pm, but we reached the LCCT airport at 3.20pm sebab driver bas tu bawak bas macam siput! Argh!!! Nasib baik la the counter staff faham our predicament, dia bagi jugak check in. By the time sampai kat gate, orang dah beratur nak board the flight. Phew!

Us at Crocodile Farm.

The baby monkey that Iman wants very much to take home. But definitely cannot la kan.

Tengok la trainer ni, berani betul!

I'm in love with Sabah!! I love the place, the people, but I hate the food!!

Trip to KK

Starting tomorrow, the kids will be missing school for 3 days. We're going to KK! yay!! Happy nya aku. I know, we just got back from Terengganu. But tiket gi KK ni aku dah beli more than 5 months ago. Masa tu airasia ada buat promotion. Though I dont have much money, but aku beli jugak tiket tu sebab murah giler. It was selling at RM100 per person for return trip. Aku pikir, kalau tak jadi pegi pun takpe, burn je tiket. hehehe.. macam banyak giler duit aku. Ops! duit hubby.
Tadi aku buat kuih koci again. Cuma this time aku buat koci pulut hitam. I thought kat kedai ada jual tepung pulut hitam. Puas la aku cari merata2, rupanya memang takde jual. In order to buat koci pulut hitam, aku kena mesin sendiri pulut hitam tu sampai jadi debu. Then campur dengan tepung pulut biasa. My sukatan was 1/4 tepung pulut hitam, 3/4 tepung pulut biasa. It tasted great! My mum said it was delicious. Kalau mok aku puji, maknanya memang sedap la tu sebab mok jenis a bit fussy about her food.

Since aku malas nak ambik gambar tadi, maka there's no photo of my koci pulut hitam. Harap maaf ye. Aku cuma nak tayang gambar nasik dagang and nasik lemak ikan aye (ikan tongkol/tuna) yang diambik minggu lepas.

Nasi Dagang

Nasi Lemak Ikan Aye

We went to Kuala Ibai to eat nasik dagang. Gerai makcik ni serves the best tasted nasik dagang in Terengganu. Once dah makan, memang tak boleh dilupakan. Lepas makan nasi dagang kat depan Sekolah Menengah Sultan Sulaiman, we went back home coz it was already Maghrib. Nasi Dagang tu kita orang kena booking awal2 sebab the day before, masa kita orang pegi, it was sold out by 6.30pm. Padahal makcik tu bukak pukul 5pm. Bengang je rasa. This time kita beli terus 15 bungkus, bayar siap2, so that tak kempunan. Since aku dah tepu, dok leh gi doh makang nasik dagang, aku opt to makan roti canai kari ikan aye. Sedap!! Hubby ate 2 pinggan nasik dagang, satu pinggan nasik lemak and took 1/2 of my nasik lemak. Banyak kan?? After maghrib, kita orang pegi ke Shah Bandar jalan2 sambil makan angin.

Iman, Iffah and their beloved Abah. Perasan tak Iffah is holding a comic book? Iffah dengan comic ibarat aur dengan tebing, tak boleh dipisahkan.

Iman

Iffah

with mama..

Paung Goreng

Aku dah mcm obsessed dengan paung goreng. Dulu masa Iman was about 2 years old, everytime balik KT, mesti singgah kat satu gerai tepi jalan, dekat dengan stadium. Brader ni jual the best paung goreng I've ever tasted. Sebelah kedai brader ni, ada kakak jual cucuk bilis yang sangat lazat. Bila ingat cucur bilis dia, meleleh air liur. But lepas tu, dia orang pindah. Tak tau pegi mana. My quest for paung goreng started. Dunno why, susah betul nak cari paung goreng kat KT. Kalau kat KL, jangan harap la. Mesti lagi susah nak cari.

Last week masa aku balik KT, I tried to look for paung goreng kat Pasar Kedai Payang, tapi sebab by the time aku sampai pasar dah pukul 9am, paung goreng tu dah habis dijual. Tiga hari berturut2, takde rezeki aku nak beli paung goreng tu. Then on friday, the day yang kita orang balik to KL, kebetulan masa nak jalan kaki ke pasar, aku jumpa Abang Arif, cousin hubby kat bangsal depan rumah MIL aku. Dia cakap, paung goreng yang sedap, ada jual kat kedai tepi jalan, dekat dengan bulatan ladang, betul2 depan bangunan Sinar (suratkhabar sinar). Aku and hubby pun apa lagi, terus naik kete, pegi cari kedai tu. And we found the kedai! We were very excited, ingatkan jumpa la paung goreng. Sadly, takde pun paung goreng. Huwaaaa... rasa nak nangis je. Then hubby cakap dia nak makan nasik lemak. Masa hubby tengah makan nasik lemak tu, tiba2 aku nampak ada this one makcik carrying a basket full of paung goreng. Rupanya baru sampai paung goreng tu.

Aku pun apa lagi, borong almost 3/4 of the paung goreng. Memang sedap giler! I love it so much! On Sunday, aku cuba la buat paung goreng sendiri. Erm... agak mengecewakan, tak sesedap paung goreng yang dijual di ladang. Aku wish I can get a recipe from makcik yg jual paung goreng tu. Inti aku tak kesah sangat sebab it's just inti ikan, sama macam inti karipap ikan. Kulit tu yang susah sikit nak buat.

Paung Goreng Ladang

Oleh kerana paung goreng aku tak lawa sangat, jadi aku malas nak ambik gambar. hehe.. sorry ye. Gambar kat atas ni, gambar paung goreng ladang yang sempat aku snap masa tengah tunggu hubby habiskan his nasik lemak. Orang-orang yang tengah makan kat kedai tu pelik tengok aku ambik gambar paung goreng. Hahahah.. biarkan.. Sekali sekala jadi orang jakun :D