Archive for January, 2005

Barney’s home

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

purple
Originally uploaded by 5xmom.
Penang seriously needs to set up some regulations or something before the whole city turned Bollywood. We have purple and yellow, green and orange, red and green buildings…the list goes on. This one is a coffee shop in Jelutong. But at least this is not some heritage building. There [...]

Heavenly Nonya Kuehs

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Our local cakes come in various colour and taste but mostly using basic ingredients like the coconut milk, sugar and rice flour only. However, with some ingenuity, they taste and look different.
For e.g. in the photo here, there is the multi-layer, red/white/pink cake (kueh) which is steamed layer by layer. It is called ‘9-layer-kueh’. And [...]

Non-halal : Curry Mee & Bakchang

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

I decided that if I am going to put up a non-halal food item, I shall provide the link of the photos only. And it will come with an alert that it is not halal. Another thing - I am very lazy to add in the copyright thingy in my photos. So, whoever takes my [...]

Cendol and aiskacang

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Woohoo….I am going to make everyone drooling with this photo

Who can resist a bowl of shaved ice, syrup, milk plus sweet corns, grass jelly, red beans and the famous “I survive on attap chee”. Sometimes, shreds of sugared nutmegs, peanuts and raisins are added into them. And top it with a scoop of [...]

Mee mamak and pasembur

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

“Mamak, mee goreng satu, goreng basah-basah, cabai siiiiiiikit sudah. Siiiiiiikit tau. Tak mau ubi, tak mau taukau, taruh kote** mamak cukup”
This is my regular order. Translated as : One fried noodle with little chili, no potatoes and soya bean cake, *the rest censored*.
We have this Mee Mamak stall along Gurney Drive which is a hit [...]