Lunch with Lifebook

Jade Lime, swiped from williamnyk on Flickr.

As usual, I attended Sunday mass. The only difference that week was the fact that SK invited me over to her place for lunch. Lifebook was sick, so SK whipped up some homecooked food for him and asked me to join in. I arrived at about 1:00pm and by that time Lifebook was already there lounging on the sofa, watching TV. Didn't have to wait long for SK to put the finishing touches on her cooking. Specially for Lifebook was stewed pork with fish maw and hard-boiled eggs whipped up in a jiffy with Lifebook's pressure cooker, old cucumber soup and stir-fried vegetables with Chinese pear (a colourful dish). Did some talking after the food but Lifebook was so satisfied that he just rubbed his tummy and fell asleep (but perhaps because we were talking about work problems and that wasn't exactly dessert material). While he slept, SK and I watched Astro-- some cheesy Chinese series entitled "72 Tenants". When Sleeping Beauty finally awoke, we dragged him out to have Snowflake at IOI Boulevard. Parked in the basement and we went up and down the elevator only to find the doors locked! Ended up walking up the ramp. Humph! Quite a good crowd on a hot Sunday afternoon. The ZenQ beside it was growing mushrooms. Ordered their current special, MYR9.90 for a bowl of Jade Lime (lime flavoured ice topped with tasteless jelly and pearls) and their Bestseller. Noticed a sign telling customers that their metal spoons aren't souvenirs! Perhaps they should set up metal detectors or chain the spoons to the bowls.







Didn't stay long as Lifebook complained of the noise (pa pai!), so we adjourned to Kissaten, which was much calmer. Ordered some drinks and a plate of salted pork belly slices. Went really well with the chopped leek! Was quite comfy there until mum called to say that the whole entourage was arriving home from Melaka. So at about 5:00pm I went to my sis' place for more makan-makan. BIL had bought a whole box of premium nyonya kuih. However, not all were nice. The pulut udang was too sweet and the albino kuih koci was a bit too lemak. Also shared a nyonya zhang with SK. Truth be told, I'm not a fan of nyonya zhang (always prefer salty over sweet *wink*), but that one was quite good. My favourite was the onde-onde. Came in pairs, contained in a pandan leaf box and sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds. An extra boost of aroma for when the palm sugar bursts out of the thin glutinous rice skin. For dinner, we ate at Restoran HY Thian. Looking through the menu, we got the house specialty eggplant, stir-fried pork belly (moist with good texture), house specialty steamed tilapia and stir-fried vegetables. Cyan practically hoarded the plate of pork belly although it contained dried chilies. His brother slept through the whole dinner...