Sightseeing: Pulau Ketam & Sungai Lima

Having a long semester break while not wanting to just do nothing at home, I decided to just walk around somewhere near alone. Somewhere that open my eye or just plainly walking and brain squeezing while exercising at the same time. Okay, I was kind of greedy to have all this at one. So here is a few pictures at both island, taken it while I pass by. By the way, I really love heritage thingy so you can see it's mainly small street and house building on top of the sea, and etc. People here travel by either walking or cycling

 The only picture with crab.

 The temple. I spent most of my time at the temple reading novel. It's a small island and there's not much place to visit and in additional it's an off peak so there's not much tourist and lots of stall are not open.

That's the book I'm currently reading. And a photo of me sitting at the shed (pondok) killing time. And eventually dose off on the table.

Note that this is my favorite. It's an old saloon with barber and old man. The dim light and the whole equipment used, so nostalgic okay.

 My brunch. The famous Chinese nasi lemak that sells at RM2 per pack. This is real nice and absolutely worth the price. It contain prawns, anchovies, egg, sambal chili powder and sweet & spicy cabbage or onion. Apparently, I don't really know what's the whole thing in it, but it's definitely different and taste nice. Do try out if you somehow hop in there.

 Sky getting darker and rain heavily after awhile. Waited for approximately an hour for the rain to stop and off I go hoping to another island named Sungai Lima. This island is much more smaller if compare to Pulau Ketam. Not much activities as it's not a tourist hot spot. But apparently they have a few murals that might attracts you scatter around the island. Heard that it's painted by 3 Malaysian artist. I get to captured a few, you can discover more if you walk more :P Oh, not to miss out this island is famous with their dry prawn. Yes, you can smell it once you reach the island! 

I always have the habit to snap photo with shoe and the ground. It's somehow symbolizes the path you walk.

So, this is on the bridge.

 This is me attempt to sit on the wooden bridge but in a second thought walk back to the semen road. When you are alone, you don't have extra photographer to snap those poster photo. So, we shall just skip that part and continue walking, haha!

 Walking on semen road built above the sea under the hot sun. I wonder how strong it is to walk on a road like this.

 The orange wood. People in the island live a happy life. They are so close to one another, house hopping and sparing time with the neighbor is something they do everyday. Kids studying in small class, being friend to everyone, studying and gathering for an activity playing basketball after school. Such life is something I once thought about. Everyone here have different job and responsibility, and together they sustain their life in the island.

Meatballs!

Play around with recipes again and this time making meatballs! I always check the ingredient at home and see what can I make out from those. And another thing, I'm such a person who don't really follow the whole recipe shown, haha! Terrible girl who love to do crazy thing at a time xD

How to make your own meatball?

Ground meat mixed with garlic, salt, sugar, soy sauce and sesame oil. And there you go, trying to roll the meatball into a round shape. The raw product :)

Tadaaa, the cooked ones! I just steamed it using hot water and eat it with Cintan mee :) You can try frying it, it might give you a different texture or taste.

For more recipes you may refer to Aeri's Kitchen, I really love how she write out those Korean recipe, ingredient list and the step-by-step procedure with attached of photo.

The long lost bud

After so long (almost a year), all the UK girls had finally came back to Malaysia. Although not having a full attendance gathering due to some emergency case that happened but still time were spent wise with few of them. Endless chit chatting with them who slim down a lot except me who is growing horizontally. They learned how to cook themselves eating healthy while me being lazy and restful at home doing nothing, that makes the difference. Talking about their experience in the anonymous country and also the already starts working ones, their stories make their journey amazingly wonderful, I should script out mine too with this much of time I had now (It's sem break, wuhooo!). We should have another gathering before I leave!

Having lunch at La Bodega, Empire and tea time at Serai, Empire.

The interior and design in La Bodega is perfectly nice having indoor and outdoor dining for customer to opt. There's also a bar corner with long chair at the side. The atmosphere and indoor lighting is just nice for a romantic proposal or date, haha! I ordered a set of Big Breakfast and it comes with two drinks. I was a little confused when the waiter asked me what type of coffee I would like to have while I already ordered a cup of apple juice, then only I realized the set comes with two drinks. Couldn't managed to finished the whole plate what more with two cups of drinks.

Second round will be girls favorite, dessert! We came across Serai and decide to give it a try. The interior of Serai is pretty clean and organized with white furniture. We ordered a piece of Berry Pavlova and Banoffee Pie. Didn't ate much as I was already bloated from the previous brunch. Anyhow, I preferred Banoffee over Pavlova, as Pavlova was too sweet for me and I have this love relationship with banana and coffee.

Here's a group photo of us to end this post :)

A chef to be

I guess I have too many interest that pop out for a little while. I was recently into baking. I do spend some time on recipe in the holiday. Not working and have too many time to spend and waste I guess. Airasia now are selling cheap ticket and I really want to just click on one of it, pack my bag and fly. But, get no one to accompany me in terms of the craziness or budget problem. So, I lay back my plan of going outstation but finding some place which is really near so that I can just go alone for like one day. Anyway back to the topic on baking, so I just baked a cheese cake. Ta-daaa!

 I used to be afraid of cooking. Yes, I prefer baking. When I was a kid, I'm afraid of fire (I still do now). I was afraid that it might burn my finger, or burn the whole house down. You never know the consequences it will bring. I used to afraid of turning on/off the gas too, you know that moment of the sudden appearance of fire, the sparks it create. Apart from fire, oil is another factor. With a mix of water, it will just splash out from the wok here and there. Hence, I always avoid cooking with oil. Convince myself that food without oil is healthier while knowing the fact that I was actually lying. P/s: I don't even know how to fry an egg. 

Another picture on the butter cake. Ingredients used 230g of all purpose flour, 200g of butter, 150g of sugar, 4 eggs and 1 tsp of baking powder. Mixed everything together in a blender and put it in the oven for 170°C for 45 mins.

Last two weeks, I baked souffle! It looks more like an egg tart I know :( It's some sort of a failure product as it does not expand not to mention it doesn't turn out fluffy at all but still edible and turn out nice just that it's a little weird. Somehow I baked this after watching Twelve Front Taste from Nicholas Tse. 

Methods on baking a souffle. Separate the egg white with egg york (a total of 7 eggs is used). Mix the egg york with 40g of butter and 240ml of milk, heat it and stir equally. Add in 80g of flour. Egg white is beaten up to form foam with 100g of sugar. combine both mixture spoon by spoon and stir it equally. After that, pour it into the cup and heat it in the oven for 180°C for 20 mins.