Thursday, December 20, 2012
Ais krim roti 20.12.2012
Cantiknya susunan nombor tarikh ini. Jangan sangka saya ada ilmu apa-apa dengan nombor, itu adalah perkara syirik. Kita dilarang mengharapkan nombor atau benda-benda buatan Allah boleh memberi nasib baik atau rezeki. Cumanya saya suka saja nombor tarikh hari ini, sama seperti saya suka merenung bunga-bunga, anak-anak kecil, bulan penuh mengambang dan digalakkan masa merenung itu kita wirid. Wirid menyebut nama Allah, mengenal kebesaran-Nya dalam wirid-wirid itu.
Orang-orang yang lahir pada tahun 40'an, 50'an dan 60'an, mesti akan terkenang bila melihat gambar ini.
Itu seorang apek (ada yang muda juga) menjual ais krim roti. Roti itu diselitkan air krim. Ini satu-satunya kegemaran saya masa kecil. Bila terdengar bunyi kling-kling, saya berlari masuk, minta emak duit lima sen. Tapi penjual begini kita tak jumpa lagi. Saya pula memikirkan manisnya ais krim itu dan lain-lain dalam makanan itu, sudah tak berani lagi makan ais krim roti.
Tapi pada percutian saya bulan lepas, saya terjumpa seorang apek tua yang menjual roti ini di kawasan pasar mega NTUC, Bedok.
Saya sedang lapar selepas balik dari pejabat pos tengah hari bersama pembantu yang bertugas di rumah adik saya. Sebab ais krim roti kesukaan saya dan saya sedang lapar tapi tak mahu masuk kedai-kedai makan dan bergasak-gasak memilih tempat duduk masa orang makan tengah hari, jadi saya minta apek itu beri 2 potong roti ais krim. Apek ambil duit dan saya ternampak kuku apek hitam. Sebelum itu saya lihat apek baru pegang kain kotor, lap sana sini, lepas itu dia ambil roti dan guna jari selitkan air krim dalam roti.
Maid berbisik "Mak Long, apek itu kotorlah". Tapi saya lapar, makan saja huhuhu.
Sumber foto dari en. Mohammad Ramli Mohammad Saad (Kumpulan Facebook Geylang Serai dalam kenangan- 20.12.2012)
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
Tipu
No meat products here. Only seafood. But still the food are not to be eaten.
Most restaurants in Japan show off their culinary specialty like this.
You look from the glass window first. If your mouth waters, you better not rush ini *remember the song said "only fools rush ini".
Second, check the price. Then again, if your mouth is still flooded with salivating liquid and your pocket sounds lots of kacing, kacing, go ahead and spread the noren on the door *noren is the half-way curtain that force your body to bend when you enter the establishment*.
Once inside, even without looking at the menu *sometimes there is no menu*, you just said the dish that comes with the arty food or if you are still illiterate in Japanese you just mention the numbers but if there is no number, you go with the sweet girl to the glass window and like a parrot, knock you head on the hard glass.
OK, I have two more weeks to finish up something. To kill the protagonist or to let him live.
This is the part I enjoy with writing, I feel like smaller god (of course there are no such branding). I can create or kill anybody in my own world.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Mozuku seaweed
Mozuku seaweed and other seaweed like nori, hijiki, konbu are best for maintenance of hair growth, slowing down balding head and lovely set of thick hair for new-born baby *this is what the nutritionists in Japan claim*
The mozuku in the cup is best served chilled with lemon/lime/shikuasa juice.
*Rumput laut mozuku juga nori, hijiki, konbu dan lain-lain jenis rumput laut mengekalkan kesegaran rambut dan perempuan hamil jika mempraktikkan pemakanan ini merimbunkan rambut untuk bayi yang dalam kandungan *para nutritionis di Jepun mendakwa*
In Malaysia as Mr. Leo Aws claims the people in Kelantan consume it as "sare".
In Wales (my experience of living there), they take it as laver or laver bread ( bara lawr). The people in Wales are known for their very dark hair. Mr. Bean is born in Wales and most people in Wales look more or less like Mr. Bean.
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Friday, March 09, 2012
Mentaiko
I have to finish up the collection of haiku and tanka by end of February but couldn't catch this date line. So for the past couple of weeks, I was adding up to this collection and editing it every night, way pass my sleep hour.
On top of all this activity, I have to find time to write and writing is a sitting down job. I hardly have time to leave the house other that doing some ferrying. I know my health is not so up to par now and I told myself I need to do some movement out of the house.
So I choose to walk to the supermarket. Since I need to suffer a bit, I walk to the shop farthest down the road about 2 km round trip. All this extra hard activity makes me head for the bed. I took the advise of Japanese peopl: when tired, just sleep it off.
That's what I did today. End up getting so hungry almost at lunch time. So I had this lunch with the breakfast that I missed. It is salted fish egg, mentaiko. Some mentaiko are hot like in spicy hot chilli. Adding this I washed some fresh salad and mixed it up with my own sesame dressing.
Last night I ordered The Tales from Genji from Amazon. jp. Its not a new book but books from Amazon are still clean even though the status is second-hand. The best bargain I ever had. It is only about US$1 and the handling charge is about US$2.
US$3! I can't believe my big fortune.
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Sunday, February 05, 2012
Pucuk paku Buah berangan
Warabi and kuri rice.
Sorry guys, I promise to do better next time. I am not the kind to measure every little thing into spoons and cups. I just throw in everything and get done with it.
So this recipe is the throw-and-done type.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
BENTOU-Berita Minggu
Terbitan Berita Minggu, Singapura (Ahad 20 November 2011)



Kebolehan menyediakan bentou yang berkhasiat dan beraneka macam dan warna adalah sesuatu yang dibanggakan oleh suri-suri rumah di Jepun. Menyediakan bentou telah diterapkan ke dalam budaya Jepun sejak awal sejarah negara itu. Amalan ini masih dipraktikkan dalam rutin harian orang Jepun sekarang.
Ada beberapa perkara yang harus diperhatikan bagi menyediakan makanan untuk bekalan.
- Menu perlu difikirkan lebih awal. Setelah membuat pilihan menu, langkah seterusnya ialah persiapan ringkas untuk memudahkan proses memasak. Persiapan ringkas seperti membasuh dan memotong sayur, mengeluarkan daging dari peti sejuk perlu dilakukan pada malam sebelumnya untuk tidak mengambil masa memasak pada awal pagi.
- Menyediakan bekas. Terdapat pelbagai jenis di pasaran. Jika membekalkan nasi goreng, mi spageti atau mi goreng, seelok-eloknya diisikan ke dalam bekas segi empat tepat atau empat segi bujur. Kotak khas untuk membalut sandwic adalah ideal untuk roti sandwic.
- Bahagikan tiga ruang dalam bekas-setengah untuk nasi, suku untuk daging, ikan atau telur dan baki suku bahagian untuk sayur.
- Makanan harus dimasak dengan sempurna. Elakkan mengisi telur separuh masak. Makanan yang tidak dimasak dengan sempurna menjadi tempat bakteria membiak dan ini mengakibatkan keracunan dalam makanan. Jika menggunakan lauk-pauk yang dari baki hidangan, ia perlu dipanaskan dengan sempurna untuk dijadikan bekal.
- Buang air yang berlebihan pada sayur seperti salad atau lauk yang berkuah. Ini amat penting sebab air atau kuah yang berlebihan boleh merosakkan rasa lauk yang diisikan di bahagian lain dalam bekas itu. Langkah yang lebih baik adalah mengasingkan makanan yang berkuah ke dalam bekas lain.
- Buang minyak yang berlebihan. Minyak yang berlebihan jika dibiarkan akan menjadi tepu. Jika minyak pada bahan-bahan goreng seperti ayam goreng tidak ditos, dagingnya akan menjadi liat. Minyak yang berlebihan itu juga boleh merosakkan rasa pada lauk-lauk lain.
- Pastikan makanan bekal itu betul-betul sejuk sebelum ditutup bekasnya. Jika bekal makanan itu ditutup dalam keadaan masih panas, ia akan memerangkap wap. Wap ini pula menjadi air yang bertakung pada penutup bekal itu. Selain akan merosakkan rasa makanan yang ada, penutup bekal yang berwap menjadi sukar untuk dibuka sebab tekanan kuat daripada wap yang terperangkap di dalamnya.
- Jangan biarkan ruang kosong. Jika terdapat ruang-ruang kosong, tempat itu perlu dipenuhkan dengan tomato mini atau lain-lain makanan yang sesuai. Makanan bekal itu akan dibawa ke tempat kerja atau sekolah. Pergerakan atau goncangan dalam perjalanan boleh menyebabkan makanan dalam bekas itu berpindah tempat jika ada ruang-ruang kosong. Ini mengakibatkan makanan bercampur aduk. Untuk mengelakkan kejadian ini, ruang-ruang kosong perlu penuhkan.
- Di Jepun, bekas makanan dibalut dengan kain. Simpulan pada kain itu boleh dijadikan pemegang. Kain itu kemudian dijadikan alas dan berfungsi sebagai menahan sisa makanan daripada berselerakan. Perlu juga disediakan sudu atau garfu.
- Bahan rebusan atau panggangan lebih berkhasiat dari yang digoreng. Mi spageti yang digoreng lebih elok daripada mi spageti yang bersos.
- Telur adalah bahan yang paling mudah untuk dijadikan bahan bekal. Telur boleh digoreng atau direbus. Daging cencang boleh digoreng bersama nasi atau mi. Daging cencang juga boleh dijadikan bebola dan burger atau digoreng bersama sayur untuk khasiat protein.
- Sayur bayam sangat tinggi dengan khasiat kalsium/besi dan vitamin. Sayur ini elok digoreng atau direbus. Kulit tauhu adalah bahan berkhasiat. Ia boleh digoreng bersama sayur atau dilapiskan dengan daging dan ikan. Tomato mini mengandungi vitamin C di samping berfungsi sebagai menutup ruang kosong. Warnanya yang merah menyala itu juga menambahkan seri pada makanan. Bijirin hitam lazimnya digunakan di Jepun sebagai bahan taburan ke atas nasi untuk menambah warna pada makanan. Bekal yang mengandungi roti menjadi sempurna jika ditambahkan sayur dan telur atau bahan tidak berair. Makanan yang sudah masak dan dibekukan amat mudah disiapkan.
Monday, June 06, 2011
Penggaga
I know Japanese people don't take these herbs. In the Malay language it is named penggaga but another official name for it is hydrocotyle asiatica.
This is the Japanese version and the Japanese assumed it is wild grass.
I went to a friend's house and saw this herb while waiting for her to get ready. I picked and made kerabu penggage. Actually this dish is suggested by many interested friends in Facebook when I wrote about it and asked for some receipes related to it.
Penggaga is a humble herbs, almost invisible like the grass but so much health benefits and one of them is alleviating anxiety. It is proven, trust me!
So I wanted my friend to know its importance and when to her house showing her some ways to cook it. Actually, I want her to keep this herb in her garden so I have to tell her the benefits as well. She is going through some menopausal syndrome and felt excited knowing that this herb might reduced her high anxiety and stabilized her irregular mood.
There! My supply of penggaga is saved! Yeah!
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Asam bol & kobis
The tree is just 2 meters away from my writing room on the second floor. Second to my laptop, this is another thing I stare at every few moments of the day. The greenness from this tree, clears the tension from my eyes. If you look closely, the fruits are ripening. This is ume tree. The ume fruit is pickled with salt and the Malay people called in "asam bol" or "asam asin".
This land belongs to a neighbour and the tree has been there even before we build this house. This neighbour stays on this rental house but they make the house like their very own. They built a store room in a corner of the land and they extend the roof of the house to the wall, making some space outside. During summer, I hear them having beer party on this expended space but other times, I see fat cats wondering all over the place. I do wonder where these cats come from and who are their owners. These cats are not lost or stray. They are well-fed and all are very fat. But the strange thing is, this neighbour feeds them everyday. Feed those fat cats that don't belong to them. How kind can anybody get! Considering cat biscuits are not cheap to come by.
Last year, the ume fruits rotten on the trees. Now is the time to pick those still green fruits to make pickles like "umeboshi". But it is not my tree and it's not me to go around asking.
This morning hubby came back from the green grocer, calling me like he is so excited. I was doing my work on the top floor and thought there was some emergency. He was smiling and held high this bag of cabbage.
He said, "3 heads of cabbage for just 40 yen (that is about RM 1-)!
Whoah! for that price...it is like giving away.
He explains the weather is cool lately and cabbage grows good in the cool. There is over-supply of cabbage everywhere. That was the excitement. I think my hubby is more house-husband than I a house-wife. SMILE & Peace!
Don't assume living in Japan is hard or cost of living in Japan is high. That is not true. Not so on this island!
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
Bunga sawi
Kebanyakan orang pernah melihat sayur sawi. Kadang-kadang ada juga yang terlihat bunga sawi pada hujung-hujung sayur sawi. Orang Jepun makan bunga sawi. Nano hana istilah orang Jepun memanggil bunga sawi. Mereka rebus bunga sawi dan campurkan sos dari biji bijan dan minyak bijan. Bunga sawi hanya boleh dimakan begini mengikut musim-musim tertentu saja. Lagi pun yang digunakan hanya bunga sawi yang muda saja. Jika bunga lambat dipetik, ketuaan membuat bunga-bunganya kasar dan tak berapa enak lagi.
Gambar itu menunjukkan padang sawi. Sayur sawi ini sengaja dinantikan sampai berbunga. Bunganya pun tidak dipetik. Selepas layu bunga-bunganya, benih sawi membesar seperti kacang dalam lenggai (kulit pod). Benihnya inilah yang dinanti-nantikan. Benih sawi digunakan untuk semaian tanaman baru pula.
*Lokasi gambar adalah di lereng bukit dekat dengan rumah penulis.*
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Monday, March 07, 2011
Yamaimo (ubi)
Here is another session on Japanese food and its cooking. That thing in the photo that looks like potato is from the yam family.
Zahirnya seperti ubi kayu. Ada kulit tebal yang perlu dibuang pada badannya. Isi ubi is putih dan bila dibiarkan setelah dibuang kulit tebal itu, warnanya betukar kemerah-merahan. Parut ubi ini. Seperti kacang bendi, ia meleki-lekit. Campurkan kicap shoyu Jepun dan wasabi hijau yang pedas. Tuangkan campuran ini ke atas nasi.
It is easy to prepare this yam. Peel off the thick covering and grate it. It is very gluey like white egg. Mix some Japanese shoyu with a pinch of hot green wasabi (grated horseradish) with it and spread it on top of a bowl of rice. Just like that.
This photo shows some suggestion to go with the yamaimo. It is mix fried vegetable with anchovy (also ok with mince meat) and deep-fried brinjal with sesame oil dressing.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Gingko Rice

Go into any pharmacy and check out the vitamin supplements counter. You cannot miss Ginkgo Biloba. Most people acknowledge the health benefits from gingko but have never seen the actual fruit and its nut.
The first time I knew gingko was when this pungent smell reached my nose one autumn day in Japan. I was walking under a gingko tree. The leaves are yellowing and twirling around everywhere, carpeting the pavement. I saw small rotting fruits under my steps. My friend who was walking together told me to collect the rotting fruits. That moment I thought she has some bad tasting mouth telling me to collect some rotting, smelly fruits on the pavement like some kind of hungry, homeless soul that wonders aimlessly in the park.
She strongly said the gingko seed is nice to eat and rather expensive in the market. Well then, lady, you picked those rotten smelly fruits yourself was on the tip of my tongue.
She was right. That was some 20 odd years ago but now I'm addicted to that nut.
I normally cooked gingko in my rice. Here in the picture is gingko and green peas rice.
That was lunch. Baby potato with sesame and olive oil, some small fish (ikan bilis) with konbu (sea kelp), chicken with black pepper and white radish with taufu soup.
I just dissolve some chicken cube into the rice cooker with the gingko seed and some green peas.
Here I served the rice with garlic fried chicken and mushroom sauce flooding the broccoli and baby potatoes.
It is quite easy to get the gingko seed in a can. The product comes from China, if you cannot get the fresh nuts.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Oden
The cold weather has set in. Not full blast yet but surely reaching there. We've brought out the room-stove and the kotatsu (low table with a warmer under to make the body warm).
Oden goes very well in such cold weather. This morning I had oden for breakfast.
Clockwise its boiled egg, taufu, boiled radish, fish cake with gobou(see pic below) root, fish sausage, kombu (lalang laut) or long algae (see pic below) and the center is konnyaku cake from the konnyaku root (ubi konnyaku).



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Monday, August 09, 2010
Pucuk Ubi
This is the tapioca plant I found in Uehara farm. I made a dish from it. I fried the fish first with tumeric (fresh from the sea-any fish wil do).
Two thinly-sliced lemon grass with slices of tumeric leaves. In a pot of coconut milk, pound some slices of red chillies and throw all the slices herb together with a handful of boiled tapioca shoot (slice as well).
Boil all of these, some salt for taste.
That's it.
This dish is called gulai lemak pucuk ubi (but I add the fish and the lemon grass with tumeric leave),
Hijrah ke pulau
Memetik pucuk ubi
berdasawarsa
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Lobak putih

Tenpura, sukiyaki, tendon, udon, sushi, sashimi...I called these food as business food. Those are food you get any any Japanese restaurant all over the world. Those food do not represent the daily menu of any normal Japanese people.
You will be surprised normal Japanese only take tenpura and sukiyaki like a year twice! Yes, those are business food served to people in shops only.
Even when you do a home stay, the host family served those food listed. Mainly because these food are so familiar to non-Japanese.
Japanese dishes at home mostly make up of rice and soup (mostly vegetable).
Then the main dish comes in fish or meat follows by a vegetable dish with an additional salad on the side.
Like the photo on my dining table.
We love to have daikon or white radish. I simply grate the radish julienne, mixed some salmon flakes and pour over some shoyu with a squeeze of lime. That's it.
Maybe the nearest to Malaysian dish is kerabu lobak. Raw radish.
A humble root vegetable with lots of healthy ingredient in it.
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
The triangle love of Lopes
Lopes is one of my favourite dessert. If you're not in the tropics, it is quite an effort to make this sweet thing.
As long as you have glutinuous rice, steam it and spread over it with brown sugar syrup, it still taste good but to get the real taste of lopes in Japan is actual happiness for someone simple like me.
Above is my lopes. I used bamboo leaves instead of banana leaves. We have lots of banana plants in Okinawa but I just don't feel like going out to cut banana leaves on a cold 14c day.
Then, the glutinous rice is not so glutinous, even when I soaked in pandan water for 2 hours.
I have to steam the coconut to make it softer. After steaming, it's a wee bit softer but I can't get it as near to the original state.
For the brown syrup, I used sugar cane brown sugar. We have lots of sugar cane brown sugar in Okinawa. I boiled a packet of 300gm of it with pandan leaves. It tasted almost as good as the brown sugar from real coconut for the untrained tongue.
All in all, I'm quite happy with the result. We just have to improvise but inadequacies like these are part of the adaptation process of living in places out of Malaysia/Singapore.
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Sunday, August 02, 2009
Umeboshi-making tyme
I use:
10 kilograms fresh-plucked Japanese apricot (ume/ bahasa Melayu word not invented yet). Abundant only during apricot season.
2 bottles of leek vinegar (leek bahasa Melayu...not invented yet)
1 pack of red shisou leaf (beefsteak leaf/ bahasa Melayu...not invented yet)
With lots of sunshine and patience.
Step one: Pick off stalks from base of apricots. Wash and drain water well.
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Step 2: Pour 2 bottles of leek vinegar and mix well. Hands should be cleaned with vinegar before mixing. Mix with shishou leaves here.
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Steps 3: Weight down with 10kg stones. Weighing stone and the base must be cleaned with vinegar first.
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Step 4: Leave in cool (below 26c) place for 2 weeks. If bubbles and white particles appear, pour more vinegar and mix again with vinegared-covered hands.
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Step 5: After 2 weeks, pick all fruits and arrange on filter to dry. Keep the vinegar.
This vinegar makes sore throat better, prevents bad breathe, creates appetite, balances the acid/alkaline level in intestional tract.
I use it for salad dressing and cooking. Whenever I feel tired, I drink about 5 tablespoon directly.
See the link I attached below for more info.
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Step 6: Cover friuts from flies and insect and put in very hot sun for 2 days or until fruits really dry up.
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Step 7: Keep fruits in air-tight jar. Keep in cool place. Eat anytime you like.
Another information about umeboshi: Bacteria cannot penetrate it!
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Friday, July 31, 2009
The making of umeboshi-tyme
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Tatkala kumbang mogok...
Bolehkah madu diganti?
Saya selalu bermuhasabah pada konotasi yang terdapat di baris bidalan ini:
Saya bukan renungkan dari aspek seseorang yang kecewa dalam bercinta. Sebenarnya ayat ini memaparkan kata-kata bersemangat dan positif untuk mereka yang bercinta separuh mati tapi dikecewakan. Lantas, dunia bagaikan zombie yang hidup segan, mati tak mau yang ditayangkan dalam Thriller nyanyian arwah MJ.
Saya bukan merenung ayat ini dari segi zombie yang melonjat-lonjat itu tapi dari jantina kumbang dan bunga. Bidalan ini menggambarkan kumbang itu semestinya jenis lelaki dan bunga pula semestinya perempuan.
Boleh tak kita pusingkan gambaran ini. Kita letaklah kumbang itu perempuan dan bunga itu lelaki. Ada orang tak boleh pusingkan pandangan ortodoks ini! Kenapa agaknya, kepala kita dibentuk begini? Mungkinkah peribahasa ini yang mengukir pemikiran kita begini? Sehingga kita melihat semua kumbang itu lelaki dan semua bunga itu perempuan?
Dari pengalaman, dari siasatan, dari pemerhatian, ini bukan halnya pada kerangka fikiran orang Jepun. Menjangkakan kumbang itu lelaki membawa tuduhan seksis.
Kumbang dan bunga adalah anugerah alam, pemberian-Nya dan mengikut fitrah mempunyai dua jantina. Juga bunga, fitrahnya ada bunga jenis jantan dan ada bunga jenis betina.
Kumbang yang menghisap madu bunga itu dari golongan kumbang askar. Kumbang askar diperintahkan-Nya mengumpulkan madu untuk Maharani Kumbang yang melahirkan beribu-ribu anak kumbang. Madu itu dikumpulkan untuk menghidupkan anak-anak kumbang.
Bolehkah madu diganti jika kumbang hilang dari busana tua dan kerepot ini?
Pertanyaan besar, janganlah dipermain-mainkan soalan ini. BIG Happening.
Kumbang semakin berkurangan di Jepun! Rakyat kumbang di Jepun sangat rendah sampaikan tahun ini pasaran madu di Jepun tidak mencukupi.
Balik lagi...bolehkah madu diganti?
Masalah kumbang mati, kumbang kurang...itu juga masalah saya.
Bolehkah madu yang saya sapukan bersama roti panggang dan taburan tepung kacang soya buat sarapan setiap pagi digantikan?
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Number 53 tyme
That is goya grown especially for me. Goya or bitter gourd or peria. We are eating goya almost everyday now. Some Japanese eat it raw like salad but I do a half stir-fry and eat it still crispy. It is very bitter. But I'm used to the taste. I can't compare the Okinawa goya with the goya found in Malaysia simply because I forgot the taste of the Malaysia version.
But now, that doesn't bother me anymore. Holding each other is like eating and drinking after more than 27 years into the marriage.
Hope your stay in Okinawa is pleasant.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Tatkala Cermai diBelandakan...
Oh NO! Tidak!
Sejak FIL balik dari hospital, setiap pagi Otto masakkan sop tauco atau miso shiru untuk sarapannya. Dalam sop ini ada miso atau tauco. Pes miso ini seakan pes tauco yang orang melayu masukkan ke dalam kuah mi rebus. Dalam sop miso ini dimasukkan juga sayur, tauhu dll. Ia boleh dimakan dengan nasi, menjadi lauk. Sudah mencukupi sebagai satu hidangan.
Otto masak seperiuk kecil tapi FIL makan hanya sebekas sahaja setiap pagi. Yang lebih dalam periuk itu kami bertigalah harus habiskan setiap hari. Kenapa Otto masak sarapan, ada yang ingin tahu bukan?
Otto masak sarapan dan membuang air kencing FIL yang disimpan dalam botol kencing setiap pagi. Jahrera masak untuk tengah hari dan malam. Tengah hari 3 jenis lauk, malam 3 jenis lauk lain. Jadi kasihanlah pada Jahrera ya pembaca yang budiman. Janganlah kata jahrera ini bini buruk pula. Sedih, rasa terharu akibatnya.
Otto paksa jahrera habiskan sop yang berlebihan itu. Nak tahu apa jahrera kata pada dia?
"I'm not a Japanese, don't force me to eat Japanese food everyday!"
Ya betul. Ke mana jahrera pergi pun, di mana jahrera menetap pun, tekak ini masih tekak melayu lagi. Hati ini masih bersemangat melayu lagi. Bahasa ini masih melayu lagi dan lidah noghori masih menjela-jela pekat lagi.
Tak macam buah cermai itu. Dia sudah menjadi Belanda. Merah bukan kuning lagi. Dia sudah lupa asal usulnya. Walaupun dia merah di luar tapi di dalam dia masih masam. Mana boleh hilang naruni seseorang yang ada di dalam? Bukan senang berpura-pura seumur hidup.
Sebenarnya cermai itu ada di kebun jahrera. Selama ini jahrera namakan aserola tapi rupanya orang melayu menamakannya sebagai cermai belanda.
Pohon Cermai Belanda
Lepas entri bunga kesum di bawah itu, ada kawan nun jauh mengajar jahrera masak nasi kerabu dengan irisan daun kesum. Jahrera cubalah cara yang diajarkan. Sedap sangat. Tiga hari jahrera makan nasi kerabu seorang diri.
Tentang baja asli untuk daun kesum itu, kalau tak jadi subur macam dalam gambar jahrera itu, jangan salahkan takdir atau jangan salahkan jahrera atau jangan salahkan kesum itu. Sebenarnya blogawan budiman kena tahu terlebih dahulu kandungan kimia dalam tanah sendiri. Kalau tanah itu tanah liat bermakna lebih bahan alkali dan air kencing yang banyak mengandungi bahan asid akan mengimbangkan kandungan kimia dalam tanah tersebut.
Jadi kalau tanah itu sudah mengandungi bahan asid dari asal, janganlah ditambah lagi dengan air kencing. Itu sudah melebihi paras asid dan mungkin kesum mendapat keracunan asid dengan air kencing itu. Berwaspadalah wahai blogawan.
Jangan kencing sebarangan sebelum mengetahui keadaan yang sebenar terlebih dulu.
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