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Bitter Gourd Soup 苦瓜排骨汤

May 2012, I am at Oregon, US now. Not come for travel, not come for work but I follow hubby for his 8 months relocation plan. Anyway, I just come for ~6months =)

Bitter guard soup is my first soup in my life. Kekek…I seldom cook at my home but here everyday I need to cook for a simple meal as consider quite expensive for us if everyday eat outside. I have no proper recipe on how to cook on the bitter guard soup..heheh…I just estimate the ingredients and follow my mummy’s step to have this soup =)

This is the dish that so far taste the best as my hubby always said my dishes only nice to see but taste no good L …yeah…finally….

Ingredients Used

- 1 bowl pork ribs (猪排骨)

- 1 bitter gourd (苦瓜一条)

- some carrots (红萝卜少许)

- 15 pitted red dates （红枣）

- some dried longan (actually the proper you can put honey dates) (龙眼肉)

- 1 tbsp wolfberries, soaked in water till puffy （杞子）

- sea salt (盐)

Steps

1. Wash and blanch pork ribs into boiling water for few minutes. This is to remove the scum so that it won’t make the soup too oily later.

2. Cut the bitter gourd into large chunks.

3. In a medium soup pot, add water and wait about half boil then add pork ribs, bitter gourd, red dates and carrots.

4. When the water comes to a boil, lower heat and simmer for about 50 minutes.

5. 5 minutes before you turn off the flame, I only add the soaked wolf-berries and season with salt.

6. Bitter guard soup is ready.

Bitter gourd tips:

1. Heard hubby mention that If wish to reduce the bitterness of the bitter gourd, you can rub some salt on the bitter gourd and rise off the salt with water before cooking. I did it too but when I taste the soup after simmering about 20 minutes, I still feel too bitter then I put 2 or 3 more of dried longan.

All the ingredients, all the portion I just estimate

Add water into a pot and bring to half boil, add all the ingredients


After simmering for about 50 minutes, seasoning with salt

Bitter gourd soup will help to improves acne problem.

Charlie Brown Cafe Malaysia at Straits Quay Penang

Charlie Brown Café was newly open at Straits Quay, Penang. I aware of this cafe through news papers and I can’t wait to go and visit the café as seem like very cutie café. However, I just wonder why the café name Charlie Brown instead of Snoopy? Hahaha…after that I only aware actually snoopy is a pet of Charlie Brown.

The interior design of Charlie Brown café was really impress me as it is fully decorated with all the Charlie Brown members who are Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, peanuts gang and etc. You can found all those cutie characters on the wall, celling, any corner of the café. Wah…after visit this café, I only aware there are so many members of Charlie Brown.

I can said that the environment is pretty nice and you will be like back to your childhood if you visit Charlie brown café. You’ll be excited to see all the cutie cartoon characters around you while having meal. However, personal opinion that the food is not really nice and is slightly expensive. If you are seek for yummy foods then I would not recommend Charlie Brown but if you’re seek for nice environment to have coffee and cakes for chit chatting, then Charlie Brown café might be your good choice.

Charlie Brown Cafe newly open at Straits Quay, Tanjung Bungah Penang

Interior Design of Charlie Brown. Fully decorated with Charlie Brown Members...

Various type of cake

Creamy Seafood Pasta -- RM15.80

Is too creamy and taste is just so so...

Lucy Chicken Chop -- RM15.80

This is not nice as too dry and hard =(

Chicken Beagle Sandwich -- RM10.80

Among 3 main course, I feel sandwich is the best...heheh

Banana + Berries Smoothie -- RM15

Green Tea -- RM6

Coffee Latte Hot -- RM9.50

I like this as there is a cutie LUCY VAN PELT on top of the coffee =)

Charlie's Tiramisu --RM12

This is so yummy... should try...

CHARLIE BROWN CAFE
3A-1-17 & 3A-1-18,
Straits Quay Marina Mall,
Jalan Seri Tanjung Pinang 3,
10470 Tanjong Bungah, Penang

Tel: 04-899 8602 ‎

SIGI's Bar & Grill on the beach, Penang

Hihi...I am back to my blog. Feel so sorry about my blog here, such a long time I never update it anymore. Recently I felt I very busy but not sure what I busy with? Work? Personal stuff? Family? Wah…seem like all also have…hahaha…no wonder I have no time to update. Let me update my valentine’s 2011 celebration SIGI’s Bar & Grill, Golden Sands Resort Penang.

SIGI’s Bar & Grill is a cozy and nice restaurant located at Golden Sands Resort, Batu Feringgi. There have a romantic area with the windy sea scenery or you may choose to sit inside with the cozy and relax environment. I went during Valentine’s day 2011 but at 15 Feb but I already forgot what’s the reason behind that we choose to celebrate 1 day delay but is good as it avoid crowded anywhere.

Overall food is nice but it might slightly expensive but the environment is really nice.

SIGi's Bar & Grill on the beach located at Golden Sands hotel, Batu Feringgi, Tanjung Bungah Penang

Very nice environment with blue color....I like it so much =)

Red Wine for two....should rm25 each, can't really remember the price.

Steam Bread as starter. Is free....

Pan-Fried Cod --RM65 with crushed new potatoes, pistachio aioli and fennel and caper salad

Roasted Chicken Breast --RM42 Garlic and Oregano sausage, saute spinach and burnt sage butter with mashed potato

The Bombe -- Rm23 Mango sorbet, white chocolate parfait, Italian meringue and pine nuts. It looks like not really nice but when try, the taste actually quite good and special

SIGI’s Bar and Grill On The Beach
Shangri-La’s Golden Sands Resort
Batu Feringgi Beach
11100 Penang
Malaysia

Business Hours : 10am – 1am
Breakfast on weekends and public holidays from 8am to 11.30am
Lunch : 12 noon – 3pm
Pool Snacks Menu : 3pm – 6pm
Dinner : 6.30pm – 10.30pm

Tel : 04 886 1852

01012011 新的一年 2011

So fast 2010 past for nearly a months already. Few days later, will be Chinese New Year. Wish all Happy Chinese New Year and All the best. 新年快乐，事事顺利。。。

How do you do with the New Year? Great celebration? Good start? I had celebrated and welcome come NewYear -- 2011 with all my lovely friends. To avoid the traffic jam, Fern had suggested we have gathering and pork luck at her house. Every time I also very hard to think a food to bring but this time I have a nice food which is dumpling (sui gao). Hahaha…is sell by Fern’s mum. Her mum’s sui gao very nice and all my friends like it too hence should be a good choice for me =)

Again, wish all my friends good luck and all the best in NewYear 2011. New Year, new dream with new&great achievement…heheheh…

This is what I mention just now, yummy dumpling (Sui Gao) located at Air Putih, Air Itam. Just at corner hawker center (Keat Seng). She selling Wan Tan Mee with Sui gao. Fern, correct me if I am wrong for the location...heheh...

The dumpling cost RM0.90 each, size is big enough as the spoon. You can just eat without soup, nice too

Or with soup, for me I like with soup but my colleagues like without soup one...

The dumpling have a very translucent layer of skin as compared to those sold elsewhere. A cut piece of it reveals the succulent filling of prawns and lean meat. This dumpling is subtly flavored with the additional spring onion and carrot slice

Home cook mee teow from chee's mum. Nice too, maybe can have her mum prepare again for next gathering...hehehe

Balacan Fried Chicken. Bought from fern at Relau but exact location not too sure.

Hmmmm...this one not so nice. Maybe fern keep for too long already

Poh Piah and Satay bought from Kim at New lane. Satay is yummy...

Really wish to have more such gathering again. As recently all also got their stuff to busy with, really hard to have a gathering if compare to last time...

Happy Chinese New Year in advance =)

TANG Steamboat Restaurant Penang

So sad that recently all my post was so out date, really don’t have the free time to upload my food blog on time. This is about Leng’s birthday celebration. We celebrated her birthday on Oct’10 at Tang Steamboat & BBQ Restaurant which located at Rangoon Road, Penang. It is not like our normal steamboat as is quite special in term of food type and soup.

There is offer either buffet style or ala carte meal. Of cause, we took the “All You Can Eat Buffet” which cost just RM22 net per person which includes variety of seafood, meat, side dishes and some of famous Taiwanese’s food like Chao Tofu.

Overall, food is consider nice as able to try out some special dishes and the soup is yummy too. However, service slightly slow, maybe just have 2 person to manage the shop and 1 minor point to highlight here is they keep inform us that it will be penalty if wasted. We pretty aware that wasted is a bad habit and it is strictly not allow but they keep inform us about that, it will become very irritating. Every time when we wish to add on our order, they will ask “are you sure you can finish, it will be penalty if wasted”. haih...

Tang Steamboat located at Rangoon Road, Penang

The environment of TANG. Is cozy and nice place

This is what I mention that they keep mention to customers that will be charge if wasted.

Our Yummy Steamboat...

Minced Pork served with eggs & Fish Glue. These 2 home style dish are nice and delicious. We need to spoonful it ourselves into the soup. Simply yummy...