GULAI AYAM MINANG

I used to follow my dad to his orchard.

We used to ride his bike for 20 plus minutes through old Sungai Petani, industrial areas, rubber plantation, across a railway bridge and I would stuck my hands into his waistband to keep from falling off the bike.

I remember the hills that we had to ride through were quite high, but they're really not. I guess being a kid makes everything seemed bigger.

The motorcycle ride through the rubber plantation was particularly hard when it rained. We almost fell quite a few time as it was muddy and the red soil eroded into holes along the way.

I also remember we used to stop by two restaurants around Padang Serai-Kedai makan Azmi  Nasi Campur and the Mamak Restaurant with fish tanks that had arapaimas and a beautiful Kaloi Sabah (Red Giant Gourami)- this fuelled my interest in exotic fish. 

There used to be stall selling sugarcane juice and a nice pulut udang stall as well.

In the early 80s, one pack of Nasi Kandar with fried chicken, Daging Masak Hitam, some fried chicken offals with Teh Ais was less than RM2 and 1 pack of cigarettes was RM1.10. Life was different.

Back to Kedai Makan Azmi.

When we stop for food at Kedai Makan Azmi, we usually buy this really thin but yet rich chicken curry with reddish oil sheen on top. The curry was usually prepared in a large tin pot and you pick the portion you want from the pot.

It was really good.

I was looking for the curry recipe ever since. As we have many different kind of curries... It took me quite a long time and then I got lucky online.

So here is... Gulai Ayam Minang.

1/2 Chicken

Curry Paste (yields two portions)

10 red onions/bawang merah*
8 cloves Garlic/bawang putih *
1 inch Ginger/halia*
1 inch Galangal/lengkuas*
1 inch Turmeric/kunyit*
3 candlenut / buah keras*
2 lemongrass/serai*

1 tsp coriander powder/serbuk ketumbar*
5 kaffir leaves/ daun limau purut*

20 dried chilli /cili kering or *
100gms chili paste/cili boh*

1/2 tbsp salt/garam*
1/2 tbsp sugar*
1/2 tbsp palm sugar *

*blend everything and use 3-4 tbsp of the paste for 1/2 a chicken.

3 tbsp coconut milk (for sautéing)
1/2 cup coconut milk

3 tamarind slices/asam keping

1 cup water

Method:

Clean Chicken and cut to pieces.

Fry 3 tbsp coconut milk until oil separates and Sautée *blended ingredients.

Fry until oil separates. 

Add chicken. Fry until chicken turns grey. Add water. Add tamarind slices.

Boil until chicken is almost done. Add coconut milk and let simmer.

Add salt and sugar according to taste.

Done. ✌️😁✌️

Scandal Pix Series

Re-posted Daymn links not working...

I'm still so into cam-whoring with a twist.

4. Orgy

3. Brothers chatting.

3. Brotherly Love.
2. The Morning After : Breakfast for 2.

1. Alone

I'm Awake: Let's Make Bengkang Teloq

When one is craving for something not too sweet...  We make Caramel Custard!

Ingredients

3 pcs white bread
3 eggs
1/3 can sweetened condensed milk
1/3 can water
1/3 tspn vanilla extract
1 tbsp sugar (caramelized)
Salt

Method

Blend bread with sweetened condensed milk and water. Add eggs, vanilla extract and salt.

Prepare caramelized sugar with water in heat proof container.

Pour in the bread mixture.  Steam for 20 minutes. Let custard cool and refrigerate.

My Weird Fish Story

Warning: Long fish rant, below.

A few days back I came home to find my South American Lungfish half floating and bent and all of his/her long fins eaten by shrimp... It was stuck between the intake pump to the side-hanging box filter.

I thought it was gone which was such a pity as I reared this fish from 4 inches to 13 inches in 8 months.

I scooped it up and thought to myself that I'd let it die peacefully in a floating basket in my longnose Gar rearing tank.

It lay there half submerged and the skin that was exposed to air dried. I swear my house stank of dead fish the night I came back late but it was late and I decided that maybe I'll get rid of it tomorrow. That didn't happened as I woke up late.

I spent the whole day thinking about contacting the fish shop to bring in some more South American Lungfish and thinking about my dead lungfish at home.

When I came back that day, I saw the lungfish motionless and it was light grey and very pale so I thought it was dead... I scooped it and it swam away...

It was not dead. Or it might have died and came back to life.

It has happened before. 

The end.