Foochow and my culture

Gez has been curious about my culture since we met. He even went to search all about Foochow culture and even back in Ancient China. Well I'm not really know in detail about Foochow culture, so here I'm just gonna post some of the favourite foochow food that grew up with me in Sarikei. As requested by Gez my fiance :P

Tien Pien Hu : Tien Pien Hu is neither noodle nor porridge,it is made of rice starch. The way they prepare this dish is unique too.

Pre-prepared meat bone soup is poured into a heated wok. Then cooking oil is applied to the side of the wok followed by scoopes of rice starch solution which must be layered very thinly on the side of the wok. Repeat the applying cooking oil step before removing the almost cooked rice starch from the side of the wok. Continue boiling the whole thing and throw in some black fungus, salt, fishballs, vei chin, just to name a few, to give superb taste to the special dish.

I've been eating this since I was young, and when I was out market buy veggies and meat with my mum in Sarikei when I was in highschool. Mum intro that to me :). It costs less than RM 1 since I can rmbr it.

Kompia:

the kom pias were stuck into the walls of charcoal oven.

Kom Pia. I've been eating these since I was a baby. These are my dad's favourite too. So you can guess who intro that to me :). I still rmbr we (me and all my sisters) used to eat that in Bintangor, the best kompia made in the universe!

Foochow/Fuzhou Fried Noodle. My dad can cook that mee very well

Mee sua and chicken meat in foochow fermented wine.

Evolution took place. Kompia with pork meat :).

Chow Chai Mee Fern. Again, my dad can cook that extremely well for breakkie :)

Foochow preserved vegetables

Chicken Soup Mee Sua make their appearances in almost all occasions big and small, from childbirths and confinements, 1-year-old to 99-year old birthdays, and on weddings, and on my birthday.

Oh well, that's the most common foochow food that I can show you. Anyway have fun people :). Will be back again.

Misses

I miss Melbourne.
I miss the weather.
I miss the friendly people.
I miss Tjanabi restaurant.
I miss Pussy the cat

Most importantly,

I miss Gez.

I wish...

I really wish...

Tjanabi, Melbourne

MELBOURNE HERE I COME!!! :))

Federation Square!

Beautiful Yarra River :)

Tjanabi!!

Tjanabi fine dining restaurant belongs to G my fiance and his family. Tjanabi means to celebrate in Aborigine language. They serve only all Australian cuisine and ingredients (kangaroo, crocodile, and so forth), so you know how special it is. (website: http://www.tjanabi.com.au/, the website is still under contruction :). Latest news, Tjanabi works together with Malaysia Tourism now! Hehe feels so much like home haha.

Gorgeous pic (stolen lol)

The inside

Can be as busy as like this!

Some of the food

Wines! Red wine, white wine, green wine, blue wine.....


the outside

After work

After helping out in the Kitchen as the helper, it's wine time!! I can only drink 1 glass, if more, I will be drunk like hell lol. G can drink up to bottles crazy. Good to keep my body warm. FYI, I still dont like alcohol, but apparently it's a must to like them G said -_-. So yea, I'm still learning.

After that, I got drunk sigh

After that, home :)

Didnt take much photos tho coz my cam sux and Im pretty lazy to take duh. Next time will try to take more. I miss Melbourne, I miss my fiance, I miss eating at his restaurant, I miss helping out in the kitchen, and I miss going work with G :). It was fun. Will be back again soon :).Anyway, will update again more about Melbourne my favourite city :)

Onge is here in Singapore!

Oh an old pic LOL

ONGE!

Her new dress. J did her some portraits!!

My new dress! K til next time bye!

Satisfaction :)

Lau Pa sat our fav food court LOL

We ate satay and shit

Superlove the hotel (15 minutes walk to work) and casino beside it haha. And oh I heart my new cam, that's why I make full use of it hehe.

POOL I love swimming but cannot swim



Last pic before he flied off to Melb :(

Anyway work has been fun, the ward I work in and the people I work with are just amazing :). Anyway just wanna say even if you are in higher position, you still need to treat everyone like your colleagues and not your workers. You just gonna make yourself suffer if you misuse you power.

I superlove the staff there :). Thank god for everything. :D

Ps: Onge is coming down to Singapore tonight!! Gonna bring her to Geylang to eat and see some hookers haha

Crab

Gez has had craving for Singapore chilli crab since like forever. So last night we went for some seafood at Jumbo! After that we had some drinks at Highlander. I like that place coz the band is so cool :). Ok til nex time gotta rest now

I cried for you

I'm attached in the ward specialised in Neurology, I don't normally talk about my work, partly I'm not allowed to,but there's a patient who's really got into my heart, make me think how short life is, and how fortunate I am, just to be a person.

He fell down from 8 metres height, while working at construction site. His wife, kids and family is in China, but they abandoned him, not knowing what to do.

When I first saw him (he's ody there for more than a month), part of his head is sunken, of which part of the skull was taken out, ugly appearance that actually, did scared me abit. He smiled at me, then he put his head down onto the cardiac table. He didn't really got my attention, but every single time I looked at him and he looked back, he would smile at me, and nodding his head, every single time.

He is very cooperative, listen to everything that you asked him to. He always tried to drink his food, from a bowl, without using any spoon or fork. When you laugh, he laughs louder. He talks, but you cant understand him, except the words that he always said, hau de (alright), hau de, hau de.

I helped him showered most of my mornings in the ward. His skinny body make me sad, wondering is he always this skinny in his life? It must be the accident. It must be.

I asked if he's married, if he got kids, he couldnt answer me but smiled. Normally he would laugh if you ask him any other questions. I felt the pain.

The fall affected his brain, his body, his mind, his life, his personalities, everything. Who are you when you lost your soul? When you no longer know what is life? This guy came to singapore to work just to send money back China for his beloved wife and kids, so that they will have better life. Just in a blink of the eyes, everything changed. He's alone now. Sooner or later singapore will send him back to China. And only nursing homes there will take him. He will be alone, without any family with him.

For some, life can be difficult. For most of us, life is a bless. We need to be grateful just to be alive, just to be able to appreciate the beauty of something. When there's somebody loves you, you are happy. I've learned that. Every morning I woke up happy thinking that so many people that loves me, my life is good.