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I do love my Malaysian food roots.  By the way, as per previous post, I'm linking to this post because the promotion thingo isn't cooperating. 

But this time it's for the benefit of my sweet mum-in-law who recently visited Malaysia but didn't get the opportunity to taste much of the real hawker food she had been craving.  I know she'll enjoy the numerous photos and culinary travels in EatingAsia ..

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hey ML...tried to 'promote' this article out of the feed onto my front page so it would be easily find-able for you guys...but the back-end is refusing to cooperate with me.  So here we are with the stone-age version: Cheap and authentic Malaysian eateries in London as recommended by Banana Tikka Masala!

My second entry to EatStuff's Weekend Cat Blogging event.. which is slightly on cloud 9 at the moment as Casey's just proposed to Clare in a romantic beach & restaurant event..full marks Casey!!

So, in honour of the happy couple...this WCB entry is titled:

How to treat your beloved...with love from Indie & Neo..

Cultivate being blissed out just by being together...

Tonight (or more correctly, last night) was a special family & friends dinner with Cici, Yih Sing koko, Steven, Matthew, Amy, Andre, Euge, Brendan, Yeow Cheen, Kylie, Hanna, Joshua (18months), Kar Miau, Cyril, Kirsten, Kathleen, Bee Ling cici, Sa-Ku, Sa-Kim, Si-Ku, Mum and Dad (and me, of course).

Here we are:




Si-Ku has consented to show us all how to make that tricky cake, the pandan-flavoured chiffon cake.  Foodie.tv was well prepared for this event and video-ed it all...but that's another post for another day.  First came DINNER.

The Sacla sauce label says that the sauce should be finished within 2 weeks of opening.  That's an awfully long time isn't it?

Funny, usually you have a huge bottle of something or other (hmm...examples...errr....ahah!  Miso paste! Tom yum paste!  Seeni sambol!) ..

So, as I was saying: Usually you have a huge bottle of something or other that seems to cry out every time you open the fridge door; "When will I have my turn in the spotlight again?"

Surely my humble kitchen is not the only one in the land with a million interesting bottles in the fridge that need polishing off?

If you juggle the usual combination of work, housekeeping, social rounds, family and volunteer commitments, then you've probably needed to resort to takeaway lunches more often than is strictly desirable.. sound familiar? 

I go pretty easy on myself and just take the opportunity to invent weird combinations which can come together to give me the easiest lunch options possible while being hopefully tasty, nutritious and cost effective. 

Last grocery shopping trip included the following:
Tipiak 500g pack plain couscous
Tipiak 2x100g pack Provence style couscous

Yum...  Oz has heaps of offerings in these two categories, I'm sure, but the photos still make me want to munch (or slurp) on them...

ML - I wonder if these are close to you!
http://bananaasian.blogspot.com/2006/04/flat-white-cafe.html
http://bananaasian.blogspot.com/2006/04/nahm.html

If you go, send some photos!.. which reminds me, thanks for the video and photos from your phone!

Am currently in Warrnambool having visited Timboon Farmhouse Cheese on the way today, and going past CheeseWorld (tourist shop!)tomorrow on the way to another dairy factory.  What an interesting life!

Saw  an old episode of Surfing the Menu on the ABC while having dinner.  One of the segments showcased a biodynamic goat cheese farm/factory in Western Australia...the camera lingered lovingly on the vat of fresh goats' milk, the pail of curd, and the gentle scoops of curd into those white plastic moulds where the whey will gently stream out of the curd overnight.  How lucky am I to see all this in real life! 

Hah..as my feed aggregator wasn't working this early in April, I missed this article by Grab your fork  which adds (I think) to the extensive list put together by tomatom  ...so this is a bookmark to remind me to keep adding more feeds ... ahh, my private foodie channel.. I've had so much fun tonite!!

Wheee!!  I can finally click through to the actual websites on my BlogRoundUp!!  And, to celebrate, if paradoxically, here's the link I've been trying to read for ages... Pekan Sehari 

But, speaking about the post above....Oh! Oh!  Check out the real satay!!  Not the fried stuff you find in Oz, but the real charcoal grilled stuff, PLUS  ketupat (waalll..the modern version of ketupat, that is.. hehe...I wonder if anybody makes ketupat the old fashioned way anymore.  To think, we might be the last generation to have seen traditional ketupat with our own eyes..)