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Chulet’s Stir Fry Pumpkin and Pork Strip

19 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Found one really beautiful and pretty pumpkin the other day in Village grocer. Couldn’t help myself and bought the whole thing. Hehehe… hubby was shocked and asked if we could finish it?! Poor hub must be thinking he’ll have pumpkin for every meal for a week.

The staff there nicely helped me to quartered and packed each of the pumpkin slices (easier for storage and cooking later). The whole pumpkin cost about RM 37.

For the first quarter (which was the smallest one), I decided to use it for stir-fry. And since I have some pork, I decided to have that together. So, this was an experiment and I did forewarn hub that he was going to be a guinea pig.

Ingredients
  • ¼ Pumpkin finely sliced into strips
  • 150gm thinly sliced tenderloin pork
  • 4 cloves garlic (sliced) 
Marinate for the pork (5 minutes),
  • 1 tsp Oyster sauce
  • ½ tsp Soya sauce
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • ½ tsp sesame oil
  • ½ tsp Corn flour
  • Sprinkle over some Salt and pepper

Heat the pan fry with some oil, throw in the pumpkin strips and cook till soft (maybe about 5 minutes). Lift from pan into a bowl / plate.

Sauté the garlic till slightly golden, add the marinated pork strips. Remember to cook the pork really well (it is not good to eat uncooked pork).

Once it’s done, add back the pumpkin and fry it a bit. Close it with a lid and allow is to simmer for 2-3 minutes in low fire. And it’s done. Easy… only took me about 15 minutes to cook this.

Served really well with rice. Enjoy !!! (Hubby LOVES it. Yay !!! experiment success)

 

Restaurant Tak Kee – Gohtong Jaya, Malaysia

13 Wednesday Jun 2012

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The weather is so hot lately that I was half tempted to head to Gohtong Jaya just for lunch. You can enjoy relatively nice cooling breeze there as Gohtong Jaya is halfway up to Genting Highlands. Sometimes at night, it can go down to about 12~14 degree (especially when it rains). Tak Kee is one of hub’s and our friends’ favourite place to eat in Gohtong Jaya.

Crispy Pork in thick sauce. The pork is sliced thinly and fried until crispy. Then, stir fry with caramelized black sauce until it gives the pork a thin sticky layer. Yumzz… Usually, we (group of about 6 person) can easily finish 2 orders of this!!!

Stir Fry Brinjal (Aubergine) with dried prawns. This is my favourite. (salivating…)

Steam Soon Hock (Marbled Goby) with soya sauce. It’s very fresh because most of the Soon Hock in Genting is alive (i.e. swimming in the tank before being consumed). I heard that there’s a pond in Genting which rear this particular fish. The last time we had it (which is around end 2011) it was priced at about RM 120/kg. I think the fish we had was about 1.5 kg or slightly less than that.

Crispy frog with ginger. You would have thought the frog is the main dish here. But I think in this case, it is definitely the ginger. I love the way they manage to make the ginger so..so..sooo crispy that it felt like we were chewing into chips. This was the first time we tried this. Definitely yumzZz.. but we felt the poor frog was a little wasted to eat this way. Perhaps the next time, we should just order crispy ginger. Heehehee…

Lala (clam) in superior soup. The lala was really fresh and plump (It’s not the normal flat small type… kind of remind me of the Aussie’s pipi). Personally, I find this is the best way to prepare fresh lala. Any other way always seems to cover the fresh lala taste and you end up eating the sauce instead.

Claypot Druken Prawn in Glass Noodle. All time favourite whenever we are in Tak Kee. The prawns are always fresh and it really helps to heat up your body from the tons of wine and ginger they used. Lucky the weather is so nice and cooling there. I can’t imagine eating this somewhere hot. Probably sweat like mad.

Stir Fry Potato leaves. Normal dish. Nothing to rave about. But, feel the need to have at least one plate of green after all the ‘fatty’ food we eat.

Wow.. the 6 of us actually finish all these and double portion of the crispy pork somemore. Scary.

Restoran Tak Kee
No. 52 & 53, Jalan Jati 1, 
Gohtong Jaya,
Genting Highlands

Restaurant Le Festival de la Mer – Juan les Pins, Antibes

24 Thursday May 2012

Posted by in France, Gastronomy, Oversea Restaurants, Travel

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Juan Les Pins is a really beautiful little seaside town at the southeastern France, on the Côte d’Azur (between Nice and Cannes). During the summer, this town is pack with tourist. On the winter however, it’s a different story. Most of the shops were close and this makes it hard to locate good restaurant at night. But, I love the peaceful and quiet pace during winter in Juan-Les-Pins.

It really lovely to take a nice long stroll along the beach after dinner while enjoying the cold air. Hub likes it because he claims it’s the only exercise I do. hahaha..

Restaurant le Festival de la Mer is one of my favorite place to go for dinner here. Main Reason, I LOVE seafood !!! And if you are in a seaside town, how can you not have seafood, right? Second Reason, I love the friendly services here. Not to mention, they have english menu ! hehehee…

Ta – Da !!! Look at the huge seafood platter for 2 !!! yum yum yum… it’s so fresh and you can practically taste the sea.

We ordered a Rosé (Chateau de Roquefeuille) to go with our meal… love it. very nice after taste and went really well with the seafood.

Hub ordered the parma ham savings with rock melon. It was really good. 

And also ordered Spaghetti alla vongole and Lamb with french bean.

By then, we were so stuff we couldn’t possibly try the desserts.

Sorry for the poor quality in pictures as I only use my phone camera.

Please check out their website for more details and clearer pictures. (btw, I just check their website and found that the menu is slightly different from when we ate there. Maybe they change seasonally ?)

Le Festival de la mer
146, bd Président Wilson
06160 – Antibes Juan Les Pins
Tél : 04 93 61 04 62
contact@restaurant-festivaldelamer.com