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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Cari Makan @ Sarikei - Coconut Jelly


Coconut Jelly
RM5/-

@

Gloria Cafe
Jalan Bank, Sarikei



Friday, January 24, 2014

Cari Makan @ Sarikei : Wharf Road


在砂朥越,我们超越了1Malaysia。一家人里有华、巫、伊、意人。亦有回教、佛教、天主教、基督教徒共一屋檐下。

在这土地上,咖啡店里也是各族各样的人聚集的地方。泗里街的海唇街益星咖啡店就是这么的一个地方。老板是华人,面点师傅是巫裔妇女,伙计是伊班女子,关顾的客人们都是大地的儿女们。这里没有敏感课题、没有种族纠纷、没有宗教限制;这里有的是:






烤面包





Sarawak Laksa





牛肉卤面

















益星
Aik Seng
21 Wharf Road

Friday, January 17, 2014

Cari Makan @ Kampung Baru Puchong - 酿豆腐 #2


这是驰名远近的蒲种新村酿豆腐饭店,就在汉民华小对面。到了华小,肯定不会错过!!!








比较隔壁的蒲种酿豆腐饭店,味道差不多。江鱼仔汤底加大白菜,酿料也是现酿、现炸。不过等待的过程就太久了点。 



Sunday, January 5, 2014

Cari Makan @ Kampung Baru Puchong - 酿豆腐 #1

谈起酿豆腐,人人都遥指安邦 ( Ampang ) 。安邦酿豆腐固然香飘十里,简简单单的家常菜能在市场上独树一帜,独成一格,实在难得 。其实安邦 ( Ampang ),沙登 ( Serdang ) 和蒲种 ( Puchong ) 都是客家人的据地,有客家人的地方,就肯定有酿豆腐。而三地的酿豆腐都闻名远近。论味, 各有长短,加上人各有所长,实在难分春秋。

今有幸到蒲种14里新村汉民华小 ( SJK(C) Han Ming ) 附近品尝久违的蒲种釀豆腐。


鲜料
现釀
现炸,现煮




蒲种的釀豆腐,不是预先炸好了的,而是现釀现炸,新鲜十足。选好釀料后交给厨房釀鱼泥,然后就直接下锅油炸,再经汤煮沸,另免费加料版面菜 ( Sauropus andrygynus )

清、香、甜、鲜聚于一碗,好吃!



蒲种酿豆腐饭店
Puchong Yong Tau Fu
11am - 9:30pm
星期一休息
(若星期一公共假期照常营业,补星期二休息)

Friday, December 27, 2013

柿子 Persimmon

柿子 ( Diospyros kaki ) 原产于中国,栽培已有一千多年的历史。栽培品种约有900个以上。柿属植物全世界约有400种,其中中国有64种。

柿子有养肺胃、清燥火的功效。可以补虚、解酒、止咳、利肠、除热、止血,还可充饥。柿饼具有涩肠、润肺、止血、和胃等功效。  脾胃消化功能正常的人适合食用。

柿子的营养成分十分丰富,与苹果相比,成分均是柿子占优。柿子还有一个特点就是含碘 ( Iodin ) ,所以因缺碘引起的地方性甲状腺肿大患者,食用柿子很有帮助。



* value per 100g

Nutrients
unit
persimmon
apple
Proximates



Water
g
80.32
85.56
Energy
kcal
70
52
Protein
g
0.58
0.26
Total lipid (fat)
g
0.19
0.17
Carbohydrate
g
18.59
13.81
Fiber, total dietary
g
3.6
2.4
Sugars, total
g
12.53
10.39
Minerals



Calcium, Ca
mg
8
6
Iron, Fe
mg
0.15
0.12
Magnesium, Mg
mg
9
5
Phosphorus, P
mg
17
22
Potassium, K
mg
161
107
Sodium, Na
mg
1
1
Zinc, Zn
mg
0.11
0.04
Vitamins



Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid
mg
7.5
4.6
Thiamin
mg
0.03
0.017
Riboflavin
mg
0.02
0.026
Niacin
mg
0.1
0.091
Vitamin B6
mg
0.1
0.041
Folate, DFE
µg
8
3
Vitamin B12
µg
0
0
Vitamin A, RAE
µg
81
3
Vitamin A, IU
IU
1627
54
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)
mg
0.73
0.18
Vitamin D ( D2 + D3 )
µg
0
0
Vitamin D
IU
0
0
Vitamin K ( phylloquinone )
µg
2.6
2.2
Lipids



Fatty acids, total saturated
g
0.02
0.028
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated
g
0.037
0.007
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated
g
0.043
0.051
Cholesterol
mg
0
0
source : USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference






食用功效

性味:味甘、涩,性寒。
归经:归肺经。
功能:清热去燥、润肺化痰、软坚、止渴生津、健脾、治痢、止血。
主治:慢性支气管炎、高血压、动脉硬化、内外痔疮患者的天然保健食品。可以缓解大便干结、痔疮疼痛或出血、干咳、喉痛、高血压等症。
柿子叶子煎服或冲开水当茶饮,也有促进机体新陈代谢、降低血压、增加冠状动脉血流量及镇咳化痰的作用。



食用禁忌

1、空腹不能吃柿子。
因柿子含有较多的鞣酸 ( Tannin ) 及果胶 ( Pectin ),在空腹情况下它们会在胃酸的作用下形成大小不等的硬块( persimmon bezoars / diospyrobezoars ),如果这些硬块不能通过幽门到达小肠,就会滞留在胃中形成胃柿石,小的胃柿石最初如杏子核,但会愈积愈大。如果胃柿石无法自然被排出,那么就会造成消化道梗阻,出现上腹部剧烈疼痛、呕吐、甚至呕血等症状。

2、柿子皮不能吃。
有的人感到吃柿子的同时咀嚼柿子皮比单吃柿子更有味道,其实这种吃法是不科学的。因为柿子中的鞣酸绝大多数集中在皮中,在柿子脱涩时,不可能将其中的鞣酸全部脱尽,如果连皮一起吃更容易形成胃柿石,尤其是脱涩工艺不完善时,其皮中含的鞣酸更多。

3、不要与含高蛋白的蟹、鱼、虾等食品一起吃。
中医学中,螃蟹与柿子都属寒性食物,故而不能同食。从现代医学的角度来看,含高蛋白的蟹、鱼、虾在鞣酸的作用下,很易凝固成块,即胃柿石。

4、糖尿病人勿食。
柿子中因含10.8%的糖类,且大多是简单的双糖和单糖(蔗糖、果糖、葡萄糖),因此吃后很易被吸收,使血糖升高。对于糖尿病人而言,尤其是血糖控制不佳者更是有害的。

5、吃后不可喝凉水。



相克食物 

1、不宜与鸡蛋、鹅肉、螃蟹、酸菜、黑枣 ( Diaspyros lotus )、甘薯( Ipomoea batatas )、红果 ( Crataegus pinnatifida )共同食。  

2、食柿子后不可食醋、白酒。 

Monday, December 23, 2013

Cempedak Seeds - A Rare Delicacy

Unknown to most, the seeds of cempedak  ( Artocarpus integer ) is a rare delicacy .  It can be fried, boiled, grilled or toasted and then peeled and eaten as snack.  The taste is similar to chestnut, but less sweet and less fragrant.

It is however less favourable by most people maybe due to the way the seeds are obtained. 

A cempedak fruit is normally sold whole, rarely cut.   It is often consumed fresh straightway, or made into fritters.  Normally,  a fruit contain some 20 – 50 edible arils, so a whole cempedak is usually too much for a person to consume.  Even though keeping for later consumption is possible, but not for very long time, thus a cempedak is often shared with family and friends. 

During a typical cempedak-eating session, friends/family will gather around the cempedak.  Everyone, using their hand will help themselves with the arils.  After consuming the aril, the seeds are discarded.   The seeds are therefore, will be covered by everyone's saliva. 

Or, if one bought some cempedak fritters for own consumption ( to avoid cross-salivation ), the seeds are too few for all the trouble of long hour cooking.  Not economically feasible at all. 

The seeds are of course washed before cooked.  But the fact they were salivated by others impedes some to consume, or having the though to consume the seeds…  ( but the civet coffee are very much sought after.  They don’t have problem paying for a highly priced civet coffee, of which the beans were collected from civet’s feces )( or consuming the expensive ebn from the saliva of swifts birds )

It often require a long time to have the seeds cooked.   Once cooked, the skin had to be painstakingly removed.  And the taste is somehow bland, in contrary to the odorous arils.   

Then, maybe you wander from where I get my cempedak seeds.  Who had salivated them ?  

Well, I can tell you…  I ate the whole fruit myself !




Thursday, November 14, 2013

Variant of Chicken Soup

There are a wide variety of chicken soups, every household have its own recipe, sometime not just one but few recipes, depending on the ingredients.


Major Ingredients ( which are compulsory for cooking chicken soup ) :
1. Chicken, be it thigh/wing/drumstick/breast, boneless, cut/uncut, with/without gizzard/heart/liver  etc
2. Ginger, old/young, sliced/julienne
3. Sesame seed oil ( other type of vegetable oil would be less desirable )


Additional Ingredients ( which are not necessary, but preferred, usually can be added in combination of ) :

a. other meat
1. pork lean meat/liver 猪肉/, or
2. fish maw 鱼漂, or
3. scallop 干贝

b. mushrooms
1. Shiitake mushroom 香菇 ( Lentinula edodes ), and/or
2. button mushroom  蘑菇 ( Agaricus bisporus ), and/or
3. Judas’ ear 黑木耳 ( Auricularia auricula-judae ), and/or
4. white fungus白木耳 ( Tremella fuciformis )

c. wine
1. Shaoxing Rice Wine绍兴酒, and
2. Hakka wine 客家黄酒 or
3. Foochow red wine 福州红酒鸡

d. Chinese herbs
1. American ginseng 泡 ( Panax quinquefolius ), or
2. Chinese angelica 当归 ( Angelica sinensis ), with
3. Chinese date ( Ziziphus zizyphus ) and/or
4. wolfberries 枸杞 ( Lycium chinensis )

e.tc


Chicken soup is best having with hot rice or meesua/any other type of noodles