Wholemeal Flour Instant Noodles

This is Baby's first bowl of instant noodles with my mil's homemade fish balls, eggs and veggie, minus the seasoning. I seasoned her bowl of noodles with sesame seed oil and Bragg's liquid amino acid.

Baby's 2 jie jies are crazy over instant noodles but I hardly ever cook instant noodles for them. Even if I buy instant noodles for the kids, I only buy those that are supposedly MSG-free and noodles that are made from wholemeal flour, spinach or soy bean flour. You can check out Cintan's MSG-free instant noodles. They are made from wholemeal flour or soy bean flour.

Fruits Galore For Breakfast

I bought over RM60 worth of fruits from the night market last night. They include our favorite jackfruit, pineapple, papayas, mangoes, duku langsat, oranges, kiwi fruits and red dragon fruits. This morning, the girls had local fruits for breakfast - jackfruit, mangoes and duku langsat.






Alycia enjoying her local fruits delight while reading the newspapers!

Did I tell you that Baby is not a fan of fruits and the few fruits that she would eat are durians, mangoes, oranges (would only eat if it's really sweet and juicy) and red dragon fruits? Give her papaya, she would feign vomitting again *slap forehead*

Sunnies Crazed Girl

Here's another sunglasses craze little girl. This Baby really loves her sunglasses, even as a baby. I remember that her sunnies brought a ray of sunshine to her when she was in the hospital after her surgeries last year.

And her daddy always gives in to her request and had to date bought her 3 sunnies!

Sleep Deprieved

Ever since Alycia started attending primary school this year, she has been really sleep-deprieved. She goes to bed at 9pm (sometimes at 8:30pm) everynight and has to wake up latest by 6am the next day. Though she naps for 1-2 hours every afternoon, this girl is still not getting enough shut eye. She is one fler who needs lots of sleep, even as a baby. But not for Sherilyn, who is perpetually bursting with energy and doesn't fall sleepy easily.


Alycia was waiting for her mah mah to bring her out one Saturday evening and she dozed off on the chairs, with her hair still wet, after her shower. The outing was of course cancelled!

Easy-To-Fix Lunch

Whenever my mil bakes bread, my kids will have bread for lunch the next day. My mil bakes bread about twice in a week.

Here is Sherilyn's lunch - homemade marmalade jam bread (the bread is made with a bottle of marmalade jam) with mackeral fish on half a slice. The other half slice of bread is spread with her favorite kaya and topped with a slice of cheese.




Baby also ate half a slice of marmalade bread with cream cheese, a cup of chawan mushi (Japanese steamed egg) and soup of the day. Yup, she's a big fan of sunnies and refused to remove the sunnies when she ate her lunch *shake head*

Alycia's Science Experiment

This is one of Alycia first few Science experiments for Primary 1 kids in school. It was mine too exactly 30 years ago! I still remember very clearly seeing the bean start growing a white spot and then I saw the white spot sprouted into a stem and then leaves. Pretty exciting. I'm sure she will love Science but learning it in Mandarin? Freaks me out to the max as I know none of the terms in Mandarin, yikes!

Doughnut Craze

Hubby is a hardcore doughnut fan-see. Each time we pass a Big Apple or JCo doughnut stall, no matter how long the queue may be, he will join in the bee line craze by queueing up just to get half a dozen of those colorful, fanciful doughnuts. And he never finishes them. One third of what he buys always end up with our helper, who is the lucky beneficiary of those doughnuts.

Here, Sherilyn is digging into a doughnut heavily coated with thick dark chocolate, eeeeksss!! I HATE washing up and cleaning up the aftermath.



Me? I don't like these fanciful doughnuts laden with sugar, cream and coloring. I still prefer the good old plain traditional doughnuts sprinkled with fine castor sugar which I will only eat once in a blue moon. I still prefer those doughnuts sold by the ting ting roti man on a tricycle. It only cost 10 sen each back then. I used to love those doughnuts about 3 decades ago and I wonder if these rare breed are still around now.

Pork-Tofu Sheet-Dried Oyster Porridge

My mil cooked a pot of pork-foo choke-dried oysters porridge in a clay pot for lunch the other day. It was really delicious. Even for someone like me and Baby who dislike porridge found the porridge very tasty.

The pork that my mil used was called 'por jai yoke' (little ball meat) or 'loh see jai yoke'(baby rat meat) coz it's roundish in shape and very tender. This porridge is also suitable for toddlers.

PCOS Disorder

During the height of my PCOS disorder, I had a drawer filled with women vitamins and herbs to regulate my hormones / menses. Sadly, none of them proved effective and I had to go through the painful and invasive method of correcting the disorder. I went through an ovarian drilling procedure, where the doctor ‘drilled holes’ on both my ovaries with laser. That only provided relief for a short period. I believe I still have PCOS as I have not been getting my menses for 2 years now! They say that when you are still lactating, you will not get your menses but most of my friends who are still nursing their toddlers have already gotten their menses. I must pay a visit to my Ob&Gyn one day to have an ultrasound scan of my inner parts to see what’s going on inside there.

Blackheads No More

I used to have a lot of blackheads on my nose and was constantly getting rid of blackheads by scratching and peeling them. Sometimes, I would hurt my nose by making it bleed from all the peeling. Ever since I started a daily exercise regime, those blackheads vanished and NEVER came back. Unbelievable but it’s true. Not only that. Those pimples that decorated by back never came back too. That’s one of the amazing benefits of exercising. So don’t give yourself anymore excuses to skip that morning jog or run on the treadmill.

Breaking The Self-Restraint Tonight

My weight dropped further lately due to my recent throat infection and cough. Being unwell, my appetite went down hill for more than a week. The only pro that I get from being unwell is that I don’t need weight loss products or appetite suppressants to help me shed the last two stubborn kilos. When you are unwell, you naturally lose appetite. I have not gorged on ice-creams, curry, snacks or any deep fried food stuff for more than a week now. But tonight, I will break the self-restraint as hubby is bringing all of us out for seafood to celebrate Mother’s Day! And there’s going to be a fattening white chocolate cake too!

Sweet Peanut Sauce Open Sandwich

Hubby bought some Kajang satay and was given a huge packet of satay sauce (made from peanuts, chilli paste and sugar). I love the sauce and the satay but dare not indulge in too much of BBQ meat. Did you know that burnt meat, especially those with black carbon are really damaging to your health and is carcinogenic (i.e. causes cancer) if eaten excessively? So these days, I try to avoid eating BBQ meat and meat in general so that my body is less acidic. Yup, meat causes acid built up, especially acid uric, which causes gout. Try to keep your body more alkaline and you'll feel healthy! You can read more on keeping the body alkaline for optimum health by googling on it. You'll find tons of websites offering info on this.

Anyway, back to the satay sauce. Since I just lurve the satay sauce, I spread some on a slice of homemade multigrain bread. It tasted superb, well at least for this health freak! I'll bet no one has tried eating satay sauce this way, eh?

My lunch - a slice of homemade multigrain bread (made of oat groats, wheat bran and olive oil) spread with satay sauce and 3 skewers of satay. Then downed a glass of lemon juice to neutralize the acid from the meat and peanuts.

Whatever Will Be Will Be

I always wonder what profession my girls will hold in future. Will one of them realize my very own childhood dream of becoming a flight stewardess? I actually got the job offer by an airlines company to be a flight stewardess but relinquished the offer and I still regret not accepting this offer up to this day.
I wonder whether my girls will turn out to be something that’s out of my expectation in future. Alycia told me that she wants to be a chef while Sherilyn said she wants to be a hairdresser!! There are thousands of courses offered by colleges now and I have never even heard of some of them like energy auditing. Whatever my girls become in future, I just hope that it’s something that’s decent and that they will be really happy in it.

She Wants To Go To Kindy At 7am

Rascal #2 wakes up every morning feeling cranky and whiny. It’s also a struggle to get her to hop out of bed every morning. Today is an exception. She woke up really early, at 6:30am, drank her milk, brushed her teeth, washed up and was raring to go to her kindy at 7am! And she did all these without being nagged! But it was too early to go to school. Before I left the house to exercise, I gave her a stack of books, magazines and daddy’s atv magazine and told her to read. When I returned from jogging, she was sitting at the couch, daydreaming away and the books were untouched, sigh, that’s Sherilyn!

Another Kuih Lover

Everyone in our family loves kuih muih. Who doesn't right? They are sweet, full of santan and so addictive. Even health freaks like me cannot resist gorging on them once a week. But be careful not to over indulge in kuih muihs as they are empty calories, darn fattening and can cause diabetes if you eat too much of them. Now, even Baby loves kuih and her favorite is the 'kau chung koa' or 9-layer kuih.

She even exclaims "hmmmmmm....." whenever she eats those kuih muih haha!

Onde onde is her other favorite and mine too. So unhealthy eh? But it's ok if you eat these kuih once a week to satiate your sweet cravings :D

Unique Seafood Restaurant, Section 13 PJ

We had been to Unique Seafood Restaurat @ Section 13, PJ for lunch and dinner umpteen times over the last few years but I can't recall blogging about this restaurant. For seafood lovers who are looking for fresh seafood, fresh from the water tank, as well as unique and exotic seafood, Unique Seafood is the place to go to. This restaurant also serves dim sum on weekends.

Here's what we had....

Stir fried noodles with seafood, specially ordered for my noodles crazed #2...



Some kind of prawn dim sum with fish maw and chilli sauce which iLike...


'Lau chup' pau (which literally means 'sauce dripping' pau in Cantonese), which iLikey very much. But be cautious when you sink your teeth into the hot pau as the sauce inside is piping hot and can burn your lip, throat and fingers.


My princess wannabe...


Plain steamed fresh prawns, dipped with chilli sauce...


Alycia my prawn lover, who gobbled down more prawns than me...


prawn dumpling and fried radish cake...


Salt baked female crabs served with some pickles. Only female crabs have roe and I just lurve those sinfully creamy, cholesterol raising and artery clogging crab roe!

We also had a stack of steamed dim sum but didn't snap pix of them as they were just run of the mill dim sum like siew mai, fish balls, Hong Kong style rice roll (chee cheong fun), lor mai kai, etc.

Restaurant Fresh Unique Seafood 23, PJ
Lot 9B-3, Jalan Kemajuan, Section 13,
46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Tel: +603. 7960 2088/2066
Business hours: 11.45am to 2.30pm / 6pm to 10.30pm

Kids Wear The Darnest Stuff To Sleep

Alycia has this idiosyncrasy of wearing her hooded Peter Pan sweater to sleep on some nights. She always complains that her bedroom is not cold enough, albeit the air cond and fan are turned on. Yet this silly girl will don on her sweater, with the hood covering her head despite the temperature being 33-36 degrees Celcius outside, haih.... sor lui hahahaha! A few nights ago, I saw her sleeping with a pair of socks and the weather these few days have been frigging hot.... so hot that I have to shower 4-6 times a day!

Super Hero Girl!

Baby must have been too influenced by the High 5 DVDs that she watches. During lunch yesterday, she moved her bib to the back and then said "super hero".... as if she was wearing a super hero's cape hahahahaha!! And oh yes, she has picked up a great deal of words and songs from watching Barney and High 5. A big high 5 to my Baby!




"SUPER HERO......."

Messy Mess!

I just hate hate hate it whenever my kids drop food on the couch. Here, Baby dropped her hard boiled egg with butter (yes, oily oily butter) all over the couch and the eggs went into the gap between the seat and the arm rest... and my helper was out with my mil at the wet market. Eeeeesh, how I hate weekends!

Durian For Breakfast Anyone?

I think I am the only Malaysian who would eat durians for breakfast instead of tucking into some mouth-watering sotong sambal nasi lemak, a plate of char koay teow or chee cheong fun. I am a health freak fruit lover who only eats fruits in the morning on an empty stomach.

Hubby was at Jaya Jusco late one night and managed to grab 2 boxes of premium durians at half the regular price just before they pulled the shutters down. If you want to grab food stuff at half price, head over to Mid Valley Megamall. Jaya Jusco and some of those independant stalls outside normally have a 50% discount off all their food items at around 9pm.


This 'red flesh' is simply the best - so sweet, so flavorful, so creamy, has the perfect texture and color and so FATTENING! But iLike! Never mind, eat first work out later.


My breakfast consisting of an orange and durians. Half an hour later, I ate a hard boiled free range chicken egg, a slice of multi-grain bread with kaya and a mug of green tea. My breakfast is my heaviest meal of the day and I find that eating a light dinner helps in controlling the jelly belly! Also if you are full and well satiated with all the carbs in the morning, you tend not to think so much about food throughout the day, especially on those sinful carbs!