Category Archives: Food & Drinks
Happy 9 March 2010
Hey my visitor,
It’s March! I know. And I’ve been late again. Not that I didn’t want to come and update the blog but I lost my password. Apparently I changed it sometime during the winter time when I was (and still am) half awake. (Yep! Blame the weather!)
So, I must have put my mind somewhere when I can’t find the simple yet difficult to remember text or was it number? I guess I’ve been changing it several times now. Yes, Just to change and then forget about the initial plan of logging in to blog. So, the next time would be WRONG AGAIN! And again, of course.
Anyway, here I come to say Happy Birthday to my very dear one! I am so thrilled that I finally able to say it with a smile. 
Never imagined that this time would have come. It’s a sunny day out there and I’m feeling GREAT! 
I’ll pray that I shall and WILL have this opportunity to say this till eternity. HE is the Boss, afterall. (The one up there if you still can’t figure it out.)
If you have been wondering about what I have been up to, I assure you there is not much going on apart from busy stuffing my belly with the CNY dinner, lunches, and more delicious and hard-to-get-in-this-cold-country meals (Errr.. doubting whether to share that little detail). It’s not just the belly, but there are parts that, according to my resources (in which I am not allowed to mention their names 
) have grown bigger through my pictures. I did believe them when I weighed myself with several extra kilos. GAIN! Not loss! Thank you (for finally believing me).
I got so many pictures in my machine which I am not even sure when I can edit them to get those fat or double chin gone, or crooked nose straightened. Not mine I assure you. I got this request quite often: please do the touch up before you upload them. Right! Like I’m the expert in this matter. (I wonder if this is now the English English or the Kanglish. Just ignore that part if you don’t understand, would you?)
Let see what I can do here.. Yep! Uploading the pictures! See which ones would be the lucky winners!
Here they are ! I found several that I don’t have to do any editing. The rest are either too huge to publish here or still inside the other camera.
These photos are taken during the CNY luncheon in The Hague for the Malaysian community in the NL.
I just love to see this lamp.
Guilty as charged! (Evil smile..) Yep! It´s mine and only the first round.
The food! And of course our sweet and charming Dato´ Ambassador.
Ahhhh! The kids got their Ang Pao (Red Packet) from the President of MA-NL. I did try to get one too but they saw my the-few-lines near my eyes. Argghhhh! I want ang pao tooooo… 
I love this photo with my sweet Até Elizabeth and Dato´Ambassador.
OK! Hope that´s enough for now. Concerning to the other photos, I am afraid I normally only remember to fill my sweet belly first and then yes.. eat again for the second, third and so forth round.
Have fun! Cheers.
A Trip To Zaandam
9 May 2009
The day seemed to be warm out there. But it was chilly. No matter. We stepped into the car and drove away from the house, out of the area, the city and up to Amersfort. It’s a nice city to look at but we didn’t stop. Then we found the shop. Stopped and went inside. Found the big guy in blue. Wow! It’s huge and looked ugly. I said. Not this dark blue please. Wil said, no, not this one. The other one is better. I guess he was going to consider the other BIG GUY.
We left and dropped by a smaller town/village called Hoogland. I found a beautiful furniture and decor shop. We went inside and browsed through the whole shop till we forgot that it was already late.
We bought a few gifts and left the place.
Now, driving back to Amsterdam for another hour. We reached our friend’s house in Zaandam around 5.00 pm. It was their son’s birthday and their little apartment was full with their family and relatives. Wil joined some men outside and I joined Denna in the kitchen.
They cooked delicious Indonesian food. I ate as if it’s nobody’s business. There were cakes and also dessert to fill the belly of all the people there.
It was a fun day especially to be able to speak my own lingo from my own hometown. Thanks for the hospitality D & D.
Pictures below taken at the balcony with only several people and of course D & D themselves.
Dinner and Karaoke
18 April 2009, Dinner and Karaoke at the Poldervaart
Singing MY WAY by Frank Sinatra to conclude the evening.
Yours truly was the paparazzi of the evening/night.
Mirjam, Liang and I are the 3 buddies who love having ladies night (only for ourselves) together. (In Dutch, J should be pronounced as Y)
Although Wil just came back last night, our appointment must go on. So I prepared dinner: fried rice, fried noodles, chicken curry, chicken with 2 types of Chinese mushroom in soya sauce, vegetables and Indian bread called roti prata. I did serve my hot chillie pepper taken all the way from Sabah and I couldn’t believe my eyes that Jaap finished them all. He is Dutch! (Dutch don’t take hot chillie pepper.. lol)
(Els and Cor are Mirjam’s parents while Jaap is Els’ little brother. Liang is a beautiful girl from China who is an expat in this country.)
I fell in love with Mirjam’s family when Liang and I were invited to have dinner at her parent’s home before going to her house to stay overnight. They were such a warm and funny people so I invited them to come to our place for a fun night.
After dinner, we looked at the photos taken in Malaysia. Whoa.. Whuu.. Awesome
Then it’s time to have some fun. Karaoke was on, 2 microphones and beers on the table. We sang, we laughed, we took photos, we made jokes.. lots of fun. I loved it and they all did too.
The 3 buddies, just got gifts from Els.
Two lovely buddies (still available). LOL.. I love you both, girls.
Bubur chacha
Bubur chacha
I prepared my bubur chacha this morning enough for 8 people to have. By noon, 6 portion are gone, taken by the same person in this house.
The ingredients:
- Green beans, soaked for a couple of hours (I did one night)
- Sweet potatoes
- Ginger root
- Sagu
- Pinch of salt
- Sugar for the taste
- Water
Good to take when you have fever but can be taken anytime, regardless of your condition.
Pinasakan do sapat
Pinasakan do sapat - tadau koduvo
Found this fish in the new toko, i.e. the Vietnamese shop, near our house. This type of fish can be found in the paddy field back home in Sabah. The taste is just delicious along with steamed rice and vegetables.
3 ways to have them ready:
- paasakan (to cook with less water) – soup with water just to cover all the fish and cook
- gulingon – deep fry
- nonsom sada – pickle with only salt and yesterday’s rice. Ready after 2 – 3 weeks.
My home style pinasakan do sapat ingredients in Kadazan:
- sada = fish, any type of sea/land water
- tonsom takob-akob = sour fruit originally from Sabah
- kunyit = tumeric
- balasan = shrimp paste (trassi or belacan)
- salt to taste
- water
How to eat:
Eat with steamed rice, cili and vegetable. Delicious to eat on the day it’s cooked but better taste on the next day. I miss eating this kind of food back home, at the paddy field with lots of family members, neighbours and friends. Use the good old friend, our hand. Good to finger licking once all food are finished.
The photos:
I took the photo below in a cloudy day inside the house. Above photos, with a beautiful day light inside the house. No editing at all.
Pinasakan do sapat - tadau koiso
The 3 Friends: JLM
JLM stands for Jenn, Liang and Mariam. We are the 3 new friends we met in a party in Rotterdam in November 2008. Liang is from Cheng Dao, China and Mariam is Dutch from the Netherlands.
On a Friday in December 2008, Liang and I were to spend the night at Mariam’s place. Before going to her place, we were invited to have dinner at her parents’ house. Her single uncle was also joining us.
Both Mariam’s parents and uncle are wonderful people. We laughed so much during the dinner and carried on at the living room. All of us did enjoy the evening. Lucky for me that I bought 2 little gifts and a plant earlier on which I gave them to Mariam and her mother.
Then the 3 of us left the house and drove away to Mariam’s place which was a few minutes away. She has such a lovely place but unfortunately I did not manage to take photos as we were getting to know each other and talked about our life until we forgot that it was already late for bed.
The next morning, both Liang and me woke up very late. So, I did not manage to take photos that morning. DH, who also has a men’s night with his friends the night before, came to fetch me and Liang home.
In January, DH has another night out with his friends, so the 3 of us had a night at my place. We had dinner and then had lots of fun singing Karaoke. It has been a lovely evening with these 2 lovely ladies.
I’m so thankful to DH for all these arrangements.
Sabah Fruit
During our visit to Sabah, Malaysia, my aunt Rosalind likes to buy local fruits and food for me to eat. This one is one of the fruits she wanted me to taste. It is the crossing of ‘Nangka’ (jack fruit) and ‘Pulutan’. It is just so lovely. I managed to eat this 2-in-1 fruit apart from other ‘smelly’ Durian (according to DH LOL).
Sabah fruit: the crossing of Nangka-Pulutan
Malaysian Restaurants in the Netherlands
I guess I’ll list down all the “Malaysian” restaurants in the Netherlands here. I still have to find out Alex’s address. He’s a Malaysian Chinese, with an elegant style of restaurant and a karaoke lounge just next door/street.
Angkasapuri
Malaysian & Indonesian
Rivierlaan 121
Spijkenisse BK
3207 Netherlands
Phone: 31-(0)181-627 397
Malakka
Chinese, Indonesian & Malaysian Cuisine
Puck van Heelstraat 154
MG Rotterdam
3077 Netherlands
Phone: 31-(0)10-483 34 88
Fax: 31-(0)10-479 78 13
lulu
Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Malaysian, Thai & Vietnamese
Van Vollenhovenstraat 60
Rotterdam
3016 Netherlands
Phone: Van Vollenhovenstraat 60
Fax: 31-(0)10-201 93 94
Malaysia Restaurant Wau
Asian & Malaysian Cuisine
1012 AR Amsterdam
AR Amsterdam
1012 Netherlands
Phone: 31-(0)20-421 24 87
Fax: 31-(0)20-421 24 87
Nam-Ho
Malaysian & Chinese-Indonesian Cuisine
Mgr. Nolensplein 21
Breda
4812 Netherlands
Phone: 31-(0)76-514 40 64
Fax: 31-(0)76-515 03 73
Sense of Asia
Vietnamese, Thai, Malay, Cantonese Cuisine
Rijksstraatweg 433
DB Haarlem
2025 Netherlands
Phone: 31-(0)23-549 25 07
Fax: 31-(0)23-549 25 08
New Season
Chinese & Malaysian Cuisine
Warmoesstraat 39
Amsterdam
1012 Netherlands
Phone: 31-(0)20-625 61 25
