Mid Autumn Festival 中秋节

Tomorrow is Mid Autumn Festival and I have received about 7 boxes of mooncakes from my husband's clients.

2 boxes of this Shanghai Mooncakes from client and friend from Kluang, Johor claimed to be very popular there. You are not able to eat the yolk unless you take the centre part of the mooncake. The pastry is thick and buttery and it is filled with lotus paste.


This is the name of the shop and hopefully you could see the address printed on it.


2 boxes of Tai Thong Mooncakes of various flavours from clients.


1 box of Agar-Agar Mooncake from the same client that gave us the Tai Thong Mooncake. It is homemade but look at the artificial colouring.


2 boxes of homemade Mooncakes from my sister in law. The green one is made of Avacado and the brown one of course is from chocolate.


The other box is Agar-Agar Mooncakes, less attractive without artificial colouring but safe to eat.


It was her first attempt to make these mooncakes. Thumb up Ann, it is very tasty.


It has lotus paste mixed with black sesame seed inside.


This is from my beloved Auntie Susie from Butterworth, we called this 'Kong Cai Pheng' . The one with melon seed is plain one and the other one is with coconut filling.



Actually I have a box of Snow Skin （冰皮）Mooncakes from another client. I think she bought from someone who made them at home because the packing was not attractive but they were very yummy. The mooncakes were quite small and filled with red bean paste and lotus paste, the yummy part was these mooncakes were filled with a lot of melon seeds. We finished before I could take any picture of it.

There are many type of mooncakes of various flavours in the market but being an old fashion and traditional person, I still like traditional mooncakes , that is baked Lotus Mooncakes with just single yolk (double yolk if I am younger!). The only shop I will buy my mooncakes every year is called Tong Wah Confectionery located at 92, Jalan Tuba Off Jalan Kampong Attap, 50460 Kuala Lumpur. Tel : 03-22736278.



This is Nut with Melon Seeds Mooncakes, one of my favourite too!


This is baked Lotus Paste Mooncake with single yolk. Ahem.....I took the piece with the most yolk!
I don't know what is this called in English but we call them ' Ling Kok' (菱角）. Just boil them like hard boiled egg but add some salt in the water to make them tastier.

These small tiny yams are also part of the food we serve during Mid Autumn Festival. I remember my grandmother used to clean the yam and dried it under the hot sun. She said this will make the yam creamier. To cook these is like cooking the 'Ling Kok'. Just boil them or you can steam them. Both these yam and 'ling kok' are seasonal and only available during the Mid Autumn.

Lastly, the fruit that is common during this time is Tambun Pomelo, hubby has gone to Ipoh today for business and he will be back on the same day and I have asked him to buy from there.

So with the Mooncakes, 'Ling Kok', Yam, Pomelo, Groundnut and a pot of Chinese Tea, sitting outside of our house watching the stars and the Moon above us (hopefully no rain).......I am going to let my children experience the Mid Autumn I used to have with my parents and siblings during the good old days. Oops, not forgetting the lanterns (the traditional one, folded type) and lots of candles too!

P/S : All views and opinions expressed here are based on my own personal opinion. Nobody pay or threaten me to say good or bad things about the food I eat!!

My Penang Trip and Food

I have taken many pictures during my recent Penang trip. Having a hard time to locate and remembering them. But I manage to have them download and sum up everything here in this blog.

Kedai Kopi New Cathay located in Jalan Burmah, opposite Bellisa Row is a corner lot coffee shop. It is always packed especially in the morning. These are what we ate :

Prawn Mee or Hokkien Mee not good as compared to Kedai Kopi Swee Kong located further down the same road (opposite Pulau Tikus Police Station). I hate eating Prawn Mee without Sayur Kangkung. I wonder why they don't add Sayur Kangkung as this vegetable is common and not expensive here.

This Apom was not good either compared to the one in Kedai Kopi Swee Kong. Disappointing.

Ahaa.....this is what I like Popiah (the wet type). My other family members find it a bit bland but I think it is very tasty.

This Curry Mee was delicious too. Full of curry aroma and the amount of coconut milk was just right not too thick or watery.

This Mee Rebus was so so only.

We had Penang Chee Cheong Fun too (the one with prawn paste 'ha ko' and sweet sauce) and it was very delicious. I saw many people had Fried Cantonese Fried. I think it must be tasty. The coffee and tea here are good too. This place is not bad as it has many varieties of food. Definitely will come back again next time.

Go Penang must eat Fried Koay Teow and the one we had was Sister's Char Koay Teow in Macalister Road.

We had Otak-Otak which taste average.

Does this picture make you drool..............? I think they wanted to close shop as we reached there about 4.30pm because this Fried Koay Teow was not good, lack of 'wok hei' and no Koay Teow aroma (不够香).

During our 4days 3 nights trip in Penang, we went to Kedai Kopi Swee Kong in Pulau Tikus 2 times for breakfast because my sister loves the Indian Apom there. The Apom was made using traditional Indian claypot and it costs about 50 sen each. The business is very good, usually they finish everything by 9.30am. There are two other stalls in Kedai Kopi Swee Kong which are also very good business, ie the Wantan Mee and the Hokkien Mee stall. Both are very tasty but I love Hokkien Mee more so I usually eat Hokkien Mee whenever I go there. But the coffee and milk tea here are not good. The Kedai Kopi New Cathay was better.

We bring our own container to store the Apom we bought at Kedai Kopi Swee Kong. This way the Apom won't stick and crumble together.

We went to Penang Hill but it was raining heavily and we end up having tea at the David Brown's.

My coffee RM8.00 , full of coffee aroma.

Scones with fresh cream and home made strawberry jam.........very yummy.

This trip was more like a family get together for us ( my sibblings live in three different countries) and we had a chance to meet with our relatives in Penang too. I look forward to more family trip like this.

P/S : All views and opinions expressed here are based on my own personal opinion. Nobody pay or threaten me to say good or bad things about the food I eat!!

Restaurant Goh Swee Kee - Georgetown, Penang

We had much good food during my family recent holiday in Penang. We went to the famous Lor Bak in Kedai Kopi Kheng Pin, Chendol and Assam Laksa in Kedai Kopi Joo Hooi, Sister's Fried Kueh Teow in Jalan Macalister, Prawn Mee in Kedai Kopi Swee Kong in Pulau Tikus, Nyonya food at Ivy's Kitchen in Jalan Burmah etc. As there are about 10 of us, so finding a table in all these small Kedai Kopi can be a headache. Sometimes we sat at seperate tables.

I think the Goh clan must be good in food business in Penang and I wonder if they are related. There have Restaurant Goh Teo Kee (Sg Ara, Gurney Drive), Goh Huat Seng (serving steamboat) and this Goh Swee Kee serving teochew dishes. We decided to have a nice meal at Restaurant Goh Swee Kee when my Penang relatives joined us for dinner in one of the nights of our 4day/3 nite stay in Penang.

We ordered many dishes that night but I only snapped a few picture of some of the food. I was shy to keep taking photo in front of my Penang's relatives.

This is Stuff Sea Cucumber : the fat sea cucumber was stuffed with mince meat in superior stock (上汤), very delicious.

Fried Prawn Dumpling, the children's favourite. The filling was very generous ; I think there were minced prawn, meat and water chestnut inside. Very good.

My brother loves this Fried Oyster, he almost ate half of the plate. These fresh, succulent oyster was fried with tauchu, chopped garlic and chili sauce, very tasty indeed.

We have about 8 dishes, besides the three above we have Homemade Tofu, Stir Fried Vegetables, Sambal Brinjals, Braised Goose and Fish ball Seaweed Soup. The total bill come out to about RM250 for 14 person inclusive of 4 soft drinks and Chinese tea for all and what more we have our favourite 'Or Nee' (Sweet Yam Paste dessert) for dessert. I think the price was very reasonable and the food is very yummy.

Restaurant Goh Swee Kee is located at Jalan Sri Bahari ( near The Ship in Georgetown branch), behind Kedai Kopi Kheng Pin (famous for Lor Bak and Chicken Rice). Telephone number is 04-2636932. The restaurant is opened for lunch and dinner. Call to make reservation especially on weekend dinners.

P/S : All views and opinions expressed here are based on my own personal opinion. Nobody pay or threaten me to say good or bad things about the food I eat!!