Mikey was here last wk till sat morning. Then, 4 'batangs' planned to hang out in Kona Grill for happy hour. That's place was cool, but food just 'ok', i prefer BJ more! Before we called it off for that night, we went to have yogurt in Yogurt Land at ASU area. I love the yogurt there.. they are plenty till ran out of idea what to choose! I wish my mom here with me, she loves this type of stuffs, because it taste like ice cream!
Sat morning, we woke up quite early, because planned to meet up with Mikey again breakfast prior his departure to airport! As usual, Spring Hill breakfast always same. But, nothing to complain because we ate free there! haha.... Since we had early breakfast, we were able to catch the early movie- Inception!
Watching movie in AMC cheaper than Harkins ($5.25 VS. $7). I wanted to watch this movie for some times, timing yet right. I read number of friends who already watched gave good comments. Hmm... for me, this movie consider creative which mixture of 'matrix' style that need times to digest only can understand. I expect something more.... so, it just cool movie to me ONLY. :)
After lunch, we did shopping because at night we gonna have a 'batangs' gathering in Ernest's house. We spent > hours in Mekong Plaza, asian market because we planned to cook 4 dishes + 1 soup + 1 dessert! It was tiring when reach Ern's house, because we woke up quite early, so i took a short nap before I can start preparing tonight dinner.
We started with dessert preparing, because it took time to defroze the durian and times to cook green beans. It was fun to open frozen durian and eat it. It taste like ice cream durian. :) The interesting part was, we did it in US.
Then, we started to cook the soup, the longer we boiled it, we believe will make the soup taste nicer! After we boiled the soup, we started to prepare the dish 1 by 1; marinated the assam prawn, belacan chicken, stir the ground meat with cincaluk, sambal asparagus. The whole preparation took around 2.5 hours, but the cooking part less than 1 hour. :) So, I still met my timeline to deliver the dinner at 7pm :D
Let's me go through every single dish, so won't wasted my efforts that putting in. haha.... (show off time!)
Dish 1- Belacan Chicken
Ingredients:
1 lb chicken wings (drumstick)
Few Belacan + flour
Directions:
1. Clean the small drumsticks, then marinated them with belacan and flour. Salt is excepted because belacan itself kinda salty. It took sometimes during the marination part, because the belacan was in pieces, need to press it became smaller or melt, so that the it can mix well with drumstick.
2. Heat the oil 1st, make sure the oil was really HOT. Once the temp reach there, put in the drumstick and fried it till golden colour.
Dish 2- Assam Prawn
Ingredients:
1 lb Jumbo Prawn
Few assam
Direction:
1. Peel off the shell till left the shrimp tail (just for presentation purposes).
2. After clean it, marinate with oyster source, assam, soy source, sugar (little bit more), black pepper and corn stach. NOTE: Don't use too much of assam, it will make it too sour and salty.
3. Heat up the pan and fried it. BUT, we redo it again because we put too much assam and eded up it too salty.
4. Refried it again with water which stir with corn stach and sugar. Added Onion in also to make the shrimp taste sweeter which can reduce the salty.
At the end, this was my least favorite, it just still nice edible (69% score).
Dish 3- Cincaluk Ground Meat:
Ingredients:
3/4 lb ground meat
2 tea spoon cincaluk
6/7 chili padi
1 egg whie
Directions:
1. Put in cincaluk, chili padi and mix with ground meat. Added egg white and corn stach, little sugar and black pepper. Salt is excepted too, because cincaluk is quite salty.
2. Once all the ingredients mixed well, made it into meat ball shape on the oven pan.
3. Baked inside oven for 40 mins with 400F.
Dish 4- Sambal Asparagus:
Ingredients:
1 bunch asparagus
1 pack sambal (due to no red chillis here)
7 red onion
few dry salted shrimp
4 pieces garlic
4 chili padi
7 medium shrimp (peeled off all the shell)
little ginger
Direction:
1. Blended the red onion, salted shrimp, garlic, chili padi and ginder. Then, mixed them with sambal.
2. Heat up the pan, add oil then fried the (1).
3. Then put in the shrimp before asparagus. Once put in the asparagus, added some water, sugar and littel salt.
4. Once the asparagus cooked, then can ready to serve in plate.
Soup- Lotus root:
Ingredients:
1.5 lotus root
few pieces of lean pork meat
1/4 of nuts
few slides of dry squip
6/7 honey dates (tone down to 4/5)
>10 red dates
Direction:
1. Peel up the lotus root skin, and clean the nuts.
2. Started to boil the soup with nuts, lotus root, honey date, red date and dry squip. Only until it boiled, put in the lean pork.
3. Added some salt / sugar to make the soup taste good. Then, continue to boil the soup for few hours till dinner time. The longer, it taste much better!
Dessert- Green bean + durian:
Ingredients:
3/4 pack green beans
few dark sugar
4 or 5 pieces of durian meats
Is good if can find the pandan leaf.
Directions:
1. After cleaned up the green beans, the cook it.
2. Waited till the green beans cooked, else it will taste hard.
3. Added in the durian. ONLY add sugar in after everything cooked. if put in sugar too early, it may cause burnt and need more attention. Since, I was multi cooking and preparing other dishes, better add the sugar when i done with other dishes.
Last but no least, Ernest also contributed and did smoothies for us. He was using strawberries, banana, grapes, orange and apple, then blended with ice. Hmm... i prefer he did that during afternoon time, this is cool drink to cold down the temp, but if have it with dinner, then quite heavy! haha...
Any how, my duty just prepared the dinner, Ernest promised will do the cleaning. However, as usual, he always delivered his commit late. The kictchen was totally a mess and even worst, because of his cleverness, put few beers in the freezer. Ended up, it didn't help to cold down the beers, it made it explored! I was so so worry, when Lila back, we will banned from using this kicthen again. Anyway, like i said earlier, Ernest's style, he will do it but later. Before we left the house in the following day, he washed the dishes and kitchen 90% back to normal. :)
We had 2 movies, "The Road" and "The descent 2". The Road, for me quite a boring show. But, the Descent 2 very good! It made us scream! haha!
I really had great wkend! It was fun and cool especially hang out with old friends! :)
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