Dinner for Two

Happy Deepavali!

This morning, I woke up at 8.30am, and prepare my marketing list as followed:

Things to buy:

1. 1 pk of Minced Pork
2. 2 tube of Extra Smooth Silken Tofu
   
3. 1 cube of Chinese Silken Tofu
4. 1 pk of Baby Brussels
5. 1 pc Century Egg
6. A pk of potatoes
7. A pk of Dodo Fish Balls
   
8. A pk of Dodo Crab Sticks
9. A pk of Seafood Tofu
10. A pk of Beef Balls
11. A bottle of Spicy Pork Floss

At around 10.30am, I went down to buy 2 packets of yummy Nasi Lemak + 2 chicken wings, which were Bebe's favourite. Then I proceed with my marketing list. It costs me around $22 in total. Was thinking of making 3 dish & 1 soup for tonight. Though it was my 1st attempt, I am pretty confidence that the food will turn out edible. Lol.

My 3 dish & 1 soup consist of:

1. Stir-fried Baby Brussels with Garlic
2. Minced Pork Tofu with Crab Stick & Potatoes
3. Tofu with Sweet, Sour & Spicy sauce, topped with Spicy Pork Floss & Century Egg
4. Zhap Ba Lang Soup: Chicken Broth, Beef Balls, Crab Sticks, Fish Balls, Seafood Tofu & Potatoes
   

I reached home around 11.30am and started washing the vege, and preparing soup base. It was quite fun for me. First, I boiled the chicken broth with 1.5 cans of water. Meanwhile cubed the potatoes and halved the crab sticks. After rinsing the fish balls, beef balls & seafood tofu, I threw in all the ingredients for the soup. Then, I proceed to marinated the minced pork as followed:

• 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
• 1 tbsp corn flour
• a pinch of sugar
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• a few dashes of white pepper powder
  

Once the soup is ready, I scooped out the ingredients and set aside for tonight. I sliced the silken tofu & prepare all other ingredients all to be set aside for tonight.

We had our nasi lemak at around 1pm, whilst watching "The Mist". It was a freaking horrifying & tense movie that made both of us panicked from the beginning till the end. It is a 2007 horror film written and directed by Frank Darabont, who had previously adapted the 1980 novella of Stephan King's work. Click here for more review.


Woohoo, finally it is dinner time, took me almost 40minutes to whip out all the dishes and soup. I was sweating and felt full even before we started eating.

Comments from Bebe: "Wah, this is the first time you cook a meal, taste not bad! But cannot be considered as fantastic because the quantity for 2pax is too much, & you should not have add in crab stick in the Minced Pork Tofu with Potatoes."

Roger that! Haha, luckily he loves the Mango sago which I made yesterday as he had a turn round of it from yesterday's leftover this afternoon.