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I wonder if chipotles are as hot as cili padi (i'm not sure what they're called in english!), I guess I'll try some later. I know it's annoying when someone can't just google 'chipotles' but i didn't want to waste my one can of chipotle with wonky recipes Thanks for all your help:)

Cafe Latte kit kat imported from Japan

eGullet closed the Food Swap topic BUT not before a few of us managed to get in touch Abra sent me a tin of chipotles and I'm wondering if anyone here knows what to do with them? Recipes (with detailed instructions and explanations of ingredients as I'm not familiar with western food... ) please! Thanks in advance! :mwah:

Great blog and excellent pictures, Mooshmouse:) How do you make such great food everyday... The creme fraiche looks great, can you tell me the recipe? Thanks

I don't have the time or ability to make the beautiful desserts I see on egullet everyday:D Are there any desserts you can make for under 20 minutes (and yes, pretty much from scratch or just a bit of cheating). It looks like I have to make dessert every single day for 3 people next year (long story), and I really don't want to make elaborate concotions all the time! No marshmallow+rice krispies stuff please:D

Laksa, I'm not really sure why non-local fruits aren't served. I'll ask my mum and get back to you later:D The Chinese pray a lot simpler (like some posters mentioned earlier); just fruits and a few dishes usually, or just huat kueh (some pink steam cakes) and fruits but the Baba and Nyonya on the other hand.... You should see the Chinese New Year spread! And the 7th moon festival spread my relatives prepared this year was a lot simpler than when we 'prayed' back in Melaka mad aunts;)

The 7th moon festival here isn't a fun thing over here nor is it a big festival(as opposed to Chinese New Year). In my family, it's done because it's tradition but I think some people still truly believe in it. BTW during the 7th lunar moon, lots of girls with creepy long hair appear on the silver screen

There's no protocol to eating the food, but before we can take the food away from the altar, there're some rituals we have to go through. The head of the family takes the 'sopoi' (2 crescent- shaped wooden erm 'things' s ) and 'asks' the ancestors if they've eaten. He then throws it and if one faces up and the other down, it means yes, if both are facing up ,it means they're annoyed-so,that's a no;) 0 and if both face downwards; they're laughing so that's a no as well!). After that, the head of the family will burn 'money' , after which the food can be taken away and consumed (only if you want to) . My aunts are mad and cook huge amounts so we end up eating the same thing for a week! and that's also the reason why I hate ,hate those dishes

Row 1 chinese tea(you can't see it in the picture) Row 2 rice wine(small clear glasses on saucers) Row 3 rice (shaped like a cone) Row 4 black soya sauce (in a saucer), pounded ginger, block of kaya to eat with the pulut tekan (it has to be thicker than the average kaya so that it can be cut into blocks), acar, spring onion soaked in warm water (for the ancestors to 'wash' their hands prior to eating) Row 5 kuih kochi (next to the blue and white block), pulut tekan (in Malay ,pulut tatai/pulut teratai-- that's the blue and white block thing), wajit (brown glutinous rice flavoured with durian) and black kuih ku. Row 6 (never orange or grapes etc, usually local fruits) dokong, cempedak, durian and pomelo Row 7 mangosteen , stewed pig (pork?) intestine, steamed pomfret, rambutan Row 8 chicken soup, whole chicken in black sauce, pong teh, fishballs with shiitake mushrooms and oysters Row 9 Sambal udang, pig trotters, some other kind of pong teh, fish lemak Row 10 Roast duck(the lady broke the neck haha), boiled chicken and a piece of pork(must have ribs attached).

7th moon festival at the moment and like always, mum and aunts prepared dishes for our dead ancestors (my paternal grandparents and paternal grandad's parents). Here's a typical Nyonya (straits born chinese spread)

Asam laksa, a Malaysian invention;) I hate the noodles she used this time (her supplier was on leave, it seems and I prefer the thicker, jelly-like noodles) but the soup is amazing. Pardon the newspapers, it was "eat-in-front-of-the-tv-day"

hiya, my aunts(nyonya) and mum still make kuih kochi, pulut tai tai (the real name is actually pulut teratai)etc with bunga telang. I used to grow them in my garden and had to pick them. Still have a jar-full of dried bunga telang in my house! I hope you have an excellent time in Malaysia. I love, love Malaysian food (and really, I don't think I'm a biased person! )

Hi! Thanks for all your help! It looks like cooking for the children will be quite easy after all; meat,vegetables,potatoes and ready-made vla! I practically never cook here though I do bake sometimes and when I DO cook Malaysian food, it takes me 2-3 hours because I'm made to do everything from scratch(my mum is one of those people who despise anything ready-made..even curry powder *sigh*) Snowangel: Thanks for the tip. Time to start churning up stories but now I'm wondering if it's ethical to make up stories haha but that's what I'm going to do anyway. Anything to get them to eat! Chufi: I'll be in Maarsbergen (doesn't have a train station but the Maarn train station is just 3km away) which is 18 minutes by train from Utrecht. She said, in the summer "it's all grass and you can see cows outside the window" I don't mind though, I quite like the country. There's a possibility that the children might like Malaysian food(in fact I'm quite sure they'll like certain dishes) but I've heard that buying ingredients in Holland might be expensive and I guess that's something for their parents to think about and that's why I prefer to cook with whatever is available.

I'm going to the Netherlands for a year as an au pair and will have to look after 3 kids (4 year old twins and 6-year -old). I'm the youngest in the family and my memories of dinners when I was that age was well..whatever everyone else was having (rice and dishes!). Here I am going to Holland and I have absolutely no idea what children in non-Asian countries eat! The parents of this family will eat separately(so I won't be cooking for them) from the children. What do you feed your children for dinner? Recipes(not too complicated please)? Is it just one dish and say, salad? Or is it a few dishes (like I said, I really have no idea!)? Will I have to prepare dessert everyday(simple stuff of course..like jelly,fruits,creme caramel...)? And quantity? How much do kids eat exactly.... *sigh* I don't think they'd appreciate me cooking chicken curry or ayam masak merah and rice all the time (will be living in a farm, in a tiny little town so there's a possibility that they've never tried foreign food). HELP!

My Chinese New Year dinner wasn't a typically Chinese affair as we're straits born but at a family dinner last week, we had : i) Yee Sang (a must during CNY )- raw fish , crunchy bits of various colours, jellyfish(ppl usually order yee sang without the raw fish though). ii) scallops and spinach in soup iii) shark's fin soup (the best i've ever tasted) iv) goose feet, mushrooms and sea cucumbers v) various waxed meat with some glutinous rice vi) cod fish with some black sauce vii) roasted piglet viii) lotus/bean paste pancakes 'twas wonderful though I can't appreciate goose feet and waxed meat...

Apparently White Day was actually invented by ..was it Meiji? Some company anyway and 'traditional' white day gifts are actually marshmallows! There're basically 2 kinds of chocolates given out on Valentine's. The first is called Giri choco which is given to your dad,brothers,boss, colleagues,male friends to 'thank' them for 'helping' you or just to show your appreciation. The other is called Honmei choco and is given to the guy the girl has a crush on. Apparently the way to differentiate which 'choco' you get is how much it costs and whether it's homemade. Honmei choco are more expensive (like Godiva) or homemade (truffles or something). If the guy likes the girl too, he'll give her something on White Day; usually something which costs 3- 5 times more than the chocolates she gave! :D

We give oseibo here in Malaysia during Chinese New Year too! Not as nicely wrapped as Japan probably and certainly not delivered. New Year is a time where my mum would pack Shiitake mushrooms, chinese sausages, cookies,chocolates and mandarin oranges. If the people receiving the gifts are close, we put in some abalone too;) Mum would go calling at those people's houses, visit and give those gifts, and people would come to our house doing the same thing;) I guess I don't appreciate Japanese food;) I love J.food but absolutely despise Osechi ryouri. Tarako is mmm yummy! We used to buy them by the dozen and eat it just with rice;)

Though I lived in Gifu for a year, I 'm not really sure what Gifu is famous save for : Ayu (which apparently, they still send to the emperor every year) kaki and all sorts of kaki desserts Apparently nerikiri is quite famous too but I think that's more famous in Kyoto.. hmmm

Well well, The tiramisu at Alexis' is DIVINE. The cakes from L'Opera (the owner is Japanese) is also very very good but also pretty expensive (approx RM8 per slice and it's about half the size of Secret Recipe cakes). I'm a huge fan of Japanese cakes (light , fresh cream etc.). I think there's a branch in Bangsar Village and possibly also in Ikano. And according to certain quaters, the chocolate cake at Ms . Read's DELIcious cafe in One Utama is the best chocolate cake in Malaysia. I have yet to try it

I LOVE the Spicy Mos Burger!!!! Gawd..if only I could eat it now.. The green chilli (is it called jalepeno?) and the sauce (what? salsa?) ..sigh.. The beef went so well with the sauce and chilli...

*sob* I'm not in Japan anymore. At the Jusco in my country, we can find Dorayakis (icky ones though) and occasionally um.. not sure what they're called. I just call them manjyuu(just mochi and anko). Somehow your ume daifuku and budou daifuku looks... I don't know.. flavoured. Like as if the koshian was.. injected with grape/plum flavour? :-p

Guess what I found out? Apparently Milo originated from Germany Milo is not chocolate exactly.. It's uh..malt. Kinda like the filling in Malteasers. And you're right, the best Milo comes from those trucks. Ah the good ol days... That said, the Mamak's version isn't so bad although it is a tad sweet. And lord forbid you come across a Mamak which sells diluted *gasp* Milo. I HATE diluted milo! Ahem, the Milo as I know it, is made up of condensed milk. Milo with powdered milk/fresh milk is not milo p/s: maggi mee goreng is yummy. It's just like normal mamak mee goreng (spices everything). The only difference being the noodles

If I had to pick just one dish to be considered Nyonya, I'd pick Pong Teh. I come from a Nyonya/Baba family and sorry to say, but I'm completely sick of Nyonya food . Everytime there're prayers (as you well know Nyonyas tend to be more Chinese in terms of praying than the Chinese themselves), my aunt and the whole gang bang would cook themselves dead. Each time there's some sort of festival, we'd have approx 23 dishes. The number 1 dish is always Pong Teh ( I hate it so much now that I can't even bear to look at it. This is what happens when your aunts stuff you with Pong Teh 7 days in a row for every single meal). But there's also, Se Bak, Chak Bek, Pengat, Buah Keluok, Nyonya Curry, itik tim, jiu hu char, Chilli Garam (my favourite:-D ),sambal bendi, sambal timun, Chap Chai and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you don't know the dishes I mentioned above, just ask:-D

Does anyone have the recipe for that lovely juicy budou daifuku I see there? And I 'd like the recipe for the mizu manjyuu too. They both look so good! I was manju obssessed in Japan and had manjyuus everyday. In my area (gifu-ken), Nerikiri is the most well-known. It's lovely ,tasty and really pretty! For Nerikiri's picture and recipe, go to : Bob's Manjyuu Place They have other manjyuu recipes too. All in Japanese though.