This was my first time making curry chicken from scratch – chopping up individual spices and then blending all of them into a paste. This set of ingredients is almost identical to those of the ‘Malay Spicy Ayam Masak Merah‘: candlenuts, galangal, lemongrass, chillies, shallots etc. It was therefore amazing to see how a similar set of ingredients could churn out a different dish altogether.
This is a simple dish of rice fried in Korean style. It is just one of numerous other Korean dishes which takes advantage of the range of seasonings and flavours of the traditional fermented vegetables – kimchi – to enhance the flavours. The sour, at times spicy, taste of the preserved vegetables works wonders at making this an easy meal to chew on and digest. The bright red colour of the rice also helps to open up one’s appetite at the meal.
이드라마는 아주 좋아해요!
This romance-comedy has its story revolving around a sassy lawyer who helped to turn the life of a college boy around when she saved him from a murderer. That, in turn, led to her family and her own life being continuously threatened by the murderer after he was released from the prison. On the other hand, the college boy, who had the special ability to ‘hear’ someone else’s thoughts by looking into one’s eyes, had fastidiously decided to stay by the lawyer’s side to protect her and to repay her kindness. The combination of the lawyer’s wit and the boy’s special ability eventually helped to tide them through all the dangerous episodes in their life.
The Buddha hand fruit was only available in the supermarkets during the Chinese New Year festive season; two weeks after the festive celebrations, these fruits were all removed from the shelves. Curiosity got the better of me and I had to buy them back home before they were gone in order to find out more about these little (freaky) wonders of nature.
It was one memorable experience at the supermarket that we had while shopping for groceries on the weekend before Chinese New Year. We saw something that resembled a freak experiment out of a horror movie.
‘Eeeewwww… What’s that?!!‘ We asked each other. The signage calmly flashed out the words:
Buddha Hand — 1 for $3.25
What IS a Buddha hand?
