Today I cooked all day :) part 2 - an array of dishes and steam rice

Soy chicken with potatoes, grilled baby aubergines, stir fried water spinach with sambal belacan served with fluffy white rice...
yummm!!!

Today I cooked all day :) part 1- Pancakes

1st dish of the day was Pancakes!!!

I started by separating 2 eggs (yolks in one bowl and whites in another), 2 cups of flour, 2 cups of milk, half a cup of sugar and to add more zest, vanilla concentrate, coco powder and rainbow sprinkles.

Start by beating the beeze knees out of the egg white until stiff. In a separate bowl, add egg yolk to flour and sugar and mix well. Add the milk bit by bit until its smooth and lastly a dash of the amazing vanilla concentrate.

NOTE: depending on your preference you can make it slightly runnier if you wish to make crepes (thin pancakes) and slightly thicker if you want american style pancakes (which is what  I made today)


Once your happy with the consistency of your batter fold in you egg whites to make it fluffy!! I then separated the batter into 2 batches and added the cocoa powder to one batch :)

To cook: start by placing a flat pan on a low heat and rub butter all over it. Using a round ladel or spoon, drop the batter into pan. how do you know if its cooked on one side? wait until you see bubbles appear (see picture below) and you know its time for you to flip it onto the other side. Add sprinkles on the bubbling side to add some colour :)

Enjoy with maples syrup, chocolate spread, lemon and sugar, fresh fruit or on its own :)

The BEST peranakan restaurant! Amy's Heritage Nyonya Restaurant Melaka

There are no words to discribe how amazing this restaurant is. It felt like home cause your served by an 'aunty' and an 'uncle' who welcome you with warmth and hurrys you to finish so they can go home by 11pm. Super cute. Its part of the charm so just go with it..

The location of this amazing place is
75 Jalan Melaka Raya 24 | Taman Melaka Raya, Melaka, Malaysia
+606 6 286 8819

We had:
Steamed rice
Asam fish - Sour, tamariniee, spicey fish broth with firm fish, okra, fresh tomatoes
Kangkung belacan - water spinach cooked in fish paste and dried small prawns
Chicken Pongteh - chicken cooked in an oyster sauce and broen bean paste garnish with dried shitake mashroom and potatoes
Prawn sambal - fresh plump prawns cooked in a thick chillie paste

Pictures to highlight the awesomeness..

Melaka day 1

Sometimes all you need is a great friend, a car and a place to go to to eat great food.

Here are 3 meals we had on our first day in Melaka for lunch. We did the typical tourist thing and hung out at Jonker street. We started with chicken rice balls and an assortment of side dishes which included kailan in garlic and otak-otak (fish fillet cooked in spices and coconut milk) yumm. We then headed over to have the ever so famous ABC. Its a mixture of asorted jelly, sweet corn, red bean, topped with shaven ice and drizzled with syrup, melted palm sugar and evaporated milk.. refreshing and sweet!!

After walking around we found this quaint little shop where this old lady was making onde-onde. Its basically tapioca flour mixed with pandan juice rolled around a palm sugar rock. Its boiled in salty water for no more then a minute and tossed in fresh coconut shavings. The sensations of eating this dessert/snack is like a poping bursting  sensation in your mouth of a creamy, sweet, slighlty perfumy silky and salty ball. Its amazing!!

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