Saturday, October 15, 2005

Home-style cooking

Posted by Dawn at Saturday, October 15, 2005
Today as usual, I cooked lunch for Gek Teng and brought it over to her place to eat together. Cooked 2 simple dishes today..one dish was minced pork with ginger and salted fish. The other one was spinach, xiao bai cai with minced beef and ginger. Take a look!


I have learnt to cook my dishes more simply as I realised that if I cook 3 dishes or 2 dishes, the difference is only if there would be any leftovers. So, since I did not want anymore leftovers, I decided to cook 2 dishes and to finish all up.

CT and I went to a new restaurant today. I have always wanted to try cos I read the reviews in the internet and it seems quite good. It is slightly ulu but still, the place was crowded...so it had to be good.

From the outside, at once, you can tell that the cooking would be very southern and home-style. When we entered, there were animal heads on the walls..everything was made out of wood and the waitresses was dressed it cute traditional costumes like milkmaids..very nice! While waiting for our seat, we sat on rocking chairs and enjoying the music from the self-playing piano..

Yup, CT was dozing off under the comfort of the rocking chair. The rocking chair kinds of have some magic of curing insomnia! haha..

We waited about half an hour (usual waiting time here) for a seat. As usual, we ordered too much. We had 2 main dishes and 1 appetizers. The servings here are very big..so it is way too much. What I enjoy was the cool plates and cups..all metal.

I ordered fried catfish with baked potatoes while CT ordered grilled catfish with river fries. The fried one is much nicer..very tasty and fried to perfection. They serve lots of sides- hush puppies (ball-like corn bread), pickled onions(which amazingly taste very good), lots of coleslaw, skillet bread (bread in frying pan). After eating the sides, we were so full already.. We also went on to order fried onion rings and fried dill pickles for appetizers. I love the dill pickles. Very good.

Here are the leftovers we packed- got 2 big boxes and one bowl of coleslaw. Check out the metal plates and cup..so cool when your lips touches the ice water and metal cups.



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