Petai @ Parkia Speciosa

Petai is one of exotic fruit used in cooking and also people eat it raw. Petai's scientific name is parkia speciosa. It produce a very sharp smell after eating it (smelly mouth or urine). Eventhough people scare of the smell, it have a lot of benefit. One of webpage telling about benefit of petai is www.foreverbanana.com or you can just google it. There are some of the picture of petai.

Vegetable Spring Roll

This spring roll is the usual spring roll we do for breakfast or tea break. The main ingredient is carrot, bean sprouts and turnip (round white root vegetable)(sengkuang in malay) (it's crunchy). Stir fry the 3 vegetable using little oil and some small red onion. Just add in salt for taste. Some people have different ways to roll up the sheet but i done it the typical way. Here are some of the pictures.

 Add some flour and water to make nice thick mixture. It used to seal the edge of the spring roll

 We can put the sping roll in fridge overnight and defrost it before fry it.

You can add up other vegetable as well to make variety of spring rolls. Enjoy!!!!

Royal Museum

My huby got a chance to visit royal museum a day before it's launching day (16 April 2012). This museum used to be Royal Palace for Agong (king) but now Agong have new palace at Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There's some the picture that he manage to snap.

The King and Queen's Old Version Identification Card.

Looking forward to visit this museum soon !!!!

Garam Masala Powder

-Garam Masala is a blend of ground spices.
-It normally contains black & white peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon, mace blades, black & white cumin seed, black, blown & green cardamon pods, nutmeg, star anise, coriander seed & bay leaf.
-It can be used to enhace the taste of curry, to mariante and vegetable saute.
Before this, i use a product from India but now i brought it from Tesco as i attactted to it's packaging. Hope it taste right!!!!!

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Fruits and Vegetables in Kundasang ,Sabah

These photo's taken back in 2010 but i feel like wanted to post it in this blog. What i love most in Sabah is they have exotic fruits which we can't found it other place. These are some of the pic.

 Each packet of vegetable are below market price.

 Local snacks.

 Stawberys.

 Roses

 Yummy ....durian.

 Flowers

 Chilies

 1 : Langsat (Lansium domesticum), 2 : Longan (Dimocarpus longan lour), 3: Jambu Air (Euginia aquea), 4: Rambutan (rambutan), 5: Manggis (mangosteen), 6: Mangga Epal (manggo), 7: Durian (durian), 8: Salak (salacca edulis), 9: Tarap (Artocarpus odoratissimus), 10 : Limau Manis (citrus suhuensis), 11 : Durian Belanda (soursop), 12: Nona (anona squamosa), 13: Tembikai Susu (melon), 14 : Limau Bali (pamelo).

 1: Pisang (banana), 2: Rosela (hibiscus sabdariffa), 3: Groundnuts, 4: Banana Chips, 5: Cempedak (jackfruit-soft type)



1: Langsat (langsium domensticum jack), 2: Longan (Dimocarpus longan lour), 3: Durian, 4: Cerry Tomatoes, 5: Nangka (jackfruit-hard type)

Kerdas Fruit @ Buah Genuak

-Scientific Name : Pithecellobium Bubalinum
-From herbs vegetables family (ulam-ulaman).
-Smell stronger than Petai (parkia speciosa) and Jering (archidendron jiringa).
-Normally eat it raw or dipped in sambal.
-Kerdas have thick and hardskin (need to peel the skin before eat it with rice).
-Young kerdas in yellow or green colour and turn to dark brown colour (suitable to eat).

More Chitty Boy Picture

Is my Shih Tzu puppy cute or what?

Buah Keranji @ Velvet Tamarinds

Scientific Name : Dialuim Indicum
-Small, typical grape sized edible fruit with brown hard inedible shell.
-Taste similar to tamarind but not very sour as tamarind.
-Bought it at Pekan Sehari, Temerloh, Pahang.
-One of my favourite exotic fruits.

Tampoi Fruit

Local Name : Tampoi
Scientific Name : Baccaurea macrocarpa
Other Names : Baccaurea griffithii
Family : Phyllanthaceae
Explanation :
Baccaurea macrocarpa, also called Tampoi, is a small, tropical rainforest sub storey fruit trees native to Southeast Asia, especially Borneo. It is delicious, and the female trees bear fruit directly on the trunk and large branches. The fruit is large, orange-skinned, white-fleshed, with a delicious tangy flavour somewhat like mandarin (tangerine). Depending on conditions, the fruit may closely clothe the trunk beautifully, like the fruit of many Ficus species.

Source from : http://sa-er.blogspot.com/