Picnic by the beach

Last Friday, hubby and I took the day off to spend time with Emily as school holidays will end this week. We decided to have a simple picnic by the beach at Bt. Ferringhi. It was quite hot when we reached the beach, thankfully there were lots of pine trees which provided shade and it felt really cooling with the strong sea breeze blowing towards us. There were many other families who were picnicking there too.

Emily was so excited about it and I could see that she enjoyed herself so much playing with sand and trying to build sand castles. Next time must let her wear her swim suit.

Hokkien Mee Fiesta

I recently bought 2 packets of hokkien mee paste from a friend of mine, http://www.talentcook.com/. Decided to cook them at my brother's house today. My parents helped to prepare the soup which is cooked by frying prawn shells in chilly with "belacan", grind the shells before adding into the chicken stock to cook soup. Finally sieve the soup to remove any residues. Err.. sounds like alot of work, isnt it?? All I did was bringing the paste and added them into the ready cooked soup, LOL...

We had a lot of other extra ingredients when serving which included fish ball, "sui bak", hard boiled eggs, kangkung, prawns and taugeh.

Everyone, including my nieces agreed that it was really good, so much better than those sold by most of the hawkers.

Very satisfying attempt and looking forward to more hokkien mee sessions :)