3 Mar 2013 – Beyond any Doubt, the King of YuiSang/鱼生=raw fish

http://amylamsg.com/2011/02/14/king-of-yuisang%e9%b1%bc%e7%94%9f/

http://amylamsg.com/2012/02/12/a-28-ingredients-dish/

Starved all day to taste this dish so that the flavour can linger till the next tasting 🙂 Have been blessed again to taste this dish by Frank NG’s family 3yrs running. Tkx to Jessie&Frank for sharing the ingredients (some not available overseas).

Appreciations to Ivy&Les for including me. Thank you to Jessie (Ivy’s cousin)&Frank for all the cutting and for sharing the secret in good company of porpor, sis Jo, Angelique&Paul, Sharon&Harry (Ivy’s cousin). The champagne and wine complimented to this most scrumptious YuiSang, tkx to Les.

Preserved ingredients: 1.Vegetable  2.Cucumber 3.Red sweetened ginger  4.White sour ginger 5.Brown melon 6.White melon 7.Leeks. These 7 preserved ingredients can be bought at: Sin Hwa Foodstuff/Senoko South Rd/SIN

Dried candied ingredients: 8.Winter melon 9.Chinese mandarin orange.

Fresh ingredients thinly cut: 10. Two varieties of lettuce/iceberg&romaine 11.carrots 12.Large celery 13.Spring onions 14.Coriander, also known as cilantro, Chinese parsley 15.Red chillies, remove seeds 16.Fish ikan–parang is Malay for wolf-herring/brandy for seasoning, optional.

Fried crisp ingredients: 17.Wonton skin 18.Pillow-shaped crispies/pok chui 19.rice vermicelli/mei fun

Sauces & Seasoning: 20.Five spice power 21.Ground white pepper 22.Thinly sliced fresh ginger 23.Light soya sauce 24.Calamansi juice 25.Finely cut scallions fried till crispy 26.Sesame oil and oils from the deep-fried scallions 27.White sesame seeds 28.Pounded roasted peanuts.

Tossing and mixing this salad with auspicious phrases and sayings.

Second course: raw fish with spring onions, cilantro, red chillies (all finely cut) and seasoning. Some like to dip this into hot congee to cook the fish, my preference is raw. And for those who are still hungry, salted duck, Chinese sausages & pickles, abalone, cooked peanuts to compliment the congee. Bon Appetit!

Please do not ask the measurements as to how much of these 28 ingredients. The art of making good food is many trials and errors, tasting as you go along!

A story about baking told by Ajahn Brahm came to mind when all these ingredients were being typed on the keys and his words – the secret to life… everything is out of control.  And my words eat, sleep, enjoy and live to the fullest – in that order 🙂 🙂 🙂

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes – Ajahn Brahm

1 Mar 2013 – Bye-bye Feb!

Someone tell me what was the occasion 9 months ago before March??? There are at least 8 family and 19 friends’ birthdays this month and do not blame it on St Patrick 🙂

TingTing commented that 9 months before Mar is Jun (start of summer holidays). Now that says it all regarding to the timing of Linn’s birth in Mar and May’s in Sep (Christmas holidays 9 months before Sep)… 🙂 🙂

Thu: appreciations to Hannah for meeting up. Do understand that she only have very few days with her family and friends before returning to Laos. Good luck to her afternoon appointment and enjoy the stay. Trying to remember how I met this adventurous young lady, but seems blur besides that she was studying in Denmark and then ventured on to Trondheim/Norway and somehow I provided her Stenseth’s contact if she needed help…

Edited (3 Mar) and this from Hannah...umm i believe i found out about you when you had that talk about walking the appalachian, but i couldn’t make it to the talk coz i was in norway, or maybe sweden, at that time, so i got my friend weixiong to buy a copy of your book for me instead. and then i must have emailed you and started some conversation about having been on the appalachian for a week myself, and then it just started from there..!

Trips to KCH/Sarawak and to Pusan/Korea (will be the 1st and hopefully the cherry blossoms are blooming) booked and confirmed for this month. New nickname given by Margaret in France, ADA – Always Departing Amy 🙂 🙂 🙂 and will be looking forward to catching up with her in France after the UK Coast-Coast hike.

Told myself that I will watch Argo on the big screen if it wins the Oscar and being true to myself and my words I did just that. Good movie and even when one knows the ending, the suspense is directed with taste to keep me on the edge on the seat. When the real incident happened in 1979-80, was too busy raising the family but do remember vaguely.

Argo****at the peak of the Iranian revolution, a CIA was involved to free 6 US diplomats who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador. Argo tells the story of a plan to convince Iran that the six men were just members of a camera crew who were scouting the area for a science fiction film titled ‘Argo’.

Slate.com: not every critic was pleased to see Argo win Best Picture at the Oscars. After its nomination was announced last month, Kevin B. Lee trashed the film and states that this year’s worst Best Picture nominee. Disagree here but there are some valid points.

Ah Boys To Men: Part 2***a SIN production by Jack Neo focuses on the theme of the definitive path for all young men in SIN National Service/NS. It is SIN first military themed film in 10 years, as well as the first movie duology, with the first part being released in 2012. Have not seen Part I, will try to get hold of a copy someday. As the title says it all, it is about boys learning to be men and the best place is in NS, especially for the SIN boys… 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Mar family Bdays:

9 Mar – Happy Bday Sue Lynn

11 Mar – Happy Bday Ken

14 Mar – Happy Bday Ellie

17 Mar – Happy Bday Pat Lynn and Beth, Happy St Patrick’s Day

18 Mar – Happy Bdays Linn & Yi Sheng.

21 Mar – Happy Anniversary to Ivy & Leslie

31 Mar – Happy Bday Josephine

Happy Mar Bdays to: Anthony, Gel, Geno, John Lim, Natty (SIN). Soakhoon (Malaysia), Alex (BKK), Hannah (Laos), Simplicius (Australia). Amelia, Paul, Steven (Ireland), Thomas (Norway). Al, Cee, Janice, Marcella, Warren (USA).