Home cooked Food......Finally!!!

If there's one thing I truly envy about Melakan's here, is their ability to feast their tongues on home cooked food most of the time....while we, non-melakan's, have to survive mostly on hawker's food, Mamak food, Maggi mee, McD, Pizza and KFC which will eventually land us in Hospitals if consumed for a very long period...totally not a good thing, unless they have really sexy good looking nurses in public hospitals waiting to treat u there =P

After residing in Melaka for almost 9 months though, I recently managed to get my fair share of home cooked food here in Melaka for 2 nights.....

However, things did NOT turn out exactly as planned......


Before I proceed to the 'main course,' let me introduce to you the Chefs :


Starring,

Liew Kei Fai ( Kei Yan's bro )

Chong Mun Hoe ( Mun Sun's bro )

Lee Thean Ming ( Thean Soong's bro )


[ Kei Fai & Mun Hoe are house mates ]

WARNING !
Bear in mind that we are NOT professional chefs...



DAY 1
At approximately 6.45pm (Tuesday), I walked to Kei Fai's unit ( Ixora apartment ).

The Menu that we had in mind...

" Chicken Curry with Fish Balls"
" Fried Small Fish"
" Fried Sawi & Carrots"

~served with white rice~

sounds like a simple meal huh????
Well, easier said than done.....

And so, the 3 Band of Brothers started getting their hands busy...

We first began cooking the chicken curry....
Placing 2 pieces of chicken into the pot, followed by water and the entire packet of curry powder...

And we turned on the cooker...

Only when it started to boil, then did we realize something was amiss..

Kei Fai had poured too much water...and it was only minutes before the water was going to overpour!!!

Luckily, he had enough sense to take out half of the water in time by using a ladle...

In the meantime, the rice was placed into the rice cooker....

Then, Mun Hoe joined in by pouring some oil into a frying pan. And started frying fish..

SIZZLE SPLATTER SIZZLE SPLATTER

As soon as he placed the small fish into the pan, The oil began 'jumping' like crazy!!!
After awhile, Mun Hoe soon realized that he had put too little oil and as a result, the skin of the fish stuck to the pan...

Then, all of a sudden...






RiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNG !!!!!!!



No, it wasn't the oven.... it was the BLOODY SMOKE DETECTOR!!!!!!
WHAT THE HELL????

Well, at least we now know it is still functioning

The loud noise echoed throughout the 4 corners of the room...
It was the black smoke which came from all the frying that triggered the alarm...
I quickly switched on the ceiling fan...
Oops ....hehe, yeah we kinda forgot to switch it on BEFORE cooking....

After 5 minutes, the alarm went off. Luckily, the apartment's management didn't burst into the place with a fire extinguisher!!!

Ikan Bakar.....

After frying the fish, it was the vegetable's turn to meet their doom...
Muahahahahaha...
Mun Hoe mercilessly chunked garlic, Sawi and carrots into the frying pan...
He then added water....
Soy sauce...
and salt..
LOADS of SALT!!!
Oops....
Another mistake...



After cooking for like one hour, dinner was finally ready to be served !!!!

The Menu which turned out to be...

" Diluted Chicken Curry with fish Balls"
"Ikan Bakar Kecil "
( small burnt fish )
" Salted Fried Sawi & Carrots"

~served with white rice~


well, at least the rice turned out ok =P

Mun Hoe (left) and Kei Fai
Hehe..sry for the blurry effect.
Blame it on my empty grumbling stomach!


In the end, the meal was

tasteable
chewable
munchable
biteable
and
edible

=)


Thank you sooo much guys!!!!!

(PS: If u guys r wondering if I had to park my butt on the toilet bowl after the meal, hehe...nope it didn't happen!)