Satay dan Pari bakar

Satay...one of my favourite delicacies.And my mem's too.
I like satay daging and perut. Mem likes satay ayam.
There are not many good satay outlets in Jebatville. The only one worth( at least for me and Mem) is Mansor's located in Jalan Tun Perak in Historical City of Jebatville.
After becoming the permanent citizen of Jebatville 17 years ago I was in agony when my palate wants to taste satay.Most of the satay stalls offered either kuah satay'cair' or they are stingy that their satays became satay 'kurus'.
About 12 years ago I discovered Mansor and his wife with their satay.He rented a space(tapak) in front of Shukor's Restoran (which is beside Klinik Mawar). Before he came here he had traded his satay elsewhere. He moved to Shukor's because the night crowd was better( actually the clinic's crowd).And most of the patrons will 'Tapau' after enjoying several cucok of satay.

Mansor's satay is sweet and tender be it chicken or beef. His gravy is thick with lots of groundnut in it. I could always drink the gravy or cicah with ketupat nasi or with bread if there are no more satay left.

Satay...while in Primary school I always dream of eating satay everytime going to town. There was a big food court between the Taiping Market and Baazar Melayu in the 6-'s and early 80's. These food court offered variety of delicacies from nasi campur, Mee Combat( thats Mee goreng mamak),mee rebus,mee bandung and lots more. But for me the special items are Satay and Sotong Kangkung. But Bapa is not one who goes out to town at night.What more with 5 kids (during that time)tagging along. He will buy what is needed in pekan koboi Kemunting on his way back from the camp.

So thre was no way for us to have satay in Taiping.

Our only consolation was when Pakcik satay( I don't know his real name) came cycling to our lorong, squeezing his bicycle horn " Phot!Phot!Phot!"

I will run out of the house and wait for him to arrive at our house.He will be somewhere nearby barbecuing his satay and chatting with whoever is buying. And it seemed like a decade for him to finish talking and burning the satay. Most probably I had swallowed several liters of my own saliva before he came with a big smile and asking" Bopa cucuk hang nak nih?"(how many sticks do you want?).

I will tell him 10 cucok. 2 for each of us. If Bapak or Mak had already come home I will asked for maybe 20-30 cucuk. Is not 10 cucuk will be enough with the 50 sen that I kept for 2 weeks of my daily school allowance.

And I will ask for 'kuah lebih' from Pakcik satay which he obliged. He would say" Pi masuk ambik mangkok di dapoq hang".

And the satay bought with my own pocket money was always sedap.
(Sometimes when I only have 5 sen or 10 sen I would go to the house he stopped and bought 1 or 2 cucuk just for myself)

When I was in Std 6, a cousin took me along to Taiping in the evening with his friends after getting their pay. We went to eat satay at the Food court near the Baazar Melayu. He ordered satay daging,satay ayam,satay kambing and satay perut.I was smiling ear to ear when the mamak put the satay plate on our table. My cousin asked if I want mee combat before the satay. No way Jose! That would make me full and only few cucuk of satay. I want to eat satay and satay only that night. I ate about 20 cucuk of satay especially satay daging and satay perut with thick gravy. And ice kacang after that.
That memory of satay feast still lingers in me.

Now I'm wondering where can I get Satay perut in Jebatville...

2nd item: Pari Bakar( Tuka/tuke/baby Pari)

Ni satu lagi yang aku boleh jadi lemah. Tuka/anak pari bakar.Give it to me anytime and I will stop doing anything just to lavish the Tuka Bakar.

Tuka/Tuke/anak Pari Bakar

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Bunga Bakawali... mystical flower(?)

Bunga Bakawali(Epiphyllum anguliger) is a family of Cactaceae.
Ianya adalah tanaman hiasan yang sebenarnya sejenis tanaman kaktus.
Ia mempunyai daun yang lebar dan leper. Tunas bunganya tumbuh dari tepi daun.
Tunas bunga sebelum kembang menyaamai bentuk bunga kantan.
Bunga bakawali hanya mengembang mekar mulai jam 11.00 malam dan kembang sepenuhnya pada jam 12.00 tengah malam. Kembangan ini akan mulai layu selepas 4 jam di mana ia akan menguncup layu.
Bunga bakawali berwarna putih bersih dan berbau harum.

Terdapat mitos tentang bunga bakawali dalam cerita-cerita Melayu( mulut ke mulut). kononnya bila bunga ini mengembang pada jam 12 malam, seorang puteri yang cantik jelita akan turun dari kayangan. Sesiapa yang dapat melihat puteri itu akan di kahwini oleh puteri tersebut.
Air atau sap dari bunga bakawali kononnya boleh di jadikan minyak pengasih.

Pokok bunga bakawali dengan tunas bunga

Kat rumah aku ada la sepasu pokok bunga Bakawali. Dari mana mem aku dapat tak lah aku ketahui. 3-4 malam lalu ada 2kuntum bakawali mula kembanh around 11 malam. By 12 midnite memang kembang full blown. cantik yang amat aku perhati. Pagi esoknya around 7 am 3 kuntum tu dah kayu dan lentok( macam mat pit lentok layaknya). The next nite ada lagi 5 kuntum kembang. Memang cantik menawan. Putih melepak dan bersih.( nanti tengok gambar2 yg aku boh ni kalau tak percaya. Cuma keharumannya tak gheti macamana aku nak boh dalam blog ni, so jangan marah ehh...)

Tunas bunga bakawali yang keluar dari tepi(edge) daun yg leper.

5 kuntum bakawali yg kembang pada 2nd nite

Kuntum Bakawali yang putih bersih dengan tunas yg belum kembang

Kuntum bunga yang telah layu dan kuyu

Tapi aku tunggu punya tunggu punya tunggu tak dak pun puteri cantik yang turun masa bunga tu kembang. Yang ada dengan aku permaisuri aku yang tumpang sekaki tengok bunga.

Tak tau lah aku apasai orang dulu-dulu kata ada puteri cun melecun mai bila bakawali kembang.

(Semua foto taken by tokasid)

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Alhamdulillah Hafiz

Alhamdulillah and congratulation Hafiz.
Itu saja yang boleh ayah katakan kat Hafiz bila Hafiz dapat tawaran utk ke SMAP Kajang mulai 31 Jan 2007 depan untuk tingkatan 4 .

Ayah tahu Hafiz risau untuk ke SMAP Kajang dan ayah faham kerisauan Hafiz.
Hafiz risau sebab tak pernah dok di asrama. Hafiz risau pasai rasa tak pandai nak buat kawan baru. Hafiz risau pasai tak gheti nak main bolasepak macam teenager lain.

Ayah dan mama pernah dok asrama malah sejak umur 13 tahun kami dok hostel dah.
(Tapi ayah dulu boleh main bola dan mulut 'ghambang' senang buat kawan).
Memanglah pada permulaan kita akan rasa susah nak adjust.Memang pada permulaan akan ada yg nak buli kita.Tapi itu semua sat saja Hafiz.Dalam 2 minggu InsyaALLAH dah boleh sesuai.
Tujuan Hafiz ke sana ialah untuk belajar di tempat yg lebih baik dari sekolah sekarang.
SMAP mempunyai kemudahan yg lebih sempurna.Ini guru kaunselor Hafiz sendiri yang beritahu kepada Hafiz dan kawan2 yg lain.Tak ramai yang dapat tawaran begini jadi Hafiz gunakan peluang ini sebaik mungkin.Lagi pun cuma 2 tahun sahaja.

Hafiz ambil peluang ini utk berdikari. Kenalah belajar basuh pakaian sendiri,sterika sendiri, pergi gunting rambut sendiri( kat sana tak dak Uncle Rajan tau...so you have to accept that). Hafiz kena beli barang2 keperluan sendiri bila pergi outing.Kalau nak makan di gerai atau KFC atau McD atau satay Kajang kenalah bayar sendiri. Hafiz kenalah budget everything sendiri.

Sekurang-kurangnya SMAP akan jadi tempat pendewasaan bagi Hafiz.
Hafiz tentu tahu ramai ulama-ulama muktabar dahulu pada usia sebegini telah keluar merantau mencari ilmu ke serata pelusuk bumi. Pergi tanpa mak ayah mereka.hafiz cuma pergi Kajang dan sudah diberi tempat tinggal di sana.

Harapan ayah dan mama, Hafiz belajar bersungguh-sungguh. Kejarlah cita-cita Hafiz sebaik mungkin. Be useful to Islam,yourself and the ummah.

Kat SMAP Hafiz walau tak gheti main bola, tapi boleh teruskan dengan chess seperti di sini. Juga teruskan dengan aktiviti Hafazan. Mungkin tahun ini boleh untuk Selangor pula.

Mama dan ayah akan sentiasa mendoakan Hafiz.And you know you have us to fall on.

Tahniah sekali lagi Hafiz

Love
Ayah dan Mama

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Saingbod di epot kelate

I got this photo via e-mail from a sahabat today.
I do not know wether its really written like this at Pengkalan Chepa Airport. I didn't noticed during my last visit there by plane.
Anyway have a good laugh...
(maybe Mr Awang Goneng,Mr Bergen and Clark Gable could come out with the Trenganuspeak sign board)

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Its food time again..for your eyes only

Its been a while since my last entry on food. I hope Morni and Mr Bergen will like this one. The last 2 weeks there is nothing exciting gasronomically except, we had Landak(porcupine) for the first time in our lives at home.

The landak was given by a friend who caught the landak behind a school in Jebatville.( he gave us ayam hutan once) and his wife told us landak is nice as masak lemak cili padi or Kari(Gulai).

So we asked our maid to cook masak lemak cili padi.Initially there were apprehension. As I was at work, Atok and Hafiz tasted it during lunch and both said it tasted like chicken.

Me and Mem took at dinner.The landak meat was soft and the thick skin felt like jelly.

It doesn't taste like chicken at all. It tasted...LANDAK!

But its really delicious. Maybe the next landak will be Kari Landak.

Landak masak lemak cili padi...sedap for a first timer

Landak masak lemak cili padi

Last Sunday me and Mem went to the newly opened Giant in Jebatville. There were not many fishes aroud( due to the Flood) but the Lala caught my eyes. It had been sometime since we ate Lala. So half a kilo of Lala we bought and as usual its Lala masak Air with Onions. Its sooooo sweeeet.

Lala masak air with onions...simply delicious

Last night we had Mee Kari Fishball. Very lemak.

Alhamdulillah.

Mee kari fishball- homecooked

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Something to share(pics)

Here are few photos I want to share with bloggers who visited this blog.These are simple pics taken by very cheap digicam. I take pics whenever I see something interesting( to me that is) be it scenery,animals,plants,flowers and anything that came across my path.(Tapi tak dak pula minah2 cun lalu kat depan aku....ini kalu mem baca mesti marah. Jangan marah eh sayang..)

Silhoutte kelapa selepas hujan( Pantai Puteri Melaka)

Senja di Pengkalan Kundor Melaka

Senja Bukit Katil(from south wing)

Pai and Adik: Senja Bukit Katil

all photos by tokasid

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Happy Birthday ,Son

HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY HAFIZ

14th January 1991(Monday) at 7.10 am you were scooped out of Mama's womb by Dr Tey and his assistant Dr Norlida Khairon during the Ceasarean section. Dr Fauziah the paediatric medical officer and Staff Nurse Liew were there to receive you and they hurriedly did suction on you. The reflex of that you gave a huge cry.Your first cry to the world. After cleaning and wrapping you up Mama Liew gave you back to me to perform the Azan and Iqamah. Then I read Ayatul Kursi and al-Ikhlas,al-Falaq and al-Nas.

We were filled with joy . Atok and Nenek were elated(nenek especially). Tokwan and Tok had arrived from Taiping to welcome the first grandson of both families. All the relatives were informed and all your uncles and aunts were proud to become uncles and aunties.You brightened our lives.

Son, when you were born Melaka and the world were facing lots of crisis. Melaka had its water crisis. A month before you were born, suddenly all the taps in Melaka were dry! Everyone had to dig a well in their backyards( we had one at Atok's house).The govt took water from lakes and ponds all over Melaka. The Melaka dam was dry!Melaka Hospital was hardest hit. Whenever I had to do the emergency C-section we had to scrub with water taken from lakes with lots pf debri and dirt. Luckily our final rinse was with Normal Saline.(That is the reason your Mama had high spiking fever post partum.

A day before you were born, President Bush Sr sent in his Army to invade Iraq for the first time.The rest of it was history.And you know that now his son(President Bush Jr.) did the same.

You were easy to take care of. Your night feeding was between 2-3 am. I and your Mama took turns to make the bottle. Sometimes you had difficulty to sleep. We had to drive you around Bandar Melaka to make you sleepy.

Your first word suprised us. we were watching TV when a lizard(cicak) crawled on the ceiling. You said " CIDAK!". We were overjoyed. Your other milestones were like any other kids.

Hafiz, in life you have to work hard to achieve your goals. There is no easy way or any shortcuts to be successful in life. Me and Mama will always be there to guide and support you. You can count on that.

Son, I'll let you decide what you want to do professionally.My only request is: Be a good Mukmin. Follow the Quran and Sunnah of Rasulullah s.a.w. as close as possible.Be good to your Mama. Be good to your Atok,Nenek and Tok Hawa. Be good to those who helped you and to those who needed help from you. And please make doa for Mama and Ayah during your solat, especially when we are no more here.

ALLAHumma barik fi to you my son.

Love always from Ayah

Tadika Melaka International School

Tahun 1997: Berkhatan

Tahun 2002: Melaksanakan ibadah Hajj

2003: Johan Hafazan Kebangsaan Sekolah Rendah Malaysia(Sabah)

Hafiz dan Makndak 2005

Hari Raya 'Eidulfitri 2006

Family trip Borobodur Jogjakarta

Hafiz at Kraton Jogyakarta

Hafiz and Haikal(Taman Tasik Taiping)

Daniel,Tok and Hafiz( rumah Tok di Taiping)

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