Seabass Siakap 海石甲 Fish

 

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2021/11/08/siakap-shocker-langkawi-restaurant-told-to-explain/

A restaurant has been asked to explain after a customer complained about an alleged RM1,196.80 bill for ‘siakap’ (sea bass).

PETALING JAYA: A seafood restaurant in Langkawi has been slapped with a notice from the authorities over a customer’s complaint of being charged RM1,196.80 for a dish of ‘siakap’ (sea bass).

The action comes after a customer’s online rant about the bill, allegedly an eye-watering RM1,759.50, for a meal for seven people. The bill was said to have included RM1,196.80 for the fish weighing 7.48kg.

The customer said he was shocked when he saw the bill. However, the restaurant owner said she informed the customer about the price of RM16 per 100gm for the fish.

Harian Metro reported today that the domestic trade and consumer affairs ministry has issued a notice to the restaurant under the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act. The restaurant has five days to respond.

“We will give them five days to explain several matters pertaining to the cost of the fish and other food sold at the restaurant,” said the ministry’s Kedah enforcement chief Mohd Shahran Mohd Arshad.

“At this point in time we cannot say (if the restaurant) is in the wrong or not. Once we receive their response we will carry out a detailed analysis of their costs to determine whether there was an unreasonable increase in prices.”

He also urged consumers who had any complaints with restaurants to lodge complaints directly to the ministry instead of posting about them on social media, saying this will help speed up the investigation process.

Streets of London

 

Back to Black by Amy Winehouse

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0006lr8

Wind of Change

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00070b2

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52046893

Why Ralph McTell has updated his hit Streets of London for coronavirus era

In shop doorways, under bridges, in all our towns and cities

You can glimpse the makeshift bedding from the corner of your eye

Remember what you're seeing barely hides a human being

We're all in this together, brother, sister, you and I.

https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/ralph-mctell/streets-of-london

https://youtu.be/DiWomXklfv8

Ralph McTell

https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/ralph-mctell/streets-of-london

https://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/r/ralph_mctell/streets_of_london.html

Have you seen the old man
In the closed-down market
Kicking up the paper,
With his worn out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride
Hand held loosely at his side
Yesterday's paper telling yesterday's news

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
And say for you that the sun don't shine.
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old girl
Who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
She's no time for talking,
She just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home in two carrier bags.

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
And say for you that the sun don't shine.
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind

In the all night cafe
At a quarter past eleven,
Same old man sitting there on his own
Looking at the world
Over the rim of his tea-cup,
Each tea lasts an hour
Then he wanders home alone

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
Don't say for you that the sun don't shine.
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old man
Outside the Seaman's Mission
Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears
In our winter city,
The rain cries a little pity
For one more forgotten hero
And a world that doesn't care

So how can you tell me you're lonely,
And say for you that the sun don't shine.
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind

In shop doorways, under bridges, in all our towns and cities

You can glimpse the makeshift bedding from the corner of your eye

Remember what you're seeing barely hides a human being

We're all in this together, brother, sister, you and I.

COVID-19 Patient Testimony

 

https://asianbeacon.org/from-the-brink-of-death-a-covid-19-victims-experience/

From The Brink Of Death A Covid 19 Victim’s Experience

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By Hannah Siew (not her real name)

We were shocked when we received news from our very close friend Hannah Siew that she was infected with covid19. Not wanting to alarm anyone, she did not inform anyone outside her family. She recounts her story….

How it started

On the third day after my covid19 vaccination at the vaccination centre on 5 July, I began to feel unwell. I believe I caught the virus there as I later found out that four others at the centre tested positive. The Covid symptoms that began appearing included a rapidly growing temperature, persistent dry cough and a splitting headache with loss of full taste and smell with fatigue and muscle aches were thrown in.  I was becoming weaker as I began to lose appetite and ate little. I almost collapsed in the bathroom and had to rush to my bed with my hair and body dripping wet.

As my husband was away in another country and unable to return home for about one and a half years because of travel restrictions, I decided to talk to my neighbour, a medical doctor.  Alarmed, she immediately insisted that I drive to her hospital for a Covid19 swab test. At 1 a.m on 13 July, the hospital rang to report that my test showed I was infected with almost a whole load of the virus, suspected Delta variant.

I was advised to get hospital admission immediately. This started a round of telephoning. Doctor friends were also trying to assist in the hospital hunt for a bed. But every hospital we rang replied, “Sorry, our wards are full.” Meanwhile, I was burning with fever and convulsing with body chills. Then God came to the rescue. A doctor at a private hospital reported, “I recognised  Ms Siew’s name. We have a vacant bed. We will reserve it for her.” Later, my doctor neighbour told me that if I were left alone at home, statistics show that more than 700 people were brought into hospital dead for the past three months.

Journey to the brink

In the hospital, I was deteriorating rapidly. I could hardly speak in a feverish delirium, for every time I tried to talk, my ribs went into a painful spasm. Taking a breath exerted excruciating pain on my chest muscles. My tender ribs prevented me from breathing, yet I desperately tried to get air into my lungs.  I felt like I was drowning in water.

I was aware of the nurses and doctors discussing in worried whispers, ‘Her oxygen level is dangerously low at 88. The blood inflammation level is escalating”.  I asked the infectious disease specialist if I would need ICU treatment. He replied, “Possible, anything can happen.  We just don’t know how nasty the virus can be.  We are monitoring your progress very carefully.” I began to wonder if I would make it as a number of my Christian friends had succumbed to the infection. One week lying in the hospital, with only three tiny increments in my oxygen level, my temperature hit 39.9 °C. I felt seriously unwell.  The room around me was spinning. I began to fear I would become an added statistic on the Covid19 death count.

My thoughts

So many thoughts crisscrossed my mind. But amazingly, I was calm. I prayed, “Lord, I am not afraid to die because I will soon be with you in my heavenly mansion. Anyway, all of us have to die one day. What is important is to be with you in eternity as You promised.”

Then another thought came, “but I am not ready to go”. I prayed fervently “Lord, there are so many of Your assignments which I have not finished.  I want to finish them. Besides Lord, I have not seen my husband and children for the last one and a half years because of the lock-down. God, please allow me to see them”. I then raised my weak arms into the air and repeatedly pleaded, “God, please pour your healing on this poor woman….I am not ready to die…. please heal me.”

A visitation

Suddenly I felt a gust of warm air flowing through me, touching my outstretched arms down to my body. Slowly I felt strength seeping into my whole body. I knew the Lord was healing me. I could breathe.  Then I fell into a deep sleep.

I was awakened by the excited voice of the nurse who had come to remove my oxygen tube to check my oxygen level. “Your blood oxygen level is almost back to normal! Such a quick turnaround, from 80 + to 96. That’s amazing!”

I sat up. I could breathe. I could speak. I knew God was healing me the moment I felt the warmth and His close presence.

After ten days in the hospital, I was discharged with no lung scarring or any side effects on the rest of my body.  Although I was still unwell and it took another two weeks to regain my energy after losing 7 kg., my experience has taught me many precious lessons. I have become ever more conscious that God is near me when I call on Him. He is my healer, my fortress, my stronghold, my real and living God. I may not understand why things happen, but I will put myself in His hands whatever happens.

Music from Jaw Harp

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAp1fPt8Eg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH2J81ZjsGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP3RkDEGiXY

When Pets Die

 

Mooncakes Special Filling Pastes Recipes

http://www.bakingtaitai.com/

http://www.bakingtaitai.com/2014/09/mini-baked-custard-mooncakes.html


http://www.grouprecipes.com/130200/taro-paste-fillings.html

• 1kg Taro/Yam
• 400g sugar
• 180ml vegetable cooking oil

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• 1.Discard taro skin, try to get rid of the hard skin else paste will not be fine and smooth.
• 2. Cut into pieces and steam until soft. Test the steamed taro by using a chopstick or fork if taro breaks easily, taro is cooked.
• 3. Mash or blend the steamed taro when hot. If Taro gets cool down, mashed taro has more particles texture not so smooth.
• 4. Blend until taro feels fine and smooth without particles feeling.
• 5. Add in sugar and vegetable oil into a pot and cook over the stove
• 6. Stir and cook the mixture for about 15-20 minutes.
• 7. When the mixture turns into dough form and not so sticky, paste is ready.
• 8. Cool down and leave aside to serve as moon cake fillings.
• Tips:
• Choose bigger Taro, the bigger the better. Test freshness of Taro by scribing the bottom of the taro, if powdery feeling the Taro is good.
• http://sze-min.blogspot.my/2014/08/espresso-jelly-mooncake.html#more
• Espresso Jelly Mooncake
  Milk Jelly
  （A)  
  25g sugar
  1.5tsp agar-agar powder
  130ml water
  70ml milk
  50ml evaporated milk
  
  Espresso Jelly
  (B)  
  2.5tsp agar-agar powder
  500ml espresso coffee (I dissolved 4Tbsp of espresso in hot water and mix with milk)
  50g sugar
  
  Recipe for mock egg yolk can refer to the previous post. 
  
  1. Boil (A) till sugar dissolves. Pour into small mould to set slightly. Insert mock egg yolk slices into the milk jelly.
  2. Bring (B) to boil.
  3. Pour 1/4 of (B) into agar agar mooncake mould. Set slightly. Place in milk jelly and fill up the mould with balance espresso mixture. Chill till set before unmoulding.
  

http://eatingpleasure.blogspot.my/2010/09/jelly-mooncake-and-happy-mid-autumn.html?m=1

Jelly Moon Cake

Ingredients:

10g Konnyaku jelly powder
180g of fine sugar
1000ml of water
pineapple cubes
ruby  grapes, halved
green kiwi, cubed

Steps:

1. Mix Konnyaku jelly powder with sugar.

2. Bring 1000ml of water to a boil. Gradually pour in the mixture in boiling water and stir well until mixture is dissolved .

3. Put cut pieces of fruits into moulds and pour the Konnyaku solution into the moulds.

4. Put moulded jelly solution in the fridge for at least one hour. Serve chilled.

http://rasamalaysia.com/snow-skin-mooncake/

Snow Skin Mooncake Recipe

Makes 8 Mooncakes

Ingredients:

Mooncake Skin

130g Cooked Glutinous Rice Flour (Gao Fen) Sifted
160g powdered sugar
130 ml boiled carrot, dragonfruit juice or screwpine leaves juice
2 Tbsp fresh milk
1 Tbsp shortening (I use Crisco)

Filling

1 kg Moocake paste  (Red Bean, Lotus, Green tea)
80g melon seeds (lightly toasted)

Note: The filling is available at bakery supply shop in Malaysia and Singapore. For those of you who wants to make the lotus paste, you can get the recipe from here.

Method:

Squeeze the juice and heat till boiling point. Cool the juice in fridge for about 4-6 hours.
Sieve together the icing sugar and cooked glutinous flour.
Add in the shortening. Combine until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
Add in the juice and milk. Mix to a soft and smooth dough. Let it rest for 10 minutes.
Divide the dough in 60g and roll into a ball. Wrap each ball with cling wrap until ready to use.

Filling:
Add melon seeds to mooncake paste.
Roll it tightly into a ball of 120g each.

To make Mooncakes

Method:

Lightly dust hands with cooked glutinous rice flour. Flatten the dough. Place the filling into the center of the dough.
Wrapped it up tightly and seal the edges.
Put in a floured mooncake mould. Tap and remove it.
Chill for at least 6 hours before serving.

Traditional Chinese Snow Skin Mooncake with creamy custard filling

8 hours

Ingredients

Vegetarian

∙ Makes 16

Canned Goods

• 185 g Milk or unsweetened coconut milk

Condiments

• 1 1/2 tbsp Custard powder

Pasta & Grains

• 1/2 cup Wheat starch
• 20 g Wheat starch

Baking & Spices

• 1/2 cup Granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup Rice flour, glutinous
• 45 g Rice flour, glutinous
• 35 g Rice flour
• 40 g Sugar or sugar, powder

Oils & Vinegars

• 18 g Vegetable oil

Dairy

• 2 tbsp Butter, unsalted
• 100 ml Milk

https://cookwithmi.wixsite.com/cookwithmi/single-post/2016/09/06/Avocado-Soymilk-Jelly-Mooncake

Avocado Soymilk Jelly Mooncake

September 6, 2016

After seeing so many responses from my Dragonfruit Coconut Jelly Mooncake last week, here's sharing a healthy combinations. Avocado Soymilk Jelly Mooncake. All natural colouring, no artificial colouring. Nice pastel green hues as the outer skin, pairing with soymilk white fillings inside. 

Avocados have been cultivated since 8000 BC and they are valued for their delicious taste and amazing health benefits. One avocado can have twice the potassium of a banana. They have a creamy, rich & fatty texture and blend well with various other ingredients. Can be use a bread spread, add to the salad or eat it on it's own.

- high in essential vitamins & minerals

- contain heart-healthy monounsaturated fats

- rich in potassium for helping maintain normal blood pressure 

- promote healthy bones with their Vitamin K content

- give our body a natural lift of energy from B Vitamins

- contain anti-inflammatory properties

- promote good digestion with their fiber content & weight management

- helps keep eyes healthy & maintain healthy skin

- lower cholesterol

- rich in folic acid (especially good for women & women trying to conceive & important during pregnancy for the developing baby)

Ingredients: (makes 4 pcs)

SOYMILK INNER FILLING

210ml Sweetened Soy Milk (I'm using packet type)

1 tsp Agar-Agar Powder (Pearl Mermaid Brand)

1 pc Pandan Leaves

* You need 4 small cups. Try putting the cups into the mooncake mould to make sure it fits nicely into the center of the mooncake. You can also use silicon small tart mould.

(No sugar needed as Soymilk already sweetened)

AVOCADO OUTER LAYER

100ml Water

160ml Fresh Milk

15g Sugar

1 1/2 tsp Agar-Agar Powder (Pearl Mermaid Brand)

1/2 Avocado

2 pcs Pandan Leaves

You will need : 1 x 4pcs mooncake jelly mould

Step by Step to make Soymilk Inner Filling

1. In a pot, bring soymilk, pandan leaves & agar-agar powder to a boil.

(I'm using measurement spoon from Daiso)

2. Once the mixture starts bubbling & agar-agar melted, discard pandan leaves & turn off heat.

3. Pour into small cups and leave to set completely. (You may put in the fridge once it cools down for quicker setting time)

5. Adjust the thickness of the inner fillings so that it can fit perfectly into the mould. Roughly about 2cm or 2.5cm thickness will do the best trick.

(No picture taken for the above steps. You may refer my previous post on jelly mooncake to see step by step pictures)

Step by Step to make Avocado Outer Skin Layer

1. In a pot, bring water, sugar, pandan leaves & agar-agar powder to a boil. Stirring occasionally.

2. Meanwhile cut avocado into small cubes. Blend avocado flesh with 60ml milk into thick smooth puree.

3. Add in balance of 100ml milk into the blender & continue to blend till mix completely. Don't over blend as it will get too foamy. 

4. Discard pandan leaves. Lower the heat & slowly pour blended avocado milk into the agar-agar mixture. Stir to combined.

5. Turn to lowest heat & keep them warm.

5. Now, get ready to assemble the jelly mooncake.

Instructions to assemble the Avocado Soymilk Jelly Mooncake:

Before pouring the jelly mixture into the mould, slightly wet the mould. This is to prevent the mooncake jelly from sticking to the mould and easy removal. It's okay to have some water drops in the mould.

1. Pour 1 cm of the avocado mixture into the mooncake mould. About 1cm - 1.5cm thickness.

2. Leave to cool down until it is almost set.

3. Take out your soymilk inner fillings jelly, carefully remove them from the small cups and place them on a plate.

4. Spoon 1/2 tsp of the avocado mixture in the center of the almost set jelly. (This step is to make sure the soymilk inner filling sticks & holds tightly and not easily separated by layer when you cut them)

5. Carefully & slowly placed the soymilk inner fillings onto the center of the mooncake mould.

6. Next, fill the mooncake mould with more avocado mixture until it's full.

7. Leave to cool and set completely.

8. Transfer them into the fridge to chill for at least 1-2hrs.

9. When ready to serve, remove jelly mooncakes from the mould and cut them into quarters. 

TIPS : Do not remove jelly mooncake from the mould until you are ready to eat. Jelly will release some water when oxidize.

Happy Cooking!!