Roast Duck and Noodle Salad, the perfect mid-week indulgence

duck noodle salad

Sometimes work is such a drag, you know, going to the same place everyday doing that 9 – 5 thing (or til 6 if you’re lucky like me) can really get you down. Holidays feel like they happened an age ago and it’s months until the next long weekend. You wonder why you have to work, why couldn’t I just be independently wealthy and be able to play all day?

Then, in times like these you are thankful and happy to still have your job, even though it takes up almost every waking hour 5 days a week. You are lucky because you are learning loads, meeting cool people and getting paid. This last bit is important so you don’t get evicted, but more importantly, so you can buy some roast duck at your local Chinese BBQ joint.

duck noodle salad

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Toh Soon Cafe, Penang

How embarrassing! I have been back in Australia for a month and I still haven’t finished telling you all about my holiday. My laziness is especially bad as this breakfast that I am about to tell you about was a revelation.

toh soon cafe breakfast

We had been in Penang for a few days and were dealing with that age old no-plan travelling dilemma: should we stay here in this town that we like and eat some more, or do we leave early to spend more time at our next destination, but we don’t know if we will enjoy it as much. So many unknowns! We took a chance and booked bus tickets so we would have 3 days in Malacca. 

I had read about this great ramshackle breakfast spot which happened to be right near our guest house, so on our last day in Penang we breakfasted here. And right away we wished we hadn’t bought tickets south, I wanted at least one more breakfast here.

toh soon cafe

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Chinese Style Steamed Eggplant.

 steamed eggplant

I have been experimenting with eggplant for ages. Looking for a way to recreate silky, tender dishes enjoyed in restaurants without copious amounts of oil. Up until now I have failed, miserably. Greasy, burned, crunchy, tasteless, I tell you, raw eggplant is pretty unpleasant.

So I gave up, until I found this recipe. Finally, some delicious eggplant success!

steamed eggplant close up

 

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Mamak, Chinatown.

mamakmenu

Dinner had been organised for weeks. Uni friends, Mamak, a sumptuous feast. Easy, right? Yeah, until someone double booked themselves. No worries, we would postpone until Monday, Monday should be a good day to visit Mamak, you know, people still getting over their weekend, lines will be shorter and all that. Then Monday rolls around and our numbers are again dwindling. Members of our party are dropping away like flies, until there are only three stalwarts left. But we are excited, and I have a hunger only roti can satiate, and besides, Mamak will be better with only three.

lamb curry
Kari Kambing – Spicy Lamb Curry, $14

kang kung
Kangkung Belacan $12

It looks as though everyone else seems to have caught on to the Monday trick too. The line is long, even at 6:30pm, but soon enough we are seated, and ordered. The Kari Kambing is a flavourful and tender, spicy lamb curry, comforting but not mindblowing. The Kangkung Belacan is well cooked, but much milder with less fishy belacan than I have eaten her previously. This dish is nice, but I wanted a bigger chilli hit.

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(Green) Chocolate Mousse

mousse open book

I am a very, very lucky food blogger, but I have been negligent with spoils of my luck, and for that I apologise, sorry! Months ago (months!) I was fortunate enough to win a prize from Nicky of the beautiful blog Delicious Days by identifying the rose apple/wax jambu. The prize? Delicious Days, the cookbook.

A few weeks later the package arrived all the way from Munich. I rabidly ripped the package open and flipped through the pages of this fun, funky, well-designed cookbook, my attention grabbed by the engagingly beautiful photography, and recipes that made my mouth water and stomach rumble.

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