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Warning: This will seriously impress even your mother-in-law! Malaysian desserts or Kuih are normally very sweet! Kuih rose is kind of different as it is deep fried: most likely from the Indian cuisine. But in the melting pot of all food in Malaysia, the origin is less important than the delicious taste! Further on Kuih rose . . . → Read More: Kuih Rose Recipe Now what has TheSkinnyCook to do with cholesterol? According to my doctors a lot! I am not on a real diet, obesity is not in me nor my family, hearth is ok, be it a little lazy, blood pressure is low, no hearth disease in our family and a Skinny Cook worthy: not at all fat. Hmmmm, come . . . → Read More: Lower Cholesterol This is mom’s curry recipe: lots of preparation to do if you only use a mortar and pestle. A lot of sweat and tears for a delicious curry. More tears if you use an extra amount of chilies… Quick dinner recipes This curry chicken recipe is prepared much faster using a blender, but mom swears that the authentic . . . → Read More: Quick Dinner Recipes: Mom’s curry Chicken What is more important you get a FREE Airport Pick-up included! Only the pick-up would cover your 3$ expense! Does this sounds too good to be true? You can check it out for yourself at my favorite find the lowest price website. You just type in Kota Kinabalu and the top most listed hotel shows a price . . . → Read More: A bed in Borneo for only 3$ a night! For those who want a taste from what moon-cakes (last Tuesday festival) are all about but don’t have a Chinese shop nearby… My below recipe is for 15 Lotus Paste Moon-Cakes Ingredients moon-cake lotus paste 21 ounce (600gr) lotus seed Method . . . → Read More: Mooncake recipe My relatives in Malaysia are preparing for the Mooncake festival which is the Mid Autumn Feast for the Chinese. This year it falls on September 24th. Never mind that Neil Armstrong has landed on the moon and has “spoilt” the ancient beliefs, the Chinese still celebrate it year after year. Mooncakes are sweet confectionary and are shaped like . . . → Read More: Mooncake festival is around the corner! Here I am sitting in Kos reading about the hot news about the forests around Athens, hotter than hot Minah Rempit and still laughing about the hot and funny Singapore Sluts in my Sexy Singapore post of yesterday Hot news What’s happening around Athens is hot like we don’t want it: forests are on fire, temperatures . . . → Read More: Greece, Minah Rempit and Singapore Sluts Papaya smoothie Papaya is growing in each Malaysian garden, when the owner of the garden wants to have some fresh fruit. You just saw the papaya seed and 3 months later you can see the fresh papayas getting ripe on your papaya tree. Papaya is ideal for making smoothies (if the papayas come for free…): it . . . → Read More: Papaya Smoothie from Malaysia For a travel guide based on real experiences by real people go to realtravel.com. This is a travel guide and trip planner powered by advice from real travelers. The Editors Picks have all the best travel experiences, photos and recommendations from the community of RealTravel for people who love traveling and do it passionately. You can discover . . . → Read More: The worlds’ best travel guide ever!  Leave a comment  Australia, Belgium, Bodrum, Bodrum Turkey, Bulgaria, Buzz, China, Costa Rica, Cruises, Cultures, Daily Kos, Elba, England, Greece, Greek Food Picture, Hawaii, Hotels in Malaysia, Italy, Japan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Malaysian Food, Malaysian restaurants, Misc, Philippines, Planet Food, Restaurants, Reviews, Singapore, Spain, Taiping, Taste of Home, Thailand, Travel, Travel Jersey City, Turkey, Tuscany, USA, Vietnam There are lots of ways to make curry chicken, basically because “curry” means sauce in it’s language of origin: India. So basically you use a lot of Indian spices to make a chicken “swim” in a sauce. If you don’t like your chicken to swim, then you go for dry curry recipes. A curry is any of a . . . → Read More: How to make curry chicken? If you love shopping but hate being squeezed by others or stepped upon, you should have a visit to Sri Hartamas shopping complex, 1 hours drive away from Kuala Lumpur City Center. The concept is both a high end shopping mall added to that outside little walking streets with some market stalls and more high end shops . . . → Read More: Visit Sri Hartamas shopping complex Kuala Lumpur If you live in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines: then you probably have a calamansi tree growing in a pot like we do. Yet in warm summer countries like California or actually more or less everywhere these days due to global warming, Calamansi juice
Lazy men’s calamansi use… A . . . → Read More: Calamansi use I can hear you saying: just go to 1 of the many resorts, stroll to the beach and get wet in the sea. That’s kind of ideal Your second easiest way to get wet is walking on the streets of Malaysia during a rainstorm… The biggest umbrella can only protect you from the rain above you… It gets . . . → Read More: How to get wet in Malaysia If you live in Malaysia or have traveled to Malaysia, then you know that there are lots of kings and queens. When it comes to fruit, you have: the king of fruits: durian Lots of travelers ask themselves; why would you call a smelly fruit king of fruits, and then a complete different fruit . . . → Read More:
Xango Juice
I was at Alexis: a Bistro Bar thingy at Great Eastern in Kuala Lumpur. Normally I go there for the luscious big continental breakfast, but now I thought: let’s have nasi lemak dinner. Seems in the evening there is hardly any electricity available: the place is dark. Must be a romantic thing or just plain saving . . . → Read More: Dark Chicken Nasi Lemak I invite you to join this beautiful way of getting more people to your website: add your favicon to my modest yet beautiful artwork below I got this Free Favicon from Linky Love You don’t have a favicon? Linky Love can make a free favicon for you! How? write a post on your blog where you mention that Linky . . . → Read More: How to get more visitors Quick Dinner Recipes
Tandoori Chicken Recipe "Tapau" 8 Ringgit or less than 3$, 5 minutes of waiting for this 1 person Tandoori Chicken meal with: tandoori chicken Tapau "Tapau" in . . . → Read More: Tandoori Chicken Recipe 2 months after my last check up, I went back again last Monday for a blood-test and got the results today: cholesterol levels back to "normal", be it a bit on the borderline, yet much better than 2 months before! How did I do that? By eating out less, changing my diet and especially cutting down on . . . → Read More: Cholesterol back on track! Do you love to cook Asian food but you don’t know how to get all these special Asian flavors? Then we have the right solutions for you: Asian Seasoning!
Asian Seasoning Organic Asian Seasoning from Sauniers I found the above ‘Asian Seasoning’ in the Coldstorage Supermarket in the Salt section. Yes, if you browse around in any . . . → Read More: Asian Seasoning Needless to say that Malaysia is food paradise. Trying to list all the available food around here would be a good subject for a blog. Lazy me will just post another of my favorites, explaining why growing lemon grass is a must Otak Otak Otak-Otak is a fish cake wrapped in a banana leaf or coconut . . . → Read More: Growing lemon grass I woke up this mornig and it is raining cats and dogs Malaysian style: take a piece of soap, go outside and you experience the most luxurious rainshower in the entire world. Now the problem is that it’s rush hour, so all these cars in zero visibility rain means that there will be a trafic jams for . . . → Read More: Raining cats and dogs
Oldtown White Coffee "Now Open" (Kini dibuka) Every day I have been passing this building on the road in Kuala Lumpur, and today the first ‘restaurant thingy’ opened there is called "OldTown White Coffee". For those not living in Malaysia: white coffee is a way of roasting coffee with margarine only. Compared to my father-in-laws’ Hainan coffee . . . → Read More: Oldtown White Coffee
A while ago I mentioned about hibiscus pictures, I just love hibiscus flowers. I would love them even more if they would last longer than a day, could be cut and put in a vase. These days it is very hot in Malaysia, and looking at the hibiscus flower with the blue sky and sun . . . → Read More: Hibiscus flower Why I love Malaysia as my second home? Because I love to do laundry. Huh? let me rephrase that: because I love to see the laundry getting dry in hot Malaysia
Malaysia newspaper: never talk about dirty laundry… So you take your sheets off your bed after waking up, put them in the machine, . . . → Read More: Why I love Malaysia? Malaysia is a beautiful country when it comes to butterflies and flowers Take this creeper climbin pant for instance growing in our garden:
Creeper plants: cute and harmless? I am always amazed abut the strength of plants. The above creeper is climbing and winding around 2 trees in our garden. yesterday there was an heavy storm . . . → Read More: Creeper Plants
Our daily bread devotionals: fresh bread on the motorbike… "Honk-honk", "honk-honk" … that’s the sound we hear every day in the streets of Malaysia. A very devoted old Indian man with gray beard and moustache driving an overloaded bread truck… oops: he drives a tiny motorbike fully packed with bread and other goodies. Every morning . . . → Read More: Our daily bread devotionals Squirrels in our attic, squirrels in my kitchen, squirrels in my toilet, squirrels on my paintings… that is on top of the painting,not inside like in a picture of squirrels… Picture of Squirrel
Picture of squirrel Squirrels are everywhere these days. Everywhere except for where they should be: up in the trees. Now unfortunately we cannot blame . . . → Read More: Squirrel in attic Can you spot the mistakes in the picture below?
I can hear you thinking: did the SkinnyCook forget to put the right picture to compare with? Unfortunately, there is no right picture. This is how it is: another Malaysian cultural heritage clock tower at the verge of disappearance in the so called modernity of little towns. . . . → Read More: Spot the 7 mistakes: Malaysian Tourism Would you love to see TheSkinnyCcook go bananas? Then add a comment and tell us where we can find your best banana picture or and we will feature it on TheSkinnyCook Goreng Pisang Nasi goreng pisang ambon…. sounds familiar? Yes, fried rice and that green banana liquor… Did . . . → Read More: Why do I sell bananas? Another reason why my cholesterol has reached never before heights is my change of diet. In Europe I hardly ate any seafood because: the price was to high Sea Food in Malaysia
It’s only fresh when it is still alive! That’s the way we do it . . . → Read More: Sea Food Restaurant Everywhere you go, you should try to adapt to the local customs: if you go to the opera, you wear an evening dress or a tuxedo, Coffee shop dress code
Coffee shop dress code : "anythingscan" If you . . . → Read More: Malaysian dress code Yes, these are the 3 words that keep in my mind these days. Arthritis due to my finger that is not getting better, yet not getting worse, so that should be already a plus. Just that typing with an arthritis finger reminds you every second that something is not fully right. I started an Arthritis treatments . . . → Read More: Nasi Lemak, Cholesterol and Arthritis
Well, on the left top you can see some stickers on the front window of our car. And if this is our car, then what you see in front is… heavy, heavy ‘rain forest’ rain! Ever wondered why they call it ‘the rain forest’ here in Malaysia? Because when it rains, it rains cats and dogs . . . → Read More: What is this? Grilled Beef in Vine leaves
Bo La Lot : Vietnamese food I love to eat this dish when I travel to Vietnam, so I was happy to try it out in the Vietnamese Restaurant in Bangsar Village 1, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Yet I imagine the meat used in Vietnam had some pork included, as the "drier" . . . → Read More: Bo La Lot Where to take the best hibiscus pictures? Apart from Hawaii, I would say Malaysia. Hibiscus is our national flower and hibiscus flowers are used in many tourism advertisements of Malaysia:
Hibiscus flower picture (yellow flowers) Hibiscus pictures Again, ask me 3 places to visit for taking hibiscus pictures, I say Hawaii, Greece-Turkey and Malaysia. I will be . . . → Read More: Hibiscus pictures Like anywhere else in the world, you can go into a restaurant and ask an ice coffee, like the Vietnamese ice coffee below in Bangsar Village, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
Why is Malaysian ice coffee better?
Yes, the size of this Malaysian ice coffee is twice as big as the above Vietnamese coffee. 2. Prize matters The . . . → Read More: 3 Secrets of Malaysian Ice Coffee If you want to feel the feel of Viet Nam, indulge yourself in an authentic Viet Nam Coffee. No need to look for a Vietnamese coffee shop, no need to have Vietnamese coffee but make sure you have a… Vietnamese coffee maker These Vietnamese coffee makers can cost up to 1USD! Much cheaper than your local espresso machine! . . . → Read More: Viet Nam Coffee I only left Malaysia for 2 months and now I came back: again lots and lots of things have changed. For one, the weather feel more hot, yet in Belgium, April had almost 30 degrees C (that is about 86 degrees F). Bangsar Village 2
Bangsar Village 2 Opposite Madame Kwan’s Bangsar Village now has a Siamese . . . → Read More: Hottest spot in Kuala Lumpur: Bangsar Village Another strong smelling yet most delicious fruit from Malaysia: jackfruit Jackfruit Picture
Jackfruit picture Jackfruit is a really humongous fruit: the big oval fruit in the jackfruit picture above can easily be twice as big as a human head. If you travel on the smaller roads in Malaysia, you can just see jackfruit trees with big jackfruits . . . → Read More: Jackfruit Picture Mangosteen: the queen of all Malaysian fruits. Did I already tell you that durian (durians are back!) is the king of all Malaysian fruits? Now I did Mangosteen fruit is seasonal and can be bought at every market or in any fruit-stall next to the road. Ideal to carry in your backpack!
An ideal . . . → Read More: Mangosteen I still remember my sister in law saying to her hubby when on holiday here in Malaysia: you cannot eat durian! You can try a durian cake or a durian sweet, but you are not going to taste durian in Malaysia. ??? … There is a big difference between eating vanilla ice-cream and eating a vanilla ice-cream-sweet. Picture . . . → Read More: Durian fruit
Durian: "Red Prawn" (Udang Merah) If you visit Malaysia, then come during the durian season, which just started now. Better is to come when the durain season is in full swing. Why? Because: of the incredible amount of durian supply and you can just sample and sample durians for free . . . → Read More: Durians are back! If you look at my old European school-pictures, you will notice I am always standing in front. I wish it was because of my looks, yet the main reason was : for western standard I am kind of short. What about eastern standard? Well, we all know that there are very tall Chinese basket-players, but if you . . . → Read More: Size does matter! As a matter of illustration, we use the little town Taiping as an example of how to organise your Malaysia holidays. Kuala Lumpur If you want to spare your holidays only in Kuala Lumpur, all depends on your budget. Being the capital of Malaysia, all the well known hotels like Mandarin Oriental and Shangri-La are located in the . . . → Read More: How to organise your Malaysia holidays (1)
Malaysia holidays army style? Now what to think here: a Malaysian girl in uniform, and a head of a squirrel on a stick… wasn’t the army supposed to protect the country in stead of cooking its resources? And if you do cook squirrel or any other small animal, aren’t there better parts to cook up . . . → Read More: They shoot squirrels don’t they? This post is dedicated to father, who recently died of Liver Cancer For those not speaking mandarin Chinese language, Qing Ming is Tomb-Sweeping day. Looks a bit odd at first, but Qing Ming was the reason that this weekend lots of cars could be found on the Malaysian Roads. From Beijing to Shanghai, Taiwan, China, South . . . → Read More: Qing Ming Jippee! TheSkinnyCook is back in Malaysia Tom Yum Soup See also my Tom Yum Soup Recipe Sotong (squid that is), prawn, chicken, chilies, veggies, lime, sugar…. all that in a little bowl as if you are in Thailand, yet I am back in Malaysia Ok, why I love to be back in Malaysia: to be in my . . . → Read More: Malaysian Food Featuring a Filipino recipe from Filipina mom Chesca. On her blog you will see Chesca is an ex-skin-diver: skin-diving is between snorkling (like I prefer) and free diving: we all enjoy the beautiful world under water without extra oxygen tanks. Filipino food recipes Now I have to admit, I just haven’t any Filipino food recipes under my sleeves, . . . → Read More: Filipino recipe Again a delicious recipe from Wokkingmum! Check out her great wok-king site : "Let’s get wok-king" or just look at her chicken wings picture : it looks like it tastes and it tastes like it looks: delicious culinary standards from Wokkingmums’ private kitchen. (Which in my opinion she should open to start a restaurant…)
How to . . . → Read More: Chicken Wings Recipe Leave a comment if you want your recipe(site) to be featured here
Fried rice The best way to make sure fried rice doesn’t stick is using overnight fried rice. Fried rice recipe Featuring my wify! This fried rice recipe is from my dearest wife in her dearest writing style and cooking style. When it comes to quick dinner recipes . . . → Read More: Quick dinner recipes featuring Fried Rice! A lot! … Chinese New Year Cards
If you need to send ecards in advance, then read our post: How to send eCards automatically when you travel. Yet for Chinese new Year you are right in time to start sending: this year’s Chinese New Year falls on 18th of February, and 18 is a good number! Chinese New . . . → Read More: What is cooking during Chinese New year Feature your personal recipe with a picture in "Taste of Home" ! So many years ago I had a website javabit dot come where I tried to gather home made cooking recipes. The cooking site went bust as I didn’t have a clue how to find people that would share their recipe. Since I added myself . . . → Read More: Taste of home This year the Chinese population will celebrate the Mooncake Festival October 6th 2006. (the 15th day of the Eight Lunar Month in the Chinese calendar, therefore known as the Mid-Autumn festival). Children come out to play with lanterns and mooncakes are exchanged… Mooncake festival piggies from our neighbour…
…and mooncakes are exchanged: We woke up today and . . . → Read More: Mooncake Festival A dumpling is glutinous rice with “goodies” artfully folded inside banana leaves. The goodies can vary and the cook in the picture shows a plate with the ingredients that goes into his dumplings. My Chinese mother in Law’s dumplings are “the best”, but it is a disappearing art, as none of her daughters have inherited the interest . . . → Read More: Malaysian Dumpling Festival |
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