Mister-Mister "Si Lai" [2]

Here comes the long anticipated posts of Mister-Mister Si Lai!

Tired of eating 99% preservative-and-flavouring meals every day, one of the Mister Si Lai brightly suggested the idea of trying to be househusbands and enjoy the wonders of self cooking. So by the next weekend, the Hot Plate stove arrived and the Mister-Mister Si Lais walked gallantly to Giant in One Utama to buy the ingredients.

Guys may the Mister-Mister Si Lais be, but they are really housewives when it comes to choosing and picking vegetables, meat and fruit. However, novice househusbands still have a long way to learn in identifying what food is fresh amidst a plethora of unfresh stuff in the supermarket. We failed to differentiate Gao Choi and onion leaves. The worst was buying chicken. They learnt their lesson: Never buy chicken from the aforementioned hypermarket.

Anyway, back to cooking. Here are some interesting cooking adventures we had:

Trying to defrost a chicken with hot water from bathroom heater...

Arguing whether the half porridge rice is due to flooding of the rice cooker or the water have not evaporated.

Opening the Oyster Sauce glass with scissors. The mighty Mister Si Lai L did the arm breaking task of removing the cap. So we save ourselves from Joanne's method by using hammer...

Mr Si Lai Chan scrutinizing at the mushrooms, aka trying to find bones in a chicken egg in the Chinese saying...

Mr Si Lai Mighty L chopping his way into the defrosted-yet-unfrosted chicken

For first day, we cooked from 7.15pm to 8.30pm... It's amazing how housewives can cook single handedly in one hour while we five Mister Si Lais wiping sweat all the time.

Now we know how amazing is MUM!

And own hand cooked food is always eaten with wide earlobe-to-earlobe grins

The dishes served

Oyster Sauce Small Pak Choi

Drunken Weed (Gao Choi) with Egg

Mushroom with Chicken

Day 2:

Three Chefs-For-The-Day: Mr Si Lai Mighty L, Mr Si Lai JK and yours truly.

Now we tell you reason behind the lesson of never buy chicken from Gian*. The chicken is like some roadside kills packed neatly in plastic bags. When they started cutting it and cooking it, the decaying meat, blood and bones smell is unthinkable... It's so horrible that I decided not to photograph it and threw it away after letting the 5 Si Lais to smell... not economically wise, but physically wise...

The other Mister-Mister Si Lais decided to go vegetarian for the day with the most disgusting vegetable - FU GUA!!! That 'orrible bitter gourd!!! Anyway, Mr Daring-To-Try Calvin decided it couldn't be that bad.

It was bitter gourd soup with next door auntie's Sesame Oil. The auntie was generous but she commented: "You guys really know to enjoy eating!" What can I say, Mr Si Lai Chan surely knows what is nice to eat.

Yours truly after 17 years fried for the first time a newly created dish of shittake mushrooms with Gao Choi. Mr Yong's son cooked for the first time. LOL and it's FUN!!!

Ok the dishes:

Shittake Mushroom with Drunken Weed
(yours truly first successful dish, YEAH!!!)

The leftover like
Oyster Sauce with Small Pak Choi

Long Beans with Egg
(don't ask me if this dish can make you grow taller!)

The horrible-terrible-vegetable FU GUA!!!!

This is day ever I ate so much Fu Gua in one dish. It's not that bitter in soup, but it's that tastelessness bitter that I really can't take it.

And Mr Cook Rice till overflow (which is the tallest among the Si Lais) cooked a very bad dish of rice. Failed to follow Un Dex wife's instruction: the Half Thumb High Water Rule... that's punishment for ignoring wise advice...

So the extra rice was utilized for maximum satisfaction of Calvin's stomach. Three plates of rice and I'm still that thin! And as usual creative Calvin has ways to make his plain rice more tasty. He added Tiger Biskuat to the rice, which is acceptable to some but when he poured Chilli Sauce on it, most felt butterflies flying in stomach. Never see people put Chilli Sauce jam with Tiger Biskuat izzit???

So this was the adventure of the Mister-Mister Si Lais,
POTENTIAL FUTURE HOUSEHUSBANDS!!!

See how happy we are presenting our own dishes?

Watch out for more coming episodes!!!