Last Saturday was my first morning alone with Jac away in Sydney. I woke up around 7:30am, which for me is a sleep-in :). I had a cuppa, wrote a few emails, showered, got dressed and caught the train to visit my parents. I’d promised to help them choose and buy new mobile phones. The plan was: decide on phones, buy the phones, then have chicken rice and nasi lemak for lunch. Good plan, I thought!
As soon as I arrived, Mum asked if I was hungry. I was, of course. :) She gave me a slice of her baked cheesecake, topped with whipped cream and sliced tinned peaches.
I’ve posted Mum’s baked cheesecake recipe before. If you try it, let me know what you think.
We discussed Mum and Dad’s mobile phone needs and their phone options over coffee and tea, and once I’d finished my cheesecake and drunk the last of my cuppa, it was time to get in the car and buy the phones. Mum and Dad use their phones to send the odd text message or make short calls (we’re talking very odd and very short!). They’ve got no need for fancy features, so the simpler and cheaper the better. My siblings and I are pretty much Nokia kids and, since Mum and Dad wanted to stay with Telstra and join the Nokia gang, it was an easy choice: the Nokia 2600 Classic. We had a little trouble finding a shop with these in stock – we went to half a dozen shops before hitting the jackpot. I think these will do the job nicely for Mum and Dad. Mum was impressed that the size of the text display is set to large by default. She’s been practising texting on her new phone and sending me messages. :)
After getting the phones, we drove to Ang’s Malaysian Chinese Take Away (Dog Swamp Shopping Centre in Yokine) to buy a couple of boxes of takeaway chicken rice. Dad doesn’t like chicken rice, but we bought a couple of boxes so that we could, as Mum said, “eat liberally”.
We then drove to Kongs Asian Supermarket to buy a couple of serves of takeaway nasi lemak. The nasi lemak is delivered to Kongs from The Love and Care Cafe and comes wrapped in brown paper (see this previous post for a photo of the little brown paper packages of nasi lemak).
Mum and I shared a box of chicken rice and a serve of nasi lemak. We then dug into the second box of chicken rice – but we did leave some for Mum to take to work for lunch.
Mum always prepares extra trimmings to eat with takeaway chicken rice and nasi lemak – here’s my plate, with my half of the nasi lemak with extra cucumber (because you never get enough with chicken rice or nasi lemak), fried egg and Mum’s dry mutton curry – we normally have Mum’s beef rendang, but she’d run out of time to cook some – the dry mutton curry is always delicious though, and Mum gave me a serve of the curry to take home. As you can see, Mum likes a slightly soft egg yolk in fried egg too. I also drizzled soy sauce all over my chicken rice – I love soy sauce with chicken rice.
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I agree with the fact that you never get enough cucumber – definitely one of my fave veggies (although, it’s technically a fruit…) If you’re ever in the Yokine area again, go up the road to Joy King Chinese – it’s one of the best Chinese/Cantonese places around. 11B Wanneroo Road. :) Make sure you get the satay chicken. To die for!!! (And the little old guy who runs it is a real sweetie and always gives me and hubby free spring rolls!)
Any chance of you sending me some of that curry? :P We live quite close, I could pick it up! Hehe.
I know what you mean about the “odd and short” text messages and phone calls… I don’t speak to my mum on the phone much at all, but when we do it’s always a] for a reason, and b] very short and formal. And text messages from my mum? They always come very short, and generally in capital letters… e.g. “OK” or “ARE YOU COMING 4 DINNER?”. Yet she owns a top of the range Blackberry that enables Internet usage and all kinds of crazy rubbish. Very bizarre. But then again, so is my mumma… (by the way, the maths addition for the spam protection is quite hard today).
Agree you can never have enough cucumber with nasi lemak. I normally add extra as well, somehow the crunch of the cucumber, plus the nasi, and sambal, simply delectable! Gosh, have not had nasi lemak for ages, and I live in Malaysia! :)
Wow, what time do you normally wake up, if waking at 7.30am equals a “sleep-in”?
hey just wondering..did you blog abt your moms baked cheesecake prior to this but after the entry on the recipe? like during this month?
its scary and kind of like deja vu..I could have sworn i read an entry about your moms baked cheesecake on 7th nov! but when i went back to check its nowhere in sight! am I imagining things??? o.O
anyway thanks for the recipe post HAHA saw it only now :)
Hello! First time commenter :) The nasi lemak looks delish! I tried looking around for Love & Care Cafe but couldn’t find it! Is it really small and hidden or does it go by another name? Thanks :)
You know what I like? A fried egg with a gooey yolk, with dark soy sauce drizzled on top of it. With nasi lemak. Somehow the soy sauce, coconut rice and spicy-sweet sambal taste very nice together, even if it sounds like a bit too much.
Hey there. Next time you are in Sydney try the Indonesian stall in the downstairs food court on Dixon St, Chinatown
3 dishes on rice for 7 bucks or so. I recommend beef rendang, fried potato and tempe and the chili egg. With lots of sambal
so so so good. I live in Bangkok and this is the only food i miss from back home
Holly,
Thanks for the tip. I wonder if my parents have eaten Joy King Chinese. I’ll ask mum next time I email/talk to her.
Erin,
Heheh. Sorry you found the maths hard!
Jaz,
When I was a kid, the cucumber was one of my least favourite things about nasi lemak, but now I love it.
I wake up at 4:15am on weekdays, which is why 7:30 on a weekend is a sleep-in. :)
jas,
Um, no, I didn’t blog about it recently. There’ve been other bloggers who’ve posted and linked to my post/my mum’s recipe – maybe that’s what you saw?
sue,
My younger sis may be able to answer your question about Love & Care Cafe. I will ask her.
dea,
That sounds lovely to me! My mum would love it too – she loves to fry an egg (she calls it a “bull’s eye”) and eat it with soy sauce.
Thanks for the tips, Mr Duke. The dishes you mention sound good.
For some unknown reason, mum’s are always asking the kids if they are hungry. I ask my kids that all the time!
blur ting,
I guess it’s part of looking after the kids. You can feed them easily if they need something to eat. :) I am usually hungry when my mum asks!
If I go to Perth, a must-stop would be The Food Pornographer’s Mum’s Restaurant!!
Your mum is truly a superstar in the kitchen!!
Bitsy,
She is! I am very lucky!
Wew!
Seems delicious!
I think I will try to make the cheesecake when I arrive at home for christmast holiday :)