An early dinner this Saturday

I'm planning a weekend special of my own version of Chinese dinner. Back when I was in Malaysia my grandma would sweat away in the kitchen to prepare our favorite dishes. We kids were so spoilt we would rather go out and eat at McDonald's than enjoy a good home cooked meal. Now I miss everything she's done for me. I sort of regret not enjoying it more while I was back home. I never imagined I'd be living in a country where getting decent Asian home cooked meal was like winning the lottery. The little things like fresh popiah skin (spring roll skins), fresh laksa noodles, fresh egg noodles, beansprouts, soya sauce (thin or dark), chillies and other fresh produce that makes great Asian cooking.

I am happy that we do have a couple of good Asian stores in Hakaniemi that import these fresh produce for me to make the food at home. It's alot of work but when you're desperately wanting to eat something that's not readily available you'll slave in the kitchen to make it work. I'm not the best cook in the world and I get away with making 'close-to' tasting food. So keep watching this space for my ridiculous recipes! I'm also going to venture and write a review on the asian stores in Finland, well the ones I go to anyways. I do have my preference but I'm not going to be bias. If they allow me to write a story on their store I'll be happy to share my findings :).

Anyhoo...This weekend I'm going to be making chicken-crabmeat soup (thick cornstarchy with egg type ;)) and serve fried siew pak choy, fried fish with ginger-garlic-chilly-soy sauce, black pepper beef and a four veggie stew with sausages xD (This is because my daughter loves the preservative free sausages I buy and I thought since we are having guests I'm going to spoil her a little, maybe the little guests would like these too). I'll serve all this with Jasmine rice and red rice mix. Does it sound yummy? ^^ Alright! you know how I hate writing my blog without photos but since I had been ill the past few weeks that I haven't been in a picture taking mood. However I'm going to take photos of what I'm serving this weekend, hopefully they'll be presentable and on top of that tasty. I can't help myself so I'm going to entertain you with a photo of my dearest Alyssa who's all poofed cleaning grandma's floor during Christmas! xD Oh the drama queen xD!

Alyssa all tired cleaning xD