global appetite

With my late mother,she'll go out of her way to learn how to make mooncakes from snowskin to the shanghai crust to the traditional ones.
With Jun and me, we have a global appetite.Sometimes it's soba in miso soup,yesterday breakfast was gyoza with seaweed salad and dinner could be Italian alio olio with a chicken stewed in rosemary and basil.Sometimes it's Thai green curry ,nasi lemak and chicken rendang  and with globalisation ,the consumer's appetite has turned global.

Recipe for blue pea rice salad(ala malaysia nasi kerabu with a twist)

1.Boil  five grain rice with some dried blue butterfly pea flowers boiled with a slice of old ginger.
2. Sprinkle with sliced raw shallots,leaves of kesum,daun limau perut (kefir lime leaves),wild betelnut leaves,(daun sirih)(torch ginger flower ,sliced thinly) and leaves of cosmos flower
3.Mix in a pinch of sambal belacan and nam pla or fish sauce,kerisik (dried and pounded grated coconut) .
4.Mix in fish meat floss ( fried fish like kembung with meat torn out),too lazy to fry the fish,can use alternative like serunding ikan or even canned tuna in olive oil
5.serve with sweet chilli sauce in lime juice)


Today,I had heavenly nasi tumpang from kelate wrapped in a conical shaped banana leaf.Still trying to figure out the recipe and reconstruct it or what I call reverse engineering of the ingredients.