I’m suddenly craving for the vegetarian steamboat we had just last weekend.

Can you guess what soup base we had?

Though the restaurant provided very little green (only one small plate) and a lot of mock meat stuffs instead, it was still quite good. The mock meat were’s really shaped that much like meat, so its ok. Anyway, I recall being told by someone that the restaurant make most of their own ‘mock meat’.

So, what soup base did we order?

Porridge and herbal soup base

This is also the restaurant that served this…

The place is called Great Nature Enterprise and is located at 194D & E, Jalan Sungai Putus, Off Jln Batu Belah, 41050 Klang. Phone number is +60 3 33446107. Yes, its the same place serving the very tasty curry noodles.

When I have some ‘free’ time, I like to cook. I find cooking to be a way to relax and it actually stimulates creativity… For me anyway. I guess this is because I like to cook up dishes based on what we can find in our house. I know Dean also shares this same way of cooking. When we cook, there isn’t an ingredient list. We also like to experiment with different styles, etc…

This can be fun because you never really know what you’re going to eat… Actually, this is quite true since I don’t really know what vegetable is going to get delivered to me. I’m also lucky that Mrs Tai is not very fussy about food… But she loves my cooking.

Anyway, just to share some of the ingredients used for my dishes (taken over two separate occasions)…

Mrs Tai and I felt quite bad about eating these very cute baby carrots

The two photos are the ‘before’ and ‘in between’ shots of a dish I was preparing…

Can you guess how the two (vegetables and the pot of something) turned out…?
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Since our office moved to the new location at Bangsar, I’ve been frequenting this Indian banana leaf rice place called Sri Ananda Bhavan.

Food is good. Price is reasonable (note: reasonable not cheap). This week, I’m trying to make it a “5-days of Indian rice” achievement… Shouldn’t be too difficult since I love Indian banana leaf rice, though at this place, I’m not really taking the banana leaf… I’ve been taking their Biryani instead…

Yummy…

If you wanna try it out, the place is located here:

It’s instant miso soup… How wrong can I get?

We had bought some instant miso soup mix a few weeks back. So, last weekend, I thought I’d try it out. This is the result…

I have to say… It’s not bad!

From wikipedia:
Miso is a traditional Japanese seasoning produced by fermenting rice, barley and/or soybeans, with salt and the fungus kōjikin, the most typical miso being made with soy. The result is a thick paste used for sauces and spreads, pickling vegetables or meats, and mixing with dashi soup stock to serve as miso soup called Misoshiru, a Japanese culinary staple. High in protein and rich in vitamins and minerals, miso played an important nutritional role in feudal Japan. Miso is still very widely used in Japan, both in traditional and modern cooking, and has been gaining world-wide interest. Miso is typically salty, but its flavor and aroma depend on various factors in the ingredients and fermentation process. Different varieties of miso have been described as salty, sweet, earthy, fruity, and savory, and there is an extremely wide variety of miso available.

We have been to this restaurant called Great Nature Enterprise a few times already, but we would usually order a few dishes and rice.

Last week, Mrs Tai and I decided to have our lunch there. We wanted to try out their noodles and fried rice. This is actually one way to tell if a place is good or not. There are a few individual dishes that I would normally order and from there, I would know if the place is good or not. These dishes include curry noodles, (vegetarian) bak kut teh and assam laksa.

Great Nature Enterprise has got curry noodles and assam laksa but not bak kut teh. So we tried the curry noodles and the sweet & sour oyster mushroom rice. I found the sweet & sour oyster mushroom to be a bit too sour for my taste — possibly a bit too much of vinegar. But the curry noodles was superb! I can dare say that it is one of the best curry noodles I have ever tasted, beating even those with real meat (remember… I only became a vegetarian about 5 years back). Even Mrs Tai agreed that the curry noodles was one of the best! Besides the curry noodles and sweet & sour oyster mushroom rice, we also had deep fried golden needle mushroom with pepper and salted. There was also a bowl of complimentary soup — watercress.

This evening, we went back there again. We wanted to find out if the quality of the curry noddles was consistent or not. We ordered the curry noodle, seaweed fried rice and deep fried butter mushroom.

We were not disappointed. The curry noddles is as good as I remembered it to be. The soup is thick! The portion is generous! I could see lots of vegetables and potatoes in the soup! Seaweed fried rice was nothing out of the ordinary but it is nice. It is not too salty. The same goes for the butter mushroom. It’s nothing extraordinary but it’s still nice. I preferred last week’s deep fried golden needle mushroom though…

This is definitely the place I would recommend family and friends, especially to try out the curry noodles! The food served does not really have an overpowering taste. They are not bland either. Price is also quite decent.

Here are some photos of the food we have last week and this evening…

The very good curry noodles

Sweet & sour oyster mushroom rice

I like this dish as well… Deep fried needle mushroom with salt and pepper

Complimentary watercress soup

Seaweed fried rice

Butter mushroom

The restaurant Great Nature Enterprise (vegetarian restaurant) is located at 194D & E, Jalan Sungai Putus, Off Jln Batu Belah, 41050 Klang.

And in case you can’t find it, you can call them at +60 3 33446107. Or better yet, tell me you wanna buy me a meal and I’ll be more than happy to take you there.

Oh ya… Wishing everyone Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

Mrs Tai is back at Setia Alam as she will be starting work again on Monday. I picked her up from in-law’s place on Friday evening. And yesterday, she got the try the organic vegetables I ordered. This was what I had prepared…

Although it was just two dishes and vermicelli, it was quite a lot of the twothree (or still two?) of us… Can you guess which one we could not finish?
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My second box of organic vegetables arrived this evening. And just like a little boy, I was eager to know what he got…

I was not disappointed.

Since I engaged the organic vegetables delivery service, I’ve been having organic vegetables for dinner.

This is what I had last week. It looked plain and dull. Definitely not what I would call exciting.

It lacks colour…

My fridge was quite empty then… So I had to just make do with what was delivered. Then over the weekend, I did some shopping and…

See what a little extra colour (and better camera) does to your dinner?

Well, not really to our doorstep la…

We recently signed up for such service as we sometimes find it troublesome having to go to Tesco to shop for vegetables. There are times when the vegetables are not fresh or there are very few vegetables to choose from. So when we was recently approached on this about two weeks back, we were quite sure we would be using this service. It was just a matter of when…

Yesterday was the first delivery and naturally, we were excited. How does it look like? How much is 3kg of vegetables? How is the packing? What will we get? This is the ‘box’…

3kg worth of organic vegetables packed in a box. Tissue box is just for comparison.

Vegetables were wrapped in paper and nicely packed into the container. In case you’re wondering, the paper can be recycled/ re-used. We just need to keep it and return it to them. The container will be exchanged during the next delivery. So, what did we get?

In case you’re interested to know more about this service, we are getting our vegetables from Ms Ng of Farm Direct Organic. I believe they are able to deliver the vegetables to consumers in the Klang Valley. She said that they will try to deliver the vegetables within 24 hours after harvesting. The vegetables are sourced from farms in Cameron Highlands. For new customers who heard it from Setia Alam, they are entitled to a free 5th box of vegetables (not necessary to be a resident of Setia Alam to enjoy this benefit — so you can call Ms Ng and say you heard from Setia Alam and you’ll enjoy this special deal).

Here’s their brochure…

My cousin sister gave birth to a baby girl a month ago. She organised a full moon family dinner for her baby, Angelin, earlier this evening.

I had my vegetarian dishes but the first dish caught my attention. It is a cold dish — abalone and baby octopus.

I didn’t have that, of course, but it was an interesting dish. I’ve never seen the abalone and baby octopus served this way before. Here’s a closer look at the dish…

For me, there were two interesting dishes…

Sweet gluten and stewed vegetables in soya skin wrap

Pumpkin soup

Dinner was at The Ming Room at Bangsar Shopping Centre. It was yummy…