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Back to eating mum’s home-cooked dinner. Same Spicy Red Snapper since she bought a few of the fish 🐟 steaks. I am not complaining since I like the fish cooked with our home blended chilli paste. The vegetable 🥬 dish is Stir-Fried Cabbage with Scallops, minced pork and some sort of fried bean curd skin product. As for the steamed rice, a mixture of purple and white grains.

Next day, I bought myself packed Economy Rice (菜饭) because mum already had something else to eat. From the left, stewed potato 🥔 slices, cabbage 🥬 stir-fry and some chopped up slices of crispy chicken 🐓 cutlet over a bed of white rice. Just a simple and fulfilling dinner to quell the hunger.

Tonight’s dinner is mum’s home-cooked meals, starting off with this plate of Pea Shoots & Scallops Stir-Fry 🌿 with minced pork and tomato wedges 🍅 in oyster sauce. The next dish is her signature Spicy Red Snapper 🐟 with chunky boneless pieces of fish meat and tomato. On the last plate, bouncy Fried Fishcakes 🐟 sliced up to go with the steamed purple and white mixed rice.

My takeaway Economy Rice (菜饭) I bought on the way home from work as mum did not want dinner. I selected nuggets of fried fish 🐟, a piece of stewed, fried bean curd skin and a medley of vegetables and meat stir-fry. The dish has carrot 🥕, shimeji mushrooms 🍄‍🟫, snow peas 🫛, young corns 🌽 and boneless chunks of chicken 🐓 meat to go with the steamed white rice.

Mum diced up the barbecued pork and used it to cook with cabbages 🥬 and tomato. Not bad tasting for this plate of Char Siu & Cabbage Stir-Fry. Next up, the Ngo Hiang (五香卷) and Fishcake (鱼饼) are refreshed in hot oil and sliced up. Finally, three steaks of batang or Spanish Mackerel 🐟 fried till golden-brown. I didn’t take a lot of rice as there are already many dishes piled on my plate though I did add a little Nyonya Achar, a spicy and tangy Southeast Asian pickled vegetable dish, with spices, vinegar, salt, and sugar.

These plump and juicy Fried Chicken Mid Wings are one of our favourites. Dusted with seasoned flour and deep-fried, they are so flavourful and crispy. The Dou Miao (豆苗) or Pea’s Shoots 🌿 mum cooked it with canned abalones, minced pork and tomato 🍅 wedges. There are usually some Roasted Pork 🐖 (烧肉) sitting somewhere in the fridge and mum reheat them for dinner.

Mum prepped this plate of stir-fried Pea’s Shoots 🌿 (豆苗) with pig’s heart, prawns 🦐 and tomato 🍅 wedges. The sliced heart is tough and chewy so we mainly left it untouched. The fried bean curds I ate it with chilli sauce so I went with lesser rice. Boiled Pork Belly 🐖 is sliced and drizzled with a soya sauce while the roasted chicken 🐓 which are actually fried are bought in the morning when mum visited the Chong Pang.

Dinner is mum’s home-cooked meal. Starting clockwise from the left is Bok Choy Stir-Fry 🥬 with squid 🦑 and tomato, a steak of pan-fried batang or Spanish Mackerel 🐟 and boneless chicken stir-fry. The fried egg 🍳 is left over from the afternoon when mum cooked two to make sandwich.

Brought mum to 85 Redhill Teochew Fishball Noodles at the basement floor of Sun Plaza. Got the dry style Mushroom Minced Meat Noodle 🍜 (香��肉脞面) for mum. Unlike the brown sauce used elsewhere, this stall retained the old school ketchup-based 🍅 sauce. The thin egg noodles (mee kia) topped with minced pork & pork slices, braised slices of mushroom 🍄‍🟫, fish ball and garnished with spring onions.

I had Laksa 🍜 (叻沙) and took up the set meal option, which comes with sliced Fried Fishcake 🐟 (鱼饼) and Ice Lemon Tea 🍋🥤. This is a spicy noodle dish popular in Southeast Asia consisting of various types of noodles, most commonly thick rice noodles, with toppings such as blood cockles and prawns. In Singapore 🇸🇬 laksa is prepared with a rich and spicy coconut 🥥 curry soup or a broth topped with finely sliced laksa leaves 🌿 (Vietnamese Mint, Vietnamese Coriander).

Mum’s appetite isn’t that good anymore, so she asked for just two dishes to go with her Economy Rice (菜饭) meal box. Got her the usual sweet & sour pork with stewed pumpkin 🎃 to go with the rice. I went with boneless fried chicken cutlet, stewed slices of potato 🥔 and stir-fried bitter gourd 🥒 with egg.