Thursday, September 24, 2009

Ben from France came to visit


Blue recycle bin outside my house in Gatineau

Canada is an environment friendly country. In Malaysia, i will throw rubbish in one big rubbish bin without classify them. Well, they are garbage and waste to me and who cares about recycle anyway. At first, i have really hard time sorting out which one to go to the bin. Here, i have to put aside empty egg tray, milk box, juice box, plastic container etc and throw them in a blue recycle bin as picture shown above.

Sly and his friend, Ben (They were talking in french, only french and little english)


Sly's friend, Ben came to visit us with his gf last weekend. I tot they will like to have some chinese breakfast when they reach my house on sat morning. I make fried rice with waxed pork sausage, chinese# lap cheong and black pepper chicken. hee.. black pepper chicken is not so chinese anyway. Ben was kinda lost on his way, thus we finished the food without waiting for these french couple :)



Ingredients for fried rice
1 cup of Thai fragrance rice (better with overnight rice)
2 eggs, beaten
2 tbsp cooking/vegetable oil
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 small onion, chopped
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp of soy sauce
1 stalk of scallion, chopped
1 roll of lap cheong
1 tsp Lee Kum Kee chicken bouillon powder (dissolve in hot water become liquidise)
3 dashes white pepper powder
salt to taste

Method
Heat up a wok with oil. Add garlic and fry until aromatic, follow by lap cheong and onion. Stir fry until they are half cooked. Add in the rice and stir well with the ingredients. Add dark soy sauce, soy sauce, white pepper powder, chicken bouillon powder and continue to stir the fried rice for a couple of minutes.
Make a "hole" in the middle of the fried rice and pour the beaten eggs in the hold. Wait for 30 seconds and then mix the egg with the fried rice. Leave it for 30 seconds and continue to stir-fry. Dish out and serve hot. then sprinkle with the scallion on top of the fried rice.




Ingredients for black pepper chicken
1/2 pound of chicken breast (cut into small pieces)
2 tbsp of cooking oil
1 medium onion (cut into small square pieces)
1 small green and red bell pepper (cut into small square pieces)
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 tbsp Lee Kum Kee black pepper sauce

Method
Marinate the chicken with the black pepper sauce, 1 clove of garlic for 10 minutes. Heat up a wok and add in the cooking oil. Add in the chopped garlic and onions stir-fry until aromatic or turn light brown. Add in the chicken meat and stir fry until the chicken is half done. Then add in the green and red pepper, continue to stir fry until the the chicken the red/green pepper is well cook.
i like my black pepper chicken a bit gloppy thus i add in a 1/4 cup of water. Stir fry for another minute and then serve with steam rice. yummy...

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For dinner, we went to The Works for some authentic Canadian food, burger!! It was packed on Saturday night and we have to wait for the seats for 45 minutes. Can you imagine we have to wait almost 1 hour for only burger?!!
Then after our big meal, we went strolling around the parliament.


Famous Canadian restaurant, selling only burger
We were looking at the menu while waiting for the seats for another 15 minutes

While waiting for our burger, we ordered the onion rings with hot spicy and bbq sauce

Time to savour my-long-waited burger


Sly had eee... forgot the name


I had Growler Five-O (mushrooms, smokey bbq, chedder and bacon) with spicy chips

Have a glimpse at the menu

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