Spymama @ Mamakshop

Received this Butterfly Award from Claire. How pretty and how nice of her.

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I would like to give this award to everyone who drops by. I know I have to name blogs but I also do not want to obligate you if you are busy. So feel free to take this because if you are visiting me, you are cool already. Can’t thank you enough for the support. Dedicated this beautiful Butterfly Award to all of you.

How did everyone’s weekend go? For those who had a longer weekend, it must be a dread to be back to routine on a Monday, eh. My weekend was just normal, with Saturday and Sunday spending time with family and going out.

I was in a really old shopping centre recently, that used to be prime in the 70s. I didn’t realise that they still have retail products for children that children in my time used to play. Check out this piano. It comes in two colours, one for each gender, I suppose. I remember tinkering with it since I was young and I saw it in an old shop selling toys for children.

So let me entertain you not just with a visual treat but also for your listening pleasure. Click on the play button and enjoy a piano experience, bloggers. Spymama is having a Piano Recital for you all!!

First, they say eggs are good for you. Then they say eggs are bad for you. Eggs have protein and they also have cholesterol. So which one should I choose. I love the yolks more than the whites.

According to those health experts, daily intake of cholesterol is limited to 300 milligrams in a day. If you eat a large egg, you would be putting in about 215 milligrams of cholesterol. So perhaps I should just have one egg. But if you want to have half boiled eggs, ONE IS NOT SHIOK! It’s gotta be TWO. So that means I have taken in access of 430 - 300 = 130 milligrams of cholesterol. Oooh.. Do I mind? No! They say garlic reduces cholesterol. So why not have more garlic on the days that I have eggs? Do they work? Bummer!

The American Heart Association adviced or recommends that we should limit eating egg yolk to three or four times a week. And it says that you can eat as much of the whites as you like but i don’t really like whites without the yolks.

Eggs have a hight source of protein, Vitamin B, iron and other minerals.

So what is my verdict if I want to eat two eggs? Perhaps I’ll just have them twice a week then. My cholesterol level has been fine, cross my fingers, toes. I wont fret. I’ll go for two eggs!

Two half boiled eggs, with a dash of dark soya and pepper! Wash it down with a big cup of coffee!

Today is Hari Raya, a Special Day where all the muslims celebrate end of Ramadan. I would like to wish all my readers who celebrate this occasion as well as those who are visiting their muslim friends for some yum yum tum tum and also those who will still get their day off, since it is officially a Public Holiday in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

Have A Good Hari Raya, Have A Good Holiday. Let’s Wish for Peace and Harmony for all races.

Yesterday, I looked around trying to look for a recipe for Roti Prata. I found many different types of recipe but not sure which is a good one. Spymama actually has a lovely flat flat pan that the indians used to make those Tosai, Pratas (Canais) or any Indian breads. I used it like a griddle pan. Just place it on the stove and light up. It’s not really expensive.

In the evenings, Spymama and Spypapa used to hang out with some buddies at this Prata place located in Clementi Road. They sell yummy Prata with bananas, very much like those Banana Caramel Crepes. The savoury ones are the Roti Prata or the Cheese Prata, which the place is terribly famous for. Lots of NUS students and youths love to hang out here. Next door is the Fong Seng Nasi Lemak which is also very popular for it’s Nasi Lemak, of course. There was a time when the Chong Pang Nasi Lemak opened a shop just so near (was it next door or the next?). I don’t understand why would someone want to open a nasi lemak shop when you already have a popular one there. Some business owners do that. When you have one popular shop selling an item, there’s bound to be another one to try to reap the overflowing customers. Why not sell another food item instead. Why do they want to be in the shadow?

I’ve seen this kind of attitude happening in many places too. Some have the cheek to dress up their stalls exactly the same as the famous one. Some even do up the sign boards almost identical. It’s as if they are trying to trick the customers to fall into the trap that they are the popular stalls.

There’s Katong Laksa, Soya Beancurd, Nasi Lemak, Ice Kacang and more! Did you ever fell for it and end up going buying at the wrong stall instead?

The weather is getting colder lately. It’s been pouring. This is all part of global warming, I guess. Some places flooding, ice and glaciers melting. And extreme weather conditions.

But WAIT!!! It’s not all that Bad.

Spymama has a Special Soup for YOU!

I made Minestrone Soup with lots of Vegetable and some little bits of Alphabet Pasta. So if you happen to drop by here and find me not sipping Teh Tarik, please help yourself to a bowl of soup.

Hope it makes your heart warm and fuzzy for a Great Weekend. Don’t forget to smile and make a stranger happy. It could be me that you bumped into! *grin*

In local context, ‘bird-man’ is not a comfy word. Why? Because for chinese, in particular, it is used when someone is labelled as a ‘jerk’ or ‘jerk-ass’. Some chinese prefer to use this word by adding ‘blue’ before ‘bird-man’ towards the same gesture. Of course when I am explaining this context, it is used in the dialect ‘Hokkien’ and not in English. It is an insult to scold or to be scold ‘bird-man’ but some times there are some who fooled around too. It is a language commonly used more in a vulgar form. Those who are from the countries in Malaysia and Singapore will probably have heard of it.

But then, Spymama also loves to visit this kopitiam where the ‘bird-man’ is usually hanging out. And when I meant ‘bird-man’, I don’t mean someone vulgar, nor do i mean someone who is a jerk-ass of course. Because this fella, is none other than the real ‘bird-man’. He has 2 parrots with him most of the time. He frequents this local eatery and lives in this town. Spymama sometimes gets the honour to sit on the next table and with darting eyes, from my plate of Chicken Rice, Laksa, and Wantan Mee, looks at this green earthling that is also looking at my plate. A grey one sits on his shoulder.

A star of the place, sometimes can’t be help, these birds gets some stares, kids’ pointing fingers, ladies trying to get fresh with the owner. ( okay, i don’t think they were trying to get fresh, just asking about the birds). Not perturbed by them, all it wants (the green parrot) is something from my plate. Sometimes I thought of giving it an occasional Chye Sim from my plate but I don’t want a reaction from the ‘bird-man’. Spymama is quiet and keeps her movements slo-mo throughout so it doesn’t ruffle it’s feather and flick that bits of feather to garnish my meal.

But for once this time, Spymama took a picture of it. To keep ‘bird-man’s’ anonymousity, no face is being shown. I swear it was just staring at me.

Spymama feels lucky because so many lovely bloggers sends me awards. Thank you Cendrine.. Sometimes same award also can receive twice. It’s double joy, just like Chinese say, all good things comes in pairs! or is that Western ah? Never mind, love it anyway.

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Spymama has been really feeling very lazy to update her blogs in the past two weeks. Do you feel it? I keep telling myself tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow. And tomorrow never comes. Could it be the durians that I have been consuming? I also read about Durian Fusion lately. It is a new product that they extract the juice of the Durian like what you would get from a bottle of juice. It doesn’t turn me on, frankly. hahaha!

But I did read that Durians has a lot of benefits such as perk a person up, especially one that is depressed or down. It has some happy ingredients. It also claims that it can increase one’s libido too. hmmm. You can try to google Benefits of Durian if you want to find out more. LOL

Also, Spypapa cooked up a mean dish of Green Mussels! Have you ever tried it before? It is a kind of shelfish and it is great when it is cooked with lots of chilly and an egg drop mixture.

Of all things that I love on a nice cool evening breeze, is the Teh Tarik. Creamy, sweet and frothy from the ‘tariking’ by the mamak man. And when Claire offered me a Cuppa from her blog, Spymama went searching for her tea cup.

Why would I need own tea cup? Well this is no ordinary tea cup. This is the metal one that you can use to do your own pulled tea aka Teh Tarik.

So I added some creamy condensed milk, some evaporated milk and little bit sugar and Spymama really ‘tarrrikkkk’ the tea long long. And it was really great. A nice soothing drink after recovering from throat that feels like sandpaper.

Here is a video on my blogspot for you to see the mamaks doing Teh Tarik

And here is the award given by Claire.

I would like to share this award and my teh tarik with all the bloggers who wanna have a tea party with me. Tell me what you are going to bring with you. Kuehs, Scones, Sandwiches, Roti Jala, anything. Tell me okay?