Find Me A Home, Please?

One of the biggest source of stray dogs in Malaysia are building and road construction sites. Tycoons who are awarded million-dollar projects try to stinge on hiring guards. Instead, they encourage the construction workers and the lone guard to keep dogs to protect machinery and equipment. The foreign workers take care of the dogs quite well, no doubt. But when the project is completed, they move on and their faithful dogs and puppies are left to roam the streets on their own.

Sometimes, the loyal dogs are ordered shot or poisoned by the owner as they continue to hang around to guard the spanking new buildings.

Rescued this abandoned, unwanted puppy some time ago. Found it a home subsequently. Do not buy a cat or dog from a pet shop or puppy mill. Thousands of animals are waiting for adoption at pounds and shelters. Many will be put down šŸ™

Find Me A Home, Please?

Delicious

My favourite cake is Delicious Restaurant’s “Coconut Cake with Fresh Coconut Filling covered with Hawaiian Coconut Shavings”, It tastes really awesome but I like it for another reason.

I like how it makes me think about shapes, colours, textures and translucency, looking at it each time. Any cake that makes a man think before biting into it, is a good cake šŸ™‚

A single colour-temperature calibrated ML-360 light was placed diagonally across the dining table. I didn’t have to desaturate or adjust the colours later. It is a “black and white” image photographed in colour.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 500, f8, 1/50 sec.

Coconut Cake with Fresh Coconut Filling covered with Hawaiian Coconut Shavings

A Kelantanese Breakfast

Imagine having authentic Kelantanese breakfast with birds chirping in the garden. IĀ  discovered this little-known place in PJ this morning. When I asked the lady boss about the blue colouring of the Nasi Kerabu, she quickly ran to her garden and plucked a blue petal from the Bunga Telang (Clitoria Flower or Blue Pea Flower) to show me.

The affable woman is Kak Zakiah. Like many enterprising Kelantanese women, the 70-year-old grandmother operates two other restaurants in Section 17 Flats (Riah Cafe) and Damansara Kim (Riah Seafood). This place is special because it serves only breakfast and it is in her house.

Her cuisine is simple. Nasi Kerabu, Nasi Berlauk, Nasi Lemak, Laksam, Lontong and some really awesome homemade Kelantanese kuih. Kak Zakiah also said it is a meeting place for people from the state. She herself originated from Pasir Mas.

In the age where so many houses in PJ were converted to become commercial entities selling hipster furniture, bridal products and even bubble tea, it is really gratifying to see a genuine home business.

The humble eatery has no signboard nor name. It is located next to the PJ Cemetery in Kampung Tunku.

61 Jalan SS 1/22, Kampung Tunku, 47300 Petaling Jaya. (8am to 12pm daily)

A Kelantanese Breakfast