The Mystery of the Claws of Death Explained

I thought I'd better clarify the new toy because Greg's eyes opened as big as guli when I showed it excitedly to him. Well, as it says on the box, it is a meat tenderiser.

I was with Jo shopping at Cold Storage a few weeks ago. We passed through their non-halal section, ie. ham and such, and we saw them roasting pork. Both of our eyes popped out like guli when we saw how nice the Roast Pork (Siu Yook) crackled on the top.

So in all kaypo-ness, we asked the sales lady very hush-hushedly how that was done. Hush-hushedly in response, she told us that it wasn't easy cos they used nine types of herbs, etc etc & so on, & then she pointed to this strange looking poking device which her boss brought all the way from KL.

My precioussss!!!
Jo & I probably looked like Gollum at that moment.

And guess what? We didn't have to go as far as KL. Jo called last weekend, really excited, like she found gold. The claw of death is now available at Syn Hap Hin in Padungan for only RM12.50!!!

Jo was probably holding it in one hand & the phone in the other, grinning like a mad woman. I think if both our husbands saw us right there & then, we'd be banned from each other's house.

But little do they know, their loving wives are attempting to make roast pork for experimentation & for the thrill of it, uhm, I mean for our husbands' gastronomical pleasure. The pork is already seasoned, & is now drying in the chiller. We will do the violent poking and scouring on Saturday.

So Ladies and Gentlemen, stay tuned. If you see a roast pork recipe sometime soon, you'd know that we had succeeded. If not, this claw of death probably didn't work. So please don't run out to get one for yourselves just yet.

Cold Storage Comes to Kuching

Cold Storage has officially opened for more than a week in Kuching. It's the talk of the town. Normally when we meet people in Kuching, the first thing they'd ask is 'Have you eaten?' This time around it was 'Have you been to Cold Storage?'

So now I can officially declare that it is basically the most talked about and the most frequently visited place in Kuching for the past one week, especially by all the aunties in town.

We finally made our pilgrimage there last Saturday. And the crowd was scary. Yes, scary. We could barely get ourselves in and that is already like a week after the grand opening. The cars were packed everywhere. Such is the sua ko-ness (mountain auntie) of Kuching people (us included). But it was definitely worth the while.

There was a special non-halal section, which had porky porky products from simple bacon to the more exotic ham.

And the cheeses, OMG, fresh ones like edam, gouda, blue cheeses, spanish platters, cheddars, mozarellas!

We didn't take a lot of photos in there cos there were too many people around, & we didn't really want to look anymore sua koo than we already were. There are certain things which we can be thick skin about. Unfortunately this just wasn't one of them.

The fruit and vegetables section is just simply wonderful for me. Normally Choice Premier, Choice Daily and Ta Kiong have a good variety but Cold Storage had an excellent range of fresh herbs like dills, sage leaves, mints, flat leave parsleys and others which I have never seen in Kuching like pineapple mint, mizuna.

They even come in little pots.

Mushrooms - there were the portobellos, Swiss, Korean ones on top of the usual button mushrooms.

The mesclun salads, my my, lola rossa, butterhead lettuce, romaine, rockets etc.





The tomatos ~ red cherries, golden cherries, tomatos on vines.

There were even fresh blackberries and raspberries!

There was also a good section of imported sauces like Burgess, dry pastas and they even have imported flours. I am wondering if I could use it for making pasta because a good substitute for drum flour is a very strong flour. Oh oh they have Pad Thai noodles too. Imagine I had to carry 3 packets back from Phuket.

Finally together with Choice, Ta Khiong, Ting & Ting, civilisation has finally arrived in Kuching.

The arrival of Cold Storage in Kuching has been long overdue. It's a great feeling to wake up to, much like in the morning when the Opposition denied BN the majority in the general elections.

From this day onwards, we would not have any more problems finding olives & capers. Even though the prices are higher especially for items that are not available in the other supermarkets, do go there. But whatever you do, please don't touch touch & poke poke, buy something so that they will continue to stock their shelves.

To 'celebrate' the arrival of Cold Storage in Kuching, we're having Bacon and Nuts Salad tonight with ingredients from Cold Storage.

New Category

Hi All,

I have set up a new category called Nee Go Food Shopping. This is a section which will talk about anything related to clarification on ingredients, prices of food, where to buy certain ingredients, wet markets, supermarkets and anything related to Food Shopping.

I have been asked occassionally where to get certain things or how certain things look like. So hopefully this can be a good platform for friends and family to search for certain food items and of course where I can share all my snooping and stalking efforts.

Disclamer: For all future posts here, I claim NOT to have any affiliations with any of the businesses and/or the product items which will be featured in this segment. I am just a regular obasan (housewife) who patronises these places & products because I find them reliable and/or convenient. Pretty Please do not scold or take offence with me if you have any other opinions or experiences contrary to mine. Instead, please feel free to share them with me.