Goodies in Kuching City April 2010

Recommended by Mrs. Money

Foo Chow's Favorite Kan Pan Mian and Bian Niuk!

When I was living in Auckland, somebody told me there is a kan pang mian store in Christchurch, she told me, "Someone even missed their flights because 0f waiting for kan pan mian!"

No matter where they go, foo chow miss their kan pang mian even if they have to drive 10 kilometers or take a boat to reach their nostagic kan pan mian!

When I first "migrated" to Kuching, from time to time I visited this kan pan mian on the way to my kids' schools, especially during early morning before 7:00, I always found this hard working couple could always readily prepare their kan pan mian on time for my kids, while proceeding our way to school, often we saw the jet was just on its way ascending headed northwards.

I think this couple would be able to cook for anyone if one is preparing to fly off at 7am MAS flight to Miri, they told me every morning (except Thursday) they reach their store at 5:00am.

I am quite surprised that this couple only entirely preparing foo chow kan pan mian, bian niuk and kong piang, whereas other stores in Kuching would sell varieties of noodles, even though the owner, Mr. Lau's wife is a Cantonese.

This morning my girl was crying didn't want to go to school, Mr. Lau left his cooking to pamper her. I "interviewed" him and his wife while I ate, I found out they have a teenage son and stayed 10 miles away from Kuching city. He was working as a project manager for a very well known grass and aluminium company until he got to an age that climbing high up became a threat for him. Since he was a teenager in Sibu town he got an experience in operating kan pan mian store, so he decided to return this old days job to find a living.

I decided to list his foo chow kan pan mian and bian niuk as goodies inspite the tea and coffee served there in the kopitiem obviously need more improvement! After I ate there for a while Mr. and Mrs. Lau's kan pan mian and bian niuk never out of "quality control", later I even sent my connoisseur old friend and his wife to taste, the test passed with good remarks.

This coffee shop can be seem from Stutong roundabout, toward right side of One TJ.

Hardworking Mr. Lau prepared his regular customers' order

Not A Single Gift Received
Depend on what profession you are in

Written by Mrs. Money





This is a true story happened in between two brothers’ conversation, one of the brothers is a doctor by profession and another one is merely a civil engineer cum third class sub-contractor. One day the doctor brother tongue-in-cheek questioned his younger brother, “I don’t understand why you have to spend so much money on monthly telephone bills to call up people and spend so much money to buy gifts for people during Chinese New Year for people! Look at me; I was the one patients would keep calling and looking up for me and they would shower me with gifts during Chinese New Year!”


This morning, I opened my son’s wardrobe and I found out most of them are getting too small as for two years I didn’t add on any new shirt for my son since I have quitted my job two years ago. When I worked in an oil town, some grateful friends would always buy shirts and toys for my kids, when I become full time jobless Mrs. Money since I move to Kuching city, needless saying there was not a single gift for the poor kids bringing back home by Mr. Money for past seven years.

I worked for almost 30 years in this Malaysian business world; I have seem how cold and realistic human beings acted. Professions like doctors, general managers and politicians are the ones whom people keep showered them with luxury gifts; these are the best professions with status, money and gifts.

I met a car dealer who told me every year he has to ribbon so many imported cars given by timber tycoons so and so to give to so and so big shots.

Big tycoons always have to bride their big shots, the big shots would in return giving him lots of kan tou, but for small third class sub-contractors is the worst profession amongst all dogs eat dogs professions. To win a contract from a contractor … mostly the big companies, the sub-contractor is in such a position that he has to bride, “pay” and “please” used the pennies and smooth talking to path his ways through, from a big tycoon’s employed general manager to QC in order to win a project, then each monthly payments may not be on time, worst as a third class sub- contractor, along facing the sudden inflation raised of diesels, so how much at the end of the day you think a sub-contractor could earn?

A year ago, I overheard a ED of a big company talked to Mr. Money so rudely, I had a shock of how difficult Mr. Money earned his little pennies, besides sharing some of his hard earned pennies with all along from the top to the bottom, he still has to tolerate those big companies’ management staff abusive words and unreasonable ‘new contracts sanctions’ from time to time, yet still have to bow his head said, “Yes sir, yes sir!” Worst incident was once I overheard a company executive director insulted to Mr. Money this way, “I told you lah, Datuk didn’t want to see you! ……… ” The incident was Mr. Money’s car got stolen on that particular day while waiting in a datuk’s office, when the ED learned probably from Datuk’s secretary that Mr.Money didn’t manage make it to see datuk, he could twist his story maliciously.

When I learned that someone could ‘bark’ to Mr. Money in such disrespect and very rude manner, as a wife, what do you feel when you find out your husband is a nobody in somebody’s eye and while you yourself were fully respected in your past profession?

When I noticed how little Mr. Money is in those QC and ED’s eyes, for six months last year end, I was very sick, hurt and down for a while, in this society, a wife’s face is based on her husband’s face. Most of the time, our Chinese women chose not to talk and share in order to hide their problems and agonies, because they are lots of gossips sucking women friends surrounded them anytime ready to hurt the poor victims.

Luckily, only the ability to evoke on my brain to bring such new awakenings to get me out of blues, imagine if the evolution cells of some people’s brains are already crippled! Who on earth don’t want to get married to a husband full of financial secure, respects and dignities? But in another way round, that a look of how hopelessness and desperation could turn some women's life to a better one .... Estee Lauder and Mary Kay could create and build their own empires and rights, when their men unable giving them their needs, dignity, respect and prestige, thus such legends created. Worst are those women with their evolution cells crippled yet their wagging tongue still active!

Just for an example, Foo Chow ladies after married, their status would drop a rank immediately, as their title siew chea would turn to jiung nyu neng (adopted woman), expression in a dialect can foretell how a married woman is being demoted in such clan. So to stay as Mrs.Money, I was demoted as jobless jiung nyu neng with no gift received in all four seasons ….. There is a voice telling me to crawl on ground like a millipede, when there is something touchy and I just need to roll myself like a circle.

I told the two little moneys, “Hey, when you grow up, look out for a job or create a profession which you can earn a lot, don’t need to bride people and people don’t need to bride you, yet in your position can help and benefit a lot of people.” Really got that kind of fantastic profession in this world? May be in a robotic era in year 2222 or in other star!

Most Exotic and Authentic Sarawak Indigenous Dish

Fried Terong Iban with Baku

Sarawak state fried terong Iban with baku fern leaves dish prepared by my old classmate's wife, Angela Ngu Wong. Note that don't need to deseed terong Iban if for digestional purpose. Terong asam from Money Tai Tai's garden, baku from old classmate Au Au's old folks garden. This created recipe is an organic dish which can be classified as one of the most exotic and authentic Sarawak state indigenous dishes!!!

Created and Written by Mrs. Money

http://moneytaitai.blogspot.com/2010/01/sarawakiens-sour-eggplant-solanum.html

Recipe for Terong Asam and Baku

Ingredient:
2 ripen golden terong Iban, peel off skin, get rid of little seeds, cut into thinly crescent shape pieces; a bunch of Sarawakiens' native tender fern leaves "Baku" shoots; Minced ginger; Minced garlic, Minced ikan bilis & dried shrimps; Chili (optional for those who can take hot foods); Sesame oil; red rice wine (optional), black pepper and Salt

Procedure:
Heat up the oil, fry the ginger, garlic, ikan bilis, dried shrimp, chili and salt until brownish
Fry the terong Iban first before add in baku fern leaves, add seasoning, wine and water, simmer a bit longer before turn off fire.

The dish is not boring, you will miss it if you stay away from Sarawak for too long! Please serve hot!

What My Mom Should Have Taught and Told me?


Written by Mrs. Money


Continued from last publish

Eating Manners


Did your mother ever tell you, munch your foods with your lips closed tightly?

I went to a doctor’s surgery this morning saw a pretty friendly woman carried a nice LV handbag, unfortunately she has a bad manner that overwhelmingly spoiled her good outlook, she munched her chewing gum loudly with her opened mouth!

Yesterday I went to eat “Ray Cha” with my kids and my old aunt, after eating, she told my children, “Don’t smile with your teeth on after eating Ray Cha!” Immediately I took her advice, old ginger is hot, she is sensitive and experience in good manner.

After eating Ray Cha those minced vegetables would stick in between and on our teeth, now you know what I am talking, so next time please drink lots to rinse your teeth before you open your mouth after eating your Ray Cha.

Hoho .... Don’t bring your new girlfriend and boyfriend to eat Ray Cha, as they might just see the opponent’s dirty teeth!!

I recalled few years ago, I needed to interview a babysitter, when she showed up with her teeth smiling at me but with foods stuck in between her teeth, I immediately rejected her! So make sure you check your teeth from the mirror right before interview!

To be continued

Acute Sense Developed

To prevent conned by con-men or con-women

Written by Mrs Money




Case Study 2



My friend sold her long established out-of-town business to a new buyer, the Sly couple:

One day she received a SMS from her buyer, Mdm.Sly, “I just paid the SESCO deposit of RM6000, electric got cut off yesterday. I was told that you have asked them to cut it off. SESCO is going to deduct your deposit because you want to collect your deposit from Kch instead of from in-town SESCO office here.”

So how reliable is this Mdm. Sly’s SMS?

The truths are as followed:

As requested by Sly couple, my friend kindly gave sometimes for the Sly couple to register their new SESCO account upon their newly acquired business before terminating her old registered SESCO account, since the Sly couple verbally agreed would refund any icurred outstanding bills to my friend if during future termination.

In between, my friends at least SMS five to six times to both Sly couple to expedite their own new SESCO account, my friend would always get the answer, “OK, OK!”

After three months, my friend sent a legal document to SESCO regarding the termination and requesting deposit refund for her account, and the Sly couple both received my friend's CC emails and telephone verbal notification regarding the SESCO termination. My friend even kindly reminded the out-of-town SESCO officer to remind the buyer regarding the electricity termination before taking action.

On a particular day, my friend received an out-of-town call from a SESCO officer regarding the termination, my friend even asked her, “Have you notice the new owner regarding the termination?”
“Yes, twice we have informed them.”

Soon, my friend received phone call from a SESCO officer regarding the deduction of her deposit, “Your two accounts due to the most recent monthly bills are not settled yet (by the new owner), the outstanding will be deducted to your deposit. Do you agree that?”

My friend agreed it, as she calculated that she would just lost few hundred ringgit for her SESCO deposit, but if she didn’t terminate her account as soon as possible, one day she might not even get a single cent back.

So can you believe it right after the SESCO terminated my friend’s account, the new buyer could SMS her in this way:

"I just paid the SESCO deposit of RM6000, electric got cut off yesterday. I was told that you have asked them to cut it off. SESCO is going to deduct your deposit because you want to collect your deposit from Kch instead of from in-town SESCO office here”

My friend sighed that these days it’s so difficult to act as a kind and helpful person, besides settling that a hundred over ringgit under buyer’s most recent outstanding bills during SESCO termination, the buyer could still SMS to blame my friend, my friend instantly becomes a notorious, heartless and thoughtless person instead!

My friend even double-confirmed from Kuching SESCO officers, she was told, "During Termination, SESCO doesn't charge out-of-town service fees for any SESCO deposit refund."

Advice:

If you register a new sole-proprietorship company, it is wiser for you to register your SESCO account under your own name instead of your new business name. Once you close down your business, imagine the hassle if you receive your SESCO deposit later bearing your business name but you have already closed down your business account! OR if once you sell off your old business to a buyer, SESCO will refund your deposit cheque according to your registered name. Legal documents will be required if you want SESCO deposit money registered under your company name to be refunded under your personal name. But if you already registered SESCO account under your company name, during sales you must through legal concern to collect your SESCO deposit from new buyer directly and you don’t need to hassle wasting your time dashing in and out of SESCO office.

Tomatoes Grow Under The House Roof
If I can do it, you can do it even better than me!


Written by Mrs. Money

I would like to encourage all ladies to get your hands dirty from times to times. Go buy few big trays and placed the big pots above, then filled up with expensive RM18/bag Australian compost.

You can use those seeds directly from ripe tomatoes (make sure pick the mature imported Australian tomatoes) to sow on the top of the compost. Just try to sow two or three seeds in each pot, after two or three weeks choose the healthiest seedlings but get rid of weak ones, replant and arrange them tidily and fill up some more compost.


The plant will grow tall and lush, so you have to check how big is your pot to accomodate how many plant in it!

Place your pots right under your house roof, but make sure that you have to water them everyday, if you can't commit then just don't plant anything!

Once the tomatoes plants grow over six inches, you must get a bloom height strong stick to support the plant, tie some branches and twists with strings on the supporting stick.

If you want good harvest, periodically use broken crumbled eggs with shells mixed with water as fertilizer. The bad smell will be gone after three days, soon you will see lots of flowers emerged.

Ladies! Don't depend on men to help you all the time, to save your gas and time for that RM1.00 spring onion, RM7.90 sweet basils and certain herbs that you like, base on what I told you as above, you can try to plant all those herbs that you like. Remember after 11:00pm supermarket will not be opened, if you, your kids or hubby want to eat Daddy Mee soup with spring onion, you would be glad that you have a 24 hours herbs conservatory right under your roof!

Good luck to you!

This is a very successful example of growing tomatoes under the roof, harsh weather of hot sun, heavy rain and certain pests could be avoided.

Perfect tomatoes without any covering to avoid pests.

Healthy inmature green tomatoes

These tomatoes plants now grow as tall as a bloom, I am expecting each plant to produce at least a hundred over tomatoes.

Sweet potatoes

Nostalgia Dessert for Your Grandpa and Grandma
A bowl of Sweet Potatoes Soup in exchanged for some old days stories


Written by Mrs. Money

You might listen your old parents or grandparents repeating their 40s Japanese occupation same old stories of how they hated sweet potatoes, as sweet potatoes took just three to four months to mature but it took longer for rice to get harvested thus in those old war days dinner table, more sweet potatoes would show on their plates than rice.

Chinese immigrants left China to settle down in Sarawak mainly due to bandits attack and poverty in their old villages back in China, then under communist era, these Chinese-Sarawakiens wouldn’t be able to return China as freely as before. Once the iron curtain opened in 80s, old folks who could still walk would “return” to China as often as possible. Can you imagine one day when they get so old on a wheelchair but they want to die next to their kids, so they would not be able to die in their birth place? Most old folks are very lonely and towards their dooming days nostalgia takes over them, they would sigh, “That’s life!”

I realize that I have no feeling and not that keen to visit China as a second generation Chinese-Sarawakien born in Sarawak, but I could see my dad and Mr. Money still like to go visit China as they are the first generation born Chinese-Sarawakiens. If one day I migrate to NZ for good, due to I want to be next to my kids, but where will my nostalgia heart falls to?

No matter how badly happened to a country’s political and crime situations, if one born there, once drank the water and ethic foods there, these are the hooks that forever trapped on one’s subconscious mind.

So ready to turn your old folks touchy?

Make sure you have a whole free afternoon! Cut the potatoes into pieces, add water and sago. Boil for 20 minutes, finally add in coconut milk and sugar. Serve the dessert in Jingdazhen bowls, when you present this dessert to your old folks, whether they reject you or not, there will be some nastalgia stories ready to listen!

Kiwi will call sweet potatoes as kumara. It is very easy to plant, make sure you have a raised bed for your patch, try to get some sweet potatoes cuttings from your friends. Insert each cutting into the patch with a marking. Make sure y0u water it on sunny day. After three months, you look up for the old marking, use a spade to dig the soil carefully surround the marking, you will find few sweet potatoes in each marking.

Hidden Invalids and Sad Withdrawn Mothers in Our State

You don’t see them on street because they are confined …. But where to?

According to a doctor, her wounds were burned by hot water in a Kuching private care center, then such wounds further on got infected for a year! Was she injure under bad facility, staff's carelessness, neglectance or abuse?

Written by Mrs. Money




She was a very beautiful, sporty and outgoing engineer graduated in USA and once she would have great dreams for her future life like all young girls entitled to have, but then a car accident revealed that she needed a brain operation but few surgeries ended up unsuccessfully. She became an invalid person, at first her family still carried on hopes that she would recover but after 12 years she still ended crippled like a baby, her brain could only function like a 3 years old girl and worst still she has never aware of what she has become.


Her parents eventually took her back from USA and they took care of her until her dad passed away. Then her siblings in overseas decided to move her and their old mom to Kuching where they believed medical cares here would be more convenience, they eventually located a privatized old folks’ center and then confined her there after paying about US$500/Monthly.


She is my cousin, so when I moved in Kuching two years ago, I decided to visit her only once a blue moon because I was fallen into melancholy after each visit, she wouldn’t be able to call my name whenever I visited her. Every visit I witnessed her health and beauty both have gradually deteriorated, her unpleasing situations and environments also worn off and sunken my heart. I remember her loving parents would brush her teeth after her meal when they took care of her, she got the most beautiful set of perfect teeth, but now with her rotten teeth smiling at me I felt my heart got rotten at the same time. Every time I visited her I would bring my young kids along because I wanted them to see another hidden side of this world, they would scream the minute they stepped in the center, “Yucky…… smelly…. Stuffy!
As there is a no any other better choice of proper rehabilitation center now in Kuching to take care of these partial and fully invalid old folks, adults and children. I kept quiet to protect my invalid cousin most basic welfare of not being kicked out of the center, so like the rest of people I hushed my kids. However my young kids were never afraid to meet their invalid aunty, they would greet her politely regardless she response or not and it’s a brainstorming moment for them.


If this is a properly facilitated rehabilitation center for invalids, if there are enough trained and loving care staffs or does our government need to step in a foot to regulate these kinds of licensed privatized rehabilitation centers and old folks homes to ensure those handicapped or invalid kids, adults and old folks are all well taken care, their physical, emotion and mental health are handled in adequate and professional manners????


I already eavesdropped few times about our asylums in state, “Those crazy girls are fed continuously with contraceptive pills ……………..” The rest I would like you to imagine and think. I can’t tell you what they had told me. I believe this is just an iceberg, I wish I am a police investigator who has the right to thumb down any possibility of rapist-staffs, security guards or there could be opportunist outside crimes hidden or creep in those asylums. Poor crazy girls become crazier, even if one of them reported to you that there was a man sitting on her tummy last night, you probably might doubt her words because she is crazy and lunatic, the schizophrenia victim.


I hope in a very nearer future, a proper non-profitable rehabilitation center for invalid children, adults and old folks is being properly set up in Kuching and with efficient managements to par up as equally high standard with advanced western countries. As now we are facing a common problem, those rehabilitation centers in our state only accepted invalid children and old folks, but for those after twelve partially and fully invalid teenagers and adults, their helpless poorer working parents (parents with invalid kids tends to work harder to think a better future for their invalid kids) would confine them in the house, sometimes for those invalids from very poor families, they would be left alone facing the wall with no foods and little drink from early morning to evening.


Left alone outsiders’ curious prying amusing eyes or coldness, these poor victims are mostly "stuffed" in their house under different conditions depend on their parents’ financial situations: There is no one helping these invalids to stimulate their continuous deteriorating brains and limbs, no a proper channel from our government or non-profitable organization or churches to approach solving their helplessness, without proper contact with outside world, after prolonged situation invalids’ family members also getting from sad, desperate to withdraw and thus cold-hearted to insane.


Without a proper channel of non-profitable society in this city specially and professionally handling these invalids, caring of these invalid family members’ mental well being, approaching these invalids and genuinely wanting to help them should become key issues to discuss and the problems must be quickly solved by Kuching warm-hearted folks. Silence and withdrawn shadowed the victims and their families’ pains, hopelessness and sadness. Not many people seeing invalids on street but one can't say that there is no invalid victim or never will be an invalid victim born or happen to his family, do you know that there is always a 5% risk happened to anyone?!


So please open your eyes, your ears and your hearts to promote a non-profitable organization for all-aged invalids in Kuching city. There will be a pro tem website soon build regarding this matter, please pass this message around, to gain supports and encouraging words for those warm-hearted Kuching folks to pursue their plans and goals.

Measure Your Conscience
Problems of Poorly Treated Local Security Guards and Foreign Maids

Written by Mrs. Money

Early morning, a security guard called me out loudly from a distance away, “Ou… Ah Mui, boleh mintak air? Saya lupa bawah dari rumah!” (Ou …. Miss, can I ask you for some water? I have forgotten to bring it from home!)”

I looked out a distance away mansion he works in and I looked back at my little cottage; a little munia compared to a giant eagle, I wondered if this little munia really got more foods in her nest than the giant eagle’s nest?

I called out as equally loud, “Ok, boleh! (Ok, sure!)”

I filled up RO water with a big spa Reine empty bottle and at the same time I hanged him a box of cookies. He looked at it, “Ah mui, saya mahu air panas untok kopi! (Miss, what I want actually is hot water for my coffee.)” Then he gave me a plastic bottle.

I replied him, “Jangan guna plastic bottle untuk air panas, tak bagus untuk badan. You sini tungul saya. (Don’t use the plastic bottle for hot water, it’s not good for your health, you wait here for me.” So he waited outside my gate.

Few minutes later, I hanged him a glass bottle of hot water, with few teabags and some instant coffee and he left happily.

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A really hot day I pop in my son’s school to pass him something, I got to sign up at the security guard stand, I could feel the hot air blowing directly to my face and I looked at those sweated security guards. There were hundreds of students, school staffs and students’ parents walked in and out passed through this stand, why nobody realized what have happened? I was wordless, few days later, I brought them a fan.

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During Chinese New Year, I followed Mr. Money to visit his friend’s open house in an outskirt Sarikei. When my kids were playing with a tom cat near the kitchen, I saw an Indonesian man carried a wok out of the house. I looked at Mr. Money’s friend in a surprise, “Are you hiring a chef to cook for this open house?”

He replied, “No, this is an Indonesian employee of mine, he has been working for me for 10 years, but in between he ran off once to work for others, eventually he still returned working to me. He is a hard working man and he does almost everything in the house whenever he can. He works as a gardener and even washes our plates. Is a joke right? I don’t need an Indonesian maid to wash plates for me! He eats with us and we treat him like a part of this family, every Chinese New Year I also give him a big ang bow.”

The man didn’t tell me directly or boost that he is a kind man, but from the whole house-full of guests he invited for open house and from the whole table-full of good foods, I could tell he and his wife are both very friendly and generous persons. I put in my heart to pray to God that may this household be continuously blessed.


I have an old classmate and his wife who also treated whosever working for them kindly and generously. They temporary rented an apartment to stay, they would bring drinks and foods to the poor security guards, they never mistreated their drivers, HPs were given to drivers etc. and their maids were well provided with clothes, ornaments and good foods. My classmate is also getting more blessed, years after years I only see him getting richer and living better.

Unfortunately, I have come across bad employers’ cases more frequently, who would treat their Indonesian maids meanly.

Someone told me how the ways her neighbor (JE)'s Indonesian maid was mistreated. One day when the Indonesian maid couldn’t pick up tissue paper on time from the floor due to juggling between other household works, those tissues were actually dumped by JE's naughty kids. Instead of should discipline her kids, JE dragged the Indonesian maid out of the house to the garden, JE used the picked-up tissue papers forced into her maid's mouth, and the maid was punished to stand under the sun, she warned the maid, “I tell you if you want to report that I abused you, I let you know first that the police chief in this town is my uncle!”

I couldn’t believe my ears, I know this lady JE, because this lady normally would act so nicely and sweetly to friends. But one day after my friend told me how her daughters rejected to go learning piano because they witnessed how JE scolded her student, a little boy until he urinated in his pant!

Very soon after such incident, JE called up my friend, wanted to bring her daughters for shopping and resumed her nice composure but her daughters were both scared the shits out of the crazy lady!

Once I paid two part-time Indonesian maids to come help me cleaning the dirty house due to after fixing air-condition, the house ended up like after a dust storm. I worked together with them, they ended up very happy. In between the half day work I brought them for Mee Goreng and drinks in a Malay Kopitiem. During chatting, they revealed to me that they would work everyday from early morning before 6:00 am until 10pm++, they would work for other people during day time but in night time they have to return their agent’s house to help up household works again. I was wordless, the only thing I could do was I informed the agent that I gave those girls ang bow because they worked very hard and I gave everyone something, extra money, old clothes, ornaments and vegetables from money tai tai’s garden, so everyone was happy.

I heard also there was such a case, an employer who has never solved emotional problem with his wife, he would deliberately give problem to the Indo maid to make his wife’s life turning hellish, like he would deliberately add in pork to every dish he cooked and scolded his wife loudly in front of the maid. This man always worked outstation but once a blue moon when he returned, he would scream and scold the Indonesian maids unreasonably, for years he would never treat anyone of his Indo maids well, when his as equally battered wife saw one after another maid was abused by her hubby and left she thought of no hiring any, but her nasty hubby insisted to have a maid at home! Not all Indo maids were verbally abused by their lady bosses but also by their male bosses (here don’t mean sexually assault cases).

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Mr. Money and my sister always bugged me to employ Indonesian maid to assist me, I told them if I am so rich, I don’t want just a maid, I need a butler and many maids!

I totally disagree with such semi-slavery system practice widely in ex-colonial nations, unfortunately such earlier on royalty slavery practice has deeply rooted and influenced subconsciously even after 50 years of Malaysians' independence. I wonder are those peoples hiring maids to proof to other peoples that now they are superior (or rich)? I doubt very much peoples with such kind of slavery superior mind set, if they ever or able treat their maids nicely. Many years ago they witnessed how their grandparents worked as gardeners and maids for the whites, now they employ Indonesians which they think are “poor and inferior” to work for them?

Many folks are mean, if someone from Singapore or Brunei, these special mean stuck-up Malaysians would treat them with respect, but when the special stuck-up Malaysians met those foreign workers from China, Thailand and Indonesia, they would immediately treated them as second class citizens.

I remember once I sarcastically brainstorming someone, “Hey! Please treat foreigners well, one day you will be going out of this country, how about if you go to England and those British treat you as rudely as you treated our foreigners which you think is an inferior race because their currency is lower than our Malaysian ringgit?! Just to tell you some of these Indonesians working here in Malaysia could be dentists or architects, they are much more educated and cultivated than some of our peoples here!!!”

I prefer my experienced Americanized way of treating their helpers (Americans hardly employ maids, only those super rich do), during my studies in USA I sometimes helped some American professors or friends to clean their house, those American ladies would treat me like their kids to clean their house, I learned so much of household works which I indebted to them, I feel like I was paid to learn how to clean a house.

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Do you aware of these:

To treat foreigners and foreign employees nicely and kindly, regardless of which countries they are from, is another diplomatic door opened indirectly, you help our nation to promote our country and its predominant kind folks indirectly.

A good example in year 2000 I visited America, the minute I stepped out the airplane, a guard stopped me, after he glance my passport he snubbed, "Huh... Malaysian!" I was so angry and I felt like wanted to broadcast to the whole world letting peoples realized how rude Americans could be, but once I stepped in the Americans' soil, the common folks there really treated me kindly, generously and with warm welcome.


To cherish our own poorer fellow country people nicely and kindly is a priority than you donate money to earthquakes victims in other foreign countries!!! (Imagine how I felt when this morning, I witnessed how our own fellow countryman was being treated badly by “VIP foreigners” on our own soil!)

Breakfast At Home During School Holiday

Breakfast At Home
During School Holiday (Non-Halal)

Written by Mrs. Money

This is a non-halal breakfast, if Malay friends like Chinese foods, they can always use beef (with some fat) to prepare foods at home to get as yummy results.

This is a good breadfast for kids with a grass of their favorite juice (don't chill) but a very fattening breakfast for over 40 years old folks, thus I advise older folks to eat this breakfast with hot herbal tea.

The best part of pork (its belly section). Marinated the pork with vinegar, wine, soy sauce and minced red onion. Fry the skin and meat first, while frying add prepared ginger (just a bit), garlic, red onion, sugar (optional), cute daikon (white raddish or white carrot), salt and black pepper with sesame oil, fry everything until brownish. When everything turn light brown, add hot water. Boil for 15 to 20 minute. Then add organic bean paste, soy sauce, vinegar and minced meat, cook for another 10 to 15 minutes but don't dry it up.

 

Use the ready sauce to prepare this kolo mee or kan pan mian, garnish with spring onion.

The minced meat and sliced meat can be used to make kong bian sandwich, some foo chow preferred it deep fried, but I think it's not healthy for over 40 years old folks!


Ground meat and slided meat on kong bian



This charcoal grilled kong piang from Bintagor with sesame topping got freezed since ages ago, defrozed it in microwave and then toast it.