Today is payment day to the girls’ tuition centers and transporters, all done via online banking since last month. Though there is still no formal directive from the Government on bus fare to school transporters throughout the MCO, there was however an opinion by a Minister in the newspapers recently that parents do not have to be obligated to pay the fare throughout the MCO and CMCO.
Last month, Alycia and Cass’ transporters sent a Whatsapp message to me requesting for a half month fare to be credited into their bank accounts. Initially I was a tad reluctant to pay as I have not been using their services since 18 March and I had paid them a full fare for March.
But if I, as well as the rest of the parents don’t pay at least a half month fare to these transporters, where are they going to find the money to feed their families and pay bills? As the half month fare is only RM125 and RM100 respectively, I agreed to pay the transporters every month, throughout the MCO. I’ll just treat it as a good deed. None of us are prepared for this totally unexpected pandemic. Never in my most frightful nightmare would I have dreamed that I would have to go through World War 3. I hope that the half month fare will sweeten the transporters’ days a little because life is tough and bitter for most of us during this difficult time. Some people lost everything during this war — the businesses that they worked so hard to build just collapsed overnight without any warning.
For lunch, our baking queen cooked mushroom pasta using fresh Portobello, dried Porcini, onions, ground black pepper and a few tablespoons of champagne. The outcome was superb! The splash of champagne added an extra edge of flavour. Restaurant secret! And the flavorful Porcini, which is the Porsche of mushrooms imparted so much mushroom flavor to the pasta.
Future celebrity chef in the making but this girl says she will never choose cooking and baking her choice of study in uni or core area of specialization in future. Her passion is in dancing and she’s bursting with creativity.
She whipped up this impressive matcha oat bowl for herself for breakfast. Lately, Sherilyn and I are experimenting with food photography and I’m considering buying a special lighting gadget for photography. And heck, I really need a better phone with high end camera feature! Huawei, I’m waiting to get you again!
Hubs brought back his shop’s signature dish of Nasi Briyani for dinner today. His chef’s Nasi Briyani is one of the best I’ve tasted and never fails to impress anyone. Everything about this dish is sensational, from the fluffy aromatic spiced Basmati rice to the California raisins, toasted cashews, Ayam Masak Merah, Indonesian pickled salad (acar), mutton rendang (not in picture) and vegetable Dalcha.
Catermate’s Ayam Masak Merah is a hearty temptation. It is a casserole of chicken drumsticks in dried chilies sambal. The chicken drumsticks are first fried to a golden brown then slowly braised in a spicy dried chillies and tomato sauce.
Super refreshing fresh vegetables Acar Jelatah.
As I was savoring this vegetable Dalchar for dinner, I thought to myself that if I turn vegan or flexitarian, I could eat this everyday and never get sick of it. Plus it’s healthy and bursting with flavors.
Blanched celery.
Today hubs’ phone was flooded with compliments on his Nasi Briyani ❤️ It’s hard work to ensure that food that’s churned out from his kitchen is tasty and even harder to send the food boxes out as soon as they are packed so that they reach his customers while the food is still warm and on time. And hubs has to literally split himself in the kitchen and in his office (few shop lots away) so that he’s around to do the QC check on every pack of food that goes out. It’s a lot of hard work to do food delivery with limited reliable staff but the comments he gets from his customers make it all worth his sweat and stress.
This is Catermate’s menu for week 11 – 15 May 2020. To order, kindly send a Whatsapp message to Alan at 019-266 4297. Thank you for your support 💝
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