'CHILI CRAB'

Dear Diary,
         Hari nih saye masak Chili Crab. Ahaks!! 1st time masak ketam, selame nih tgk Mummy je masak ketam kan, so today biar aQ laa lak try. Google resipe Chili Crab, kenapa Chili Crab? Sebab everytime aQ nampak ketam, mesti 'Chili Crab' yang terlintas dalam pale otak aQ. So Chili Crab lah! ;p Dan selain daripada itu, Google lah jugak cara cara nak mencuci ketam kan. Gelak laa jugak sendiri bile aQ type kat search bar 'how to clean a mud crab' tapi kalau bukan sekarang bila lagi kan? Better now then never :D

       So pagi tadi gi pasar kat Kelana Jaya, aQ nih jenis memang (tetibe ade lak rama-rama terbang depan aQ.....) yang tak suke ke pasar! Kalau ke Carrefour supermarket cam tuh aQ biase laa kan, so still stick to 'Better now or NEVER' aQ pown gagahkan laa diri bangun pagi, gosok gigi (tak mandi, heheeh sebab pikir nanti gi pasar mesti kotor and bau meletkat) so tukar seluar jeans, pakai baju yang aQ pakai malam tadi tuk tidur, baju Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse ;p So pergilah saye dengan Daddy ke pasar (kalau Mummy still hidup, mesti terkejut Mummy tengok aQ gi pasar).

        Time kat pasar tuh kan, bukan main terkejut nye saye "Murah gile ikan! Murah gile udang, sotong, daging. ikan bawal hitam.......freshnye!!" (saya penggemar ikan bawal) dan sebagainye. Tapi tujuan utama still in mind is to find crab! So ade laa 2 gerai yang jual ketam, so amek bakul dan mule lah memilih. aQ rase baju Mickey and Minnie Mouse aQ menjadi factor, makcik kat sebelah aQ offer diri untuk tolong pilihkan ketam untuk aQ, die cakap "adik, nih amek ketam nih...berat nih, banyak isi dia..." So tanpa segan silu, dah ade orang offer nak ajar kan, aQ dengar dan terime saje lah :D at least dapat gak ilmu baru yang aQ tak dapat belajar dalam culinary class ;p

       Dah beli sume barang yang diperlukan then macam biase dalam otak aQ just recalculate laa how much we spend for all the things and its only about RM 40 for all the stuff! As a regular customer of Carrefour, kalau aQ beli sume nih kat Carrefour, mau at least RM 70 cam tuh.... aQ punye laa bangge sebab! 1. aQ gi pasar pagi and I like it dan 2. I save money ;p... kaaachiiinnggg!!! So balik rumah Mimi, then start to cook. I am not going to share the cooking process laa because you can just Google Chili Crab recipe and walaaaa! All types of recipe they will pop-out and I picked the Singaporean style which they also include a video (Chili Crab is a Singaporean national dish ar?? Wahtever laa, as long you Singaporeans are happy). 

        Bila aQ berdiri depan sink and ketam ada dalam sink, aQ tengok ketam dan ketam tengok aQ. Tercengang laa jugak ape yang patut aQ mulekan kan. So cam biase, rendamkan ketam dalam air limau, just to get rid the hanyir smell then pejam mate ingat balik macam mana orang dalam video Youtube tuh buat. So satu satu laa aQ handle, kan kena bukak die nye top shell first, so I have to tarik dia nye somehow or rather the ekor then you get or able to crack the top shell. Dan berjaya! Dalam proses tuh jugak aQ belajar, mana satu jantan dan mana satu betina. Kalau jantan dia punya 'ekor' yang ditarik keluar tuh macam bentuk V, but if betina dia punya end 'V' tuh cam panjang lebar sikit. How I know this? Not from the help of Youtube but one of the crab has TELUR KETAM!! So that is how I learned, wink!~

      Dah habis masak, masa untuk makan! aQ gune resipe yg sebijik cam dalam Google tuh and bile aQ rase kuah die "macam ayam masak merah je, ayam masak merah aQ lagi sedap" so basically I know how to improvised the recipe for the next time I cook it (and I love to improvise :D ) So sume dah duduk dekat meja and cedok menyedok nasi pon bermula, Sha Sha (my niece) she was a bit skeptical on trying the Chili Crab because she never eat crab before and it was cook in Chili (dia tak suke pedas laaa) but her Mom (Kak Su) was like trying to persuade her to try and luckily the Chili gravy that was supposed to be 'Chili' its not that spicy...haih! At first Sha Sha tak nak, and then I was like "buat penat jee Fafa masak, huuuuu.." so I was like "tak pe, kopek and bagi jugak!" So aQ kuar kan isi ketam and just put it on her plate and she goes "tak nak lah!" Then I buat dunno ;p And then her Mom was still trying to pujuk and finally she took it and place it in her mouth "haaa, macam rase udang kan?" There was still more on her plate (haih! rama rama nih, sebelah Skittles aQ jugak ko nak landing) then after her first taste......then..........she finish it all! Muaaahahahhaahahah "VICTORY!!"

       Then there was Daddy a.k.a Tok a.k.a Uncle KFC ;p kan Tok takde gigi, sian tok, so he can only ate the body part and the small small testicles but when it come to the snip-snap of the crab part, he cant bite it. But that part was the marvelous part! The essence of a CRAB!!!!!! So he offered me to take it. So I was like ok. So I use my teeth to bite and 'CRACK!' no my teeth are still attached on my gums, heeeee! But I used my eyes to jeling kat Daddy laaa, and he was like see me like really really tempted. So I ignored at first, and I ate it and I sucked it like nobody business but when I took a bite on the second snip-snap testicles I just bite just to cracked it and gave it to Daddy and say "Nah, Safa dah gigitkan, Daddy kopek je laa..." Then he was like so happy got to eat it like Nazrin dapat keropok like that ;p

      Ouh! About Nazrin a.k.a Charlie a.k.a Captain Jr. He is soooooooo CUTE!! Especially the way he laughed, I just want to bite him! Grrrrrr! Last night, we went outside for dinner and the kakkak at the restaurant sebelah like so 'head to toe' of Nazrin, they tried to approached him, but he got scared but somehow or rather one of the kakkak got to dukung him and they was like so happy, Nazrin buat muka macho! Amboi, mementang aweks aweks dukung dia kan.....kewl jhe ek! ;p

     I think thats all for today. Cheers :)))