Wonton is a Chinese cuisine made by placing a desired amount of filling onto a square wrapper, which is a dough skin usually made from flour, salt, water and egg.  Well, for our case, we bought the eggless ones.

Wonton is very popular as a side dish of noodle.  And therefore, there is wonton mee or wonton noodles.  However, today we are not going to talk about the noodle.  The side dish is now going to be the main attraction!

We usually have wontons when we go to vegetarian restaurants but today we have decided to make some of our own!  I did some online research as well as vegetarian recipe books for the filling.  At the end, it was somewhat a mixture of the researches and the memory of the filling’s tasted when we eat out!

We used cabbage, carrots, mushrooms and XiangShuJi (a kind of fake chicken meat made of soy) to make the filling.  Everything has to be finely chopped and mixed.  Then, I fried everything together until fragrant.  I added a bit of salt, pepper and soy sauce to taste.

Meanwhile, Colin seperated the wonton wraps pieces by pieces.  When the filling has cooled down, he put the filling onto each piece and wrap it up.  He did a fantastic job!  Look at how they were all beautifully wrapped!  Beat the restaurants!  Haha…

We fried them instead of making wonton soup.  Both are as delicious though.  Why don’t you give it a try too?  Give us some feedback once you have tried.

Next time, we will try the soup base wonton.

We usually buy cabbage which has been cut into half because the whole cabbage is too big for us to finish within one week.

Sometimes we buy purple cabbage which makes our plates turn purple, when SiewPeng transforms them into one of our dishes for lunch or dinner.

Yes, it contains different nutrients and mineral which are important to our health.

:p Most importantly, when it is cut into half, it gives good colour contrast on its lines to show its beauty created naturally and randomly.

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List of related posts on fruits and vegetables:-

1.  Different Types of Apple.
2.  Buah Keranji.
3.  Buah Pulasan (a Fruit looks like Rambutan).
4.  Different Types of Brinjal and Eggplant.
5. Kumato.

We found kumato in a hypermarket some time ago, but we didn’t buy it until I read from Wikipedia that it contains more fructose which makes it sweeter than other tomatoes.  So we gave it a try.

The kumato that we bought has greenish brown colour.

It is smaller than the orange-coloured ‘normal’ tomato that we bought last week.

We bought a pack of six in a box.

When I have taken their photos inside my light box, and was halfway writting this post, I noticed that I have forgotten to take the photos of the inner look.  I quickly cut one of the kumatoes into pieces, arranged them on the cutting board, and tasted it.

SiewPeng and I found that it is not as sweet as we expected, but not as sour as normal orange-coloured tomato.

This is how the box looks like.

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List of related posts on fruits and vegetables:-

1.  Different Types of Apple.
2.  Buah Keranji.
3.  Buah Pulasan (a Fruit looks like Rambutan).
4.  Different Types of Brinjal and Eggplant.

When I go jogging, I usually take note of special plants or animals and beautiful views.  And if possible, I will try to take their pictures and share them here with everyone.

Well, during this particular jog that I had, I saw a mother and her son.  The child was probably around 2 to 3 years of age.  They were walking and suddenly he started to pull the edge of his mother’s blouse.  He was ignored.  So he did it again.  This time, she turned around and asked him what happened.

He did not say a word but pointed to the direction where he had left one of his shoes behind.  She looked towards that direction and reprimanded the child for not telling her earlier that his shoe had dropped.

I don’t think that I have to elaborate more on the situation.  He did try to tell her but she ignored him.  And this is just a small matter but let’s think about what if it was something much more serious?  Do you still think that ignorance is a bliss?

One morning when I was jogging at the park, I overheard a mother teaching her child to count as I was walking behind them.  The child was naive and very keen to learn.  She was holding her mother’s hand and they were walking slowly hand in hand while she was counting from number 191.  After she reached 199, she said 100-100 (one-hundred-one-hundred) instead of 200.

Although it was not a correct answer but her mother still reacted in a positive way and told her the right way to count.  She gave her praises and encouragement and her tone was full of joy and happiness.  The atmosphere was so calm and positive.

Parents play a very important role in a child’s development.  It determines how they handle and react to different matters when they grow up.  Do you agree?