Looks familiar? After the vegetarian fried pasta, here comes the vegetarian fried rice with…chips and half of a ‘panggang’, one of the local food here. It was meant to be our breakfast but we kept it till lunch and so here it is. Well, I was the cook for the ahem…fried rice though And the chips too.

The recipe this time is not much different from the pasta’s but I’ve added a special type of mushroom bought in the supermarket. It smells great when fried. The mushrooms come in a properly sealed bag with air extracted from the bag in order to preserve their freshness.

What I did was fried some mix vegetables, pieces of corn shoots and mushroom pieces together. Add some salt, pepper and soy sauce. After that, I fried the rice together with these and it’s done.

I think fried noodles and rices have a lot of room for different flavours. As long as it suits your taste buds, you can have a variety of them such as adding chilli powder to make it a bit hot, add Tom Yam to make it a bit spicy and sour or barbeque sauce and so on. But no meat (including seafood) for vegetarians of course.

I am not a very good cook but the colours look attractive, the smell is great (thanks to the mushroom)…should be mouth-watering Ermm…we’ll talk about the taste some other time.

Do you enjoy Italian food?  We like pizza and we will usually order the Vegi Lover at Pizza Hut if we go there and we’ll ask them not to put onions in it.  Besides pizza, we have tried macroni before.  Well, not the way the Italians cook it though.  It was fried and it wasn’t so bad after all.

So, it was a sudden thought one afternoon plus I have always wanted to try something new so I decided to fried pasta with some mix vegetables.  And…ta-da… What you see above is the outcome of it.  But I think I still need to work on the flavour of the pasta a little bit.

First, I fried the chips and the vegetarian nuggets.  The nuggets are made of soy and they are delicious.  So, why kill if you want to eat nuggets. :p Meanwhile, I boiled the pasta.  Then, I fried the mix vege with some chilli sauce.  After that, the pasta was ready to be fried together.  That’s it.  Simple, isn’t it? If you happen to try to cook it, please let us know about your experience.

Recent years, mooncake manufacturers have become more and more creative in making different types of moon cake. We have found this Koala Bear Mooncake. We finished our last piece of our moon cake just now. We do not know how, where and which part should we start eating this koala. Finally we turned it over, and ate it without looking at the koala bear’s face. Poor poor koala bear.

Besides different shapes, there are endless new types of flavour for the traditional mooncake fillings. Lotus seed flavour (Lian2Rong2) is my favorite #1 choice. Besides the traditional filling such as red bean flavour (Dou4Sha1), I have found at least 20 other different types of mooncake fillings. Let me list out a few.

1. Cheese lotus seed.
2. Pandan.
3. Dragon fruit.
4. Peach.
5. Coffee.
6. Green tea.
7. Peanut.
8. Chocolate.
9. And many more… …

Since SiewPeng and I are pure vegetarians and we do not eat egg, our choices are limited. This year we only bought three types plus the koala bear as you can see in the pictures.

We bought the mini round-shaped mooncake, which their size is smaller than the traditional round-shaped moon cake. Their diameter is only about 3 cm, where as the traditional moon cake has about 6 to 10 cm in diameter. We can finish each mini moon cake in 2 bites.

Mooncake tastes delicious, but it should not be taken too much because it contains high sugar. It is dangerous for those who have diabetes. I forgot to mention the mooncake with egg yolk, double egg yolks or 4 egg yolks inside the filling, it is even worse because it contains high cholesterol. So remember, do not eat too much.

We thought of doing the same things again as the apples and brinjals in our previous posts, but we worried that we cannot finish the moon cake if we get one for each flavour, that why we only select a few types here. May be we will do it next year. :p