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My late mum used to make this for me and I remembered the days when I got home from school, college or work and seeing a plate of fish cakes nicely sliced thinly waiting for me... Ahhhh... such nice memories. I could just eat a plate of rice with this fish cake slices on its own. This is the first time I'm attempting this dish though I've seen my mother-in law making it every now and then. Every trial and attempts is a step closer to cherishing and bringing myself back to the times when my late mum was still around.

I used the ready made fish paste and just grabbed a handful of it, pat it nicely into a round shape, flattening the top and the bottom slightly while waiting for my non-stick pan to heat up (with about 1 tbsp of oil drizzled on it) and once the pan is hot enough, I gently put the fish cakes on it and pan fry it for a few minutes, generally until the outer skin is golden and crispy looking enough.

I'm just making this for myself actually so I never expected anyone else to hog my dish! Turns out our 4 year old girl loves it! She has never been one who like things like this (she refused to eat fishballs - common ingredients added into noodles dishes here in Malaysia) so I am surprised and happy to see this. I would definitely try this again and add in mash vege next time hehehehe...

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We were out for dinner at a restaurant few weeks ago and while waiting for our food to be served, I saw the menu brochure. Teaching and learning moment! You know how?

Letter and word recognition and pronounciation opportunity!

The menu was printed using different font types, all the more getting me excited as I want to test our 6.5 year old whether he can recognise the letters in different font types hehehe... He got most if them right except the words like 'Signature', 'Dessert' and 'Premium'. Not bad!

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I have been sharing some of my favorite angpow pieces on an angpow collectors group in Facebook and some members have been telling me to continue sharing my memorable stories and so I thought, why not write it down, that way, our kiddos can read about it when they grow up next time, eh?

For those of you who are not familiar or never heard of the words 'Angpow' (also known as 'ang pau', 'ang pao', 'angpau'), here is a quick definition:

Angpow = Red Packet (filled with cash inside) given during festivals

So for today's angpow story, it comes from this piece of lovely angpow:

Today's storytime is based on this sampul duit raya from The Big Group. It features a few traditional games popular in our beloved country, Malaysia. Wau (giant kite), congkak, gasing (spinning top) and the tons and tons of guli (marbles) at the background.

I'm sure at some point, most of us Malaysians (who are above 30s) have played with at least one of these traditional games. Compared to kiddos nowadays, they have never seen these in their life before and will even show you weird look when you tell them you used to play with these toys/games when you were young.

Other traditional games that I can recall is the batu seremban (five stones game), sepak bulu ayam (feathered shuttlecock), galah panjang, hopscotch.

Any other games that you remembered playing when you were younger?

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