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Yams : Big ones, Small Ones, Good ones, not so good ones... 22 Aug 2013 | 08:25 am
Yam or taro are very healthy food. There is a yam soup which is enjoyed by the Foochows after the Chinese New Year and it is called Chak Hui. It is actually a mixture of all the good left overs from ...
Moon Cakes : Beautiful Gift 20 Aug 2013 | 10:27 am
In one month's time, it will be the Chinese Moon Cake Festival or Mid Autumn Festival . Happy Mid Autumn Festival to you my dear readers........ Moon Cake festival is the most beautiful Chinese Fest...
Fish Fillet, Foochow Style 19 Aug 2013 | 10:20 am
My maternal grandmother Lau Lian Tie and my mother love a special Foochow way of cooking fish and they love Ngoh Ngii or Threadfin Cod. This Foochow style of cooking is called "Pee: First the fresh ...
Rubber Tapping in Brooke Drive/Kong Ping Road 19 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am
Abang Koh who owned a fair bit of the land in Kampong Nyabor, behind the Malay Union Club, was actually one of the largest owners of rubber gardens in Sibu, in the eyes of 7 year old Tiong Sisters who...
Nang Chong Stories : Getting Husband to Quit Smoking 16 Aug 2013 | 02:40 am
My uncle Lau Yung Chiong was a primary school headmaster and he first served in Kai Nang, Nang Chong and later Yung Nang, Twenty Four Acres. After he retired, the whole family moved to live in a lovel...
Tales from Sungei Merah : long koh and pong bian 13 Aug 2013 | 06:55 pm
1956-1963 - These were the last years of my grandfather's life and he lived in the big house in Sungei Merah. We visited him often. My aunts remember most of all his special siesta - his tea time.He ...
Nang Chong Stories : Grandmother Lian Tie's Clam and Chien Mien or Dried Noodles 11 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
One of my mother's fondest memories of her own mother's cooking was the noodles cooked with tinned clams. In the 1950's , freshly made noodles were only available in Sibu town and perhaps only during ...
Hua Hong Ice Factory : Seven years of gentle living 11 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
These are snippets from my mother's memories of Hua Hong period of her life . Kitchen and Cook of the Factory .King Luk the Nan Nern (Ming Nan or Ar Muong Nern) was the chief cook for the employees o...
Hua Hong Ice Factory Tales : Shooting Bian Wei (Punai) 11 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
My father Chang Ta Kang, and my mother lived in No.1 bungalow of the Ice Factory from 1948 to 1956. I was born a year after they got married. My sister and brother were soon born after me. In 1956, my...
Sibu People Series: Brother Albinus 7 Aug 2013 | 05:19 am
It would be wrong if I do not write about Brother Albinus, a fellow English Teacher, a Sibu "nern" of many years, beloved figure of the Catholics,a "feared" Rugby team manager of SHS, a thinker, a rea...
