Gon Loh Hor Fun (Dried Noodles with Mince Pork) Recipe

*BRINGGGG*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The head next to mine, turned and muttered, "You better wake up early if you want to drive".

Bah! As if I wanted to drive... more like I'm forced into this position to train me to adjust to the psycho Sunday drivers.

Fortunately, the other drivers on the road are more or less used to slow "L" (Legends), like myself.

I DROVE INTO THE CBD!!! And I PARKED!!! WUHOOOO!!!!

And I didn't KILL anyone... yet...

The Boy seemed relatively surprised that there were no exciting incidents or mishaps along the way and was quite relieved to have all his limbs still attached upon his torso.

Whatever!

However, I was fortunate enough to not have to drive home. Pheww... Due to my great *tortoise* speed (Hey, I follow speed limits aight!), we arrived a little late for church... Meh!

Lunch and a visit to Minataur with a brand new book (Diana Wynne Jones's - House of Many Ways) under my belt had me skipping on this dreary Sunday.

How is it possible that Big W, a giant retail store, not stock any glass paper in their stationary department?

How do poor school children have fun making things for their art classes?

How am I suppose to create my very own 3-D glasses?

BAH!

So anyways, because I'm too lazy to upload new pictures, you shall have to slobber over my dried noodles =)

"Gon Loh Hor Fun" - My style

The ingredients (Clockwise from top left):
Garlic, Ginger, Shallots; Bean Sprouts and Choy Sum, Minced Pork, Barramundi Fillets, and Flat Rice Noodles



For the soup, (because the Boy, unfortunately, is still coughing) I added (into boiling water), the ginger, and garlic cloves (smashed).

Once the water was boiling and I was ready to serve, I added in the Barramundi fish (which I had sliced into bite sizes), and veggies



For the minced pork, fry the shallots and ginger until fragrant.
Add in the minced pork, and saute until it changes colour, add in 1 tablespoon of Thick Soy Sauce, 1 tablespoon of Worcestishire (L&P), 1 tablespoon of Light Soy Sauce and pepper to taste



Finished product of the pork *Slurp*



Serve the noodles dry with garlic oil and toss with 1-2 tablespoons of thick soy sauce



If you have leftovers, which I had, (there's enough for lunch!)



Place the noodles, and veggies into boiling water for about 1-2 minutes (which is just enough to cook it)



Heat up the mince pork and place onto the noodles. Drizzle with garlic oil and Voila!

My Favourite Things

Undeniably, when people come to visit my home. Their eyes are drawn to 2 of my larger bookcases.

Why? Because I have a lot of interesting books. I am a collector. I like my books all shiny and new and in the same publishing series.

Which is good. Because I get to steal the spotlight, as no one notices the Boy's transformers collection. Which happens to be right next to my Eoin Colfer, Harry Potter, and miscellaneous collection (not in pictures, as it's another bookshelf).

Unfortunately, I have an OCD condition with my books and I will bark at anyone that bends, the book or pages.



Everyone seems amazed at my collections of fantasy novels.

It's taken me a long time.

A year ago, I lost a lot of precious books to me... Termites had gotten a hold of them in my home in Malaysia, and although I had managed to bring the majority of my collections here, there were many others that had fallen in the tragic circumstances.

The books here that I have, are treated with the utmost delicacy and respect as they have suffered the lost of their fallen comrades.

My Hardy Boys, 3 Investigators, and yes, some Nancy Drew, R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, all gone. Gone.

The new innocent shiny books that I have acquired during my time here in Melbourne are like innocent souls. They don't understand the pain that the others have gone through. How scarred they are. How scared they are.

And I will strive to keep their innocence intact. To never let them know the fear of fire. Of termites. Of death.