Belulang cook in Spicy Coconut Milk (Masak Lemak Cili Api)

 
This will be my biggest challenge in blog writing, cause am gonna be translating Belulang Masak Lemak Api into English. Sigh…. So here goes.
 
Banghuris is a name representing three villages namely Kampung Bukit Bangkong, Kampung Hulu Chuchoh and Kampung Hulu Teris. The reason I was initially fascinated with Banghuris is because of the bamboo groove, this was until I learn about this unique delicacy called Belulang Masak Lemak Api Putih or Belulang with Spicy Coconut Milk (without the usual use of turmeric). It is said that belulang is a popular Javanese-Malay communities cuisine in some part of Selangor.

3 months of drying process

Direct fire grilling 

First, let us all learn about belulang (this is new to me as well yah).

Belulang is a cow skin that went thru tedious procedure (in this order) cleaning the skin, 3 months of drying process, direct fire grilling, scraping off burnt skin, stewing for few hours to soften the cow skin before cooking it into a dish such as sambal tauhun (glass noodle chili/sambal dish), masak taucu (fermented soybean dish), masak asam (spicy tamarind dish/sour and spicy dish) and many more.

Scraped belulang/cow skin

Stewed for few hours till the belulang soften

 
Then come the cooking process. This is the easy part, so fret not guys… It is the standard masak lemak cili api recipe minus the turmeric.
 
Ingredient
Belulang (cow skin) – cut it in a strip of approximately 2 inch/5cm (you can buy it from store these day)
Salt and sugar to taste
1 cup  of water (boiled water at room temperature)
1 cup of coconut milk
2 stalks lemongrass
1 keping asam gelugur (1 piece of dried sliced tamarind for the sourish taste)
  
To grind/blend
3 inch of turmeric 
20 birds-eye chilies (depending on how well you tolerate spicy food)
 
How to cook
1. Stew the belulang with plain water till they soften, remove the water and dry the belulang
2. Mix the grinded/blended ingrendient with water, lemongrass and cook till it simmers
3. Once it is cooked, add the coconut milk, dried sliced tamarind and salt to taste. If it is too spicy, add abit of sugar (just a little bit)
4. Make sure you kept stirring it (5mins or so) so that the coconut milk won’t get overcooked and spill out
5. Turn off the fire once it is fully cooked

Belulang cook in Spicy Coconut Milk (Belulang Masak Lemak Cili Api)

The Javanese population Tanjung Karang, Sabak Bernam, Kuala Selangor, Kelang, Banting and Sepang. They still uphold and practices their Javanese culture and customs, hence it is common to see unique Javanese-Malay delicacy at these districts and one good example is the belulang dish that I sampled.

Kitakan Sekampung Fam Trip is in collaboration with UPENS (Unit Perancangan Negeri Selangor), Tourism Selangor and all its sponsors with #GayaTravel as media coordinator.

HL Dragon Fruit Eco Farm, Sepang

 

I want to go! I want to go!
Raising my hand high up when I knew that the fam trip will be to Banghuris.Simply because I want to check out the bamboo groove lah. But then I saw something interesting, dragon fruit farm. Hemmm…. The fam trip is getting even more interesting now.

 
I mean, I’ve seen the dragon fruit before, despite the fact that it is not up close and personal but jadi lah kan. Idok ler blur tak tau how the tree looks like. But to go to the farm with them dreadlock leaves, how cool will that be kan. BUT guess what, I was in for a big surprise for I did not only learn about the tree, I also learn about the fruit by-product. Interesting huh!??! Continue reading tau…. Don’t stop (sambil adjusting my glasses).
 
I have videos in my Instagram explaining about the tree, you just click and swipe yah.
Before I proceed explaining on the fruit, we first need to learn about the tree and flowers and leaf cos this tree is complicated much. Tsk tsk tsk…

 
Leaf (or is it a branch? Confuse jugak ni, hemmm…) that grows root, you can actually cuts the leaf/branch and plant it root downward ie. into the soil. A new tree will come to life (ta daaa…). Each leaf/branch has spines, and flowers few from these spines. You must be wondering what is the different between a thorn and a spine right, well thorns develop from shoot, whereas spines are from the leaf.
 
The flowers will bloom for one night and once it withers, fruit will begin to form.
Here’s a question, jeng jeng jeng… How do tell the different between a white-flesh and red-flesh Dragon Fruit? Round = Red-flesh and Oval = White-flesh. There is also yellow dragon fruit, if you are wondering what colour is the flesh, well... it's white.

You can learn all about dragon fruit at HL Dragon Fruit Eco Farm, a good place for kids (and adult) to learn about this unique fruit. It is the first dragon fruit ecotourism farm as well as the first dragon fruit themed restaurant. Here at HL Dragon Fruit Eco Farm one will get to experience planting dragon fruit tree, plucking fresh dragon fruit and hands-on farming activities. Aside from this, one also get to try dragon fruit themed food and drinks such as juices, smoothies and tea. As for food, the café is pretty creative as you can sample Jumbo Dragon Bun which is a local flavour curry chicken wrapped with dragon fruit bread, dragon fruit rice, salad, mashed potatoes with dragon fruit gravy, prawn serves with dragon fruit sauce and many more.

 

You need to come here to experience it all!
 
HL Dragon Fruit Eco Farm
Lot 7608, Jalan Besar Batu Satu
Sepang, Selangor

Kitakan Sekampung Fam Trip is in collaboration with UPENS (Unit Perancangan Negeri Selangor), Tourism Selangor and all its sponsors with #GayaTravel as media coordinator.

Pavilion Kuala Lumpur tightens its SOP during Covid-19 pandemic

Malls have a different procedure as compared to a standalone outlet as it requires tiering checks. Let me share and explain on how Pavilion practices their SOP in point form, as simple as possible.

Entrance from parking lot

Pavilion has blocked few of the entrance from parking lot to the mall. Concentrating the entrance to a handful to control the visitor registration ie scanning and temperature check.

On foot entrance

Standard check in terms of MySejahtera scan and temperature check on local and those with apps, for foreigners, they can write their details down.

Guard

Security guard are placed to ensure visitors adhere to the SOP at those entrances. And perhaps guide those that are unaware on the process.

Stores

2^nd tier checking is done at respective stores whereby another temperature scanning and registration takes place (outlet discretion).

YSL

As beauty stores do not allow customers to touch nor try their products, hence YSL came out with a beauty face-apps where the customer face is captured on an iPad and she can select the beauty product (blusher, lipstick, eyeliner etc) and swipe to choose the preferred colour. The apps will then apply the chosen colour on the face-apps.

F&B Outlets

Foodcourt practices 1-2 meters ‘table distancing unless with family members/friends). If you are alone, then you’ll sit alone and your table will be 1-2 meters apart.

Public

While I was here, I noticed in generally everyone wears a mass (except those eating lah) and avoid close contact, maintaining the distance of 1meter between one and another.

Intrigued?

Go book your stay there, I bet you’ll love it.

Videos is in my Instastories under‘Covid-19 SOP’ Highlights. Go check-it out - https://www.instagram.com/lilyriani_travelholic/

Steps have been taken by the mall as well as respective outlets in ensuring public safety as Malaysia enters the Recover Movement Control Order phase. More malls/stores/F&B outlets reopens at the same time adhering MKN’s strict SOP. Malaysian very obedient huh.

As of the todate, Malaysia Covid-19 count is as below. Great Team Work Malaysia!

What are you waiting for? Come over to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We welcome you.

Pavilion Kuala Lumpur

68, Bukit Bintang Street

Bukit Bintang

Kuala Lumpur

Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO)

Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO)

Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO)

Movement Control Order (MCO)

SOP related blog post

1. Kuala Lumpur Bird Park SOP duringCovid-19 pandemic

2. Aquaria KLCC SOP during MCO (2020)

3. EQ Hotel, Kuala Lumpur - (Covid-19)SOP Implementation

Post MCO (SOP) Media Trip is in collaboration with Tourism Malaysia and all its sponsors.