It was the mooncake festival last weekend. After a small celebration with my own family at our humble balcony, we had dinner at my parents-in-laws' house too in conjunction of celebrating the husband's birthday as well.
We had some really great food as my mum-in-law cooked crabs for the first time, I think.
As for the other food accompaniment, I ordered via Grabfood some Dayak cuisine which is food from my hometown, Sarawak. It is rather difficult to find Dayak cuisine in West Malaysia because it is East Malaysian food. However, because the husband really likes Dayak food after he tried at my hometown, I decided to search and I found a shop called Sarawak Cafe selling, yay! The portion of this shop is actually a bit smaller than usual.
Let me try to remember each dish and introduce to you.
This is Cangkuk Manis with Egg and Minced Chicken. It is a type of vegetable that perhaps we add into pan mee, a type of flat noodles made of flour here in West Malaysia. In East Malaysia, this vegetable which is sweet in taste is cooked usually with eggs or fried with rice vermicelli. It brings back a lot of nostalgic memory for me.
This is Pekasam Ikan Bilis with Mustard. Wow I love this dish as it is so appetizing for me. It is like a side dish with anchovies that enhances the whole flavour of the other dishes. It is a tad spicy but it was just so good. I think pekasam has this effect of helping us to eat more rice hahhaa.
This is no ordinary fried rice. This is fried rice with durian tempoyak! Durian tempoyak is fermented durian with salt and sometimes some people add in anchovies and chilli as well. Not everyone may like this dish but my husband who doesn't eat durian loves it. That is also because we had one of the nicest durian tempoyak cooked with meat in Kuchint too.
This is Iban terung with seafood. Iban terung is a yellow sourish brinjal from Sarawak. This round, I ordered one with seafood so I could not really taste the brinjal which I love. A bit disappointing because I was looking forward to the Iban terung.
Last but not least, it is the Ayam Pansuh. This is chicken cooked with some tapioca leaves or daun ubi in a bamboo stick. Of course we have tasted better ones in Sarawak but this is okay and not too bad.
Aftermath of the husband harvesting and eating his crabs! He ate a lot of crabs that day!
After dinner, how can mooncake festival be complete without mooncakes right??
I bought and brought some and my brother in law and sister in law contributed a lot more too. There are so much varieties to choose from: Traditional mooncakes, Kluang mooncakes, Shanghai mooncakes, and Teochew mooncakes in assorted flavours!!!! All so tasty and yummy and some are the flaky type. I did not eat much as I am taking care of my sugar level.
Next up, just a little lantern play at the balcony with the boys.
The children relaxed and chilled with each other while the adults chit chatted.
Before leaving, my youngest wanted to go hunting for his favorite moon. The chances were super low to see it visible because it just rained and there were haze in the air. Nevertheless we brought our lanterns and still went to find it.