Persian Children Song - Loloo Loloo Hovzak

Loloo loloo hovzak

Yeki umad aab bokhore

Yeki umad zadesh

Yeki umad koshtesh

Yeki goft pas male man chi mishe??
Goft loloo loloo hovzak

Gonjeshgaki ashimashi..

Dried Fruit Cake - Cake -e- Miveye Khoshk

I like to translate foods' name to persian language. I know somehow it didnt correctly translated but i love to put 'e' to connect 2 words. For example for today's recipe fruit cake direct translation to farsi is Cake Miveye khoshk. but when i put 'e' between the first 2 words, it seems gives a better name :)

My mom requested this cake for some times, but I just managed to bake it yesterday. This is a very easy recipe that you dont need mixer. My dried fruit cake - old skool way:

Ingredients:

~ 200g karreh (butter)

~ 2 cups of flour (art)

~ 1 cup of sugar (shekar)

~ 2 cups of dried fruits (mivehye khoshk)

~ 2 eggs (tokhme morgh)

~ 1 tspn baking soda

~ 1 tspn cream of tar tar

~ a pinch of salt

~ 1 cup of water

Methods:

1. Sift flour, take 2 tbsp and mix with dried fruits.

2. In a pot, take 3 tbsp of sugar, with medium heat fry the sugar until golden, pour water.

3. Add in the dried fruits and butter, when the butter melted, add in the baking soda and cream of tar tar and salt. The mixture will start to bubbling, turn off the heat. Let it cool for 15 minutes.

4. After 15 minutes, add in eggs and flour, mix well.

5. Pour the mixture to baking pan, bake for an hour 170C. 

Next time I thinkI am gonna addsome cinnamon powder to add the kick!

Sup Tulang Merah Singapore- Soup-e-ustukhun-e-gusfand ghermez Sangapor

Me and bff have lots of sweet khatere (memories) with sup tulang merah. I introduced him with this food early in our relationship. At first, he reluctant to eat this as the bright red color which symbolised spiciness. You know, most of Iranians dont like spicy foods, which means they missed one of the best taste in foods :P. But it is actually not spicy. It is tasty and aromatic with spices. When you deep the french baguette into the gravy, so bliss as it absorb the well mix ingredients. Oh, typing this make me wana drive to Beach Rd.

Yeah, we always eat sup tulang at Beach Rd Singapore, the most famous place for sup tulang. Actually, sup tulang is Singapore specialties. You cant find at any other place that have same taste like the ones at Singapore. Plus near sup tulang stall at Beach Rd, there is a bean curd stall that sell the best soya ever. Normally bff will buy $10 sup tulang, $10 bbq chicken wings and more than 2  bean curd. We always bought extra bean curd to take away home. And,,always he bought $2 tissues from one apek that come to each table. One time bff bought lots from that chinese man because he said that apek is so bichareh (pity). Yes, generous bff :)

Last weekend my family from Singapore came. Before that I asked them to buy for me sup tulang but they said, they will make it at my home. Ok, so they brought about 5kg bone steaks and all the spices needed all away from Singapore. So, we had a blast kenduri of sup tulang over the weekend.
I asked for the recipe and hope to make it my own later. So, check it out!!

The taste a bit different coz this is more aromatic and thicker sauce, and less food coloring is better

Ingredients:
~ Lamb bone steaks 5kg
~ 3 Screw pine leaves
~ 3 lemon grass
~ 2 inch ginger
~ 2 inch galangal
~ 1 packet of bistik spices
~ A handful of dried chillies*
~ 3 onions*
~ 10 garlic cloves*
~ 1 inch of ginger*
~ 1 inch of galangal*
~ 1 can of tomato puree
~ Artifical red coloring
~ Cabbage
~ Coriander leaves
~ Water
~ Oil

Methods:
1. Boil the bones with screw pine leaves, lemon grass, ginger and galangal for 2 hours. This step is to get rid of the "smell" of lamb which somehow hated by Malays. After 2 hours, throw away the water from the boiling process as to get rid the fat of the lamb which is believed will cause nausea after eating.

2. Blend all the * ingredients,
3. In a pan, fry the blended ingredients with bistik spices until fragrant.
4. In the pot of the bones, pour some water to cover the bones and stir in the fried ingredients.
5. Add in the tomato puree and food coloring. The amount of food coloring is depend on you..
6. Let everything simmer until the bones soft but not until the meat fall of the bones, let say for another hour.
7. Taste with salt and sugar.
8. Serve. On top of it sprinkle some shredded cabbage and coriander leaves.

p/s: my advice if you eat sup tulang merah is dont be shy and explore more. You need to use your bare hands to maximise satisfaction. never use straw to suck the bone marrow. but suck with your lips straight away from the bone or you can knock the bone on the plate to let the marrow out. Must eat all the meat all around the bone. Bring your own knife if you shy to bite the bone :)

Good Luck!!

Me and songs, not food anymore

Previously I always update my cooking but lately I've lost my passion. Its not that I didnt cook but I cook normal foods just to fill my stomach not to enjoy. All because of the distance, the separation. Before this I thought I am strong that I can live just like before when he is here, but slowly I am losing it. His absence has diverted my passion to things that related to him like persian songs and movies but not foods coz I think I dont enjoy any type of foods anymore. Not like before where everyday I browsed on Persian foods recipe :( 

I just hope I can keep strong a little bit as the numbers decreasing coz soon he will be here and the pain will gone. 

Today exactly 3 months he's away. I made a video, just for him coz delam kheili barash tang shodeh  

Kad khoda *updated

pls scroll down for the updated infos..

Lately, I realized that many pages created in facebook. Most of the pages are very informative and interesting. I spent most of my time surfing facebook to read the pages rather than reading updates from friends. Somehow it provides knowledge and let my brain working! One of the pages is غلط نامه کدخدا. I'm not sure what is that means. Direct translation would be "wrong letter chief". Maybe it means "the head of wrong things"? I dont know. What I know is that the posts are very funny and make sense. Some I could understand and some couldnt. Here I share some that I know. 

1. سانتافه pronounce as san-ta-feh is one of Hyundai car brand, the above picture shows "sun", "ta"(arrow which pictured "ta" which in farsi means until) and "feh" the word ف or pronounce as "feh

2. "Sigheh" (farsi) means temporary marriage in shiite. The above picture shows 30 ق  ("si" in farsi is thirty)  ق (pronounce as gheh).

3. "Cheshm asali" which means beautiful eyes or direct translation is "Honey eyes"

4. The first picture shows a man name KIA, and the below one is "NO" "KIA" with the symbol of no entry which means not the above man (kia) 

5. 2 persons with name pepe and roni. The combination become peperoni

6. "شلوار لی" pronounce as "shalvar lee" which means jeans. The above picture shows Jet "Li" who wears jeans, or Li's jeans become shalvar lee in farsi.

7. "بورانی بادمجان" pronounce as "bo-rani bademjan" is one type of iranian foods. "Boo" means smell, "Rani" is a brand of drink and "bademjan" is eggplant. Direct translation will be the smell of rani with eggplant flavor. (theres no such flavor in real)

8. "ستاره" pronounce as se-ta-reh means star. "se" is three, "ta" is the noun for numbers and "reh" is the alphabet ر.  The combination will become "three ر"

9. پوکمون pronounce as "pokemon" the cartun character. The above picture show symbol of "poke" in facebook and moon which the combination will be "pokemoon"

10. دلشکسته pronounce as del-shekasteh which literally means heart-broken. The above picture shows a "dell" computer which is "broken",the combination will be "dell-shekasteh"

11. Hell in farsi هل means cardamom. O usually used to combine 2 things. Dood in farsi دود means smoke. So the combination will be "Hell-o-dood"

and the last one that made me laughed crazily

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12. The first picture is Amitabachan, an Indian actor. The second picture is amita-ba-chan which means amita-with-chan, chan here is jacky chan. 

These has made my day :P. how about you??

*update 6/3/2013

- a friend of mine (Ms Sheida) translated for me the meaning of kadkhoda. 

In Iran there are 14 volume of comprehensive dictionary. A man name Mr Dehkhoda has written and compiled all of it. The name of compilation is لغت-نامه دهخدا (pronounce laghat - nameh dehkhoda), which means the dictionary words of Dehkhoda.

Later on, a brilliant Iranian opened a facebook page with name غلط نامه کدخدا (pronounce ghalat nameh kadhoda) which means the wrong words of "leader of village"

Kheili jaleb!!!

Third Farsi Video: My Journey

Haha. Funny thumbnail. Ayo, Youtube could you give a more appropriate thumbnail? This is is the best among 3. Pity me.

So, this is my 3rd video uploaded. I talked about my experience with Iranian foods. Also, there is a post at Malezitarin about this. Enjoy and have a great Monday!

Weekend with Aaron

The days are wet and gloomy. Allah grant the land with rain, cooling the things that should be chilled after a long warm fights..Life is always rotating, nothing will stay on top.Sometimes we have to go down under so that we can look up, and be grateful for what we have. Because most of the times,when we are high, we tend to forget what we used to be. And that make us arrogant, and forget to the hearts that we should care, who support us all this while. Nauzubillah..

Sometimes I thought that being a kid is better than adult because kid doesnt have to be sensitive or have grudge of something. But, this is life, we cant run from problems. Important that we have faith so that we wouldnt diverted to the wrong path.

I wish I can be just like Aaron :)

Enough of rambling, how was everyone's weekend? Mine full of loves from family because Aaron was here yo! Aaron is my smallest nephew. So, when Aaron is here, maksu doesnt have any other work other than cuddling him. Aaron has grew up! At 8 months, he entertained us much! Lately he can make a bird sound. When I asked "Aaron how is bird's sound?" He will make a "hoo hoo" sound (influence from educational program on his tablet). So funny. So chubby Aaron. Aaron also can recognize uncle at Iran when we tango-ed.

Aaron 5 minutes after arriving. Tantrum!!

Funny when uncle sent this photo, a restaurant with Aaron (Aroon) name at Kish Island  :)

Asri, hame barmigarde khunashun, dobare too in khuneh tanhammmm.... :(

Listen..listen..listen phenomenon

Today's entry might be dragged out from my normal topics. This week, a video from a forum held at UUM became a hit and created a phenomenon "listen..listen..listen". I dont want to describe more what the video is all about. What I want to say is that the election war in Malaysia has started and I see lots of ways the parties done to attract votes.

I am proudly say that I am a pro government based on my personal observation of the positive things they have done to my country. I admit that before this I never have sceptical thinking to the government as I did not feel something wrong with them.

But, as time passed especially after Tun Mahathir handed the post, my view started to changed. I am still a government supporter but I think at some parts the government should be criticised. After the issue of learning science and maths in english, I think that government did not do the right thing. When they introduced the system, I supported it 100% but why should change back? As Tun Mahathir said, the cancellation of the learning language has made Malaysia move backward not forward. I did not understand well of the problem but for me, good things why should be terminated? Is this one of the way to gain votes? By jeopardise the children's future? 

Another thing that I realize is the news in Malaysia that has been handle by government. Lately I have switched from watching TV3 as sometimes I feel the news are funny by means over controlled by pro-gov. 

Back to the title, the listen listen phenomenon get lots of feedback from Malaysia especially us, the university students. I tried to find back the full video but couldnt find. Maybe they have removed it. But one video related to the issue I found tonight is very hilarious. Oh man, I love the way you created the video. Selambeee jee :) Keep it up boy!!

Our 5th year

Today marked our 5th year since we said "hi" to each other. I just cant believe that we've known each other for half a decade. The journey is very beautiful, and I am ready for more. Pray the best for us. Might Allah grant us with with all His blessings. Amin..

Iranian Film in Malaysia - Filme Irani dar Malezi

I was watching a cooking show at TV al hijrah. The chef is an arab but he speak malay language, i was giggling throughout the show because he used some words in a funny way. Then I was thinking to iranian that they might as well giggling to the ways i speak farsi :p .

During the advertisement, I saw that they will be showing iranian movie tonight right after the cooking show. So i stick in front of the tv and watch the movie. I think it was a bit old movie. The title is tick tack, about 2 boys with a watch. The movie ended after one hour when supposedly it is a 2 hour movie. I dont know why, but all in all it was a good movie, as usual. The best thing for me is that I can understand the movie even if i close my eyes without looking at the subtitle. Some part they did not translated it completely. For example, at one part the teacher said, "bache, sahket bash, boro sarejat beshin" but the subtitle only wrote "go and sit" when supposedly they write "kids, silent please, please go to your place and sit". Well well..hehe

If I am an iranian, i will be very proud to see my country's film played in other country. Before this also i ever watched maybe 4-5 times iranian films/dramas in Malaysia's TV. 2 of them are serial drama. Even film "Joddaye Nader az Simin" (The Separation) was shown for astro box office channel.

Ok. Enough for entertainment. Tomorrow is Monday, so be prepared folks!! Monday blues is coming :)

Bye