Hwang I Care Saloon: Eye wash service in Penang

Have you ever wash your eyes? Have you ever heard about this kind of traditional occupation? Yes, this is a kind of traditional occupation, which is almost lost. 

Most of the people facing eye disease and discomfort such as dryness, itchy, eye rash. It may be due to dusty, exposure to air-conditioner, wind, or sun, inadequate tear production and any other reasons. It is really annoying, and I can understand the painfulness exactly, because I was suffering it all the while.

Just happen last few weeks I had been introduce that there is a young lady in Penang, who has about 8 years of experience in eyes washing. My mom had tried for it one time, and she felt good after the service. So I give myself a chance to have a try.

Ms Hwang is the fourth generation who inherit the skill from her family. Through my conversation with her mom, many of their relatives wishing to learn from their grandparent, but also failed. Before anyone learning this skill, the first action is to turn a patient eyelid. If he couldn't pass the test, he will not going to be teach.

This occupation is started since 80 years ago. What will been use during the service? It is traditional medicine, clean water, cotton, and special chinese ink (kind of medicine).

It is not painful actually, just I'm not used to let anybody touch my eyes. Even I will feel worried if a make-up artist apply eye liner on me. The eye washing service is just take about fifteen minutes, after that, you will feel brighter in looking any object.

Looking at the clean water, there's some material floating in the water. There is the dust which stick on our eyes, and it is black color because Ms Hwang using the chinese ink (kind of medicine), so that the dust can be seen by our naked eye.

Address: 2, Lorong Hijau 8, Off Jalan Ibrahim, 11600 Green Lane, Pulau Pinang.

GPS Location: 5.397455,100.309424

Contact no.: 016-423 1980, 016-470 2062

http://www.facebook.com/hwangicare 

Business Hour: 12pm - 6.30pm (Monday to Saturday), minimum 1 day prior booking required (Sunday or Public Holiday)

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How to prepare a Herbal Soup?

All the while I don't like to take soup. As a Cantonese family, is rare and odd that someone doesn't like soup. Most of the time, when my mom prepared soup for me, I need to be FORCE to take, and the most I take is only 3-5 spoon, because I totally don't like to.

Is not my mom boils soup skill not good, is actually good enough. Just I'm having the bad habit :P.

But after I get married, and apart from my born family, I aware that there's no more chance to have a bowl of tasty soup. From that time, my habit was change, I like soup a lot.

Thus, I preparing my own soup.

Material:

1. Chicken
2. Herbal powder (Ginseng Chicken Herbal Mix)
3. Salt

Firstly, mix the herbal powder and salt to chicken evenly, left it for 10 minutes.

After the herbal powder mix absorb perfectly into chicken, add in water and steam around 20-30 minutes.

The soup is ready! The taste is nice and full of herbal taste.

You can see there's a bit oily on top. If you wish to have a non-oily soup, try to put chicken into boiled water for quick.

How to prepare a two person curry chicken?

Today I'm going to prepare a simple curry chicken meal for two person.

First, the material we need to get ready is: Onion rings, garlic, potato, salt, chicken, curry powder and oil. Those volume of materials is depend on your needs and taste prefrences. If there's available, you can even add in tomato, ginger blend, curry leaves, cinnamon.

But for me, the most easiest way is the materials that I mentioned above.

 Fried onion rings with a little oil.

Add in garlic and chicken. You can choose drumstick if you wish to have a smoother one.

Pour in water, and add in some salt (it may be vary from people to people for different taste). Cover it for about 10 minutes.

Ok. After the chicken cook, you can add in potato and curry powder. If you wish those potato softer, you can either add in at the previous stage.

Now, curry chicken for two person is ready. Before you put on to the dining table, you can taste it, and add in some salt for better taste.

Lu Ye Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant 鹿野园素食馆@大山脚

I think I'm a meatarian. I like fish, chicken, seafood and so. Yes, I do eat vegetables and fruits, but the main reason is just that I know it is good for health.

Theres' a period, I consume a healthy dietary, following exactly what was advised by my consultant. I took a correct quantity of meat, food, rice/ noodle, and fruit. I can easily felt that my body is fresh enough, and didn't feel fatigue at all.

But after my body slim down, I don't have the persistency to continue.

Three months ago, I participated a 2 days 1 night course, the meals served were vegetarian. During the course, I had been reminded, taking vegetables is good things to follow (irrelation with religious).

I chose a day to enjoy a whole day vegetables. Unfortunately, I only can maintain for two meals, anyway, is better than none.

Lu Ye Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant is my first selection, it has many sort of food, you definitely need not to worry whether you can get your desire food (vege) over here.

Before you step in to the restaurant, there's some vege food you can buy from: including potato bun, "pao" and others.

Once I entered, the environment was tidy. One thing that block me to enter into any vegetarian shop is, there is always full of "vege" smell. May be it is because most of the food made by bean, or any other reason that I don't know.

 

You can either choose white rice or brown rice. This food corner, is full of all sort of vege food, and will be replace during lunch hour.

Our "vege" breakfast for today. I won't say it is a healthy breakfast, because it is fried and bit oily.

Lu Ye Yuan is a double storey restaurant, you can either dine downstair or upstair, is air-condition. So many customer dine in, especially every first and 15th of lunar month. If you are not a must to dine for vege and just like to have a try for it, so better don't visit during this two days.

Our dinner for the day. I don't dare to take some inner part of animals, but I can take the imitate inner part here which is actually made by bean.

If you are late to come in, and most of the food finished, or may be you couldn't find any food above the food corner, you can always ask for a menu.

This is what we ordered: fried rice and chicken (vege) rice. You can find that the chicken really looks like an actual chicken flesh.

Besides, roti canai (kosong) also serving here! So many option right?

Before Chinese New Year, they will selling some New Year cookiese over here too. If you like to buy some Kaya (vege), you can find it here too.

Other food like: curry fish head, bak kut teh, burger are serving as well.

Lu Ye Yuan vegetarian restaurant is a good choice if you looking for vegetarian food. The price is reasonable, or some may slightly higher. Anyway, after the inflation, for me, everywhere is expensive!

Operating hour: Rest on Monday, Tuesday - Friday (9.30am - 2.30pm/ 5pm - 9.30pm), Saturday - Sunday (9.30am - 9.30pm)

Location: 106, Jalan Tembikai, Taman Mutiara, 14000 Bukit Mertajam, Pulau Pinang.
H/P: 016-810 6870/ 04-530 5760

A breakfast at a special coffee shop @ Penang

It was a very special Sunday, which we were walking along from the Queen's Hostel to Chew Jetty for Sunrise photoshooting.

It was rare enough I walking in Georgetown such an early morning, even before the sunrise. We were walking about 15 minutes, and never felt hot but cool.

I was so happy that I can took a nice shoot for the sunrise. I have no confident that my simple and auto camera able to have this effect all the while.

After the sunrise photoshooting, we walked to a nearby coffee shop. When we went near and took up our cameras for a photoshoot, the Mr Owner raise his hand and welcome us for a photoshoot. However, before we sitting down, he told us: You can take picture, but please don't spread in the internet world.

Wow, such a low profile Mr Owner. Although he is not willing to promote his coffee shop, but there's still so many customer walk in. This coffee shop is mainly operate during office hours, specially to serve office employees who are working nearby.


We love this coffee shop so much, most probably because of the big tree which breaking the shop's roof. It makes the weather look chill.

What is the special food here that makes it famous? Yes, the answer is the toast! This is the most lovely bread I had eaten so far. It is soft, but crispy. What I can say is only: Yummy! The toast is wrapping hotdog and egg.

Other than toast, there's also instant mee, which add in some vege, egg, hotdog. You can either choose for a flavour of original, tomyam, curry or duck taste. For this instant mee, I can say, is just rated as normal.

And this was the half boiled eggs ordered by my friend.

Its a good experience to having breakfast here.

Malaysian Food: Mamak Stall & Nasi Kandar

Malaysia is a multi ethnic country. Each of the ethnic having their very own eating habit. One of the culture is mamak stall.

I still remember during my college time 10 years back, I was staying at Kuala Lumpur. It was so common that every college-mate or housemate visit for any mamak stall when the time reach 8pm. Mamak stall located in many of the areas, including the roadside, around the hostel, and so. 

We enjoyed a lot with the foods, especially Maggie Mee Goreng, Roti Pisang, Roti Kosong, and Teh Tarik. There were all "trademark" for mamak stall. One of the style that I couldn't forget is Roti Goreng, which is Fried Roti Kosong. The taste was so special and tasty, can say its taste like Char Koay Teow. However, I can't find one in the Northern Malaysia. Maybe I was seldom visit any mamak stall again after my college time.

In the Northern Malaysia, I found that most of the people visiting mamak stall, the main reason is going for their Nasi Kandar and no longer similar to Kuala Lumpur style. I'm not sure is it different currently or it is still the same lifestyle over there.

This is the mamak stall nearby my housing area. Though I'm not visit it frequenty, but at least it is good when I feel hungry at night. Most of the time, chinese restaurant closed earlier and mamak stall is mainly operate at night.

Let's see what was I taken, a Roti Kosong (Roti Canai) and Mee Goreng (Fried Mee). The taste was not surprisingly actually, but I was enjoyed the chilled environment outside there.

Mee Goreng

Roti Kosong

Is our day affected by the things happen around us?

There's a couple who were married for over 30 years, both are at the age of 60s. One day, the old man make a wish to an angel: I wish I could have a wife, who is 30 years younger than me. Angel answer: You wish had came true!

Suddenly a loud voice, and the old man became a 90 year old man. Yes, his dream came true, now his 60 year old wife is 30 years younger than him!

This is just a funny story, which bring us some thought: What direction we go are determined by our mindset.

Some of the people around me, struggling for a living most of the years since they are graduated. It may be 10 years, 20 years and more, but they are still hopping for a job. Though they had already experienced from many kind of jobs, and met so many people, they could actually been trained to be a better person. At least, they can no longer suffer in looking for a job all the while, nor worried for a basic expenses. But yet, they are still go around in the circle.

What is the main reason for this? Why they are still struggle for their living?

There are actually many reasons, and some of it is helpless, we couldn't do much on it. But, for the main reason, it could be due to their mindset.

What should we do in order to create a good thinking?

Below are some of the criteria, which can probably lead us to become a better thinking person:

1. Guard our eyes: Every day we looking at everything and everyone around us, all the things passing by us, it is beyond our control to select for anything before it goes into our eyes. However, some of the things are still under control, which may cause us immoral, or thinking bad if we insist to looking at.

For example: A lady shirt is not covered nicely because of her motion, we can choose to move away our eye sight, or just stare at her quietly and thinking something bad.

So: Eyes can affect our thinking

2. Guard your ears: Listen to the positive message and be together with positive thinking friends.

For example: Jason just failed his exam paper, it ruins his days. During the lunch gathering with Michelle, she comfort and cheers him up, she encourage him to take up another paper after more preparation. Jason feels well and have more motivation now.

So: Ears can affect your day

3. Guard your lifestyle: Adjust your style of living, live in the day which fill with joy and hope, rather than live in the situation full of blame or disappointment.

For example: Sharon grown up in a single parent family, all the while she's lack of confident. She felt that her friends was not like her, and hence it had affected her school's result. With this poor result, she couldn't get a job that she wishes to. Everyday Sharon having a bad emotion and always recall back her old days.

So: Lifestyle may influence your future

Most of  the time, we have to appreciate if there's parents staying with us. They may tell us their experiences in life, share with us the joyful days, and we have the chance to rely on each others. 

Try to thanks for everything which is happen to us, and think it deeply, what can we learn from this occurrence.

Do you have any experiences, that something had influence your day and your decision? Why not share it to me?