Left - Plum.
Right - ?

When I first looked at it, I thought it was a mini apple.  It looks exactly like an apple but it isn’t.

It is called nectarines - a cultivar group of peach that has a smooth skin.  The skin looks like the apple’s skin.

When I put it near my nose, I can smell a very nice and sweet peach smell.

We bought it from the Fremantle Market.  I checked the photos that I have taken, it was labeled with “very sweet white gold nectarin”.

I can’t find it in my hometown, have you tried it before?

We bought different types of mushrooms from a supermarket.  Mushroom is our favorite.  :D

These are flat mushrooms in brown and white.

The brown one was larger whereas the white was smaller.

This is called button mushroom.

Again, we have a smaller button but longer stem, whereas the fatter button mushrooms has shorter stem.

These were the mushrooms we bought.

Yes, we only bought 4, 1 for each type because we were afraid that we could not finish them before they expired.

The supermarket provided a special paper bag to store mushroom instead of using a plastic bag.  In order to save the environment, we tried to ask the staff if we can put all them in a same paper bag.  The reply was no.  So we took 3 paper bags.

“Place mushroom in a paper bag and store them on the lowest shelf in the refrigerator.

For best results do not wash mushrooms before using. Trim stem then gently wipe with a damp cloth or brush off any visible dirt with a pastry brush.”

Big mushroom in a small living room.

Wheatgrass drink is my favourite.  The juice is totally green.  It has a nice smell and the taste is just like a type of special grass added with sugar.

It is actually the baby plant / cotyledons (leaves from the seed) of the common wheat (Triticum aestivum).  It is nutritious because it contains chlorophyll, amino acids, minerals, vitamins (especially B12 which usually not significant on other vegetables), and enzymes.

I took the picture above while we were walking pass a juice bar in a shopping mall in KL, but did not have the time to try it — next time, I will try it.

While having lunch in Kuching, I usually order a cup of wheat grass, but most of the restaurants have added too much sugar to it.  I always have to tell them not to put sugar, but some of them said the sugar cannot be separated.  So, to be healthier, please take sugarless wheatgrass.

Wishing you a healthy 2011.  :D

This is our evening tea which we always drink when we have our dinner.  It is a Chinese herbal tea actually.  In Chinese, we call it “LiangCha“.

I like the bubbles, so I took their photo.  The bubbles have the colors of the rainbow, like the morning dew.

Hmm…  It has been a long time since I last saw the beautiful morning dew on the green grass shone by the warm morning sun, since the piece of empty land in front of my house has been turned into a porch to park our cars.  I miss the morning dew.

We had Bunapi Shimeji Mushroom with our lunch today.  SiewPeng fried them with broccoli.  When I put this mushroom in my mouth, it felt like a spring jumping inside my mouth.  It was smooth, elastic and crispy.

This is the first time we bought it from a hypermarket.  The first thing that came to my mind when I saw it was - I wanted to take its photo, it looks cute.  We decided to buy it although it is expensive compared to the other type of mushroom that we usually buy.  Later SiewPeng worried on how to cook it and have done some research on the Internet.

As I have just learned about this mushroom, there are many types of Shimeji Mushroom.  Bunapi Shimeji mushroom is also know as Japanese white beech mushroom.  The other type is called Buna Shimeji which is the brown beech.

View from the top, - the Shimeji mushrooms’ caps look like the enlarged molecules that we have learned in chemistry.

View from low angle, - I like to see the lines underneath the mushroom cap.

The bottom part of the Shimeji, - I wonder if each of the mushroom stem is grown from a big main trunk.

-  Taken with flash.

-  Taken with my light-box’s lamp.

This is the making of the series of photos above.  I used an energy saving bulb as the light source.

I like its taste and the smooth feeling in my mouth.  We are going to buy it again.  :D