Day 3 - preparation of Khau Jhum

The day, 19 May ie Wednesday, with the works to be done for the day, I thought I had better start early and finished early too. Mmmmmm ..................

After sending my son to school, I went to the wet market at Krokop Lorong 10 to buy long beans and cucumber. The quantity bought depended on the number of orders received for Khau Jhum on 20 May.

Then I proceeded to the back of Canada Hill where the farmers are planting their vegetables in the kampung area. This is where I normally plucked the herbs. Oh my goodness, they have cleared a massive area of the hill! One of the herbs is nowhere to be seen! Thank goodness, I still have another spot where I can plucked this particular herb. I still managed to pluck some herbs from this area too. Thereafter, I drove to Tamu Muhibbah where I bought the rest of the vegetables like daun kesom, bunga gantan (this time around, I managed to buy some), kunyit flower and its roots.

From there, I drove back to Krokop Lorong 10 and in one of the small lorong, I plucked this particular herb. I drove slowly back to my home in Taman Desa Seri and plucked some more herbs along the way. I have some of the herbs growing in my backyard too. After that, I sorted out and washed the herbs.

As I still have some time prior to picking up my son at noon today, I packed the required number of packets of 'budu' (fish) sauce.

Took a quick shower and then headed off to my son's school. That day, it was Teachers' Day celebration in his school and school finished at 12noon. A quick lunch at home and then I started to continue with the works.

I dry-fried the deboned fish in a saucepan under a low fire. This takes one and half hours. It was good to be in the kitchen as the day was rather warm and in a way, I had a sauna. I felt good after the sauna ^-^.

My son was engrosed in playing his psp. Its a form of relaxation for him, just for that day only as he had just finished his school exam.

I continued with the rest of the works. Grinding and/or blending the herbs and then straining the juice as well. The quantity of juice strained was dependant on the total number of orders for Khau Jhum.

Prepared a simple dinner. My son and I had egg & salad tortillas wrap for dinner. My dear hubby was away on biz and came home at night the same day.

After making sure that all things are ready for the 'day' ie Day 4, it was time for an early night. A very early day began for Day 4.