Fruitful Saturday Afternoon

I have long decided to try my mum's curry recipe and my favourite sambal belacan, so I decided to spend the whole saturday afternoon doing just that - preparing the curry paste and sambal belacan. I borrowed a mini chopper from a colleague of mine and hope to get one for myself one of these days. And to cover the smell of belacan (for the benefits of my housemate :p), I managed to cook the red bean soup with longan as well.

Cant wait to cook my curry next week using the curry paste that I have just prepared!

the sambal belacan - to go with my fried rice and fried beehoon :)

the red bean soup with dried longan, in my new bowl brought from Japan Centre in London