Thursday, December 29, 2016

YummY! - Seafood Prawn Crackers @ PTP Sekinchan Seafood (适耕庄食品)

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Seafood Prawn Crackers @ PTP Sekinchan Seafood (适耕庄食品)

Sekinchan, Selangor, Malaysia - December 2016
"Huh? Writing a blog about prawn crackers? What's there to write about prawn crackers?" my wife quipped.


Enjoying a piece of deep-fried prawn crackers.
That was precisely what I thought too about this simple food that are often taken as desserts and sometimes added to main dishes to complement them (like in fried chicken, fried rice, etc.). But my mindset changed when I visited the PTP Sekinchan Seafood prawn cracker factory in Sekinchan; actually they operate on a smaller scale (but not that small) on the lines of a cottage industry.
These crackers are yummilicious, but hold on to your horses .....



.... they don't start off looking like that. They start off looking like loaves of bread; these are made from a dough mix of flour and minced individual seafood. The dough is mixed in a large mechanised mixer. these days manual work is reduced to a minimum. The exact mix ingredients & proportions is a trade secret.


The colour of the loaves may vary depending on the type of crackers, the above yellowish ones are for clam (Lala) crackers. 


The loaves take about 1-1/2 hour to make and are then put onto these perforated trays .....


Which are the inserted into these steamer oven for a 2-hour pre-cooking.
After cooling down, they are put into a refrigerator for them to harden overnight or slightly longer (the important thing is that they must be hard enough for cutting).


The hardened loaves are then cut into slices about 1 mm thick, and laid out in trays.


The shop has a large backyard where these trays a laid out for the crackers to be sun-dried. Sun drying takes a minimum of two days if there is a strong continuous sunlight. When the skies are overcast, the drying takes longer.


The trays are made of wire-mesh with a wooden frames and are sometimes stacked a few trays high. Hot air can circulate in between to ensure both sides of the crackers are drying.


Some trays are made off nylon meshes, but the convection drying process is the same.


After a first round of drying on the mesh trays, some crackers (the wetter types ones) are spread out on ground sheets for further drying.


After adequate drying, the crackers assume a curl up shape similar to that of potato chips. The darker crackers seen above are fish crackers.


The dried crackers are collected, stacked up and ready for packing. This pinkish white ones are prawn crackers.


The crackers are packed in packets of 500 grams.


These dotted ones are sotong (squid) crackers.
PTP Sekinchan Seafood is the only manufacturer of these seafood crackers in Sekinchan. They are one of few manufacturers who make the Squid Crackers AND the only one that make the Clam Crackers in Malaysia.


The crackers can be bought in its "raw form" for self frying at home; or in their deep-fried form, all ready for immediate eating. PTP allows customers to sample their fried crackers.
Pricing at the time of this blog is as follows:
500 grams "Raw" crackers of all flavours :$20/= per bag.
Fried crackers of all flavours : $8/= per bag.


A satisfied customer with raw and fried crackers. This is my friend Sin, many of us park our cars and cycle around Sekinchan as it is more convenient.

PTP SEKINCHAN SEAFOOD
274, Lorong 10, Bagan Sekinchan, 45400 Sekinchan, Selangor Dharul Ehsan, Malaysia.
Phone: +6016-6621522 (Peter) / +6012-2347274      |     Email: peterpuaq@gmail.com
Facebook: PTP Sekinchan Prawn Crackers
Hours: 8:00am to 6:00pm
GPS: 3.50749, 101.09589






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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Art Gallery - Musée d'Orsay First Floor Gallery 03: Carries to Degas

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Musée d'Orsay First Floor Gallery 03: Carries to Degas
Paris, France - September 2016
The Musée d'Orsay in Paris, a former railway station converted into an art museum houses many artwork dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including MonetManetDegasRenoirSisley, and many other masters. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe.
Tip: When visiting the museum, go to the 5th Floor first as it houses art work by the impressionist.
These are the photos taken of the artwork at the museum, for presentation purposes and due to photography angle, many of these have been cropped, and edited to compensate for low lighting. It is better to visit the museum as nothing beats seeing the originals.

The first floor of the museum is very large and to manage the many number of pieces on display, I have separated the First Floor into several sections arranged in alphabetical order by the artists' names. This is page three of nine of the first floor, displaying artwork from Carriès to Degas. Click below to navigate to other sections:
Go to 1st Flr 02             |            Go To 1st Flr Main             |            Go to 1st Flr 04 >


For easier orientation within the gallery, here is a floor layout plan of Level 2 (First Floor). The rooms are numbered from #51 to #72.
(Click here for Musee d'Orsay interactive Level 2 Floor Plan)

Below are the artwork, for enlarged view click on the respective photo:
"Masque d'horreur" ("Mask of horror") - enamelled stoneware by Jean-Joseph Carriès (c.1891).


"Mercure inventant le caducée" ("Mercury inventing the caduceus") - marble statue by Henri Chapu (1860).


"Chefs de tribus arabes se défiant au combat singulier, sous le remparts d'une ville" ("Heads of Arab tribes mistrusting singular combat, under the ramparts of a city") - oil on canvas painting by Théodore Chassériau (1852).


"Le Tepidarium" ("The Tepidarium") - oil on canvas painting by Théodore Chassériau (1853).


"Macbeth et les trois sorcières" ("Macbeth and the Three Witches") - oil on canvas painting by Théodore Chassériau (1855).


"Le Marchand de tortues / Petit nègre, marchand de tortues a Venise" ("The Tortoise Merchant / Little Negro, Tortoise Merchant in Venice") oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1854).


"Le Pigeon" ("The Pigeon") oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1871).


"Le Ballon" ("The Balloon") oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1870).


"L'Experance" oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1871-1872).


"Le Recueillement" ("The meditation") oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1866).


"L'Histoire" ("The story") oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1866).


"La Vigilance" ("The Vigilance") oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1866).


"Saint Sébastien" ("Saint Sebastian") oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (undated).


"Le Pauvre pêcheur" ("The Poor Fisherman") - oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1881).


"La jeune mère / La Charité" ("The young mother / The Charity") oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (c.1887).


"la toilette / Femme à sa toilette" (The toilet / Woman at her toilet) oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (c.1883).


"Jeunes filles au bord de la mer" (Young girls by the sea) oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1879).


"Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt" (Portrait of Sarah Bernhardtoil on canvas painting by Georges Clairin (c.1884-1902).


"Le Rut du printemps. Combat de cerfs" (The Rut of Spring. Deer Fighting) oil on canvas painting by Gustave Courbet (1861).


"Napoleon assis sur un aigle dominant le monde" (Napoleon sitting on an eagle dominating the world) - plaster statue by Léon Cugnot (undated).


"Étude de mains" (Study of hands) - oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (1859-1860).


"Le Defile / Chevaus de courses devant les tribune" (The Defile / Horses race in front of the podium) - oil on paper mounted on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (1866-1868).


"Semiramis construisant Babylone" (Semiramis Building Babylon) - oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (1861).


"Scene de guerre au Moyen Age" (War scenes in the Middle Ages) - oil and gasoline on paper mounted on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (1863-1865).


"Le Viloncelliste Pilet Edgar" (The Cellist Pilet Edgar) - oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (1868-1869).


"Marguerite de Gas" - oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (c.1858-1860).


"Mademoiselle Diahu au piano" (Mademoiselle Diahu on the piano) - oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (c.1869-1872).


"Oenochoé en forme de tête de jeune homme" (Oenochoe in the shape of a young man's head) - oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (c.1855).


"Hilaire de Gas" - oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (1857).


"Marguerite de Gas" - oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (c.1858-1860).


"Étude d'après une Tête de jeune garçon par Della Robbia" (Study of a Head of a Young Boy by Della Robbia- oil on paper mounted on canvas painting by Edgar Degas (c.1856-1858).

The first floor of the museum is very large and to manage the many number of pieces on display, I have separated the First Floor into several sections arranged in alphabetical order by the artists' names. This is page three of nine of the first floor, displaying artwork from Carriès to Degas. Click below to navigate to other sections:
Go to 1st Flr 02             |            Go To 1st Flr Main             |            Go to 1st Flr 04 >

MUSEE d'ORSAY
1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris, France.
Tel: +33-14049-4814
Hours: Friday to Wednesday -  9:30am to 6:00pm, Thursdays - 9:30am to 9:45pm
(Closed on Mondays & hours for Armitice Day may differ).
Webpage: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/museedorsay/
GPS: 48.85996, 2.32656
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