MCO 4.0 - Day 01 (EMCO Day 11)

 1 June 2021     Day 01 of Movement Control Order 4.0

                           Day 11 of Enhanced Movement Control Order

        Today, Malaysia enters the first day of a two-week full lockdown, whereby some have cleverly coined the acronym FMCO. Since 18 March last year, we have had a slew of acronyms in English and Bahasa Melayu...MCO, PKP, CMCO, PKPB, RMCO, PKPP, EMCO, PKPD, TEMCO, PKPDB...and now FMCO or SPP (Sekatan Pergerakan Penuh, as seen on Berita Harian). And the SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for each lockdown...ah...keeping up with which is which is enough to make me dizzy. Why can't the cordon sanitaire just be either a lockdown or a partial lockdown?

        For the purposes of this blog, I shall just ape New Straits Times and refer to this new period of lockdown as MCO 4.0. And oh yes, we were reminded that Ipoh is still under EMCO till 4 June. So apparently, the SOPs of MCO 4.0 don't apply to us. We have to adhere to the SOPs of EMCO! Saya betul-betul pening! The best SOP, to me, is STAY AT HOME!

        Taking advantage of my French oven, I cooked Shanghai-styled Braised Pork Belly ( 红烧肉 ). Aha! Truly an example of East meeting West. And hubby was enamoured with it, kept singing praises of it, "Mmm...very tasty...oooh...so tender...mmm...nice!" 

Shanghai-styled Braised Pork Belly

        I was quick to capitalise on his enchantment. "So now you are convinced of how good a Le Creuset pot is?" Hubby was too busy enjoying the luscious, fork-tender pieces of meat to answer me, so he merely nodded.

Radish Spare Ribs Soup

        Variations of the dish abound and there are tons of recipes on the Internet to refer to. I decided to follow the one shared by The Woks Of Life as it makes use of very basic ingredients. It also doesn't use spices like star anise and cinnamon, which I know are not favoured by hubby. I did, however, add aromatics like ginger, garlic and the pale ends of the spring onion.

Yummylicious!