Taste Quality at Jaya Grocer’s Taste New Zealand Food Fair!

It's Wednesday and it's raining, soon I be out to wait for my son's at school. Sharing good news with you the inimitable and highly sought after Taste New Zealand Food Fair is back with quality, honest products comprising a delectable selection of new artisanal treats, guilt-free chocolates, premium New Zealand apples and kiwifruits from a clean and sustainable environment for every Malaysian home.


Organized by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE), Taste New Zealand will be held at all 19 Jaya Grocer outlets nationwide from 3rd May to 21st May, promising something for everyone. Malaysians can look forward to over 150 New Zealand products at the fair, with 30 new exclusive products featured.

 

Additionally, Customer who spend RM50 in a single receipt at Jaya Grocer Taste New Zealand will also be able redeem an exclusive 60th Anniversary themed shopping bag and enter a lucky draw contest. The grand prize winner will win RM888 worth of New Zealand products.



“Malaysians consistently seek high quality New Zealand dairy products, from healthy and tasty milk powder and cheese to yoghurt and ice cream. This demand continues to grow as Malaysians become increasingly conscious and mindful of what they consume,” says Matt Ritchie, New Zealand Trade Commissioner to Malaysia and Brunei.


“New Zealand food and beverages are also safe and sustainably-produced. Our natural environment, climate and clean air are ideal for almost every kind of production, from horticulture to seafood and farming,” he added.


Kanthan K, Head of Merchandising Department said, “As Malaysia’s Fresh Neighbourhood Grocer, we take pride in carrying quality, premium products for every Malaysian’s daily convenience and needs. Jaya Grocer is glad to collaborate with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise to feature an exciting range of both new and readily available products at the New Zealand Food Fair that are equivalently delicious, nutritious and meeting health requirements.”

 Some of the items that consumers can look forward to purchasing at the fair:  

 

‘Grow Young Together’ with Anlene
Renowned for producing some of the best tasting dairy the world has to offer, consumers can look forward to delicious products from New Zealand's leading dairy brands, Fonterra, with Anlene Heart-PlusTM. Launched March 2017, Anlene Heart-PlusTM is the only high calcium milk in Malaysia with the dual action formula that supports greater mobility (MoveMaxTM) and heart health (HeartMaxTM).


The MoveMaxTM formulation contains important nutrients such as magnesium, zinc, and Vitamins B, C, D & E to help care for bones, joints and muscles, while the HeartMaxTM formulation contains Omega 3 (DHA + EPA), plant sterol, potassium, Vitamin B12 and folic acid that enables optimal cholesterol levels, blood pressures and blood sugar levels.
 
Anlene seeks to trigger conversations about ageing, debunking the myth that it should restrict mobility and lifestyle choices. With the right nutrition, people can continue to live as young as they feel inside.


All Natural New Zealand Ice-cream & Yoghurt
The Collective Dairy
Founded by two chefs with entrepreneurial minds, Angus Allan and Ofer Shenhav, The Collective is New Zealand’s leading gourmet yogurt brand, thriving on creating an extraordinary yoghurt with an unbeatable taste. The Collective takes pride in its all-natural, vegetarian, gluten-free goodness which guarantees no added nasties. With catchy names like Pink Lemonade, Sassy Strawberry & Fig n’ Ginger, the probiotic yoghurt brand steers away from the corporately packaged world and focuses on being fun, slightly edgy and undeniable approachable by individuals of all age ranges.

Taste quality and natural goodness with New Zealand apples
Blessed to grow in a land of pure water and fertile land, New Zealand apples are renowned for their unbeatable taste and will do more than keep the doctor away.


Luv’ya
Luv’ya Fruit grows apples in their own orchards right in the sunny, temperate region at the top of New Zealand’s South Island. Known for being mildly sweet and with a subtle pear essence, the Ambrosia apples have crisp, fine-grained flesh that remain white even when sliced. As the name ‘Ambrosia’ means “Food of the Gods’, customers will attest to it’s out-of-the-world juiciness.

Rockit™
Rockit™ Apple Snacks have also recently returned to popular Malaysian retailers. Rockit™ is the world’s first specially bred miniature ‘high quality’ apple, positioned as a health snack and has a delicious sweet flavour, bright red colour and a juicy, crisp crunch.

Top quality chocolates and biscuits
Whittaker’s
Founded in 1896 by James Henry Whittaker, New Zealand’s primary chocolate brand, Whittaker’s sources for top quality, hand-harvested cocoa from Ghana and

Madagascar – the two homes of the world’s finest beans. These beans are then batch roasted and made into fine grade chocolate, thus differentiating them from other competitors who often purchase cocoa liquor rather than roasting their own beans.


Dark chocolate indulgers can look forward to two of Whittaker’s’ new artisanal varieties. The Fijian Ginger and Kerikeri Mandarin is a rich 62% dark chocolate infused with mandarin from the famed citrus growers of New Zealand’s Keri keri, paired with luscious, crystalized ginger hand is cultivated in the islands of the world’s finest ginger producer, Fiji.


There will also be limited edition Sharebags – Whittaker’s Tweats comprises of 12 mini slabs of creamy milk chocolate with popping candy, specifically moulded in the shapes of some of our favourite New Zealand native creatures such as the Kiwi and Moa bird, the forest-dwelling Morepork owl, the lizard-resembling Tuatara, owl-parrot Kakapo and a Penguin! These delectable Whittaker’s mini chocolate slabs are made using 33% cocoa.

Griffin’s
New Zealand’s No. 1 Biscuit brand has also finally set food in Malaysia. Griffin’s, New Zealand’s favourite biscuit bakers have been delighting Kiwi families for more than 150 years. They are armed with its heritage of expertly baking biscuits with top quality ingredients and utmost craft and care. Malaysians can now experience its delicious biscuits made with real New Zealand milk and milk chocolate.

With over 150 products featured at Taste New Zealand, experience and taste quality at all 19 Jaya Grocer outlets from 3rd – 21st May 2017.
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New Zealand Food Connection Blogger Food Bag Challenge

Good day to everyone, thank you for coming by my blog. This is the New Zealand Food Connection Food Bag Challenge. I like to share you some recipes in cooking #NZFoodConnection . There's Western or Asian, fusion, family or fine dining. New Zealand ingredients are the hero of any dish. 

New Zealand is one of only two countries to export more than half its total food production and Malaysia is its 9th largest export market, with trade volumes growing at pace year-on-year. 

Butter Fried Smoked Teriyaki Sake Steak recipe

Ingredients:

1. Talley's Hake Steak
2. some asparagus
3. half tomato
4. some cauliflower
5. half green lantern chili
6. 1/4 Anchor salted butter
7. Teriyaki Marinate Sauce
8. 2 1/2 table spoon brown sugar
9. 2 table spoon tea leaves

 

Preparing and cooking 

1. Cut some of the cauliflower 
2. Remove the skin of the asparagus
3. Boiled the cauliflower and asparagus for 3 minutes.
4. 1/4 Anchor salted butter put in hot pan
5. Fried Sake with slow fire until it turn brownish color.
6. Fried half tomato and some green lantern chili
7. 2 1/2 table spoon of brown sugar and tea leaves mix together on the aluminium foil.
8. Placed the fried hake on the plate then put in the pan with the aluminium foil for smoked it for 15 minutes. 
9. After cooked put the cauliflower, green lantern chili, tomato and asparagus on plate. 
10. Put the fried smoked teriyaki sake steak on plate and decorate as you wished, then pour bit teriyaki marinate sauce around the plate.

Butter Fried Smoked Teriyaki Sake Steak

Butter Fried Smoked Terriya Sake Steak recipe is Halal, serving for one person to eat as lunch or dinner.

I have two recipes to share with you on how to cook Greenshell Mussels. 

Spicy Kung Pao Greenshell Mussels recipe

Ingredients

1. 2 table spoon oil
2. Some garlic
3. Sliced old ginger
4. Small onions
5. Some dried chilies 
6. Some basil
7. 2 table spoon thick black soya sauce
8. 2 table spoon oyster sauce
9. bit of pepper
10. 1 tea spoon of sugar 
11.  bit of salt

Preparation and cooking

1. Take a bowl add in the 2 table spoon of thick black sauce, 2 table spoon oyster sauce, bit of pepper, 1 tea spoon of sugar, bit of salt and add in some water to mix.
2. Heat up the pan with 2 table spoon of oil.
3. Fried the chopped garlic and sliced ginger then add in the onion and dried chilies.
4. Add in the mussel and cook with medium fire.
5. Cooking until the sauces becomes thick and add in the basil leaves. 

Spicy Kung Pao Greenshell Mussels

Ready to serve Spicy Kung Pao Greenshell Mussels. This recipe is non-halal.

Another recipe to share with you using Greenshell Mussels

Tom Yam Seafood Mussels Recipe

Ingredients

1. Some chopped garlic
2. 5 pieces of lady finger, can chopped it up
3. Half tomato cut into pieces
4. 3 lemon grass
5. Small onion
6. 3 tea spoon of salt
7. 3 tea spoon of sugar
8. 3 table spoon of tamarind paste
9. 3 pieces of dried tamarind
10. Mussels
11. Prawns
12. Pandan leaves

 Preparation the tamarind paste need to add in water 50 ml and remove the seeds of tamarind. Add in chopped garlic, lady finger, tomato, lemon grass, small onion, salt and sugar, dried tamarind and mix it all up. 

Cooking

1. Put the clean mussels on the aluminum foil 
2. 1st layer put the prawns
3. 2nd layer put the mussel
4. Then topple the top with the mixed ingredients 
5. Then add the pandan leaves and fold the aluminium foil
6. Steam the foiled aluminum foiled with high fire for 15 minutes.

Tom Yam Seafood Mussels

So yummy, it's ready to serve and good to eat. 

Ready to serve can eat with a bowl of rice. 

This recipe is Halal. 

*Note below recipe is Non-Halal*

Sticky Pure South New Zealand Lamb recipe

Ingredients

1. Pure South New Zealand Lamb 
2. Roasted nuts
3. Some garlic
4. 2 table spoon of tomato sauce
5. 2 table spoon of chili sauce
6. 2 table spoon HP sauce
7. Half bowl of sate sauce
8. 4 teaspoon of sugar
9. Chinese parsley
10. 2 table spoon of Shao Hsing Hua Tio 
11. 2 table spoon sesame oil
12. 250 ml cooking oil
13. 2 table spoon of black soya sauce
14. 2 table spoon of worcesdershive
15. 1/4 of red food coloring powder
16. 1/4 of white pepper powder
17. 1 chicken egg
18. some salt
19. 2 table spoon corn flour

Preparation for overnight marinate

1. 2 table spoon of Shao Hsing Hua Tio (Chinese Rice Wine)
2. 2 table spoon sesame oil
3. 250 ml cooking oil
4. 2 table spoon of black soya sauce
5. 2 table spoon of worcesdershive
6. 1/4 of red food coloring powder
7. 1/4 of white pepper powder
8. 1 chicken egg
9. some salt
10. 2 table spoon corn flour
11. Mixed the into a bowl, then add in the pieces of cut Pure South New Zealand lamb
12. Place the bowl in the fridge for overnight.

Cooking

1. Take the marinate lamb out from the fridge.
2. Chopped Chinese pasley 
3. Take a bowl add in the 2 table spoon tomato sauce, 2 table spoon chili sauce, 2 table spoon HP sauce, some garlic, some sate suce with roasted nuts and stir the sauces. 
4. Next step refer to step 7 below.
5. Heat up the pan with 250 ml of cooking oil.
6. Fried lamb with medium fire until its cooked then remove and put on plate
7. Heat up the pan and cooked the sauces then add in the cooked lamb.
8. Get ready the plate and ready to serve, can be with white rice. 

This recipe is Non-Halal.

Above are four recipes I shared with you. 

New Zealand is one of the great food providers of the world, particularly dairy, meat, fruit and seafood. New Zealand's climate, fertile soil and relative isolation make it ideal for almost every kind of production - from sheep and cattle to cropping and horticulture.

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