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With the little culinary skills that I possessed, I managed to cook up a decent meal and enjoyed Ikea’s swedish meatballs right at home!

Was shopping in Malaysia’s Ikea yesterday when I saw that they sell pre-packaged and frozen meatballs along with packets of sauce in powder form. The instructions look easy enough. I cannot handle anything more than mixing a few things together and cooking them to a boil. “Just add water” is my favourite phrase on any food item. So I bought them.

It wasn’t too disasterous. Other than having to spend extra time mashing the sauce powder that coagulated coz I didn’t use a whisk, it was quite a success.

me: thank goodness it looks normal. hmm, and it smells normal too.
everyone else: tastes good! thank goodness!

I guess I might cook it again some time. But it is a bit pricy. RM15.90 for the meatballs (about 28 of them) and RM3.90 for the packet of sauce. Still cheaper than the actual meal sold at Ikea’s restaurant though. But for now, I still like eating at the restaurant and have other people cook my food for me.

oh but horrors! My trip to Ikea also made me realize that Ikea has stopped selling their famous hotdogs at their cafe!! eecks! They’re my all time favourite. I used to eat them pretty often. Can’t help it that I lived 10 minutes away from Singapore’s Ikea when I was studying in JC.

But now there isn’t anymore in Malaysia’s Ikea. Coz of some halal issues! Which wasn’t even Ikea’s fault and they got all the bad press for that. They were accused of selling non-halal sausages, and even had to shut down for a religious cleansing exercise. The press was all over them for this supposed wrongdoing of theirs. But in the end, it was proven that the media were wrong and that the sausages (them yummy sausages!) and their stupid casings were in fact halal! The only thing wrong was that their supplier had an expired halal license! It was clearly a case of utter irresponsibility by the media, blowing the story out of proportion and not doing the proper investigation before pointing fingers. Public perception was shaken, and my guess is Ikea’s management will not (or will never?!) be selling their yummy hotdogs for quite a while until people forget about this hoohah.

But I guess I should commend Ikea for being quick enough to put a change to the menu to replace the usual hotdog set. Now, they’re selling roti bakar! Soft toasted burger bread spreaded with generous serving of kaya and butter. slurp.

I’m getting fat.