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Brunch: Jones the grocer

2012-01-26T14:48:00.001+08:00

Some time ago, had brunch with Superfriends (minus AK) at jones the grocer at Mandarin gallery. Initially was deciding between jones, Antoinette or Wild Honey. But eventually because of the queue, we decided on jones.

Not a very good move. The selection was not very great. Not a very interesting menu. The food don't look tempting especially when I had seen a breakfast menu much MORE interesting than this on xmas. Tsk Tsk..

We have unwillingly gave this place a try since we had already seated inside. Yap basically had to ate the things he ate in US considering that he had just came back.

The interior is quite homely.

The thing i don't understand is that they displayed their products to near to the customers, don't they afraid of "missing" items at the end of the day?

My Mint hot chocolate. Very minty. Not bad.

Rong's ice coffee with ice cream

Flavored sparkling soda for the guys.

Very unique bottle for the sparking soda. Wondering if the patrons can keep it.. hmm.. We can't find the recommendations that AK recommended us to try. So we tried other things instead.

English breakfast with sunny side up. Yap had similar set as well.

My english breakfast with poached eggs. Aren't all poach eggs supposed to have some sauce on top of it?! And seriously, the eggs look so.... unappetizing. :( The things are so tough - toast bread and sausage. Disappointing.

Alvin's beef burger with chips. According to Alvin, the beef wasn't very nice. meh.

Lynn's sandwich with avocado and bacon.

Overall, food are quite disappointing. Don't think I will visit them again. Bear in mind that the price is the higher side compared to hotel room service.
Keen to try out Wild Honey and Antoinette.

Address
333a Orchard Road
Level 4 #21-23 Mandarin Gallery
Singapore, 238897

New Phone for the New Year

2012-01-25T18:47:00.000+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year!!

For this new year, I've gotten myself a new phone! Yay. Yippee.

Its the Galaxy Note.

Wheet! I eventually gotten Note instead of iPhone 4S mainly because of it's size and also to try something new since there are many good reviews on the phone. The size doesn't pose a problem to me. In fact, I like it big because I could view a wider screen to surf net, play games, whatsapp etc. Also, I don't put my phone in my pocket, so this is no issue to me at all.

So far so good with my phone. I find it of reasonable speed and not slow at all compared to iOS 5 on a 3GS. Much much much better.

Fiddling and still exploring the phone. The games selection is not as wide as iPhone's but still reasonably ok. Tried watching video on the phone and its great! Big screen! And transferring file over is a breeze!

The minus point could be that you can't really write a sms/message single-handed due to it's size. Well, unless you have longgggg fingers. Yea, longer than mine, that is.

I'm waiting for the screen protector to arrive from Gmarket. Hope nicer casing for Galaxy note will be out soon. The current ones are so ugly!

Senseless post. Gingerbreadman on the run

2012-01-24T12:23:00.000+08:00

-Gone-

KissMe heroine eyeliner

2012-01-08T17:20:00.001+08:00

Finally managed to lay my hands on this after many failed attempts at several watsons shops.

Tried using it yesterday from 5pm to midnight and it was not too bad. No smudges. Definitely can replace the majolica eyeliner that I am currently using.

The color is dark and the brush is fine. Works well. Just that when I applied onto my lids there is a slight discomfort. Not sure it's due to the eyeliner. But the discomfort soon goes away.

From what I understand that this eyeliner is selling like hotcakes. So, grab it when you first see it. Don't wait already!

Banana Hazelnut Cake

2012-01-01T22:07:00.000+08:00

Decided to bake banana cake from a recipe I saw in a bakery book, you know, to try out the different banana cakes recipe and see if it turns out the same. Turns out that this cake is more "fluffy" and dry (more towards the cake texture) than the previous recipe I tried (Ok, I think that blog entry got deleted when I decided to start blogging afresh)

In my opinion, this version is much better. And of course, because I added hazelnut inside, there is a crunch to it. But my mum complaints that it has caused difficulty in biting (honestly, me too as my half erupt wisdom tooth is painful again).

And, I have found a better place to take photo of all my baked goods - the balcony! There is sufficient lighting without having to go through the trouble of photoshop. OK, the truth is I have yet to install photoshop in my PC. Lazy to switch on my mac.

Recipe below. In my opinion, you can omit using the banana to decorate the top of the cake.

120g butter

275g all purpose flour

150g sugar

2 eggs

Pinch of salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

zest of a lemon

2 ripe bananas (additional 1 more if you want to decorate the top of cake)

100g chopped nuts

2 tsp baking powder

1-2 tsp honey

1. Cut butter into small pieces and together with sugar, beat with an electric beater till light and fluffy. Gradually add in eggs, salt, cinnamon and lemon zest.

2. Roughly mash 2 bananas and mix into the batter. Stir in nuts, sifted flour and baking powder. Mix.

3. Put the mixture into moulds.

4. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes 170 degrees.

5. If using banana as deco, slice the banana and place on top of cake during 20th - 30th minutes and drizzle with honey.

Look back on 2011

2011-12-31T23:00:00.002+08:00

2011 is going to end soon in few hours time and as usual it is time to reflect on what we have done for the year.

To me, 2011 is a year where I spend a awfully alot amounts of money. Bad.. Its to a stage where I began to wonder if its worthwhile to spend so much in the first place.

2011 is also the year where I go heavier T.T Sad. Sign of eating too much and not moving as much.

On a happier note, I have participated in my first 10km nike run. (Speaking of which, I still haven't received my souvenirs and voucher..). This month, more people appreciate my bake wares and I established my own business. LOL. If you counted it as business. Friends and colleagues ordered cookies from me. Learning on managing the expenses and keep track on the accounts and orders.

2011 is also a year where Alvin and I understand each other more and saving towards our future. Yay.

2012 will be the year I will be looking forward to.

*edit*

Graduation! Finishing my studies soon! Finally.
Expand bakery?
Learn driving
Be a wonderful GF
Be a wonderful friend
Lose weight
Find my direction

Wishing you all a wonderful 2012 ahead!

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookie

2011-12-25T18:04:00.000+08:00

It's Christmas time! What's better than to bake some cookies for colleagues and friends. Other than sharing my baked goods with people, it is good to give them away as "Christmas gifts" when you don't know what to get for them for Christmas. No headaches to what to get!

Usually baking cookies is quite a chore. Especially cookies that contains butter as it makes washing very troublesome.

My colleagues had good raves for the cookies. 1 even enquire if he can order with me. Wah. Milestone. Someone ACTUALLY want to order my cookies.

So happy.

Anyone want order? Shall be going to buy my ingredients tomorrow.

Recipe adapted here

115g butter
115g light brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence/extract
150g self-raising flour
75g rolled oats
100g chocolate chips
100g white chocolate chunks, optional
directions :
1. cream butter & sugar in a bowl until pale and fluffy. add in egg and vanilla essence/extract.
2. sift flour over the mixture and fold in lightly with a metal spoon. then add oats, choc chips and white chocolate and stir well to combine.
3. drop heaped spoonfuls of mixture onto non-stick baking sheet, leaving space for spreading.
4. bake in a preheated oven of 170 deg c for 15-20 mins until golden brown.
5. leave on to cool 2-3 mins before removing from baking sheet and let cool completely before storing in air-tight container.

The cookies doesn't really expand much during baking, so the size of the dough dropped onto the baking sheet will pretty much be the resulted size.

Lychee Rose Cupcakes

2011-12-25T17:37:00.000+08:00

Trying to make something for Alvin's birthday as usual. Decided to try making Lychee Rose Cupcakes from Evan's blog. Looks nice, yummy and special. How often do you hear before Lychee + Rose = cupcake?

(I've made cream cheese frosting for half the cupcakes and left it in the fridge. No one eats it :( 没人欣赏。。)

I found that lychee and rose is a very good combination. The combination gives out a different scent different from the usual buttery kind. Not bad what...

Taken from here

1.5 cups self raising flour
1 cup plain flour
1/4 cup ground almonds
250g butter, softened
2 cups sugar (i only used 1.5 cups)
4 eggs
1/2 cup milk
60ml rose syrup water (2 parts water to 1 part syrup)
1 tsp rosewater essence
24 pcs canned lychees
directions :
1. combine flours and ground almonds in a bowl. in another bowl, beat butter & sugar until light and fluffy, then add in eggs one at a time and whisk until combined.
2. add in flours in 3 additions, alternating between milk and rose syrup water. do not overmix. fold in batter until just combined.
3. spoon 1/2 mixture into cupcake liners, top with a lychee and pour in another 1/2 batter (total height should come up to 3/4 of liner).
4. bake in preheated oven of 170C for 20 mins or until skewer inserted comes out clean.
* for the raspberry cream cheese frosting, i combined cream cheese, butter, raspberry puree & sifted icing sugar according to taste. i don't hv a recipe for it.

Makes 25

For the frosting, I just roughly combined cream cheese and butter in equal portions and then add some raspberry jam and icing sugar according to one's taste.

Black Sesame Chiffon Cake

2011-12-17T12:10:00.000+08:00

Long wanted to try to bake this black sesame chiffon cake. But I always wanted to do it with the black sesame paste. However, the paste is quite difficult to find. Only available in a particular shop near city hall. Furthermore, that time I went to buy it, it was out of stock. :(

So I do some search online and there are recipes using black sesame powder. But the downside is that it might not be as fragrant as the paste.

Tried using the recipe below and it works well. I've excluded cream of tar tar and used equal 4 egg yolks and 4 whites instead of 4:5 ratio.

Recipe from Mimi bakery.

4 egg yolks
40g sugar
50ml vegetable oil
80ml water
100g cake flour
75g black sesame powder
1 tsp baking powder

5 egg whites
50g sugar
1/4 tsp cream of tartar

Method:

1. Whisk egg yolks and sugar until the sugar dissolves.
2. Gradually add in vegetable oil, followed by water.
3. Fold in black sesame powder, sifted cake flour and baking powder until well-mixed. Set aside.
4. In another bowl, whisk egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy. Add in sugar gradually until stiff peak form.
5. Gently fold in the egg white into the egg yolk batter in 3 batches.
6. Pour the batter into an ungreased chiffon tin.
7. Bake in preheated oven at 190 deg C for 40-45 minutes.(my own oven heat)
8. Remove from oven and invert the tin immediately onto a cooling rack.
9. Unmould the cake only when it is completely cool

Childhood food!

2011-12-14T10:33:00.000+08:00

One fine day when I was staying late for work and after dinner with colleagues, I chanced upon this snack when I had it when I was very young. AK had randomly asked for the name of this snack and I suddenly wanted to eat it.

cheap cheap! Nice and airy, eat already don't feel like you have eaten anything.

Another colleague gave me a box of cakes for the full month of his baby girl. So sweet!

Aren't these cakes old school and bring up alot of fond memories?

Shopping + Osaka Town + You are the apple in my eye + Mad for garlic

2011-12-05T21:08:00.000+08:00

Its a shopping day as Alvin needed to get a suit for upcoming Terence's wedding. After some recommendations from friends, he already got where he want to buy them in his mind. Lunching at Raffles City before we start the day!

Wanted to eat Thai Express's tomyam steamboat. But they don't serve it at Raffles City. Shall have it when I'm going to Alvin's place. We tried Osaka Town instead as the menu looks quite interesting and seems quite a healthy option.

Pork Cutlet Ramen.

Cheese ramen

Shared a Soft Shell Crab Okonomiyaki.

Overall, the ramen had more veggies inside than the ramen. Wonder thats good or bad. Nothing in particular to rave about. Quite normal and simple ramen. Not much of a WOW factor. For the okonomiyaki, quite average. But the sauce is nice. Shared the okonomiyaki and it left us very very full.

You could go when er.. all other restaurants are full.

Address

Osaka Town

Raffles City Shopping Center

#B1-75

Did some light shopping and Alvin found a nice looking suit that fits him. Weet! I've gotten a 2 drawer clear casing from Muji to store my accessories. Thanks to the $10 vouchers he redeemed after getting his suit (including a fake Longchamp bag from mall's promotion). Also gotten myself a fake eyelash and glue.

Met up with Terence and wife as they want to see how Alvin looks like in the suit. Terence had gotten Jasmin a surprise 1 night stay in hotel for the weekend due to her birthday. So sweet of him. We split up as we went to catch You are the apple in my eye at Suntec.

Nice movie. Filled with childhood memories and jokes. The producer of the movie is the same one for Meteor Garden. so you can expect the movie to be not bad. Just a lot of 感叹that in the end people who like each other did not get together.

Side note: The male lead is handsome and nice bod. Hee!

After movie we went for late dinner at Mad for Garlic as Alvin wanted to try the food.

Ordered some starters while waiting for Terence and Jasmin to join us for dinner. As I had been here before with AK and Lynn, I wanted to try something different that we had not tried before.

Erdinger

Lemonade

Anchovy Garlic Cream Fondue - Heavenly. Similar concept to cheese fondue but without the gelat feeling.

Not long after, the couple joined us and here's what we had:

Fresh Spinach Salad - Liked the fried garlic on top.

Garlic Snowing Pizza - when the serving staff is shredding the cheese on the spot over the pizza

After.

Mushroom Risotto - not bad

Other this missing are Lobster Spaghetti and moose cake.

Overall, the food will be perfect for garlic lovers like Alvin and I. A tad overwhelming for Terence and wifey. But their raves as first timer is that the Lobster Spaghetti is nice. Tried it before and it is nice. Definitely a must order item.

Address
Mad for Garlic
3 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec City (Galleria) #01 - 039
www.madforgarlic.com.sg

Of Japanese food and nails

2011-12-04T23:03:00.000+08:00

Fun, enjoyment and relax after exams! Pray for me that I'll pass, yea?

Met Alvin for lunch at FEP and booked myself for a mani and pedicure session.

The much raved Jap restaurant. Yum!

Interior. Small and cosy.

We are seated at the counter. Observing the chef BBQ-ing the meats.

Their signature bento.

Complete with miso soup and red bean dumpling dessert. Yum.

Alvin's bento set. The Udon is nice.

Entrance of the restaurant.

Address

Nanbantei Japanese Restaurant
Far East Plaza #05-129

***

Then I adjourned to nail session at Milly's utilizing my groupon voucher while Alvin went for a hair cut.

Vietnamese girl doing my nails

OPI- Jewel of India

Its a all in one shop. It does eye lash extension, hair extension, manicure and pedicure. The workers are mostly foreign. Apparently the girl who did my nails is the most junior of the group. My heart my literally in my mouth and I was spying on her when she did my nails.

Nail job took a freaking 2 hour plus because bubbles formed on the coat of paint after drying. Arrgh.

At first glance, I would say the girl did quite a nice job. Never really cut me badly. She over cut some of my cuticles but luckily it doesn't bleed. However, upon closer inspection the next day, her skills are not up to the mark. The paint layers are quite uneven.

I thought Millys should be quite good since a lot of bloggers raved about them. Also, classic pedicure should include feet soak and scrub right? But I don't know whether the shop foot basin is real or fake one. The staff never use it at all. My feet soak is done in a feet pail covered in a plastic bag and pathetic amount of water is poured in it. I was like huh?! Is that what you called classic pedi?!

Still got 2 more session to go. Perhaps I should try out the Bugis outlet.

Grapefruit + Orange Juice

2011-11-27T18:59:00.000+08:00

One of the easiest juice that I always make is grapefruit and orange juice. Nice and yummy and it goes with the Meiji Amino Collagen that I have. Because the collagen powder has this fishy/ plastic smell, citrus fruits cover that really well. Tried with honey lemon drink, but it doesn't work.

You will need 1 grapefruit and 1 orange to get 1 cup of juice.

Grapefruit is rich in vitamin C and is better fruit than orange.

Contains high antioxidants.

Crystal Jade Kitchen Tim Sum

2011-11-27T18:48:00.000+08:00

Some time back few weeks ago, after my paper at SIM, I loitered around Clementi Mall to shop (abit) and to stock up my groceries for camping at home to study. Mummy had started working at Bouna Vista so I waited for her to have late lunch at Crystal Jade.

Ambience at the restaurant is good! Surprising spacious and due to the timing we went (2pm) there is not much of a crowd. Staff & their service are nice, friendly and prompt.

Tim Sum. *drools*

They have a buzzer for you to press if you need the staff's attention. Good! They react pretty fast too. Save you from having to wave for ages.

Our warm barley.

Our orders! A bit too much for the 2 of us. We took the set menu and ordered some more tim sum.

The roast meat platter. Nice! All cooked to perfection - nice and juicy.

The 艇仔粥. Nice. Mum likes it. Basically its a mix of pork, fish, peanuts etc. Assorted porridge.

The carrot cake which we eventually da baoed home.

The crispy yam puffs.

Pork ribs.

Spring roll. Which did not escape the fate of being da baoed.

Custard bun. Looks harmless.

Cute.

Heavenly! The salted egg custard ooze out when you bite it. Ahh~ Better if it is hotter as we left it on the table for quite some time before we ate it.

Ending off with red bean soup from the set meal.

Conclusion: I had a very enjoyable lunch session at Crystal Jade at Clementi Mall. The staff was polite when I requested them to pack the leftovers for us. Once in a while indulgence, very seldom do I have to chance to eat lunch with mum outside. Mum likes the food. Worth the next visit.

Address

Clementi Mall (next to Clementi MRT)
#03-54/55
155 Commonwealth Avenue West Singapore 129588

Humans are very strange creatures

2011-11-21T11:27:00.000+08:00

The title explains it all.

The more we know we are not supposed to do something, the more we will go and do it.

I have exams later at the evening and I am now blogging. Ahh..

Mummy's Birthday at Neo Garden Restaurant

2011-11-21T11:24:00.000+08:00

Went to try out the Neo Garden restaurant at Jurong West because I was kind of attracted by the flyer they sent to my home.

It is a restaurant located at the HDB void deck. It was raining heavily when we reached there. Quite ulu place which is only accessible by 1 bus service.

Wanted to order crabs but dad keep saying its expensive. 100g for $5. 1 crab is around 800g. Expensive? Not sure.. Its been ages since I ate crabs outside.

We settled for normal zi char style dishes. Did not managed to take photos of all because we are so busy eating. But nevertheless, some not-so-well taken photos below.

南乳pork.

Interesting. Not bad. Different from the usual zi char dishes.

三色蛋+苋菜

So-so IMO. Taste similar everywhere.

Salted egg yolk prawns

Nice! I like the powdery taste of the salted egg yolk.

What is missing was the deep fried silver fish (?) which is the appetizer. Nice and crispy. Mum likes it. Then was the 一品锅 which contain the delicacies likes scallop, fish maw, sea cucumber etc. This is better than the normal zi char version as their delicacies are much bigger and more prominent.

We noticed that those who ate there mostly drives. Don't seem to spot any residents who live there eat here. Hmmm? Anyway their service is not very good also. They seem to be in a hurry to clear our plates after we are almost finishing our food. The restaurant is not even packed?! What's the rush?

When the bill came, we concluded that it is not worth it to dine here. HDB location but similar-to-restaurant prices.

If you want to try, here's the address:

Block 406 Jurong West Street 42 #01-583 Singapore 640406

Happy Birthday Mummy!

2011-11-20T13:24:00.000+08:00

Happy Birthday to you! Be healthy always!

Random thoughts

2011-11-18T18:29:00.000+08:00

I was doing some random surfing and blog hopping/shopping in between reading the online study units for my exams.

I came to realise that there are a lot of bloggers blooming in this Gen Y era. Why? Maybe because that we want to stand out from others, the individualism in us, trying to be noticed or just simply an outlet for us to pen out our thought and feelings.

I remembered the reason when I started blogging many years ago when I was in secondary school is because it seems cool to have an online persona, nobody knows who's who unlike now everyone posted their photos openly over the net. Being quite an early adopters for computer and internet usage, my sis and I is always brainwashed by my parents saying internet is a very dangerous thing, and keep tell us never to show any information of ourselves over the net. We were told that there are a lot of baddies out there..blah blah blah..

Sometimes this just got me thinking whether to just set the blog as private and then I can upload photos of myself etc etc. But sometimes there is this thought that I want to type for a group audience whether you know me or not.

I've grew up reading other random blogs and then xiaxue (yaya bimbo), not that she is very old, just that I'm followed her blog almost from the very beginning when she started blogging and I am amazed at how someone can actually earn a living from just blogging alone. So nice, you know. Just type something and you get paid.

Again, not many people knew I had a blog. I don't really intend to publicize it. Contradicting, I know. But sometimes its the knowledge that there is someone I know reads my blog that give me the motivation to blog. You know, share things I feel worth sharing.

For now, I will try to blog more and who knows I might join a blogging community. Ha. Ha. Take this as a platform to improve my writing skills without all the singlish. :)

To all of you who reads my blog, drop a comment or msn me once in a while to let me know you are still reading!

Cheers.

Homemade Cranberry drink

2011-11-17T18:47:00.000+08:00

Went to NTUC finest to stock up my supplies for the week for camping at home while studying. Chanced upon this bag of delicious looking cranberries and I bought them despite the steep price tag for a bag of fruits ($5.15).

"Buy me! Buy me!"

I thought I could just snack on it while study (beats eating tidbits right?) but, after I had googled on the net showed that you CAN'T just eat it like that. *wails* It says you will have upset stomach if yours is a weak one.

No good.

Then I decided, juice is the next best most convenient method. Most websites says that cranberries is a good match with apple and tada, with the help from mum to juice the puree. End product is yums!

The steps on how to achieve the yummy goodness.

You will need:
- 1 bag around 300+g of cranberries
- an apple
- 3 cups water
- sugar according to your taste

First wash the cranberries.

Mum said those soft ones are not fresh. So ya, look carefully and remove any soft berries.
Then cut an apple and put it together with the berries in a pot with 3 cups of water.

Boil it till the cranberries burst. Around 10-15 minutes.

Add sugar and pinch of cinnamon powder (optional) into the pot.
Then off the fire/flame/electric and let it sit there for about 20 minutes to cool down before you juice it.
From the websites, you can use the cheese cloth to strain it. But since I got the machine to juice it, just use it. Lucky got mum to help me to wash.. hee.

And you are done.

Thick goodness :)

See how thick it is?

My feedback from this recipe is that more water can be added. Maybe 1 cup more? The one I made is quite thick. About smoothie consistency. Individual preference I guess.

Happy birthday to u~

2011-11-12T18:30:00.001+08:00

May all your wishes come true.

Mummy's bday cake prelude

2011-11-07T22:35:00.001+08:00

Sis got the deal.com.sg coupon for decorating cake at icing room. So here goes..

Yay. It was quite fun.

Kent hair brush

2011-10-29T12:28:00.000+08:00

Wanted to get a new hair brush to bring out and use on the go to neaten my messy hair. The Body Shop travel hair brush i had was not very nice to comb and its really small.

Did some research on the net and found good raves on Kent hair brushes. Lots of people swear by it and luckily its available in watson! They have lots of collection for different hair woes. Their brushes ranges from $19.90 onwards. I actually wanted to buy a full size comb but i figured out that it would be able to fit nicely in my pouch/bag. So I tried their travel size combs.

Even Duffy likes it!

They have nice paintings/cartoons at the back for the brush/comb.

Conclusion: Its better than Body shop's. Hair really looks less frizzly compared to TBS. Though the price is abit on the high side ($19.90) its worth it!

Cheese Fondue

2011-10-29T12:19:00.000+08:00

Finally got the time to meet up with Alvin for a short date on Deepavali. Been so busy this few weeks with helping out for the new project. :( Almost everyday of OT.

Anyway, Alvin wanted to try Cheese Fondue. Search on the net shows that Swiss Culture in Suntec had some good raves. So here we go..

The restaurant is located on the same row as Kushin-bo on level 3. Its quite small, their seatings are all "alfresco".

My orange juice

The cheese fondue.

The bread for dipping

Additional side orders of their must try sausage

Mmmm!

Its our first time at cheese fondue. I must say that it wasn't what I have imagined. I thought it would be a overpowering smell of cheese & extremely cheesy. But to my surprise, it turns out quite ok and mild, no cheesy smell. However, it got a bit "gelat" at the end of the session. One thing learnt, is that when we dip the bread/sausage in, we must do it in a stirring motion as the oil of the cheese will float on top as the cheese bubbled.

Quite a lot of people ordered their cheese fondue. Anyway, if you are not feeling "gelat" at the end, you could try their chocolate fondue which the staff recommended.

What do u think?

2011-10-13T22:47:00.001+08:00

A friend sent this to me. What do you think?

P/s: using blogger app to update. So cool!!

It has been a busy work week

2011-10-13T22:37:00.001+08:00

Everyday is a mayhem. It's quite different from the past where it's a bit more relax at work.

Now, due to new project, I've been going down to warehouse officially to help out. It's so far! I'm like walking from one end of the building to the other end a few times a day. I'm aren't complaining especially when my colleagues stayed till midnight for the past week plus.

Over one of the breakfast, someone pointed out that it's good that I help out. I can't possibly be doing admin forever and it's a good chance if I wan to be in ops. But errr..? Am I supposed to be considering ops?

Brekkie yums

2011-10-09T18:11:00.000+08:00

I'm trying to have a variety of breakfast options that are healthy and filling. Tried out the fish fillet burger one of the mornings. BTW i bought the Ramly burger's fish fillet in NTUC. Not bad.

This is a fast to prepare option. I just dump the fillet in the Phillips AirFryer and I went to prepare my things (MU, change clothes etc) and after it is done, assemble all the ingredients together, and viola! You get a fish burger.

銅鑼焼 Dorayaki

2011-10-08T12:04:00.000+08:00

Some time ago (quite a few months back), I've made Doremon's fave food 銅鑼焼 for Alvin and friends. Wanted to do other food with the red bean paste I've bought. But can't remember what I wanted to make and with the red bean paste derived the Dorayaki. I cannot remember exactly which recipe i used but I think this is the closest to what i have done.

Recipe from Annie Koh
Ingredients:
2 eggs
60g honey
150g sugar
200g plain flour
3g baking soda
3g baking powder
150ml water
Anko bean paste
Method:
In a big bowl, stir together the eggs, sugar and honey.
Add the flour, baking soda and baking powder to the mixture above. Stir until well fixed.
Add the water gradually and stir until well mixed, it should have a consistency like double cream.
Heat a frying pan up, and cook them like you would cook pancakes. Depends on the size of your pan, only do 2 or 3 pancakes at a time. Otherwise they will all join together.
When you see bubbles forming, flap them over.
Cool all the pancakes and then sandwich your anko paste in the middle.

And tada~ The completed product. I got a little worried that it is abit big than the normal Dorayaki size. For a second I thought it will be a flop. But after assembling them, hey, it looks like the real thing right?

Brand "new" start

2011-10-08T11:46:00.000+08:00

I've deleted this blog database of 10+ years and started a brand new note in this same url.
Also have updated the blog lists of friends whom they have stopped blogging and delete their blogs.

Remain blog as it is open to public or keep it private?