foodieprints

Mushroom Pasta

2011-12-29T19:32:00.000+08:00

My favourite... yummy! (any food cooked with good and tasty mushrooms really)

homemade mushroom pasta

Antipodean

2011-08-21T17:10:00.000+08:00

This is a great little place situated at Jalan Telawi 2, Bangsar. Antipodean - as it is called is a perfect place for your weekend morning breakfast/brunch. Although it is a little small, the place is cozy and friendly.

After being assigned a table, we were asked to choose our food from the menu on the wall."The Big Breakfast" immediately caught my eyes, and I knew I had to try it, I even ordered extra bacon as a side dish =P. For drinks, I wanted coffee, but which one? So I went through the list of coffees and suddenly two very special words stood out...... "KOPI LUWAK". In case you do not already know, it is the Rolls-Royce of the coffee world, RM40 for a plunger (that is two cups as the waiter puts it). I was going to order it until my "financial advisor" said : "maybe next time..." And so I had the cappuccino instead, which was also very good.

my perfect breakfast setting =)

Pei Yee ordered pancakes and tea. I commented on her choice of tea over coffee, seeing that they were famous for the coffee. Although I know she doesn't drink much coffee, but something tells me she regretted over her choice......

hmm... maybe I should have had coffee instead...

Oh yeah, did I mention we dropped by what must be my favorite shop in Bangsar - Pantry Magic. How did I even miss it during my shopping visits to Bangsar Village? Just look at the copper cookware... B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!

Dinner at Chicago O'Hare

2010-11-30T12:48:00.004+08:00

True enough, my first dinner in the US was a big serving of burgers and fries. It was HUGE, I could not even finish half of it. Tasty no doubt...... but HUGE...

Thick cut applewood smoked bacon burger

The United States of America

2010-11-20T18:22:00.002+08:00

Having seen so many American food programs and being the foodie that I am, I always wanted to try the food myself. And you know how it is over there, all the portions are HUGE. So I will either need to exercise a lot more or control myself from over-eating.

burgers or fried chicken for anyone?

That's just so Cheesy!

2010-10-16T15:02:00.000+08:00

It has been a while since I last cooked pasta, and recently I craved for pasta covered with thick creamy mushroom sauce. I also had a craving for mac & cheese, with over the top...melt in your mouth...cheesy gooeyness. So despite my "one-arm" condition, I knew I had to make pasta.

So I called upon Pei Yee to be my Chef de la journée (chef of the day). This was no ordinary task, this was a dish beyond the ordinary, it had to combine the two pasta dishes into one and somehow find a balance between the two. With the challenge set before us, we started off with a milk base infused with garlic, bay leaves and a tiny hint of curry/tumeric powder. To that base we mixed in not one, but two types cheeses to form the cheese sauce. Adding to that was a big handful of re-hydrated chanterelle mushrooms and thick chunks of pan-fried luncheon meat. All those ingredients were mixed together with the macaroni before it was topped with a generous sprinkling of parmesan and chives and baked in the oven for about 15 minutes to brown the top until crispy golden perfection.

WARNING!: The images below are not suitable for the faint hearted, lactose intolerant and weight watchers.

New Design

2010-09-30T15:36:00.001+08:00

It is with great pleasure that I introduce the new header and design to my blog. I had the concept in my mind for quite some time, but to make it a reality I knew had to appoint someone with good graphic design skills, one who has experience in using Photoshop, one who could make a few lines of description into a piece of art. Naturally of course the name "Keller" came into my mind. Keller did not disappoint me, and as a result, a beautiful header for my blog that I am very proud of. Thank you so much Miss Designer-Keller =).

Brief description of the header:
Logo: It is a picture of a food scale. It is also deliberately drawn to look like the Chinese character for "weigh".
Name: I wanted "food prints" at first, but it was already taken by someone else. So I had to settle for "foodie prints",which in a way I find it a more suitable name.
Pictures: The round slices of ingredients making their way to the pizza gives the idea of "foot prints" leading the way into the final dish.

So with a new name and a new design, hopefully it will also be a new beginning to more new recipes and dishes!

Julie & Julia

2010-09-18T20:58:00.001+08:00

I watched Julie & Julia yesterday, it was a good movie, partly due to my love for food. =) The movie "inspired" me to go on a cooking challenge on my own. I was thinking for doing a complete run through one of Jamie's cook book, but I am still considering if I will take on the challenge or not. My main concern is the cost of it, since the ingredients that will be used is not common in Malaysian markets and to scout for it will be a challenge in itself.

So as for now this "project" will be put on KIV status until I am equipped and ready to take on the culinary hike to the peak of utter deliciousness ... dream ... dream... drool.... =P.

Anyone offers to donate to the Tong How's food challenge fund? ;)

Cooking again

2009-07-07T00:06:00.002+08:00

After leaving the UK for about two years now, I hardly ever keep myself updated with new food recipes. The only few times I stepped into the kitchen to cook was for fellowship dinner. Many time I do feel quite rusty in my cooking, so I decided to use up the mushrooms and pasta I bought from Italy from my last business trip to cook me and my mom some dinner.

Pasta used to be the easiest food for me to cook when I was in UK. For some reason, cooking it now seems to be much more of a challenge. Maybe a sign that I need to practice my cooking more... sigh... Anyway, after much effort, this is what came out of the pot.

Verdict:
Presentation - 40/100
Taste - 70/100

(as judged by myself and my mom =P)

Some yummies from Japan

2009-07-06T23:48:00.002+08:00

I love Japanese packaging. Not only does their food taste great, even their packaging looks fantastic, that is why it is so hard to resist buying some back home to eat. This mocchi is supposed to be a high class mocchi brand with a variety of really nice flavours. The sales person at the counter even asked how long my flight was so that they could freeze it with dry ice to keep it fresh until I reached home =0. No wonder it is so expensive. The cake at the bottom is a green tea cake. I love green tea, and the cake looked really good, so I bought some home to try, It was really soft and tasty, not too sweet, just purrrrrrrrfect... Yummy!

deliciously soft mocchi (best i have had)

green tea cake... gotta love it

And what do we have in Midvalley...

2009-05-27T12:17:00.000+08:00

Pei Yee and I went to Midvalley last Saturday and guess what we saw ... wait... words just can't describe it, lets just see the photo:

- located just beside Pizza hut -

Yes... it is true, the nation wide domination has begun! =P

Return of the Kreme

2009-05-16T22:09:00.001+08:00

we waited for its arrival...

This post is a few weeks too late. I was supposed to put up a post when I had my first taste of the Krispy Kreme invasion into Malaysia, which was the FIRST day the shop opened in Berjaya Times Square..hehe =) (imagine evil laugh with annoying grin).

Just in case you are wondering ... No I did not queue up the whole day on Monday just to eat it on the first day. Soo Aun was the kind brother who offered me a box that he bought on his way back from work. As you can see from the two "missing" doughnuts, I was obviously not patient enough to wait for the picture to be taken before I started digging in.

finally it has arrived...

So how was it? Was it as good as the first time I had it in London? ...... Well it wasn't AS GOOD, but it came pretty close, and it was delicious! The melt in your mouth texture of the doughnut is just so SEDAP, HO CHAK, OISHII NE!

It was so good that my parents went to Time Square the following Saturday and bought back another box. This time we finished it before I even got to take a picture of it =p.

Of course, I had to go to visit the place for myself, so this time I went for the Big Daddy of them all - the one dozen assorted variety deal.

sigh... it is almost impossible to take a photo with all the doughnuts untouched

Welcome to our country Krispy Kreme

2009-03-20T16:57:00.000+08:00

I can't believe it... when Pei Yee told me that Krispy Kreme is actually coming to Malaysia, I was like ......... K ............ KR ......... KRIS ............ KRISPY ......... KRISPY KR ............ KRISPY KRE ..............

!!!!!! Krispy Kreme !!!!!!

- image from www.krispykremeaddicts.com -

Well all I can say is this:

Finally! Tan Sri Vincent Tan.

Prayer meeting

2009-03-20T16:02:00.000+08:00

Whenever we have regional prayer meeting, there is always good food to look forward to. Why? Because KGC's very own Iron Chef is 'in-da-house'! Cooking up delicious meals is a matter of "white peanuts" for aunty Tan, just look at what we had for our last meeting... Yummy!

So on behalf of all who attend Uncle Hong Boon's house for prayer meeting, I would like to apologize for keeping aunty and her prayer meeting specialties exclusively to our side of the regional prayer meeting. =P

Morel

2007-07-09T07:27:00.001+08:00

If you have never heard of morels, I suggest you that you should try it, because it is absolutely delicious. It has a very strong earthy mushroom flavour, almost nutty and with a sponge like texture that is just wonderful. The first time I came across this type of wild mushroom is from a comic book of all places. Ever since I was intrigued by this mysteriously weird shaped delicacy. I finally found it in a very small corner in the supermarket which is apparent since morels are considered to be quite expensive. As always I just cannot resist buying them and trying them for myself. The result, a fantastic mushroom fragrance not just on the plate, but the entire kitchen. YUMMY!

For those of you curious as to where the morels are in this dish, its at the left side of the plate, the brown textured thing. This was a chicken dish, the morels were used to make the sauce and since I dun like to waste such an expensive food, I served it as a side dish.

Pancakes

2007-07-09T07:22:00.001+08:00

Yet another adventure in the kitchen, This time just plain pancakes. To be honest I only made this dish because of its aesthetics of it rather than taste. I always wanted to make the HUGE pancakes that you see in comics and cartoons with beautiful big round brown fried marks on it. =P

Spanish feast

2007-07-09T07:11:00.000+08:00

There is something about paella that just seem to put me of this dish. Maybe because I had a bad experience eating it for the first time in this spanish restaurant which really didn't cook it well. The only reason I decided to try my hand on this dish myself is because of a food program which just made it look so good. So for this dish I had two of my "firsts". My first time cooking a spanish paella and my first time cooking with the most expensive spice in the whole world - saffron. Why all the trouble and cost? Because I believe paella is a much better dish despite my initial impression of it.

粽子(Dumplings)

2007-07-03T02:57:00.000+08:00

Ever since I saw my mom made these dumplings years ago, I knew I had to try to make some myself one day. A word of caution: Anyone who wishes to attempt this is in for some really hard work. It took two people a whole night just to make a few batches of small dumplings. Was it worth it? Well, after eating what you made yourself, it is always worth it.

"Kuk fan" version 2.0

2007-06-21T21:28:00.001+08:00

Last year December, I wrote my first food post on a dish that I came up with myself. After 6 months, 1 day, 6 hours, and 27 minutes, I finally decided to improve on it to make it the updated version 2.0. =P

duck tales

2007-06-21T21:14:00.000+08:00

Duck... a rather foreign word in my cooking journey. This is because duck meat is very gamelike and rich with thick layer of fat that is underneath its skin. If cooked properly it is the best absolutely delicious; cook it the wrong way and it might put you off duck meat for the rets of your life. I came across a recipe that was really interesting. It involved marinating the meat in fruit brine (orange juice + salt) for at least a few hours before cooking it. The cooking process was a two step approach. First steam the duck then "froast (fry + roast)" it in the oven. After that plate up the duck with side vegetables sautéd using the fat from the duck. As usual, I always fancy a little extra on my plate, so I made some mashed potatoes to go with it.

Chicken rice

2007-06-05T08:39:00.000+08:00

Looks delicious doesn't it? the succulent chicken with fresh vegetables and the beautifully cooked fragrant rice is just too good to resist. Chicken rice is one of the best chicken dishes ever created. Although it may look simple, but the preparation and work required to cook this dish is anything but simple. Fortunately I did not need to go through all the hassle to enjoy this meal, my flatmate was kind enough to volunteer to cook dinner. So as you can see we had a very good meal that evening!

Mac & Cheese

2007-06-04T03:21:00.000+08:00

Its been a long time since my last cooking adventure.. and although I have not tried anything special.. but cooking Mac and Cheese (as the Americans would call it) is a first time for me and definitely worth a space of the cooking blog.

Oh yeah, mine is not the authentic Macaroni and cheese, I did some twists to it just to make it a little special. See the pinkish and green bits, they are bacon, chives and parsley. =)

盐焗鸡

2007-05-05T02:59:00.000+08:00

Was checking the photos in my camera and just realised I forgot to post this picture up on the blog. It was during the holidays that I tried making "chicken raosted in a salt shell" which basically means the English way of cooking "盐焗鸡" (yim kuk gai)... hehe

Left overs

2007-05-03T07:44:00.000+08:00

What do you usually do with left-overs from the previous night? I had left over curry and chicken burger to eat and I also had some sausages, spinach and noodles stored up. Now add all those together and you might just come up with what i call a "japanese noodle wanna-be".

three course meal... again?!!

2007-05-03T07:27:00.000+08:00

Yes... a three course meal again. There was no occasion for us to have a three course meal in our flat. It just happened that the whole flat went out during the day for some food shopping in the market, so there was plenty of food to cook with for dinner.

For starters we had broccoli soup with tomato and basil bread bought from the market as well as a some garlic and chilli olives also bought from the market.

For the main course we had burger in bread crumbs (or more appropriately named as "beef-potato-lentil-mixed herb cake/burger") ... basically an unknown but delicious piece of food =P. The side dishes were the bread from the starter and mango salad. The sauce is just a random sauce I came up with.

For dessert we had fruit trifle from Marks & Spencer... sorry no photo for that!

Good old Steak and Chips

2007-04-29T09:01:00.000+08:00

I have always wanted to make a proper steak and chips meal. Although it wasn't exactly ideal timing to have to make this during one of my busiest weeks of finsihing my thesis, I still did it. Why? Simply because it was my turn to cook and I didn't want to cook something if I didn't really want to cook it. I believe there is a difference when you really put an effort to provide a good meal. Wouldn't you agree?

Oh yes, bread and butter pudding to end the meal, of course!

Fish... fish... fish

2007-04-29T08:28:00.000+08:00

If you are thinking what I am thinking... the answer is no I did not make this myself, I bought it from one of the fish bars around. I dunno why recently I have this craving for fish and chips. I mean I love fish and chips even before I came to the UK. The funny thing is when I first arrived in the UK, fish and chips was the last thing I wanted to eat. And now after 4 years and a few months to go before I go back home, I suddenly felt like eating fish and chips. I think maybe I realised that it would be a real waste if I came all the way to UK and missed the chance to really taste fish and chips as it is made in the place of its origin. So I went "crazy" and searched for all the fish bars I could find, just to try their fish and chips. At the moment I have tried 5 places, and will look for more... hehe!

Just a preview of what I have eaten... (drool!)

Bishopston Fish Bar

Clifton Village Fish Bar

咕佬肉（糖醋排骨）

2007-04-19T10:02:00.000+08:00

Almost forgot, I also tried to make sweet and sour pork for the first time. It wasn't the best, but I quite liked it!

First try: Thai paella & "Siu yuk" (烧肉)

2007-04-19T09:50:00.000+08:00

My turn to cook again, and since it is the holidays, I decided to try some new dishes. This time around, it is "Siu Yuk" and a random dish I created due to the stock of sweet potatos that we have - Thai version of Paella. (It is the Thai version because I used green curry paste, that's about as much Thai as it gets =P)

Roti Canai

2007-04-07T06:49:00.000+08:00

When you have one hungry guy with a craving for roti canai, there is only one thing to do... make ROTI CANAI!!!

Yes, after all the tossing, stretching and frying, at least something that resembles a roti canai came out of the frying pan. Although the roti was not as successful, the dahl was actually quite good... or maybe I was just too hungry to start with. =P

Roti kosong satu!

Gordon Ramsay

2007-04-04T02:10:00.000+08:00

This was my first try on his recipe, and it was lots of preparation, but totally worth it as it was really good.

The main meal was actually two dishes. The first was a stuffed chicken leg and the other was mixed mushrooms tagliatelle. For dessert, I just made a simple ice cream like dessert from one of Jamie Oliver's recipes.

Main meal (slurp!)
dessert!

Crave for home food again

2007-04-04T01:55:00.000+08:00

The craving for home food is back, this time it is Hokkien mee with chunks of delicious pork fat cubes...wuahahaha! To accompany this dish I made some spring rolls to go with it, YUMMY!

Hokkien Mee

Spring Rolls

Home-made sambal

"Lou fan" (mixed rice)

2007-04-04T01:46:00.000+08:00

*this is the ingredients cooked without the rice added to it

Yes, this is my version of a healthy fried rice. The point of doing this dish is to have the delicious mix of ingredients with rice in one bowl and yet not need to fry it again in the wok. Although technically without the "frying" of the rice, it cannot be called "fried rice", but as long as it tastes good I don't mind. The way to make it is to cook everything like you would when you fry rice, but omit the last step of adding the rice into the wok. Just leave it in a big bowl and add the fried ingredients into the rice and just mix! After a good mixing, there you go, a big bowl of delicious "lou fan"

pasta pasta

2007-04-04T01:42:00.000+08:00

Its my turn to cook, and I decided that we should have the good old pasta. As always, the portion is always so BIG! haha!

Bread crumb pasta

2007-03-16T05:27:00.000+08:00

Now this is a really interesting recipe that I tried. I came across it on the food network channel and I thought it was definitely wortha try. I have to say, although it is just simple ingredeints, it tastes wonderful! Never thought bread crumbs taste so nice with pasta. =)

chicken pie for a hungry stomach

2007-03-16T05:20:00.000+08:00

Another one of my urge, this time - Chicken Pie!!! (as you can probably see, I cooked a very BIG piece of pie, hehe).

Portugese egg tart

2007-02-27T03:30:00.000+08:00

Yes... my cravings have led me to another adventure in trying to make this wonderful tart. As you can see there are two versions, that is because it did not turn out the way i thought it would. It was tasty but just not as good as the original (or more like not even close). The second version is slightly better but still far from perfect. So anyone whow knows the key to making the perfect portugese egg tart, please let me know, thanks! ;P

Version 1.0
Version 2.0

mixed mushroom spaghetti

2007-02-27T03:24:00.000+08:00

I love mushrooms, and this dish is a ideal dish that brings out the intense flavour of beautiful wild mushrooms with simple ingredients. The result... without a doubt a big bowl of delicious mushroom spaghetti after which leaves you craving for more! =)

Muffins

2007-02-27T03:13:00.000+08:00

I just felt like making some muffins to eat and surprisingly the recipe is very simple. This is the peanut butter and snickers muffin (I know ... very unhealthy..hehe)

Strawberry crumble

2007-02-27T02:59:00.000+08:00

The main motivation of this dish - MY SISTER. Why? curiosity I guess. First got to taste apple crumble when my sister introduced it after she studied in UK. Now that I am in UK myself, I have been seeing many people trying this dessert, so I thought I should try making it for myself. This version of course is not apple crumble (I did that for the Valentines dessert already), It is Strawberry Crumble. I must say it taste heavenly!!! Probably better than the apple crumble. =)

Vegetarian Valentines

2007-02-15T07:46:00.000+08:00

Yes, Valentines day 2007 is on a Wednesday this year and it just so happens it was my turn to cook for the flat. Since I felt like cooking something special and Valentines day just gave me another reason to do so. I went afternoon shopping at the BIG Sainsbury, why? because I am making a three course meal. Yes... a THREE course meal. It seems pointless when you think of three guys eating a three course meal on Valentines day. I admit it isn't ideal, but if we are going to celebrate Valentines, why not do it with some really good food, isn't it? =) Although at the end of my cooking I realised I made a vegetarian 3 course meal, which was not intentional at all. This just goes to show that, anything that tastes good is good food, with or without meat!

Starters: For starters we had good old fashion English Parsley soup with home-made bread to go with it.

Main Course: This is some sort of Cannelloni dish which is a italian dish, basically it is pasta with cheese fillings cooked in a tomato or white sauce and baked in the oven. As a side-dish I bought those big mushrooms and gently fry them in with chillies, thyme, vinegar and olive oil.

Dessert: To finish the meal, I prepared another English classic - Apple Crumble. To go with the piping hot dessert is just plain double cream which in my opinion is simple but delicious!

For those who are wondering what the red liquid in the wine glass is... NO it is not wine, it is just Ribena (fake wine, haha). Oh btw...The Video: Watch it now

Friday blues...??

2007-02-10T08:38:00.000+08:00

Ok, it is a friday evening and usually I would be extremely tired after along day of lectures and would dread to prepare cooking for dinner. However, today I made an exception... ok, maybe more like going overboard with cooking. I cooked three dishes and one "by-product" soup (basically means i didn't plan to cook it, but it just happens I could just slip in some extra ingredients to make a simple soup). Normally for me to cook to this extent would require some special occasion, but today I just felt like it. =P

咸鱼花腩煲
salmon baked in herbs
mushroom with broccoli
"by-product" soup =P
simple sauce for the salmon

Before and after

2007-02-10T08:30:00.000+08:00

Don't know why, I suddenly wanted to cook something really hearty and English (maybe it is the cold winter). So my cravings led me to making a simple shepherds pie dish which was yummy, hehe! Look at the pictures - now you see it...... now you don't!

Ultimate Meat Balls

2007-02-10T08:20:00.000+08:00

These are the meatballs that Tyler Florence made when I was watching the food network online. It looked so good that i just had to try it out. I must say it tastes absolutely fabulous! =)

creamed corn and extras

2007-02-01T08:11:00.000+08:00

As you can see from the title, the reason I made this dinner was because of the delicious american dish - creamed corn. I always wanted to make it myself so I could have a taste of how it would be like. So I had to come up with a main dish that would go along with this side dish. After a long walk in the supermarket, I finally decided to make a mushroom chicken dish with some extra vegetables.

mushroom chicken with vege
baby carrots
Creamed corn !!

I actually felt extremely full after having this dinner, maybe I over-estimated the amount of food needed, but I guess when it comes to food, having more is always better then having less. =)

roti goreng (uk version)

2007-02-01T07:58:00.000+08:00

This dish was inspired by the once famous roti goreng back in malaysia. The reason I thought of cooking it is because we have no more rice at home! =P So you could say i was "forced" to cook this. We had some tortilla leftovers from the previous dinner, so I thought maybe I could cut it into thin stripes and cook it like noodles. It turned out alright, although I was hoping for something closer to the delicious roti goreng I had in mind, hehe!

Char Siu Chow Fan

2007-01-25T06:30:00.000+08:00

This time I wanted to fry some rice with really good ingredients, such as lap cheung, long beans, carrots, prawns, eggs and even the oil used had to be "chu yao zha" just to make it a little tastier. I did thought of adding char siu as one of the ingredients, but decided not to because it seemed a bit of a waste since char siu should be able to stand out as an extra side dish.

I looked up some good char siu recipes and found that the sauce for making char siu isn't really hard to make (at least for the home-made version anyway). However, it is the cooking that requires lots of patience. Cooking char siu requires a good control on the temperature and timing with regular basting of the char siu while it is roasting in the oven. If you do it correctly, you will have a beautiful piece of meat charred on the outside, tender and moist inside.

After an interesting first attempt, I didn't make the perfect char siu, but given it was the first time I am doing a home-made char siu, I am satisfied! =)

Fried Rice (tong how style =P)

Char Siu (A202 style)

面粉糕 (mian fen gao)

2007-01-17T05:05:00.000+08:00

This time I tried making "mian fen gao"(flat noodles) , it required alot of work since I had to make the noodles from scratch, but the end result was satisfying (since it was my first try on the dish). Let’s just have a brief through the ingredients:

- Prepare really good soup for the noodles (at least 2-3 hours of cooking).
- Make noodles out of flour, water, pinch of salt, egg yolk(optional), and other herbs or spices for flavoring(optional).
- Cook two types of pork: minced pork cooked with garlic and ginger and thinly sliced pork covered with egg white.
- Fish cake
- Fresh green vegetable.

Once everything is cooked, place them all into one bowl, pour in the piping hot soup and enjoy your meal!

We have this on video too, enjoy!

Watch it now

Nasi lemak

2007-01-16T08:02:00.000+08:00

Yes, after being deprived of Nasi lemak for sometime, it is about time I decided to make my own version of the popular Malaysian dish that everyone loves. It is not the authentic replicate of the Nasi lemak, but enough to satisfy myself and some friends who came over for the meal.

As you can see we had quite a bit of food. The reason being we had two versions of sambal and two curries to choose from (actually it is one curry and one rendang). We even asked a friend to "tarik" some english tea to go with the whole Nasi Lemak theme... =)

long beans
fried anchovies
chicken curry
teh tarik
roasted nuts
chicken wings rendang
sambal 1
sambal 2 (my version)
eggs & cucumber

Keuy teow in the making

2007-01-15T22:56:00.000+08:00

Me and my flat mates were just thinking of having kuey teow for dinner, but little did we know we would end up making a short video about it and posting it on You Tube, haha!

watch it now

My birthday

2007-01-13T11:18:00.000+08:00

This was what I had for my birthday, its a late post I know (since my birthday was on the 4th). But better late then never... hehe! All of the food was yummilicious (yummy+delicious), all of which I had no part in cooking! =P

(picture on the right: three guys and a birthday cake)

yummy chicken
chicken paws (slurp!)
dao miu (豆苗)
fish green curry (by an authentic Thai chef!)
delicious dong fun (冬粉)

New years dinner!

2007-01-04T19:27:00.000+08:00

Nothing special, just dinner with a few friends.

The theme for the meal was "Bak Kut Teh" haha! So I prepared the BKT with some side dishes (bean sprouts, green vegetable, yao tiu, fried fu chuk and the best compliment to BKT - oil rice) My flat mate also prepared Ma Po Taufu. So as you can see, we had quite a feast.=)

fu chuk & yao tiu bean sprouts again...
green vegetable minus the eggs

ma po taufu
the main dish - BAK KUT TEH! =P

Christmas dinner

2006-12-26T06:56:00.000+08:00

Since Christmas is usually very quiet here in the UK, I decided, I would also stay at home and have a simple (or not so simple) home cooked dinner.

The menu:

鲑鱼炒饭
 辣椒炒豆芽鱼饼
chicken stew
extra-large pig in blankets
绍兴蛋汤青菜

CCC or C3 (in other words, Chocolate Cheese Cake)

2006-12-26T06:22:00.000+08:00

I made a chocolate cheesecake for a friends Christmas eve dinner and I meant to take a picture of it before I brought it over. However due to my very serious forgetfulness I forgot to take the picture and only remembered after everyone had their fair share of it.

Thanks to my friend's sister (who by the way own a very interesting blog on food), the "legendary" chocolate chesecake finally found its way onto my blog.... hehe!

And now, let me present to you... THE CHEESECAKE!

葡式海鲜炒饭

2006-12-20T08:14:00.000+08:00

Ok, this blog has been desolated for a bit toooooo long, and since i am trying to get it going, let me try to post something fun...like COOKING.. haha! Since I am just too lazy to type out the recipe in detail, I will just post up pictures of the food. Maybe when i have time(or rather when I feel like it) I would include the recipes as well. =)

I ate this in Royal China, and I loved it, so I tried cooking it by myself, but ended up with a very different version of it, so i kept those versions in my recipe list as my own. This however is a more respectable replicate of the recipe(I didn't have the recipe, so I had to do it by taste-bud memory... if you get what i mean).

幸福

2005-09-02T14:41:00.000+08:00

礼物

前两天我过32岁生日,之前的一个晚上我在回想这些年来的成就.我没有事业,没有百万身家,其实也更没有什么大志.
我有的是梦想,敢于作梦,作在往后日子里可以实现的梦
我有的,是爱神爱人爱家爱我的丈夫
我有的,是换不来的孩子们的笑容
我有的,是上帝不时播送过来的惊喜
我有愿意忍受我和丈夫的决定,接受并无限支持我们的家人
我有随叫既到的贴心朋友
还有还有
我有的很多,虽不成大器,却是这些年用心经营而来的.这就是我的32年简顾.

这是我在朋友的blog 里读到一篇她所写的心得。坦白说，人生的所谓幸福，不就是这一些吗？若要和荣华富贵比起来，当然可以说是不足一提。可是，有些人生的快乐和满足感，并非金钱或事业成就能够给与我们的。如果不懂得分辨真正的幸福在何处，或许一辈子我们也找不到所追求的幸福。