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During the National Day holiday, I attempted to cook KL Hokkien Mee as I managed to source for a recipe online. However, I tweaked the recipe alittle in order to suit my family's strange eating habits (e.g. no spice and certain seafood allowed).
So I bought some fat yet flat yellow noodles, fishcakes and two chicken bones from the wet market on the Saturday morning. I always enjoy going to the wet market to get some ingredients instead of the supermarket because their stuff are really fresh. It wasn't difficult to find the yellow noodles. One can get it from the soy beancurd store where they sell almost everything - from noodles to soy beancurd.
I cooked the chicken bones in a pot with two gloves of garlic and a big chunk of ginger and I boiled it for an hour. You can season it with salt after that.
Once it's done, I started my real cooking. I sauteed the fish cake slices and many pieces of mackerel fish meat into the wok for about ten minutes. Scoop it up and set it aside.
Then I sauteed the chopped garlic and pork slices for a couple of minutes before I pour one and a half bowl of chicken stock into the wok. When the stock is simmering, I pour the dark sauce seasoning which comprises of two tablespoons of soy sauce and three tablespoons of dark soy sauce. Let it simmer for a couple of minutes before putting vegetables in. Well, I put in Wong Bok vegetables instead of the cabbage as the former was available in my fridge. When the stock starts to boil again, I pour my noodles in and cover it for about 15 minutes. After that, I pour in the fish meat and the fish cakes slices into the wok and cover it again.
You can put in more dark sauce if you prefer your Hokkien noodles to be darker in colour.
This is my plate.
Somehow, when I ate the noodles, the vegetables dissolved without any reason so I reckoned that I will put in more vegetables in future. But overall, the noodles was really good. I guess the trick is the chicken broth. However, I need to put more broth into the noodles in order to prevent the noodles from absorbing the stock instantly.
Last Thursday's night, my brother bought an assortments of cream horns and a milk bread from Provence Bakery and Cafe at Holland Village. So I had them for my breakfast on the following morning. In fact, I only had a Chocolate Cream Horn as I dislike the taste of a milk bread due to the milky filling. Yikes!
The chocolate filling inside of the cream horn is actually custard chocolate and not really a chocolate cream. As a result, the bite of the filling is different from biting inside a cream bun.
But what I like most about the Provence Bakery and Cafe is the Choco and Cream Wassant which is the mini croissants. I like it so much! Perhaps, I can blog about it next time!
Last Sunday, Liverpool came over to our small island and played a friendly match against us at Kallang Stadium and what a good way to catch the game over a plate of good old English Beer Battered Fish and Chips!
I took the recipe from Jamie Oliver's cooking program which consists of lager beer (which I used Tiger Beer), egg and plain flour. As for the fish, I didn't use Haddock Cod fish which the English used to cook their fish and chips because it wasn't available at our supermarkets. Instead, I used the Red Snapper. However, by using the Red Snapper, the meat tend to be bigger after I deep-fried them as if they have expanded when they are swimming in the hot oil. As this was my first attempt cooking fish and chips, I was elated that the fish turned out to be quite good.
The fish was moist and flaky on the inside while the outside was crispy and crunchy due to the batter, whereas, the fries were slightly overcooked. Thus, the colour of the chips were a little too brown for anyone liking. My dad thought that I burned the fries or something. But overall, it was lovely.
Other than Fish and Chips, I cooked a plate of Fried Rice and some Chicken Wings as my dad, my bro and I enjoyed the game.
Anyway, the game was a boring one with Liverpool defeating Singapore 5-0.
Last Friday, I went to one of my fellow cell sisters, Cherie's 21st birthday party at her place. Earlier this month, she returned home from her nursing studies in Australia and since her birthday is round the corner, her parents held a surprise birthday celebration for her.
My other cell sisters and I were lost together while trying to find her place in the East. Fortunately, by God's grace, we managed to find her place at around 8.30pm. However, when we got there, some of the food were almost gone. These were the food that weren't depleted:
Appetizer
All the food were catered by Eatzi - a Halal Food Catering Establishment - thus all the food were halal for some of the invited Muslim friends. I believe these were not really 'pork' ham but turkey ham. I like the Spicy Turkey Ham on the top left corner of the plate.
Sotong Ball and Thai Fish Cake
Lemongrass Chicken
Chocolate Eclair
Those eclairs were a little soft when I got hold of them. I would prefer them to be cold and slightly hard.
However, one of the nicest food on that day was actually the Laksa (I didn't take any of those photos, sorry!) .
It was a cozy birthday celebration for our friend, Cherie who will be flying off to Australia again at the end of this month.
When I was a kid, one of my favourite biscuits was Ais Gem.
My mum felt that it was too sweet for her liking but to me, I love the colourful sweet icing on top of the biscuit. In fact, my favourite colour among all the colours is green. I will never fail to find the green ones and place it in my bowl immediately before anyone gets hold of it. :D
What is your favourite childhood biscuits?
4/07/09, Saturday - My cousin, Yi and I went shopping on a humid Saturday in a bustling town called Orchard Road. It has been a long time since I went shopping at the shopping arena and now, ION Orchard is almost open for business.
After hours of shopping, we went to have our dinner at Pastamania@Shaw Centre. The food eatery is located on the fifth level and there are smorgasbord of food eateries on the level, namely, KFC, Long John Silver and Subway. As a result of the unconventional food dinning, Pastamania doesn't sell pizza in this outlet and the serving doesn't come in the usual plates and other metal utensils. Instead, it comes with black plastic box which will house the pasta and plastic fork and spoon.
I had the Chicken Sausage Linguine (S$7.90). The sauce was creamy and slightly spicy.
Yi had Spicy Chicken Spaghetti (S$6.80). I used to love to eat this pasta but after a while, I had hop on to other things.
3/07/09, Friday - In the afternoon, I accompanied my brother to Chinatown as he needed to see his doctor for his usual check-up. He has some stomach problems which requires some help and I hope he will get well soon.
Since the clinic is a stone away from the famous Maxwell Food Centre, we went there to get some food after his consulation. As everyone knows, Maxwell Food Centre has all the fantastic food inside the food centre. As a result, I am often spoilt for choices whenever I am there for a meal.
I ordered the famous Fish Meat Noodles (S$4.00) from the famous Fish Soup stall (sorry, I forgot to write down the name of the stall). Fortunately, there wasn't a long queue and it didn't take long before it was my turn. However, when I returned home with the food, the noodles was too soft and was close to being soggy.
Next, I went to the stall next to it which sells the deep fried sweet potato balls. Speaking of that, I am always screaming in delight whenever I see this stall being open for business. I will never fail to buy a few sweet potato balls when the stall is open for business. I believe this stall is one of the last few stalls which sells deep fried stuff since food stalls are always emphasising on eating healthy.
I bought two flavours - a sweet potato ball ($0.40) and a pandan coconut sweet potato ball (S$0.50). The pandan coconut flavour was bursting with green-coloured dessicated coconut and it was great.
This is the innard shot of the pandan coconut sweet potato ball.
If I ever visit that food centre again, I will perhaps order the chicken rice or something else...
So I bought some fat yet flat yellow noodles, fishcakes and two chicken bones from the wet market on the Saturday morning. I always enjoy going to the wet market to get some ingredients instead of the supermarket because their stuff are really fresh. It wasn't difficult to find the yellow noodles. One can get it from the soy beancurd store where they sell almost everything - from noodles to soy beancurd.
Somehow, when I ate the noodles, the vegetables dissolved without any reason so I reckoned that I will put in more vegetables in future. But overall, the noodles was really good. I guess the trick is the chicken broth. However, I need to put more broth into the noodles in order to prevent the noodles from absorbing the stock instantly.
