Delicious

Anyone going Taiwan soon or saw this in retail shop in Singapore ?


From the outside it look just like any other instant bowl noodle.
So what's the special stuffs ?

It's a duck flavour instant noodle !!
And ? Flavouring isn't a big deal.

It has 4 packets of seasonings.
hmm common stuffs.

**drum beat....... IT has a packet duck meat !!! and it's UBER DELICIOUS!!!

Ta .... Da.... The duck meat instant noodle. The duck meat are those in brown chunk

I got this from roger and he was saying, "it's the best instant noodle I had ever eat, after eating this you won't eat other type."

Hmm agreed with he's statement with slight difference, "it's the best instant noodle I had ever eat, after eating this you won't forget it. But where to buy ?"

A day with Sis

There was this Hokkien food festival going on last weekend, How I got to know about it ? Met up with Sis on Sat and we were looking for place to makan. She got this cash tickets for the hokkien food festival happening at bas bazar. As we were heading there, I said, "the food better be nice!" Why? It was raining heavily and we had to walk from Bugis junction to bas bazar. Both our jeans got drench with the heavy downpour and strong wind even though it was a rather short distance.

I threw a question to her, "What are the list of hokkien food ?" As expected, "Hokkien mee". Well that what I thought so too as the name suggest =D.

When we arrived, there are about easily 20 stores selling various dialect group delicacy. BUT I cant find hokkien mee.

We had to move through the crowd and stepping into the flooded area due to the heavy downpour. Arghhh the feeling of wearing a WET sock!!!

She told me to look for seats while she ques =D wonderful to have a sis.

Got this minced pork "mian xian", pretty tasty, it would be better to have it in soup base.
After dishing out the first dish, her food hunting continues ......

After a few minutes, she would come back with something

There are a few more, some biscuits, "kong ba with kuey" ( there's this "kong ba bao" store but haiz.... we passed. Why ? The queue is AMAZING, we reached there around 1pm plus and till the time when we are about to go which was about 3pm, the length of the queue look similar to me! NO CHANGE!!)

Before we left the place, we went around the stores, there was this store selling tea leave. Promoting their house brand, "fuo shou shen", when he showed me the product and I saw the price tag!! guess how much it cost ? Well maybe I m not really into tea leaves, it cost $50 for a box (the size is slightly bigger than the Styrofoam cups)

Sis bought these for my family , one word "thoughtful"!
There were two store selling this, Sis bought it from the first store and we walked past the second store which have the sample in small chewing piece. I picked up one and tried, "hmm, it taste GOOD!" to the staff and follow with, "Great! I bought it" haha kinda bad ? =D

This sesame rolls feel chewy and tasty

Fox Birthday

Think I have imbue 'fear' among my poly mates. Approved ying's testimonial on friendster and quote from her "Mastermind if not planning committee of the birthday sabo" ermm really tat bad ? Hmm for fox I remember during his birthday during poly year 2/3, I purple 20+ packs of plastic bags 1/4 filled with flour and 20+ packs of plastic bags filled with iodine mixed water. The combo ruined his favourite "fox" long sleeves T-shirt.

Jo suffered the worst, apart from the conventional eggs, ice cube, flour, whipped cream spray Guess what I brought ????????

Got 1 Bottle of cooking oil from Cheers

Yucks to think of it now, really bad man =\. Think she bath for 3 times and still feel oily.

As for zk, we throw him into the pool during winter season in the middle of the night. Simple and nice.

Maybe due to the above past records, when I send out an SMS to fox on the day of his birthday, asking him out for dinner at Geylang, he replied " Dun do anything funny hor, later I dun turn up." In my mind, even if I really got "something" for you, do you think I will openly tell you ? haha. Well it was a pretty delicious dinner, we had 2 pots frog legs(gong bao + jiang chong) plus 3 other dishes at "G7" quite popular man full house filled with hungry customers. 6 persons sum up to about 70+.

Here's some of the celebration pictures,

Fox at G7 waited since 1900hrs. Zk and me reached at 1945hrs. The rest hmm another 30-45 minutes later. Who says birthday boy is the biggest lol.

Celebration @ 'HIGH'

Have you seen people cut cake this way, 0.o ? I discovered one that day.

Dinner

"Hey are you gonna have dinner at home ?", question from my Dad. I replied "yes". Following that, " you cooking ?" from my dad. Arghhh I told me Dad straight, it's so troublesome to cook, you have to spend time slicing, washing, preparing, cooking, washing bla bla just go "ta bao" buy dinner from outside. Despite hearing that he insist on cooking at home, "those food outside, eat till sianz" and wanted to do it himself. Out of the no choice act, as he has been doing all the chores at home for the whole day and looking after mum and granny who just discharged today. I offered to cook the dinner for the family as it's been a long time (last dinner I prepared happened when I just came back from Australia)

Here's the preparation process, de-froze the food and washing.

Dad helping with the rice.

The end product.

Recipe:
[Golden crisp fillet]
-slice fish to strips
-marinated with salt
-prepare 1/4 bowl of corn flour mix with 1 teaspoon of sugar
-2 eggs

Steps:
-Prepare a pot for deep fry
-Pour enough oil and heat up.
-Dip the slice fillet in the flour
-follow by a fast dip in the mixed egg and put the coated fillet into the pot
-Fried till golden brown and serve

[Bacon broccoli]
-broccoli
-1 pack of strip Bacon

Steps:
-wash and cut the broccoli into fish ball size
-wrapped the strip bacon on the cut broccoli
-arrange on plate and put into oven ( 200 Degree-Celsius for 20 minutes) and serve

[Mix Vegi]
-broccoli
-cabbages
-mince meat

Steps:
-marinate the mince meat with corn flour, soya sauce, pepper
-wash and cut the broccoli and cabbages
-pan fried the broccoli and cabbages for 2-3 minutes
-add in the mince meat and stirred fry
-mix a bowl of oyster sauce with half teaspoon of corn flour in cold water and pour it in
-mix the ingredients well and leave for it to heat up until the mince meat changes it's colour.

[Ikan Bilis Soup]
-one handful of Ikan Bilis
-cabbages
-1 egg

Steps:
-wash the Ikan Bilis and put them into a pot of boiling water
-Turn the gas down and let it steam for 10-15 minutes
-Add in the cabbages and boil with low gas for another 10-15minutes
-Before serve, mix the egg and pour in a circular direction into the pot.

Ah Beng's 'first cry' Anniversary

Major activities(work related) happened today. It was kinda unexpected as I thought it will be a short few hours of work inside the 'freezer room', the data center fill with tones of servers.

Due to the servers migration, we started from early SUNDAY morning, 0930hrs all the way till 1830hrs, a full 9hrs on a Sunday!But it was a pretty fruitful trip, learnt new knowledge -
technical(migration process - hardware and software, supported, unsupported method with unsupported tools and unsupported tools) and non-technical(discovered the spacious office of the system programmers, lots of empty seats around, DANGER! Why? The manager is planning a seat for either my colleague or me here. It's super 'Wooloo' - isolated. Pretty inaccessible from my place to the data center and it's gonna be time consuming.

I had to leave early for the steamboat dinner over at my house else I guess it would be easily a full 12hr for the whole migration to complete. Been quite awhile since the last steamboat with friends. True enough, it was a wonderful and YUMMY pre-Birthday steamboat celebration for our friend, 'Ah beng', Dominic.

SUPER BIG THANKS to MUMMY!!! Without her, this steamboat will only have 2 packets of bacon for all 7 of us. As I was out practically the whole day, Mummy bought those food, cut & slice, marinate and packed them nicely in the fridge.

The cleaning up took up some time(whole lots of plates and bowls) but with simple ingredients and some organising effort, it strengthen the bond

The FOOD

They seat in the room and relax !!!

Let the feast BEGIN 3...2.......

This was the worst part of the night, we planned to bring in the cake to the room with the singing of the birthday song symantanneously BUT we forgot about one CRITICAL DO's! PLEASE remember to SWITCH OFF ALL your fans in the are where you plan to bring in the cake. Here's the story, we walked into the room with the candles lighted and singing, "Happy Birthday to you, Happy BIrthhhhhh AHHHHH the CANDLES!!!" Damn Anti-climax man. Please learn from our lesson.

Mr 24

By the way, it seem like mango cakes are getting popular, do you feel so ? What's the last cake you bought & eaten for special occasion? I have been buying mango cakes lately man. Any other nice flavour around to recommend?

Australia - Brisbane

Actually I like taking photos, especially the Aussie days. Here's a short 'Project Runaway' to show a few of my personal collection.

For the first 3 months in Aussie, I took pictures of almost every meals that my housemate, Andrew and I made.

Credits to the stove that produce all these fabulous dishes

Potato & Chicken Stew, Steam fish, tofu with egg and stirred fired cai xin with oyster sauce

Western Delight - Chicken Chop with Creamy chicken mushroom soup

100% no MSG Soup Noodles with made hand meat balls

Chicken, egg mayonnise with spaghetti

pan fried pork cutlet, Soya sauce long bean and char siew

perserve cai xin, bake bean mix eggie, luncheon meat, sardine fish

Tuna swimming in noodles

Beef Stew

Triple Stirred fried


Other interesting pictures,

Got it off from "Corvette exhibition"

Snapshot of Mr Long D*** from Ekka fair

Which is bigger ?

Mua Ji

Oh it should be "Home-made" Mua Ji. Those who have yet to try this sweet base snack, you can get this for a price of 2-3 bucks at some coffee shop stall or the night markets. If you are free, how about a try of it for your love ones (the ingredient are rather and easy to make) ? The only tough part, IT's the stirring of the flour patties in the pot, when they start to cool down, it become super duper STICKY. But this process will determine the elasticity and chewing feel of the end product. Sob, though we made a whole pot of it, I only get a small share of it. The rest were distributed to my neighbours by my mum. Wanna be my neighbour ? haha.

Here's the recepie, "Mua Ji"

Ingredients
glutinous rice flour
water
roasted peanuts
sugar

Mua Ji - 9 Steps
1) Mix glutinous rice flour and water thoroughly until a smooth batter is formed.
2) Boil a pot of boiling water.
3) Prepare another pot and add some cooking/onion oil.
4) Make small patties from the batter, put them into the boiling water.
5) When the patties are floating, scoop them up into the other pot with oil and keep stirring the patties until they form a single entity.
6) Add enough sugar to the roast peanuts to pass the taste test
7) Cut up small portion of the glutinous rice cake and roll it on the peanut-sugar mixture.
8) Further cut the portion into bite-sized and mix well with the peanut-sugar mixture.
9) Ready to serve =D

Mirror of Me

This weekend could be a busy one for some people out there, events like World Cyber Games @ Suntec and National Library Book sale @ Expo.

But kinda of in anti-crowded mood lately thus i choose to play Mahjong with beng, zk & ter on Sat and a relaxing day at silo beach with my NSI on Sun. Goddess of luck isn't on my side for gambling yesterday, for no good reason i became the shooter that create 2 rounds of max limit and a half limit to my opponents in 3 consecutive rounds. Well! that occurred only once in a blue moon.

As for the Sunny Sunday, gathering was cancel due to poor attendance. I was like didn't we all agreed on it two weeks ago.

So here's my Sunday at home, woke up late due to the overnight mahjong session followed by juicy prata-curry drumstick combo Wooo yummy!! Need prepare lunch, actually plan to do a simple 3 minutes maggi mee but my AUssy days suddenly zapped into my mind and here's the output. tahhhh - dahhhhhh "Stir Fried Mee with Nor Hiong"
Feel hungry ? haha


Here's some of pics :



Wonder why the auntie gave me 2 spoons ? Right and left hands?




Big Feast @ Pizza Hut BUT i only ordered a chicken mushroom soup =
Ok, here's the mirror part, i telling off my jacky on his behaviour and attitude for school work. It always pissed me off when he asked me some school work during the last few hours of the day before the next schooling day. That's a pretty long long story to it. As i was telling him off, he kept silent but from his facial expression (he seem to be listening and reflecting but kept smiling) suddenly i feel i m speaking to myself. I asked him "what's so funny, i m not telling you a joke here?" and his reply, "I m always like that". In the past, when speaking to others, i would most likely put on a smiley face be it good/bad/sometimes even serious matter, i couldn't control it. I wonder if it's the carefree attitude, cant be bother, lack of seriousness or something else. It's good to smile but do it at the right time.

Time for chess with Mr Zhou....