Quick fix

Now that we've all started working (for a year or two now) we're too busy and exhausted daily to cook, organise makan makan trips successfully due to our antisocial oncall timings or even update this blog!

So I thought I'd share with you what lazy Kenn and Eve normally do if they miss Nam heong chicken rice.

From LayIn we found that instant chicken rice mixes are available in our Chinatown ! There's a variety of different mixes but choose the ones which has a mix for the rice and chicken.

All you need is the mix, rice, chicken, cucumber and vege (for a balanced diet :p). The rest of it is as easy as ABC..

Just follow the instructions! I normally like to cook the rice first and the key is not to put too much water & only half the mix in. Otherwise it'll get too oily. Then simmer the chicken in hot water with mix inside for approx 20mins. Depending on which mixes you buy, they may provide the chilli and ginger paste too.

The key to yummy and smooth aka 'wat' chicken is to submerge the chicken in cold water first before serving.. So don't forget this step. You could cut the cucumber into slices to decorate the place. Once you've done so, pour the soya with sesame oil mix on the chicken and voila, its ready to serve!

Hope you find this useful and makan club members, miss you all!

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Seafood!!!!

Seafood in Pantai Seafood Restaurant is a must in kl. Why?....
1) coz the food's superb!
2) the seafood is very fresh, coz they're all still swimming 5mins ago
3) the price's reasonable
4) the environment is not bad
5) the service is quite good
6) not only they hav seafood, they hav other types of dishes too

they hav all kinds of seafood here, ranging from the crab to abalone. name it, n there'll hav it! here's a few of their sedap dishes...

square pork. slurp! served wit bread for the sauce..

delicious western buttered prawns

their all time famous salted egg crab. this is a must try!

happy happy :)

delicious yummy cupcakes...WONDERMILK :)

here's a superb cafe with wonderful deco n food :)

Eve :)

Li (me)

our delicious turkey ham sandwich

refreshing drinks with our yummy cupcakes

so many choices :)

their famous cupcakes are superb! the icing is so smooth n it's not too sweet, just nice.

the most important is the cake. it's flavoured the same flavour as the icing. not too sweet n also very soft n moist n smooth. love it! cant comepare this cupcake with others coz others normally it's just vanilla as the cake.

thumbs up for this place! a must go!

liyeen

one of those days...

you know.. the 'craving' days? happens when you've been away from home, at least 6 mths or more.. when even your own cooking is no match for all the mouth watering conveniences at the nearby hawker stalls that i so often take for granted when i had it, back then. *sobs* even when i'm sick, like now. i still yearn for that hot bowl of.. (fill in the blanks) anything really.

so featuring my list of "cravings" in no particular order..

1) pan mee (soup, dry, chilli, anything!!)

2) assam laksa

3) penang char kuay teow

4) pork noodles

5) fish ball noodles

6) nasi lemak

7) bak kut teh

8) beef ball noodles

9) yong tau foo

10) curry laksa

11) nasi bojari!!!!

12) hokkien mee

13) pasembur

14) penang rojak

15) cendol

16) nasi goreng kampung

17) inchi kabin

omigosh. the list is basically non-exhaustive.. why am i doing this to myself..  sigh

but good for the UK people, since you're all bck home for summer. eat on my behalf k??? hehe :) have a good summer break, you deserve it! *hugs to all*

Cafe Kowloon!

aiyooo final year medical student syndrome we must all be having. poor blog has been abandoned for eons! anyways, trying to kick start it again.

so being in 6th year, without exams and all.. supposed to be a cruisy year right? WRONG! we've been busier than ever (imho anyway), less cooking (sobs), and more dining out (so expensive!!). so i guess i can feature some of the places i've been frequenting much.

one of them, is none other than Cafe Kowloon. if you asked me about this place 2.5 years ago, i'll go YUCK! bleh~ but now, the taste has kinda grow on me. and they have quite a few signature dishes that i find palatable now :D at a reasonable price but more importantly, opens till like 2 am! woo~ maklumlah, adelaide no mamak, no 24 hours whatsoever kan..

what's good here? their congeee is a sure win especially during winter :) nothing beats a hot bowl of porridge with yau char kuai! the fried rice was so-so. "chiu pai" (signature) dishes include crispy beef, butter chicken, shandong chicken, "kam ngan dan poh choy" and creamy egg white! but since it was just me & chris that night, we just had ala carte. oh yeah! not forgetting their beef hor fun.. mm mm..

winter's not doing my weight any good :(

cafe kowloon is located near chinatown, along gouger st, west end. price is reasonable, taste wise pretty good, service is fair (and if they're in a good mood, they'll give you a free bowl of 'tong sui' too!)

From down under!

Wow, i'm so stirred and encouraged to see so many of you guys cultivating all the skills since we went abroad. Nevertheless, here's some attempts i took when i went over to Adelaide in 2 weeks ago.
Ricotta Cheese Pancake - made by me & Su Chuen. Recipe, er, gotta ask chuen. basically you need some flour, ricotta cheese of course, egg white first, then add the yoke, erm.. what else.. the finishing and deco - berries, butter, er maple syrup if you somehow find a bottle in your cupboard, & yogurt. Yum!

Us having brekkie at this place called ETC!

Chuen posing with the Cheesecake brownies that she made. recipe - er, like i mentioned, prob need to ask her.

OKOK. this is brocolli salad! i know this. basically you need brocolli, nuts, bacons & mayo. Cooking instructions:-
1. Wash your brocolli until super clean. Coz in this recipe, we are not cooking the brocolli. trust me, it's nice. & of course, cut it mouth size...
2. mix mayo into the brocolli... not too much, not so wet le k..
3. open assorted nuts package - almonds, what else ar.. oh yah.. RAISINS AS WELL.. and then mix with the salad
4. lastly, while doing all these, make sure u cook your diced bacons (can be in mircowaves - depending on ur microwave strength - 5-7mins til its dried and hard so that it is crispy)
5. mix it all together and its ready to serve your appetite! how easy right?

Lasagna!
Ingredients - lasagna sheet, lotsa shreded cheese, lasagna sauce/pasta sauce, flour, butter, milk, salt, pepper, herbs to your liking... erm.. what else.. mince meat - beef, chicken, pork

1. fried garlic & onions together with meat, then add pasta sauce, pepper & salt & herbs.. once ready, set it aside.
2. Start feeding the sauce on your baking tray, & layer it with the sheet. repeat this process until 80% of the tray height. (leave some space for the topping)
3. Make the cream sauce.. First melt butter on low fire, and then add some flour and stir it until the flour sorta merge with the butter. then add milk and keep stirring.. then add cheese and stir stir stir at low fire.. the whole process is to make sure the sauce is equally blend and thickened. it requires some muscle to make sure it thickens.. so KEEP STIRRING..
4. once its thicken, pour the cream sauce over the lasagna, and then add heaps of cheese on top.
5. place it in oven or convection microwave at 180deg for 40 mins/until cheese brown.

hehehe.. miss u guys.. cant wait to hang out and makan again end of this year!

Fairycakes..

The vanilla cupcakes

With frosting and sugarsticks as deco

I came across a recipe recently and decided to try it out yesterday.. This time I tried baking, Vanilla Cupcakes or as they call it Fairycakes!

It was a quite successful.. though I've put in more butter than recommended for both the cupcake and icing. The cupcake turn out just nice for me, as I love butter, but the icing didn't frost well. Didn't buy an icing set as well.. so I came up with a 'durian like' (as Kenn calls it) with colourful sugar sticks as decorations instead ;p

Method:
Preheat oven to 177 degrees C and line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.

For the Cupcakes:
Cream 113 grams of unsalted butterand 130 grams of granulated white sugar until light and fluffy.
Add 3 eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Beat in 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
In a separate bowl whisk together 210g of flour, 1 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder, and 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
With the mixer on low speed, alternately add the flour mixture, butter mixture and 60ml of milk, in three additions, beginning and ending with the flour.
Evenly fill the muffin cups with the batter.
Bake until nicely browned and let it cool.
Then frost with icing.

For the Frosting:
Cream 113 grams of butter until smooth and well blended.
Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
And with the mixer on low speed, gradually beat in 230 gramsof icing sugar.
Add 2 tablespoon of milk and beat on high speed until frosting is light and fluffy.