Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Changi Village Food Centre

This is Changi Village Food Centre (at the far end of Singapore), very famous for its food. One such popular stall is the nasi lemak (coconut rice), you need to queue to purchase the food and they sold out very fast.

There are so many food stalls in this centre and if you cant make up your mind which stall provides the best food, just see the queues....lol



We decided to eat the noodle at this stall and looking at the queue, you can tell it is good. This stall is recommend by Makansutra.



Wanton Hor Fun - Hor Fun is a cantonese term for flat rice noodles. The fried wanton is very good.

Chicken Chop Hor Fun - the chicken chop is very good and crispy.

This beef soup eaten with white rice that we ordered from another stall.

This rice with salmon, fried egg and vegetables is very good too from another famous stall.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Fried Chicken Wing with Fine Shrimp Sauce




6 chicken wings
3 tbsp rice flour
1 tbsp plain flour
oil for deep frying

Marinade
1 1/2 to 2 tbsp fine shrimp sauce (Lee Kum Kee Brand)
1 tbsp sugar(or to taste)
1 egg

Instruction

Marinate chicken wings for at least 30 minutes.
Add rice flour and plain flour into the chicken wings, mix well and set aside.
Heat up oil for deep frying, put in chicken wings and deep fry until golden brown and cooked.

Note: Fried chicken wings at low flame to medium flame and when the chicken wings are cooked, increase the heat to brown it.

Note: Do not cut up the chicken wings as they tend to shrink while deep frying.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas Home Party - Part 2

This is the second part posting of our christmas feast. No turkey but only fast food and local food....lol The fast food contributed by my youngest sister and because second sister was late with her deer meat and pork ribs (too busy eating to take photo of these two dishes...lol) and she also contributed fruits
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Pork Satay with ketuput(rice) - my contribution

Chicken Satay with onions and cucumber (my contribution)

Peanut satay sauce to go with satay

Curry Chicken - yummy (cooked by eldest sis)

French Loaf from Delifrance to go with curry

Braised mushroom cooked by me :)

Braised duck cooked by sis in law

Braised tau kwa (Firm tofu) and eggs - cooked by sis in law

Steam chicken (cooked by sis in law) - and oops forgot tot ake photo of pig's tail soup cooked by sis in law

Sambal kang kong (OMG, this is so spicy as eldest sister cooked with chilli padi)

Broccoli cooked by sis in law

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Christmas Home Part - Fast Food (Part 1)

It was so fun during Christmas Day, we had both local and fast food for our christmas feast. The youngsters love the fast food while we the older ones preferred chinese and local food...lol
Pizza

Assorted fried snacks

BBQ Chicken Wings

Meat balls in pasta sauce
Tomorrow post will be the food for the older folks...lol

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Different ways of making agar agar

I just made some agar agar for tomorrow christmas party at my brother's house.
Bought this box of chendol strips from the supermarket.


This is how the chendol strips looked like. I blanched them in hot water and set aside. Boil 12 gm agar agar powder, 850ml of water, 200 gm caster sugar, 200 ml coconut cream, pinch of salt, 3 pandan leaves tied into a knot, 1 box of green chendol strips.

When boiled pour into moulds and add some chendol strips. Let it set and refrigerate.
This heart shaped mould is lovely, I must remember to do a valentine dessert...lol

This is a peach agar agar. Just boiled some agar agar powder, water, sugar and when boiled, pour into mould and add peaches. Let it set and refrigerate.
Tonight I will make another dish, braised mushroom for tomorrow party. So these are my contribution for tomorrow pot luck party.

I am ready for tomorrow part. :)

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Lunch on a Lazy Sunday

As usual, our siblings' gathering at my brother's house also involved food..hahaha. That day, all the food were either purchased or cooked by my brother's wife. Thank you sis in law.

Salted Vegetable and Duck Soup, this is so yummy, one of my favourite soup but I still miss the one cooked by my late mom. :(

Roast Pork (Purchased)

Roast Chicken (Purchased)

Roast Duck (Purchased)

Stir fry Kai Lan (Vegetables)
Few other dishes that I did not take photo, one of them is steam sea bass cause everyone too hungry to wait for me to take photo....lol

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Oven Baked Chicken Wings


Just add some minced garlic, pinch of salt, 4 or 5 tablespoons of ketchup, 1 tbsp of honey (more if you like sweet) and marinated them with chicken wings for at least for more 30 minutes.
Bake in hour for 1 hour or 1 1/4 hours and keep turning the chicken wings every 20 minutes for even baking. My family loved it.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Lunch with Lobster at Desaru, West Malaysia

During the weekend, I made a one day trip to Desaru, West Malaysia to visit an Ostrich farm, Fruit Farm and firefly viewing. To view more about my trip, you could read my travel blog.

We had a sumptous lunch with seafood at one of the restaurant in Desaru, West Malaysia.

White rice

Emperor Chicken

Crabs

Steam sea bass and deep fried lobster. Geez, we could only have half of the lobster each,wish I could have more. The lobster was so delicious and cripsy...yummy.

Oyster omelette.
Did not take photo of the vegetables and soup.
Are you hungry now?

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Buffet Lunch at Home

These buffet food were taken during my husband's nephew wedding. I couldn't take photo of the dinner food cause I was at the VIP table...lol.

Curry Chicken and Fried Noodles

Silverfish Fried Rice

Braised chinese mushroom with broccoli and deep fried fish with oats

Prawns and sweet and sour pork

The food were so yummy and delicious...very good.

For more on the food menu and catering, you could view Roland Restaurant's website

Friday, December 12, 2008

Lunch at Dian Xiao Er

We had a sumptous lunch at Dian Xiao Er. Was also attracted by the herbal duck speciality.

Nice mural outside the shop.

We were early and was entitled for the early bird promotion. So we had a 15% discount. Yuan Bao Promotion (Early Bird Special)

Dine between 11:30am-12:30pm & 5:30pm-6:30pm (up to the first 10 tables) you are entitled to a 15% discount. Not valid on Fri & weekends, eve of public holidays & public holidays. Not valid with other promotions and set menus. For more information, you can view their website.

We opt for the set menu for 2 people. It came with a soup for the day and 3 other dishes and white rice. Today soup is carrot and potato with some "kei chi" soup.

This is the famous herbal roast duck...it is very nice and tasty.

Mongolian spare ribs

Long beans sauteed in XO sauce...yummy

The set menu cost us only $33 excluding drinks and peanuts and towels and on top of that we had a 15% discount for early bird. How cool is that. :)