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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Tokyo Banana

My colleague introduced Tokyo Banana to me. We were having tea and she said "I have the best sweet to compliment our tea". She took out this bread looking bananas and asked me to try. I did and it was sooo good. This time I got a box of it. Thanks to my hubby. He's so sweet to bring me my request.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Taiwanese Cusine (in Malaysia)

Fried Rice

Abalone

Stir fried tofu with celery stick

Appetier consist of egg, wakame, and pig's ear.

Sizzling pork chop!

Green Tea Moon Cake (with Single Yolk)


This moon cake was purchased from a bakery during our travel to Kuala Lumpur. I tried making one but it was not successful. If you want to give it a try here is the recipe and I would like to have a photo if you succeed ;-) Here is the link of the fellow blogger where I got the recipe http://nasilemaklover.blogspot.com/2011/09/green-tea-snow-skin-mooncake.html

Green tea moon-cake 绿茶冰皮月饼
(recipe source: adapted from Jane's corner)
*makes 2 moon-cakes x 3” diameter

Snow Skin
50g Koh hun (cooked glutinous rice flour) 糕粉
60g Icing sugar糖粉
16g Shortening白油
60g Cold water冷水
1tsp greentea powder绿茶

Green tea lotus paste filling
200g white lotus paste白莲蓉
melon seeds瓜子
Method-mix all together to form a soft dough, weighted 100g and shape to ball

Method
1. Sift Koh Fun,matcha powder and Icing sugar into a mixing bowl.
2. Rub shortening into the flour mixture.
3. Gradually mix in cold water and mix to form a soft dough.
4. Weight each dough 60g and shape to ball.
5. Flatten the dough ball and place a green tea lotus paste ball on top, wrap and seal the dough by slowly push the dough until totally cover the whole lotus paste ball. Slightly shape into a ball again.
6. Place mooncake inside the mould, flatten dough to conform to shape of mould.
7. Knock the mooncake mould on solid surface and slowly remove the mooncake.
8. Chill before serving

I went to Singapore to extend my visa. Somebody at the embassy from our previous posting messed it up. The big irony is that I have to live with those kind of people for the next 3 years because we are posted in his country, yaiks! It's New Year and the last thing you want to do is pack and fly. I have to leave early to catch the earliest flight and come back with midnight flight. I hope not to bump into him again because I'm still furious. While waiting for my visa I went around in Singapore. For lunch I went to Maxwell Road. They said it's a place where you can find hawker's food stall. I have no clue where to eat. I arrived noon time and saw one stall where people are queueing up. That's a good sign, so I lined up and order whatever. He said pork roll is their specialty. Errr today I don't think i enjoyed the food. I tried and left most of it.