new place opened in town so went to try it out. supposedly served quite ok dishes according to the ambassador of malaysia. so me and some brave souls went to venture there on one cold sunday night.
the first thing that srikes you is they have very limited choice of veg in the kitchen. the on the right is supposed to be kangkung in belacan. but turns out they ran out of kangkung and replaced it with long beans but when it came out, its french beans, and the same french beans were in the same dishes on the other two plates. sad. and the belacan is more soy sauce than spicy.
the prawns were supposd to be masak kuning, or with coconut milk, that one was ok. the other dish is ayam masak merah, the ayam I see but not the merah, tasted almost the same as the french bean sambal thing.
so its quite dissapointing overall.
dessert was sago and they put it with jackfruit, abit strange.
the whole place we had to ourselves, it was totally empty. I predict it will crash in a month or two.
I wont be back, though i'm patriotic.
international food night at my church. this is the hall we used. came early to help in the physical arrangement
the girls did the deco.
all the food keeping warm
someones meat balls in the oven
one please.
oat cookies
sweet potato covered with crispy cornflakes
meatballs
going round describing what your dish is
very white brownies
something liek chicken teriyaki
soem czech dish. oily pankakes
my chicken
with apples going at 5sek per kg, it was a sin not to buy a dozen of them. What to do with so many apples? apple pie of course
First try in a squre tray, for personal consumption and testing of the oven. so so results. crust abit too thick, and oven abit too cold.
day 2, after knowing the optimized protocol for manufacturing pies, the game begins.
blind baking
this is a special one for my gf who disdains rasins. Notice the mockery I make of it with the crown on the rasinless apple pie.
this one is a disaster. I tried to use gluten free flour as one labmate has alergies. the flour is totally different from normal ones, so my optimized protocol did not work. wasted a few hundred grams of the flour and finally decided to make a crumble. Very valuable lesson.
the singaporeans gather to celebrate a friend's birthday. One cooks, while another buys the cake. The meal of the day is laksa.
the cake is a swedish traditional one. called princess cake, eaten exclusively on birthdays
good stuff to go with the spicy soup
boiling broth with bee hoon
when the birthday girl came in, we gave her a surprise of many candles to blow out
the lowest alcohol content cider i ever saw, 0.7%
the main reason we're here
chef doing her job
heaven
for dessert, the princess cake. from the top, its fake flower, marzipan, soft cake, cream, custard, jam, and a hard cake base. Not too sweet, and tastes good.
bought a humidifier for my room because the humidity level is just too low. on dry days it can drop to 15% relative humidity while when it rains, it goes up to 40%.
went online and found one selling for half price, second hand. So I saved 600 sek.
the machine looked pretty good.
easy to assemble. the two 'wings' are water containers that you have to fill up after turning it upside down. its ultrasonic, so theres reallly no noise generated.
the vapor comes out from the middle part 'chimney' and theres a vapor window thing in green where you can see the 'smoke' rising up. quite fun to watch it.
hope with the machine in, i will have less problems with dry and cracking skin. will test it out one week to see the results!
hello-win surplus stock, a 10 sek pumpkin.
first scratch out the pattern you want on the pumpkin.
gut it out
then cut
this is jack, a chinese pumpkin.
jack's alive!
can see the shadows from the teeth
jack's burning!
jack looking cool in a warm beanie.
then instead of wasting the pumpkin, i decided to use the other side of it to carve something else. so after alot of struggling:
its a beach with two trees swaing in the bayu as the glowing sun sets behind the trailing waves, echoed by the cries of the gulls high in the sky above.
this is how it looks in normal light, just a pumpkin with some holes.not attactive. but with the candles, the fruit transforms into an art.
after a whole night of fun and art, its time to say goodbye to my new friend by the beach
the beach turned into pumpkin soup, with added onions and bay leaves
jack was fried, with prawns from the sea and eggs. isn't jack sweet?
