什么丸意儿?!

I simply like the name of this snack ---什么丸意儿 (shen3 me4 wan2 yi4 er2). Creative and cute. These are attractive by means of the smallness and cuteness. And begin a frequently groceries shopper in Jusco like me, how would I miss out any new products on shelves and those eye-catching tiny booths set up for ‘free sampling’?!

Remember when the mini Mamee (maggi mee) newly introduced and got heat up years ago?! That snack was a convenient thingy to bring around, can eat it anytime, anywhere. This 什么丸意儿, is even tinier in shape. Just the finger bites size. It is Located on the shelf at non-halal section (around tinned luncheon meat).

Just pop them into your mouth! But do bear in mind with the high content of MSG. so, don’t take too much junk food.

Another Birthday celebration

Fans of LokLok, here you go, now you may have the chance to eat as much as you can (the eat-all-you-can concept)!

Ooopps… nope, only for those who were invited to Yen’s party. Yay~ because, I was invited!

Nice chandelier. Hmmm… This place looks posh.

Where were we?! It was Yen’s birthday! Hence, it must be in her house.

After meeting up with Christine and leaving her the huge box of present…

---> The food. We must capture pictures on food before everyone starts. *wink*

What a cool idea she had. Paid and catered a LokLok car for her party. My very first time attended a LokLok buffet birthday party and this was a great experience. Another eat-all-you-can dinner for me.

LokLok, can be considered as small type of steamboat where u have to stand beside the vendors and ‘lok’ (boil/cook) your sticks of fresh ingredients. This is another Malaysian (Chinese) culture and we can normally find LokLok vendors in Pasar Malam (night market).





On one side, there were the assorted fish balls, meat balls… you named it.

The organs --- hearts, kidneys…

Kangkung and squid

And… I have no idea what is this.

Kangkung and brown sotong





The cockles which were in bloody red, I dared not to have a taste on them. Tooo bloody red.

On the other side, assorted meat balls, fish balls and some other materials that we can get from frozen section in the supermarket.

They even have siu mai.

Steamy hot boiling water to ‘lok’ your food.

Sauces

Yen’s caring mum even prepared some main course for us.

Fried bee hoon

Curry chicken which was a bit over spicy.

Yam cake

Thumb up for this. The very puffy Curry puffs which were golden fried to perfection tasted real good.

Cincau which was a good one to quench the thirst. Additional of the ginger and pandan leaves were refreshing.

Me, Christine, Wei Min, and Yen (the birthday girl).

Yen’s birthday cake with rich chocolaty chocolate.

And never forget this lovely couple --- Yen and Eldrick.

Well, this is another back dated post again. Yen’s birthday falls in the mid of September. Sorry gal for posted up this late. The truth, this was a real nice party and I believe u enjoy it very much too. All the best~

Happy farewell

Farewell, my beloved physiology lecturer ms. Wong. Today is her last day in uni. She will be going to… (erm, I dunno cz I never ask for details *hehe*) A very strict person she is but sweet and nice too.

I was in the kitchen again, baking some crunchy little cookies for her.

Ingredients:

Butter, eggs (I want the yolks only), cookies mix, chocolate chips, almonds, pumpkin kernels (both almonds and pumpkin kernels baked before added into the batter), cornflakes.

Bake at 180 °C for 20mins.

*ding-ding* freshly baked crunchy cookies.

And, jar-ed them up in a container.



Thanks for the wonderful lectures, Ms. Wong. To thank her, I must pass all papers in flying coloursss! So, Must strive hard in studies!


P.S. ~ sorry, another short short super short post again. My mind is stuffed with facts and texts from the notes. Aaaahhhh! 3 tests fall on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday respectively. *panic*

Blackberry green tea frappucino blended @ Starbucks

With the caption “Rediscover the love of green tea with a modern twist”, Starbucks is introducing new drinks again --- Blackberry green tea frappucino blended cream and green tea latte. (erm, are they new? I am not really sure since written –‘rediscovering’). But I was attracted by the eye-catchy poster and huge word ‘Green tea’ printed on it.

So, why not give it a try on their new drink?!



While Yum cha-ing with my 2 sistas on last Friday, I had myself a Blackberry green tea frappucino blended without cream. First sip, hmmm… weird… second sip, hmmm… okay. Third and so on… acceptable lar~

However, I didn’t really fancy the combination of blackberry with green tea. The candy-like-flavour concentrated blackberry syrup covered the green tea taste. Erm, what else can I say --- still acceptable.

One of my sistas had the classic mocha blended with cream while the other had just green tea. Hanging out in Starbucks is really costly, but I managed to get one of the sistas paying for my drink. *wink*

Caramelized Almond Crisp?!

I guess that’s the name for this? Mum and I were searching for almond crisp recipe for quite a long time. We love almond crisp a lot and we could only have it during Chinese New Year. Weird… almond crisp only on sale during CNY and the price is always a boom. My aunt who fancies this keeps bugging us to find out the recipe and make some for her.

So one day while mum and I were shopping in the cake ingredient shop, we saw the packets of icy white silky powder on the rack. BIENETTA (it stated in German). 200 g of bienetta + 300g of almond slice, line thin and bake. Looks simple. Hmmm, maybe that’s the almond crisp we were looking for?!

The end products~

Well, it was more like the Caramelized almond crisp than the almond crisps its own. Slightly sweet and crunchy, I like it. However, the bienetta (powder) is quite costly. Gonna take more efforts to find out the real recipe for almond crisp! ~

By the way, anyone knows what’s Bienetta?