Hong Kong Chow-down Part 1

This is a first of a series of crazy binging eating during our Hong Kong trip. Well, enjoy and don't read all these posts with an empty stomach!

We were absolutely starving because we landed at 10.45 am, cleared immigration, made our way to the hotel and headed to Mongkok and was ready for lunch only at 2 pm. My friend, who planned our trip, had recommended Fuk Kei Porridge Place 富記粥品.

Both of them ordered Roast Goose with Char Siew (叉鵝饭) rice. Their Roast goose was very oily and fatty. Ha Ha, my friend had to pop some pills to absorb all those oil she had planned to consume during this trip.

This was my order! Fishball porridge....but their fishballls were actually lumpy and harder, unlike those we find here. I love their porridge, which was cooked to a sticky and gooey mess. Really smooth and easy on the palate.

This was Kenny's order : Pork with Century Egg porridge. The texture was similar to mine, and really great tasting.

Soon after our shopping escapades, we were hungry again and so had a tea time snack near Ladies Street. Name's 萬家燒餅皇.

We had couple of cream puffs, these are similar to those you get here, like Beard Papa's. Fluffy and not cloyingly sweet.

Our dinner was PERFECT! We went to this famous 'Cheong Fun' place somewhere in the middle of Mongkok called 堂記腸粉專門店.They only serve Cheong Fun, so they've become experts in making them.

This is the Fresh Prawn Cheong Fun, very succulent prawns inside and the rice wrappings were divine!

This is our Roast Duck and Beef Cheong Fun. We had another plate, the Char Siew and Pork Liver Cheong Fun, which we all enjoyed to the max. I don't think i can ever go back to local Cheong Fun anymore =(

Girl's Sunday

Apart from making brownies, we also meddled around with butter cookies. The recipe says Nutty Cookies, but we decided to stick with Chocolate Chip Butter Cookies.

Add sugar and butter and mix them together till the colour and texture turns light and fluffy.

Add in sifted flour and corn flour

Throw in the chocolate chips and mix till they are all over the place.

Keep the dough into the freezer for about an hour. Get them out later and shape them into small balls and bake.

This is what the cookie turned out to look like. Now, where's my best bud, Cookie Monster when i need him?

After all that hard work , it's time for our own dinner. Since the oven was already warm, don't waste the residual heat. We popped two frozen pizzas into it.

Meanwhile, we prepared an appetizer before enjoying the pizza. One of us cut the beancurd and century egg, while the other blends the sauce.

Time to enjoy our dinner + DVD...Ta-ta....

Scoring Brownie Points

One fine weekend, i packed my bags and headed to a land i've never been to : Potong Pasir . My colleague's parents were away in Hong Kong and so she invited me over for a girl's baking afternoon ( after our successful sleepover pyjamas party in the past ).

She is a career-nut...purchasing a balance that strongly resembles those kind we use in our labs. Anyway, contrary to our lab roles, in her home she was the one instructing me to weigh the baking powder.

Here's the chocolate block she had gotten ready for our brownie.

Put chocolate block and butter into a bowl and melt in the microwave oven.

Stir well to ensure that they've melted well. Mix sugar in and continue stirring. Giving it a James Bond twist, i like my brownies stirred, not shaken.... *lame*

The alcoholic in me is working up again....just a dash of Kahlua into the mixture....muahahaha... Oh, and we also added 4 eggs.

One of us add sifted flour into the bowl while the other stirs furiously as the mixture gets more and more coagulated.

Next, pour the mixture into the tray and sprinkle some chocolate pastilles onto the surface.

Now, we bake and we wait while the heavenly scents start to emanate from the convection oven.

Looks a little wrinkled but pretty good huh?

Cookie Monster Gobbles Up The 'Letter of the Day'

This is a Sesame Street clip from its early days. You can see here that Kermit and Cookie Monster looked slightly different from the one you see in the 80's, 90's and the noughties. The idea behind this clip is really brilliant though, but i wished Cookie Monster had more lines! Haha... Is it just me, or did Cookie Monster look as if he had a cleft lip?

7 - 1 Meal

Here's a wonderful dinner i'd like to call the 7-1 meal, due to us ordering 2 dinner sets for 4 persons each but with only 7 people eating. We stuffed ourselves silly to the point of almost throwing up. My appetite was only so-so that night, so i drew alot of flak from the herd... haha... This was in Holland Village, by the way.

Our WHOLE Peking duck...before it was cut into smaller pieces for us.



Some keropoks to get our appetites going...



This is the three-variety meat dish - it came with white steamed chicken, roast pork and char siew. The char siew was a little tough to chew on but apart from that, a pretty decent start to our dinner.

Sweet Sour Pork~ I love everything about sweet sour pork, with its brightly coloured capsicums, pineapples and tomatoes. Of course, i also enjoy biting into those crunchy, bite-size pork cubes.

Egg plant....yuck. According to my friends who tasted this, it was one of the better dishes of the night. Good for them, then.

Several bowls of watercress soup to clear some of the oil we've consumed. This drew mixed review from our table, with half of us commenting that it was 'just nice', while the other half said it was 'too salty'.

Finally our Peking duck has been sliced into small pieces and wrapped into this lovely looking dish. Great presentation but i wished the wraps had been more moist. I think the waitress took too long to slice the duck to the point that the wraps were left in the open for more than optimum.

The name of this dish : Steamed Freshwater Fish & beancurd in special spicy sauce. I have always enjoyed eating freshwater fish eventhough it meant putting up with their characteristic muddy taste. This fish was undoubtedly fresh and the sauce appetizing.

Our other fish, a saltwater fish which had been fried... a direct contrast from the previous fish.

Yummy~ More soup for me....Braised Shark's Fin with shredded Premium Sea Cucumber , Fish Maw, Bamboo's pith and Pig's Tendon. Before it was served, fresh crunchy beansprouts were added to give the soup some crunch.

What's the weird looking mess? The menu said it was Stewed Duck with Bittergourd. I gave this dish a miss because by this point, i was already at my absolute breaking limit.

Our last main-course was King Prawn in Portuguese Style with Deep Fried Noodle. I also gave this a miss, and had the Red Bean Soup for dessert. Can you believe that right after this meal, the gang went to a dessert place for tiramisu? *gag*

How To Exercise During a Heatwave

During the heatwave from April to August, here are some suggestions on how to exercise indoors in the cool environment. Agent LL demonstrates by exercising pet QQ!


Some are worse than others. Instead of exercising real pets, they exercise virtual pets!


The culprits are discovered but to hide their identity, we decided to take a picture of their posterior.

What about exercising in the comfort of an air-conditioned place. Bowling's a good alternative.

Puffyrazzi has a better suggestion : ICE-SKATING! 'Coolest' exercise you can get in hot Singapore.

OMG, i'm freezing after 10 minutes!

What? Who? Where?

Where is this? Seems like my family + photographer Crispy went for a meal at Seri Mahkota in Kuantan. Here are the pics she shared with me, and she always reminds me that i must acknowledge that here...haha...Pictures brought to you by Crispy Wee.

Actually i didn't go for the meal, so i'm waiting for Crispy to fill in this blog entry for me. This is green veggie.

Is this chicken?

Looks like salted egg crab... or is it not?

A huge lumpy dish that came in a big claypot.

Fishy stuff still boiling over....

Oh god, i'm lousy at blogging about things i don't know about.....Crispy, please fill in the names of the dish in the comment area =P