The Peak, Hong Kong

Halo, I'm back..
Just like to share with you my 1st stop in Hong Kong, The Peak.
Our flight touch down in the morning, took 1hr by bus to hotel, check in hotel, have a quick lunch at the nearby restaurant, immediately heading to The Peak, around 3pm at that time. The weather there was so nice, not too hot, cloudy sky and light cool winds, very comfortable..

-It was an interesting experience to take this Peak Tram

- The evening sun reflecting on this building, see the building like a gold, very awesome view.

-we are so lucky, on the 1st day in Hong Kong, we got a chance to meet a Hong Kong drama star, "Si Ka Yuen"..

- Buildings and garden nearby the The peak tram station

Ayam Masak Merah (Red Chili Chicken)

Beside Ayam Paprik, I like to eat another type of Malay style of Ayam (Chicken), Ayam Masak Merah (Red Chili Chicken), usually I will top up this chicken when I buy Nasi Lemak from Malay stall.

- Ayam Masak Merah (Red chili chicken), very hot and spicy..

- I also cooked Petai prawn to eat together with Ayam Masak Merah.

-Nasi Lemak with Ayam Masak Merah and Petai Prawn, this time my kids really can not tahan (stand) the hot of this chicken, even myself also can not tahan a little bit..hehehe..

Simple recipe to share:-

Marinate chicken (pieces) with:-
1. fresh turmeric paste or turmeric powder
2. salt
3. light soy sauce

spice paste (blend garlic, ginger, galangal and shallot)
homemade chili paste, or Chili Boh
tomato ketchup
fresh tomato, chopped finely
Onion, slices
lemongrass, smashed
coconut milk (optional)
salt and sugar to taste

steps:
1. Deep fry the marinated chicken pieces until golden brown, set aside
2. Heat oil in a wok, saute the spice paste and lemongrass until fragrant. Add chili and onion slices and saute for a while.
3. Add in the fried chicken pieces, and add water to simmer for a while. Season with salt and sugar.
4. Add in coconut milk (optional), cook for 1 min, dish out and serve.

p/s I will see your next week, go vacation lor...

**no photo details, old toy

Loh Mai Kai ( Steamed Savoury Glutinous Rice)

I have to finish up a bag of glutinous rice which I kept for quite some time ago, thus I cook Loh Mai Kai for today lunch.

*can make about 12 bowls of Loh Mai Kai

Ingredients:
1kg glutinous rice, wash clean and soak for 4hours or more
12pcs dried mushrooms (soak to shorten)
2 Chinese dried sausages (sliced)
800gm of Chicken ( cut small pieces)
Ginger ( pounded and get the juices)
water

Steps:-

1. Rinse and drain soaked glutinous rice. Heat oil in a wok, add in glutinuous rice, season with 3tbs salt, 2tbsp sugar and 2tbsp of light soy sauce. Cook for a while, then pour into rice cooker, add water and cook.Set aside.

2. Heat 2tbsp sesame oil in a hot wok, add in chicken pieces, ginger juices and mushroom, stir fry for a while, then add in water and cook for 15mins. Season with 2tbsp of light soy sauce, 1tbsp of oyster sauce, 2tbs of salt,1tbs of sugar and 1tbs of Chinese wine.Set aside.

3. Pan fry Chinese sausage slices till brown.

4. Place 1-2 cooked chicken pieces, Chinese sausages and mushroom on a metal bowl or aluminium foil cup, then scoop cooked glutinous rice on top.

5. Steam over high heat for 30mins. You may serve with chicken floss (optional).

My tip: cook the glutinous rice first in a rice cooker , this is to shorten the steaming time.


Do enjoy Cooking !!!


details:-1/4, AV 2.5, ISO 200, no tripod...

gang dinner at Damansara Village and Sanook Cafe

Yesterday I had gang dinner again, this time we took steamboat at Damansara Village.

-I brought a cotton cheese cake for the gang (very boring ho, everytime also baked cheese cake, hahaha), but this time I added peach (got the inspiration from Ai Wei) and Savoiardi biscuits as the cake base. My gang members all love this cheese cake so much..

-We ordered herbs soup base

-Some of the seafoods that we ordered

- very crowded during dinner time

Sanook Cafe
After dinner, we heading to a Sanook cafe near the Kelana lake for a cup of coffee, this place has a very nice lake view, feel very cosy here..

-Crepe and Tiramisu

-Got Holoween feel right?

Damansara Village located at:-

1067, Jalan Jenjarum, Kg. Sg. Kayu Ara, off Jalan SS23/10, 47400 Petaling Jaya. Open for Dinner 7 nights a week. Reservations: Tel: 03 7803 1832
website:http://damansaravillage.blogspot.com/


Sanook cafe located at:-

C-06 Plaza Kelana Jaya
SS7/13A Kelana Jaya
47301 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor, Malaysia.
Tel:+603 7877 3636


HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!

Lets eat green !!!

Let me share some green veggie that I cooked recently.

1. I learnt this from Terri, called Di San Xian (Earth Three Fresh) . I don't have the sweet Chinese soy bean sauce, so I just replaced by normal soy sauce (sweet version too). This is very nice, tasted fried and sweet soy sauce aroma. Check out Terri's blog for this good recipe. Also I like the multiple colours combination in this dish..



2. Stir fry sweet potato leaf with prawn...



3. This was also referring to Terri's recipe too, Cold Bittergourd. I tried this because I feel this recipe is very interesting, no one will eat bittergourd in cold way..If you are a bittergourd lover, check out Terri's blog and give it atry...But don't think I will cook this again, kids doesn't appreciate this..




4. Normal mixed vegetables cooked with oyster sauce, but this time I added zucchini, it was tasted great.






Do Enjoy Cooking Green...

Cotton Cheese Cake and Brownies..

We love cotton cheese cake , and I have baked for few times already, the final result also improved a lot if compared to the 1st attempted. This time, I added brownie as the base, and it was by accident, see the reason as below...But this cotton cheese cake is super nice especially with this very rich in chocolate of Brownies.

- see my 1st attempted, look very bad huh......



- the latest result, very smooth on the sides, the important point here is do not line paper on the side of the cake pan.


- and this time it didn't cracked much, because I use higher pan for water bath.. maybe this was the reason..

At first, I wanted to bake a brownies for my husband (his favorite), I was referring to Happy Home Baking's recipe, but I have overbaked it for 10mins. I use skewer inserted into the centre of the cake, it did not comes out clean. So I baked again for another 5mins (tested and again not clean), so another 5mins ( tested and again not clean) , but I realized that I should not continue bake further, and I stopped.................

Resulted I have a very very dry brownie( but the taste was excellent). It became even worst on next day, something like biscuit. No choice, I use this left over brownie, crushed it, add some butter, and it became a very tasty cake base for the cotton cheese cake. I just wonder how could I bake this delicious cheese cake again, that means I need to fail again on brownies, hahaha..

Thanks to Happy Home Baking for sharing this rich chocolate brownie recipe.


Do enjoy baking !!!

Banana loaf-something special

After baked banana cake, use the balance bananas, to bake a banana loaf. At least this is something special than the normal loaf.


- you can smell little banana aroma only

- the texture is quite rough, because I did not knead it long enough. The dough was too sticky, since I use hand to knead, quite messy during kneading ......

I was referring to Jane's corner carrot hotel bread, but replaced carrot with banana.

Recipe to share:-

High protein flour 320g
Yeast 1tsp
Sugar 8g
Honey 32g
1 egg (medium size)
110g mashed banana
114g milk
16g butter

Steps:-

1.Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl except butter, mix well till become dough
2.Add in butter and continue knead until elastic, set aside and rest for 60mins.
3.Slightly knead the dough and place into a baking tin ( due to too sticky, can’t roll up like a swill roll)
4.Bake at pre-heat oven for 25mins at 180c or until golden brown.

* do enjoy this bread with peanut butter, good combination..

Do enjoy Baking !!!

Banana Cake-nothing special

Usually i don't post on Sunday, but this time is special, I need to show my two camera "sifu" (master) for those photos that I took using my new camera Canon G11. Since my daughter requested for Banana cake, so I quickly bake it so I can take pictures too.

Colin & Bakeling, I took these photos yesterday night, no sunlight to enhance the brightness, no difference from my old camera ho ?
I was adapted recipe from Blessed Homemaker, this Banana cake is very nice, moist and full of natural sweet from Banana. Thanks Blessed Homemaker....
Recipe:-
*I only baked half portion from the original recipe, 1 rectangular cake pan and 2 cup cakes
90g butter
75g sugar
1+1/2 egg (medium size) – lightly beaten
125g cake flour
1/2tsp baking powder
1/4tsp baking soda
110gm mashed banana (I use Pisang Emas)
25g Dairy Whipping cream or Evaporated milk

Steps:-
1.Beat sugar and butter till creamy
2.Add in egg and beat till well combined
3.Add in mashed banana and cream till mix well.
4.Add in cake flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and beat for a while only
5.Pour into cake pan, put few slices of bananas on top (optional)
6.Bake at pre-heat oven for 35mins at 180c (or adjust according to your type of oven and cake pan used)

Do enjoy Baking !!!

Dragon One @ SS2 Petaling Jaya

When we craving for "Xiao Long Bao"/superior stock dumpling , Dragon-I at One U Damansara will be our choice. My daughter just love to eat all kind of pau. I saw Big Boy Oven recommended another place for "Xiao Long Bao" at a restaurant name called Dragon One in SS2 PJ. I just wonder why all this kind of restaurant must have name begins with Dragon......

We visited this restaurant in one of the weekend.


1. Steamed Shanghainese Meat Dumpling with Superior Soup known as “Xiao Long Bao, this is first dish we ordered. But we were quite disappointed, the pau skin is not "Q" enough, and the filling also very normal only. This definitely could not beat with our usual restaurant in One U Damansara.



-My daughter wanted this potsticker (Guo Tie), but again she was disappointed with this too, she said mum did better than this , Hahaha.. we don't like the taste of filling....


-Durian pancake, this one was not disappointed us, this was awesome, the taste was really really nice, no wonder this is NancyMommy's favorite too. Nancy, have you learnt how to make the skin?


-Deep-Fried Prawn Roll with Orange Sauce , very nice too, crispy fried bean curd sheet and flavourful of orange dipping sauce.

-Stir-Fried Bean Sheet with Preserved Vegetables, this was good too, my first time tried this kind of bean sheet, very interesting texture, perfect stir-fried and full of “wok hei.

-Avocado with Kataifi , crispy and crunchy skin with sweet Avocado filling, this was not bad too.

-Shanghainese Style La Men with Crab Roe, the thick soup was very nice, full of crab roe, something similar to Shark fin soup but this with added of La Men. Actually we ordered another La men with wantan, don't order this, very plain soup.

- Inside the restaurant, very Chinese feel of environment..

Above are our own point of view of the foods served there, maybe you have your own point of view. But few of the dishes served here are good, this worth to give it a try, prices are reasonable and good thing is without taxes.

They are located at :-

Add: 59 Ground Floor, Jalan SS2/75, 47300 Petaling Jay, Selangor. (Same row as Murni & Public Bank)Tel: 016-2539899/012-3989803)