The spate of baking I've been doing lately... (like the cakes featured in my 2nd last post here) and last Saturday, a chocolate cake, 2 fruit cakes and 35 muffins emerged from my oven ... this could be inspired by a recent visit I made to the Academy of Pastry Arts Malaysia.Thanks to Jade Wong of Mustard Tree Communications, (through the kind recommendation of FBB) I spent a delightful afternoon at the Academy. The moment I walked through the glass door, I was bowled over by the … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2010
Old Fuzhou Restaurant
Since we are on the RED trail, I just had some lovely RED Wine Meesuah last week. Cooking with red wine - the very red home-made wine prepared from red rice and glutinuous rice, not the typical western red wine from grapes, is typical of Foochow or Fuzhou cuisine.The Fuzhou aka Hockchew people originate from the Fujian province of China. In Malaysia, they are located predominantly in Sibu (Sarawak), Yong Peng (Johor) and Sitiawan (Perak). There are many special … [Read more...]
Red Eggs
We all know that the Chinese celebrate the one-month "birthday" of a baby by serving red eggs (and pickled ginger and yellow glutinuous rice with curry and red angkoo kuihs! - but that's another story, hehe!). We Chinese love the color RED as it embodies happiness, good fortune and EGGS have always been a symbol of Life. It isn't surprising at all to note that the traditional red-dyed eggs are not only featured in babies' one-month celebrations, they are also served during … [Read more...]
Let us eat Cake!
Should there be a reason for eating cake?No, not really. Not when you get one of those baking bugs biting you! I can go for months without turning on my oven... but when the bug bites, I can be baking more than one cake a day. That's what happened today. First of all, I have a slab of cream cheese sitting in my fridge, fast approaching its shelf life and I had to do something about it. Having bought some couverture chocolate recently, I whipped up a chocolate sponge and cut it … [Read more...]
A Hairy Encounter @ Elegant Inn
It's been a crazy crazy couple of weeks! I've been meaning to share this much earlier but somehow had to put this off due to work backlog and stuff.Since my first visit to Elegant Inn, I've been back there a couple of times... mainly to bring family and friends who've been rather impressed with my 1st review of this place. In my first visit here, we had the opportunity to try out their Hairy Crab Set, minus the crab at that time because Hairy wasn't available then - he was probably … [Read more...]
Tanzini @ GTower
With a tagline of "From Farm to Table" and a promise of a unique dining experience "right under the stars", Tanzini believes in using the freshest ingredients for their natural flavours, cooking them with soul and passion and serving the feel-good cuisine in a modern elegant setting 28 storeys above ground. Actually it's 29 storeys above ground if you want to experience that "right under the stars" ambience... the "starry" effects from the majestic clusters of lights as seen … [Read more...]
GTower Hotel
The Kuala Lumpur skyline is ever changing. The concrete jungle in the city centre grows denser by the day. Whenever I drive into the city after a short lapse of time, I'm always in awe of the increasing amount of construction activities there and new buildings keep sprouting like mushrooms after a rainfall. I can never keep up with, or rather, keep count of the number of new skyscrapers fighting for a tight spot in the almost-overcrowded KL skyline.When I was invited to … [Read more...]
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