Travel & Food Hunt: Luxurious for the Commoners: June 2008

Day 1

I woke up as early as 8am on a Saturday to prepare for my wet market trip. It's Pig's godson's 1st month celebration the next day and I decided to bake some goodies for the parents and their guests. And I remembered mentioning about ang gu kueh in a previous post (or did I not) or to fellow colleagues of this stall's gigantic ang gu kueh with thick filling and thin skin.

I believe it has been around even before I was born. MH always buys their kueh for our breakfast during weekends. I've been eating them the past 20+ yrs!

I was quite disappointed that I didn't manage to buy the ang gu kueh for my colleagues to try. It was only 10+am?! And even more shock that the boss told me that his stall would be open around 4+am for business... I ordered some 15 ang gu kueh for the next weekend and the boss is kind to defer payment till collection date.

A BZ BZ morning for the folks here.

MH frequents this flower shop for the yearly CNY plants.

The weekend's weather was great; blue sky, bright sun and the cotton-like clouds floating on top.

I've never realised there's this view here.

Started with Blueberry Yoghurt Muffin in 'Do What I Like' blog.

I realised that I bought a can of blueberries filling meant for pies, not for baking. So I washed and drained the syrup/sauce away. What a pity!

I wonder what went wrong? It didn't rise as expected and it felt kinda soft like jelly. The taste was ok, more yoghurt than the blueberries.

Quite upset and disappointed, I decided to bake brownies from Yochana's Delight blog.

It took a long time to bake.. I've to cover it with aluminium foil when I sent it back to the oven as it was still wet inside.

I thought that the brownies wouldn't be sufficient, so decided to try out butter cake for the 1st time. I over-beat the mixture of butter and sugar, and I thought the batter was kinda dry as it didn't flow into the loaf tin as smoothly.

I thought to myself that it was a really pretty master piece, but it flopped too as it was pretty dry. More to bread texture.

I met up with Pig for dinner. We decided to go for Waraku @ Katong Village, which wasn't the initial choice. Regret and waste of stomach space were the conclusion of the dinner. Our finding: the food standard differs greatly among the restaurants, but the service is professional, friendly and pleasant.

The miso soup base for our Hotate Hotpot was salty, but it couldn't beat my Sashimi Salad. The vegetables absorbed every single abit of the shoyu sauce; couldn't escape that at all.

Day 2

I woke up early again to bake some last minute Banana Muffins. It's a fool proof muffin which never disappoint me. I used Mad Baker's recipe this time, since my colleague, Pig Head, likes it alot the 1st time I tried that recipe.

I wasted some time searching for bananas. I should have gone straight to the market, but I thought I could find them at the provision shops in my area.

If only I have the right equipment or something to hold the cakes in place. The brownies at the bottom seemed to be carrying the muffins on their heads.

Godson is so cute and has so much hair for a 1 mth old baby!

The buffet spread consisted of mutton, fish, chicken, satay, fried rice & bee hoon, cereal crabs and vege.

Last of all, desserts!

Pig helped himself to 3 or 4 eggs (without the yolk of course).

Oh no! The mahjong addicts! I found myself a nice sofa and took a long nap.

It was 11+pm and the mahjong session finally ended. Spotted sleepy Samba's new fur cut.

Here is a random updates of little food I've tasted for the past few days which I was too busy to write them about. I also took out a mini gardening in my office, which sadly didn't turn out well. I had to bring the mini pot back home to nuture it with T.L.C.

I was down with fever out of the blue and stayed home to get well. MH cooked me this Regular Seafood Kway Teow Soup for lunch.

Tried this pasta set found on level 2 of Amoy Street Food Center. I had induced my colleagues to go along with me based on a good review on MyHomeTown.sg, but only to be greatly disappointed at the end. The tomatoe base pasta was bland and the fish was over-reheated.

Nothing much to be said about their potato salad too.

These egg tarts are sold on level 2 of Amoy Street Food Center. I would prefer the flacky crust egg tart I'd tasted in KL's Jalan Imbi thou.

Turkey's comment: "Egg mixture was of good consistency, not too sweet neither bland but the crust should be improved on to create a better egg tart."

The nasi lemak at Golden Shoe hasn't disappointed me..yet!

Nasi Padang by Banana Leaf on level 2 of Amoy Street Food Center (Again?). There's always a long queue here. Pretty famous and good I see.

Mini Tauhu Telor.

Turkey and I decided to get away from Amoy for once and walked down to Lau Pat Sat for our lunch. I walked 1 1/2 rounds before deciding on teochew porridge.

Just the way I like them to be. Not too soft , neither too hard.

This is the best lunch I had so far. Chicken rice and stir-fry mixed vegetables cooked by MH the night before, and a surprise satay-like marinated mutton courtesy of our dispatch uncle.