Sichuan Restaurant 川妹子

Join my friend to Sichuan Restaurant in Greenwich for Sichuan hot pot. Try it once before, never really like it. But, would like to try again.

There are two type of soup bases- chinese herb chicken soup and the super hot spicy Sichuan style. Prefer the clear chinese herb chicken soup.

Address: Millenium Leisure Park, Bugsbys Way, London SE10 0QJ

Homemade Kaya - Egg Custard with Coconut Milk

Missing the Malaysian Kopitiam's kaya and butter toast! Since making the Bah kwa, think will be easy to make this kaya on spot. However, this is not the case!!!

Ingredients:

• 8 eggs
• half cup of brown sugar
• half canned of thick coconut milk

Preparations:

1. Mix the eggs in a big bowl together with the brown sugar.
2. Slowly add the coconut milk and mix them well.
3. Put the mixture into a non-stick pot and leave the pot on low gas's cooking stove.
4. Continuously stir till the mixture thickening. (Most tedious part)
5. Turn off the gas and leave the mixture cool before put into the fridge.

Homemade Bak kwa (or rougan or 肉干or jerk pork).

Craving for Malaysian Bak kwa, which is now is a prohibited food to United Kingdom .However, the ready packed Bak kwa from the local shops is not as good as before, they have added lots of preservatives. Well, always think it is a super difficult task to make Bak kwa, saw people sweat to make them like satay under the sun in Malaysia. Till I met my best mates , her recipe is superb! I have added couple of tweaks, making them like mini pizza with different ingredients (eg black pepper). This is from my experience of  trying Hong Kong version of Bak kwa, they always add different ingredients to the Bak kwa

http://live2eatfoodie.blogspot.com/2011/01/chinese-new-year-goodies-bak-kwa.html

Ingredients:

• 2 boxes of 500grams mince pork
• 4 tablespoonfuls of oyster sauce
• 1/4 teaspoonful of baking soda power
• 2 teaspoonfuls of light soya sauce
• 2 drops of dark soya sauce
• half cup of brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoonful of fish sauce
• Black pepper (optional)

Preparations:

1. Marinate the meat with the above ingredients for over night in a big bowl and leave in the fridge for overnight.
2. Lay foil on the cooking baking tray, scoop the meat mixture on top of the foil using fork. Spread around the tray and then cover with cling film. Use a chopping board to press the meat gently.
3. For black pepper version, sprinkle the black pepper on top of the mixture. (Optional)
4. Leave it in 80C oven for 45 minutes. After that turn the tempeture to 120C and leave it for 15 minutes.
5. This is the best part, grill it for 6 minutes on each sides. Make sure it turns into redish.
6. Leave it to cool down then cut into pieces.

My next steps..... thinking of making more different toppings :)

WANTAN/ WONTON/ 雲吞 MOOD

Ingredients

•  1 box of mince pork
•  1 box of peeled shrimp
•  1 teaspoon brown sugar 
•  2 tablespoon light soy sauce
• some finely chopped spring onion
• 1 pack of ready made (3.5 inch square) wonton wrappers

Preparations

1. In a large bowl, combine mince pork, shrimp, sugar, soy sauce, spring onion. Mixed them well, and leave it for 25 to 30 minutes.
2. Place about one teaspoon of the filling at the center of each wonton skin. Moisten all 4 edges of wonton wrapper with water, then pull the top corner down to the bottom, folding the wrapper over the filling to make a triangle. Press edges firmly to make a seal. Continue until all wrappers are used.
3. FOR SOUP: Bring the chicken stock/ fish sauce to a rolling boil. Drop wontons in, and cook for 5 minutes. Garnish with chopped green onion, and serve.
4. FOR FRIED. Make sure the oil is deep boil, put in the wontons and quickly take it out as soon as it becomes brownish.

C&R CAFE RESTAURANT

This is my favourite Malaysian cuisine restaurant for many many years. They serve great Penang prawn noodles and Wan Tan Ho. Well, I only have one stomach for one dish, this trip I only have the Penang prawn noodles. You can ask for mixed mee and meehoon.

Address: 3-4 Rupert Court, London, W1D 6DY

NEC BIRMINGHAM- AUTOSPORT INTERNATIONAL- THE RACING CAR SHOW- 15 JANUARY 2011

It has been an interesting experience of joining my friends to this NEC Birmingham Autosport International, The Racing Car Show.

McLaren Showcase

Headlined by the iconic MP4/4, the car that gave Ayrton Senna his first F1 World Championship title in 1988, this exclusive exhibit will showcase several remarkable historic McLaren cars as well as the much-anticipated new road car, the MP4-12C.




Met the stars

Fifth Gear Presenters Jason Plato & Tiff Needell
Touring car hero Jason Plato with former Formula One driver turned motoring personality Tiff Needell have  host exhilarating wheel-to-wheel action and record-breaking stunts in the Fifth Gear Live Action Arena. Never watch this program in my life, but find it very interesting to be in the live show!

Jake Humphrey
The current BBC's Formula 1 presenter  Jake Humphrey also in the commentary show. His presenting career began in 2005 as a Match reporter for BBC Radio 5 Live and since then has become a extremely successful sports commentator.





Saw lots of nice and expensive cars there, really interested me, from Ferrari, Porche, etc..... now the car I wanted the most is Nissan Juke. The design is great, with super comfy seats and matching colors. Is an super ideal car for me. I like the red Juke very much and set my self new saving goals. This is my gain from the show today :)

http://www.nissanusa.com/juke/

HOME COOKING- FULL BREAKFAST

Have not done this in ages. Fancy a full breakfast for the start of the day. Is fattening, which I know, but couldn't really resisted it!