Bye November!

Its December already. Quicker than we thought. Anyways, I have been away from blogging because I'm currently enjoying my Holidays. Like said, I'm supposed to be in Bangkok now. Perhaps shopping in Chatucak or Platinum Mall now but we were forced to cancel the trip on the last minute due to the riots happening in Bangkok. Bangkok Dangerous :( So where am I now if its not Bangkok? Haha. Same one holiday destination, Singapore! So what have I done during the week here? #01 Met up with my youngest cousin. Hehe. Bought a giant silver bow for SD2! #02 Ate very delicious Ramen and superb dessert in Ajisen. Wooow. Miss it! #03 Went to Haji Lane. Nice place but they sell very expensive stuffs there :( *missing picture!* #04 That's Elaine! Chilling out in one of the shop @ Haji Lane. #05 And that's me, wearing the rainbow top Elaine bought for me from Australia :) #06 Went to Bugis Street!!! #07 And ate my favourite tutu cake there. #08 Bought and finished up my favourite biscuit! Hahahahaha. #09 Spotted a stall that has a funny name in Causeway Point. #10 Camwhored with Elaine in Courts. #11 Has my favourite Singapore food, fried carrot cake, the black one! Damn nice. You cant find that in KL :( #12 Dyed my crappy hair. #13 I like how I look in the newspaper though. Haha. #14 Hahaha the auntie dying my hair... ;p #15 Ate giant strawberries :) #16 My birthday gift from Elaine, which is also my new toy; Domo! #17 Camwhored in Elaine's room. #18 Camwhored with Domo, Elaine and her Shinchan! Hehe. Photo is edited because the original colour is super exposed :( #19 Ate my favourite McD breakfast. Superb hot cakes with the very very cute apple juice. Hehe. #20 Camwhored with the little cousin ;p #21 Bought the very classic and yummy candy. #22 Had a family dinner with my aunts and uncle in Singapore. #23 Ate super yummy herbal chickens. WOW! #24 Went shopping in Orchard Road. Wee! I went to Cotton On but it was a disappointment :( They are having sales now, everything is cheap but no more size6 :( #25 Went to Toy'r Us and played a fool there. Haha. She's damn cute ok. #26 "Can I interview you....?" #27 Went strolling at the night scene of Orchard Roads that is now filled with Christmas' decorations. #28 The cousins. Lack of another two little ones :( Anyway, I find this picture a little funny as there is two giants, two human and one midget in it. HAHA. #29 Kaiwen & Elaine :) #30 Me, Kaiwen, aunt Amy and Elaine. #31 Hahahaha happy Kaiwen and I p/s: I'm back to KL tomorrow!!!! :D

Making Onigiri, the Cute Way

Japanese food is my all time favorite and its also one of my favorite past time to make sushi and onigiri; or also known as rice balls. Hehe. It has been ages since I last made them and usually I do not cook alone. This time, I cooked it all by myself. Hahahaha and it was during my actual birthday when I did this. I feel... accomplished, nice... but a little weird. Haha. Here are some easy steps to make onigiris :) But before that, make sure you have the japanese-style rice, japanese vinegar, water, food fillings and seaweed (optional) and most importantly, a pot or a rice cooker. Haha. #01 Rinse the rice Must rinse okie! At least once or twice or not you will see insects floating around in the water later. You would not want to eat it. Haha. Tips! Do not throw the water away, use it to water your plants. You can also use it for facial mask if you want. #02 Cook the rice Please make sure that you put the correct amount of water. If you put too much, the rice will turn out watery and over moisture. If there is not enough water, the rice will turn into rocks. How to make sure its the right amount of water to put in? As for me, I'll follow my mood. Haha. I'll usually make sure that the water level is double of the rice's level. Do some simple math. If the rice is 200ml, then put in 400ml of water. That is how I cook lar, which is always correct. If you ask me what do I cook best, I would say rice. Seriously ;p If you prefer stickier rice, add more water la. #03 Preparing food fillings While cooking the rice, you may want to prepare your food fillings. This is what I used (picture above) for my onigiris. I'm not sure what is that called but you can buy that in 100 yen shops or Isetan supermarkets (prices vary a lot though!). Other food fillings are like ebiko, egg, cucumber, crab stick and bla bla bla. Depending on your own preferences. #04 Cool rice yo :) After you prepared the fillings, I guess its about time when the rice are done. Lift the pot with gloves, please dont miss this out, or not you will burn your fingers. Then, pour in vinegar. Do not put in too much, maybe two spoons of it. Then, Stir it well. Hahahahaha and I do cheat a bit in this step, I usually test the taste of the rice if its okay. If its not, I'll add more vinegar until I'm happy with the taste ;p The more you add, the sweeter your rice will be. You must add the vinegar when the rice is still HOT. Its easier for you to stir well them anyway. Do that until you are satisfied with the taste then leave it to cool down. I do not encourage you to cool it down in the fridge cause it will dried up the rice lar. #05 Moulding it! Once the rice is cooled down. It is ready to be molded :) Please wash your hands again. If you want to make traditional onigiri without moulds, these are what you need to do. Make sure you wet your hands a little, place a scoop of rice on your hand (with or without gloves). Then, use two hands to play with the rice. Hahaha not a very nice term though. Mould it until it looks like a fat and thick rounded edged triangle rice ball. Hehe. If you have moulds, wow! The process of making these onigiris will be so much faster and easier. Just stuff the rice into the moulds only ;p See pictures below. Taadah! And there you go. Cute and plain onigiris :) #06 Adding flavors Remember the food fillings? If you want to add flavors to your onigiri, this is what you should do. Pour the flavoring into another bowl of rice and mix them well. I do this later because I want to have more flavors :) If you want to have only one flavor and lesser steps, do this before you mold the rice. And actually, that's about it! Very easy right? But to make the onigiris cuter, follow this extra step. #07 Why you so cute one? Get a sauce pen, or triangle plastic bags specially made for icing drawing. Fill in with sauces like mayonnaise (I dont like!) or wasabi! :) Next... You start doodling the your rice balls! Cute or not!!! Hahaha. If you have nothing better to do, or have more time and effort to make them even cuter, you can cut seaweeds or other food to decorate your onigiris weh. Hahaha. I dint have much time the other day and therefore I did only very simple ones. I will take some time to buy more food fillings to make my onigiris even cuter and tastier :) See! Masterpiece on the last Sunday. Will make more soon once I have the time! Very yummy okay, not just cute. Now, tell me your special or creative guides and ideas on making onigiri! :D

My 3rd day in Taiwan

#01 The first picture I took on that day. A candid one while waiting for our breakfast. #02 Ru Rou Fan again. I miss it like mad now........... #03 The very delicious fried carrot cake, and Oh Ah Jian, the oysters fried egg. #04 A bubble tea a day, keeps us happy! Hahahahaha. #05 After the breakfast, we walked around looking for a place that we can change our Singapore dollars to Taiwan dollars. Suprisingly, they do not have money changer like we can find in KL and Singapore. Their banks do not accept Singapore dollars either. Quite ridiculous right? And we had to walk around town about an hour plus to the main office of the Taiwan Bank. Shit. So bad lar the service. Ish. But looking at the bright side, we did a lot of shopping while looking for the bank. And I bought this pink sweater which I refer it to Tong Jia Di jacket because of the Taiwan series, Why Why Love. Hahaha. #06 And there was this fruit stall that caught our attentions with ther very colourful fruits. #07 They looked very delicious and only looked delicious. Hahaha. But nevermind, they costed us only NT40 for a box like this. #08 Little tomatoes. #09 "We are tourists mar, so we can take whatever pictures. Haha" #10 Later hor, we took taxi to one of the place where I have planned to go ever since the day I know I am going to Taiwan. GUESS WHERE! #11 Phantaci. Or else pronounced as Fantasy. The shop owned by JAY CHOU! My outfit super matching hor! #12 His shop freaking hard to find lor. It was our second attempt and obviously we failed he first. And when we were there, the shop wasnt open yet. It was freaking 1pm already eh. #13 So we took pictures with the door first lor. Hahahahahahaha. And went other places for shopping and lunch. And the shop only opens at 3pm. Was so excited when I entered the shop becaus I see familiar clothes and accessories that Jay has. Wanted to get a sneaker but I dint like what they had there so I got something else. Die die must buy something from there. Guess what! #14 The tired legs. #15 Then later we went to Shih Da night market. That was a place full of foooooooooooooood. Not much clothes. #16 We were attracted by these big apples. #17 I thought they were coated with chocolate eh. It was not lor. I was stupid. Its caramel. Bu hao chi. #18 They also had this stall which sells fries in various flavours. These are gooood!!! :) #19 This one also very nice. Muahahahahaa. #20 I love smelly tofu :) :) :) :)