First night dinner: Nan Hwa Chong Fish Head Steamboat dinner, there are 2 famous fish head steamboat in this area, this is one of it. From Lavender station, just get across the car park beside the MRT station. Walk along the canal, cross the canal, cut through the block of flats. When you are at the main road, turn to your right and walk down North Bridge Road until you come to a T-Junction and the restaurant is just opposite.

Address: Nan Hwa Chong 南华昌（亚秋）鱼头炉

814 North Bridge Road (intersection with Jalan Sultan)

Tel: +65 6297 9319

Nearest MRT: Lavender (EW Line)

4 types of fish: big head carp being the cheapest at around SGD$20, we had red snapper at SGD$28 per pot, enough for 2 person to have a satisfying meal.

Other dishes available

We waited around 45 minutes before the steamboat above arrive, heated with coal in the middle

A lot of meaty fish and yummy yam/taro.

2nd day in Singapore: trying Ladurée in Takashimaya Shopping Centre.

It is quite good actually with good quality chocolate filling, not too sweet, just nice

nice peach custard bread from DONQ bakery in Takashimaya Shopping Centre

2nd night dinner, trying another fish head steamboat found online, it is quite a distance from Tampines MRT station, i think around 30 minutes walk

Address: 海 昌 魚 頭 爐

淡 賓 尼 圓 巴 剎 熟 食 中 心
地 址 ： Tampines Street 11 Block 137
營 業 時 間 ： 4:30pm-10pm

Not so good, still prefer previous night’s. This one is with little fish, and the fish meat is weirdly hard, and there is very little yam pieces as well.

A BBQ / Steamboat Buffet restaurant in Kepong, it is located somewhere behind Carrefour Kepong

I tried one of the snail shellfish thingy on the left, and it smell rotten when eaten after cooked in steamboat 🙁

The prawn however is quite fresh though

lamb/pork/beef/dory fish for cooking on hot pan

More food for hotplate

Vegetables

more vege

prepared food

condiments

yoyo ice

Overall, the food is just ok, the price if not mistaken is around RM25 or RM29.

Address: No C-G-6, Jalan Metro Perdana 3,

Taman Usahawan, 52100 Kepong, KL

Business hour: 4pm – 12am

Telephone: 03-6259 8802

GPS: N 03′ 12.963 E 101′ 38.653

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Salted Caramel filling (from Pierre Herme’s recipe)  this recipe is quite good, kinda sweet without overly sweet

120 Sugar

200g Whipping Cream

103g Softened Unsalted Butter ie 18g + 85g

(optional) sea salt

Direction for making salted caramel can refer to Tastebook

Macaron shell recipes are from Rohani Jelani:

* I did tried making a hazelnut chocolate ganache, but it was very hard to pipe even when i used a larger nozzle, next time have to use the largest nozzle due to the hazelnut paste i use is with hazelnut bits which stuck to the nozzle

** I have tried using milk chocolate button to make chocolate ganache and the macaron is just too sweet. Macaron shells is best paired to dark chocolate to balanced out the sweetness of the shell

A very good website with many tips for macaron making: BraveTart & Zumbo Baking

My previous macaron baking adventure.

Shell (Original):

120g sieved almonds

200g icing sugar

100 egg white

40 caster sugar

Shell (Chocolate):

110g sieved almonds

200g icing sugar

4 Tbsp cocoa powder

100 egg white

40 caster sugar

Shell (Coffee):

120g sieved almonds

200g icing sugar

1 rounded teaspoon instant coffee

100 egg white

40 caster sugar

Important to note when making macaron:

1) Finished texture can’t be too watery (ie meringue have to be beaten till soft peak and not moving, some website did seem to beat till hard peak which i have yet to try, i just find it is easier to incorporate almond-icing mixture into soft peak)
2) Almond can’t be over mixed during sieving by pressing into sieve else the end mixture will collapse and watery due to oily nut (ie cocoa powder/espresso powder/icing must be presieved before sieving together with almond)

3) The piped macaron have to be placed in air-conditioned room till the shell is COMPLETELY not stick when touched. (If it still feel sticky, leave it in the aircon room as long as it takes to be dry to touch, else rest assure the macaron will crack on top while being baked)

4) Sieve the dry ingredients for 3 or 4 times. (due to me not having a food processor)

5) I find putting the baking pan slightly nearer to the lower heat source works well (just a hunch, i could be wrong)

I made 3 shells: plain, chocolate and coffee, The best is the chocolate macaron shell surprisingly, cos i thought chocolate ones will crack more easily. I think i might have master chocolate macaron as it is the one which has most with feet.

Some additional tips which may or may not be important 😉

1) egg white room temperature

2) Fold in your dry ingredients in at least 4 additions. Do not dump the whole thing into the beaten foam or you might end up with a runny batter (oops, i think i have to follow this, my batter sometimes end up runny and very hard to set even left in air conditioned room for very long)

Variation:

* On one instance, I did doubled macaron recipe but forgetting to double the caster sugar (used 20g instead of 40g), and the macaron shells is so hard to harden and dry. thus almost all have no feet and top crack (except some chocolate ones which ends up having feet, so far chocolate macaron shells is my best bet now), so i guess there the amount of sugar in macaron recipe can’t be reduced.

I find Lauduree, TWG macaron quite good, with good flavor without too sugary sweet, and one thing is there are very shiny on top, and from what i see from other’s website, their macaron batter are quite smooth and soft, mine might just be slightly undermix and grainy fearing the batter will be overmixed and become runny, perhaps i should mix it further to make the end product have a ‘shiny’ top, instead of a slightly ‘grainy’ top.

Picture Time…

recipe from Rohani Jelani

Pierre Herme caramel recipe, i reduced the amount the whole recipe to corresponds to 200ml of whipped cream i bought

egg white broken and left to ‘aged’ in a container in fridge for 3 days to 1 week

sieve the dry ingredients together. Many recipe specify to use a food processor. Having no food processor, i just triple or sieve it for four times.

prepare the nozzle to pipe mac shells

egg white

mix egg white and dry sieved ingredients

spoon into piping bag with bottom sealed, the batter looks running, urgh

looks kinda runny to me

runny batter cause the feet to slightly spread out

still look decent enough here

cool

chocolate macaron

nice macs

only 1 or 2 crack, yay!

nice feet and shiny top

coffee macs, slide it onto baking sheet

rap the sheet a few times to remove air

use a small toothpick or chopstick to smooth the top of visible air bubbles

smoothed

yuck, look like cookie, not pretty at all, there was a ‘mishap’ while making this batch of macaron, the oven i used was suddenly shut itself off due to fuse burnt, and i have to switched to a smaller oven and switching to a smaller baking sheet, and resulting in this super ugly macs

waiting to be filled

caramel prepared earlier and to be left in the fridge

cooled, just took out from fridge

whip it up to dreamy sweet caramel

pipe

Tadaa