Recipe: Oat Biscuit

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Monday 24 February 2014 8:56 pm
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My first YouTube video!

Ingredients: (adapted from recipe taken from Poires au Chocolat)

135g quick cook oat (half of it blitzed to oat flour)

around 25 – 35g of ground almond (just because i have lots of ground almond lying around)

1/4 tsp sea salt

50g unsalted butter

1 Tablespoon maple syrup

75ml boiling water

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oat flour (blitzed from oat), quick cook oat and sea salt

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making brown butter

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add butter and maple syrup, mix well then leave for 1 of 2 minutes to rest

Roll it out to 2 or 3 mm thin, bake for 15 – 20 mins

A healthy and not bad tasting biscuit to use up quick cook oat, just right for mid-day snack in the office


 

Recipe: Light Cheese Tart with Chocolate Shell

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Saturday 15 February 2014 10:12 pm
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Chocolate pastry shell recipe from a recipe book: Canadian Living cooks (Page 30 Chocolate Butter Tart)

Light Cheese Cake filling from 孟老师 Pie Recipe book Page 80

The Chocolate pastry is very nice, make for a crispy nice chocolatey treat. Good to note there is no egg in this recipe.

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Recipe for tart pastry

Chocolate Shells:
Dry:
183g flour (some recipe state could substitute 45g with rice flour for crispies shells)
43g cocoa powder
103g cold butter
1/4 tsp salt
Liquid: (mix below and add ice water till 75ml)
1 egg yolk
1tsp vinegar

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Filling recipe

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Pie pastry rolled out

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Without pie weight, gotta improvised with 50 cents coin works pretty well

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with some leftover pastry, enough for 4 small tart, above are par-baked pie shells

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Par-baked shell

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Baked for around 10 minutes in 190 Celsius till water evaporated, then glazed with some whole egg mixture and bake in 170 – 180 Celsius for further 10 – 15 minutes till 80% baked and shiny like above

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making light cream cheese filling

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Bake in 180 – 190 Celsius for 20 minutes

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baked, for these little tarlet, the cocoa bitterness of the tart shell really overwhelmed the cheese filling , it works better to be baked in bigger tart as below so that the ratio of shell over filling to not too high

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Beautiful looking light cheese tart, the shell has no sugar and has the bitter cocoa powder aroma.


 

China Treasures Eat all you can, Sime Darby Convention Centre

Posted by vivien | Kuala Lumpur and Selangor | Saturday 15 February 2014 9:07 pm
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It was a Groupon or the like deal for eat all you can in China Treasure for RM47 instead of normal price of RM92++

Overall, it is great once in a while thing to have a very filling dinner, to over-indulge.
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All you can eat menu, one thing which i don’t really like it that 1 portion of the food is equivalent to 1 portion for each diner on the table, you can’t really order a smaller portion even if some of us not wanting to eat a particular dish, but it does make sense that they don’t want to have extra work of having to cook multiple small portions …

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crab meat soup with dried scallop, this is quite good, we order this twice

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japanese octopus with jellyfish, normal

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fresh and yummy poached prawn with lysium berry (ie goji berry)

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prawn with marmite sauce, prawn with chili and garlice sauce, okay for me, prefer the lighter taste poached ones

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baked fish fillet with cereal and oat

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venison with black pepper sauce

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salt and pepper white bait, addictive small bite

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claypot beancurd with peanut

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steamed red talapia with minced ginger, not bad

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squid with chili and cashew nut

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HK Choy Sum with garlic

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roast duck ‘HK’ style, this is bad, as in some weird smell, of meat with with slight blood tinge, maybe it is a hint that we should stop ordering

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pancake with red bean

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salted egg yolk custard pau

Address:
Sime Darby Convention Centre, 1A, Jalan Bukit Kiara 1
Kuala Lumpur 60000

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Singapore 2 days 2 nights trip (2 fish head steamboat 鱼头炉)

Posted by vivien | Others: Singapore | Saturday 18 January 2014 3:42 pm
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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)

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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.

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Other dishes available

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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.

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

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

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nice peach custard bread from DONQ bakery in Takashimaya Shopping Centre

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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

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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.


 

HZT Steamboat Buffet, Kepong

Posted by vivien | Kuala Lumpur and Selangor | Saturday 18 January 2014 3:14 pm
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A BBQ / Steamboat Buffet restaurant in Kepong, it is located somewhere behind Carrefour Kepong

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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

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

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More food for hotplate

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Vegetables

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more vege

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prepared food

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condiments

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yoyo ice

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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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