Venture into this recipe: Yoghurt cake with skepticism, the ingredients looks simple and pretty much anticipate it to be a simple plain cake, recipe taken from The Kitchn. Although even the famous french blogger Clotilde from Chocolate & Zucchini wrote a post on how wonderful yogurt cake is and how easy it is to make it that it is often the first cake French kids learn to make. My hopes still aren’t high, i am thinking it will resemble a plain sponge, maybe a good sponge, but still a plain one as there is no distinct flavouring, mainly yogurt and some ground nutmeg. But i am surprised at how lovely it taste especially on the next day when the crusty top has soften, and can really taste the soft texture of this cake, a good cake without strong buttery/milky taste of butter cake, as it is made with olive oil. Yum~ A keeper.

Above is wet ingredients

370g container of Sunglo yogurt (recipe calls for about 360g, so i didn’t scrape the yogurt container clean…)

140g olive oil (i used extra virgin olive oil which is the only type available at home)

190g sugar (as usual, i use less sugar, recipe originally calls for about 230g)

350g flour

i used very little freshly ground nutmeg due to not knowing whether it will be overpowering (can use more next time)

Pour into spring form pan or any type of pan with bottom lined with baking paper and side slightly greased

Doesn’t look pretty, still not knowing how wonderful this cake taste 😛

Put on rack for cooling

Nice caramelized colour, i find this cake tasted ok when warm, best eaten when completely cool or even the next day. The texture remain soft and yummy on the next day.

This low fat brownie recipe taken from The Food Site, whole thing contains only 1.5 tablespoon of oil. Above is wet ingredients(yogurt, eggs, vanilla essence and vegetable oil) and dry ingredients all sifted together(flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and brown sugar)

Amount in metric which i used:

140g flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

4 TBSP cocoa

80g brown sugar (originally recipe calls for about 90g)

1 small container of yogurt(bought small 135g of yogurt)

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i think i overwork the batter a bit, i was mixing it and wondering whether i got the measurement correct as it looks dry while i am still folding the flour mixture into wet ingredients, and before long, the mixture feels thick and not even in pourable consistency

After 20 mins in 180 Celcius oven

doesn’t look good, don’t know why the bottom of the cake looks to have blackish sediments

feel chewy and not nice

I will not make this again, low fat(1.5 tablespoons oil) and low sugar(only 80g of sugar) doesn’t taste good.

Really good deal if you order fukuharu’s lunch special for only RM38, menu as above (chicken/fish/tempura/unagi/beef)

noodle menu

appetiser menu

other specials

salad and chawanmushi which included in the lunch specials set

suzuki carpaccio (sea bass served with white peppercorn and preserved), RM28, okay~

tamago mentai sushi, RM15, one of their popular item, quite good with warm mayo-ish topping

eringi yaki (grilled eringhi mushroom), RM10, very nice and portion is big as well

Australian Beef rib eye lunch specials set, only RM38, very yummy

Hiyashi tanuki Soba, RM16, weird noodle dish served with tempura flakes etc

Look unassuming, but i will take this dessert anyday for a japanese meal. Vanilla ice cream with black sesame sauce, star of this dessert is the sauce with intense black sesame flavor and aroma.

Address: Fukuharu

241-B, Lorong Nibong, off Jalan Ampang,

50450 Kuala Lumpur

Telephone: 6017-209 8477

Business hour: Lunch: 12.00 to 2.30pm; Dinner: 6.00 to 10.30pm

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Western food with KLCC night view

fruit juice

snack

KLCC view

fresh orange juice

Escargot, tasted ordinary

A very popular western food stall in saga hill.

Address: Gerai 1, Jalan Saga 20, Taman Saga,

68000 Ampang, Selangor

Business hour: 6pm-2am

Telephone: 012-206 2487 or 016-255 8845 or 012-206 7847

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Had memories of visiting national science center during primary/secondary schooling days and liking it then, so bf and I have been talking about visiting it someday. Entry fees is quite cheap at RM3 (According to their website, it is now RM6). We went for the dinasaur exhibition hall as well(additional RM8)

The dinasaour exhibition is quite boring, the hall is small and are man-made models moving artificially like machine, not real dinasaurs fossils.

Once entering into NSC, there are touch pools which are like those in Kenko fish spa, only these are bigger fish.

fishes near entrance to NSC

overhead fresh water aquarium

hamster threading wheel?

This is the dinosaur exhibition, boring~ we spent like 5 minutes inside.

more artificial dinosaur

subterranean journey ie underground structure

Sit on one of these chair as above, and it will go underground, the air cond is cooling and feels comfortable in this whole building

Once we reached certain place underground, there will be a bat-mobile like car which we were given 3D spectacles and watch a 3D underwater show

Feels dizzy and blurry watching this 3D show which lasted about 5 minutes

Sit on chair again to be sent to ground level.

Overall, not an exciting trip, just to kill time walking around and the heat of noon day deters us from walking to other building within national science center(from afar we saw there is like a fish breeding area) and garden area

Address: National Science Center

Persiaran Bukit Kiara, 50662 Kuala Lumpur

Operating Hour:

Monday to Thursday (9.00 am – 5.00 pm)

Saturday to Sunday (9.00 am – 5.00 pm)

Entrance: RM6 per adult

Website: Pusat Sains Negara – National Science Center