The "Indecent" Proposal

What's the most innovative way to propose?

Well, 1st visit a supermarket or a wet market. Head for the vegetables section, buy the most beautiful bunch of CAULIFLOWER. Huh? Cauliflower? Mmm.... planning to make some delicious dishes? Nope, no, it's really cauliflower that you need.

Next, head to BURGER KING. Oh, oh, the delicious dish got burned? and you have to grap some food? Nope, no, no... you are suppose to get a packet of ONION RINGS, choose one of the best firmly fried onion ring, and discard the rest. Hey, one onion ring is not enough for 2. Hahaha! No.....no..... the Onion ring is not for eating.

Here's what you are suppose to do:

Step 1: Nicely wrap the bunch of Cauliflower - this is supposed to represent your bouquet of roses.
Step 2: Choose a nice ring box, put the Onion ring into the box.

There you go, date her out, and do your most innovative indecent proposal. LOL!

I'm just kidding. Guys out there, don't try this unless you want to send your irritable girl friend off forever, or if you are serious about your relationship. Heard this over dinner and thought this is real funny. Well, i elaborated a little.

It's Valentine today. HAPPY VALENTINE TO ALL OUT THERE. Have fun!

Great give away

It has been a long time since i last blog. Well, today i found a great reason to have a new post here - the reason being the blog - luxury haven which i visit regularly, now have a great giveaway - a 24 cm supor stock pot - as Chinese new year celebration.

Well, this blog is definitely worth spending your time as beside this great give away, the blog also features travel log, shopping tips, informations of sales whereabout, great recipes the economy way, great food tasting comments, etc, etc. So much have been talk about it, so guess you would be wondering, "come on, give me the link, i can't wait to check it out" LOL, well here's the link:

http://luxuryhaven.blogspot.com/2011/01/supor-fortune-cookware-giveaway.html

I have actually like the fanpage on facebook so that i could always get update on new post by Blackswan (the owner of luxury haven), and trust me, you would never regret doing so. Beside that, i had also tag more than 10 of my facebook pals regarding this great give away as i would like them to get a chance to get this great giveaway.

Happy reading pals!

Celebration

I've got 2 birthday cake from Sifu - The strawberry chocolate mousse cake which sifu said it's nicer to take picture with. And a pure chocolate cake which i requested - mmm........ yummy - the cake which we loves and talk so much about it when i initially got to know sifu. This is one of her signature cake.

Year 2010 - a year whereby i have so many birthday celebration.

My celebration started since last Thursday - hotpot steam boat at Jpot in Vivo City. Thanks to buddy - BL for giving me the treat. Didn't take any picture thou because i don't have my camera with me.

Subsequently, on friday evening, we check into Michael's Hotel in Sentosa Resort. Nice hotel, very big bathroom and lots of moving area. Here's some picture of the hotel room:

the bathroom cum toilet

The room

Large TV screen

King size bed - very cosy and comfortable bed.



After that i heard some blasting sound, and guess what i saw - fireworks.

It didn't last very long thou, probably because it's really expensive to put on firework. This really comes as a surprise. Subsequently, i heard from a friend there's some preview for the national day parade. So i guess this is just part of the national day program. Oh, by the way, i still didn't have my camera with me - so these pictures are all taken with my mobile phone.

Then, we had dinner at the Italian restaurant - Palio - in Michael's Hotel. The meal is quite costly but worth it. Pardon me for i have forgotten to take picture of the food till we are almost done except for the steak. Haha, look at the mess....


Seafood spaghetti

SteakLobster Linguine
Fresh Fruit and chocolate pizza.

In here, you will be amaze by the cook cooking right in the dinning hall in front of you. I was too shy to take picture of them at work thou as i still didn't have my camera with me.

Saturday evening, i have tom yam steam boat at sifu's place with a couples of others. Although i quite like Thai food, however, Tom yam soup have never been my under my likes. However, this one prepared by sifu was extremely delicious - it's didn't have the pungent smell of lemon grass and it isn't too spicy or too sour, just nice. And i glup down 3 bowls of soup, lolz.

It isn't over yet and the celebration continues..........

累

我没有要求比人家多，也没要求比人家好，为什么却活得比人家累？

RESORT WORLD - SENTOSA

Hi pals, it had been quite sometime since i last post anything here. Work had kept me very busy and also because i shifted to another part of Singapore (heehee.........as if Singapore has a very big area), therefore i had been lazy to write anything here.

More than 3 months later, i have decided to share again. Oh oh, no food production as my new place has got no convection oven yet. I need to get one real soon. Meanwhile, i still promise lots of pictures. This time i'm sharing my trip to the RESORT WORLD - SENTOSA - the much talked about integrated resort (IR) of Singapore. Although the resort is not fully completed yet, let us have a glimpse of this much talked about IR

Upon approaching SENTOSA - taken from inside my car


The simple directory showing where all the places are

The waterfront centre feature

another flower feature

Centre view of the waterfront centre

The long awaited UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

Outside Universal Studios - Singapore.

Sorry pals, no picture of the inside as i'm not able to get preview tickets which was sold within 2 days from launching.

Further up the waterfront centre where the representative figurine of Singapore - the MERLION

As this year is the year of the tiger in the lunar calendar, some steel tiger figurines have been set up beneath the Merlion (picture lower right hand corner)

A close up picture of the MERLION

Singapore 1st Casino - Entrance

Casino Entry Levy booth which is set up for collection of S$100 levy for all Singaporeans and Singapore permanent residents. (I guess this is to deter Singaporeans and PR from gambling which i doubt it's effectiveness). Sorry pals, again no picture of the inside as i don't know how to gamble and i'm definitely not going to pay S$100 to get inside for nothing for i knew that pictures taking are probably prohibited inside the casino too.

My lucky day start from here (hopefully) whereby i met the fortune god.

Haha! Those inside the picture are not related to me at all,

as i couldn't wait to snap the picture of the stand alone fortune god,

(the respond to taking picture with the fortune god is overwhelming)

therefore i just take this for whoever that is there.

Of course there's more to this Sentosa Integrated Resort since i did not fully comb the whole resort area. So long for now till i revisit this resort again.

I'm very excited

I'm really very excited about tomorrow - the big day - the long awaited day is finally coming.

At 1st i was not really ethusiatic about it, not because i'm not concern but rather i have been disappointed time and again - each time i would only be inform at the very last minute that it's postpone again for no/unknown reason. This time it's for real - IT'S FINALLY COMING. (i'm still keeping my finger crossed - God, please don't do it again - i would surely collapse if it happen again)

i have start stocking up on food - it's has really been a long time since i last bought such big quantity of food. There's a lot of things i wanted to do - i want to do shrimp paste fried chicken wing, panfried pork chop, braised pork (kong bak), assam prawn, salted egg yolk prawn, mayonaise cheese prawn, bake cheesy prawn, crispy fried pork, crispy fried fish, layer cheese cake with jelly top, snow skin mooncake (yes mooncake, haha, i have got the ingredients but didn't do because lack of time and lack of people to consume), cashew nut cookies, etc. etc......
The list can go on and on........... but obviously i couldn't have done all in 1 go, and neither have i stock up on everything. I just stock up my freezer - at least the freezer is no longer empty for the longest time. Wow! i surely have lots to catch up. But for a start, i had already make my signature cashew nuts chocolate chips cookies as requested. Obviously, she have really missed these cookies. I have originally planned to do this just 1 day ahead which is today because i want to have the freshest cookies. But i make it on Sunday night instead. Luckily i did, otherwise, i think i might be over excited and it might not turn out well.

2 hours more before the date jumps - i wish for it to move faster...........

Playing with my dough

I had been trying to make bread for the longest time already, but because i don't have a bread maker, neither do i have a strong power mixer, so i didn't attempt to do again because the bread i do is always only soft immediately after baking but by the next day, it would be hard already. I have been searching and searching for bread recipe that doesn't require machine, fully handmade, but in vain. Till recently, sifu wanted to teach a fully handmade bread over the radio program, so i was able to acquire the recipe 1st hand since i had been helping with the English translation of the recipe all this while.

Last tuesday, i took a day off to visit my precious girl, after visiting, as i have not make any arrangement for any other activity, i decided to give the recipe a go even before it is put up in the DJ's kitchen recipe blog. (The recipe was put up on the same Tuesday evening after the recipe was taught over the radio program).

After much kneading, swinging and banging with the dough, i finally got my bread (fully handmade). Although the bread is not super soft like those selling in bakery, basically i'm quite satisfied with the result. At least it didn't go down the rubbish chute the next day. Infact, everything was finished up by the next morning by just 2 of us. Well, and at least i enjoyed the whole process of playing with my dough and i came out with the following design:

The interior texture

Ham roll with cheese flower design bread

Ham roll with cheese "pork rib" (supposed to represent) design bread


My greatest creation, pig's head design bread.

haha! isn't this cute? But the true fact is, it's empty inside, hehe!