: : Valentine Day Poll : :

Right. CNY is over and it’s time to take down the CNY poll. Here are the results from 107 ppl :

What is your favourite Chinese New Year treat?

Pineapple Tarts : 22.4%

Yee Sang : 15.0%

Pork Leg Stew : 3.7%

Braised Duck in Soy Sauce : 8.4%

Salted Vegetable Soup : 8.4%

Stir-Fry Leeks : 0.9%

Love Letters : 12.1%

Layer Cake : 8.4%

Bak Poh / BBQ Pork Slices : 10.3%

Mandarin Oranges : 10.3%

Hmm…there is something about pineapple tarts, no?

Anyway, here is another poll but this time in conjuction with Valentine’s Day this weekend :

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Now, be honest!

: : Addresses of Food Spots : :

Finally completed the list of food spots that I’ve been reviewing. Probably missed out a few but never mind. Apologies if there are no specific addresses to those locations. I tried to add in some landmarks that you cannot miss.

Unless otherwise stated, most places are in Kuching, Sarawak.

Map of food places will come later on. Much much later on.

: : Is my blog Burning? : :

Guess Alberto is busy at the moment so thought I’d compile some of the soup links here :

potato and horseradish cream soup with smoked trout and toasted almonds by Alberto himself

Khao Soi from Chez Pim (yes, in hokkien it sounds vulgar but it’s suppose to be Thai)

pasta & fagioli from Carlo at My Latest Supper

tomyam soup by the kitchenslave a.k.a. toru

spiced spinach soup by maki

trashy potato by jackie (now this looks like an awesome and kewl dish)

roasted chestnut soup by Josh (now we know what to do with leftover chestnuts from Christmas)

Well, those were the links that I saw, not to mention drool over.

: : Is my blog Burning? : :

Guess Alberto is busy at the moment so thought I’d compile some of the soup links here :

potato and horseradish cream soup with smoked trout and toasted almonds by Alberto himself

Khao Soi from Chez Pim (yes, in hokkien it sounds vulgar but it’s suppose to be Thai)

pasta & fagioli from Carlo at My Latest Supper

tomyam soup by the kitchenslave a.k.a. toru

spiced spinach soup by maki

trashy potato by jackie (now this looks like an awesome and kewl dish)

roasted chestnut soup by Josh (now we know what to do with leftover chestnuts from Christmas)

Well, those were the links that I saw, not to mention drool over.

: : How to eat like an Asian student : :

…otherwise known as How to eat like a Hong Kong resident. I’m kidding here as in most Hong Kong movies and sitcoms, you are bound to see someone cooking instant noodles. The weird part is how come they don’t show it on Malaysian TV when the community also eat it by the gallons. I know I do. Ok, so I am addicted to the stuff.

For the Is my blog Burning? submission, I wanted to post Granny’s chicken soup up but had raging fever this afternoon. So, took a long nap and woke up at about 1:30 a.m. feeling very hungry because I didn’t get to eat dinner. And yes, the fever finally broke. So, since I was hungry and lazy to cook something massive, it was back to the basics : instant noodles. Found some packets of Korean noodles, kimchi flavoured, and decided to do that. Yeah, so I cheated for my submission. Feeling lazy tonight and I wanted some comfort food.

I started out by preparing the soup ingredients. So, cut up some chai sim @ Chinese veggie (extremely crunchy if cooked just right and always tasting fresh) and crab sticks. The packet of noodles is on the right.

Boiled the water and then dumped the noodles into it. Then, boiled it some more until the noodles had softened. Threw away the MSG filled water and rinsed the noodles.

Now, it’s time to make the soup. Poured in the powder from the soup packet that came with the noodles and stirred it until it dissolved completely. Brought it to a boil and added in the veggies and crab sticks. Also added in an egg into the soup.

Finally, I was done with my Kimchi Noodle soup. Very spicy and I was sweating. Not that I cannot take the spicyness but it’s a genetic condition passed down from my Dad : we sweat (face level only) whenever we eat spicy food.

Instant noodles must be one of the greatest food innovation of all time. Easy to do, hence the 2-minute mee from Mee Maggi. I add in all sorts of ingredients to it to try to disguise make it as nutritious as possible. Mind you, I will only eat instant noodles from Asian companies at this moment because the ones made in the West doesn’t suit my tastebuds. Perhaps one day when they make a better soup base, then I will take it.

Aw heck! It’s late and I still haven’t finish my work for tomorrow. Darn! Gotta rush off now. Toodles people!

: : Fruit Flan & Thai Food : :

Update : Forgot to mention that the Pandai Thai Delight doesn’t serve very spicy dishes. So, if you are a person who cannot quite take spicy food but still enjoy a bit of hotness, this is the place for you. What I should have done is asked whether they could have made the food spicy-er for us. One thing for sure, the food came out VERY FAST.

Ack! Had to go and run out and get the birthday cake for Pascale and KSL. Remember the two dinner appointments mentioned earlier? Since I offered to bring the birthday cake, had to rush to the bakery and then dropped it off at my collegue’s house.

Bought the cake from Sunflower Deli. Since Mr. Ngui advised to get a fruit flan with fresh cream, I bought this huge cake. Then, rushed over to drop it at the house. After that, another rush to Pandan Thai Delight.

Had dinner with Joyce, Gette, Sheebs and Jia Hui. Yes, the gorgeous and cute Chocolate Frogstar. Huai Bin was supposed to join us as well but he had already made other plans.

We all thought that this was a really cute way to provide the rice for everyone.

This was the mixed vegetables with glass noodles @ tang hoon. Simple yet tasty. Wasn’t so spicy. Errr… I could say not spicy for me, Joyce, Sheebs and Jia Hui. Not sure about Gette as she was the only one that does not go around eating extremely spicyfood.

The prawn green curry was served in a very cute and quaint little pot with it’s own holder. It was heated up using a small candle that is used to heat up scented oils. Again, not that spicy but it was tasty. Luv the aubergines @ terung that was added to it.

This was fried tilapia with Thai herbs. Could only deduced that Thai herbs were shredded lemon grass which is the messy concoction you see on top of the fish. Still, it added a nice flavour to the overall dish.

Now what is a Thai meal without some Tom Yam soup? This is the clear water version with seafood inside. We found prawn @ shrimp and squid inside. Wah! Tasty! But, not so spicy.

Tasty but not that sour so it was agreeable with our stomachs. This was the mango and papaya salad. The papaya used is the unripe version, same goes for the mango as well.

There was also the roast chicken but because the table we sat in was small and we were all concentrating on not knocking anything down, I forgot to take a picture of it.

I was halfway eating this wonderful dessert before I realised I forgot to take a picture! So, camera came out and I took a shot of the water chestnut in jelly and with coconut milk. The pink colour came from the rose syrup used. It was nice except that the rose syrup unnerved us a bit. We all never had it before but it added an interesting taste to the dessert.

Pandan Thai Delight is located at the new RH shoplots in the BDC area. It’s next to the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church and the BDC roundabout.

And, meeting up with Sheebs is always a hilarious occasion with her witty comments. Here are some of them :

On the homemade ice-cream available at The Ranch at King Center.

I have 4 stomachs and one of them is reserved for ice-cream.

On a car with a big exhaust pipe that revved up loudly.

My, there goes a farthing car.

BTW, Huai Bin, we were thinking of going to eat some steamboat tomorrow nite. Wanna join us? SMS me.

Ciao people!