A burger like no other....

This burger epitomes Malaysian food at it's best... it has survived all evolutions of food... All threats from the more spiffy likes of Burger King, Carls Junior, Wendy and so many more... No other burger hits the spot like this fella over here...

Still operated from a shack like stall on wheels with a flat pan to fry/grill the patties, a scraper that acts as a egg yolk breaker cum egg wrapper, the original Ajinamoto pepper and maggi seasoning and worchestershire sauce for the added tastiness... not to forget the lightly planta-ed bread grilled slightly the flat pan and then piled with a smattering of raw cabbage shreads, chili sauce and mayo....

Who else can I be talking about? Most definitely our dear old Ramly burger... Ramly has truly stood the test of time... What did I have last week? Most definitely the "Burger Ayam Special Double" to appease my appetite... hehe!!! It still taste exactly how I remembered it... Absolutely DELICIOUS!!!

Dinner at BON

This place shall be my new found favourite Korean restaurant... :D

Came here once with Ching Yee, Jae and Renee... Thot the food was pretty decent... Had a craving for Soondubu again last nite and the recent few I had didnt cut it close... so I went to BON again, sat down and ordered my Soondubu.... :D

Lo behold, I was shocked at the amount of side dishes given to me!!! Tadaa!!!

Count em baby...hahaa!! 9!!! Yes 9!! I think the past few times I ate alone in a korean restaurant, they prolly served around 4-5 max... This was 9 full servings and all were super yummy so Aichin became a glutton... haha!! But it was really good.. It is very rare that all the side dishes served are good.. Usually there will always be those nasty tasting ones that you wont eat... but this time... It was all good.... :)

Next up... my Soondubu!!! :D Basically Toufoo and Egg soup with some clams and shrimps.... This place does it the best!! At least from all the ones I have tried la... It is nice and spicy just the way I like it and way tasty.... They got good paste and sauce I suppose... :) NICE!!!

Ai li got jealous when I told her I went to eat Korean so guess what? I will prolly be going again on Sunday!! :D heheh!! Maybe this time we will try the Yukkaejang or the Bibimbap or the Bulgogi or some barbeque meat... We shall see how hungry we are then.... Korean is definitely best eaten in a big (well bout 4-6) group so that you can have more variety and try out their more interesting dishes which comes in huge pots.. :) Too bad it's only me and my sis...

Looking forward to this Sunday!!! Wheee!!! Greedy me!!!

Reunion Dinner...

Every year my family goes through the same routine of packing up on new year's eve and driving down to singapore for our Reunion Dinner with my mum's family... Yeah..u read right.. mum's family... My family is a bit terbalik when it comes to tradition...

How, what was different this year was how much food there was.. haha!! on a norm we would have perhaps 12 dishes max... This year we had 18 dishes... yeap.. count em... 18 dishes for 20 person.. Menu is as below:

1. Sharksfin soup

2. Abalone soup

3. Claypot chicken rice (supposedly with damn good 'ham yu')

4. Fried Mee Sua

5. Tang Hoon in thick soup

6. Pork dumpling

7. Chicken dumpling

8. Tomato curry chicken

9. Stir Fry Beef

10. Pan Fried Beef

11. Chicken stuffed with glutinous rice

12. Vegetarian Pun Choi

13. Tong Po Meat

14. Prawn Fritters

15. Sweet & Sour Fish

16. Mixed Vegetable

17. Beancurd skin roll

18. Fish Maw

Part of all the dishes... some couldnt fit on the table so were left in the kitchen... and as our typical reunion goes... we stood and walked around the table like a buffet spread.... It has been a long time since I have properly sat down around a table and have my reunion dinner.. but I like it this way anyway... It's how my family rolls... :D

Cookies for the New Year...

Baking this year's cookies was a rush... with all the assignments and exams here and there I didnt really have a weekend to myself to bake... Stole a weekday just before the CNY to bake... People would think I am nuts... It took 12 solid hours and 6 batches to complete...
The most challenging part of the process... mixing all the ingredients together... It takes muscles... a lot of em.... shows how pack full of goodies the cookies are... :D
Mom says make em small... Kept complaining mine was big.. :( then have to downsize.. she says they need to be bite size... as if ppl's mouth were that small.. Hmmph!! I bet even with the initial sizes I made they would still be just one mouthful.. a slightly fuller one but still a mouthful.. hehe!! But dun argue with mom.. she knows best...
Hmmm.... the aroma of bakes cookies filled the entire house.. Yum Yum!! I kept making excuse that I needed to try.... ate from every tray eventhough same batch.. haha!! Yum Yum!!!
All packed and ready to be given out... Good thing this year's list of giveaway is slightly shorter than last years or else a day would not suffice.... :)

Christmas Dinner.....

Had an unconventional christmas dinner last year... finally am blogging about it... haha!! I went to Elcerdo... after many ppl telling me bout this place, I finally managed to gather the right amount of ppl to go piggy eating with me...

First up... mini sausages wrapped in bacon served with saurkraut!! Nice!!! This is the yummiest sausages I have tasted... :D (dun mind the picture, flash was too bright!!)
Next up was my ribs... really tasty.. a bit mongolian-like but it would taste much better if there was more meat on it... hehe!!
Now, for the star of the nite!! My suckling piglet!!! it was cut traditionally with a plate which Ai Li so graciously did!! and it was time to tuck in some tasty, crispy piglet!!! OOohhlala!! the skin was so crispy...the meat was tasty... the only complain I had was how much fat was between the two.. but oh well.. it was still a tasty piggy...
We then had seafood paella which to my disappointment really didnt live up to my expectations... No thumbs up for this...:(


After the paella we were still a tad hungry so we ordered additional spicy pork sausages with bacon again.. haha!! this one is also so so yummy... Think anything porkish is good here... haha!!

Finally came deserts... we had the werner's special and some other special.. they were quite interesting desserts... wouldnt say good not bad though but nice enough to finish the meal...

Time to go home with our tummies nicely filled... It was a great christmas dinner this year... Coz for the rare occasions... my entire family including my brother in law was back... Nice!!! :D

Elcero

No. 43 & 45, Changkat Bukit Bintang,

50200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Tel: 603 2145 0511

Baking escapades... Cupcakes....

It was another one of those baking weekends... hehe!! This time round, I was having a trial sessions on christmas cupcakes... Wondering which to make and give out...

I made butter cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes and lemon cupcakes... The lemons were my favourite.. sweet with a hint of tangy-ness... yum yum...

The butter cupcake batter...

Ooohhh.. fresh out of the oven... These cupcakes are perfect for the eating.. too high for the frosting though... so need to reduce for next batch...

The chocolate cupcake batter.... (less this time...)

Aaah... just the right height for my topping.... :)

The final outcome... Cupcakes with buttercream frostings.....
Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate ganache....

The winner of my session is the lemon cupcakes with chocolate ganache topping... Yum Yum... watch out for it... :D What's your pick?

Tradition - an art almost lost....

I took the opportunity of a long weekend to make "Bak Chang" last Monday... The festival is coming up... actually it is on 7th June 2008 but since this was the best time, I did it early.

Have always thought that "Bak Chang" was one of the chinese traditions which should be kept and practiced so that future generations will also know how to do it.... Many younger generations now are not bothered to learn and always opt for the easy way of out of just buying from the stores... but then again, even the store ones are made by the older generation.. so what happens when they get too old to make it anymore?

So I was on a quest to preserve the art of tying "Bak Chang"... (the cooking part is not too difficult to learn...) So here was my journey... to make my "Ahma Bak Chang" - fusion of hokkien and nyonya "chang"....

The preparations started on Saturday and continued on to Sunday and some of Monday.. of course it wasnt full 3 days la... just that there was lots of things to prepare.. the ingredients needs to be cut to size, the leaf needs to be boiled and washed, the rice needed to be soaked and fried and the fillings needed to be cooked as well.. so come monday morning... we were ready to tie...

the rice...

the filling....

the leaf...

all tied up and ready for the pot....

in the boiling pot.....

after more than 2 hours... they are out of the pot!!one for testing... ;)
looking good....
yummy!!! All efforts not wasted... it was a success...

Now for the final test, mass distribution.... for all those who have eaten it, please feedback for future improvements... :)

Hope you all liked it!!

After all the hard work, I have decided I will do this biannually... haha!! too much work for an annual event...