curry chicken 19 Jan 2010

chocolate mooncake - made the night before, ready to eat in the morning. chocolate flavoured skin with chocolate core. this was had in conjunction with some oats, milk and 4 slices of bread stuffed with pork floss. very filling.


came home after a gruelling physical test, washed up the soiled clothes, took his shower while she touched up her dish.

curry chicken - everything was pre-cooked before putting into the curry mixture. potatoes were soft enough, but the chicken bones still had raw blood. spicy curry made him perspire again, had to go into the shower again... tired and sleepy......

mooncaking revisited - 16 Jan 2010

slept the day away, in an attempt to drive fatigue away. late evening, he went over to aunt's place to help her fill up some forms, while wife prepared the stuff for mooncaking again.

returned home to help her with stirring of the mixtures, cooking, kneading until everything was ready to be molded.

this time round she not only measured each ingredient, she also measured each piece of skin and filling. they had yam and durian paste today, which was to be wrapped in a ball of matcha filling, before wrapping again with the skin. the final move, to put a stamp on each.

portrait of the square mooncakes


a view of the round ones


her perspective

mooncake experiment 14 Jan 2010

experimented with mooncake making on this evening. she got her recipe ready and assuaged him that she had all the details. and so they started.

yam core surrounded by matcha flavoured filling, while the outer skin was cocoa flavoured.


view of them in whole. if you're wondering about the green one, it's because they ran out of skin, so they made mooncakes out of the filling.


another, a round mooncake. filling's too sticky and it kept getting onto the mold, hence the broken edges.


it was a minor botched job in the end, because she used 25g of matcha powder instead of 5g as stated. no wonder the matcha felt a little too heavy for his liking...

marvellous cream, beef rice and mooncakes

on this saturday, badminton was again called off, and the trip to bukit timah hill didn't materialise. left with not much choices, they headed down to town.

alighted at city hall, and headed to suntec city. whilst walking through citylink mall, her suddenly sharp eyes noticed that marvellous cream was selling their original series ice-cream for $4.90, even on weekends. too tired of explaining priorities to her, they just went in to get 1 chocolate sienne.

saw the ice-cream lady weigh the scoop of ice-cream, and then proceed to bash the ice-cream on the thermoplate. she chopped some chocolate into bits, wedged them into the ice-cream, drizzled chocolate syrup and started her left-right-centre martial arts on the ice-cream.

the result, marvellous cream's chocolate sienne, junior size. well, the cream (said to be milk from hokkaido?) tasted really good, and the chocolate was very rich. he enjoyed it, but would not like to have it everytime he walks past the shop.


after shopping, they found themselves with stuff from carrefour. chocolate noir and muesli cereals, and sesame burger buns for the next day onwards. cost him around $14 in all. they headed back to ang mo kio s-11 for the korean-style beef rice.

cost $4 a bowl, comes with soup and pickled cabbage. a welcoming color combination, and the thinly sliced beef was just delicious.


pickled cabbage and fried fry


after dinner, they headed to amk hub for her cause. to get some mooncakes. had a hard time finding yam ones in town, and the one at the fair in ngee ann city still cost $36 for a box for 9 minis. too tired to scour anymore lanes, they bought 4 pieces from a temporary stall's fat auntie. durian, sesame, pandan and yam. $20 for all.

durian mooncake with 2 egg yolks. all of them look similar, except for the color and wording, which state single or double yolk.


that wasn't all the damage. they went to ntuc and got iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, prune juice, black pepper ham and cheese. cost $20+. stay tuned for the next post...