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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Charity Through Trial Baking

Anyone wants learn how to bake cupcakes and also do charity at the same time? Well, now here's your chance.




Class being conducted:



The ingredients:



Near completion:




Completed cupcakes:



The excerpt from the details I received from Anne:

So this is a project done by my group/batch. we are basically raising funds for the School of Acts located in Jinjang Utara, Kepong.

This is the information on School Of Acts:

Founded by: Pastor Jonathan
Established in 2000
Located in Jinjang Utara, Kepong
Objectives: Help put children back in school. Raise funds for long houses.

Pay monthly bills, school fees, food and other everyday expenses and necessities.
The trial baking is just a simple process in showing how are we going to bake it and decorate it one session will be RM30 but if they join two at once, it will be RM50. so please please please please just use your creativity and promote.

Right now, we are having trouble finding people for workshops on the 7th and 14th of March. so please help me promote in your blogs! try find more more people who can promote for me too! if anyone is interested, ask them to email me at zhinsara@gmail.com or call me at 016 515 8189. i would prefer calls cause i won't be responding sms. very informal and also hard to keep track.

Thanks a million! I owe you all cupcakes :D

Br,
Sara.



Saturday, March 7, 2009

Simon Cooks: Jumbo Sausage with Wild Rockets

Simon Says: The Malaysian Dreamgirl 2 top 12 finalists have been chosen. Their first photo shoot challenge episode is out. That is Episode 4. Go watch it here and see who's your favourite. Oh, here's the sneak peak of Ming, Dawn and Pinky's makeover pic. You don't get to see it in Episode 4.


Warning: Tidak Ditanggung Halal


Well, not exactly cook because there's no cooking involved, unless heating up the jumbo sausages in the microwave oven, cleaning the wild rockets and squeezing the American Mustard on the jumbo sausages is consider cooking lol.

I really like the aroma of the wild rockets and the wild rocket has this kind of special taste that goes so well with sausage or ham. Real pork sausages used here. I don't really fancy sausage made with chicken meat, it just doesn't taste right and texture is all wrong.

A meal that is easily prepared, don't even have to heat up the oil on the pan. Yes, this is how a lazy person like me eat when I eat at home alone.


Jumbo Sausages & Wild Rocket on Mustard Sauce Salad



Thursday, March 5, 2009

Lunch at Restoran Yan Yan

Warning: Tidak Ditanggung Halal

During the 3rd day of Chinese New Year. My paternal side of the family gathered for a simple lunch in Restoran Yan Yan (人人茶餐厅) in Taman Sri Sinar, Segambut. We chose here because it's near my big aunt's house, as she is the most senior so all younger uncles and aunt have to come here lol. I'm no complaining because my place is in the same taman. Makes no different though because I have to go downtown to Bukit Bintang to fetch my aunt and cousin whom came to visit us from Hong Kong.


My niece Ruth just had some chocolate.


My 表妹, Elaine playing with my nephew Noah.


We decided to have chicken rice (鸡饭), roasted pork (烧肉), BBQ pork (叉烧) and of course the imported roasted goose (烧鹅) from Hong Kong.



Roasted Pork (烧肉)

To my surprise, the roasted pork here is very good. The skin is crispy and the layer of fat and meat is very balanced. Very fast it was cleared up by us. The oil rice here is fluffy and nice too.

Rating: 4/5


BBQ Pork (叉烧)
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While the BBQ Pork here is tender and can easily melt in your mouth. It's good but not as good as the one I had in Famous Seremban Favourites. Still it's good enough for us hungry people.

Rating: 3.75/5

The roasted chicken here is not too bad too, crispy and smooth skin.

Rating: 3.5/5



Roasted chicken.



The roasted goose.


The roasted goose was kept in the fridge overnight, we asked the boss to reheat and chop it up for us. He even garnished it with cucumber and spring onion, so nice of him. The skin is not that crispy anymore as compared to the left thigh I ate yesterday. Oh, for your information, this is the second goose, the first one which I snitched the left thigh was left in my friend's house lol. Nevertheless, it's still juicy and it's not as gamey as duck meat. I also have to stressed here that the goose is not from Yung Kee as someone commented in the previous post asked. My cousin just booked it in a Chinese restaurant in Yuen Long near her place. So, I guess Yung Kee is not the only restaurant that can dish out a good roasted goose in Hong Kong.

Rating: 4/5



The younger generation, my sister on my left, my brother-in-law on her left and my cousins.

After lunch, we young people went to Red Box in the Curve to sing karaoke. It's the first time I sing karaoke with so many cousins. We had good fun.


Address:
Restoran Yan Yan (人人茶餐厅) corner lot
Jalan 15/38D
Taman Sri Sinar
Tel: 017-6890417
The chicken rice operates daily during lunch time. At night there's a dai chao there also very good and priced reasonably.

Google map here.